Individual Round 1

Answer all 25 questions on the answer sheet provided.

Time Allowed: 50 minutes.

No Calculators allowed.
1. Find the number of primes between 50 and 100.

A. 9 B. 10 C. 11 D. 12 E. 13

2. Find the next term in the sequence 2, 6, 10, 18, …

A. 26 B. 28 C. 30 D. 32 E. 34

3. Each of the even numbers below can be written as the sum of one or more pairs of prime
numbers.

4 =2 + 2
6 =3+3
8 =3+ 5
10 =3+ 7 =5 + 5
12 =5 + 7
14 =3+11 =7 + 7

How many pairs of primes add up to 100?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 6 E. 8

A B
4. In the figure, ABCD is a square.

The length DC is 4 times that of DE.

What fraction of the square is shaded?

D E C

1 1 1 1 1
A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 10 E. 9

5. Each entry in a Science Fair project receives a gold, silver or white ribbon. There are three
times as many white ribbons as gold ribbons, and forty per cent of the ribbons are either gold or
silver. What fraction of the ribbons is silver?

3 1 1 3 2
A. B. C. D. E.
20 4 5 10 15

6. Select the missing term in the sequence: 2, 7, 22, ____, 202, 607
 A. 47 B. 107 C. 67 D. 97 E. 137

7. The figure shows the net of a dice. The dice is

placed on a table with the face  on top.

Which one of the following faces is its base?


A.  B.  C. D.  E. 

8. The figure below is not drawn to scale.

d
All the lines shown in the figure are straight lines. c

Find a + b + c + d + e + f.

a f
b

A. 180 B. 360 C. 270 D. 540 E. 330

9. The perimeter of rectangle PQRS is 240 cm.

P Q
Find the shaded area of the rectangle.

A. 1600 cm2 B. 2000 cm2 C. 3200 cm2

D. 4000 cm2 E. 1000 cm2

S R
40
c
m
10. The numbers in each triangle follow the same number pattern.

374 376 265 364

34 34 33 46 23 35 31 ?

What is the missing number in the last triangle?

A. 11 B. 22 C. 44 D. 54 E. 64

11. How many times does the graph of f (x)=1+(x – 2)(x – 4)( x – 6)(x – 8)( x – 10) cross the x
axis?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5

P Q
12. How many 7 digit palindromes are there?
A. 10000 B. 10000000 C. 8100000 D. 9000 E. 900

13. Which of the following unusual products is not correct? S40 R

c
m
A. 1 ´ 5 =15 B. 1 ´ 8 =18 C. 1 ´ 9 =19 D. 3 ´ 5 = 35 E. 6 ´ 5 = 65
2 4 24 4 5 45 9 5 95 2 8 28 2 6 26

14. A ( t , 3 t ) , B ( t2 , 2t ) ,C ( t−2, t ) and D ( 1,1 ) are four distinct points. If AB is parallel to CD, find the
possible values of t.

A. 1, −2 B. −1, 0, 2 C. −1, 2 D. 0, 1, −2 E. −1, −2

15. Barbara has nickels (5 cents), dimes (10 cents), and quarters (25 cents) worth $2.35 in her
purse. The number of dimes is three less than the sum of the number of nickels and quarters.
How many of each type of coin does she have if there are 19 coins in all?

A. 6 nickels, 8 dimes, 5 quarters B. 8 nickels, 9 dimes, 4 quarters

 C. 5 nickels, 6 dimes, 4 quarters D. 6 nickels, 7 dimes, 4 quarters

E. 6 nickels, 5 dimes, 4 quarters

16. The diagram shows a design formed

by drawing six lines in a regular

hexagon. The lines divide each edge

of the hexagon into three equal parts.

What fraction of the hexagon is shaded?

1 2 1 3 5
A. B. C. D. E.
5 9 4 10 16

17. The interior angles of a triangle are (6 x + 5 y )°, (3 x + 39)° and (4 y + 33)° where x , y are
positive integers. What is the value of x + y ?

A. 15 B. 14 C. 13 D. 12 E. 11

18. Let x , y and z be non-negative numbers. Suppose x + y=¿ 10 and y + z=¿ 8. Let S= x+ z . What
is the sum of the maximum and the minimum value of S ?

A. 16 B. 18 C. 20 D. 24 E. 26

19. A company that produces juice is looking to market a new type of juice that is made from the
leftover contents of pineapple juice and orange juice. The vat of pineapple juice has 250L of
40% juice and 60% water. The vat of orange juice has 350L. If the juices are mixed, the
resulting mix has 32% fruit juice. Find the percent of fruit juice in the 350L of orange juice.

A. About 26% B. About 36% C. About 24% D. About 23% E. About 22%

20. Consider the digits of the year 1691. If you rotate the year 180 degrees it reads exactly the
same. 1001 and 1881 are two other examples. Find the last year when this happened and the
next year in the future. How many years apart are the two?

A. 12 B. 36 C. 892 D. 4048 E. 12962

21. I have a purple diamond, a red diamond, a blue diamond, a green diamond and a white
diamond. Three of these diamonds will be placed on a circular bracelet. How many different
bracelets can I make?

A. 60 B. 20 C. 10 D. 8 E. 5

22. Which set of numbers below have the same relationship to each other as 3946, 133, 10

A. 4826, 102, 8 B. 5958, 143, 13 C. 9324, 122, 10

D. 4757, 113, 14 E. 6637, 121, 11

23. 6 boys pick a captain by forming a circle then eliminating every nth boy. The 2nd boy in the
counting order can choose n. If he wants to be captain what's the smallest n he should pick?

A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 9 E. 10

24. Each letter represents a different digit

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MONEY

Find the digits that represent MONEY.

A. 10 452 B. 10 552 C. 10 652 D. 10 752 E. 10 852

25. Let the radius of a regular polygon be the distance

from the centre of the polygon to the closest point

of a side. Which of the following must also be true

for a regular hexagon?

A. The value of π for a regular hexagon is the same as that for a circle but the area formula
A=π r 2 is not true for a regular hexagon.

B. The value of π for a regular hexagon is 2 √ 3 and the area formula for a circle A=π r 2 is
true for a regular hexagon.
C. The value of π for a regular hexagon is 2 √ 3 and the area formula for a circle A=π r 2 is not
true for a regular hexagon.
3 √3
D. The value of π for a regular hexagon is and the area formula for a circle A=π r 2 is
2
true for a regular hexagon.
3 √3
E. The value of π for a regular hexagon is and the area formula for a circle A=π r 2 is
2
not true for a regular hexagon.