SECONDARY 3 (GRADE 9) 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.
Rough Working
SASMO 2022, Secondary 3 (Grade 9) Contest
Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)
Question 1
Find the value of the following.
56 × 7 × 125 × 51
A. 2500000
B. 2499000
C. 249000
D. 249900
E. None of the above
Question 2
How many prime numbers 𝑝 are there that satisfy the inequality below?
𝑝 + 2 2𝑝 − 1 2 1
≤ + <3
2 2 3 2
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. Infinitely many
E. None of the above
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Question 3
Which of the following has the greatest value?
A. 313
B. 95
C. 274
D. 813
E. 2432
Question 4
How many digits are there in the number 2022 × 52022 × 64337 ?
A. 2022
B. 2024
C. 2025
D. 2026
E. None of the above
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Question 5
How many positive even 2-digit numbers are divisible neither by 5 nor by 7?
A. 15
B. 20
C. 30
D. 45
E. None of the above
Question 6
How many factors of 540 000 are perfect cubes?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 7
D. 8
E. None of the above
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Question 7
If the product of four consecutive positive integers is 2 961 840, then what is the
sum of these four numbers?
A. 166
B. 164
C. 162
D. 160
E. None of the above
Question 8
Given 128 is equal to the 9-digit number 4𝑎9 981 69𝑏, what is the value of the
product 𝑎𝑏?
A. 2
B. 6
C. 8
D. 12
E. None of the above
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Question 9
Find the last two digits of 72022 .
A. 07
B. 49
C. 43
D. 01
E. None of the above
Question 10
In the diagram below, square 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is inscribed in a circle. The two diagonals of the
square intersect at point 𝑂. Points 𝐸, 𝐹, 𝐺 and 𝐻 are midpoints of 𝐴𝑂, 𝐵𝑂, 𝐶𝑂 and
𝐷𝑂, respectively. What fraction of the area of the circle is the area of the shaded
region?
A B
E F
G
H
D C
1
A. 2𝜋
3
B. 2𝜋
1
C. 4𝜋
3
D. 4𝜋
E. None of the above
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Question 11
The integer 𝑏 is a multiple of 3 but not a multiple of 6. Which of the following is NOT
an odd number?
A. 𝑏 + 24
B. 𝑏 − 36
C. 7𝑏 + 8
D. 3𝑏 + 3
E. None of the above
Question 12
A game begins with four piles of marbles. Each pile has 20, 22, 25 and 27 marbles. In
each turn, a player takes 3 marbles from the pile with the most marbles and
redistributes them one to each of the other 3 piles. How many marbles will be in the
pile with the least number of marbles after the 2022nd turn?
A. 20
B. 22
C. 23
D. 24
E. None of the above
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Question 13
What is the sum of the digits of 𝐵?
𝐵 = 6 666 6662 − 3 333 3332
A. 54
B. 63
C. 70
D. 77
E. None of the above
Question 14
How many integers between 103 and 106 are there whose sum of digits is equal to
2?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 14
D. 15
E. None of the above
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Question 15
In the diagram below, ∠𝐴𝐵𝐶 = ∠𝐵𝐶𝐷 = ∠𝐷𝐸𝐹 = ∠𝐹𝐴𝐵 = 90°, 𝐴𝐵 = 22, 𝐵𝐶 = 18,
𝐷𝐸 + 𝐹𝐸 = 28 and 𝐴𝐹 = 𝐶𝐷. What is the area of figure 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸𝐹?
A B
F
E
D C
A. 200
B. 202
C. 204
D. 210
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
The distance between towns A and B is 1.26 km. At 9.00 a.m., Aaron started cycling
from Town A to Town B at a speed of 72 metres/minute (m/min) while Jeremy
started cycling from Town B to Town A at a speed of 108 m/min. At 9.04 a.m., Kyle
started cycling from Town A to Town B at a speed of 144 m/min. What is the
distance (in metres) between Kyle and Jeremy when Aaron meets one of them for
the first time?
Question 17
The product 999𝑛 does not contain any digit 9. What is the smallest positive integer
𝑛 that satisfies this condition?
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Question 18
Find the smallest positive multiple of 19 whose digits add to 23.
Question 19
In a classroom, each student shook hands with 4 girls and 6 boys. The number of
handshakes between the same gender students is 7 more than the number of
handshakes between opposite gender students. How many boys are there in the
classroom?
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Question 20
𝑚
The 2022nd term of the sequence below can be written as where 𝐻𝐶𝐹(𝑚, 𝑛) = 1.
𝑛
What is the value of 𝑛 − 𝑚?
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
How many pairs of ordered positive integers (𝑚, 𝑛) satisfy 𝑚2 − 𝑛2 + 2 = 2022?
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Question 22
Find the remainder when 20222022 is divided by 11.
Question 23
𝑏 2 −17
How many 3-digit positive integers 𝑏 are there such that is a fraction in its lowest
𝑏 2 −4
terms?
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Question 24
In the following cryptarithm, all the different letters stand for different digits. What is
the value of the sum Y+A+H+O+O?
Y E S
× Y E S
Y A H O O
Question 25
It is given that
1 2 3 4 13
= 2 4
+ 2 4
+ 2 4
+ ⋯+ .
𝐴 1+2 +2 1+3 +3 1+4 +4 1 + 132 + 134
For any positive real number 𝑥, [𝑥] is the greatest integer which is less than or equal
to 𝑥. For example, [2.35] = 2. What is the value of [𝐴]?
END OF PAPER
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