This is the 29th annual Newcastle Permanent Primary Mathematics Competition. The first competition was conducted in what year?

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This is the twenty ninth annual Newcastle Permanent Primary Mathematics Competition. The first competition was conducted in what year : 1980 1981 1982 1983

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Lets do a simpler problem:

Suppose the competition started in the year of 2001 (first competition), when would the 10th competition be conducted?

The answer is 2010. count it out to convince yourself. You had to add 9 to 2001 to get the year of 10 th competition.

When would the 5th competition be conducted? The answer is 2005. Count it out to convince yourself. You had to add 4 to 2001 to get the year of 5 th competition.

See a pattern?
 
This is the twenty ninth annual Newcastle Permanent Primary Mathematics Competition. The first competition was conducted in what year : 1980 1981 1982 1983

Thanks
You refer to "this". If it means this year, 2019, then none of those choices is correct. Does the problem state what year it refers to?
 
You refer to "this". If it means this year, 2019, then none of those choices is correct. Does the problem state what year it refers to?

According to their website, "The competition is now in its 38th year." Presumably the website has been updated at some point during this calendar year, so one can surmise that the question was written in 2010.
 
Well, now that we're looking beyond the question itself, we can actually find the source by googling the first sentence. I find that it is problem #11 of

THE NEWCASTLE PERMANENT​
PRIMARY MATHEMATICS COMPETITION​
Wednesday, 2 September, 2009​

So you were close. And this is a great example of a problem where the entire context is needed!
 
Well, now that we're looking beyond the question itself, we can actually find the source by googling the first sentence. I find that it is problem #11 of

THE NEWCASTLE PERMANENT​
PRIMARY MATHEMATICS COMPETITION​
Wednesday, 2 September, 2009​

So you were close. And this is a great example of a problem where the entire context is needed!
Thank you for yourhelp.
 
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