ISMTF Senior Mathematics Competition 2016 – Webster University - Vienna – Individual Event

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1 1
1. Find the value of  log 2 .
4 4
1 1 1 1
A. B.  C. D.
8 2 4 2

2. The numbers p = 2100, q = 375, and r = 550 are written in ascending order.
Which of the following is the correct order?
A. p, q, r B. p, r, q C. q, p, r D. q, r, p

2rs 
3. If tan   , where 0    and r and s are positive real numbers, then cos  
r s
2 2
2

r r 2
 s2  rs r 2  s2
A. B. C. D.
s 2r r  s2
2
r 2  s2

4. The sum of three consecutive 2-digit prime numbers is a 3-digit prime number. What is the
smallest of these three numbers?
A. 23 B. 29 C. 31 D. 41

5. A circle with a radius of 3 cm is cut into 15 sectors of increasing size, so that the areas of the sectors form an
arithmetic sequence. The area of largest sector is five times the area of the smallest sector. What is the area of
the largest sector?

3
A.  cm2 B. cm 2 C. 2 cm2 D. 3 cm 2
2
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1. What is the difference between the following two numbers?
The largest two digit integer that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube, and
The largest three digit integer which is both a perfect square and a perfect cube.

A. 215 B. 729 C. 665 D. 936

2. The nth triangular number is the number of dots composing an equilateral triangle with n dots on a side.

2016 is a triangular number. Which one is it?

A. 61 st B. 62nd C. 63rd D. 64th

3.  
Find the range of values of k such that the equation e x 2 x 2  5 x  2  k has 3 different
solutions.
3 3 3
 9 9
A. e 2
 k  e2 B. 0k  C. 0  k  9e D. e 2  k 
e e

4.  ln x dx 
1

A. 1 B. e C. 2e D. e2

5. What is the “thousands” digit of 15! [in case you need it: in 52016, 2 is the thousands digit ]

A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
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Set 3
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1. What is the value of 20162  2015  2017?

A. 1 B. 2015 C. 2016 D. – 2017

2. How many different triangles can be made from five rods of lengths 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 cm if you only use one
rod for each side?

A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 10

6
 2 
3. What is the value of the term independent of x in the expansion of  3x  2  ?
 x 

A. 729 B. 324 C. 4860 D. 4320

4. If two real numbers x and y make the expression ( x  3) 2  ( y  4) 2  36 true, find the minimum value of
x2  y2 .

A. 2 B. 3 C. 2 D. 1

5. A sequence is defined with first term 0.6 and subsequent terms defined by the recursive relationship
un 1  2un  0.1
X is defined as the sum of the first 1000 terms of the sequence rounded to the nearest integer.
Y is defined as the sum of the first 1000 terms of the sequence each first rounded to the
nearest integer and then added.
What is the difference between X and Y?

A. 1000 B. 100 C. 99 D. 0
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Set 4
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1. The positive integer n is between 1 and 20.
Sophia adds up all the integers from 1 to n inclusive.
Lukas adds up all the integers from n + 1 to 20 inclusive.
Their totals are equal. What is the value of n?

A. 10 B. 12 C. 14 D. 15

a ab a
2. a and b are real numbers such that a > b > 0 and  . What is the value of ?
b a b b

A. 1 2 B. 1 2 C. 1 2 2 D. 2 2

3. A  5, 2 , B  2,7  , and C  2, 1 are the vertices of a triangle. M(x, y) is the point of
intersection of the heights of this triangle (Orthocentre). Find the coordinates of M.

A. (0, 1) B. (–1, 0) C. (1, –1) D. (–1, 1)

2
2
xdx
4. Find the exact value of 
0 1  x4
.

1 3  
A. B. C. D.
2 2 6 12

5. Evaluate cos 20 cos 40 cos80

1 1 1 3 2
A. B. C. D.
2 4 8 2
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1. How many rectangles with integral length sides (integers) have an area whose value (without units) equal to
the perimeter?

A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 4

2. The coordinates of three vertices of a parallelogram are P(1, 1), Q(2, 4) and R(-5, 1). What is the Area of the
parallelogram?

A. 9 B. 18 C. 36 D. 81

3. The table shows a 5 X 5 square with the digits 1 to 5 in the first row. The fourth row contains
the digits 1, 2 and 3 as shown. The remaining squares may be filled
1 2 3 4 5 with the digits 1 to 5 such that no row, column or diagonal contains
the same digit more than once. The digit that must go into the shaded
square is
1 2 3

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

3
Find the number of terms in the expansion of  a  b   a  b   . Assume that all like
3 3
4.
 
terms are combined.
A. 10 B. 15 C. 19 D. 21

1 1
5. The value of 
0 x  x  x 1
3 2
dx is

 
A. ln 2  B. ln 4 2 
4 8
 
C. ln 2  D. ln 4 2 
8 4
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1. The largest circle that fits inside an equilateral triangle T has area π. The area of T is:

A. 3 3 B. 2 C.  3 D. 2 2


2. If A is not a multiple of , find the simplified numerical value of
2
1 1 1 1
  
1  sin A 1  cos A 1  sec A 1  csc2 A
2 2 2

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

3.  and  are the roots of the equation x2  x  1  0.

The value of the expression  2016   2016 is:

A. 0 B. 1 C. 3 D. 2

4. a and b are two positive numbers. If a + b, ab, and a2 – b2 are all equal, what is the value of b?

5 1 5
A. 2 B. 2 C. D. 3
4 2

5. PQRS is a trapezium with parallel sides PQ and SR.

XY, which is parallel to PQ and SR, divides the trapezium into two equal areas.
If the length of PQ is 5, and the length of XY is 6, find the length of SR.

P 5 cm Q
A. 46 B. 47

X 6 cm Y
C. 48 D. 7

S R
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Set 7
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1. Let R be the region containing all points in the xy-plane that satisfy the relation
x 2  y 2  16. What is the area of R?

A. 32 B. 36 C. 64 D. 72

2. How many positive integers are there which are less than or equal to 1000 and may be written
without the digits 7, 8 or 9?

A. 340 B. 341 C. 342 D. 343

3. Three couples and a child will be sitting in a row of 7 seats. How many unique seating
arrangements exist in which the couples are always seated next to one another and the child is
never sitting at either end?

A. 24 B. 48 C. 96 D. 112

4. 
Find the value of: sin 50 1  3 tan10 . 

2 6 1 1 3
A. B. C. D. 1
9 2 2

5. Mr. Chabilan invented a new logarithmic structure called “Fuzzy Logarithm”. This Fuzzy
1
Logarithm has the exact same rules as the usual logarithm except for log 8 3  ,
2
3
log 3 5  , and log10 5. Find the value of log10 5.
2

3 3 9 1
A. B. C. D.
13 10 13 5
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Set 8
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1. What is the remainder when the 2016-digit number 222…22 is divided by 9?

A. 0 B. 2 C. 4 D. 8

2. A point P is chosen at random inside a square QRST. What is the probability that ∠RPQ is
acute?

 3 
A. B. C. 2 1 D. 1
4 4 8

3. Find the numerical value of the cube root of 643  3  94  244  3 363

A. 37 B. 41 C. 43 D. 53

4. A function f is defined for all positive integers and satisfies:

f (1)  2016, and f (1)  f (2)  ...  f (n)  n 2 f (n) for all n > 1.

Find the value of f (2016).

1 2 2015
A. B. C. D. 2016
2016 2017 2016

5. A function f has the property that f(xy) = f(x) + f(y) for any two numbers x and y. If
f(10) = 6 and f(20) = 10, find the value of f(25).

A. 10 B. 8 C. 6 D. 4
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Set 9
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1. Sam uses all the money in his wallet to buy a watch. He regrets his purchase and sells the
watch at a 10% profit to Lucy. Lucy doesn’t want it either so Sam buys the watch back and
gives Lucy 70% of the contents of his wallet. In the end, Sam has a watch and 66 euros. How
much did Sam have in his wallet in the beginning?

A. 222 Euros B. 400 Euros C. 200 Euros D. 444 Euros

ab
2. If a2  b2  4ab and b > a > 0, what is the value of ?
a b

A.  3 B. 3 C. 3 D. –3

1 1
3. Positive integers x and y satisfy the equation x  y  x y  1. Which of the
2 2
following is a possible value of y.

A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8

4. The length and width of the base of a rectangular box are increasing at 0.1 cm/s while the
height is decreasing at 0.1 cm/s. At what rate is the volume changing when the length is 20
cm, the width is 10 cm and the height is 30 cm?

A. 70 cm3/s B. –70 cm3/s C. 60 cm3/s D. –50 cm3/s

5. For each natural number n, let S(n) denote the sum of the digits of n. Then the value of
S(1) + S(2) + · · · + S(2000) is

A. 20000 b. 28000 C. 28002 D. 20160

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1. The diagram shows four sets of parallel lines, containing 2, 3, 4 and 5
lines respectively.
How many points of intersection are there?

A. 54 B. 63 C. 71 D. 95

2. If f ( x  1)  x f ( x) and f (1)  20, then f (20) 

A. 1 B. 20! C. 44! D. 19!

x10  1024
3. lim 
x2 x2

A. 5120 B. 512 C. 2016 D. 1024

4. State the number of distinct (different) real solutions of this equation:

4x4  8x3  3x2  7 x  2  0

A. 4 B. 3 C. 2 D. 0

2016  n
5. Find   10 , where  x denotes the largest integer less than equal to x.
n 1  
A. 2016 B. 4032 C. 4578 D. 5068
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Trial
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1. 3  5 .6  2 5   ?
A. 9 5 B. 8 5 C. 5 9 D. 8

2. The value of 1002 – 992 + 982 – 972 + . . .+ 22 – 12 is

A. 9999 B. 5050 C. 2525 D. 20020

3. The zeros of the polynomial x3  33x2  354x  k are in arithmetic progression.

Find the value of k .
A. 1200 B. 1232 C. 1452 D. 1324

4. Find the probability of randomly choosing an integer from -100 to 100, inclusive, that
has at least one digit that is a 3.

A.
38 B. 40 C. 35 D. 28
201 201 200 200

ae3 x , 0  x 1

5. Let f ( x)   sin( x 1) .
 2 , 1 x  
 x  5x  4


Find the value of a such that the function is continuous for 0  x   .

A. 2e3 B. e3 C.  3e3 D. 13
3e
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Tie-breakers
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1. ABCD is a right trapezoid AB  BC , AT  5cm. Find AD .

2. What is the unit’s digit of 333656?

3. How many zeros does the number 818 have at the end when it is written in base 4?

4. Eight children must be divided into four teams of two players each.
Find the number of different ways in which this can be done?

5. When a certain number divides 43, 55, and 67; the remainder is 7 in each case. Find the greatest value of the
number.