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Answer sheet
1 Lukas works as a private tutor. For three hours, he earns 24 .
What is the price for one hour?

a) 10 b) 8 c) 6 d) 12 e) 24

you will be able to access your result online.

You may use any kind of pen or pencil. Please make sure you tick your answer accurately.
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(We advise you to use a pencil to be able to carry out corrections). 2 Find one-half of
4
.
3 6 6 1 3
a)
2
b)
4
c)
8
d)
4
e)
8
Examination

You have 60 minutes to answer the 25 questions.

Accuracy and speed are important.
Hence you should try not to deal too long with a single question, skip it and try to
answer it in the end if you have time left. 3 In case x=3, nd 15x.
Only one single answer is correct. If several answers are checked that assignment
will be counted as wrong. For each incorrect answer a fourth of the gainable score a) 15 b) 25 c) 30 d) 35 e) 45
will be deducted. So it is better not to answer at all than to check a wrong answer.
Therefore dont guess, calculate!
The answer sheet must not be folded or crinkled. Notes or comments outside of

There are no aides of any kind (calculator, formulary etc.) allowed.

4 Divide the sum 45+45+45+45+45 by 15.

Assessment a) 15 b) 45 c) 25 d) 35 e) 5

The assessment will be carried out within a short period of time and can be
accessed on http://anmeldung.pangea-wettbewerb.de (Schler-Login) using
your user data (ID-number and password).
5 Recognize pattern: What is the sum of
the four missing numbers?
We wish you much success and we hope you will keep on enjoying maths.

a) 20 b) 22 c) 30 d) 32 e) 42

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6 Number puzzle: 10 Frank wants to buy pencils. There are ve pencils as a package for 13
The letters a, b, c are digits. and three pencils as a package for 9 . Frank has 34 .
The same letter represents the same digit. What is the maximum number of pencils he can buy?

Solve the calculation and nd the a) 13 b) 9 c) 10 d) 11 e) 14

sum a + b + c = ...

a) 9 b) 10 c) 8 d) 7 e) 11
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11 Calculate: 2,5 +
4
: 0,25 0,35 : 0,1 = ...

a) 2,5 b) 1,5 c) 1 d) 0 e) 0,5

7 These are the rst eight numbers of the Fibonacci-sequence:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ... Beginning with the third number each Fibonacci number
is the sum of the two predecessors. State the 10th number of that sequence.

a) 40 b) 44 c) 55 d) 54 e) 49
12 Water must be pumped out from a pond. Two identical pumps need 9
hours. What time do three such pumps need?
1 1
8 What fraction is represented by the grey shaded a) 6 h b) 3 h c) 4
2 h d) 2h e) 13
2 h
area in the gure on the right?
1 1 2
a)
3
b)
4
c)
5
1 3
d)
5
e)
4 1 2 3
13 Find: (
2
: )
3 4
= ...

9 1 2 3
9 Recognize pattern: 7 6 6 5 a) 16
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
e) 1
3 2 3 2
7 1 6 5

Which of the gure-pattern (shown below) corresponds to

number-pattern (shown above)?

a) b) c) d) e)

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14 Find the size of the angle ? 18 The sun is about 150 million kilometers away from the earth.
(The gure is not drawn to scale) Light travels nearly 300,000 km in one second.
How long does the light travel from the sun to the earth?
a) 10 b) 12 c) 15 d) 17 e) 20
a) 8 min 15 s b) 7 min 20 s c) 9 min 10 s d) 8 min 20 s e) 5 min

15 In this calculation, a plus and a minus alternate. Find:

19 A die has coloured faces, see the gure on the right.
1 1 1
1 2 + 3 4 + 5 6 + ... + 2013 2014 + 2015 = ... The probability of blue is
6
, for yellow
3
and for red
2
.

a) 1 b) 0 c) 2015 d) 1008 e) -1007 What are the colors of the non-visible faces of the die?

a) 2 blue faces and 1 yellow face

b) 2 red faces and 1 blue face
c) 1 red face and 2 yellow faces
16 The average of Mrs. and Mr. Kaisers age is 40 years. The average d) 2 red faces and 1 yellow face
of their children Ute, Peter, Jochen and Jasmins age is 16 years. e) 1 blue face and 2 red faces
What is the average age of the whole family?

a) 28 b) 27 c) 26 d) 25 e) 24

20 The area on the right has to be completed to

the smallest parallelogram that is possible.

17 The exclamation mark (!) has a special meaning in mathematics, What percentage of the parallelogram is
Example: 5! = 1 2 3 4 5. already there?
10! = ...
Find: a) 36 % b) 64 % c) 25 % d) 75 % e) 16 %
6! 4!
5
a) 1 b) 12
c) 10 d) 180 e) 210

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21 Which of the following statements is false? 24 In the picture below, you see 12 points in four rows and four columns.
Use 4 of the 12 points as vertices of a square.
a) Dividing a number by two is the same as multiplying
the number with 0.5.
b) Multiplying a number with 0.25 is the same as dividing
the number by 4.
c) The number 100 can be written as the sum
of two square numbers.
d) The number 2015 can be represented as a sum of
ve consecutive natural numbers.
e) The number 2015 cannot be divided by 13.

How many squares can you draw at most?

a) 11 b) 13 c) 5 d) 7 e) 9
22 Number Puzzle:
The 4-digit number 47ab can be divided by 6 without remainder.
a and b are digits, which could be equal.

What is the greatest possible sum of a+b? 25 Two of the three scales in the picture are in balance. What do you have to
put into the second shell of the third scale, so that it is in balance as well?
a) 16 b) 8 c) 11 d) 17 e) 14

23 The prime factorization of 2015 consists of exactly three prime numbers.

One is a 1-digit number, the two other prime numbers are 2-digit
numbers of the form ab and ba.

Find the positive difference of these 2-digit prime numbers ab and ba.

a) 16 b) 17 c) 18 d) 19 e) 20
a) b) c) d) e)

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