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The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) is an annual mathematics competition for students that has been running since 1978, featuring progressively challenging problems. Participants receive certificates and detailed reports on their performance, with prizes awarded to top students. The competition is designed to be engaging and relevant to students' everyday lives, promoting a fun atmosphere away from formal assessments.

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AMC

(Australian Mathematics Competition)

3-4
(2004 – 2022)

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What is the AMC?
The AMC is a mathematics competition containing thirty problems that students can attempt to answer A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
in the time allowed. The students use a special answer sheet that is processed and marked by computer.
There are five papers. While each paper is attempted by students from different year levels, each student an activity of the australian mathematics trust
is assessed only against other students in the same school year and region.
The earliest problems are very easy, then the problems get progressively more difficult until the end when
they are challenging to the most gifted student. Students of all standards will progress and find their
point of challenge.
We believe this to be the largest event in Australia for which participants pay an entry fee. t h u r s d ay 31 J u l y 2 0 0 8
The AMC has run every year since 1978 and is now a significant international event.

Benefits to Students MIDDLE primary Division Competition Paper

The AMC gives students external recognition of their achievements. All students receive a certificate
and a detailed report showing how they went on each problem with comparative statistics.
Prizes will be awarded to the top students. australian School Years 3 and 4
Unlike formal mathematics testing, many of the problems are set in situations to which students can relate, time allowed: 60 minutes
showing the relevance of mathematics to everyday life. Above all, the AMC is designed to be a fun event
removed from the pressures of formal assessment with problems designed to be of sufficient interest
to stimulate discussion with friends, parents or in the classroom.

Australian Mathematics Trust I n s t ruct i o n s a n d I n f o rmat i on

The AMT is a national non-profit organisation and its Board includes representatives from the Australian GENERAL
Association of Mathematics Teachers, Australian Academy of Science and Australian Mathematical Society. 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
The AMT administers a number of further mathematical activities such as the Mathematics Challenge 2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
for Young Australians and the Australian Mathematical Olympiad. counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper and
teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper.
AMT Publishing 3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
The AMT publishes its own material of national and international significance for those students who seek 4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions
extra mathematical challenge.
that require a whole number between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you
Problems to Solve in Middle School Mathematics, is a collection of problems presented in ready to be work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
photocopied format for classroom use with students in Years 5 to 8.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing
A Primary version of AMC (Australian Mathematics Competition for the Westpac Awards) Solutions and Statistics is
available for 2004, 2005 and 2006. The 2008 version will be available in early 2009. Each year these books include
against your own year in your own State or Region so different years doing the same paper are
the questions, full solutions, statistics, information on Australian achievement rates, analyses of the statistics as well not compared.
as discrimination and difficulty factors for each question. Prize winners are also listed. 6. Read the instructions on the Answer Sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are filled in. It is your responsibility that the Answer Sheet is correctly coded.
These and other titles can be ordered via the internet or by mail. 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.

Contact THE ANSWER SHEET

1. Use only lead pencil.
Australian Mathematics Competition for the Westpac Awards
Australian Mathematics Trust 2. Record your answers on the reverse of the Answer Sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY
University of Canberra ACT 2601 colouring the circle matching your answer.
Australia 3. Your Answer Sheet will be read by a machine. The machine will see all markings even if they
Tel: 02 6201 5137 are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the
Intl Tel: +61 2 6201 5137 Answer Sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and
Fax: 02 6201 5052
be sure to remove all marks and smudges.
Intl Fax: +61 2 6201 5052
Email: [email protected] INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION
Web: www.amt.edu.au/events.html
The AMC reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
©AMT Publishing 2008 amtt limited acn 083 950 341 status to their score.

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Which number is one hundred more than the number 765?

(A) 865 (B) 985 (C) 876 (D) 775 (E) 766

2. What time is shown on the clock below?

(A) 8:00 (B) 9:30 (C) 6:30 (D) 8:30 (E) 8:40

3. What fraction of the diagram below has been shaded ?

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

4. Wendy has 20 marbles. She has five times as many marbles as Jim.
How many marbles does Jim have?
(A) 4 (B) 100 (C) 5 (D) 25 (E) 15

5. A string of coloured beads begins with a red, then a green, then a

blue, then a yellow. This pattern is repeated many times. What
colour is the 26th bead?
(A) red (B) green (C) blue (D) yellow (E) white

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MP 2

6. On Sue’s 5th birthday, her brother Joe was 8 years old. How old will
Joe be on Sue’s 10th birthday?

(A) 16 (B) 15 (C) 13 (D) 12 (E) 11

7. In the diagram, the arrow ‘−→’ means ‘is half of’. For example,
‘ −→ ’ means ‘ is half of ’,

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8. A park needs seven new picnic tables, each with a top and two seats.
The tops are each made from four boards and each seat is made from
two boards.

How many boards does the park manager need to order?

(A) 66 (B) 35 (C) 60 (D) 70 (E) 56

9. A cyclist rides 25 kilometres every day for a week. If he starts on a

Monday, by what day would he have ridden 60 kilometres?

(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday

(D) Friday (E) Saturday

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10. In the number sentence

10 hundreds + 100 tens = tens,

what number goes in the box to make it true?

(A) 100 (B) 20 (C) 110 (D) 200 (E) 1000

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Jenny has three boxes, each having the same number of toy cars
inside. She finds two more cars down the back of the sofa. When
she counts all her cars she finds that she has 17. How many cars are
there in each box?

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 15

12. Three drips make two drops. How many drips make 18 drops?

(A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 27 (D) 36 (E) 48

13. A box holds socks which are all the same size. There are 6 white, 10
blue and 16 grey socks. What is the least number of socks I need to
take out, without looking, so that I can be certain of getting a pair
of matching socks?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 10

14. In the number sentence,

40 × 40 = 20 × 20 ×

what number do we put in the to make the number sentence true?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16 (E) 40

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MP 4

15. There is a stack of 45 blocks

with one block on top, 2 blocks
in the next row, 3 in the next
row and so on. How many
blocks are in the bottom row
and how many rows are there? . . . . . . .
(A) 9 blocks and 10 rows (B) 10 blocks and 10 rows
(C) 8 blocks and 8 rows (D) 6 blocks and 9 rows
(E) 9 blocks and 9 rows

16. Annie leaves home at 9:15 am to walk to Derek’s house, which takes
her 25 minutes. Carl leaves his house 5 minutes after Annie but only
takes 6 minutes to get to Derek’s house. When Carl arrives, how
long, in minutes, will he and Derek have to wait for Annie to arrive?
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17. At half-time in a soccer match between Newcastle and Melbourne,

the score was Newcastle 1, Melbourne 0. Three goals were scored in
the second half. Which of the following could not be the result of
the match?

(A) The match was drawn (B) Newcastle won by 2 goals

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MP 5
18. A 1 metre square of cardboard is cut up into 1 cm by 1 cm squares. If
these squares were laid side by side, what distance would they cover?
(A) 1000 cm (B) 200 m (C) 20 m (D) 100 m (E) 100 cm

19. I have three rectangular tiles, which are 2 cm by 1 cm, 3 cm by 1 cm

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(A) 14 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 18 cm (D) 20 cm (E) 24 cm

20. Lying Larry decided that from now on he is going to tell the truth
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but will lie on all the other
days. Once, he said ‘Tomorrow I am going to tell the truth.’
On what day did this happen?
(A) Saturday (B) Friday (C) Sunday
(D) Wednesday (E) Monday

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. If four days after the day before yesterday was Saturday, what day
will tomorrow be?
(A) Saturday (B) Wednesday (C) Sunday (D) Thursday (E) Friday

22. In a group of students, 14 collect stamps, 16 collect postcards, 5

collect both but 4 collect neither. How many students are in the
group?
(A) 39 (B) 34 (C) 29 (D) 35 (E) 64

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MP 6
23. In the 5 × 5 square below, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are to be
placed in the squares so that each number appears exactly once in
each row and once in each column. Some numbers have already been
placed.

3 2
2
5 X
1 3
5 1
When the square is completed, the number which is in the square
marked with an X is

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

24. I have some animals, an equal number of goats and lions, which I wish
to ferry across a river but my boat will allow me to take only one
animal at a time. I cannot leave one goat on its own on either side nor
can I leave 1 goat with 1 lion (but I can leave 2 or more goats with a
lion or 2 or more lions with a goat). What is the smallest number of
goats such that I can ferry the group across without breaking these
restrictions?

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

25. The desks in Amy’s classroom are arranged in five rows of five, equally
spaced apart. Amy’s friend Sam sits in the opposite corner to her.
How many people are closer to Sam than they are to Amy?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 14

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MP 7

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. In a circle dance, everyone is evenly spaced around a circle and has
a number in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . , and so on. The dancer with
number 15 is directly opposite dancer number 3. How many dancers
are in the circle?

27. A theatre sets up its chairs in equal rows. Alison had a seat which
was third from the front and 18th from the back. Naida could see 8
chairs to her left and 11 to her right. How many chairs are in the
theatre?

28. Jim takes an hour to fold the weekly washing for the whole family.
His older sister Susan can do the same job in half the time. How
many minutes would it take them to fold the washing together if
they continue to fold at their own rates?

29. What is the largest number less than 1000, which is odd, leaves a
remainder of 2 when divided by 3, and a remainder of 4 when divided
by 5?

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MP 8

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A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
an activity of the australian mathematics trust

t h u r s d ay 6 A u g u s t 2 0 0 9

MIDDLE primary Division Competition Paper

australian School Years 3 and 4
time allowed: 60 minutes

Inst r uc tion s a nd I nf or m ati on

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper
and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given 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.
5. 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 State or Region so different years doing the same paper are
not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the Answer Sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are filled in. It is your responsibility that the Answer Sheet is correctly coded.
7. 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 read by a machine. The machine will see 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 AMC reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
status to their score.
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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. The value of 1000 + 200 + 4 is

(A) 10 204 (B) 1204 (C) 1 000 204 (D) 10 002 004 (E) 124

2. For the number below, what number will be obtained if I double the
thousands digit and halve the tens digit?

4 2 2 4
(A) 2224 (B) 8214 (C) 4414 (D) 8244 (E) 2214

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5. Which of the following is closest to 1000 seconds?

(A) 1 hour (B) 1 day (C) 45 minutes

(D) 30 minutes (E) 15 minutes

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7. Which of the following stories could match this number sentence?

14 − 7 + 9 = 16

(A) Simon had 14 lollies, he ate 9 of them and then his sister gave
him 9 more. He then had 16 lollies.
(B) James had 18 lollies, he gave 14 to his sister, he ate 9 and had 7
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(E) Helen had 14 lollies, was given 7 more by her brother and 9 more
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9. A string of beads has a repeating pattern of blue, red, red, green,
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(A) red (B) green (C) blue (D) yellow (E) orange

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. I read 3 chapters of my book each night except Saturday and Sunday
when I read 4 chapters each night. How many chapters do I read in
a week?
(A) 8 (B) 15 (C) 21 (D) 23 (E) 29

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13. When a barrel is one-quarter full it contains 6 litres. How many litres
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(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 24

14. Jye takes four steps to walk the same distance that Fred covers in
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does Jye walk if he takes 24 steps?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 16

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(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 8

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. The ages of the three children in the Jones family add up to 14. If
their ages are multiplied together, the result is 70. What is the age
of the eldest child?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 14

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22. We form a rectangle using 24 square tiles, each 1 cm by 1 cm. Which
of the following, in centimetres, could not be the perimeter?

(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 36 (E) 50

23. I bought a map of Australia, unfolded it and marked 8 places I wanted

to visit.

I then refolded the map and placed it back on the table as it was. In
what order are my marks stacked from top to bottom?

(A) RTYQKAWP (B) YKRAWTPQ (C) RTQYKAWP

(D) YKTPRAWQ (E) YKWARTPQ

24. Jeremy replaces one digit by the symbol ♥ and another by the symbol
�. Given that the sum
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is correct, which digit does the symbol � represent?

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

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25. Our family’s cat and dog together weigh 7 kg. Our dog and rabbit
together weigh 6 kg. Our cat and rabbit together weigh 5 kg.

6kg

In kilograms, how much does our cat weigh?

(A) 2 (B) 2.5 (C) 3 (D) 3.5 (E) 4

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. Sally has a pile of jelly beans. Her brother eats half of them, then her
sister eats a quarter of the remaining jelly beans. Her father ﬁnds
the leftover jelly beans and eats one-third of them leaving Sally with
6 jelly beans. How many jelly beans did Sally have to begin with?

27. Ms Davey has a box of marbles in her storeroom. She can share
her marbles equally between 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 children with no marbles
leftover. What is the smallest number of marbles that could be in
Ms Davey’s box?

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A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
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t h u r s d ay 5 A u g u s t 2 01 0

MIDDLE primary Division Competition Paper

australian School Years 3 and 4
time allowed: 60 minutes

Inst r uc tion s a nd I nf or m ati on

THE ANSWER SHEET

INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION

The AMC reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
status to their score.
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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Which number is 1 + 10 + 100 + 1000?

(A) 1111 (B) 11 111 (C) 1110 (D) 1010 (E) 10 111

2. Which number is halfway between 600 and 700?

(A) 550 (B) 645 (C) 650 (D) 655 (E) 700

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Harbour Paradise Barrier Island
Bridge Reef

How many more people voted for Sydney Harbour Bridge than for
Phillip Island?
(A) 40 (B) 20 (C) 10 (D) 5 (E) 7

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5. A water tank has 56 L of water in it. If 28 L of water are added, how

much water will be in the tank?

(A) 84 L (B) 56 L (C) 28 L (D) 76 L (E) 78 L

6. What is one thousand and twenty-seven in numerals?

(A) 100 027 (B) 10 027 (C) 1027 (D) 127 (E) 27

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9. What change should you receive from $5 after buying three 55c
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(A) $1.65 (B) $2.35 (C) $2.45 (D) $3.35 (E) $3.45

10. Jillian is standing inside a pet shop and looking out the window
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(A) POHS TEP (B) POHS TEP (C) TEP POHS
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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. I read my book from a quarter to ten until half past eleven. How
long did I read for?
(A) 45 min (B) 1.5 hr (C) 1 hr 45 min
(D) 2 hr 15 min (E) 2 hr 45 min

12. Eight blocks are glued together as shown.

How many faces of these blocks are glued together?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 18

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13. Mrs Conomos has 16 flowers. She wants to place the flowers in two
vases so that one vase has three times as many flowers as the other.
How many flowers will there be in the vase with the most flowers?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16

14. The number of cars in the family of each child in a class is recorded.
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15. This is Liam’s timetable for a normal school day.

Time Activity
9:00 am − 9:10 am Morning assembly
9:10 am − 11:00 am Class time
11:00 am − 11:30 am Recess
11:30 am − 1:00 pm Class time
1:00 pm − 1:50 pm Lunchtime
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3:00 pm Home time

How many minutes of class time does Liam have every day?
(A) 300 (B) 250 (C) 500 (D) 270 (E) 240

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16. Which three Australian banknotes would you have if you had five of
each and a total of $400?
(A) $5, $10, $20 (B) $5, $10, $50 (C) $5, $10, $100
(D) $5, $20, $50 (E) $10, $20, $50

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18. Winnie is in the middle of a tuckshop queue. Jacob is three behind

Winnie and has four people behind him. How many people are in
the tuckshop queue?
(A) 8 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

19. The distance between fenceposts is 5 metres. What is the number of

fenceposts needed to build a fence around a triangular paddock with
sides 25 m, 25 m and 30 m?
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 19

20. Harold wrote down his Personal Identification Number (PIN) but it
got smudged and all he can see on his note is 35•2. He remembers
that the PIN was divisible by 2 but not by 4. Which of the following
could be the missing digit?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

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MP 7

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. If all the numbers from 1 to 2010 are written down, how many of
these will have two or more zeros next to each other?

27. Alex and his family plan to travel from Australia to England and then
to France. They will need to change their money for each country.
100 Australian dollars converts to 40 English pounds, for England.
100 English pounds converts to 80 euros, for France.
How many Australian dollars would be needed to get 120 euros?

28. Five rectangles, each 12 cm long and of equal width, are placed to-
gether to form a single rectangle, still 12 cm long but 5 times as wide.
The new rectangle has a perimeter twice as great as each of the orig-
inal rectangles. What is the perimeter, in centimetres, of the new
rectangle?

29. Consider this statement:

THIS IS ONE GREAT MATHS CHALLENGE
Every minute, the first letter of each word is moved to the other end
of the word. In how many minutes will the original sentence appear
back again?

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30. Below is an example of a triangle drawn on a 6 by 5 grid with one

vertex A on the bottom left-hand corner and the other two vertices
on the top and right-hand boundaries.
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What is the largest number of squares that can be cut by the sides
of such a triangle?

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MIDDLE primary Division Competition Paper

australian School Years 3 and 4
time allowed: 60 minutes

Inst r uc tion s a nd I nf or m ati on

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper
and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given 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.
5. 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 State or Region so different years doing the same paper are
not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school
year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. 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 Ssheet (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.

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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Mike buys a can of 4 tennis balls for $2. How much does each tennis
ball cost?

(A) 25c (B) 50c (C) $1 (D) $4 (E) $8

2. The number 8000 is the same as

(A) 800 tens (B) 800 units (C) 80 tens (D) 80 units (E) 8 hundreds

3. One side of a square is 6 cm long. What is the perimeter, in centime-

tres, of this square?

(A) 6 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 30

4. Imagine you are standing on the square which is in column C and

row 4. .......................................................................................................................................
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What can you see directly to the east?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) nothing

5. What number is halfway between 103 and 113?

(A) 107 (B) 110 (C) 105 (D) 109 (E) 108

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6. Ben cuts three oranges into quarters for the soccer team to eat at
half-time. How many quarters are there?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 12 (E) 16

7. Mrs Harris asked five of her Year 4 children to record their birthdates
in a table as shown below.
Fred 11/4/01
Sally 1/4/01
Joe 1/8/01
Alf 3/2/02
Donna 16/3/02

Which child is the eldest?

(A) Sally (B) Fred (C) Joe (D) Alf (E) Donna

8. Gina is 11 years old and her sister Bev is 8 years old. Their mum is
twice as old as the sum of their ages. How old is their mum?

(A) 3 (B) 19 (C) 27 (D) 30 (E) 38

9. How many rectangles of any size are in this diagram?

(A) 11 (B) 10 (C) 9 (D) 8 (E) 6

10. I can buy 10 L of petrol for $15. How much do I pay for 40 L?

(A) $40 (B) $55 (C) $60 (D) $65 (E) $80

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MP 3

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

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flight took 130 minutes. If they left Cairns at 8:10 am, what time did
they arrive in Brisbane?

(A) 10:10 am (B) 9:40 am (C) 10:40 am (D) 9:30 am (E) 10:20 am

13. Which one of the following statements is true?

(A) If you add two odd numbers you always get an odd number.
(B) If you multiply two odd numbers you always get an even number.
(C) If you add an odd and an even number you always get an even
number.
(D) If you multiply an odd and an even number you always get an
even number.
(E) If you multiply two even numbers you always get an odd number.

14. Zac bought four medium pizzas with $20 and received $3.60 in change.
How much would two pizzas have cost him?

(A) $4.10 (B) $5.00 (C) $7.20 (D) $8.20 (E) $10.00

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15. Raelene the rabbit started at the dot and travelled clockwise around
the regular pentagon with equal sides.

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16. How many even two-digit numbers are there where the sum of the
digits is 5?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

17. The diagram shows a 7-piece tangram puzzle.

What is the area, in square centimetres, of the shaded part if the

whole puzzle is a square with side 8 cm?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

18. On a school trip, we took 6 tents for 18 students. Each tent sleeps
either two or four students. How many of the tents were for two
students?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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19. The annual parents’ meeting is held on the 199th day of the calendar
year. In which month will the meeting be held in 2011?
(A) April (B) May (C) June (D) July (E) August

20. The following tile is made from three unit squares.

What is the area, in square units, of the smallest square which can
be made from tiles of this shape?
(A) 16 (B) 25 (C) 36 (D) 64 (E) 81

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. A cube has each of the numbers from 1 to 6 on its faces. The cube
is shown in three diﬀerent positions.
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(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

22. In a number game you throw 2 six-sided dice to get 2 numbers from
1 to 6. You then choose one instruction card from the three shown
below to find out what to do with the two numbers.

Add the two numbers Multiply the two numbers

Divide one by the other

How many diﬀerent whole number answers are possible in this game?
(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 20 (E) 21

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23. In the following addition, some of the digits are missing.

9
+ 8 7
0 2

The sum of the missing digits is

(A) 23 (B) 19 (C) 21 (D) 18 (E) 24

24. The ages of a family of six add up to 106 years. The two youngest
are 3 and 7. What would the family’s ages have added up to five
years ago?

(A) 74 (B) 76 (C) 78 (D) 79 (E) 96

25. Six towns labelled P , Q, R, S, T and U in the diagram are joined by

roads as shown.
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to P . He wants to save time by travelling the shortest distance. How
many kilometres will he need to drive?

(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23

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MP 7

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. In a card game, there are 9 single-digit cards and 4 operation cards
as shown.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
+ × − ÷
A player must use 4 digit cards and 3 operation cards. What is the
largest whole number which can be made if an operation card must
be placed between each of the single-digit cards?

27. A tiler has been given an odd-shaped tile to work with. It is made
up from 3 squares, each with 10 cm sides.
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If he had 5 of these tiles and placed them next to each other to form
a shape, what would be the smallest perimeter, in centimetres, that
he could make?

28. Jacqui has $200 in her purse in $5, $10 and $20 notes. She has 20
of these notes altogether. If she has more $20 notes than $10 notes,
how many $5 notes does she have?

29. Mary has 62 square blue tiles and a number of square red tiles. All
tiles are the same size. She makes a rectangle with red tiles inside
and blue tiles on the perimeter. What is the largest number of red
tiles she could have used?

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30. Carly is writing a fantasy novel which includes inventing a new lan-
guage. She decides to base her alphabet on letters formed from three
straight lines joining four dots arranged in a square where each line
joins two dots. Each letter goes through all four dots and can be
drawn without removing the pencil from the paper, (you may retrace
a line). Three such letters are shown.
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.. ...........................•
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..... ..... ... .....
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...
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How many diﬀerent letters can she have in her alphabet?

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full solutions, prize winners, statistics, information on Australian achievement rates, analyses of the
statistics as well as discrimination and difficulty factors for each question. The 2011 book will be
available early 2012.
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This book consists of the questions and full solutions from past AMC papers and is designed for use with
students in Middle and Upper Primary. The questions are arranged in papers of 10 and are presented
ready to be photocopied for classroom use.

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Problems to solve in middle school mathematics – $A52.50 each
This collection of challenging problems is designed for use with students in Years 5 to 8. Each of the 65
problems is presented ready to be photocopied for classroom use. With each problem there are teacher’s
notes and fully worked solutions. Some problems have extension problems presented with the teacher’s
notes. The problems are arranged in topics (Number, Counting, Space and Number, Space, Measurement,
Time, Logic) and are roughly in order of difficulty within each topic.
Teaching and Assessing Working Mathematically Books 1 & 2 – $A42.00 each
These books present ready-to-use materials that challenge students’ understanding of mathematics.
In exercises and short assessments, working mathematically is linked with curriculum content and
problem-solving strategies. The books contain complete solutions and are suitable for mathematically
able students in Years 3 to 4 (Book 1) and Years 5 to 8 (Book 2).
The above prices are current to 31 December 2011.
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T H U R S D AY 2 A U G U S T 2 01 2
NAME

MIDDLE PRIMARY DIVISION COMPETITION PAPER

AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 3 AND 4
TIME ALLOWED: 60 MINUTES

INST R UC TION S A ND I NF OR M ATI ON

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper
and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given 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.
5. 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 State or Region so different years doing the same paper are
not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school
year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. 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.
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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. The value of 48 − 25 is

(A) 63 (B) 17 (C) 27 (D) 13 (E) 23

2. The area, in square metres, of the rectangle below is

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16

3. In which order would you place the following cards to make the largest
5-digit number?
11 7 10
Card P Card Q Card R

(A) PQR (B) QRP (C) QPR (D) PRQ (E) RQP

4. What should we get if we add one tenth, one hundredth and two
thousandths?

(A) 112 (B) 1.12 (C) 300 (D) 0.112 (E) 0.13

5. Mary’s soccer team wins a game by two goals. Between them the
two teams scored 8 goals. How many goals did Mary’s team score?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8

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(A) 2012 (B) 1202 (C) 1122 (D) 1180 (E) 1188

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Sam is 12 years old and Tom is 7 years old. When the sum of their
ages is 45, how old will Tom be?
(A) 15 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 27

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14. A garden stake is used to support a small tree. 90 cm of the stake

is above the ground and one-third of the stake is below the ground.
How long is the stake?

(A) 135 cm (B) 120 cm (C) 93 cm (D) 90 cm (E) 30 cm

15. The square shown is a magic square. This means that the sum of all
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16. Adrian is watching a 90-minute movie. His computer indicates that

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17. Michael threw 8 darts at the dartboard shown.

All eight darts hit the dartboard. Which of the following could have
been his total score?

(A) 22 (B) 37 (C) 42 (D) 69 (E) 76

18. Five students, Cam, Franco, Adrian, Trent and Xavier line up in
order of age from youngest to oldest. Cam is next to Adrian in the
line while Franco and Trent are not next to each other. Who cannot
be in the middle of the line?

(A) Cam (B) Franco (C) Adrian (D) Trent (E) Xavier

19. Alex placed 9 number cards and 8 addition symbol cards on the table
as shown.

9 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1

Keeping the cards in the same order he decided to remove one of the
addition cards to form a 2-digit number. If his new total was 99,
which 2-digit number did he form?

(A) 32 (B) 43 (C) 54 (D) 65 (E) 76

20. Ann thinks of a two-digit number and notices that the first digit is
one more than twice the second digit. How many diﬀerent numbers
could she have thought of?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 6

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

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22. Mike is one year older than his brother and one year younger than
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that was to be touching another face, how many faces were glued?

(A) 176 (B) 216 (C) 240 (D) 264 (E) 288

24. Jasdeep plays a game in which he has to write the numbers 1 to 6 on

the faces of a cube. However, he loses a point if he puts two numbers
which diﬀer by 1 on faces which share a common edge. What is the
least number of points he can lose?

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

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25. Twelve points are marked on a square grid as shown.

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How many squares can be formed by joining 4 of these points?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 13

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. A 5 × 5 × 5 cube has a 1 × 1 × 5 hole cut through from one side to

the opposite side, a 3 × 1 × 5 hole through another and a 3 × 1 × 5
hole through the third as shown in the diagram.

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27. The diﬀerence between two numbers is 42. If five is added to each
of them, the larger number becomes three times the smaller number.
What is the larger number at the start?

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28. A rectangular tile has a perimeter of 24 cm. When Sally places four of
these tiles in a row to create a larger rectangle, she finds the perimeter
is double the perimeter of a single tile. What would be the perimeter
of the rectangle formed by adding another 46 tiles to make a row of
50 tiles?

29. How many ways are there of walking up a set of 7 stairs if you can
take one or two steps at a time?

30. A rhombus-shaped tile is formed by joining two equilateral triangles

together. Three of these tiles are combined edge to edge to form a
variety of shapes as in the example given.
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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Ten years after the year 2013 will be

2. How many edges does a cube have?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 12

3. Each lap of Laura’s school running track is 400 metres long. She runs
3 laps. How far does she run?

(A) 300 m (B) 600 m (C) 800 m (D) 1200 m (E) 3000 m

4. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded?

(A) one-fifth (B) two-fifths (C) two-thirds

(D) one-third (E) three-fifths

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5. What is three times the difference between 9 and 3?

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 18 (D) 36 (E) 81

6. Jenny’s hat has the words COTTON CLUB written on it. What
does she see on her hat when she looks in the mirror?

(A) BULC NOTTOC (B) BULC NOTTOC (C) BULC NOTTOC

(D) BULC NOTTOC (E) BULC NOTTOC

7. Sally is playing a board game where you throw a dice numbered from
1 to 6, move along a numbered board and then follow the instructions
on each square you land on. On one turn, she throws a 6 and lands
on a square which tells her to go back 4 squares. This puts her on
a square which tells her to go forward 3 squares. She finishes up on
square 7. What square did she start that turn on?

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

8. Joel is in the centre of a maze which fills a 10-metre square. He

knows he can get out of the maze if he follows the path in the spiral
pattern below. The maze has exits on the boundary at A, B, C, D
and E. By which exit will Joel leave the maze?

A
B

E C
D

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

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9. What is the difference between the largest and smallest 3-digit num-
bers which can be made from rearranging the 3 digit cards below?

1 2 3

(A) 198 (B) 200 (C) 202 (D) 298 (E) 302

10. Brad thinks of a number, doubles it and adds 2. His result is 14.
What was the number he thought of at the start?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 30

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Alice has two 50c coins, three 20c coins and eight 5c coins. David
has four 20c coins and six 10c coins. How much more money does
Alice have than David?
(A) 40c (B) 60c (C) 80c (D) $1.40 (E) $2.00

12. Jim is one year older than his brother and one year younger than his
sister. The sum of their three ages is 30. How old is his sister?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

13. Mary counts on in 3s starting at 30 whilst John counts on in 5s

starting at 20. If they say each number out loud together, starting
at the same time, what same number will they both say together?
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 60

14. Given a 2-digit number, a new 3-digit number is formed by putting

the digit 1 after it. The new number is
(A) the original number plus 1
(B) ten times the original number plus 1
(C) one hundred plus the original number
(D) one hundred times the original number
(E) one hundred times the original number plus 1

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15. How many triangles are in the following picture?

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 17

16. To mix concrete you need 4 shovelfuls of sand, 2 shovelfuls of gravel

and 1 shovelful of cement. If 56 shovelfuls are put into a mixer, how
many would be of gravel?

(A) 7 (B) 16 (C) 20 (D) 32 (E) 40

17. A train from Brisbane to Cairns leaves at 1:25 pm on Tuesday, and

arrives at 7:35 pm on Wednesday. How long was the trip?

(A) 6 h 10 min (B) 24 h 50 min (C) 18 h 10 min

(D) 29 h 10 min (E) 30 h 10 min

18. An online poll asked the question, ‘Is Maths your favourite subject?’
The results of the poll are as follows:

6 out of every 10 voted yes.

3 out of every 10 voted no.
1 out of every 10 was undecided.

If 120 people answered yes, how many of those polled were undecided?

(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 45 (E) 70

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19. George is planning a garden bed which is to be 1 metre wide and a

whole number of metres long. It is to be surrounded by 1 metre×1 metre
pavers as shown in the diagrams below. As the design for the garden
gets longer, the number of pavers needs to increase.

Which of the following best describes the number of pavers required

for each garden bed design?

(A) The number of pavers needed is 8 times the length of the garden
bed.
(B) The number of pavers needed is 6 times the length of the garden
bed plus 2.
(C) The number of pavers needed is 4 times the length of the garden
bed.
(D) The number of pavers needed is 4 times the length of the garden
bed plus 2.
(E) The number of pavers needed is 2 times the length of the garden
bed plus 6.

20. Each triangle in the diagram is equilateral. What fraction of the

largest triangle is shaded?

1 15 1 3 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 64 3 16 32

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Kathy plays Eddie in a game with 12 rounds. In each round the
winner scores 5 points and the loser scores 3 points. When the game
ends, Eddie’s total score is 46 points. How many rounds did Kathy
win?

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

22. Nine cards numbered 1 to 9 are set out as in the diagram. The sum
of the numbers in the vertical column is equal to the sum of the
numbers in the horizontal row. How many different numbers could
be used in the central square of the diagram?

6
9
3 7 5 2 8
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(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9

23. There are thirty 20c coins in a row. I replace every second coin with
a 50c coin. Next, I replace every third coin with a $1 coin. Finally,
I replace every fourth coin with a $2 coin. The value of the thirty
coins is now

(A) $18.50 (B) $22.80 (C) $25.60 (D) $26.50 (E) $27.80

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24. There is a shaded square inside a rectangle as shown. From A to B

is 6 cm and from C to D is 8 cm. What is the perimeter of the large
rectangle?
A B

C D

(A) 28 cm (B) 27 cm (C) 26 cm (D) 25 cm (E) 24 cm

25. Jake and Joe wanted to buy the same magazine. Jake needed $2.80
more to buy it, while Joe needed $2.60 more. So they put their money
together and bought the magazine. They had $2.60 left. How much
was the magazine?

(A) $10 (B) $9 (C) $8 (D) $7 (E) $6

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8
marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. I take 2 vitamin C tablets every day. If I increase my dose to 3 tablets

a day, a full bottle would last 8 days less. How many tablets are in
a full bottle?

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27. Each side of this large square is 30 cm. The middle of each side is
joined to a corner as shown. What area, in square centimetres, has
been shaded?

28. Starting at 100 and going through to 999, how many numbers have
two or more digits the same?

29. In how many ways can three different numbers be selected from the
numbers 1 to 12, so that their sum can be exactly divided by 3?

30. Adam, Barney and Joe carry 999 books out of the library. Adam
works for 3 hours, Barney works for 4 hours and Joe works for 5
hours. They work at different speeds, with Adam carrying 5 books
for every 3 books Barney carries and every 2 books Joe carries. How
many books did Adam carry?

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. 8+4=
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 32 (E) 84

2. Today is Thursday. What day will it be in 10 days time?

(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday
(D) Saturday (E) Sunday

3. Simon has a collection of 27 toy cars. He wants to put them into

groups of 3 cars. How many groups will he have?
(A) 24 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 8 (E) 30

4. I have a $10 note and an ice-cream costs $2.20. What is the greatest
number of ice-creams I can buy?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

5. Which one of the following shapes has a line of symmetry?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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6. Bill types a number into his calculator so that upside down, it looks
like BILL. What is the number?
(A) 8111 (B) 8177 (C) 7713 (D) 3177 (E) 7718

7. Tom wasn’t feeling well. His doctor read his temperature at 1.8◦ C
above normal, which is usually 37◦ C. What, in degrees Celsius, was
Tom’s temperature?
(A) 35.2 (B) 37.18 (C) 37.8 (D) 38.7 (E) 38.8

8. Which shape can make a pyramid if you fold along the dotted lines?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

9. The chairs on the main ski lift at Thredbo are numbered from 26 to
100. How many such chairs are there?
(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 74 (D) 75 (E) 76

10. Cecily is 10 years older than Naida. Naida is 6 years younger than
Joycelyn. If Cecily is now 42, how old is Joycelyn?
(A) 32 (B) 34 (C) 36 (D) 38 (E) 40

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Stuart and Susan are brother and sister. She says ‘I have a sister’ and
he says ‘I have a brother’. What is the smallest possible number of
children in their family?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

12. The year 5 students at my local school were surveyed to find which
one of the four teams in the local football competition they followed.

8
7
6
5
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How many more students followed the most popular team than fol-
lowed the least popular team?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8

13. Lesley needs to catch the school bus at 7:30 am on school mornings.
She takes 25 minutes to get ready and 10 minutes to walk to the bus
stop from home. In order to catch the bus, what is the latest time she
can get up?
(A) 6:45 am (B) 6:55 am (C) 7:00 am (D) 7:05 am (E) 7:10 am

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14. A square of paper is folded in half to make a triangle, then in half to

make a smaller triangle, then in half again to make an even smaller
triangle.

How many layers of paper are in the final triangle?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 12

15. This 4 × 4 square grid can be covered by three shapes made from 1 × 1
squares. None of the shapes overlap.

If two of the shapes are

then the third shape is

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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16. Miranda ties two ribbons in her hair each day before school. She can
choose from her school’s colours of red, blue and white. She has a bag
of ribbons with at least four of each colour in it. Without looking, she
pulls out some ribbons. How many must she pull out to be sure of a
pair of the same colour?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

17. Four rectangles, each 100 cm long and 20 cm

wide, are arranged around a square without
overlapping, as shown.
How long is each side of the middle square?
(A) 60 cm (B) 80 cm (C) 90 cm
(D) 100 cm (E) 120 cm

18. In this diagram, when you multiply the

two numbers in the circles you get the 12 ?
same answer as when you multiply the
two numbers in the squares. What is
the missing number?
15 5
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5
(D) 6 (E) 10

19. Li has some small tiles, each 3 cm by 2 cm, which he puts together
without overlapping to make a filled-in square. What is the smallest
number of these tiles for which this can be done?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

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20. A party game played with a six-sided dice is fair if the chance of
winning is equal to the chance of losing each time the dice is rolled.
Which one of these games is fair?
(A) You win if you roll a 6.
(B) You win if you roll a 2 or a 5.
(C) You win if you roll a number greater than 4.
(D) You win if you roll a number less than 3.
(E) You win if you roll an odd number.

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Which of the shaded areas below is the largest?

A B C D E

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

22. Joseph had some cash in his pocket. He had three of each of the
Australian coins.

5
20 1
cents
cents dollar
50
10 cents 2
cents dollars

When he took them out to count them, he dropped the coins and lost
some down the drain! He found $11.05. How much did he lose?
(A) $1.05 (B) 90c (C) 60c (D) 50c (E) 45c

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23. There are 15 children attending a birthday party and we order some
pizzas. Each pizza will be sliced into 8 equal pieces. What is the
smallest number of pizzas we need to order to make sure that each
child can eat 3 pieces?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

24. Jack is 8 years old and his sister Charlotte is 14 years old. When
Jack’s and Charlotte’s ages add up to 48, how old will Jack be?
(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) 31

25. In this magic square, the even numbers

18
2, 4, 6, . . . , 18
14 6
are placed so that the sums of the numbers
in each row, column and diagonal are equal. 16
What is the sum of the two numbers in the
shaded squares?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 18
(D) 22 (E) 28

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is
8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. Six different whole numbers, chosen from the numbers from 1 to 100,
add up to 100. What is the greatest possible value of the largest of
these numbers?

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27. A number is palindromic if it reads the same forwards as backwards.

For example, 686 is palindromic. How many numbers from 100 to 300
are palindromic?

28. A group of 64 students went rowing. They were given 12 rowing boats,
each boat either large or small. The large boats each carried 6 students
and the small ones 4 students. How many large boats were they given?

29. In the school hall there are square tables and chairs to put around
them.

Each table is big enough to seat 4 people. The tables can be joined in
a long row to seat more people. For example, a row of four tables can
seat 10 people.

If the school needs to set up three long rows to seat 240 people, how
many tables are needed?

30. How many 2-digit numbers are there where one digit is a multiple of
the other and neither digit is zero? For example, 11 and 26, but not
96 or 40.

100
Australian Mathematics Competition
sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank
an activity of the australian mathematics trust

A u s t r a l i a n M at h e mat i c s T r u s t

NAME

YEAR TEACHER

2015
MIDDLE PRIMARY DIVISION
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 3 and 4
TIME ALLOWED: 60 MINUTES

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks, counters,
currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper and teachers may explain
the meaning of words in the paper.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given 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.
5. 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.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are
entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. 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.

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many dots are on the plate?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 13
(D) 14 (E) 15

2. Jill had 15 grapes. She ate 5. How many are left?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

3. This grid gives the position of different 1 2 3 4

shapes. For example, a ♦ is in position
A ⊕ ♥ ♥
B4.
Which shape is in position D2? B ♦
(A) ♦ (B) ⊕ (C) ♥ C ⊕ ♥
(D) (E)
D ♥ ⊕

4. What fraction of this shape is shaded?

1 1 1
(A) (B) (C)
2 3 4
1 1
(D) (E)
5 6

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5. On this spinner, which shape are you

most likely to spin?
•
(A) (B) (C)
(D) ♠ (E) • ♠ •

6. What time is shown on this clock?

11 12 1
(A) twelve o’clock
10 2
(B) a quarter to nine 9 3
(C) a quarter past three 8 4
(D) a quarter past twelve 7 6 5
(E) three o’clock

7. The graph below shows the number of pets owned by the students in
a Year 4 class.
Pets in Year 4
8
6
4
2
0
Cats Dogs Fish Rabbits

How many pets does this class have altogether?

(A) 24 (B) 22 (C) 21 (D) 14 (E) 4

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8. Which number do you need in the box to make this number sentence
true?
19 + 45 = 20 +

(A) 34 (B) 44 (C) 46 (D) 64 (E) 84

9. How many 2 by 1 rectangles will fit exactly

into an 8 by 7 rectangle?
(A) 14 (B) 28 (C) 36
(D) 56 (E) 63

10. Five swimmers were in a 50 m race. The time each swimmer took to
finish the race is shown in this graph. Who won the race?

George
Ethan
Franco
Henry
Ivan
0 10 20 30 40 Time in seconds

(A) George (B) Ethan (C) Franco (D) Henry (E) Ivan

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Cianna is stringing beads for a necklace, starting with two round
beads, then a square bead, and then repeating this pattern of three
beads.

She finished her necklace with a round bead, which happens to be the
18th round bead. How many square beads are on her necklace?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 6 (E) 8

12. The triangle shown is folded in half three times without unfolding,
making another triangle each time.

Which figure shows what the triangle looks like when unfolded?

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

13. When complete, each row, column and diagonal in

4
this diagram has a sum of 15. What is the sum of
the numbers in the shaded squares? 5
(A) 20 (B) 25 (C) 27 (D) 30 (E) 45 5

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14. To which square should I add a counter so that

A
no two rows have the same number of counters,
and no two columns have the same number of B C
counters? D
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E E

15. John wrote his name on his book. Martha said he wrote with a black
pen. Aaron said it was a brown pencil. Frankie said it was a black
crayon. If each of John’s friends were half right, what did he really
use to write his name?
(A) a brown pen (B) a brown crayon (C) a brown pencil
(D) a black pen (E) a black pencil

16. Follow the instructions in this flow chart.

Is this Select
Start Subtract Multiply Yes
greater this
with 5 2 by 3
than 50? answer

(A) 57 (B) 63 (C) 75 (D) 81 (E) 84

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17. A square piece of paper is folded along the dashed lines shown and
then the top is cut off.

The paper is then unfolded. Which shape shows the unfolded piece?

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

18. Rod had fewer than 100 blocks. When he made five equal rows, he
had one block left over. With four equal rows, he had one block left
over. With nine equal rows, there were no blocks left over. How many
blocks did he have?
(A) 18 (B) 49 (C) 81 (D) 91 (E) 99

19. Simon has some 24 cm long strips. Each

strip is made from a different number of
equal-sized tiles.
Simon took 1 tile from each strip to
make a new strip. How long is the new
strip?
(A) 18 cm (B) 20 cm (C) 23 cm
(D) 24 cm (E) 33 cm

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20. The numbers 1 to 6 are placed in

the circles so that each side of the
triangle has a sum of 10. If 1 is
placed in the circle shown, which
number is in the shaded circle?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
1
(D) 5 (E) 6

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Grandpa had $400 in his wallet. He gave half the money to his wife.
From what was left, he then gave one-quarter to his son. Half of the
remainder went to his grandson. How much money did his grandson
receive?
(A) $50 (B) $125 (C) $100 (D) $200 (E) $75

22. The numbers 40, 19, 37, 33, 12, 25, 46, 18, 39, 21 are matched in pairs so
that the sum of each pair is the same. Which number is paired with
39?
(A) 19 (B) 33 (C) 21 (D) 18 (E) 25

23. This shape is made from two 6 cm

overlapping rectangles.
What is its area in square
4 cm
centimetres? 3 cm
(A) 35 (B) 37 4 cm
(C) 39 (D) 41 3 cm
2 cm
(E) 43
5 cm

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24. Molly is thinking of a number. Twice her number take away seven is
the same as her number plus five. What is her number?
(A) 19 (B) 17 (C) 15 (D) 12 (E) 10

25. Tom borrowed some items from the stationery cupboard. He found
that 5 glue sticks weigh the same as 2 staplers, and that 3 staplers
weigh the same as 20 erasers.
iGloo
iGloo
iGloo
iGloo
iGloo

How many glue sticks balance with how many erasers?

(A) 3 glue sticks with 8 erasers (B) 3 glue sticks with 50 erasers
(C) 1 glue stick with 6 erasers (D) 3 glue sticks with 17 erasers
(E) 7 glue sticks with 23 erasers

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is
8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. Jill has three large piles of coins: 10c, 20c and 50c. In how many
different ways can she make one dollar?

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27. A newspaper open on the table had page

42 opposite page 55 because someone had
removed some pages from the centre. What
is the number of the last page of the news-
paper?

28. Alex is designing a square patio, paved by

putting bricks on edge using the basketweave
pattern shown.
She has 999 bricks she can use, and designs
her patio to be as large a square as possible.
How many bricks does she use?

29. There are many ways that you can add three different positive whole
numbers to get a total of 12. For instance, 1 + 5 + 6 = 12 is one way
but 2 + 2 + 8 = 12 is not, since 2, 2 and 8 are not all different.
If you multiply these three numbers, you get a number called the
product.
Of all the ways to do this, what is the largest possible product?

30. A 3 × 2 flag is divided into six squares, as shown.

Each square is to be coloured green or blue, so
that every square shares at least one edge with
another square of the same colour.
In how many different ways can this be done?

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1. What is the value of 20 + 16?

(A) 24 (B) 26 (C) 36 (D) 9 (E) 216

2. Which of these numbers is the smallest?

(A) 655 (B) 566 (C) 565 (D) 555 (E) 556

3. In the number 83 014, the digit 3 represents

(A) three (B) thirty (C) three hundred

(D) three thousand (E) thirty thousand

4. My sister is 6 years old and I am twice her age. Adding our ages gives

(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 21

5. Four of these shapes have one or more lines of symmetry. Which one does not?

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

6. Two pizzas are sliced into quarters. How many slices will there
be?
(A) 2 (B) 10 (C) 6
(D) 8 (E) 16

7. Will has a 45-minute music lesson every Tuesday afternoon after school. If it begins
at 4:30 pm, at what time does it finish?

(A) 4:45 pm (B) 4:55 pm (C) 4:75 pm (D) 5:00 pm (E) 5:15 pm

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8. In our garage there are 4 bicycles, 2 tricycles and one
quad bike. How many wheels are there altogether?

(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 7

(D) 14 (E) 18

9. Ten chairs are equally spaced around a round table. They are numbered 1 to 10 in
order. Which chair is opposite chair 9?

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

10. Lee’s favourite chocolates are 80c each. He has five dollars to
spend. How many of these chocolates can he buy?

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

11. The four digits 2, 3, 8 and 9 are placed in the boxes +

so that when both two-digit numbers are added, the
sum is as large as possible. What is this sum?

(A) 175 (B) 67 (C) 156

(D) 179 (E) 121

12. A circular piece of paper is folded in half twice and then a cut is made as shown.

When the piece of paper is unfolded, what shape is the hole in the centre?

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

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13. Phoebe put her hand in her pocket and pulled out 60 cents. How many different
ways could this amount be made using 10c, 20c and 50c coins?

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

14. There are 5 red, 5 green and 5 yellow jelly beans in a jar.
How many would you need to take out of the jar without
looking to make sure that you have removed at least two of
the same colour?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5
(D) 6 (E) 7

15. A sailor coiled a rope on his ship’s deck, and

some paint was spilled across half of it. What
did the rope look like when it was uncoiled?

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

16. The students in Mr Day’s class were asked Sun hat colours
the colour of their sun hat. The results are 7
shown in the graph. 6
Mr Day chooses two colours which include 5
the hat colours of exactly half of the class. 4
Which two colours does he choose? 3
2
(A) orange and black 1
(B) green and yellow 0
red orange black green yellow
(C) black and yellow
(D) red and orange
(E) red and yellow

17. The sum of the seven digits in Mario’s telephone number is 34. The first five digits
are 73903. How many possibilities are there for the last two digits?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

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18. If the area of the tangram shown is 64 square cen-
timetres, what is the area in square centimetres of
the small square?

(A) 32 (B) 24 (C) 16

(D) 8 (E) 4

19. By making just one fold on a rectangular piece of paper, which of the following shapes
is NOT possible?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

20. In this diagram there are four lines with three circles each.
Place the numbers from 1 to 7 into the circles, so that each
line adds up to 12. Which number must go into the circle
at the centre of the diagram?

(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 2

21. Four hockey teams play each of the other three teams once. A win scores 3 points,
a draw scores 1 point and a loss scores 0 points. Some figures in the following table
are missing. How many points did the Hawks get?

Played Win Draw Loss Points

Eagles 3 3 9
Hawks 3
Falcons 3 0 1
Condors 3 0 2 1

(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 10

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22. In this grid you can only move downward, going from point P
to point along the lines shown.
One route from P to Q is drawn in.
How many different routes are there from P to Q?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6

(D) 8 (E) 12
Q

23. I have five coloured discs in a pile as shown.

I take the top two discs and put them on the bottom red
(with the red disc still on top of the blue disc). blue
green
Then I again take the top two discs and put them on the
yellow
bottom.
orange
If I do this until I have made a total of 21 moves, which
disc will be on the bottom?

(A) red (B) blue (C) green (D) yellow (E) orange

24. A zoo keeper weighed some of the animals at Melbourne

Zoo. He found that the lion weighs 90 kg more than the
leopard, and the tiger weighs 50 kg less than the lion.
Altogether the three animals weigh 310 kg. How much
does the lion weigh?

(A) 180 kg (B) 150 kg (C) 140 kg (D) 130 kg (E) 100 kg

25. Jane and Tom each have $3.85 in coins, one of each Australian coin. They each give
some coins to Angus so that Tom has exactly twice as much money as Jane.
What is the smallest number of coins given to Angus?

10 2
cents 50 dollars
cents
20 1
5 cents
dollar
cents

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

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26. With some 3-digit numbers, the third digit is the sum of the first two digits. For
example, with the number 213 we can add 1 and 2 to get 3, so the third digit is the
sum of the first two digits.
How many 3-digit numbers are there where the third digit is the sum of the first two
digits?

27. In a family with two sons and two daughters, the sum of the children’s ages is 55.
The two sons were born three years apart, and the two daughters were born two years
apart. The younger son is twice the age of the older daughter.
How old is the youngest child?

28. From this set of six stamps, how many ways could you
choose three stamps that are connected along their A B
edges?
C D E F

29. A class has 2016 matchsticks. Using blobs of modelling clay to join the matches
together, they make a long row of cubes. This is how their row starts.

They keep adding cubes to the end of the row until they don’t have enough matches
left for another cube. How many cubes will they make?

30. Mary has four children of different ages, all under 10, and the product of their ages
is 2016. What is the sum of their ages?

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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. The value of 2 + 0 + 1 + 7 is
(A) 10 (B) 19 (C) 37 (D) 208 (E) 2017

2. Jillian has her 9th birthday in 2017. In which year was she born?
(A) 2006 (B) 2007 (C) 2008 (D) 2009 (E) 2010

3. What is the value of the 2 in 213?

(A) 0.02 (B) 0.2 (C) 2 (D) 20 (E) 200

4. The squirrel’s tree is on square L3. 1 2 3 4

To get there from square K1, the squirrel
J
must move
(A) two squares right and one square down K
(B) one square left and two squares down
L
(C) three squares left and two squares down
(D) three squares right and one square down M
(E) one square right and two squares down

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5. Lincoln went to buy some fruit at the school canteen. He bought 4

apples which cost 30 cents each. How much did the 4 apples cost?
(A) 60c (B) 80c (C) $1.00 (D) $1.20 (E) $1.60

6. Five dice were rolled, and the results were

as shown.
What fraction of the dice showed a two on
top?
3 1 2
(A) (B) (C)
4 2 3
2 3
(D) (E)
5 5

7. Zara was cycling. She came

to a T-intersection in the road 28 km Janesville
where she saw this sign.
Marytown 15 km
The road to Smithton passes
through Marytown.
Smithton 23 km
How many kilometres is it from
Marytown to Smithton?
(A) 8 (B) 13 (C) 38 (D) 43 (E) 51

8. Riverside Primary School has 235 staﬀ and students. Each bus can fit
50 people. What is the least number of buses they need for a whole
school excursion?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

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9. Which of these shapes are pentagons?

1 2 3

4 5

(A) all of the shapes (B) shape 3 only (C) shapes 3 and 4
(D) shapes 1 and 3 (E) none of the shapes

10. Fred gave half of his apples to Beth, and then half of what was left
to Sally, leaving him with just one apple. How many did he have to
start with?
(A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 6 (D) 4 (E) 2

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Which of the shaded areas below is the largest?

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

12. Helen is adding some numbers and gets the total 157. Then she realises
that she has written one of the numbers as 73 rather than 37. What
should the total be?
(A) 110 (B) 121 (C) 124 (D) 131 (E) 751

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13. In the year 3017, the Australian Mint recycled its 3c 4c 3c

coins to make new coins.

4c
Each 50c coin was cut into six triangles, six squares,

3c
and one hexagon. The triangles were each worth ?
3c and the squares were each worth 4c.

4c
3c
How much should the value of the hexagon be to 4c 3c
make the total still worth 50c?
(A) 3c (B) 8c (C) 18c (D) 20c (E) 43c

14. At the supermarket Ashan noticed that her favourite biscuits were on
special, with one-third extra for free in the packet.
If this special packet contained 24 biscuits, how many biscuits would
be in the normal packet?
(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 32

15. Greg sees a clock in the mirror, where it looks

21
like this. What is the actual time?
(A) 4:10 (B) 4:50 (C) 5:10
(D) 6:50 (E) 7:10

16. Jonathan made this shape with rectangular

cards 2 cm long and 1 cm wide.
What is the perimeter of the shape?
(A) 6 cm (B) 12 cm (C) 18 cm
(D) 24 cm (E) 36 cm

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17. In these two number sentences

+ + + = 12

+ + + = 20

what is the value of ?

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

18. One year in June, there were four Wednesdays and five Tuesdays. On
which day was the first of June?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (E) Saturday

19. In the 4 by 4 square shown, I am filling in

1 *
the 16 small squares with the numbers 1, 2,
3 and 4 so that each row and each column * 4
has one of each of these numbers. I have 2
filled in some of the squares as shown.
What do the two squares marked ∗ add to? 4 3 2 1

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5

(D) 6 (E) 7

20. On these scales, two of the cubes balance

with three of the balls.
How many cubes need to be added to the
right-hand side to make the scales bal-
ance?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8
(D) 12 (E) 13

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

&
21. This shape can be folded up to make a
cube.

ga2I
Which cube could it make?

W
&
Ia gW 2a
(A) (B) (C)
W

(D) a &
&2
(E)

gW
g

22. How many three-digit numbers contain only the digits 2 and 3, and
each of them at least once?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 32

23. Which one of the patterns below would be created with these folds
and cuts?

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

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24. I have a rectangular block of cheese that I can cut

into 12 identical 1 cm cubes, with none left over.
How many diﬀerently-shaped blocks of cheese could
I have started with?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

25. A clockface can be divided with two straight lines

11 12 1
into three regions so that the sum of the numbers 10 2
in each region is the same. What is this sum? 9 3
8 4
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 24 7 6 5

(D) 26 (E) 28

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is
8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.

26. In a three-digit number, one of the digits is 7 and the diﬀerence be-
tween any two of the digits is 4 or less.
What is the smallest this number could be?

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27. Julie has 5 steps up to her classroom, where

step 5 is the floor of the classroom.
Each day she tries to think of a diﬀerent way of
climbing up these steps. She does not have to
touch each step, but the biggest distance she
can reach is 3 steps.
How many diﬀerent ways are there of going up
the steps?

28. Zhipu has an unusual construction set, consisting of

square tiles which only connect together if they are
joined with half a side touching. That is, the corner
of one connects with the midpoint of the other, as
in the diagram.
In how many ways can he connect three tiles?
(Two arrangements are not diﬀerent if they can be
rotated or reflected to look the same.)

29. Old Clarrie has three dogs. The oldest is Bob, next comes Rex and
Fido is the youngest. Fido is 10 years younger than Bob, and none of
the dogs are the same age.
When Clarrie adds their ages together they come to 28 years.
When Clarrie multiplies their ages together, he gets a number.
What is the smallest that this number could be?

30. All of the digits from 0 to 9 are used to form two 5-digit numbers.
What is the smallest possible diﬀerence between these two numbers?

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Questions – Middle Primary Division

1. What is double 4?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 24

2. Which pattern has exactly 10 dots?

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

3. Which of the following is the same as 6 tens and 3 ones?

(A) sixty-three (B) six and three (C) thirty-six
(D) six hundred and three (E) sixty-one

4. When I add 11 and another number, I get 19. What is the other number?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

5. What is the diameter of this coin?

(A) 20 mm (B) 21 mm (C) 22 mm
(D) 25 mm (E) 30 mm
0 10 20 30 40 50
millimetres

6. Which one of these numbers is closest to 208?

(A) 190 (B) 200 (C) 205 (D) 210 (E) 218

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7. Kate made this necklace from alphabet beads.

She put it on the wrong way around, showing the back
of the beads. What does this look like?
KAT E
(A)
E TAK KAT E E TAK (B) (C)

KATE
(D)
E TAK (E)

8. Each day, tours of Parliament House and the Na-

tional Museum begin at 8.30 am. The tours for national
museum
Parliament House leave every 15 minutes and the
parliament house
tours for the National Museum leave every 20 min-
utes. 10
11 12 1
2 10
11 12 1
2
first first
How often do the tours leave at the same time? tour
9
8 4
3
tour
9
8 4
3
7 6 5 7 6 5

every 15 minutes every 20 minutes

(A) every 5 minutes (B) every 15 minutes (C) every 30 minutes

(D) every 45 minutes (E) every 60 minutes

9. The children in class 3P voted on their favourite Class 3P: Favourite Pets
pets. Sally recorded the results in a column 15
graph but forgot to draw in the column for cats. 14
13
There are 29 children in the class and everyone 12
voted once. 11
10
How many children voted for cats? 9
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 8
7
(D) 8 (E) 9 6
5
4
3
2
1
0
fish cats dogs rabbits

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10. Which of the following is a whole?

(A) 1 half plus 2 quarters (B) 2 quarters plus 2 halves
(C) 3 quarters plus 1 half (D) 1 half plus 1 quarter
(E) 4 quarters plus 1 half

11. Mrs Chapman put 58 books back on the library shelves. She put 12 books on each shelf
except the last shelf. How many books did she put on the last shelf?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

12. This solid cube is built from small cubes.

How many small cubes cannot be seen from this view?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11

13. Shelley walked into a lift.

She went down 5 floors, up 6 floors, then down 7 floors. She
was then on the second floor.
On which level did she enter the lift?
(A) 1st floor (B) 2nd floor (C) 3rd floor
(D) 6th floor (E) 8th floor

14. Six friends each make a phone call to another city. Al

The cost of each call depends on the time taken for 80c
the call as well as the distance.
Jo
From this diagram decide whose phone call lasts longer 60c
Cost of call

than Pat’s, but costs less.

Pat Mia
(A) Al (B) Bill (C) Jo 40c
(D) Mia (E) Zac
Zac Bill
20c

3 6 9 12 15
Time (minutes)

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15. One of these shapes made of squares has been flipped and
turned to make the following pattern, without any overlaps.
Which one?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

16. Karen, Warren, and Andrew bought plastic letters to spell

each of their names on their birthday cakes. WA R R E N
Their birthdays are on different dates, so they planned to reuse
letters on different cakes.
What is the smallest number of letters they needed?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

2
17. At Susie’s party, they have four pizzas to share and each person gets of a pizza. How
3
many people are at the party?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16

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18. Fred looked at the clock during the Library lesson. Friday timetable
Which one of these times could the clock have shown? 9.00 am English
10.00 am Mathematics
11.00 am Recess
11.30 am Library
12.30 pm Assembly
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Sport

(A) (B) (C)

11 12 1 11 12 1 11 12 1
10 2 10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3 9 3
8 4 8 4 8 4
7 6 5 7 6 5 7 6 5

(D) (E)
11 12 1 11 12 1
10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3
8 4 8 4
7 6 5 7 6 5

19. Three standard dice are sitting next to each other as shown in
the diagram. There are 7 faces visible.
How many dots are hidden on the other 11 sides?
(A) 26 (B) 36 (C) 41 (D) 54 (E) 63

20. The numbers from 1 to 3 are entered into the circles

in the grid shown. Two circles joined by a line may
not contain the same number.
There are several ways of doing this. What is the
smallest possible total of the eight numbers?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14
(D) 15 (E) 16

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21. Six small eggs weigh the same as five medium eggs. Six medium eggs weigh the same as
four large eggs. How many small eggs would weigh the same as five large eggs?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 12

22. Pictures of fruit have been placed in this grid to

represent numbers less than 10. 24
The totals for each row and column are shown.
What is the total value of an apple and an
22
orange ?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 18

(D) 11 (E) 12
16

21 19 18 22

23. Warren drew two large squares that overlap to form

the hexagon shown. The area of each small square is
1 square centimetre.
In square centimetres, what is the total area of the
hexagon that Warren drew?
(A) 12 (B) 36 (C) 48
(D) 60 (E) 72

24. Beginning with a row of 20 coins, Anh takes the first coin, then
every fourth coin after that.
From the remaining coins, Brenda takes the first coin and every
third coin after that.
From the remaining coins, Chen takes the first coin and every
second coin after that.
Dimitris takes all the remaining coins.
Does anyone get more coins than all the others?
(A) Yes, Anh does (B) Yes, Brenda does
(C) Yes, Chen does (D) Yes, Dimitris does
(E) No, they all get the same number of coins

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25. Yasmin has a 20 cm × 20 cm square of paper that is coloured on one side. She folds over a
strip along each edge to make a white square with an 8 cm × 8 cm coloured square inside.
How far from each edge is each fold?

20 cm
8 cm
?
20 cm

8 cm

(A) 8 cm (B) 6 cm (C) 4 cm (D) 3 cm (E) 1 cm

26. Four archers are having some target practice, each with two arrows.
Ari hits regions A and C for a total of 15. Billy hits regions A and
C
B for a total of 18. Charlie hits regions B and C for a total of 13. B
If Davy hits region B twice, what will his score be? A

27. A teacher wants her students to guess the three-digit number that she is thinking. She
gives these clues:

• It is divisible by both 3 and 11.

• If you subtract one, the result is divisible by both 2 and 7.

Which number is it?

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28. These staircases are made from layers of blocks.

Each staircase is one block wider, one block longer and one block taller than the previous
staircase.
How many blocks are needed to build the 12-step staircase?

One step Two steps Three steps

29. In the algorithm below, the letters a, b and c represent different digits from 0 to 9.
What is the three-digit number abc?

a
a b
a b c
+ 1 0 0 0
2 0 1 8

30. I wrote the counting numbers joined together:

1234567891011121314151617 . . .

Which of the counting numbers was I writing when the 100th zero was written?

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AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS
COMPETITION
Middle Primary Years 3 & 4
(Australian school years)

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 2019

NAME:

TIME ALLOWED: 60 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

General
1 Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2 You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper and
teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper. Mobile phones are not permitted.
3 Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4 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.
5 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.
6 Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7 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.
Reminder: You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many eggs are in these

cartons?
(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 16
(D) 18 (E) 21

2. Which one of the following is the largest number?

(A) 401 (B) 410 (C) 14 (D) 140 (E) 44

3. Which of the following is equal to 3 m?

(A) 3 cm (B) 30 cm (C) 300 cm (D) 3000 cm (E) 36 cm

4. A bowl has 8 peaches. After the children take one

each, there is one peach left. How many children
are there?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7
(D) 8 (E) 9

5. A Runnyball team has 5 players. 8

This graph shows the number of goals 7
6
each player scored in a tournament.
5
Who scored the second-highest number
Goals

4
of goals? 3
2
(A) Ali (B) Beth (C) Caz 1
(D) Dan (E) Evan 0
Ali Beth Caz Dan Evan
Player

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6. The next counting number after 1089 is
(A) 1090 (B) 10810 (C) 1910 (D) 1900 (E) 1009

7. These cards were dropped on the 3

table, one at a time.

5
In which order were they dropped?

4
(A) 4 A 5 3 2

5
A
3

(B) A 4 5 3 2
(C) 2 4 A 3 5
2

A

4
(D) A 2 3 4 5
(E) 2 3 4 5 A

8. The table shows the pets six children

Cat Dog Fish
own.
Which boy owns a dog? Girls Chris Jo Sam
(A) Alex (B) Chris (C) Finn Boys Teejay Finn Alex
(D) Jo (E) Teejay

9. Sophia is at the corner of 1st Street

and 1st Avenue. Her school is at N
W E 5th Avenue
the corner of 4th Street and 3rd S
Avenue.
4th Avenue
To get there, she walks
(A) 4 blocks east, 3 blocks north
2nd Street
1st Street

S
3rd Avenue
(B) 3 blocks west, 4 blocks north
4th Street
3rd Street

(C) 4 blocks west, 2 blocks north 2nd Avenue

(D) 3 blocks east, 2 blocks north
(E) 2 blocks north, 2 blocks south
E
1st Avenue

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10. Jake is playing a card game, and
9 3 K ♣7
these are his cards. J 4♣ ♣ ♣
♠ ♠♣♠ ♣
A

Elena chooses one card from Jake at
♠♣♣
random.
♣
♣
♣ ♣
♠

Which of the following is Elena most
A ♣
♠♣
4J ♠9
likely to choose? ♣3
7K

(A) a heart () (B) a diamond () (C) a spade (♠)

(D) a picture card (J, Q or K) (E) an even-numbered card

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. In Jacqui’s puzzle, a number is put in
?
each box.
In each circle, the four numbers must
add to 13. 1
Which number goes in the top box?
5 3 7
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
(D) 5 (E) 6

12. Noah follows the instructions in this flow chart. What number does
he end with?

Start Subtract Multiply

with 8 5 by 5

No Greater Yes
End
than 100?

(A) 120 (B) 150 (C) 200 (D) 225 (E) 250

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13. On this number line, where would the number be?
2

0 A B C D E 2

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

14. When Bessie puts a mirror next

to her calculator, the digits some-
times spell words in the mirror.
Which number spells ‘BESSIE’ in 7 8 9 ÷ ÷ 9 8 7
the mirror?
4 5 6 × × 6 5 4
(A) 315538 (B) 835513
(C) 832213 (D) 815312 1 2 3 − − 3 2 1
(E) 312238 0 . = + + = . 0

15. Looking at this view of four

dice, how many dots cannot
be seen?
(A) 21 (B) 28 (C) 32
(D) 36 (E) 45

16. A pencil costs 25 cents and a ruler costs 80 cents.

With $5 I bought one ruler and as many pencils as I could afford.
What change did I get?
(A) 25 cents (B) 20 cents (C) 15 cents (D) 10 cents (E) 5 cents

17. 27 identical cubes are used to make this

3 × 3 × 3 cube.
How many more are needed to make a
4 × 4 × 4 cube?
(A) 1 (B) 25 (C) 27
(D) 36 (E) 37

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18. Meena has a $50 gift voucher to spend in a toyshop, but they won’t
give change from the voucher. Here is a short list of toys she would
like. She tried to spend as much of the $50 as possible.

$24 $14 $6 $39

If she buys no more than one of each toy, how much of the voucher
will not get used?
(A) $1 (B) $3 (C) $5 (D) $7 (E) $9

19. A square piece of paper is folded twice along its diagonals, as shown
in the diagram. Two corners are then cut off. When the paper is
unfolded, what will it look like?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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20. It takes Preeti 30 minutes to walk to school.
Sometimes she goes on her bike and she cycles twice as fast as she
walks.
Occasionally, her mother takes her in the car, which goes three times
as fast as her bike. How many minutes does it take to get to school in
the car?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 10 (E) 15

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. In my dance class, 14 students are taller than Bob, and 12 are shorter
than Alice. Four students are both shorter than Alice and taller than
Bob. How many students are in my dance class?
(A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 28 (E) 30

22. My sister and I are playing a game where she picks two counting
numbers and I have to guess them. When I tell her a number, she
multiplies my number by her first number and then adds her second
number.
When I say 15, she says 50. When I say 2, she says 11.
If I say 6, what should she say?
(A) 23 (B) 27 (C) 35 (D) 41 (E) 61

23. A year 6 student saved 100 cents in 5 days, each day saving 5 cents
more than the previous day. How many cents did she save on the fifth
day?
(A) 20 cents (B) 25 cents (C) 30 cents (D) 40 cents (E) 50 cents

24. A cube has the letters A, M, C, D, E and F F

on its six faces. Two different views of the C
cube are shown. D A E
A

I place the cube on the table so that the front

shows C . If I look at the back of the cube,
what will I see?
(A) D (B) E (C) (D) (E) F
E
F

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25. Shirley has six pieces of her construction kit: two red, two blue and
two green. She wants to build a square using four of the pieces.

Shirley considers Square 1 below to be the same as Square 2, since the

colours match once Square 2 is turned over and rotated. However she
considers Square 3 to be different from Square 1, since no matter how
it is turned, the two red sides are always opposite, and cannot match
Square 1.

Blue Red Red

Square Square Square

Green

Green
Blue

Blue
Red

1 2 Red 3

Red Green Red

How many different squares could she build?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 18

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. At my local greengrocer, you take a ticket from

the machine and wait until your number is called. KE
A
The roll of tickets goes from 000 up to 999.
TI
TA

C KET

When I was there last week with my neighbour,

we took two tickets in a row and our two numbers
added to 777.
What was the next ticket number after ours?

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27. There are 390 children at a summer camp.
One-third of the number of girls is equal to one-half of the number of
boys. How many girls are there?

28. How many of the numbers from 100 to 999 have exactly one zero digit?

29. A tower is built from exactly 2019 equal rods.

Starting with 3 rods as a triangular base, more rods
are added to form a regular octahedron with this
base as one of its faces. The top face is then the
base of the next octahedron.
The diagram shows the construction
of the first three octahedra.
How many octahedra
are in the tower when
it is finished?

30. John is one year older than his wife Mary. They have three children,
whose ages are two years apart.
The product of John and Mary’s ages is less than 2019. The product
of the three children’s ages is also less than 2019.
Next year both these products will be greater than 2020.
This year, what is the sum of all five ages?

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CREATE THE FUTURE.
Problems are part of life and we’ve made it our
mission to equip young students with the skills
to solve more of them. Problem solving is a life skill
and by developing it, students can create more
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AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Middle Primary Years 3–4

(Australian school years)

THURSDAY 30 JULY 2020

NAME

TIME ALLOWED: 60 MINUTES

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

General
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB blocks,
counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on scrap paper and
teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper. Mobile phones are not permitted.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7. 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.
Reminder: You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many cubes are shown here?

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 10
(D) 12 (E) 18

2. 20 + 20 =
(A) 40 (B) 30 (C) 200 (D) 220 (E) 2020

3. What time is shown on this clock?

11 12 1
(A) 3:05 (B) 3:50 (C) 5:03 10 2
9 3
(D) 5:15 (E) 5:30
8 4
7 6 5

4. Half of 16 is
(A) 32 (B) 4 (C) 9 (D) 7 (E) 8

5. Today is Thursday. What is the day after tomorrow?

(A) Thursday (B) Friday (C) Saturday (D) Sunday (E) yesterday

6. How many pieces have been placed in the jigsaw puzzle so far?

(A) 25 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 33 (E) 35

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7. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

11 m 7m
(A) 33 m (B) 34 m (C) 35 m
(D) 36 m (E) 37 m 16 m

8. Tia is playing a computer game with a

rabbit on a grid. Each arrow key moves
the rabbit one square in the direction on
the key.
×
Starting in the centre of the grid, which
sequence of moves takes Tia’s rabbit back
to this starting position?

(A) ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
↑
↑

↑
↑

(B) ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↑ ↓

↑
↑
↑
↑
↑

(D) ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↑
↑

(E) ↑ ↑
↑
↑
↑

↑
↑
↑

9. I have 10 coins in my pocket, half are 20c coins and half are 50c coins.
The total value of the coins is
(A) $1.50 (B) $2 (C) $2.50 (D) $3 (E) $3.50

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10. The graph shows the number of eggs laid by backyard chickens Nony
and Cera for the first six months of the year.
Eggs

20
Nony
Cera
10

0 Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

In how many months did Nony lay more eggs than Cera?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Micky had $9.50. He spent $1.75 on fruit for lunch and gave his two
friends $1.30 each. How much money did he have left?
(A) $3.35 (B) $4.35 (C) $5.15 (D) $7.75 (E) $8.20

12. At the end of a game of marbles, Lei has 15 marbles, Dora has 8 and
Omar has 4. How many marbles must Lei give back to his friends if
they want to start the next game with an equal number each?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

13. Australian $1 coins are 3 mm thick.

Chris makes a stack of these coins 60 mm high.
What is the stack worth?
(A) $3 (B) $20 (C) $36 (D) $40 (E) $60

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14. Ada, Billy, Con, Dee and Edie took part in a swimming race. Billy
did not win or come last. Dee finished ahead of two others but did
not come first. Ada finished after Dee and Con finished before Edie.
Who won the race?
(A) Ada (B) Billy (C) Con (D) Dee (E) Edie

15. At his birthday party, Ricky and his friends wear stripy paper hats
in the shape of a cone, as shown on the left. After the party, Ricky
makes a straight cut in one of the hats all the way up to the point at
the top, as shown on the right.

Which of the following best matches what the hat will look like when
Ricky flattens it out on the table?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

16. It is 12 km by road from Woy Woy to Gosford, Wyoming

as shown on this map.
Gosford
John lives in Tascott, 4 km north of Woy Woy.
Marike lives in Wyoming, 2 km north of Gosford.
How far does John have to drive to visit Marike?
Tascott
(A) 10 km (B) 18 km (C) 16 km
(D) 6 km (E) 20 km Woy Woy

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17. Jake is building a 3 × 3 × 3 cube using

small wooden cubes. The diagram shows
where he is up to.
How many more small cubes does he need
to complete his 3 × 3 × 3 cube?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7
(D) 8 (E) 9

18. Juanita started with a square of paper, made

some folds in it, then punched a single hole
through all layers.
The diagram shows what it looked like after
she unfolded it and flattened it back out.
What was the pattern of folds she made?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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19. Aidan puts a range of 3D shapes on his desk at school. This is the
view from his side of the desk:

Nadia is sitting on the opposite side of the desk facing Aidan. Which
of the following diagrams best represents the view from Nadia’s side
of the desk?

(A) (B)

(E)

20. I have five 50c coins, five $1 coins and five $2 coins. In how many
different ways can I make up $5?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. After the first kilometre of the school cross-country run, Petra was
second last.
In the next kilometre she managed to overtake seven runners.
In the third kilometre, two runners overtook her. In the final kilome-
tre, she passed eight runners, but four other runners overtook her.
She finished ninth.
How many were in the race?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 20 (E) 21

22. I fold up this net to make a cube.

3 4
I then multiply the numbers on opposite
faces to get three numbers. 2 5
The largest of these is
1 6
(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 18
(D) 24 (E) 30

23. Emanuel works in a busy restaurant washing dishes. Each dirty plate
from the stack on the left takes 1 minute to wash and dry, before being
placed on top of the clean stack on the right. After 7 minutes, and
every 7 minutes from then on, a waiter brings 4 more dirty plates and
adds them to the top of the dirty stack.

15 dirty plates 3 clean plates

How high is the stack of clean plates when the coloured plate is being
washed?
(A) 14 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 22

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MP 8

24. A primary school has 400 students and they each have one vote for a
school captain. They voted for Jordan, Evie and Emily. Jordan got 3
times as many votes as Emily. Evie got 20 fewer votes than Jordan.
How many votes did Evie get?
(A) 20 (B) 60 (C) 100 (D) 140 (E) 160

25. Karl likes to avoid walking on the cracks in the footpath by taking
three equally spaced steps for every two blocks. Every third block of
the footpath is darker than the others, as shown.

In his first 100 steps, how many times does Karl’s left foot step on a
darker block?
(A) 11 (B) 16 (C) 21 (D) 25 (E) 33

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. Janine thinks of three numbers.

Between them, they use the digits 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, with each
digit being used exactly once.
The second number is 2 times the first number.
The third number is 4 times the first number.
What is the third number?

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27. In the following diagram, you enter at the 60 50 50 55

square labelled entry and exit at the square
50 45 150
labelled exit. You can move horizontally and
vertically along the white squares, but must 50 50
stay off the coloured squares. Each square 55 55 60 25 55
can only be visited once. 30
By moving this way and adding the numbers 70
in the squares you pass through, what is the
highest sum you can get? exit entry

28. A bale of hay can be eaten by a horse in 2 days, by a cow in 3 days

and by a sheep in 12 days. A farmer has 22 bales of hay and one horse,
one cow and one sheep to feed. How many days will his bales last?

29. A number is oddtastic if all of its digits are odd.

For example, 9, 57 and 313 are oddtastic.
However, 50 and 787 are not oddtastic, since 0 and 8 are even digits.
How many of the numbers from 1 to 999 are oddtastic?

30. Oliver used small cubes to build a set of solid shapes as shown.
In the first shape, he used 1 cube; in the second shape, he used 6
cubes; in the third shape, he used 19 cubes.
How many cubes did Oliver use to build his fifth shape?

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AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Middle
Primary
Years 3–4
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

Instructions and Information DATE

4–6 August
General
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as
MAB blocks, counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed
to work on scrap paper and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the
paper. Mobile phones are not permitted.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
TIME ALLOWED
4. 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 60 minutes
questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no
penalty for an incorrect response.
5. 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.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school
name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code
your answer sheet.
7. 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.

Reminder
You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

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Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many dots are on this domino?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11

2. What is the difference between 14 and 2?

(A) 28 (B) 16 (C) 12 (D) 10 (E) 7

3. This Nigerian flag is white and green.

What fraction of it is green?
(A) one-third (B) one-quarter (C) one-half
(D) two-fifths (E) two-thirds

4. 234 + 100 =
(A) 23400 (B) 1234 (C) 120304 (D) 334 (E) 244

5. How many minutes are in a quarter of an hour?

(A) 4 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 40

6. My tank can hold 80 kL of water.

The indicator on the tank shows the
water level inside the tank.
Which of the following is closest to
the amount of water in the tank?

(A) 35 kL (B) 45 kL (C) 55 kL (D) 65 kL (E) 75 kL

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7. Which number makes this number sentence true?

−5=9

(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 12 (D) 9 (E) 14

8. Each face of this cube is divided into 4 small

squares. How many small squares are there on
the outside of the cube altogether?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20
(D) 24 (E) 30

9. A cross country track is marked

out with a number of flags as
shown.
How many of the flags will be
on the left of the runners when
they pass them?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11

finish start

10. Which one of these shaded areas is the largest?

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

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Leo is waiting in line at school. There are four students ahead of him
and twice as many behind him. How many students are in this line?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 13

12. I am shuffling a deck of cards but I accidentally drop a card on the

ground every now and then. After a while, I notice that I have dropped
five cards.
From above, the five cards look like one of the following pictures.
Which picture could it be?
♦6

6♦ ♦
♠

♠
6
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
4

4
♦ ♦ ♦
♠ ♠

♠
♦
(A) (B) (C)

♠
4 ♦
♦ ♦
♦ ♦2♥ ♥

♠
♦♠♠ ♦

♠9 ♣
♦
9

♠
4
4

4
♠

♠
♣
♣
2 ♥
7♠
♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♣ ♣♣
9♣ ♣

6♦ ♦

♣♣
♦ ♥
♦ ♦
♠ ♠♠ ♣ ♣♣
♣ ♦
♣♣

♣♣
♥
♣

♣
♦ ♥
♥
2
2
♠

♠
♦
7

7
♣

9♣ ♣ ♣
6
♣

7♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
6
♣
♥ ♥
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♣

♣
2
♣

♣
♥
♥
♠

♠
♣
9♣ ♣

9
7

7
♠

♠
♥
2
♠

♠
6 6
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
4

4
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
♠ ♠

♠
♦ ♦
(D) (E)
♦ ♦ 2♥ ♥ ♦ ♦2♥ ♥

♠9 ♣
4

4
♠

♠
9♣ ♣

♣
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
♣
♣♣

♣♣
♥ ♥
♣

♣
♦ ♥ ♦ ♥
2 2
♠

♠
7

7
♣

6 6 9♣ ♣ ♣
♣
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♠ ♠

♠ ♠
♣

♣
♣

♣
♠

♠
9♣ ♣
7

7
♠

13. Kayla had six apples. She cut them all into quarters and shared them
equally between her three brothers and herself. How many apples do
they each receive?
1 1 1
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 1 (D) 1 (E) 1
4 3 2

14. Five boxes are compared on a balance.

C E D B
A D C E

Which of the five boxes is lightest?

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

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15. Lydia is saving for a cricket bat. The sports shop has the bat she
wants for $56 and her grandfather has promised to pay half the price.
She has saved $16. How much more does she need to save before she
can buy the bat?
(A) $4 (B) $12 (C) $20 (D) $28 (E) $36

16. Five cards with digits 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 9 are arranged to form the
largest possible 5-digit even number. Which digit is in the tens place?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 9

17. Each letter in this grid stands for a M M F F 16

number from 1 to 6.
The numbers outside the grid are the L H U H 10
sums of the values of all the letters in L F U H 11
each row or column.
For example, in the first column, the R R R H 13
values of M , L, L and R add to 16. 16 13 16 5
What is the value of the letter L?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 6

18. Greg is 19 years old, Karin is 26 and Anthony is 31. In how many
years from now will their ages add to 100?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 26

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MP 5

19. Mr Northrop’s class has students from number of

students
Ainslie, Turner, Downer, Watson and
10
Dickson. He made a chart showing how
many live in each suburb.
Unfortunately his dog tore the bottom
of the chart, leaving only the last few 5
letters of each suburb. He forgot the
order of the suburbs on the chart, but
he remembered that more students live
in Downer than Watson.

Watson
Downer
Dickson
Ainslie
Turner
How many students live in Turner?

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 9

20. Alexander’s pen leaked on his addition homework,

covering up three of the digits in the calculation
shown. How many different possibilities are there
for the correct working?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Here are four sentences and their translations into Windarian, an
invented language. The two lists are not in the same order.

English Windarian
Mum likes apples. Ato bem kito.
Dad likes oranges. Awe tum kete.
Brother loves apples. Eke bem kete.
Sister loves apples. Alo tum kete.

How should we translate the sentence ‘Mum loves oranges’ ?

(A) Awe tum kete (B) Ato bem kito (C) Eke tum kito
(D) Awe bem kete (E) Eke bem kito

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MP 6

22. The biscuit section in a cookbook has 6 pages. The sum of all the
page numbers in this section is 147. What is the number of the last
page in this section of the book?
(A) 26 (B) 27 (C) 28 (D) 29 (E) 30

23. Six white cubes are joined together as

shown. The model is then painted blue
all over.
When the model is pulled apart, how
many faces of these cubes are still white?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 13

24. Three gears are connected as shown. The two

larger gears have 20 teeth each and the smaller
gear has 10 teeth.
The middle gear is rotated half a turn in the
A M C
direction of the arrows, turning the M upside
down.
What do the three gears look like after this
rotation?
(A) (B) C (C)
A

A
C

M M M

(D) A C (E)
A C
M M

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MP 7

25. In a dice game, Yasmin rolls 5 standard dice, all

at once.
She needs to roll a full house, which has a triple
of one number and a pair of a different number.
How many different full house rolls are possible?

(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 18 (D) 25 (E) 30

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. This is a magic square, so that all rows, columns

16 a 2
and diagonals add up to the same sum.
Some numbers are already filled in. 10 c 8
When we complete it and multiply the numbers b 7 12
in the three shaded squares, what do we get?
4 15 1

27. Hayden saved $1420 and Mitchell saved $505. After they each spent
an equal amount of money, Hayden had 4 times as much money as
Mitchell. In dollars, how much did each of them spend?

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28. The block pattern below has 1 block in the first tower, 4 blocks in the
second tower, 9 blocks in the third tower and so on.
How many blocks are needed to make all of the first ten towers in this
pattern?

First tower Second tower Third tower

29. Verity has 6 cards with digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

She arranges them to form three 2-digit numbers. 1
Only her first number is a multiple of 4. 2
Only her second number is a multiple of 5.
Only her third number is a multiple of 6.
3
What is the answer when she multiplies her first
4
two numbers and then adds her third number? 5 6

30. I want to place the numbers 1 to 10 in this

diagram, with one number in each circle. On
each of the three sides, the four numbers add
to a side total, and the three side totals are
all the same.
What is the smallest number that this
side total could be?

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AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

Middle
Primary
Years 3–4
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

Instructions and Information DATE

General
3–5 August
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. You may use any teaching aids normally available in your classroom, such as MAB
blocks, counters, currency, calculators, play money etc. You are allowed to work on
scrap paper and teachers may explain the meaning of words in the paper. Mobile
phones are not permitted.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. 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 TIME ALLOWED
generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an
incorrect answer. 60 minutes
5. This is not a test so do not worry if you can’t answer all the questions. However, try
to answer as many as you can — you do not lose marks for incorrect answers.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school
name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your
answer sheet.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.

The answer sheet

Your answer sheet will be scanned. To make sure the scanner reads your paper
correctly, there are some DOs and DON’Ts:
DO:
• use only a lead pencil
• record your answers on the answer sheet (not on the question paper)
• for questions 1–25, fully colour the circle matching your answer — keep within
the lines
• for questions 26–30, write your 3-digit answer in the box — make sure your
writing does not touch the box
• use an eraser if you want to change an answer or remove any marks or smudges.
DO NOT:
• doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet
• colour in the QR codes on the corners of the answer sheet.

Integrity of the competition

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant
official status to their score.

Reminder
You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.

Middle Primary Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. How many dots are in this pattern?

(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22
(D) 23 (E) 24

2. What number is one hundred more than 465?

(A) 365 (B) 455 (C) 475 (D) 565 (E) 1465

3. What fraction of this rectangle is shaded?

1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 4 6 8 10

4. There were 17 dogs and 9 ran away.

How many dogs were left?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12
(D) 26 (E) 27

5. John is playing a board game.

He moves his blue piece one square
up then three squares left.
Which piece does he land on?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)

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6. Which shape is not used in this snowman

picture?
(A) circle (B) oval (C) triangle
(D) square (E) rectangle

7. Eve starts at 20 and counts up by twos: 20, 22, 24 and so on. What
is the tenth number she counts?
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 36 (E) 38

8. This graph was made by a Favourite day of the week

Year 3 class. 5
4
Number of

How many students chose

students

3
either Saturday or Sunday
2
as their favourite day? 1
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 10 0
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun
(D) 12 (E) 20 Day

9. I went for a bike ride this morning. 11 12 1 11 12 1

These clocks show my start and finish 10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3
times. 8 4 8 4
7 6 5 7 6 5
In minutes, how long was my ride?
(A) 9 (B) 13 (C) 47 Start Finish
(D) 52 (E) 62

10. Edie and Louie are standing in a line with other children. Edie is
fourth from the front and Louie is fourth from the back of the line.
There are 15 children in the line. How many children are between
Edie and Louie?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. There are 49 ten-cent coins in my pink
piggy bank and 25 twenty-cent coins in
my blue piggy bank.
How much money do I have altogether?

(A) $7.40 (B) $9.90 (C) $12.30

(D) $14.80 (E) $990

12. How many more small cubes are needed

to complete this large cube?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 12 (E) 20

13. Ms Amali brings 100 stickers to share equally among her class of 23
students.
How many stickers will she have left over?
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 17 (E) 21

14. This card is flipped over its right-hand edge

and then flipped again over its bottom edge.
What does the card look like now?
(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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15. Chris wants to use the same number in both boxes to make this number
sentence true. What number should she use?

7+ = 11 −
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

16. Sally says to her brother, ‘You are 10 years older than me’. Her brother
says, ‘You are right, and I am three times your age’. How old is Sally?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

17. How many of the small coloured

tiles are needed to cover the large
cross shape shown?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20
(D) 36 (E) 40 tile

18. Siobhan has seven cards, numbered 1 to 7.

She places six of them correctly in the three number sentences.
Which card does she have left over?

1 2 × = 12
3 4 5 + = 11
6 7 − =1

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7

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19. A long rectangular room 10 m long and 2 m wide has mirrors on all
four walls. Any beam of light hitting these mirrors bounces back at
the same angle as shown below.
A guard standing at one end of the room shines a torch at an angle of
45◦ to the walls, making a narrow beam that bounces off the mirrors
several times, stopping when it returns to her.
How many times does the beam of light bounce off the mirrors?

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 22

20. A can filled with 30 marbles weighs 115 g. The same can with 20
marbles weighs 85 g. How much does the empty can weigh?
(A) 10 g (B) 20 g (C) 25 g (D) 30 g (E) 55 g

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Peter wants to buy a length of ribbon
1. 2. 3.
to wrap around a box as shown.
The box is 20 cm long, 20 cm wide and
20 cm high. It takes an extra 80 cm of
ribbon to tie the bow.
4. 5. 6.
What is the best estimate of the amount
of ribbon that Peter needs to buy to tie
around the box?
(A) 160 cm (B) 180 cm (C) 240 cm (D) 280 cm (E) 320 cm

22. In week 1, Hamish and Eliza open bank accounts for their savings.
Hamish saves $12 every two weeks, starting in week 1. Eliza saves $32
in week 1 and then $4 every week after that. When will they first have
the same amount of money in the bank?
(A) week 3 (B) week 5 (C) week 7 (D) week 9 (E) week 11

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23. A different whole number is placed in each

corner of a square. Two numbers joined
by an edge must have a difference of more
than 1.
When the four numbers are added together,
what is the smallest possible total?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12
(D) 13 (E) 14

24. Three whole numbers add to 21. When these same three numbers
are multiplied together they equal 280. What is the smallest of these
three numbers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 7 (E) 10

25. Steven made this cube from a paper net,

then pushed a pin through it as shown.
He then removed the pin, leaving holes in
the cube, and unfolded the cube back to its
net.
Which of the following could be the net of
Steven’s cube?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as a whole number

from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. I notice that my electricity meter currently reads

896 754 units, where all the digits are different. 8 9 6 7 5 4
How many more units of electricity will I need to
use before all the digits are again different?

27. How many whole numbers between 200 and 500 contain the digit 3?

28. On a digital display, a combination of bars light up to represent each

digit as shown:

In some special numbers, the number of bars which light up in the

digits is the same as the sum of the digits. For example, in 373 the
number of bars is 5 + 3 + 5 = 13 which is the equal to 3 + 7 + 3 = 13.
What is the largest such three-digit number?

29. Nguyen writes down some numbers according to the following rules.
Starting with the number 1, he doubles the number and adds 4, so the
second number he writes is 6.
He now repeats this process, starting with the last number written,
doubling and then adding 4, but he doesn’t write the hundreds digit
if the number is bigger than 100.
What is the 2022nd number that Nguyen writes down?

30. I choose three different numbers out of this list and add them together:

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, . . . , 105

How many different totals can I get?

176
177
178
Middle
Primary
Years 3–4
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)

CORRECTLY RECORDING YOUR ANSWER (QUESTIONS 1–25)

Only use a lead pencil to record your answer. When recording your answer on the sheet, ﬁll in the
bubble completely. The example below shows the answer to Question 1 was recorded as ‘B’.


Correct

DO NOT record your answers as shown below. They cannot be read accurately by the scanner and you
may not receive a mark for the question.

 
Incorrect Incorrect

 
this one!
Incorrect Incorrect

Use an eraser if you want to change an answer or remove any pencil marks or smudges. DO NOT cross
out one answer and ﬁll in another answer, as the scanner cannot determine which one is your answer.

CORRECTLY WRITING YOUR ANSWER (QUESTIONS 26–30)

For questions 26–30, write your answer in the boxes as shown below.

1 digit 2 digits 3 digits

2+3= 5 20 + 21 = 4 l 200 + 38 = 2 3 8

WRITING SAMPLES

0 0 0  1 l  2 2 2 
Correct Correct Correct

3 3 3  4 4 4  5 5 5 
Correct Correct Correct

6 6 6  7 7 7  8 8 8 
Correct Correct Correct

9 9 9  1 1 2 3
6 5 0 5
8

Correct 4 Incorrect

Your numbers MUST NOT touch the edges of the box or go outside it.
The number one must only be written as above, otherwise the scanner might interpret it as a seven.
DO NOT doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet or colour in the QR codes on the corners of
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179
AMC
(Australian Mathematics Competition)
Middle Primary (3-4)
2004 – 2022
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
1 E A E B A
2 C E C B C
3 D E B D C
4 C C D B C
5 B B C E A
6 D D B C C
7 C A D C E
8 C A D D A
9 B D B A D
10 A C A D E
11 E B C D C
12 D D D A E
13 E C D A C
14 C A D C B
15 D B C E D
16 A C B A E
17 C D A E B
18 A C E B C
19 A D D A C
20 B B D D B
21 E A C B B
22 A B C D A
23 B D D E B
24 D C C C D
25 A C E C C
26 D 45 8 24 38
27 D 60 36 60 375
28 C 13 13 8 64
29 E 220 16 11 180
30 D 5 4 7 18
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
1 C E C A C D D B C
2 E D D C E B A C D
3 B C D E A C D E B
4 B C C A B C E D B
5 A E E D D E C C A
6 E D D E D A C D D
7 E C E A A B B E E
8 A B E C E C B D B
9 D B D D D D E B C
10 D B C D A A D A A
11 C E A A D E C E B
12 D B A B B D B E E
13 B B D B E B B E B
14 D A B C B E C B A
15 B E A E A E B B B
16 C A A C C B A A B
17 B D B B B E C C E
18 B C D A A C A B E
19 E C E E C B D A D
20 E A D C C C C C C
21 A E C E D A C C C
22 D A D C B A C B E
23 C B B D D C E D C
24 B D B C E D E A C
25 C A B D D C B E D
26 85 10 45 337 16 390 156 198 258
27 20 96 7 13 561 234 585 200 138
28 8 972 8 4 936 162 24 385 990
29 117 60 251 468 918 224 155 602 56
30 37 22 28 247 509 125 85 17 151

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