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1. 2021 − 1202 =
(A) 719 (B) 723 (C) 819 (D) 823 (E) 3223

2. What is the perimeter of this

figure?
(A) 28 units
(B) 26 units
(C) 24 units
(D) 20 units
(E) 21 units
1 unit

3. The area of this triangle is

(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 12.5 cm2
(D) 15 cm2 (E) 16 cm2
4 cm

6 cm

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4. On the number line below, the fraction lies between
8

P Q R S T U

0 1 1
2

(A) P and Q (B) Q and R (C) R and S (D) S and T (E) T and U

5. Which of the following is closest to 2021?

(A) 202 × 100 (B) 22 × 1000 (C) 20.2 × 100 (D) 10 × 20.2 (E) 100 × 2.2

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6. In the diagram, AB is parallel to EF and B

DE is parallel to BC. What is the value D F
of x? x◦
43◦
(A) 43 (B) 47 (C) 133
A C
(D) 135 (E) 137 E

7. Mister Meow attempted the calculation 5 × 2 + 4, but accidentally swapped the multipli-
cation and addition symbols. His answer was
(A) too low by 2 (B) too low by 1 (C) still correct
(D) too high by 1 (E) too high by 2

8. Dad puts a cake in the oven at 11:49 am. The recipe says to bake it for 75 minutes.
When should the cake come out of the oven?
(A) 1:04 pm (B) 12:34 pm (C) 1:54 pm (D) 1:19 pm (E) 12:04 pm

9. Damon made up a joke and sent it as a text message to three people in his class. These
three each sent it to three other people in the class. No-one receiving the joke had seen it
before. Including Damon, how many people now know the joke?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16

10. I am shuffling a deck of cards but I accidentally drop a card on the ground every now and
then. After a while, I notice that I have dropped five cards.
From above, the five cards look like one of the following pictures. Which picture could it
be?
6
♦

6
♠

♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

6
4

♦
♦ ♦
♦

♦
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

(A) ♦ (B) (C)

♦

♦ ♦
♦

♠
♦♠♠

9
♦ 2♥ ♥
4
♦

♠
4
4

4
♠

♣
♦ 7 ♠ ♣ ♣ ♦
2 ♥
9

9
♦

♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠
♣

♦
♦ ♣ ♣ ♥

♣ ♣
♣ ♣

♣ ♣
♦

♠ ♣
♦
6

♦
♣♣

♣♣

♠ ♠
♣

♥
♣

♥
♥
2

♣ ♣
♠

2 ♦
7

♠
6
♣

♣
♣

6
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

♥ ♥
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

7 2
♣

♣
♥

♥
♠

♣
♣ ♣

♣ ♣

9
9

9
♥
2
7

7
♠

♠
♠

♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

6 6
4

♦
♦ ♦
♦
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

(D) ♦ (E) ♦
♦ ♦ 2♥ ♥
♦ ♥ ♥
2
4

4
♠

♦
9

9
♣

♦ ♦
♣ ♣

♣ ♣

♦ ♦
♣♣

♣♣
♣

♥
♣

♦ ♥ ♦ ♥ ♥
♠

2 2
7

6 6
♣

♣
♣

♣
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♣

♣
♠

♠
9 ♣

9 ♣
♣

♣
7

7
♠

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11. To feed a horse, Kim mixes three bags of oats with one bag containing 20% lucerne and
80% oats. If all the bags have the same volume, what percentage of the combined feed
mixture is lucerne?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 20 (E) 60

12. Three squares with perimeters 12 cm, 20 cm and 16 cm

are joined as shown. What is the perimeter of the shape
formed?
(A) 34 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 41 cm (D) 42 cm (E) 48 cm

13. The odometer in my car measures the total distance travelled. At the moment, it reads
199 786 kilometres. I’m interested in when the odometer reading is a palindrome, so that
it reads the same backwards as forwards. How many more kilometres of travel will this
take?
(A) 25 (B) 125 (C) 15 (D) 205 (E) 2005

14. A square has an internal point P such that the perpendicular

distances from P to the four sides are 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, and
4 cm.
How many other internal points of the square have this prop- P
erty?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

15. How many different positive whole numbers can replace the  to make this a true state-
ment?
 1
+ <1
10 3

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

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16. Three blocks with rectangular faces are placed to-

gether to form a larger rectangular prism. 28
27
All blocks have side lengths which are whole num-
bers of centimetres. The areas of some of the faces
are shown, as is the length of one edge.
In cubic centimetres, what is the volume of the com- 30
bined prism? 42
(A) 360 (B) 540 (C) 600
(D) 720 (E) 900
3

17. I have four consecutive odd numbers. The largest is one less than twice the smallest.
Which of the following is the largest of the four numbers?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 21

18. This is a square with sides of 10 metres. 3m

From the constructions shown, which of the areas is the
largest? A B
C
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E
4m
D 6m
4m E

19. Sandy, Rachel and Thandie collect toy cars. Altogether they have
300 cars.
Rachel has grown up and decides to give her cars away. If she gives
them all to Sandy, then Sandy will have 180. If she gives them all
to Thandie, then Thandie will have 200.
How many cars does Rachel have?

(A) 80 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120

20. A standard dice numbered 1 to 6 with opposite sides

adding to 7 is placed on a 2 by 2 square as shown.
The dice is rolled over one edge onto each of the four base
squares in turn and then back on to the original square,
as indicated by the arrows.
Which side of the dice is now facing upwards?

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

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21. Leonhard is designing a puzzle for Katharina. It has nine squares in

a 3 × 3 grid and a number of clues. Each clue is a number 1, 2 or 3
placed in one of the squares.
Katharina then has to find a solution by placing 1, 2 or 3 in each
of the remaining squares so that no row or column has a repeated
number.
What is the smallest number of clues that Leonhard could include
so that his puzzle has exactly one solution?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

22. Grandma and Grandpa took their three grandchildren to the cinema. They purchased 5
seats in a row. Each grandparent wanted to sit next to two of the grandchildren.
How many such seating arrangements are possible?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 30 (D) 3 (E) 60

23. I have a 4 by 4 by 4 cube made up from 64 unit cubes. I paint 3 faces of the larger cube.
Then I pull the cube apart. Which of the following could be the number of unit cubes
with no paint on them?
(A) 16 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 36

24. Ben and Jerry each roll a standard dice. If Ben rolls higher
than Jerry, he wins; otherwise Jerry wins.
What is the probability that Ben wins?
1 1 5 17 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 3 12 36 2

25. In the diagram, P QR is isosceles, with P Q = Q

QR. S is a point on P R and T is a point on P Q
such that QT = QS, and ∠SQR = 20◦ .
20◦
The size of ∠T SP , in degrees, is
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 T

(D) 20 (E) 24 x◦
P S R

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26. Starting with a 43 × 47 rectangle of paper, Sadako cuts the paper to remove the largest
square possible.
With the remaining rectangle, she again cuts it to remove the largest square possible. She
continues doing this until the remaining piece is a square.
What is the total perimeter of all the squares Sadako has at the end?

27. There are 14 chairs equally spaced around a circular table, and numbered from 1 up to 14.
How many ways are there to choose two chairs that are not opposite each other?

28. A swimming medley consists of 100 metres of each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke
and freestyle, in that order. I swim freestyle 3 times faster than breaststroke, and butterfly
twice as fast as breaststroke, and my backstroke is half as fast as my freestyle. It takes me
6 minutes to swim the full medley. To the nearest metre, how far will I have swum after
4 minutes?

29. An ant’s walk starts at the apex of a regular oc-

tahedron as shown.
It walks along five edges, never retracing its path.
It visits each of the other five vertices exactly
once.
In how many different ways can the ant do this?

30. Consider a 15 × 15 grid of unit squares. In the 1 2 3 14 15

square in row a and column b, we write the number
2 4 6 28 30
a × b.
We then colour the squares black and white in a 3 6 9 42 45
checkerboard fashion, so that the square labelled
225 is coloured white. The diagram shows the parts
of the grid near each corner.
14 28 42 196 210
What are the last three digits of the sum of the
numbers in the white squares? 15 30 45 210 225

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