Scribd
Upload
219 views

2016 Passback With Answers

This document contains a series of math word problems passed between different people labeled A, B, and C. For each problem, the person solves it and passes their answer to the next person labeled. The document records the questions, solutions passed between people, and additional context or instructions provided. There are over 12 questions posed in this format exploring a variety of math concepts like fractions, geometry, percentages, and more.

Uploaded by

Hanif Ahm
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
219 views

2016 Passback With Answers

This document contains a series of math word problems passed between different people labeled A, B, and C. For each problem, the person solves it and passes their answer to the next person labeled. The document records the questions, solutions passed between people, and additional context or instructions provided. There are over 12 questions posed in this format exploring a variety of math concepts like fractions, geometry, percentages, and more.

Uploaded by

Hanif Ahm
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 8

Q1

Q2
2.5

Q3
25

Q4
11

Q5
999

Q6
196
9

Q7
$4.3
5

Q8
55

Q9
8

Q10
1.4

Q11
95

Passback

1A

How many odd numbers are factors of 168?

Pass on your answer


1B

is the number you receive.

400

An athlete takes 5 minutes to run a course at


x m/ s .
Next time around, she slows and only runs at
( x1 ) m/s .
How many seconds does it take her on this
second time?
Pass on your answer
1C

x is the number you receive. How many


factors of x

are square numbers?

2A

Ben rolls some dice. He is really surprised to


find that the product of the dice is the same as
the sum. The first dice rolls a 5, the second rolls
a 3 and the third dice rolls 2. If the rest of the
dice landed on 1, pass on how many dice ben
rolled.

23

2B

T is the number you were passed. AB and CD are


parallel lines. Angle Q =2T. Angle R = 169.

35

Q12
1

What is the size of P?

2C

Pass on your answer.


Two lines are perpendicular to each other and they
both pass through the point (

T
,0
7

2.5

where T is the

number you were passed. The gradient of Line 1 is


2. What is the y-intercept of Line 2?

3A

x 2

5(5 + 5 +5 +5 +5 ) =5

Pass on the value of

2.5

x .

3B

5
A red car and a blue car set off from the same
point to travel the same journey. The red car has
a start of

off. Where

minutes before the blue car sets

is the number you are given.

If the red car travels at 40km/hr and the blue car


travels at 60km/hr, pass on the number of
kilometres travelled by the red car when the cars
are level?
3C

25

, where

is the number you are given, is

written as a product of its prime factors. Find


the sum of these prime factors.
4A

Peter wrote down all the three-digit numbers that


have the following properties: the digits in each of
the numbers are different, the first digit is the
square of the quotient of the second digit and the
third digit. How many numbers did Peter write?

Pass on your answer


4B

At present, Pauline is twice Fionas age. In (4+ x )

years time, both girls ages will be perfect squares.


Where

is the number you are given.

In how many years from now will the digits in


Paulines age first be the reverse of Fionas?
Pass on your number.
4C

Paul takes $200 to the carnival. He decides to play a


game of chance where he throws an object at the
target. It costs $ 2 x

11

to play each game. Where

is the number you are given. He wins $18 each

time he hits the target. If he misses the target he


has to pay an additional $8 per game. After playing
15 times, he takes home $276. How many targets
did he hit?

5A

The ratio of Aruns age to Balils is 3 : 1. Three years


ago their ages were in the ratio of 4 : 1. In y, years,
from now, their ages will be in the ratio of 2 : 1.

Pass on the value of y.


5B

A regular polygon of

x 1 sides is inscribed inside

a circle of diameter 200, where x

is the number

passed to you. The area of the polygon can be


expressed in the form a b.

20000

Pass on the value of a.


5C

In a bicycle race of

x m, where x

is the number

999

passed to you, a cyclist accelerates from rest to


20m/s in 2.5 seconds and then continues at a
constant speed. At T seconds into the race the
cyclist accelerates uniformly at 10m/s2 for 3seconds
to win the race.
What was his winning time in seconds?
6A

6B

Two girls and three boy are selected from a group of


10 girls and 6 boys. How many different groups of
five students are there?
Pass on your answer
Two concentric circles are drawn. A chord of the
larger circle is a tangent to the smaller circle with
length 2p where p is the square root of the value
passed to you. The value of the area between the
circles can be expressed as

Pass on the value of

900

x .

x .

6C

If the number that is passed to you is given in base


15 and you subtract the value of 132 in base 6.
What is the answer in the decimal system?

7A

Find a 2 digit number such that when its digits are


reversed it decreases by 24%. Pass your answer to B
The answer from A is y: A cuboid measures 55 x y x

7B

900

1969

75
32

7C

8A

8B

8C

9A

90. One dimension increases by 10%, another by


20% and the remaining one stays the same. What is
the maximum percentage increase in volume? Pass
your answer to C
The answer from B is x: Last year I earned x % more
than Dave. This year, we both had a wage rise of
$1.45. Now I earn 24% more than Dave. How much
does Dave now earn?
On a long distance rally, Rosie drives at an average
of 60mph and arrives 1 hour before Susie who drives
an average of 50mph. How long is the rally in miles?
Pass on your answer.
The answer you receive is x. In a chess league, each
of the competitors plays each of the others once. If
there are x games altogether, how many
competitors are there? Pass on your answer.
The answer you receive is y and 2y = x. I am x
years, x months, x weeks, x days and x hours old.
How old am I to the nearest year?

There is a fraction, written in its simplest form,


where A is the numerator and B is the denominator.
When 2 is subtracted from the numerator and the
denominator the answer in its simplest form is

$4.35

300

25

55

14

4
7

When 4 is added to the numerator and the


denominator the answer in its simplest form is

9B

2
3

Pass on the value of A


45 can be expressed as the sum of three different
square numbers. Multiply together the positive
square roots of these numbers. Let the answer be B.

40

Pass on the value of B.


9C

The answers you receive are A and B. A regular


polygon has internal angles which sum to B(2A-1).
How many sides does this polygon have?

10A

24

Triangle ABC has a right angle at A. Semicircles are


drawn where BA, AC, BC are diameters as shown.
AC= 8 and BC = 10
Pass on the value of the total shaded area (A)
10B

9 people are in a room.


Everyone shakes everyone elses hand once.
The total number of handshakes is B.
Pass on the value of B.

36

10C

You are passed A and B, and given that T = 2B/A

1.4

What is the value of d?

11A

Evaluate:

9/4

Pass on your answer (A)


11B

In the rectangle
side of

AB

ABCD

has length

and the side

AD

, the

has length 1.

Let the circle with centre


and passing through

meet

22.5

AB

at

ADX

Find
(Pass on your answer = B)
You receive 2 numbers, A and
B
Calculate B/A

11C

95o

The angles of a hexagon form


an arithmetic sequence with
common difference B/A
Write down the size of the
smallest angle in the hexagon

12A

It is

minutes after 12 noon. Find

minutes ago it was 3 A

Pass

if 22

19

minutes after 11am.

to the next person

12B
In the diagram, if BE bisects

ACD

ABC

BEC y

and if

, find

of y. Pass on the coefficient of

2
, CE bisects

BAC
y

in terms

12C

The lines x = A, y = B and

y +14=x

form a

triangle. How many points with integral coordinates


are completely inside the triangle?

You might also like