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PRMO (Pre-Regional Mathematics Olympiad) 2018 Past Year
Paper
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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 in the second volume is 50 more than that in the first volume and the
number pages in the third volume is one and a half times that in the second. The sum of the
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 . 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 is valid in some base (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 satisfying the
equation.
5. Let ABCID be a trapezium in which and . Suppose ABCD has an
incircie which touches AB at Q and CD at P. Given that and , find PQ.
6.Integers a, b, c satisfy and . What is the sum of all possible
values of ?
7. A point P in the interior of a regular hexagon is at distance 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 centre 0. Let C be a point on the circle such that
∠ and 0 lies inside the triangle ABC. Let D be a point on AB such that
∠ ∠ . Find the measure of ∠ in de2rees.
9. Suppose a, b are integers and is a root of . What is the maximum
possible value of ?
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 .

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11. There are several tea cups in the kitchen, some with handles and the 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 such that and
is a multiple of 3.
13.In a triangle ABC, right-angled at A, the altitude through A and the internal bisector of ∠
have lengths 3 and 4, respectively. Find the length of the medium through A.
14. If and , then what is the
integer nearest to , ⟋ ?
15. Let a and b be natural numbers such that and are all distinct squares.
What is the smallest possible value of b?
16. What is the value of
?

17. Triangles ABC and DEF are such that ∠ ∠ and

. What is ?
18. If are integers, not all equal and , then what is the
value of ?
19. Let , where there are hundred 6՚s in the last term in
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

21. Let ABC be an acute angled triangle and let H be its orthocenter. Let and be
the cancroids of the triangles HBC, HCA and HAB, respectively. If the area of triangle
is 7 units, what is the area of triangle ABC?
22. A positive integer k is said to be good if there exists a partition of in to
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. What is the largest positive integer n such that
holds for all positive real numbers ?

24. If N is the number of triangles of different shapes (i.e.. not similar) whose angle are all
integers (in degrees) , what is ⟋ ?
26. 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 in the second volume is 50 more than that in the first volume and the
number pages in the third volume is one and a half times that in the second. The sum of the

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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?
27. Let T be the smallest positive integer which, when divided by 11,13, 15 leaves
remainders in the sets respectively. What is the sum of the squares of
the digits of T?
28. What is the number of ways in which one can choose 60 unit squares from a
chessboard such that no two chosen squares have a side in common?
29. What is the number of ways in which one can colour the squares of a chessboard
with colous red and blue such that each row as well as each column has exactly two red
squares and two blue squares?
30. 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.
31. Let D be an interior point of the side BC of a triangle ABC. Let and be the indenters
of triangles ABD and ACD respectively. Let and , meet BC in E and F respectively. If
∠ , what is the measure of ∠ in degrees?
32. Let be a polynomial in which a is a non negative
integer for each i . If and , what is the value of ?

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