FSJM – SEMI- FINAL - March 12 th 2016

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START for ALL PARTICIPANTS 7 – Mathew’s collection (coefficient 7)

Mathew wants to put numbers on the toy cars in his
1 – 2016 the year that makes a difference (coefficient 1) collection (he has more than 100 of them). To do this, he
Using the four digits 2, 0, 1 and 6, we can make two two- buys stickers bearing the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8;
digit numbers and calculate their difference. the digit 6 can represent a 9 by being used upside down.
For example, 26 – 10 = 16 or 20 – 16 = 4. He has 20 stickers of each digit, so 180 stickers altogether.
4 is the smallest possible difference. If Mathew numbers his cars from 1 upwards, what will
What is the largest possible difference? be the first number that he cannot make?
Beware: a two-digit number cannot start with 0.
8 – At the masked ball, dance with them all? (coefficient 8)
2 – Waiter, the bill please! (coefficient 2) There were 31 people at the masked ball.
At the restaurant, Mathew pays for two drinks with a Emma danced with 8 boys, Jade danced with 9 boys,
banknote. The waiter gives him two 1 Franc coins and a Chloe danced with 10 boys, etc.... up to Manon, the last
10 centime coin in change. But he has made a mistake, he girl, who danced with all the boys that were there.
should have given Mathew two 10 centime coins and a How many boys were there ?
single 1 Franc coin. END for CM PARTICIPANTS
How much extra change did he give ?

3 – A square in nine (coefficient 3) Problems 9 to 18 : beware! For a problem to be completely

solved, you must give both the number of solutions, AND give
It’s easy to divide a square into the solution if there is only one, or give any two correct solutions
nine identical smaller squares. if there are more than one. For all problems that may have more
Divide this square into nine than one solution, there is space for two answers on the answer
squares that are not all the same sheet (but there may still be just one solution).
size.
Cuts must only be along the gridlines. 9 – Generation game (coefficient 9)
For every day of the year we associate a number, formed
4 –Sacha’s puzzle (coefficient 4)
by the number of the day in the month followed by the
Sacha has made the 12-piece number of the month (a number never starts with the
rectangular puzzle in the picture. digit 0). Baptiste tells us his birthday number is 131. His
Now he is going to make a second birthday is the 13th of January.
rectangular puzzle of the same sort His great grandfather tells us his own birthday number
of a picture of a cat in its basket, and and from it we cannot tell his birthday.
which has 77 pieces. What is Baptiste’s great grandfather’s birthday number?
How many pieces of the second puzzle will have exactly
one straight edge? 10 – Du café noir (coefficient 10)
A cryptarithm is a substitution code where different
5 – Never two without three (coefficient 5) letters represent different digits, two digits can never be
How many whole numbers between 100 and 1000 which represented by the same letter and numbers cannot start
contain the digit 2 also contain the digit 3? with a 0.
DU + CAFE = NOIR
END for CE PARTICIPANTS
This cryptarithm has more than one solution. But for the
6 – In 80 days? (coefficient 6) solution where CAFE is the smallest possible number,
what number is NOIR ?
In his trip around the world, Phileas Fogg has already
travelled 34215 kilometres. This number is made of five 11 –Cedric’s age (coefficient 11)
consecutive digits (i.e. digits that follow one another). At We are in the year 2016, and Cedric’s age is a factor of
this point he has 5785 km left to travel to finish his trip 2016. If Cedric adds up all the multiples of his age that are
around the world. less than 365, he arrives at the year he was born.
When Phileas has travelled the greatest number of In which year was he born?
kilometres that can be made from five consecutive END for C1 PARTICIPANTS
digits, how many kilometres does he have left to travel
to finish his trip around the world?
12 – Forty-nine points (coefficient 12) 16 – Game cube (coefficient 16)
49 points are marked on a In a videogame, every edge of a
sheet of paper. cube carries a ball containing a
Adjacent points horizontally or number of gold pieces. All 12 balls
vertically are separated by contain a different whole number
exactly 1 centimetre. of gold pieces between 1 and 12.
The contents of every ball is
How many straight lines of length 5 centimetres can be hidden.
drawn between points in the design?
A game consists of choosing a vertex and then travelling
13 – P-cake (coefficient 13) an unbroken path along three different edges, collecting
the gold pieces along the way. The numbers of gold pieces
Philippe has baked a rectangular cake, made of four
collected from every edge travelled must be in increasing
rectangular portions. In every portion there is a different
order to win the game. If the order is not increasing, the
fruit flavour, as shown in the following drawing.
game is lost.
Pomegranate Pear What is the minimum number of winning paths on the
cube?
Plum Peach Two paths are considered distinct if they differ by at least
one edge.
An ant has travelled around the perimeter of every END for L1, GP PARTICIPANTS
rectangle formed by two flavours which touch along a
side. The four perimeters are 82 cm, 74 cm, 92 cm and 94 17 – The houses of Maths-beach (coefficient 17)
cm. Along the coast of Maths-land, the straight beach-front
What is the perimeter of Philippe’s cake? road contains a line of houses, all on the same side of the
road. The houses are painted either blue or yellow and
14 – I triangulate, you triangulate, … (coefficient 14) there is at least one house of each colour. Curiously
enough, every pair of houses separated by ten other
houses is painted the same colour, as is every pair
separated by fifteen houses.
What is the maximum number of houses on this road?
In his exercise book, Mathew has drawn 5 points, then he 18 – Mathew’s questions (coefficient 18)
has connected some points to make a grid only of Matilda has written the series of squares of all whole
triangles whose vertices are his original points. Thus he numbers larger than 1 and smaller than or equal to 1000:
makes three triangles (the figure on the left). Matilda 4 ; 9 ; 16 ; 25 ; …. ; 998 001; 1 000 000.
does the same task and makes four triangles from her For every square a2 Matilda has written, Mathew checks
points (the figure on the right). if there is a whole number n bigger than 1 and smaller
If you draw 2016 points on a sheet of paper, what is the then a for which a2 is a multiple of n(2an – n2) + 1 .
maximum number of triangles you can obtain, without What is the number written by Matilda for which
any triangles overlapping? Mathew can find a whole number n for which the
END for C2 PARTICIPANTS condition is satisfied?
END for L2, HC PARTICIPANTS
15 – Who bids higher? (coefficient 15)
Matt the Kid counts the number of factors of the number
2016. He finds that there are many of them.
Which year of the third millennium has even more
factors?