CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 1/8

1. Assume the speed of sound is 343 m/s. Anastasia and Bananastasia are standing in a field
in front of you. When they both yell at the same time, you hear Anastasia’s yell 5 seconds
before Bananastasia’s yell. If Bananastasia yells first, and then Anastasia yells when she hears
Bananastasia yell, you hear Anastasia’s yell 5 seconds after Bananastasia’s yell. What is the
distance between Anastasia and Bananastasia in meters?
2. Michelle picks a five digit number with distinct digits. She then reverses the digits of her number
and adds that to her original number. What is the largest possible sum she can get?
3. Twain is trying to crack a 4-digit number combination lock. They know that the second digit
must be even, the third must be odd, and the fourth must be different from the previous three.
If it takes Twain 10 seconds to enter a combination, how many hours would it take them to try
every possible combination that satisfies these rules?

CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 2/8

4. △ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = BC. Additionally, there is D on BC with AC = DA =

BD = 1. Find the perimeter of △ABC.
5. Let r be the positive solution to the equation 100r2 + 2r − 1 = 0. For an appropriate A, the
infinite series Ar + Ar2 + Ar3 + Ar4 + . . . has sum 1. Find A.
6. Let N (k) denote the number of real solutions to the equation x4 − x2 = k. As k ranges from −∞
to ∞, the value of N (k) changes only a finite number of times. Write the sequence of values of
N (k) as an ordered tuple (i.e. if N (k) went from 1 to 3 to 2, you would write (1, 3, 2)).

CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 3/8

7. On unit square ABCD, a point P is selected on segment CD such that DP = 41 . The segment
BP is drawn and its intersection with diagonal AC is marked as E. What is the area of triangle
AEP ?
8. Five distinct points are arranged on a plane, creating ten pairs
√ of distinct points. Seven pairs of
points are distance 1 apart, two pairs of points are distance 3 apart, and one pair of points is
distance 2 apart. Draw a line segment from one of these points to the midpoint of a pair of these
points. What is the longest this line segment can be?
9. The inhabitants of Mars use a base 8 system. Mandrew Mellon is competing in the annual Mar-
tian College Interesting Competition of Math (MCICM). The first question asks to compute the
product of the base 8 numerals 12454158 , 75632658 , and 63214738 . Mandrew correctly computed
the product in his scratch work, but when he looked back he realized he smudged the middle
digit. He knows that the product is 1014133027■27662041138 . What is the missing digit?
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10. Eve has nine letter tiles: three C’s, three M’s, and three W’s. If she arranges them in a random
order, what is the probability that the string “CMWMC” appears somewhere in the arrangement?

11. Bethany’s Batteries sells two kinds of batteries: C batteries for $4 per package, and D batteries
for $7 per package. After a busy day, Bethany looks at her ledger and sees that every customer
that day spent exactly $2021, and no two of them purchased the same quantities of both types
of battery. Bethany also notes that if any other customer had come, at least one of these two
conditions would’ve had to fail. How many packages of batteries did Bethany sell?

12. A deck of cards consists of 30 cards labeled with the integers 1 to 30, inclusive. The cards
numbered 1 through 15 are purple, and the cards numbered 16 through 30 are green. Lilith has
an expansion pack to the deck that contains six indistinguishable copies of a green card labeled
with the number 32. Lilith wants to pick from the expanded deck a hand of two cards such that
at least one card is green. Find the number of distinguishable hands Lilith can make with this
deck.

CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 5/8

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13. An equiangular 12-gon has side lengths that alternate between 2 and 3. Find the area of the
circumscribed circle of this 12-gon.

14. For positive integers n,
let σ(n) denote the number of positive integer factors of n. Then
σ(17280) = σ 27 · 33 · 5 = 64. Let S be the set of factors k of 17280 such that σ(k) = 32.
If p is the product of the elements of S, find σ(p).

15. How many odd 3-digit numbers have exactly four 1’s in their binary (base 2) representation? For
example, 22510 = 111000012 would be valid.

CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 6/8

16. Let x and y be non-negative integers. We say point (x, y) is square if x2 + y is a perfect square.
Find the sum of the coordinates of all distinct square points which also satisfy x2 + y ≤ 64.

17. Two integers a and b are randomly chosen from the set {1, 2, 13, 17, 19, 87, 115, 121}, with a > b.
What is the expected value of the number of factors of ab?

18. Marnie the Magical Cello is jumping on nonnegative integers on number line. She starts at 0 and
jumps following two specific rules. For each jump she can either jump forward by 1 or jump to
the next multiple of 4 (the next multiple must be strictly greater than the number she is currently
on). How many ways are there for her to jump to 2022? (Two ways are considered distinct only
if the sequence of numbers she lands on is different.)
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19. The polynomial x4 + ax3 + bx2 − 32x, where a and b are real numbers, has roots that form a
square in the complex plane. Compute the area of this square.

20. Tetrahedron ABCD has equilateral triangle base ABC and apex D such that the altitude from
D to ABC intersects the midpoint of BC. Let M be the midpoint of AC. If the measure of
∠DBA is 67◦ , find the measure of ∠M DC in degrees.

21. Last year’s high school graduates started high school in year n − 4 = 2017, a prime year. They
graduated high school and started college in year n = 2021, a product of two consecutive primes.
They will graduate college in year n + 4 = 2025, a square number. Find the sum of all n < 2021
for which these three properties hold. That is, find the sum of those n < 2021 such that n − 4 is
prime, n is a product of two consecutive primes, and n + 4 is a square.

CMWMC 2022, Guts Round, Set 8/8

22. For monic quadratic polynomials P = x2 + ax + b and Q = x2 + cx + d, where 1 ≤ a, b, c, d ≤ 10

are integers, we say that P and Q are friends if there exists an integer 1 ≤ n ≤ 10 such that
P (n) = Q(n). Find the total number of ordered pairs (P, Q) of such quadratic polynomials that
are friends.

23. A three-dimensional solid has six vertices and eight faces. Two of these faces are parallel equi-
lateral triangles with side length 1, △A1 A2 A3 and △B1 B2 B3 . The other six faces are isosceles
right triangles—△A1 B2 A3 , △A2 B3 A1 , △A3 B1 A2 , △B1 A2 B3 , △B2 A3 B1 , △B3 A1 B2 —each with
a right angle at the second vertex listed (so for instace △A1 B2 A3 has a right angle at B2 ). Find
the volume of this solid.

24. The digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are each colored red, blue, or green. Find the number of colorings
such that any integer n ≥ 2 has that

(a) If n is prime, then at least one digit of n is not blue.

(b) If n is composite, then at least one digit of n is not green.