Tuesday, February 26, 2019
(in North America and South America)
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
(outside of North American and South America)
©2018 University of Waterloo
Time: 60 minutes
Calculating devices are allowed, provided that they do not have any of the following features: (i) internet access, (ii) the ability to communicate with other devices, (iii) information previously stored by students (such as formulas, programs, notes, etc.), (iv) a computer algebra system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
The expression \(2\times 3+2\times 3\) equals
The perimeter of a square is 28. What is the side length of this square?
In the diagram, some of the hexagons are shaded.
What fraction of all of the hexagons are shaded?
Yesterday, each student at Pascal C.I. was given a snack. Each student received either a muffin, yogurt, fruit, or a granola bar. No student received more than one of these snacks. The percentages of the students who received each snack are shown in the circle graph.
What percentage of students did not receive a muffin?
What is the smallest integer that can be placed in the box so that \(\dfrac{1}{2}<\dfrac{\square}{9}\) ?
If \(4x + 14 = 8x - 48\), what is the value of \(2x\)?
In the diagram, point \(P\) is on the number line at 3 and \(V\) is at 33.
The number line between \(3\) and \(33\) is divided into six equal parts by the points \(Q,R,S,T,U\).
What is the sum of the lengths of \(PS\) and \(TV\)?
The median of the numbers in the list \(19^{20},\dfrac{20}{19},20^{19},2019,20\times 19\) is
In the diagram, each partially shaded circle has a radius of 1 cm and has a right angle marked at its centre.
In \(\mbox{cm}^2\), what is the total shaded area?
Three \(1 \times 1 \times 1\) cubes are joined face to face in a single row and placed on a table, as shown.
The cubes have a total of 11 exposed \(1 \times 1\) faces. If sixty \(1 \times 1 \times 1\) cubes are joined face to face in a single row and placed on a table, how many \(1 \times 1\) faces are exposed?
In a magic square, the numbers in each row, the numbers in each column, and the numbers on each diagonal have the same sum.
In the magic square shown, the value of \(x\) is
In the diagram, \(PR\) and \(QS\) meet at \(X\).
Also, \(\triangle PQX\) is right-angled at \(Q\) with \(\angle QPX = 62^\circ\) and \(\triangle RXS\) is isosceles with \(RX=SX\) and \(\angle XSR = y^\circ\). The value of \(y\) is
The list \(p,q,r,s\) consists of four consecutive integers listed in increasing order. If \(p+s=109\), the value of \(q+r\) is
Many of the students in M. Gamache’s class brought a skateboard or a bicycle to school yesterday. The ratio of the number of skateboards to the number of bicycles was \(7:4\). There were 12 more skateboards than bicycles. How many skateboards and bicycles were there in total?
Sophie has written three tests. Her marks were 73%, 82% and 85%. She still has two tests to write. All tests are equally weighted. Her goal is an average of 80% or higher. With which of the following pairs of marks on the remaining tests will Sophie not reach her goal?
If \(x\) is a number less than \(-2\), which of the following expressions has the least value?
Hagrid has 100 animals. Among these animals,
each is either striped or spotted but not both,
each has either wings or horns but not both,
there are 28 striped animals with wings,
there are 62 spotted animals, and
there are 36 animals with horns.
How many of Hagrid’s spotted animals have horns?
In the diagram, each of \(\triangle QPT\), \(\triangle QTS\) and \(\triangle QSR\) is an isosceles, right-angled triangle, with \(\angle QPT = \angle QTS = \angle QSR = 90^\circ\).
The combined area of the three triangles is 56. If \(QP = PT = k\), what is the value of \(k\)?
There are six identical red balls and three identical green balls in a pail. Four of these balls are selected at random and then these four balls are arranged in a line in some order. How many different-looking arrangements are possible?
In the diagram, square \(PQRS\) has side length 40. Points \(J\), \(K\), \(L\), and \(M\) are on the sides of \(PQRS\), as shown, so that \(JQ = KR=LS=MP=10\).
Line segments \(JZ\), \(KW\), \(LX\), and \(MY\) are drawn parallel to the diagonals of the square so that \(W\) is on \(JZ\), \(X\) is on \(KW\), \(Y\) is on \(LX\), and \(Z\) is on \(MY\). What is the area of quadrilateral \(WXYZ\)?
What is the units (ones) digit of the integer equal to \(5^{2019}-3^{2019}\)?
The integer 2019 can be formed by placing two consecutive two-digit positive integers, 19 and 20, in decreasing order. What is the sum of all four-digit positive integers greater than 2019 that can be formed in this way?
A path of length 14 m consists of 7 unshaded stripes, each of length 1 m, alternating with 7 shaded stripes, each of length 1 m. A circular wheel of radius 2 m is divided into four quarters which are alternately shaded and unshaded. The wheel rolls at a constant speed along the path from the starting position shown.
The wheel makes exactly 1 complete revolution. The percentage of time during which a shaded section of the wheel is touching a shaded part of the path is closest to
If \(p\), \(q\), \(r\), and \(s\) are digits, how many of the 14-digit positive integers of the form \(88\,663\,311\,pqr\,s48\) are divisible by 792?
In the diagram, \(PR\) and \(QS\) intersect at \(V\). Also, \(W\) is on \(PV\), \(U\) is on \(PS\) and \(T\) is on \(PQ\) with \(QU\) and \(ST\) passing through \(W\).
For some real number \(x\),
the area of \(\triangle PUW\) equals \(4x+4\),
the area of \(\triangle SUW\) equals \(2x+20\),
the area of \(\triangle SVW\) equals \(5x+20\),
the area of \(\triangle SVR\) equals \(5x+11\),
the area of \(\triangle QVR\) equals \(8x+32\), and
the area of \(\triangle QVW\) equals \(8x+50\).
The area of \(\triangle PTW\) is closest to
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