SECONDARY 1 (GRADE 7) 2022 CONTEST PAPER

NAME: Index Number:

SCHOOL:

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to
start

2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.

3. There are 25 questions:

Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question and 1 point is deducted for the wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 4 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered or wrong answer.

All students start with 15 bonus points. Perfect Scorer = 85 points

4. Shade your answers neatly using a 2B lead pencil in the Answer Entry Sheet.

5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.

6. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information are allowed
during the course of the exam.

7. Strictly No Calculators are allowed into the exam.

8. All students must fill and shade their Name, School and Index Number in the
Answer Entry Sheet and Contest booklet.

9. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall for at least 1 hour.

10. A student must show detailed working and transfer answers to the Answer Entry
Sheet.

11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
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Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)

Question 1

Find the value of the following.

2022 − 1876 + 1979 + 4876

A. 7000
B. 7001
C. 7010
D. 7100
E. None of the above

Question 2

If 𝑎 is an odd integer, 𝑏 and 𝑐 are even integers, then which of the following is NOT
true?

A. (𝑐 − 𝑎)𝑎 is odd
B. (𝑏 − 𝑎)𝑐 is even
C. (𝑏 − 𝑎)𝑐 2 is odd
D. (𝑏 − 𝑎)2 𝑐 is even
E. None of the above

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Question 3

What is the next number in the sequence below?

13, 20, 29, 40, 53, 68, …

A. 81
B. 83
C. 85
D. 87
E. None of the above

Question 4

Emma is paid 𝑎 dollars an hour for the first 6 hours she works during her shift. For
every hour after the first 6 hours, she is paid 𝑏 dollars an hour. If she works 12 hours
in one shift, what is her average hourly wage for that shift?
𝑎+𝑏
A. 3
𝑎+2𝑏
B. 2
C. 6𝑎 + 6𝑏
𝑎+𝑏
D. 2
E. None of the above

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Question 5

Find the last digit of the following product.

42022 × 92024

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. None of the above

Question 6

Tom spent $450 on clothes and 40% of his remaining money on school stationery. If
he had 26.25% of his original sum of money left, how much money did he have at
first?

A. $250
B. $275
C. $800
D. $1000
E. None of the above

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Question 7

How many numbers are there that appear in both sequences below?

28, 34, 40, 46, … ,1000

54, 65, 76, 87, … , 1000

A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 22
E. None of the above

Question 8

The diagram below shows a square of side length 84 cm, with three semicircles
drawn inside it, with three of its sides as diameters. What is the area (in cm2) of the
22
shaded region? (Use 𝜋 = )
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A. 2772 cm2
B. 5544 cm2
C. 11 088 cm2
D. 22 176 cm2
E. None of the above

Question 9

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The six-digit number 75A2B8 is a multiple of 36. If the 6-digit number is as large as
possible, find the value of A−B.

A. –1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 6
E. None of the above

Question 10

Which cube will be formed when the net below is folded?

A. B. C. D. E.

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Question 11

The operator ⨂ acts on two integers to give the following outcomes:

3⨂8=817

1⨂6=615

4⨂9=918

15⨂13=2022

What is the value of 20⨂22?

A. 2531
B. 2520
C. 2031
D. 2025
E. None of the above

Question 12

How many 3-digit positive integers contain at least one digit equal to 4?

A. 900
B. 648
C. 252
D. 225
E. None of the above

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Question 13

The least common multiple (LCM) of two positive integers is 1000. If their ratio is
2:25, find their highest common factor (HCF).

A. 4
B. 5
C. 10
D. 20
E. None of the above

Question 14

The product of 24 integers is 3. Which of the following cannot be the sum of these 24
integers?

A. 22
B. 14
C. –4
D. –10
E. None of the above

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Question 15

In square 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷, points 𝐸 and 𝐹 are on sides 𝐴𝐷 and 𝐶𝐷, respectively, such that
3𝐷𝐸 = 3𝐹𝐶 = 𝐴𝐵. Segments 𝐵𝐹 and 𝐶𝐸 intersect at point 𝐺. If the area of the square
is 140 cm2, what is the area (in cm2) of quadrilateral 𝐸𝐷𝐹𝐺?

A B

E
G
D F C
A. 7 cm2
B. 14 cm2
C. 21 cm2
D. 28 cm2
E. None of the above

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Section B (Correct answer – 4 points| Incorrect or No answer – 0 points)

When an answer is a 1-digit number, shade “0” for the tens, hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 7, then shade 0007
When an answer is a 2-digit number, shade “0” for the hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 23, then shade 0023
When an answer is a 3-digit number, shade “0” for the thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 785, then shade 0785
When an answer is a 4-digit number, shade as it is.
Example: if the answer is 4196, then shade 4196

Question 16

How many triangles are there in the figure below?

Question 17

The product of the digits of a four-digit number is 810 and none of the digits is
repeated. What is the greatest such 4-digit number?

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Question 18

The four-digit number 1120 is divisible by the sum of its digits 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 = 4. What
is the greatest 4-digit number which is divisible by the sum of its digits?

Question 19

Let the operation △ be defined as follows:

3 △ 3 = 2 + 3 + 4, 5 △ 2 = 4 + 5, 9 △ 6 = 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13

If 𝑥 △ 12 = 2022, what is the value of 𝑥?

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Question 20
𝑎
The 2022nd term of the sequence below can be written as where 𝐻𝐶𝐹(𝑎, 𝑏) = 1.
𝑏
What is the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏?
1 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3
, , , , , , , , , , , ,…
2 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7

Question 21

Three sisters, Catherine, Stacy, and Fiona were talking about their ages.

Catherine said, “I am 16 years old. I am younger than Stacy by 3 years. I am older

than Fiona by 2 years.”

Stacy said, “I am not the youngest. The difference between my age and Fiona’s age
is 5 years. Fiona is 21 years old.”

Fiona said, “I am younger than Catherine. Catherine is 18 years old. Stacy is

younger than Catherine by 3 years.”

If, in each statement, only 2 sentences are correct, how old is Stacy?

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Question 22

The product 999𝑛 does not contain any digit 9. What is the smallest positive integer
𝑛 that satisfies this condition?

Question 23
𝑎2 −7
How many 3-digit positive integers 𝑎 are there such that 𝑎2−4 is a fraction in its lowest
terms?

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Question 24

How many ordered triples of positive integers (𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐) satisfy the equation below?

𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑎𝑏 + 𝑏𝑐 + 𝑐𝑎 + 𝑎𝑏𝑐 = 2022

Question 25

In the following cryptarithm, all the different letters stand for different digits. If S=4,
what is the value of the sum S+A+S+M+O?
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