TEST 3 (1)
TEST 3 (1)
90 minutes
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TEST 3
Question 1. A bag contains only green, yellow and red marbles. The ratio of the green
marbles to yellow marbles to red marbles in the bag is 3: 4: 5. If 81 of the marbles in the bag
are not green, what is the number of red marbles in the bag?
Question 2. Calculate
1 1 1 1 1
+ + + +
1×2 2×3 3×4 4×5 5×6
Question 3. The figure below is made of 2 squares. Find the area of the shaded region
below in 𝑐𝑚2 .
Question 6. Find the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑑 given that 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑 are whole numbers and
1 234
=
1 432
𝑎+ 1
𝑏+ 1
𝑐+
𝑑
Question 7. Myra has five circular discs, each of a different size. She decides to build a
tower using three of her discs so that each disc in her tower is smaller than the disc below
it. How many different towers could Myra construct?
Question 8. In how many ways can 14 identical pencils be distributed among three girls so
that each gets at least 1 pencil?
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Question 10. Arun wants to write the numbers 1 to 8 in the boxes of the grid shown, so
that the sums of the numbers in the boxes in each row are equal and the sums of the
numbers in boxes in each column are equal. He has already written numbers 3, 4, and 8, as
shown. What number will he write in the shaded box?
Question 11. The edges of a square are 1 cm long. How many points on the plane are
exactly 1 cm away from two of the vertices of this square?
Question 12. The diagram shows a rectangle made from three grey squares, each of area
36 𝑐𝑚2 , inside a larger white rectangle. Two of the vertices of the grey rectangle touch the
midpoints of the shorter sides of the white rectangle and the other two vertices of the grey
rectangle touch the other two sides of the white rectangle. What is the area, in 𝑐𝑚2 , of the
white rectangle?
Question 15*. There are 100 students standing in a circle; they are numbered 1,2,. . . ,100
clockwise. The counting starts from the first student (number 1) and proceeds around the
circle clockwise. Alternate students will be eliminated from the circle in the following way:
The first student stays in the circle while the second student leaves the circle. The third
student stays while the fourth student leaves and so on. When the counting reaches
number 100, it goes back to number 1 and the elimination continues until the last student
remains. What is the number of the last student?
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ANSWER SHEET
Question 1 Question 9
Question 2 Question 10
Question 3 Question 11
Question 4 Question 12
Question 5 Question 13
Question 6 Question 14
Question 7 Question 15
Question 8
Question 15:
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