Date: 30/10/2022 Time: 3 Hours

Number of Questions: 24 Max Marks: 100

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for
IOQM – 2022-23
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7. Questions 1 to 10 carry 2 marks each; questions 11 to 22 carry 5 marks each; questions 23 & 24 carry 10 marks each.
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1. A triangle ABC with AC = 20 is inscribed in a circle . A tangent t to  is drawn through B. The distance of t from
A is 25 and that from C is 16. If S denotes the area of the triangle ABC, find the largest integer not exceeding
S/20.
Answer (10)
AP 61
2. In a parallelogram ABCD, the point P on a segment AB is taken such that  and a point Q on the
AB 2022
AQ 61 AC
segment AD is taken such that  . If PQ intersects AC at T, find to the nearest integer.
AD 2065 AT
Answer (67)
3. In a trapezoid ABCD, the internal bisector of angle A intersects the base BC (or its extension) at the point E.
Inscribed in the triangle ABE is a circle touching the side AB at M and side BE at the point P. Find the angle DAE
in degrees, if AB : MP = 2.
Answer (60)
4. Starting with a positive integer M written on the board, Alice plays the following game: in each move, if x is the
number on the board, she replaces it with 3x + 2. Similarly, starting with a positive integer N written on the board,
Bob plays the following game: in each move, if x is the number on the board, he replaces it with 2x + 27. Given
that Alice and Bob reach the same number after playing 4 moves each, find the smallest value of M + N.
Answer (10)
5. Let m be the smallest positive integer such that m2 + (m + 1)2 + … + (m + 10)2 is the square of a positive integer
n. Find m + n.
Answer (95)
6. Let a, b be positive integers satisfying a3 – b3 – ab = 25. Find the largest possible value of a2 + b3.
Answer (43)
7. Find the number of ordered pairs (a, b) such that a, b  {10, 11, …, 29, 30} and GCD(a, b) + LCM(a, b) = a + b.
Answer (35)

q m
8. Suppose the prime numbers p and q satisfy q2 + 3p = 197p2 + q. Write as l  , where l, m, n are positive
p n
integers, m < n and GCD(m, n) = 1. Find the maximum value of l + m + n.
Answer (32)
9. Two sides of an integer sided triangle have lengths 18 and x. If there are exactly 35 possible integer values y
such that 18, x, y are the side of a non-degenerate triangle, find the number of possible integer values x can
have.
Answer (Bonus)
10. Consider the 10-digit number M = 9876543210. We obtain a new 10-digit number from M according to the
following rule: we can choose one or more disjoint pairs of adjacent digits in M and interchange the digits in
these chosen pairs, keeping the remaining digits in their own places. For example, from M = 9876543210, by
interchanging the 2 underlined pairs, and keeping the others in their places, we get M1  9786453210 . Note
that any number of (disjoint) pairs can be interchanged. Find the number of new numbers that can be so obtained
from M.
Answer (88)

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11. Let AB be a diameter of a circle  and let C be a point on , different from A and B. The perpendicular from C
intersects AB at D and  at E( C). The circle with centre at C and radius CD intersects  at P and Q. If the
perimeter of the triangle PEQ is 24, find the length of the side PQ.

Answer (08)

12. Given ABC with B = 60° and C = 30°, let P, Q, R be points on sides BA, AC, CB respectively such that
2  ABC 
BPQR is an isosceles trapezium with PQ||BR and BP = QR. Find the maximum possible value of
BPQR 
where [S] denotes the area of any polygon S.

Answer (Bonus)

13. Let ABC be a triangle let D be a point on the segment BC such that AD = BC. Suppose CAD = x°, ABC = y°
and ACB = z° and x, y, z are in an arithmetic progression in that order where the first term and the common
difference are positive integers. Find the largest possible value of ABC in degrees.

Answer (59)

14. Let x, y, z be complex numbers such that

x y z
  9
yz zx xy

x2 y2 z2
   64
yz zx xy

x3 y3 z3
   488
yz zx xy

x y z m
If    where m, n are positive integers with GCD (m, n) = 1, find m + n.
yz zx xy n

Answer (16)
15. Let x, y be real numbers such that xy = 1. Let T and t be the largest and the smallest values of the expression

x  y  – x – y  – 2 .
2

x  y   x – y  – 2
2

m
If T + t can be expressed in the form where m, n are nonzero integers with GCD (m, n) = 1, find the value of
n
m + n.

Answer (25)

16. Let a, b, c be reals satisfying

3ab + 2 = 6b, 3bc + 2 = 5c, 3ca + 2 = 4a.

r t
Let Q denote the set of all rational numbers. Given that the product abc can take two values  Q and Q ,
s u
in lowest form, find r + s + t + u.
Answer (18)

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17. For a positive integer n > 1, let g(n) denote the largest positive proper divisor of n and f(n) = n – g(n). For example,
g(10) = 5, f(10) = 5 and g(13) = 1, f(13) = 12. Let N be the smallest positive integer such that f(f(f(N))) = 97. Find
the largest integer not exceeding N.
Answer (19)
18. Let m, n be natural numbers such that
m + 3n – 5 = 5LCM(m, n) – 11GCD(m, n).
Find the maximum possible value of m + n.
Answer (70)
19. Consider a string of n 1’s. We wish to place some + signs in between so that the sum is 1000. For instance, if n
= 190, one may put + signs so as to get 11 ninety times and 1 ten times, and get the sum 1000. If a is the number
of positive integers n for which it is possible to place + signs so as to get the sum 1000, then find the sum of the
digits of a.
Answer (10)
20. For an integer n  3 and a permutation  = (p1, p2, …, pn) of {1, 2, …, n}, we say p1 is a landmark point if
2  l  n – 1 and (pl –1 – pl)(pl + 1 – pl) > 0. For example, for n = 7, the permutation (2, 7, 6, 4, 5, 1, 3) has four
landmark points: p2 = 7, p4 = 4, p5 = 5 and p6 = 1. For a given n  3, let L(n) denote the number of permutation
of {1, 2, …, n} with exactly only landmark point. Find the maximum n  3 for which L(n) is a perfect square.
Answer (03)
21. An ant is at a vertex of a cube. Every 10 minutes it moves to an adjacent vertex along an edge. If N is the number
of one hour journeys that end at the starting vertex, find the sum of the squares of the digits of N.
Answer (74)
22. A binary sequence is a sequence in which each term is equal to 0 or 1. A binary sequence is called friendly if
each term is adjacent to at least one term that is equal to 1. For example, the sequence 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1 is
friendly. Let Fn denote the number of friendly binary sequences with n terms. Find the smallest positive integer
n  2 such that Fn > 100.
Answer (11)
23. In a triangle ABC, the median AD divides BAC in the ratio 1 : 2. Extend AD to E such that EB is perpendicular
AB. Given that BE = 3, BA = 4, find the integer nearest to BC2.

Answer (29)

24. Let N be the number of ways of distributing 52 identical balls into 4 distinguishable boxes such that no box
is empty and the difference between the number of balls in any two of the boxes is not a multiple of 6. If
N = 100a + b, where a, b are positive integers less than 100, find a + b.
Answer (81)

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