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AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
AMC.
Instructions and Information
1. Yougnust maintain silence at all times.
2. Do not open the paper until told to do so.
3. Mobile phones are not allowed. If you have one you must give it to a
supervisor now.
4. You must not leave your seat during the competition
5. You may not borrow equipment without a supervisor's permission.
IF you wish to leave the room a supervisor must accompany you,
7. Ifyou have any other questions, raise your hand and wait for a supervisor.
8. You are allowed a working time of 60 minutes. There is no extra reading time.
9. There are no penalties for incorrect answers. You should attempt all
questions.
10. The questions have been thoroughly checked. Each question stands as
written and no further explanation can be provided.
Tl. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale, They are intended only as aids.
12. You may use calculators and printed language dictionaries.
Important: No student may sit the competition more than once or sit more
than one division of the competition. The AMT conducts integrity checks on
‘competition results and reserves the right to withhold results or disqualify
students if plagiarism or duplicate sittings are suspected.
TURN THE BOOKLET OVER AND READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BACK
COVER,
Copyright © 2023 Australian Mathematics Trust | ACN 083 950 41
AUSTRALIAN
MATHS TRUST
Upper
Primary
Years 5-6
DATE
2-4 August
TIME ALLOWED
60 minutes2023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
Upper Primary Division
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Questions 1 to 10 are worth 3 marks each.
This shape is made from 7 squares, each 1 cm.
by lem. What is its perimeter?
(A) 7em (B) 12cm (C) em
(D) 16cm (E) 28cm
There are five shapes here. How many are quadrilaterals?
AB@@GA
(C3 5
In a board game, Nik rolls three standard
dice, one at a time. He needs his three rolls
to add to 12.
His first two dice rolls are 5 and 3. What
does he need his third roll to be?
(A)2 (B)3 (c)4 (D)5 (E)6
In this diagram, how many of the small squares
need to be shaded for the large rectangle to be
one-quarter shaded?
(A)2 (B)3- (C4 ~.()6. 1) 12
Petra left for school at 8:51 am. She got to school at 9:09 am.
How long did it take Petra to get to school?
(A) 9 minutes (B) 10 minutes (C) 18 minutes
(D) 42 minutes (E) 1 hour2023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
6. Which letter marks where 25 is on this number line?
0 20 40
L 1 1 h L
T Te glaa| T
A BOW) ©
7. This bottle holds 4 glasses of water.
U-OUn8
Which one of the following holds the most water?
bod oes dann
7
pou a:
8. Two pizzas are shared equally
between 3 students.
What fraction of a whole pizza does
each student get?
1 1 1
(A); (B)5 ();
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UPPER PRIMARY
9. A piece of card is cut out and
labelled as shown in the diagram.
It is folded along the dotted lines
to make a box without a top.
Which letter is on the bottom of
the box?
(AVA (B) B oe (D)D (E) E
10. Doughmuts come in bags of 3 and boxes
of 8.
I bought exactly 25 doughnuts for my
_ party.
What do I get when I add the number
of boxes I bought and the number of
bags I bought?
(A)4 (B) 5 (C6 (D)7 (E)8
Questions 11 to 20 are worth 4 marks each.
11. This line graph shows the temperature each hour during a day.
Temperature
40°C
30°C
20°C
10°C
orc Time
12am 3am 6am QYam 12pm 3pm 6pm 9pm 12am
Roughly for how long was the temperature above 20°C?
(A) Thours (B) 8 hours (C) 9 hours (D) 10 hours (E) 11 hours2023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
12. VIV takes her three children, HANNAH,
OTTO and IZZI, out shopping. Each is HANNAH
wearing a t-shirt with their name on the
front in capital letters.
When they stand in front of the shop orroy” aa q \zzI J
mirror, which names appear the same in
the reflection as on the shirts?
(A) VIV and OTTO” (B) VIV, OTTO and IZZI
(C) VIV, HANNAH and IZZI (D) HANNAH and OTTO
(B) All four of them
13.
This regular hexagon has angles of >
120° and the square has angles of 90°.
What is the angle 2° in the diagram?
(A) 90° (B) 120° (C) 135°
(D) 150° (B) 180°
14.
Syed’s mother had some money to share with her family.
She gave one-quarter of her money to Syed.
Then she gave one-third of what was left to Ahmed.
Then she gave one-half of what was left to Raiyan.
&
She was left with $15, which she kept for herself. ”
How much money did Syed’s mother have to start with?
(A) $30 (B) $45 -(C) $60 (D) $90 (E) $120
15.
The rectangle shown has a side length of 9 cm.
It is divided into 3 identical rectangles as
shown.
What is the area, in square centimetres, of the Jen
original rectangle?
(A) 45 (B) 50 (c) 52 (D) 54 (E) 632023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
16. This diagram shows a rectangle with a perimeter of 30cm. It has
been divided by 2 lines into 4 small rectangles. Three of the smal]
rectangles have the perimeters shown. What is the perimeter of
fourth small rectangle?
(A) 10em = (B) 12em = (C) Mem (D) 16em_—(B) 18cm
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17. There are 10 questions in a test. Each correct answer scores 5 points,
each wrong answer loses 3 points, and if a question is left blank it
scores 0 points.
Tycho did this test and scored 27 points. How many questions did
‘Tycho leave blank?
(A)1 (B)2 (C)3 (D) 4 (B)5
18. Estelle is making decorations shaped like the 8-pointed star shown.
She folds a square of paper to make a triangle with 8 layers as shown.
* BE"”
How could she cut the triangle so that the unfolded shape is the star?
i) OV se OV A2025 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
19. Earlier this year Ben said, ‘Next year I will turn 13, but 2 days ago
Twas 10.
Ben's birthday is
(A) Ist January (B) 2nd January (C) 29th December
(D) 30th December (E) 3ist December
20. Peyton, Luka and Dan have 180 stickers in total. Peyton has half as
many stickers as Luka, Dan has three times as many as Luka.
How many stickers does Peyton have?
(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 54
Questions 21 to 25 are worth 5 marks each.
21. Mrs Graaf invents a game for her students to
practise arithmetic. They roll two 10-sided dice
to pick two random numbers. Starting at one of,
the numbers, they keep adding the other number
until they reach a 3-digit number.
Jan rolls a 5 and an 8. If he chooses to start with
5 and then add 8 again and again, his list is
5, 13, 21, ..., 93, 101. If he chooses to start with
8 and add 5, his list is 8, 13, 18, ..., 98, 103.
On Nara’s turn, she makes a list that ends with 107.
What pair of numbers could she have rolled? °
(A) 4and8 (B)5and7 (C)3and4 (D)Gand9 (BE) 3and82023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
22. At a school concert, the tickets cost $20 per adult and $2 per child.
The total paid by the 100 people who attended was $920. How many
were children?
(A) between 25 and 35 (B) between 35 and 45
(C) between 45 and 55 (D) between 55 and 65
(E) between 65 and 75
23. Meena has a standard dice, with-each pair of opposite
faces adding to 7. At first, the three faces she can see
add to 6, as shown.
_ She holds the dice between a pair of opposite faces and
~ rotates it 180°, keeping these opposite faces facing the
same direction. She puts the dice back down and adds
up the three faces she can now see.
What is the smallest possible total she could get?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (B) 14
24. Ihave 4 whole numbers that add up to 98.
If I were to add 6 to the first number, subtract 6 from the second
number, multiply the third number by 6 and divide the fourth
number by 6, the four answers would all be the same.
What is the sum of the largest two of my original four numbers?
(A) 72 (B) 86 (©) 88 (D) 90 (B) 94
25. When I ride my bike at 20 kilometres per hour, each wheel turns
at 2 revolutions per second.
‘When I ride 1 kilometre, how many revolutions does each wheel
make?
(A) 40 (B) 240 (C) 320 (D) 360 (B) 4202023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
For questions 26 to 30, colour in the bubbles on the answer
sheet to record whole-number answers from 0 to 999.
See the back cover for more details.
Questions 26 to 30 are worth
6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks respectively.
26. In this puzzle, A, H and @ represent @
different nonzero digits. A |
What is the three-digit number AL @ *K 3
27. Li attempted to multiply a single-digit number by 36, but he
accidentally multiplied by 63 instead. His answer was 189 larger
than the correct answer. 8
What was the correct answer to the multiplication?
28. Using 9 out of the 10 possible digits Safia writes 3 numbers, each
between 100 and 999.
She adds her 3 numbers together. What is the smallest possible sum?2023 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
UPPER PRIMARY
29. Yifan has a construction set consisting of red, blue and yellow rods.
All rods of the same colour are the same length, but differently
coloured rods are different lengths. She wants to make quadrilaterals
using these rods.
© When she uses two red, one blue and one yellow rod, the
perimeter of the quadrilateral is 36 cm.
‘© When she uses two blue, one red and one yellow rod, the
perimeter is 35m.
When she uses two yellow, one blue and one red rod, the
perimeter is 33cm. ie
What number do you get when you multiply the lengths of one red
,tod, one blue rod and one yellow rod?
30. Janus is making patterns using square tiles. Each pattern is made by
copying the previous pattern, then adding a tile to every grid square
that shares an edge with the copied pattern.
Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4
His last pattern is the largest one that can be made with fewer than
1000 tiles.
How many tiles are in this last pattern?