International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest 2012 – Pre-Ecolier

Level Pre-Ecolier (Class 1 & 2)

Time Allowed : 2 hours

SECTION ONE - (3 points problems)

1. How many animals are in the picture?

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

2. Which piece fits in the empty place?

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

3. How many legs do they have altogether?

(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 20

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4. Helena has written down the word KANGAROO twice. How many times did she write the
letter A?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 6

5. Luke repeats the same four stickers on a strip.

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Which is the tenth sticker put by Luke?

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

6. On Friday Dan starts to paint the word BANANA. Each day he paints one letter. On
what day will he paint the last letter?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday (D) Thursday (E) Friday

7. Which of the following lines is the longest?

A B C D E

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

8. Katja is in a boat on a lake. Which of the pictures does she see in the lake?

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(A) (B)

(C) (D)

(E)

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SECTION TWO - (4 points problems)

9. 13 children are playing hide and seek. One of them is the ”seeker”. After a while 9 children
have been found. How many children are still hiding?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 9 (E) 22

10. Father hangs the laundry outside on a clothesline. He wants to use as few pegs as possible.
For 3 towels he needs 4 pegs, as shown. How many pegs does he need for 9 towels?

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 18

11. Today Betty added her age and her sister’s age and obtained 10 as the sum. What will
the sum of their ages be after one year?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 20

12. The clock shows the time when Stephen leaves his school. School lunch starts 3 hours
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11 1
10 2

9 3

8 4
7 5
before school ends. At what time does lunch start? 6

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 11 (E) 12

13. A dragon has 3 heads. Every time a hero cuts off 1 head, 3 new heads emerge. The hero
cuts 1 head off and then he cuts 1 off head again. How many heads does the dragon have now?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

14. Stars, clovers, gifts and trees repeat regularly on a game board. Some juice was spilt on
the board. As a result some pictures can’t be seen. How many stars were on the board before

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the juice was spilt?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 20

15. Eve brings 12 candies, Alice 9 candies and Irene doesn’t bring any candy. They put all
the candies together on a table and divide them equally among themselves. How many candies
does each of the girls get?
(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 12

16. Tim is looking at seven silk paintings on a wall. At the left he sees the dragon and on
the right the butterfly.

Which animal is on the left of the tiger and the lion, and on the right of the apricot?

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

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SECTION THREE - (5 points problems)

17. Winnie the Pooh bought 4 apple pies and Eeyore bought 6 cheese cakes. They paid the
same and together they paid 24 euros. How many euros does 1 cheese cake cost?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 10 (E) 12

18. Sparrow Jack jumps on a fence from one post to another. Each jump takes him 1 second.
He makes 4 jumps ahead, then 1 jump back and again 4 jumps ahead and 1 back etc. In how
many seconds does Jack get from START to FINISH?

S F
T I
A N
R I
T S
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(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

19. Grandmother made 11 cookies. She decorated 5 cookies with raisins and then 7 cookies
with nuts. At least how many cookies were decorated with both raisins and nuts?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 12

20. At a school’s party Dan, Jack and Ben each received a bag with 10 candies. Each of the
boys ate just 1 candy and gave 1 candy to the teacher. How many candies did they have left
altogether?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 30

21. What number is covered by the flower?

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1 + 2 = 3
2 + 2 = 4
2 + 3 = 5
1 + 2 = 4
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

22. Ann has a lot of these tiles:

. How many of the following shapes can Ann make by glueing together two of these
tiles?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

23. In a box there are three boxes, each one of which contains three smaller boxes. How many
boxes are there in total?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 15

24. There are coins on the board. We want to have 2 coins in each column and 2 coins in

each row. How many coins need to be removed?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

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3 points

# 1. Which digits are missing?

(A) 3 and 5 (B) 4 and 8 (C) 2 and 0 (D) 6 and 9 (E) 7 and 1

# 2. There are 12 books on a shelf and four children in a room. How many books will be left on the

shelf if each child takes one book?

(A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 2 (E) 0

# 3. Which of the dresses has less than 7 dots, but more than 5 dots?

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

# 4. There are white, grey and black kangaroos. Which picture has more black kangaroos than white
kangaroos?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 5. How many more bricks are there in the larger stack?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 10

# 6. There is a path with square tiles. How many tiles fit in the area
inside?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

# 7. Lotta cuts a big piece out of a cake. Which one?

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(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 8. Ann has . Barb gave Eve . Jim has . Bob has . Who
is Barb?

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

# 9. Father gives 5 apples to each of his three children. Ana gives 3 apples to Sanja and then Sanja
gives half of her apples to Mihael. How many apples does Mihael have now?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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# 10. George has 2 cats of the same weight. What is the weight of one cat if George weighs 30

kilograms?
(A) 1 kilogram (B) 2 kilograms (C) 3 kilograms (D) 4 kilograms (E) 5 kilograms

# 11. Which kind of square appears most often?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) all equal

# 12. How many carrots can the rabbit eat, walking freely in this maze?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 15 (E) 16

# 13. Cat and Mouse are moving to the right. When Mouse jumps 1 tile, Cat jumps 2 tiles at the
same time.

On which tile does Cat catch Mouse?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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# 14.

Peter built a podium (as in the picture). How many cubes did he use?

(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 22 (E) 24

# 15. There are 5 children in a family. Kitty is 2 years older than Betty, but 2 years younger than
Dannie. Teddy is 3 years older than Annie. Betty and Annie are twins. Who of them is the eldest?
(A) Annie (B) Betty (C) Dannie (D) Kitty (E) Teddy

# 16. Which is the

next?

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

5 points

# 17. Kasia has 3 brothers and 3 sisters. How many brothers and how many sisters does her brother
Mike have?
(A) 3 brothers and 3 sisters (B) 3 brothers and 4 sisters (C) 2 brothers and 3 sisters
(D) 3 brothers and 2 sisters (E) 2 brothers and 4 sisters

# 18. In a game it is possible to make the following exchanges:

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=
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Adam has 6 pears. How many strawberries will Adam have, when he trades all his pears for just
strawberries?
(A) 12 (B) 36 (C) 18 (D) 24 (E) 6

# 19. Ann has a square sheet of paper: . She cuts these pieces: out of
the sheet, as many as possible. How many pieces does she get?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

# 20. Sophie makes a row of 10 houses with match-

sticks. In the picture you can see the beginning of the row. How many matchsticks does Sophie need
altogether?
(A) 50 (B) 51 (C) 55 (D) 60 (E) 62

# 21. A tile
falls off the wall. Caroline has three extra tiles, see the picture.

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Which tiles fit?

(A ) only b (B) a and b (C) b and c (D) only c
(E) all three of them fit

# 22. Ana has one coin of 5 cents, one coin of 10 cents, one coin of 20 cents and one coin of 50 cents.
How many different values can she make with these coins?
(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 20

# 23. Ania makes a large cube from 27 small white cubes. She paints all the faces of the large cube

green. Then Ania removes a small cube from four corners, as shown. Whilst the
paint is still wet, she stamps each of the new faces onto a piece of paper. How many of the following

stamps can Ania make?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

# 24. A square box is filled with two layers of identical square pieces of chocolate. Kirill has eaten
all 20 pieces in the upper layer along the walls of the box. How many pieces of chocolate are left in
the box?
(A) 16 (B) 30 (C) 50 (D) 52 (E) 70

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3 points

# 1. Ladybird will sit on a flower that has five petals and three leaves. On which of
the following flowers will ladybird sit?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 2. In what order do you meet the shapes starting from the arrow?

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(A) N, , • (B) N, •,  (C) •, N,  (D) , N, • (E) , •, N

# 3. How many more grey squares than white ones can you see?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

# 4. Put the animials in line from the smallest to the largest. What animal is in the middle?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

# 5. Ann has twelve of these tiles . She makes one line

with the design. Ann starts at the left side. How does the line end?

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

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# 6. Which is the shadow of the girl?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 7. A square was composed of 25 small squares, but some of these small squares are lost. How

many are lost?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

# 8. How many ducks balance the crocodile?

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(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

4 points

# 9. When the ant goes from home following these arrows: → 3, ↑ 3, → 3, ↑ 1, it comes to

the ladybird

Which animal would it come to, if it goes from home following these arrows: → 2, ↓ 2, → 3, ↑ 3,
→ 2, ↑ 2?

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

# 10. The kangaroo is inside how many circles?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

# 11. A square was cut into 4 parts as shown in the picture. Which of the following shapes cannot

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be made with these 4 parts?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 12. Which form fits exactly the one given above?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 13. Walking from K to O along the lines pick up the letters KANGAROO in the correct order.
What is the lenght of the shortest walk in meters?
1m

1m

(A) 16 m (B) 17 m (C) 18 m (D) 19 m (E) 20 m

# 14. How many numbers are greater than 10 and less than or equal to 31 which can be written
with digits 1, 2 or 3 only? You can repeat digits.
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

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# 15. Seven sticks lie on top of each other. Stick 2 is at

the bottom. Stick 6 is at the top. Which stick is in the middle?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 7

# 16. How many frogs did the three pelicans catch?

New diagram required.

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 9 (E) 12

5 points

# 17. The chess board is damaged. How many black squares on the right side of the line are missing?

(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 15

# 18. Rabbit Venya eats cabbages and carrots. Each day he eats either 10 carrots, or 2 cabbages.

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Last week Venya ate 6 cabbages. How many carrots did he eat?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 34 (D) 40 (E) 50

# 19. What should you put in the square to get a correct diagram?

(A) −38 (B) : 8 (C) −45 (D) ·6 (E) : 6

# 20. Put the digits 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the squares and calculate the sum to get the largest value.
What is that value? +
(A) 68 (B) 77 (C) 86 (D) 95 (E) 97

# 21. The central cell of the square was removed. We cut it into equal pieces. Which piece is not

possible to get?

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

# 22. To get the product of 2 x 3 x 15, Bill has to press the keys of his calculator seven times:
Bill wants to multiply all numbers from 3 to 21, using his calculator. At least, how many times will
he press the keys of his calculator?
(A) 19 (B) 31 (C) 37 (D) 50 (E) 60

# 23. Fedya has 4 red cubes, 3 blue cubes, 2 green cubes and 1 yellow cube. He builds a tower (see
the picture) in such a way that no two adjacent cubes have the same colour. What is the colour of

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the middle cube?
(A) red (B) blue (C) green (D) yellow

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(E) impossible to determine

# 24. Cogwheel A turns round completely once. At which place is x now?

e d

A C xc
x A C
a b x

(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e

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3 point problems

1. Which figure is not in each of four pictures?

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

2. How many triangles are there in the picture?

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

3. Find the missing part of the house.

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

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4. Five lady-bugs live on a bush. In total, how many spots have the lady-bugs?

(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 20 (E) 21

5. Eric had 10 equal metal strips.

He has screwed pairs of them together into five long strips.

Which strip is the shortest?

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

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6. Which of the following pictures can be rotated so that it will coincide with the picture

shown on the right?

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

7. What does the round tower look like from above?

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

8. What is the sum of the numbers outside the square?

(A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 90 (D) 45 (E) 100

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4 point problems

9. It takes half an hour for Jenny to go half of the way from school to home. How long does it
take Jenny to go to school from home?

(A) 15 minutes (B) half an hour (C) 1 hour

(D) 2 hours (E) 40 minutes

10. Don made two bricks by sticking two cubes together. Which construction cannot be built
of these two bricks?

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

11. Marko has 9 sweets and Tomo has 17 sweets. How many sweets does Tomo need to give to
Marko so that each boy has the same number of sweets?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

12. Six towers are built with grey cubes and white cubes. Each tower is made with five cubes.
Cubes of the same colors do not touch. How many white cubes are there?

(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 30

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13. Which piece is missing?

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

14. The date 5/5/2015 has three 5's. The earliest date that will have three 5's again is:

(A) 5/5/2025 (B) 15/6/2055 (C) 15/5/2050

(D) 25/5/2015 (E) 15/5/2015

15. Mother ordered 2 pizzas and sliced each of them into 8 pieces for Vera's birthday. There
were 14 children at the party including Vera. How many slices are left over if mother gives
one slice to each child?

(A) 5 (B) 4 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 1

16. Place each of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 into one box so that everything is correct. Which
number goes into the box marked with question mark?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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5 point problems

17. There were 11 flags on a straight track of a race. The first one was at the start, the last one
at the finish. The distance between each flag was 8 m. How long was the track?

(A) 24 metres (B) 48 metres (C) 72 metres (D) 80 metres (E) 88 metres

18. The Kangaroo jumps from circle S along the line to the next circle in one jump.
It is not allowed to jump into any circle more than once. In how many different ways, by

taking only 4 jumps, can the Kangaroo reach circle F?

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

19. A ship was attacked by pirates. One by one they were climbing a rope to get to the ship.
The pirate captain was in the middle and he was also the eighth one from the beginning.
How many pirates were on the rope?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 16

20. During 3 days Joy the cat was catching mice. Each day, Joy caught 2 mice more than the
previous day. On the third day, Joy caught twice as many mice as on the first day. In total,
how many mice did Joy catch during the three days?

(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 24

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21. Rick and Tom were building an igloo. Each hour Rick made 8 snow bricks and Tom made
two bricks less. How many bricks did they make together in three hours?

(A) 14 (B) 30 (C) 42 (D) 48 (E) 54

22. Nick built a cube using gray and white cubes (see fig.). The cubes with the same color do
not have a common face. Which statement describes the number of used cubes?

(A) one gray cube more than white cubes

(B) one white cube more than gray cubes
(C) the same number of gray and white cubes
(D) two white cubes more than gray cubes
(E) two gray cubes more than white cubes

23. We left for a summer camp yesterday at 4:32 PM and got to our destination today at
6:11 AM. For how long did we travel?

(A) 13 hours 39 minutes (B) 14 hours 39 minutes

(C) 14 hours 21 minutes (D) 13 hours 21 minutes
(E) 2 hours 21 minutes

24. The numbers 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are written into the squares (see fig.) so that the sum of the
numbers in the row is equal to the sum of the numbers in the column. Which number is
written in the central square?

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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