VTMO 2015 — Grade 6 — semifinal Evaluate $1 + 2 - 3 + 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 + 8 - 9 + 10 + 11 - 12 + 13 + 14 - 15$.
$18$
$30$
$36$
$48$
$50$
A six-digit number has digit sum $5$. Find its digit product.
$0$
$1$
$5$
$6$
$720$
Which pair has greatest common divisor $20$?
$\left(30 , 40\right)$
$\left(40 , 50\right)$
$\left(40 , 120\right)$
$\left(20 , 25\right)$
$\left(20 , 80\right)$
Find the last digit of $2015^{0} + 2015^{1} + 2015^{2} + 2015^{3} + 2015^{4}$.
$1$
$5$
$6$
$7$
$9$
Two primes sum $85$. Find their positive difference.
$79$
$80$
$81$
$82$
$83$
A perfect number equals the sum of its proper positive divisors, for example $6 = 1 + 2 + 3$. Which is perfect?
$8$
$18$
$28$
$38$
$48$
Define $a \triangle b = ab + a + b$, so $8 \triangle 5 = 53$. Given $x \triangle 3 = 39$, find $x$.
$9$
$10.5$
$12$
$13$
$18$
A bicycle’s rear-wheel diameter is $60 \,\mathrm{cm}$ and front-wheel diameter $50 \,\mathrm{cm}$. The rear wheel turns $700$ times. How many front-wheel turns occur?
$500$
$600$
$700$
$720$
$840$
Square $PQRS$ has $M , N$ the midpoints of $PS , RS$. Area $\left(SMN\right) = 18 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$. Find area $\left(QMN\right)$.
$36 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$48 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$54 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$72 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$90 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
Thanh has $1024$ coins, and removes half the remaining coins each time. How many removals leave one?
$10$
$11$
$12$
$512$
$1023$
$N$ is the product of odd integers $1 \text{--} 99$ excluding those ending in $5$. Find its last digit.
$1$
$3$
$5$
$7$
$9$
Outer numbers give row or column sums in the illustrated table. Find $a + c + c$.
$19$
$21$
$22$
$24$
Other
Which number is neither a square nor a cube of a natural number?
$2^{9}$
$3^{10}$
$4^{11}$
$5^{12}$
$6^{13}$
A three-question test gives one point per correct answer.$5 \%$ get zero, $30 \%$ one, $45 \%$ two, $20 \%$ three correct. Find the mean.
$1.8$
$1.9$
$2$
$2.1$
$2.35$
$A = 36 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ square is partitioned into four congruent rectangles and an inner square as shown. The inner square perimeter equals one rectangle perimeter. Find each rectangle area; diagram not to scale.
$6 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$6.75 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$7 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$7.5 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$7.75 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
Sixteen circles form $a = 4 \times 4$ square with $12$ black boundary circles. If $900$ circles form a square, how many boundary circles are black?
$104$
$108$
$112$
$116$
$120$
Parallelogram $ABCD$ has area $40 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$. $E , F$ are midpoints of $AD , DC$. Find area $\left(AEFC\right)$.
$10 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$12 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$15 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$16 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
$18 \,\mathrm{cm}^{2}$
Which number cannot be the number of black squares in a figure of the pictured sequence?
$104$
$404$
$904$
$1024$
$1229$
Chau lies on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and tells truth otherwise. Minh tells truth on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and lies otherwise. On which day can both say“I will lie tomorrow”?
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
Sunday
Integers $4 , 4 , x , y , 13$ satisfy $4 \le x \le y \le 13$. How many pairs make their five-number average an integer?
$7$
$8$
$9$
$10$
$11$