UKMT - Grey Kangaroo - Intermediate Mathematical Challenge 2017 - Questions
UKMT - Grey Kangaroo - Intermediate Mathematical Challenge 2017 - Questions
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4. The sum of three different positive integers is 7. What is the product of these three integers?
A 12 B 10 C 9 D 8 E 5
5. The diagram shows four overlapping hearts. The areas of the hearts
are 1 cm2, 4 cm2, 9 cm2 and 16 cm2. What is the total shaded area?
A 9 cm2 B 10 cm2 C 11 cm2 D 12 cm2 E 13 cm2
7. Olivia has 20 euros. Each of her four sisters has 10 euros. How many euros does Olivia need
to give to each of her sisters so that each of the five girls has the same amount of money?
A 2 B 4 C 5 D 8 E 10
8. Adam the Ant started at the left-hand end of a pole and crawled 23 of its length. Benny the
Beetle started at the right-hand end of the same pole and crawled 34 of its length. What fraction
of the length of the pole are Adam and Benny now apart?
3 1 5 1 5
A B C D E
8 12 7 2 12
9. Four cousins Alan, Bob, Carl and Dan are 3, 8, 12 and 14 years old, although not necessarily
in that order. Alan is younger than Carl. The sum of the ages of Alan and Dan is divisible by
5. The sum of the ages of Carl and Dan is divisible by 5. What is the sum of the ages of Alan
and Bob?
A 26 B 22 C 17 D 15 E 11
10. One sixth of an audience in a children's theatre are adults. Two fifths of the children are boys.
What fraction of the audience are girls?
1 1 1 1 2
A B C D E
2 3 4 5 5
11. This year there were more than 800 entrants in the Kangaroo Hop race. Exactly 35% of the
entrants were female and there were 252 more males than females. How many entrants were
there in total?
A 802 B 810 C 822 D 824 E 840
12. Ellie wants to write a number in each box of the diagram shown. She has already written in
two of the numbers. She wants the sum of all the numbers to be 35, the sum of the numbers in
the first three boxes to be 22, and the sum of the numbers in the last three boxes to be 25.
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What is the product of the numbers she writes in the shaded boxes?
A 0 B 39 C 48 D 63 E 108
13. Rohan wants to cut a piece of string into nine pieces of equal length. He marks his cutting
points on the string. Jai wants to cut the same piece of string into only eight pieces of equal
length. He marks his cutting points on the string. Yuvraj then cuts the string at all the cutting
points that are marked. How many pieces of string does Yuvraj obtain?
A 15 B 16 C 17 D 18 E 19
8 cm
in the diagram. What is the total shaded area?
A 2 cm2 B 4 cm2 C 6.4 cm2 D 8 cm2 E 10 cm2
1 cm
15. Margot wants to prepare a jogging timetable. She wants to jog exactly twice a week, and on
the same days every week. She does not want to jog on two consecutive days. How many
different timetables could Margot prepare?
A 18 B 16 C 14 D 12 E 10
16. Ella wants to write a number into each cell of a 3 × 3 grid so that the 2
sum of the numbers in any two cells that share an edge is the same.
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She has already written two numbers, as shown in the diagram.
When Ella has completed the grid, what will be the sum of all the
numbers in the grid?
A 18 B 20 C 21 D 22 E 23
17. Tom has a list of nine integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. He creates a second list by adding 2
to some of the integers in the first list and by adding 5 to all of the other integers in the first
list. What is the smallest number of different integers he can obtain in the second list?
A 5 B 6 C 7 D 8 E 9
18. Ten kangaroos stood in a line as shown in the diagram.
21. Each number in the sequence starting 2, 3, 6, 8, 8, 4, ... is obtained in the following way. The
first two numbers are 2 and 3 and afterwards each number is the last digit of the product of the
two preceding numbers in the sequence. What is the 2017th number in the sequence?
A 8 B 6 C 4 D 3 E 2
22. Stan had 125 small cubes. He glued some of them together to form a
large cube with nine tunnels, each perpendicular to two opposite faces
and passing through the cube, as shown in the diagram.
How many of the small cubes did he not use?
A 52 B 45 C 42 D 39 E 36
23. Eric and Eleanor are training on a 720 metre circular track. They run in opposite directions,
each at a constant speed. Eric takes four minutes to complete the full circuit and Eleanor takes
five minutes. How far does Eleanor run between consecutive meetings of the two runners?
A 355 m B 350 m C 340 m D 330 m E 320 m
24. Ellen wants to colour some of the cells of a 4 × 4 grid. She wants to do
this so that each coloured cell shares at least one side with an
uncoloured cell and each uncoloured cell shares at least one side with a
coloured cell.
What is the largest number of cells she can colour?
A 12 B 11 C 10 D 9 E 8