PART I – Each question is worth 3 marks.

1. Hexaprime are numbers with exactly 6 distinct prime factors. Which of the
following numbers is a hexaprime?

A. 2310 B. 69, 069 C. 10,626 D. 293, 930

2. The 6-digit number ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅

𝑋3078𝑌 can be divided by 72. What is the greatest
value of (X + Y)( X2 – XY + Y2)?

A. 729 B. 832 C. 559 D. 189

3. What is the least value of b in b4 + 1 > 83 522

A. 15 B. 16 C. 18 D. 19

4. Evaluate √𝑥 2 + 4000𝑥 + 42𝑥 + 4084441 if x = -2023.

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 8

5. How many integers are there between 3020 x 3022 and 3021 x 3021?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D.3
6. What is the maximum value of y in x2 + y = 2x + 6?

A. -2 B. 5 C. 4 D. 7

7. What is (x – y) if |2x – 3y + 13| + | 3x + 2y| = 0.

A. -5 B. -3 C. 0 D. 1

8. What is the value of √1 + 34 × 35 × 36 × 37 ?

A. 1189 B. 1259 C. 1331 D. 1257

9. If x is a real number, what is the value of x in 3x+1 + 3x = 36

A. -2 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3

10. Let b be an integer. What is the greatest value b such that the equation

bx2 + (b-1)x = (-b+1) has real roots?

A. -3 B. -2 C. 2 D. 1
11. Three tangents AD, AB and EG to circle C as shown in the figure below
form the special triangle AEG. Given that AE = 8 cm, AG = 9 cm, EG = 15
cm, What is (AC)2?

D
E

A
F •C

G
B

A. 576 B. 1152 C.1200 D. 1300

12. The squares DEFG and HIJB overlaps as shown in the figure below. The
9 1
shaded portion is 16 of the area of HIJB and 4 of the area of DEFG. Find
the ratio of the shaded area to the unshaded area of square ABCD.
A H B
A. 9:49 F
E
B. 9:40
C. 4:49
D. 1:9 I
J

D G C
13. In the figure below, straight line RT intersects side PQ of the rectangle
PQRS at point U. Three caterpillars X, Z and Y crawls along the paths R-Q-
U-P-T, R-U-P-S, and R-U-T-P, respectively. RQ is 6 cm and QU is 8 cm. Given
that PU < QU and the lengths of the segments are all integers; arrange in
descending order the lengths of their paths.
T
A. XYZ
B. ZYX U
P Q
C. YXZ
D. XZY

S R
T

3
4 U 8
P Q

6 6

S R

14. The right triangle XYZ circumscribed a circle with radius r as shown below.
The area of the triangle is 84 cm 2 and XY = 25 cm. What is the
circumference of the circle?
Y

X
Z
A. 3 𝜋 cm B. 4 𝜋 cm C. 5 𝜋 cm D. 6 𝜋 cm
15. The circle with diameter QS circumscribed the quadrilateral PQRS as
shown in the figure below. RT is perpendicular to PS and QR = RS. If the
length of RT is x and the area of the quadrilateral PQRS is 30 cm 2, find the
value of x2. Q

A. 15
B. 50 P

C. 60 R
D. 30

T
S

16. Twin years are years with only two distinct digits repeated twice, like 2020
and 1188. How many years from 1212 to 2021 are twin years?

A. 27 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18

17. Chomcai washes four colored shirts (red, blue, yellow, and green) and 4
identical white shirts. She wanted to hang it after in the hanger laundry
below such that no white clothes will be mixed with the colored one and
the green shirt is always beside the red shirt. How many ways can she do
it?

A. 9
B. 12
C. 24
D. 48
18. The diagram below shows a machine lock that uses shapes instead of
numbers or letters. How many different pin codes can you create using
these shapes if each code always ends with a star and no shape is
repeated?

A. 24 B. 12 C. 9 D. 6

19. How many ways are there to go from A to B following the directions of the
arrows in the triangular track and if only upward and rightward
movements in the square grid are allowed?
B

A
A. 4 B. 8 C. 24 D. 60
20. The stickers with letters SIMSO MATH are arranged in the boxes below.
Chomca made sure to stick the S and H in both ends as guide.
Nonetheless, she still made mistakes in arranging the letters. At most, how
many possible mistakes did she commit?

S H
S H
A. 2520 B. 2569 C. 2582 D. 2519

21. A hospital ward has 156nurses working on three eight-hour shifts a day.
During pandemic, these nurses work on the following conditions:
a. 13 nurses will report on the first shift
b. 8 nurses will report on the second shift
c. 6 nurses will report on the third shift
If each of the nurses must report at least one shift in a day, what is the
greatest possible number of nurses that must report in all three shifts?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

22. In a particular month with five Mondays, the row with the highest seven
dates is chosen. Which could be the sum of these dates?

A. 132 B. 183 C. 176 D. 168

23. The binary system uses the digits 0 and 1 to write numbers. 1010 2 is equal
to 10 in decimal system and 11112 is equal to 15 in decimal system. What
is the equivalent number of 1 111 100 1012 in decimal system?

A. 997 B. 1537 C. 2021 D. 2049

24. A date is called a Cloud 9 Date if the sum of the digits of a date when it is
written in YYMMDD format is 9. January 5, 2021, which when written as
210105 is a Cloud Date because the sum of the digits is 9 but February 12,
2021, which when written as 210205 is not a Cloud Date because the sum
of the digits is 10. How many Cloud 9 Dates are there in January to
October of 2021?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 18 D. 25

25. Looping numbers are numbers with the same digits in between the other
end digits. The numbers 3005 and 45554 are looping numbers but
3554552, 5555, and 4555 are not looping numbers. How many 4-digit
looping numbers that are less than 9000 are there in all?

A. 81 B. 648 C. 712 D. 729

Part II – Each question is worth 5 marks.

20222 −2020𝑥2020
1. What is the value of X in X = ?
√34−10√√81

2022−𝑥 𝑥 2 −5𝑥+4
2. What is the smallest value of x in ( ) = 1?
2030

3. In the figure shown below, PQ is a diameter of circle A and PS is a

diameter of circle B. PQ is tangent to circle B at P. PR is the common
chord of circles A and B. If PS = 12cm, PQ = 5cm, and PR = k, what is the
value of 26k?

Q
R

S P
B
4. How many different triangles can be formed using the blue points below?

5. In the 6 x 6 grid shown below, there are 16 gray cells and 20 white cells.
Choose any pair of one gray cell and one white cell that are adjacent
(with common side) to each other. How many different such pairs can
you form?

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