WMTC 2011 Primary Division

2011 World Mathematics Team Championship

Primary Division
Team Round
1. Given four numbers with an average of 12. Suppose this average is 9 greater the smallest of these four
numbers, 5 less than the second largest number, and its sum with the second smallest number is same as the
largest number. Write out these four numbers in ascending order.

2. The Hope Cup Competition started in 1990. This year is 2011. If we write

b
c

2011
as a continued fraction
1990

1
d

1
e

(a) What is the largest number among the integers a, b, c, d, e ?

(b) What is the sum of a, b, c, d, and e ?

3. Place four regular hexagons with edge 1 on a desk without overlapping as in Fig.1. Suppose they are allowed
to touch each other matching completely side-by-side and form different figures. If L represents the perimeter
of the forming figure, find all possible L.

Fig.1

4. As in Fig.2, given an open top cubic tin box (with only 5 sides) of dimensions 6cm6cm6cm. Suppose we
want to change it into an open top box with whole number edges and with only

5
of the original volume.
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(a) Among all these possible boxes, find the largest base area in cm?
(b) When the base area is the largest, and the least material are used, find the sum of length, width, and
height in cm.

Fig.2

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5. As in Fig.3, a rectangle is partitioned into 9 smaller rectangles. The numbers inside the small rectangle
represent their areas. The numbers outside the small rectangles represent the lengths of the edges. Find the
area of the original large rectangle.

Fig.3
6. As in Fig.4, ABCDEFGH is a regular Octagon. If the area of isosceles trapezoid ABCD is 12, find the area
of this octagon.

Fig.4

7. Use a piece of paper that is 0.02cm thick87.92m longand 0.12m wide to wrap tightly around a 0.12 m long
cylindrical tube of diameter 10cm. in multiple layers. This forms a paper tube wrapping around the original
cylinder. As in Fig.5, what is the thickness of the resulting paper tube in cm?Use 3.14 for

Fig.5

8. A properly working clock has its hour hand and minute hand forming a 30 at 11 oclock in the morning.
When is the next time when this clocks hour and minute hands again form that same angle?
9. What is the smallest prime number p so that 29 p 3 is equal to the product of two consecutive non-zero
natural numbers?
10. Draw two identical triangles totally inside a piece of rectangular paper so that no vertex or edge of either
triangle would touch the edge of the paper. These two triangles would divide the paper into n regions. What
are all the possible value for n ?
11. Let a, b, c, d be non-zero natural numbers that are not more than 4. Two of them are identical,
and a b b c c d d a 900 . Find a b c d .

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12. Suppose the sum of the digits of a 4-digit number is 4 and this number is still a 4-digit number if we reverse
the order of its digits. Among all possible such 4-digit numbers, find the one that is closest to perfect square of
some 2-digit number.
13. A 13 x 13 square piece of paper is being cut up into many smaller pieces. If these pieces are put back together
To form 3 squares of different sizes and each edge is integer number. Find the sum of these squares
perimeters.
14. As in Fig.6, ABCD is a rectangle, AB = 6, AD = 10. If point E is on the diagonal AC, AE = 2EC, and

S AEF

1
S ABCD find AF: FD
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Fig.6
15. How many pairs of natural numbers x and y satisfying 3x 5 y 121 ?

16. A company sold 30% of a certain merchandise from its inventory for $150 each and lost 5%. Now, a customer
paid x dollars each buying up the remaining inventory. This transaction results the company making a total of
5% profit on the whole inventory. Find the ratio of x to the cost of each item.
17. Let n be any non-zero natural number and m is the product of n 1,n,n 1n n 1 .
(a) Is m a multiple of 6
(b) Is m a multiple of 5?
18. What is the remainder when 82011 32011 62011 is divided by 10?
19. A square field ABCD has 32 holes as in Fig.7 (9 holes on each side). A worker carries 32 flags and placing
them into these holes clockwise. He would start with Hole A and skips 5 holes before he places another flag in
the next hole. After he has been around the square field a number of times, he discovers that there are still n
holes without a flag. Find n.

Fig.7

20. Let N be the largest number of regions that can be formed by drawing 2011 straight lines on a plane. Find the
sum of all digits of N.
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Relays Round
Round 1
Problem 1AThe edge lengths of a rectangle are prime numbers and its perimeter is 60.
Find the largest area of such rectangle.

Problem 1BLet T = TNYWR(The Number You Will Receive).

As in the figure below, D is on the line segment CG and the sum of the areas of square ABCD and
Square CEFG is T. If the sides of these two squares differ by 1, find the area of quadrilateral
AEFG.

Round 2
Problem 2AGiven that a,b,c,d are natural numbers and a is equal to the area of a square P .
If a b c b 2c c 3d d 500 then which one of the four numbers 268, 272, 276, 280
is the perimeter of P .

Problem 2BLet T = TNYWR (The Number You Will Receive).

If the sum of the squares of three consecutive natural numbers is T 23 , then what is the sum of
these three consecutive natural numbers?

Round 3
Problem 3AA team of 5000 some (more than 5000 but less than 6000) athletes is gathered in a football field.
These athletes can either be grouped into several arrays of 1212 or several arrays of 1818. How
many athletes are there?

Problem 3BLet T = TNYWR (The Number You Will Receive).

Suppose T ' is the number derived by reversing the digits of T and T T ' +1 is the square of a
certain natural number. If this natural number is the sum of 5 consecutive natural numbers, find
these 5 consecutive natural numbers.

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Individual Round
Round 1
1. In a certain year, there are exactly 4 Wednesdays and 4 Sundays in January. Which day of the week is
February 14 in that year?

2. Both aeroplane A and aeroplane B can fly for 6000 kilometers when they have a full tank of fuel. If both of
the planes depart from Airport C with a full tank and aeroplane A can refuel aeroplane B from its own tank at
some point in the air. In order to make sure both aeroplane A and B can return to Airport C before their fuel
run out, what is longest distance aeroplane B can reach (in kilometers)?

3. Consider the line segment AB as in the figure below. If CD

2
2
AD DB AB 1 and AB 12
5
5

find CB

4. If the digits in a 3-digit number abc satisfy c a c 40 and a a b 36 , find all possible abc

Round 2
5. From 130 to 1300, inclusive, there are n natural numbers that are multiples of 17 or 71. Find n

6. A company had x college-graduate-employees, which is 45% of the total employees. Now, another 120
college-graduate-employees are hired, making the percentage of college-graduate-employees reaches 75%.
How many employees the company had before this latest hiring?

7. As in the Fig.1, ABC is composed with identical triangles

and rectangles

. From top down, its first

layer is composed with 2 right triangles. Its 2nd layer is composed with 2 right triangles and 2 rectangles and
so on. Each right triangles has an area of 1 and each rectangle has an area of 2. Which layer has an area of
8042?

Fig.1
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8. As in Fig.2, suppose the base AB of a parallelogram ABCD is 8 cm long and its height is 4 cm. If
of triangle BEF is 6 cmlarger than the area of CDF, find the length of BE.

the

area

Fig.2

Round 3
9. Find the number of factors of the natural number 371250 that are not larger than 11. Also, how many of these
factors are prime numbers?

10. If a is the largest prime number less than 1000, then what is the smallest non-zero natural number b so that
a b is also a prime number?

11. Place 2011 of the number 2011 side-by-side and form a

this number is divided by 8.

(42011)-digit number. Find the remainder when

12. As in the figure below, ABCD is a square with edge as 2a . Let O be the largest circle inside
square ABCD and let EFGH be the largest rectangle inside O. If S1, S2, and S3 are used to represent
the area of EOF , the area of the arch-shaped region EmF , and the area of curved region EBF ,
respectively. Find S1 : S2 : S3 (Express the answer in terms of )

Round 4
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of the distance AB A train is coming toward
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A at a speed of 80 km/h . Steven has two choices. He can either run toward A and he will run into the train
at A or he can run toward B at the same speed and the train will catch up him at B . Find his speed in km

13. Steven stands on a bridge AB . His distance from A is

per hour.
14. In a 12-hour clock, what time between 1:00 am and 2:00 am are the hour hand and minute hand form a
straight line?
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Round 5
15. As in the figure below, A1 B1C1 A2 B2C2 and A3 B3C3 are equilateral triangles. Let D1 trisects A1C1
and bisects A2B2 and let D2 trisects A2C2 and bisects A3B3. Also, the bases of all three triangles are all on a
straight line. If the area of A1 B1C1 is 54 cm2, then find the area of the figure that is formed by the zigzag
line segment B1 A1D1 A2 D2 A3C3 B1 .

16. A webcam, DVD drive, and hard disk drive together cost $100. Suppose one DVD drive costs more than two
webcams, two hard disk drives cost more than seven DVD drives, and eight webcams cost more than one hard
disk drive. Assuming the cost of each of these items is a whole number of dollars, how much does each item
cost?

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Answers
Team Round

Relays Round

3, 8, 17, 20

Round 1

1A. 221

1B. 121

1, 94, 1, 3, 5

Round 2

2A. 268

2B. 27

24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14

Round 3

3A. 5184 3B. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

(a) 90 cm

77

Saturday

48

4000 kilometers

7.08 or 7

11 hours and 54

604 or 395

85

10

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

100

11

11

2011

12

1021

11 mm

13

76

8, 4

14

3
4

10

12

15

11

16

153
140

12

S1:S2 :S3 2: 2 : 4

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(a) Yes (b) Yes

13

10km/h

18

14

1: 38

19

16

15

80 cm2

20

20

16

$9, $20, $71

Individual Round

(b) 21 cm

6
minutes
11

2
177
or
25
25

2
5
am and 1: 05 am
11
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