1999Gauss8Contest PDF

Canadian
Mathematics
Competition
An activity of The Centre for Education
in Mathematics and Computing,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Gauss Contest (Grade 8)

(Grade 7 Contest is on the reverse side)
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
C.M.C. Sponsors:
C.M.C. Supporters:
IBM
Canada Ltd.
C.M.C. Contributors:
The Great-West
Life Assurance
Company
Northern Telecom
(Nortel)
Canadian Institute
of Actuaries
Manulife
Financial
Equitable Life
of Canada
Sybase
Inc. (Waterloo)
Chartered Accountants
Time: 1 hour
1999 Waterloo Mathematics Foundation
Calculators are permitted.

Instructions
1. Do not open the examination booklet until you are told to do so.
2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
3. Be certain that you understand the coding system for your answer sheet. If you are not sure, ask your
teacher to explain it.
4. This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and
E. Only one of these is correct. When you have decided on your choice, enter the appropriate letter on
your answer sheet for that question.
5. Scoring:
Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 20.
6. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
7. When your supervisor tells you to start, you will have sixty minutes of working time.
Grade 8
Scoring:
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.

Each unanswered question is worth 2 credits, to a maximum of 20 credits.
Part A (5 credits each)

1.
2.
103 + 10 2 + 10 equals
(A) 1110
(B) 101 010
2
5
5.
6.
(E) 11 010
(B)
1
6
(C)
1
5
(D)
3
2
5
6
(E)
Which one of the following gives an odd integer?

(A) 62
4.
(D) 100 010 010
1 1
+ is equal to
2 3
(A)
3.
(C) 111
(B) 23 17
(C) 9 24
What is the remainder when 82 460 is divided by 8?

(A) 0
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 9 41
(E) 96 8
(D) 7
(E) 2
In the diagram, line segments meet at 90 as shown. If the

short line segments are each 3 cm long, what is the area of
the shape?
(A) 30
(B) 36
(C) 40
(D) 45
(E) 54
3 cm
The average of 5, 2 , 0, 4, and 8 is

(A) 1
(B) 0
(C)
19
5
(D)
5
4
9
4
(E)
If the sales tax rate were to increase from 7% to 7.5%, then the tax on a $1000 item would go up by
(A) $75.00
(B) $5.00
(C) $0.5
(D) $0.05
(E) $7.50
8.
Tom spent part of his morning visiting and playing with friends. The graph shows his travels. He
went to his friends houses and stopped to play if they were at home. The number of houses at which
he stopped to play is
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5
Distance from home

(km)
7.
1.5
1.0
0.5
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
Time (minutes)
9.
Andr is hiking on the paths shown in the map. He is planning

to visit sites A to M in alphabetical order. He can never retrace
his steps and he must proceed directly from one site to the
next. What is the largest number of labelled points he can
visit before going out of alphabetical order?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 10
(E) 13
B
A
I
C
D
E
G
F
K
L
Grade 8
10. The area of a rectangular shaped garden is 28 m 2 . It has a length of 7 m. Its perimeter, in metres, is
(A) 22
(B) 11
(C) 24
(D) 36
(E) 48
Part B (6 credits each)
11.
Which of the following numbers is an odd integer, contains the digit 5, is divisible by 3, and lies
between 12 2 and 132 ?
(A) 105
(B) 147
12. If
(C) 156
(D) 165
(E) 175
(C) 1999
(D) 1997
(E) 1999
n + 1999
= 1, then the value of n is
2
(A) 2001
(B) 2000
13. The expression n! means the product of the positive integers from 1 to n. For example,
5! = 1 2 3 4 5 . The value of 6! 4 ! is
(A) 2
(B) 18
(C) 30
(D) 716
(E) 696
14.
ABC is an isosceles triangle in which A = 92 . CB is

extended to a point D. What is the size of ABD ?
(A) 88
(B) 44
(C) 92
(D) 136
(E) 158
A
92
D
Time (minutes)
15. The graph shown at the right indicates the time taken by five
people to travel various distances. On average, which person
travelled the fastest?
(A) Alison
(B) Bina
(C) Curtis
(D) Daniel
(E) Emily
C
Bina
Daniel
50
40
30
20
Alison
10
Curtis
Emily
1 2 3 4 5
Distance (kilometres)
16. In a set of five numbers, the average of two of the numbers is 12 and the average of the other three
numbers is 7. The average of all five numbers is
(A) 8
1
3
(B) 8
1
2
17. In the subtraction question,

(A) 15
(B) 14
(C) 9
(D) 8
3
4
(E) 9
1957
a9 , the sum of the digits a and b is
18b8
(C) 10
(D) 5
18. The equilateral triangle has sides of 2x and x + 15 as shown.

The perimeter of the triangle is
(A) 15
(B) 30
(C) 90
(D) 45
(E) 60
1
2
(E) 4
2x
x +15
19. In a traffic study, a survey of 50 moving cars is done and it is found that 20% of these contain more
than one person. Of the cars containing only one person, 60% of these are driven by women. Of the
cars containing just one person, how many were driven by men?
(A) 10
(B) 16
(C) 20
(D) 30
(E) 40
Grade 8
20. A game is played on the board shown. In this game, a player
can move three places in any direction (up, down, right or
left) and then can move two places in a direction perpendicular
to the first move. If a player starts at S, which position on the
board (P, Q, R, T, or W) cannot be reached through any
sequence of moves?
(A) P
(B) Q
(C) R
(D) T
(E) W
P
Q
R
T
W
Part C (8 credits each)

21. The sum of seven consecutive positive integers is always
(A) odd
(B) a multiple of 7
(D) a multiple of 4
(E) a multiple of 3
22. In the diagram, AC = CB = 10 m , where AC and CB are
each the diameter of the small equal semi-circles. The
diameter of the larger semi-circle is AB . In travelling from
A to B, it is possible to take one of two paths. One path
goes along the semi-circular arc from A to B. A second
path goes along the semi-circular arcs from A to C and then
along the semi-circular arc from C to B. The difference in
the lengths of these two paths is
(A) 12
(B) 6
(C) 3
(D) 2
(E) 0
(C) even
23. Kalyn writes down all of the integers from 1 to 1000 that have 4 as the sum of their digits. If
lowest terms) is the fraction of these numbers that are prime, then a + b is
(A) 5
(B) 4
(C) 15
(D) 26
24. Raymondes financial institution publishes a list of service
charges as shown in the table. For her first twenty five
transactions, she uses Autodebit three times as often as she
writes cheques. She also writes as many cheques as she
makes cash withdrawals. After her twenty- fifth transaction,
she begins to make single transactions. What is the smallest
number of transactions she needs to make so that her
monthly service charges will exceed the $15.95 all-in-one
fee?
(A) 29
(B) 30
(C) 27
(D) 28
(E) 31
25. Four identical isosceles triangles border a square of side 6
cm, as shown. When the four triangles are folded up they
meet at a point to form a pyramid with a square base. If the
height of this pyramid is 4 cm, the total area of the four
triangles and the square is
(A) 84 cm 2
(B) 98 cm 2
(D) 108 cm 2
(E) 90 cm 2
(C) 96 cm 2
a
(in
b
(E) 19
Service Fee per Item
Cheque
$0.50
Autodebit
$0.60
Cash Withdrawal
$0.45
All-in-one fee is $15.95
6 cm

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Gauss Contest (Grade 8)

1999 Waterloo Mathematics Foundation

Calculators are permitted.

There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.

Part A (5 credits each)

Which one of the following gives an odd integer?

(D) 100 010 010

What is the remainder when 82 460 is divided by 8?

In the diagram, line segments meet at 90 as shown. If the

The average of 5, 2 , 0, 4, and 8 is

Distance from home

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120

Andr is hiking on the paths shown in the map. He is planning

ABC is an isosceles triangle in which A = 92 . CB is

17. In the subtraction question,

18. The equilateral triangle has sides of 2x and x + 15 as shown.

Part C (8 credits each)

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