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IKMC 2005 - Grades 9-10 - Self-study

Question 1

Helga lives with her father, mother, brother, one dog, two cats, two parrots and four fish. How many legs do they have altogether?
  1. 22
  2. 28
  3. 24
  4. 32
  5. 13

Question 2

Sally had the fiftieth best result, and at the same time the fiftieth poorest result, at the latest Kangaroo contest in her school. How many pupils took part?
  1. 50
  2. 75
  3. 99
  4. 100
  5. 101

Question 3

There are eight kangaroos in the cells of the table. Any kangaroo can jump into any free cell. Find the least number which have to jump into another cell so that exactly two kangaroos remain in every row and column.

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  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4

Question 4

18 pupils cross a road in pairs, labelled 1 to 9. Every even-labelled pair consists of a boy and a girl; every odd-labelled pair consists of two boys. How many boys are crossing?
  1. 10
  2. 12
  3. 14
  4. 11
  5. 18

Question 5

Johnny inflates 8 balloons every three minutes. How many balloons will be inflated after two hours if every tenth balloon pops immediately after being inflated?
  1. 160
  2. 216
  3. 240
  4. 288
  5. 320

Question 6

The five circles have the same radius and touch as shown. The small square joins the centres of the four outer circles. What is the ratio of the area of the shaded parts of the five circles to their unshaded parts?

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  1. 1 : 3
  2. 1 : 4
  3. 2 : 5
  4. 2 : 3
  5. 5 : 4

Question 7

A company was ordered to construct rectangular blocks of size 10 cm × 12 cm × 14 cm, but made them 12 cm × 14 cm × 16 cm. What is the percentage increase in volume relative to the ordered blocks?
  1. 20%
  2. 30%
  3. 40%
  4. 50%
  5. 60%

Question 8

There are seven squares in the picture, including small and big. How many more triangles than squares are there?

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  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. The same quantity

Question 9

Which of the following cubes could be made from the net shown?

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Question 10

A mother kangaroo and her baby Jumpy go around a stadium of perimeter 330 m. Both make one jump per second; the mother jumps 5 m and Jumpy 2 m. They start at the same point in the same direction. After 25 seconds Jumpy stops while his mother continues. How long is it until she is next to Jumpy again?

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  1. 15 sec
  2. 24 sec
  3. 51 sec
  4. 66 sec
  5. 76 sec

Question 11

Three semicircles have radius 2 cm. Points A and B lie directly above the centres E and F of the two lower semicircles. What is the area of the shaded region, in square centimetres?

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  1. $2\pi$
  2. 7
  3. $2\pi+1$
  4. 8
  5. $2\pi+2$

Question 12

Two equal-volume bottles contain water and juice in ratios 2 : 1 and 4 : 1. Their contents are poured together. What is the water-to-juice ratio?
  1. 3 : 1
  2. 6 : 1
  3. 11 : 4
  4. 5 : 1
  5. 8 : 1

Question 13

What is the sum of the ten angles marked in the picture?

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  1. $300^\circ$
  2. $450^\circ$
  3. $360^\circ$
  4. $600^\circ$
  5. $720^\circ$

Question 14

The average of 16 different positive integers is 16. What is the largest possible value of one of them?
  1. 16
  2. 23
  3. 136
  4. 156
  5. 256

Question 15

Each of the two pieces of wire consists of eight segments of length 1. One is placed over the other so that they partly coincide. What is the largest possible length of their common part?

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  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 4
  4. 5
  5. 7

Question 16

A 24 m by 1 m rectangle is cut into seven rectangles of width 1 m: four of length 4 m, two of length 3 m, and one of length 2 m. They are reassembled into another rectangle. What is its smallest possible perimeter?

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  1. 14 m
  2. 20 m
  3. 22 m
  4. 25 m
  5. 28 m

Question 17

A car drives at a constant 90 km/h. When its clock shows 21:00, its daily mileage recorder shows 116, meaning 116 km have been driven. Later that evening the mileage recorder shows the same row of numbers as the clock. At what time does that occur?
  1. 21:30
  2. 21:50
  3. 22:00
  4. 22:10
  5. 22:30

Question 18

What is the diameter of the circle in the picture?

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  1. 18 cm
  2. 12 cm
  3. 10 cm
  4. 12.5 cm
  5. 14 cm

Question 19

What is the starting number (?) in the displayed calculation chain?

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  1. 18
  2. 24
  3. 30
  4. 40
  5. 42

Question 20

ABC is isosceles with AB=AC=5 cm and $\angle BAC>60^\circ$. Its perimeter is an integer number of centimetres. How many such triangles are possible?
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5