2020

2021

AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Junior
Years 7–8
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

Instructions and Information DATE

4–6 August
General
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are
permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted,
but are not essential.
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 TIME ALLOWED
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 75 minutes
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.

Copyright © 2021 Australian Mathematics Trust | ACN 083 950 341

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Junior Division
Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. 2021 − 1202 =
(A) 719 (B) 723 (C) 819 (D) 823 (E) 3223

2. What is the perimeter

of this figure?
(A) 28 units
(B) 26 units
(C) 24 units
(D) 20 units
(E) 21 units
1 unit

3. The area of this triangle is

(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 12.5 cm2
(D) 15 cm2 (E) 16 cm2
4 cm

6 cm

3
4. On the number line below, the fraction lies between
8

P Q R S T U

0 1 1
2

(A) P and Q (B) Q and R (C) R and S (D) S and T (E) T and U

5. Which of the following is closest to 2021?

(A) 202 × 100 (B) 22 × 1000 (C) 20.2 × 100 (D) 10 × 20.2 (E) 100 × 2.2
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6. In the diagram, AB is parallel to EF B

and DE is parallel to BC. What is D F
the value of x? x◦
43◦
(A) 43 (B) 47 (C) 133
A C
(D) 135 (E) 137 E

7. Mister Meow attempted the calculation 5 × 2 + 4, but accidentally swapped the

multiplication and addition symbols. His answer was
(A) too low by 2 (B) too low by 1 (C) still correct
(D) too high by 1 (E) too high by 2

8. Dad puts a cake in the oven at 11:49 am. The recipe says to bake it for 75 minutes.
When should the cake come out of the oven?
(A) 1:04 pm (B) 12:34 pm (C) 1:54 pm (D) 1:19 pm (E) 12:04 pm

9. Damon made up a joke and sent it as a text message to three people in his class.
These three each sent it to three other people in the class. No-one receiving the joke
had seen it before. Including Damon, how many people now know the joke?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16

10. I am shuffling a deck of cards but I accidentally drop a card on the ground every now
and then. After a while, I notice that I have dropped five cards.
From above, the five cards look like one of the following pictures. Which picture
could it be?
6
♦

6
♠

♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

6
4

♦
♦ ♦
♦

♦
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

(A) ♦ (B) (C)

♦

♦ ♦
♦

♠
♦♠♠

9
♦ 2♥ ♥
4
♦

♠
4
4

4
♠

♣
♦ 7 ♠ ♣ ♣ ♦
2 ♥
9

9
♦

♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠
♣

♦
♦ ♣ ♣ ♥

♣ ♣
♣ ♣

♣ ♣
♦

♠ ♣
♦
6

♦
♣♣

♣♣

♠ ♠
♣

♥
♣

♥
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2

♣ ♣
♠

2 ♦
7

♠
6
♣

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6
♠ ♠

♠ ♠

♥ ♥
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
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7 2
♣

♣
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9 ♣

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9
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9
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2
7

7
♠

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6 6
4

♦ ♦ ♦
♦
♠ ♠

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(D) ♦ (E) ♦
♦ ♦ 2♥ ♥
♦ ♥ ♥
2
4

4
♠

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9

9
♣

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♣ ♣

♣ ♣

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2 2
7

6 6
♣

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9

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. To feed a horse, Kim mixes three bags of oats with one bag containing 20% lucerne
and 80% oats. If all the bags have the same volume, what percentage of the combined
feed mixture is lucerne?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 20 (E) 60

12. Three squares with perimeters 12 cm, 20 cm and 16 cm

are joined as shown. What is the perimeter of the
shape formed?

(A) 34 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 41 cm (D) 42 cm (E) 48 cm

13. The odometer in my car measures the total distance travelled. At the moment, it
reads 199 786 kilometres. I’m interested in when the odometer reading is a palin-
drome, so that it reads the same backwards as forwards. How many more kilometres
of travel will this take?
(A) 25 (B) 125 (C) 15 (D) 205 (E) 2005

14. A square has an internal point P such that the perpen-

dicular distances from P to the four sides are 1 cm, 2 cm,
3 cm, and 4 cm.
How many other internal points of the square have this P
property?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

15. How many different positive whole numbers can replace the  to make this a true
statement?
 1
+ <1
10 3

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

16. Three blocks with rectangular faces are placed

together to form a larger rectangular prism. 28
27
All blocks have side lengths which are whole
numbers of centimetres. The areas of some
of the faces are shown, as is the length of
one edge. 30
In cubic centimetres, what is the volume of 42
the combined prism?
(A) 360 (B) 540 (C) 600 3
(D) 720 (E) 900
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17. I have four consecutive odd numbers. The largest is one less than twice the smallest.
Which of the following is the largest of the four numbers?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 21

18. This is a square with sides of 10 metres. 3m

From the constructions shown, which of the areas is
the largest? A B
C
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E
4m
D 6m
4m E

19. Sandy, Rachel and Thandie collect toy cars. Altogether they
have 300 cars.
Rachel has grown up and decides to give her cars away. If she
gives them all to Sandy, then Sandy will have 180. If she gives
them all to Thandie, then Thandie will have 200.
How many cars does Rachel have?

(A) 80 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120

20. A standard dice numbered 1 to 6 with opposite

sides adding to 7 is placed on a 2 by 2 square as
shown.
The dice is rolled over one edge onto each of the
four base squares in turn and then back on to the
original square, as indicated by the arrows.
Which side of the dice is now facing upwards?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Leonhard is designing a puzzle for Katharina. It has nine

squares in a 3 × 3 grid and a number of clues. Each clue
is a number 1, 2 or 3 placed in one of the squares.
Katharina then has to find a solution by placing 1, 2 or 3 in
each of the remaining squares so that no row or column has a
repeated number.
What is the smallest number of clues that Leonhard could
include so that his puzzle has exactly one solution?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
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22. Grandma and Grandpa took their three grandchildren to the cinema. They purchased
5 seats in a row. Each grandparent wanted to sit next to two of the grandchildren.
How many such seating arrangements are possible?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 30 (D) 3 (E) 60

23. I have a 4 by 4 by 4 cube made up from 64 unit cubes. I paint 3 faces of the larger
cube. Then I pull the cube apart. Which of the following could be the number of
unit cubes with no paint on them?
(A) 16 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 36

24. Ben and Jerry each roll a standard dice. If Ben rolls
higher than Jerry, he wins; otherwise Jerry wins.
What is the probability that Ben wins?
1 1 5 17 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 3 12 36 2

25. In the diagram, P QR is isosceles, with Q

P Q = QR. S is a point on P R and T is
a point on P Q such that QT = QS, and
∠SQR = 20◦ . 20◦
The size of ∠T SP , in degrees, is T
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15
x◦
(D) 20 (E) 24 P S R

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer 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. Starting with a 43 × 47 rectangle of paper, Sadako cuts the paper to remove the
largest square possible.
With the remaining rectangle, she again cuts it to remove the largest square possible.
She continues doing this until the remaining piece is a square.
What is the total perimeter of all the squares Sadako has at the end?
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27. There are 14 chairs equally spaced around a circular table, and numbered from 1 up
to 14. How many ways are there to choose two chairs that are not opposite each
other?

28. A swimming medley consists of 100 metres of each of butterfly, backstroke, breast-
stroke and freestyle, in that order. I swim freestyle 3 times faster than breaststroke,
and butterfly twice as fast as breaststroke, and my backstroke is half as fast as my
freestyle. It takes me 6 minutes to swim the full medley. To the nearest metre, how
far will I have swum after 4 minutes?

29. An ant’s walk starts at the apex of a regular

octahedron as shown.
It walks along five edges, never retracing its
path. It visits each of the other five vertices
exactly once.
In how many different ways can the ant do
this?

30. Consider a 15×15 grid of unit squares. In the 1 2 3 14 15

square in row a and column b, we write the
2 4 6 28 30
number a × b.
We then colour the squares black and white 3 6 9 42 45
in a checkerboard fashion, so that the square
labelled 225 is coloured white. The diagram
shows the parts of the grid near each corner.
14 28 42 196 210
What are the last three digits of the sum of
the numbers in the white squares? 15 30 45 210 225
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Years 7–8
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

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