Countacy april 2024 Mathematics_Questions[1]
Countacy april 2024 Mathematics_Questions[1]
SECTION I
1. Cards labelled with numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are placed into 2 boxes. The sums of the numbers
in each box are the same. Which number must be in the box with the number 4?
2. Isaac wants to square the sum of 3 chosen numbers from the list -5, -3, -1, 0 2 7. What is the
6. Tito eats only apples on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On Thursdays and Tuesdays he eats
only mangoes. He eats either 2 apples or 3 mangoes a day. On Saturdays and Sundays he eats
nothing. How many pieces of fruit does Tito eat in two weeks?
7. 1/20 – 1/22 = ?
8. Mr. Warwimbo encodes words using the board shown. For example, the word PIZZA has the
9. Which number is an equal distance from 2/3 and 4/5 on the number line?
10. Evaluate
SECTION II
11. We say that a three-digit number is balanced if the middle digit is the arithmetic mean of the
other two digits. How many balanced numbers are divisible by 18?
12. Ana starts lighting a candle every 10 minutes. Each candle lasts for 40 minutes. After 55
13. Countacy Mathematics books are sold in packages of 5, 10 or 15. Marcos buys exactly 95 books.
14. In a garden, a bush has branches with four leaves and a flower. Joseph counted the leaves and
flowers and verified that there are 9 flowers and 120 leaves in the bush. How many branches
15. Five boxes contain 2, 3, 4, 7 and 15 balls respectively. Peter wants to distribute the balls into
boxes so that any box has twice or half the number of balls in one of the remaining boxes. At
16. 40 boys and 28 girls hold hands in a big circle. Exactly 18 boys give their right hand to a girl.
17. How many pairs of positive integers (a,b) fulfil the equation 1/20 = 1/22
18. Susan bought 14 chocolates, 8 of them round and the rest square. Half were white chocolates
and half were dark chocolates. Among the square chocolates, only two are not white. How
19. In a classroom, there are two chairs for each table. Each of the boys in the class sits with a girl
on the same table, but there are four girls who do not seat on tables with a boy. There are 14
little tables in the classroom. How many girls are there in that class?
20. When Elisa the bat left its cave at night, the digital clock showed 10:20. When she came back in
the morning and hung herself upside down, she looked at her watch and saw 10:20. How many
SECTION III
21. In each of the four corners of a swimming pool, 10 m wide by 25 meters long, there is a child.
The swimming instructor is sitting almost in the middle of one of the edges of the pool. When
he calls the children, they all chose the longest path along the edges to reach the instructor.
What was the sum of the distances covered by the four children?
22. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 only once to form a 4-digit number, how many of them are divisible by
11?
24. In the addition below, different letters represent different numbers and equal letters represent
equal numbers. The resulting sum is a number of four digits, B being different from zero. What
SECTION IV
26. The number 5021972970 is written on a sheet of paper. Julian cuts the sheet twice, so he gets 3
numbers. What is the smallest sum he can get by adding these 3 numbers?
27. Suppose
…+2003+2004+2004?
SECTION V
30. Which number should replace the question mark to form accurate equations, knowing that
three numbers are shown per row (i.e. two of the numbers form a two-digit number)?
32. The digits of a 3-digit number are interchanged so that none of the digits retain their original
positions. The difference of the two numbers is a 2-digit number and is a perfect square. Find
33. Make the following equation correct using three of these four symbols, +, -, ×, ÷
2__1__6__6 = 48