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Australian AMC 2016 - Senior

Question 1

How many 3-digit numbers have the hundreds digit equal to 7 and the units digit equal to 8?
  1. 10
  2. 100
  3. 20
  4. 19
  5. 90

Question 2

If $p=7$ and $q=-4$, then $p^2-3q^2=$
  1. 49
  2. 48
  3. 0
  4. 97
  5. 1

Question 3

In each of these squares, the marked length is 1 unit. Which of the squares would have the greatest perimeter?

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  1. P
  2. Q
  3. R
  4. S
  5. all are the same

Question 4

Given that $n$ is an integer and $7n+6\ge200$, then $n$ must be
  1. even
  2. odd
  3. 28 or more
  4. either 27 or 28
  5. 27 or less

Question 5

King Arthur’s round table has a radius of three metres. The area of the table top in square metres is closest to which of the following?
  1. 20
  2. 30
  3. 40
  4. 50
  5. 60

Question 6

In the diagram, the value of $x$ is

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  1. 120
  2. 108
  3. 105
  4. 135
  5. 112.5

Question 7

How far is it from $A$ to $B$ measured in a straight line?

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  1. 20
  2. 28
  3. $10+9\sqrt2$
  4. $8+9\sqrt2$
  5. 16

Question 8

The solution to the equation $\sqrt{x^2+1}=x+2$ is
  1. $x=\frac{22}{7}$
  2. $x=-\frac34$
  3. $x=-\frac32$
  4. $x=3$
  5. no number x satisfies the equation

Question 9

A large tray in the bakery’s display case has an equal number of three types of croissants: plain, chocolate and cheese. Norm rushes into the bakery and buys two croissants at random without looking. The probability that Norm does not have a chocolate croissant is closest to
  1. $\frac13$
  2. $\frac49$
  3. $\frac12$
  4. $\frac23$
  5. $\frac1{27}$

Question 10

Which of these expressions is always a multiple of 3, whenever $n$ is a whole number?
  1. $n^3$
  2. $n^3+2n$
  3. $3n^3+1$
  4. $n^3+3n^2$
  5. $n^2+2$

Question 11

The value of $2^{2016}-2^{2015}$ is
  1. 2
  2. $2^{\frac{2016}{2015}}$
  3. $2^{2015}$
  4. $-2^{2016}$
  5. 0

Question 12

Oaklands and Brighton are two busy train stations on the same train line. On one particular day:

- One-fifth of the trains do not stop at Oaklands.
- 45 trains do not stop at Brighton.
- 60 trains stop at both Brighton and Oaklands.
- 60 trains stop at only Brighton or Oaklands (not both).

How many trains do not stop at either of these stations on that day?
  1. 60
  2. 20
  3. 45
  4. 5
  5. 40

Question 13

Consider the region bounded by the parabola $y=6-x^2$ and the $x$-axis.

How many points with integer coordinates lie within that region, but not on the boundary?

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  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 14
  4. 15
  5. 17

Question 14

A rectangular sheet of paper $PQRS$ has width $PQ$ twice the height $QR$. The paper is folded along a line $PX$ such that $Q$ lies on top of $Q^{\prime}$, a point on $RS$. Angle $SPX$ is

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  1. $72^\circ$
  2. $45^\circ$
  3. $60^\circ$
  4. $67.5^\circ$
  5. $75^\circ$

Question 15

Ten students sit a test consisting of 20 questions. Two students get 8 questions correct and one student gets 9 questions correct. The remaining seven students all get at least 10 questions correct and the average number of questions answered correctly by these seven students is an integer. If the average number of questions answered correctly by all ten students is also an integer, then that integer is
  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. 14

Question 16

In the diagram, $QR=QT=4$ cm and $PQR$ and $QST$ are both isosceles right-angled triangles. In square centimetres, what is the area of the quadrilateral $QRXT$?

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  1. $16(\sqrt2-1)$
  2. $4\sqrt2$
  3. $16\sqrt2-10$
  4. $8(\sqrt2-1)$
  5. $8-\sqrt2$

Question 17

What is the smallest positive integer $x$ for which the sum $x+2x+3x+4x+\cdots+100x$ is a perfect square?
  1. 202
  2. 5050
  3. 1010
  4. 100
  5. 101

Question 18

Ten identical solid gold spheres will be melted down and recast into a number of smaller identical spheres whose diameter is 80% of the original ones. Ignoring any excess gold which may be left over, how many smaller spheres will be made?
  1. 12
  2. 20
  3. 8
  4. 15
  5. 19

Question 19

A regular decagon has 10 sides of length 1. Four vertices are chosen to make a convex quadrilateral that has all side lengths greater than 1. How many non-congruent quadrilaterals can be formed this way?
  1. 2
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 6

Question 20

The increasing sequence of positive integers $1,2,4,\ldots$ has the property that each term from the third onwards is the next positive integer which is not equal to the sum of any two previous terms of the sequence. How many terms of the sequence are less than 2016?
  1. 1008
  2. 63
  3. 11
  4. 15
  5. 673