Grade 9-10 2015
Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest
Part A: Each correct answer is worth 3 points
1. Which of the following numbers is closest to 20.15 × 51.02 ?
(A) 100 (B) 1000 (C) 10000 (D) 100000 (E) 1000000
2. Mother did the laundry and hanged t-shirts in line on a clothing line. Then she asked her children to put a
single sock between any two t-shirts. Now there are 29 pieces of clothing on the line. How many t-shirts
are there on the line?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15
3. The shaded part of the square with side 𝑎𝑎 is bounded by a semicircle and two
quarter arcs. What is its area?
𝜋𝜋𝑎𝑎 2 𝑎𝑎 2 𝜋𝜋𝑎𝑎 2 𝑎𝑎 2 𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 2 2 4 4
4. Three sisters, Ann, Beth and Cindy, bought a bag of 30 cookies together. Each of them received 10
cookies. Ann paid 80 cents, Beth paid 50 cents and Cindy paid 20 cents. If they had divided the cookies
proportionally to the price each paid, how many more cookies would Ann have received?
(A) 10 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 7 (E) 6
5. Mister Hide wants to dig up a treasure that he buried in his garden years ago. He can only remember that
he buried the treasure at least 5 m away from the hedge and at most 5 m from the trunk of the old pear
tree. Which of the following pictures shows the region where Mister Hide should look for the treasure?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6. There are 30 problems in the MathQ competition for pupils. Two points are scored for each correct
answer. If a pupil omits to solve a problem, he/she gets 0 points on it. One point is lost by a pupil for each
wrong answer. Mark answered 25 problems and got 5 points. How many wrong answers did he have?
(A) 25 (B) 20 (C) 15 (D) 10 (E) 5
7. There are 33 children in a class. When they were asked about their favourite subjects, only computer
studies and/or physical education were among their answers. Three children liked both subjects. There
were twice as many children who named only computer studies than those who named only physical
education. How many children named computer studies as their favourite subject?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 22 (E) 23
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8. Which of the following is neither a square number nor a cube number?
(A) 613 (B) 512 (C) 411 (D) 310 (E) 29
9. Mr Candle bought 100 candles. He burns one candle every day and always makes one new one from the
remaining wax of seven burnt candles. After how many days will he have to go and buy new candles
again?
(A) 112 (B) 114 (C) 115 (D) 116 (E) 117
10.How many different triangles of area 1 can be drawn if each of their angles may only be equal to 40°, 50°,
100°, or 90°? (Congruent triangles are considered the same.)
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 6
Part B: Each correct answer is worth 4 points
11.Which of the following is a counter-example to the statement
'If 𝑛𝑛 is prime then exactly one of the numbers 𝑛𝑛 − 2 and 𝑛𝑛 + 2 is prime'?
(A) 𝑛𝑛 = 11 (B) 𝑛𝑛 = 19 (C) 𝑛𝑛 = 21 (D) 𝑛𝑛 = 29 (E) 𝑛𝑛 = 37
12.The number of right angles in some convex pentagon is 𝑛𝑛. Which is the complete list of the possible
values of 𝑛𝑛?
(A) 1, 2, 3 (B) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (C) 0, 1, 2, 3 (D) 0, 1, 2 (E) 1, 2
13.The picture shows my decision die in two different positions.
What is the probability to roll YES with this die?
1 1 5 2 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 2 9 3 6
14.The length of a side of each square in the figure is 1. What is the smallest possible distance you can walk
from "Start" to "Finish", if you are only able to move along the sides or diagonals of individual squares?
Start
Finish
(A) 2√5 (B) √10 + √2 (C) 2 + 2√2 (D) 4√2 (E) 6
15.Every inhabitant of the Winger planet has at least two ears. Three inhabitants named Imi, Dimi and Trimi
met in a crater. Imi said: "I can see 8 ears." Dimi: "I can see 7 ears." Trimi: "That's strange, I can only see
five ears." None of them could see his own ears. How many ears does Trimi have?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
16.Today, the product of the ages (in integers) of father and son is 2015. What is the difference of their ages?
(A) 26 (B) 29 (C) 31 (D) 34 (E) 36
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17.Robert has three candy dispensers, each releasing one candy at a time. He cannot see inside the
dispensers but he knows that one contains cherry-flavoured candies, another one contains lemon-
flavoured candies, and the third contains candies of both flavours. He also knows that the labels of the
dispensers have been swapped and they are all wrong. What is the minimum number of candies that
Robert has to dispense, in order to find out how to re-label all the three dispensers correctly?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) All candies of 2 dispensers
18.If the two roots of the equation 𝑥𝑥 2 − 85𝑥𝑥 + 𝑐𝑐 = 0 are prime numbers, what is the value of the sum of the
digits of 𝑐𝑐?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 21
19.How many three-digit positive integers are there in which any two adjacent digits differ by 3?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 27
20.ABCD is a square of side 1. A, B, C, D are centres of quarter-circles that intersect at P, Q, R and S, as
shown in the drawing. What is the size of /AQB?
(A) 90° (B) 105° (C) 120° (D) 135° (E) 150°
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 5 points
21.The figure shows seven regions enclosed by three circles. A number is written in each region. It is known
that the number in any region is equal to the sum of the numbers in all neighbouring regions. (We call two
regions neighbouring if their boundaries have more than one common point.) Two of the numbers are
known (see fig.). Which number is written in the central region?
(A) 0 (B) −3 (C) 3 (D) −6 (E) 6
22.Petra has three different dictionaries and two different novels on a shelf. How many ways are there to
arrange the books if she wants to keep the dictionaries together and the novels together?
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 60 (E) 120
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23.How many 2-digit numbers can be written as the sum of exactly six different powers of 2, including 20 ?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
24.In the triangle 𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴, we can draw a line parallel to its base 𝐴𝐴𝐴𝐴, through either point 𝑋𝑋 or 𝑌𝑌. The areas of
the resulting shaded regions are the same. The ratio BX:XA has the value 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵: 𝑋𝑋𝑋𝑋 = 4: 1. What is the
value of the ratio 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵: 𝑌𝑌𝑌𝑌?
(A) 1: 1 (B) 2: 1 (C) 3: 1 (D) 3: 2 (E) 4: 3
25.Ten different numbers are written down. Any number that is equal to the product of the other nine
numbers is then underlined. How many numbers can be underlined at most?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 9 (E) 10
26.We are interested in sequences a1, a2, a3, … that satisfy the following property: an+2 = a n+1+a n, where am
is a positive integer for any m, and it is known that a7 = 2015. How many such sequences exist?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 5 (D) 50 (E) Infinitely many
27.In a right triangle, the angle bisector of an acute angle divides the opposite side into segments of length 1
and 2.
What is the length of the bisector?
(A) √2 (B) √3 (C) √4 (D) √5 (E) √6
28.When one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, ... , 𝑛𝑛 − 1, 𝑛𝑛 was eliminated, the average of the remaining numbers was
4.75. Which number was eliminated?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) This is impossible to determine.
29.Oyla the ant starts on one of the vertices of a cube whose edges have length 1. She wants to walk along
every edge of the cube and return to her starting point, making the length of her journey as short as
possible. What is the length of her journey?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 20
30.A safe in the Firm has six locks. Each member of the Board of Directors has three different keys to the
safe, and no two directors have the same set of keys. Any two of the directors should never be able to
open the safe due to missing at least one key between them. What is the highest possible number of
members of the Firm’s Board of Directors?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 20
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International Contest-Game
Math Kangaroo Canada, 2015
Answer Key
Grade 9-10
1 A B C D E 11 A B C D E 21 A B C D E
2 A B C D E 12 A B C D E 22 A B C D E
3 A B C D E 13 A B C D E 23 A B C D E
4 A B C D E 14 A B C D E 24 A B C D E
5 A B C D E 15 A B C D E 25 A B C D E
6 A B C D E 16 A B C D E 26 A B C D E
7 A B C D E 17 A B C D E 27 A B C D E
8 A B C D E 18 A B C D E 28 A B C D E
9 A B C D E 19 A B C D E 29 A B C D E
10 A B C D E 20 A B C D E 30 A B C D E
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