Math Kangaroo 2005 Level of grades 5 - 6

Problems 3 points each

1. A butterfly sat down on a correctly solved problem. What number did it cover up?

2005 + 205 = 3500 -

2. Together, Anna and Olla have ten pieces of candy. Olla has two more pieces of candy than
Anna. How many pieces of candy does Olla have?

A) 8 B) 7 C) 6 D) 5 E) 4

3. There are eight kangaroos in the diagram (see the picture). What is the
least number of kangaroos that have to be moved to the empty boxes in
order to have two kangaroos in each row and each column?

A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3 E) 4

4. Eva lives with her parents, a brother, a dog, two cats, two parrots, and four gold fish. How
many legs do they have altogether?

A) 40 B) 32 C) 28 D) 24 E) 22

5. 2005 x 100 + 2005 =

A) 2005002005 B) 20052005 C) 20072005 D) 202505 E) 22055

6. An ant is walking from point A to point B on a cube along the indicated path.
The edge of the cube is 12 cm long. How far does the ant need to travel?

A) 40 cm B) 48 cm C) 50 cm D) 60 cm E) 36 cm

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7. On a shelf, there are 24 balls in three colors: white, red and brown. of
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them are white, and of the rest of the balls are red. How many of them are brown?
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A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7 E) 8

8. There are five cards on the table, labeled with numbers 1 to 5 as

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

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9. Tom picked a natural number and multiplied it by 3. Which number CANNOT be the result of
this multiplication?

A) 987 B) 444 C) 204 D) 105 E) 103

10. How many hours is half of a third part of a quarter of 24 hours?

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A) B) C) 1 D) 2 E) 3
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Problems 4 points each

11. Eva cut a paper napkin into 10 pieces. She then also cut one of the pieces into 10 pieces.
She repeated this process two more times. Into how many pieces did she cut the napkin?

A) 27 B) 30 C) 37 D) 40 E) 47

12. Mowgli usually walks from home to the beach, and returns on an elephant. It takes him 40
minutes altogether. One day he traveled on the elephant from home to the beach and back,
which took him 32 minutes. How much time would he need to travel the same distance on foot?

A) 24 min B) 42 min C) 46 min D) 48 min E) 50 min

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13. A rectangular garden with an area of 30 m was divided into three
rectangular sections of flowers, vegetables, and strawberries (some of the f vegetables
dimensions are shown in the diagram). What is the area of the vegetable l
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A) 4 m2 B) 6 m2 C) 8 m2 D) 10 m2 E) 12 m2 e strawberries
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14. Grandpa suggested dividing all peanuts between the family members in the following way:
one person would get 5 kilos, two people would get 4 kilos each, four people would get 2 kilos
each, two people would get 1.5 kilo each, and one person would not get any nuts. Grandma
suggested dividing the peanuts equally among all of the family members. For how many people
would the division suggested by Grandma be better than the one suggested by Grandpa?

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

15. How many two digit numbers are there, which can be expressed only by using different odd
digits?

A) 15 B) 20 C) 25 D) 30 E) 50

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16. Which of the cubes below represents the plan of the cube shown to the right?

17. Sum of five consecutive natural numbers is equal to 2005. The greatest number among them
is:

A) 401 B) 403 C) 404 D) 405 E) 2001

18. The number of all divisors of number 100 is equal to

A) 3 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8 E) 9

19. The frame of a rectangular painting was made out of wooden pieces of the
same width. What is the width of those pieces if the outer perimeter of the frame is
8 decimeters longer than the inner perimeter?

A) 4dm B) 2dm C) 1dm D) 8dm

20. How many more triangles than squares are shown in the picture?

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

Problems 5 points each

21. There are five containers in a treasure chest, in each container there are three boxes and in
each box there are 10 golden coins. The treasure chest, the containers, and the boxes are all
locked. How many locks do you need to open to get 50 coins?

A) 5 B) 7 C) 9 D) 6 E) 8

22. What number should replace x, if we know that the number in the circle in the
upper row is the sum of the numbers from the two circles right below it.

A) 32 B) 50 C) 55 D) 82 E) 100

23. In a two-digit number, a is the tens digit and b is the ones digit. Which of the conditions
below ensures that the number will be divisible by 6?

A) a + b = 6 B) b = 6 a C) b = 5 a D) b = 2 a E) a = 2 b

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24. A wooden cube with the length of its side equal to 3 dm was painted with 0.25 kg of paint. The
cube was then cut up into unit cubes (side length of 1 dm). How much paint is needed to paint the
unpainted sides of the little cubes?

A) 1.25 kg B) 1 kg C) 0.75 kg D) 0.5 kg E) 0.25 kg

25. Five circles have radii of the same length (see the picture). Four of them are
touching the fifth circle, and their centers are the vertices of a square. The ratio of the
area of the shaded region of the circles to the area of unshaded regions of the circles
is:

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

26. From noon until midnight, Wise Cat sleeps under a chestnut tree. From midnight until noon he
is awake telling stories. There is a note on that tree which says: “Two hours ago, Wise Cat was
doing the same thing that he will be doing in an hour”. How many hours, out of 24hours, is the
note true?

A) 6 B) 12 C) 18 D) 3 E) 21

27. Mark has 42 cubes with side length of 1 cm. He used them to construct a prism, the base of
which has a perimeter of 18 cm. The height of that prism is:

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

28. On the board Peter wrote all the three-digit numbers that have the following properties: the
digits in each of the numbers are different, the first digit is the square of the quotient of the
second digit and the third digit. How many numbers did Peter write?

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 8

29. Equilateral triangle ABC (all sides congruent) has an area equal to 1. A
bigger triangle was constructed out of 49 of these triangles (see the picture). The
area of the shaded region is equal to:

A) 20 B) 22.5 C) 23.5 D) 25 E) 32

30. Mary, Dorothy, Sylvia, Ella, and Kathy are sitting on a bench in the park. Mary is not sitting on
the farthest right side; Dorothy is not sitting the farthest to the left. Sylvia is not sitting the farthest
to the left nor the farthest to the right. Kathy is not sitting next to Sylvia, and Sylvia is not sitting
next to Dorothy. Ella is sitting to the right of Dorothy, but not necessarily next to her. Which girl is
sitting the farthest to the right?

A) It cannot be determined. B) Dorothy C) Sylvia D) Ella E) Kathy

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