MATHEMATICS WITHOUT BORDERS

AGE GROUP 2

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest papers until the Exams Officer has given permission.
2. There are 20 open-ended questions in the test. Please write down your answers in the
ANSWER SHEET.
3. Each problem is scored 2 points for a correct answer; 1 point if there are two or more
answers and at least half are given, or if one wrong answer is given in addition to the
correct answer; 0 points for a wrong answer or no answer.
4. Working time: not more than 60 minutes. In the case of an equal number of points, the
higher ranked participant will be the one who has spent less time solving the problems.
5. The use of calculators or other electronic devices, as well as books containing formulae is
NOT allowed during the course of the contest.
6. The problems contain natural numbers, as well as 0. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 10, 11, ..., 99, 100,
101, ...)
7. For the problems containing a numerical answer, natural numbers, as well as 0 must be
used. (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 10, 11, ..., 99, 100, 101, ...)
8. Students are NOT allowed to receive help by the Exams Officer or by anyone else during
the contest.

WE WISH YOU ALL SUCCESS!

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 AUTUMN – AGE GROUP 2

Problem 1. What digit should we replace □ with, so that

50 = □ tens + 20 ones?

Problem 2. What number should we replace □ with, so that

31 + 29 = 95 − □ ?

Problem 3. By how much is the sum of 31 + 13 greater than the difference of

31 – 13?

Problem 4. Find the missing number „?“.

100 – 40 = ? + 20.

Problem 5. What digit should we replace □ with, so that

7 tens + 8 tens + 50 ones = □ hundreds?

Problem 6. Find the missing number.

0, 5, 5, 10, 15, 25, …, 65
Problem 7. How many two-digit numbers are smaller than 33?

Problem 8. By how much is the sum of 20 + 40 + 80 greater than the sum of

30 + 40 + 50 ?

Problem 9. Which numbers are smaller than 15 and greater than 12?

Problem 10. Initially, George had 20 flowers. Nine of them were red, and the rest
were yellow. He gave 7 yellow flowers to his mother. Then he gave 3 yellow
flowers to his friend Maria. How many yellow flowers does he have left?

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Problem 11. Harry planted 24 trees in a row. Each 2 trees were planted 1 meter
apart. What is the length (in meters) of the row of trees that Harry planted?

Problem 12. A triangle has side lengths of 7 cm, 7 cm and 6 cm. A square has a
side length of 1 dm. By how many centimetres is the perimeter of the square
greater than the perimeter of the triangle?

Problem 13. I have two sticks – one with a length of 15 cm and one with a length
of 5 cm. I used them to measure the length of a board. I used the stick with a length
of 15 cm three times, and I used the stick with a length of 5 cm once. Find the
length of the board in cm.

Problem 14. Find the sum of the lengths of the line segments AB and CD in cm.

Problem 15. A rectangle was cut out of a larger rectangle, which resulted in a new
figure. How many of the line segments of this figure have the same lengths?

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Problem 16. Calculate
(7 + 9 + 11 + 13 + 15 + 17) – (17 + 15 + 13 + 9 + 7).

Problem 17. The first day of December 2021 falls on a Wednesday. Which day of
the week will the 16th day of December fall on?

Problem 18. All the 33 lanterns were lit up in the castle. 11 of them were put out.
How many lanterns are left?

Problem 19. We are given the smallest three-digit number made up of three
different digits which has 1 as its tens digit. By how much is it greater than the
smallest three-digit number made up of three different digits?

Problem 20. Calculate

if

+ = 16
+ +
- =3
= =
12 11

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 WINTER – AGE GROUP 2

Problem 1. Calculate
90 – 80 + 80 – 70 + 70 – 60.

Problem 2. Calculate
2 + 8 + 12 + 18 – 20 – 20.

Problem 3. Calculate (15 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 ) + (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5).

Problem 4. The minuend is equal to the difference. What is the subtrahend?

Problem 5. Calculate 40 – 1 + 20 – 2 + 30 – 3 + 20 – 4. How many tens are there in the result?

Problem 6. By how much is the sum of 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 8 smaller than the sum of

20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 6?

Problem 7. How many two-digit numbers are there in total that can be written in the square □ so
that □ + 10 < 30 would be correct?

Problem 8. The minuend in the difference of 40 – 10 has been decreased by 10 and the
subtrahend has been increased by 10. What is the new difference?

Problem 9. What digits should we replace ❄with, so that the number 22 would not be smaller

than the two-digit number ❄2?

Problem 10. Find х, if the numbers 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28,...., х have been written using 18
digits.

Problem 11. We have a tape with a length of 1 dm. By how many millimetres is it longer than a
tape with a length of 9 cm?

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Problem 12. One of the sides of a rectangle has a length of 15 mm, and the other side is 20 mm
longer. Find the perimeter of the rectangle in dm.

Problem 13. I divided a rectangle with sides 4 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm, 5 cm into three rectangles: the
first with sides 1 cm, 1 cm, 2 cm and 2 cm; the second with sides 2 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 3 cm; the
third with sides X cm, X cm, 4 cm, 4 cm. Find X.

5
4
3
1
4 2 X 2

Problem 14. The figure below is made up of 11 square tiles. What is the total number of squares
in the figure?

Problem 15. There are 3 points on a straight line. Adam measured the distances between each
two of the points and recorded two of them: 1 cm and 5 cm. Find the length of the third distance.
Write down all possible answers.

Problem 16. How many points should we place on a straight line in order to get exactly 6 line
segments?

Problem 17. We can use three different weights of 1 kg, 2 kg and x kg in order to weigh each of
ten packages weighing between 1 kg and 10 kg on a pair of scales. Find the number x.

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Problem 18. Ivo and Ellie wrote down eleven numbers each.
Ivo wrote down 2, 5, 8, ..., 29, 32. Ellie wrote down 11, 14, 17, ..., 38, 41.
How many of the numbers written down by Ivo were also written down by Ellie?

Problem 19. Several children have a total of 20 balloons. Five of the children have three
balloons each, and each of the remaining children has one balloon. How many children are
there?

Problem 20. What is the greatest difference of two two-digit numbers made up of 4 different
digits?

SPRING – AGE GROUP 2

Problem 1.
10 tens – 10 ones = □
□=?

Problem 2.
96 – (31 – 15) = □ – (43 - 27)
□=?

Problem 3.
38 minutes + 47 minutes – □ minutes = 1 hour
□=?

Problem 4. Calculate
(4 + 5 + 6 + 21 + 32 + 43) − (14 + 25 + 36 + 1 + 2 + 3)

Problem 5. Find , if
9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 4 = 4 × (4 + ).

Problem 6. The minuend in the difference of 60 – 10 has been decreased by 19 and the
subtrahend has been increased by 11. What is the new difference?

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Problem 7. How many numbers are missing?
7, 14, 21, … , 84, 91, 98

Problem 8. The sum of two numbers is 29. One of the numbers is greater than the other by 11.
What is the greater number?

Problem 9. How many of the symbols „+“ must be replaced with the multiplication symbol „ד,
so that the equation would be correct?
2+3+5+6=6+6

Problem 10. Calculate

1 – 10 × 10 + 2 × 5 + 4 × 5 + 6 × 5 + 8 × 5.
Example: 1 - 8 + 9 = 1 + 9 - 8 = 10 – 8 = 2
1- 5+2+3=1+2 + 3–5=6–5=1

Problem 11. I wrote down 21 numbers. I erased a few of them and wrote down their sum. The
numbers are now 16. How many numbers have been erased?

Problem 12. How many of the numbers among 0, 1, 2, …, 89, 90, 91 can we present as the
product of two consecutive numbers? Example: 20 = 4 × 5 ; 56 = 7 × 8.

Problem 13. It takes 6 seconds for a robot to cut a pipe into 2 parts. How many seconds will it
take for the robot to cut the same pipe into 8 parts?

Problem 14. A square with a perimeter of 20 cm has been cut into two rectangles. Find the sum
of the perimeters of these two rectangles in centimetres.

Problem 15. Look at the ruler below. How many different lengths can be measured by this ruler
in one setting?

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Problem 16. How many squares are there in the picture?

Problem 17. Three different points А, В and C lie on a straight line. There are 3 line segments
with two of the points A, B and C as their endpoints (АВ, ВС and АС).
If АВ + ВС + АС = 32 cm, find the length of the longest of the three line segments.

А C B

Problem 18. In how many ways can we express the number 32 as the product of different
multipliers without considering their order?

Problem 19. There is a total of 54 roses in 10 bouquets of roses. Some of the bouquets have 5
roses, and the others have 7 each. How many of the bouquets have 5 roses each?

Problem 20. You have 5 cards with the numbers 0, 3, 6, 7, 9 written on them. How many
different numbers greater than 680 and smaller than 720 can be created using these cards?

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 FINAL – AGE GROUP 2

Problem 1. Calculate
( 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) ÷ ( 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) − 1 .

Problem 2. How many of the numbers 1, 3, 5 and 7 can be written in the square □ so that the
following would be correct?
□ + 19 > 5 + 18

Problem 3. Find □, if 6 + 6 + 6 + 9 = □ × 9.

Problem 4. Place the same number in all the squares □ so that the following would be correct:

□ + 5 + 2 × 5 = □ × 4.
What is the number?

Problem 5. Which digit should we remove in order for the equation to be correct?
10 × 25 + 10 × 2 = 40

Problem 6. Insert brackets to make the equation correct.

3 × 4 − 2 + 4 = 2 × 9.
Write down the whole expression in the answer sheet.

Problem 7. A pink ice cream costs 2 euro, and a white ice cream costs 3 euro. How many euro
would it cost me to buy 7 pink ice creams and 5 white ice creams for my friends?

Problem 8. How many minutes should be subtracted from 150 seconds in order to get 30
seconds?

Problem 9. In 9 years Claire will be 4 times her current age. What will be Claire’s age 6 years
from now?

Problem 10. How many even two-digit numbers are divisible by 7?

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Problem 11. An ant was walking along the sides of the figure below. Its walk ended right where
it started. The distance that the ant travelled is equal to the perimeter of a square with a side
length of x cm. Find х.

Problem 12. The square A and the rectangle В can be combined to form the rectangle С, which
has a perimeter of 40 cm. If the perimeter of the square А is 28 cm, find the smaller side of the
rectangle B in cm.

Problem 13. The figure below is made up of 9 cubes equal in weight and weighs 24 grams.
What is the weight of a figure made up of 6 cubes?

Problem 14. The points А, В, С and D lie on a straight line. How many triangles have three of
the six points A, B, C, D, Е and F as their vertices?

Problem 15. I cut out 12 figures – triangles and squares. The number of triangles is three times
the number of squares. How many vertices in total do all the figures have?

Problem 16. Claire wrote down all one-digit odd numbers from the smallest to the greatest.
Then, in between each pair of neighbouring numbers, she wrote down the product of those
numbers. Find the sum of all numbers.

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Problem 17. On Monday, there were 2 water lilies in a lake. Each following day of the week, the
number of lilies would double compared to the previous day. How many lilies were there in the
lake at the end of the week?

Problem 18. The following information is known about three numbers. Their sum is 20. The
second number is equal to half of the first number. The first number is twice the third number.
Find the first number.

Problem 19. Peter wrote the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in his notebook as follows:
 he wrote 1 next to 2, to the right of 2;
 he wrote 5 next to 3, to the right of 3;
 he wrote 4 next to 1, to the right of 1;
 he wrote 3 next to 4, to the right of 4.
After that he placed the following symbols in between the numbers, from left to right: “÷”, “×”,
“–” and “+”. He then calculated them correctly. What result did he get?

Problem 20.. The sum of 7 consecutive numbers is a number divisible by 2. How many of these
numbers are odd?

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 MATHEMATICAL RELAY - – AGE GROUP 2

The answer for each problem is represented by the symbols @, #, &, § and *, and must be used
to solve each following problem. Each team must fill one answer sheet.

Problem 1. 4 different digits have been used to write down two odd two-digit numbers with a
difference of 2. The greatest possible sum of the two numbers is @. Find @.

Problem 2. It takes the ant @ seconds to travel a third of the way. It can travel the whole way in
# minutes. Find #.

Problem 3. The product of five numbers is #, and their sum is the odd number &. Find &.

Problem 4. The side of the square ABCD is & cm. The rectangle AMTD has a side АМ, which is
a third of the side AD. The square ABCD has a perimeter, which is greater than the perimeter of
the rectangle MBCT by § cm. Find §.

Problem 5. I chose 4 numbers from 1 to §, such that the product of two of the chosen numbers
would be equal to the product of the other two chosen numbers. The sum of the numbers that
have not been chosen is *. Find all possible values of *.

MATHEMATICAL RELAY – AGE GROUP 2

ANSWER KEY

Problem 1 2 3 4 5
Answer 160 8 9 6 6; 9

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 ANSWER KEY - AGE GROUP 2
Round
AUTUMN WINTER SPRING FINAL
Problem

1 3 30 90 1

2 35 0 96 2

3 26 15 25 3

4 40 0 30 5

5 2 10 6 5

6 40 2 20 3 × (4 − 2 + 4)

7 23 10 8 29

8 20 10 20 2

9 13, 14 1 or 2 3 9

10 1 40 1 7

11 23 10 6 8

12 20 1 10 6

13 50 3 42 16

14 10 14 30 16

15 2 4 or 6 5 39

16 11 4 14 141

17 Thursday 7 16 128

18 33 8 5 10

19 108 10 8 10

20 5 88 6 4

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