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Questions – Middle Primary Division

1. How many dots are in this pattern?
(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22
(D) 23 (E) 24

2. What number is one hundred more than 465?

(A) 365 (B) 455 (C) 475 (D) 565 (E) 1465

3. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded?

1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 4 6 8 10

4. There were 17 dogs and 9 ran away.

How many dogs were left?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12
(D) 26 (E) 27

5. John is playing a board game.

He moves his blue piece one square up then three
squares left.
Which piece does he land on?
(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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6. Which shape is not used in this snowman picture?

(A) circle (B) oval (C) triangle
(D) square (E) rectangle

7. Eve starts at 20 and counts up by twos: 20, 22, 24 and so on. What is the tenth number
she counts?
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 36 (E) 38

8. This graph was made by a Year 3 class. Favourite day of the week
How many students chose either Satur- 5
day or Sunday as their favourite day? 4
Number of
students
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 10 3
(D) 12 (E) 20 2
1
0
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun
Day

9. I went for a bike ride this morning.

11 12 1 11 12 1
These clocks show my start and finish times. 10 2 10 2
In minutes, how long was my ride? 9 3 9 3
8 4 8 4
(A) 9 (B) 13 (C) 47 7 6 5 7 6 5
(D) 52 (E) 62 Start Finish

10. Edie and Louie are standing in a line with other children. Edie is fourth from the front
and Louie is fourth from the back of the line. There are 15 children in the line. How many
children are between Edie and Louie?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

11. There are 49 ten-cent coins in my pink piggy bank and

25 twenty-cent coins in my blue piggy bank.
How much money do I have altogether?
(A) $7.40 (B) $9.90 (C) $12.30
(D) $14.80 (E) $990

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12. How many more small cubes are needed to complete

this large cube?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 12 (E) 20

13. Ms Amali brings 100 stickers to share equally among her class of 23 students.
How many stickers will she have left over?
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 17 (E) 21

14. This card is flipped over its right-hand edge and then flipped
again over its bottom edge.
What does the card look like now?
(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

15. Chris wants to use the same number in both boxes to make this number sentence true.
What number should she use?

7+  = 11 − 
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

16. Sally says to her brother, ‘You are 10 years older than me’. Her brother says, ‘You are
right, and I am three times your age’. How old is Sally?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

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17. How many of the small coloured tiles are needed

to cover the large cross shape shown?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20
(D) 36 (E) 40
tile

18. Siobhan has seven cards, numbered 1 to 7.

She places six of them correctly in the three number sentences.
Which card does she have left over?

1 2 × = 12

3 4 5 + = 11

6 7 − =1

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7

19. A long rectangular room 10 m long and 2 m wide has mirrors on all four walls. Any beam
of light hitting these mirrors bounces back at the same angle as shown below.
A guard standing at one end of the room shines a torch at an angle of 45◦ to the walls,
making a narrow beam that bounces off the mirrors several times, stopping when it returns
to her.
How many times does the beam of light bounce off the mirrors?

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 22

20. A can filled with 30 marbles weighs 115 g. The same can with 20 marbles weighs 85 g.
How much does the empty can weigh?
(A) 10 g (B) 20 g (C) 25 g (D) 30 g (E) 55 g

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21. Peter wants to buy a length of ribbon to wrap around

1. 2. 3.
a box as shown.
The box is 20 cm long, 20 cm wide and 20 cm high. It
takes an extra 80 cm of ribbon to tie the bow.
What is the best estimate of the amount of ribbon
that Peter needs to buy to tie around the box?
4. 5. 6.

(A) 160 cm (B) 180 cm (C) 240 cm (D) 280 cm (E) 320 cm

22. In week 1, Hamish and Eliza open bank accounts for their savings. Hamish saves $12 every
two weeks, starting in week 1. Eliza saves $32 in week 1 and then $4 every week after that.
When will they first have the same amount of money in the bank?
(A) week 3 (B) week 5 (C) week 7 (D) week 9 (E) week 11

23. A different whole number is placed in each corner of a

square. Two numbers joined by an edge must have a differ-
ence of more than 1.
When the four numbers are added together, what is the
smallest possible total?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12
(D) 13 (E) 14

24. Three whole numbers add to 21. When these same three numbers are multiplied together
they equal 280. What is the smallest of these three numbers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 7 (E) 10

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25. Steven made this cube from a paper net, then pushed a pin
through it as shown.
He then removed the pin, leaving holes in the cube, and
unfolded the cube back to its net.
Which of the following could be the net of Steven’s cube?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

26. I notice that my electricity meter currently reads 896 754 units,
where all the digits are different. How many more units of elec- 8 9 6 7 5 4
tricity will I need to use before all the digits are again different?

27. How many whole numbers between 200 and 500 contain the digit 3?

28. On a digital display, a combination of bars light up to represent each digit as shown:

In some special numbers, the number of bars which light up in the digits is the same as
the sum of the digits. For example, in 373 the number of bars is 5 + 3 + 5 = 13 which is
the equal to 3 + 7 + 3 = 13. What is the largest such three-digit number?

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29. Nguyen writes down some numbers according to the following rules.
Starting with the number 1, he doubles the number and adds 4, so the second number he
writes is 6.
He now repeats this process, starting with the last number written, doubling and then
adding 4, but he doesn’t write the hundreds digit if the number is bigger than 100.
What is the 2022nd number that Nguyen writes down?

30. I choose three different numbers out of this list and add them together:

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, . . . , 105

How many different totals can I get?

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Questions – Upper Primary Division

1. What number is two hundred and five thousand, one hundred and fifty?
(A) 150 (B) 205 (C) 20 150 (D) 25 150 (E) 205 150

2. What fraction of this picture is shaded?

1 2 3 4 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 9 9

3. 2220 − 2022 =
(A) 18 (B) 188 (C) 198 (D) 200 (E) 202

4. Audrey wrote these three numbers in order from smallest to largest:

1.03 0.08 0 .4

In which order did she write them?

(A) 0.08, 1.03, 0.4 (B) 0.08, 0.4, 1.03 (C) 0.4, 0.08, 1.03
(D) 0.4, 1.03, .008 (E) 1.03, 0.4, 0.08

5. I was 7 years old when my brother turned 3. How old will I be when he turns 7?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

6. This shape is built from 29 squares, each 1 cm × 1 cm.

What is its perimeter in centimetres?
(A) 52 (B) 58 (C) 60
(D) 68 (E) 72

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7. A tachometer indicates how fast the crankshaft in a

car’s engine is spinning, in thousands of revolutions 4
per minute (rpm).
3 5
What is the reading on the tachometer shown?
2 6
(A) 2.2 rpm (B) 2.4 rpm
(C) 240 rpm (D) 2200 rpm
(E) 2400 rpm 1 x 1000 rpm 7

0 8

8. Joseph had a full, one litre bottle of water. He drank 320 millilitres of it. How much was
left?
(A) 660 mL (B) 670 mL (C) 680 mL (D) 730 mL (E) 780 mL

9. Which of these rectangles have an area of 24 square centimetres?

P 2 cm Q 3 cm
12 cm
8 cm

R 4 cm
S 1 cm
6 cm 24 cm

(A) Q only (B) Q and R only (C) R only

(D) S only (E) P, Q, R and S

10. This table shows Jai’s morning routine. Activity Time taken
If he needs to be at school by 8:55 am what is the latest Shower 15 minutes
time he can start his shower? Get dressed 10 minutes
Have breakfast 20 minutes
(A) 7:35 am (B) 7:50 am (C) 8:05 am
Brush teeth 5 minutes
(D) 8:20 am (E) 8:35 am Walk to school 30 minutes

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11. Which spinner is twice as likely to land on red as white?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. Starting at 0 on the number line, Clement walks back and forth in the following pattern:
3 to the right, 2 to the left, 3 to the right, 2 to the left, and so on.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

How many times does he walk past the position represented by 4 12 ?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

13. Three digits are missing from this sum. 4

Toby worked out the missing numbers and added them 3 4
together. + 9 1
What was his answer? 1 0 0 1
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 17 (E) 19

14. I have three cardboard shapes: a square, a circle and a triangle. I

glue them on top of each other as shown in this diagram.
I then flip the glued-together shapes over. What could they look
like?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

15. What is the missing number needed to make this number sentence true?

270 ÷ 45 = ÷ 15

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 60 (D) 90 (E) 150

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16. Three different squares are arranged as shown. The

perimeter of the largest square is 32 centimetres. The
area of the smallest square is 9 square centimetres.
What is the perimeter of the medium-sized square?

(A) 12 cm (B) 14 cm (C) 20 cm (D) 24 cm (E) 30 cm

17. Huang has a bag of marbles. Mei takes out one-third of them. Huang then takes out
one-half of those left, leaving 8 marbles in the bag.
How many marbles were originally in the bag?
(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 24 (E) 36

18. A different positive whole number is placed at each vertex

of a cube.
No two numbers joined by an edge of the cube can have a
difference of 1.
What is the smallest possible sum of the eight numbers?
(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38
(D) 39 (E) 40

19. George is 78 this year. He has three grandchildren: Michaela, Tom and Lucy. Michaela
is 27, Tom is 23 and Lucy is 16. After how many years will George’s age be equal to the
sum of his grandchildren’s ages?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 12

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20. Ms Graham asked each student in her Year 5 Number of TVs students have
class how many television sets they each have. 10
9

Number of students
This graph shows the results. 8
How many television sets do the students have 7
altogether? 6
5
(A) 9 (B) 29 (C) 91 4
(D) 99 (E) 101 3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of TVs

21. In a mathematics competition, 70 boys and 80 girls competed.

Prizes were won by 6 boys and 15% of the girls.
What percentage of the students were prize winners?
(A) 10% (B) 12% (C) 15% (D) 18% (E) 20%

22. Ariel writes the letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper ABCDEFGHI
JKLMNOPQ
as shown.
She turns the page upside down and looks at it in her

RSTUVWXYZ
bathroom mirror.
How many of the letters appear unchanged when viewed
this way?

(A) 0 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 9

23. The Australian Mathematical College (AMC) has 1000 students. Each student takes 6
classes a day. Each teacher teaches 5 classes per day with 25 students in each class.
How many teachers are there at the AMC?
(A) 40 (B) 48 (C) 50 (D) 200 (E) 240

24. This list

pqrs, pqsr, prqs, prsq, . . .
can be continued to include all 24 possible arrangements of the four letters p, q , r and s.
The arrangements are listed in alphabetical order.
Which one of the following is 19th in this list?
(A) spqr (B) srpq (C) qpsr (D) qrps (E) rpsq

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25. In this puzzle, each circle should contain an integer. Each

7
of the five lines of four circles should add to 40.
When the puzzle is completed, what is the largest number
used? 8 15
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17
(D) 18 (E) 19

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26. Nguyen writes down some numbers according to the following rules.
Starting with the number 1, he doubles the number and adds 4, so the second number he
writes is 6.
He now repeats this process, starting with the last number written, doubling and then
adding 4, but he doesn’t write the hundreds digit if the number is bigger than 100.
What is the 2022nd number that Nguyen writes down?

27. Karen’s mother made a cake for her birthday. After it was iced on the top and the 4
vertical faces, it was a cube with 20 cm sides. Darren was asked to decorate the cake with
chocolate drops.
He arranged them all over the icing in a square
grid pattern, spaced with centres 2 cm apart.
Those near the edges of the cube had centres
2 cm from the edge.
The diagram shows one corner of the cake.
How many chocolate drops did Darren use to
decorate Karen’s cake?

28. I choose three different numbers out of this list and add them together:

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, . . . , 105

How many different totals can I get?

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29. The athletics clubs of Albury and Wodonga agree to send a combined team to the regional
championships. They have 11 sprinters on the combined team, 5 from Albury and 6 from
Wodonga.
For the 4 × 100 metre relay, they agree to have a relay team with two sprinters from the
Albury club and two sprinters from the Wodonga club.
How many relay teams are possible?

30. The following is a net of a rectangular prism with some dimensions, in centimetres, given.

12

10

32
What is the volume of the rectangular prism in cubic centimetres?

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Questions – Junior Division

1. What is the perimeter of this rhombus? 9 cm
(A) 20 cm (B) 24 cm (C) 28 cm
(D) 32 cm (E) 36 cm 9 cm

2. The temperature in the mountains was 4 ◦ C but dropped overnight by 7 ◦ C.

What was the temperature in the morning?
(A) 3 ◦ C (B) 11 ◦ C (C) −3 ◦ C (D) −4 ◦ C (E) −11 ◦ C

3. What is the value of 20 × 22?

(A) 42 (B) 440 (C) 2022 (D) 2220 (E) 4400

4. Which spinner is twice as likely to land on red as white?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

5. Russell’s tuba lesson started at 4:28 pm and finished at 5:05 pm.

How long was the lesson?
(A) 23 minutes (B) 27 minutes (C) 33 minutes (D) 37 minutes (E) 43 minutes

6. What fraction of the square is shaded? 2

1 1 2
(A) (B) (C)
3 4 5
1 3 2 2
(D) (E)
2 8

7. What is the value of 103 − 112 ?

(A) 8 (B) 22 (C) 279 (D) 779 (E) 879

8. Which one of these fractions lies between 4 and 5 on the number line?
7 15 16 17 18
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 4 5 4 5

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9. In the triangle P QR shown, P Q = P R and ∠QP R = 48◦ . What P

is ∠P QR?
(A) 60◦ (B) 66◦ (C) 72◦ 48◦
(D) 78◦ (E) 84◦
Q R

10. What is the time and day one-quarter of a week after midday on Sunday?
(A) 6 am Tuesday (B) 9 pm Tuesday (C) midday Monday
(D) 3 am Wednesday (E) 6 pm Monday

11. These three coins have a number on each side.

The two numbers on each coin multiply to 60.
What is the sum of the three hidden numbers? 30 5 4
(A) 17 (B) 21 (C) 29 (D) 31 (E) 39

12. Three different squares are arranged as shown.

The perimeter of the largest square is 36 cm.
The area of the smallest square is 9 cm2 .
What is the perimeter of the medium-sized square?
(A) 12 cm (B) 18 cm (C) 24 cm
(D) 30 cm (E) 32 cm

13. Australia uses 160 million litres of petrol each day.

There is enough petrol stored to last 60 days.
How much more petrol does Australia need to buy to have enough stored for 90 days?
(A) 4 million litres (B) 4.8 million litres (C) 480 million litres
(D) 160 million litres (E) 4800 million litres

14. A number of students were asked about their favourite drink:

juice, milk or water. This pie chart shows their answers. Milk
Eighty students chose milk. Juice
60◦
How many students chose juice?
(A) 80 (B) 100 (C) 120
(D) 160 (E) 480 Water

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15. How many of these numbers are divisible by 3?

1, 12, 123, 1234, 12345, 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123456789

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

16. Standard dice have 1 and 6 opposite, 2 and 5 opposite and 3 and
4 opposite. I can position any dice to be able to see 1, 2 or 3
sides.
What is the smallest number of dice I can arrange to see exactly
100 dots at once?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 10 (E) 17


17. This logo is reflected in the vertical axis  shown, rotated clock-
wise by 90◦ , then reflected in the vertical axis  again.
What does it look like after these three steps?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

18. In this grid, the puzzle is to fill each square with either × or
◦ following two rules. Firstly, in each row and column there
◦
must be three of each symbol. Secondly, there can’t be three ×
consecutive squares with the same symbol in any row or col- ◦ ◦
umn.
When this puzzle is solved, what is the arrangement of symbols
× ×
in the three shaded squares in the lower left? × × ◦
(A) × ◦ × (B) ◦ × ◦ (C) × × ◦
(D) ◦ × × (E) ◦ ◦ ×

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19. Ash, Sash and Tash like to collect and swap monster trading
cards. They meet to trade some cards with each other. Ash
trades 11 cards, Sash trades 8 and Tash trades 15.
Each card is swapped exactly once with another card be-
longing to another person. Everyone ends up with the same 
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20. Within the square P QRS , lines are drawn from each corner P Q
to the middle of the opposite sides as shown. What fraction
of P QRS is shaded?
1 1 3
(A) (B) (C)
4 3 8
1 2
(D) (E)
2 3
S R

21. The first number in a list is 2. After that, each number is calculated by adding the digits
of the previous number together and squaring the result. What is the 2022nd number in
the list?
(A) 49 (B) 169 (C) 256 (D) 529 (E) 1024

22. On a large grid, rows and columns are numbered as shown.

All squares in row 1 are shaded. Every second square in row 2 is shaded. Every third
square in row 3 is shaded, and so on.
As a result each column has certain squares shaded. For instance, the shaded squares in
column 6 are the three squares shown and one more in row 6.
In column 105, how many squares are shaded?

..
.
4
3
2
1
···
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 35

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23. Usually Andrew walks home from school in 24 minutes. Last Monday, he walked for the
first 15 minutes but then it started to rain, so he ran the rest of the way home. His running
speed is 1.5 times his usual walking speed. How many minutes did it take him to get from
school to home?
(A) 18 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
24. The single-digit unit fractions are , , , , , , and .
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
How many pairs of these fractions are there where the first fraction minus the second
1
fraction is bigger than .
10
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25

25. In the grid shown, the numbers 1 to 6 are placed so that when
joined in ascending order they make a trail. The trail moves from 2 3 6
one square to an adjacent square but does not move diagonally. In
how many ways can the numbers 1 to 6 be placed in the grid to 1 4 5
give such a trail?
(A) 16 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 36

26. In the sum shown, the symbols ♦, ♥ and  represent three different ♦♥
digits. What is the three-digit number represented by ♦ ♥  ?
+♦♥
♥♥♦

27. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are separated into two groups of 4 each. Each group is
formed into a four-digit number and the two numbers are added. Finally, the digits in this
sum are added together.
An example of this is 3541 + 7628 = 11169, with digit sum 1 + 1 + 1 + 6 + 9 = 18.
What is the difference between the largest possible and smallest possible digit sums?

28. A surf club consists of three types of members: trainees, paddlers and legends. There are
20 trainees, which is less than half the membership. There are twice as many legends as
paddlers.
After a surf rescue they received a $1000 donation to be divided among the members. All
the donation was shared and every member received a whole number of dollars, at least
$2.
Each paddler received 6 times as much as each trainee. Each legend received $5 more than
each paddler.
How many members are in the surf club?

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29. Horton has a regular hexagon of area 60. For each choice of three
vertices of the hexagon, he writes down the area of the triangle
with these three vertices.
What is the sum of the 20 areas that Horton writes down?

30. In how many ways can 100 be written as the sum of three different positive integers?
Note that we do not consider sums formed by reordering the terms to be different, so that
34 + 5 + 61 and 61 + 34 + 5 are treated as the same sum.

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Questions – Intermediate Division

1. 2220 − 2022 =
(A) 18 (B) 188 (C) 198 (D) 200 (E) 202

2. This shape is built from 29 squares, each 1 cm × 1 cm.

What is its perimeter in centimetres?
(A) 52 (B) 58 (C) 60
(D) 68 (E) 72

3. A digital clock shows the time as 20:22.

In how many minutes will it be midnight?
(A) 158 (B) 218 (C) 258 (D) 278 (E) 378

1 2 + 22
4. The value of is
3 2 + 42
1 3 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) 4 (E) 5
5 7 49

5. In the triangle P QR shown, P Q = P R and ∠QP R = 48◦ . What P

is ∠P QR?
(A) 60◦ (B) 66◦ (C) 72◦ 48◦
(D) 78◦ (E) 84◦
Q R

6. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded? 8

1 5 5
(A) (B) (C)
2 8 6 7
2 7
(D) (E)
3 12
12

7. (0.4)2 + (0.1)2 =
(A) 0.25 (B) 1.7 (C) 0.17 (D) 1 (E) 0.26

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8. Australia uses 160 million litres of petrol each day.

There is enough petrol stored to last 60 days.
How much more petrol does Australia need to buy to have enough stored for 90 days?
(A) 4 million litres (B) 4.8 million litres (C) 480 million litres
(D) 160 million litres (E) 4800 million litres

2022 2022
9. − =
2 3
(A) 337 (B) 674 (C) 2022 (D) −2022 (E) −674

10. Which algebraic term should replace  in the equation below?

 +  +  = 27x3 y 6

(A) 3xy 2 (B) 3x3 y 6 (C) 9xy 2 (D) 9x3 y 6 (E) 27xy 2

11. Three vertices of a rectangle are the points (1, 4), (7, 4)
and (1, 8). At which point do the diagonals of the rect-
angle cross?
(A) (4, 6) (B) (3, 2) (C) (3, 1)
(D) (5, 6) (E) (7, 8)

12. What value should be placed in the box to satisfy the equation?

5 1
=1+ 1
3 1+

(A) 1 (B) 1 12 (C) 2 (D) 2 12 (E) 3

13. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. What is the size of the largest angle in
degrees?
(A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 72 (D) 80 (E) 90

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14. In this puzzle, each circle should contain an integer. Each

7
of the five lines of four circles should add to 40.
When the puzzle is completed, what is the largest number
used? 8 15
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17
(D) 18 (E) 19

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15. Daniel and Luke arrange to meet at a cafe. Luke leaves work, walking at 6 km/h. Five
minutes later, Daniel starts cycling from his flat at 20 km/h. A further 15 minutes later,
both arrive at the cafe at the same time.
What is the total distance they travelled?
(A) 5.5 km (B) 6 km (C) 6.5 km (D) 7 km (E) 7.5 km

16. My family of 7 adults and 5 children gather each year to celebrate Chinese Mid-Autumn
festival. Each adult gives one gift to everyone else. Each child gives one gift to every other
child. How many gifts are given?
(A) 78 (B) 85 (C) 97 (D) 102 (E) 109

17. This spinner is spun twice to form a two-digit number using the
following rules:
1 2
• The first value spun forms the tens digit of a number.
• If the second value rolled is larger than the first, it becomes
the units digit of a number. 4 3
• If the second value spun is not larger than the first, the tens
digit is repeated as the units digit.

What is the probability that the resulting two-digit number is

divisible by 11?
1 3 1 5 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 8 2 8 16

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18. Eight overlapping unit squares are drawn to produce a

flower shape as shown. The parts where two squares
overlap are isosceles triangles.
What is the total shaded area?
(A) 5 (B) 5 12 (C) 6
(D) 6 12 (E) 7

19. Rick and Nic started learning guitar recently.

Two weeks ago, Rick had been learning five times as long as Nic.
Two days ago, Rick had been learning twice as long as Nic.
Today, what is the number of days that Rick has been learning plus the number of days
that Nic has been learning?
(A) 25 (B) 37 (C) 46 (D) 52 (E) 68

20. Over the last 20 years, the standard ratio of television screens has changed from 4 : 3 to
16 : 9. When the ratio of content doesn’t match the ratio of the screen it is being viewed
on, black bars are often used to compensate, as illustrated.

4 : 3 image on a 16 : 9 screen 16 : 9 image on a 4 : 3 screen

If  is the fraction of the screen blacked out in the left diagram, and r is the fraction of
the screen blacked out in the right diagram, then the ratio  : r equals
(A) 3 : 4 (B) 8 : 9 (C) 1 : 1 (D) 9 : 8 (E) 4 : 3

21. A triangular ramp is in the shape of a right-angled tetrahe-

dron. The horizontal base is an equilateral triangle with sides 1
8 metres. The apex is 1 metre directly above one corner of the |
base, so that two faces are vertical.
In square metres, what is the area of the sloping face? 8
|

√ 65 √
(A) 16 3 (B) 28 (C) 3
4
√
(D) 4 33 (E) 32

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22. What is the value of the following expression when n = 2022?


3 (1 × 2 × 4) + (2 × 4 × 8) + · · · + (n × 2n × 4n)
(1 × 3 × 9) + (2 × 6 × 18) + · · · + (n × 3n × 9n)

1 2 3 4 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 5 6

23. Lisa has a mixture of water and milk in a drum in the ratio 5 : 7. She accidentally spills
9 L of this mixture.
She then fills the drum with 9 L of water. This makes the water to milk ratio 9 : 7.
How many litres of milk were in the drum originally?
(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 36 (E) 40

24. Given that the highest common factor of p and q is t, and q = rt, then the lowest common
multiple of p and q will always be equal to
(A) pq (B) qr (C) rt (D) pr (E) pt

25. A positive number is written in each cell of the 3 × 3 table. In each

row and in each column, the product of the numbers is equal to 1.
In each 2×2 square, the product of the numbers is equal to 2. What ?
is the number in the central cell?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 16

26. In the sum below, a, b and c are nonzero digits.

1 c a b
+ a b c
2 0 2 2

What is the three-digit number abc in the second line of the sum?

27. When these numbers are multiplied, what is the sum of all digits in the answer?

171 × 66 . . . 6
  
111 sixes

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28. In how many ways can 100 be written as the sum of three different positive integers?
Note that we do not consider sums formed by reordering the terms to be different, so that
34 + 5 + 61 and 61 + 34 + 5 are treated as the same sum.

29. What is the largest number of distinct elements that you can choose from the set
{1, 2, 3, 4, . . . , 1000} such that no three of them are the side lengths of a triangle?
For example the selection could include 20, 22 and 42, since there is no triangle with
sides 20, 22 and 42.

30. Students sit at their desks in three rows of eight. Bryn

Felix, the class pet, must be passed to each stu-
dent exactly once, starting with Alex in one cor-
ner and finishing with Bryn in the opposite cor-
ner. Each student can pass only to the immedi-
ate neighbour left, right, in front or behind. One Alex
possible path is shown.
How many different paths can Felix take from
Alex to Bryn?

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Senior Questions
Questions – Senior Division
1. The temperature in the mountains was 4 ◦ C but dropped overnight by 7 ◦ C.
What was the temperature in the morning?
(A) 3 ◦ C (B) 11 ◦ C (C) −3 ◦ C (D) −4 ◦ C (E) −11 ◦ C

2. The rectangle shown has area 135.

What is the value of h in the diagram?
Area = 135 h
(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 11
(D) 13 (E) 15 15

3. The value of 51 + 42 + 33 + 24 + 15 is
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 35 (D) 50 (E) 65

1 1
4. − =
20 22
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) − (D) − (E)
2 42 440 44 220

5. Three vertices of a rectangle are the points (1, 4), (7, 4)

and (1, 8). At which point do the diagonals of the rect-
angle cross?
(A) (4, 6) (B) (3, 2) (C) (3, 1)
(D) (5, 6) (E) (7, 8)

6. What fraction of this trapezium is shaded? 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 5 15

2 1 2

7. The
√ sum of the numbers on these six cards is
4 5. Lily removes one of them. √ √ √
2 7 5 3 5
What is the largest possible sum of the re-
maining five cards?
√ √ √ √
(A) 4 5 + 3 7 (B) 4 5 + 7 7
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
(C) 4 5 − 2 7 (D) 4 5 − 5 7 −4 7 −3 7 5 7
√ √
(E) 4 5 + 4 7

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8. In this diagram, what is the value of x?

(A) 65 (B) 70 (C) 75
(D) 80 (E) 85 x◦

x◦ 140◦ 40◦

9. The smaller of these dice has three zeroes and three ones on its faces and

3
the larger has the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 on its faces.
Both dice are rolled once and the numbers showing on top are added.
11

7
What is the probability of obtaining a sum of 12? 1
1 1 1 1
(A) 0 (B) (C) (D) (E)

0
6 9 12 36 1

− 12 − 14
10. The value of 24 + 17 is closest to
(A) 0.2 (B) 0.5 (C) 0.7 (D) 1 (E) 1.2

11. The operation  is defined by p  q = 2p − q. Each of p and q is an integer from −6 to

+6. How many pairs of values (p, q) will have p  q = q  p?
(A) 6 (B) 13 (C) 36 (D) 49 (E) 169

12. In the diagram, the lengths of the sides of the triangle are
8, 9 and 13 centimetres. The centres of the circles are at
the vertices of the triangle and the circles just touch. The
radius, in centimetres, of the largest circle is
(A) 6 (B) 6.5 (C) 7 (D) 7.5 (E) 8

13. The four integers 3, 4, 8, 11 have their mean and range calculated.
A fifth integer is then included that is different from the other four. This doesn’t change
the range, but the mean is now an integer.
What is this new mean?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

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B
14. Two triangles ABC and BCD are both right an-
gled as shown. Lines AB and CD are parallel. Also
AC = 1 and AB = 2. D

>
What is the length of CD?
√ √ 2
3
(A) 2 (B) (C) 3

>
2
16 5
(D) (E)
9 3

A 1 C

√
15. The value of x in the equation 3x + 3x+1 + 3x+2 = 13 3 is
√ √
1 13 3 − 9 √ 13 3 − 3
(A) 0 (B) (C) (D) 3 (E)
2 9 9

16. Four numbers are equally spaced on the number line, in the given order

1 1
, , X, Y
20 22
What is the value of Y ?
1 2 3 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
26 21 44 55 26

17. A small equilateral triangle sits inside a larger equilateral 2

triangle as shown.
6
What is the ratio of the areas of the smaller and larger
equilateral triangles?
6
(A) 1 : 3 (B) 7 : 16 (C) 9 : 16
2
(D) 37 : 64 (E) 21 : 32
6 2

18. The square pyramid shown is divided into 3 pieces, P , Q

and R, by two planes that are parallel to the square base. P
Each of the 3 pieces has the same height. The volume of Q
the piece P is 5 cm3 .
What is the volume of piece R, in cm3 ? R
(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 40 (D) 95 (E) 125

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19. A sequence of values a1 , a2 , . . . , a100 is calculated as follows:

a2 + 1 an−1 + 1 a99 + 1
a1 = 1 , a2 = 2 , a3 = , ... an = , ... a100 =
a1 an−2 a98

What is a100 ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 50

20. A triangular ramp is in the shape of a right-angled tetrahe-

dron. The horizontal base is an equilateral triangle with sides 1
8 metres. The apex is 1 metre directly above one corner of the |
base, so that two faces are vertical.
In square metres, what is the area of the sloping face? 8

|
√ 65 √
(A) 16 3 (B) 28 (C) 3
4
√
(D) 4 33 (E) 32

21. A cuboctahedron is a solid formed by joining the

midpoints of the edges of a cube as shown.
What is the volume of a cuboctahedron of side
length 2? 2 2
√ √
10 2 40 2 √
(A) (B) (C) 8 2
3 3
√ √ √ 8√
(D) 6 2 + 8 3 (E) 8 2 + 3 2 2
3

22. In the two equations ax − b = c and dy + e = f , each of the letters a, b, c, d, e, and f is

replaced by a different digit from 1 to 9.
When the two equations are solved for x and y, the lowest possible value of x + y is
(A) less than −7 (B) between −7 and −5 (C) between −5 and −3
(D) between −3 and −1 (E) greater than −1

23. A semicircle is inscribed in a right-angled isosce-

les triangle and a square is inscribed in the semi-
circle as shown. What is the ratio of the area of
the square to the area of the triangle?
√
(A) 1 : 3 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 2 : 5
√
(D) 1 : 2 2 (E) 3 : 8

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24. In the grid shown, the numbers 1 to 8 are placed so that when
joined in ascending order they make a trail. The trail moves 2 3 8 7
from one square to an adjacent square but does not move di-
agonally. In how many ways can the numbers 1 to 8 be placed 1 4 5 6
in the grid to give such a trail?
(A) 12 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 36

25. When I cycled around the lake yesterday, my children Sally and Wally decided to ride
the same route in the opposite direction. We all set off at the same time, from the same
point, and finished at that same spot. We each rode at our own steady speed. It took me
77 minutes. Sally and I passed each other, waving, exactly 42 minutes after we started.
Precisely 2 minutes later, Wally and I passed each other, puffing.
To the nearest minute, how much longer did Wally take than Sally to ride around the lake?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

26. Horton has a regular hexagon of area 60. For each choice of three
vertices of the hexagon, he writes down the area of the triangle
with these three vertices.
What is the sum of the 20 areas that Horton writes down?

27. An even square number is multiplied by an odd cube greater than 1, resulting in a fourth
power. If the fourth power is as small as possible, what is the sum of the square and the
cube?

28. In an infinite sequence, the first two terms are 2 and 6, and apart from the first term, each
term is one less than the average of its two neighbours. What is the largest term less than
1000?

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29. Wasteful Wayne takes one sheet of paper with ‘My Docu-
ment’ printed on it. He runs it through the photocopier to
make two copies which he then stamps with his ‘COPY’
stamp.
Wayne then takes the original and the two copies, runs all
three through the photocopier to make two copies of each,
stamps the six new copies with his ‘COPY’ stamp, and
adds them to the top of the pile.
He repeats this process by making two copies of each sheet
of paper in his existing pile, stamping the new copies, then
adding them to the pile. So the pile triples in size each
time. After Wayne has done this eight times in total, the
pile is 6561 sheets high.
How many sheets have exactly 2 ‘COPY’ stamps on them?

30. Ali, Beth, Chen, Dom and Ella finish a race in alphabetical order: Ali in first place, then
Beth, Chen, Dom and Ella. The next week, they run another race and their placings all
change. Two of the runners receive a placing higher than the week before, and the other
three runners receive a placing lower than the week before. Given this information, in how
many orders could the five runners have finished this second race?

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