estpac AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION FOR THE WesTPAC AWARDS AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2007 INTERMEDIATE DIVISION COMPETITION PAPER AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 9 AND 10 TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. NO calculators, slide rules, log tables, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale, They are intended only as aids. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions that require a whole number between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your own year in your own State or Region so different years doing the same paper are not compared. . Read the instructions on the Answer Sheet carefully, Ensure your name, school name and school year are filled in, It is your responsibility that the Answer Sheet is correctly coded. 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems. THE ANSWER SHEET 1. Use only lead pencil. 2. Record your answers on the reverse of the Answer Sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer. Your Answer Sheet will be read by a machine. The machine will see all markings even if they are in the ‘wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the Answer Sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION The AMC reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant offical status to their score status to their score.Intermediate Division Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each — equals (A) 27 (B) 11 (oa (D) 20 (E) 17 . In the diagram, where PQR is a straight line, © equals (A) 60 (B) 70 (C) 80 (D) 90 (B) 100 . IF 0-+2=97+y, then (A) r+ B=y (B) a (D) e+y=207 (C)rty=13 . Andy bought 2 chocolates at $1.35 each. How much change should he get from $5? (A) $2.70 (B) $2.60 (C) $3.30 (D) 82 (B) $2.30 . OF the following, which is the largest fraction? 7 3 6 5 (8) 5 OF (A) S ere S sie 5 . The average weight of a group of 4 boys and 6 girls is 64kg. The average weight of the boys is 70kg. What is the average weight of the girls? (A) 58kg (B) 59kg (C) 60kg (D) 61kg (©) 62kg12 . Nicky started a mobile phone call at 10:57am, The charge for the call was 89 cents per minute and the total cost for the call was $6.23. Nicky's call ended at, (A) 11:27am (B) UsMdam (©) 1:04am (D) 1146am_—(E) 11:05am . A fish tank in the shape of a rectangular prism is 1m long and 25cm wide. If it holds 55 L when full, its height, in centimetres, is (A) lL (B) 22. (C) 44 (D) 110 (EB) 220 . The larger of two numbers is 3 more than twice the smaller number. If their sum is 18, what is the smaller number? (A)3 (B) 4 (5 (D)7 () 9 10. A square with side length 2 units is placed ext to a square with side length 5 units as shown, The shaded area, in square units, is (A) 13.5 (B) 145 (C) 18.5 (D) 19.5, (E) 26 1. Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each Successive discounts of 10%, 20% and 50% are equivalent to a single discount of (A) 64% (B) 75% (C) 263% (D) 36% (E) 70% 12. ‘The game of Four Tofu is played on a4 x 4 grid. z When completed, each of the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 ocenrs in each row and cohimn of the 4 x 4 grid and also in each 2 x 2 corner of the grid 1/3 When the grid shown is completed, the sum of the 7 four numbers in the corners of the 4 x 4 grid is (A) 13 (B) (C15 (D) 12 (E) 1013 13. In the diagram, POX = 4QOX and 4QOY = LYOZ = Os 60 60 pe FE) 2 @) 37 ®) 39 24. There are four lifts in a building. Each makes three stops, which do not have to be on consecutive floors or include the ground floor. For any two floors, there is at least one lift which stops on both of them. What is the maximum number of floors that this building can have? (A) 4 (B) 5 (6 (D)7 (E) 12 25. A bee can fly or walk only in a straight line between any two corners on the inside of a cubic box of edge length 1. The bee managed to move so that it visited every comer of the box without passing through the same point twice in the air or on the wall of the box. The largest possible length of such a path is (A)2+5v2 (B)1+6V2_ (C)7V2_—(D) V+ 6VZ_—(E) AV + 3 V7 For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet. Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks, 26. What is the smallest number of odd numbers in the range 1,...,2006 such that. no matter how these numbers are chosen, there will always be two which add to 20087 27. Two semicircles of radius 1 are drawn on the diameter of a semicircle of radius 2. A circle C tonches all three semicir- cles as shown. If the radius of the cirele Cis $, where a are b are integers with no common factors, then what is the value of a+?16 28. A lucky number is a positive integer which is 19 times the sum of its digits. How many different Iucky numbers are there? 29. A grid of squares measuring 9 units by 6 units has the two corners removed as shown: How many squares of any size are contained within this grid? 30. On my calculator screen the number 2659 can be read upside down as 6592. The digits that can be read upside down are 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9. and are read as 0, 1, 2, 5, 9, 8, 6 respectively, Starting with 1, the fifth number that can be read upside down is 8 and the fifteenth is 21. What are the last three digits of the 2007th number that can be read upside down?Question 1 wlalwlalusalulr 3 s z a a a 3 8 XN 8 y S x & i} 8 8 3 8