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 Solution Key to Second Round of IMAS 2018/2019
Middle Primary Division
1. What is the value of 100 − 97 + 94 − 91 + 88 − 85 + L + 4 − 1 ?
（A）45 （B）48 （C）51 （D）54 （E）57
【Solution 1】
100 − 97 + 94 − 91 + 88 − 85 + L + 4 − 1 = (100 − 97) + (94 − 91) + (88 − 85) + L + (4 − 1)
= 3144
+ 3 + 244
3 + L +33
17 terms

= 3 × 17 = 51
Hence (C).
【Solution 2】
100 − 97 + 94 − 91 + 88 − 85 + L + 4 − 1 = (100 + 94 + 88 + L + 4) − (97 + 91 + 85 + L + 1)
(100 + 4) × 17 (97 + 1) × 17
= −
2 2
17
= (104 − 98) ×
2
17
= 6 × = 51
2
Hence (C).
Answer：（C）
2. The figure below is formed by using 12 identical equilateral
triangles. How many equilateral triangles of different sizes
(and which are located in different places) are there?

（A）12 （B）14 （C）16 （D）18 （E）20

【Solution】
Let the area of a smallest equilateral triangle be 1 unit. There are 12 equilateral
triangles of area 1. There are 6 equilateral triangles of area 4 and there are 2
equilateral triangles of area 9. Hence there are 12 + 6 + 2 = 20 equilateral triangles at
different positions. Hence (E).

Answer：（E）
3. Place the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, without repetition, into the six circles in the
figure below, where each circle should only have one number, such that the sum
of the three numbers on each side of the triangle are all equal. What is the
maximum possible value of this sum?

（A）9 （B）10 （C）11 （D）12 （E）13

【Solution】
To make required sum the largest, the sum of the numbers of the three sides must
reach the maximum. Since the numbers at the vertices of the triangle are counted
twice, so the largest numbers should be placed at the vertices, that is, 4, 5 and 6. Then
sum of numbers on three sides is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 36 , hence the sum
of number on each side is then 36 ÷ 3 = 12 . Therefore, the numbers can be placed as
follows. Hence (D).

3 2

5 1 6
Answer：（D）
4. Multiply a two-digit number by 3 then add 10 to it. Now, we swap the order of
the two digits of the result. The resulting number is an integer among 95, 96, 97,
98 and 99. What is the original number?
（A）21 （B）22 （C）23 （D）24 （E）25
【Solution 1】
Working backwards, swap the digits of the following numbers: 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and
subtract by 10. The resulting numbers are 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, among which only 69 is
a multiple of 3, so the original number is 69 ÷ 3 = 23 . Hence (C).
【Solution 2】
Multiply an integer by 3 and add 10, the resulting number has a remainder of 1 when
it is divided by 3. Swapping the digits, the number also has remainder 1 when divided
by 3. Among 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, only 97 has remainder 1 divided by 3. Thus, the
original number is (79 − 10) ÷ 3 = 23 . Hence (C).
Answer：（C）
5. If the month of January of some year has four Saturdays and five Sundays, then
what day is January 17th of that particular year?
（A）Monday （B）Tuesday （C）Wednesday
（D）Thursday （E）Friday
【Solution】
There are 31 days in January, which is three days more than 4 weeks. Since there are
4 Saturdays and 5 Sundays, the first day of the month is a Sunday and January 17th is
a Tuesday. Hence (B)
Answer：（B）
6. A square has a perimeter 48 cm. Cut it into four identical small squares along the
dashed lines as shown below. What is the sum of the perimeters of the four
smaller squares?

【Solution 1】
The large square has perimeter 48 cm, hence its side length is 12 cm. Each small
square has side length 12 ÷ 2 = 6 cm and so perimeter 6 × 4 = 24 cm. Hence sum of
the perimeter is 24 × 4 = 96 cm.
【Solution 2】
After cutting into 4 small squares, the total perimeter will be increase by double of
the length of the dashed lines, which is equal to perimeter of the large square. Thus,
the total perimeter of 4 small squares is 48 × 2 = 96 cm.
Answer：96 cm
7. Lily went shopping and bought three items from three different stores. She then
noticed that whenever she was paying for an item, the money in her pocket was
exactly five times the amount to be paid. After shopping, she noticed that she has
$64 left in her pocket. How much money did she have before she went shopping?
【Solution 1】
Working backwards, she had 64 ÷ 4 × 5 = 80 dollars before the third purchase. She
had 80 ÷ 4 × 5 = 100 dollars before the second purchase. She had 100 ÷ 4 × 5 = 125
dollars before buying the first purchase.
【Solution 2】
4
Each time she bought, the money left is of the money before she bought. After
5
4 4 4 64
three purchases, the money left was × × = of the money before the first
5 5 5 125
64
purchase. So before the first purchase she had 64 ÷ = 125 dollars.
125
Answer：125 dollars
8. In the figure below, ABCD is a square with side length of 10 cm and AFE is an
isosceles right triangle with hypotenuse of length 14 cm, where E is on the
extension of line AB. What is the area, in cm2, of the shaded region?
D C
F

【Solution 1】 A B E
From the given information, BE = 14 − 10 = 4 cm. Since triangle EBG is also an
1
isosceles right triangle, its area is × 4 × 4 = 8 cm2. In isosceles right triangle AEF,
2
the length of the height on hypotenuse AE is equal to the half of the length of AE, so
1
the area of AEF is × 14 × 7 = 49 cm2. (or the area of isosceles right triangle AEF is
2
1 1
equal to × AE × AE = × 14 × 14 = 49 cm2.) Since the side length of square ABCD
4 4
is 10 cm, then the area of the shaded region is 10 × 10 − (49 − 8) = 59 cm2.
【Solution 2】
Since CG = CB − GB = CB − BE = CB − ( AE − AB ) = 10 − (14 − 10) = 6 cm. Since
triangle AEF is an isosceles right triangle, then ∠FAE = 45° and F is on the diagonal
of the square, CFG is also an isosceles right triangle. The shaded area is equal to sum
1 1
of area of triangle ACD and CFG, that is, × 10 × 10 + × 6 × 6 = 59 cm2.
2 4
Answer：59 cm2
9. There are a total of 40 students in a class. 23 of them are able to ride bikes, 33 of
them are able to swim and 5 of them are unable to do either. How many students
in this class are able to ride bikes but are not able to swim?
【Solution】
The number of students who are able to do at least one sport is 40 − 5 = 35 . Then the
number of students who can do both sports is 23 + 33 − 35 = 21 . The number of
students who can ride but not swim is then 23 − 21 = 2 students.
Answer：2 students
10. A bridge is 1500 m long. A train passes through the bridge at a speed of 30 m per
second. The train is 300 m long. How long, in seconds, does it take for the train
to pass the bridge completely, starting from the time it entered the bridge?
【Solution】
The train travels a distance of the bridge length and the train length, which is
1500 + 300 = 1800 m. Hence it takes 1800 ÷ 30 = 60 seconds for the train to leave
the bridge completely.
Answer：60 seconds
【Note】
In a problem about a train going through a bridge, the time depends on the length of
the bridge as well as on the length of train.
11. In the figure below, color each of the six circles into 4 colors: Red, Yellow, Blue
and Black. Each circle should contain only one color, and any two circles
connected by a line segment should have different colors. In how many different
ways can we color the figure below? (Note: Coloring methods that are identical
by a reflection of the figure are NOT considered the same)

【Solution】
Focusing on the four circles in the triangle area. Color the six circles in a specific
sequence. Firstly, there are 4 ways to color the top circle. Secondly, there are three
ways to color the circle right under the top circle, which is not the same color of the
first one. Thirdly, there are 2 ways to color the circle on the right vertex of the
triangle, which is not the same color as the first circle and as the second circle.
Fourthly, there are 2 ways to color the circle on the left vertex of the triangle. Fifthly
and Sixthly, there are 3 ways each to color the last two circles on the bottom line,
which has only one color excluded to use. Hence by multiplication principle, there
are 4 × 3 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 = 432 ways to color all six circles.

Answer：432 ways
12. In quadrilateral ABCD, ∠BAD = ∠BCD = 90° . Points E and F are on sides AD
and BC respectively and AB = 5 cm, CD = 10 cm, DE = 8 cm, BF = 6 cm, as
shown in the figure below. If the area of triangle BEF is 4 cm2 less than the area
of triangle DEF. What is the area, in cm2, of triangle DEF?

A E D

B
F
C
【Solution】
1 1
Connect BD. We know the area of triangle BDE is × DE × AB = × 8 × 5 = 20 cm2.
2 2
1 1
The area of BFD is × BF × CD = × 6 × 10 = 30 cm2. Then the sum of areas of
2 2
triangle BEF and DEF is 20 + 30 = 50 cm2. Since the difference of area of triangle
DEF and BEF is 4 cm2, hence the area of triangle DEF is (50 + 4) ÷ 2 = 27 cm2.
A E D

B
F
C Answer：27 cm2
13. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are written on the six faces of a unit cube without
repetition. Each face contains one number and the sum of the numbers in every
two opposite faces is 7. Put four such cubes side by side as shown in the figure
below, such that sum of every two numbers of every two touched faces is 8. Find
the number marked with “?” in the figure.
5
？
1
【Solution】
Since sum of numbers on opposite faces is 7, then 1 is opposite to 6, and 2 is opposite
to 5, and 3 is opposite to 4. The right face of the first cube has number 3 or 4.
If it is 3, the left face of the second cube has number 5, right face has number 2, left
face of the third cube has number 6, right face has 1, left face of the fourth cube has
number 7, which is a contradiction.
If it is 4, the left face of the second cube has number 4, right face has number 3, left
face of the third cube has number 5, right face has 2, left face of the fourth cube has
number 6, right face has number 1, which is the place with mark “?”.
Answer：1
14. A mouse starts from the top left-most unit square marked with “I”, follows a route
to form the word “IMAS2019” by moving from one square to another square that
share a common side. How many different routes of eight squares are there?
I M A S
M A S 2 0
A S 2 0 1
S 2 0 1 9
0 1 9
【Solution】
In the following table, each square is filled with the number of routes reaching it. The
number can be derived by recursion: each square is filled with sum of the numbers in
adjacent squares with previous marks. From the table, it shows that the number of
different routes with length eight is 34 + 34 = 68 .
1 1 1 1
1 2 3 4 4
1 3 6 10 14
1 4 10 20 34
4 14 34
Answer： 68 routes
【Marking Schemes】
Find correct number of routes to squares with 2: 4 + 6 + 4 = 14 , 5 points.
Find correct number of routes to squares with 0: 4 + 10 + 10 + 4 = 28 , 5 points.
Find correct number of routes to squares with 1: 14 + 20 + 14 = 48 , 5 points
Find correct number of routes to squares with 9: 34 + 34 = 68 , 5 points.

15. An infinite sequence of numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 3, 1, 4, 5, 9, 4, … follows the

pattern such that starting from the third number, each number is equal to the units
digit of the sum of the two numbers in the sequence immediately preceding it.
What is the 2019th number of the sequence?
【Solution 1】
This recurrence sequence follows a pattern when considering the remainders of
numbers in the sequence divided by a fixed number. Since 10 = 2 × 5 , we observe the
cases by dividing 2 and 5.
Considering remainders when each number of the sequence divided by 2, the pattern
is
1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, ….
The period is 3.
Considering remainders when each number of the sequence divided by 5, the pattern
is
1, 2, 3, 0, 3, 3, 1, 4, 0, 4, 4, 3, 2, 0, 2, 2, 4, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, ….
The period is 20.
Since 2019 is divisible by 3, the remainder of the 2019th number when divided by 2 is
the same as remainder of the third number, which is 1.
Since 2019 = 20 × 100 + 19 , the remainder of the 2019th number divided by 5 is the
same as remainder of the 19th number, which is 0.
The 2019th number is a digit with remainder 1 when divided by 2 and remainder 0
when divided by 5, hence this number is 5.
【Solution 2】
The first seventy terms of the sequence are
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 3, 1, 4, 5, 9, 4, 3, 7, 0, 7, 7, 4, 1, 5, 6, 1, 7, 8, 5, 3, 8, 1, 9, 0, 9, 9, 8, 7, 5,
2, 7, 9, 6, 5, 1, 6, 7, 3, 0, 3, 3, 6, 9, 5, 4, 9, 3, 2, 5, 7, 2, 9, 1, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 3, 1, 4,
5, 9, ….
We can observe that it is a recurrence sequence with period 60. 2019 = 60 × 33 + 39 ,
so the 2019th term is same as the 39th term, which is 5.
Answer：5
【Note】
The sequence is formed by the unit digits of Fibonacci sequence with period 60.

【Marking Schemes】
Find periodic pattern of parity of the sequence is 3, 5 points.
Find periodic pattern of the remainders divided by 5 of the sequence is 20, 5 points.
(Or find the sequence has period 60, 10 points.)
Find the correct answer without a reasoning, 10 points only.