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2021 Canadian Team Mathematics Contest

Team Problems (45 minutes)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Calculating devices are not permitted.

• Express answers
√ as simplified exact numbers except where otherwise indicated. For example,
π + 1 and 1 − 2 are simplified exact numbers.

PROBLEMS:

1. What integer is equal to 11 + 22 + 33 ?

2. What is the smallest prime number that is greater than 50?

3. For each positive integer n, the expression 1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + (n − 1) + n represents the sum of

all of the integers from 1 to n inclusive. What integer is equal to

(1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + 2020 + 2021) − (1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + 2018 + 2019)?

4. Tam created the mosaic shown using a regular hexagon, squares and equilateral triangles. If
the side length of the hexagon is 20 cm, what is the outside perimeter of the mosaic?

5. The three scales shown below are balanced. The mass of is 1 kg. Which of the other
objects, (circle, square and triangle), has a mass of 1 kg?
6. The diagram shows the first four levels of a school’s emergency telephone tree. In the case of
an emergency, the principal calls two students. The first level consists of just the principal, and
in the second level, two students are contacted. In the next level, each of these two students
contacts two students who have not been contacted, so after the third level, a total of 6 students
have been contacted. This continues so that each student contacts two students who have not
yet been contacted. After the 8th level, how many students in total have been contacted?

7. A group of n students doing an art project used red, blue, and yellow paint. Every student
used at least one colour, and some students used more than one colour.

• The yellow paint was used by a total of 46 students.

• The red paint was used by a total of 69 students.
• The blue paint was used by a total of 104 students.
• Exactly 14 students used both yellow and blue and did not use red.
• Exactly 13 students used both yellow and red and did not use blue.
• Exactly 19 students used both blue and red and did not use yellow.
• Exactly 16 students used all three colours.

What is the value of n?

1 x 7
8. A real number x satisfies the equation + = . What are the possible values of x?
x 80 30
9. Nabil has a tablet that starts with its battery fully charged to 100%. The battery life decreases
at a constant rate as the tablet is being used. He uses the tablet for exactly 60 minutes, after
which 68% of the battery life remains. For how many more minutes can Nabil use the tablet
before the battery is at 0%?
10. In the spinner shown, all circles have the same centre:

• The inner ring is divided into equal sections numbered 1 and 2.

• The middle ring is divided into equal sections numbered 1, 2 and 3.

• The outer ring is divided into equal sections numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4.

After the arrow is spun, it lies on one section of each of the three rings and the score is the
total of the three numbers in these sections. For example, in the spinner shown, the score is
2 + 2 + 3 = 7. The arrow is spun once. What is the probability that the score is odd?

11. In trapezoid ABCD, AD is parallel to BC. Also, AB = CD, BC = 9, AD = 21, and the
perimeter of ABCD is 50. What is the length of the diagonal AC?

12. A parabola passes through the point of intersection of the lines with equations y = −x + 3 and
x − 2y − 6 = 0, as well as the the x-intercept of each line. If the parabola also passes through
the point (10, k), what is the value of k?

13. Ann, Bill and Carol each have some tokens. There are four exchanges of tokens that happen
in the order below:

• First, Ann gives Bill the number of tokens that Bill has.
• Next, Ann gives Carol twice the number of tokens that Carol has.
• Next, Bill gives Ann the number of tokens that Ann has.
• Finally, Bill gives Carol twice the number of tokens that Carol has.

After these four exchanges of tokens, Ann, Bill, and Carol each have 36 tokens. How many
tokens did Ann have before any were exchanged?

14. Jiawei is drawing triangles using three of the points in the box below as vertices.

Below are three triangles that Jiawei might draw.

If the first two of these are considered to be different, how many triangles of positive area can
Jiawei draw in this way?
15. How many positive integers x with 200 ≤ x ≤ 600 have exactly one digit that is a prime
number?
16. Suppose f is a function that satisfies f (2) = 20 and f (2n) + nf (2) = f (2n + 2) for all positive
integers n. What is the value of f (10)?
17. Suppose a, b, and c are real numbers with a < b < 0 < c. Let f (x) be the quadratic function
f (x) = (x − a)(x − c) and g(x) be the cubic function g(x) = (x − a)(x − b)(x − c). Both f (x)
and g(x) have the same y-intercept of −8 and g(x) passes through the point (−a, 8). Determine
the value of c.

18. AC and BD are two perpendicular chords in a circle. The chords

intersect at E, as shown, such that BE = 3, EC = 2, and AE = 6.
The exact perimeter
√ of the quadrilateral ABCD may be written in
√
the form m n + p q, where m, n, p, and q are positive integers,
q > n, and neither q nor n has a divisor √ that √
is a perfect square
greater than 1. Determine the value of mn + p + q.

19. The table shown is to be filled in with integers so that

• the integers in each row form an arithmetic sequence that increases from left to right,
• the integers in each column form a geometric sequence that is increasing from top to
bottom, and
• the three geometric sequences have the same common ratio, which is an integer.
Determine the sum of all possible values of b.

5
b
900
 2x + 1
20. Suppose that f (x) = and that y = g(x) is a linear function. If f −1 (g(2)) = 7 and
x−2
4
g −1 (f (1)) = , what is the x-intercept of y = g(x)?
5
21. If n is a positive integer, the symbol n! (read “n factorial”) represents the product of the integers
from 1 to n. For example, 4! = (1)(2)(3)(4) or 4! = 24.
Determine
1 1 1 1 1
+ + + ··· + + .
log2 100! log3 100! log4 100! log99 100! log100 100!
2n3 − 12n2 − 2n + 12
22. For how many integers n is equal to an integer?
n2 + 5n − 6
√
23. An angle θ with 0◦ ≤ θ ≤ 180◦ satisfies 2 cos 2θ = cos θ + sin θ. Determine all possible values
of θ.
24. Twenty buckets, each with a volume of 6 L, are stacked in a pyramid as shown, with ten buckets
in the bottom layer, six in the second layer, three in the third layer, and one in the top layer.
Each layer is arranged in an equilateral triangle and the buckets are stacked so that each bucket,
other than those in the bottom layer, rests on exactly three buckets in the layer below.
Water is poured into the top bucket one litre at a time. After a litre is poured, the water is
allowed to settle before another litre is poured. If water is poured into a bucket that is full,
the water spills over the rim of the bucket in such a way that exactly one third of the runoff
goes into each of the three buckets on which it rests. For example, once the top bucket is full,
additional water spills equally into the three buckets in the second-highest layer.
At the first instant when at least one bucket on the bottom layer is full, what is the total
amount of water that has been poured into the top bucket?

25. The point N is the centre of the face ABCD of the cube ABCDEF
√ GH, as shown. Also, M is
the midpoint of the edge AE. If the area of 4M N H is 13 14, what is the edge length of the
cube?