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Middle Primary Division Competition Paper: What Is The Amc?
Middle Primary Division Competition Paper: What Is The Amc?
The AMC is a mathematics competition containing thirty problems that students can attempt to answer
in the time allowed. The students use a special answer sheet that is processed and marked by computer. A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
There are five papers. While each paper is attempted by students from different year levels, each student f o r t h e W e s t p a c A wa r d s
is assessed only against other students in the same school year and region.
The earliest problems are very easy, then the problems get progressively more difficult until the end when
they are challenging to the most gifted student. Students of all standards will progress and find their an activity of the australian mathematics trust
point of challenge.
We believe this to be the largest event in Australia for which participants pay an entry fee. W e d n e s d ay 2 5 J u l y 2 0 07
The AMC has run every year since 1978 and is now a significant international event.
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(A) 413 (B) 143 (C) 341 (D) 1043 (E) 134
3. The grid below gives the position of different shapes. For example,
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On which square is the �?
(A) A3 (B) C3 (C) D4 (D) B4 (E) C2
5. If I buy a shirt for $25 and a T-shirt for $12, how much change do I
get from $50?
(A) $13 (B) $23 (C) $25 (D) $33 (E) $37
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8. When a room was being painted, five curious cats walked in. Four
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paws. How many paws did NOT have paint on them?
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two sisters. What is the smallest number of children in this family?
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(A) Abdul and Betty (B) Cheung and Evita (C) Evita and Betty
(D) Dilip and Abdul (E) Abdul and Cheung
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15. The diagram shows a net for an
open top box. It is to be filled with
1 cm cubes. How many cubes will
the box hold? 3 cm
(A) 6 (B) 13 (C) 9
(D) 7 (E) 12
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She eats all the outside pieces. What fraction of the block is left?
1 1 1 2 3
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About an hour later she notices a sign indicating she has just 5 km
to go to the lake. How far has she travelled from the city?
(A) 50 km (B) 80 km (C) 125 km (D) 30 km (E) 65 km
20. Jacqui had $5.10 in 5, 10, 20 and 50 cent coins. She had an equal
number of each type of coin. How many coins did she have?
(A) 24 (B) 20 (C) 16 (D) 22 (E) 18
21. Alice and Kate collect some seashells. Together they have 30 seashells.
Which could NOT be true?
(A) Alice has 12 seashells.
(B) Kate has twice as many seashells as Alice.
(C) Kate has one more seashell than Alice.
(D) Alice has two more seashells than Kate.
(E) Alice and Kate have the same number of seashells.
22. How many three-digit numbers greater than 900 are there that satisfy
the following conditions?
• The sum of the digits is 14.
• The digits are all different.
• The tens digit is an odd number.
How many faces of the original 8 cubes are visible if we can look at
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(A) 28 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 34 (E) 36
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26. When I opened my new maths book the sum of the two page numbers
facing me was 317. What was the number of the next page?
27. Each of Andrew, Bill, Clair, Daniel and Eva either always lies or is
always truthful, and they know who each of them is.
Andrew says that Bill is a liar.
Bill says that Clair is a liar.
Clair says that Daniel is a liar.
Daniel says that Eva is a liar.
What is the largest possible number of liars in the goup?
30. Ace, Bea, Cec, Dee, Eve, Fie and Geo are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 years
old, in some order. Dee is three times as old as Bea. Cec is four
years older than Eve. Fie is older than Ace and Ace is older than
Geo, but the combined ages of Ace and Geo is greater than the age
of Fie. What is Ace’s age?
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What is the AMC?
The AMC is a mathematics competition containing thirty problems that students can attempt to answer
in the time allowed. The students use a special answer sheet that is processed and marked by computer. A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
There are five papers. While each paper is attempted by students from different year levels, each student f o r t h e W e s t p a c A wa r d s
is assessed only against other students in the same school year and region.
The earliest problems are very easy, then the problems get progressively more difficult until the end when
they are challenging to the most gifted student. Students of all standards will progress and find their an activity of the australian mathematics trust
point of challenge.
We believe this to be the largest event in Australia for which participants pay an entry fee. W e d n e s d ay 2 5 J u l y 2 0 07
The AMC has run every year since 1978 and is now a significant international event.