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The Niels Henrik Abel Mathematics Competition: Second Round 2017-2018

The document summarizes the second round of the Abel mathematics competition which consists of 10 problems to be solved in 100 minutes for points. It provides instructions that only writing implements are allowed and answers should be integers between 0 and 999 written in the form. It also includes a participant information section to be filled out.

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The Niels Henrik Abel Mathematics Competition: Second Round 2017-2018

The document summarizes the second round of the Abel mathematics competition which consists of 10 problems to be solved in 100 minutes for points. It provides instructions that only writing implements are allowed and answers should be integers between 0 and 999 written in the form. It also includes a participant information section to be filled out.

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The Niels Henrik Abel mathematics

competition: Second round 2017–2018


11 January 2018 (English)

Do not turn the page until told to by your teacher!


The second round of the Abel competition consists of 10 problems to be
solved in 100 minutes. The solutions are integers between 0 and 999, in-
clusive. Write your answers in the lower left hand side of the form.
You get 10 points for each correct answer and 0 points for a blank or wrong
answer. This yields a total between 0 and 100 points.
No aids other than scratch paper and writing implements (including com-
pass and ruler, but not protactor) are allowed.
When your teacher says so, you can turn over the page and begin working
on the problems.

Fill in using block letters


Name Date of birth

Address Gender

F M
Post code Post office

School Class

Citizenship Email Mobile phone

Check the box to allow us to put your name on the results list.
(Regardless, we only publish results for the best third.)

Answers
1 6

2 7

3 8

4 9 For the teacher

5 10 Correct: ⋅ 10 =
The Abel competition English
Second round 2017–2018 Page 1 of 2

Problem 1

In the triangle ABC, two sides are AB = AC = 720, and ∠𝐴 = 90∘ . The mid-
point of side BC is 𝐸, and the midpoint of segment AE is 𝐹. The line through
𝐶 and 𝐹 meets AB at 𝐷. How long is the line segment AD?

Problem 2

What is the smallest positive integer having no prime factor in common with
the product 1 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 4 ⋅ 5 ⋅ ⋯ ⋅ 199 ⋅ 200?

Problem 3

A positive integer is called geometric if the digits are different and form a geo-
metric sequence. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest
three digit geometric integer?

Problem 4

What is the sum of all possible values for 60𝑥/𝑦, where 𝑥 and 𝑦 are pairs of
values which satisfy the equations 1 − 2𝑥 + 3𝑦 − 4𝑥 2 + 5𝑥𝑦 + 6𝑦 2 = 0 and
𝑥 − 𝑦 = 1?

Problem 5

A rectangle composed of whole squares on a chess board is called imbalanced


if it covers a different number of black and white squares. How many imbal-
anced rectangles exist on a regular (8 × 8) chess board?

Problem 6

How many seven digit numbers can be created by permuting the digits of
1234567 so that each odd digit is next to exactly one other odd digit?
The Abel competition English
Second round 2017–2018 Page 2 of 2

Problem 7

A circle centred at 𝑄 passes through two adjacent corners of a square with side
length 32, and is tangent to the opposite side. What is the length of the path
PQRS in the picture, rounded to the nearest integer?

𝑅 𝑃

𝑆
𝑄

Problem 8

What is the value of 𝑝(1) + 𝑝(7) + 𝑝(19) + 𝑝(25), if 𝑝(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 − 39𝑥 2 + 507𝑥 −
2018 ?

Problem 9

Which positive integer less than 1000 has the most divisors?

Problem 10

How many binary strings are there of length eleven, which do not contain
more than two consecutive zeroes? (Example: 00111101001.)

Solutions are posted on 12 January at 17.00 on

abelkonkurransen.no

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