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SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest SIMOC 2015 SECONDARY 4 CONTEST Section A 1. Sisa set containing exactly 3 elements. How many subsets does S have! (a) (b) (©) (d) © ayAaue 2. The diagram shows a hemispherical bowl of radius 10 cm sitting on a table such that the top circular surface is horizontal. The bowl contains some water. The volume of the water is V cm? and its deepest depth is 3 cm. Which one of the following statements is true? (a) Ve 18x (b) V= 180 (Ve 180 (@) Veannot be found (©) _ None of the above 3. Find the value of —— + —* : 2 Jina | Vans * Tena * + Yosevioo (a) v9 (b)»9 9 (¢) V9 @ 99 (c) None of the above 4. There are n balls ina bag. Three of the balls are blue and the rest are red. The balls are identical except for the colour. Sam randomly takes out two balls from the bag. The probability that the two balls taken out are blue is >. Find the value of n. @) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (@ 12 (©) None of the above SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest 5. The diagram shows a triangle ACE. The lines AD and BE intersect at the point F. The lines BD and CF intersect at the point G. How many triangles are there in the diagram altogether? E D A B c (a) 18 (b) 19 (©) 20 @ 21 (e) None of the above 6. Solve the inequality |n|° + nl? +|n| + 1< 0. @ -l ) 0 © 1 @ 2 (©) No real solutions 7. Ben throws a ball into the air. The path of the ball can be modelled by the equation h=-3t? + 6t+2, where ¢, in seconds, is the time from the moment the ball is thrown, and h, in metres, is the height of the ball ahove the ground. Find the difference in height between the ball at its highest point and at the point from which it is thrown. (a) 2mees (b) 3 metres () yy) 4 metres (d)" 5 metres (©) None of the above 8. Theroots, a and B, of a quadratic equation satisfy the following inequality: o? + B*<0. What can you conclude about the nature of the roots of the quadratic equation? (a) The two roots are real and distinet (b) The two roots are real and equal (c) The two roots are non-real (d) No conclusion can be drawn (e) None of the above SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest 9. 10. ui ‘The diagram shows four cubes in which some of the corners have been removed. Two of the cubes have exactly the same shape. Which are the two cubes? A B c D (a) AandC (b) AandD (c) BandC (@ BandD (ce) CandD Find the third digit of the product 714 138 x 716 888, given the following: p= logy 714 138, = logyy 716 888 ‘Third digit of p + Third digit of pq Third digit of 10°* Third digit of 10°" = 9 (The third digit in this question refers to the third digit counting from the lefi.) fa) 7 (b) 2 © 1 9 (c) None of the above Consider the following pattern: o>1 1>0 451 61 852 798 > 3 Whiat is 4689 > ? (a) (b) () (d) () Ueune SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest 12, 13. 14. 15. Given that 22 +1 =0, find the value of x* + 1 x @) 4 (b) 2 ) -1 (d) -4 (©) Undefined If the five-digit number 54N52 is divisible by 56, find N. @ 6 ) 7 ©) 8 (d) 9 (@) None of the above The diagram shows a room in the shape of a cuboid of dimensions 9 metres by 6 metres by 4 metres. An ant is at the ceiling corner X. It crawls along the ceiling / wall / floor to reach the opposite floor comer Y.. It so happens that the ant has moved along the shortest possible path. Find the length of this path. 6m (a) ¥205 @ 14.3) (b) 4+ VII7 @ 14.8) (©) V24T@ 15.5) (d) 6+ V97 @ 15.8) (e) None of the above Find the last digit of 1 +3 + 37438 +... +3705, (a) 0 (Ans: Period = 4: 1, 4, 3, 0) (b) 1 ©) 2 (d) 3 4 SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest Section B 16. 7. 18. 19. 20. Find the smallest whole number » for which ©28 jg a factor of 180. A data set contains 12 whole numbers. The mean, median and mode of the data set are all equal to 4. The smallest number is 3. What is the largest possible number? In the following alphametic, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find the three-digit sum YES. YY EE + SS YES There are ten stacks of coins. One of the stacks contains 10 identical counterfeit coin: Each of the remaining nine stacks contains 10 genuine coins. All the genuine coins are identical. The mass of a genuine coin is 5 g while the mass of a counterfeit coin is 44g. Charles does not know which stack contains counterfeit coins. He takes 1 coin from Stack 1, 2 coins from Stack 2, 3 coins from Stack 3, and soon, until he takes 10 coins from Stack 10. Then he puts all the coins on a weighing machine and finds that the ‘mass of all the coins is.x g. Find, in terms of x, which stack contains the counterfeit coins. ‘The following is a conversation between Isabelle and Joanne who met on a bus. Isabelle! T have three children, Assuming that their ages’ are whole numbels, the product of their ages is 288, and the sum of their ages is the bus umber of this bus that we are on. Joanne: Of course I know the bus number, but Istill don’t know their ages, Isabelle: Oh, I forgot to tell you that two of my youngest children have the same age. Joanne: Qh, now I know their ages So what are the ages of the three children? SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest 21. There are 2015 workers, and 2015 switches numbered 1 to 2015. ‘The first worker tums on all the 2015 switches. The second worker then turns off every switch with an even number, i.e.2, 4, 6, ..- The third worker then ‘reverses’ every third switch, i.e. if the switch is ‘on’, he will turn it off; but if the switch is ‘off, he will turn it on. ‘The fourth worker then ‘reverses’ every fourth switch, and so on until the 2015 worker has ‘reversed’ the 2015" switch. What is the switch with the largest number that will remain ‘on’ in the end? 22. The diagram shows a diagonal passing through 6 squares of a 4-by-3 rectangle. Find the number of squares passed through by a diagonal for a m-by-n rectangle. 23. Find the value of = + + — a2” tara +2015" 24. Thediagram shows a triangle ABC where AB = AC, BC=AD and BAC = 20°. Find ZADB. \ SIMOC 2015, Secondary 4 Contest 116 cm? and XZ: + 10°; 370 = 4 cm*, 7 r+ 7; 116 370 cm’, find ? + 177; you can 25. Ifatriangle XYZ is such that XY? the area of the triangle. (Hint: 74 use any other method.)

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