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1.Today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be in 100 days?[3]
AMonday
BTuesday
CWednesday
DThursday
EFriday
2.In a triangle, one angle is 90 degrees and another is 35 degrees. What is the third angle?[3]
A35 degrees
B45 degrees
C55 degrees
D65 degrees
E145 degrees
3.A rope is 3.5 metres long. A second rope is 240 centimetres long. How much longer is the first rope, in centimetres?[3]
A1.1
B11
C110
D236.5
E590
4.What is the angle between the hands of a clock at exactly 3 o'clock?[3]
Text description of the figure
A clock face with the hour hand pointing at 3 and the minute hand pointing at 12, with the angle between them marked.
A30 degrees
B45 degrees
C90 degrees
D120 degrees
E180 degrees
5.One bus leaves every 12 minutes and another every 18 minutes. They leave together at 9:00. When do they next leave together?[3]
A9:06
B9:30
C9:36
D9:54
E12:36
6.Three quarters of a class of 28 travelled by bus. How many did not travel by bus?[3]
A4
B7
C12
D21
E24
7.Which of these is closest to the number of seconds in one day?[3]
A1440
B3600
C24000
D60000
E86400
8.Which of these fractions lies between one third and one half?[3]
A1/5
B1/4
C2/5
D3/5
E2/3
9.Which capital letter, printed plainly, has both a horizontal and a vertical line of symmetry?[3]
AA
BB
CH
DT
EZ
10.How many three-digit numbers can be written using only the digits 1 and 2, with repeats allowed?[3]
A2
B3
C4
D6
E8
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Answer key — Math Kangaroo practice
Each wrong choice carries the thinking that produces it. When a student picks C, this is what they were doing.
1.D — ThursdayKA-0021Remainders and modular cycles
AI found the remainder 2 but counted the two days starting from today rather than starting from tomorrow.
BI divided 100 by 7 and used the quotient of 14, treating the leftover days as if there were none.
CI remembered there was a remainder but used a remainder of 1 instead of working it out.
EI counted 100 divided by 7 as 14 remainder 3 instead of remainder 2.
2.C — 55 degreesKA-0022Angles on lines, in triangles, in polygons
AI assumed the triangle was isosceles because it had a right angle, so I repeated the 35.
BI assumed a right-angled triangle always has two 45 degree angles.
DI subtracted 35 from 100 instead of from 90, mixing the angle sum up with a round number.
EI subtracted only the 35 from 180 and forgot to take off the right angle as well.
3.C — 110KA-0029Unit conversion
AI subtracted correctly in metres but then gave the answer in metres when centimetres were asked for.
BI converted 3.5 metres to 35 centimetres instead of 350.
DI subtracted without converting at all, taking 3.5 away from 240.
EI added the two lengths instead of finding the difference between them.
4.C — 90 degreesKA-0032Clock geometry: hands, angles, times
AI gave the angle for one hour mark instead of the three hour marks between the hands.
BI divided the right angle in half, as if a quarter of the clock were 45 degrees.
DI used a third of the clock face rather than a quarter of it.
EI read 3 o'clock as the hands pointing in opposite directions.
5.C — 9:36KA-0041Factors, multiples, LCM and GCD by listing
AI found the greatest common divisor of 12 and 18 instead of the least common multiple.
BI added the two intervals together rather than looking for a time that is a multiple of both.
DI found a common multiple but not the least one, landing on a later coincidence.
EI multiplied the two intervals together instead of finding their least common multiple.
6.B — 7KA-0064Fractions of a quantity
AI divided 28 by 7 instead of taking a quarter of it.
CI found three quarters of 16 by mistake, mixing up the class size.
DI found how many did travel by bus and gave that instead of how many did not.
EI subtracted the 4 quarters as if they were 4 students.
7.E — 86400KA-0124Estimate to the nearest choice
AI gave the number of minutes in a day instead of the number of seconds.
BI gave the number of seconds in one hour rather than in a whole day.
CI multiplied the 24 hours by a round thousand instead of converting properly.
DI multiplied 60 by a round thousand, using one conversion and inventing the other.
8.C — 2/5KA-0141Number lines and betweenness
AI compared the bottom numbers and assumed a bigger denominator means a bigger fraction.
BI saw that 4 lies between 3 and 2 and assumed one quarter therefore lies between the two fractions.
DI checked that it is bigger than one third but never checked it against one half.
EI compared the top numbers only and ignored what the bottoms do to the size.
9.C — HKA-0142Line and rotational symmetry
AI found the vertical fold and assumed a horizontal one must work too.
BI found the horizontal fold and stopped without testing the vertical one.
DI counted the vertical fold twice rather than testing a horizontal one.
EI mistook turning the letter upside down for folding it, which is rotation rather than symmetry about a line.
10.E — 8KA-0143Systematic listing
AI counted the two available digits rather than the numbers they can build.
BI counted the three positions instead of the numbers.
CI used only two of the three positions when multiplying.
DI multiplied 2 by 3, mixing the number of digits with the number of positions.