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UK INTERMEDIATE MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

THURSDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2006
Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
from the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting)

1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 11 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S4 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 12 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. Mark at most one of the options A, B, C, D, E on the
Answer Sheet for each question. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
7. Five marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1-15.
Six marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16-25.
Each incorrect answer to Questions 16-20 loses 1 mark.
Each incorrect answer to Questions 21-25 loses 2 marks.
8. Your Answer Sheet will be read only by a dumb machine. Do not write or doodle on the
sheet except to mark your chosen options. The machine 'sees' all black pencil markings
even if they are in the wrong places. If you mark the sheet in the wrong place, or leave bits of
rubber stuck to the page, the machine will 'see' a mark and interpret this mark in its own way.
9. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of answers.
The UK IMC is about solving interesting problems, not about lucky guessing.
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1. What fraction is half-way between and ?
4 6
1 2 5 3 7
A B C D E
10 9 24 14 12

2. The diagram shows seven metal rings linked together. What is the
smallest number of rings that need to be cut in order to separate all the
rings?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6

3. Which of the following is not prime?

A 22 − 1 B 23 − 1 C 25 − 1 D 26 − 1 E 27 − 1

4. The mean, median and mode of the numbers in the boxes below are the same. What is the
missing number?

7 7 5 7 ?
A 6.5 B 7 C 8 D 8.5 E 9

5. A solid ‘star’ shape is created by gluing a square-based pyramid, in which each edge is of
length 1 unit, precisely onto each face of a cube of edge 1 unit. How many faces does this
‘star’ have?
A 18 B 24 C 30 D 36 E 48

6. Harriet Hare and Turbo Tortoise want to cross the finish line together on their 12 mile
woodland race. Turbo sets off at 8:15 am and trots at a constant speed of 4 mph. Given that
Harriet runs at a constant speed of 8 mph, at what time should she set off?
A 9:45 am B 10:15 am C 10:45 am D 11:15 am E 11:45 pm

7. The Queen of Spades always lies for the whole day or always tells the truth for the whole day.
Which of these statements can she never say?
A “Yesterday, I told the truth.” B “Yesterday, I lied.” C “Today, I tell the truth.”
D “Today, I lie.” E “Tomorrow, I shall tell the truth.”

8. Sydney flew to Melbourne, Australia. The flying time to Melbourne, which is 11 hours ahead
of Britain, was 21 hours. Sydney’s flight left London at 11.30am on Tuesday. What time was
it in Melbourne when Sydney’s flight arrived?
A 9:30pm on Tuesday B 8:30am on Wednesday C 7:30pm on Wednesday
D 6:30am on Thursday E 7:30pm on Thursday

9. The diagram shows 10 identical coins which fit exactly inside a

wooden frame. As a result each coin is prevented from sliding. What
is the largest number of coins that may be removed so that each
remaining coin is still unable to slide?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5
10. Gill is 18 this year. She and I went to a restaurant for lunch to celebrate her birthday. The bill
for lunch for the two of us came to £25.50. Gill paid the bill by credit card and I left a £2.50
tip in cash. We agreed to split the total cost equally. How much did I owe Gill?
A £11 B £11.50 C £12 D £12.50 E £13

11. What is the obtuse angle between the hands of a clock at 6 minutes past 8 o’clock?
A 123° B 126° C 153° D 156° E 159°

12. When a solid cube is held up to the light, how many of the following shapes could its shadow
have?

A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4

13. What is 50% of 2006 plus 2006% of 50?

A 1013.3 B 1053 C 1103.3 D 1504.5 E 2006

14. A 3 × 8 rectangle is cut into two pieces along the dotted line 4
shown. The two pieces are then rearranged to form a right-
angled triangle. What is the perimeter of the triangle formed? 3

A 21 B 22 C 23 D 24 E 25
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15. What is the mean of 1.2• and 2.1• ?

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A 1.6 B 1.666 C 1.665 D 1.65 E 1.65

16. Al, Bertie, Chris and Di have sums of money totalling £150. Al and Bertie have £55 between
them and Al and Chris have £65 between them. What is the difference between the amounts
that Al and Di have?
A £25 B £30 C £35 D £40 E £45

17. Last year, on the television programme Antiques Roadshow, a painting was said to be worth
£15 000 although the painting had originally cost only 50p. As a percentage of the original
price, what would be the approximate profit if the painting were to be sold for £15 000?
A 15 000 % B 30 000 % C 300 000 % D 1 500 000 % E 3 000 000 %

18. Given that 4x + 4x + 4x + 4x = 416, what is the value of x?

A 2 B 4 C 8 D 12 E 15
19. The diagram shows a regular pentagon and a regular x°
hexagon which overlap. What is the value of x ?
A 82 B 84 C 85 D 87 E 91

20. Given that the number 2006 is the correct answer to the calculation
1 Ŧ 2 + 3 Ŧ 4 + 5 Ŧ 6 + … + (n − 2) − (n − 1) + n,
what is the sum of the digits of n ?
A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 E 7

21. The diagram shows two semicircular arcs, PQRS and QOR. The Q R
diameters, PS and QR, of the two semicircles are parallel; PS is
of length 4 and is a tangent to semicircular arc QOR.
What is the area of the shaded region?
P O S
A 2π − 2 B 3π C π D 4 E 2π − 4

22. An 8 by 8 chessboard is placed so that a black square is in the top left-hand corner. Starting in
the top left square and working along each row in turn, coloured counters are placed, one on
each square, following the sequence black, white, red, black, white, red and so on. When the
right-hand end of each row is reached, the pattern continues, starting at the left-hand end of
the row beneath, until there is one counter on every square.
In the final arrangement, what fraction of the counters are on squares of the same colour as
themselves?
11 23 7 1 2
A B C D E
32 64 16 2 3

23. In the figure on the right, PQ = 2 13 , PS = 6 67 and S

∠QPR = ∠RPS. 6 67
How long is PR?
P
A 3 12 B 4 C 4 14 D 4 25
42 E 5
213

Q R

24. The diagram shows a square of area x square units inscribed inside a
semicircle and a larger square of area y square units inscribed inside a
circle.
What is the ratio x : y ?
A 1: 2 B 1:2 C 2:5 D 1:3 E 3:4

25. Given that 5j + 6k + 7l + 11m = 2006 where j, k, l and m are different non-negative
integers, what is the value of j + k + l + m ?
A 6 B 7 C 8 D 9 E 10