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.

©AMT Publishing 2015 amtt limited acn 083 950 341

 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
 MP 2

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
 MP 3

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
 MP 4

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
 MP 5

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

No

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

 MP 6

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
 MP 7

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
 MP 8

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?
 MP 9

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?