MATHEMATICS KANGAROO 2011

Austria - 17.3.2011
Group: Benjamin, Grades: 5-6

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Time allowed: 60 min.

Each correct answer, questions 1.-8.: 3 Points
Each correct answer, questions 9.-16.: 4 Points
Each correct answer, questions 17.-24.: 5 Points
Each question with no answer given: 0 Points
Each incorrect answer: Lose ¼ of the points for that question.
You begin with 24 points.

Please write the letter (A, B, C, D, E) of the correct

answer under the questions number (1 to 24)
Write neatly and carefully!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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 Mathematics Kangaroo 2011
Group Benjamin (Grades 5 and 6)
Austria - 17.3.2011
- 3 Point Questions -

1) Bernd wants to paint the word KANGAROO. He begins on a Wednesday and paints one letter
each day. On which day will he paint the last letter?
A) Monday B) Tuesday C) Wednesday D) Thursday E) Friday
2) A motorcycle driver covers a distance 28km in 30 minutes. What was his average speed in
km/h?
A) 28 B) 36 C) 56 D) 58 E) 62
3) A square piece of paper is cut in a straight line into two pieces. Which of the
following shapes can not be created?
A) A Square B) A rectangle C) A right-angled triangle
D) A pentagon E) An equilateral triangle
4) In Crazytown the houses on the right hand side of the street all have odd numbers. The
Crazytowners don’t use any numbers with the digit 3 in them. The first house on the right hand
side has the number 1. Which number does the fifteenth house on the right hand side have?
A) 29 B) 41 C) 43 D) 45 E) 47
5) Which of the following pieces do I need to complete the cuboid?
A) B) C) D) E)

6) 1000 litres of water is passed through the water system as shown, into two identical tanks. At
each junction the water separates into two equal amounts. How many litres of water end up in
Tank Y?
A) 800 B) 750 C) 666.67 D) 660 E) 500
7) The date 01-03-05 (1st March 2005) has three consecutive odd
numbers. This is the first day in the 21st Century with this property.
How many days with this property are there in total in the 21st
Century?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 16 D) 13 E) 8
8) Andrew writes the letters from the word KANGAROO in the fields of a table. He can begin
where he wants and then must write each consecutive letter in a field that shares at least one
point with the previous field. Which of the following tables could Andrew not produce?
A) B) C) D) E)
K A N G O O K A K O
N O A A K R N G A O
O G K R A A O O R N
R A O O G N R A A G
 - 4 Point Questions -

9) A shape is made by fitting together the four pieces of card with

no overlaps. Which of the following shapes is not possible?
A) B) C) D) E)

10) When Liza the cat is very lazy and sits around the whole day, she drinks 60 ml of milk. When
she chases mice she drinks a third more milk. In the past two weeks, she has chased mice on
every second day. How much milk has she drunk in the past two weeks?
A) 840 ml B) 980 ml C) 1050 ml D) 1120 ml E) 1960 ml
11) Fridolin the hamster runs through the maze in the
picture. 16 pumpkin seeds are laying on the path. He
is only allowed to cross each junction once. What is
the maximum number of pumpkin seeds that he can
collect?
A) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 15 E) 16
12) All the four digit numbers with the same digits as
2011 (i.e. 0, 1, 1, 2) are written in a row in ascending
order. What is the differrence between the two
numbers that are next to 2011 in this list?
A) 890 B) 891 C) 900 D) 909 E) 990
13) Nina made a wall around a square area, using 36 identical cubes. A
section of the wall is shown in the picture. How many cubes will she
now need to completely fill the square area.
A) 36 B) 49 C) 64 D) 81 E) 100
14) Black and white tiles can be laid on square floors as shown in the pictures. We can see floors
with 4 black and 9 black tiles respectively. In each corner
there is a black tile, and each black tile touches only white
tiles. How many white tiles would there be on a floor that
had 25 black tiles?
A) 25 B) 39 C) 45 D) 56 E) 72
15) Paul wanted to multiply a whole number by 301, but forgot
to include the zero and multiplied by 31 instead. His answer was 372. What should his answer
have been?
A) 3010 B) 3612 C) 3702 D) 3720 E) 30720
16) In a tournament FC Barcelona scored a total of three goals, and conceded one goal. In the
tournament the team had won one game, lost one game and drawn one game. What was the
score in the game that FC Barcelona won?
A) 2:0 B) 3:0 C) 1:0 D) 4:1 E) 0:1
 - 5 Point Questions -

17) If you are given the three corner points of a triangle and want to add a fourth point to make the
four corners of a parallelogram. In how many places can the fourth point be placed?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) That depends on the triangle.
18) The 8 corners of the shape in the picture are to be labelled with the
numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4, so that the numbers at the ends of each of the lines
shown are different. How often does the number 4 appear on the shape?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5
19) Daniel wants to make a complete square using pieces only like those
shown. What is the minimum number of pieces he must use?
A) 9 B) 10 C) 12 D) 16 E)20
20) 10 children are at a judo club. Their teacher has 80 sweets. If he gives each
girl the same amount of sweets, there are three sweets left over. How many
boys are at the club?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 5 E) 7
21) A cat had 7 kittens. The kittens had the colours white, black, ginger, black-white, ginger-
white, ginger-black, and ginger-black-white. In how many ways can
you choose 4 cats so that each time two of them have a colour in
common.
A) 1 B) 3 C) 4 D) 6 E) 7
22) The picture shows a rectangle with four identical triangles.
Determine the total area of the triangles.
A) 46 cm² B) 52 cm² C) 54 cm² D) 56 cm² E) 64 cm²

23) Lina has already laid two shapes on a square playing board. Which of the
5 shapes can she add to the board so that none of the remaining four
shapes will have space to fit.

A) B) C) D) E)

24) Numbers are to be built using only the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in such a way that each digit is
only used once in each number. How many of these numbers will have the following
property; The first digit is divisible by one, The first 2 digits make a number which is
divisible by 2, the first 3 digits make a number which is divisible by three, the first 4 digits
make a number which is divisible by 4 and all 5 digits make a number which is divisible by 5.
A) It’s not possible B) 1 C) 2 D) 5 E) 10