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Intermediate Mathematical Challenge

Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 February 2022
Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust

supported by

England & Wales: Year 11 or below

Scotland: S4 or below
Northern Ireland: Year 12 or below

Instructions
1. Do not open the paper until the invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 60 minutes.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed time is over.
3. The use of blank or lined paper for rough working is allowed; squared paper, calculators
and measuring instruments are forbidden.
4. Use a B or an HB non-propelling pencil. Mark at most one of the options A, B, C, D, E
on the Answer Sheet for each question. Do not mark more than one option.
5. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in the time allowed. The questions in this paper
have been arranged in approximate order of difficulty with the harder questions towards the
end. You are not expected to complete all the questions during the time. You should bear
this in mind when deciding which questions to tackle.
6. Scoring rules:
5 marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1-15;
6 marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16-25;
Each incorrect answer to Questions 16-20 loses 1 mark;
Each incorrect answer to Questions 21-25 loses 2 marks.
7. Your Answer Sheet will be read by a machine. Do not write or doodle on the sheet except
to mark your chosen options. The machine will read all black pencil markings even if
they are in the wrong places. If you mark the sheet in the wrong place, or leave bits of eraser
stuck to the page, the machine will interpret the mark in its own way.
8. The questions on this paper are designed to challenge you to think, not to guess. You
will gain more marks, and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing
lots of answers. This paper is about solving interesting problems, not about lucky guessing.

Enquiries about the Intermediate Mathematical Challenge should be sent to:

UK Mathematics Trust, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
T 0113 365 1121 [email protected] www.ukmt.org.uk
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1. How many hours is 6 minutes?

A 0.06 B 0.1 C 0.6 D 10 E 360
2. My recipe for apple crumble uses 100 g of flour, 50 g of butter and 50 g of sugar to make the crumble
topping. When my family come for a meal, I have to use two and a half times each amount to provide
enough crumble. In total, how much crumble topping do I then make?
A 0.5 kg B 2 kg C 2.5 kg D 5 kg E 50 kg
3. In the Caribbean, loggerhead turtles lay three million eggs in twenty thousand nests.
On average, how many eggs are in each nest?
A 15 B 150 C 1500 D 15 000 E 150 000
4. Workers digging a tunnel for an underground railway complete 5 metres of tunnel on a typical day.
Working every day, how long will it take them to dig a tunnel of length 2 kilometres?
A three months B six months C just under a year D just over a year
E nearly two years
5. Which of the following has the same value as 10 006 − 8008 ?
A 10 007 − 8007 B 100 060 − 80 080 C 10 000 − 8002 D 106 − 88
E 5003 − 4004
6. What is 20% of 3 43 ?
123 13 7 3 4
A B C D E
200 20 10 4 5
7. A function machine does the four operations shown in order.

÷3 −10 ÷3 −10
Iris inputs a positive integer and the output is also a positive integer.
What is the smallest possible number which Iris could have input?
A 9 B 84 C 102 D 120 E 129
8. What is the difference between 40% of 50% of 60 and 50% of 60% of 70?
A 9 B 8 C 7 D 6 E 5
9. A number 𝑥 is greater than 2022. Which is the smallest of the following?
𝑥 2022 𝑥+1 2022 2022
A B C D E
2022 𝑥−1 2022 𝑥 𝑥+1
10. One hundred rectangles are arranged edge-to-edge in a continuation of the pattern shown.

...
Each rectangle measures 3 cm by 1 cm. What is the perimeter, in cm, of the completed shape?
A 800 B 700 C 602 D 600 E 502
11. The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (Vol. 1, 1747) asked the following question.
"What number is that, whose quarter shall be 9 more than the whole?"
What is the correct answer?
A 12 B 9 C 8 D −8 E −12

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12. The shape shown is made up of three similar right-angled triangles.

The smallest triangle has two sides of side-length 2, as shown.

What is the area of the shape? 2

2
√ √
A 14 B 12 + 12 2 C 28 D 24 + 20 2 E 56
13. How many sets of three consecutive integers are there in which the sum of the three integers equals
their product ?
A 0 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5
14. In a number pyramid, each cell above the bottom row contains
the sum of the numbers in the two cells immediately below third row
it. The three numbers on the second row are all equal, and second row
are all integers. Which of these statements must be true?

A The bottom row contains at least one zero B The third row contains at least one zero
C The top number is a multiple of three D The top number is a multiple of four
E None of the above
15. Reflection in the line 𝑙 transforms the point with coordinates (5, 3) into the point with coordinates
(1, −1).
What is the equation of the line 𝑙?
A 𝑦 =𝑥−2 B 𝑦=1 C 𝑥=3 D 𝑦 =2−𝑥 E 𝑦 =4−𝑥

16. What is half of 42022 ?

A 41011 B 24044 C 42021 D 24043 E 21011
17. The first figure shows four touching circles of radius 1 cm in a
horizontal row, held together tightly by an outer band X. Y

X
The second figure shows six touching circles of radius 1 cm, again
held tightly together by a surrounding band Y.
Which of the following statements is true?
A X is 2 cm longer than Y B X is 1 cm longer than Y
C X and Y are the same length D Y is 1 cm longer than X
E Y is 2 cm longer than X
18. Dick Turnip sold his horse, Slack Bess, for £56. The percentage profit he made was numerically the
same as the cost, in pounds, of his horse. What was the cost of his horse?
A £36 B £40 C £45 D £48 E £50

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19. A sector of a circle has radius 6 and arc length 10, as shown.
10
What is the area of the sector? 6

6
A 30 B 36 C 40 D 60 E 66
20. Aroon is asked to choose five integers so that the mode is 2 more than the median and the mean is 2
less than the median. What is the largest possible value of the range of Aroon’s five integers?
A 2 B 5 C 12 D 15
E The largest possible range depends on the integers chosen
21. The diagram shows a shaded semicircle of diameter 4, from which a smaller 4
semicircle has been removed. The two semicircles touch at exactly three points.
What fraction of the larger semicircle is shaded?

√ √
2 1 2 2 3
A B C D E
𝜋 2 3 2 4𝜋
22. A rectangle with integer side-lengths is divided into four smaller rectangles, as
shown. The perimeters of the largest and smallest of these smaller rectangles are
28 cm and 12 cm.
Which of the following is a possible area of the original rectangle?

A 90 cm2 B 92 cm2 C 94 cm2 D 96 cm2 E 98 cm2

23. Two squares are drawn inside a regular hexagon with side-length 2, as shown.
What is the area of the overlap of the two squares?

√ √ √ √
A 2 B 2− 3 C 4− 3 D 4−2 3 E 8−4 3
24. Pete’s pies all cost an integer number of pounds. A cherry pie costs the same as two apple pies.
A blueberry pie costs the same as two damson pies. A cherry pie and two damson pies cost the same
as an apple pie and two blueberry pies. Paul buys one of each type of pie.
Which of the following could be the amount he spends?
A £16 B £18 C £20 D £22 E £24
25. Alvita is planning a garden patio to be made from identical square paving stones laid out in a rectangle
measuring 𝑥 stones by 𝑦 stones. She finds that when she adds a border of width one stone around the
patio, the area of the border is equal to the original area of the patio.
How many possible values for 𝑥 are there?
A 1 B 2 C 4 D 8 E 16

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