8565 Grade 10 Math Kangaroo Sample Paper - 2019
8565 Grade 10 Math Kangaroo Sample Paper - 2019
GRADE – 10
JUNIOR - 2
Roll No.:
Student’s Name:
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the proctor has given permission to start.
2. There are 30 questions in this paper. 3 points, 4 points and 5 points will be awarded for each correct question in Section
A, Section B and Section C respectively. There is no penalty for any incorrect answer, and no penalty for skipping a
question.
3. All questions are compulsory. There is only ONE correct answer of each question.
4. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information are allowed during the exam.
5. Use of calculator is strictly prohibited in the exam.
6. Fill your Name, Roll No., Grade and School Name in the answer sheet.
7. To mark your choice of answers by darkening the circles in the Answer Sheet, use a HB Pencil or a Blue/Black Ball
Point Pen only.
8. Shade your answer clearly as per the example shown below:
1. In my family each child has at least two brothers and at least one sister.
What is the smallest possible number of children in my family?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
2. Some of the rings in the picture form a chain that includes the ring indicated by the arrow.
How many rings are there in the longest possible chain?
3. The lengths of the two sides of the triangle are 5 and 2, and the length of the third side is an odd integer
number. Find the length of the third side.
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
4. The distance from the top of the sleeping cat on the floor to the top of the cat sitting on the table is 150 cm.
The distance from the top the cat sitting on the floor to the top on the cat sleeping on the table is 110 cm.
What is the height of the table?
(A) 110 cm (B) 120 cm (C) 130 cm (D) 140 cm (E) 150 cm
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8. Some of the digits in the following correct addition have been replaced by
the letters 𝑃, 𝑄, 𝑅 and 𝑆, as shown.
How much is 𝑃 + 𝑄 + 𝑅 + 𝑆?
10. In the picture shown you should go from 𝐴 to 𝐵 following the arrows. How many different routes are
possible?
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11. Two buildings are located on one street at a distance of 250 metres from each other. There are 100
students living in the first building, and there are 150 students living in the second building. Where should a
bus stop be built so that the total distance that all residents of both buildings have to walk from this bus
stop to their buildings would be the least possible?
(A) in front of the first building (B) 100 metres from the first building
(C) 100 metres from the second building (D) in front of the second building
(E) anywhere between the buildings
14. On a certain day 40 trains each travelled between two of the towns 𝑀, 𝑁, 𝑂, 𝑃 and 𝑄.
10 trains travelled either from or to 𝑀.
10 trains travelled either from or to 𝑁.
10 trains travelled either from or to 𝑂.
10 trains travelled either from or to 𝑃.
How many trains travelled from or to 𝑄?
(A) 0 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 30 (E) 40
15. At the University of Humanities you can study languages, history and philosophy. 35 % of students that
study languages, study English. 13 % of the university students study a language other than English.
No student studies more than one language.
What percentage of the university students study languages?
(A) 13 % (B) 20 % (C) 22 % (D) 48 % (E) 65 %
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16. Peter wanted to buy a book, but he didn't have any money.
He bought it with the help of his father and his two brothers.
His father gave him half of the amount given by his brothers.
His elder brother gave him one third of what the others gave.
The younger brother gave him 10 EUR.
What was the price of the book?
(A) 24 EUR (B) 26 EUR (C) 28 EUR (D) 30 EUR (E) 32 EUR
17. How many 3-digit numbers are there with the property that the 2-digit number obtained
by deleting the middle digit is equal to one ninth of the original 3-digit number?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
18. In the calculation shown, how many times does the term 20182 appear inside the square root to make the
calculation correct?
1
19. How many digits has the number resulting from this calculation: 9 × 102018 × (102018 − 1)?
(A) 2017 (B) 2018 (C) 4035 (D) 4036 (E) 4037
20. There are two diagonals drawn in a regular 2018-gon with its vertices numbered from 1 to 2018.
One diagonal connects the vertices with the numbers 18 and 1018,
the other connects the vertices with the numbers 1018 and 2000.
How many vertices do the resulting three polygons have?
(A) 38, 983, 1001 (B) 37, 983, 1001 (C) 38, 982, 1001 (D) 37, 982, 1000 (E) 37, 983, 1002
21. Several integers are written on a blackboard, including the number 2018.
The sum of all these integers is 2018. The product of these integers is also 2018.
Which of the following could be the number of integers written on the blackboard?
(A) 2016 (B) 2017 (C) 2018 (D) 2019 (E) 2020
23. The points 𝐴0 , 𝐴1 , 𝐴2 , ... lie on a line such that 𝐴0 𝐴1 = 1 and the point 𝐴𝑛 is the midpoint of the segment
𝐴𝑛+1 𝐴𝑛+2 for every non-negative integer 𝑛. What is the length of the segment 𝐴0 𝐴11?
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(A) 171 (B) 341 (C) 512 (D) 587 (E) 683
24. Two concentric circles of radii 1 and 9 make a ring. In the interior of this ring 𝑛 circles are drawn
without overlapping, each being tangent to both of the circles of the ring
(an example of such shape for 𝑛 = 1 and different radii is shown in the picture).
What is the largest possible value for 𝑛?
25. At each vertex of the 18-gon in the picture a number should be written
which is equal to the sum of the numbers at the two adjacent vertices.
Two of the numbers are given.
What number should be written at the vertex 𝐴?
26. Diana draws a rectangular grid of 12 squares on squared paper. Some of the squares are painted black.
In each blank square she writes the number of black squares that share a side with it.
The figure shows an example. Now she does the same in a rectangular grid with 2018 squares.
What is the maximum value that she can obtain as the result of the sum of all the numbers in the grid?
(A) 1262 (B) 2016 (C) 2018 (D) 3025 (E) 3027
27. Seven small cubes have been deleted from a 3 × 3 × 3 cube (see the picture).
We cut this cube by the plane passing through the centre of the cube and perpendicular to one of its four
big diagonals. What will the cross-section look like?
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28. Each number of the set { 1,2,3,4,5,6} is written exactly into one cell of a 2{×}3 table.
In how many ways can this be done such that in each row and in each column the sum of the numbers
is divisible by 3?
(A) 36 (B) 42 (C) 45 (D) 48 (E) another number
29. Ed made a large cube by gluing together a number of small identical cubes and then he painted
some of the faces of the large cube.
His sister Nicole dropped the cube and it broke into the original small cubes.
45 of these small cubes didn't have any painted faces.
How many faces of the large cube did Ed paint?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
30. Two chords 𝐴𝐵 and 𝐴𝐶 are drawn in a circle with diameter 𝐴𝐷. The angle ∠ 𝐵𝐴𝐶 = 600 , 𝐵𝐸𝐴𝐶,
𝐴𝐵 =24cm, 𝐸𝐶 =3cm. What is the length of the chord 𝐵𝐷?
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