Speed Questions, Grade 3

2022 Math League International Summer Challenge

(Unofficial version, for reference only)

Note:
1. Years that are evenly divisible by 4 are leap years. However years that are evenly
divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in
which case they are leap years.

For example, 2022 is not a leap year. 1900 is not a leap year. 2000 is a leap year.

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2. Listed below are the four types of coins currently being minted in United States.
a. Penny: 1¢
b. Nickel: 5¢
c. Dime: 10¢
d. Quarter: 25¢

3. Whole numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, …

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1. 21 × 22=
A) 43
B) 442
C) 462
D) 2122
Answer: C

2. The 24th letter of our alphabet is

A) w
B) x
C) y
D) z
Answer: B

3. When 2020 is divided by 2022, the remainder is

A) 1
B) 2
C) 2020
D) 2022
Answer: C

4. Three kids rubbed a magic lamp an average of 13 times each. If one kid rubbed the
lamp 13 times, the number of times the other two kids could have rubbed the lamp
could not have been
A) 10 and 14
B) 11 and 15
C) 0 and 26
D) 9 and 17
Answer: A

5. Of the following, which is the largest product?

A) 2022 × 2022
B) 2021 × 2023
C) 2020 × 2024
D) 2018 × 2026
Answer: A

6. Which of the following is not a whole number?

A) 23 + 22
B) 23 − 22
C) 23 × 22
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D) 23 ÷ 22
Answer: D

7. What is the average of 6, 60, and 600?

A) 666
B) 333
C) 222
D) 111
Answer: C

8. Every one of the following is a factor of 2022 except

A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 337
Answer: C

9. How many different triangles are there in the diagram below? (Two triangles are
different if they have at least one different vertex.)

A) 4
B) 7
C) 9
D) 10
Answer: D

10. A polygon that contains exactly 5 angles has exactly ? sides.

A) 3
B) 5
C) 8
D) 10
Answer: B

11. How many of the whole numbers from 1 to 100 are divisible by 3?
A) 3
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B) 30
C) 33
D) 34
Answer: C

12. What number is 2 more than the number which is 3 more than 2019？
A) 2019
B) 2020
C) 2022
D) 2024
Answer: D

13. A whole number is multiplied by 18. The product could never be

A) 0
B) 48
C) 72
D) 180
Answer: B

14. January 1st, 2022 was a Saturday. January 1st, 2023 will fall on a
A) Sunday
B) Monday
C) Tuesday
D) Saturday
Answer: A

15. What is the greatest common factor of 36 and 90?

A) 3
B) 9
C) 18
D) 90
Answer: C

16. Dale read all the pages in a chapter of a book, starting with page 20 and finishing
with page 40. How many pages did Dale read?
A) 19
B) 20
C) 21
D) 60
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Answer: C

17. Which of these products has the smallest ones digit?

A) 3 × 6 × 7 × 8 × 9 × 11
B) 11 × 21 × 31 × 41 × 51
C) 15 × 25 × 35 × 45
D) 11 × 22 × 33 × 44 × 55
Answer: D

18. Gary has five coins. Only one of these coins is a penny. What is the least amount
of money Gary can have?
A) 5 ¢
B) 16 ¢
C) 21 ¢
D) 42 ¢
Answer: C

19. Parker paints twice as fast as Lee. If it took Lee 12 hours to paint a room, how
long would it have taken if both had painted the room together?
A) 2 hours
B) 3 hours
C) 4 hours
D) 6 hours
Answer: C

20. In New York, If I travel 1 km north, then 1 km east, then 1 km south, how far am I
from where I started?
A) 0 km
B) 1 km
C) 2 km
D) 3 km
Answer: B

21. I have 17¢. If I double the number of pennies I have, I would then have 29¢. How
many pennies do I have?
A) 12
B) 7
C) 5
D) 2
Answer: A
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22. On Monday I skated 1 km. Each day, I skate twice as far as the day before. When
will I first skate more than 20 km in a day?
A) Friday
B) Saturday
C) Sunday
D) Monday
Answer: B

23. A prime number is a number greater than 1 whose only whole number factors are
itself and 1. What is the smallest prime number greater than 50?
A) 51
B) 52
C) 53
D) 59
Answer: C

24. If 2 + 4 + 6 + ⋯ + 198 + 200 = 10100, what is the value of 1 + 3 + 5 + ⋯ +

197 + 199?
A) 5050
B) 9900
C) 10000
D) 10099
Answer: C

25. I multiply a whole number by itself. The ones digit of this product cannot be
A) 0
B) 5
C) 6
D) 7
Answer: D

26. A month is called a prime month if the total number of days in the month is a
prime number. How many prime months are there in 2024?
A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 8
Answer: D
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27. The difference between two whole numbers is 2. The sum of the two integers may
be
A) 101
B) 2019
C) 2021
D) 2022
Answer: D

28. The next number in the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … is

A) 21
B) 20
C) 19
D) 15
Answer: A

29. I have 2 coins. If one is worth twice the other, the two coins might be worth ?
together?
A) 6¢
B) 15¢
C) 30¢
D) 35¢
Answer: B

30. The hundreds digit of the product 999999999 × 888888888 is

A) 1
B) 2
C) 4
D) 9
Answer: A

31. Which of the following is equal to one million?

A) one hundred thousands
B) ten thousands
C) one hundred hundreds
D) one thousand thousands
Answer: D

32. The tens digit of a two-digit number is 5. Round this number to the nearest
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hundred.
A) 0
B) 50
C) 60
D) 100
Answer: D

33. If YOURS plus MINE is equal to YOURS minus MINE, what does MINE equal?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 10
Answer: A

34. On a class test, everyone took the test and everyone got a different grade. Ali’s
grade was both the 10th highest grade and the 10th lowest grade in the class. How
many students were in this class?
A) 10
B) 19
C) 20
D) 21
Answer: B

35. How many whole numbers greater than 9 and less than 999 are divisible by 9?
A) 108
B) 109
C) 110
D) 111
Answer: B

36. A whole number is a perfect square if it can be expressed as the product of two
equal whole numbers. For example, 9 is a perfect square since 9 = 3 × 3. How many
perfect squares are greater than 0 and less than 1000?
A) 10
B) 30
C) 31
D) 100
Answer: C

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37. Of the following, which cannot be the number of points in which a line can
intersect (cross or touch) a circle?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 1
D) 0
Answer: A

38. Each of the six Acrobatic Acropolis Brothers is exactly 180 cm tall. When one
stands on any brother’s shoulders, together they are 330 cm tall. How tall are they
together if they stand on each other’s shoulders to make their 6-man human tower?

A) 900 cm
B) 930 cm
C) 960cm
D) 990 cm
Answer: B

39. What number do I get if I round 126 to the nearest 10, multiply my result by 2,
then round this number to the nearest hundred?
A) 200
B) 240
C) 260
D) 300
Answer: D

40. A magic carpet ride costs 25¢ per minute with a rental phone and 10¢ per minute
without one. For $2, how many more minutes can I fly without renting a phone than
with renting one?
A) 8
B) 12
C) 13
D) 20
Answer: B

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41. In counting from 1 to 1000, at some point I call out 5 numbers in a row whose
sum is 600.The smallest of these 5 numbers is
A) 2
B) 116
C) 118
D) 120
Answer: C

42. The 20 guests at Tropical Island got different whole numbers from 1 to 20.
Whenever two guests added up to 21, they could share a hammock. How many
hammocks were needed to accommodate these guests?
A) 10
B) 11
C) 20
D) 21
Answer: A

43. In this figure, all angles are right angles. What is the area of this figure?

A) 300
B) 325
C) 350
D) 450
Answer: C

44. Danny was supposed to multiply a number by 5. By mistake, he divided the

number by 5 instead. Danny’s answer was 5. The correct answer should have been
A) 1
B) 50
C) 75
D) 125
Answer: D

45. What is the ones digit of 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + 97 + 98, the sum of the first 99
whole numbers?
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A) 5
B) 1
C) 0
D) 9
Answer: B

46. How many whole numbers from 1 to 100 contain the digit 2 exactly once?
A) 9
B) 18
C) 19
D) 20
Answer: B

47. I read 1 page on March 1, 2 pages on March 2, and so on. Each day in March, I
read as many pages as the day number. Altogether, how many pages did I read in
March?
A) 30
B) 31
C) 465
D) 496
Answer: D

48. Which one of the following numbers is not a multiple of 3?

A) 123123
B) 223223
C) 423423
D) 723723
Answer: B

49. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are arranged in 3 columns of 4

numbers each so that the sum of the numbers in each column is the same. The sum of
the numbers in each column is
A) 18
B) 21
C) 26
D) 32
Answer: C

50. If a chicken lays one egg in one minute, how many minutes does it take 3
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chickens to lay a total of 3 eggs?
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A) 3

B) 1
C) 3
D) 9
Answer: B

51. Bob earned $33 in 6 days. At the same rate, Bob’s total earnings should be $88 in
how many more days?
A) 10
B) 14
C) 16
D) 22
Answer: A

52. The symbol 5! represents the product of the first 5 positive whole numbers. The
value of 5! + 5 is
A) 10
B) 25
C) 29
D) 125
Answer: D

53. A rectangular lot 30 m by 40 m is surrounded on all 4 sides by a concrete walk 5

m wide, figure below (not drawn to scale). Find the area of the surface of the walk.
A) 800 m2
B) 700 m2
C) 375 m2
D) 350 m2

Answer: A

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54. Which of the following has a value different from the others?
A) 15  28  33
B) 9  35  88
C) 12  77  15
D) 22  30  21
Answer: B

55. In the 4 by 5 rectangle shown, there are 14 dots on the outside. If I drew a 1988 by
1989 rectangle made up of dots (as in the diagram), how many dots would there be on
the outside?

••••
••••
••••
••••
••••
A) 7950
B) 7952
C) 7954
D) 7956
Answer: A

56. After 5 tests, a student’s average was 80. After taking an examination which
counted as two test grades, his average dropped to 76. What was his grade on that
examination?
A) 52
B) 66
C) 72
D) 76
Answer: B

57. A 12-hour clock loses 10 minutes each day. The clock will first return to the
correct time in
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A) 36 days
B) 72 days
C) 120 days
D) 144 days
Answer: B

58. In the correct addition below, A, B, and C are 3 different non-zero digits. Find the
value of C.
AB
+ CC
AAA
A) 1
B) 9
C) 8
D) 7
Answer: B

59. Two cars are traveling in the same direction, one at 40 km/hr and the other at 50
km/hr. If the slower car is 15 km ahead of the faster car, how long will it take the
faster car to catch up with the slower car?
A) 60 minutes
B) 75 minutes
C) 80 minutes
D) 90 minutes
Answer: D

60. A man has a 10 m × 10 m square garden. In the center is a 2 m × 2 m square patch

which he can not use. He divides his usable space into four congruent rectangular
patches, each of which measures
A) 3 m × 3 m
B) 8 m × 3 m
C) 4 m × 6 m
D) 2 m × 12 m
Answer: C

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