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1978-2017 Australian Mathematics Competition AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST ‘TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. . NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph ‘paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential. . Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids. |. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response. . This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your ‘own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared. 5. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are entered. It is your responsibilty to correctly code your answer sheet. /. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems. ‘THE ANSWER SHEET 1. Use only lead pencil. 2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer. 3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet, If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score.Senior Division Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each Eight children in a swimming race are John, Iain, i Hans, Ivan, Giovanni, Beth, Liz and Elisa. ‘They are put in lanes 1 to 8 randomly. t 2345678 What is the probability that Beth, Liz or Elisa is in lane 1? 3 1 3 5 1 4; @; ©2 MF @} What is the value of 17a + 20b when a = 20 and 6 = 17? (A) 680 (B) 689 (©) 1720 (D) 2017 (E) 3737 1000% of 1 is (A) 0.1 (B)1 (C) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000 PPM = (A) 29 (B) 33 (C) 43 (D) 59 (B) 73 This pinwheel star is formed by rotating a right-angled triangle around one of its corners. What is the angle at each of the nine tips that are marked with dots? % (A) 30° (B) 40° (0) 45° 3, the sequence of centred n-gon numbers is found by starting with a central dot, then adding layers consisting of n-gons of dots around this centre, where the number of dots on each side increases by 1 for each layer For instance, the sequence of centred 7-gon numbers starts 1,8, 22, 43, ... as shown. OO) What is the smallest n for which 2017 is in the sequence of centred n-gon numbers? 29. A friend and I play a game. We each start with two coins. We take it in turns to toss a coin; if it comes down heads, we keep it, if tails, we give it to the other. I always go first, and the game ends when one of us wins by having all four coins. If we play this game 840 times, what is the expected number of games that I would win? 30. ‘The squares of an 8x8 grid are coloured black or white. A colouring is called balanced if each 2 x 2 subgrid contains exactly two squares of each colour. An example of a balanced colouring of a 3 x 3 grid is shown on the left. The unbalanced colouring on the right fails this requirement since the 2 x 2 subgrid on the bottom right contains three white squares. balanced unbalanced Counting rotations and reflections of a pattern as different, how many balanced colourings of the 8 x 8 grid are there?

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