Hwa Chong Institution SMOPS 8th April 2017

Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad

for Primary Schools 2017

First Round
2 hours
(150 marks)

1. What is the smallest 4-digit number in the following sequence?

5, 14, 29, 50, 77, …
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 1)

2. 60% of the employees in Team A are males while 60% of the employees in Team B are
females. There are 360 more employees in Team A than in Team B. If the number of
female employees in Team A and Team B are equal, what is the total number of
employees in the two teams?
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 2)

3. Two fifty-cent coins are placed next to each other on a table top, forming an angle 
as shown in the figure below. Each coin takes the shape of a dodecagon with 12 sides
of equal length. Find the value of  in degrees.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 3)

4. What is the remainder when 6 × 20172018 is divided by 11?

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 4)

5. There were 4 questions in a mathematics test and the total number of marks was not
100. The number of marks allocated to question 1 was the highest, followed by
questions 2, 3 and 4 (lowest). The number of marks allocated to question 1 was 22 and
question 3 was 7 marks higher than question 4. Student A answered questions 1, 2 and
3 correctly and obtained 54 marks. Student B answered questions 2 and 4 correctly and
obtained x marks. Find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 5)

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6. Alvin has many apples. He gives of his apples plus of an apple to Bob. He then
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gives of his remaining apples plus half an apple to Chris. Afterwards, he gives half
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of his remaining apples to David. Lastly, he gives half of his remaining apples plus half
an apple to Ed. In the end, Alvin has 5 apples left. How many apples does Alvin have
initially?
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 6)

7. The diagram below shows four circles c1, c2, c3 and c4 with diameters AB, AC, CD and
DB respectively. If the circumference of c1 is 2017, find the sum of the circumferences
of all four circles.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 7)

8. Find the value of 217 × 216216217 – 216 × 217217216.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 8)

9. In the ‘star’ figure below, p  q  r  s  t  600 . Find the sum of

A  B  C  D  E in degrees.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 9)

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A 1
10. Given that  2
B 1
2
1
2
1
2
... ... ... 2017 layers
1
...2 
2016
2
2017
where A and B are positive integers, find the value of A + B.
1
Note that 2  is the 1st layer.
2016
2
2017
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 10)

11. A number P has 9 factors whereas another number Q has 10 factors. If the lowest
common multiple of P and Q is 2800, find the number Q.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 11)

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12. Mrs Lee bought as many pens as pencils. Each pen cost $1.20 more than each pencil.
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The total cost of the pens was $12.60 more than the total cost of the pencils. Given that
Mrs Lee spent a total of $66.60 on all the pens and pencils, find the number of pencils
she bought.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 12)

a 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
13. Given that  1         , such that a and b have no
b 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
common divisor greater than 1, find the value of a.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 13)

14. In the following figure, ABCD is a square, BD is parallel to EC and BD = BE. Find
BEC in degrees.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 14)

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15. Motorcyclist A travels from Town P to Town Q whereas motorcyclist B travels from
Town Q to Town P. Both motorcyclists started their journey at the same time. They
met at a location which was 80 km from Town Q. Both motorcyclists continued their
journey in their respective directions after they met. When both motorcyclists reached
their respective destinations, they immediately travelled back to their respective starting
points. If both motorcyclists met again, without overtaking, at a location which was 60
km from Town P, find the distance between Town P and Town Q.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 15)

16. 2017 students arrange themselves in a single file.

In the first round of counting, they number themselves 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, … and so
on from left to right.
In the second round of counting, they number themselves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1,
2, … and so on from right to left.
Find the number of students whose difference between their numbers in the first and
second rounds of counting is 1.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 16)

17. The figure as shown below is made up of three squares of sides 12 cm, 18 cm and 24
cm respectively. Find the area of the shaded triangle.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 17)

18. A pump is filling a tank with water at a constant rate while water in the tank is also
drained by 3 identical pipes. Starting from a full tank of water with water being pumped
into it, the tank can be completely drained by the 3 identical pipes in 35 minutes. If an
additional identical pipe is installed to drain the tank, a full tank of water can be
completely drained in 20 minutes when water is pumped into it. How many minutes
will it take for the pump to fill an empty tank with water to its brim without any pipe to
drain water from the tank?
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 18)

a
19. How many fractions of the form are there, where a and b have no common factors
b
a 2017
larger than 1, such that b  a  6 and  ?
b 2023
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 19)

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20. There are 6 red points labelled R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6, and 6 green points labelled
G1, G2, G3, G4, G5 and G6. Using straight lines, each red point is connected to at least
one green point and each green point is connected to at least one red point. The number
of green points connected to R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 is 5, 4, 3, 2 and 2 respectively. The
number of red points connected to G1, G2, G3, G4 and G5 is 4, 3, 2, 1 and 1 respectively.
Find the number of red points connected to G6.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 20)

21. 9 natural 3-digit numbers, represented by 9 different letters a, b, c, d, e, f, p, q and r,

formed an addition sequence shown in the diagram below. Find the smallest possible
value of r.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 21)

22. ABC is a right angle triangle. D is a point on AC such that AC is perpendicular to BD.
Given that AD = 9 cm, CD = 16 cm, find the area of triangle ABC in cm2.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 22)

23. A tank measuring 28 cm by 20 cm by 30 cm was filled with 5000 cm3 of water. At 2

p.m., water was continuously added into the tank at a constant rate of 25 cm3 every
minute. At 3 p.m., 200 cm3 of water was drawn out of the tank and subsequently, a
further 200 cm3 was also drawn out at the end of every hour after. At what time did the
tank start to overflow for the first time? (Express your answer in HHMM format of the
24-hour clock. For example, 4 a.m. represented as 0400; 4.25 p.m. represented as 1625.)
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 23)

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24. Mrs Tan and Mrs Ong were having a conversation at a park.

Mrs Tan: “Hi, how are you? How are your children? You have three if I
remembered correctly. How old are they now?”
Mrs Ong: “Yes, I have three children. The product of their ages is equal to 96. The
sum of their ages is equal to the number of trees in this park.”

Mrs Tan counted the number of trees in the park, thought for a while and said,
“I still could not figure out the ages of your children.”
Mrs Ong simultaneously replied,
“Pardon me, for I have to pick up my children from the school across
the park. We can catch up again soon. Goodbye.”

Finally, Mrs Tan managed to figure out all the ages of Mrs Ong’s children.
How old is Mrs Ong’s youngest child?
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 24)

25. Given that

5 9 13 57 M
   ...   ,
1 2  3  4 3  4  5  6 5  6  7  8 27  28  29  30 N
where M and N have no common factor larger than 1, find the value of M + N.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 25)

26. In triangle ABC, D is a point on BC such that AD is perpendicular to BC and

BAC  45 . Given that CD = 2 cm and BD = 3 cm, find the area of triangle ABC in
cm2.

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 26)

27. All of the faces of a rectangular block are painted red. The rectangular block is cut into
unit cubes with a volume of 1 cm3 each. It is known that there are 30 unit cubes with
none of their faces painted red and x unit cubes each with exactly two faces painted red.
Find the sum of all possible values of x.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 27)

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28. 2017 schools participated in a big inter-school chess competition. Each school sent in
2 participants.
The rules of the competition were:
i) Participants do not compete with each other for more than 1 game,
ii) Participants from the same school cannot compete with each other.

After many rounds of the competition, it was known that every participant had
completed a different number of games except participants from one of the 2017
schools. How many games had each of these 2 participants from the same school
completed?
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 28)

29. A train X is travelling through the countryside at a constant speed of 90km/h. Another
train Y of the same length is travelling in the opposite direction and it takes 5 seconds
for both trains to pass by each other completely. Later, train X enters a tunnel and it
takes 50 seconds for the train to exit the tunnel completely. Find the length of the tunnel
in metres.
(SMOPS 2017 Q. 29)

30. The figure shows 4 overlapping circles with each circle passing through the centres of
its adjacent 2 circles. The figure measures 60 cm vertically from top to bottom as shown
below. Find the total area of the shaded parts. (Take π = 3.14)

60 cm

(SMOPS 2017 Q. 30)

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Number of correct answers for Q1 to Q10 : _______ Marks ( ×4 ) : _______

Number of correct answers for Q11 to Q20 : _______ Marks ( ×5 ) : _______
Number of correct answers for Q21 to Q30 : _______ Marks ( ×6 ) : _______

Answers:
SMOPS 2017
1 1085 11 112 21 406
2 1800 12 27 22 150
3 60 13 1627 23 2256
4 10 14 30 24 1
5 25 15 180 25 1087
6 46 16 674 26 15
7 4034 17 126 27 344
8 433 18 28 28 2016
9 240 19 672 29 1125
10 8069 20 6 30 228

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