AMO PROBLEMS - GRADE 6

Week 2

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INSTRUCTION
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to start.
2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.
3. Attempt all 20 questions. Each question scores 1 point. No points are deducted for incorrect
answers.
4. Write your answers neatly in the answer sheet in the booklet.
5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.
6. No calculators are allowed.
7. All students must fill in your Name, Class and School.
8. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall at least 1h 15 min.
9. Students must show detailed working and put answers in the answer sheet.
10. No spare papers can be used in writing this contest. Enough space is provided for your working
of each question.

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Question 1. The figure shows a board where each small square has an area of 4cm2 . What is the
length of the thick black line, in centimeter?

Question 2. Four identical small rectangles are put together to form a large rectangle as shown.
The length of the shorter side of the large rectangle is 10cm. What is the length of the longer side
of the large rectangle, in centimeter?

10cm

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Question 3. The Kangaroo jumps from circle S along the line to the next circle in one jump. It is
not allowed to jump into any circle more than once. In how many different ways, by taking only 4
jumps, can the Kangaroo reach circle F ?

S F

Question 4. The area of a rectangle is 12cm2 . The lengths of its sides are natural numbers. Find
the perimeter of this rectangle, in centimeter.

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Question 5. Peter has ten balls, numbered from 0 to 9. He distributed these balls among three
friends: John got three balls, George four and Ann three. Then he asked each of his friends to
multiply the numbers on the balls they got and the results were: 0 for John, 72 for George and 90
for Ann. What is the sum of the numbers on the balls that John received?

0 1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9

Question 6. In a class, no two boys were born on the same day of the week and no two girls
were born in the same month. Were a new boy or a new girl to join this class, one of these two
conditions would no longer be true. How many children are there in the class?

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Question 7. The net of a cube with numbered faces is shown in the diagram.

1 2 3 4

Sasha correctly adds the numbers on opposite faces of this cube. What is the sum of three number
that Sasha gets?

Question 8. The mean score of the students who took a mathematics test was 6. Exactly 60% of
the students passed the test. The mean score of the students who passed the test was 8. What was
the mean score of the students who failed the test?

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Question 9. Tom used 6 squares with side 1 to form the shape in the picture. What is the perimeter
of the shape?

Question 10. A triangle has sides of lengths 6, 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle has the same
perimeter. What is the side length of the equilateral triangle?

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Question 11. The figure shows a dotted sheet. Both horizontally and vertically the distance from
one point to the next is equal.

Let four points at the time become vertices in different squares. How many squares with different
area is it possible to make?

Question 12. On Jump Street, there are 9 houses in a row. At least one person lives in each house.
Any two neighboring houses together are inhabited by at most six people. What is the largest
number of people that could be living on Jump Street?

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Question 13. In this sum, equal letters represent equal digits, and different letters represent
different digits.

X
+ X
Y Y
Z Z Z

Which digit is represented by the letter X?

Question 14. A new chess piece ”kangaroo” has been introduced. In each move, it jumps either 3
squares vertically and 1 horizontally, or 3 squares horizontally and 1 vertically, as shown in the
picture. What is the minimum number of moves the kangaroo needs in order to go from its current
position to the square marked with A?

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Question 15. The number 100 is multiplied either by 2 or by 3, then the result is increased either
by 1 or by 2, and then the new result is divided either by 3 or by 4. The final result is a natural
number. What is this final result?

Question 16. In a 4-digit number ABCD,the digits A, B, C, D are in increasing order from left to
right. What is the largest possible difference BD − AC of the 2-digit numbers BD and AC?

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Question 17. One corner of a square is folded to its center to form an irregular pentagon. The
areas of the pentagon and of the square are consecutive integers. What is the area of the square?

Question 18. Rachel added the lengths of three sides of a rectangle and got 44cm. Heather added
the lengths of three sides of the same rectangle and got 40cm. What is the perimeter of the
rectangle, in centimeter?

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Question 19. Alva has 4 paper strips of the same length. She glues 2 of them together with a 10cm
overlap, and gets a strip 50cm long.

10cm

10cm

With the other two paper strips, she wants to make a strip 56cm long. How long should the overlap
be, in centimeter?

Question 20. Basil used small cubes with side 1 to construct a cube with side 4. After that, he
painted 3 faces of the big cube red and the other 3 faces blue. After he finished, there was no small
cube with 3 red faces. How many small cubes have both red and blue faces?

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Question 21. Irina asked five of her students how many of the five of them had studied the day
before. Pol said none, Berta said only one, Ona said exactly two, Eugeni said exactly three and
Gerard said exactly four. Irina knew that those students who had not studied were not telling the
truth, but those who had studied were telling the truth. How many of these students had studied
the day before?

Question 22. Five positive integers (not necessarily all different) are written on five cards. Peter
calculates the sum of the numbers on every pair of cards. He obtains only three different totals,
57, 70, and 83. What is the largest integer on any card?

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Question 23. Cyril has seven pieces of wire with lengths 1cm, 2cm, 3cm, 4cm, 5cm, 6cm and 7cm.
He uses some pieces to make a wire cube with edges of length 1cm without any overlaps.

Question 24. Mary divides 2015 successively by 1, 2, 3 and so on, up to and including 1000. She
writes down the remainder for each division. What is the largest of these remainders?

Question 25. Four points lie on a line. The distances between them are, in increasing order:
2, 3, k, 11, 12, 14. What is k?

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ANSWER KEY
1. 18 11. 5 21. 1
2. 20 12. 29 22. 48
3. 6 13. 6 23. 4
4. 26 14. 3 24. 671
5. 13 15. 67 25. 9
6. 19 16. 61
7. 21 17. 8
8. 3 18. 56
9. 12 19. 4
10. 9 20. 24

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