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Mathematics Without Borders Age Group 2 SPRING 2019: Permission

This document contains instructions and 20 math problems for a contest for Age Group 2 in the spring of 2019. The instructions state that there are 20 open-ended questions, answers should be written on an answer sheet, correctly answered problems are worth 2 points and partial or wrong answers 1 or 0 points. Calculators and books are not allowed and students may not receive help during the 60 minute contest. The math problems cover a range of topics including arithmetic, algebra, geometry and word problems.

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Mathematics Without Borders Age Group 2 SPRING 2019: Permission

This document contains instructions and 20 math problems for a contest for Age Group 2 in the spring of 2019. The instructions state that there are 20 open-ended questions, answers should be written on an answer sheet, correctly answered problems are worth 2 points and partial or wrong answers 1 or 0 points. Calculators and books are not allowed and students may not receive help during the 60 minute contest. The math problems cover a range of topics including arithmetic, algebra, geometry and word problems.

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MATHEMATICS WITHOUT BORDERS

AGE GROUP 2
SPRING 2019

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest papers until the Exams Officer has given
permission.
2. There are 20 questions with an open answer in the test.
3. Please write your answers in the ANSWER SHEET.
4. Each correctly solved problem earns 2 points, a partial solution earns 1 point,
and unanswered or wrong answer gets 0 points.
5. The use of calculators or other electronic devices, as well as books containing
formulae is NOT allowed during the course of the contest.
6. Working time: not more than 60 minutes. In the case of an equal number of
solved problems, the higher ranked participant will be the one who has spent less
time solving the problems.
7. No contest papers and draft notes can be taken out by any contestant.
8. Students are NOT allowed to receive help by the Exams Officer or by anyone
else during the contest.

WE WISH YOU ALL SUCCESS!

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Problem 1. Find □, if
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 6 = □ × 6.

Problem 2. In how many ways can we write the number 10 as the sum of equal
numbers?

Problem 3. How many two-digit numbers are smaller than the number equal to
6 × 7 - 3?

Problem 4. A book has 100 pages. The pages of the book have been numbered,
starting with the number 1 on the first right page and number 2 on the next left
page. The following pages are numbered 3, 4, 5 etc.

How many times will the product of both pages of each sheet be a two-digit
number?

Problem 5. What number is behind the square ?


× 7 + 4 - = 34

Problem 6. Some boys and girls are playing in a playground. There are 18 girls.
There are 3 times less boys than girls.How many children are playing in total?

Problem 7. I have 8 coins that weigh 42 grams in total. 7 of them are identical and
the remaining one is heavier. I chose 6 coins and weighed them. It turned out that
they weigh 30 grams in total. How many grams does the heavier coin weigh?

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Problem 8. Ivan came up with the following puzzle: ** - 5 = *.
(the difference of a two-digit number and 5 is a one-digit number)
Peter replaced the star symbols with digits and got the following correct equation:
10 – 5 = 5.
How many other such replacements are possible?

Problem 9. Each of the children in a family has at least 1 brother and at least 2
sisters. At least how many children are there in this family?

Problem 10. Ivan started writing down the following numbers:


1 one-digit number, 2 two-digit numbers, 3 three-digit numbers, followed by
another one-digit number, 2 more two-digit numbers and 3 more three-digit
numbers, etc. How many three-digit numbers did Ivan write, if he wrote 47
numbers in total?

Задача 11. Let us throw 3 dice, each of which has between 1 and 6 dots. Let us
then calculate the sum of the number of dots that the dice fell on. (On the picture
below you can see that the sum is 5 + 6 + 6 = 17.) How many numbers from 1 to
20 are NOT possible?

Problem 12. There are as many even numbers from 3 to 11 as there are odd
numbers from 14 to the even number X. Find the number X.

Problem 13. Four different points А, В, С and D lie on a straight line. There are 3
line segments with two of the points A, B and C as their endpoints (АВ, ВС and
АС). How many line segments are there with two of the four points as their
endpoints?

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Problem 14. The figure on the diagram below is made up of 3 rectangles. We must
color them in 3 colors. Two neighboring rectangles cannot have the same color. In
how many ways can we do this?

Problem 15. Calculate the sum of all two-digit numbers with 6 as the product of
their digits.

Problem 16. Which number should we replace “?” with, in order for the following
equation to be true?

2 + 2 + ⋯+ 2 = 2 + 3
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+ 3 + ⋯ + 3.
10 2s ? 3s
Problem 17. At least how many digits should we remove from the expression
7 × 8 × 9 × 10 in order to get the smallest possible product?

Problem 18. Calculate the difference of the sums of all odd one-digit numbers and
all even one-digit numbers.

Problem 19. Three friends: Peter, Michael, and Jack, were born in Tashkent,
Astana, and Abuja. Peter was born in Abuja. Jack was not born in Tashkent. Which
boy was born in Tashkent?

Problem 20. Which sum, smaller than 10 cents, cannot be paid using 4 coins of 1
cent and two coins of 2 cents?

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