Mini

First Round

15 January 2020

1. Which sum is equal to 2020 ?

O
A 200 + 2 × 10 OD 50 + 50 × 20 + 20

O
B 20 + 20 × 100 OE 10 × 51 + 50 × 2

O
C 10 + 10 × 101

2. 101 010 × 73 =

O
A 7 300 OD 7 373 730

O
B 737 373 OE 730 730 730

O
C 7 307 300

3. 19 electric poles are equally spaced along the same side of a straight road. The
distance between two successive poles is 9 metres. What is the total distance between
the first and the last pole?

O 152
A O
B 162 O 171
C O 172
D O Another value
E
4. No answer given -What is the largest multiple of 7, smaller than 100?

5. No answer given - A large square is split into four small squares. If the area of each
small square is 49 cm2 , what is the perimeter of the large square, in centimetres?

3 7
6. What fraction is a the same distance from than it is from ?
4 8

k k
3 ? 7
4 8

O 56
A OB
13
8
O 1016
C O 1613
D O 2132
E

7. In the figure below, each of the three rectangles has a length 3 and a width 1.
What is the external perimeter of the figure?

O 13
A O
B 14 O 15
C O 16
D O E 17

8. How many natural numbers strictly between 52 and 62 , are not prime?

O4
A O
B 5 O6
C O7 D O E 8
9. 2020 ÷ 0.8080 =

O 250
A O
B 2 500 O 4 000
C O 25 000
D O E 40 000

10. The side of the smallest square is one third of the side of the medium square; the
side of the medium square is half the side of the large square. If the area of the smallest
square is 11 cm2 , what is the area of the largest square?

O 66
A OB 121 O 396
C O 4356
D O E Another answer

11. No answer given -I made a list all possible two-digit numbers which contain 3’s
and/or 7’s. What is the sum of all the numbers in my list?

12. Theodore buys 5 ice-creams for 9 e and 8 chocolate bars for 18 e. How much
should Amandine pay for 8 ice-creams and 5 chocolate bars?

O 25.65 e O
A B 25.80 e O 26.10 e O 26.25 e O 26.40 e
C D E

13. In the figure below (not to scale), what is the measure of angle AEF
[ ?

C
E D
?
77,6◦
23,9◦
A B
F

O 53.5
A ◦
OB 53.57◦ O 53.6
C ◦
O 53.7
D ◦
O
E 53.8◦
14. Every week Carla buys two loafs of bread. She slices them at home with a slicer
which she bought 100 e ˙ If the unsliced loaf of bread is always sold 0.05 e less than
the sliced one, in which year will Carla be able to recoup the cost of the slicer ?

O
A In the 1st year O
D In the 10th year

O
B In the 2nd year O
E In the 20th year

O
C In the 5th year

15. In the rectangle below M and N are the midpoints of the two sides. If the area of
triangle M N P is 12 what is the area of the rectangle?

P
N

O 32
A O
B 36 O 40
C O 42
D O
E 48

16. Theo solved the equation below as indicated.

6(x − 1) = 3(x + 1) + 2(x − 3)

step 1
⇔ 6x − 1 = 3x + 3 + 2x − 6
step 2
⇔ 6x − 1 = 5x − 3
step 3
⇔ x − 1 = −3
step 4
⇔ x = −2

O The solution process is wrong at step 1.

O The solution process is wrong at step 2.
A

O The solution process is wrong at step 3.

B

O The solution process is wrong at step 4.

C

O The solution process is correct.

D
E
17. No answer given -Lucy used matches to create the figures below. She used 4
matches for the 1st figure, 10 matches for the 2nd figure, 18 for the third one and so on.
If she continues this way, how many matches will she need for the 8th figure?

...
1 2 3

18. If the 18 May is a Wednesday, what weekday will be the 18 September of the
same year?

O Monday O
A B Wednesday O Thursday O Friday
C D O Another day
E

19. No answer given - In the triangle ABC below (figure not to scale), the bisector of
BAC
[ cuts BC at D and the altitude from C cuts AB at H. Lines AD and CH
intersect at P . If angle CP
\ D has a measure 52◦ , what is the measure of angle BAC,
[ in
degrees ?

A
H
P
52◦

C B
D
20. How many natural factors has 2020?

O2
A O
B 4 O8
C O 10
D O 12
E

21. What is the value of x in the figure below (not to scale)?

70◦ 80◦
x
x

O 30
A ◦
O
B 35◦ O 40
C ◦
O 45
D ◦
O 50
E ◦

22. There are only two candidates in an election. The winner has 140 more votes
than the loser and therefore obtained 60% of the total number of votes. How many
votes were there in total?

O 560
A O
B 700 O 840
C O 1400
D O
E None of these answers

23. O is the center of square ABCD, and M is the midpoint of side [AD]. The ratio
of the area of the shaded region to the area of the square is:

A B

M O

D C

O 13
A OB
1
4
O 15
C O 25
D O
E
3
8

24. No answer given - My locker’s code is a three-digit number where the digits are all
different and all odd. This number is a multiple of 5, of 7 and of 9. What is the code?
25. No answer given -The solid below has the shape of a cross and is made of 9
identical cubes, each of edge length 20 cm. What is, in squared decimetres, the total
external area of the solid?

26. The sum of three different prime numbers is 40. What is the difference between
the two largest of these three numbers?

O0
A O
B 12 O 16
C O 20
D OE 24

27. The question sheets of the Math Olympiads are locked in a safe. The safe can only
be opened when three identical keys are inserted at the same time in three locks. There
are six jury members and they each have a valid key. But,
ˆ Peter is only available on Tuesday and Thursday.
ˆ Lisa is available on any day, except Monday, Thursday or Friday.
ˆ Michael is not free on Monday, Friday and Saturday, but he is available on the
other days.
ˆ Jules has other commitments on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing on
the other days.
ˆ Andrea is only free on Monday and Tuesday.
ˆ Ben can only be there on Tuesday.
How many days the week can the safe be opened?

O0
A O B 1 O2 C O3
D O
E 4
28. A rectangle of perimeter 42 is split into 4 rectangles by two segments parallel to
the sides as in the figure below (not to scale). If the perimeter of rectangle 1 is 12,
what is the perimeter of rectangle 4 ?

1 2
3 4

O9
A O
B 24 O 30
C O 48
D O
E There is not enough in

29. Nina writes the 26 letters of the alphabet one after the other, and starts again:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz...

If she keeps writing the letters this way, what will be the 2020th she will write?

Oq
A O
B r Os
C Ot
D O Another letter
E

30. No answer given - A square is split by a line parallel to one side into two
rectangles.The sum of the perimeters of the two rectangles is 30 cm. What is the length
of the side of the square, in centimetres