Level 1

MC: +12 for the correct answer, 3 for a wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
T/F: +3 for each correct answer, 3 for each wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
NUM: +12 for the correct answer, 0 for wrong or unanswered

Question 1 (MC):
Which of the following computations gives the largest result?

A: 12 · 34
B: 1 + 23 · 4
C: 123 · 4
D: 1 + 2 · 34
E: 12 · 3 + 4

Question 2 (MC):
Which of the following nets can be folded into a cube where the labels on opposite sides add up to 7?

A: a)
B: b)
C: c)
D: d)
E: e)

Question 3 (MC):
Tanish has 73 bananas. He wants to give each of his 5 monkeys an equal number of bananas, while
keeping the leftovers for himself. How many bananas could Tanish possibly have left over?

A: 16
B: 17
C: 18
D: 19
E: 20

Question 4 (MC):
Tan the rabbit has arranged 100 baskets in a circle, each containing a single carrot. How many carrots
can Tan eat at most such that any three baskets in a row still have at least one carrot among them?

A: 33
B: 34
C: 50
D: 66
E: 67

Question 5 (NUM):
Ricardo took 5 pairs of pants and 7 Hawaiian shirts with him on his summer holiday. If he does not
want to wear the same outt combination on two dierent days, how many days can his holiday last
at most?

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Question 6 (NUM):
If the side length of the large square is 24, what is the area of the blue arrow?

Question 7 (NUM):
In a class of 30 students, 20 students like pizza and 15 students like burgers. If 10 students like both
pizza and burgers, how many students like neither pizza nor burgers?

Question 8 (NUM):
Samuel is playing a game. He has two rows of cards with letters on them, as shown on the left. Each
move, he chooses one letter from the top row as well as one letter from the bottom row, and he switches
these two cards. After some moves, he reaches the following reverse conguration as shown on the
right. At least how many moves did he make?

Question 9 (T/F):
Which of these integers can be written as the product of two even integers?

A: −4
B: 50
C: 51
D: 52

Question 10 (T/F):
Julia has a small garden. She can walk between any two points in her garden in a straight line without
leaving the garden. Which of the following shapes could the garden have?

A: A
B: B
C: C
D: D

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Junior 2
MC: +16 for the correct answer, 4 for a wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
T/F: +4 for each correct answer, 4 for each wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
NUM: +16 for the correct answer, 0 for wrong or unanswered

Question 11 (MC):
How many positive two-digit integers are there such that the product of both digits is a positive square
number?

A: 9
B: 13
C: 15
D: 17
E: 18

Question 12 (MC):
On each corner of the pyramid below, Emily writes a positive integer such that the sum of numbers
touching each of the ve faces is the same. She already wrote 20 and 24 on two neighbouring corners
as shown below. What will the sum of all numbers be when she is done?

A: 101
B: 132
C: 145
D: 146
E: More information required

Question 13 (MC):
Two parents, aged 50 and 46 respectively, have three kids, aged 12, 13 and 15. What age will the
oldest child be when the sum of the ages of the parents is twice the sum of the ages of the children?

A: 17
B: 19
C: 20
D: 21
E: 24

Question 14 (MC):
In the following diagram, at least how many triangles would we need to colour red so that each
uncoloured triangle shares an edge with a red triangle?

A: 9
B: 10
C: 12
D: 15
E: 21

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Question 15 (NUM):
The MO-Headquarters consist of four rectangular buildings as illustrated below in blue. There is a
street food vendor at each corner marked with a circle. Jana wants to visit them all in a single trip.
She can start and end where she wants and walk along the red lines. How far does she have to walk
at least?

Question 16 (NUM):
Ruhi has a garden formed by two overlapping squares, as shown in the picture below. She grows red
owers in the red region of area 45, yellow owers in the yellow region of area 4 and blue owers in the
blue region of area 96. If the yellow region is a square, what is the perimeter of Ruhi's garden?

Question 17 (NUM):
Mathys has 20 dierent avours of candy in his jar and each avour occurs 20 times. One by one, he
will randomly take out a piece of candy and eat it. At least how many pieces of candy does Mathys
need to eat in order to be certain that he either ate 20 candies of the same avour or tasted each
avour at least once?

Question 18 (NUM):
What is the largest number such that any pair of consecutive digits within it form a two-digit square
number?

Question 19 (T/F):
Two positive integers a, b are called friends if either a = 3b+2 or b = 3a+2. Which of these propositions
are true?

A: An odd and an even number can be friends.

B: There is a number that is friends with two numbers.
C: Two prime numbers can be friends.
D: There are two numbers that are friends and both divisible by 5.

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Question 20 (T/F):
A mailman wants to deliver the mail on a circular road with 42 houses. For this he starts at a house
and then moves clockwise, always skipping exactly n houses before stopping at the next house. For
which values of n does he visit every house?

A: 23
B: 24
C: 25
D: 26

Junior 3
MC: +20 for the correct answer, 5 for a wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
T/F: +5 for each correct answer, 5 for each wrong answer, 0 for unanswered
NUM: +20 for the correct answer, 0 for wrong or unanswered

Question 21 (MC):
Five people all make a statement about how many of them are liars:

ˆ Elisabeth: Two of us are liars!

ˆ Guy: Three of us are liars!

ˆ Karin: Four of us are liars!

ˆ Ignazio: Three of us are liars!

ˆ Viola: All of us are liars!

How many of them are liars?

A: 2
B: 3
C: 4
D: 5
E: More information required

Question 22 (MC):
A dodecahedron is a solid with 12 pentagonal faces, as shown on the left. If the shape on the right is
folded into a dodecahedron, what face will end up directly opposite the face marked with a star?

A: A
B: B
C: C
D: D
E: E

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Question 23 (MC):
1 1
Let x>0 be a real number with x+ x = 3. What is the value of x4 + x4
?

A: 47
B: 52
C: 77
D: 81
E: More information required

Question 24 (MC):
Paul has written down nitely many dierent rational numbers on the blackboard. He notices that the
product of any two dierent numbers on the board is also on the board. At most how many numbers
could be on the board?

A: 2
B: 3
C: 4
D: 5
E: More than 5

Question 25 (NUM):
Each of the small blue rectangles below is labelled with its perimeter. What is the perimeter of the
large outer rectangle?

Question 26 (NUM):
A Swiss cross is the shape made out of 5 squares illustrated below. At most how many squares of the
5×5 grid below can you colour red, such that any Swiss cross formed by the grid lines contains at
most 1 red square?

Question 27 (NUM):
Bora and Jonah together with their 4 other friends, want to sit around a round table with 6 dierent
chairs. If Bora and Jonah do not want to sit next to each other, how many possible seating plans are
there?

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Question 28 (NUM):
What is the smallest positive integer that has dierent remainders when divided by each of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

Question 29 (T/F):
Viviane has an 8-minute and an 11-minute hourglass. If the sand in both hourglasses is currently
settled, which of the following numbers of minutes can Viviane measure exactly, starting from now?

A: 12
B: 14
C: 16
D: 21

Question 30 (T/F):
Which statements are true about the innite sequence 7, 77, 777, . . . ?
A: The sequence contains a number divisible by 9.
B: The sequence contains two numbers whose dierence is divisible by 101.
C: The sequence contains a square number.
D: The sequence contains exactly one prime number.

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