PART 1: MULTIPLE CHOICES

1. Sheldon Cooper, the eccentric mathematician, has written a series of

mathematics book, consisting of 25 books.
The titles of the books are Book Number 1, Book Number 2, Book Number 3, Book
Number 4 ..., Book Number 25. The price of Book Number 1 is the cheapest. The
price increases by $2 for every next titles. So, Book Number 2 is $2 more than
Book Number 1. Book Number 25 is the most expensive. The books are displayed
in a row on the shelf, from left to right. The most left is Book Number 1 and the
most right is Book Number 25. The most expensive book costs the same as the
middle book and one of its neighbours together.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. The three middle books cost $78
B. The most expensive book costs $52
C. The middle book costs $30
D. The cheapest book costs $4
E. The two most expensive books would cost $96

2. How many 2 digit numbers have the property that the first digit is greater in
value than the second digit?
A. 36
B. 45
C. 55
D. 66
E. 78

3. A triple pythagorean consists of three positive integers 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧, such that

𝑥 + 𝑦 = 𝑧 . Which of the following could not be a pythagorean triple?
A. 5, 12, 13
B. 7, 24, 25
C. 20, 21, 29
D. 12, 34, 37
E. 32, 255, 257

4. In the year 2016, the population of SURE Island is 300 people. Yosu the
statistician estimates that the population double every 25 years.
What is the estimation of the number of people in SURE Island in the year 2100?
A. 2500
B. 3500
C. 4500
D. 5500
E. 6500

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 5. In 2014, Sheila’s father was five times as old as her.
This year, he is four times as old as Sheila is.
How many more years will it be before Sheila’s father is twice as old as Sheila?
A. 8
B. 16
C. 24
D. 32
E. It will never happen.

6. How many squares are there alltogether in the diagram below?

A. 30
B. 29
C. 28
D. 27
E. 26

7. Given parallelogram 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆, where 𝑃𝑄 = 6 and 𝑄𝑅 = 5. Point 𝑇 on side 𝑃𝑆 such

that 𝑄𝑇 is perpendicular to 𝑃𝑆. (the diagram is not drawn to scale)

What is the length of segment 𝑄𝑇?

A. 3
B. 2.8
C. 2.6
D. 2.4
E. can’t be determined

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 8. Given that 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆 is a 16 × 9 rectangle. It is known that 𝑀𝑁 = 𝑅𝑇 = 3,
𝑃𝑁 = 𝐾𝑇 = 5. Iseng wants to dissect the rectangle according to the broken line
and arrange the pieces to form a square.

How long is the perimeter of the new square?

A. 52
B. 48
C. 44
D. 40
E. 36

PART 2 : SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

1. The scale in our class is set incorrectly but otherwise it functions well. It shows 28 kg
when Aji stands on it, 20 kg when Melia stands on it, but 44 kg when both Aji and Melia
stand on it.
What is the true weight of Aji?

2. In the year 1864, Augustus de Morgan, a well known mathematician, wrote:

“at certain point in my life the square of my age was the same as the year”.
When was he born?

3. The difference between a two digit number 𝑥𝑦, where 𝑥 > 𝑦 and 𝑦𝑥 (a two digit number
with the same digits but reverse the order) is 36.
List all possible number (𝑥𝑦) which satisfy this condition!

4. In the Gasing Shop, the price of each mathematics book is $10 (10 dollars). All titles have
the same price. The price of a note book is $1 (one dollar). The cost of pencils are $1
(one dolllar) for 6 pencils. Inem spent $100 (one hundred dollars) to buy exactly 100
items. Inem bought at least one piece of each item.
How many mathematics books did she buy?

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 5. Is there any positive integer 𝑛 that satisfy the following equation?
(𝑛 − 1) × (𝑛 − 3) × ⋯ × (𝑛 − 2017) = 𝑛 × (𝑛 + 2) × (𝑛 + 4) × ⋯ × (𝑛 + 2016)

6. A four digit number 𝑣𝑤𝑥𝑦, where all 4 digits are different and taken from the set
{1,2,3,4} satisfy the following conditions

𝑣 < 𝑥 and 𝑥 > 𝑤 > 𝑦

List all possible numbers that satisfy the above conditions!

7. What is the sum of the digits of the resulting number when you multiply the following:

99 ⋯ 99 × 88 ⋯ 88

8. Find the smallest multiple of 9 containing only even digits!

9. In a mathematics test, the range of the score is from zero to a hundred. Kang Ono has an
average score of 75 after completing four test.
What is the lowest possible score he got in any one of the tests?

10. What is the largest number of right angles (90∘ ) an octagon (8 sides polygon) can
have? Draw one example of this polygon, write down the measure of each angle.

11. How many positive integers less than 20 cannot be written as the sum of two
prime numbers?

12. Budi : “I am thinking of a three digit number”

Inem : “I guess it is 654.”
Siti : “I guess it is 253.”
Tini : “I guess it is 673.”
Budi : “Wow, each of you guessed exactly one digit correctly, and the digit is on
the correct place.”
What is Budi’s number?

PART 3 : ESSAY
1. Triangle 𝑋𝑌𝑍 is an acute triangle. Point 𝑃 on 𝑋𝑌 such that 𝑋𝑃: 𝑃𝑌 = 1: 3. Point 𝑄
on 𝑋𝑍 such that 𝑋𝑄: 𝑄𝑍 = 2: 3.
If the area of triangle 𝑋𝑌𝑍 is 100, find the area of triangle 𝑃𝑄𝑍!

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 2. A rectangular hall is divided into rooms as shown below. Every two adjacent
rooms are connected by door. You may walk from one room to another in the
north or east direction only.
a. How many different shortest routes are there from room P to room Q?

b. Now room R is locked at all four doors and the keys were lost. So nobody can
go through that room.
How many different shortest routes are there from room P to room Q?

3. Given that quadrilateral 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆 is a rhombus. Point 𝑇 on diagonal 𝑆𝑄 such that 𝑆𝑃 =

𝑆𝑇. Angle 𝑃𝑇𝑄 = 121∘ .
What is the size of angle 𝑃𝑄𝑇?

4. In a quadrilateral 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷, ∠𝐴𝐵𝐷 = 60∘ , ∠𝐵𝐴𝐷 = 50∘ , and ∠𝐵𝐷𝐶 = 120∘ .

𝐴𝐷 = 𝐵𝐶 = 5 cm.
What is the measure of angle 𝐵𝐶𝐷?

5. In a convex quadrilateral 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆, 𝑃𝑆 = 𝑅𝑆 = 𝑥, 𝑃𝑄 = 𝑄𝑅 = 𝑦, and 𝑦 > 𝑥.

The measure of angle 𝑄𝑅𝑆 = 90∘ . The area of 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆 = 2016.
Find 𝑥 and 𝑦 if it is known that both are integers and quadrilateral 𝑃𝑄𝑅𝑆 has the
smallest perimeter among all possible quadrilateral that satisfy the above
conditions!

6. Linglung likes reading books. The number of books that he has is less than 60
books. He has mathematics, science, literature, and art books. The number of
science, literature, and art books each is a prime number. There were as many
mathematics books as the number of science books multiplied by the total number
of art and science books. There are 24 more mathematics book than literature
books.
What is the total number of books that Linglung has?

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 7. Dino has six bags of candies. Each bag has different number of candies: 3, 9, 10,
12, 13, and 14 candies. Dino gave one bag to Tensin. Dino gave the remaining bags
to Edun and Gani. The total number of candies that Edun received was twice as
many as the total number of candies that Gani received.
How many bags does Edun get and how many candies in each Edun’s bag?

8. In a marathon competition, all runner finished at different time. Gordon finished

exactly in the middle among all runner. Koplak finished later, in 20th place , while
Siput placed 34th .
How many runners took part in this marathon competition?

9. A ‘happy’ set is a set of 4 consecutive numbers, each below 100 , that are divisible
by 10 when you add all 4 numbers. List of possible set of happy set.
Explain why you think you have find all happy sets!

10. Each member of the COSMOS maths club is assigned a unique code. Each code
consists of 3 letters, which is taken from the set {𝑀, 𝐴, 𝑇, 𝐻}, {𝐹, 𝑈, 𝑁}, and
{𝐿, 𝑂, 𝑉, 𝐸, 𝑆}, in that order. The club needs to accomodate new members, so the
officials of the club decide to add two new letters (𝑋 and 𝑌). Both new letters can
be added to one particular set or one letter can be added to one set and one to
another set.
What is the largest possible number of new members can be assigned additional
unique codes (that contains new letter(s)) ?

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