OMMC 2024 Main Round

OMMC Staff

May 2024

HOW TO SUBMIT
1. During the testing period, go to our official test portal: https://ommc-test-
portal.vercel.app/. One person submits per team. Teams can have 1 to 4 people,
inclusive.

2. Register an account using Google or Discord.

3. Fill out team registration information and answers.

4. Submit your answers and all answers and information will be saved to your account.
The submission and your registration information are to be sent in TOGETHER.

5. You can access this information, and send in an updated submission if you choose,
if you sign back in to your account later within the testing period. We will take the
last set of answers submitted.

NO, you do not need to “sign up” beforehand in the conventional sense. Just sign
into the test portal ANYTIME DURING THE TESTING PERIOD and SEND IN A
RESPONSE.
RULES
1. This is a 25-question, untimed examination that can be worked on by a team of
up to 4 people. Only one person from each team has to submit answers. If we receive
multiple submissions from a team, the most recent submission will be graded.

2. All answers are positive rational numbers inputted as “a/b” for relatively prime
positive integers a, b where b > 1, or nonnegative integers. Your score will be the number
of correct answers; there is neither partial credit nor a penalty for wrong answers. Top
scoring teams will move onto the final round.

3. No aids other than writing utensils, scratch paper, rulers, compasses, erasers, and
a four-function/scientific calculator are allowed. The use of graphing calculators,
smartphones, smartwatches, and/or outside websites is NOT ALLOWED. In
particular, Desmos, Geogebra, Wolfram Alpha, and other similar websites are
forbidden. Failure to follow this rule will result in your test score being voided.

4. Discussion of any aspect of the test outside your team is not allowed until submissions
are closed and discussion is opened. Failure to follow this rule will result in your test
score being voided.

5. Submissions open on May 19th and close at May 26th, 11:59 PM EST, 2024.

6. Diagrams are not necessarily to scale.

Any questions on the above should be emailed to ommcofficial@gmail.com. With that,

good luck! The OMMC team has spent a lot of time on this contest and we hope that
you enjoy your experience.
 PROBLEMS

1. Lotad writes down five two-digit positive integers, no two of which share a common
digit. What is the least possible value of their range?

2. Distinct positive integers a, b have the property that a! + b! ends in three zeroes. Find
the smallest possible value of a + b.

3. Andy is playing a game in which he has 2024 turns and begins with 0 points. Each
turn, he flips a coin. If he gets heads, his score multiplies by −1. Otherwise, his score
increases by 1. What is Andy’s expected score?

4. A regular hexagon and a regular dodecagon have side length 24 as shown. Find the
squared length of the dotted line.
 5. Find the number of ways a king and rook can be placed on an 8 × 8 chess board such
that neither piece attacks each other.
(A rook can attack any square in the same row or column. A king can attack any
square directly adjacent or diagonally adjacent to it.)

6. The center triangle has side length 2, and squares are constructed using each side
√ of
the triangle as the base as shown in the diagram. If the shaded area equals a − b for
positive integers a, b find a + b.

7. Find the number of ordered pairs (a, b) of real numbers such that both a and b are
roots of the polynomial x2 + ax + b = 0.

8. Suppose quadrilateral BEAM has side lengths EA = 20, BM = 24, and BE = AM .

If ∠B = 50◦ and ∠M = 40◦ , what is the area of BEAM ?

9. A point randomly selected inside some rectangle is closer to a side than any diagonal
with probability 19
49
. If the diagonals have length 6, find the area of the rectangle.

10. The first 2024 positive integers are written in a random order on a circle. Alice starts
from 1 and traverses the circle clockwise in the order 1, 2, 3, . . . , 2024. What is the
expected number of times she passes 1 (not including her start there)?

√
11. Find the sum of all positive integers n ≤ 100 such that n + ⌊ n⌋ is a perfect square.
12. Let real numbers α, β, and γ satisfy

tan α = 2 cos β,
tan β = 3 cos γ,
tan γ = 7 cos α.

Find |cos 2α|.

13. Evan constructs a number r ∈ [0, 1] with the following process:

• The 1st digit after the decimal point of r is 9.
• If the nth digit after the decimal point of r has been chosen as k, the n + 1th digit
is randomly chosen from the digits between 0 to k inclusive.
Find the expected value of r.

14. Given that a, b, c, and d are positive reals satisfying ab + bc + cd + da = 25, find the
minimum possible value of 108a + 27b2 + 4c3 + d4 .

15. In △ABC, suppose segments BP and CQ bisect sides AC and AB, respectively, such
that ∠AP B = ∠AQC = 90◦ . Let BP and CQ meet at G.

Q
P

B C

If BG = 354, CG = 492, and QG = 433, find P G.

16. A frog is initially situated at the point (0, 0). Every day, one of the four points
(1, 1), (−1, 1), (−1, −1), (1, −1) is chosen at random, then the frog’s current position is
rotated 90 degrees clockwise around the chosen point. The probability that the frog’s
position after 10 days is on one of the coordinate axes is 4m10 for a positive integer m.
Find m (mod 100).

17. Let p = 20242 + 32752 be a prime. Find the smallest positive integer n where p | n2 + 1.

18. In an acute triangle ABC, let H denote the orthocenter. Let D be the midpoint
of minor arc BC and suppose ray AH meets the circumcircle again at X. Given
AH = 2HX = HD = 2, compute (AB + AC)2 .

19. Let f (x) be the unique polynomial of minimal degree for which f (k) = 0 for 1 ≤ k ≤ 30
and f (k) = k − 30 for 31 ≤ k ≤ 61. Find f (62) (mod 67).

20. Define circles ω1 , ω2 , ω3 , ω4 so ωi is externally tangent to ωi+1 for all 1 ≤ i ≤ 4 (ω5 = ω1 ).

Also, ω1 and ω3 are externally tangent at X. A common external tangent to ω2 and
ω4 at U and V intersects ω1 at P, Q so √ U, P, Q, V lie in that order. If P Q = 9, U V =
18, P X = 4, XQ = 8, then U P = a − b for positive integers a, b. Find a + b.

U Q V
P
21. Find the smallest real number r where for any 99 real numbers −1 ≤ a1 , a2 , . . . a99 ≤ 1
that sum to 0, there exists a permutation b1 , b2 , . . . b99 of those numbers where for any
integers 1 ≤ i ≤ j ≤ 99 we have |bi + · · · + bj | ≤ r.

22. Rohan has a set of 2024 identical bags each with 2023 marbles; each marble is either
red or white and no two bags contain the same number of marbles of each color. He
chooses a random subset S of {1, 2, . . . , 2023}, and for each i ∈ S, he does the following:

(a) he chooses a random bag of the 2024 bags he has,

(b) he draws i marbles at random from the bag, recording the number of red marbles
(c) and then puts all the marbles back into the bag.

The probability that the total number of red marbles he drew is even can be written
as m
n
, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find ν2 (n).

23. Find the sum of the two positive integers n where 2023n2 − n3 + 1 is a perfect square.

√
24. Find
√ the squared
√ volume√of tetrahedron ABCD with AB = 7, AC = 8, AD = 3 5, CD =
2 5, BD = 5, BC = 2 6.

25. There are 4913 cells in a 17 × 289 grid, of which k are randomly marked. Alice scans
each row left to right, going from top to bottom. Bob scans each column top to
bottom, going from left to right. They start at the same time and both check one cell
per second. For how many 1 ≤ k ≤ 4913 is the chance of Alice finding a marked cell
first equal to the chance of Bob finding a marked cell first?