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Qualifier Round - Intermediate

Cathedral Mathematics Competition 2023


by Ayaan Waris and Krish Seth

Time limit: 90 minutes.


No calculators allowed.
Note: For non-multiple choice questions, there may or may not be a solution. If there is no solution, please indicate
so by writing “No Solution”.

1. An orchestra of 20 people plays Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in 7 minutes. How many minutes does it take
an orchestra of 40 people to finish the song?
2. Descartes is rolling a 10 sided die, numbered 1 − 10. Throwing it 3 times he gets 4, 7 and 6.
What is the chance he gets a 10 on the fourth throw?
3. In a school’s final examination, it was found that there were several errors in the question papers. Initially, the
mean, median and modal marks of the entire grade were all 77.
If 14 grace marks were given to each student, what are the new mean, median and mode?
a. 77, 91, 77
b. 91, 91, 91
c. 81, 91, 83
d. Insufficient Information
4. An old man invests Rs. 10, 000 in a compound interest scheme. The rate of interest is x% per half annum
compounded semi-annually and the profit received by the old man is Rs. 1025. If he invested it for 1 year, find
the rate of interest x%
a. 5%
b. 2%
c. 10%
d. 7%
5. If the product of three integers is 1, then which of the following MUST be true?
a. The value of none of the integers can be 1
b. The value of each of all the three integers must be 1
c. The value of each of at least two of the three integers must be 1
d. The value of at least one of the three integers must be 1

6. Ramesh has bought a new car that goes super fast! He’s been told the wheel can do 15 revolutions in a second.
The radius of the wheel is 0.5. How fast does the car travel?
a. 7.5π
b. 10π
c. 12π
d. 15π

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7. Simplify the expression:
sinx cosx
+
1 − cotx 1 − tanx
a. sinx − cosx
b. sinx · cosx
c. sinx + cosx
d. tanx
a3 −b3
8. If a + b = 22 and ab = 110, evaluate a2 −b2

9. The ‘digit sum’ of a number refers to the single digit number obtained on adding all the digits of a number
repeatedly until a single-digit number is obtained.
For instance, for the number 7206; 7 + 2 + 0 + 6 = 15 →
− 1 + 5 = 6. So the digit sum of 7206 is 6.
What is the digit sum of the any natural number multiple of 126?
a. 8
b. 10
c. 6
d. 9
√
10. If log2 x + 2 = log2 x, find x
11. Given that p + q + r = 0, evaluate: p3 + pqr + p2 r + p2 q + q 2 r + pqr + p2 r + qr2 + pr2
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
12. If the arithmetic mean of 2023 consecutive integers is 2023, then the largest of these integers is:
a. 1012
b. 2023
c. 3034
d. 4046
13. If 4x3 − 2x2 + kx + 5 leaves a remainder −10 when divided by 2x + 1, then:
a. k is a decimal number
b. k is a natural number and k > 25
c. 0 < k < 25
d. k is a negative integer
14. Solve for smallest positive value of x if:
2
72−tan x
= 2(7) − 7 tan2 x

15. There are three square fields in a sporting complex. The sum of their lengths along the sides is 1. If the sum
containing the products of the side lengths of all possible pairs of sides of two different fields equals 0.25, find
the total area of all the fields.
a. 0.25
b. 0.30
c. 0.50
d. 0.60

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16. From the top of a 100m tall lighthouse, two ships on opposite sides of the lighthouse have angles of depression
of 45◦ and 60◦ respectively. Find the distance between the two ships in meters.
√
a. 100( 3 + 1)
√
b. 100 3
√
c. 100( 3 − 1)
√
d. 200 3
17. There are two lines, L and M, on the xy plane.
L is defined as y = 2x − 3
M is defined as y = x + 2.
Calculate the area enclosed by these two lines and the positive x-axis.
49
a. 15
49
b. 10
49
c. 2
49
d. 4

18. If x + x1 = 6, then find the value of x − 1


x
√
a. 22
√
b. 30
√
c. 32
√
d. 26
19. Tommy loves trigonometry. He invents a trigonometric function called tomfoolery, which can be calculated
from the formula:
p
hyp2 − adj 2 + opp2
tom(x) =
adj
Where in any right-angled triangle, for a non-right angle, ‘opp’ is the length of the side opposite, ‘adj’ is the
length of the side adjacent to the angle, and ‘hyp’ is the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Express it in terms of the simplest single trigonometric function that is not made-up.
20. Ramu, Raju, Golu and Bholu compete in a race, where the starting line is a circle and the race is finished
when all players reach a flag post outside the circle. All runners have to run along a straight line. The starting
position is as shown as below:

All four runners reach the flag post at the same time. If Ramu’s speed is 6 m/s, Raju’s speed is 10 m/s and
Bholu’s speed is 25 m/s, find Golu’s speed.

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Solutions
1. 7 minutes
1
2. 10

3. b. 91, 91, 91
4. a. 5%

5. d. The value of at least one of the three integers must be 1


6. d. 15π
7. c. sinx + cosx

8. 17
9. d. 9
10. 16
11. a. 0

12. c. 3034
13. b. k is a natural number and k > 25
14. π
4 or 45◦

15. c. 0.50
√
16. a. 100( 3 + 1)
49
17. d. 4
√
18. c. 32
√
19. 2 tan x
20. 15 m/s

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