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Answer sheet
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1 Find one-half of
4
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3 6 6 1 3
a)
2
b)
4
c)
8
d)
4
e)
8

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(We advise you to use a pencil to be able to carry out corrections). 2 Frank wants to buy pencils. There are ve pencils as a package for 13
and three pencils as a package for 9 . Frank has 34 .
What is the maximum number of pencils he can buy?
Examination
a) 13 b) 9 c) 10 d) 11 e) 14
You have 60 minutes to answer the 25 questions.
Accuracy and speed are important.
Hence you should try not to deal too long with a single question, skip it and try to
answer it in the end if you have time left.
Only one single answer is correct. If several answers are checked that assignment 3 Which of the following expressions represents the smallest value?
will be counted as wrong. For each incorrect answer a fourth of the gainable score
will be deducted. So it is better not to answer at all than to check a wrong answer. a) 20 15 b) 20

15 c) 20 - 15 d) 2 0 1 5 e) 2 + 0 + 1 + 5
Therefore dont guess, calculate!
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There are no aides of any kind (calculator, formulary etc.) allowed.

4 What fraction is represented by the grey

Assessment shaded area in the gure on the right?
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4 c)
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We wish you much success and we hope you will keep on enjoying maths. 5 Recognize pattern: Which number comes next? 6, 10, 18, 34, 66, ...

a) 130 b) 129 c) 132 d) 136 e) 131

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6 Recognize pattern: 7 6 6 5 10 Water must be pumped out from a pond.

3 2 3 2 Two identical pumps need 9 hours.
7 1 6 5
What time do three such pumps need?
Which of the figure-pattern (shown below) corresponds to number-
1 1
pattern (shown above)? a) 6 h b) 3 h c) 4
2
h d) 2h e) 13
2
h

a) b) c) d) e)

11 Find the angle between the small and the large pointer
of the clock at 14.00 oclock?

7 Find a rectangle with perimeter U = 18 cm and area A = 18 cm. a) 10 b) 14 c) 20 d) 30 e) 60

Find a2+b2 for the side lengths a and b of that rectangle.

a) 85 b) 41 c) 325 d) 45 e) So ein Rechteck gibt es nicht.

12 An empty truck weighs 13 tons. Loaded with sacks the truck weighs
21610 kg. Each sack weighs 41 kg. How many sacks are on the truck?

a) 210 b) 200 c) 180 d) 160 e) 105

8 Peter has 1368 stickers. One-half he gives to his friends and one-third
to his sister. How many stickers he has still left?

a) 368 b) 248 c) 228 d) 318 e) 348

13 In this calculation, a plus and a minus alternate. Find:

1 2 + 3 4 + 5 6 + ... + 2013 2014 + 2015 = ...

9 The sun is about 150 million kilometers away from the earth. a) 1 b) 0 c) 2015 d) 1008 e) -1007
The light travels nearly 300,000 km in one second.
How long does the light travel from the sun to the earth?

a) 8 min 15 sec b) 7 min 20 sec c) 9 min 10 sec d) 8 min 20 sec e) 5 min

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14 The value of a stock drops on the rst day by 50%. On the second day, the 17 The area on the right has to be completed to
stock rises by 50%. On the third day, it drops again by 50%. the smallest parallelogram that is possible.
What percentage must the stock rise on the fourth day to regain the value
at the beginning of the rst day? What percentage of the parallelogram is
already there?
1 2
a) 0 % b) 50 % c) 100 % d) 133
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% e) 166
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%
a) 36 % b) 64 % c) 25 % d) 75 % e) 16 %

15 The average of Mrs. and Mr. Kaisers age is 40 years. The average of their
children Ute, Peter, Jochen and Jasmins age is 16 years. 18 Which of the following statements is false?
What is the average of age of the whole family?
a) Dividing a number by two is the same as multiplying
a) 28 b) 27 c) 26 d) 25 e) 24 the number with 0.5.
b) Multiplying a number with 0.25 is the same as dividing
the number by 4.
c) The number 100 can be written as the sum
of two square numbers.
16 A die has coloured faces, see the gure on the right. d) The number 2015 can be represented as a sum of
1 1 1
The probability of blue is
6
, for yellow
3
and for red
2
. ve consecutive natural numbers.
e) The number 2015 cannot be divided by 13.
What are the colors of the non-visible faces of the die?

a) 2 blue faces and 1 yellow face

b) 2 red faces and 1 blue face
c) 1 red face and 2 yellow faces 19 a and b are two digits that give combined a 2-digit number.
d) 2 red faces and 1 yellow face
e) 1 blue face and 2 red faces Find a + b in case that ab + ab + ba + ba = 198.

a) 8 b) 9 c) 10 d) 11 e) 12

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20 Two coins are tossed simultaneously three times. 23 In case x = y + 3,

What is the probability of getting only heads? nd (x y) (x + z) + (y x) (y + z) = ...

1 1 1 1 1
a) 16
b) 64
c)
3 d) 12
e)
8 a) 0 b) 9 c) 6 d) 12 e) 16

21 The prime factorization of 2015 consists of exactly three prime numbers. 24 Find: (0,02)1 = ...
One is a 1-digit number, the two other prime numbers are 2-digit
numbers of the form ab and ba. a) 45 b) 46 c) 47 d) 48 e) 49
Find the positive difference of these 2-digit prime numbers ab and ba.

a) 16 b) 17 c) 18 d) 19 e) 20

25 Three bells are ringing in a certain rhythm.

The rst bell rings every 40 minutes,
22 In the picture below, you see 12 points in four rows and four columns. the second every 45 minutes and
Use 4 of the 12 points as vertices of a square. the third bell every 48 minutes.
On one day at 15.00, the bells are ringing at the same time.

On the next day, the bells ring again at the same time at what time?

a) 15:48 Uhr b) 17:13 Uhr c) 1:48 Uhr d) 3:00 Uhr e) 15:00 Uhr

How many squares you can draw at most?

a) 11 b) 13 c) 5 d) 7 e) 9

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