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The document outlines the structure and rules for the 33rd Annual UNC Math Contest, which consists of 13 questions to be completed in 180 minutes without electronic devices. The contest includes 10 short answer questions and 3 proof/essay questions, with finalists determined by scores and the quality of written answers. Participants must provide answers on a supplied answer sheet, with specific instructions for each question.

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Final Round Contest Questions 24 25

The document outlines the structure and rules for the 33rd Annual UNC Math Contest, which consists of 13 questions to be completed in 180 minutes without electronic devices. The contest includes 10 short answer questions and 3 proof/essay questions, with finalists determined by scores and the quality of written answers. Participants must provide answers on a supplied answer sheet, with specific instructions for each question.

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33nd Annual

UNC Math Contest


Final Round – Spring 2025

13 questions: 10 short answer, 3 proof/essay questions.


180 minutes. No electronic devices.
Finalists will be determined first by the scores for questions 1-10. Ranking among the
finalists will take into consideration the quality of the written answers in questions
11-13.
Answers to questions 1-10 are all positive integers; enter these in the supplied answer
sheet. Solutions for questions 11-13 should be written in complete sentences, starting
on the back of the answer sheet and continuing on additional paper as needed.

1. In the Cryptarithm to the right, each letter stands for N O R T H


a digit from 1 to 8. R = M = 1; other than that, no two − O F T H E
letters stand for the same digit. Determine the value
N O R M
of NORTH.

2. In a list of six whole numbers, one number occurs twice, while the other four
numbers are distinct. When five of the six numbers are added together, the
possible sums are 71, 84, 90, 91, and 94. What is the number that occurs twice
on the list?

3. Dirk Gently’s apartment has an entrance hallway that


is 10 feet wide that turns 90◦ , as illustrated to the right.
10 ft
He is picking out a rectangular sofa for his apartment,
but he has to be able to get it around the corner while
keeping the base parallel to the ground. After turning
the corner, the sofa should be rotated 90◦ from the ori-
entation it started in. What is the area, in square feet, 10 ft
of the largest sofa that he will be able to get around
the corner?

4. A polygon is a closed figure whose boundary is made up of n line


segments that meet only at their ends. The angle at which the line
segments meet must not be 180◦ , and at most two segments can
meet at a given point. How many polygons can be found in the
figure to the right?

5. If (1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + · · · + a) + (1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + · · · + b) = (1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + · · · + c),
where each of the three sums is a sum of at least five consecutive odd integers,
find the second smallest possible value of the sum a + b + c.

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6. Most of the digits in the long division problem below have been replaced by
boxes. A box can represent any digit from 0 to 9, as long as the first digit in a
number isn’t 0. What is the eight-digit dividend?

  8  
   )       
−   
   
−   
   
−    
0

7. 2 · 22 + 3 · 23 + 4 · 24 + · · · + n · 2n = 2n+10 . Find n.

8. A square is cut by two straight lines that go through two 3


adjacent corners and then meet in the middle. These lines 8
cut the square into four regions. The areas of three of the
regions are given in the diagram. Find the area of the fourth 12
region.

9. Suppose you place 12 ones and 18 twos around a circle so that


as you walk around the circle, you never see three of the same 1 2
number in a row. Take the product of each set of three consecu-
tive numbers around the circle, and then sum these 30 products. 2 2
What is the smallest possible sum?
As an example, with 2 ones and 4 twos arranged as shown, the 2 1
sum of the six products is 24.

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10. The UNC Math club is voting on which mathematician to celebrate at this
year’s Celebration of Mind event. The three finalists are the ninth-century Ara-
bic mathematician Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, who is sometimes con-
sidered the “father of Algebra” and from whose name the word “algorithm” is
derived; the seventh-century Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, for whom the
formula for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral is named, and whose writings about
decimal numbers inspired Al-Khwarizmi; and the nineteenth-century European
mathematician Georg Cantor, who first introduced the notion of different sizes of
infinite sets. Of the twenty members of the math club, 11 prefer Al-Khwarizmi
to Brahmagupta; 14 prefer Brahmagupta to Cantor; and 12 prefer Cantor to
Al-Khwarizmi. (Notice that this means that a different person would win each
of the possible two way contests if someone dropped out.) The club will have
a single round of voting, in which each member will vote for their first choice,
and whichever mathematician gets the most votes (a “plurality”) will be this
year’s choice. As it turns out, for every possible ranking of the three candidates,
at least one club member has that preference. How many votes will the winner
receive?

11. Essay question: Prove that your answer to question 2 is correct.

12. Essay question: If you modify question 9 so that you have n 2’s and m 1’s,
where n and m are positive integers that allow you to arrange the numbers in a
circle without having three of the same number in a row, what are the smallest
and largest values for the sum of the products of each set of three consecutive
numbers around the circle, in terms of n and m? Prove your answer. How would
this answer change if we removed the condition about not having three of the
same number in a row?

13. Essay question: If we relax the requirement that the sofa must be rectangular
in question 3, what can you prove about the area of the largest sofa that can
fit around the corner? We don’t expect that you will be able to find an exact
answer to the question of what is the area of the largest sofa of any shape that
will fit around the corner in the allotted time, but we are interested in anything
that you can prove about upper and lower bounds to this question. For example,
your answer to question 3 is a lower bound for this question, since the largest
sofa of any shape is certainly at least as big as the largest rectangular sofa.

END OF CONTEST

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