2017 Kangaroo Math Kadett Test

Q1. The diagram shows an isosceles triangle, where the height is ma rked and its area is split up into equally wide white and grey stripes. Which fraction of the area of the triangle is white? ଵ ଵ ଶ ଷ ଶ

3 points

Q5. The diagram shows two rectangles whose sides are parallel to each other. By how much is the perimeter of the bigger rectangle greater than the perimeter of the 3 m smaller rectangle?

3 points

Q6. Paul folds a piece of paper, then punches a hole into the pap er and unfolds it again. The unfolded paper then looks like the picture on the right. Along which dotted line can Paul have folded the paper beforeha nd?

3 points

Q8. Petra crafts a piece of jewellery out of two black and two wh ite hearts. The hearts have areas of 1 cm², 4 cm², 9 cm² and 16 cm² respectively. She place s the hearts on top of each other as shown in the diagram and glues them together. How big is the total area of the visible black parts?

3 points

Q9. Yvonne has 20 €, each of her four sisters has 10 €. How much does Yvonne have to give to each of her sisters so that all of them have the same amount of money?

3 points

Q10. Some girls are standing in a circle. The teacher makes them d o a headcount. Bianca says one, her neighbour says two and so on. If they count in a clockwise direction, Antonia says five. If they count in an anticlockwise direction, Antonia says eight. How many girls are forming the circle?

3 points

Q11. Ant Annie starts at the left end of the stick and crawls of the length of the stick. Ladybird Bob starts at the right ଷ ଷ end of the stick und crawls of the length of the stick. ସ Which fraction of the length of the stick are they then apart f rom each other? ଷ ଵ ହ ହ ଻

4 points

Q12. One sixth of all spectators in a children’s theater are adult s, the rest are children. Two fifths of the children are girls. Which fraction of all spe ctators are boys? ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ ଶ

4 points

Q14. Four cousins are 3, 8, 12 and 14 years old. Emma is younger t han Rita. The sum of the ages of Zita and Emma is th divisible by 5, as is the sum of the ages of Zita and Rita. How old is Ina (the 4 cousin)?

4 points

Q15. More than 800 people take part in the kangaroo-run. Amongst t he participants 35 % are female. There are 252 more male than female participants. How many people in total ar e taking part in the run?

4 points

Q16. Ria wants to write a number into each box. She has already wr itten two numbers. The sum of all five numbers should be 35, the sum of the first three numbers should be 22, the sum of the last three num bers should be 25. What is the product Ria gets, if she multiplies t he two numbers in the grey boxes?

4 points

Q17. Simon wants to cut a piece of wire into 9 equally long pieces and makes marks where he needs to make his cuts. Barbara wants to cut the same piece of wire into 8 equally long pieces and makes marks where she needs to make her cuts. Carl cuts the piece of wire at every mark. How many p ieces does Carl get?

4 points

Q18. Two 1 cm long segments are mar ked on opposite sides of a squa re with side length 8 cm. The end points of the segments are connected with each othe r as shown in the diagram. How big is the area of the grey part?

4 points

Q19. Tycho plans his running training. Each week he wants to go fo r a run on the same weekdays. He never wants to go for a run on two consecutive day s. But he wants to go for a run two days a week. How many different weekly plans meet tho se conditions?

4 points

Q20. Emily wants to insert nine numbe rs into the 3 x 3 table so th at the sum of the numbers in two adjacent cells (with a common side) is always the same. She has already written two numbers into the table. How big is the sum of all nine numbers?

4 points

Q21. If you measure the angles of a triangle, you obtain three dif ferent natural numbers. What is the smallest possible sum of the biggest and the smallest angle of the triangle?

5 points

Q22. There are 10 kangaroos in a row, as seen in the picture. Two kangaroos, that are standing next to each other and can see each other are allowed to change places by hopping past each other. This is carried out until no more jumps are allowed. How often do two kangaroos swap places?

5 points

Q23. Diana adds either 2 or 5 to every whole number from 1 to 9. S he wants to achieve as few different sums as possible. What is the minimum number of different values she ob tains?

5 points

Q24. Every three minutes a bus is leaving the airport to drive to the city centre. A car leaves the airport at the same time as a bus und travels the sa me route as the bus to the city centre. Every bus takes 60 minutes for the journey from the airport to the city centre, the car only 35 minutes. How many buses does the car overtake on its way to the city cen tre? The bus that starts at the same time as the car does not count.

5 points

Q25. The diagram shows Maria’s square tablecloth to scale. All sma ll light squares are equally big and their diagonals are parallel to the sides of the table clot h. Which part of the whole table cloth is black?

5 points

Q26. The number sequence 2, 3, 6, 8, 8, … is created by the follow ing rule: The first two digits are 2 and 3. After that every subsequent digit is the unit digit of t he product of the two previous th digits. Which digit is the 2017 digit of the sequence?

5 points

Q27. Mike has 125 small, equally big cubes. He glues some of them together in such a way that one big cube with exactly nine tunnels is created (see dia gram). The tunnels go all the way straight through the cube. How many of the 125 cubes is he not using?

5 points

Q28. Two runners are training at the same time on a 720 m long, ro und running track. They run with constant speed in opposite directions. The first runne r needs four minutes for one lap, the second five minutes. How many meters does the second runner run in between two conse cutive meetings of the two runners?

5 points

Q29. Sarah wants to write a positive whole number onto every tile in the number wall shown, so that every number is equal to the sum of the two numb ers on the tiles that are directly below. What is the maximum number of odd numbers Sarah can write on th e tiles?

5 points

Q30. The parallelogram has area 1. The two diagonals intersect eac h other at point M. Another point P lies on the side DC. E is the point of E F intersection of the segments AP and BD, and F is the point of intersection of the segments BP and AC. What is the area of the M quadrilateral EMFP, if the sum of the areas of the triangles AE D and ଵ BFC is ? A B ଷ ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ

5 points

2017 Kadett (Grade 7 - 8)

Q1. The diagram shows an isosceles triangle, where the height is ma rked and its area is split up into equally wide white and grey stripes. Which fraction of the area of the triangle is white? ଵ ଵ ଶ ଷ ଶ

Q2. What is the time 17 hours after 17 o’clock?

Q3. Which number has to be subtracted from െ17 in order to obtain െ33 ?

Q4. Which statement is correct?

Q5. The diagram shows two rectangles whose sides are parallel to each other. By how much is the perimeter of the bigger rectangle greater than the perimeter of the 3 m smaller rectangle?

Q6. Paul folds a piece of paper, then punches a hole into the pap er and unfolds it again. The unfolded paper then looks like the picture on the right. Along which dotted line can Paul have folded the paper beforeha nd?

Q7. The sum of three different positive whole numbers is 7. How b ig is their product?

Q8. Petra crafts a piece of jewellery out of two black and two wh ite hearts. The hearts have areas of 1 cm², 4 cm², 9 cm² and 16 cm² respectively. She place s the hearts on top of each other as shown in the diagram and glues them together. How big is the total area of the visible black parts?

Q9. Yvonne has 20 €, each of her four sisters has 10 €. How much does Yvonne have to give to each of her sisters so that all of them have the same amount of money?

Q10. Some girls are standing in a circle. The teacher makes them d o a headcount. Bianca says one, her neighbour says two and so on. If they count in a clockwise direction, Antonia says five. If they count in an anticlockwise direction, Antonia says eight. How many girls are forming the circle?

Q11. Ant Annie starts at the left end of the stick and crawls of the length of the stick. Ladybird Bob starts at the right ଷ ଷ end of the stick und crawls of the length of the stick. ସ Which fraction of the length of the stick are they then apart f rom each other? ଷ ଵ ହ ହ ଻

Q12. One sixth of all spectators in a children’s theater are adult s, the rest are children. Two fifths of the children are girls. Which fraction of all spe ctators are boys? ଵ ଵ ଵ ଵ ଶ

Q13. The black and the dashed line together form seven equilateral triangles. The dashed line is 20 cm long. How long is the black line?

Q14. Four cousins are 3, 8, 12 and 14 years old. Emma is younger t han Rita. The sum of the ages of Zita and Emma is th divisible by 5, as is the sum of the ages of Zita and Rita. How old is Ina (the 4 cousin)?

Q15. More than 800 people take part in the kangaroo-run. Amongst t he participants 35 % are female. There are 252 more male than female participants. How many people in total ar e taking part in the run?

Q18. Two 1 cm long segments are mar ked on opposite sides of a squa re with side length 8 cm. The end points of the segments are connected with each othe r as shown in the diagram. How big is the area of the grey part?

Q19. Tycho plans his running training. Each week he wants to go fo r a run on the same weekdays. He never wants to go for a run on two consecutive day s. But he wants to go for a run two days a week. How many different weekly plans meet tho se conditions?

Q20. Emily wants to insert nine numbe rs into the 3 x 3 table so th at the sum of the numbers in two adjacent cells (with a common side) is always the same. She has already written two numbers into the table. How big is the sum of all nine numbers?

Q21. If you measure the angles of a triangle, you obtain three dif ferent natural numbers. What is the smallest possible sum of the biggest and the smallest angle of the triangle?

Q22. There are 10 kangaroos in a row, as seen in the picture. Two kangaroos, that are standing next to each other and can see each other are allowed to change places by hopping past each other. This is carried out until no more jumps are allowed. How often do two kangaroos swap places?

Q23. Diana adds either 2 or 5 to every whole number from 1 to 9. S he wants to achieve as few different sums as possible. What is the minimum number of different values she ob tains?

Q25. The diagram shows Maria’s square tablecloth to scale. All sma ll light squares are equally big and their diagonals are parallel to the sides of the table clot h. Which part of the whole table cloth is black?

Q26. The number sequence 2, 3, 6, 8, 8, … is created by the follow ing rule: The first two digits are 2 and 3. After that every subsequent digit is the unit digit of t he product of the two previous th digits. Which digit is the 2017 digit of the sequence?

Q27. Mike has 125 small, equally big cubes. He glues some of them together in such a way that one big cube with exactly nine tunnels is created (see dia gram). The tunnels go all the way straight through the cube. How many of the 125 cubes is he not using?

Q29. Sarah wants to write a positive whole number onto every tile in the number wall shown, so that every number is equal to the sum of the two numb ers on the tiles that are directly below. What is the maximum number of odd numbers Sarah can write on th e tiles?