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?
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?