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7 + 5n
C3-001 (#15023). For how many positive integers n, does the expression represents
3n − 2
an integer number?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C3-002 (#15032). A group of students went to the orchard to pick apples. The first student
entered the orchard and picked 1 apple, the second student picked 2 apples, the third student
picked 3 apples, and so on, the students in the back picked one more apple than the student in
front of him. It is known this group of students has just picked all the apples in the orchard
and in the end, each student picked an average of 6 apples. How many students are there in
this group?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 11 (D) 17 (E) 9

C3-003 (#15124). The positive whole numbers are written consecutively in rows of 5 so that
the first row is 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the second row is 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 etc. The row which has a
sum nearest the value of 250 is the ...
(A) 8th row (B) 9th row (C) 10th row (D) 11th row (E) 19th row

Benjamin
C3-004 (#15133). The shape shown is rotated through 90◦ and then reflected in a vertical

line. The result is

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

C3-005 (#15138). K and J are the middle points of two sides of a rectangle. What fraction

of the rectangle is shaded?

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

C3-006 (#15141). On Aussie Airlines, a customer earns 20 points for each Premium flight
and 12 points for each Standard flight. In 2021, Warren took three times as many Standard

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flights as Premium flights. The average number of points per flight that Warren earned in 2021
is
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20

C3-007 (#15142). A right-angled triangle is drawn inside a regular hexagon as shown.

The value of x, in degrees, is:

(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 60

C3-008 (#15157). During the holidays Vlad spent 12 days at sea, swimming and sunbathing.
How many times during this time could he say that on this day and in the next two days he
will be doing the same thing that he was doing two days ago?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

C3-009 (#15169). The teacher wrote down

the sum of squares of two numbers as shown.
(2385) + (1202) = 7133029
2 2

Unfortunately some of the numbers cannot be seen because ink fell on them. What is the last
digit of the first number?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C3-010 (#15175). Cistercian numerals were developed by the Cistercian monastic order in
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the early thirteenth century. They are more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals, with a
single glyph able to indicate any integer from 1 to 9,999. These are glyphs for ones, tens and
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Number 214 is , 381 is , 930 is . How would cistercians write the number
749?

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

C3-011 (#15192). Given that the equation a(x + 1)100 + b(x + 1)50 + c = 0 has x = 5 as a
root, which of the following is definitely a root of the same equation?
(A) -7 (B) -5 (C) -4 (D) 0 (E) we cannot be sure

C3-012 (#15254). In a bakery cart were 500 of the same croissants. The full cart was three
times as heavy as the all of the croissants combined. The full car was also 50 kg heavier than
all the croissants. How many grams does one croissant weigh?
(A) 5 g (B) 25 g (C) 50 g (D) 100 g (E) 200 g

C3-013 (#15301). A positive integer should be written on each of the 9

boxes in the picture so that in each row and in each column the number in the
middle is the average of the other two. Three numbers are already written, as
shown. What number goes on the shaded box?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C3-014 (#15321). There is a 5 mm thick Frisbee in the picture. You can

see an area of 325 cm2 . Each pair of connecting sides are perpendicular to each
other and either the same length, or one is three times longer than the other.
There is a 5 mm wide tape along the whole circumference. How many cm of

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tape is on the Frisbee?
(A) 650 cm (B) 325 cm (C) 125 cm (D) 100 cm (E) 10 cm

C3-015 (#15342). I have 4 identical tables. Each has the shape of an equilateral triangle
with a perimeter of 3m. When I put them side to side, I can form a big equilateral triangle.
What is the big triangle perimeter?
(A) 12 m (B) 10 m (C) 9 m (D) 8 m (E) 6 m

C3-016 (#15343). I am my square, my double and my half. Who am I?

(A) -1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2
(E) such a number doesn’t exist.

C3-017 (#15344). The number plate of Kangy’s car has fallen on the ground. He puts it
back at the right place but head down. However he is lucky : that doesn’t change anything.

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Kangy’s number plate is one of the followings. Which one?

(A) 04 NSN 40 (B) 60 SOS 09 (C) 80 BNB 08 (D) 06 HNH 60 (E) 80 BNB 08

C3-018 (#15397). Numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are placed in the five circles in the shape below.

If the multiplication of the numbers on the vertices of the outer square is 360, what number is
placed in the middle circle?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C3-019 (#15399). An ant walks three different paths from point P to point Q, shown with
red lines. Which comparison is correct?

(A) C < B < A (B) B < C < A (C) B < A < C

(D) A < B < C (E) C < A < B
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C3-020 (#15401). In the statement below there are five blank spots; four of them are placed
a plus sign and one is placed a minus sign.

In order for there to be equality, where shall the minus sign be placed?
(A) Between 6 and 9 (B) Between 9 and 12 (C) Between 12 and 15
(D) Between 15 and 18 (E) Between 18 and 21

C3-021 (#15427). A Kangaroo is moving on a coordinate plane. He starts moving from the
origin and on each move he either moves 2 units right and 3 units up, or 2 units left and 3 units
down. Which of the coordinates below will the Kangaroo be passing?
(A) (15, 14) (B) (16, 18) (C) (34, 37) (D) (8, 12) (E) (21, 28)

C3-022 (#15438). Kengu enjoys jumping on the number line. He always makes two large
jumps and three small jumps. Kengu starts his jumping routine on 0.

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On which of these numbers will Kengu land on during his jumping routine?
(A) 82 (B) 83 (C) 84 (D) 85 (E) 86

C3-023 (#15485). On a winter day, a digital thermometer shows that it is -9,6 degree C
outdoors and 19,6 degree C indoors. How much warmer is it indoors than outdoors?
(A) 10 degree C (B) 20 degree C (C) 28,2 degree C (D) 29 degree C (E) 29,2 degree C

2022
C3-024 (#15486). =
2+0+2+2
(A) 437 (B) 337 (C) 373 (D) 674 (E) 1011

C3-025 (#15488). 20 + 22 =
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

C3-026 (#15501). 222 tiles are in a long line. Adam removes every sixth tile. Beata then
removes every fifth tile. Then Calle comes and removes every forth tile. Now Doris removes all
the tiles that are left. How many tiles does Doris remove?
(A) 0 (B) 37 (C) 111 (D) 148 (E) 185

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C3-027 (#15577). In a class, there are 16 students prefer math, 15 students prefer science
and 2 students prefer both subjects. How many students are there in the class?
(A) 17 (B) 19 (C) 25 (D) 29 (E) 21

C3-028 (#15587). What is the value of (20 + 22)/(20 − 22)?

(A) −42 (B) −21 (C) −2 (D) 22 (E) 42

C3-029 (#15588). Which of the alternatives is not equal to 871 − 489?

(A) 971 − 589 (B) 861 − 479 (C) 870 − 490 (D) 1771 − 1389 (E) 800 − 418

C3-030 (#15591). What number should be placed in the empty space for the equation
− 389 = 871 − 489 to be correct?
(A) 671 (B) 771 (C) 871 (D) 881 (E) 971

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C3-031 (#15599). The class is lining up in pairs. Anne and Jane are standing together.
They have 6 pairs in front of them and 10 pairs behind them. How many students are there in
the class?
(A) 16 (B) 24 (C) 32 (D) 34 (E) 38

C3-032 (#15603). A tomato contains 96% water. Nigel cuts it into four equally large pieces.
How many percentages of water does one of the pieces contain?
(A) 24% (B) 48% (C) 50% (D) 92% (E) 96%

C3-033 (#15629). What is a square, but not a cube of a natural number?

(A) 82 (B) 55 (C) 212 (D) 44 (E) 33

C3-034 (#15642). A cube is made up of three types of smaller cubes.

One is a 3x3 cube, four are 2x2 and the rest are 1x1, as shown. How
many are the 1x1 cubes?
(A) 26 (B) 36 (C) 48 (D) 66
(E) none of the previous

C3-035 (#15645). If a = 1, b = −2, c = 3, then (a + b − c) + (b + c − a) + (c + a − b) equals

(A) −2 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 6 (E) 18

C3-036 (#15693). There are two angles α and β (see the picture).
An angle between their sides is 120◦ . What is the value of α + β?
(A) 200◦ (B) 240◦ (C) 270◦ (D) 300◦ (E) 310◦
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C3-037 (#15758). There were four big trees and three paths in our
B C
city park. In the two parts of the park, left and right from each path,
respectively, there were equally many trees. In the bottom right a new tree E
is planted. In which area of the park must a second new tree be planted A
such that, there are equally many trees on both sides of each path again? D
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

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C3-038 (#15759). Mike paddled around five buoys, as

shown. Which buoys did Mike paddle around in a clock- 4 1
wise direction?
(A) 2, 3 and 4 5
(B) 1, 2 and 3
3
(C) 2, 3 and 5
2
(D) 2, 4 and 5
(E) 1, 3 and 5

C3-039 (#15760). A small black and white caterpillar (see picture) curls
up to sleep. What might that look like?

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

20 + 22
C3-040 (#15761). =
2+0+2+2
(A) 12 (B) 6 (C) 21 (D) 3 (E) 7

C3-041 (#15790). The rectangle shown is twice as long as wide, and

the midpoints of the two longer sides are connected with all four vertices.
What part of the rectangle is shaded?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 5 4 3 2

C3-042 (#15800). Numbers x, y and z satisfy the conditions: x2 yz 3 = 711 and xy 2 = 77 .

What is the value of xyz?

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√
(A) 72 (B) 73 2
(C) 75 (D) 76 (E) 79

C3-043 (#15802). The triangle ABC on the picture is a right triangle.

∠BAD = 90◦ , ∠ABD = 45◦ . What is the value of the angle CDB?
(A) 25◦ (B) 30◦ (C) 35◦ (D) 40◦ (E) 45◦

C3-044 (#15823). Hussein has five cubes, with a total volume of 2022 cm3 . Three of the
cubes have side lengths 5 cm, 8 cm, and 11 cm. If the other two cubes are congruent, what is
the side length of one of them?
(A) 3 cm (B) 4 cm (C) 5 cm (D) 6 cm (E) 7 cm

C3-045 (#15824). Let x1 , x2 , x3 , . . . be the sequence of all positive integers whose decimal
representations have no digits other than 0 and 2, in increasing order. If xn = 2022, what is n?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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C3-046 (#15866). At a game, there are nine tokens arranged in a square. The tokens are
white on one side, black on the reverse side. In one move, all the coins in one row (horizontal,

vertical or diagonal) are turned. As an example becomes when the last

vertical row is turned. Here we consider . What is the minimum number of moves, so
that all the tokens show the same color?
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 4 (D) more than 4 moves
(E) it is impossible

C3-047 (#15867). The rectangle below has a length of 12 units and a width of 8 units. What
is the proportion of the shaded areas in the total rectangle?

1 1
(A) 2
(B) 40% (C) 36% (D) 3
(E) 37.5%

C3-048 (#15913). We have two overlapping rectangles. One has a length of 10 and a width
of 7. The other has a length of 12 and a width of 9. The two rectangles have a common part,
as the figure shows. The dark gray part has an area of 37 square centimeters. What is the area
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of the light gray part?

(A) 35 (B) 45 (C) 55 (D) 65 (E) 75

C3-049 (#15921). The radius of Peter’s wheels bike is the double of the radius of John’s
wheels bike. They bike the same distance and John’s wheels rolled 2000 times (2000 complete
turns). How many times did the Peter’s wheels roll?

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(A) 500 (B) 1000 (C) 2000 (D) 4000 (E) 8000

C3-050 (#15969). What is the average of the two numbers 2202 and 2022?
(A) 2222 (B) 2112 (C) 2002 (D) 4224 (E) 2442

C3-051 (#15973). The figure shows a game board in which the game
director assigns a numerical value (which can be 0 or a positive integer)
to each geometric figure that he can draw on the board. Then, on the
right of each row and below each column, the total sum of the points
of the corresponding figures is indicated and so players can discover
the value of each figure. How many points are assigned to a triangle?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C3-052 (#15974). We must place the integer numbers from 0 to 8

in the circles and squares of the figure with the condition that even
numbers must be in the circles and odd numbers in the squares and
that, moreover, the sum of the numbers on each side of the triangle
must be 16. What number cannot go in the upper circle?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

C3-053 (#15977). The figure shows three large, equal circles, and
four small circles, also all four equal. The radius of small circles is 1
unit. What is the measure, in square units, of the shaded area?
(A) π (B) 2π (C) 3π (D) 4π (E) 6π

C3-054 (#15980). We have chosen a point inside an square of side 2

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cm. We draw eight triangles each of which has a vertex at the chosen
point, a vertex at a vertex of the square, and the third vertex at a mid-
point on one side of the square. What is the total shaded area?
(A) 1 cm2 (B) 2 cm2 (C) 4/3 cm2 (D) 1/2 cm2
(E) It depends on the point initially chosen.

C3-055 (#15987). The arrow of the roulette on the figure marks the
west. If we rotate the arrow two turns and a quart clockwise and after
three turns and three quarts counterclockwise, which direction will the
arrow mark then?
(A) North (B) East (C) South (D) West (E) Northwest

C3-056 (#16005). With a 1 liter bucket of paint I can paint 10m2 of surface. I have a 2m
square board and I want to paint both sides. How many liters of paint will not be used?
(A) 0,1 liters (B) 0,2 liters (C) 0,333... liters (D) 0,6 liters (E) 0,8 liters

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 2 2
2
0
C3-057 (#16064). what is the value of (2)

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 28

C3-058 (#16079). A snowman is built by stacking three spheres with their

centres aligned vertically. The spheres have radii of 10 cm, 20 cm and 30 cm.
How tall is the snowman?
(A) 90 cm
(B) 100 cm
(C) 110 cm
(D) 120 cm
(E) 130 cm

1 1
C3-059 (#16088). Subtract 4
of a number x, and then subtract 5
of x, and the remainder
is 11. Find the number x.
(A) 19.5 (B) 20 (C) 11 (D) 18 (E) 24

C3-060 (#16093). The sum of two integers is 22. Which of the following numbers cannot
be the product of two integers?
(A) -75 (B) -23 (C) 0 (D) 42 (E) 57

C3-061 (#16096). The clock reads 2:22pm. How many degrees does the short needle indicate
from the vertical line?
(A) 51 (B) 56 (C) 61 (D) 66 (E) 71

C3-062 (#16102). Ile received a rectangle in which the lengths of the opposite sides are
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5 + 2y − xy and 3 + xy for the first pair, and 3 + 2y and 1 + xy for the other pair of opposite
sides. What is the area of the rectangle?
(A) 2 square unites (B) 3 square unites (C) 4 square unites
(D) 14 square unites (E) none of the offered answers

C3-063 (#16106). Ann got three numbers 1,2,3. She should place them in order from left
to right. This way, she can form six numbers. What is the smallest three-digit prime number
that can Ann form?
(A) 123 (B) 321 (C) 231 (D) 132
(E) it is not possible to form such number

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C3-064 (#16108). Five squares and two right an-

gled triangles are positioned as shown. The numbers 3 7
3, 7 and 22 inside three of the squares indicate their
respective areas in square metres. What is the area of
the square with the question mark inside it? 22
?
(A) 15m2 (B) 16m2 (C) 17m2 (D) 18m2 (E) 19m2

C3-065 (#16114). A square if side 1 contains a circle of

diameter 1 tightly fitting inside it. It also has two semicircles
of diameter 1 on either side of it. What is the area of the
shaded figure?
1
(A) π − 1 (B) π (C) 2
π (D) 21 π + 1
(E) none of the previous 1

C3-066 (#16117). From a cube a smaller cube is cut off from

one of the corners, as shown. Which of the following figures needs
less paint to be painted all over its surface?
A B
(A) A
(B) B
(C) C
(D) D C D
(E) they all need the same paint

C3-067 (#16118). A builder has a brick whose shortest side is 4

cm, but he cannot remember the other dimensions. However with
several such bricks he built a cube (all sides equal) as shown. Can
you help the builder find what are the dimensions of his brick, in

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centimetres?
(A) 4 × 6 × 12 (B) 4 × 6 × 16 (C) 4 × 8 × 12
(D) 4 × 8 × 16 (E) 4 × 12 × 16

C3-068 (#16170). Mia and Sophy bought umbrellas and noticed that the numbers on Sophy’s
umbrella are related to the numbers on Mia’s umbrella. What number is missing on Sophy’s

umbrella?
(A) -6 (B) -4 (C) -1 (D) 0 (E) 1

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C3-069 (#16266). 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ... What is the 2022nd number?

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

C3-070 (#16267). A farmer has 34 chickens and rabbits altogether. There are only 118 legs.
What is the number of chickens that the farmer has?
(A) 4 (B) 9 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25

C3-071 (#16268). Three friends washed their cars on 24th of June,a Sunday. Annie: I wash
my car every other day. Benny: I wash my car every three days. Cindy: I wash my car every
four days. Which day of the week will it be the next time they wash their cars on the same
day?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday (D) Thursday (E) Friday

C3-072 (#16330). 20221 − 20220 + 1−2022 + 02022 =?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2021 (D) 2022 (E) 2023

C3-073 (#16332).
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 17 (E) 19
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C3-074 (#16334).
(A) 25 (B) 30 (C) 35 (D) 40 (E) 45

C3-075 (#16339). 910 , 911 , 921 , 1021 , ?

(A) 1121 (B) 2121 (C) 2022 (D) 2021 (E) 2020

C3-076 (#16343).
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 40 (E) 43

C3-077 (#16345). Maria wrote the expression 12 + 0.21m for the monthly cost of her cell
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makes 1 hour and 40 minutes of calls?

(A) $14.21 (B) $19.01 (C) $23 (D) $33 (E) $33.15

C3-078 (#16352). The mean of two numbers is 2020. One of the numbers is 2022. What is
the other number?
(A) 2018 (B) 2019 (C) 2020 (D) 2021 (E) 2022

C3-079 (#16353). 58 pencils will be shared to 25 empty boxes equally. How many pencils
will be in each box?
(A) 252 (B) 253 (C) 53 (D) 52 (E) 5

C3-080 (#16354). In the figure above rectangles are

congruent and perimeter of one of the rectangle is 30 cm. What is the value of a?
√ √ √ √
(A) 12 5 (B) 10 (C) 6 5 (D) 8 3 (E) 5 3

C3-081 (#16358). The net of a cube with numbered faces is shown in the diagram. Ahmed
correctly adds the numbers on opposite faces of this cube. What three totals does Ahmed get?

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(A) 7,4,10 (B) 11,4,8 (C) 4,8,9 (D) 4,10,8 (E) 4,8,10

C3-082 (#16360). On each of three pieces of paper a five-digit number is written as shown.
Three of the digits are covered. The sum of the three numbers is 57263. Which are the covered

digits?
(A) 0, 2 and 2 (B) 1,2 and 9 (C) 2,4, and 9 (D) 2,7 and 8 (E) 5,7 and 8

C3-083 (#16428). How many positive integers between 100 and 300 have only odd digits?
(A) 25 (B) 50 (C) 75 (D) 100 (E) 150

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4.2 4 points problems

C4-001 (#15017). The figure shows a rectangle with sides 8 m and 9 m,
divided into six identical rectangles. A diagonal is drawn. What is, in m2 ,
the area of the grey triangle?
8 2
(A) 1 (B) 9
(C) 3
3 9
(D) 4
(E) 8

C4-002 (#15022). Three sisters have different ages, with average of ages 10 years, but when
they get together in pairs the averages are 11 and 12 years. How old is the oldest one?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 11 (E) 12

C4-003 (#15024). In a school class there are more than 30 and fewer than 39 students who
should take at least one and no more than two of the three available sports activities: football,
tennis or athletics, 58 of the students take football, 14 of the students take tennis and 16
7
of the
students take athletics, in the class there are 2 students excused from physical activities. Which
percentage of the class is involved in two sports activities?
(A) 25 (B) 30 (C) 15 (D) 24 (E) 28

C4-004 (#15029). Each shape on the given

scales has different mass. What is the total
mass of the three shapes?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 16 (E) 20

C4-005 (#15030). There is a rectangular wooden block. After cutting out a rectangular par-
allelepiped with a height of 4 cm and 2 cm from the upper and lower parts, respectively, a cube
is obtained. The surface area of this cube is reduced by 120 square centimetres compared with
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the original rectangular solid. What is the volume of the original cuboid in cubic centimetres?
(A) 275 (B) 225 (C) 175 (D) 125‘ (E) 75

C4-006 (#15033). Boingy the kangaroo has two blue candles and a green candle. Each
blue candle burns for exactly one hour when it is lit, and the green candle burns for exactly
45 minutes. He lights a blue candle first. When two-thirds of it have burnt down, he lights
the green candle, and when two-thirds of it have burnt down, he lights the other blue candle.
All three candles burn all the way down. For how many minutes were two candles burning
simultaneously?
(A) 25 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 60 (E) 70

C4-007 (#15036). Which of the objects fits exactly into the hole, completing the cuboid?

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(A) (B)

(C) (D)

(E)

C4-008 (#15047). The digits 1,2, and 3 can be written in one

go, putting the pencil on the paper only once. Meanwhile in order
to write the digit 4 you have to put the pencil on the paper twice

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,as shown in the figure. Eva is looking for all the numbers that can be written by putting the
pencil on the paper exactly 5 times (e.g. 3421 or 11111). What is the difference between the
biggest and the smallest numbers she can write in that manner?
(A) 33332 (B) 33189 (C) 32892 (D) 22222 (E) 1

C4-009 (#15049). 2022 is a great year because the digit 2 appears three times. The tortoise
Eva has already experienced 3 such years in her life, that is years in which one digit appeared
three times, and was also born in such a year. Which birthday does Eva celebrate in the year
in which she experiences a 4th such year?
(A) 123 (B) 124 (C) 203 (D) 223 (E) 257

C4-010 (#15053). Elias writes the digits 012345678998765432100123456789987654321001234 . . .

on the blackboard, going up from 0 to 9 and back down from 9 to 0 again repeatedly. Which
digit will occur as the 2022nd digit?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

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C4-011 (#15060). The largest proper divisor of a number is 2022. What is the sum of the
digits of the number itself?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14

C4-012 (#15081). I have drunk some juice out of a bottle which was full. It contained 1
litre. After I’d have drunk 400 ml the bottle with juice weighed 1300 mg. After I’d have drunk
600 ml, the bottle with juice still weighed 1000 mg. How many mg weighs a full bottle with
juice?
(A) 1600 (B) 1700 (C) 1800 (D) 1900 (E) 2000

C4-013 (#15083). In a rectangle fit exactly 3 circular discs. The

length of the rectangle is 4 cm. How many cm is the height of the
rectangle?
(A) 3
√
(B) 2 + 2
π
(C) 2 +2
√
(D) 2 + 3
(E) 4

1 1 1
C4-014 (#15125). Given that + + = 1, the value of n is
3 4 n
5 5 6 12 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 7 7 5 12

C4-015 (#15128). The three digit number 3A6 is added to 427 and gives 7B3. If 7B3 is
divisible by 3 then the largest possible value of A is
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(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

C4-016 (#15131). If xy = 4, yz = 8 and zx = 50 then the smallest integer value of xyz is

(A) 1600 (B) 800 (C) 40 (D) 25 (E) 32

C4-017 (#15132). The points (3,4), (7,10) and (2,9) form the corners of a square. The
coordinates of the other corner are
(A) (5,7) (B) (5,8) (C) (7,5) (D) (3,12) (E) (8,5)

C4-018 (#15134). The number 2020 can be written as the sum of three numbers which,
between them, use all but one of the digits from 0 to 9 exactly once each. Which digit does
not appear in the sum?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

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C4-019 (#15135). If A(x, 7), B(8, 3) and C(2, 3) are vertices of a triangle, the area of triangle
ABC is
(A) 6 (B) 24 (C) 9 (D) 12
(E) Dependent on the value of x

C4-020 (#15137). In a set of 5 numbers, the average of first three is 5 and the average of
the last two is 40. What is the average of all five numbers?
(A) 11 (B) 20 (C) 19 (D) 15 (E) 9

C4-021 (#15139). When the net shown is folded to form a cube, which of the five models

can be produced?

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

C4-022 (#15158). To get green paint for a large painting, an artist mixed 140 g of blue
paint and 210 g of yellow paint, and then added the same quantity of white paint as blue and
yellow together. An artist did not have enough mixed colors. How much yellow paint should
an artist take in order to get another 220 g of green paint of the same shade?

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(A) 44 (B) 66 (C) 88 (D) 110 (E) 132

C4-023 (#15161). An isosceles triangle ABC, with AB = AC, can be sub-divided into three
smaller isosceles triangles ADB, (with AD = DB), CDE (with CE = CD) and BEC (with
BE = EC) as shown in the diagram.
A

B C

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What is the value of angle BAC, in degrees?

(A) 28 (B) 30 (C) 35 (D) 36 (E) 40

C4-024 (#15170). Several numbers were written on a piece of paper.

Their sum was 22. The teacher deleted each number and replaced it 7-Ν
with its difference from 7. For example if a number N was written on
the paper, the teacher replaced it with 7-N after deleting it. The sum of Ν
the new numbers is 34. How many numbers were written on the paper
initially?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

C4-025 (#15178). Five children decided to make several different

open-topped boxes. They took similar rectangular sheets of cardboard
15cm × 25cm, from which they cut out squares from each corner. Each
child selected his own length of the square side: Akmal 6 cm, Alex 5
cm, Malika 4 cm, Aziz 3 cm, Elena 2 cm. Who made a box of greatest
volume?
(A) Akmal (B) Alex (C) Malika (D) Aziz (E) Elena

C4-026 (#15191). A pirate has 4 chests full of gold coins. Each chest has the same amount
of coins. He knows that the four chests together contain a total of less than 270 coins but any
three chests contain a total of more than 200 coins. How many coins does each chest contain?
(A) 65 coins each (B) 66 coins each (C) 68 coins each
(D) 69 coins each (E) none of the previous

C4-027 (#15198). A rabbit and a squirrel participate in a running race on a 500 m long
circular track, where the start and finish coincide. The rabbit’s speed is 10 m/s. They start
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simultaneously. But the squirrel, wanting to cheat, starts in the opposite direction in which
the rabbit is running. After 15 seconds of running, the squirrel stops for a break, then turns
back and runs to the finish. The rabbit and the squirrel reach the finish line simultaneously.
How long was the squirrel’s break?
(A) 15 sec (B) 20 sec (C) 30 sec (D) 35 sec
(E) It depends on the squirrel’s speed.

C4-028 (#15205). In an isosceles triangle ABC the points E and F are the midpoints of
the sides AB and AC, respectively. EF and AB are perpendicular. Find the measure of the
angle AF E.
(A) 300 (B) 450 (C) 600 (D) 750
(E) Such a construction is impossible.

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C4-029 (#15210). Some rectangular parallelepipeds are

placed so that their faces fit one on the other, as in the figure.
The areas of three of the faces is shown. What is the area of
the face marked X? 12 36

(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 26

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(E) none of the previous X

C4-030 (#15224). In the multiplication shown in the picture some digits are
written, some are denoted by letters, others are replaced by asterics. What is the
value of the sum a + b + c + d?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

C4-031 (#15227). The grid is filled with the numbers from 1 to 16, a number
by square. Two successive numbers must be in squares with a common side.
1, 11 and 16 are already written. What number should be in the grey square?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 13

C4-032 (#15234). Among the ten digits, Bart chooses 5 digits and forms a five-digit number.
Maria then forms a five-digit number with the other 5 digits. B being the number of Bart and
M that of Maria, by which of the following numbers is the sum B+M certainly divisible?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 11

C4-033 (#15236). The paper rectangle ABCD is folded such that A is brought to C.

D C

A E B Cadet
The point where the paper folds on side AB is E. We know that the angle ECB is 30◦ and
the area of triangle ECB is 15 cm2 . What is the area of the paper rectangle ABCD?
√ √ √
(A) 30 cm2 (B) 45 cm2 (C) 30 3 cm2 (D) 25 3 cm2 (E) 45 3 cm2

C4-034 (#15241). How many three digit numbers have the property that it’s digits as they
are written are members of the increasing arithmetic progression?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20

C4-035 (#15255). A walrus and a polar bear had a swimming competition around an iceberg.
They jumped into the water at the same time. One full lap around the iceberg took the bear
half an hour, the walrus took 6 minutes less. The competition finished the moment one animal

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lapped the other (swam one more lap). How many minutes did the competition take?
(A) 48 (B) 96 (C) 120 (D) 150 (E) 180

C4-036 (#15303). How many ways are there to cover the

shape on the left using 9 tiles like the ones on the right?
(A) 1 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 12

C4-037 (#15322). In the park are tulips and daffodils planted in a

square flowerbed with its side 12 m long, as you can see in the picture.
What area do the daffodils cover?
(A) 24m2 (B) 36m2 (C) 44m2
(D) 48m2 (E) 56m2

C4-038 (#15323). In chess, the king can move to a square that neighbours
him by either the side or the corner. If the king only moved in three directions
(horizontally right, vertically down and diagonally left to right), how many
different ways can he move from B6 to E4?
(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) 25

C4-039 (#15336). In a Kangaroo test there are 10 multiple choice questions, with 5 choices
per question. Assuming that you answer all the questions, in how many different ways can the
10 questions be answered?
(A) 510 (B) 105 (C) 1010 (D) 52 (E) 5

C4-040 (#15362). Our house has four floors and each floor has a window like the shape
below. How many rectangles are in our house’s windows?
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(A) 22 (B) 28
(C) 64 (D) 80
(E) 88

C4-041 (#15365). What percentage of the window is colored? (π = 3)

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(A) 20 (B) 22.5 (C) 25 (D) 27.5 (E) 30

C4-042 (#15375). Roya, Leila, Parisa, Parvin, Solmaz, and Maryam are sitting around a
table at equal distances. Roya is sitting across from Parisa but is not sitting beside Solmaz
and Parvin, and the person to Leila’s right is Solmaz. How many of the following statements
are correct?
ˆ Leila is sitting across from Parvin.

ˆ Solmaz is sitting on Parisa’s left.

ˆ Maryam is sitting to Roya’s right.

ˆ Parvin is not sitting between Maryam and Parisa.

(A) 1 statement (B) 2 statements (C) 3 statements (D) 4 statements (E) None

C4-043 (#15379). Iraj and Touraj wrote the number on a paper and then looked
at its picture in a mirror. The mirror was at top or besides the paper. Iraj adds what they
see to 2022 and Touraj subtracts 2022 from it. What is half of the difference between the two
resulting numbers?
(A) 4044 (B) 2202 (C) 2022 (D) 2020 (E) 2044

C4-044 (#15382). There are two Dodecahedron-shaped

dice. Positive and negative numbers are written on each
side alternately: 1, −2, 3, −4, 5, −6, 7, so on. If we throw
the dice and multiply the numbers on top of them, which
option cannot be the resulting number?
(A) −36 (B) 1 (C) −132 (D) 36 (E) 112

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C4-045 (#15383). Four couples are sitting around a rectangular table. The women are on
one side and the men are sitting on the other side of the table in a way that each person is
facing their partner. Maryam(woman) is sitting beside Sara(woman) and across from Muham-
mad(man). Saied(man) is beside Muhammad(man) but is not beside Ali(man). Sara(woman)
and Asieh(woman) are sitting beside Zahra(woman), but Zahra is not across from Saied(man).
Who is Ali’s partner?
(A) Sara (B) Asieh (C) Maryam (D) Zahra
(E) Cannot be determined.

C4-046 (#15390). If known that x < x2 < |x| and y < −y < y 2 , which of the following
statements is wrong for every x and every y:
(A) x > y (B) y/x > 1 (C) xy > 0 (D) y − x > 0 (E) y + x < 0

C4-047 (#15393). Let’s call a prime number ”perfect” if all its digits are perfect numbers
and the sum of the digits is also a prime number. Then the sum of the digits in the smallest

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”perfect” 3-digits’ number is:

(A) 10 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 7 (E) 6

C4-048 (#15420). In Monica’s kitchen the distance between the shelves in the cupboard are
36 cm. A stack of 8 glasses is 42 cm tall and a stack of 2 glasses are 18 cm. How many glasses,

at the most, can be stacked on the top of each into Monica’s cupboard?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C4-049 (#15421). Below you can see the path for a running race. The radius of each circle
is one third of the radius of its bigger circle. If the distance between A and C is 20 meters,
approximately what is the distance of the race path from A to B in meters? (π = 3)
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(A) 690 (B) 960 (C) 1020 (D) 1200 (E) 1560

C4-050 (#15428). A digital number is flipped when put in front of a mirror. An example is
shown below.
example: The number is seen in the mirror as .
How many three-digit digital numbers exist (with non-repeated digits), the reflection of
which is the same as the number itself?
(A) 120 (B) 60 (C) 10 (D) 6 (E) 4

C4-051 (#15431). A square is turned clockwise 20 degrees. What is the value of the angle
ˆ
ABC?

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(A) 70◦ (B) 75◦ (C) 78◦ (D) 80◦ (E) 85◦

C4-052 (#15436). If A is a single-digit number, what number will the resulting sum be
divisible to?

(A) 4321 (B) 617 (C) 93 (D) 39 (E) 24

C4-053 (#15441). Within a full day, Masoud has logged times such as 02 : 34 : 56 in which
each digit is bigger than the digit to its left. What is the number of times Masoud has logged?
(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 20 (E) 21

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C4-054 (#15450). Padovan makes a drawing that consists of equilateral triangles. The three
smallest triangles each have side length 1. What is the side length of the largest triangle?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

C4-055 (#15472). A cinema’s seats are put in 11 rows, each containing 13 seats. Due to
Covid-19, viewers should be seated in a way that there is at least one empty seat between them

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from every side (an example is shown below).

How many tickets can be sold for each cinema session?

(A) 58 (B) 39 (C) 71 (D) 42 (E) 72

C4-056 (#15474). Tania’s father has made a heart-shaped cake for her birthday. He didn’t
have a heart-shaped cake mold, so he used square and circle molds to do it.

The diameter of the circle mold and each side of the square mold are 20 cm and the height of
the cake is 5 cm. If he covers the cake with 1 cm thick of cream, how many liters of cream does
he need? (π = 3)
(A) 1.22 (B) 0.9 (C) 1.05 (D) 1.2 (E) 1.4
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C4-057 (#15487). Four football teams have participated in a sports tournament. Each
team plays just once with the other three. In each game, the winner gets 3 points and the loser
doesn’t get any points. If it is a draw, each team gets 1 point. After all the games, if three
teams get 6 points, which is the points for the fourth team?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2
(D) 3 (E) It cannot be determined.

C4-058 (#15517). The figure bellow is the map of a backyard where the pool, the lawn and
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The numbers representing the area of the lawn and the perimeter of the playground are equal.
How many units is the total area of the backyard?
(A) 4 (B) 16 (C) 6
(D) 20 (E) 25

C4-059 (#15518). Which of the following sequences shows the red paths in the decreasing
order of their lengths?

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

C4-060 (#15524). The owner of the ”Tasteful Buds” flower shop has ordered some stamps

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with the name of his store. The stamp maker has made a mistake and made several stamps.
Which of the following stamps can create the word ”Tasteful Buds” on the paper?

(A) Stamp (1) (B) Stamp (2) (C) Stamp (3)

(D) Stamp (4) (E) None

C4-061 (#15529). How many triangles are there with a perimeter of 15 cm and each side
being a whole number of centimeters?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 10

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C4-062 (#15551). Let N = abcd be a four-digit number, T and L two transformations

defined by:
T (abcd) = badc
and
L(abcd) = dcba
Find the number N = abcd if it is known that L(2022) − 2T (2022) = L(abcd)
(A) 1758 (B) 8571 (C) 7185 (D) 5817 (E) 7851

C4-063 (#15558). Two boxes contain each some balls. In each box, all the balls have the
same weight which is, in grams, an integer number. The product of these two numbers is 81,
and the total weight of the balls is 1001. What is the weight (in grams) of each of the lightest
balls?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 9 (D) 27
(E) The described situation is impossible.

C4-064 (#15567). Marc can get to school from home in 10 minutes by bicycle or in 30
minutes walking; in both cases he goes at a constant speed. At some point along the route lives
his friend Eva. Yesterday Marc left home for school by bicycle but, being early, he decided to
leave his bicycle at Eva’s house and to proceed walking to the school. Then he took his bicycle
when coming back home. If Marc did not stop at Eva’s house, and his round trip home – school
– home took 52 minutes, which part of the route did Marc by bike?
(A) 1/6 (B) 1/5 (C) 1/4 (D) 1/3 (E) 1/2

C4-065 (#15578). In this addition, different letters stand for different digits, but each letter
represents the same digit each time it appears. If the letter O stands for 7, what digit must U
represent?
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(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 3 (E) 2

C4-066 (#15589). John writes down the odd natural numbers in order, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, ... He
stops when he has used the digit ”3” 10 times. What is the last number he wrote?
(A) 10 (B) 23 (C) 33 (D) 43 (E) 53

C4-067 (#15590). What number should replace # for the equation 2 × 12 × 21 = # × 7 × 6

to be correct?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 18

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C4-068 (#15592). The numerator in a fraction is increased by 50%. By what percentage

should the denominator be decreased to double the fraction?
(A) 25% (B) 30% (C) 35% (D) 40% (E) 50%

C4-069 (#15593). Consider the equation 12 + y = x + 15.

(A) The equation is never correct (B) The equation is always correct
(C) The equation can be correct if x > y (D) The equation can be correct if y > x
(E) The equation is correct if x = y

C4-070 (#15594). Four ordinary dice are glued together as shown in the figure. What is the

smallest number of dots that can be displayed on the whole surface?

(A) 60 (B) 58 (C) 56 (D) 54 (E) 52

C4-071 (#15596). Four ordinary dice are glued together as shown in the figure. What is the

smallest number of dots that can be displayed on the whole surface?

(A) 24 (B) 28 (C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 40

C4-072 (#15598). A large rectangle is made up of nine identical small rectan-

gles. The circumference of the large rectangle is 38 cm. What is the circumference
of a small rectangle?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16

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C4-073 (#15604). Four friends use the same number. Ana adds 2 to the number, then
divides by 2. Ben subtracts 2 from the number, then divides by 2. Carla divides the number
by 2, then subtracts by 2. Daniel subtracts the number by 2, then subtracts again by 2. Who
will get the smallest result?
(A) Ana (B) Ben (C) Carla (D) Daniel
(E) It depends on the number

C4-074 (#15632). There is square ABCD. Point E is located inside of

the angle CAB so that AE=BD and BE is perpendicular to BD. What is
the angle BAE?
(A) 5◦ (B) 10◦ (C) 15◦ (D) 20◦ (E) 25◦

C4-075 (#15643). In a test of 30 questions, the number of good answers of Susan was the
50% greater than the number of her bad answer. Every answer is ”good” or ”bad”. The number

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of good answers of Susan in this test was:

(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 20

C4-076 (#15646). A triangle have sides of lenghts 6, 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle have
the same perimeter than the first one. The three sides of the equilateral triangle have lenght
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 27

C4-077 (#15649). The mean of a set of 10 numbers is 20. If we retire one number of this
set, the mean of the 19 restant numbers is 19. The retired number is
(A) 10 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 29 (E) 39

C4-078 (#15668). Michael intends to put square tiles in his rectangular bathroom. The
outer tiles will be gray and those inside the rectangle — white. Michael calculated that he
needed the same number of black and white tiles. What are all possible dimensions of such a
bathroom, expressed in numbers of tiles? (The bathroom in the drawing does not satisfies the
conditions of the problem.)

(A) 6 × 8 (B) 5 × 12 (C) either 6 × 8 or 5 × 12

(D) 2022 × 2021
(E) Such a bathroom does not exists.

√ √
20 + 22
C4-079 (#15669). √ √ √ √ =
10 + 11 + 20 + 22
√ √ √ √
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1
(A) √ (B) 2 + 1 (C) 2 − 1 (D) 2 + 2 (E) 2 − 2
2

C4-080 (#15670). How many pairs m, n of positive integers such that m ⩽ n, satisfy the
equation
1 1 1
+ = ?
m n 3

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

C4-081 (#15699). If in a certain code language, APPLE is coded as 2 17 17 13 6, then how

will MANGO be coded in the same language?
(A) 14 2 16 8 15 (B) 15 3 17 9 16 (C) 14 2 15 8 16 (D) 16 4 17 10 18 (E) 12 5 14 11 13

C4-082 (#15762). In a computer science class there are 8 laptops missing so that all students
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then 5 laptops are not used. How many laptops are there?
(A) 18 (B) 20 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) 25

C4-083 (#15763). A 3-sided prism has 9 edges. How many possibilities are there
to choose two of these edges that are parallel?
(A) 10 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 6 (E) 4

C4-084 (#15764). Three families meet in the park to have a picnic. They have three large
blankets that are 3m × 3m, 4m × 2m and 2m × 3m. They want to spread these blankets out
completely to cover a rectangular area, allowing different blankets to overlap. What is the
largest possible area they can cover this way?
(A) 22m2 (B) 21m2 (C) 20m2 (D) 18m2 (E) 16m2

C4-085 (#15765). Nathan baked a cake and is decorating it with

fruits, such that in each column and each row every fruit appears exactly
once. He already placed some pieces of fruit, as shown. Which piece of
fruit does he have to put on the piece with the question mark?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E) ?

C4-086 (#15766). There are five cars on the ferry (see pic-
ture). In how many different ways can they all get off the ferry
one after the other?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

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C4-087 (#15767). The sum of two 4-digit numbers is 10999. We remove the first digit from
each of the two numbers and attach it to its end, respectively. What is the sum of the resulting
numbers?
(A) 99910 (B) 9991 (C) 10000 (D) 10999 (E) 12345

C4-088 (#15799). There are five children, among which 4

are boys and 1 girl.
Only one child among them lies and rest speak the truth.
The 1st child says, ”I am a boy”.
The 2nd child says, ”I am a girl”.
The 3rd child says, ”First child is lying and the second child is truthful”.
The 4th child says, ”One of us is not a boy”.
The 5th child days, ”The first child is a boy”.
Who is the liar?
(A) 5th child (B) 1st child (C) 3rd child (D) 2nd child (E) 4th child

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C4-089 (#15822). The number 2022 is divisible by 6, and the sum of its digit is 6. How
many 3-digit numbers have this property?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E) 18

C4-090 (#15831). The figure shows a trapezoid. What is the minimum b

value of a + b, if a and b are positive integers?
a a
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
10
C4-091 (#15832). The midpoints of the sides of a square are connected to an interior point
of the square. What is the area of the gray quadrilateral in cm2 ?

20 cm2 32 cm2

16 cm2 ?
(A) 18 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 28

C4-092 (#15838). There are 4 planets orbiting a star called Kangaroo. The innermost
planet’s orbital time is 5 Earth years. Moving outwards, the orbital time of the next planet is
always 1 Earth year longer than that of the previous planet. In how many Earth years will all
five planets next be in the same positions as now?
(A) 210 (B) 420 (C) 840 (D) 1260 (E) 1680

C4-093 (#15842). In the Kangaroo school, the possible grades are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Roo has so
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far received 8 grades for high jump. The grades average exactly 4.5. What is the maximum
number of 5’s that Roo received, if he didn’t receive a 1?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C4-094 (#15846). Captain distributed among his crew of 400 people 10 issues of each of
80 books, two distinct books for each person, and ask them to memorize the books. For the
next ampaign he wants to have al least one person who knows each book, but he forgot the
distribution. How many people from the old crfew does he have to hire?
(A) 80 (B) 391 (C) 400 (D) 160 (E) 399

C4-095 (#15850). There are 33 students in the class.

15 of the students like dogs, and 10 of the students like cats.
12 students do not like either cats or dogs.
How many students like both dogs and cats?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 3 (E) 4

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C4-096 (#15868). A table with four legs A, B, C and D wobbles because leg A is a little
too short. What should be done to make this table stand on all four legs, even though it may
then be inclined?

D C

A B

(A) Shorten leg A (B) Shorten leg B

(C) Shorten leg C (D) Extend leg D
(E) None of A-D helps

C4-097 (#15869). Kangaroo Anna starts at A and is able to hop six fields at a time.
Kangaroo Ken starts at K. As he is younger he manages to hop only four fields at a time. They
always hop at the same time in direction of the arrow. On which field is Anna at the same
time as Ken?

(A) On field A (B) On field B (C) On field C (D) On field D (E) Never

C4-098 (#15876). Luis is a Literature teacher, he is in charge of organizing the reading

Olympics in his educational center. For this, Luis has 5 types of books, which he wants to
deliver in different order to analyze how this impacts student learning. How many students can
Professor Luis give the 5 books if he wants all the students to receive the books in different

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order?
(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 75 (D) 70 (E) 120

C4-099 (#15907). ABCD is a square.. AEB is an equilateral triangle with E outside ABCD.
DE meet AC on F. The mesure of angle FDB in degrees is
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 90

C4-100 (#15922). In the far woods live five junior elfs and a senior elf. Each junior elf
eats six blue cherries a day. The senior elf eats more five blue cherries than the daily average
consumption of the six elfs. How may blue cherries does the senior elf eat daily?
(A) 7 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 18

C4-101 (#15924). Which blue arc has the same length as the red one?

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D
A B E

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

C4-102 (#15925). Which of these numbers is equal to half of the sum of the other four?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C4-103 (#15926). Angharad has 23 strawberries. Bethan has 17 strawberries. Cariad has
12 strawberries. Cariad gives all her strawberries to Angharad and Bethan in such way that
they end up with equal numbers of strawberries. How many strawberries does Cariad give to
Angharad?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

C4-104 (#15927). In the addition sum shown, P, Q and R are positive integers. PQ
What is the value of P + Q + R? + P QR
Cadet

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 17 345

C4-105 (#15928). Bill takes 45 minutes to create each 20 seconds of an animation. How
many hours does it take him to produce an animation which is 3 minutes long?
(A) 3 (B) 4 21 (C) 5 21 (D) 6 14 (E) 6 34

C4-106 (#15929). Each of the following shapes has been made from four unit cubes. Four
of the shapes can be combined with a shape congruent to itself to create a cuboid. Which one
cannot?

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

C4-107 (#15930). In a pentagon, the interior angles are in the ratio 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8.

What is the difference in degrees between the smallest and the largest angles?
(A) 18 (B) 36 (C) 54 (D) 72 (E) 108

C4-108 (#15931). Four friends each picked a number from the list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Jack picked a prime. Jill picked a square. Georgie picked an even number. Gerry picked a
factor of 27.
Which one of the numbers was definitely not picked twice?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C4-109 (#15932). All four positive integers 2, 3, 4, 5 are used to make a pair of two-digit
numbers, for example 34 and 52. Which of the following could not be the sum of the two-digit
numbers?
(A) 59 (B) 95 (C) 77 (D) 85 (E) 68

1 1 1 1
C4-110 (#15962). If + + + is positive integer, then the number n belongs to the
2 3 7 n
interval
(A) [1, 10] (B) [11, 22] (C) [23, 34] (D) [35, 46] (E) [47, 60]

C4-111 (#15975). One clock advances one minute every hour and another slows down two
minutes every hour. Yesterday we put them both on time and now, when we look at them we
saw that one marks 11:00 and the other 12:00. What time was it when we adjusted them?
(A) 23:00 (B) 19:40 (C) 15:40 (D) 14:00 (E) 11:20

Cadet
C4-112 (#15976). N is a positive integer, even, smaller than 200. The remainder of the
division of N by 11 is 1, and the remainder of the division of N by 9 is 0. How much is the
product of the digits of the number N ?
(A) 81 (B) 16 (C) 12 (D) 2 (E) 0

C4-113 (#15978). Twenty teams participate in a football tournament, and each team, as
usual, plays twice against each other. In each match the winner gets 3 points, while the loser
does not get points, and in case of a tie each team gets 1 point. If at the end of the tournament
we add the points obtained by all the teams, what is the difference between the largest and the
smallest value that this sum can have?
(A) 2280 (B) 1900 (C) 950 (D) 380 (E) 1140

C4-114 (#15979). A natural number greater than 100 gives residue 4 in the division by 7
and residue 2 in the division by 5. What residue gives in the division by 35?
(A) 8 (B) 14 (C) 20 (D) 28 (E) 32

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C4-115 (#15981). A melon weighs 7/5 kg more than 5/7 parts of the melon. How much
does the melon weigh?
(A) 14/35 kg (B) 7/10 kg (C) 35/14 kg (D) 49/10 kg (E) 5 kg

C4-116 (#15983). We write correlatively the integer numbers from 1 to 2022, in ascending
order, and thus results a number N with many digits:

N = 123456...202020212022

What figure occupies the 2022th position in this number N starting to count from the left?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 0 (E) 1

C4-117 (#15984). The integer numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 must be

placed in the empty circles in the figure so that the sum of the four
numbers that make up each of the five rhombuses is 25 and that the
sum of the five numbers that are in the circles of the circumference is
also 25. What number should go in the central circle of the drawing?
(A) 6 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 3 (E) 2

C4-118 (#15995). Paula has $50 that she wants to spend on all the goodies she can. There
are 3 types of candy boxes, which cost $7, $9, and $12. She wants at least one box of each
type. If she spends as much money as she can, how much money will she have leftover?
(A) $0 (B) $1 (C) $2 (D) $3 (E) $4

C4-119 (#16001). A regular hexagon is split into six triangles, and

a coin is placed inside each triangle. In each turn, Elvis can lift any
two coins and place them in a neighboring triangle. What is the largest
number of coins that he can place in one of the triangles?
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(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

C4-120 (#16007). Luana and Vero are two athletes who train for the Olympic Games.
They run in a straight track of unknown length, starting from the same point and in the same
direction. The first one of them to get to the finish line turns back and runs in the opposite
direction, until they meet again. For every two meters run by Luana, Vero runs three meters.
If Vero runs 12 kilometers in total, how long is the track?
(A) 6 km (B) 8 km (C) 10 km (D) 12 km (E) 14 km

C4-121 (#16009). How many rectangles are in this figure? (remem-

ber, a square is a rectangle too)
(A) 37 (B) 39 (C) 40 (D) 41 (E) 44

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C4-122 (#16049). Maya found herself in a large amusement park in the city park. She saw
that there was a shooting range in which you fired balloons. There is one digit on each balloon.
The balloons are arranged in order, so that they give a number. When the balloon is hit it is
destroyed. During each shot, Maya hits exactly one balloon. Which balloon must Maya hit to
get the number that is the largest prime number if the balloons are arranged in order 123.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3
(D) Can not delete any number in order to get a prime number.
(E) The problem does not make sense.

C4-123 (#16050). Mile and Maya were in an amusement park. There they noticed that
there was a game in which balloons were fired with an air rifle. There was one number written
on each balloon. If you hit the balloon, the number is destroyed. Their task was to destroy one
balloon and make the sum of the numbers a prime number. Which of the balloons did Mile
and Maya have to destroy in order for the sum to be the least prime number (if Mile’s numbers
are arranged in order 310 and Maya’s numbers are arranged in order 103)?
(A) 0 and 1 (B) 3 and 1 (C) 0 and 3 (D) 1 and 3 (E) 1 and 0

C4-124 (#16051). Maya found herself in the large city amusement park. She saw that there
was a shooting range in which you fired balloons. There is one digit written on each balloon.
The balloons are arranged in order. Each arrangement of balloons gives one number. Maya
always hits one balloon with each shot. She shoots twice. Which balloons does Maya need to
hit to get the lowest number that is prime (if they are arranged in order 6421)?
(A) 6 and 1 (B) 6 and 4 (C) 6 and 2 (D) 4 and 2 (E) 2 and 1

C4-125 (#16059). The number of girls in the class is half of the number of boys. If the
number of boys doesn’t exceed 20 and the number of girls is no less than 9, what is the
maximum possible number of the students in the class?

Cadet
(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 30

C4-126 (#16094). Three congruent small circles lie within one

large circle. The center of the smaller circle lies on the diameter of
the larger circle. If the area of the colored area is 54π, what is the
area of each small circle?
(A) 4π
(B) 8π
(C) 9π
(D) 12π
(E) 16π

C4-127 (#16109). Jeanne received four numbers, 0.1,2,3, which at the same time are also
digits. She can discard one number (digit) and form a three-digit number from the remaining
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is prime?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) none of the numbers

C4-128 (#16111). An artistic librarian has books each of which is of

one colour. She wants to place them on the 9 shelves of the book case
shown, but there are two rules. a) The books on each shelf must have
the same colour and b) the books on every shelf must have the same
colour as the books on at least two neighbouring shelves (two shelves are
neighbouring if they share a common side, horizontally or vertically).
What is the greatest amount of colours her books can have?
(A) one (B) two (C) three (D) four (E) five

C4-129 (#16112). What is the largest number of rectangles that are not squares, with integer
length sides, which can be put, without overlapping, in a square with a side 7cm?
(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 24

C4-130 (#16113). A builder has two identical bricks. 72

He places them side by side in three different ways, as
shown. The surface areas of the three shapes obtained
are 72, 96 and 102, respectively. How much is the surface 102
area of the original brick?
96
(A) 36 (B) 48 (C) 52 (D) 54
(E) none of the previous

C4-131 (#16115). The numbers 1 to 8 are placed, once

30
each, in the circles shown. The numbers on the outside
indicate the products of various sets of three numbers in
Cadet

a straight line. What is the sum of the three numbers in

the green circles at the bottom of the figure?
(A) 11 (B) 12
(C) 15 (D) 17
(E) 19 48 105 28 144

C4-132 (#16116). Numbers are written inside the six circles, one 19
per circle. On the edge connecting two consecutive circles we write
the sum of the two numbers in the circles, as shown. What number 18 14
should be written on the edge between the two yellow circles?
(A) 10 (B) 11
12 15
(C) 12 (D) 13
(E) 14 ?

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C4-133 (#16143). For any real value of a, b and k the following operations are defined:

a∆b = a + b − 3

and
k ⋆ a = ka − 3k + 3
What is the value of (4∆5) ⋆ (−2∆1)?
(A) -9 (B) -24 (C) -33 (D) -39 (E) -42

C4-134 (#16160). If the first 2022 natural numbers are written without spaces, the number

1234567891011 . . . 202020212022

is obtained. How many digits should be deleted to get the number of the form

20222022 . . . 2022,

which is obtained so that number 2022 is 10 times written without spaces?

(A) 6938 (B) 6939 (C) 6940 (D) 6941 (E) 6942

C4-135 (#16184). Let N is a 2-digit natural number such that sum of the its digits is 12.
If we change the place of the digits then we obtain a number which is 47 times of N . Find the
product of the digits of N .
(A) 27 (B) 32 (C) 35 (D) 36 (E) 42

C4-136 (#16212). We get numbers using some of the numbers from 81, 27, 9, 3 and 1 and
the operations of addition and subtraction. We can use a number only once or not use it at all.
For example, we don’t use the number 3 while getting the number 46 because 46= 81-27-9+1.
Accordingly, how many of these numbers do we not use to get the number 53?

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

C4-137 (#16225). 3n = 1/9, 2m = 1/8, nm =?

(A) 6 (B) -6 (C) 1/6 (D) 5 (E) 1/72

C4-138 (#16227). The area of intersection of a circle and a triangle is 70% of the area of
their union, while the area of the triangle outside the circle is 20% of the area of their union.
What percentage of the area of the circle is outside the triangle?
(A) 10% (B) 12.5% (C) 20% (D) 37.5% (E) 50%

C4-139 (#16233). Ali is writing all integers on a blackboard in a row except the perfect
squares: 2,3,5,6,7,8,10... What is the 2022th number in this row?
(A) 1973 (B) 1980 (C) 2066 (D) 2067 (E) 2070

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C4-140 (#16273). Two farmers took 100 eggs in total to the market to sell. The money they
earned in both is the same. The first person said to the second person: ”If I had as many eggs
as you, I can earn 15 yuan (currency).” The second person said: ”If I had the same number of
eggs as you, I can only earn 6 and two-thirds yuan.” How many eggs did the first person sell?
(A) 35 (B) 39 (C) 40 (D) 45 (E) 41

a+b b+c c+a

C4-141 (#16297). If c
+ a
+ b
= 2022 and a ̸= b ̸= c ̸= 0 then find the expression
(1 + ab )(1 + ac )(1 + cb )

(A) 2020 (B) 2021 (C) 2022 (D) 2023 (E) 2024

C4-142 (#16302). Let A = 2021 × 20222022 and B = 2022 × 20212021. Find A − B.

(A) 0 (B) 2021 (C) 20222021 (D) 20212022 (E) 2022

C4-143 (#16304). The intersection points of the diagonals of the G F

squares ABCD and BEF G are P and R respectively and the lengths
of these diagonals are 7 cm and 12 cm respectively. By how many D C
R
square centimeters is the area of the triangle P ER bigger than the
area of the triangle DP R? P

(A) 5 (B) 6,125 (C) 7,5 (D) 8,6 (E) 11,875 A B E

C4-144 (#16309). With four cuboids we construct a fig-

ure, as shown. Some of the dimensions of the individual
parts are shown. What is the volume of the construction?
(A) 198 m3 (B) 164 m3
(C) 142 m3 (D) 138 m3
(E) 132 m2
Cadet

C4-145 (#16313). What is the largest possible value of the expression KA+N G+AR+OO?
(The same letters denote the same digits, different letters denote different digits.)
(A) 322 (B) 324 (C) 326 (D) 342 (E) 352

C4-146 (#16315). The rectangle is divided into four triangles as shown in the figure. The
areas of the three triangles are indicated. What is the area of the fourth triangle?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 4.5 (E) 7

C4-147 (#16329). The sum of 20% of number A and 25% of number B is −5. The sum of

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25% of number A and 20% of number B is 5. Find value of A?

(A) 125 (B) 120 (C) 100 (D) -100 (E) -120

C4-148 (#16336).
(A) 60 (B) 50 (C) 40 (D) 30 (E) 20

C4-149 (#16337). 2021 , 1021 , 521 , 271 , 146 , ?

(A) 85 (B) 84.5 (C) 84 (D) 83.5 (E) 83

C4-150 (#16342).
(A) 2020 (B) 2021 (C) 21 (D) 20 (E) 17

C4-151 (#16357). The areas of some sections are given on the rectangular floor plan above
and each section is rectangular. Since, the side lengths of each of these rectangles are integers.

Cadet
What is the minimum value of sum of areas of sections whose areas are not given?

(A) 36 (B) 54 (C) 64 (D) 76 (E) 81

C4-152 (#16362). ABCD is a rectangle, AF = 20 and GC = 20. EGHF is a square. Find

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the area ABCD ?

(A) 60 (B) 72 (C) 80 (D) 84 (E) 96

C4-153 (#16373). There are 17 rows of seats in an auditorium. Each row has 19 seats.
Due to the pandemic, adjacent seats cannot be occupied. What percentage of places can be
occupied?
(A) 50% (B) 51% (C) 49% (D) 48% (E) 52.6%

C4-154 (#16374). There is a circle with 5 points on it. Several straight line segments with
ends at the given points were drawn, so that each point is the end of 2 segments. How many
such different drawings are there?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 20 (E) 24

C4-155 (#16381). You can pick four numbers X, Y, Z, W . What is the maximum number of
odd numbers you can obtain from their pairwise sums X +Y, X +Z, X +W, Y +Z, Y +W, Z +W ?

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

C4-156 (#16392). The 3-layer pyramid below is made of 14 unit cubes. John has 100 unit
cubes and he wants to build a pyramid like this as high as possible. How many layers will
John’s pyramid have?
Cadet

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

C4-157 (#16398). Find the number of even factors of 1008.

(A) 24 (B) 22 (C) 20 (D) 18 (E) 15

C4-158 (#16404). We may change one digit of 21475 to make the new number a multiple
of 225, how many different multiples of 225 can be obtained this way?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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C4-159 (#16406). The size of each interior angle in degree measure is 6 times as large as
that of each exterior angle in a n-sided regular polygon. What is the value of n?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 12 (E) 14

C4-160 (#16415). How many rectangles (including squares) in the below diagram that do
not contain any ⋆?

(A) 24 (B) 28 (C) 30 (D) 36 (E) 38

C4-161 (#16431). Compute: 12 − 22 + 32 − 42 + . . . + 20212 − 20222

(A) -2045255 (B) -2045253 (C) 0 (D) 2045253 (E) 2045255

C4-162 (#16445). A small garden is made up of four rect-

1x1 1m
angles of dimensions 1x1, 1x2, 1x3 and 1x5, in meters, as
shown. What is the perimeter of the garden? 1m
1x2
(A) 18 m
1x3 1m
(B) 19 m
(C) 20 m 1x5 1m
(D) 22 m
(E) 30 m

Cadet
C4-163 (#16446). A jigsaw puzzle is considered ”almost finished”
if
1. all the missing pieces belong next to a piece that is already placed
correctly
2. all the pieces already placed are connected to each other.
What is the least possible number of pieces placed correctly so that a
4 × 4-puzzle is almost finished?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11

C4-164 (#16462). To which of the follwing nets the sign must be added to form ?

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

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4.3 5 points problems

C5-001 (#14984). One square is inside another square, as shown. The dark
area in the figure is 43 cm2 and each square has side with a whole number of cm.
What is the sum of the areas of the two squares?
(A) 882 cm2 (B) 925 cm2 (C) 968 cm2 (D) 1011 cm2 (E) 2022 cm2

C5-002 (#15031). Select 8 numbers from 1 to 9 to fill in the

given circles such that the sum of the numbers in each line is
the same as the bottom number in the given illustration . What
is the number that has not been selected?1
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 1
(D) 7 (E) 9

C5-003 (#15040). Max holds his compass upright on the table. How should he
choose the angle between the legs, such that the grey area between the two legs
and the table surface is the largest possible?
(A) 45◦ (B) 60◦ (C) 90◦ (D) 120◦
(E) It depends on the length of the legs.

C5-004 (#15045). Beaming with joy, Paula tells her friend: ”I have just multiplied a three-
digit number by 4. The result is a very special three-digit number as the ones and hundreds
digits have swapped places! At the same time, the tens digit has changed to my favorite
number.” What is Paula’s favorite number?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7
(E) It cannot be uniquely determined.
Cadet

C5-005 (#15057). On the board are written 10 distinct natural numbers. Each is a multiple
of the previous one. The last of the 10 natural numbers is between 600 and 1000. What is this
last number?
(A) 640 (B) 729 (C) 768 (D) 840
(E) none of the previous

C5-006 (#15080). Last week I went for a small holiday. On my way there the traffic was
quite quiet, so I could manage an average speed of 100 km/u. On the way back the traffic was
very busy, I only could manage an average speed of 50 km/u. Therefore the way back lasted
two hours longer. What was in km/u approximately my average speed in total?
(A) 60 (B) 67 (C) 72 (D) 75 (E) 80

C5-007 (#15089). From an ordinary book a page is torn out. We add the numbers of the
remaining pages of the book. The result is 199. What can be a pagenumber of the page torn

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out?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 13

C5-008 (#15123). Each letter in the subtraction below represents a single digit.

6 X Y Z
K 3 5 9 −
1 5 8 8
The letters K, X, Y, Z in order are:
(A) 4, 3, 9, 7 (B) 5, 9, 4, 7 (C) 5, 3, 9, 7 (D) 5, 1, 3, 7 (E) 4, 5, 4, 7

C5-009 (#15129). On the analog clock shown, the hour and minute
hands are precisely at right angles to each other. How many times will
this occur during the course of one week?
(A) 168 (B) 240 (C) 308
(D) 336 (E) 362

C5-010 (#15130). If 1/(3x + 5) = 2/3 then 1/(3x + 4) equals

(A) −7/6 (B) 5/3 (C) 4/3 (D) 2 (E) 1

C5-011 (#15199). When Bob leaves his house in the morning, he takes umbrella only if the
rain forecast for that day has been announced or it has rained the day before. Four consecutive
days Bob left his house without umbrella. For how many of these four days was the weather
forecast certainly correct?
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 1 (E) 0

Cadet
C5-012 (#15206). A painter wanted to mix 2 litres of blue paint with 3
of yellow to make 5 litres of green paint. By mistake he used 3 litres of blue
and 2 litres of yellow so his green colour came out the wrong shade. What is
the least amount of this green paint that he must throw away so that with the rest and some
extra litres from the original colours he could make the 5 litres of green paint at the correct
proportions?
2 3 5 3 5
(A) 3
litres (B) 2
litres (C) 3
litres (D) 5
litres (E) 9
litres

C5-013 (#15232). For which of the following values of n does the equation (x + y) · z = n
have the biggest number of solutions where all numbers x, y, z are prime?
(A) n = 105 = 3 · 5 · 7 (B) n = 165 = 3 · 5 · 11 (C) n = 195 = 3 · 5 · 13
(D) n = 231 = 3 · 7 · 11 (E) n = 385 = 5 · 7 · 11

C5-014 (#15256). Alex and Boris started swimming in a lake directly at each other at the
same time. At that moment they were 1290 m apart. Alex swam at a speed of 35 metres per

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minute, Boris can swim 50 m in 2 minutes. How many metres did Alex swim until they met?
(A) 537.5 m (B) 645 m (C) 665 m (D) 737.5 m (E) 752.5 m

C5-015 (#15257). Six members of the same family were born on the same day and month,
but a different year. They celebrate their birthdays together. Their ages are all double digits,
none of which is zero. The interesting thing is that everyone has one digit 5 greater than the
other. Together, they are 263 years old. How old is the oldest birthday members of the family?
(A) 44 (B) 61 (C) 64 (D) 72 (E) 76

C5-016 (#15260). There were 98 passengers in an airplane - men, women and children. 36
were adult women, 47 were adult men. 10 passengers were English, where at least one was an
adult woman and at least one was an adult man. At least how many children could have been
on board that were not English?
(A) 1 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 15

C5-017 (#15372). Karim, Rashid, Amir, Ali, Davoud, and Hassan are in a 6-person party
and want to play a game. A number of hats are given to each person and they are supposed
to put a hat on a non-friend’s head. After the game is finished, the number of hats on each
person’s head is as follows: Karim 3, Rashid 1, Amir 2, Ali 4, Davoud 2, and Hassan 0. Which
statement is incorrect?
(A) Davoud and Amir are friends.
(B) Hassan is friends with everyone.
(C) Karim is friends with Rashid and Hassan
(D) Ali is friends with Hassan.
(E) Amir is friends with Rashid and Karim

C5-018 (#15388). We want to write the following numbers in the five circles of the following
Cadet

shape: 222, 300, 350, 572, 578.

Inside each triangle, the sum of three numbers on its vertices is written. Which number will
be placed in the middle circle?
(A) 578 (B) 572 (C) 350 (D) 300 (E) 220

C5-019 (#15409). sara likes to add the digits showing the current time on her electronic
watch. For example, when the watch shows 21:17, she gets the number 11 as the result (2 +
1 + 1 + 7 = 11). What is the greatest sum she can get?

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(Note: use ”24 hour clock” time: where 1 PM is 13:00, up to 11:59 PM which is 23:59)
(A) 36 (B) 24 (C) 19 (D) 23 (E) 30

C5-020 (#15423). Chris has a wire that is 10 meters long. He spins his wire into circles
and leaves it. When Chris returns, there are 5 wires there that looks the same, but they have
different length. All of these are also spun into circles. Chris wants to know which is his without
straightening them out. Which one of the five wires is Chris‘s wire?
(A) The one with 4 circles and diameter about 100 cm
(B) The one with 7 circles and diameter about 30 cm
(C) The one with 8 circles and diameter about 40 cm
(D) The one with 10 circles and diameter about 10 cm
(E) The one with 10 circles and diameter about 50 cm

C5-021 (#15459). Tom writes a 6-digit positive integer whose units digit is 4. Mary changes
the position of 4 to form a new number that starts with this digit, leaving the others the same.
The new number is four times the number Tom wrote. What is the smallest positive integer
that Tom could write?
(A) 102564 (B) 100004 (C) 101564 (D) 102364 (E) 102314

C5-022 (#15506). In a bakery, every m minutes a donut and every n minutes a cake is
brought out of the oven, starting from the time they were put in. The bakery lines them up
from right to left in the same order they are brought out. If two types of sweet are brought out
at the same time, they are lined up randomly one after the other. Below, you can see the first
7 sweets that have been lined up.

Which option is true about m and n and the 8th sweet?

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(A) It is possible that m = 7 and n = 10, which would make the eighth sweet a donut.
(B) It is possible that m = 7 and n = 11, which would make the eighth sweet a cake.
(C) It is possible that m = 6 and n = 9, which would make the eighth sweet a donut.
(D) It is possible that m = 4 and n = 7, which would make the eighth sweet a cake.
(E) It is possible that m = 7 and n = 7 and the eight sweet cannot be determined.

C5-023 (#15544). A rectangle of dimensions 32 × 34 is located at

the vertex of a larger rectangle of dimensions 120 × 100, as shown in
the figure. What is the distance between the centers of each rectangle?
(A) 37 (B) 43 (C) 55
(D) 71 (E) 110

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C5-024 (#15630). Rectangle ABCD on the picture consists of 7 identical

rectangles. What is the ratio AB/BC?
(A) 8/5 (B) 12/7 (C) 1/2 (D) 4/3 (E) 7/3

C5-025 (#15671). The smallest positive integer n such that

22022 + 2n + 222

is a perfect square, is
(A) 4022 (B) 4020 (C) 1023 (D) 1022 (E) 1021

C5-026 (#15672). The villages A, B, C and D are situated (not necessarily in this order)
along a straight line. The distance from A to C is 75 km, from B to D is 45 km, from B to C
is 20 km. The distance from A to D cannot be equal to:
(A) 80 km (B) 140 km (C) 10 km (D) 50 km (E) 100 km

C5-027 (#15803). What percentage of the triangle on the picture is shaded?

(A) 64% (B) 77% (C) 80% (D) 88% (E) 91%

C5-028 (#15852). What is the area of the shaded portion?

(A) 50 (B) 70 (C) 100 (D) 25π (E) 100π
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C5-029 (#15873). The areas of the faces of a rectangular box

are 84 cm2 , 70 cm2 and 30 cm2 . The volume of the box in cm3 is
(A) 96 (B) 420 (C) 5880
(D) 88200 (E) 176400

C5-030 (#15893). 10! Seconds =? Assume each day has exactly 24

hours.
(A) 5 weeks (B) 30 days (C) 40 days (D) 6 weeks (E) 4 weeks

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C5-031 (#15900). Mowgli is walking through a forest.

He wants to know what day of the week it is. She stops
and asks a zebra and a panther. The zebra always lies
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The panther always
lies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Zebra says, ”Well
yesterday was one of my lying days.” Mowgli can’t figure
it out just from the zebra’s answer so he asks the panther.
The panther says ”Yesterday was also one of my lying
days.” What day is it?
(A) Thursday (B) Monday
(C) Sunday (D) Friday
(E) Can’t say

C5-032 (#15933). What is sum of the digits of the smallest positive integer which gives a
remainder of 4 when divided by 5 and gives a remainder of 6 when divided by 7?
(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 15

C5-033 (#15934). In the calculation shown, each letter represents a different RR S

non-zero digit. How many possible values of T are there? RSR
+ S RR
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
TTT

C5-034 (#15982). Ann, Bern and Cat talk about their trading card collection.
Ann says: ”in total I have three times as much cards that if I don’t count my 10 repeated
ones”.
Bern says: ”in total I have three times as much cards that if I don’t count my 20 repeated
ones”.
Cat says: ”in total I have three times as much cards that if I don’t count my 30 repeated ones”.
How many trading cards do all three have together?

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(A) 60 (B) 90 (C) 120 (D) 180
(E) It is not possible to decide

C5-035 (#15985). A teacher is looking for someone that has given him a job. He knows
that one of the following students has done it: Manuel, Carles, Sara or Maria. Ask them who
did it and the answers are:
Manuel: ”I didn’t do it. Sara did it”.
Carles: ”Sara didn’t do it. Manuel did it”.
Sara: ”I didn’t do it. And neither does Maria”.
Maria: ”I didn’t do it. And neither does Sara”.
It is known that each of the four students has told a truth and a lie. Who did the job?
(A) Manuel (B) Carles (C) Sara (D) Maria
(E) There is not enough information to decide.

C5-036 (#15986). Enric and Oriol have to climb a long escalator that is working. As they

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are in a hurry, as the escalator go up they also go up the steps, one by one. They have climbed
steps from the bottom until they have reached just the top of the escalator; Enric has climbed
53 steps, and Oriol has climbed 25. It took Oriol twice as long as Enric to reach the top. When
the escalator is stopped, how many steps can be counted on it?
(A) 78 (B) 81 (C) 103 (D) 106 (E) 131

C5-037 (#15991). Luis has a book with 20 pages. The pages are numbered consecutively
from 1 to 20. Luis removes a page from his notebook and adds the values of the remaining
pages, which value could not be the sum of the 18 pages that remain in the bag?
(A) 199 (B) 197 (C) 195 (D) 191 (E) 187

C5-038 (#16023). Every city is connected by a direct flight to at most three other cities. It
is possible to fly from any city to any other city, changing planes at most once. What is the
maximum number of cities?
(A) 12 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 10 (E) 8

C5-039 (#16026). It’s given that A = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} How many subsets of A,

consisting of exactly four numbers, are there such that, there are more odd numbers in the
subset than even numbers?
(A) 50 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 65 (E) 55

C5-040 (#16027). Several points are marked on a line. Then between each two adjacent
points Renard put another point. The same operation was repeated four times. As a result,
225 points were scored on the line. How many points were on the line initially?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 25

C5-041 (#16076). Mike correctly found the values of digits a, b, c, such that ab · a = ccc
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(here ab is 2-digit number, ccc is 3-digit number). What is the value of expression (a + b) · a · c?
(A) 0 (B) 7 (C) 16 (D) 28 (E) 30

C5-042 (#16078). What is the smallest number of cells that need to be painted in a 5 × 5
square so that any 1 × 4 or 4 × 1 rectangle lying inside the square has at least one cell painted?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

C5-043 (#16080). The expression (1 + 12 )(1 + 13 )(1 + 41 )(1 + 15 )...(1 + 1

2022
) is equal to
2023 2021 2021 1
(A) 2
(B) 1012 (C) 2022
(D) 2
(E) 2022

C5-044 (#16087). A group of workers brush two walls, and the big wall is twice in area as
the small wall. All of workers brush the big wall the whole morning, and then half of the group
continue to brush the big wall and finish at dusk, while the other half brush the small wall with
a little left. One worker spends just a day finishing the remaining work. How many people are

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there in this group of workers? (Assuming each worker has the same speed of work)
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

C5-045 (#16229). What is the least number of cells in a 5x5 square that should be colored
so that there is at least one colored cell in any four-cell rectangle?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

C5-046 (#16234). The cube with side 4 is constructed from small cubes with side 1. What
is the least number of small cubes that need to be taken out to increase the figure’s surface
area by 1.5 times?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 32

C5-047 (#16300). If the electronic watch shows 13:18 for example, the sum of the digits is
1 + 3 + 1 + 8 = 13, which is equal to the hour 13 exactly. How many times does this happen
in twenty four hours?
(A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 50 (D) 70 (E) 90

C5-048 (#16307). Some koalas and 2022 kangaroos are in the seven yards. The number of
kangaroos in each yard is equal to the number of koalas in all other yards combined. How many
koalas are there in these yards in total?
(A) 288 (B) 337 (C) 576
(D) 674 (E) impossible to determine

C5-049 (#16317). The rectangle is divided into 9 smaller rectangles as shown in the figure.
The areas of three corner rectangles are known (see. Fig.). What is the area of the fourth
corner rectangle indicated by ”?” symbol?

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(A) 9 (B) 13.5 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16

C5-050 (#16318). Michael replaced letters by digits in the expression F EW + F EW =

M U CH (The same letters by the same digits, different letters by different digits) so that he
got the right equation. What is the smallest value that the number M U CH can take?
(A) 246 (B) 1024 (C) 1032 (D) 1046 (E) other answer

C5-051 (#16335). Jenny decided to enter numbers into the cells of the 3 × 3 table in order
to the sum of the numbers in all four possible 2 × 2 – squares be the same. The three numbers
in the corner cells have already been written as shown in the figure. Which number should she

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write in the fourth corner cell marked with the ”?” ?

(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 0

(E) impossible to determine
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