KSF 2022 – Ecolier (E)

3 points problems

1. Buzz the bee wants to reach the flower. Which set of directions will get him there?

(A) → → → (B)  → (C) → → → (D) → → (E)  → →

2. Laser beams reflect in mirrors in the way shown in the picture.

At which letter will this laser beam end?

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

3. Rossitza wants to put 2 coins in each row and in each column of the grid. Which
coin does she need to move to an empty cell?

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

4. What is the smallest number of boxes that Bill has to move

to be able to open the dark TRAIN box?

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

5. Kangu always makes one large jump followed by two

small jumps on the number line, as shown in the picture.
Kangu starts at 0 and ends on 16. What is the number of
jumps that Kangu makes?

(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 12

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6. Anna makes a jigsaw where two squares with common sides do not contain the
same number. Which piece should she use to complete her jigsaw?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

7. 2022 + = 2020 + .
Which two numbers can be written in the two boxes to make the statement correct?

(A) 3 and 5 (B) 4 and 1 (C) 3 and 4 (D) 7 and 2 (E) 9 and 8

8. John builds the tower shown. What will he see if he looks at his tower
from above?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

4 points problems

9. Five cars numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are

moving in the same direction. First, the
last car (5) overtakes the two cars ahead
of it. Next, the second last car overtakes the two cars ahead of it. Finally, the middle car overtakes
the two cars ahead of it. In what order are the cars now?

(A) 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 (B) 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 (C) 2, 1, 5, 3, 4 (D) 3, 1, 4, 2, 5 (E) 4, 1, 2, 5, 3

10. The ages of a family of kangaroos are 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 years. The

sum of the ages of four of them is 22 years. What are the ages of the other
two kangaroos?

(A) 2 and 8 (B) 4 and 5 (C) 5 and 8 (D) 6 and 8 (E) 6 and 10

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11. During my holiday I sent the five postcards shown below to my friends. There are no ducks on
Mike’s card. Cara’s card has the sun on it. There are exactly two living creatures on Paula’s card. Lexi’s
card has a dog on it. There are kangaroos on Heather’s card. Which card did Mike get?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

12. Mosif wanted the sum of the three numbers in each row and in each column of
the grid to be the same. He made one mistake. Which number must he correct?

(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) one of the 4s (D) 5 (E) one of the 7s

13. Aladdin has a square carpet. There are the same number of dots, arranged
in two lines, along each side of his carpet. Unfortunately, the carpet has folded.
How many dots are there on Aladdin’s carpet?

(A) 48 (B) 44 (C) 40 (D) 36 (E) 32

14. Joanna folds the number square

twice as shown. Then she punches a
hole through the black spot shown
by the arrow. Which numbers does
she also punch through?

(A) 8, 11, 26, 29 (B) 14, 17, 20, 23 (C) 15, 16, 21, 22 (D) 14, 16, 21, 23 (E) 15, 17, 20, 22

15. The pupils in a class sit in rows. There are the same number of pupils in each row. There are 2
rows of pupils in front of Robert and 1 row of pupils behind him. In his row, there are 3 pupils on his
left and 5 pupils on his right. How many pupils are there in this class?

(A) 10 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 27 (E) 36

16. The cube in the picture is built from the three kinds
of wooden blocks shown. How many white wooden blo-
cks are used?

(A) 8 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 16 (E) 19

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5 points problems

17. Wanda chose a few of the following

shapes and said ”Amongst the shapes I have
chosen, there are 2 coloured ones, 2 large
ones and 2 round ones. What is the smallest
number of the following shapes that Wanda could have chosen?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

18. Joanna numbered 4 cards from 1 to 4: . On the back of each card she draw one
different fruit. So, each fruit represents one number, the one written on the back of the card. Joanna
realized that:

. What is the sum ?

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

19. A pyramid is built from cubes with a side-length of 10 cm. An View from above
ant climbed up and over the pyramid, as shown by the line. What
is the length of the path walked by the ant across the pyramid?

(A) 30 cm (B) 60 cm (C) 70 cm (D) 80 cm (E) 90 cm

20. Alma wants to put one of the

numbered pieces in the middle of the
picture on the right so that a child in
A is able to travel to B and to E, but
not to D. She can rotate the pieces.
Which two pieces could she use?

(A) 1 and 2 (B) 2 and 3 (C) 1 and 4 (D) 4 and 5 (E) 1 and 5

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21. Ahmad and Zhaleh start moving from point A with
the same speed, in the directions shown. Ahmad walks
around the square-shaped garden and Zhaleh walks
around the rectangular-shaped one. They meet again at
A. What is the smallest number of laps around the
square-shaped garden that Ahmad could do to meet
Zhaleh there?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

22. Five children ate some plums. Lauren ate two plums more than Sophie. Betty ate three plums
fewer than Lauren. Claire ate one plum more than Betty and three plums fewer than Alice. Which
two girls ate the same number of plums?

(A) Claire and Lauren. (D) Sophie and Alice.

(B) Claire and Sophie. (E) Alice and Betty.
(C) Lauren and Alice.

23. The small caterpillar shown in the picture curls up to sleep.

What might that look like?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

24. In the grid, the same number is hidden under the same colour square.
To the right of each row, the sum of the numbers hidden under the
squares in that row is given. Which number is hidden under the black
square?

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 14

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