Platform scoring: start at 0; Q1–15: 2 points each; Q16–25: 4 each; wrong or blank: 0; maximum 70. Official SASMO reference: start at 15; Section A correct/wrong/blank +2/−1/0, Section B +4/0/0; maximum 85.
Mason built a pyramid using identical cubes. It is shown below from different angles. Mason paints the whole pyramid green. How many cubes have exactly 3 faces painted green?
Interpretation of the dark source diagrams: use four centered, solid square layers of side lengths 7, 5, 3 and 1 cubes from bottom to top. Paint every exposed face, including the underside. The clear plan-view schematic is editorial and makes this intended model explicit; it does not recover hidden grid lines from the scan.
In square $ABCD$, points $E$ and $F$ lie on $AB$ and $CD$, respectively, with $AE=FC=2$ cm. The square has area $196\text{ cm}^2$. What is the area of the shaded region?
Tom spent 225 dollars on clothes and 38% of his original money on school stationery. He had 17% of his original money left. How much money did he have at first?
The number in each unshaded square is the sum of the two numbers connected to it in the row above. What number belongs in the square with the question mark?
Ten classrooms have equal numbers of students. If 10 students leave each classroom, the total remaining in all 10 classrooms equals the initial total in 9 classrooms. How many students were there altogether initially?
Five girls each prepared one gift for a party. In how many ways can the five gifts be distributed among the five girls so that no girl receives her own gift?
The gifts are distinguishable by their owners, and each girl receives exactly one gift.
The graph shows the numbers of toys Mr Tan sold in the first six days of a week. All horizontal lines are equally spaced. Monday’s sales were 40% of Sunday’s sales. The average for the whole week was 210 toys per day. How many toys did he sell on Sunday?
The bars start at the shared zero baseline. Labels run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from left to right.
Input: enter the requested whole-number answer without units. Leading zeroes from the paper grid may be omitted.
A game starts with four piles containing 10, 12, 15 and 17 marbles. On each turn, a player takes 3 marbles from the largest pile and gives one to each of the other three piles. How many marbles are in the smallest pile after the 2022nd turn?
Input: enter the requested whole-number answer without units. Leading zeroes from the paper grid may be omitted.
Derrick spent $4/9$ of his money on a toy, then $3/7$ of his remaining money on a book. He spent the rest on 5 cakes costing 7 dollars each. How much money, in dollars, did he pay for the toy?
Input: enter the requested whole-number answer without units. Leading zeroes from the paper grid may be omitted.
Towns A and B are 3.3 km apart. At 9:00 a.m., Aaron cycles from A toward B at 132 m/min, while Jeremy cycles from B toward A at 143 m/min. How many metres has Aaron cycled when they meet?
Assume both cyclists maintain their stated speeds along the same route without stopping.
Input: enter the requested whole-number answer without units. Leading zeroes from the paper grid may be omitted.