MATHEMATICS WITHOUT BORDERS

AGE GROUP 2

WINTER 2018

Problem 1. Which of the following sums is the greatest?

A) 76 + 4 B) 75 + 5 C) 74 + 7
Problem 2. The minuend is 81, and the difference is 7. What is the subtrahend?
A) 85 B) 75 C) 74
Problem 3. Calculate the difference of the greatest two-digit number that contains two different
digits and the smallest two-digit number.
A) 89 B) 88 C) 90
Problem 4. We have a tape with a length of 50 cm. By how many centimeters is it longer than
a tape with a length of 4 dm?
A) 46 B) 54 C) 10
Problem 5. The minuend in the difference 36 – 15 has been decreased by 2 and the subtrahend
has been increased by 3. What is the new difference?
A) 16 B) 26 C) 25
Problem 6. How many two-digit numbers are there that have less than 2 tens?
A) 10 B) 20 C) another answer
Problem 7. Calculate (80 + 20) – (70 – 30).
A) 30 B) 60 C) 0
Problem 8. The cuckoo from the cuckoo clock coos 4 times in 3 seconds. How many times
will the cuckoo coo in 15 seconds?
A) 20 B) 14 C) 24
Problem 9. The first day of February 2018 falls on a Thursday. What day of the week will the
last day of February 2018 fall on?
A) Wednesday B) Thursday C) Friday
Problem 10. There are 5 teams competing in a football tournament. Each team plays one match
against each of the other teams. How many matches will be played in total?
A) 20 B) 15 C) 10

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Problem 11. Paul has 20 pencils and Mike has 6 pencils less than Paul. Paul gave some of his
pencils to Mike and now they have an equal number of pencils. How many pencils did Paul
give to Mike?

Problem 12. How many of the numbers from 7 to 13 can we present as the sum of two or three
equal addends?
Examples: The number 12 is an example of such a number. It can be presented as the sum of
three addends, each of which is equal to 4, or two addends, each of which is equal to 6.
12 = 4 + 4 + 4 ; 12 = 6 + 6; 10 = 5 + 5

Problem 13. We have 4 different suitcases and 4 different keys for those suitcases, however we
do not know which of the keys matches each suitcase. How many attempts will it take to figure
out which key matches each suitcase?

Problem 14. The digits 0, 1 and 2 have been used to write all possible two-digit numbers. The
number 11 is among them. Calculate the sum of these numbers.

Problem 15. Calculate the expression 11 – 1 + 12 – 2 + 13 – 3 + 14 – 4 + 15 – 5 + 16 – 7.

Problem 16. Place the digits 1, 2 and 3 in the circles below in such a way that the digits 1 and 2
would be adjacent and the digit 3 would not be adjacent to the digit 1.


Then, place the plus symbol between the first and the second digits:

+.
What is the sum?

Problem 17. What is the missing number in the following sequence?

1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, *, 17, 20, 21

Problem 18. Four squirrels ate 17 walnuts in total. Each squirrel ate more than 1 walnut. What
is the greatest possible number of walnuts that the squirrel with the most walnuts could have
eaten?

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Problem 19. We have a tape with a length of 1 meter. If we cut two smaller tapes from it – one
with a length of 38 cm and the other with a length of 5 dm, how many centimeters will remain
from the original tape?

Problem 20. Aliya and Galya have 18 balloons in total. Galya decided to give 2 of her balloons
to Dilbar and Aliya decided to give 3 of her balloons to Galya. Now Galya has 6 more balloons
than Aliya. How many balloons did Galya have in the beginning?