Round 1

1. Find the measure, in degrees, of angle A in the picture below –

2. Amy, Bill, and Celine are friends with different ages. Exactly one of the following
statements is true.
a. Bill is the oldest.
b. Amy is not the oldest
c. Celine is not the youngest.
Rank the friends from youngest to oldest.

3. As illustrated below, Alice needs to draw just 3(red) squares to create 4-unit squares.
Of the choices given, what is the least number of squares she needs to draw to
create 16-unit squares?

Answer: 6
4. Suppose that -

is an integer. Which of the following statements must be true about x?

a. It is negative.
b. It is even, but not necessarily a multiple of 3.
c. It is a multiple of 3, but not necessarily even.
d. It is a multiple of 6, but not necessarily a multiple of 12.

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5. John, Marc, and Jeff listen to four different songs and discuss which ones they like.
No song is liked by all three. Furthermore, for each of the three pairs of the boys,
there is at least one song liked by those two boys but disliked by the third. In how
many different ways is this possible?

6. The average age of the family (father, mother, and several children) is 18. If the
father, who is 38 years old, is not included, then the (new) average would be 14. Find
the number of children in the family.

7. A student took 5 papers in an exam, where the total marks were the same for each
paper. His marks in these papers were in the proportion of 6:7:8:9:10. Given that he
obtained 35 of the total marks, how many papers did he score more than 50%?

8. We label 10 points on the circumference of a circle as P1, P2, P3,…, P10. Find the
number of ways to connect the points in pairs with non-intersecting chords, with no
points left unconnected.

9. An integer from 100 through 999, inclusive, is to be chosen at random. What is the
probability that the number chosen will have 0 as at least one digit? Express your
answer as a common fraction in simplest form.

10.
Let x, y and z be integers satisfying the system of equations above. Find |x| + |y| +
|z|. The |.| denotes the absolute value function.

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11. What is the number of positive integer solutions of ?

12. Suppose, you are making five-digit numbers by only using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
without repetition. What is the value of the sum of all of this numbers?

13. Let be a function for which . Find the sum of all values of z for
which .

14. If is an even function and exists, then ? means that first

derivative of .

15. What is of the number of ways you can rearrange the letters in a 7-letter word that
has all different letters?

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