BMATQuestions
- A village hall runs a small lending library which opens only on Saturdays. There are 80 members, each of whom may borrow up to four books at a time, which they may keep for three weeks. Members never overrun the three week time limit. After the annual stock-take, for which all books were returned, the library has 2000…BMAT 2022 · Question 25 · Optimisation · Save
- Rainbows School has 18 classrooms. Each room will be painted in one of the seven colours of the rainbow. For each of the seven colours, there will be at least two rooms painted in that colour. Painting each room will require 1 tin of paint. The cost of a tin of paint varies according to the colour, as shown in the…BMAT 2022 · Question 30 · Optimisation · Save
- The students in year 8 at a school can choose between sports. They are divided into two equal groups. The first group chose between cricket and rounders in the first week, and between basketball and hockey in the second week. The second group chose between basketball and hockey in the first week, and between cricket…BMAT 2021 · Question 30 · Optimisation · Save
- The table shows details of six hire cars. I will need to hire a car for my holiday and I have a number of requirements. I want to pick up the car at the hotel at the beginning of the holiday, but drop it off at the airport at the end of the holiday. The car must have a sun roof and air con. However, I do not want a…BMAT 2019 · Question 3 · Optimisation · Save
- A ferry company operates a route between port X and port Y with the following daily timetable:BMAT 2019 · Question 12 · Optimisation · Save
- Jasper’s school bag can carry up to 5 books. He stores the rest of his school books in his locker. He can visit his locker before school, at break time, and at lunch time to change the books he carries in his bag. The tables below show his timetable and the number of books needed for each of his lessons. Each subject…BMAT 2019 · Question 18 · Optimisation · Save
- National daily newspapers The sales of national daily papers in the UK reached a peak in the mid-1950s. Since then there has been a gradual decline in sales. The availability of multimedia news platforms has accelerated this decline in the 21st century, and by the close of 2014, no UK newspaper had daily sales…BMAT 2019 · Question 19 · Optimisation · Save
- George enjoys reading newspapers and is considering whether he should take out any subscriptions. Details of the daily cost and subscription tariffs for each of the five newspapers he reads are as follows:BMAT 2019 · Question 27 · Optimisation · Save
- Riverside Walk is a popular walking path, 3.2 kilometres long, beside the River Bee. There is a seat situated at each end of the path and also every 400 metres in between. There are two litter bins just next to every seat and one litter bin every 100 metres between each seat and the next.BMAT 2018 · Question 1 · Optimisation · Save
- The lift in the hotel I am staying in takes 3 seconds to move between consecutive floors and when it stops at a floor it remains stationary for a minimum of 9 seconds to let people in and out. A screen inside the lift shows a list of the floors that it has been requested to stop at. When the lift moves off after…BMAT 2018 · Question 7 · Optimisation · Save
- Simone has won 100 and each charity will receive a whole number of dollars. Each one of the charities will receive a different amount and at least…BMAT 2018 · Question 25 · Optimisation · Save
- I want to decorate one of the rooms in my house by painting the four walls. The room is rectangular, measuring 5m by 4m, and is 2.5m high. There is a door in one of the narrower walls, measuring 1m wide by 2m high. There is also a window in the opposite wall to the door, measuring 2m wide by 1.5m high. I do not intend…BMAT 2015 · Question 29 · Optimisation · Save
- The diagram below represents all the ferry routes between the islands in the Kuusi group.Each ferry runs a shuttle service between two islands. The journeys between the main central island (Nolla) and each of the outer islands take 30 minutes in either direction and all journeys between two of the outer islands take…BMAT 2014 · Question 33 · Optimisation · Save
- In each round of a competition the competitor who performed best in that round is awarded 6 points. The next best competitor gets 3 points and the third gets 1 point. There are four competitors, so the last player does not score any points. After 10 rounds the scores are totalled. After nine rounds had been completed,…BMAT 2012 · Question 31 · Optimisation · Save
- An airline has decided to introduce a flight from London, England to St. John’s, Antigua. The airline owns a range of aeroplanes as shown in the table below. It needs to decide which one would be best suited to do this flight. The distance travelled between London and St John's is a maximum of 5600 miles; variability…BMAT 2011 · Question 7 · Optimisation · Save
- 21 I am playing a card game with three friends. Each of us has two cards which are placed face up on the table. The score for a hand is calculated by adding up the value of the two cards and then doubling the total if the cards are the same suit (denoted by the symbols ♥, ♦, ♣ or ♠). The highest score wins. My two…BMAT 2010 · Question 25 · Optimisation · Save
- It is known that droplets of a certain chemical have a volume of 0.02 cm3 (rounded to the nearest 0.01 cm3).BMAT 2008 · Question 18 · Optimisation · Save