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Pascal Contest
(Grade 9)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
(in North America and South America)
Friday, February 24, 2012
(outside of North America and South America)

Time: 60 minutes ©2011 University of Waterloo

Calculators are permitted
Instructions
1. Do not open the Contest booklet until you are told to do so.
2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
3. Be sure that you understand the coding system for your response form. If you are not sure,
ask your teacher to clarify it. All coding must be done with a pencil, preferably HB. Fill in
circles completely.
4. On your response form, print your school name and city/town in the box in the upper left
corner.
5. Be certain that you code your name, age, sex, grade, and the Contest you are
writing in the response form. Only those who do so can be counted as eligible
students.
6. This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked
A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. After making your choice, fill in the
appropriate circle on the response form.
7. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
8. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
9. When your supervisor tells you to begin, you will have sixty minutes of working time.

The names of some top-scoring students will be published in the PCF Results on our Web site,
http://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca.
 Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.

Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.

1 + (3 × 5)
1. The value of is
2
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 16

2. The circle graph shows the results of asking Choice of Food

200 students to choose pizza, Thai food, or
Greek food. How many students chose Greek Pizza
10%
food?
Thai
(A) 20 (B) 40 (C) 60 40%
(D) 80 (E) 100 Greek
50%

3. Which of the following is not equal to a whole number?

60 60 60 60 60
(A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 3

4. If 7:30 a.m. was 16 minutes ago, in how many minutes will it be 8:00 a.m.?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 46

5. The expression 8 × 105 + 4 × 103 + 9 × 10 + 5 is equal to

(A) 804 095 (B) 804 905 (C) 804 950 (D) 840 095 (E) 840 950

6. What is the difference between the largest and smallest of the numbers in the list
0.023, 0.302, 0.203, 0.320, 0.032?
(A) 0.090 (B) 0.270 (C) 0.343 (D) 0.288 (E) 0.297

7. Anna walked at a constant rate. The graph Distance-Time Graph

shows that she walked 600 metres in 4 minutes.
If she continued walking at the same rate, how 1000
far did she walk in 6 minutes?
(A) 700 m (B) 750 m (C) 800 m 800
Distance (metres)

(D) 900 m (E) 1000 m

600

400

200

0 2 4 6 8
Time (minutes)
 P Q
8. According to the ruler shown, what is the
length of P Q?
1 2 3
(A) 2.25 (B) 2.5 (C) 2.0
(D) 1.5 (E) 1.75
9. If y = 1 and 4x − 2y + 3 = 3x + 3y, what is the value of x?
(A) −2 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 8

10. At the Lacsap Hospital, Emily is a doctor and Robert is a nurse. Not including Emily,
there are five doctors and three nurses at the hospital. Not including Robert, there
are d doctors and n nurses at the hospital. The product of d and n is
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 20

Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.

11. Points with coordinates (1, 1), (5, 1) and (1, 7) are three
vertices of a rectangle. What are the coordinates of the y
fourth vertex of the rectangle?
(A) (1, 5) (B) (5, 5) (C) (5, 7) (1, 7)
(D) (7, 1) (E) (7, 5)

(1, 1) (5, 1)
x

12. Seven students shared the cost of a $26.00 pizza. Each student paid either $3.71 or
$3.72. How many students paid $3.72?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 2

13. The operation ∇ is defined by g∇h = g 2 − h2 . For example, 2∇1 = 22 − 12 = 3.

If g > 0 and g∇6 = 45, the value of g is
(A) 39 (B) 6 (C) 81 (D) 3 (E) 9

14. In the diagram, the horizontal distance between adjacent

dots in the same row is 1. Also, the vertical distance P Q
between adjacent dots in the same column is 1. What is S
the perimeter of quadrilateral P QRS?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14
(D) 15 (E) 16 1
R
1

15. A hockey team has 6 more red helmets than blue helmets. The ratio of red helmets
to blue helmets is 5 : 3. The total number of red helmets and blue helmets is
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 32
16. The diagram shows a square quilt that is made up of
identical squares and two sizes of right-angled isosceles
triangles. What percentage of the quilt is shaded?
(A) 36% (B) 40% (C) 44%
(D) 48% (E) 50%

17. In the diagram, points R and S lie on QT . Also, P

∠P T Q = 62◦ , ∠RP S = 34◦ , and ∠QP R = x◦ . What
is the value of x?
34
(A) 11 (B) 28 (C) 17 x
(D) 31 (E) 34

62
Q R S T

18. The entire exterior of a solid 6 × 6 × 3 rectangular prism is painted. Then, the prism
is cut into 1 × 1 × 1 cubes. How many of these cubes have no painted faces?
(A) 16 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 50 (E) 54

19. In the diagram, rectangle P RT V is divided into four P Q R

rectangles. The area of rectangle P QXW is 9. The area
of rectangle QRSX is 10. The area of rectangle XST U X
is 15. What is the area of rectangle W XU V ? W S
27
(A) 6 (B) 2 (C) 14
50 95
(D) 3 (E) 2
V U T

20. When the three-digit positive integer N is divided by 10, 11 or 12, the remainder is 7.
What is the sum of the digits of N ?
(A) 15 (B) 17 (C) 23 (D) 11 (E) 19

Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.

21. A string has been cut into 4 pieces, all of different lengths. The length of each piece
is 2 times the length of the next smaller piece. What fraction of the original string is
the longest piece?
8 2 1 6 1
(A) 15 (B) 5 (C) 2 (D) 13 (E) 4
22. Two circles with equal radii intersect as shown. The area
of the shaded region equals the sum of the areas of the
two unshaded regions. If the area of the shaded region is
216π, what is the circumference of each circle?
(A) 18π (B) 27π (C) 36π
(D) 108π (E) 324π

23. Mike has two containers. One container is a

rectangular prism with width 2 cm, length 4 cm,
and height 10 cm. The other is a right cylinder
with radius 1 cm and height 10 cm. Both
containers sit on a flat surface. Water has been
poured into the two containers so that the height
of the water in both containers is the same. If
the combined volume of the water in the two 4 cm
containers is 80 cm3 , then the height of the water 2 cm
in each container is closest to
(A) 6.8 cm (B) 7.2 cm (C) 7.8 cm
(D) 8.2 cm (E) 8.6 cm

24. The smallest of nine consecutive integers is 2012.

u
These nine integers are placed in the circles to the
right. The sum of the three integers along each of
the four lines is the same. If this sum is as small
as possible, what is the value of u?
(A) 2012 (B) 2013 (C) 2014
(D) 2015 (E) 2016

25. There are four people in a room.

For every two people, there is a 50% chance that they are friends.
Two people are connected if:
• they are friends, or
• a third person is friends with both of them, or
• they have different friends who are friends of each other.
What is the probability that every pair of people in this room is connected?
18 20 22 19 21
(A) 32 (B) 32 (C) 32 (D) 32 (E) 32
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