2020 AMC

AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Upper Primary Years 5–7*

(*Australian school years, some states only)

THURSDAY 30 JULY 2020

NAME

TIME ALLOWED: 60 MINUTES

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

General
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper and
teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper. Mobile phones are not permitted.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that
require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as
you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only
competing against your own year in your own country/Australian state so different years
doing the same paper are not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.

The answer sheet

1. Use only lead pencil.
2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by
FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings
even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything
extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks,
use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.

Integrity of the competition

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
status to their score.
Reminder: You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many pieces have been placed in the jigsaw puzzle so far?

(A) 25 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 33 (E) 35

2. What is half of 2020?

(A) 20 (B) 101 (C) 110 (D) 1001 (E) 1010

3. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

11 m 7m
(A) 33 m (B) 34 m (C) 35 m
(D) 36 m (E) 37 m 16 m

4. Which fraction is the largest?

(A) one-half (B) one-quarter (C) one-third
(D) three-quarters (E) six-tenths
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5. A protractor is used to measure Q

angle P XQ. 70
80 90 100 110
60 110 100 80 70 120
0 60 130
50 0 12 50
The angle is 13

14 0 3
01 0
0 15 4
40

01 0 2
4
180 170 16 0 30

50 0 10 0
(A) 45◦ (B) 55◦

160
0 10 2

170 180
(C) 135◦ (D) 145◦ P
(E) 180 ◦ X

6. Some friends are walking to a lake in the mountains. First they climb
a hill before they walk down to the lake. Which graph most accurately
represents their journey?

(A) 200 (B) 200

Height (metres)

Height (metres)
150 150
100 100
50 50
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Time walking (hours) Time walking (hours)

(C) 200 (D) 200

Height (metres)

Height (metres)

150 150
100 100
50 50
0 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Time walking (hours) Time walking (hours)

(E) 200
Height (metres)

150
100
50
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Time walking (hours)

7. How many tenths are in 6.2?

(A) 62 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 12 (E) 36
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8. The graph shows the number of eggs laid by backyard chickens Nony
and Cera for the first six months of the year.
Eggs

30

20
Nony
Cera
10

0 Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

In how many months did Nony lay more eggs than Cera?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

9. A class of 24 students, all of different heights, is standing in a line

from tallest to shortest. Mary is the 8th tallest and John is the 6th
shortest. How many students are standing between them in the line?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

10. Maria divided a rectangle into a number of

identical squares and coloured some of them
in, as shown.
She wants three-quarters of the rectangle’s
area to be coloured in altogether. How many
more squares does she need to colour in?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. At the end of a game of marbles, Lei has 15 marbles, Dora has 8 and
Omar has 4. How many marbles must Lei give back to his friends if
they want to start the next game with an equal number each?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

12. In the grid, the total of each row is given at the 8 6 16

end of the row, and the total of each column is
given at the bottom of the column. N 9
The value of N is 7 9 20
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5 20 7 18

13. At his birthday party, Ricky and his friends wear stripy paper hats
in the shape of a cone, as shown on the left. After the party, Ricky
makes a straight cut in one of the hats all the way up to the point at
the top, as shown on the right.


Which of the following best matches what the hat will look like when
Ricky flattens it out on the table?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)
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14. Emma is going to write all the numbers from 1 to 50 in order. She
writes 25 digits on the first line of her page. What was the last number
she wrote on this line?
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 19 (E) 21

15. The playing card shown is flipped over a

along edge b and then flipped over again 7♣ ♣
along edge c. ♣
What does it look like now? ♣
d ♣ ♣ b

♣ 7♣
♣

7♣ 7 ♣ ♣ 7 ♣ ♣
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣

♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
(A)
♣ (B)
♣ (C) ♣ ♣
♣♣ ♣ ♣♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
7 7 ♣ ♣ 7

7 ♣ ♣ 7♣
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
♣ ♣ ♣
(D) (E) ♣ ♣
♣ ♣ 7♣
♣
♣ ♣ 7
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16. Which labelled counter should you remove

so that no two rows have the same number
of counters and no two columns have the A B C
same number of counters?
(A) A (B) B (C) C
E D
(D) D (E) E

17. Aidan puts a range of 3D shapes on his desk at school. This is the
view from his side of the desk:

Nadia is sitting on the opposite side of the desk facing Aidan. Which
of the following diagrams best represents the view from Nadia’s side
of the desk?

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

(E)
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18. The area of each of the five equilateral tri-

angles in the diagram is 1 square metre.
What is the shaded area?
(A) 1.5 m2 (B) 2 m2 (C) 2.5 m2 (D) 3 m2 (E) 3.5 m2

19. Kayla is 5 years old and Ryan is 13 years younger than Cody. One
year ago, Cody’s age was twice the sum of Kayla’s and Ryan’s age.
Find the sum of the three children’s current ages.
(A) 10 (B) 22 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 36

20. Mary has a piece of paper. She folds it exactly in half. Then she folds
it in half again. She finishes up with this shape.

Which of the shapes P, Q and R shown below could have been her
starting shape?

P Q R

(A) only P (B) only Q (C) only R (D) only P and R (E) all three
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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Four positive whole numbers are placed at

the vertices of a square. On each edge, the
difference between the two numbers at the
vertices is written. The four edge numbers
are 1, 2, 3 and 4 in some order.
What is the smallest possible sum of the
numbers at the vertices?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

22. The large rectangle shown has been divided into 4 smaller rectangles.
The perimeters of three of these are 10 cm, 16 cm and 20 cm. The
fourth rectangle does not have the largest or the smallest perimeter of
the four smaller rectangles.

What, in centimetres, is the perimeter of the large rectangle?

(A) 26 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 46
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23. A bale of hay can be eaten by a horse in 2 days, by a cow in 3 days

and by a sheep in 12 days. A farmer has 22 bales of hay and one horse,
one cow and one sheep to feed. How many days will his bales last?
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 28

24. This rectangle is 36 cm long. It is cut into two pieces and rearranged
to form a square, as shown.

36 cm

What is the height of the original rectangle?

(A) 14 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 18 cm (D) 20 cm (E) 24 cm

25. A bottle with a sealed lid

contains some water.
The diagram shows this
bottle up the right way
and upside down. 21 cm

How full is the bottle? 15 cm

12 cm

1 4 5 2 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 7 7 3 14
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For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. A number is oddtastic if all of its digits are odd.

For example, 9, 57 and 313 are oddtastic.
However, 50 and 787 are not oddtastic, since 0 and 8 are even digits.
How many of the numbers from 1 to 999 are oddtastic?

27. On my chicken farm where I have 24 pens, the pens were a bit crowded.
So I built 6 more pens, and the number of chickens in each pen reduced
by 6. How many chickens do I have?

28. How many even three-digit numbers are there where the digits add up
to 8?

29. Madeleine types her three-digit Personal Identifica-

1 2 3
tion Number (PIN) into this keypad.
All three digits are different, but the buttons for 4 5 6
the first and second digits share an edge, and the
7 8 9
buttons for the second and third digits share an
edge. 0
For instance, 563 is a possible PIN, but 536 is not,
since 5 and 3 do not share an edge.
How many possibilities are there for Madeleine’s
PIN?

30. Writing one digit every second, you have half an hour to list as many
of the counting numbers as you can, starting 1, 2, 3, . . . . At the end
of half an hour, what number have you just finished writing?
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