Question bank IMSO Maths 2013

There were 50 students who attended a summer camp and they were assigned to five rooms. The details are indicated in the diagram below:



How many students are there in each room?

In the diagram below, three $6\text{ cm}\times3\text{ cm}$ rectangles are placed together in a row. Find the area, in cm², of the shaded region.

The diagram on the right shows the multiplication of two three-digit numbers, yielding a six-digit product. Some of the digits are replaced by boxes. What is the value of this six-digit product?

Twenty-seven digits consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are each to be filled in and arranged in a row of boxes such that each digit is exactly used three times. There is another digit between the first 1 and the second 1, and another digit between the second 1 and the third 1. There are two other digits between the first 2 and the second 2, and two other digits between the second 2 and the third 2. The same applies to the other digits, so that there are nine other digits between the first 9 and the second 9, and nine other digits between the second 9 and the third 9. The middle seven digits are 7469258. Complete the boxes below.

Points $W$, $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ are the midpoints of the four sides of parallelogram $ABCD$. If $P$ is a point on line segment $YZ$, what percent of the area of parallelogram $ABCD$ is the area of triangle $PXW$?

Four rods are connected together with flexible joints at their ends to make a quadrilateral as shown in the diagram below. If $\angle QPS=\angle RSP=60^\circ$, $PQ=40$ cm, $RS=20$ cm and $PS=60$ cm. What is the measure, in degrees, of $\angle QRS$?

What is the units digit of the following sum: $3^{2011}+4^{2012}+7^{2013}$?

In a multi-digit positive integer multiple of 7, every digit except its units digit is 6. List down all possible values of its units digits.

The ‘4’ button on my calculator is defective, so I cannot enter numbers which contain the digit 4, thus, I cannot enter the calculation $2\times14$ and do not attempt to do so. Moreover, my calculator also does not display the digit 4 if 4 is part of an answer, so for example, the result of multiplying 3 by 18 is displayed as 5 instead of 54 and the result of multiplying 2 by 71 is displayed as 12 instead of 142. If I multiply a positive one-digit number by a positive two-digit number on my calculator and it displays 26, list all such pairs of numbers which I could have multiplied?

My twelve-hour digital clock has four digits, two of which represents the hour and the other two represents the minutes. The minutes are shown with leading 0s, but the hours are not. Upside down, the digits 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are read as 0, 1, 2, 5, 9, 8 and 6 respectively. One day, I made a phone call on a scheduled time, and learned that it was too early. Then I realized that I had read the time on the clock upside down. If you know by how much time I called early, you will know what time I made the call. What time should I have made the call?

There are 15 real coins all of the same weight, and one fake coin which is either heavier or lighter than the real coin. At least how many times should we weigh on a two-pan balance scale so that we can determine whether the fake coin is heavier or lighter?

In a chess tournament with 15 players, every two players play against each other once. A win is worth 2 points, a draw 1 point and a loss 0 points. A prize is given to any player with a total score of at least 20 points. What is the maximum number of prize winners?

Isosceles triangle $ABC$ has been dissected into thirteen isosceles acute triangles, as shown in the two following diagrams, where all segments of the same length are marked the same way, and the second diagram shows the details of the dissection of triangle $EFG$. Given that $\angle CAB$ has an integral value, in degrees, what is the measure, in degrees, of $\angle CAB$?

From the $4\text{ cm}\times4\text{ cm}$ piece of paper shown below, cut out two pieces that do not overlap, such that each one can be folded into a hollow $1\text{ cm}\times1\text{ cm}\times1\text{ cm}$ cube.

Explain how 12 rods, each 13 units long, should be cut so that we can obtain 13 pieces of length 3 units, 13 pieces of length 4 units and 13 pieces of length 5 units.

A family tree is a diagram that shows relationships among family members.



In the diagram above with two females (F1 and F2) and three males (M1, M2, and M3), we can see there are at least one grandfather and one father in law (M1), one grandmother and one mother in law (F1), two fathers (M1 and M2), two mothers (F1 and F2), two sons (M2, M3), one daughter in law (F2), and one grandson (M3).

Make a family tree with the least number of family members that contains at least:

- one grandfather
- one grandmother
- one father in law
- one mother in law
- two fathers
- two mothers
- two sons
- two daughters
- three grand children
- one daughter in law
- two sisters
- one brother

Insert some plus (+) and minus (-) signs between the digits 123456789 or in front the first digit to make the sum 100. However, you can not change the order of the digits.

For example: $-1+2-3+4+5+6+78+9=100$.

Find 7 more solutions.

A set of dominoes consists of the following 28 pieces:



The basic rule in playing dominoes is that, when two dominoes share a common edge, the numbers of dots inside the two squares which share that edge must be the same. The diagram shows an example of a hollow square formed from using all 28 domino pieces in accordance with the basic rule. The total number of dots along the lower side is 74, the total along the right side is 47 and the total along each of the other two sides is 59. The difference between the largest and the smallest totals is $74-47=27$.



Rearrange the domino pieces so that the difference between the largest and the smallest totals is as small as possible.

Arrange the positive integers from 1 ~ 10 in the triangular array so that apart from the top row of four numbers, each number in a subsequent row is the absolute difference of the two numbers immediately above it. Below are two solutions which are mirror images of each other. If we require that the number in the top left corner should be less than the number in the top right corner, so that the second solution does not count. Find 3 other solutions.

Square pieces of sides $0.5$ cm are cut from a sheet which is $11$ cm long and $2$ cm wide. What is the total number of squares that can be cut?