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1. 3.
Tara has 12 sets of car cards. Each set You have 18 balloons, and you want to
has exactly 18 cards. What is the total give 2 of them to a friend and keep 1
number of car cards Tara has? 3 3
for yourself. How many balloons would
your friend get?
A) 116 B) 216 C) 316 D) 226

A) 3 B) 6 C) 9 D) 12

2.
What is the weight of 13 peanuts if each
peanut weighs 10.6 grams?

A) 137.80
B) 137.18
C) 138.18
D) 137.78

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4. 6.
George bought 2 bottles of water, Emma read 8 pages on Saturday,
each with a capacity of 500 mL. After 12 pages on Sunday, 16 pages on
George and his sister each drank X mL Monday, and 20 pages on Tuesday.
of water from the bottles, they had 360 If this pattern continues, how many
ml of water left in total. Find the value pages will Emma read on Wednesday?
of X.
4
5 A) 24 B) 28 C) 30 D) 32
A) 180 B) 230 C) 320 D) 640

5.
The ratio of contestants getting ‘’A’’
in a math competition to contestants
getting ‘’B’’ is 3:5. If 24 contestants
received ‘’A’’, how many contestants
received ‘’B’’?

A) 37 B) 38 C) 39 D) 40

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7. 9.
Which two fractions are equivalent? There are 9 males and 6 females in
your team. The team leader wants to
appoint one person to be in charge of
A) 2 and 8 B) 5 and 10 the attendance. What is the probability
5 22 10 40
of this person being male?
C) 6 and 8 D) 4 and 12
12 24 3 9
A) 2 B) 2 C) 3 D) 3
5 3 5 2

8.

David had 12 spacecrafts. Then

David’s sister took 3x of the
spacecrafts. Choose the expression
to show the number of spacecrafts
David has left.

A) 12 B) 12-3x

C) 3x-12 D) 12
3x

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10. 12.
When Olivia bought ice cream for Mary had 12 dollars last week. She
$15, she found herself with only sold books at the weekend. Now she
$8 remaining. How much money has 36 dollars. How much money has
did she have initially? she earned?

A) $7 B) $14 C) $20 D) $23 A) 48 B) 34 C) 24 D) 14

11.
Robert has 4 blue, 6 purple and 10
pink shirts in the wardrobe. If a shirt
is drawn at random, what is the
probability of this shirt being blue?

A) 3 B) 1 C) 1 D) 3
10 5 2 7

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13. 15.
What do the angles in an equilateral Solve the following: 23+50+9x3
triangle measure? 2
A) 100 B) 90 C) 80 D) 70
A) 30, 60, 90
B) 45, 45, 90
C) 60, 60, 60
D) 30, 30, 120

14.
Janet is sitting on a chair facing a
plane mirror. There is a clock behind
her fixed on the wall. It is 10:10 now
according to the clock. She sees the
image of the clock in the mirror. What
will be the time according to the clock
reflected in the mirror?

A) 10:10
B) 11:10
C) 13:50
D) 14:50

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16. 17.
A student solved 121 problems in
10
math on Monday. On Tuesday he
20 20 solved 34 more problems than he
20 did on Monday. On Thursday, he
30 10
10
20 solved 21 less problems than he did
20
on Tuesday. On Saturday, he solved
10 30
20 14 more problems than he did on
30 50 10 Thursday. How many problems did the
40
student solve in total?

A) 458 B) 558 C) 658 D) 858

1 2 3 4

The cars are lined up at the gas station

as shown in the diagram. The diagram
also shows how many liters each
vehicle will take. The time to fill 1 liter
gas is 1 second, and each vehicle’s
payment time is 20 seconds. Which
line would you prefer to refuel your
vehicle earlier?

A) line 1 B) line 2
C) line 3 D) line 4

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18. 20.
A bus departed from London at 11 pm A supermarket has some types of
with 30 passengers. An hour later, a pasta that are Spaghetti, Penne and
few passengers got off in Cambridge. Ravioli in the ratio 5:3:7. If there are 15
The number of passengers who Penne, then how many pastas are there
boarded the bus in Cambridge was in total?
twice the number of passengers
4
who got off the bus. If the bus has A) 51 B) 60 C) 75 D) 80
38 passengers now, how many
passengers got off in Cambridge?

A) 4 B) 8 C) 16 D) 20

19.
Alex’s Burgers cooks its burgers
either well done or medium. The
restaurant served 160 burgers last
night. 25% of them were medium
burgers. How many medium burgers
did the restaurant serve?

A) 60 B) 50 C) 40 D) 80

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21. 23.
Elvis wants to send one box of books A triangle located in Quadrant III
to his mom by cargo. The box of is reflected across the y-axis. It’s
books cannot exceed a weight of 8 kg. reflection will be located in Quadrant
If each book has weight of 200g, what ….
is the maximum number of books he
3
can send? (Ignore the weight of empty A) I B) II C) III D) IV
box)

A) 4 B) 40 C) 400 D) 4000

22.
What is the mathematical name of
this figure?

A) Sphere
B) Cylinder
C) Cone
D) Can

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24. 26.
Victor bought 2 adult tickets and 3 According to the latest sale offer at
child tickets for the Central Park. Each a tire shop, you can buy one tire and
adult ticket costs $22 and each child get the second one for half the price.
ticket costs $12. What is the average If the price for one tire is $90, and
cost of the tickets? sales tax is 10%, how much does a
customer pay for four tires including
2
the tax?
A) $17 B) $16 C) $15 D) $14

A) $127 B) $148
C) $214 D) $297

25.

x 1 3 k
4 y z 3

The fractional values of the figures are

written below them.
Accordingly, what’s the sum of
x + y + z + k?

A) 16 B) 12 C) 10 D) 8

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27. 29.
3 ^x – 2h 1
Find the value of x, if = .
5 2
1 2 5 17
A) B) C) D)
2 3 6 6

There are 3 small and 5 large size

cranes working in a commercial
port. One small size crane has the
capacity to load 8 containers per
hour, and one large size crane has
the capacity to load 12 containers
per hour. There are 459 containers
in the port that must be loaded onto
the ship. All cranes started loading
at the same time. After 3 hours and
30 minutes, the small size cranes
malfunctioned and could no longer
operate. Large size cranes loaded all
the remaining containers onto the
ships. How many containers have
the large size cranes loaded in total?

A) 275 B) 325
C) 375 D) 405

28.

Dining Room Kitchen

Foyer Bath

The picture shows the rectangular

floor plan of the first level of a house.
Both the bathroom and the kitchen
are square with areas of 4 m2 and
64 m2, respectively. The dining room
is rectangular with an area of 96 m2.
What is the area of the foyer?

A) 30 m2 B) 32 m2
C) 36 m2 D) 38 m2
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30. 32.
x . y = 18
11
x2 . y = 54
y2 . z = 72

What is the sum of x + y + z for

integers x, y, z that satisfy the above
29 equations?

On the ferris wheel the 11th cabin is

directly opposite the 29th cabin. How A) 11 B) 12 C) 13 D) 14
many cabins are there in total?

A) 48 B) 36 C) 32 D) 40

31.

a.b.c b.c c

–128 32 –4

a.c
What is according to the table?
b

A) 2 B) 4 C) –4 D) –2

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33. 35.
By putting suitable signs + , - , x , 0.18 . 0.4 – 0.04 . 0.18 = ?
0.09
÷ , ( , ) in-between the digits 5 5 5 5
many numbers can be generated, for
example, 5 x (5 + 5) + 5 = 55. Which A) 0.96 B) 0.72
of the following numbers cannot be C) 0.48 D) 0.36
generated this way?

A) 7 B) 26 C) 70 D) 120

34.
Tim bought 37 apples and 23
oranges from the market. He eats
5 apples and 3 oranges every day.
In how many days will there be the
same number of apples and oranges
left?

A) 7 B) 8 C) 9 D) 10

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36. 38.
Jane buys a metal sheet of 31 x 39
cm. She cuts the 4 corners off to
make an open top box. The pieces
cut off are 5 x 5 cm. The 4 sides are
folded to make an open top box.
What is the volume of the box?

A) 2850 cm3 B) 2945 cm3

Vanessa travels from Frankfurt to
Budapest in her electric car. It takes
C) 3045 cm3 D) 2945 cm3 30 minutes to fully charge the battery
of the vehicle and it can travel
320 km in total with a full battery.
Considering that Vanessa travels at
a constant speed of 120 km/h, how
soon can she complete the 960 km
Frankfurt-Budapest journey? (The
vehicle’s battery was fully charged at
the start.)

A) 8.5 hours B) 9 hours

C) 10.5 hours D) 12 hours

37.

+ =

The total areas of the triangle and the

square in the figure are equal to each
other. Both of these polygons are
divided into equal parts. The sum of the
shaded areas in the triangle and the
square is equal to the shaded area of
the regular hexagon. Accordingly, how
many times is the total area of the
hexagon bigger than the total area of
the triangle?

7
A) 3 B) C) 4 D) 5
2

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39. 40.
1 16
a, b, c are integers. If a + = ,
1 7
b+
c

find the product of a . b . c

A) 6 B) 8 C) 12 D) 18

In a restaurant, a room is split into

6x8=48 squares, to place 1 table in
each square or leave a space for a
corridor to the tables. The picture
shows an example placement for
26 tables. What is the maximum
possible number of tables that can
be placed in the restaurant so that
each table can be reached from a
corridor?

A) 22 people B) 26 people
C) 30 people D) 34 people

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