Grades 3 and 4

IMC Practice Problems

Grade 3
IMC 2023 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 5
IMC 2022 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 11
IMC 2021 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 18
IMC 2020 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 24
IMC 2019 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 31
IMC 2018 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 36
IMC 2017 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 41
IMC 2016 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 47

Grade 4
IMC 2023………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 52
IMC 2022 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 59
IMC 2021 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 66
IMC 2020 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 72
IMC 2019 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 80
IMC 2018 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 86
IMC 2017 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 92
IMC 2016 ………………………………………………………………………………… Pg. 98
IMC Round 2 Practice Problems

Grades 3-4

2023 ……………………………………………………………………………...…….… Pg. 102

2022 ……………………………………………………………………………...…….… Pg. 106
2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...…….… Pg. 110
2020 …………………………………………………………………………...…...….… Pg. 115
2019 ………………………………………………………………………...……...….… Pg. 119
2018 ………………………………………………………………………...……...….… Pg. 122
2017 ……………………………………………………………………………...…....… Pg. 125
2016 ……………………………………………………………………………...…....… Pg. 128

Grades 5 and 6

IMC Practice Problems

Grade 5
IMC 2023 ………………………………………………………………………………... Pg. 135
IMC 2022 ………………………………………………………………………………... Pg. 141
IMC 2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 148
IMC 2020 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 154
IMC 2019 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 160
IMC 2018 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 165
IMC 2017 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 170
IMC 2016 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 175
Grade 6
IMC 2023 ……………………………………………………………………...………… Pg. 179
IMC 2022 ……………………………………………………………………...………… Pg. 185
IMC 2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 192
IMC 2020 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 197
IMC 2019 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 204
IMC 2018 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 209
IMC 2017 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 214
IMC 2016 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 219

IMC Round 2 Practice Problems

Grades 5-6
2023 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 223
2022 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 227
2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...…....… Pg. 231
2020 …………………………………………………………………………...…...….… Pg. 235
2019 …………………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 240
2018 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 243
2017 ……………………………………………………………………………...…....… Pg. 246
2016 ……………………………………………………………………………...…....… Pg. 249

Grades 7 and 8

IMC Practice Problems

Grade 7

IMC 2023 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 257

IMC 2022 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 263
IMC 2021 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 268
IMC 2020 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 273
IMC 2019 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 279
IMC 2018 ………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 283
IMC 2017 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 287
IMC 2016 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 292
Grade 8
IMC 2023 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 296
IMC 2022 …………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 301
IMC 2021 ………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 306
IMC 2020 ………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 311
IMC 2019 ………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 316
IMC 2018 ………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 320
IMC 2017 …………………………………………………………………...…………… Pg. 324
IMC 2016 …………………………………………………………………...…………… Pg. 329

IMC Round 2 Practice Problems

Grades 7-8
2023 ……………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 333
2022 ……………………………………………………………………………...……… Pg. 336
2021 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 340
2010 ………………………………………………………………………………...…… Pg. 345
2019 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 349
2018 …………………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 352
2017 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 355
2016 ………………………………………………………………………………..….… Pg. 358

Grades 9 and 10

IMC Practice Problems

Grades 9-10
IMC 2023 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 356
IMC 2022 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 370
IMC 2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...… Pg. 374

IMC Round 2 Practice Problems

Grades 9-10
2023 ……………………………………………………………………………...…...… Pg. 378
2022 …
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...… Pg. 381
...…
2021 ……………………………………………………………………………...…...… Pg. 384
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Grade 3
1. What number is covered?

[{{95}}]
The covered number is 30.

2. Katia invited 30 friends to watch her backyard gymnastics show. She set up 3 rows of chairs
with 6 chairs in each row. How many more chairs does Katia need to set up if each friend must
be seated?

[{{88}}]
Katia needs to set up 12 more chairs.

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 3. Molly started to climb the steps of the Old Tower. She took 20 steps, which is one-fourth of all
the steps. How many steps does the Old Tower have?

[{{93}}]
The Old Tower has 80 steps.

4. A store can print your soccer team's name on 12 t-shirts in 10 minutes.

You want to buy 24 t-shirts. How long will it take the store to print all 24
t-shirts if the t-shirts are always printed at the same rate?
[{{91}}]
It will take 20 minutes.

5. What is the least three-digit number with all different odd digits?

[{{72}}]
The least three-digit number with all different odd digits is 135.

6. Albert the Monkey found a bunch of coconuts and put them into two equal piles. Then he
moved 3 coconuts from one pile to the other, so now the number of coconuts in the second pile is
twice the number of coconuts in the first pile. How many coconuts did Albert find?

[{{44}}]
Albert the Monkey found 18 coconuts.

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 7. The figure below is made of four 1-inch × 1-inch squares. What is the perimeter of the figure?

[{{59}}]
The perimeter of the figure is 10 inches.

8. A rectangular garden has a square pond in the middle as shown in the picture. If each side of the
pond is 6 feet long, what is the area of the land around the pond?

[{{59}}]
The area of the land around the pond is 464 square feet.

9. How much more does a whale weigh than a dolphin?

[{{53}}]
A whale weighs 300 more kilograms than a dolphin.

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 10. Four fairies made a total of 120 gifts for a party. The first fairy made one-third of the gifts and
the second fairy made 28 gifts. The third fairy and the fourth fairy made an equal number of
gifts. How many gifts did the fourth fairy make?

[{{68}}]
The fourth fairy made 26 gifts.

11. If Masha buys three roses she will have 7 dollars left. To buy nine roses, Masha will need to
borrow 11 dollars from her father. How many dollars does Masha have?

[{{34}}]
Masha has 16 dollars.

12. A line of people are waiting for a store to open because there is a big sale today. But while the
manager is looking for his keys, another person squeezes in between every two people in the
line. Now 31 people are in the line. How many people were initially in the line?

[{{30}}]
There were 16 people in the line.

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 13. There are 210 bakers in the Big Cake Competition. The number of
bakers who can make a red velvet cake is twice the number of bakers
who can make a carrot cake. The number of bakers who can make both
types of cake is 30 more than the number of bakers who cannot make
either. How many bakers in the competition can make a red velvet
cake?
[{{4}}]
There are 160 bakers who can make a red velvet cake.

14. Eleven pirates and their captain found a treasure chest full of gold coins.
They tried to divide all of the coins equally, but they had one coin left.
Then the captain took 20 coins for himself and he was able to divide the
rest of the coins equally among the eleven pirates. What is the least
possible number of gold coins in the chest?
[{{12}}]
The least possible number of gold coins is 97.

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Grade 3
1. What number is covered by the pencil?

2. Derek counts 15 peacocks at the zoo. A zookeeper told Derek that this is one-third of all the
peacocks in the zoo. How many peacocks are in the zoo?

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 3. Cecilia arranged all of her coins and two red buttons into the shape of a square. How many
coins are blocked from view by Cecilia?

4. Michael wrote the least two-digit number. Lina wrote the greatest two-digit number. Karl added
these two numbers. What number did Karl get?

5. Mary made 28 Valentine cards, and John made fewer than half as many cards as Mary. What is
the greatest possible number of cards they made in total?

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 6. There are 3 squares in the figure. The side length of the smallest square is 6 cm. What is the side
length of the largest square?

7. How much does one kitten weigh? The kittens weigh the same amount.

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 8. Steve found a treasure map that shows a stone, tree, hill, and flag at the corners of a rectangle.
Steve started at the stone, took some number of steps to the oak tree, then to the flag, and then to
the grassy hill. He marked the grassy hill and then returned to the stone in 22 steps. If he took a
total of 120 equal steps, how many steps did Steve take from the stone to the oak tree?

9. An unfortunate cook made a few pancakes. One-fourth of all the pancakes were stolen by a cat.
Then 4 pancakes were eaten by a parrot while the cook tried to catch the cat. Now, the cook has
32 pancakes. How many pancakes did the cat steal?

10. Aubree and Robert met in the school parking lot this morning. Aubree counted all the bicycles
and cars in the lot. She counted 30 in all. Robert counted all the wheels and got 72. How many
bicycles are in the lot?

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 11.
Find the area of the park.

12. Peter took three photos. The photos show a total of 44 birds. The second photo has 9 fewer
birds than the first photo. The third photo has 5 more birds than the first photo. How many birds
are in the first photo?

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 13. A chest contains 5 balls that each have the number 3 written on them. The chest also contains 5
balls that each have the number 7 written on them, and 5 balls that each have the number 11
written on them. Octi the Octopus takes out a few balls, one at a time, and calculates the sum of
the numbers written on them. How many different sums less than 15 are possible?

14. A train full of giraffes and rabbits goes to a resort. In every train car, there are either 25
giraffes or 45 rabbits. The total number of giraffes on the train is equal to the total number of
rabbits on the train. What is the least possible number of train cars if there are more than 500
animals on the train?

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Question No. Answer

1 The covered number is 20.

2 There are 45 peacocks in the zoo.

3 5 coins are covered.

4 Karl got 109.

5 The greatest possible number of Valentine cards is 41.

6 The side length of the largest square is 18 cm.

7 One kitten weighs 11 lb.

8 Steve took 38 steps from the stone to the oak tree.

9 The cat stole 12 pancakes.

10 There are 24 bicycles in the lot.

11 The area of the park is 242 square units.

12 There are 16 birds in the first photo.

13 6 or 9 different sums less than 15 are possible.

14 The least possible number of train cars is 28.

 IMC 2021
Grade 3
1. What number is covered?

2. What is the smallest possible three-digit number with all different digits?

3. Flavor Fast won 12 races, which is one-third the number of races that Slow Stue won. How
many races did Slow Stue win?

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 4. How much does one puppy weigh?

5. Noah bought a rectangular frame with perimeter 30 cm. But then Noah measured the soccer
certificate he wants to put in the frame and realized that the frame should be 4 cm longer. What
should be the perimeter of the new frame Noah must buy?

6. Temper Tantrum is learning how to play music! So far, he has broken 84 musical instruments: a
few guitars, twice as many banjos as guitars, and 48 pianos. How many banjos has Temper
broken?

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 7. Yien and Toni are at an escape room and need to unlock a treasure chest. The girls need to
subtract a mystery number from 533 and get 255 as the difference. What is the mystery number?

8. John has two boxes. One box has 88 spiders. The second box has 44 spiders. Every day, John
moves two spiders from the first box to the second box. In how many days will the number of
spiders in the boxes be equal?

9. Andy wrote a two-digit number. He said the following:

a) The sum of the digits is greater than 14.
b ) The sum of the digits is less than 14.
c ) The sum of the digits is 15.
d ) The number has 7 at the end.
But one sentence is false. What two-digit number did Andy write?

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 10. The school band wants to put on a giant show. They will split the field behind the school into
10 ft by 10 ft squares, and three band members will stand on each square. If the field has length
100 ft and width 40 ft, how many band members will stand on the field?

11. Jackie played a few chess games last night. She started at 5 : 15 pm. She played each game for
exactly 10 minutes and took a 5 minute break after each game. If she finished playing the last
game at 7 : 55 pm, how many games did Jackie play?

12. Six chipmunks try to divide their acorns evenly, but have 5 acorns left. Then a seventh
chipmunk arrives and adds 1 acorn to the pile. Now, the 7 chipmunks can evenly divide all the
acorns. What is the smallest number of acorns that could be in the pile after the seventh
chipmunk adds his acorn?

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 13. Participants in a darts tournament get 5 points if they hit the red circle, 1
point if they hit the blue circle, and no points if they miss both circles. Each
participant has 4 darts. How many different scores are possible if everyone
gets at least one point?

14. Andy and Bob took a test that had 120 problems. Andy got 30 more problems correct than
Bob. The number of problems that only Andy got correct is six times the number of problems
that both boys got correct. There are 20 problems that neither boy got correct. How many
problems did both boys get correct?

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Question No. Answer

1 The covered number is 75.

2 The smallest three-digit number with all different digits is 102.

3 Slow Stue won 36 races.

4 One puppy weighs 8 pounds.

5 The perimeter of the new frame should be 38 cm.

6 Temper Tantrum has broken 24 banjos.

7 The mystery number is 278.

8 The number of spiders in the boxes will be equal in 11 days.

9 Andy wrote 87.

10 There will be 120 band members on the field.

11 Jackie played 11 games.

12 The smallest number of acorns the chipmunks could have is 42.

13 There are 14 different scores possible.

14 There are 10 problems that they both got correct.

 IMC 2020 Grade 3
1. What number is covered?

2. There are 16 giant sloths in Wobegone Wood, which is one-fourth the

number of giant sloths in Fairy Forest. How many giant sloths are in Fairy
Forest?

3. A young wizard got 16 baby dragons for her birthday. Then more than half of the baby dragons
flew away. What is the greatest number of baby dragons the young wizard could have now?

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 4. Tycho drew a 7 × 5 rectangle but then his puppy, Mishka, ate part of it! The rectangle has been
ripped, but some green aliens and yellow smiley faces remain. Use the pattern to decide how
many yellow smiley faces Tycho drew on the original rectangle.

5. A watermelon, half a watermelon, and some weights are placed on the scale as shown. The scale
is balanced. Find the weight of one watermelon.

6. Giselle thought of a number. When she subtracts her number from 731,
the result is 137. What is Giselle's number?

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 7. A square-shaped piece of paper is folded twice, as shown. The perimeter of one of the new
squares is 24 cm. What is the perimeter of the unfolded paper?

8. Peter-The-Two-Year-Old-Terror has had 60 babysitters. One-fifth of his babysitters have quit, 8

babysitters have been fired, and the rest of his babysitters have just run screaming down the
street. How many babysitters have run screaming?

9. ABC is a three-digit number where each letter represents a different digit. If A < C, what is the
greatest possible number?

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 10. Alice, Becky, and Carl bought a total of 88 balloons. Alice bought 10 more balloons than
Becky, while Carl bought 12 balloons. How many balloons did Alice buy?

11. Fifteen hungry kittens found a bucket of sausages. Each time they cut a sausage or a part of a
sausage, they cut it into exactly two new pieces. They made 20 cuts in all and each kitten got 2
(maybe unequal) pieces of sausage. How many sausages were in the bucket?

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 12. Find the area of the park.

13. If Pirate Jack splits all of his coins into 7 equal piles for his parrots, he has 4 coins left. Or, if
he splits all of his coins into 11 equal piles for his shipmates, he has 4 coins left. Assuming every
pile has at least 1 coin, what is the least possible number of coins Pirate Jack has?

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 14. All 210 students in a school went roller skating, to a water park, or both. The number of
students who went only to the water park is four times the number of students who went only
roller skating. The number of students who went only to the water park is two times the number
of students who did both. How many students did both?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The covered number is 150.

2 There are 64 giant sloths in the Fairy Forest.

3 The greatest number is 7.

4 Tycho drew 18 yellow smiley faces on the original rectangle.

5 One watermelon weighs 30 lb.

6 Giselle's number is 594.

7 The perimeter of the unfolded paper is 48 cm.

8 40 babysitters have run screaming.

9 The greatest possible number is 879.

10 Alice bought 43 balloons.

11 There were 10 sausages in the bucket.

12 The area of the park is 122 square units.

13 The least possible number of coins is 81.

14 60 students did both.

 IMC 2019 Grade 3

1. How much does one puppy weigh?

2. What number is covered?

3. John and Mary are building towers out of lego bricks. John used fewer than 18 bricks for his
tower. Mary used twice as many bricks as John. What is the greatest number of bricks Mary
could have used?

4. Yesterday, Peter the Rabbit picked 84 carrots from his garden and ate one-fourth of them.
Today, he ate 12 carrots. How many carrots are left?

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 5. What is the smallest possible 3-digit number, whose sum of digits is equal to
10?

6. Andrew walks from his house to Becky's house which is 150 meters away. Then, they walk
together to pick up Charles at his house. Lastly, the three friends walk to the ice cream shop. If
Andrew walked 650 meters in all, how far is Becky's house from Charles' house?

7. A monkey lives on a banana farm, where the trees are 3 meters apart. Sitting on her favorite
tree, she eats 8 bananas, then jumps to the next tree. On each new tree, the monkey eats one less
banana than she did on the previous tree. She stops to nap on the tree where she ate only one
banana. What is the total distance jumped by the monkey?

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 8. The Three Little Pigs are building a new brick house to hide from the Big Bad Wolf. First,
Oinky Pig brought 48 bricks, which is two thirds of the total bricks they needed. Pinky Pig
brought half of the rest of the bricks they needed. How many bricks did Squeaky Pig bring?

9. The figure is made from five equal squares. If the perimeter of the figure is 72 units, what is the
area of one square?

10. Jack's favorite number is 836. Jill subtracts a secret number from 836 and her answer is the
smallest possible combination of all the digits from Jack's favorite number. What is the secret
number?

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 11. Alice and Bob were digging for dinosaur eggs. By the end of the day, they found a total of 104
eggs. Alice found 22 more eggs than Bob. How many dinosaur eggs did Alice dig up?

12. A princess wants to tile her bedroom floor with squares. Her bedroom floor is 15 feet long and
10 feet wide. The squares’ sides are all 1 ft long. To make each square, she uses 2 striped and 2
solid triangles as shown. She already has all the solid triangles she needs. How many striped
triangles should the princess buy?

13. In a school one-third of all 240 students play soccer. Forty four students play both soccer and
basketball and sixty students do not play any of these games. How many students play only
basketball?

14. An equal number of giants and trolls go on a cruise. On each ship there are either 36 giants or
81 trolls. What is the smallest possible number of ships?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 One puppy weighs 9 pounds.

2 The covered number is 260.

3 The greatest possible number of lego bricks that Mary could have used is 34.

4 51 carrots are left.

5 The smallest three-digit number with the sum of its digits equal to 10 is 109.

6 There are 350 meters between Becky's house and Charles' house.

7 The monkey jumped 21 meters.

8 Squeaky Pig brought 12 bricks.

9 The area of one square is 36 square units.

10 The secret number is 468.

11 Alice dug up 63 eggs.

12 The princess should buy 300 striped triangles.

13 100 students play only basketball.

14 The smallest possible number of ships is 13.

 Grade 3
IMC 2018
1. What number is covered?

2. How many cuts does Bobby make to split his brother's favorite fishing rod into 3
pieces?

3. How much does one bunny weigh?

4. Coins were arranged in a square. How many coins are covered?

5. What number is the difference between the smallest three digit number and the
largest one digit number?

6. On Monday morning, a puppy weighed 11 pounds. The puppy's owner weighs him
twice a day. The puppy loses 1 pound by every evening, and gains 3 pounds by
every morning. How many pounds will the puppy weigh by Thursday evening of
the same week?

7. Three bears cooked 92 pounds of porridge. Baby Bear ate 12 pounds of it, then
Mama Bear ate one-fourth of the porridge that was left. Papa Bear finished the
rest. How many pounds of porridge did Papa Bear eat?
8. Usually Mary drives to grandma's house in a straight line. But today, she saw a
"Detour" sign and had to turn left and drive for 4 miles, then take a right and
continue, then take another right and drive until she got there. This detour was
24 miles long. How far, in miles, is Mary's usual drive to grandma's house?

9. Winnie-the-Pooh had only one full jar of honey left. The other jars were empty.
Trying to find the full jar, Winnie broke one-third of his empty jars. Now, he has
37 jars left (one of them is full of honey). How many jars did he break?

10. A locked box has three digits written on it: 5, 2, and 7. A spy subtracts a Secret
Number from the biggest number he can make with those three digits. He gets a
difference of 179, which opens the box! What is the Secret Number the spy uses?
11. Find the area of the park.

12. There were 84 more frogs in Green Pond than in Blue Pond. All the frogs from
Blue Pond jumped into Green Pond. Now the total number of frogs in Green
Pond is 160. How many frogs were there originally in Green Pond?

13. Bailey is making festive cookie bags. She tried to split all her cookies evenly by
putting 15 per bag, but the last bag had only 14 cookies. So, she tried putting 10
cookies per bag, but the last bag had only 9. Her mom brought 2 more cookies.
Now, Bailey tries 9, then 8, cookies per bag, but she can’t do it. Finally, Bailey
puts 7 cookies in each bag evenly! What is the least possible total number of
cookies?

14. There were two competitions in a puzzle tournament. The Sudoku competition
had twice as many participants as the Crossword competition. If 170 people
competed overall, and 40 of them participated in both competitions, how many
people participated in the Sudoku competition?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 100
2 2 cuts
3 One bunny weighs 8 lbs.
4 10 coins are covered.
5 The difference is 91.
6 The puppy will weigh 16 pounds by
Thursday evening.
7 Papa Bear ate 60 pounds of porridge.
8 Mary's usual drive to grandma's
house is 16 miles.
9 Winnie-the-Pooh broke 18 jars.
10 The spy uses the number 573.
11 The area of the park is 126 square
units.
12 There were 122 frogs in Green Pond,
originally.
13 The least possible total number of
cookies is 91.
14 There were 140 participants in the
Sudoku competition.
 Grade 3: IMC 2017
1. Two kittens and some weights are sitting on the scale. The scale is balanced. How
much does one kitten weigh?

2. What is the greatest possible 3-digit number, whose sum of digits is equal to 13?

3. There were 30 candies in a box. John ate 5 candies. Julia ate more than 3 but less
than 9 candies. What is the greatest possible number of candies that are left in
the box?

4. Two butterflies covered the same digit. Find this digit.

5. Ben filled one-third of a bottle with 12 ounces of orange juice. How many ounces
of orange juice will the bottle contain when it is full?

6. Workers started to build a fence around a playground. They already built 115 feet
of the fence and a gate that is 10 feet in length. How many more feet of fence do
the workers need to build in order to finish?

7. Anna used some 1 × 2 LEGO bricks to cover an entire 6 × 10 LEGO building plate.
How many LEGO bricks did she use?
8. The first letter for Harry arrived at 8 : 05 p.m. and the last letter arrived at 8 : 35
p.m. If one letter arrived each minute, how many letters arrived for Harry?

9. A secret room has the number 458 on its door. When a mystery number is
subtracted from this number, the result is the code to open the door. If the code
to open the door is 185, what is the mystery number?
10. A young dolphin visited her grandma who lives 54 miles away. On the first day,
she swam one-third of the way. On the second day, she swam 12 miles. On the
third day, she swam the rest of the way. How many miles did she swim on the
third day?

11. The figure is made from three equal squares. If the area of one square is 100
square units, what is the perimeter of the figure?

12. The teacher wrote two numbers on the board. Eric added the numbers and got
58. Olivia subtracted the second number from the first number and got 28. What
is the first number the teacher wrote on the board?
13. In a school, half of the 300 students saw Zootopia, 180 students saw Finding
Dory, and 40 students did not see either movie. How many students saw both
movies?

14. Each day, the Royal Chocolate Master puts all of the candies he makes in boxes
with the same number of candies in each box. Today the Queen wants him to put
30 candies in each box, but the King wants 25 candies in each box. The Chocolate
Master has already made 70 candies. What is the smallest number of candies he
still needs to make so that all of the candies can be put into boxes, each with
either the Queen's or the King's desired number of candies?
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Question No. Answer

1 4 pounds
2 940
3 21
4 6
5 36 ounces
6 125 feet
7 30 bricks
8 31 letters
9 273
10 24 miles
11 80 units
12 43
13 70 students
14 80 candies
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1. A bunny and some weights are sitting on the scale. The scale is balanced.

How much does the bunny weigh?

2. What is the largest possible 3-digit number with all different digits?

3. Anna had 10 dolls. She gave Lisa more than 5, but not all, of her dolls. What is the
largest number of dolls Anna can have now?

4. Faye spilled juice on her math homework. A number in one of her math problems
is covered by the juice. What is that number?

5. Sara has so many fish in her aquarium! There are 15 catfish, which is only one-
fourth of all Sara's fish. How many fish are in Sara's aquarium?
6. A lazy snake is 18 ft long. She decided to take a nap wrapped around a
rectangular box like this:

The length of the box is 5 ft, what is the width of the box?

7. How many square tiles with a side whose length is 1 foot are needed to cover the
floor of a room that is 20 feet wide and 10 feet long?

8. Ms. Purr has 30 cats. She went to the store and bought toys for 1/3 of them. The
rest of the cats are now very upset. How many more toys does she need to buy to
make all the cats happy?

9. Mr. Super Spy thought of a secret number. When he subtracted his secret number
from 547, the result was 152. What is the secret number?
10. A Number Monster likes to eat whole numbers. Today he was hungry, and ate the
numbers 3, 4, 5 and so on. He finished with number 100, which he thought was
the yummiest. How many numbers did the Number Monster eat today?

11. Find the area of the park.

12. The sum of two numbers is 40, and the difference between them is 4. What is the
larger number?

13. In a school, all 200 fourth-graders play a musical instrument. Some students play
the piano, some play the flute, some play both. If 80 students play the piano and
150 students play the flute, how many students play both the piano and the flute?
14. Pirate Pete wants to give each of his pirate friends an equal number of gold coins.
But, he can’t remember if 3, 4, 5 or 6 of his pirate friends are coming to his party.
What is the fewest number of gold coins that Pirate Pete must have so that each
pirate friend who comes to his party gets the same number of gold coins?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 2 pounds
2 987
3 4 dolls
4 242
5 60 fish
6 4 feet
7 200 tiles
8 20 more toys
9 395
10 98
11 126
12 The larger number is 22
13 30 students play both piano and flute
14 60
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Grade 4
1. Find the greatest four-digit number that you can make using each of the digits 2, 0, 2, and 3.

[{{92}}]
The greatest possible four-digit number that you can make is 3220 or 3,220.

2. Katia invited 30 friends to watch her backyard gymnastics show. She set up 3 rows of chairs
with 6 chairs in each row. How many more chairs does Katia need to set up if each friend must
be seated?

[{{90}}]
Katia needs to set up 12 more chairs.

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 3. Molly started to climb the steps of the Old Tower. She took 20 steps, which is one-fourth of all
the steps. How many steps does the Old Tower have?

[{{90}}]
The Old Tower has 80 steps.

4. What is the least three-digit number with all different odd digits?

[{{82}}]
The least three-digit number with all different odd digits is 135.

5. Albert the Monkey found a bunch of coconuts and put them into two equal piles. Then he
moved 3 coconuts from one pile to the other, so now the number of coconuts in the second pile is
twice the number of coconuts in the first pile. How many coconuts did Albert find?

[{{55}}]
Albert the Monkey found 18 coconuts.

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 6. The figure below is made of four 1-inch × 1-inch squares. What is the perimeter of the figure?

[{{65}}]
The perimeter of the figure is 10 inches.

7. A rectangular garden has a square pond in the middle as shown in the picture. If each side of the
pond is 6 feet long, what is the area of the land around the pond?

[{{67}}]
The area of the land around the pond is 464 square feet.

8. A store can print your soccer team's name on 12 t-shirts in 10 minutes.

You want to buy 30 t-shirts. How long will it take the store to print all 30
t-shirts if the t-shirts are always printed at the same rate?

[{{67}}]
It will take 25 minutes.

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 9. Four fairies made a total of 120 gifts for a party. The first fairy made one-third of the gifts and
the second fairy made 28 gifts. The third fairy and the fourth fairy made an equal number of
gifts. How many gifts did the fourth fairy make?

[{{78}}]
The fourth fairy made 26 gifts.

10. 14 friends are saving money for a trip to the movies. 6 of the friends put $1 into the pile every
day, while others put $1 into the pile every even day, and the rest of the friends put $1 into the
pile every odd day. If $8 was put into the pile on February 3rd , how much money will be put
into the pile on February 4th ?

[{{52}}]
12 dollars will be added to the pile on February 4th.

11. Mary has to arrange four books on a shelf. In how many ways can she do it
if she wants to put her favorite book first?
[{{62}}]
Mary can arrange the books in 6 ways.

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 12. There is a big pile of boxes that each measure 1 × 1 × 1. Jesse uses all of the boxes to make the
rectangular figure shown below, which measures 4 × 5 × 6.

Then Aram takes all of the boxes from one side of the figure. Then Sandy takes all of the boxes
from one side of the remaining figure. Finally, Wyatt takes all of the boxes from one side of the
remaining figure. (Assume that "side" in this problem refers to any of the six faces of the
rectangular figure.) How many boxes did they take (in total) if they took the least number of
boxes possible?
[{{17}}]
They took 56 boxes.

13. Eleven pirates and their captain found a treasure chest full of gold coins.
They tried to divide all of the coins equally, but they had one coin left.
Then the captain took 20 coins for himself and he was able to divide the
rest of the coins equally among the eleven pirates. What is the least
possible number of gold coins in the chest?
[{{20}}]
The least possible number of gold coins is 97.

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 14. Numberland is inhabited by natural numbers that speak. Even numbers always tell the truth,
and odd numbers always lie. Three numbers met in Numberland and had the following
conversation.
• The first number said, "Our product is odd."
• The second number replied, "The first number is divisible by 6."
• And the third number said, "I am prime."

What is the third number?

[{{33}}]
The third number is 2.

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 IMC 2022 Grade 4
1. How many different three-digit numbers can you make with the cards below?

2. Cecilia arranged all of her coins and two red buttons into the shape of a square. How many
coins are blocked from view by Cecilia?

3. What number is covered by the sock?

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 4. What is the sum of all of the odd factors of 18?

5. There are 3 squares in the figure. The side length of the smallest square is 6 cm. What is the side
length of the largest square?

6. A scared rabbit is hopping home. He has 36 meters to go. If every jump is one and a half meters
long, how many jumps does he have left?

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 7. Steve found a treasure map that shows a stone, tree, hill, and flag at the corners of a rectangle.
Steve started at the stone, took some number of steps to the oak tree, then to the flag, and then to
the grassy hill. He marked the grassy hill and then returned to the stone in 22 steps. If he took a
total of 120 equal steps, how many steps did Steve take from the stone to the oak tree?

8. An unfortunate cook made a few pancakes. One-fourth of all the pancakes were stolen by a cat.
Then 4 pancakes were eaten by a parrot while the cook tried to catch the cat. Now, the cook has
32 pancakes. How many pancakes did the cat steal?

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 9. There are 6 cities on an island. Every pair of cities is connected by one road. There are no other
roads on the island. What is the total number of roads on the island?

10. A dragon likes to eat red peppers and green peppers because they help him breathe fire. If the
dragon eats 2 red peppers, he can breathe fire that is 25 meters long. If the dragon eats 10 green
peppers, he can breathe fire that is 15 meters long. Today, the dragon ate 3 red peppers and 5
green peppers. How long is the fire?

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 11. What is the area of the shaded figure if the area of one square is 1 square centimeter?

12. A chest contains 5 balls that each have the number 3 written on them. The chest also contains 5
balls that each have the number 7 written on them, and 5 balls that each have the number 11
written on them. Octi the Octopus takes out a few balls, one at a time, and calculates the sum of
the numbers written on them. How many different sums less than 15 are possible?

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 13. Bob used identical cubes to build a rectangular tower that is 25 cubes tall, 5 cubes wide, and 6
cubes long. Beatrice used the same type of cube to build a tower that is 12 cubes tall, 3 cubes
wide, and 5 cubes long. Then Bob destroyed Beatrice's tower and used all of her cubes to make
his tower even taller, while keeping its width and length the same. How many cubes tall is Bob's
tower now?

14. A train full of giraffes and rabbits goes to a resort. In every train car, there are either 25
giraffes or 45 rabbits. The total number of giraffes on the train is equal to the total number of
rabbits on the train. What is the least possible number of train cars if there are more than 500
animals on the train?

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Question No. Answer

1 You can make 3 three-digit numbers.

2 5 coins are covered.

3 The covered number is 9.

4 The sum of all of the odd factors is 13.

5 The side length of the largest square is 18 cm.

6 The scared rabbit has 24 jumps left.

7 Steve took 38 steps from the stone to the oak tree.

8 The cat stole 12 pancakes.

9 The total number of roads is 15.

10 The fire is 45 meters long.

11 The area of the shaded figure is 40 square centimeters.

12 6 or 9 different sums less than 15 are possible.

13 The tower is 31 cubes tall now.

14 The least possible number of train cars is 28.

 IMC 2021
Grade 4
1. What digit is covered?

2. What is the smallest four-digit number that you can make using the four cards below?

3. Flavor Fast won 18 races, which is one-third the number of races that Slow Stue won. How
many races did Slow Stue win?

4. Noah bought a rectangular frame with perimeter 30 cm. But then Noah measured the soccer
certificate he wants to put in the frame and realized that the frame should be 4 cm longer. What
should be the perimeter of the new frame Noah must buy?

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 5. Eleven coins are in a row, and the first coin shows heads. The rest of the coins alternate tails and
heads. You turn over seven consecutive coins. What is the greatest number of tails you could
now have in the row?

6. John has two boxes. One box has 88 spiders. The second box has 44 spiders. Every day, John
moves two spiders from the first box to the second box. In how many days will the number of
spiders in the boxes be equal?

7. A soccer team gets three points for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss. The
team plays ten games and has three more wins than losses. What is the greatest possible number
of points the team could have?

8. Andy wrote a two-digit number. He said the following:

a) The sum of the digits is greater than 14.
b ) The sum of the digits is less than 14.
c ) The sum of the digits is 15.
d ) The number has 7 at the end.
But one sentence is false. What two-digit number did Andy write?

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 9. Temper Tantrum is learning how to play music! So far, he has broken 84 musical instruments: a
few guitars, twice as many banjos as guitars, and twice as many pianos as banjos. How many
banjos has Temper broken?

10. Jackie played a few chess games last night. She started at 5 : 15 pm. She played each game for
exactly 10 minutes and took a 5 minute break after each game. If she finished playing the last
game at 7 : 55 pm, how many games did Jackie play?

11. Six chipmunks try to divide their nuts evenly, but have 5 nuts left. Then a seventh chipmunk
arrives and adds 1 nut to the pile. Now, the 7 chipmunks can evenly divide all the nuts. What is
the smallest number of nuts that could be in the pile after the seventh chipmunk adds his nut?

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 12. A mermaid has a terrarium that measures 42 inches × 10 inches × 9 inches. She also has a box
that measures 3 inches × 3 inches × 3 inches. Every minute, the mermaid fills the box with sand
from her backyard and then pours the sand into the terrarium. How many minutes does it take the
mermaid to fill three-quarters of the terrarium with sand?

13. The area of the gray region is 136 square units. Find the area of the white rectangle.

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 14. Yien and Toni are at an escape room and need to unlock a treasure chest. The girls need to find
a three-digit number that is made of three different even digits, and they know zero cannot be the
first digit. They try different combinations and guess correctly when they have tried half of the
possible combinations. How many numbers did Yien and Toni try?

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Question No. Answer

1 The covered digit is 8.

2 The smallest four-digit number that you can make is 1022 or 1,022.

3 Slow Stue won 54 races.

4 The perimeter of the new frame should be 38 cm.

5 The greatest number of tails you could have is 6.

6 The number of spiders in the boxes will be equal in 11 days.

7 The greatest possible number of points the team could have is 19.

8 Andy wrote 87.

9 Temper Tantrum has broken 24 banjos.

10 Jackie played 11 games.

11 The smallest number of nuts the chipmunks could have is 42.

12 105 minutes.

13 The area of the white rectangle is 37 square units.

14 Yien and Toni tried 24 numbers.

 IMC 2020 Grade 4
1. What number is covered?

2. Jazzy-Whazzy-Jumper jumps half a meter in one jump. How many jumps will it take him to
travel 48 meters?

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 3. Tycho drew a 7 × 5 rectangle but then his puppy, Mishka, ate part of it! The rectangle has been
ripped, but some green aliens and yellow smiley faces remain. Use the pattern to decide how
many yellow smiley faces Tycho drew on the original rectangle.

4. A typical die has the numbers 1 to 6 arranged on its sides so that the sum of each pair of
numbers on opposite sides is equal. What is the greatest product of two numbers on opposite
sides?

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 5. Kate can make 15 paper fortune tellers in 18 minutes. At this rate, how many paper fortune
tellers can she make in 30 minutes?

6. Elise wrote all possible four-digit numbers using two of the digit 2 and two of the digit 0. Two
of Elise’s numbers have a greater difference than any other pair. What is that difference?

7. Peter-The-Two-Year-Old-Terror has had 80 babysitters. One-fifth of his babysitters have quit, 8

babysitters have been fired, and the rest of his babysitters have just run screaming down the
street. How many babysitters have run screaming?

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 8. Jamila paid $2.20 for 5 shark erasers and 1 keychain. Lucia paid $3.40 for 2 shark erasers and 6
keychains. How many cents did Hari pay for 1 shark eraser and 1 keychain?

9. Steady-Eddy’s clock always reads the correct time and Fast-Phil’s clock is always set 15
minutes ahead. Fifty minutes ago, Phil’s clock read 2 : 50PM. How many minutes after 3 : 00
PM does Eddy’s clock read now?

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 10. What is the area of the shaded figure if the area of one square is 5 square centimeters?

11. If Pirate Jack splits all of his coins into 7 equal piles for his parrots, he has 4 coins left. Or, if
he splits all of his coins into 11 equal piles for his shipmates, he has 4 coins left. Assuming every
pile has at least 1 coin, what is the least possible number of coins Pirate Jack has?

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 12. A pool measuring 80 ft long × 40 ft wide × 16 ft high is half filled with jello for a charity
event. A second pool that measures 50 ft long × 16 ft wide × 12 ft high is completely filled with
jello. All the jello in the second pool is pumped into the first pool. What is the height of the jello
in the first pool now?

13. Find the perimeter of the park.

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 14. There is a mountain with 30 bat caves in a row that contain 340 bats in all. Any 7 caves in a
row contain exactly 77 bats. Suppose the first cave has 7 times more bats than the last cave. How
many bats are in the 29th cave?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The covered number is 15.

2 96 jumps

3 Tycho drew 18 yellow smiley faces on the original rectangle.

4 The greatest product of two numbers on opposite sides is 12.

5 Kate can make 25 fortune tellers.

6 That difference is 198.

7 56 babysitters have run screaming.

8 Hari paid 80 cents.

9 Eddy's clock reads 25 minutes after 3 : 00PM.

10 The area of the shaded figure is 60 square centimeters.

11 The least possible number of coins is 81.

12 The height of the jello in the first pool is 11 feet now.

13 The perimeter of the park is 30 units.

14 There are 28 bats in the 29th cave.

 IMC 2019 Grade 4

1. A caterpillar crawls one and a half centimeters per second. How far did she crawl in 24
seconds?

2. What number is covered?

3. Emily has four cards marked 2, 0, 1, and 9. What is the smallest four
digit number that Emily can make with her cards?
The smallest four digit number that Emily can make is 1029 or 1026 or 1,029 or 1,026.

4. What is the sum of all of the factors of 25?

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 5. At 5 : 15 pm, Wendell Wizard turned on a home-made time machine. The machine
malfunctioned, it only made the clock on his machine go twice as fast as a normal clock. When
later that day Wendell managed to fix this machine, the clock read 7 : 05 pm. For how many
minutes did the clock run at the wrong speed?

6. Peter is making an army of monsters from clay. He can make 2 Mega-Monsters from 7 ounces
of clay or 2 Mini-Monsters from 3 ounces of clay. What amount of clay does he need to build an
army with 15 Mega-Monsters and 25 mini-Monsters?

7. Adam the Ant and Anna the Ant dared each other to grab a moving bicycle wheel. Adam the
Ant hung on for 20 seconds, in which time the wheel made 30 turns; then, he fell off. Anna the
Ant hung on 12 seconds longer than Adam the Ant. How many times did she spin around on the
bicycle wheel?

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 8. The figure is made from five equal squares. If the perimeter of the figure is 72 units, what is the
area of one square?

9. Five elves made four identical cakes, each weighing 600 grams. They want to split them up
equally, but according to elf tradition, they can each take only three pieces of cake (no matter
how big a piece is). After a few minutes, the elves figure out how to split all of the cakes. Each
elf gets a half of a cake, a quarter of a cake, and one more piece. How much does the smallest
piece of cake weigh?

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 10. The shaded figure is constructed from triangles. How many square units is the area of the
shaded figure?

11. Little Jedi’s build-it-yourself-light-saber has 4 sections. The first section is 60 centimeters
long, and each following section is 10 centimeters shorter than the previous. When fully
extended, each pair of consecutive sections has a 5-centimeter overlap. How long will Jedi’s
light saber be when fully extended?

12. In a school one-third of all 240 students play soccer. Forty four students play both soccer and
basketball and sixty students do not play any of these games. How many students play only
basketball?

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 13. An equal number of giants and trolls go on a cruise. On each ship there are either 36 giants or
81 trolls. What is the smallest possible number of ships?

14. Alice used 9 cm × 9 cm × 9 cm cubes to build a tower which

is 12 cubes tall, 4 cubes wide and 3 cubes long. Then, she
decided to make her tower taller by taking apart one of the side
layers to build a few more layers on the top of the tower. What
is the smallest possible height, in centimeters, of the new
tower?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The caterpillar crawled 36 centimeters.

2 The covered number is 9.

3 The smallest four digit number that Emily can make is 1029 or 1026 or 1,029
or 1,026.

4 The sum of all of the factors is 31.

5 The clock ran at the wrong speed for 55 minutes.

6 The least amount of clay Peter needs is 90 ounces.

7 Anna the Ant would have spun around on the wheel 48 times.

8 The area of one square is 36 units.

9 The smallest piece of cake weighs 30 grams.

10 The area of the shaded figure is 90 square units.

11 Fully extended Jedi’s light saber is 165 centimeters long.

12 100 students play only basketball.

13 The smallest possible number of ships is 13.

14 The smallest possible height is 144 centimeters.

 Grade 4
IMC 2018
1. Rachel has four cards marked 2, 0, 1, and 8. What is the greatest four digit
number that Rachel can make with her cards?

2. Coins were arranged in a square. How many coins are covered?

3. What number is covered?

4. What is the greatest odd factor of 22?

5. Kangaroo Belle decided to exercise by jumping from her home to the Green
River, which is 35 meters away. If she goes two and a half meters in a single
jump, how many jumps did she make?

6. A very hungry hippo can eat 25 kilograms of grass in 50 minutes. How many
minutes will it take the hippo to eat 60 kilograms of grass?

7. Usually Mary drives to grandma's house in a straight line. But today, she saw a
"Detour" sign and had to turn left and drive for 8 miles, then take a right and
continue, then take another right and drive until she got there. This detour was
38 miles long. How far, in miles, is Mary's usual drive to grandma's house?

8. Winnie-the-Pooh had only one full jar of honey left. The other jars were empty.
Trying to find the full jar, Winnie broke one-third of his empty jars. Now, he has
37 jars left (one of them is full of honey). How many jars did he break?
9. Two days ago, Princess Genevieve gave the village Dragon two chocolate bars,
and she flew on his back for fifteen minutes. Yesterday, she gave the Dragon two
cookies, and she flew on his back for nine minutes. Today the Princess gave him 5
chocolate bars and 1 cookie. For how many minutes did she fly on his back?

10. If the area of the white square in the middle is 4 square units, find the area of the
shaded region.

11. Aladdin found a cave with boxes of treasure inside, each measuring 2 inches × 2
inches × 2 inches. However, Aladdin brought only one box, measuring 6 inches ×
 8 inches × 10 inches, with him. He fills it with as many boxes of treasure as would
fit. How many boxes of treasure was he able to take?

12. Ann wants to organize her sculptures on some of the shelves in her room. If she
puts 15 sculptures per shelf, one shelf has only 14 sculptures on it. If she puts 12
sculptures per shelf, one shelf has only 11 sculptures on it. What is the least
number of sculptures that Ann could have?

13. There were two competitions in a puzzle tournament. The Sudoku competition
had twice as many participants as the Crossword competition. If 225 people
competed overall, and 60 of them participated in both competitions, how many
people participated in the Sudoku competition?

14. A cabinet has two sliding doors of different sizes. When the cabinet is fully closed,
they overlap by two-fifths of the width of the smaller door. When both doors are
slid to one side, the part of the longer door that is not behind the shorter one is
half as wide as the original overlap, and the open portion of the cabinet is 36
inches wide. What is the width of the whole cabinet?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The greatest four digit number that Rachel can make

is 8210
2 15 coins are covered.

3 The covered number is 5.

4 The greatest odd factor is 11.

5 Kangaroo Belle made 14 jumps.

6 It will take 120 minutes.

7 Mary's usual drive to grandma's house is 22 miles.

8 Winnie-the-Pooh broke 18 jars.

9 Princess Genevieve flew for 42 minutes.

10 The area of the shaded region is 76 square units.

11 Aladdin was able to take 60 boxes of treasure.

12 The least number of sculptures Ann could have is 59.

13 There were 190 participants in the Sudoku

competition.
14 The width of the whole cabinet is 108 inches.
 Grade 4
IMC 2017
1. Ella shot twelve arrows at a target. After each shot, she wrote the current sum of
her points on a piece of paper: 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30. All of the sums
she wrote are correct, but she forgot to write one of the sums down. What sum
did she forget to write?

2. A snail started to climb up a pole at 10 a.m. She climbed 3 inches every half hour.
At 4 p.m. she stopped to take a break. How many inches up the pole had she
climbed?

3. John paid $22.50 for 9 cupcakes. Peter planned to spend all of his money to buy
20 brownies that cost $1.75 each. Instead, however, he bought the same cupcakes
John bought. If Peter spent all of his money, how many cupcakes did he buy?
4. A clock is half an hour slow. If the clock showed the time as 3 : 40 p.m. half an
hour ago, how many minutes before 5 : 00 p.m. is it now?

5. Tim forgot his secret number, but he knows that it is 5 more than the number
hidden by "*" in the correct number sentence:

5·(* +1) = 40

What is Tim's secret number?

6. The figure is made from three equal squares. If the area of one square is 100
square units, what is the perimeter of the figure?
7. What is the sum of all the factors of 91?

8. Each day, the Royal Chocolate Master puts all of the candies he makes in boxes
with the same number of candies in each box. Today the Queen wants him to put
30 candies in each box, but the King wants 25 candies in each box. The Chocolate
Master has already made 70 candies. What is the smallest number of candies he
still needs to make so that all of the candies can be put into boxes, each with
either the Queen's or the King's desired number of candies?

9. In a cookie-eating contest, Luke ate 8 cookies in 1 minute and 30 seconds. At this

rate, how many cookies will he eat in 3 minutes and 45 seconds?

+
10. Sara has a fish tank that is 10 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 9 inches high. She
poured water into the fish tank. If the surface of the water is 2 inches from the top
of the tank, how many cubic inches of water did she pour into the fish tank?

11. If the area of the small dark gray triangle is 6 square units, how many square
units is the area of the light gray part of the big triangle?

12. In a school, half of the 300 students saw Zootopia, 180 students saw Finding
Dory, and 45 students did not see either movie. How many students saw both
movies?

7 3
13. In a juggling competition, 20 of all the jugglers use balls only, 7 of all the jugglers
use rings only, and the rest of jugglers use both balls and rings. If there are less
 than 200 jugglers in the competition, how many jugglers use both balls and
rings?

14. Two faulty tennis ball machines start to shoot balls from opposite sides of a 25
meter by 10 meter tennis court. The green ball machine shoots green balls that
stop on the court 5 meters to 20 meters from the green machine's side. The
yellow ball machine shoots yellow balls that stop on the court 2 meters to 16
meters from the yellow machine's side. Find the area of the tennis court that has
balls of either color on it.
 Answers

Question
st No. Answer
1 21
2 36 inches
3 14 cupcakes
4 It is 20 minutes before 5 : 00 p.m.
5 12
6 80 units
7 112
8 80 candies
9 20 cookies
10 420 cubic inches
11 42 square units
12 75 students
13 31
14 110 square meters
 Grade 4
IMC 2016
1. Sammy came home from school half an hour ago. His parents always come home
one hour after Sammy comes home. In how many minutes will Sammy's parents
come home?

2. Michael wrote on the board a number sentence where he added several numbers.
This is how he started it: 1 + 1 + 1+
This is how he finished it: +1 + 1 = 11
In the middle, he wrote as many pluses and ones as needed to make the number
sentence correct.
How many symbols altogether (digits as well as "+" and "=") did Michael write?

3. If you pay $2.50 for two chocolate bars and 3 dollars for four cookies, how many
dollars would you pay for a chocolate bar and a cookie?

4. A rectangular playground is 12 yards wide and twice as long. How long is the
fence around it? The gates are part of the fence.

5. The squirrel's jumps are one half of a yard long. How many jumps must the
squirrel make to get to the acorn?

6. Pirate Pete wants to give each of his pirate friends an equal number of gold
coins. But, he can’t remember if 3, 4, 5 or 6 of his pirate friends are coming
to his party. What is the fewest number of gold coins that Pirate Pete must
have so that each pirate friend who comes to his party gets the same number
of gold coins?
7. What number does x stand for in the correct number sentence below?

3 · (x − 1) = 12

8. What is the sum of all the factors of 22?

9. Leah stored all of her RSM homework papers for the last 3 years in boxes. She
stacked the boxes in a pile 5 boxes wide, 6 boxes long, and 4 boxes high. How
many boxes of homework papers does Leah have?

10. It takes a turtle 2 hours to walk 6 miles. In how many minutes would it walk 2
miles?

11. If the light gray area is 10 units, how many units is the dark gray area?
12. In a school, all 200 fourth-graders play a musical instrument. Some students
play the piano, some play the flute, and some play both. If 80 students play the
piano and 150 students play the flute, how many students play both the piano
and the flute?

13. A young wizard knows every third spell that an old wizard knows. However, the
young wizard knows two spells that the old wizard does not know. 8/9 of all the
spells that the young wizard knows are known to the old wizard as well. How
many spells are there that at least one of them knows?

14. A Magic Carpet is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. However, only the purple part of
the Magic Carpet has magic power. If the magic part is 2 feet wide, find the area
of the magic part of the Magic Carpet.
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 30 minutes
2 24 symbols

3 $2
4 72 yards
5 24 jumps
6 60
7 5
8 36
9 120 boxes
10 40 minutes
11 8 units
12 30 students play piano and flute
13 50 spells
14 72 square feet
 IMC 2023 Round 2
Grades 3-4
1. Only octopuses and starfish live in an aquarium. Each octopus
has 8 arms, and each starfish has 5 arms. There are 34 arms in
total. How many animals are in the aquarium?
5

2. Tim draws a triangle, a square, and a pentagon on a board, and the sum of all three perimeters
equals 23. His friend Tom extends each of the triangle’s sides by 3 and uses the new sides to
make a new triangle. Then, he extends each of the square’s sides by 4 and uses them to make a
new square. Finally, Tom extends each of the pentagon’s sides by 5 and uses them to make a
new pentagon. Compute the sum of the perimeters of Tom’s three shapes.
(The perimeter of a shape is the sum of the lengths of all of its sides.)
73

3. 9 sparrows peck fewer than 1000 grains per day, and 10

sparrows peck more than 1100 grains per day. How many grains
do 8 sparrows peck per day? Assume that each sparrow pecks
the same whole number of grains per day.
888

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 4. 120 foreign students visited RSM. 40 of the students knew neither English nor Spanish, 65
students knew English, and 45 students knew Spanish. How many visitors knew both English
and Spanish?
30

5. 7 digits in the number 202320232023 are erased so that a 5-digit number remains. Find the
difference between the greatest possible and the least possible remaining 5-digit numbers.
13221 or 13,221

6. Pirate Bill has a bill worth 100 ducats. His friend Colin
has a bunch of 5-ducat coins and a bunch of 10-ducat
coins. In how many ways can Colin exchange Bill's 100-
ducat bill for coins?
11

7. Let’s say that the digits 0 and 1 are small, and other digits are big. How many different 10-digit
counting numbers that contain only small digits are palindromes?
A palindrome is a number that is the same when written forward or backward. For example, the
numbers 1, and 111, and 1001 are palindromes.
16

8. There are 40 tenants (cats and dogs) at the RSM Pet Village. They live in one-pet houses that
are each occupied by either a cat or a dog, and two-pet houses that are each occupied by a cat
and a dog. There are twice as many one-pet houses as two-pet houses. Find the greatest possible
number of cats at the RSM Pet Village.
30

9. The expression

contains each counting number from 1 to 6. Each number is written in invisible ink on a blank card
with one number per card. Find the least possible value of the expression.
28

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 10. There are 16 different triangles and 6 counting numbers in the diagram. One of the numbers is
hidden behind a card. The weight of a shape is the sum of the numbers inside it. At least two
different triangles have the same weight. Find the greatest possible value of their common
weight.

19

11. Alex has a paper hexagon. Her first step is to cut the paper hexagon into two shapes with one
straight cut. Then she continues, and with each step she cuts one of the existing shapes into two
shapes with one straight cut. Find the least possible total number of sides of all the shapes that
Alex has after 23 steps. (Folding is not allowed.)
72

12. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is decreased by 1, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is decreased by 2, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is increased by 3, and both the red and
green buttons become unlocked.
The number 20 is displayed on the screen, and all buttons are unlocked. What is the greatest number
of times you could press a button to get the number 23 on the screen?
11

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 Imc Round 2 2022
Grades 3-4
1. There are several puppies and kittens at the RSM Pet Hotel. The total number of puppy noses
and kitten eyes is 20. The total number of kitten tails and puppy ears is 22. Compute the total
number of pet paws at the RSM Pet Hotel.

2. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is doubled.
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is tripled.
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is multiplied by itself.
The number 1 is displayed on the screen. What is the least number of times you need to press a
button to get the number 216 on the screen?

3. Jimmy cuts a paper square into three identical rectangles

and uses them to make the letter U as shown in the
diagram. The perimeter of the U is 60. Compute the side
length of the original square.
(The perimeter of a shape is the sum of the lengths of all of
its sides.)

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 4. Alex wrote down more than nine different counting numbers. She wrote an odd number of odd
numbers and an even number of even numbers. Compute the least possible sum of all of Alex’s
numbers.

5. Seven pens and three pencils weigh the same as five erasers. An eraser and a pencil weigh the
same as two pens. How many pencils weigh the same as four erasers and a pen? Assume that all
pens weigh the same, all pencils weigh the same, and all erasers weigh the same.

6. Boris wrote nine different non-zero digits on nine cards, only one digit per card. He wants to
remove two cards such that the sum of the digits on two or more of the seven remaining cards
cannot be equal to 6. In how many different ways (ignore the order of removing the cards) can
Boris accomplish this task?

7. The sum of the three-digit numbers MRS and MSR is equal to the
three-digit number RSM. Different letters represent different digits,
and the same letters represent the same digits. Find the number RSM.

8. Lucie, Rosie, and Suzie buy stickers. Lucie buys 20 more stickers than half the girls’ total.
Rosie buys 22 fewer stickers than half the girls’ total. How many stickers does Suzie buy?

9. A counting number is totally odd if all its digits are odd and their sum is odd. How many totally
odd counting numbers less than 1000 are there?

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 10. One envelope contains only $5 bills, another envelope contains only $10 bills, and the last
envelope contains only $20 bills. No envelopes are empty and each of the three contains the
same number of bills. All of the bills are exchanged for $50 bills (the total dollar amount is
preserved). Find the least possible total number of bills in all three envelopes.

11.
An RSM sports field has a triangular shape. Poles with
letters R , S , M are located at the corners of the triangle
(see the diagram). During warm up, a student starts at any
pole, runs to another pole along a side of the triangle, then
runs to another pole along a side of the triangle, and so on.
The student cannot repeat a run along the same side of the
triangle in the same direction. For instance, she cannot run
from R to S twice, but she can run from R to S and at
some point from S to R. How many different ways are
there to complete the warm up that includes all six possible runs (see the diagram)? One possible
way is R-S-M-R-M-S-R.

12. In the “expression” 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 you replace each of the four @ symbols with either
+ or ×. You can insert one or more pairs of parentheses to control the order of operations. How
many different values do all possible resulting expressions have? For example,
5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 25 and 5 + (5 + 5) × 5 + 5 = 60. So, 25 and 60 are two values of possible
resulting expressions.

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Question No. Answer

1 56

2 5

3 9

4 67

5 20

6 3

7 954

8 2

9 130

10 30

11 18

12 23
 RMO 2021
Grades 3-4
1. Anna and Boris thought of one number each.
Anna’s number increased by 20 is 21 greater than Boris’s number decreased by 22.
How much greater is Boris’s number than Anna’s number?

2. In the expression

Sarah may erase one open parenthesis and one close parenthesis, or she may erase nothing.
Find the least possible value of the resulting expression.

3. The sum of 3 copies of the three-digit number RSM is equal to the four-digit number 1RSM.
Find the number RSM.
The same letters represent the same digits, but different letters may or may not represent
different digits.

4. Alex wrote 8 different digits from 1 to 8 on colored cards (3 red, 2 blue, 1 green, 1 yellow, and
1 grey), only one digit per card.
The sum of all the digits on the red cards equals the digit on the green card.
The sum of all the digits on the blue cards equals the digit on the yellow card.
What digit is written on the grey card?

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 5. A paper square with side length 100 is divided into nine non-overlapping rectangles as shown in
the diagram.
The length of the green rectangle equals 55, and its width equals 20.
Find the total area of the four red rectangles.
(The area of a rectangle is the product of its length and width.)

6. A tart contains either 3 white, or 4 red, or 5 black cherries.

A tray of 20 tarts contains 89 cherries.
How many red cherries are on the tray if it contains 3 tarts with white cherries?

7. Nine balls could be arranged in a square as shown in the left diagram, but not in a triangle with
all equal sides.
With one more ball, ten balls could be arranged in a triangle with all equal sides as shown in the
right diagram, but not in a square.

Suppose you have a bag containing 9 balls.

What is the least number of balls that you would have to add to the bag so that you could arrange all
of the balls in the bag into a square, and then you could rearrange all of the balls into a triangle
with all equal sides?
Assume that all balls are the same size.

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 8. Rachel downloaded a movie at a constant speed.
After she downloaded 24 MB, the remaining download time was 40 seconds.
After she downloaded 40 MB, the remaining download time was 16 seconds.
Compute the total time (in seconds) it took Rachel to download the full movie.

9. Twelve red points are arranged in two rows of six points each, as shown in the diagram.
How many triangles are hidden in this diagram?
A triangle can be any size and shape, but each of its three corners must be at a red point.

10. Find the greatest possible number of back-to-back zeros at the end of the product of three
counting numbers if the sum of these three numbers equals 83.
(The number 202100 has exactly 2 back-to-back zeros at the end.)

11. Four friends, Aali, Bali, Cali, and Dali, sit at a round table as shown in the diagram.
Bali sits to the left of Aali and to the right of Cali. Each has a jar with candies.
At exactly the same time, all four friends move half of the candies in their jar to their friend's jar on
the right. (So the candies move counterclockwise.)
Now, Aali’s jar has 20 candies, Bali’s jar has 21 candies, and Cali’s jar has 40 candies.
How many candies are now in Dali’s jar?

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 12. There are 3 RSM branches in Math City. The branches are called R , S , and M .
Arty plans a 4-day visit to Math City and wants to visit each branch.
She will visit one branch per day, which means that Arty will visit one branch more than once,
possibly on two days in a row.
How many different schedules can the RSM students prepare for Arty?
One possible schedule is R − S − R − M, where Arty visits branch R on the first and third days,
branch S on the second day, and branch M on the fourth day.

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Question No. Answer

1 21

2 7

3 500

4 6

5 3600 or 3,600

6 20

7 27

8 76

9 180

10 4

11 39

12 36
 2020 RMO Grades 3-4
1. Alex wrote ten different digits on one red card and nine blue cards, only one digit per card.
The sum of all the digits on the blue cards is 37.
What digit is written on the red card?

2. Two pens cost $1 more than three pencils.

Two pencils cost 50¢ more than three erasers.
Eight pens cost how many more cents than eighteen erasers?
Assume that all pens cost the same, all pencils cost the same, and all erasers cost the same.

3. Imagine that one side of the green shape shown in the

diagram is also one side of a red triangular shape located
outside the green shape.
How many of the following five statements about the
resulting red-and-green shape are true?

• It could be a triangle.
• It cannot be a quadrilateral.
• It could be a pentagon.
• It cannot be a hexagon.
• It could be an octagon.

(Note: a quadrilateral is a shape with four sides; an octagon is a shape with eight sides.)

4. Find the sum of all the digits of the result of the multiplication:

5. There are 100 puppies at a “Learn with Your Pet” event. Some are pure white, some are pure
black, and the rest are tri -colored with one white, one black, and two brown paws each. The
puppies have 221 white and 34 brown paws altogether.
How many black puppies are at the event?

6. Dina took a rectangular piece of paper with side lengths 10 and 20, and divided it into four non-
overlapping rectangular shapes. One of the rectangles has side lengths 5 and 6, and another has
side lengths 10 and 15.
Compute the sum of the perimeters of the two other rectangles if they do not share a side.
(The perimeter of a rectangle is the sum of the lengths of all of its sides.)

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 7. The sum of the three-digit numbers MAS and MRS is equal to the three-digit number RSM.
Find the number RSM if all its digits are even.
Different letters represent different digits, and the same letters represent the same digits.

8. Nick has $5, $10, $20, and $100 bills that total 17 bills. He exchanges all his $5 bills for $1
bills, then all his $10 bills for $5 bills, then all his $20 bills for $10 bills, and finally all his $100
bills for $50 bills. At the end, Nick has a total of 52 bills.
How many $5 bills did Nick have originally?
Assume that each exchange preserves the total dollar amount of Nick’s money.

9. Lucie and Suzie buy greeting cards. Lucie buys 10 more cards than half the girls’ total.
How many more cards should Suzie buy so that she is the one that has 10 more cards than half the
girls’ total?
Assume that Lucie does not make any purchases after her initial purchase.

10. The hanger shown in the diagram is balanced. Both cherries weigh the same, both mushrooms
weigh the same, both carrots weigh the same, and all three strawberries weigh the same.
How many grams does the exotic fruit weigh if the total weight of all ten items is 84 grams?
Assume that all parts of the hanger itself (horizontal bars and vertical strings) weigh nothing.

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 11. Each of six jars contains the same number of candies. Alice moves half of the candies from the
first jar to the second jar. Then Boris moves half of the candies from the second jar to the third
jar. Then Clara moves half of the candies from the third jar to the fourth jar. Then Dara moves
half of the candies from the fourth jar to the fifth jar. Finally, Ed moves half of the candies from
the fifth jar to the sixth jar. At the end, 30 candies are in the fourth jar, and 31 candies are in the
fifth jar.
How many candies are now in the sixth jar?

12. The diagram shows three famous RSM cafes, R, S, and M. It takes one step to move from one
of these cafes directly to another.
How many different ways are there to start at R and end at M in exactly five steps?
One possible way is
R − M − R − S − R − M.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 8

2 700

3 3

4 10

5 32

6 28

7 462

8 6

9 40

10 18

11 63

12 11
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ID ____________________________________________
Name ________________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
RSM Affiliation _________________________________ 3-4
Test Location __________________________________

1 In the puzzle below, each card hides a digit. What digit is hidden
under the card with the question mark?

20 + ? + 19 = 100
2 Gary has 20 more candies than Mary. If Gary gives Mary 19 of his
candies, Mary would have how many more candies than Gary?

3 Numbers were written in the twelve boxes shown, one number per
box. For every four boxes in a row, the sum of their numbers was
12. Most of the numbers got erased over time, but three of them
remain. What number was written in the last box on the right?

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

0 1 2
4 Four cats – Astro, Buttons, Calico, and Duchess – bought
20 mice altogether. Each of the four cats bought an odd
number of mice, but none of them bought exactly 13
mice. Buttons bought more mice than Astro, fewer mice
than Duchess, and as many mice as Calico. How many
mice did Calico buy?

5 Natasha drew five straight lines (from border to border) on a

triangular piece of paper. Then she cut the paper along all these
lines and got several shapes. What is the largest number of sides
one of Natasha's shapes could have?

6 A family has many children – brothers and sisters. Each of them wrote
a statement about the family. Five of these statements are as follows:
• I have more brothers than sisters;
• I have more sisters than brothers;
• I have as many brothers as sisters;
• I have fewer sisters than brothers;
• I have fewer brothers than sisters.
What is the greatest possible number of these statements that can be
true at the same time?
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ID ____________________________________________
Name ________________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
RSM Affiliation _________________________________ 3-4
Test Location __________________________________

7 Dubbles the monster has twice as many ears as

eyes, twice as many legs as arms, and twice as many
tongues as noses. Overall he has 39 ears, eyes, legs,
arms, tongues, and noses. How many ears, legs, and
tongues does Dubbles the monster have altogether?

8 How many different counting numbers are there containing only

odd digits such that for each of these numbers, the sum of all of its
digits equals seven?

9 A square shape is divided into two non-overlapping rectangular

shapes. Each of these two rectangular shapes is divided into

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three non-overlapping square shapes. Compute the sum of the
perimeters of these six squares (in feet) if the perimeter of the
original square is 60 feet. (The perimeter of a square is the sum of
the lengths of all of its sides.)

10 In 2017, a long row of trees was planted in the empty

RSM Garden. In 2018, a tree was planted between
every two adjacent (next to each other) trees planted
in the previous year. In 2019, a tree was planted
between every two adjacent trees planted in the
previous years, bringing the total number of trees in
RSM Garden to 877. How many trees were planted in
RSM Garden in 2018?

11 How many quadrilaterals of all sizes

and positions are there in the diagram,
including quadrilaterals that are
made up of more than one shape? (A
quadrilateral is a shape with four sides.)

12 Say that a counting number is “five-important” if it is a multiple of

5 and contains the digit 5. For instance, the numbers 125, 55, and
550 are five-important, but the numbers 59, 2019, and 2020 are
not. How many different five-important numbers are there between
1 and 2019?
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Name ________________________________________
Grade __________________________________________
RSM Affiliation _________________________________
Test Location __________________________________
ID ____________________________________________
Name ________________________________________
Grade __________________________________________
RSM Affiliation _________________________________
Test Location __________________________________
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First Name _____________________________________
Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 3-4
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

1 A princess is riding a horse. A bird is on her shoulder. The three

of them together have how many more legs than heads?

2 A ring is a flat shape formed by an inner

circle and an outer circle, as shown in
the first diagram. How many rings of all
sizes and types are there in the second
diagram containing five circles?

3 Mary and Jack are standing in line. Mary is the second in line,
and Jack is the third from the end. There are 12 people in front
of Jack. How many people are in line behind Mary?

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

4 Find the largest 6-digit number such that the sum of all its digits
equals 40.

5 Yesterday Alice ate several candies and cookies, for a total of

12. Today she ate 3 fewer candies than yesterday, and twice as
many cookies as yesterday, for a total of 14. How many candies
did Alice eat yesterday?

6 In a very long toy train, the first and last cars were blue. After each
blue car (except the last one), there were two yellow cars. After
each pair of yellow cars, there was a red car. After each red car,
there was a blue car. The first five train cars are shown in the
picture. Oleg picked a car and recolored all cars in front of it green.
Then Joyce picked a car and recolored all cars behind it green.
What is the least possible number of non-green cars in the
recolored toy train if it contains 7 more yellow cars than blue cars?
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First Name _____________________________________
Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 3-4
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

7 Ilya wrote the counting numbers from 1 to 50. He started

this way: 123456789101112, and stopped when he wrote
50. How many odd digits did he write?
8 Anna really likes numbers and decided to collect them. She
started her collection from the number 35, which was a birthday
gift from RSM. After that, every week Anna added one more new
number to the collection by selecting the smallest counting
number which was neither a multiple nor a factor of any number
already in the collection. What number was added to Anna's
collection on week 10? Note that after 10 weeks the collection
contained 11 different numbers.

93

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How many different ways are there to place four
different digits from 1 to 4 inside the four square cells
of a 2-by-2 grid (one digit per cell) such that for every
pair of digits that are 1 apart (such as 2 and 3), their
square cells share a side?

10 There are several balls in the RSM Sport Center. At least

one of the balls is $1 cheaper than another one. At least one
of the balls is $2 cheaper than another one. At least one of
the balls is $3 cheaper than another one. At least one of the
balls is $4 cheaper than another one. At least one of the
balls is $6 cheaper than another one. At least one of the
balls is $7 cheaper than another one.
What is the least possible number of balls in the RSM Sport
Center?
11 How many more triangles (of all sizes and
positions) than squares (of all sizes and positions)
are there in the diagram?

12 There are six different cards (three red and three blue) with the
letters R, S, M on them. Each card has exactly one letter, and each
of these letters is on exactly two cards (one red and one blue). How
many different ways are there to put all six cards in a row with
letters face up and right-side up such that every card appears right
next to another card with the same letter?
Answers:
Problem No. Answer

1 5

2 10

3 13

4 999940

5 7

6 22

7 46

8 31

9 8

10 4

11 14

12 48
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First Name _____________________________________
Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 3-4
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

1 In the puzzle below, each card hides a digit. What digit is hidden
under the card with the question mark?

999 + = ?

2 Eight kids are holding a total of 15 balloons. Some balloons are

red, and the rest are blue. Nobody holds two or more balloons
of the same color, and nobody shares a balloon. How many kids
hold exactly one balloon each?

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Grandma sent Jack a bag of candy. When Jack opened it, he found
inside 8 large boxes of candy. Each of these large boxes had 6
smaller boxes of candy inside, and each of the smaller boxes had
10 candies. How many candy boxes of all sizes were in the bag?

4 A paper rectangle is folded once to get a 2 cm-by-3 cm rectangle.

What is the greatest possible perimeter (in centimeters) of the
original rectangle? (The perimeter of a rectangle is the sum of the
lengths of all of its sides.)

5
RSM opened a new branch for puppies and kittens in Pawville.
When the principal counted ears and tails of all 30 students, he
discovered there were twice as many kittens' ears as puppies' tails.
How many kittens were at the RSM-Pawville branch (if every animal
had the usual number of body parts)?

6 Aurora made three paper triangles, four paper squares, and

five paper octagons. Barbara made several paper pentagons.
Aurora’s shapes all together have as many sides as all Barbara’s
pentagons do. How many pentagons did Barbara make?
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Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 3-4
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

7 A very long circus train is loaded with giraffes, clowns, and elephants.
The first seven train cars are shown in the picture. If the pattern
continues, how many beings will be riding in train car number 2016?

8 Ravi wrote (using white chalk) the number 123,456,789 on the

board. Then he wrote (using yellow chalk) the number 20 above
every odd digit on the board. Finally, he wrote (using yellow chalk)
the number 16 below every white even digit on the board. How
many even digits are on the board now?

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

93 In the diagram, each small square of the grid is one inch on a side.
If the pattern continues, how many inches would the perimeter of
the 504th shape be?

Shape1 Shape 2 Shape 3 Shape 4

10 Mrs. Adder wrote some digits on the board. All of the digits were
different. After she erased three of them, the remaining digits added
up to 40. What is the product of the erased digits?

11 If the digits are all drawn by connecting the dots exactly as shown,
a certain pair of the digits could fit upright within the same dotted
rectangle without sharing any of the lines. Write the larger 2-digit
number that uses both these digits.

12 How many triangles of all sizes and positions are

there in the diagram, including triangles that are
made up of more than one shape?
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1. In the puzzle below, each card hides a digit. What digit is hidden under the card with the
question mark?

Answer: 9
Solution 1. Note that 999 is the largest 3-digit number. Therefore, if we add to it any 1-
digit number except 0, the sum would have more than 3 digits. Thus, the only possibility
is that we add 0. In this case the sum is 999, so the card with question mark hides digit 9.

Solution 2. One possibility for the statement partially hidden by cards is 999 + 0 = 999. In
this case the card with the question mark hides digit 9. Since this possibility satisfies all
the conditions of the problem, the answer is 9.

2. Eight kids are holding a total of 15 balloons. Some balloons are red, and the rest are blue.
Nobody holds two or more balloons of the same color, and nobody shares a balloon. How
many kids hold exactly one balloon each?
Answer: 1
Solution 1. There are only two colors of balloons and nobody holds two or more balloons
of the same color. Therefore each kid holds at most two balloons. If each of the eight kids
holds exactly two balloons (one red and one blue), we would have a total of 8×2 = 16
balloons. But they hold a total of 15 = 16 – 1 balloons, and nobody shares a balloon. This
means that exactly one kid must hold just one balloon.

Solution 2. One possibility is the following: seven kids hold exactly two balloons each
(one red and one blue), and one kid holds exactly one red balloon, for a total of 7×2 + 1 =
15 balloons. Since this possibility satisfies all the conditions of the problem, the answer is
1.

3. Grandma sent Jack a bag of candy. When Jack opened it, he found inside 8 large boxes of
candy. Each of these large boxes had 6 smaller boxes of candy inside, and each of the
smaller boxes had 10 candies. How many candy boxes of all sizes were in the bag?
Answer: 56
Solution. There were 8 large boxes of candy, with 6 smaller boxes per large box, for a
total of 8×6 = 48 smaller boxes. Therefore there were 8 + 48 = 56 candy boxes of all
sizes in the bag.

4. A paper rectangle is folded once to get a 2 cm-by-3 cm rectangle. What is the greatest
possible perimeter (in centimeters) of the original rectangle? (The perimeter of a
rectangle is the sum of the lengths of all of its sides.)
Answer: 16
Solution. Note that there are just two possibilities for the original rectangle. The first one
is when one of its sides is 2 cm long, and the crease is along this side. In this case the
longest possible adjacent side of the original rectangle is 2×3 = 6 cm long (twice the
length of the folded side) and the greatest possible perimeter of the original rectangle is
2×(2 + 6) = 16 cm. The second possibility is when one of the sides of the original
rectangle is 3 cm long, and the crease is along this side. In this case the longest possible
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adjacent side of the original rectangle is 2×2= 4 cm long (twice the length of the folded
side) and the greatest possible perimeter of the original rectangle is 2×(3 + 4) = 14 cm.
Since 16 > 14, the answer is 16.

5. RSM opened a new branch for puppies and kittens in Pawville. When the principal
counted ears and tails of all 30 students, he discovered there were twice as many kittens'
ears as puppies' tails. How many kittens were at the RSM-Pawville branch (if every
animal had the usual number of body parts)?
Answer: 15
Solution. Since kittens have two ears each, there were twice as many kittens’ ears as
kittens. Since puppies have one tail each, there were as many puppies’ tails as puppies.
So the number of kittens equals half the number of kittens’ ears, and therefore the number
of kittens equals the number of puppies’ tails which equals the number of puppies. This
means that the RSM-Pawville branch had the same number of puppies and kittens for a
total of 30 students. Thus there were 15 (one half of 30) kittens at the RSM-Pawville
branch.

6. Aurora made three paper triangles, four paper squares, and five paper octagons. Barbara
made several paper pentagons. Aurora’s shapes all together have as many sides as all
Barbara’s pentagons do. How many pentagons did Barbara make?
Answer: 13
Solution. Recall that a triangle has 3 sides, a square has 4 sides, a pentagon has 5 sides,
and an octagon has 8 sides. Thus, Aurora’s triangles have a total of 3×3 = 9 sides, her
squares have a total of 4×4 = 16 sides, and her octagons have a total of 5×8 = 40 sides.
Her shapes have a total of 9 + 16 + 40 = 65 sides. Barbara’s pentagons all together have
as many sides as all Aurora’s shapes (65), so Barbara made 65÷5 = 13 pentagons.

7. A very long circus train is loaded with giraffes, clowns, and elephants. The first seven
train cars are shown in the picture. If the pattern continues, how many beings will be
riding in train car number 2016?

Answer: 4
Solution. The pattern repeats every three cars: three giraffes followed by an elephant
followed by four clowns. Thus any car whose number is a multiple of 3 will have four
clowns. Since 2016 = 672×3 is a multiple of 3, 4 beings (4 clowns) will be riding in train
car number 2016.

8. Ravi wrote (using white chalk) the number 123,456,789 on the board. Then he wrote
(using yellow chalk) the number 20 above every odd digit on the board. Finally, he wrote
(using yellow chalk) the number 16 below every white even digit on the board. How
many even digits are on the board now?
Answer: 18
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Solution 1. Ravi’s initial number in white chalk contained 5 odd (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) and 4 even
(2, 4, 6, 8) digits. For each of these 5 (white) odd digits, he wrote the number 20 in
yellow above it. Since both digits 2 and 0 are even, Ravi wrote 10 yellow even digits (5
twos and 5 zeroes). For each of the 4 white even digits, he wrote the number 16 in yellow
below it. Since 1 is odd and 6 is even, Ravi wrote 4 yellow odd digits (1s) and 4 more
yellow even digits (6s). Thus the total number of even digits on the board now is 4 (white
even digits from the original number) + 10 (yellow 2s and 0s) + 4 (yellow 6s) = 18.

Solution 2. Every white digit on the board is either even or odd. Ravi wrote the number
20 in yellow above every (white) odd digit on the board. Both digits 2 and 0 are even, so
each white odd digit “owns” 2 even digits on the board. Then Ravi wrote the number 16
in yellow below every white even digit on the board. Only one of the digits 1 and 6 is
even (6), so each white even digit also “owns” 2 even digits on the board (the one below
it and itself). Thus, now there are twice as many even (white and yellow) digits on the
board as white digits. Since Ravi wrote 9 white digits on the board, there are a total of
2×9 = 18 even digits on the board now.

9. In the diagram, each small square of the grid is one inch on a side. If the pattern
continues, how many inches would the perimeter of the 504th shape be?

Shape 1 Shape 2 Shape 3 Shape 4

Answer: 2016
Solution. For each shape, the length of its bottom side (in inches) is the same as the
shape’s number. The sum of the lengths of all of the shape’s other horizontal sides is the
same as the length of its bottom side. The length of the shape’s right side (in inches) is
the same as the shape’s number. And the sum of the lengths of all of the shape’s other
vertical sides is the same as the length of its right side. Thus, for each shape its perimeter
(in inches) is four times as large as the shape’s number. Therefore, the perimeter of the
504th shape would be 4×504 = 2016 inches.

10. Mrs. Adder wrote some digits on the board. All of the digits were different. After she
erased three of them, the remaining digits added up to 40. What is the product of the
erased digits?
Answer: 0
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Solution 1. Since the digits on the board were all different, and only ten different digits
(from 0 to 9) exist, the sum of the digits before erasing must have been 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4
+ 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 45 or less. After erasing, the remaining digits added up to 40,
therefore the sum of the three erased digits must have been 45 – 40 = 5 or less. Thus, one
of the erased digits must be 0, otherwise the sum of the three different erased digits
would be at least 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 which is greater than 5. Since one of the erased digits is 0,
the product of the erased digits is 0 as well.

Solution 2. One possibility is the following: Mrs. Adder wrote all ten different digits
(from 0 to 9) on the board, and then erased three digits 0, 2, and 3. In this case the
remaining digits added up to 1 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 40, and the product of the erased
digits is 0×2×3 = 0. Since this possibility satisfies all the conditions of the problem, the
answer is 0.

11. If the digits are all drawn by connecting the dots exactly as shown, a certain pair of the
digits could fit upright within the same dotted rectangle without sharing any of the lines.
Write the larger 2-digit number that uses both these digits.

Answer: 74
Solution 1. By comparing 9 with each of the smaller digits, we see that no digit can fit in
the same dotted rectangle with 9 without sharing any of the lines. By comparing 8 with
each of the smaller digits, we see that 8 cannot be one of the digits either. By comparing
7 with each of the smaller digits, we find that 4 and 7 could fit upright within the same
dotted rectangle without sharing any of the lines, so the pair is (4, 7), and the larger 2-
digit number that uses both digits 4 and 7 is 74 (since 74 > 47).

Solution 2. Every digit drawn by connecting the dots exactly as shown has at least one
line somewhere along the boundary of the dotted rectangle. Thus, if two digits could fit
upright within the same dotted rectangle without sharing any of the lines, neither of these
two digits is 0. Similarly, neither of them is 8. Every digit drawn by connecting the dots
exactly as shown has a horizontal or a vertical line at the bottom half (which includes
middle horizontal line) of the dotted rectangle. Thus, if two digits could fit upright within
the same dotted rectangle without sharing any of the lines, neither of these two digits is 6.
Similarly, neither of them is 9. Digit 5 contains all three possible horizontal lines. Other
digits (except 1) contain at least one horizontal line each, and digits 1 and 5 share the
bottom right vertical line. Thus, if two digits could fit upright within the same dotted
rectangle without sharing any of the lines, neither of these two digits is 5. The remaining
digits are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. Digit 3 contains both possible diagonal lines. Other remaining
digits (except 4) contain at least one diagonal line each, and digits 3 and 4 share the
middle horizontal line. Thus, if two digits could fit upright within the same dotted
rectangle without sharing any of the lines, neither of these two digits is 3. The remaining
digits are 1, 2, 4, and 7. But digits 1, 2, and 4 share the top right vertical line, so one of
the digits in the pair must be 7. Digits 1 and 7 share the top diagonal line, and digits 2 and
7 share the top horizontal line. The only remaining possibility is digits 4 and 7. This pair
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of digits indeed could fit upright within the same dotted rectangle without sharing any of
the lines. There are just two 2-digit numbers each using both digits 4 and 7 (47 and 74),
and the larger of them is 74.

12. How many triangles of all sizes and positions are there in the diagram,
including triangles that are made up of more than one shape?
Answer: 11
Solution. The original shape, a pentagon, is divided into five small
triangles and a quadrilateral that will be our building blocks. There are
5 triangles made up of exactly one building block each. There are 4 triangles made up of
exactly two triangular building blocks each (take any two triangular building blocks that
share a side), and 1 triangle made up of a triangular and a non-triangular building block.
There is 1 triangle made up of exactly three (triangular) building blocks. And there is no
triangle made up of four or more building blocks. Altogether there are 5 + 4 + 1 + 1 = 11
triangles of all sizes and positions in the diagram.
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1. Find the greatest four-digit number that you can make using each of the digits 2, 0, 2, and 3.
[{{95}}]
The greatest possible four-digit number that you can make is 3220 or 3,220.

2. Solve the equation.

1 1
7x + 3 2 = 31 2
[{{87}}]
x=4

3. Albert the Monkey found a bunch of coconuts and put them into two equal piles. Then he
moved 3 coconuts from one pile to the other, so now the number of coconuts in the second pile is
twice the number of coconuts in the first pile. How many coconuts did Albert find?

[{{63}}]
Albert the Monkey found 18 coconuts.

4. A store can print your soccer team's name on 12 t-shirts in 10 minutes.

You want to buy 30 t-shirts. How long will it take the store to print all 30
t-shirts if the t-shirts are always printed at the same rate?

[{{72}}]
It will take 25 minutes.

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 5. The units digit of a three-digit number is twice its tens digit. The hundreds digit is twice the
difference of the units digit and the tens digit. Find the greatest possible three-digit number that
meets this description.
[{{60}}]
The greatest possible three-digit number that meets the description is 848.

6. Alex is five years older than Ben. Ben is three years older than Carl. And Carl is half Alex's age.
What is the sum of all three ages?

[{{69}}]
The sum of all three ages is 35 years.

7. What number is the penguin covering?

[{{55}}]
1800 or 1,800

8. If Masha buys three roses she will have 7 dollars left. To buy nine roses, Masha will need to
borrow 11 dollars from her father. How many dollars does Masha have?

[{{50}}]
Masha has 16 dollars.

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 9. 14 friends are saving money for a trip to the movies. 6 of the friends put $1 into the pile every
day, while others put $1 into the pile every even day, and the rest of the friends put $1 into the
pile every odd day. If $8 was put into the pile on February 3rd , how much money will be put
into the pile on February 4th ?

[{{60}}]
12 dollars will be added to the pile on February 4th.

10. The large square is divided into four rectangles and a small square. The center of the large
square and the center of the small square is the same point. What is the area of one rectangle if
the large square has side length 7, and the small square has side length 3?

[{{63}}]
The area of one rectangle is 10 square units.

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 11. A line of people are waiting for a store to open because there is a big sale today. But while the
manager is looking for his keys, another person squeezes in between every two people in the
line. Now 31 people are in the line. How many people were initially in the line?

[{{39}}]
There were 16 people in the line.

12. There is a big pile of boxes that each measure 1 × 1 × 1. Jesse uses all of the boxes to make the
rectangular figure shown below, which measures 4 × 5 × 6.

Then Aram takes all of the boxes from one side of the figure. Then Sandy takes all of the boxes
from one side of the remaining figure. Finally, Wyatt takes all of the boxes from one side of the
remaining figure. (Assume that "side" in this problem refers to any of the six faces of the
rectangular figure.) How many boxes did they take (in total) if they took the least number of
boxes possible?
[{{22}}]
They took 56 boxes.

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 13. Numberland is inhabited by natural numbers that speak. Even numbers always tell the truth,
and odd numbers always lie. Three numbers met in Numberland and had the following
conversation.
• The first number said, "Our product is odd."
• The second number replied, "The first number is divisible by 6."
• And the third number said, "I am prime."

What is the third number?

[{{37}}]
The third number is 2.

14. A travel company had a contest and Bree won a trip to five countries.
The rules are that Bree must visit the countries in the order told to her by
the travel company, but she can decide to skip visiting any of the countries
except the first one. So, Bree can visit a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 countries.
In how many ways can Bree organize her trip?
[{{16}}]
She can organize the trip in 16 ways.

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1. How many different three-digit numbers can you make with the cards below?

2. Find the value of x .

1 1 1
4
x − 4 2 = 17 2

3. A large box contains three small boxes and a pearl. The pearl is not in either of the small boxes.
Each small box contains 5 pearls. How many pearls are in the large box?

4. A rectangle has length 14 cm and width 4 cm. What is the area of a square that has the same
perimeter as the rectangle?

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 5. An ostrich can run 25 miles in 40 minutes. How many minutes will it take the ostrich to run 40
miles if it runs at the same speed?

6. Two scaredy cats saw each other when they were 10 meters apart. The cats immediately started
to run in opposite directions, each at the speed of 80 meters per minute. How far apart will the
cats be in 3 minutes?

7. What number is the cat covering?

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 8. Aubree and Robert met in the school parking lot this morning. Aubree counted all the bicycles
and cars in the lot. She counted 30 in all. Robert counted all the wheels and got 72. How many
bicycles are in the lot?

9. A dragon likes to eat red peppers and green peppers because they help him breathe fire. If the
dragon eats 2 red peppers, he can breathe fire that is 25 meters long. If the dragon eats 10 green
peppers, he can breathe fire that is 15 meters long. Today, the dragon ate 3 red peppers and 5
green peppers. How long is the fire?

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 10. Bob used identical cubes to build a rectangular tower that is 25 cubes tall, 5 cubes wide, and 6
cubes long. Beatrice used the same type of cube to build a tower that is 12 cubes tall, 3 cubes
wide, and 5 cubes long. Then Bob destroyed Beatrice's tower and used all of her cubes to make
his tower even taller, while keeping its width and length the same. How many cubes tall is Bob's
tower now?

11. Forty-five roses, plus some number of daffodils and tulips, are blooming in a garden. Four
times as many daffodils as roses are blooming, and 15 more tulips than roses are blooming. Then
a gardener uses all of the flowers to make identical bouquets. What is the maximum number of
bouquets the gardener could have made?

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 12. While in detention, Greg and some other naughty kids wrote symbols on a desk. Dina wrote
one more symbol than Greg. Vivian wrote one more symbol than Dina, and Yuri wrote one more
symbol than Vivian. How many symbols did Vivian write if the teacher made them wash 142
symbols off the desk?

13. Square ABCD is divided into 5 rectangles that all have the same area. FH = 20 and CK = KD.
Find the length of BE.

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 14. Lisa, Melinda, and Rahul love the same board game. The game must be played by at least two
people. Lisa can play every two days, Melinda can play every three days, and Rahul can play
every four days. Today, all three played 1 game together. What is the total number of games they
will play from Day 1 to Day 50 if today is Day 1? (Exactly 1 game is played per day.)

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Question No. Answer

1 You can make 3 three-digit numbers.

2 x = 88

3 There are 16 pearls in the large box.

4 The area of the square is 81 square centimeters.

5 It will take 64 minutes to run 40 miles.

6 490 meters

7 The covered number is 1818 or 1,818.

8 There are 24 bicycles in the lot.

9 The fire is 45 meters long.

10 The tower is 31 cubes tall now.

11 The maximum number of bouquets is 15.

12 Vivian wrote 36 symbols.

13 BE = 8

14 The total number of games is 17.

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Grade 5
1. What is the smallest four-digit number that you can make using the four cards below?

2. Flavor Fast won 18 races, which is one-third the number of races that Slow Stue won. How
many races did Slow Stue win?

3. Find the value of x :

1 1
x + 2 2 = 21 2

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 4. There are 18 black socks and 12 navy socks in your drawer. The room is dark and you cannot
turn on the light. What is the least number of socks that you have to take out of the drawer to be
certain that you have a pair of the same color?

5. Calculate:
(4 16 − 1 56 ) ÷ 307

6. The length of a certain rectangle is greater than the width, and both dimensions are natural
numbers. If the area of the rectangle is 36 square units, how many such rectangles exist?

7. John has two boxes. The first box has 90 spiders. The second box has 44 spiders. Every day,
John moves two spiders from the first box to the second box. In how many days will the number
of spiders in the second box be greater than the number in the first box?

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 8. The area of the white square is 64 square units. The diagonal of the square was extended to
point A until the length of segment AB was double the length of the diagonal of the square.
What is the area of the gray part?

9. The units digit of a two-digit number is four more than the tens digit.
Twice the original number is 1 more than the reverse of the original
number. Find the original number.

10. A mermaid has a terrarium that measures 42 inches × 10 inches × 9 inches. She also has a box
that measures 3 inches × 3 inches × 3 inches. Every minute, the mermaid fills the box with sand
from her backyard and then pours the sand into the terrarium. How many minutes does it take the
mermaid to fill three-quarters of the terrarium with sand?

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 11. A clock gains time at a steady rate. It is set to the correct time at 10 : 00 AM. When the clock
shows 2 : 00 PM, the correct time is 1 : 36 PM. How many minutes fast will the clock be the
next time the correct time is 5 : 30 PM?

12. Thirty people are waiting in line at the cinema. Alex counts 13 people in front of him. Gina
counts 21 people between her and Dana. What is the least possible number of people between
Dana and Alex?

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 13. Ally and Beck went fishing and caught a total of 75 fish. At home, Ally told Jair she caught
twice as many fish as she actually caught. Beck told Jair he caught three times as many fish as he
actually caught. If what they told Jair had been true, then Ally would have caught 75 fewer fish
than Beck. How many fish did Beck actually catch?

14. Four lions and three tigers are walking in a row to get ice cream. The lions are fighting, so they
are not walking next to each other. In how many different ways can the four lions and three
tigers walk if no two lions are the same and no two tigers are the same?

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Question No. Answer

1 The smallest four-digit number that you can make is 1022 or 1,022.

2 Slow Stue won 54 races.

3 x = 19

4 The least number of socks that you have to take out is 3.

5 10

6 There are 4 such rectangles.

7 The number of spiders in the second box will be greater in 12 days.

8 The area of the gray part is 64 square units.

9 37

10 105 minutes.

11 The clock will be 50 minutes fast.

12 The least number of people between Dana and Alex is 5.

13 Beck caught 45 fish.

14 The four lions and three tigers can walk 144 different ways.
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1. A typical die has the numbers 1 to 6 arranged on its sides so that the sum of each pair of
numbers on opposite sides is equal. What is the greatest product of two numbers on opposite
sides?

1 1
2. If you subtract 4 2 from half of a given number, you will get 19 2 . What is the given number?

3. Elise wrote all possible four-digit numbers using two of the digit 2 and two of the digit 0. Two
of Elise’s numbers have a greater difference than any other pair. What is that difference?

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 4. A koala bear eats at a steady rate 15 leaves in 2 hours. In how many
minutes does the koala eat 10 leaves?

5.

6. The young wizard, Darpinido, got 16 dragons and 12 griffins for his birthday. But his sister,
Ingrid, left the gate open and more than 6 dragons and more than 3 griffins flew away. Now the
young wizard has more griffins than dragons. What is the greatest number of dragons Darpinido
could have now?

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 7. Find the number covered by the raccoon.

8. There are 59 participants in a pie eating contest. Nadia placed third, and
Johnny placed in the exact middle of all the participants. How many pie-
eating participants placed between Nadia and Johnny?

9. A dragon is given 630 ounces of magical potion to sustain her journey from Arlandia to
4 2
Gargandua. While flying 7 of the distance, she drinks 9 of the potion. Suppose she continues to
drink the magical potion at this rate for the remainder of her journey. How much potion remains
when she reaches Gargandua?

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 10. A pool measuring 80 ft long × 40 ft wide × 16 ft high is half filled with jello for a charity
event. A second pool that measures 50 ft long × 16 ft wide × 12 ft high is completely filled with
jello. All the jello in the second pool is pumped into the first pool. What is the height of the jello
in the first pool now?

11. Find the perimeter of the park.

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 12. In 2020, Julia is three times older than her pet porcupine, Needle. In 2025, Julia will be two
times older than Needle. In what year was Julia born?

13. How many positive even 10-digit numbers can be written using 7 ones and 3 zeroes?

14. There is a mountain with 45 bat caves in a row. Every cave has at least 2 bats and there are 490
bats in all. Any 7 caves in a row contain exactly 77 bats. Suppose the first cave has 7 times more
bats than the last cave. What is the greatest possible number of bats in the second cave?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The greatest product of two numbers on opposite sides is 12.

2 The given number is 48.

3 That difference is 198.

4 The koala eats 10 leaves in 80 minutes.

5 24

6 The greatest number of dragons Darpinido could have now is 7.

7 The covered number is 182.

8 There are 26 participants between Nadia and Johnny.

9 385 ounces

10 The height of the jello in the first pool is 11 feet now.

11 The perimeter of the park is 30 units.

12 Julia was born in the year 2005 or 2,005.

13 There are 28 such numbers.

14 The greatest possible number of bats in the second cave is 12.

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1. Emily has four cards marked 2, 0, 1, and 9. What is the smallest four
digit number that Emily can make with her cards?

2 3 4
(
2. Calculate: 5 5 − 5 ÷ 5 )
3. Mary cut a rectangular piece of paper into two triangles with sides 9, 40, and 41 cm. Find the
area of the rectangular piece of paper before cutting.

1 1 1
4. Find the value of x , if 2 x + 5 2 = 14 2

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 5. Adam the Ant and Anna the Ant dared each other to grab a moving bicycle wheel. Adam the
Ant hung on for 20 seconds, in which time the wheel made 30 turns; then, he fell off. Anna the
Ant hung on 12 seconds longer than Adam the Ant. How many times did she spin around on the
bicycle wheel?

6. Find the covered number:

7. Fifteen elves made some identical cakes for a party. Each elf ate half of a cake, one-fifth of a
cake, and a third piece, which was six times smaller than the second piece. Three cakes were left
untouched. How many cakes did the elves make?

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 8. One chocolate bar can be used to create one chocolate rabbit with some
chocolate left over. The leftovers of seven bars can be used to create two
chocolate rabbits without any chocolate left over. How many chocolate
rabbits can be created from 35 chocolate bars?

9. All cabins on the Giant Ferris Wheel are numbered in order starting
from the number 1. Jack came and sat in cabin 48. Jim skipped the next
15 cabins and sat in cabin 2. How many cabins are there?

10. Mother Goose’s twin sons, Winken and Blinken, were born on the
same day of the year as their mom. Two years ago, the sum of all their
ages was 19. Today, Mother Goose is 3 times as old as Winken. How
old is Blinken today?

11. Alice used 9 cm × 9 cm × 9 cm cubes to build a tower which

is 12 cubes tall, 4 cubes wide and 3 cubes long. Then, she
decided to make her tower taller by taking apart one of the side
layers to build a few more layers on the top of the tower. What
is the smallest possible height, in centimeters, of the new
tower?

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 12. All the unicorns on Rainbow Island are either green or yellow. Every time the clock strikes
midnight, some of the unicorns change their color. Yesterday, there were 6 green unicorns for
every 5 yellow ones. Today, there are 3 green ones for every 4 yellow ones. What is the
smallest possible number of unicorns living on Rainbow Island?

13. As a present for Mother’s Day, Mary wants to decorate a 1-inch-wide frame around a 6-inch
by 9-inch photo of her mom. Mary paints each square inch with alternating striped and solid
triangles, as shown. How many striped triangles will Mary paint?

14. The Ancient Wizard Albus owns 3 ancient Clocks of

Perpetual Motion. Every day, Clock #1 runs 20 minutes fast;
Clock #2 runs 30 minutes fast, and Clock #3 runs 40 minutes
fast. He sets all three clocks to the correct time and leaves to
visit his friend. After many days, he returns home and, to his
surprise, finds all 3 clocks showing the correct time again!
What is the fewest possible number of days Albus could have
spent away from home?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The smallest four digit number that Emily can make is 1029 or 1026 or 1,029
or 1,026.

2 6

3 The area of the rectangular piece of paper is 360 cm2.

4 x = 18

5 Anna the Ant spun around the bicycle wheel 48 times.

6 The covered number is 2038 or 2,038.

7 The elves made 14 cakes.

8 45 chocolate rabbits.

9 There are 62 cabins.

10 Blinken is 5 years old.

11 The smallest possible height is 144 centimeters.

12 The smallest possible number of unicorns is 77.

13 Mary paints 68 striped triangles.

14 The fewest possible number of days is 72.

 Grade 5
IMC 2018
1. Rachel has four cards marked 2, 0, 1, and 8. What is the greatest four digit
number that Rachel can make with her cards?

2. Find the value of x, if :

3. How long is the rectangle if its width is 6 inches and its area is 42 square inches?

4. A very hungry hippo can eat 25 kilograms of grass in 50 minutes. How many
minutes will it take the hippo to eat 60 kilograms of grass?

5.
6. Emily is playing a game where she receives 2 points as soon as she solves three
puzzles correctly. For every ten correctly solved puzzles, Emily earns 3 additional
points. How many points did Emily receive if she solved 30 puzzles in all?

7. There were 16 more frogs in Green Pond than in Blue Pond. All the frogs from
Blue Pond jumped into Green Pond. Now the total number of frogs in Green
Pond is 80. How many frogs were there originally in Green Pond?

8. Find the missing number:

9. An alarm clock is slow. It falls behind 4 minutes every 24 hours. If the clock was
showing the correct time at 6 : 00 this morning, how many seconds ahead was
the clock at 10 : 00 last night?

10. Twenty comic book fans started a club. The next day and every day after that,
three new members joined the fan club. On November 30th, the club had 71
 members at the end of the day. On what date in November was the fan club
formed?

11. Aladdin found a cave filled with boxes of gold, measuring 2 inches × 2 inches × 2
inches, and boxes of silver, measuring 1 inch × 1 inch × 1 inch. However, Aladdin
brought only one box measuring 6 inches × 6 inches × 7 inches with him. He
filled it with as many boxes of gold as would fit, then put as many boxes of silver
as would fit in the remaining space. How many boxes of treasure did Aladdin
take?

12. Sheila collects Pokemon cards. As of 2018, she has a Mewtwo card that is twice as
old as her Snorlax card. Two years ago, her rare Raichu card was five times as old
as the Snorlax card. If the Raichu card is seven years older than the Mewtwo card,
in what year was the Raichu card made?

13. A cabinet has two sliding doors of different sizes. When the cabinet is fully closed,
they overlap by two-fifths of the width of the smaller door. When both doors are
slid to one side, the part of the longer door that is not behind the shorter one is
half as wide as the original overlap, and the open portion of the cabinet is 36
inches wide. What is the width of the whole cabinet?
14. Queen Laetitia is sorting her gem collection. She starts by placing some of her
diamonds into two boxes. In every box after the first two, the Queen puts as many
diamonds as in the previous two boxes combined. If there are 30 diamonds in the
fourth box, and 128 diamonds in the seventh box, how many diamonds did
Queen Laetitia place in the tenth box?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The greatest four digit number that Rachel can

make is 8210.
2 8

3 The rectangle is 7 inches long.

4 It will take 120 minutes.

5 12

6 Emily received 29 points.

7 There were 48 frogs in Green pond, originally

8 The missing number is 1817.

9 The clock was 80 seconds ahead.

10 The fan club was formed on November, 13.

11 Aladdin took 63 boxes of treasure.

12 The Raichu card was made in the year 2001.

13 The width of the whole cabinet is 108 inches.

14 Queen Laetitia placed 542 diamonds in the tenth

box.
 Grade 5
IMC 2017
1. A cat and dog sing a song. The dog sings "Woof!" five times for every two times
the cat sings "Meow!" If the cat sings "Meow!" 28 times, how many times did the
dog sing "Woof!"?

2. Calculate:

3. Harry and Luna together ate 56 Chocolate Frogs. Harry ate 6 more Chocolate
Frogs than Luna. How many Chocolate Frogs did Luna eat?

1
4. Find the value of x, if x − 10 = 5
5
5. A boy has 140 toy soldiers. He put 14 soldiers in the fortress and divided the rest
of the soldiers into 14 equal groups. If he used 3 of the groups as attackers, how
many toy soldiers are attackers?

6. Find the missing number:

7. Five years ago, David was three times as old as Julia was. In 2 years, David will be
twice as old as Julia will be. How old is David now?

8. Sir Cadogan likes to change his password three times per day (every eight hours).
He uses his favorite password, "RSM", every fourth time. He used this password
at 12 a.m. on January 1, 2017. What was the first day in January that he did not
use this password?
9. Mandy arranged 1 ft × 1 ft ×1 ft boxes in a stack that is 5 ft × 5 ft × 5 ft. Andy took
all the boxes from the top layer of the stack. Then, Sandy took all the boxes from
the rightmost side of the remaining stack. How many boxes are left in the stack?

10. Hogwarts students stand in a row. Harry noted that 22 students are to his left
side. Hermione noted that 11 students, including Harry, are to her right side.
How many students are between Harry and Hermione if there are 27 students in
the row?

11. How many 2 × 4 LEGO bricks do you need to cover two 14 × 16 LEGO building
plates?
 3 1
12. Tom Sawyer painted of a fence with of a canister of paint. How many
5 3
milliliters of this paint did he use to paint the whole fence, if the canister contains
990 milliliters of paint?

13. Two faulty tennis ball machines start to shoot balls from opposite sides of a 25
meter by 10 meter tennis court. The green ball machine shoots green balls that
stop on the court 5 meters to 20 meters from the green machine's side. The
yellow ball machine shoots yellow balls that stop on the court 2 meters to 16
meters from the yellow machine's side. Find the area of the tennis court that has
balls of either color on it.

14. Two brothers, Jim and John, had a straight log in their backyard. Jim wanted the
log cut into 24 equal parts. He painted red lines on the log and called to a
lumberjack to cut the log by the painted lines. John wanted the log cut too, but
into 18 equal parts. He painted yellow lines on the log with some yellow lines
painted over red lines. The lumberjack came and cut the log by the painted lines.
How many cuts did the lumberjack make?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 70 times
2 4
3 25 chocolate frogs
4 x=75
5 27
6 3018
7 26 years old
8 January 4, 2017
9 80 boxes
10 6 students
11 56
12 550 milliliters
13 110 square meters
14 35 cuts
 Grade 5
IMC 2016
1. A young wizard knows this many spells: 60 ÷ 2 × 10. An old wizard knows twice
as many. How many spells does the old wizard know?

2. Calculate:

3. A snail can crawl 12 inches in 3 hours. How many inches can it crawl in 5 hours?

4. If the sum of two numbers is 46 and the difference is 10, what is the larger
number?

5. Find the value of x, if:

3x − 23 = 10

6. Sina trained for the RSM Olympiad. On the first day of her training she solved 20
problems. Each day she solved one more problem than the day before. On her last
 day of training she solved 80 problems. How many days did Sina train for the
Olympiad?

7. We have so much chocolate prepared for the party that we had to put it all in
boxes and arrange the boxes in this pile, which is 4 boxes high, 5 boxes wide, and
5 boxes long:

Soon we saw that some boxes of chocolate were missing−someone just loved our
chocolate!

How many boxes of chocolate do we have now?

8. Find the missing number:

2016 · 199 = 2016·? +2016 · 98

9. Jackie is 8 years older than Mona. If 9 years ago she was three times as old as
Mona was, how old is Jackie now?

10. Kate's math team meets every 3rd day. For example, they met on Monday,
January 4th. Next time, they met on Thursday, January 7th. After that, they met
on Sunday, January 10th. When in January did they again meet on Monday?
11. How many square tiles with sides of length 2 feet does one need to cover the
floor of a room 30 feet long and 20 feet wide?

12. If Sammy eats 6/7 of a pizza in 2/21 of an hour, how many pizzas will he eat in
one hour?

13. A Magic Carpet is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. However, only the purple part of
the Magic Carpet has magic power. If the magic part is 2 feet wide, find the area
of the magic part of the Magic Carpet.

14. Once upon a time, on an island in the middle of an ocean, several tribes lived and
fought with each other. A time came when all the tribes agreed to everlasting
peace. So, they decided to build a giant monument to celebrate this Peace Treaty.

The monument required a certain number of logs, and the tribes had to agree on
the number of logs that each tribe was to provide. Had there been two fewer
tribes on the island, this number of logs would have been 6. Had there been one
more tribe on the island, this number would have been 5.

Unfortunately, the tribes could not agree on what number of logs would be fair
for the actual number of tribes. So the tribes announced an eternal war - and
were not heard from ever again. How many tribes were on the island?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 600 spells
2 2
3 20 inches
4 28
5 11
6 61 days
7 92 boxes
8 101
9 21
10 Monday, January 25th
11 150 tiles
12 9 pizzas
13 72 square feet
14 17 tribes
 IMC 2023 Grade 6
1. Find the least possible four-digit number that is divisible by 4 and that you can make using each
of the digits 2, 0, 2, 3.
[{{63}}]
2032 or 2,032

2. Albert the Monkey found a bunch of coconuts and put them into two equal piles. Then he
moved 3 coconuts from one pile to the other, so now the number of coconuts in the second pile is
twice the number of coconuts in the first pile. How many coconuts did Albert find?

[{{68}}]
Albert the Monkey found 18 coconuts.

3. Calculate.
3
27 + 8 · (−32)
[{{81}}]
15

4. A store can print your soccer team's name on 12 t-shirts in 10 minutes.

You want to buy 30 t-shirts. How long will it take the store to print all 30
t-shirts if the t-shirts are always printed at the same rate?

[{{80}}]
It will take 25 minutes.

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 5. The measure of one of two adjacent supplementary angles is 50° greater than the measure of the
other angle. Find the measure of the smaller of the two angles.

[{{70}}]
The measure of the smaller of the two angles is 65°

6. What is the least six-digit number in which the sum of the digits equals 33?
[{{27}}]
105999 or 105,999

7. John the Farmer filled a barrel with water. But there was a crack in the bottom of the barrel, and
the water steadily leaked out. After the barrel was full, 20% of the water leaked out in the first
hour. What percent of the remaining water leaked out in the second hour?

[{{39}}]
25%

8. 14 friends are saving money for a trip to the movies. 6 of the friends put $1.50 into the pile
every day, while others put $1.50 into the pile every even day, and the rest of the friends put
$1.50 into the pile every odd day. If $12 was put into the pile on February 3rd , how much
money will be put into the pile on February 4th ?

[{{59}}]
18 dollars will be added to the pile on February 4th.

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 9. The large square is divided into four rectangles and a small square. The center of the large
square and the center of the small square is the same point. What is the area of one rectangle if
the large square has side length 7, and the small square has side length 3?

[{{74}}]
The area of one rectangle is 10 square units.

10. On a sunny day at the beach, Ashley made a sand castle with a rectangular floor. Ashley swam
for awhile, and then she increased the length of the castle's floor by 30% and the width of castle's
floor by 20%. By what percent did the area of the castle's floor increase?

[{{52}}]
The area of the castle's floor increased by 56%

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 11. A wizard needs to prepare 735 ml of a magic drink. The recipe calls for watermelon juice,
coconut water, and potion in the ratio 21 : 11 : 3. If the wizard has 300 ml of potion, how many
milliliters of the potion will be unused?

[{{50}}]
237 milliliters of the potion will be unused.

12. Anna, Bella, and Emma each had the same number of cookies. Then Anna gave 50% of her
cookies to Bella. Next, Bella gave 40% of her new number of cookies to Emma. Finally, Emma
gave 30% of her new number of cookies to Anna. By what percent did the number of Anna's
cookies decrease in this process?

[{{45}}]
The number of Anna's cookies decreased by 2%.

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 13. A line of people are waiting for a store to open because there is a big sale today. But while the
manager is looking for his keys, another person squeezes in between every two people in the
line. Then the manager can't get his key to work, and again one person squeezes in between
every two people in the line. Now 121 people are in the line. How many people were initially in
the line?

[{{24}}]
There were 31 people in the line.

14. A travel company had a contest and Bree won a trip to seven countries.
The rules are that Bree must visit the countries in the order told to her by
the travel company, but she can decide to skip visiting any of the countries
except the first one. So, Bree can visit a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7
countries. In how many ways can Bree organize her trip?
[{{10}}]
She can organize the trip in 64 ways.

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Grade 6

28 7
1. Find x: x = 30

2. A large box contains three small boxes and a pearl. The pearl is not in either of the small boxes.
Each small box contains 5 pearls. How many pearls are in the large box?

3. You have the set of all the integers from (−16) to 26, inclusive. You take two of the integers and
subtract one from the other. What is the greatest difference you can get?

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 4. An ostrich can run 25 miles in 40 minutes. How many minutes will it take the ostrich to run 40
miles if it runs at the same speed?

5. Two scaredy cats saw each other when they were 10 meters apart. The cats immediately started
to run in opposite directions, each at the speed of 80 meters per minute. How far apart will the
cats be in 3 minutes?

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 6. Peter took three photos. The photos show a total of 44 birds. The second photo has 9 fewer birds
than the first photo. The third photo has 5 more birds than the first photo. How many birds are in
the first photo?

7. A basketball team took a total of 100 shots. One player took 70% of all 100 shots, and made a
basket 60% of the time. How many shots did this player miss?

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 8. Aadya and Ethan like playing with remote-control cars. There's a straight track at the park that
is 500 yards long. Aadya's car started at one end of the track and got 405 yards before its battery
ran out. Ethan's car started at the other end of the track and traveled 10 more yards than Aadya's
car before its battery ran out. What is the distance between the two cars now if they did not
collide?

9. People in Spaceland live in 8 space stations, and travel between the stations in tubes. Every pair
of stations is connected by two tubes. These are the only tubes in Spaceland. What is the total
number of tubes?

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 10. Forty-five roses, plus some number of daffodils and tulips, are blooming in a garden. Four
times as many daffodils as roses are blooming, and 15 more tulips than roses are blooming. Then
a gardener uses all of the flowers to make identical bouquets. What is the maximum number of
bouquets the gardener could have made?

11. The same number of people live on the islands Beautiful Sunrise and Gorgeous Sunset.
Beautiful Sunrise is having a fiesta today, so some people from Gorgeous Sunset come to
celebrate. Now the number of people on Beautiful Sunrise is seven times the number of people
on Gorgeous Sunset. What percent of the population of Gorgeous Sunset is on Beautiful Sunrise
now?

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 12. Square ABCD is divided into 5 rectangles that all have the same area. FH = 20 and CK = KD.
Find the length of BE.

13. You can only use even digits, and each digit only once. What is the least four-digit number that
is divisible by 24?

14. A group of ants is very organized, and every 2 seconds an ant leaves the ant hill and begins
walking to a nearby tree for supplies. All ants walk at the same speed and get to the tree in 100
seconds. One day, Victor walks to the tree as usual, but then he decides to immediately run back,
and he gets back to the hill in 65 seconds. How many ants (walking to the tree) does Victor meet
on his way back?

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Question No. Answer

1 x = 120

2 There are 16 pearls in the large box.

3 The greatest difference you can get is 42.

4 It will take 64 minutes to run 40 miles.

5 490 meters.

6 There are 16 birds in the first photo.

7 The player missed 28 shots.

8 The distance between the cars is 320 yards.

9 The total number of tubes is 56.

10 The maximum number of bouquets is 15.

11 75 percent

12 BE = 8

13 The least four-digit number that is divisible by 24 is 2064 or 2,064.

14 82 ants
 IMC 2021
Grade 6

1. Find x :
36 2
x
= 3

2. There are 18 black socks and 12 navy socks in your drawer. The room is dark and you cannot
turn on the light. What is the least number of socks that you have to take out of the drawer to be
certain that you have a pair of the same color?

3. Calculate:
100 − ((90 − 80) − 70)

4. In 4th grade, Flavor Fast won one-third the number of races that Slow Stue won. In 5th grade,
Flavor Fast won 12 races and Slow Stue didn't race at all. If Flavor Fast wins 24 races in 6th
grade, he will have the same total number of wins that Slow Stue had in 4th grade. How many
races did Slow Stue win in the 4th grade?

5. A soccer team gets three points for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss. The
team plays ten games and has three more wins than losses. What is the greatest possible number
of points the team could have?

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 6. To ride a horse at the state fair costs $2 per minute. Paolo buys a 16-minute ride. Next time, he
plans to ride 25% longer. How much will he pay?

7. The area of the white square is 64 square units. The diagonal of the square was extended to
point A until the length of segment AB was double the length of the diagonal of the square.
What is the area of the gray part?

8. ABC is a three-digit number where each letter represents a different digit. If A < C, what is the
greatest possible number?

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 9. Becky made 63 carnival masks, which is 30% less than the number her brother made. How
many carnival masks did Becky and her brother make in total?

10. A clock gains time at a steady rate. It is set to the correct time at 10 : 00 AM. When the clock
shows 2 : 00 PM, the correct time is 1 : 36 PM. How many minutes fast will the clock be the
next time the correct time is 5 : 30 PM?

11. m∠AOD = 140°, m∠BOC = 25°, and m∠COD = 20°. What is the difference between the
smallest obtuse angle and the largest acute angle in the picture?

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 12. Ally and Beck went fishing and caught a total of 75 fish. At home, Ally told Jair she caught
twice as many fish as she actually caught. Beck told Jair he caught three times as many fish as he
actually caught. If what they told Jair had been true, then Ally would have caught 75 fewer fish
than Beck. How many fish did Beck actually catch?

13. Working together, two ants named Aran and Beatrice can build an ant hill
in 10 hours. Aran and Charlie can build the ant hill in 12 hours. Beatrice
and Charlie can build the ant hill in 15 hours. How long, in hours, will it
take to build the ant hill if Aran, Beatrice, and Charlie work together?

14. Three lions and three tigers are walking in a row to get ice cream. The lions are fighting, so
they are not walking next to each other. In how many different ways can the three lions and three
tigers walk if no two lions are the same and no two tigers are the same?

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Question No. Answer

1 x = 54

2 The least number of socks that you have to take out is 3.

3 160

4 Slow Stue won 54 races in the 4th grade.

5 The greatest possible number of points the team could have is 19.

6 Paolo will pay $40.

7 The area of the gray part is 64 square units.

8 The greatest possible number is 879.

9 Becky and her brother made 153 masks.

10 The clock will be 50 minutes fast.

11 50°

12 Becky caught 45 fish.

13 8 hours.

14 Three lions and three tigers can walk 144 different ways.
 IMC 2020 Grade 6
1. Kate can make 15 paper fortune tellers in 18 minutes. At this rate, how many paper fortune
tellers can she make in 30 minutes?

2. Sorin chose a three-digit number and doubled it. Jiao chose a two-digit number. Carlos
subtracted Jiao’s number from Sorin’s product. What is the greatest number Carlos can get?

3. The ratio of 36 to x is equal to 20% of 9. Find x.

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 4. The young wizard, Darpinido, got 16 dragons and 12 griffins for his birthday. But his sister,
Ingrid, left the gate open and more than 6 dragons and more than 3 griffins flew away. Now the
young wizard has more griffins than dragons. What is the greatest number of dragons Darpinido
could have now?

5.

6. Lucia's back hurts! She figured out that the books in her backpack are 5 times heavier than the
backpack itself. By what percent heavier is the backpack with the books inside, than the books
by themselves?

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 7. There are 59 participants in a pie eating contest. Nadia placed third, and
Johnny placed in the exact middle of all the participants. How many pie-
eating participants placed between Nadia and Johnny?

8. In △ABC, m∠BAC = 20°, m∠ADE = m∠EDB = m∠BDC, and m∠ABD = m∠DBC.

Find m∠BCD. Note that the triangle is not drawn to scale.

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 9. Three pirates named Ahab, Sparrow, and Davy play a game. The pirates have a total of 210
coins, and each pirate has a different number of coins. At the end of the game, Ahab has won 5
coins and Davy has won 7 coins. Now, the ratio of coins belonging to Ahab, Sparrow, and Davy
is 4 : 5 : 6, respectively. How many coins did Sparrow have at the beginning of the game?

10. Kiva’s family is moving and he helps by carrying a 21-pound box to the truck. It is 65% lighter
than the box that his father carries to the truck. What is the weight of the box that Kiva's father
carries?

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 11. The perimeter of the given shape is 98 units. Find AB. The shape is not drawn to scale.

8
12. Every jump a game piece makes measures 9 . The piece starts at point A = 7 and jumps to the
right. As soon as the piece jumps over B = 24, it switches direction and jumps to the left. The
piece then stops at point A. How many jumps did the game piece take?

13. A game designer must decide how to color five buildings that are in a row. Using only the
colors yellow, green, red, and blue, each building must be painted with exactly one color. Any
two neighboring buildings must be different colors, and the first, third, and fifth buildings must
be different colors. How many ways are there to paint the five buildings?

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 14. There is a mountain with 45 bat caves in a row. Every cave has at least 2 bats and there are 490
bats in all. Any 7 caves in a row contain exactly 77 bats. Suppose the first cave has 7 times more
bats than the last cave. What is the greatest possible number of bats in the 30th cave?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 Kate can make 25 fortune tellers.

2 The greatest number that Carlos can get is 1988 or 1,988.

3 x​= 20

4 The greatest number of dragons Darpinido could have now is 7.

5 325

6 The backpack with the books inside is 20 percent heavier than the
books by themselves.

7 There are 26 participants between Nadia and Johnny.

8 m∠BCD = 80°

9 Sparrow had 82 coins at the beginning of the game.

10 The father's box is 60 lb.

11 AB = 12 units

12 The game piece took 40 jumps.

13 There are 96 ways to paint the five buildings.

14 The greatest possible number of bats in the 30th cave is 12.

 IMC 2019 Grade 6

1. What is the smallest number can you get when you subtract a one-digit number from 50 and
then double the result?

x−3 18
2. Find x , if 15 = 5

3. In the film, Zeke the Zombie Slayer Versus the Zombies from
Space, Zeke slayed 140 zombies. In the sequel, Zeke the Zombie
Slayer Versus the Zombies from Space, Part 2, he slayed 5%
more zombies. How many zombies were slain by Zeke in the
sequel?

4. Adam the Ant and Anna the Ant dared each other to grab a moving bicycle wheel. Adam the
Ant hung on for 20 seconds, in which time the wheel made 30 turns; then, he fell off. Anna the
Ant hung on 12 seconds longer than Adam the Ant. How many times did she spin around on the
bicycle wheel?

2
5. Calculate: 49 − 3 · ( − 3)3

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 6. Chelsea is a chess champion. She’s played 132 games; her ratio of wins to draws to losses is
6 : 3 : 2. How many games has she won?

7. One chocolate bar can be used to create one chocolate rabbit with some
chocolate left over. The leftovers of seven bars can be used to create two
chocolate rabbits without any chocolate left over. How many chocolate
rabbits can be created from 35 chocolate bars?

8. Ben, Fran and Stan are posting funny memes online. Ben’s funny memes got 40% more likes
than Stan’s. Fran’s got 20% fewer likes than Stan’s. By what percentage did Ben get more likes
than Fran?

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 2
9. Any time Speedy the Sloth is not sleeping, she drinks chamomile tea at a steady rate of 7 of a
17
cup per hour. Yesterday, she drank 1 cup. If today she drank 42 of a cup more than yesterday,
how long (in minutes) did she stay awake today?

10. If you double all edges of a cube, by what percent will the
volume of this cube increase?

11. All the unicorns on Rainbow Island are either green or yellow. Every time the clock strikes
midnight, some of the unicorns change their color. Yesterday, there were 6 green unicorns for
every 5 yellow ones. Today, there are 3 green ones for every 4 yellow ones. What is the
smallest possible number of unicorns living on Rainbow Island?

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 ¯
12. AB ∥ DE
¯ ¯
, C is the point of intersection of AE ¯
and DB .
m ∠1 = 80°, m ∠2 : m ∠3 = 2 : 3. Find m ∠2.

13. What is the largest three-digit palindrome divisible by 18?

(A palindrome is an integer that remains the same when its digits are reversed. For example, 77,
151, 8338, and etc .)

14. Six of King Arthur’s knights are sitting around the Round Table eating peanuts. Since each
knight suspected the others of not sharing fairly, each one secretly counted his two neighbors’
peanuts and summed them up, with the following results (in order): 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 60. How
many peanuts does the knight who counted 52 have?

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The smallest number is 82.

2 x = 57

3 Zeke slayed 147 zombies.

4 Anna the Ant spun around the bicycle wheel 48 times.

5 67

6 Chelsea won 72 games.

7 45 chocolate rabbits.

8 Ben got more likes than Fran by 75 percent.

9 Speedy the Sloth stayed awake for 295 minutes.

10 The volume will increase by 700 percent.

11 The smallest possible number of unicorns is 77.

12 m∠2 = 104°

13 828 is the greatest three-digit palindrome divisible by 18.

14 The knight, who counted 52 peanuts, has 38 peanuts.

 Grade 6
IMC 2018
1. Find x, if:

2. Tom is 40 inches tall. The sign next to the Superman Roller Coaster says: “You
must be 48 inches to ride!”. By what percent does Tom have to grow to be able to
ride the roller coaster?

3. Evaluate:

4. A turtle participates in a 40 meter race. She crawled 30 meters in 48 minutes. If

the turtle crawled the entire race at the same speed, how many minutes did it
take?
5. Emily is playing a game where she receives 2 points as soon as she solves three
puzzles correctly. For every ten correctly solved puzzles, Emily earns 3 additional
points. How many points did Emily receive if she solved 30 puzzles in all?

6. The top of a square table is covered with four equal square tiles. If the side length
of each tile is decreased by 50%, how many tiles of the new size would be needed
to cover the same table?

7. Before hosting their annual Chess Tournament and Spelling Bee, a school
received 7 boxes of honorary medals: one medal for every participant. After the
Chess Tournament, two boxes were empty and the rest were still closed. After the
Spelling Bee, which had twice as many participants, there were 72 medals left.
How many people competed in the Chess Tournament?

8. Find x, if:
9. Dana sent her mom 60 texts in July, which is 60% fewer texts than her mom sent
Dana that month. How many total texts did they exchange in July?

10. A witch made two bowls of potion. The first bowl contains 28.5 ounces of potion,
and the second bowl contains 3 ounces of potion. She poured ¾ ounces from the
second bowl into the first one. How many times as much potion is in the first
bowl as in the second

11. The measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. The simplified
ratio of the measures of the exterior angles of the triangle is a : b : c. Find a + b +
c.
12. Mia and Luke made 85 origami together. Mia made 4 pieces of origami every 3
minutes. Luke made 3 pieces of origami every 4 minutes, but Luke spent 5
minutes more than Mia. How many pieces of origami did Mia make?

13. The Charleston family has less than 500 Dalmatians. There are six times as many
Dalmatians with black spots on their right ears as Dalmatians without these
spots. After giving away 6% of their Dalmatians, how many do the Charlestons
have left?

14. A blogger who is just starting out made three videos. So far, she has 312
subscribers, who watched one, two, or all three videos. The three videos got 740
total views all together. Assuming each subscriber only viewed a particular video
once, how many more people watched all three videos than only one video?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 x = 42.
2 Tom has to grow by 20 percent.
3 61
4 The turtle crawled the entire race in
64 minutes.
5 Emily received 29 points.
6 16 new tiles would be needed to cover
the table.
7 144 participants competed in the
Chess tournament.
8 x = 52
9 They sent 210 messages in total.
10 There is 13 times as much potion in
the first bowl.
11 a + b + c = 18
12 Mia made 52 pieces of origami.
13 The Charlestons have 329
Dalmatians left.
14 116 more people watched all three
videos than only one video.
 Grade 6
IMC 2017
1. Find x, if.

2. The measures of the acute angles of a right triangle are in the ratio
1 : 5. Find the measure of the larger acute angle of the triangle.

3. This year, Slytherin got 5% less House points than the winner Gryffindor. What is
the minimum number of House points Slytherin needed more to win if
Gryffindor got 420 House points?

3
4. Calculate: 81 − · ( − 2)4
4

5. A grasshopper makes 6 jumps per 15 seconds. Each jump covers 2 inches. After
40 seconds of straight-forward jumping, the grasshopper stopped. How far (in
inches) did the grasshopper jump?
 8
6. How many times larger than the number (1 − ) is the number
15
2
(1.2 + )?
3

7. Ron made a mistake casting a spell, and 25 frogs start to appear each second in
the classroom. After 10 seconds, Hermione cast another spell, and 35 frogs start
to disappear as 25 frogs appear each second. For how many seconds was there at
least one frog in the classroom?

8. John beat his previous high score in the Favorite game by 28%. If his new high
score is 288 points, what was his previous high score?
9. If you increase the length of the rectangle by 50% and the width of the rectangle
by 100%, by what percent will the area of this rectangle increase?

0.1 1
10. Find x, if =−
0.06−0.03𝑥 6

11. A rectangular playing field that is 20 meters long and 15 meters wide was
cleaned by 22 boys and 18 girls. The field was divided into equal parts for each
child. What area of the field was cleaned by boys?

12. Mary went up the Old Tower taking 3 steps per second. Then she carefully came
down from the tower taking 2 steps per second. It took Mary 25 seconds longer to
come down than to go up. How many steps does the Old Tower have?
13. This year, the Start-of-Term feast had three desserts: chocolate eclairs, raspberry
tarts, and jam doughnuts. On the dessert table, there were two doughnuts for
every three eclairs, and six eclairs for every five tarts. How many tarts were on the
dessert table if there were a total of 1320 desserts?

1
14. A man took a trip, traveling by train. He looked out the window during the first 3
1
of the trip. He then slept for 5 of the remaining distance. When he woke up, he
1
read a book for 2 of the remaining distance. If the train traveled 17.6 km more

while he read than while he slept, how many kilometers did the train travel?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 x=20
2 75 degrees
3 22
4 69
5 32 inches
6 4 times larger
7 35 seconds
8 225 points
9 200%
10 x=22
11 165 square meters
12 150 steps
13 440 tarts
14 132 kilometers
 Grade 6
IMC 2016
1. Find x, if:

2. The measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. What is the
measure of the largest angle of this triangle?

3. Harry wants to buy a new magic wand that costs 40 coins. How many coins will
Harry save if he buys this wand when it is on sale at 10% off?

4. Evaluate:

5. Jeremy makes $300 in 35 days. If he is paid the same amount every day, how
much money will he make in 42 days?

6. Calculate:
7. A certain number of special spells must be cast to protect the secret hiding place
of the Order of the Phoenix. Each member of the Order is capable of casting the
same number of these spells per hour. If two wizards were to join the Order,
casting the protection spells can be completed in three hours instead of four
hours. How many wizards are in the Order?

8. While on a journey to find giants, Hagrid lost 64% of his weight. If he now weighs
2016 lb, what did he weigh before the journey?

9. If you double all the sides of a square, by what percent will the area of this square
increase?

10. Find the value of x, if:

11. Together, Hermione and Luna bought 2016 Chocolate Frogs for Harry. If
Hermione paid 98 coins and Luna paid 28 coins, for how many Chocolate Frogs
did Hermione pay?

12. Andrew is about to leave for school. If he walks at a speed of 50 meters per
minute, he will arrive 3 minutes after the bell rings. If he runs at a speed of 80
meters per minute, he will arrive 3 minutes before the bell rings. In how many
minutes will the bell ring?

13. A rope that is 245 cm long is cut into three pieces. The ratio of the lengths of the
first piece to the second piece is 2 : 3, and the ratio of the lengths of the second
piece to the third piece is 4 : 5. What is the length of the longest of the three
pieces?
14. Rory's number is 0.3 larger than Lori's number, and the sum of their numbers is
13. What is ten times Lori's number multiplied by 2016?
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 85
2 75 degrees
3 4 coins
4 30
5 $360
6 23
7 6 wizards
8 5600 lbs
9 300%
10 x=3
11 1568 chocolate frogs
12 13 minutes
13 105 cm
14 336
 IMC 2023 Round 2 Grades 5-6
1. Only octopuses and starfish live in an aquarium. Each octopus
has 8 arms, and each starfish has 5 arms. There are 67 arms in
total. How many animals are in the aquarium?
11

2. There are 40 tenants (cats and dogs) at the RSM Pet Village. They live in one-pet houses that
are each occupied by either a cat or a dog, and two-pet houses that are each occupied by a cat
and a dog. There are twice as many two-pet houses as one-pet houses. Find the greatest possible
number of cats at the RSM Pet Village.
24

3. Pirate Bill has a bill worth 1000 ducats. His friend Colin
has a bunch of 5-ducat coins and a bunch of 10-ducat
coins. In how many ways can Colin exchange Bill's 1000-
ducat bill for coins?
101

4. 3 digits in the number 20232023 are erased so that a 5-digit multiple of 15 remains. Find the
least possible remaining 5-digit number.
20220 or 20,220

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 5. Anna collects different counting numbers. For every number in her collection, all of the positive
factors of that number are also in the collection. Find the least possible number of even numbers
in the collection if 360 is in the collection.
18

6. Square ABCD is divided into 5 rectangles that each has the same area as shown in the figure.
Find BE (the distance between points B and E ) if FH = 20.

7. Compute the average of all of the three-digit whole numbers that do not contain the digit 0.
555

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 8. The expression

contains each counting number from 1 to 6. Each number is written in invisible ink on a blank card
with one number per card. Find the least possible value of the expression.
54

9. There are 16 different triangles and 6 counting numbers in the diagram. One of the numbers is
hidden behind a card. The weight of a shape is the sum of the numbers inside it. Three different
triangles have the same weight. Find the least possible value of their common weight.

10. Let’s say that the digits 0 and 1 are small, and other digits are big. How many different
counting numbers that contain up to ten small digits and zero big digits are palindromes?
A palindrome is a number that is the same when written forward or backward. For example, the
numbers 1, and 111, and 1001 are palindromes.
62

11. Alex has a paper hexagon. Her first step is to cut the paper hexagon into two shapes with one
straight cut. Then she continues, and with each step she cuts one of the existing shapes into two
shapes with one straight cut. Find the greatest possible total number of sides of all the shapes that
Alex has after 23 steps. (Folding is not allowed.)
98

12. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is decreased by 1, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is decreased by 2, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is increased by 3, and both the red and
green buttons become unlocked.
The number 2014 is displayed on the screen, and all buttons are unlocked. What is the greatest
number of times you could press a button to get the number 2023 on the screen?

23

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 IMC Round 2 2022
Grades 5-6

1. A round table has 4 legs and a rectangular table has 6 legs. If 10

tables have a total of 52 legs, how many of these legs belong to round
tables?

2. Jimmy cuts a paper square into four identical rectangles

and uses three of them to make the symbol π as shown in
the diagram. The perimeter of the π is 78. Compute the
side length of the original square.

3. In the word QUADRILATERAL each letter represents a digit. Different letters represent
different digits, and the same letters represent the same digits. Compute the least possible sum of
all 13 digits.

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 4. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is doubled.
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is tripled.
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is multiplied by itself.
The number 1 is displayed on the screen. What is the least number of times you need to press a
button to get the number 2592 on the screen?

5. There are several puppies, kittens, and rabbits at the RSM Pet Hotel. The total number of puppy
noses and kitten eyes is 22. The total number of kitten tails and rabbit eyes is 23. The total
number of puppy paws and rabbit ears is 30. Compute the total number of pet paws at the RSM
Pet Hotel.

6. One envelope contains only $5 bills, another envelope contains only $10 bills, another envelope
contains only $20 bills, and the last envelope contains only $50 bills. No envelopes are empty
and each of the four contains the same number of bills. All of the bills are exchanged for $100
bills (the total dollar amount is preserved). Find the least possible total number of bills in all four
envelopes.

7. Find the greatest possible prime factor of a four-digit number if the number contains the digits
2, 0, 2, 2, in some order.

8. An RSM sports field has a square shape. Poles with

letters M , A , T , H are located at the corners of the square
(see the diagram). During warm up, a student starts at any
pole, runs to another pole along a side of the square, then
runs to another pole along a side of the square, and so on.
The student cannot repeat a run along the same side of the
square in the same direction. For instance, she cannot run
from M to A twice, but she can run from M to A and at
some point from A to M . How many different ways are
there to complete the warm up that includes all eight
possible runs (see the diagram)? One possible way is M-A-
T-H-M-H-T-A-M.

9. A number is totally even if all its digits are even. For instance, the number 2022 is totally even.
How many four-digit totally even numbers X are there such that X + 2022 is also totally even?

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 10. The sum of the four-digit numbers FOUR and FIVE is equal
to the four-digit number NINE. Different letters represent
different digits, and the same letters represent the same digits.
Find the least possible value of the number NINE.

11. Suppose AB = BC in the given triangle ABC. Points M and N are on

¯ ¯
sides AB and BC (see the diagram) such that AM = MN = BN and MB
= AC. Find the degree measure of ∠BNM.

Not drawn to scale

12. In the “expression” 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 you replace each of the four @ symbols with either
+, or –, or ×, or ÷. You can insert one or more pairs of parentheses to control the order of
operations. Find the least whole number that CANNOT be the value of the resulting expression.
For example, each of the numbers 25 = 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 and 60 = 5 + (5 + 5) × 5 + 5 can be the
value of the resulting expression.

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Question No. Answer

1 16

2 12

3 39

4 5

5 80

6 80

7 367

8 32

9 240

10 3234 or 3,234

11 108°

12 13
 RMO 2021
Grades 5-6

1. Anna, Boris, and Clara thought of one number each.

Anna’s number increased by 20 is 21 greater than Boris’s number decreased by 22.
Boris’s number decreased by 20 is 21 greater than Clara’s number increased by 22.
How much less is Clara's number than Anna's number?

2. The average age of the seven apprentice magicians is 143 years.

The average age of the seven apprentice magicians and the head wizard is 150 years.
How old is the head wizard (in years)?

3. Splinter wrote a three-digit number on the board.

Then he asked each of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and
Michelangelo) to count the number of letters in his name. (Donatello has 9 letters in his name.)
Splinter said that for each turtle, the number on the board minus the number of letters in the turtle's
name is evenly divisible by the number of letters.
Each turtle confirmed that Splinter was right.
Find the number Splinter wrote on the board.

4. A tart contains either 3 white, or 4 red, or 5 black cherries.

A tray of 20 tarts contains 89 cherries.
How many more tarts with black cherries than tarts with white cherries are on the tray?

5. In the expression

Sarah may erase one open parenthesis and one close parenthesis, or she may erase nothing.
Find the greatest possible value of the resulting expression.

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 6. Rachel downloaded a movie at a constant speed.
After she downloaded 40% of the movie, the remaining download time was 40 seconds.
Compute the remaining download time (in seconds) after Rachel had downloaded 61% of the
movie.

7. Twelve points (two rows of six points each) are labeled as shown in the diagram.
How many triangles RSM are hidden in this diagram?
A triangle can be any size and shape, but it must have one vertex at a point labeled R , one vertex at
a point labeled S , and one vertex at a point labeled M .

8. Dina divides a paper rectangle P into three identical non-overlapping rectangles R , S , and M .
Each of the new rectangles shares a vertex with rectangle P .
Compute the perimeter of rectangle P if it’s 100 units greater than the perimeter of rectangle R .

9. The sum of a three-digit number FLU and a four-digit number SHOT is equal to a five-digit
number HELPS.
Find the greatest possible value of the number HELPS.
The same letters represent the same digits, but different letters may or may not represent
different digits.

10. Find the greatest possible number of back-to-back zeros at the end of the product of three
counting numbers if the sum of these three numbers equals 191.
(The number 202100 has exactly 2 back-to-back zeros at the end.)

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 11. Four friends, Aali, Bali, Cali, and Dali, sit at a round table as shown in the diagram.
Bali sits to the left of Aali and to the right of Cali. Each has a jar with candies.
At exactly the same time, all four friends move half of the candies in their jar to their friend's jar on
the right. (So the candies move counterclockwise.)
Then, at exactly the same time, all four friends move half of the candies in their jar to their friend's
jar on the left. (So the candies move clockwise.)
Now, Aali’s jar has 19 candies, Bali’s jar has 21 candies, and Cali’s jar has 41 candies.
How many candies are now in Dali’s jar?

12. There are 3 RSM branches in Math City. The branches are called R , S , and M .
Arty plans a 5-day visit to Math City and wants to visit each branch.
She will visit one branch per day, which means that Arty will visit one or more branches more than
once, possibly on consecutive days.
How many different schedules can the RSM students prepare for Arty?
One possible schedule is R − S − S − M − R, where Arty visits branch R on the first and fifth
days, branch S on the second and third days, and branch M on the fourth day.

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Question No. Answer

1 42

2 199

3 504

4 9

5 28

6 26

7 48

8 250

9 10109 or 10,109

10 5

11 39

12 150
 2020 RMO Grades 5-6
1. Alex wrote nine different positive digits on one red card and eight blue cards, only one digit per
card. The product of all the digits on the blue cards is 72576.
What digit is written on the red card?

2. Marcus painted the six faces of a 7 × 7 × 7 wood cube red, and then sawed the cube into
1 × 1 × 1 cubes. After that, he took the cubes with at least two red faces and stacked them in a
tower with a 2 × 2 base.
Find the height of this tower.

3. Find the sum of all the digits of the result of the calculation:

4. The hanger shown in the diagram is balanced. The weights of the white boxes are marked in the
figure. The weights of the black boxes are unknown; they could be the same or they could be
different.
Find the weight of the watermelon.
Assume that all parts of the hanger itself (horizontal bars and vertical strings) weigh nothing.

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 5. The paper rectangle is divided into six non-overlapping squares as shown in the diagram.
Compute the area of the rectangle if the area of the smallest square equals 1.

6. There are 100 puppies at a “Learn with Your Pet” event. Some are pure white, some are pure
black, and the rest are tri -colored with one white, one black, and two brown paws each. The
puppies have 221 white and 145 black paws altogether.
How many tri -colored puppies are at the event?

7. Nick has $5, $20, and $100 bills that total 17 bills. He exchanges all his $5 bills for $1 bills,
then all his $20 bills for $5 bills, and finally all his $100 bills for $20 bills. At the end, Nick has
a total of 77 bills.
How many $20 bills did Nick have originally?
Assume that each exchange preserves the total dollar amount of Nick’s money.

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 8. The product of a two-digit number and a three-digit number is equal to a five-digit number as
shown in the multiplication example.
Find the five-digit number (the product) if the tens digit of the three-digit number equals 8.
(Leftmost stars in each of the six numbers shown in the example can represent any non-zero digits,
other stars can represent any digits.)

9. Lucie and Suzie buy greeting cards. Lucie buys 10 more cards than one third of the girls’ total.
How many more cards should Suzie buy so that she has 10 more cards than two thirds of the girls’
total?
Assume that Lucie does not make any purchases after her initial purchase.

10. Each of six jars contains the same number of candies. Alice moves half of the candies from the
first jar to the second jar. Then Boris moves half of the candies from the second jar to the third
jar. Then Clara moves half of the candies from the third jar to the fourth jar. Then Dara moves
half of the candies from the fourth jar to the fifth. Finally, Ed moves half of the candies from the
fifth jar to the sixth jar. At the end, 30 candies are in the fourth jar.
How many candies are now in the sixth jar?

11. In the “expression”

each of the eleven @ symbols is replaced with either × or ÷ such that the value of the resulting
expression is an integer.
Find the greatest common factor of all such integer values.

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 12. The diagram shows three famous RSM cafes, R, S, and M. It takes one step to move from one
of these cafes directly to another.
How many different ways are there to start at R and end at M in exactly seven steps?
One possible way is
R − M − R − S − M − R − S − M.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 5

2 17

3 49

4 8

5 143

6 17

7 8

8 11868 or 11,868

9 60

10 63

11 231

12 43
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1 If 20 + XY + 19 = 100, compute 20 + YX – 19.

(X and Y represent the digits of the 2-digit numbers XY and YX.)

2 A car moved 1 second at a constant rate of 2 m/sec, then 1 second

at a constant rate of 4 m/sec, then 1 second at a constant rate of
6 m/sec, and so on. All movements were in the same direction. In
how many seconds would the total distance covered by the car be
110 meters?

3 Gary and Mary have the same number of candies. If

Gary gives Mary half of all his candies, and then Mary
gives Gary half of all the candies she has at the moment,

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

Gary would have 12 more candies than Mary. How
many candies do Gary and Mary have altogether?

4 Numbers were written in 1000 boxes in a row, one number per

box (only the first ten and the last five boxes are shown). For every
four boxes in a row, the sum of their numbers was 12. Most of the
numbers got erased over time, but three of them remain. What
number was written in the last box on the right?

0 1 2 ...
5 Four cats – Astro, Buttons, Calico, and Duchess – bought
30 mice altogether. Each of the four cats bought an odd
number of mice. Buttons bought more mice than Astro,
and Calico bought fewer mice than Duchess. What
is the greatest number of mice that could have been
bought by Astro and Calico altogether?

6 The area of a regular hexagon RASHMI S H

is 9102 square feet. Compute the area
(in square feet) of the triangle RSM.
A M

R I
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7 Fatima drew a rectangle with side lengths that were whole

numbers. The perimeter of the rectangle was a multiple of 7 and
the area was a multiple of 9. Compute the least possible perimeter
of Fatima’s rectangle.

8 How many quadrilaterals of all sizes and

positions are there in the diagram, including
quadrilaterals that are made up of more than
one shape?

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

Stretch and Shorty are friends. Every January 1st they
get measured and they write down the date, Stretch‘s
height, Shorty’s height, their total height, and their height
difference (the amount by which Stretch is taller than
Shorty). From January 1st, 2018, to January 1st, 2019,
Stretch grew 5%, Shorty grew 2%, their total height
increased by 4%, and their height difference increased by
X%. Compute the value of X.

10 How many different whole numbers are there containing only the
digits 1 and/or 2 (each of these digits can be used one or more
times or not at all) such that for each of these numbers, the sum of all
of its digits equals seven?

11 A teacher gave her students a paper square. The first student cut this
square into two shapes, using one straight cut not through any of the
paper’s corners. The second student cut one of the resulting shapes,
using one straight cut not through any of that shape’s corners, and so
on. After ten students had made their cuts, there were eleven shapes,
including seven triangles, two quadrilaterals, and a pentagon. How
many sides were in the remaining shape?

12 Say that a whole number is “five-important” if it is a multiple of 5

and/or contains the digit 5. For instance, the numbers 55, 120, and
456 are five-important, but the number 2019 is not. How many
different five-important numbers are there between 1 and 2019?
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Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 5-6
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

1 Today Alice ate 3 fewer candies than yesterday, and twice as many
cookies as yesterday. But the total number of candies and cookies
she ate today was the same as yesterday. How many cookies did
Alice eat today?

2 A ring is a flat shape formed by an inner

circle and an outer circle, as shown in
the first diagram. How many rings of all
sizes and types are there in the second
diagram containing five circles?

3 John took two different digits and using them wrote two different
2-digit numbers (each number uses both digits). The sum of these

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

2-digit numbers is also a 2-digit number. What is the greatest
possible value of the smaller of the written numbers?

4 A metal letter R weighs 2 pounds, a metal letter S weighs 1 pound,

and a metal letter M weighs 4 pounds. A certain 10-letter “word”
containing only the metal letters R, S, and M can be split into three
groups of letters weighing 9 pounds per group. How many letters M
are in this word?

5
In a very long toy train, the first and last cars were blue. After each
blue car (except the last one), there were two yellow cars. After each
pair of yellow cars, there was a red car. After each red car, there was a
blue car. The first five train cars are shown in the picture. Oleg picked
a car and recolored all cars in front of it green. Then Joyce picked
a car and recolored all cars behind it green. What is the greatest
possible number of non-green cars in the recolored toy train if it
contains 7 more yellow cars than blue cars?

6
Find the largest 6-digit multiple of 11 such that the sum of all its
digits equals 40.
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7 The Treasury wants to reduce usage of coins and is considering

several silly proposals: devalue a quarter by X% compared to a
penny, raise a dollar by X% compared to a penny, and make a dollar
worth 6 quarters. If it decides to implement all three proposals,
without any other explicit changes (so a penny is still worth 1 cent,
and a dime is still worth 10 cents), how many dimes would be in a
dollar?
8 Anna really likes numbers and decided to collect them. She started
her collection from the number 1001, which was a birthday gift from
RSM. After that, every week Anna added one more new number to
the collection by selecting the smallest counting number not yet in
the collection that was relatively prime to all the numbers already
in the collection. What number was added to Anna's collection

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on week 10? Note that after 10 weeks the collection contained 11
different numbers.

93 How many different ways are there to place six

different digits from 1 to 6 inside the six square
cells of a 2-by-3 grid (one digit per cell) such that
for every pair of consecutive digits (such as 3 and
4) their square cells share a side?

10 All possible diagonals drawn from the two adjacent vertices A and B
of a regular hectogon divide the hectogon’s interior into a number of
non-overlapping shapes – triangles and quadrilaterals (without any
part of a line inside them). How many of these shapes are triangles?
(A hectogon is a polygon with 100 sides.)

11 There are eight different cards (four red and four blue) with the digits
2, 0, 1, 7 on them. Each card has exactly one digit, and each of these
digits is on exactly two cards (one red and one blue). How many
different ways are there to put all eight cards in a row with digits face
up and right-side up such that every card appears right next to another
card with the same digit?

12 A teacher asked her students to find a 2-digit whole number which

has as many as possible different positive factors. Jen realized that
there was more than one such number, and listed each of them
once. Find the sum of all of Jen’s numbers.
Answers:
Problem No. Answer

1 6

2 10

3 45

4 5

5 34

6 999922

7 12

8 37

9 16

10 292

11 384

12 402
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First Name _____________________________________
Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 5-6
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

1 Jane’s mother left some cherries for her children. Jane ate 10
cherries, which was exactly 25 of all the cherries that her mother left.
Her brother Sam ate all the remaining cherries. How many cherries
did he eat?

2 From a big piece of paper Steve cut out 2016 shapes – squares and
regular pentagons. Then Michael cut each pentagon along one of its
diagonals. How many quadrilaterals were there at the end? (A regular
pentagon has five equal sides and five equal angles. A diagonal of
a pentagon is a segment which connects two corners that are not
already connected by a side.)

3 There are 30 puppies, kittens, and mice altogether in the RSM

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Pet Hotel. There are twice as many kittens' ears as puppies' tails.
There are twice as many puppies' paws as mice's eyes. How many
kittens are there in the RSM Pet Hotel (if every animal has the usual
number of body parts)?

4 The diagram shows a 4-by-7

rectangle composed of unit squares,
where parts of some lines have been
erased. How many squares of all
sizes and positions are there in this
diagram, including squares that are
made up of other squares?

5
Stan bought several pizza pies. He cut the first pie into 2 slices, the
second pie into 3 slices, the third pie into 4 slices, and so forth. Then
he ate one slice from each pie and counted that only 21 slices were
left. How many slices did Stan eat?

6
The RSM Seed Company sells seeds for the Rare Rose, which
blooms every 12 years; the Seldom Sunflower, which blooms
every 7 years; and the Miracle Magnolia, which blooms every 50
years. If all three plants bloom in 2016, in what year will all three
of them bloom again the next time?
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First Name _____________________________________
Last Name _____________________________________ Grades
Grade __________________________________________
School __________________________________________ 5-6
City ___________________________________________
RSM Branch____________________________________

7 In 1st grade Bob and Pete were the same height. By 6th grade, Bob
grew 20% whereas Pete grew 20 cm. By 11th grade, compared with
6th grade, Pete grew 20% whereas Bob grew 20 cm. By how many
centimeters is Pete taller than Bob in 11th grade?

8 On Monday, Matthew folded a paper rectangle once to get another

rectangle. On Tuesday, he folded this new rectangle once to get
another rectangle. Mattew continued to do so daily until he got
(after the fifth folding) a 2 cm-by-3 cm rectangle on Friday.
What is the greatest possible perimeter (in centimeters) of the
original rectangle?

93 There are four pens (black, blue, red, and green) and four pen

Please fold over on line. Write answers on back.

caps (blue, blue, red, and green). How many ways are there to put
all four caps on all four pens (exactly one cap per pen) with the
restriction that pen’s and cap’s colors should be different for each
pen? Note that the two blue caps are identical.

10 Ravi wrote (using white chalk) the number 123,456,789 on the board.
Then he wrote (using yellow chalk) the number 20 near every white
odd digit on the board, and the number 16 near every white even
digit on the board. Then he wrote (using pink chalk) the number 20
near every non-pink odd digit on the board, and the number 16 near
every non-pink even digit on the board. Finally, he wrote (using grey
chalk) the number 20 near every non-grey odd digit on the board,
and the number 16 near every non-grey even digit on the board.
How many even digits are on the board now?

11 Ben thought of four different positive numbers. Exactly two of his

numbers are multiples of 2, exactly two of his numbers are multiples of
3, and exactly two of his numbers are multiples of 5. What is the least
possible value of the sum of the four numbers Ben thought of?

12 Say that a pair of numbers X and Y (X may equal Y) is “special” if their

sum and their product have the same units digit. How many different
special pairs of two-digit whole numbers are there? Count pairs
(X, Y) and (Y, X) as one pair.
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1. Jane’s mother left some cherries for her children. Jane ate 10 cherries, which was exactly
2
5
of all the cherries that her mother left. Her brother Sam ate all the remaining cherries.
How many cherries did he eat?
Answer: 15
2
Solution 1. Since the 10 cherries Jane ate were exactly 5 of all the cherries, then 10÷2 = 5
1
cherries were 5 of all the cherries. Jane’s brother Sam ate all the remaining cherries,
2 3
which was exactly 1 − 5
= 5
of all the cherries, so he ate 3×5 = 15 cherries.

2
Solution 2. Since the 10 cherries Jane ate were exactly 5 of all the cherries, then Jane’s
2 5
mother left 10 ÷ 5 = 10 × 2 = 25 cherries for her children. So Sam ate 25 – 10 = 15
remaining cherries.

2. From a big piece of paper Steve cut out 2016 shapes – squares and regular pentagons.
Then Michael cut each pentagon along one of its diagonals. How many quadrilaterals
were there at the end? (A regular pentagon has five equal sides and five equal angles. A
diagonal of a pentagon is a segment which connects two corners that are not already
connected by a side.)
Answer: 2016
Solution. Cutting a regular pentagon along one of its diagonals leaves one triangle and
one quadrilateral. Squares are also quadrilaterals. Thus there will be one quadrilateral at
the end for each shape Steve cut out, or 2016, no matter how many of these shapes were
squares or regular pentagons.

3. There are 30 puppies, kittens, and mice altogether in the RSM Pet Hotel. There are twice
as many kittens' ears as puppies' tails. There are twice as many puppies' paws as mice's
eyes. How many kittens are there in the RSM Pet Hotel (if every animal has the usual
number of body parts)?
Answer: 10
Solution. Since kittens have two ears each, there are twice as many kittens’ ears as
kittens. Since puppies have one tail each, there are as many puppies’ tails as puppies. So
the number of kittens equals half the number of kittens’ ears, and therefore the number of
kittens equals the number of puppies’ tails which equals the number of puppies. Since
puppies have four paws each, there are four times as many puppies’ paws as puppies.
Since mice have two eyes each, there are twice as many mice’s eyes as mice. So the
number of puppies equals a quarter of the number of puppies’ paws, and therefore the
number of puppies equals half the number of mice’s eyes which equals the number of
mice. This means that the RSM Pet Hotel has the same number of puppies, kittens, and
mice for a total of 30 tenants. Thus there are 10 (one third of 30) kittens in the RSM Pet
Hotel.

4. The diagram shows a 4-by-7 rectangle composed of unit squares,

where parts of some lines have been erased. How many squares of
all sizes and positions are there in this diagram, including squares
that are made up of other squares?
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Answer: 34
Solution. The diagram contains only squares that are 1×1, 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4. There are
20 1×1 squares, 8 2×2 squares, 4 3×3 squares, and 2 4×4 squares, for a total of 20 + 8 + 4
+ 2 = 34 squares of all sizes and positions in the diagram.

5. Stan bought several pizza pies. He cut the first pie into 2 slices, the second pie into 3
slices, the third pie into 4 slices, and so forth. Then he ate one slice from each pie and
counted that only 21 slices were left. How many slices did Stan eat?
Answer: 6
Solution. After Stan ate one slice from each pie, there remained 1 slice from the first pie,
2 slices from the second pie, 3 slices from the third pie, and so forth. Since 21 = 1 + 2 + 3
+ 4 + 5 + 6, Stan must have bought 6 pizza pies, and therefore he ate 6 slices.

6. The RSM Seed Company sells seeds for the Rare Rose, which blooms every 12 years; the
Seldom Sunflower, which blooms every 7 years; and the Miracle Magnolia, which
blooms every 50 years. If all three plants bloom in 2016, in what year will all three of
them bloom again the next time?
Answer: 4116
Solution. The prime factorization of number 12 is 2×2×3, number 7 is prime, and the
prime factorization of number 50 is 2×5×5. Therefore the least common multiple of 12, 7,
and 50 is 2×2×3×7×5×5 = (3×7)×(2×5)×(2×5) = 21×10×10 = 2100. Thus it will take
2100 years until the next time all three plants bloom in the same year, so the answer is
2016 + 2100 = 4116.

7. In 1st grade Bob and Pete were the same height. By 6th grade, Bob grew 20% whereas
Pete grew 20 cm. By 11th grade, compared with 6th grade, Pete grew 20% whereas Bob
grew 20 cm. By how many centimeters is Pete taller than Bob in 11th grade?
Answer: 4
Solution. In 6th grade Pete was 20 cm taller than he was in 1st grade. By 11th grade,
compared with 6th grade, Pete grew 20%, so in 11th grade he was taller than in 1st grade
by a total of 20 cm, plus 20% of his height in 1st grade, plus 20% of 20 cm (which is
0.2×20 = 4 cm). In 6th grade Bob was 20% taller than he was in 1st grade. By 11th grade,
compared with 6th grade, Bob grew 20 cm, so in 11th grade he was taller than in 1st grade
by a total of 20% of his height in 1st grade, plus 20 cm. Since Bob and Pete were the same
height in 1st grade, in 11th grade Pete is taller than Bob by 4 cm.

8. On Monday, Matthew folded a paper rectangle once to get another rectangle. On

Tuesday, he folded this new rectangle once to get another rectangle. Mattew continued to
do so daily until he got (after the fifth folding) a 2 cm-by-3 cm rectangle on Friday. What
is the greatest possible perimeter (in centimeters) of the original rectangle?
Answer: 196
Solution. Let’s consider only rectangles with vertical and horizontal sides. First, let’s
consider two rectangles, A and B, such that rectangle A is fully covered by rectangle B.
We “unfold” the rectangle A once (using any of the possible creases) to get rectangle C.
Then we can use the same crease (or its extension) to “unfold” rectangle B once to get
rectangle D. It is clear that rectangle D fully covers rectangle C, and therefore the
perimeter of rectangle D is not less than the perimeter of rectangle C.
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Let’s also designate the “after the fifth folding” 2 cm-by-3 cm rectangle Z as
having horizontal sides 3 cm long and vertical sides 2 cm long. Note that there are just
two possibilities for the “after the fourth folding” rectangle Y. The first one has a vertical
crease along the 2-cm side. In this case the longest possible adjacent side of rectangle Y is
2×3 = 6 cm long (twice the length of the folded side), and all other possible (for this case)
rectangles Y are fully covered by this 2 cm-by-6 cm rectangle Y 1 . The second possibility
has a horizontal crease along the 3-cm side. In this case the longest possible adjacent side
of rectangle Y is 2×2= 4 cm long (twice the length of the folded side), and all other
possible (for this case) rectangles Y are fully covered by this 4 cm-by-3 cm rectangle Y 2 .
Since each possible “after the fourth folding” rectangle Y is fully covered either by
rectangle Y 1 or by rectangle Y 2 , in order to get the original rectangle having the greatest
possible perimeter, we can continue to unfold only rectangles Y 1 and Y 2 . By applying
similar reasoning, we conclude that each possible “after the third folding” rectangle X is
fully covered either by 2 cm-by-12 cm rectangle X 1 , or by 4 cm-by-6 cm rectangle X 2 , or
by 8 cm-by-3 cm rectangle X 3 , so in order to get the original rectangle having the greatest
possible perimeter, we can continue to unfold only rectangles X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 . After
applying similar reasoning a few more times, we conclude that each possible original
rectangle U is fully covered either by 2 cm-by-96 cm rectangle U 1 , or by 4 cm-by-48 cm
rectangle U 2 , or by 8 cm-by-24 cm rectangle U 3 , or by 16 cm-by-12 cm rectangle U 4 , or
by 32 cm-by-6 cm rectangle U 5 , or by 64 cm-by-3 cm rectangle U 6 . Thus, to find the
greatest possible perimeter of the original rectangle, we can simply compute perimeters
of the six rectangles U 1 , U 2 , U 3 , U 4 , U 5 , and U 6 , and take the greatest of their values.
These six rectangles have perimeters of 2×(2 + 96) = 196 cm, 2×(4 + 48) = 104 cm, 2×(8
+ 24) = 64 cm, 2×(16 + 12) = 56 cm, 2×(32 + 6) = 76 cm, and 2×(64 + 3) = 134 cm, so
the answer is 196.

9. There are four pens (black, blue, red, and green) and four pen caps (blue, blue, red, and
green). How many ways are there to put all four caps on all four pens (exactly one cap
per pen) with the restriction that pen’s and cap’s colors should be different for each pen?
Note that the two blue caps are identical.
Answer: 4
Solution. A cap on the blue pen could be either red or green. Let’s start from the case
when the blue pen is capped by the red cap, and other three pens are yet uncapped. In this
case the green cap could be put on any of the two yet-uncapped non-green pens (black or
red, 2 possibilities), and the remaining two blue caps must be put on the two yet-
uncapped pens (just 1 possibility, since the two blue caps are identical). In total, we
counted 2 ways to put all four caps on all four pens (exactly one cap per pen) with the red
cap on the blue pen. By symmetry, there are also 2 ways to put all four caps on all four
pens (exactly one cap per pen) with the green cap on the blue pen. Since no other cap can
be put on the blue pen, there are a total of 2 + 2 = 4 ways to put all four caps on all four
pens (exactly one cap per pen) with the restriction that pen’s and cap’s colors should be
different for each pen.

10. Ravi wrote (using white chalk) the number 123,456,789 on the board. Then he wrote
(using yellow chalk) the number 20 near every white odd digit on the board, and the
number 16 near every white even digit on the board. Then he wrote (using pink chalk) the
number 20 near every non-pink odd digit on the board, and the number 16 near every
non-pink even digit on the board. Finally, he wrote (using grey chalk) the number 20 near
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every non-grey odd digit on the board, and the number 16 near every non-grey even digit
on the board. How many even digits are on the board now?
Answer: 162
Solution 1. Ravi wrote (using white chalk) 5 odd (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) and 4 even (2, 4, 6, 8)
digits on the board. For each of the 5 (white) odd digits, he wrote the number 20 in
yellow near it. Since both digits 2 and 0 are even, Ravi wrote 10 yellow even digits (5
twos and 5 zeroes). For each of the 4 white even digits, he wrote the number 16 in yellow
near it. Since 1 is odd and 6 is even, Ravi wrote 4 yellow odd digits (1s) and 4 more
yellow even digits (6s). Thus the total number of even digits now is 4 (white even digits
from the original number) + 10 (yellow 2s and 0s) + 4 (yellow 6s) = 18. The total number
of odd digits now is 5 (white odd digits from the original number) + 4 (yellow 1s) = 9.
All of the digits on the board are non-pink.
Then Ravi wrote, all in pink, 9 twos (even), 9 zeroes (even), 18 ones (odd) and 18
sixes (even). This adds 9 + 9 + 18 = 36 more even digits (for a total of 18 + 36 = 54) and
18 more odd digits (for a total of 9 + 18 = 27). All of the digits on the board are non-grey.
Finally Ravi wrote, all in grey, 27 twos (even), 27 zeroes (even), 54 ones (odd) and 54
sixes (even). This adds 27 + 27 + 54 = 108 more even digits, bringing the total number of
even digits on the board to 54 + 108 = 162.

Solution 2. For each of the 9 white digits on the board, Ravi wrote two yellow digits near
it. After this there are 3 times as many digits on the board as white digits, for a total of
3×9 = 27 white/yellow digits. Similarly, there is a total of 3×27 = 81 white/yellow/pink
(non-grey) digits on the board. Each of these non-grey digits is either even or odd.
Ravi wrote the number 20 in grey near every non-grey odd digit on the board.
Both digits 2 and 0 are even, so each non-grey odd digit “owns” 2 even digits on the
board. Then Ravi wrote the number 16 in grey near every non-grey even digit on the
board. Only one of the digits 1 and 6 is even (6), so each non-grey even digit also “owns”
2 even digits on the board (one grey digit near it and itself). Thus, now there are twice as
many even digits on the board as non-grey digits, for a total of 2×81 = 162 even digits.

11. Ben thought of four different positive numbers. Exactly two of his numbers are multiples
of 2, exactly two of his numbers are multiples of 3, and exactly two of his numbers are
multiples of 5. What is the least possible value of the sum of the four numbers Ben
thought of?
Answer: 24
Solution. If Ben thought of the four positive numbers 3, 5, 6 = 2×3, and 10 = 2×5, their
sum would be 3 + 5 + 6 + 10 = 24, and exactly two of his numbers are multiples of 2,
exactly two of his numbers are multiples of 3, and exactly two of his numbers are
multiples of 5. Now let’s prove that if the four numbers Ben thought of satisfy all the
conditions of the problem, the sum of these four numbers is at least 24.
Exactly two of the four numbers are multiples of 5. If neither of them is exactly 5,
then the sum of these two different positive multiples of 5 is at least 10 + 15 = 25 > 24. If
one of them is 5 and the other one is at least 20, then their sum is at least 5 + 20 = 25 >
24. If one of them is 5 and the other one is 15, then both of them are odd, so the other two
of the four numbers must be the multiples of 2. The sum of these two different positive
multiples of 2 is at least 2 + 4 = 6, so the sum of the four numbers is at least 5 + 15 + 6 =
26 > 24.
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Finally, if one of the two multiples of 5 is 5 and the other one is 10, then neither
of them is a multiple of 3, so the other two of the four numbers must be the multiples of
3. The sum of these two different positive multiples of 3 is at least 3 + 6 = 9, so the sum
of the four numbers is at least 5 + 10 + 9 = 24. Thus, the least possible value of the sum
of the four numbers Ben thought of is 24.

12. Say that a pair of numbers X and Y (X may equal Y) is “special” if their sum and their
product have the same units digit. How many different special pairs of two-digit whole
numbers are there? Count pairs (X, Y) and (Y, X) as one pair.
Answer: 171
Solution. If both whole numbers in a pair are odd, then their sum is even (and therefore
has an even units digit) and their product is odd (and therefore has an odd units digit), so
the sum and the product have different units digits and the pair cannot be special. If one
of the two whole numbers in a pair is even and the other one is odd, then their sum is odd
(and therefore has an odd units digit) and their product is even (and therefore has an even
units digit), so the sum and the product have different units digits and again the pair
cannot be special. Thus, both whole numbers making a special pair must be even. In other
words, each of them must have an even units digit. Note that for any two whole numbers,
the units digit of their sum and the units digit of their product depend only on the units
digits of the numbers themselves.
If one of the two whole numbers in a pair has units digit 0, the product of the two
numbers has units digit 0, and therefore for the pair to be special the sum of the two
numbers must also have units digit 0, so the other number in the pair must have units
digit 0. And vice versa, when both whole numbers have the same units digit 0, their sum
and their product have the same units digit (namely 0) and the pair is special. Checking
other possibilities for the units digits of two even whole numbers (2 and 2, 2 and 4, 2 and
6, 2 and 8, 4 and 4, 4 and 6, 4 and 8, 6 and 6, 6 and 8, 8 and 8) yields that only cases “2
and 2” and “4 and 8” produce special pairs. When both whole numbers have the same
units digit 2, their sum and their product have the same units digit (namely 4) and the pair
is special. When one of the two whole numbers has units digits 4 and the other one has
units digit 8, their sum and their product have the same units digit (namely 2) and the pair
is special.
Now let’s count how many different pairs of two-digit whole numbers satisfy the
following condition: either both numbers have the same units digit 0; or both numbers
have the same units digit 2; or one of the numbers has units digit 4 and the other one has
units digit 8. Remember that pairs (X, Y) and (Y, X) should be counted as only one pair.
There are 9 two-digit whole numbers with units digit 0 (the tens digit could be any of the
9 non-zero digits). These numbers produce 9×9 = 81 pairs, 9 pairs of type (X, X) and 81 –
9 = 72 pairs of type (X, Y) with X ≠ Y. But we need to count pairs (X, Y) and (Y, X) as one
pair, so we have to count 72 pairs (X, Y) with X ≠ Y as just 72÷2 = 36 different pairs.
Pairs (X, X) were already counted once each, so there are 9 + 36 = 45 different pairs of
two-digit whole numbers having units digit 0. Similarly, there are 45 different pairs of
two-digit whole numbers having units digit 2.
Finally, let’s count how many different pairs of two-digit whole numbers satisfy
the following condition: one of the numbers has units digit 4 and the other one has units
digit 8. To avoid counting duplicate pairs (like (14, 98) and (98, 14)), we can simply
assume that the first number in a pair has units digit 4, and the second number has units
digit 8. There are 9 two-digit whole numbers with units digit 4 (the tens digit could be
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any of the 9 non-zero digits). Similarly, there are 9 two-digit whole numbers with units
digit 8. Thus, there are 9×9 = 81 different pairs of two-digit whole numbers with one
number in a pair having units digit 4 and the other one having units digit 8. Altogether,
there are 45 + 45 + 81 = 171 special pairs of two-digit whole numbers.
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1. Find the least possible four-digit number that is divisible by 4 and that you can make using each
of the digits 2, 0, 2, 3.
[{{67}}]
2032 or 2,032

2. You have a set of consecutive integers from (−5) to 5, inclusive. You multiply any three of the
integers. What is the least positive integer you can get as the product?
[{{58}}]
The least positive integer you can get is 2.

3. Solve the equation.

5 x −55 = 1255
[{{67}}]
x = 70

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 4. The figure below is made of nine 1 inch × 1 inch squares. What is the perimeter of the figure?

[{{58}}]
The perimeter of the figure is 16 inches.

5. What is the least six-digit number in which the sum of the digits equals 33?
[{{34}}]
105999 or 105,999

6. If Masha buys three roses she will have 7 dollars left. To buy nine roses, Masha will need to
borrow 11 dollars from her father. How many dollars does Masha have?

[{{60}}]
Masha has 16 dollars.

7. John the Farmer filled a barrel with water. But there was a crack in the bottom of the barrel, and
the water steadily leaked out. After the barrel was full, 20% of the water leaked out in the first
hour. What percent of the remaining water leaked out in the second hour?

[{{42}}]
25%

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 8. 14 friends are saving money for a trip to the movies. 6 of the friends put $1.50 into the pile
every day, while others put $1.50 into the pile every even day, and the rest of the friends put
$1.50 into the pile every odd day. If $12 was put into the pile on February 3rd , how much
money will be put into the pile on February 4th ?

[{{64}}]
18 dollars will be added to the pile on February 4th.

9. The large square is divided into four rectangles and a small square. The center of the large
square and the center of the small square is the same point. What is the area of one rectangle if
the large square has side length 7, and the small square has side length 3?

[{{74}}]
The area of one rectangle is 10 square units.

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 10. A wizard needs to prepare 735 ml of a magic drink. The recipe calls for watermelon juice,
coconut water, and potion in the ratio 21 : 11 : 3. If the wizard has 300 ml of potion, how many
milliliters of the potion will be unused?

[{{56}}]
237 milliliters of the potion will be unused.

11. What number times 865 is 1650 ?

[{{58}}]
32

12. A line passes through the points (2a + 50, 9) and (40 − a , 3) and through the origin. What is
the value of a ?
[{{40}}]
a = 14

13. A line of people are waiting for a store to open because there is a big sale today. But while the
manager is looking for his keys, another person squeezes in between every two people in the
line. Then the manager can't get his key to work, and again one person squeezes in between
every two people in the line. Now 121 people are in the line. How many people were initially in
the line?

[{{30}}]
There were 31 people in the line.

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 14. A travel company had a contest and Bree won a trip to seven countries.
The rules are that Bree must visit the countries in the order told to her by
the travel company, but she can decide to skip visiting any of the countries
except the first one. So, Bree can visit a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7
countries. In how many ways can Bree organize her trip?
[{{15}}]
She can organize the trip in 64 ways.

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 IMC 2022 Grade 7
1. Solve the equation.
33x = 99

2. You have the set of all the integers from (−16) to 26, inclusive. You take two of the integers and
subtract one from the other. What is the greatest difference you can get?

3. A rectangle has length 14 cm and width 4 cm. What is the area of a square that has the same
perimeter as the rectangle?

4. Peter took three photos. The photos show a total of 44 birds. The second photo has 9 fewer birds
than the first photo. The third photo has 5 more birds than the first photo. How many birds are in
the first photo?

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 5.
A basketball team took a total of 100 shots. One player took 70% of all 100 shots, and made a
basket 60% of the time. How many shots did this player miss?

6. The product of all of the solutions of (4x + 2k)(2 − 5x ) = 0 is (−15). Find k .

7. Aadya and Ethan like playing with remote control cars. They use a rectangular coordinate
system in the play area. Aadya puts her car on A(2, 3) and Ethan puts his car on B(9, 12). Then
the children drive the cars toward each other until they collide. What is the sum of the
coordinates of the point on which the cars collide if they drive at the same speed?

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 8. People in Spaceland live in 8 space stations, and travel between the stations in tubes. Every pair
of stations is connected by two tubes. These are the only tubes in Spaceland. What is the total
number of tubes?

9. By what percent will a fraction increase if its numerator is increased by 80% and its
denominator is decreased by 40%?

10. Find y if 2x 3 + 9y = 15 and x 3 + 4y = 20 .

11. Find the area of the middle rectangle if you know the two specified distances and the areas of
the left and right rectangles.

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 12. You can only use even digits, and each digit only once. What is the least four-digit number that
is divisible by 24?

13. Noah and his grandfather were returning home from a walk. When they were 800 m away
from the house, the grandfather said that he was thirsty. Noah immediately ran home, got a bottle
of water, and ran back to meet his grandfather who never stopped walking at a steady pace. How
many meters from the house did they meet if Noah ran four times as fast as his grandfather
walked?

14. A group of ants is very organized, and every 2 seconds an ant leaves the ant hill and begins
walking to a nearby tree for supplies. All ants walk at the same speed and get to the tree in 100
seconds. One day, Victor walks to the tree as usual, but then he decides to immediately run back,
and he gets back to the hill in 65 seconds. How many ants (walking to the tree) does Victor meet
on his way back?

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Question No. Answer

1 x=6

2 The greatest difference you can get is 42.

3 The area of the square is 81 square centimeters.

4 There are 16 birds in the first photo.

5 The player missed 28 shots.

6 k = 75

7 The sum of the coordinates of the point is 13.

8 The total number of tubes is 56.

9 The fraction will increase by 200 percent.

10 y = 625

11 The area of the middle rectangle is 45.

12 The least four-digit number that is divisible by 24 is 2064 or 2,064.

13 They met 480 meters from the house.

14 82 ants
 IMC 2021
Grade 7

1. Find x :
36 2
x+6
= 3

2. What is the difference between the largest even two-digit number and
the smallest odd two-digit number?

3. Find x :
2 x = 48 · 84

4. There are 18 black and 12 navy socks in your drawer. The room is dark and you cannot turn on
the light. What is the least number of socks that you have to take out of your drawer to be certain
that you have a pair of black socks?

5. You have a set of consecutive integers from ( − 10) to 5, inclusive. You multiply any three of
the integers. What is the greatest product you can get?

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 6. An opera theater has a sale: "Buy two tickets and get the third ticket
60% off!" Peter uses the sale and spends $180 for three tickets. What is
the price of a ticket when there is no sale?

7. There are a total of 375 flamingos, parrots, herons, and chachalacas at the Famous Bird
Sanctuary. The ratio of flamingos to parrots to herons is 10 : 7 : 3, respectively. There are twice
as many flamingos as chachalacas. How many chachalacas are at the sanctuary?

8. The sum of all the solutions of the equation (6x + k )(3x − 11) = 0 is 1. Find k .

9. A caterpillar crawling in a straight line across a coordinate plane starts at point (−3, −4) and
ends at point (25, 38). Counting the start point and end point, how many points with integer
coordinates does the caterpillar touch?

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 10. The area of square ABCD is 144 square units. The area of square EFGH is 64 square units. H ∈
¯ ¯
AB and G ∈ BC . The blue area is three times the red area. Find the area of △HBG.

11. Working together, two ants named Aran and Beatrice can build an ant hill
in 10 hours. Aran and Charlie can build the ant hill in 12 hours. Beatrice
and Charlie can build the ant hill in 15 hours. How long, in hours, will it
take to build the ant hill if Aran, Beatrice, and Charlie work together?

¯ ¯
12. AB = AC = 25 and BC = 30. BD is perpendicular to AC . Find BD.

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 13. Three lions and three tigers are walking in a row to get ice cream. The lions are fighting, so
they are not walking next to each other. In how many different ways can the three lions and three
tigers walk if no two lions are the same and no two tigers are the same?

14. How many divisors of 7! = 7 · 6 · 5 · 4 · 3 · 2 · 1 are divisible by 7 ? (Example: 14 has two

divisors, 7 and 14, that are divisible by 7.)

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Question No. Answer

1 x = 48

2 87

3 x = 28

4 The least number of socks that you have to take out is 14.

5 The greatest product you can get is 450.

6 The price of a ticket when there is no sale is $75.

7 There are 75 chachalacas at the sanctuary.

8 k = 16

9 She touched 15 points with integer coordinates.

10 The area of △HBG is 24 square units.

11 8 hours.

12 BD = 24

13 The three lions and three tigers can walk in 144 different ways.

14 30 divisors of 7! are divisible by 7.

 IMC 2020 Grade 7
1. The ratio of 36 to x is equal to 20% of 9. Find x.

2. Solve the equation.

3. Elena harvested 75 kg of apples last autumn. This autumn, her harvest

increased by 24%. How many kilograms of apples did she harvest this
autumn?

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 4. Two families buy tickets to some home games. The Murphy family has 4 members and goes to
7 games. The Chen family has 5 members and goes to 4 games. If the two families spend a total
of $1200, and all seats cost the same amount, how much did the Murphys spend on tickets?

5. Three pirates named Ahab, Sparrow, and Davy play a game. The pirates have a total of 210
coins, and each pirate has a different number of coins. At the end of the game, Ahab has won 5
coins and Davy has won 7 coins. Now, the ratio of coins belonging to Ahab, Sparrow, and Davy
is 4 : 5 : 6, respectively. How many coins did Sparrow have at the beginning of the game?

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 6. A line passes through the origin and through points A(−2, b − 14) and B(14 − b , 72). What is
the greatest possible value of b ?

7. Given (8x + 3k )(9x − 2) = 0, the product of all solutions is ( − 3). Find k.

8. Your city is having a sneaker convention! A pair of Ground Morgans is 20% less expensive than
a pair of Elite Butterflies, Elite Butterflies are 30% more expensive than Cloud Trainers, and
Cloud Trainers are 50% less expensive than Floating Jumps. What percent of the cost of a pair of
Floating Jumps is a pair of Ground Morgans?

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 9. A 1.5-meter snake lives in the ceiling of a college’s Chemistry Building.
One day, she decides to go outside, and slithers through a pipe at the
speed of 15 centimeters per second. In 90 seconds, she slithers all the way
through the pipe and her whole body is outside. How long, in meters, is
the pipe? Note: 1 meter = 100 centimeters

10. If a ∇ b = a b and (9 ∇ 8) ∇ 8 = 3 ∇ (2 ∇ k), find k.

11. Paper rectangle ABCD is folded in such a way that the fold passes through point B, and so A
coincides with point H where H ∈ CD. BK is the folding line where K ∈ AD. m∠BKD = 120°. If
BK = 28 cm, find BC.

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12. Every jump a game piece makes measures 9 . The piece starts at point A = 3 and jumps to the
right. As soon as the piece jumps over B = 60, it switches direction and jumps to the left. The
piece then stops at point C = −21. How many jumps did the game piece take?

13. ABCD is a convex quadrilateral that is inscribed in a circle. AB = 10, AD = 24, and m∠BAD =
90°. Find the greatest possible area of ABCD.

14. Determine how many perfect squares are divisors of 10! = 1 · 2·...·9 · 10.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 x​ = 20

2 x​ = 24

3 Elena harvested 93 kilograms of apples this autumn.

4 The Murphy family spent $700.

5 Sparrow had 82 coins at the beginning of the game.

6 The greatest possible value of ​b​ is 26.

7 k​ = 36

8 The cost of a pair of Ground Morgans is 52 percent of the cost of a

pair of Floating Jumps.

9 The pipe is 12 meters long.

10 k​ = 7

11 BC = 21 cm

12 The game piece took 157 jumps.

13 The greatest possible area of ABCD is 289 square units.

14 30 perfect squares are divisors of 10.

 IMC 2019 Grade 7
x−3 18
1. Find x , if 15 = 5

2. Chelsea is a chess champion. She’s played 132 games; her ratio of wins to draws to losses is
6 : 3 : 2. How many games has she won?

264
3. Calculate: .
6410

4. 42% of 42 is 84% of what number?

5
( )
5. Calculate: − 9 · (10.8 − 3.6) + 27

6. A caterpillar started at point (−2.5, −5.5) on a coordinate plane. She crawled in a straight line
through the origin to point (45, y ). What is y ?

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 7. Every sunny day, the Always Philadelphia Bakery bakes 100 cakes and 60 muffins. In any other
weather, it bakes 40 cakes and 120 muffins per day. This April, the Always Philadelphia Bakery
made the same number of cakes as muffins. How many of this April’s 30 days were sunny?

8. ABCD is a trapezoid (AD¯

∥ BC
¯
). BC = 5 cm, m ∠ACD = m ∠ABC = 90°, m ∠BAC = 30°. Find
¯
the length of AD (the picture is not drawn to scale).

9. Find the sum of all solutions to this equation:

2x − 4 2x + 8 2x − 70
x+1
· 2 · x+2 =0

10. When they are both racing on hoverboards, Victoria is 3 times as fast as her brother Max.
When she is on foot, she is 3 times slower than Max on his hoverboard. They took off on
hoverboards at the same time, but after 12 minutes, Victoria’s hoverboard broke and she
immediately started to run. If the race was a tie, how long, in minutes, did it last from start to
finish?

1 n 4
11. How many natural numbers n satisfy the inequality: 7 < 10 < 5 ?

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 12. From three chocolate bars we can make at most five chocolate rabbits and
have some leftover. What is the greatest possible number of chocolate
rabbits that can be made from sixteen chocolate bars (maybe with some
leftover)?

13. Find the number of zeroes at the end of the number 55! = 1 · 2·…·54 · 55

14. Points A, B, C, D, and E lie on the given circle. Point I is the common vertex of four squares
shown on the picture. Area of square ABIG is 144 square units. Area of square MEIH is 100
square units. Find area of square DKIL.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 x = 57.

2 Chelsea won 72 games.

3 16

4 21

5 23

6 y = 99

7 There were 20 sunny days this April.

9 The sum of all solutions is 33.

10 The race lasted 48 minutes.

11 6 natural numbers n satisfy the inequality.

12 31 chocolate rabbits.

13 13 zeroes.

14 The area of square DKIL is 25 square units.

 Grade 7
IMC 2018
1. Shreya beat her school’s 50 meter freestyle record by swimming 25% faster than
the previous record of 48 seconds. What is the new school record that Shreya set?

2. Calculate:

3. How many times is:

4. Jacob is helping his father’s bakery to make their huge holiday fruitcake, which
requires 84 ounces of dried fruit. If the recipe says the ratio of dried pineapple to
currants to cranberries is 9 : 7 : 5, how many ounces of currants should Jacob fold
into the batter?

5. Solve the equation:

6. Find the product of all solutions of the equation (10x + 33) · (11x + 60) = 0

7. If we take 30% of some number and add 60.2, we get the original number. What
is it?

2 1
8. If of the distance from the y-axis to point A (−30, −45) is equal to of the
3 4
distance from the x-axis to point B(a, a), where a > 0, what is the value of a?

9. Karen is hosting a pizza party for herself and 29 guests. She wants to order
1 2
enough pizzas so that each person gets more than , but less than of a pizza.
5 3
How many different quantities of pizza could Karen order?

10.

11. An old-fashioned bicycle has two differently sized wheels. The circumference of
the front wheel is 9 feet larger than the circumference of the back wheel. Thomas
biked for a while and, according to his equipment, the front wheel went all the
way around 500 times and the smaller wheel went all the way around 1400 times.
How far, in feet, did Thomas bike?
12. ABCD is a quadrilateral. 𝐴𝐷 ∥ 𝐵𝐶 , AB = BC = CD, AC = AD. Find m∠ADC.

13. Find x, if √𝒙 + 2y 2 = 15 and √4𝑥 − 4y 2 = 6.

14. ABCD is a rectangle. E is the midpoint of 𝐵𝐶 , F is the midpoint of 𝐴𝐵 and G is the

point of intersection of 𝐴𝐸 and 𝐶𝐹 . If the area of ABCD is 1260 square units, find
the area of the quadrilateral BFGE.
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 The new school record is 36 seconds.

2 12

3 27 times less.

4 Jacob should fold in 28 ounces of currants.

5 x = 36

6 The product of all solutions is 18.

7 The original number is 86.

8 a = 80

9 Karen could order 13 different quantities of pizza.

10 17

11 Thomas biked 7000 feet.

12 72

13 x = 81

14 The area of the quadrilateral BFGE is 210 square units.

 Grade 7
IMC 2017
1. Last month, Ella took 600 selfies. She took 35% more selfies this month than she
did last month. How many selfies did Ella take this month?

2. What percent of the cube of 5 is 5?

3. Three friends, Jim, Jack, and John, hunted for Pokemon. Jack caught three times
as many Pokemon as Jim, and John caught twice as many Pokemon as Jim. How
many Pokemon did Jack catch if together they caught 72 Pokemon?

4. Solve the equation: 47x = 260 · 16x /2

5. How many times is 416 · 832 greater than 16 · 2120 ?

6. An ant walked on the coordinate plane from point A( − 3,1) to point B(1,25) by
the shortest path. Find y-coordinate of the point where the ant intersected y-axis.
 5
7. What is the sum of ( − 5.5) and the product of and the number that is 100
3
greater than (− 5.5)?

8. The sum of all the solutions of the equation: (10x − 3a )(3x + 39)(5x − 3) = 0 is (
− 1).
Find a.

9. Find x, if 3x − 5(y + x )2 = 16 and 4x + 2(y + x )2 = 30.

10. Three robots ran the same distance. The first robot ran 150 meters per minute.
The second robot ran 150 meters per minute faster than the first robot and 120
meters per minute faster than the third robot. The winner finished 2 minutes
before the robot that finished in second place. What distance (in meters) did the
robots run?
 𝒙+𝟏𝟐𝒚
11. If = 19, find:
𝒙

12. In △ABC, point D is on side AC , AB = BD = DC = 12 inches, and the measure of

∠BDC is twice the measure of ∠ABD. Find AC.

13. For what value of a is the equation:

(x + 7)2 = (x − 7)2 + ax an identity?
(An identity is an equation in which any number is solution. For example, x + 3 =
3 + x is an identity.)
14. Square ABCD has area of 320 square units. Points K, L, M, N are midpoints of the
sides of ABCD, P is the point of intersection of KC and BN , and Q is the point of
intersection of AM and BN . Find PQ.
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 810 selfies
2 4 percent
3 36
4 x=5
5 16 times
6 The y-coordinate of this point is 19
7 152
8 a=38
9 x=7
10 900 meters
11 81
12 AC = 24 inches
13 a=28
14 PQ = 8 units
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IMC 2016
1. If a tree was 150 feet high last year and in a year it grew by 6%, how
many feet high is it now?

2. 60% of what number is 4.2?

3. The total number of watermelons, cantaloupes, and melons in

Albert’s Grocery store is 231. If it is known that the ratio of
watermelons to cantaloupes to melons is 4 : 8 : 9, how many
watermelons are in the store?

4. Solve the equation:

5x ÷2−6 = 25

5. Calculate:

6. Calculate:
1 − (12 − 2 · 8) ÷ 0.2

7. Find the sum of all solutions to this equation:

 (x − 1)(3x − 19)(3x + 1) = 0

8. Points A( − 1, 7), B(2, 19), and C(3, y) are on the same line. Find y.

9. Solving 8 problems per minute, Fast Finn can finish his test in time.
He was, however, working faster, solving 10 problems per minute.
That is why he finished 6 minutes early. How many problems were on
the test?

10. Find x, if 3x + 2y 2 = 22 and 6x + y 2 = 29

11. ΔABC is isosceles, AB=BC, and CH is an altitude. How long is AC, if

CH = 84 cm and m∠HBC = m∠ BAC + m∠BCH?

12.For what value of a is the equation (x − 5)2 = (x + 5)2 − ax an identity.

(An identity is an equation where any number is solution. For
example, x + 2 = 2 + x is an identity.)

13. If xy = 6 and x 2y + xy2 +x + y = 63, find x 2 + y 2

14. In Δ ABC, the median AM (M ∈ BC) is perpendicular to the angle
bisector BK (K ∈ AC) . Find AB, if BC = 12 inches.
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 159 ft high
2 7
3 44 watermelons
4 x=16
5 3
6 21
7 Sum = 7
8 y = 23
9 240 problems
10 x=4
11 AC = 168 cm
12 a=20
13 X2+y2 = 69
14 AB = 6 inches
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1. You have a set of consecutive integers from ( − 5) to 5, inclusive. You multiply any three of the
integers. What is the least positive integer you can get as the product?
[{{67}}]
The least positive integer you can get is 2.

2. Solve the equation.

5 x −55 = 1255
[{{80}}]
x = 70

3. Alex is five years older than Ben. Ben is three years older than Carl. And Carl is half Alex's age.
What is the sum of all three ages?

[{{77}}]
The sum of all three ages is 35 years.

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 4. The figure below is made of nine 1 inch × 1 inch squares. What is the perimeter of the figure?

[{{70}}]
The perimeter of the figure is 16 inches.

5. What is the least six-digit number in which the sum of the digits equals 33?
[{{27}}]
105999 or 105,999

6. 14 friends are saving money for a trip to the movies. 6 of the friends put $1.50 into the pile
every day, while others put $1.50 into the pile every even day, and the rest of the friends put
$1.50 into the pile every odd day. If $12 was put into the pile on February 3rd , how much
money will be put into the pile on February 4th ?

[{{68}}]
18 dollars will be added to the pile on February 4th.

7. A wizard needs to prepare 735 ml of a magic drink. The recipe calls for watermelon juice,
coconut water, and potion in the ratio 21 : 11 : 3. If the wizard has 300 ml of potion, how many
milliliters of the potion will be unused?

[{{64}}]
237 milliliters of the potion will be unused.

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 8. How many natural numbers have the following property?
If you divide the number by 12, the quotient and the remainder are equal.
[{{43}}]
There are 11 natural numbers.

9. A line passes through the points (2a + 50, 9) and (40 − a , 3) and through the origin. What is the
value of a ?
[{{47}}]
a = 14

10. The graph of the function y = ax 2 + c is shown. Find the y -coordinate of point (5, y ) that
belongs to the function y = cx 2 +a .

[{{42}}]
74

11. Three boats start cruising around a small island starting at the same time and from the same
location, and following the same route. The first boat is going 5 km/hr, the second boat is going
4 km/hr, and the third boat is going 3 km/hr. One full circle around the island is 2 km. In how
many minutes will all three boats next meet at the starting location?

[{{36}}]
All three boats next meet in 120 minutes.

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 12. The two circles shown touch each other and a line. The radius of the green circle is 4, and the
radius of the blue circle is 9. Find AB.

[{{52}}]
AB = 12

13. A travel company had a contest and Bree won a trip to seven countries.
The rules are that Bree must visit the countries in the order told to her by
the travel company, but she can decide to skip visiting any of the countries
except the first one. So, Bree can visit a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7
countries. In how many ways can Bree organize her trip?
[{{18}}]
She can organize the trip in 64 ways.

¯ ¯
14. Median AM of triangle ABC is half the length of side AC and makes an angle of 32° with side
¯
AC. Find the measure of ∠BAC in degrees.

[{{7}}]
106°.

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 IMC 2022 Grade 8
1. You have the set of all the integers from (−16) to 26, inclusive. You take two of the integers and
subtract one from the other. What is the greatest difference you can get?

2. A rectangle has length 14 cm and width 4 cm. What is the area of a square that has the same
perimeter as the rectangle?

3.
A basketball team took a total of 100 shots. One player took 70% of all 100 shots, and made a
basket 60% of the time. How many shots did this player miss?

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 4. How many times greater is (8x )8 than (4x )8 where x ≠ 0?

5. The product of all of the solutions of (4x + 2k)(2 − 5x ) = 0 is (−15). Find k .

6. Aadya and Ethan like playing with remote control cars. They use a rectangular coordinate
system in the play area. Aadya puts her car on A(2, 3) and Ethan puts his car on B(9, 12). Then
the children drive the cars toward each other until they collide. What is the sum of the
coordinates of the point on which the cars collide if they drive at the same speed?

7. Find the greatest integer x that satisfies the inequality: (|2x | + 38)(19 − 2x ) > 0

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 8. People in Spaceland live in 8 space stations, and travel between the stations in tubes. Every pair
of stations is connected by two tubes. These are the only tubes in Spaceland. What is the total
number of tubes?

9. Find n if 45 · 2 n + 15 · 2 n +1 + 45 · 2 n +2 = 8 n − 2 n .

10. Find the area of the middle rectangle if you know the two specified distances and the areas of
the left and right rectangles.

11. The quadratic equation x 2 + x − a = 0 where a < 200 and a is a positive integer has two
roots, and both roots are integers. What is the greatest possible value of a root of the equation?

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 12. Noah and his grandfather were returning home from a walk. When they were 800 m away
from the house, the grandfather said that he was thirsty. Noah immediately ran home, got a bottle
of water, and ran back to meet his grandfather who never stopped walking at a steady pace. How
many meters from the house did they meet if Noah ran four times as fast as his grandfather
walked?

13. The graph of f (x ) = a (5x − 2)2 intersects the graph of g (x ) = 4x 2 + 20x + a at a point with
an x -coordinate of 1. Find f (1) + f(−1).

14. A group of ants is very organized, and every 2 seconds an ant leaves the ant hill and begins
walking to a nearby tree for supplies. All the ants walk at the same speed and get to the tree in
100 seconds. But one day, Victor the Very Fast Ant decides to run, and he gets to the tree in 65
seconds! How many ants does Victor pass on his way to the tree?

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Question No. Answer

1 The greatest difference you can get is 42.

2 The area of the square is 81 square centimeters.

3 The player missed 28 shots.

4 256

5 k = 75

6 The sum of the coordinates of the point is 13.

7 x=9

8 The total number of tubes is 56.

9 n=4

10 The area of the middle rectangle is 45.

11 x = 13

12 They met 480 meters from the house.

13 f (1) + f ( − 1) = 174

14 17 ants.
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Grade 8
1. What is the difference between the largest even two-digit number and
the smallest odd two-digit number?

2. Irina thought over her first chess move for 50 seconds. For each of the following moves, she
thought for 20% more seconds than she had for the previous move. How many seconds did Irina
think over her third move?

3. There are 18 black and 12 navy socks in your drawer. The room is dark and you cannot turn on
the light. What is the least number of socks that you have to take out of your drawer to be certain
that you have a pair of black socks?

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 4. Find the greatest integer x that satisfies the inequality:
|x| + 19
19 − x
≥0

5. Find x :
450 + 450 = 2 x

6. The sum of all the solutions of the equation (6x + k )(3x − 11) = 0 is 1. Find k .

7. A caterpillar crawling in a straight line across a coordinate plane starts at point (−3, −4) and
ends at point (25, 38). Counting the start point and end point, how many points with integer
coordinates does the caterpillar touch?

8. Find x + y + z given the following equations:

x = 20
x · y = 50 z
x · y · z = 200

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 9. The area of square ABCD is 144 square units. The area of square EFGH is 64 square units. H ∈
¯ ¯
AB and G ∈ BC . The blue area is three times the red area. Find the area of △HBG.

10. Working together, two ants named Aran and Beatrice can build an ant hill
in 10 hours. Aran and Charlie can build the ant hill in 12 hours. Beatrice
and Charlie can build the ant hill in 15 hours. How long, in hours, will it
take to build the ant hill if Aran, Beatrice, and Charlie work together?

11. A team of 10 cyclists wants to choose leaders. In how many ways can the team choose one
captain and then two assistants?

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 12. A mathematician designed your favorite video game. All of the caves have either two or three
portals to the next universe. The total number of portals is 95 more than the total number of
caves. The number of two-portal caves is three times the number of three-portal caves. How
many caves are in the video game?

13. Two squares, ABCD and DEFG, are shown. AB = 8 units. Find the area of △ACF.

14. The quadrilateral shown meets the following criteria, but it is not
drawn to scale.
• One diagonal is on the x -axis and the other is on the y -axis.
• The sum of the lengths of the diagonals is 9 units.
• The vertices of the quadrilateral have integer coordinates.
• The area of the quadrilateral is 10 square units.
How many such convex quadrilaterals exist? Note that two
quadrilaterals are different if at least one vertex is different.

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Question No. Answer

1 87

2 Irina thought over her third move 72 seconds.

3 The least number of socks that you have to take out is 14.

4 The greatest integer x that satisfies the inequality is 18.

5 101

6 k = 16

7 She touched 15 points with integer coordinates.

8 27

9 The area of △HBG is 24 square units.

10 8 hours.

11 In 360 ways.

12 76 caves.

13 32 square units.

14 24 quadrilaterals.
 IMC 2020 Grade 8
1. Elena harvested 75 kg of apples last autumn. This autumn, her harvest
increased by 24%. How many kilograms of apples did she harvest this
autumn?

2. Two families buy tickets to some home games. The Murphy family has 4 members and goes to
7 games. The Chen family has 5 members and goes to 4 games. If the two families spend a total
of $1200, and all seats cost the same amount, how much did the Murphys spend on tickets?

44 56
3. How many times greater is ((44) ) than ((24) )?

4. Find the smallest integer x that satisfies the inequality: (5 + |x |)(11 − x ) < 0

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 5. A line passes through the origin and through points A(−2, b − 14) and B(14 − b , 72). What is
the greatest possible value of b ?

6. Given (8x + 3k )(9x − 2) = 0, the product of all solutions is ( − 3). Find k.

7. A 1.5-meter snake lives in the ceiling of a college’s Chemistry Building.

One day, she decides to go outside, and slithers through a pipe at the
speed of 15 centimeters per second. In 90 seconds, she slithers all the way
through the pipe and her whole body is outside. How long, in meters, is
the pipe? Note: 1 meter = 100 centimeters

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 8. The perimeter of the given shape is 102 units. Find AB. The shape is not drawn to scale.

9. If 2 · 3 n + 2 · 3 n +1 + 2 · 3 n +2 = 9 n − 3 n, find n.

10. One of the roots of the quadratic equation x 2 − 5mx + 6m 2 = 0 is 36. Find the greatest
possible value of the second root.

11. Pirate Jack has an equal number of gold and silver coins. If Pirate Jack splits all of his coins
into 7 equal piles for his parrots, he has 4 coins left. Or, if he splits all of his coins into 11 equal
piles for his shipmates, he has 4 coins left. Assuming every pile has at least 1 coin, what is the
least possible number of coins Pirate Jack has?

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 12. Parabolas y = − 2x 2 + k and y = 2x 2 intersect at points A and B. The area of the
quadrilateral formed by A, B, and the vertex of each parabola, is 32. Find k.

13. A game designer must decide how to color four buildings that are in a row. Using only the
colors yellow, green, red, and blue, each building must be painted with exactly one color. Any
two neighboring buildings must be different colors, and the first and last buildings must be
different colors. How many ways are there to paint the four buildings?

14. ABCD is a rectangle. Two circles are drawn inside ABCD such that the circles are tangent at
¯
point G. E is the tangent point of the first circle and AB, and F is the tangent point of the second
¯
circle and BC , as shown. Find m∠EGF.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 Elena harvested 93 kilograms of apples this autumn.

2 The Murphy family spent $700.

3 It is 256 times greater.

4 x​ = 12

5 The greatest possible value of ​b​ is 26.

6 k​ = 36

7 The pipe is 12 meters long.

8 AB = 14 units

9 n​ = 3

10 The greatest possible value of the second root is 54.

11 The least possible number of coins Pirate Jack has is 158.

12 k​ = 16

13 There are 84 ways to paint the four buildings.

14 m∠EGF = 135°
 IMC 2019 Grade 8
1. In the film, Zeke the Zombie Slayer Versus the Zombies from
Space, Zeke slayed 140 zombies. In the sequel, Zeke the Zombie
Slayer Versus the Zombies from Space, Part 2, he slayed 5%
more zombies. How many zombies were slain by Zeke in the
sequel?

|x| + 15
2. Find the greatest integer x that satisfies the inequality: 16 − x ≥ 0

3. A caterpillar started at point (−2.5, −5.5) on a coordinate plane. She crawled in a straight line
through the origin to point (45, y ). What is y ?

4. Every sunny day, the Always Philadelphia Bakery bakes 100 cakes and 60 muffins. In any other
weather, it bakes 40 cakes and 120 muffins per day. This April, the Always Philadelphia Bakery
made the same number of cakes as muffins. How many of this April’s 30 days were sunny?

5. If a 16 is the same as 264, what is the absolute value of a ?

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 6. When they are both racing on hoverboards, Victoria is 3 times as fast as her brother Max. When
she is on foot, she is 3 times slower than Max on his hoverboard. They took off on hoverboards
at the same time, but after 12 minutes, Victoria’s hoverboard broke and she immediately started
to run. If the race was a tie, how long, in minutes, did it last from start to finish?

7. If x = 5, y = 9x, z = 81x, find x + y + z.

8. What is the largest three-digit palindrome divisible by 18?

(A palindrome is an integer that remains the same when its digits are reversed. For example, 77,
151, 8338, and etc .)

9. Find the sum of all solutions to this equation:

2x − 4 2x + 8 2x − 70
x+1
· 2 · x−2 =0

10. ABCD is a square. AB = 30 cm. △AEF is isosceles, AE = EF, E ∈ BC

¯
. Point G is the point of
intersection of DC and EF. DF = 6 cm. Find area of △DGF.
¯ ¯

11. If the distance from the y -axis to point A( x , y ) is equal to 5, and the distance from the x -axis to
point A( x , y ) is 20, what is the maximum possible value of (5x − 20y )?

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 12. Mrs. Munch and Mrs. Crunch each bought the same number of
identical cookie boxes from their local troop. Both women took either
2 or 3 days to finish each box of cookies. It took Mrs. Munch 43 days
to empty every last one of her cookie boxes; it took Mrs. Crunch 62
days to empty all of hers. How many boxes of cookies did each
woman buy?

13. Points A, B, C, D, and O have coordinates (0, 3), (4, 4), (4, y ), (4, 0), and (0, 0), respectively.
The area of ACDO is 5 times greater than the area of ABDO. Find y .

14. ABCD is rectangle. BC = 45. Two circles are drawn inside ABCD such that the circles are
¯ ¯
tangent to each other. The circle with radius 10 is tangent to AB and BC , and the circle with
¯ ¯
radius 15 is tangent to AD and CD . Find AB.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 Zeke slayed 147 zombies.

2 The greatest integer x that satisfies the inequality is 15.

3 y = 99

4 There were 20 sunny days this April.

5 | a | = 16.

6 The race lasted 48 minutes.

7 65

8 828 is the greatest three-digit palindrome divisible by 18.

9 The sum of all solutions is 31.

10 The area of △DGF is 30 cm2.

11 The maximum possible value is 425.

12 Each woman bought 21 boxes.

13 y = 32

14 AB = 40.
 Grade 8
IMC 2018
1. The top of a square table is covered with four equal square tiles. If the side
length of each tile is decreased by 75%, how many tiles of the new size would
be needed to cover the same table?

2. 330 is the same as 9 to what power?

3. The battery life of Becky’s new phone, without recharging, is 20% longer than
the battery life of her old phone. If her old phone had a battery life of 22.5
hours, how many hours of battery life does her new phone have without
charging?

4. Find the product of all solutions of the equation (10x + 33) · (11x + 60) = 0

5. Eleven fidget spinners cost less than $12. Twelve fidget spinners cost more
than $13. How many cents does one fidget spinner cost?
 |2𝑥|−2018
6. Find the greatest integer that satisfies the inequality: |𝑥|+2018
≤0

7. Katie and 11 of her friends split the cost of the birthday gift for John evenly.
The rest of the people invited to John's party decided to join in on the gift
giving. After evenly splitting the cost of the gift among all of the guests, the
amount of money that Katie had to spend dropped by 4 dollars and 50 cents.
If there were 18 guests at the birthday party, including Katie, what is the cost
of the gift?

2
8. If 3 of the distance from the y-axis to point A(−30, −45) is equal to 14 of the
distance from the x-axis to point B(5a, 2a), where a > 0, what is the value of
a?

9. A perfectly straight 24 ft tall tree grows on the edge of the bank of a 45 foot
wide river. A bird sitting at the top of the tree sees a fish in the middle of the
river. At the same time as the fish begins to dive straight down, the bird flies
in a straight line towards where it knows it will catch the fish. If the fish dives
at a constant speed of 3 feet per second and the bird catches it in 2 seconds,
how far from the top of the tree is the point where the bird meets the surface
of the river?

10. The quadratic equation 2x 2 − 48x + q = 0 has two roots, where one root is
three times greater than the other. What is the value of q?

11. ABCD is a parallelogram. K ∈ 𝐵𝐷 , such that BK : KD = 4 : 1. The area of

parallelogram ABCD is 120 square units. Find the area of the triangle AKD.
12. If 2x = 10 and 10y = 128, find xy.

13. Points A(−10, 0) and B(10, 0) are vertices of a triangle with an area of 60
square units. The third vertex of the triangle lies on the circle x 2 + y 2 = 100.
Find how many such triangles exist.

14. In rectangle ABCD, 𝐴𝐵 is parallel to the x-axis, and AB = 2. Points A and B lie
on the parabola y = x 2 and points C and D lie on the parabola y = − 4x 2 + k,
where k > 0. If BC =17, find k.
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Question No. Answer

1 64 new tiles would be needed to cover the table.

15 15

3 Becky's new phone has 27 hours of battery life without

charging
4 The product of all solutions is 18.

5 One fidget spinner costs 109 cents.

6 The greatest integer that satisfies the above inequality is

1009
7 The gift cost 162 dollars.

8 a = 40

9 30 ft.

10 q = 216

11 The area of the triangle AKD is 12 square units.

12 xy = 7

13 4 such triangles exist.

14 k = 22
 Grade 8
IMC 2017
1. Three times 381 is equal to 9 to what power?

2. An ant walked on the coordinate plane from the point A( − 3,1) to the point
B(1,25) by the shortest path. Find the y-coordinate of the point where the ant
intersected y-axis.

𝒙 − 𝟏𝟔
3. Find the greatest integer that satisfies the inequality: <0
|𝒙| − 𝟕

4. On Sunday John spent 20% more time playing his favorite game than he spent
watching a movie, and he spent 28% less time reading a book than he spent
watching the movie. The time he spent reading the book is what percent of the
time he spent playing his favorite game?

5. The sum of all the solutions of the equation:

(10x − 3a )(3x + 39)(5x − 3) = 0 is ( − 1).

Find a.

6. The two top NBA players played a basketball game against the RSM team.
Together the NBA players made 85 baskets, scoring one point for free throws and
two or three points for field goals. They scored a total of 184 points during the
 game. If they made 22 free throws, how many three-point field goals did they
make?

7. The graph of the quadratic function y = ax2 + bx + c is given.

Find a + b + c.

8. The equation (x2 − 4ax + b )(x + a ) = 0 has three solutions and the sum of all
solutions is 60.
Find a.

9. Given: ΔABC, D ∈ 𝐴𝐶 , AD : DC = 2 : 1. E ∈ AB , EB : AE = 1 : 3,
 F ∈ BC , EF || AC , O is the point of the intersection BD and EF . Area
of ΔABC = 216 square units. Find area of ΔBOE.

10. How many natural (counting) numbers satisfy this inequality:

|𝟓 − 𝒙| · (𝒙 − 𝟐)
𝒙−𝟗
<0

11. On the first day, a tourist hiked 9 miles to the east from the camp. On the second
day, the tourist hiked a few miles to the north. On the third day, the tourist
returned to the camp by straight way. If the tourist hiked a total of 90 miles, how
many miles did the tourist hike on the third day?

12. Find the value of k, if 22017 + 22016 − 22015 + 22014 = k · 22014

13. The graph of f (x ) = a (4x + 5)2 intersects with the graph of
g (x ) = (11x + 7)2 at the point with x-coordinate equals to 1.
Find f (1) + f (− 1).

14. Graph f (x ) = (x + 4)(x − c ), where c > 0 is shown on the picture. The area of
△AOB is 192. Find c.
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Question No. Answer

1 41
2 The y-coordinate of this point is 19
3 15
4 60%
5 a=38
6 36
7 a+b+c=6
8 a=20
9 9 square units
10 5
11 41 miles
12 k=11
13 f (1) + f ( − 1) = 328
14 c=24
 Grade 8
IMC 2016
1. 212 is the same as 4 to what power?

2. Points A( − 1, 7), B(2, 19), and C(3, y) are on the same line. Find y.

3. James has $1100 invested at r% and $900 invested at 5%. If his

annual income on these two investments is $89, find r.

4. Find the greatest integer that satisfies the inequality:

(|x | + 3)(x − 7) < 0

5. Find the sum of all solutions to this equation:

(x − 1)(3x − 19)(3x + 1) = 0

6. If 7 marshmallows and 11 lollipops cost $1.93 altogether, and 11

marshmallows and 7 lollipops cost $2.21 altogether, then how many
cents does 1 lollipop cost?

7. The graph of the quadratic function y = ax 2 + c is given. Find c + a.

8. Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if one of its legs is
11 cm long and its perimeter is 132 cm.

9. The quadratic equation 3x 2 + px +q = 0 has roots 3 and −4. Find p−q.

10. In ΔABC, point P ∈ AB so that AP:BP =1 : 3 and point M is the

midpoint of segment CP .Find the area of ΔABC if the area of ΔBMP is
equal to 21m2
11. How many natural (counting) numbers satisfy this inequality?

(x − 3) · (x − 14) · (x − 37) ≤ 0

12. Find n such, that 8n + 8n + 8n + 8n = 22015

13. At how many points does the graph of y = x intersect the graph of the
function 𝑦 = 𝑥 ∙ √2𝑥 + 5?

14.The base AB of the isosceles triangle ABC is parallel to the x-axis and
has both endpoints on the parabola y= x·(10 − x ). The vertex C is on
the x-axis. Find area of the triangle ABC if AB = 8 units.
 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 6
2 y=23
3 r=4%
4 6
5 Sum = 7
6 8 cents
7 c+a=1
8 61 cm
9 p-q=39
10 56m2
11 27
12 n=671
13 The graphs intersect at 2
distinct points
14 36 square units
 IMC Round 2 2023 Grades 7-8
1. Pirate Bill has a bill worth 1000 ducats. His friend Colin
has a bunch of 3-ducat coins and a bunch of 10-ducat
coins. In how many ways can Colin exchange Bill's 1000-
ducat bill for coins?
34

2. Square ABCD is divided into 5 rectangles that each has the same area as shown in the figure.
Find the perimeter of rectangle ABEN if FH = 10.

48

3. 3 digits in the number 20232023 are erased so that a 5-digit multiple of 15 remains. Find the
difference between the greatest possible and the least possible remaining 5-digit numbers.
2100 or 2,100

4. The expression

contains each natural number from 1 to 6. Each number is written in invisible ink on a blank card
with one number per card. You can insert one pair of parentheses to change the value of the
expression. Find the greatest possible value of the resulting expression.
450

5. Anna collects different positive integers. Her collection is factor-closed, meaning that for every
number in her collection, all of the positive factors of that number are also in the collection. Find
the least possible number of elements in the collection if the numbers 24 · 33 · 52 and 2 · 34 · 7 are
in the collection.
72

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 6. Rupam writes on a board all of the three-digit numbers that do not contain the digit 0, and then
he erases one of the numbers. The average of the remaining numbers is an integer. Compute the
sum of all possible values of the number Rupam erased.
555

7. Kyle converts the integers from 1 to 1024 to the binary number system. How many of these
1024 binary numbers are palindromes?
A palindrome is a number that is the same when written forward or backward. For example, the
binary numbers 1, and 111, and 1001 are palindromes.
62

8. Alex has a paper hexagon. Her first step is to cut the paper hexagon into two shapes with one
straight cut. Then she continues, and with each step she cuts one of the existing shapes into two
shapes with one straight cut. Compute the difference G – L where G is the greatest possible and
L is the least possible total number of sides of all the shapes that Alex has after 2023 steps.
(Folding is not allowed.)
2026 or 2,026

9. There are many tenants (cats and dogs) at RSM Pet Village. They live in one-pet houses that are
each occupied by one tenant, and two-pet houses that are each occupied by two tenants. The
village has 10% more cats than dogs, and there are 30% more one-pet houses than two-pet
houses. Find the least possible number of tenants at the RSM Pet Village.
231

10. In triangle ABC, angle BAC measures 20° and angle BCA measures 23°. Points D and E are
inside triangle ABC such that angles BAD, DAE, and EAC have the same measure and angles
↔ ↔
BCD, DCE, and ECA have the same measure. Lines DE and AC intersect at F . Compute the
degree measure of angle AFD.
91°

11. Three friends named Rei, Soi, and Mai have 512,000 tokens each. In the first step, Rei equally
splits all his tokens and gives them to Soi and Mai. In the second step, Soi equally splits all of
the tokens she has at the moment between Mai and Rei. In the third step, Mai equally splits all of
the tokens she has at the moment between Rei and Soi. Then Rei equally splits his tokens, and so
on. After 12 steps, how many tokens will Soi have?
511875 or 511,875

12. You have a machine with a screen, one red button, and one blue button.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is decreased by 1, and the button becomes
locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is increased by 3, and the red button
becomes unlocked.
The number 1 is displayed on the screen, and both buttons are unlocked. Find the total number of
ways you could press a button to get the number 23 on the screen. (The number of times each
button is pressed and the order in which the buttons are pressed are both important.)
465

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 IMC Round 2 2022
Grades 7-8

1. Jimmy cuts a paper square into five identical rectangles

and uses four of them to make the letter E as shown in the
diagram. The perimeter of the E is 126. Compute the side
length of the original square.

2. Suppose 30 students participate in a math contest. For each student R there exist students S and
M (all three are different students) such that the height of student R equals the average height of
all three students. Find the greatest possible number of different values of all 30 student heights.

3. In the word QUADRILATERAL each letter represents a digit. Different letters represent
different digits, and the same letters represent the same digits. Add the greatest possible sum of
all 13 digits and the least possible sum of all 13 digits.

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 4. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is doubled.
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is tripled.
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is multiplied by itself.
The number 1 is displayed on the screen. What is the least number of times you need to press a
button to get the number 7776 on the screen?

5. All of the students in a town participated in a survey. The survey results showed that exactly
7
52% of the students knew the year President Washington was born, exactly 18 of the students
11
had heard of a sine function, exactly 15 of the students had played a computer game during
class, and exactly 452 students had attended a summer camp. Find the least possible number of
students in the town.

6. A number is totally odd if all its digits are odd. How many totally odd positive integers X
(where X is less than 10,000) are there such that X + 2022 is also totally odd?

7. Find the greatest possible prime factor of a four-digit number if the number contains only the
digits 2 and 0, or only the digit 2.

8. The sum of the four-digit numbers FOUR and FIVE is equal to

the four-digit number NINE. Different letters represent different
digits, and the same letters represent the same digits. Find the
greatest possible value of the number NINE.

9. An RSM sports field has a square shape. Poles with letters M ,

A , T , H are located at the corners of the square (see the
diagram). During warm up, a student starts at any pole, runs to
another pole along a side of the square or across the field along
diagonal MT (only in the direction from M to T ), then runs to
another pole along a side of the square or along diagonal MT,
and so on. The student cannot repeat a run along the same side/
diagonal of the square in the same direction. For instance, she
cannot run from M to A twice, but she can run from M to A and
at some point from A to M . How many different ways are there
to complete the warm up that includes all nine possible runs (see
the diagram)? One possible way is M-A-T-H-M-H-T-A-M-T.

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 ¯
10. Suppose BC = 3AB in rectangle ABCD. Points E and F are on side BC such that BE = EF =
FC. Compute the sum of the degree measures of the four angles EAB, EAF, EAC, EAD.

11. Let S be the 4044-digit number that contains only the digit 1, and let M be the 2022-digit
number that contains only the digit 2. Compute the sum of the digits of the whole number R .
R= S −M

12. In the expression 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 you replace each of the four @ symbols with either +,
or –, or ×, or ÷. You can insert one or more pairs of parentheses to control the order of
operations. Find the second least whole number that CANNOT be the value of the resulting
expression. For example, each of the numbers 25 = 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 and 60 = 5 + (5 + 5) × 5 + 5
can be the value of the resulting expression.

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Question No. Answer

1 15

2 26

3 117

4 6

5 900

6 400

7 367

8 5654 or 5,654

9 32

10 135°

11 6066 or 6,066

12 17
 RMO 2021
Grades 7-8
1. Anna pictured a rectangle in her head.
If she increases each of the rectangle’s dimensions by 43 units, the area of the rectangle increases
by 2021 square units.
Compute the perimeter of the original rectangle Anna pictured.

2. Rachel downloaded a movie at a constant speed.

After she downloaded 40% of the movie, the remaining download time was 40 seconds.
After she downloaded 40 MB, the remaining download time was 16 seconds.
Compute the total size of the movie (in MB) rounded to the nearest MB.

3. A tart contains either 3 white, or 4 red, or 5 black cherries.

A large tray of 50 tarts (with at least one of each kind) contains 221 cherries.
Find the greatest possible number of red cherries on the tray.

4. How many different perfect cubes are among the positive factors of 20212021?

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 5. The sum of a three-digit number FLU and a four-digit number SHOT is equal to a five-digit
number HELPS.
How many different five-digit numbers could HELPS be?
The same letters represent the same digits, but different letters may or may not represent
different digits.

6. If the number 85 is removed from a finite collection of numbers, the collection’s average
decreases by 1.
If the number 74 is removed from the remaining collection, the collection’s average does not
change.
How many numbers were in the original collection?

7. The diagram shows 16 red points on the two long sides of a rectangle with side lengths 7 units
and 3 units.
All of the points are at least 1 unit from each other.
How many right triangles of all sizes and positions and with all vertices at these red points are
hidden in the diagram?

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 8. Find the greatest possible number of consecutive zeros at the end of the product of three positive
integers if the sum of these three integers equals 939.
(The number 202100 has exactly 2 consecutive zeros at the end.)

9. In quadrilateral ABCD, the degree measures of four angles are shown in the diagram.
¯
If E is the midpoint of side AD , find the degree measure of angle CBD.

Not drawn to scale

10. In the expression

Sarah may erase one open parenthesis and one close parenthesis, or she may erase nothing.
Find the number of all possible different values of the resulting expression.

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 11. One hundred friends, A1, A2, …, A100, sit at a round table as shown in the diagram.
A2 sits to the left of A1 and to the right of A3. Each has a jar with candies.
At exactly the same time, all 100 friends move half of the candies in their jar to their friend's jar on
the right. (So the candies move counterclockwise.)
Now, A1’ s jar has 2020 candies, A2’ s jar has 2021 candies, A3’ s jar has 2020 candies, A4’ s jar has
2021 candies, …, A97’ s jar has 2020 candies, A98’ s jar has 2021 candies, and A99’ s jar has 2020
candies.
How many candies are now in A100’ s jar?

12. There are 3 RSM branches in Math City. The branches are called R , S , and M .
Arty plans a 6-day visit to Math City and wants to visit each branch.
She will visit one branch per day, which means that Arty will visit one or more branches more than
once, possibly on consecutive days.
How many different schedules can the RSM students prepare for Arty?
One possible schedule is R − S − S − M − S − R, where Arty visits branch R on the first and sixth
days, branch S on the second, third, and fifth days, and branch M on the fourth day.

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Question No. Answer

1 8

2 53

3 108

4 454276 or 454,276

5 11

6 11

7 116

8 7

9 35°

10 10

11 1971 or 1,971

12 540
 RMO 2020 Grades 7-8
1. Alex wrote ten different digits on one red card and nine blue cards, only one digit per card. If he
multiplies the digit on the red card by the sum of all the digits on the blue cards, he gets 296.
What digit is written on the red card?

2. Dan thought of two numbers. Their product is 2020.

If he increases each of his numbers by 1, the product of the new numbers is 2000.
If he decreases each of his original numbers by 2, what is the product of the resulting numbers?

3. Find the sum of all the digits of the result of the calculation:

4. Molly and Polly have two identical paper rectangles. Molly divides her rectangle into two non-
overlapping rectangles with perimeters 33 and 35 inches. Polly divides her rectangle into two
non-overlapping rectangles with perimeters 34 and 36 inches.
Compute the area of Molly’s original rectangle (in square inches).

5. Five shopping carts and 27 bags of dog food weigh 1020 pounds. Twelve shopping carts and 22
bags of dog food weigh 2020 pounds.
How many pounds do twelve shopping carts and 27 bags of dog food weigh?
Assume that all shopping carts weigh the same, and all bags of dog food weigh the same.

6. Alice takes a positive integer and increases it by 10%. Boris takes the result and increases it by
20%. Clara takes the result and increases it by 40%.
Find the smallest possible integer value of Clara’s result.

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 7. The product of a three-digit number and a two-digit number is equal to a five-digit number as
shown in the multiplication example.
Find the five-digit number (the product).
(Stars can represent any digits as long as in each of the five numbers shown in the example the
leftmost digit is not zero.)

8. The hanger shown in the diagram is balanced. All cherries weigh the same, all mushrooms
weigh the same, and all strawberries weigh the same. The bottom of the hanger is hidden from
view. Two strings could have more weights extending below the curtain. Maybe there are more,
maybe there are not!
How many grams does the exotic fruit weigh, if the weight of one cherry is 7 grams?
Assume that all parts of the hanger itself (horizontal bars and vertical strings) weigh nothing.

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 9. In the “expression”

each of the thirteen @ symbols is replaced with either × or ÷ such that the value of the resulting
expression is an integer.
Find the greatest common factor of all such integer values.

10. Suppose 101 girls buy greeting cards. One of the girls, Suzie, buys 1000 fewer cards than the
girls’ average.
How many more cards should Suzie buy so that she has 1000 more cards than the new girls’
average?
Assume that the other girls do not make any purchases after their initial purchase.

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11. In triangle ABC, points D and E are chosen on side AC such that AD = AB and CE = CB.
→ →
Rays BD and BE divide angle ABC into three non-overlapping angles. The degree measures of
these three angles are in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 (in some order).
Compute the greatest possible value of the largest of these degree measures.

12. The diagram shows three famous RSM cafes, R, S, and M. It takes one step to move from one
of these cafes directly to another.
How many different ways are there to start at R and end at M in exactly ten steps?
One possible way is
R − M − R − S − M − S − R − M − S − R − M.

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 Answers

Question No. Answer

1 8

2 2066 or 2,066

3 15

4 132

5 2070 or 2,070

6 231

7 18658 or 18,658

8 28

9 858

10 2020 or 2,020

11 50

12 341
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1 Given a 2019-sided red regular polygonal shape with side length

1, if each side also forms the side of a blue square shape located
outside the red shape, what is the perimeter of the resulting red-
and-blue shape?

2 Gary, Mary, and Rory have the same number of candies. If Gary
gives Mary half of all his candies, then Mary gives Rory half of all the
candies she has at the moment, and then Rory gives Gary half of all
the candies he (Rory) has at the moment, Gary would
have 12 more candies than he had originally. How many
candies do Gary, Mary, and Rory have altogether?

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The area of a regular hexagon RASHMI is S H
2019 square feet. Compute the area
(in square feet) of the quadrilateral RSMO
where O is the center of the hexagon. A M
O

R I

4 Numbers were written in 1000 boxes in a row, one number per

box (only the first ten and the last five boxes are shown). For every
four boxes in a row, the sum of their numbers was 12. Most of the
numbers got erased over time, but three of them remain. What
number was written in the last box on the right?

0 1 ... 2
5 If RS + SM + MR + X = 201, compute SR + MS + RM + 7 ∙ X.
(R, S, and M represent the digits of the 2-digit numbers RS, SM, MR,
SR, MS, and RM; X also represents a digit.)

6 A race car moved 1 second at a constant rate of 68 m/sec, then

1 second at a constant rate of 69 m/sec, then 1 second at a constant
rate of 70 m/sec, and so on. All movements were in the same
direction. In how many seconds would the total distance covered by
the race car be 2 kilometers?
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7 How many different positive integers are there containing only the
digits 1, 2, and/or 3 (each of these digits can be used one or more
times or not at all) such that for each of these integers, the sum of
all of its digits equals seven?

8 Five friends are all of different heights. The average height of the
three tallest friends is exactly the height of one of them. The average
height of the four tallest friends is exactly the height of one of them.
The average height of all five friends is exactly the height of one
of them. The second-tallest friend is 16 cm taller than the second-
shortest one. The tallest friend is taller than the shortest one by how
many centimeters?

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9 Find the positive integer value of x if
1
=
19
where a is a
1 63
positive integer. a+
1
a+
x

10 In a triangle RSM, the measure of angle SRM is twice the measure of

angle RSM. A point O is selected on side RS such that SO = SM. The
length of the angle bisector of angle RMS equals RO. What is the
degree measure of angle RSM?

11 The number R has exactly 7 different positive integer factors,

the number S has exactly 8 different positive integer factors, and
their product R ∙ S has exactly M different positive integer factors.
Compute the sum of all different possible values of M.

12 Say that a positive integer is “five-important” if it is a multiple of

5 and/or contains the digit 5. For instance, the numbers 55, 120,
and 456 are five-important, but the number 2019 is not. Say that a
number is “super-five-important” if it is five-important and remains
five-important after erasing any one of its digits. For instance,
the numbers 5070, 5005, and 5577 are super-five-important, but
the numbers 5, 100, 2019, and 2015 are not. How many different
super-five-important numbers are there between 1 and 2019?
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1 The sum of all three pairwise products of the numbers R, S, and M is

99 less than the sum of all three pairwise products of the numbers
R + 1, S + 1, and M + 1. Compute R + S + M.

2 The sum of five natural numbers is 210. Not all of them have the
same value. Find the least possible value of the largest of these
numbers.

3 A teacher asked her students to find a 3-digit positive integer with

the product of all its digits equal to 128. Jen realized that there was
more than one such number, and listed each of them once. Find the

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sum of all of Jen’s numbers.

4 In a triangle with perimeter 2017, all sides have integer lengths (in feet).
One side is 10 feet shorter than another one. One side is 20 feet longer than
another one. Compute the length (in feet) of the medium side of the triangle.

5 Anna and Oleg are collecting natural numbers. Anna is collecting

only numbers with different digits (such as 2017), and so far she has
collected all such numbers up to 1023. Oleg is collecting only prime
numbers, and so far he has collected all such numbers up to 2017.
What is the largest number which appears in both Anna's and Oleg's
collections now?

6 A metal letter R weighs 2 pounds, a metal letter S weighs 1 pound, and

a metal letter M weighs 4 pounds. If you took a certain 10-letter “word”
containing only the metal letters R, S, and M (at least one of each) and
simultaneously replaced all letters R with S, all letters S with M, and all
letters M with R, the total weight of all letters in this word would not
change. Compute this total weight (in pounds).
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7 A horse ran at a constant speed and covered 20 km and 17 m in 20

min and 17 sec. The next day she ran at the same speed and covered
20 km and X m in 20 min and 30 sec. Compute the value of X rounded
to the nearest integer.

8 How many different ways are there to place nine

different digits from 1 to 9 inside the nine square
cells of a 3-by-3 grid (one digit per cell) such that
for every pair of consecutive digits their square
cells share a side?

9 All possible diagonals drawn from the two adjacent vertices A and B
of a regular hectogon divide the hectogon’s interior into a number

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of non-overlapping shapes – triangles and quadrilaterals (without
any part of a line inside them). How many of these shapes are
quadrilaterals? (A hectogon is a polygon with 100 sides.)

10 Serena took two numbers which may or may not be integers, rounded
each of them up to the nearest integer, multiplied the results, and
got 100. When she took the original numbers, rounded each of them
down to the nearest integer and multiplied the results, she got X.
Find the largest possible value of X.

11 Let D° be the total degree measure of the seven internal angles of an

irregular heptagonal star whose vertices are O, L, Y, M, P, I, and A
(see the diagram). Compute the value of D.

12 We define an RSM-word as a 6-letter word containing two letters R,

two letters S, and two letters M, in which there is at least one way that
Rosemary can circle three letters such that the circled letters read
(from left to right) R-S-M. How many different RSM-words are there?
Answers:
Problem No. Answer

1 48

2 43

3 3774

4 669

5 983

6 21

7 231

8 40

9 4656

10 202

11 180

12 47
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1 After multiplying r + 20s, r + 16m, and s + 2016m and simplifying the

resulting expression, what would be the coefficient of the rsm term?
(For example, in 20x + 16xy + 2016xyz, 2016 is the coefficient of the
xyz term.)

2 There are three cars in the RSM garage: a Rolls Royce, a Studebaker,
and a Maserati. One of them is red, one of them is silver, and one
of them is magenta. The silver car is $2016 more expensive than
the Studebaker. The magenta car is $6102 less expensive than the
Maserati. By how many dollars is the red car more expensive than
the Rolls Royce?

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The diagram consists of a 4-by-4 square divided
into 16 unit squares, and all the diagonals of these
16 unit squares. How many squares of all sizes
and positions are there in this diagram, including
squares that are made up of other squares?

4 Alice thought of a two-digit number. If she reverses the order of

the digits, the new number would be twice as large as the original
number increased by 1. What was the number Alice thought of?

5 Irina took the word GEOMETRY and replaced each of its eight
letters with a number according to the code A = 1, B = 2, …, Z = 26.
Then she multiplied six of these numbers to get a cube of an integer.
Find this integer.

6 Venus took 30 numbers, rounded each of them up to the nearest

integer, added the results, and got 2016. When she took the original
numbers, rounded each of them down to the nearest integer and
added the results, she got 2000. How many of her original numbers
were integers?
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7 The President of Dollarstan is deciding between two income tax plans.

According to one of the plans, all residents would pay tax equal to
10% of their yearly income (if this income is positive). According to
the other plan, the first 150,000 D-dollars of a resident’s yearly income
would not be taxed, and the tax (if any) would equal 16% of any
yearly income over 150,000 D-dollars. The President cannot decide
which tax plan to propose because his own tax under either plan is
the same. What is the yearly income (in D-dollars) of the President of
Dollarstan? Note that this income is a positive number.

8 On Monday Ravi wrote a huge positive integer on the board. On

Tuesday he wrote the digit 2 near every odd digit on the board. On
Wednesday he wrote the digit 3 near every even digit on the board.
At this point the total number of digits on the board was 2016 more

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than the total number of digits in Ravi's original huge number (from
Monday). What was the total number of digits on the board at the
end of Tuesday?

9 A square is drawn on each side of a triangle (each side of the triangle

is a side of one of the squares). None of the four shapes overlap. The
ratio of the areas of the squares is 1:2:3. What is the degree measure
of the largest angle of the triangle?

10 Rick, Sol, and Mike are in the same RSM class and have the same
height. The average height of all students in the class except Rick is
63.1 inches. The average height of all students in the class except Rick
and Sol is 62 inches. The average height of all students in the class
except Rick, Sol, and Mike is 60.625 inches. How many students are in
this class?

11 All 6-digit positive integers containing each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

6 exactly once are written down on the board. How many of these
numbers are divisible by 8?

12 Anton took three sides of an equilateral triangle with perimeter 2016,

cut one of the sides into two equal parts, and made a quadrilateral
which is not a parallelogram using these four segments. What is the
greatest possible area of this quadrilateral?
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1. After multiplying r + 20s, r + 16m, and s + 2016m and simplifying the resulting
expression, what would be the coefficient of the rsm term? (For example, in 20x + 16xy +
2016xyz, 2016 is the coefficient of the xyz term.)
Answer: 40336
Solution. After multiplying we get two rsm terms: r×16m×s = 16rsm and 20s×r×2016m =
40320rsm. After simplifying we get one rsm term (16 + 40320)rsm = 40336rsm, so the
answer is 40,336 (or 40336).

2. There are three cars in the RSM garage: a Rolls Royce, a Studebaker, and a Maserati.
One of them is red, one of them is silver, and one of them is magenta. The silver car is
$2016 more expensive than the Studebaker. The magenta car is $6102 less expensive
than the Maserati. By how many dollars is the red car more expensive than the Rolls
Royce?
Answer: 4086
Solution. Let the Rolls Royce cost R dollars, the Studebaker cost S dollars, and the
Maserati cost M dollars. Then the total cost of all three cars equals R + S + M dollars. The
silver car costs S + 2016 dollars, and the magenta car costs M – 6102 dollars, so their
total cost equals (S + 2016) + (M – 6102) = S + M – 4086 dollars. But together with the
red car they cost R + S + M dollars, therefore the cost of the red car equals (R + S + M) –
(S + M – 4086) = R + 4086 dollars. Since R is the cost of the Rolls Royce, the red car is
$4086 more expensive than the Rolls Royce.

3. The diagram consists of a 4-by-4 square divided into 16 unit squares, and
all the diagonals of these 16 unit squares. How many squares of all sizes
and positions are there in this diagram, including squares that are made
up of other squares?
Answer: 72
Solution. Let’s count squares by their types and sizes. Square sides could be parallel
either to the sides or to the diagonals of the original 4×4 square. First, let’s consider
squares with sides parallel to the sides of the original 4×4 square. The diagram contains
only 1×1, 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4 such squares. There are 16 1×1 squares, 9 2×2 squares, 4
3×3 squares, and 1 4×4 square in the diagram, for a total of 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 30 squares.
Now let’s consider squares with sides parallel to the diagonals of the original 4×4
square (we call them “diagonal” squares). Call a triangle in the diagram small if it is not
made up of other triangles. The diagram contains only the following types of diagonal
squares: small (made up of 2 small triangles), medium (made up of 4 small diagonal
squares), large (made up of 9 small diagonal squares), and extra-large (made up of 16
small diagonal squares). There are 24 small, 13 medium, 4 large, and 1 extra-large
diagonal squares in the diagram, for a total of 24 + 13 + 4 + 1 = 42 diagonal squares.
Thus, there are 30 + 42 = 72 squares of all sizes and positions in the diagram.

4. Alice thought of a two-digit number. If she reverses the order of the digits, the new
number would be twice as large as the original number increased by 1. What was the
number Alice thought of?
Answer: 25
Solution. Let Alice’s two-digit number be TU, where T is the tens digit and U is the units
digit. It could also be written as 10T + U. If Alice reverses the order of the digits, the new
number will be UT = 10U + T. Since the new number is twice as large as the original
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number increased by 1, we obtain the following equation: 10U + T = 2(10T + U + 1),

which could be simplified to 8U – 2 = 19T. Since 8U and 2 are even, 19T must be even,
and therefore T must be an even digit. Note that T > 0 (Alice thought of a two-digit
number). If T = 2, 19T + 2 = 40, so U = 5. If T ≥ 4, 19T ≥ 76 which is greater than 8U – 2
(the largest possible value of 8U – 2 is 8×9 – 2 = 70). Since T = 2 and U = 5, the number
Alice thought of was 25.

5. Irina took the word GEOMETRY and replaced each of its eight letters with a number
according to the code A = 1, B = 2, …, Z = 26. Then she multiplied six of these numbers
to get a cube of an integer. Find this integer.
Answer: 150
Solution. First, let’s recall the order of the letters in the alphabet to get the numbers Irina
used to replace letters: G = 7, E = 5, O = 15, M = 13, E = 5, T = 20, R = 18, Y = 25. Note
that 7 and 13 are primes, and none of the other six numbers is a multiple of either 7 or 13.
Irina had to exclude numbers 7 and 13 from multiplication, otherwise the result would be
a multiple of 7 but not a multiple of 73 (or a multiple of 13 but not a multiple of 133), and
therefore the result would not be a cube of an integer. Thus, Irina multiplied numbers 5,
15, 5, 20, 18, and 25, so she got 5×15×5×20×18×25 =
5×(3×5)×5×(2×2×5)×(2×3×3)×(5×5) = (2×3×5×5)3 = 1503. Note that there is only one
integer whose cube is 1503, namely 150, so the answer is 150.

6. Venus took 30 numbers, rounded each of them up to the nearest integer, added the
results, and got 2016. When she took the original numbers, rounded each of them down
to the nearest integer and added the results, she got 2000. How many of her original
numbers were integers?
Answer: 14
Solution. If any of Venus’s 30 original numbers (let it be x) was an integer, then its value
did not change when rounding up or down to the nearest integer. (Formally, x = x = x
for any integer x, where y is the result of rounding a number y up to the nearest integer,
and y is the result of rounding a number y down to the nearest integer.) Therefore x
contributed to the first sum as much as x contributed to the second sum. If any of
Venus’s 30 original numbers (let it be x) was not an integer, then its value increased (by
less than 1) when rounding up to the nearest integer, and decreased (by less than 1) when
rounding down to the nearest integer. The results of these two rounding operations are
consecutive integers. (Formally, x < x < x and x – x = 1 for any non-integer x.)
Therefore x contributed to the first sum 1 more than x contributed to the second sum.
Thus, the value of the first sum (2016) is greater than the value of the second sum (2000)
by the total number of non-integers among Venus’s 30 original numbers. So, there were
2016 – 2000 = 16 non-integers and 30 – 16 = 14 integers among these 30 numbers.

7. The President of Dollarstan is deciding between two income tax plans. According to one
of the plans, all residents would pay tax equal to 10% of their yearly income (if this
income is positive). According to the other plan, the first 150,000 D-dollars of a
resident’s yearly income would not be taxed, and the tax (if any) would equal 16% of any
yearly income over 150,000 D-dollars. The President cannot decide which tax plan to
propose because his own tax under either plan is the same. What is the yearly income (in
D-dollars) of the President of Dollarstan? Note that this income is a positive number.
Answer: 400,000 (or 400000)
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Solution. Let x > 0 be the yearly income (in D-dollars) of the President of Dollarstan.
Since x > 0, under the first plan the President would pay tax equal to 10% of his yearly
income, i.e. 0.1x > 0. If x ≤ 150000, then under the second plan the President would pay
no tax, which is different from 0.1x. Therefore x > 150000, and under the second plan the
first 150000 D-dollars of the President’s yearly income would not be taxed, but the
President would still pay tax equal to 16% of his yearly income over 150000 D-dollars,
i.e. 0.16(x – 150000). Since the President’s tax under either plan is the same, we get the
following equation: 0.1x = 0.16(x – 150000). Simplifying, we get 0.06x = 24000  x =
400000 which indeed greater than 150000. Thus, the yearly income (in D-dollars) of the
President of Dollarstan is 400000.
Note. The above solution assumes that the President of Dollarstan is a resident of
Dollarstan, or at least pays income tax as a resident.

8. On Monday Ravi wrote a huge positive integer on the board. On Tuesday he wrote the
digit 2 near every odd digit on the board. On Wednesday he wrote the digit 3 near every
even digit on the board. At this point the total number of digits on the board was 2016
more than the total number of digits in Ravi's original huge number (from Monday).
What was the total number of digits on the board at the end of Tuesday?
Answer: 2016
Solution. Let x be the number of odd digits and y be the number of even digits in Ravi’s
original huge number. There was a total of x + y digits on the board at the end of
Monday. On Tuesday Ravi wrote the digit 2 on the board x times. Since 2 is even, there
were x odd and y + x even digits on the board at the end of Tuesday, for a total of 2x + y
digits. On Wednesday Ravi wrote the digit 3 on the board y + x times. Since 3 is odd,
there were x + (y + x) = 2x + y odd and y + x even digits on the board at the end of
Wednesday, for a total of 3x + 2y digits. Since this number was 2016 more than the total
number of digits in Ravi’s original huge number (from Monday), we get the following
equation: (3x + 2y) – (x + y) = 2016 which is equivalent to 2x + y = 2016. But 2x + y was
precisely the total number of digits on the board at the end of Tuesday, so the answer is
2016.

9. A square is drawn on each side of a triangle (each side of the triangle is a side of one of
the squares). None of the four shapes overlap. The ratio of the areas of the squares is
1:2:3. What is the degree measure of the largest angle of the triangle?
Answer: 90
Solution. Let a, b, c be the side lengths of the triangle, a ≤ b ≤ c. Then the areas of the
squares described in the problem statement would be a2 ≤ b2 ≤ c2. Since the ratio of the
areas of the squares is 1:2:3, we get a2:b2:c2 = 1:2:3, or b2 = 2a2, c2 = 3a2. Therefore a2 +
b2 = a2 + 2a2 = 3a2 = c2, so the triangle is a right one by the converse of the Pythagorean
Theorem. Since a right triangle contains one 90° angle and two acute angles (each
measuring less than 90°), the largest angle of the triangle measures 90°.

10. Rick, Sol, and Mike are in the same RSM class and have the same height. The average
height of all students in the class except Rick is 63.1 inches. The average height of all
students in the class except Rick and Sol is 62 inches. The average height of all students
in the class except Rick, Sol, and Mike is 60.625 inches. How many students are in this
class?
Answer: 11
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1 5
Solution 1. Since 63.1 = 63 10 and 60.625 = 60 8, one possibility is the following: there
are 10 students in the class without Rick, and 8 (precisely 2 less than 10) students in the
class without Rick, Sol, and Mike. In this case the total height of all students in the class
5
except Rick, Sol, and Mike is 8 × 60 8 = 485 inches. The total height of all students in
the class except Rick and Sol is 9 × 62 = 558 inches, therefore Mike is 558 – 485 = 73
1
inches tall. The total height of all students in the class except Rick is 10 × 63 10 = 631
inches, therefore Sol is 631 – 558 = 73 inches tall as well. Since this possibility satisfies
all the conditions of the problem (there are no more restrictions on Rick’s height except
that Rick, Sol, and Mike have the same height), the answer is that there are 10 + 1 = 8 + 3
= 11 students in the class.

Solution 2. Let N > 3 be the number of students in the class, let Rick, Sol, and Mike each
be x inches tall, and let the total height of all other N – 3 students be T inches. Then the
total height of all students in the class except Rick and Sol (there are N – 2 of them) is T
+ x inches, and the total height of all students in the class except Rick (there are N – 1 of
them) is T + 2x inches. So, the conditions of the problem could be written as the
𝑇𝑇+2𝑥𝑥 𝑇𝑇+𝑥𝑥 𝑇𝑇
following equations: 𝑁𝑁−1 = 63.1, 𝑁𝑁−2 = 62, and 𝑁𝑁−3 = 60.625. Let’s re-write the
equations in equivalent form: T + 2x = 63.1(N – 1), T + x = 62(N – 2), T = 60.625(N – 3).
Subtracting the first two equations from each other yields x = (63.1 – 62)N + (124 – 63.1)
= 1.1N + 60.9, and subtracting the last two equations from each other yields x = (62 –
60.625)N + (181.875 – 124) = 1.375N + 57.875. Thus, 1.1N + 60.9 = 1.375N + 57.875 
0.275N = 3.025  275N = 3025  N = 11. We can now find x and T to verify that N =
11 is not an extraneous solution.

11. All 6-digit positive integers containing each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 exactly once are
written down on the board. How many of these numbers are divisible by 8?
Answer: 84
Solution. Recall the following divisibility rules. An integer is divisible by 2 if and only if
its units digit is even (divisible by 2). An integer is divisible by 4 if and only if its tens
and units digits read in that order as a 2-digit number (leading 0s are allowed) is divisible
by 4. An integer is divisible by 8 if and only if its hundreds, tens, and units digits read in
that order as a 3-digit number (leading 0s are allowed) is divisible by 8. Also, for an
integer to be divisible by 8, it must be divisible by 2 and by 4 (although divisibility by 2
and by 4 does not guarantee divisibility by 8).
Now let’s consider all 3-digit positive integers containing only the digits 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6, and not containing duplicate digits. Let’s count how many of these numbers are
divisible by 8. For a 3-digit number abc to be divisible by 8, its units digit c must be
even, i.e. it must be 2, 4, or 6.
Case 1: c = 2. For a 3-digit number ab2 to be divisible by 8, 2-digit number b2
must be divisible by 4. Since 2 is even but not divisible by 4, 2-digit number b0 must also
be even (which is always true) and not divisible by 4, so b must be odd (1, 3, or 5).
Sub-case 1.1: b = 1. Consider number a12. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 12 is divisible by 4 but not divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible
by 4 (which is always true) and not divisible by 8, so a must be odd (3 or 5).
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Sub-case 1.2: b = 3. Consider number a32. We want it to be divisible by 8.

Since 32 is divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible by 8, so a must be
even (4 or 6).
Sub-case 1.3: b = 5. Consider number a52. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 52 is divisible by 4 but not divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible
by 4 (which is always true) and not divisible by 8, so a must be odd (1 or 3).
Case 2: c = 4. For a 3-digit number ab4 to be divisible by 8, 2-digit number b4
must be divisible by 4. Since 4 is divisible by 4, 2-digit number b0 must also be divisible
by 4, so b must be even (2 or 6).
Sub-case 2.1: b = 2. Consider number a24. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 24 is divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible by 8, so a must be
even (6).
Sub-case 2.2: b = 6. Consider number a64. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 64 is divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible by 8, so a must be
even (2).
Case 3: c = 6. For a 3-digit number ab6 to be divisible by 8, 2-digit number b6
must be divisible by 4. Since 6 is even but not divisible by 4, 2-digit number b0 must also
be even (which is always true) and not divisible by 4, so b must be odd (1, 3, or 5).
Sub-case 3.1: b = 1. Consider number a16. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 16 is divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible by 8, so a must be
even (2 or 4).
Sub-case 3.2: b = 3. Consider number a36. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 36 is divisible by 4 but not divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible
by 4 (which is always true) and not divisible by 8, so a must be odd (1 or 5).
Sub-case 3.3: b = 5. Consider number a56. We want it to be divisible by 8.
Since 56 is divisible by 8, 3-digit number a00 must also be divisible by 8, so a must be
even (2 or 4).
So we found that there are 14 different 3-digit “endings” for a 6-digit number on
the board to be divisible by 8 (312, 512, 432, 632, 152, 352, 624, 264, 216, 416, 136, 536,
256, 456). Let’s consider one of these endings, abc, and count how many 6-digit numbers
on the board end with abc. For such a 6-digit number defabc, we have 3 choices for digit
d (any of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, except a, b, c). After we selected d, we have 2 choices
for digit e (any of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, except a, b, c, d). Finally, after we selected d
and e, we have just 1 choice for digit f (the remaining digit). So, for each of 14 possible
3-digit endings abc we can find exactly 3×2×1 = 6 6-digit numbers on the board with
such an ending. Since the divisibility of a 6-digit number by 8 is equivalent to the
divisibility of its 3-digit ending by 8, there are just 14 such 3-digit endings, and each of
them is an ending for 6 different 6-digit numbers on the board, we conclude that exactly
6×14 = 84 numbers on the board are divisible by 8.

12. Anton took three sides of an equilateral triangle with perimeter 2016, cut one of the sides
into two equal parts, and made a quadrilateral which is not a parallelogram using these
four segments. What is the greatest possible area of this quadrilateral?
Answer: 225,792 (or 225792)
Solution. Each side of the equilateral triangle is of length 2016÷3 = 672. Anton cut one of
the sides into two equal parts, each of length 672÷2 = 336. Therefore the four segments
are of length 672, 672, 336, and 336. Anton made a quadrilateral using these four
segments. If two longer sides (of equal length) of this quadrilateral are opposite to each
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other, then the two shorter sides (of equal length)

are opposite to each other as well. In this case the B
quadrilateral is a parallelogram. But the
quadrilateral Anton made was not a parallelogram,
therefore its two longer sides (of equal length) are
adjacent to each other, and its two shorter sides (of C
equal length) are adjacent to each other as well.
Such a quadrilateral is known as a kite (see the
diagram). Let’s name its vertices A, B, C, and D,
where B is the shared vertex of the two longer A D
sides and D is the shared vertex of the two shorter
sides. Since AB = BC, AD = DC, BD = BD, we H
conclude that ∆ABD ≅ ∆CBD, and therefore the
area of ABCD is twice the area of ∆ABD (let’s call these areas X and Y respectively).
Let’s draw an altitude DH from D to line AB, where point H is on this line. Since
𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵∙𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵∙𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷
DH ≤ DA, we can bound the area of ∆ABD: 𝑌𝑌 = 2 ≤ 2 , and therefore 𝑋𝑋 = 2𝑌𝑌 ≤
𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 ∙ 𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 = 672 ∙ 336 = 225792. This value is achieved when H = A, i.e. when m∠BAD
= 90°.
Note 1. We consider only simple quadrilaterals since the corresponding self-
intersecting quadrilaterals have smaller areas. We consider only convex kites since the
corresponding concave kites have smaller areas.
Note 2. By cutting a convex kite ABCD along its line of symmetry BD and gluing
the two congruent triangles ABD and CBD along segment BD (B to D and D to B) we get
a parallelogram with the same side lengths as the kite, and with the same area as the kite.
And vice versa, using cutting and gluing we can convert a parallelogram into a convex
kite. Thus, the greatest possible area of a kite with side lengths 672, 672, 336, and 336 is
the same as the greatest possible area of a parallelogram with side lengths 672, 672, 336,
and 336, which is achieved for a rectangle with side lengths 672, 672, 336, and 336. The
area of this rectangle is 672 ∙ 336 = 225792.
 IMC 2023 Grades 9-10
1. What is the least six-digit number in which the sum of the digits equals 33?
[{{35}}]
105999 or 105,999

2. One of the faces of a polyhedron is a hexagon. What is the least number of faces this
polyhedron can have?
[{{35}}]
7

3. How many positive integers n have the following property?

If you divide n by 29, the quotient and the remainder are the same.

[{{40}}]
28

4. Elizabeth spent $ n on ingredients to make a huge cake, and then sold the cake for $171, which
is n % more than the amount she spent. Find n .
[{{45}}]
90

5. Calculate.

[{{67}}]
2025 or 2,025

6. The numbers A , B , and C satisfy the following identities.

Find

[{{44}}]
354

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7. Two circles are internally tangent and their centers both lie on AB. MN is a chord of the larger
¯ ¯ ¯
circle, MN ∥ AB, and MN is tangent to the smaller circle, MN = 14.
A
Find π where A is the area of the shaded region.

[{{16}}]
49

(x − 5)2
8. The inequality ≤ 0 has exactly one solution for x . What is the value of a ?
(x − 3)4(x − 7)(x − a)
[{{30}}]
7

9. How many natural numbers contain at least two digits and all of the digits are in increasing
order?
[{{22}}]
502

10. A straight line passes through point (17, 0) and intersects the parabola y = 17x 2 at points that
have abscissas a and b .

Find (1 1
2023 a + b . )
[{{15}}]
119

¯ ¯
11. Median AM of triangle ABC is half the length of side AC and makes an angle of 32° with side
¯
AC. Find the measure of ∠BAC in degrees.
[{{5}}]
106°.

12. The positive integers from 1 to 2023 are written in a row like this: 1234567891011...20222023.
How many times does the number 10 appear in the row?
[{{7}}]
141

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 13. How many integer roots does the equation have?

[{{19}}]
6

14. Whenever a number is entered into a special machine, the machine adds the number to its
copy, but the last digit of the copy is removed before the addition. The machine then outputs the
sum to the user. (For example, if you enter 2023, the output is 2023 + 202 = 2225.)

Alex entered each natural number from 1 to 999 in order. What is the greatest three-digit number
that the machine never gave as output to Alex?
[{{22}}]
989

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1. What is the last digit of the product of all of the odd numbers from 1 to 99?

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 5. The rectangle is made of eight squares. Find the area of the rectangle if the area of the yellow
square is 90.

6. How many integer solutions does the inequality have?

(|x| − 13)(|x| + 13)
|x| − 2
≤0

3
7. A flower kiosk is selling roses and carnations that are either red or white. 5 of all the flowers
1 9
are red, 3 of all the flowers are roses, and 20 of all the roses are white. What percent of all the
flowers are white carnations?

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8. In triangle ABC, the point M(−1, 0) is the midpoint of AB and N(a, b) is the midpoint of BC .
Find a 2 + b 2 if A = (−2, −1) and C = (2, −5).

9. Find the sum of all integer solutions of the inequality.

log0.5(x ) > x − 6

10. Given a sequence { t n }, let S n be the sum of the first n elements of { t n }.

Find t 2022 if S n = n 2 + 6n for all positive integers n .

11. A bag contains 8 red marbles and 2 yellow marbles. A second bag contains 16 red marbles and
some number of yellow marbles. One marble is drawn at random from each bag. How many
yellow marbles are in the second bag if the probability that both marbles pulled out are the same
1
color is 3 ?

12. Find the sum of the digits of the number A.

13. Find the product of all real roots of the equation.

( x 4 − 6x 2 + 10)x 2 − 3x − 14 = 1

14. The diagonals of quadrilateral ABCD intersect at O . The areas of the triangles AOB and COD
are 20 and 45, respectively. Find the smallest possible area of ABCD.

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Question No. Answer

1 5

2 324

3 6

4 The number is 2022 or 2,022.

5 184

6 22

7 25%

8 5

9 6

10

11 56

12 99

13 42

14 125
 IMC 2021
Grade 9-10
1. Calculate:

( 1 )−11
27−3 · 3

2. Amanda thought over her 41st chess move for 64 seconds. For each of the following moves, she
thought for 25% more seconds than she had for the previous move. How many seconds did
Amanda think over her 44th move?

3. A bag contains 12 red marbles, 9 yellow marbles, and some number of green marbles. How
1
many green marbles are in the bag if the probability of drawing a green marble in one try is 8 ?

4. Find the area of quadrilateral ABCD if m∠A = 90° and the side lengths of the quadrilateral are
3, 4, 12, and 13 units, as shown in the figure.

Not drawn to scale

5. Given two consecutive natural numbers, the square of their sum is 180 more than the sum of
their squares. Find the smaller of these two numbers.

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 6. Alex, Brian, and Carlton competed in the same weight-lifting category this year, and one of
them won! The weight Alex lifted plus the weight Brian lifted was 220 kg. The weights lifted by
Alex and Carlton totaled 240 kg. And the weights lifted by Brian and Carlton totaled 250 kg.
How many kilograms did the winner lift?

7. Find the value of k if the roots of the following quadratic equation are natural numbers.
3x 2 − kx +15 = 0

8. Find the sum of the integer solutions of the inequality

|x − 16| < |x + 4|
that are in the range [−10, 10].

9. Calculate:
1 1 1
2 · log2 (1,000,000) · ( + + )
log 2 (100) log 2 (1,000) log 2 (10,000)

10. The product of the first five terms of a geometric progression is 243. Find the fifth term if the
fourth term is 12.

11. Point M is located on side BC of rectangle ABCD such that BM : MC = 2 : 1. Point N is the
midpoint of side AD. Segment MN intersects diagonal BD at point O . Find the area of ABCD if
the area of triangle BON is 4 square units.

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 12. Four lions and four tigers are walking in a row to get ice cream. The lions are fighting, so they
are not walking next to each other. In how many different ways can the four lions and four tigers
walk if no two lions are the same and no two tigers are the same?

13. Find the number of integer solutions of the following inequality that are in the range [−5, 5].
x2−x

( 415 ) x
≥1

14. How many different five-digit numbers that are divisible by 4 can you write with the six digits
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5? All five digits in each number must be different.

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Question No. Answer

1 9

2 125 seconds.

3 3 green marbles are in the bag.

4 The area of quadrilateral ABCD is 36 square units.

5 The smaller of these two numbers is 9.

6 The winner lifted 135 kg.

7 k = 18.

8 34

9 13

10 The fifth term is 48.

11 The area of ABCD is 28 square units.

12 The four lions and four tigers can walk in 2880 or 2,880 different ways.

13 6

14 144
 IMC 2023 Round 2 Grades 9-10
1. Pirate Bill has a bill worth 1000 ducats. His friend Colin
has a bunch of 3-ducat coins and a bunch of 10-ducat
coins. In how many ways can Colin exchange Bill's 1000-
ducat bill for coins?
34

2. Square ABCD is divided into 5 rectangles that each has the same area as shown in the figure.
Find the perimeter of rectangle ABEN if FH = 5.

24

3. 3 digits in the number 20232023 are erased so that a 5-digit multiple of 120 remains. Find the
least possible remaining 5-digit number.
22320 or 22,320

4. The expression

contains each natural number from 1 to 9. Each number is written in invisible ink on a blank card
with one number per card. Find the least possible value of the expression.
214

5. Rupam writes on a board all of the three-digit numbers and then erases one of them. The
average of the remaining numbers is an integer. Compute the sum of all possible values of the
number Rupam erased.
1099 or 1,099

6. Anna collects different positive integers. Her collection is factor-closed, meaning that for every
number in her collection, all of the positive factors of that number are also in the collection. Find
the least possible number of elements in the collection if the numbers 22 · 33 · 55, and 23 · 35 · 52,
and 25 · 32 · 53 are in the collection.
135

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 7. Find 100cos (x + y )
3 1
if sin x − sin y = 2 , cos x + cos y = 2 .
25

8. There are many tenants (cats and dogs) at the RSM Pet Village. They live in one-pet houses that
are each occupied by one tenant, and two-pet houses that are each occupied by two tenants.
There are X % more cats than dogs, and there are X % more one-pet houses than two-pet houses
for some positive integer X . Find the least possible number of tenants at the RSM Pet Village.
12

9. In triangle ABC, angle BAC measures 20° and angle BCA measures 23°. Points D and E are
inside triangle ABC such that angles BAD, DAE, and EAC have the same measure and angles
↔ ↔
BCD, DCE, and ECA have the same measure. Lines DE and AC intersect at F . Compute the
degree measure of angle AFD.
91°

10. Kyle converts the integers from 1 to 2023 to the binary number system. How many of these
2023 binary numbers are palindromes?
A palindrome is a number that is the same when written forward or backward. For example, the
binary numbers 1, and 111, and 1001 are palindromes.
93

11. Three friends named Rei, Soi, and Mai have 512,000 tokens each. In the first step, Rei equally
splits all his tokens and gives them to Soi and Mai. In the second step, Soi equally splits all of
the tokens she has at the moment between Mai and Rei. In the third step, Mai equally splits all of
the tokens she has at the moment between Rei and Soi. Then Rei equally splits his tokens, and so
on. After 12 steps, how many tokens will Soi have?
511875 or 511,875

12. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is decreased by 1, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is decreased by 2, and both the red and
green buttons become locked (cannot be pressed).
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is increased by 3, and both the red and
green buttons become unlocked.
The number 2014 is displayed on the screen, and all buttons are unlocked. Find the total number of
ways you could press a button to get the number 2023 on the screen. (The number of times each
button is pressed and the order in which the buttons are pressed are both important.)
927

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 IMC Round 2 2022
Grades 9-10

1. Jimmy cuts a paper square into seven identical rectangles

and uses five of them to make the symbol π as shown in
the diagram. The perimeter of the π is 132. Compute the
side length of the original square.

2. You have a machine with a screen and three buttons: red, green, and blue.
• If you press the red button, the number on the screen is doubled.
• If you press the green button, the number on the screen is tripled.
• If you press the blue button, the number on the screen is multiplied by itself.
The number 1 is displayed on the screen. What is the least number of times you need to press a
button to get the number 7776 on the screen?

3. All of the students in a town participated in a survey. The survey results showed that exactly
7
52% of the students knew the year President Washington was born, exactly 18 of the students
11
had heard of a sine function, exactly 15 of the students had played a computer game during
class, and exactly 452 students had attended a summer camp. Find the least possible number of
students in the town.

4. Find the least positive integer that is 180 less than its reversed number. For example, 374 and
473 are reversed numbers.

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 5. A number is totally odd if all its digits are odd. How many totally odd positive integers X
(where X is less than 10,000) are there such that X + 2022 is also totally odd?

6. The sum of the four-digit numbers FOUR and FIVE is equal to

the four-digit number NINE. Different letters represent different
digits, and the same letters represent the same digits. Compute
the number of all possible different values of the number NINE.

7. Calculate the positive integer n such that n 3 + 2n 2 + 11n + 10 is the cube of an integer.

8. An RSM sports field has a square shape. Poles with letters M ,

A , T , H are located at the corners of the square (see the
diagram). During warm up, a student starts at any pole, runs to
another pole along a side of the square or across the field along
diagonal MT (only in the direction from M to T ), then runs to
another pole along a side of the square or along diagonal MT,
and so on. The student cannot repeat a run along the same side/
diagonal of the square in the same direction. For instance, she
cannot run from M to A twice, but she can run from M to A and
at some point from A to M . How many different ways are there
to complete the warm up that includes all nine possible runs (see
the diagram)? One possible way is M-A-T-H-M-H-T-A-M-T.

9. Find the difference between the greatest value and the least value of the function
f (x ) = 5 sin x + 12 cos x, x ∈ [0, π].

¯
10. Suppose BC = 3AB in rectangle ABCD. Points E and F are on side BC such that BE = EF =
FC. Compute the sum of the degree measures of the four angles EAB, EAF, EAC, EAD.

11. Let S be the 4044-digit number that contains only the digit 1, and let M be the 2022-digit
number that contains only the digit 2. Compute the sum of the digits of the whole number R .
R = 16(S − M )

12. In the expression 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 @ 5 you replace each of the four @ symbols with either +,
or –, or ×, or ÷. You can insert one or more pairs of parentheses to control the order of
operations. Find the second least whole number that CANNOT be the value of the resulting
expression. For example, each of the numbers 25 = 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 and 60 = 5 + (5 + 5) × 5 + 5
can be the value of the resulting expression.

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Question No. Answer

1 21

2 6

3 900

4 1021 or 1,021

5 400

6 34

7 9

8 32

9 25

10 135°

11 6066 or 6,066

12 17
 RMO 2021
Grades 9-10
1. Anna pictured a rectangle in her head.
If she increases each of the rectangle’s dimensions by 43 units, the area of the rectangle increases
by 2021 square units.
Compute the perimeter of the original rectangle Anna pictured.

2. A tart contains either 3 white, or 4 red, or 5 black cherries.

A jumbo tray of 500 tarts (with at least one of each kind) contains 2021 cherries.
Find the greatest possible number of red cherries on the tray.

3. In quadrilateral ABCD, the degree measures of four angles are shown in the diagram.
¯
If E is the midpoint of side AD , find the degree measure of angle CBD.

Not drawn to scale

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 4. If each of the equations
x 2 + bx + a = 0 and x 2 +cx + a = 1
has two different integer roots that are greater than 1, find the least possible value of a .

5. The diagram shows 22 red points on the two long sides of a rectangle with side lengths 10 units
and 3 units.
All of the points are at least 1 unit from each other.
How many right triangles of all sizes and positions and with all vertices at these red points are
hidden in the diagram?

6. Find the greatest possible number of consecutive zeros at the end of the product of three positive
integers if the sum of these three integers equals 2021.
(The number 202100 has exactly 2 consecutive zeros at the end.)

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 7. Replace the @ symbol in

with one of the arithmetic operations ( +, −, ×, or ÷).

Find the quotient of the greatest and the least possible values of the resulting expression.

8. All vertices of a convex paper nonagon and 10 different points that lie strictly inside the
nonagon form a set S .
No three of the points belonging to S lie on a line.
You can divide the nonagon into several non-overlapping triangles that all have three vertices in S .
Find the greatest possible number of such triangles.
(A nonagon is a polygon with 9 sides.)

9. Compute
x +2 x −1+ x −2 x −1
1 1 1
if x = 1 + 2 + 2 + ... + 2021 .
2 2

10. One hundred friends, A1, A2, …, A100, sit at a round table as shown in the diagram.
A2 sits to the left of A1 and to the right of A3. Each has a jar with candies.
At exactly the same time, all 100 friends move half of the candies in their jar to their friend's jar on
the right. (So the candies move counterclockwise.)
Now, A1’ s jar has 2020 candies, A2’ s jar has 2021 candies, A3’ s jar has 2020 candies, A4’ s jar has
2021 candies, …, A97’ s jar has 2020 candies, A98’ s jar has 2021 candies, and A99’ s jar has 2020
candies.
How many candies are now in A100’ s jar?

11. Find the greatest possible remainder you can get when you divide 2021 by a natural number
that is not greater than 500.

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 12. There are 3 RSM branches in Math City. The branches are called R , S , and M .
Arty plans a 5-day visit to Math City and wants to visit each branch.
Each day, she will either visit one branch or go sight-seeing and visit zero branches.
Arty could visit one or more branches more than once or go sight-seeing on more than one day,
possibly on consecutive days.
How many different schedules can the RSM students prepare for Arty?
One possible schedule is R − R − S − X − M, where Arty visits branch R on the first and second
days, branch S on the third day, branch M on the fifth day, and zero branches on the fourth day.

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Question No. Answer

1 8

2 1908 or 1,908

3 35°

4 15

5 234

6 7

7 625

8 27

9 2

10 1971 or 1,971

11 401

12 390
2020 Practice Problems Grades 9-10

1. Kevin found out that 3 apples and 1 pear weigh as much as 10 plums. 6 plums and 1
apple weigh as much as 1 pear. How many plums does Kevin need to balance 1
pear?

127 − 126
2. Calculate: 9 .
2  272 + 15  44  92

3. A square and an equilateral triangle are shown in the figure. Find angle x (in degrees).

4. Two skiers are moving in a circular path in the same direction. One of them is the
champion of the city. The other one has started training only recently. The
champion completes each lap 2 minutes faster than the beginner. He overtakes the
beginner every 24 minutes. How many minutes does it take for the champion to
complete a circle?

5. Find x 2 + y 2 , if x 2 − 2 x + y 2 − 4 y + 5 = 0 .

6. Find the smallest value of the function

f ( a ) = a 2 + 8a + 16 + a 2 − 8a + 16 .
7. The mean, median, and unique mode of the set of positive integers {2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, x}
are a, b, and c respectively. At least two of the three numbers a, b, and c are the
same. Find the sum of all possible values of x.

8. The sequence {xn } is given by conditions x1 = 20 , x2 = −21 , xn+1 = xn − xn−1 ( n  2 ).

Find x2021 .

1 1
9. Find + , where a and b are the roots of the equation 3x2 − 8x + 2 = 0 .
a b

10. In a geometric sequence t2 = 6 and t5 = 162 . Find t4 + t6 .

11. Find the sum of all real roots of the equation:

log 4 ( 2 x − 1) − log 2 ( x − 2 ) = 0 .

12. The soldiers at the parade lined up in a rectangle with 10 rows and 5 columns. You
need to choose three soldiers so that neither two of them stand in the same row or
in the same column. How many different combinations of such choices are there?

13. In a trapezoid, the diagonals are 30 and 40 units. The length of the midsegment is 25
units. Find the distance between the bases of this trapezoid (i.e. the height of the
trapezoid).

14. A row of n integers from 1 to n (where n is a positive even number) is written on the
n
blackboard. Then consecutive numbers were wiped out from this row. The sum
2
of the remaining numbers on the blackboard is 2021. What is the sum of all
possible values of n?
 ANSWERS

Question Answer
No.
1 7
2 48
3 111
4 6
5 5
6 8
7 20
8 21
9 4
10 540
11 5
12 7200
13 24
14 180