AustRALiAN MaTHemarics TRus Australian Mathematics Competition AUSTRALIAN MatHematics CompPerTITION AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST TEACHER 2017 INTERMEDIATE DIVISION AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 9 and 10 TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. 2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other c paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but 2 culating ads te pete, Sblng pape, raph ot eset Y, > Diogams ate NOT drawn to scale. They ate intended ony as aids J 4 Thee ae 25 mutpe-coice questions each requng a single answer, and 5 questions that equie a whol ruber anser between 0 an 99, The qustians general get had s you work tough the pape q There is no penalty for an incorrect response 5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your N own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared. 6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully, Ensure your name, school name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly cade your answer sheet. 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems. ‘THE ANSWER SHEET 1. Use only lead pencil 2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answ: 3. Your answer shee! II be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding w ether to grant official status to their score, SS / Su tee ene aesIntermediate Division Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each ‘The remainder when 2017 is divided by 5 is (Ayo (B) 1 (2 (D)3 (B4 Eight children in a swimming race are John, Tain, Hans, Ivan, Giovanni, Beth, Liz and Elisa. They are put in lanes 1 to 8 randomly. Hepes eo Olarf What is the probability that Beth, Li is in lane 1? we © Zor ©? OF What is the total shaded area of this diagram, in square units? (Aya (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18 1000% of 1 is (A) 01 (B)1 (©) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000 ‘The diagram shows six angles, with three of them equal to 30°. ‘The remaining three angles in the diagram are all equal to 2°. What is the value of 2°? (A) 70° (B) 60” (C) 90° (D) 120° (B) 100° 30° Which of the following fractions is largest? ww} @? a1 87. Alice is playing with words. At each tick of her grandfather's clock she swaps two letters. What is the smallest number of clock ticks during which she can change WORDS to SWORD? (A) 3 (B)4 (C)6 (D)7 (E)8 8. How many ways are there of placing a single 3 x 1 = rectangle on this grid so that it completely covers three arid squares? (A) 34 (B) 28 (C) 56 (p) 40 (B) 10 9. Suppose 3a = 4 and 9b = 7. Then 18(a + 6) is equal to (A) 38 (B) 75 (C) 198 (D) 182 (2 10. Mike receives a number of emails each day. One Friday, he notices that for five days in a row, the number of emails he has received is a different prime number over 20 What is the least number of emails he could have received in these five days? (A) 125 (B) 139 (©) 157 (D) 161 (BE) 175 Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each 11. In the triangle below, PQ = SQ = SR = QR. P Q R The ratio ZPSR : ZPQS is equal to (A) 1a (B) 1:2 (©) 13 (D) 23 (B) 3:412. A rectangular swimming pool is 50 metres long and 20 metres wide. It is divided into ten lanes, each 50 metres long and 2 metres wide, numbered in order from 1 to 10, I notice that if I swim one lap down the middle of the lane, then walk back around the edges of the pool, I have to walk 20% further than I swim. Which of the following could be my lane number? (ay (B)2 (c)3 (p)4 (E)5 13. A square table top is covered with identical square tiles. A total of 25 tiles are used to form the two diagonals. How many tiles are used on the table top? (A) 625, (B) 269 (C) 425 (D) 225 (E) 169 14. Gwen's boots have 5 pairs of holes for the laces. Opposite holes are 4em apart and the first and last hole on each side are 12cm apart. Gwen laces and ties each boot as shown, where the knot and bow use a total of 40cm of bootlace. ' Approximately how long is the lace? | (A) 60m (B) Toem (©) Sem i (D) 99cm (E) 100em “Tan 15. The number 20- id + is closest to (A)1 (B)2 (C)3 (D)4 (E)5 16. This square sheet of paper PQRS measures 40em x 40cm ie ‘The top-left corner P is folded down to meet M, the mid- point of the bottom side 2S, making a single straight crease Where does the crease cross QR, the right-hand side of the sheet of paper? 20 4 20 (A) at Q (B) 5am from Q (C) 10cm from QS R (D) 20em from Q () not at alllot ‘The numbers 18, p, 13, q, 15, r, 7 have a mean of LL. ‘The mean of p, q and r is: (A) 7 (B) 8 (9 (D) u (©) 12 18. The identity a(a? — a*) +a = a® is true for all a. The value of x is (Ajo (Ba (cs (D) 9 (B) 10 19. All of the digits from 0 to 9 are used to form two 5-digit numbers. What is the smallest possible difference between these two numbers? (A)1 (B)9 (Cc) 99 (D) 247 (B) 315, 20. A cube of surface area X is sliced into two rectangular prism One of the prisms has surface area 3X, What is the surface area of the other prism? 1 1 2 3 5 GX ByxX ©RX Mix wx Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each 21. A quadrilateral has two parallel sides measuring 25cm and 37cm, What is the distance, in centimetres, between the midpoints of the diagonals? (A) 3 (Bs (6 (D)7 (6) 12 22. The whole numbers from 1 to 9 are to be placed in the nine circles in the diagram. Tn each of the four triangles drawn, the sum of the three numbers is the same. Three of the numbers are given, What is X+¥ +2? (ayo (B) 10 (Qu (p) 12 (B) 1323. How many three-digit numbers are thirteen times the sum of their digits? (ayo (B) 1 (c)2 (D) 3 (B)4 24. A group of people was surveyed about whether the council should collect reeyeling, once a week instead of once a fortnight. Two-thirds of the people said ‘Yes’, and one-third said ‘No’ ‘A year later the same group of people was surveyed again and this time one-quarter of them had changed their minds, resulting in a tie between the *Yes’ and ‘No’ votes. Of the people who originally voted ‘Yes’, what fraction changed their minds? 1 1 sy 1 & (a5 (Bi OF (4 ez 25. A square is drawn in the corner of a right-angled triangle ane with side lengths a, b and ¢, as shown. Which expression gives the ratio of the unshaded area to the shaded area in all cases? b (A)lsa (B) c:(a+8) (Chabie (D) (a +6)? : 2c? (E) : 2ab a For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet Question 26 is 6 marks, question 29 question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks, 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks. 26. Adding 1 to the product of four consecutive positive integers always results in a perfect square, The first 2017 such square munbers can be found: 1x2x3xd + 152557 2x3xdx5 4 15121512 Bx4x5x6 + 1=361= 19 2017 x 2018 x 2019 x 2020 + 1 = 16600254584281 = 4074 341° In the list of 2017 numbers 5,11, 19, ..., 4074341 whose squares are found in this way, how many have last digit equal to 1?16 27. Six identical regular hexagons are arranged inside a larger regular hexagon, as shown. The onter hexagon has area 900. What is the shaded area? 28. For n > 3, the sequence of centred n-gon numbers is found by starting with a central dot, then adding layers consisting of n-gons of dots around this centre, where the number of dots on each side increases by 1 for each layer. For instance, the sequence of centred 7-gon numbers starts 1,8, 22, 43,... as shown. 1 8 2 43 What is the smallest n for which 2017 is in the sequence of centred n-gon numbers? 29. Thave a large number of toy soldiers, which I can arrange into a rectangular array consisting of a number of rows and a number of columns. T notice that if T remove 100 toy soldiers, then I can arrange the remaining ones into a rectangular array with 5 fewer rows and 5 more columns. How many toy soldiers would I have to remove from the original configuration to be able to arrange the remaining ones into a rectangular array with 11 fewer rows and 1 more columns? 30. 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