Pre Regional Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Question Paper

1. A book is published in three volumes, the pages being numbered from 1 onwards. The page numbers are
continued from the first volume to the second volume to the third. The number of pages on the second volume
is 50 more than that in the first volume and the number of pages in the third volume is one and half times that in
the second. The sum of page numbers on the first pages of the three volumes is 1709. If n is the last page
number, what is the largest prime factor of n?

2. In a quadrilateral ABCD, it is given that AB = AD = 13, BC = CD = 20, BD = 24. If r is the radius of the circle
inscribable in the quadrilateral, then what is the integer closest to r?

3. Consider all 6-digit numbers of the form abccba where b is odd. Determine the number of all such 6-digit
numbers that are divisible by 7.

4. The equation 166 x 56 = 8590 is valid in some base b ≥ 10 (that is 1, 6, 5, 8, 9, 0 are digits in base b in the
above equation). Find the sum of all possible values of b ≥ 10 satisfying the equation.

5. Let ABCD be a trapezium in which AB || CD and AD ⊥ AB. Suppose ABCD has an incircle which touches AB
at Q and CD at P. Given that PC = 36 and QB = 49, find PQ.

6. Integers a, b, c satisfy a + b – c = 1 and a2 + b2 – c2 = −1. What is the sum of all possible values of a2 + b2 + c2?

7 A point P in the interior of a regular hexagon is at distances 8, 8, 16 units from three consecutive vertices of the
hexagon, respectively. If r is radius of the circumscribed circle of the hexagon, what is the integer closest to r?

8 Let AB be a chord of a circle with center O. Let C be a point on the circle such that ∠ABC = 300 and O lies
inside the triangle ABC. Let D be a point on AB such that ∠DCO = ∠OCB = 200. Find the measure of ∠CDO in
degrees.

9 Suppose a, b are integers and a + b a root of x2 + ax + b = 0. What is the maximum possible value of b2?

10 In a triangle ABC, the median from B to CA is perpendicular to the median from C to AB. If the median from
A to BC is 30, determine (BC2 + CA2 + AB2) / 100.

11 There are several tea cups in the kitchen, some with handles and others without handles. The number of ways of
selecting two cups without a handle and three with a handle is exactly 1200. What is the maximum possible
number of cups in the kitchen?

12 Determine the number of 8-tuples (𝜖 1, 𝜖 2, …, 𝜖 8) such that 𝜖 1, 𝜖 2, …, 𝜖 8 ∈ {1, −1} and 𝜖 1 + 2𝜖 2 + 3𝜖 3 +… + 8𝜖 8

13 In a triangle ABC, right-angled at A, the altitude through A and the internal bisector of ∠A have lengths 3 and
4, respectively. Find the length of the median through A.

14 If x = cos 10 cos 20 cos 30 … cos 890 and y = cos 20 cos 60 cos 100 … cos 860, then what is the integer nearest to
2 𝑦
7
log2 (𝑥 )?

15 Let a and b be natural numbers such that 2a – b, a – 2b and a + b are all distinct squares. What is the smallest
possible value of b?
Pre Regional Mathematical Olympiad 2018 Question Paper

16 What is the value of ∑1≤𝑖<𝑗≤10(𝑖 + 𝑗) − ∑1≤𝑖<𝑗≤10(𝑖 + 𝑗)?

17 Triangles ABC and DEF are such that ∠A = ∠D, AB = DE = 17, BC = EF = 10 and AC – DF = 12. What is
AC + DF?

18 If a, b, c ≥ 4 are integers, not all equal, and 4abc = (a + 3) (b + 3) (c + 3), then what is the value of a + b + c?

19 Let N = 6 + 66 + 666 +…+ 666…66, where there are hundred 6’s in the last term of the sum. How many times
does the digit 7 occur in the number N?

20 Determine the sum of all possible positive integers n, the product of whose digits equals n2 – 15n – 27.

21 Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle and let H be its orthocenter. Let G1, G2 and G3 be the centroids of the
triangles HBC, HCA and HAB respectively. If the area of the triangle G1G2G3 is 7 units, what is the area of the
triangle ABC?

22 A positive integer k is said to be good if there exists a partition of {1, 2, 3, ... , 20} into disjoint proper subsets
such that the sum of the numbers in each subset of the partition is k. How many good numbers are there?

23 𝑎2 𝑏2 𝑐2
What is the largest positive integer n such that 𝑏 𝑐 + 𝑐 𝑎 + 𝑎 𝑏 ≥ n (a + b + c) holds for all positive real
+ + +
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numbers a, b, c.

24 If N is the number of triangles of different shapes (i.e. not similar) whose angles are all integers (in degrees),
𝑁
what is ?
100

25 Let T be the smallest positive integer which, when divided by 11, 13, 15 leaves remainders in the sets {7, 8, 9},
{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6} respectively. What is the sum of the squares of the digits of T?

26 What is the number of ways in which one can choose 60 unit squares from a 11 x 11 chess board such that no
two chosen squares have a side in common?

27 What is the number of ways in which one can colour the squares of a 4 x 4 chess board with colours red and
blue such that each row as well as each column has exactly two red squares and two blue squares?

28 Let N be the number of ways of distributing 8 chocolates of different brands among 3 children such that each
child gets at least one chocolate, and no two children get the same number of chocolates. Find the sum of the
digits of N.

29 Let D be an interior point of the side BC of a triangle ABC. Let I1 and I2 be the incenters of the triangles ABD
and ACD respectively. Let AI1 and AI2 meet BC in E and F respectively. If ∠BI1E = 600, what is the measure of
∠CI2F in degrees?

30 Let P(x) = a0 + a1x + a2x2 +…+ anxn be a polynominal in which ai is a non-negative integer for each
i ∈ {0, 1, 2, ...n}. If P (1) = 4 and P (5) = 136, what is the value of P(3)?