AUSTRALIAN MaTHEmatics ComPeTITION SPONSORED BY THE COMMONWEALTH BANK AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST eae ConmonwealthBank . ‘TEACHER 2015 INTERMEDIATE DIVISION AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 9 and 10 TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. 2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Seribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential. . Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions that require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response. ‘This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your ‘own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared. 6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet. 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems, ‘THE ANSWER SHEET Use only lead pencil Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score.Intermediate Division Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each ‘What is the area of this triangle in square centimetres? 2cm (Ajio 2 Cu ()7 Hé6 12cm A movie lasts for 24 hours. The movie is shown in two equal sessions. For how many minutes does each session last? (A) 85 (B) 70 (©) 80 (D) 65 (©) 7 If p =11 and q = —4, then p? — q? equals (A) 105, (B) 137 (c) 117 (p) 115, (B) 94 2015 — 20.15 equals (A) 1984.85 (B) 1995.15 (C) 1994.85 (D) 1995.85 (B) 2035.15 ‘What is the value of 2015 twenty-cent coins? (A) $2015 (B) $107.50 (C) 817.50 (D) $403 (E) $43 Ana, Ben, Con, Dan and Eve are sitting around a ta~ ble in that order. Ana calls out the number 1, then Ben calls out the number 2, then Con calls out the (40) number 3, and so on. After a person calls out a num- ber, the next person around the table calls out the (ve) next number. Anyone who calls out a multiple of 7 must immediately leave the table. Who is the last person remaining at the table? (A) Ana (B) Ben (C) Con (D) Dan (B) Event} 7. Ona farm the ratio of horses to cows is 3 : 2 and ratio of cows to goats is 4: 3. The ratio of goats to horses is (A) 5:7 (B) 3:8 (0)3:5 (D) 5:18 (B) 1:2 8. Warren the window washer starts on the 38th floor of a building that has 12 windows per floor. He washes all of the windows on each floor before moving down to the floor below. Which floor is Warren on after he has washed 141 windows? (A) 25th (B) 24th (C) 28th (D) 27th (E) 26th 9. A packet of lollies contains 5 blue lollies, 15 yellow lollies and some red lollies. One-third of the lollies are red. What fraction of the lollies are yellow? 1 5 1 1 2 (A) 5 Bs 5 )§ 5 10. The diagram shows two small squares in opposite comers of a large square. The squares have sides of length lcm, 2cm and Tom, What is the area of the shaded pentagon? (A) 18cm? (B) 16cm? (C) 22cm? (D) 24cm? (E) 20cm?i — Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each 11. Jenna measures three sides of a rectangle and gets a total of 80cm. Dylan measures three sides of the same rectangle and gets a total of 88cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle? (A) 112em (B) 132cm (C) 96cm (D) 168cm (E) 156em 12. A bar-tailed godwit was recorded by satellite tag in 2007 to have flown 11500km in eight days. On average, approximately how many kilometres per hour is that? (A) 120 (B) 6 (1 (D) 24 (B) 60 13. A cube has the letters A, C, M, T, H and S on its six faces. Here are two views of Which one of the following could be a third view of the same cube? (a) ue 8) (©) \%G @) ©) So 14, Two ordinary dice are rolled. The two resulting numbers are multiplied together to create a score. The probability of rolling a score that is a multiple of six is Ay ®% ©} 5 ©) 515. ‘The diagram shows part of a tiled floor. ‘The tiles are all sizes. The smallest tile is lem x 1em and the next smallest is 3em x 3cm. What is the distance XY? i (A) VGem (B) 19cm ¥ (C) V300em (D) V3i7em (E) 20cm me 14 squares, of seven different. 16. How many three-digit numbers have no two digits the same? (A) 764 (B) 900 (C) 648 (D) 520 (E) 480 17. The diagram shows two weightless balance beams. Each tips as ar weights. Each weight has mass X kg, Y kg or Z kg, as shown. Which of the following lists the weights from lightest to heaviest? (A)X (D)23. For each integer from 0 to 999, André wrote down the sum of its digits. What is the average of the numbers that André wrote down? (A) 13.5 (B) 15 (0) 12 (D) 12.5 (B) 105 24, Max’s journey around this grid starts on a grid point on side AB. He visits a grid point on each of sides BC,CD and DA in order before returning to his starting point, forming a quadrilateral. Max does not visit corner points A, B,C’ or D. How many journeys are possible which are not rect- angles? (Note that a square is a rectangle.) (A) 256 (B) 252 (C) 64 (D) 248 (E) 76 25. Tt takes Nicolai one and a half hours to paint the walls of a room and two hours to paint the ceiling. Elena needs exactly one hour to paint the walls of the same room and one hour to paint the ceiling. If Nicolai and Elena work together, what is the shortest possible time in minutes in which they can paint the walls and the ceiling of the room? (a) 72 (B) 60 (C) 83 (D) 75 (8) 76 For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet. Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks. 26. Mike has 2015 matches and uses them to build a triangular pattern like the one shown, but as big as possible. How many matches does he have left over? om in27. How many positive integers n less than 2015 have the property that 4+ + can be simplified to a fraction with denominator less than n? 28. 29. A rectangle has all sides of integer length. When 3 units are added to the height and 2 units to the width, the area of the rectangle is tripled. What is the sum of the original areas of all such rectangles? At Berracan station, northbound trains arrive every three minutes starting at noon and finishing at midnight, while southbound trains arrive every five minntes starting at noon and finishing at midnight. Each day, I walk to Berracan station at a random time in the afternoon and wait for the first train in either direction. On average, how many seconds should I expect to wait? 30. In a 14 x 18 rectangle ABCD, points P,Q, Rand SA are chosen, one on each side of ABCD as pictured. ‘The lengths AP, PB, BQ, QC, CR, RD, DS and ‘SA are all positive integers and PQRS is a rectangle. What is the largest possible area that PQRS could g have? D