2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition

National Junior College Mathematics Society 2012

INTRA-COLLEGE MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

JUNIOR SECTION
Tuesday, 14th February 2012 60 minutes QUESTION PAPER
Instructions: 1. Please record your answers clearly on the answer sheet provided. 2. Scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, and protractor are permitted, but are not essential. No other aids are allowed. 3. No steps are required to justify your answer. 4. Calculators and other electronic devices are not allowed. 5. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. 6. You will have 60 MINUTES to complete the competition. 7. There are 6 printed pages for this paper (including this cover page).

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2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition

Section A
(There are 10 multiple-choice questions in this section. 3 marks are awarded for a correct answer and 0 marks for no response or a wrong answer.) 1. The day after tomorrow is two days before Tuesday. What day is today? A. Wednesday B. Thursday C. Friday D. Saturday 2. If you flip a fair coin 3 times, what is the probability that all your tosses end up heads? A. 1/2 B. 1/4 C. 1/6 D. 1/8 3. The odometer on a car reads 2722 km. The least number of kilometres that must be travelled before the odometer will again show a number in which three digits are the same is between A. 30 and 50 B. 50 and 70 C. 70 to 90 D. 90 to 100 4. Each letter in the following subtraction represents a single digit. 6pqr -k359 1588 The letters k, p, q, and r respectively are A. 4, 3, 9, and 7 B. 5, 9, 4, and 7 C. 5, 3, 9, and 7 D. 4, 5, 0, and 7 5. If | A. -3 B. 3 C. -6 D. 6 | ( ) and , are real numbers, what is the value of ?

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2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition 6. Alice and Bob run on a 100 m circular track. They start at the same time from the same point - Alice runs clockwise at 10 m/s while Bob runs counter-clockwise at 8 m/s. After 100 seconds, how many times have they met (including the starting point)? A. 10 B. 15 C. 19 D. 20 7. The last digit of 32012 + 2012 is A. 1 B. 3 C. 9 D. 7 8. If a worker paints a house in 5 days, how many workers does it take to paint 100 houses in 2 days? A. 150 B. 200 C. 250 D. 300 9. If m is a prime number and n is an odd number, where m2 + n = 2015, what is the value of (n m)? A. 2007 B. 2009 C. 2011 D. 2012 10. If 143a + 500b = 2001, where both a, b are positive integers, then the value of a + b is A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 9

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2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition

Section B
(There are 10 multiple-choice questions in this section. 5 marks are awarded for a correct answer, 1 mark for no response and 0 marks for a wrong answer.) 11. How many positive factors does the number 600 have? A. 7 B. 16 C. 20 D. 24 12. Find the value of A. B. C. D. 49/50 9899/9900 499/500 99/100 .

13. Let ABCD be a parallelogram where E is a point on AB such that 3BE = 2DC. The lines CE and BD intersect at the point Q. If the area of DQC is 36, find the area of BQE. A. 16 B. 20 C. 24 D. 30 14. On planet Mysterio, the clocks have 10 hours each, and each hour has 100 minutes. Now, if the time on the planet is 5:50, what will be the angle between the minute-hand and hour-hand of the clock? A. 0o B. 15o C. 18o D. 30o 15. How many integers with four different digits are there between 1000 and 9999? A. 3024 B. 4536 C. 5040 D. 6561 16. If A. B. C. D. and 2 3 4 5 , then the value of

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2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition 17. In 2010, a family spent 19% of their income on rent, 26% on food and 30% on other items and saved the rest. In 2011, their income increased by 10%. If the cost of food increased by 10%, amount saved decreased by 4% and payment for rent remained the same, by what percentage did the expenditure of other items increase? A. 28% B. 32% C. 35% D. 40% 18. From 12.00am to 12.00pm in the same day, how many times are the hour-hand and the minute-hand of the clock perpendicular to each other? A. 11 B. 12 C. 22 D. 24 19. The speedometer on Mr Oois car reads 10% more than the speed at which it is travelling. When the speedometer reads 100 km/h, how fast, in km/h, is the car actually travelling? A. 91 B. 91 C. 90 D. 90 20. The diagram shows a circle of radius 15 cm and a rectangle with one side of length 3 cm. What is the area of the rectangle?

3 cm A. B. C. D. 28 cm2 36 cm2 54 cm2 60 cm2

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2012 Intra-College Mathematics Competition

Section C
(There are 5 short-answer questions in this section. 8 marks are awarded for a correct answer, 1 mark for no response and 0 marks for a wrong answer.) 21. A positive integer n gives a remainder of 2, 3 and 4 when it is divided by 3, 4, and 5 respectively. What is the smallest positive value of n? 22. During orientation for the NJC Junior High students, participants in a mass dance are spaced evenly around a circle and are then counted off consecutively from number 1. Student 20 ended up being directly opposite student 53. How many students are there in the group? 23. Given that and , what is the value of ?

24. There are two archers, Alice and Bob. Alice hits the target 70% of the time, while Bob hits the target 60% of the time. If Alice and Bob shoot together (each person shoots once), what is the probability that at least one of them hit the target? 25. Find the smallest positive number that has exactly 10 positive divisors.

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