Pascal 2021真题
1. Point Q is on a line segment between P and R, as shown.
If PR = 12 and PQ = 3, what is the length of QR?
(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 4
2. What number should be placed in the £ to make the equation true?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 7
3. Elena earns $13.25 per hour working at a store. How much does Elena earn in 4 hours?
(A) $54.00 (B) $56.25 (C) $52.25 (D) $51.00 (E) $53.00
4. In the diagram, squares of side length 1 meet each other at their vertices. The perimeter of the figure is
(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 32
5. Wesley is a professional runner. He ran five laps around a track. His times for the five laps were 63 seconds, 1 minute, 1.5 minutes, 68 seconds, and 57 seconds. What is the median of these times?
(A) 63 seconds (B) 1 minute (C) 1.5 minutes
(D) 68 seconds (E) 57 seconds
6. A rectangle has length 13 and width 10. The length and the width of the rectangle are each increased by 2. By how much does the area of the rectangle increase?
(A) 50 (B) 20 (C) 38 (D) 35 (E) 26
7. Which of the following is equal to 110% of 500?
(A) 610 (B) 510 (C) 650 (D) 505 (E) 550
8. An integer n is decreased by 2 and then multiplied by 5. If the result is 85, the value of n is
(A) 17 (B) 19 (C) 21 (D) 23 (E) 25
9. The two equal-arm scales shown are balanced.
Which of the following has the same mass as 
?
10. How many integers between 100 and 300 are multiples of both 5 and 7, but are not multiples of 10?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
11. If a and b are positive integers, the operation ∇ is defined by a∇b = ab × ba. What is the value of 2∇3?
(A) 36 (B) 72 (C) 3125 (D) 7776 (E) 46656
12. In the diagram, ∆PQR is right-angled at Q and has ∠QPR = 54°. Also, point S lies on PQ such that ∠PRS = ∠QRS. What is the measure of ∠RSQ?
(A) 36° (B) 54° (C) 108° (D) 18° (E) 72°
13. If 
, what is the value of 3m − n ?
(A) −1 (B) −5 (C) −3 (D) −9 (E) −7
14. A robot is placed on the grid shown. The robot starts on square 25, initially facing square 32. The robot (i) moves 2 squares forward in the direction that it is facing, (ii) rotates clockwise 90°, and (iii) moves 1 square forward in the new direction. Thus, the robot moves to square 39, then turns to face square 38, then moves to square 38. The robot repeats the sequence of moves (i), (ii), (iii) two more times. Given that the robot never leaves the grid, on which square does it finish?
(A) 16 (B) 20 (C) 29 (D) 24 (E) 25
15. Nate has a grid made of shaded and unshaded 2 cm by 2 cm squares, as shown. He randomly places a circle with a diameter of 3 cm on the board so that the centre of the circle is at the meeting point of four squares. What is the probability that he places the disk so that it is touching an equal number of shaded and unshaded squares?
(A) 
(B) 
(C) 
(D) 
(E) 
16. The integer m is a perfect cube exactly when it is equal to n3 for some integer n. For example, 1000 is a perfect cube since 1000 = 103. What is the smallest positive integer k for which the integer 24 × 32 × 55 × k is a perfect cube?
(A) 12 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 480 (E) 1620
17. In the diagram, Paths 1, 2 and 3 are drawn on a grid.
Paths 1 and 3 consist entirely of straight line segments. Path 2 consists of straight line segments and a semi-circle. If the length of Path 1 is x, the length of Path 2 is y, and the length of Path 3 is z, which of the following is true?
(A) x < y and y < z (B) x < z and z < y (C) x = z and z < y
(D) z < x and x < y (E) y < z and z = x
18. Trains arrive at Pascal Station every x minutes, where x is a positive integer. Trains arrive at Pascal Station at many different times, including at 10:10 a.m., 10:55 a.m., and 11:58 a.m. Which of the following is a possible value of x?
(A) 9 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 5 (E) 11
19. A group of friends are sharing a bag of candy.
On the first day, they eat 
of the candies in the bag.
On the second day, they eat 
of the remaining candies.
On the third day, they eat 
of the remaining candies.
On the fourth day, they eat 
of the remaining candies.
On the fifth day, they eat 
of the remaining candies.
At the end of the fifth day, there is 1 candy remaining in the bag.
How many candies were in the bag before the first day?
(A) 512 (B) 720 (C) 1024 (D) 1440 (E) 2048
20. Suppose that R, S and T are digits and that N is the four-digit positive integer 8RST. That is, N has thousands digit 8, hundreds digit R, tens digits S, and ones (units) digit T, which means that N = 8000 + 100R + 10S + T. Suppose that the following conditions are all true:
• The two-digit integer 8R is divisible by 3.
• The three-digit integer 8RS is divisible by 4.
• The four-digit integer 8RST is divisible by 5.
• The digits of N are not necessarily all different.
The number of possible values for the integer N is
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 12 (D) 10 (E) 14
21. Three cubes have edge lengths 3 cm, 12 cm, and x cm. The average volume of the three cubes is 700 cm3. The value of x, rounded to the nearest integer, is
(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 7
22. Azmi has four blocks, each in the shape of a rectangular prism and each with dimensions 2 × 3 × 6. She carefully stacks these four blocks on a flat table to form a tower that is four blocks high. The number of possible heights for this tower is
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17
23. Rectangle WXY Z has WX = 4, WZ = 3, and ZV = 3. The rectangle is curled without overlapping into a cylinder so that sides WZ and XY touch each other. In other words, W touches X and Z touches Y. The shortest distance from W to V through the inside of the cylinder can be written in the form 
where a, b and c are positive integers. The smallest possible value of a + b + c is
(A) 12 (B) 26 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 36
24. Suppose that k ≥ 2 is a positive integer. An in-shuffle is performed on a list with 2k items to produce a new list of 2k items in the following way:
• The first k items from the original are placed in the odd positions of the new list in the same order as they appeared in the original list.
• The remaining k items from the original are placed in the even positions of the new list, in the same order as they appeared in the original list.
For example, an in-shuffle performed on the list P Q R S T U gives the new list P S Q T R U. A second in-shuffle now gives the list P T S R Q U. Ping has a list of the 66 integers from 1 to 66, arranged in increasing order. He performs 1000 in-shuffles on this list, recording the new list each time. In how many of these 1001 lists is the number 47 in the 24th position?
(A) 90 (B) 71 (C) 83 (D) 72 (E) 84
25. Yann writes down the first n consecutive positive integers, 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . , n − 1, n. He removes four different integers p, q, r, s from the list. At least three of p, q, r, s are consecutive and 100 < p < q < r < s. The average of the integers remaining in the list is 89.5625. The number of possible values of s is
(A) 25 (B) 23 (C) 21 (D) 20 (E) 22
