MATHEMATICS WITHOUT BORDERS

AGE GROUP 3

WINTER 2018

Problem 1. What is the greatest difference?

A) 324 - 109 B) 324 - 108 C) 324 - 199

Problem 2. Which number should we replace  with in 9 ×  + 119, in order to get 200 as a
result?
A) 9 B) 8 C) 7

Problem 3. Which number should we replace  with, so that the following would be true:
„The number  is equal to 14 tens, decreased by 1 hundred”?
A) 40 B) 13 C) 15

Problem 4. We have a tape with a length of 520 cm. By how many decimeters is it longer than
a tape with a length of 4 m?
A) 48 B) 56 C) 12

Problem 5. In the difference of 360 – 150, the minuend has been decreased by 23, and the
subtrahend has been increased by 31. What is the new difference?
A) 156 B) 218 C) 256

Problem 6. How many three-digit numbers are there that have less than 12 tens?
A) 10 B) 20 C) another answer

Problem 7. How many numbers from 11 to 29 are there that can be written as the sum of three
consecutive numbers?
A) 4 B) 6 C) another answer
Example of consecutive numbers:
1, 2, 3;
15, 16, 17;
112, 113, 114.

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Example of one of the numbers we are looking for: 15 = 4 + 5 + 6.

Problem 8. The first day after Monday is Tuesday. What day of the week does the 64th day
after Monday fall on?
A) Monday B) Tuesday C) Wednesday

Problem 9. What number should we replace * with, so that the following would be true?
888 + 12 ÷ 2 + 42 ÷ * = 900
A) 3 B) 6 C) 7

Problem 10. Calculate 3 ×  + 3, if  is determined by

×
3  ⎯  ⎯⎯ .
A) 30 B) 24 C) 21

Problem 11. How many sheets are there between the 10th and the 29th pages of a book?

Problem 12. Fifteen of the children in my class were born in the same month. How many of
these children were definitely born on the same day of the week?

Problem 13. The minuend is a three-digit number that contains different digits, and the
subtrahend is a two-digit number that contains different digits (which are also different from
the digits of the minuend). What is the smallest difference?

Problem 14. Five numbers have been erased from the magic square below.

3 5

What is their sum?

Problem 15. How many tens are there in the number equal to
111 - 11 + 112 – 12 + 113 – 13 + 114 – 14 + 115 – 15 + 116 – 17?

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Problem 16. Place the digits 1, 2 and 3 in the circles below in such a way that the result would
be a three-digit number smaller than 312, in which the digits 1 and 2 are adjacent and the digit
3 is not adjacent to the digit 1. What is the three-digit number?



Problem 17. What is the missing digit in the following sequence?

1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, *, 17, 20, 21

Problem 18. I live on the 6th floor and Alex lives on the 8th floor. In order to get from the 2nd
to the 6th floor, I need to climb 40 steps. How many steps does Alex need to climb in order to
get from the 5th to the 8th floor?

Problem 19. How many more centimeters would be necessary in order to cut two tapes, one
with a length of 188 cm, and the other with a length of 5 dm, from a tape with a length of 2
meters?

Problem 20. After traveling by train for 2 hours, I calculated that the train travels a distance of
75 km every hour. There are 50 km less than the distance already covered left to my final
destination. How many kilometres is the entire distance?