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    Canadian

    Mathematics
    Competition
    An activity of The Centre for Education
    in Mathematics and Computing,
    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

    Fermat Contest (Grade 11)


    Wednesday, February 23, 2000

    C.M.C. Sponsors:

    C.M.C. Supporters:

    C.M.C. Contributors:
    Great-West Life
    and London Life

    IBM
    Canada Ltd.

    Northern Telecom
    (Nortel)
    Manulife
    Financial

    Canadian Institute
    of Actuaries

    Chartered Accountants

    Equitable Life
    of Canada

    Sybase
    Inc. (Waterloo)

    2000 Waterloo Mathematics Foundation


    Time: 1 hour
    Calculators are permitted, providing they are non-programmable and without graphic displays.

    Instructions
    1. Do not open the contest booklet until you are told to do so.
    2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
    3. Be sure that you understand the coding system for your response form. If you are not sure, ask your teacher
    to clarify it. All coding must be done with a pencil, preferably HB. Fill in circles completely.
    4. On your response form, print your school name, city/town, and province in the box in the upper right corner.
    5. Be certain that you code your name, age, sex, grade, and the contest you are writing on the response
    form. Only those who do so can be counted as official contestants.
    6. This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and
    E. Only one of these is correct. When you have decided on your choice, fill in the appropriate circles on
    the response form.
    7. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
    There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
    Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 20.
    8. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
    9. When your supervisor instructs you to begin, you will have sixty minutes of working time.

    Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.


    Each unanswered question is worth 2 credits, to a maximum of 20 credits.

    Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.


    1.

    The sum 29 + 12 + 23 is equal to


    (A) 62

    2.

    (C) 88

    (B) 4 4

    (A)

    (B)

    (C)

    ,
    (D)

    (E)

    (B) 15

    (C) 21

    (D) 9

    (E) 6

    (B) 3

    (C) 16

    (D) 2

    (E) 1

    The product of 2, 3, 5, and y is equal to its sum. What is the value of y?


    (A)

    6.

    The square of 9 is divided by the cube root of 125. What is the remainder?
    (A) 6

    5.

    A farmer has 7 cows, 8 sheep and 6 goats. How many more goats should be bought so that half of her
    animals will be goats?
    (A) 18

    4.

    (E) 2 6

    If the following sequence of five arrows repeats itself continuously, what arrow will be in the 48th
    position?

    3.

    (D) 64 0

    1
    3

    (B)

    10
    31

    (C)

    10
    29

    (D)

    3
    10

    (E)

    10
    3

    A student uses a calculator to find an answer but instead of pressing the x 2 key presses the

    x key

    by mistake. The students answer was 9. What should the answer have been?
    (A) 243
    7.

    (C) 729

    (D) 3

    (E) 6561

    The sum of the arithmetic series ( 300) + ( 297) + ( 294) + ... + 306 + 309 is
    (A) 309

    8.

    (B) 81

    (B) 927

    In a school referendum,

    3
    5

    (C) 615

    (D) 918

    (E) 18

    of a student body voted yes and 28% voted no. If there were no spoiled

    ballots, what percentage of the students did not vote?


    (A) 72%
    9.

    (B) 40%

    (C) 32%

    (D) 12%

    (E) 88%

    The numbers 6, 14, x, 17, 9, y, 10 have a mean of 13. What is the value of x + y ?
    (A) 20

    (B) 21

    (C) 23

    (D) 25

    (E) 35

    10. If x( x( x + 1) + 2) + 3 = x 3 + x 2 + x 6 then x is equal to


    (B) 9

    (A) 11

    (C) 4 or 3

    (E) 2

    (D) 1 or 0

    Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.


    11. When the regular pentagon is reflected in the line PQ , and
    then rotated clockwise 144 about the centre of the pentagon,
    its position is

    P
    (A) P

    Q (B) P

    Q (C) P

    Q (D) P

    Q (E) P

    12. If the expression 156 285 557 was evaluated, it would end with a string of consecutive zeros. How
    many zeros are in this string?
    (A) 10

    (B) 18

    (C) 26

    (D) 13

    (E) 5

    13. Rectangle ABCD is divided into five congruent rectangles


    as shown. The ratio AB : BC is
    (A) 3:2
    (D) 5:3

    (B) 2:1
    (E) 4:3

    (B) 4 :1

    (D) 2 3 :1

    (E) 5:1

    (C) 5:2

    14. In the regular hexagon ABCDEF, two of the diagonals, FC


    and BD , intersect at G. The ratio of the area of quadrilateral
    FEDG to the area of BCG is
    (A) 3 3 :1

    B
    G

    (C) 6 :1
    E

    15. In a sequence, every term after the second term is twice the sum of the two preceding terms. The seventh
    term of the sequence is 8, and the ninth term is 24. What is the eleventh term of the sequence?
    (A) 160

    (B) 304

    (C) 28

    (D) 56

    (E) 64

    16. The digits 2, 2, 3, and 5 are randomly arranged to form a four digit number. What is the probability
    that the sum of the first and last digits is even?
    (A)

    1
    4

    (B)

    1
    3

    (C)

    1
    6

    17. Three circles have centres A, B and C with radii 2, 4 and 6


    respectively. The circles are tangent to each other as shown.
    Triangle ABC has
    (A) A obtuse

    (B) B = 90

    (D) all angles acute

    (E) B = C

    (D)

    1
    2

    (E)

    (C) A = 90
    C

    2
    3

    18. If P = 32000 + 32000 and Q = 32000 32000 then the value of P 2 Q2 is


    (A) 34000

    (B) 2 3 4000

    (D) 2 34000

    (C) 0

    (E) 4

    19. An ant walks inside a 18 cm by 150 cm rectangle. The ants path follows straight lines which always
    make angles of 45 to the sides of the rectangle. The ant starts from a point X on one of the shorter
    sides. The first time the ant reaches the opposite side, it arrives at the mid-point. What is the distance,
    in centimetres, from X to the nearest corner of the rectangle?
    (A) 3

    (B) 4

    (C) 6

    (D) 8

    (E) 9

    20. Given a + 2b + 3c + 4 d + 5e = k and 5a = 4b = 3c = 2 d = e , find the smallest positive integer value for
    k so that a, b, c, d, and e are all positive integers.
    (A) 87

    (B) 522

    (C) 10

    (D) 120

    (E) 60

    Part C: Each question is worth 8 credits.


    21. Two circles of radius 10 are tangent to each other. A tangent
    is drawn from the centre of one of the circles to the second
    circle. To the nearest integer, what is the area of the shaded
    region?
    (A) 6
    (D) 9

    (B) 7
    (E) 10

    (C) 8

    22. The left most digit of an integer of length 2000 digits is 3. In this integer, any two consecutive digits
    must be divisible by 17 or 23. The 2000th digit may be either a or b. What is the value of a + b ?
    (A) 3

    (B) 7

    (C) 4

    (D) 10

    23. A circle is tangent to three sides of a rectangle having side


    lengths 2 and 4 as shown. A diagonal of the rectangle
    intersects the circle at points A and B. The length of AB is
    (A)

    (D)

    1
    6

    (B)

    4 5
    5

    (E)

    5 5
    6

    (C)

    (E) 17

    2
    A

    1
    5

    24. For the system of equations x 2 + x 2 y 2 + x 2 y 4 = 525 and x + xy + xy 2 = 35 , the sum of the real y values
    that satisfy the equations is
    (A) 20

    (B) 2

    (C) 5

    25. The given cube is cut into four pieces by two planes. The
    first plane is parallel to face ABCD and passes through the
    midpoint of edge BG . The second plane passes through the
    midpoints of edges AB , AD , HE , and GH . Determine the
    ratio of the volumes of the smallest and largest of the four
    pieces.
    (A) 3:8
    (D) 7:17

    (B) 7:24
    (E) 5:11

    (C) 7:25

    (D)

    55
    2

    (E)
    A

    D
    C

    B
    F

    5
    2

    E
    H

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