FMO – GRADE 9

I. Warm-up (3 points per question / No points deducted for wrong answers)

1. Henry wants to draw triangles whose two side lengths are 32 and 5. The length of the
third side is a prime number. How many different triangles can he draw?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5

2. How many pairs of positive integers (A, B) are there satisfying the ratio A : 4  9 : B ?
A) 9 B) 10 C) 18 D) 20 E) 5

3. Given triangle ABC with A  80 . Choose point K inside the triangle so that K is the
incentre of triangle ABC . Find the measure of BKC .
A) 1000 B) 1100 C) 1200 D) 1500 E) 1300

4. Given 2 circles with radius 10cm inside a rectangle as below. Find the total area of the
shaded region.

A) 100cm2 B) 200cm2 C) 400cm2 D) 500cm2 E) 300cm2

5. Find the missing figure.

A) B) C) D) E)

6. Given a function f (x)  x 2  ax  b . If f (2)  f (1)  5 , calculate f (2) .

A) 9 B) – 9 C) – 5 D) – 1 E) 5

7. The average of 10 positive integers is 12 and all numbers are different. Find the
maximum difference of 2 numbers among 10 given numbers.
A) 64 B) 110 C) 75 D) 119 E) 74

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8. Miley writes a sequence of 30 numbers with a pattern. Some of the first numbers are
given as below. How many of the numbers that Miley writes are negative?

52, 47, 42, 37 …

A) 10 B) 15 C) 11 D) 20 E) 19

9. Which of the answers below can be the equation of the line L?

A) y = 2x + 3 B) y = 2x - 3 C) y = - 2x + 3 D) y = - 2x - 3 E) y = - 3x - 2

10. Eddy has a square piece of paper. He folds it twice along the dashed lines and cuts the
paper along the red lines as below. How many pieces will he get after cutting?

A) 5 B) 10 C) 9 D) 8 E) 12

II. Speed-up (5 points per question / No points deducted for wrong answers)
11. How many 4-digit numbers which are divisible by 6 but not divisible by 8 are there?
A) 1125 B) 375 C) 2250 D) 750 E) 1312

12. A store had a sale on T-shirts. For every two T-shirts purchased at the marked price,
the third T-shirt can be bought with the price 30% less than normal. July bought fifteen
identical T-shirts for $108. What was the marked price for one T-shirt?
A) $7.2 B) $8 C) $13.3 D) $9 E) $9.4

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13. Given a cuboid cake measures 10cm x 12cm x 16cm. The cake is cut in half as the figure
below. Find the total surface area of one piece of cake after cutting.

A) 632cm2 B) 512cm2 C) 576cm2 D) 672cm2 E) 652cm2

14. Ollie wants to find 2 positive integers so that the difference of their square numbers is
88. Find the smallest possible sum of those two numbers.
A) 44 B) 4 C) 8 D) 11 E) 22

15. Solve the following puzzle!

A) 268 B) 206 C) 326 D) 334 E) None of the above

III. Challenge (7 points per question / No points deducted for wrong answers)
16. Emily and Fred leave Fermat school at 5:00 p.m. Emily cycles north at a constant speed
of 12 km/h. Fred cycles east at a constant speed of 16 km/h. After 12 minutes, Emily
and Fred change direction and travel directly towards each other but they keep their
original speed. Which time below is closest to the time they meet?

A) 05: 18 p.m. B) 05:19 p.m. C) 05:20 p.m. D) 05:21 p.m. E) 05:22 p.m.

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17. There are 4 people in a football team including Evan, Henry, Peter and Harry. One day,
the coach asked: “What are the matches’ results of our team in this tournament?”.
Their answers were as follows:
Evan: “We won 3 matches, lost 5 matches and tied 2 matches.”
Henry: “We won 9 matches, lost 4 matches and tied 6 matches.”
Peter: “We won 7 matches, lost 5 matches and tied 3 matches.”
Harry: “We won 6 matches, lost 4 matches and tied 9 matches.”
The coach noticed that each person gave 3 statements but only one statement is true.
Given that the number of wins, defeats and ties are different, how many matches has
the team played in that tournament?
A) 20 B) 13 C) 21 D) 14 E) None of the above

18. Choose 3 digits without repetition from 0 to 9 to form 3-digit numbers. How many odd
numbers smaller than 555 are there?
A) 185 B) 146 C) 178 D) 162 E) None of the above

19. Ben writes consecutive numbers from 1 to 2023 on cards and puts them in a box (each
card has one number). He randomly draws cards from the box. Find the minimum
number of cards Ben needs to draw to ensure that he gets 2 numbers whose product
is divisible by 9.
A) 1801 B) 1800 C) 1351 D) 1350 E) None of the above

20. The big square has a side length of 21cm and it is divided into four rectangles as below.
Given that each of these four rectangles has the same perimeter, what is the area of
the shaded rectangle in cm2?

A) 140cm2 B) 135cm2 C) 108cm2 D) 110cm2 E) None of the above

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