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Pascal Contest
(Grade 9)
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
(in North America and South America)
Thursday, February 24, 2022
(outside of North America and South America)

Time: 60 minutes ©2021 University of Waterloo

Calculating devices are allowed, provided that they do not have any of the following
features: (i) internet access, (ii) the ability to communicate with other devices,
(iii) information previously stored by students (such as formulas, programs, notes,
etc.), (iv) a computer algebra system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
Instructions
1. Do not open the Contest booklet until you are told to do so.
2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
3. Be sure that you understand the coding system for your response form. If you are not sure,
ask your teacher to clarify it. All coding must be done with a pencil, preferably HB. Fill in
circles completely.
4. On your response form, print your school name and city/town in the box in the upper right
corner.
5. Be certain that you code your name, age, grade, and the Contest you are writing
in the response form. Only those who do so can be counted as eligible students.
6. Part A and Part B of this contest are multiple choice. Each of the questions in these parts
is followed by five possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct.
After making your choice, fill in the appropriate circle on the response form.
7. The correct answer to each question in Part C is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive. After
deciding on your answer, fill in the appropriate two circles on the response form. A one-digit
answer (such as “7”) must be coded with a leading zero (“07”).
8. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
9. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
10. When your supervisor tells you to begin, you will have 60 minutes of working time.
11. You may not write more than one of the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat Contests in any given
year.

Do not discuss the problems or solutions from this contest online for the next 48 hours.

The name, grade, school and location, and score range of some top-scoring students will be
published on our website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some top-scoring students may be shared with other mathematical organizations
for other recognition opportunities.
 Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.

Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.

20 + 22
1. The expression is equal to
2
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 22

2. The graph to the right shows the amount of money that Donations to school fundraiser
each of four students donated to a school fundraiser. The 10

Donated amount ($)

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total amount of money that they donated was 6
(A) $20 (B) $18 (C) $16 4
2
(D) $14 (E) $22 0
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Student

1 2 4 8
3. The value of + + + is
2 4 8 16
1
(A) 4 (B) 21 (C) 0 (D) 4 (E) 2

4. Which of the following numbers is closest to −3.4?

(A) −4 (B) −3 (C) 0 (D) 3 (E) 4

5. Points P , Q, R, and S are on a number line, as shown.

0 3 5 10 17
P Q R S

The ratio of lengths P R : QS is

(A) 7 : 12 (B) 10 : 17 (C) 1 : 1 (D) 5 : 12 (E) 7 : 17

6. Robyn has 4 tasks to do and Sasha has 14 tasks to do. In order for Robyn and Sasha
to do the same number of tasks, how many of Sasha’s tasks should Robyn do?
(A) 6 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 2

7. In the diagram, the lengths of four of the sides of the x

figure are shown in terms of x. Assuming that x 6= 0, the
perimeter of the figure is
3x
(A) 8x (B) 9x (C) 12x
(D) 11x (E) 10x x

2x
8. A circular spinner is divided into 4 sections, as shown.
The angles at the centre of the circle in the sections Red
labelled Green and Blue each measure 90◦ . An arrow
is attached to the centre of the spinner. The arrow is Green Blue
spun once. What is the probability that the arrow lands
on either Red or Yellow?
1 1 3 Yellow
(A) (B) (C)
8 4 8
1 3
(D) (E)
2 4

9. The line with equation y = 2x + b passes through the point (−4, 0). The value of b is
1
(A) (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 8
2
10. On the map shown, there are a number of routes from Mathville to Algebratown.

Mathville Algebratown

Each route must travel along the roads in the direction marked by the arrows. The
total number of routes from Mathville to Algebratown is
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 6 (E) 10

Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.

11. In the diagram, points P , Q, R, and S are at intersections Q
R
of gridlines in a 6 × 6 grid. What is the perimeter of
parallelogram P QRS?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16
P
(D) 17 (E) 18 S

12. How many of the integers from 1 to 100, inclusive, have at least one digit equal
to 6?
(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 21 (E) 22

13. Mayar and Rosie are 90 metres apart. Starting at the same time, they run towards
each other. Mayar runs twice as fast as Rosie. How far has Mayar run when they
meet?
(A) 15 m (B) 30 m (C) 45 m (D) 60 m (E) 75 m

14. Dhruv is older than Bev. Bev is older than Elcim. Elcim is younger than Andy.
Andy is younger than Bev. Bev is younger than Cao. Who is the third oldest?
(A) Andy (B) Bev (C) Cao (D) Dhruv (E) Elcim

15. How many of the integers 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 can be expressed as the sum of two prime
numbers?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 5
16. Alvin, Bingyi and Cheska play a two-player game that never ends in a tie. In a recent
tournament between the three players, a total of 60 games were played and each pair
of players played the same number of games.

• When Alvin and Bingyi played, Alvin won 20% of the games.
• When Bingyi and Cheska played, Bingyi won 60% of the games.
• When Cheska and Alvin played, Cheska won 40% of the games.

How many games did Bingyi win?

(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 28 (D) 30 (E) 36

17. The integers a, b and c satisfy the equations a + 5 = b and 5 + b = c and b + c = a.

The value of b is
(A) −30 (B) −20 (C) −10 (D) 0 (E) 5

18. Five balls, numbered 1 to 5, are placed in order on a

table. A sequence of steps is performed on the balls. In Start:
step 1, the rightmost ball is picked up and put in the 1 2 3 4 5

middle of the four remaining balls. (The remaining balls After step 1:
are shifted to make room for the inserted ball.) Then 1 2 5 3 4
in step 2, the leftmost ball is picked up and put in the After step 2:
middle of the four remaining balls. These steps repeat, 2 5 1 3 4
with the rightmost and leftmost balls alternately picked
up and put in the middle of the four remaining balls.
Immediately after step N , the balls are in the reverse of
their original order. Which of the following is a possible
value of N ?
(A) 2020 (B) 2028 (C) 2031
(D) 2027 (E) 2025

19. Miyuki texted a six-digit integer to Greer. Two of the digits of the six-digit integer
were 3s. Unfortunately, the two 3s that Miyuki texted did not appear and Greer
instead received the four-digit integer 2022. The number of possible six-digit integers
that Miyuki could have texted is
(A) 20 (B) 10 (C) 5 (D) 25 (E) 15

1
20. A pizza is cut into 10 pieces. Two of the pieces are each 24 of the whole pizza, four
1 1 1
are each 12 , two are each 8 , and two are each 6 . A group of n friends share the pizza
by distributing all of these pieces. They do not cut any of these pieces. Each of the n
friends receives, in total, an equal fraction of the whole pizza. The sum of the values
of n with 2 ≤ n ≤ 10 for which this is not possible is
(A) 31 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 39 (E) 36
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.
Each correct answer is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive.
A one-digit answer (such as “7”) must be coded with a leading zero (“07”).
Note: The integer formed by the rightmost two digits of 12 345 is 45.
The integer formed by the rightmost two digits of 6307 is 7, coded 07.

21. A 5 cm by 5 cm pegboard and a 10 cm by 10 cm pegboard

each have holes at the intersection of invisible horizontal
and vertical lines that occur in 1 cm intervals from each
edge. Pegs are placed into the holes on the two main
diagonals of both pegboards. The 5 cm by 5 cm pegboard
is shown; it has 16 holes. The 8 shaded holes have pegs,
and the 8 unshaded holes do not. How many empty holes
does the 10 cm by 10 cm pegboard have?

22. What is the integer formed by the rightmost two digits of the integer equal to
4127 + 5129 + 7131 ?
P
23. In the diagram, two circles are centred at O. The smaller
circle has a radius of 1 and the larger circle has a radius
of 3. Points P and Q are placed on the larger circle so Q
that the areas of the two shaded regions are equal. If
∠P OQ = x◦ , what is the value of x? O

24. A Pretti number is a seven-digit positive integer with the following properties:

• The integer formed by its leftmost three digits is a perfect square.

• The integer formed by its rightmost four digits is a perfect cube.
• Its ten thousands digit and ones (units) digit are equal.
• Its thousands digit is not zero.

How many Pretti numbers are there?

25. A hexagonal prism has a height of 165 cm. Its two

hexagonal faces are regular hexagons with sides of length Y
30 cm. Its other six faces are rectangles. A fly and an
ant start at point X on the bottom face and travel to
point Y on the top face. The fly flies directly along the
shortest route through the prism. The ant crawls around
the outside of the prism along a path of constant slope
so that it winds around the prism exactly n + 12 times,
for some positive integer n. The distance crawled by the X
ant is more than 20 times the distance flown by the fly.
What is the smallest possible value of n?
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