Upper Primary “IMC 国际数学竞赛”（新加坡）

Grand Final
IMC International Mathematics Contest (Singapore)
Practice Set 2

Part I. Multiple Choice Problems (Each problem is worth 5 points, for a total of 40 points).
2  3  5
1. What is the simplified value of 3.6  31  43.9  10  3   12.5   8  1  ？
5  5  18 
A．439 B．339 C．301 D．299
Answer: B
2 3 5
Suggested Solution: 3.6  31  43.9  10  3   12.5   8  1  
5  5   18
 3.6  (31.4  43.9  12.5)  43.9  10  12.5  8  439  100  339.

2. The selling price of ajacket at a certain department store is $400. The department store still earns aprofit of
$40 when it offers a discount of 20% during a sale. What is the cost of that jacket after the discount?
A．320 B．300 C．280 D．260
Answer :C
Suggested Solution: Discount price is 4000.8 $320, so the cost of the jacket is 32040 $280.

3. How many lowest term fractions a denominator of 2016 have?

A．1152 B．1008 C．576 D．288
Answer: C 3
2016
1 2 6 288
Suggested Solution: 2016     576. 288
2 3 7 48
48
Alternate Solution: From Venn Diagram, we have 2 7
201610086722883361449648576． 576 96 96
576

4. If the sum of all the digits in each of two consecutive positive integers are both exactly multiple of 5, then
what is the least sum of these two integers?
A．99999 B．9999 C．999 D．99
Answer: A
Suggested Solution: By Trial and Error, the two smallest positive integers are 49999 and 50000, so the
minimum sum is 499995000099999.

5. Add 20 g of salt into a 10% sodium chloride solution making the concentration increased by 5%. How many
grams of salt are there in the original sodium chloride solution?
90
A．300 B．320 C．340 D．360 100% 10%
20 1 17 340
Answer: C 85 5
Suggested Solution:
15%
Assume there are xg of salt in the sodium chloride solution, the 20  x  10%   20  x   15% ，x340.

1/5
6. In the diagram at the right, ABC and ADE are isosceles right-angled E
triangleand BD  10, then what is the area of quadrilateral BCDE ? A
A．100 B．50 C．40 D．25 D
Answer: B
Suggested Solution: The area ofquadrilateral BCDE is
B C
1 1 1 1 1
AB 2  AD 2   AB 2  AD 2   BD 2   102  50.
2 2 2 2 2

7. If there are n congruent figures dividing a plane into at most an 2  an  2 pieces, then this kind of figure is
called an A–sided figure. For example, four congruent triangles dividing a plane into at most
3  42  3  4  2  38 pieces, it is called a three-sided figure; five congruent squares dividing a plane into at
most 4  52  4  5  2  82 pieces, it is known as four- sided figure, ……．Hence according to the above
definition, when a1, the plane is divided at most into n 2  n  2 pieces, it is called as one-sided figure. In
fact, a circle can be considered a 1-sided figure, so that we may consider those geometric shapes that can
divide a plane into at most 2n 2  2n  2 pieces as a two–sided figure．Which of the following can’t be a
two-sided figure?

A．Ellispe B．Bow Shape C．Spindle Shape D．Sector

Answer: D
Suggested Solution: The sector shape does not meet the definition given above.

8. How many four-digit numbers can be formed such that the leading digit cannot be 0, the sum of all the digits
is 9 and it can contain at most one “0”?
A．165 B．140 C．84 D．56
Answer: B

Suggested Solution: There are C83  56 ways to arrange the four-digit number if the digit 0 will not be part of

the four-digit number and the sum of all the digits is 9. There are C82  28 ways to arrange a three-digit

number where digit 0 cannot be part of it and the sum of all the digits is 9. Hence, there are
56  3  28  140 four-digit numbers that will meet the condition of this problem.

Part II. Fill in the Blanks (Each problem is worth 5 points, for a total of 40 points).
1 2 3 4 10
9. Compute:      .
1  3 3  7 7  13 13  21 91  111
55
Answer:
111
Suggested Solution:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
Original Expression               
2  1 3 3 7 7 13 13 21 91 111 
1 1 1  55
     ．
2  1 111  111

2/5
10. Complete the division problem, what is the divisor?
2
Suggested: 3606
0
Suggested Solution: By guess and check, we consider the dividend as 13 due to
1
the fact that91137，and finally we have 1327753606．
6

11. After how many minutes right after 14:25, the minutes hand and the hour hand coincide as one straight line
for the first time, that is the two hands form180 ?
7
Answer: 18
11
Suggested Solution: Let us begin with 2:00, the minute hand must travel 60°180°240° than hour hand.
7 D
Therefore 24060.525 18 minutes．
11
E
H
12. Refer to the diagram, the area of quadrilateral ABCD is 45 square units， A
AF:FBBG:GCCH:HDDE:EA2:1．What is the area of the shaded region?
F
Answer: 25 C
B G
1 2 1 2
Suggested Solution: Connect BD, SAEF   SABD , SCGH   SBCD ,
3 3 3 3
E
2 2 A D
SAEF  SCGH  S ABCD   45  10, then Sshaded part  45  10  2  25.
9 9
F
Another Solution: The given figure can betransformed into a square, ,
4 4
then the area of shaded part is . Thus, Sshaded area  45  1    25. H
9  9 B C
G
13. William’s and Willie’s family each owns a piece of ranch of which the grass grows faster and denser in short
span of time. The area of William’s family ranchis three times the area of Willie’s family ranch. It is known
that the grass in Willie’s ranch can supply the feeds of 10 cows in 10 days while William’s ranch 20 cows in
18 days. If the two families have a total of 16 heads of cow, then the grass in two ranches can consume in
how many days?
Answer: 50
Suggested Solution: For the two ranches: (a) the volume of grass to be taken is
20181031018107.5, (b) original amount of ranch area is 2018187.5225．
Hence, the number of days to feed the 16 heads of cows using these two ranch areas is
22534167.53450 days.

14. At the IMC awarding ceremony, a “Hide and Seek” game was introduced. The emcee requested each of the
following countries: China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, India and South Korea to send two students to
participate in the game. One student must cover his eyes with a handkerchief and look for another student
from his same country; and at the end of the game, only students of two countries were able to find their
own country partner while the others didn’t. How many ways can these six students from the participating
countries perform this new game?

3/5
 Answer: 45
Suggested Solution: The number of ways for one member to be able to search the correct partner from the

remaining countries is C51 ways, that is the other four countries was not able to search for the correct

partner, so there will be 9 possible ways. Therefore, there are a total of C51 945 ways for the six

students to participate in the new game． l

6 6

15. When removing one vertex from a 68rectangle as shown in the given diagram, 4 4
8 8
the original geometric figure becomes a pentagon, then considering its side 5 5
length of 4 units and rotating it, itforms into a three-dimension geometric
figure.What is the volume of that 3-D geometric figure?(Assume  = 3）
Answer: 828
Suggested Solution: After the rotation, the geometric figure forms into a cylinder (whose
radius of 6 units and height of 8 units) with a cone inside (whose radius is 3 units and
1
height is 4 units). So, the volume is   62  8    32  4   276  828. ．
3

16. How many ways can the four-digit 2016 be formulated with the use of either 1  1 piece of square or 12
piece of squares to assemble any digit using a grid paper?

Answer: 14592
Suggested Solution: Using 11 pieceof square or 12 pieces of squares to assemble any of ①~⑦ in order
to formulate 2016, we know there are 2 ways for figure ①, 19 ways for figure②, 3 ways for figure ③, 8
ways forfigure ④, 8 ways forfigure ⑤, 2 ways for figure ⑥and 1 way for figure⑦. Therefore, there
are2193882114592 ways to formulate 2016.

② ④ ⑤
① ③ ⑥

Part III. (Each problem is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points. Show your COMPLETE solutions
to get full marks.)

17. Refer to the trapezoid ABCD at the right, the lower base BC is three times A D
F
G E
the upper base AD, E is the midpoint of CD. If the area of the shaded

part is 81 square units, then what is the area of trapezoid ABCD ? B C

4/5
 Answer: 336

Suggested Solution：Connect DG, using principles of geometry, DF:FB1:3, but DE:EC1:1. In △

BCD,we have know that the area of shaded part is A D

9
F1
the area of BCD, then the area of trapezoid is 3 21
28 3 9 G E
2 1
9 3 28 4 12
81    81    336. ．
28 4 9 3 B C

18. There are four harbors A, B, C and D in the order of equal distance located along a river such that the
water is flowing in downstream direction. Two ships Diamond and Pearl left harbor A at the same time. As
Diamond started to depart, a barrel accidentally fell into the river, drifting on the water. It was until
Diamond reached harbor C that the captain discovered one barrel missing. So Diamond immediately
returned to pick up the floating barrel. At this moment, Pearlhadalmost docked at harbor C, so Diamond
1
increased its speed by to catch up Pearl, as a result Diamond was able to catch up Pearl at a distance of
3
20 km before reaching harbor D. Find the distance of harbor A and harbor D in km. (We will not consider
1
the time travelled by ship Diamond when it returned to Harbor B, the speed increased by of ship
3
Diamond took place in still water).
Answer: 180
Suggested Solution: The time traveled by Diamond in the distance of ACand BCis considered the same, all
two ships travel in the downstream direction. Then the ratio of speed of Ship Diamond, speed of Ship
Pearl, and speed of the river is 4:2:1, while later the ratio of speed of Diamond and Pearl becomes5:2.
Hence, assuming the distance of harbor B and harbor C as 3 units, then we have 20133180 km.

Answer Key to IMC Grade 6 Grand Final

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Answer B C C A C B
Remarks
Number 7 8 9 10 11 12
Answer D B 55 3606 7 25
18
111 11
Remarks 110 7
3 pts 43 3 pts
111 11

Number 13 14 15 16 17 18
Answer 50 45 828 14592 336 180
Remarks 9 or 44 866.64 12288
3 points 4 points 8 points

5/5