Spring 2004 UW-Whitewater High School

Mathematics Meet
Titu Andreescu and Jonathan Kane∗
March 18, 2004

Instructions
Teams may fill in answers to the questions over the next 90 minutes. At
any time contestants can click the SUBMIT button to submit their team’s entry.
Answers may be submitted multiple times by the same team, but only the last set of
answers received before the contest ends will be accepted and graded. Contestants
are allowed to work on these problems as a team. No help may be provided by
persons not on their team. There is no penalty for guessing. (See official rules for
complete contest rules.)

Problem 1
How many different positive integers divide 10! ?

Problem 2
In triangle ABC, three lines are drawn parallel to side BC dividing the altitude of the
triangle into four equal parts. If the area of the second largest part is 35, what is the
area of the whole triangle ABC ?

∗
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wis-
consin 53190

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Problem 3
How many real numbers are roots of the polynomial

x9 − 37x8 − 2x7 + 74x6 + x4 − 37x3 − 2x2 + 74x?

Problem 4
2
32 x
Find x so that 22 = 44 .

Problem 5
The number 2.5081081081081... can be written as m/n where m and n are natural
numbers with no common factors. Find m + n.

Problem 6
Evaluate the product
2 2 2 2
     
1+ 1+ 1+ ··· 1 +
3 4 5 98

Problem 7
How many positive integers less that 200 are relatively prime to either 15 or 24?

Problem 8
One rainy afternoon you write the number 1 once, the number 2 twice, the number 3
three times, and so forth until you have written the number 99 ninety-nine times. What
is the 2005th digit that you write?

Problem 9
Let M and m be the largest and the smallest values of x, respectively, which satisfy
4x(x − 5) ≤ 375. Find M − m.

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Problem 10
Three lines are drawn parallel to each of the three sides of triangle ABC so that the
three lines intersect in the interior of ABC. The resulting three smaller triangles have
areas 1, 4, and 9. Find the area of triangle ABC.

Problem 11
How far is it from the point (9, 17) to its reflection across the line

3x + 4y = 15?

Problem 12
The diagram shows a circle with radius 24 which contains two circles with radius 12
tangent to each other and the larger circle. The smallest circle is tangent to the three
other circles. What is the radius of the smallest circle?

Problem 13
A cubic block with dimensions n by n by n is made up of a collection of 1 by 1 by 1 unit
cubes. What is the smallest value of n so that if the outer two layers of unit cubes are
removed from the block, more than half the original unit cubes will still remain?

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Problem 14
Two circles have radii 15 and 95. If the two external tangents to the circles intersect at
60 degrees, how far apart are the centers of the circles?

Problem 15
Jerry purchased some stock for $14,400 at the same time that Susan purchased a bond
for $6,250. Jerry’s investment went up 20 percent the first year, fell 10 percent the
second year, and rose another 20 percent the third year. Susan’s investment grew at a
constant rate of compound interest for three years. If both investments are worth the
same after three years, what was the annual percentage increase of Susan’s investment?

Problem 16
Find the total length of the set of real numbers satisfying

x2 − 80x + 1500
< 0.
x2 − 55x + 700

Problem 17
We want to paint some identically-sized cubes so that each face of each cube is painted
a solid color and each cube is painted with six different colors. If we have seven different
colors to choose from, how many distinguishable cubes can we produce?

Problem 18
As x ranges over the interval (0, ∞), the function
√ √
9x2 + 173x + 900 − 9x2 + 77x + 900

ranges over the interval (0, M ). Find M .

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Problem 19
There are three bags. One bag contains three green candies and one red candy. One bag
contains two green candies and two red candies. One bag contains one green candy and
three red candies. A child randomly selects one of the bags, randomly chooses a first
candy from that bag, and eats the candy. If the first candy had been green, the child
randomly chooses one of the other two bags and randomly selects a second candy from
that bag. If the first candy had been red, the child randomly selects a second candy
from the same bag as the first candy. If the probability that the second candy is green
is given by the fraction m/n in lowest terms, find m + n.

Problem 20
A 70 foot pole stands vertically in a plane supported by three 490 foot wires, all attached
to the top of the pole, pulled taut, and anchored to three equally spaced points in the
plane. How many feet apart are any two of those anchor points?

Problem 21
Define ak = (k 2 + 1)k! and bk = a1 + a2 + a3 + · · · + ak . Let
a100 m
=
b100 n
where m and n are relatively prime natural numbers. Find n − m.

Problem 22
How many non-overlapping 2 by 2 squares will fit into a circle with radius 8?

Problem 23
Let a and b be real numbers satisfying
√
a4 + 8b = 4(a3 − 1) − 16 3

and √
b4 + 8a = 4(b3 − 1) + 16 3.
Find a4 + b4 .

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Problem 24
The determinant  
 3 −2 5 
 
 7 1 −4 
 
 
 5 2 3 
has the same value as the determinant
 
 x 1+x 2+x 
 
 3 0 1
 

 
 1 1 0 

Find x.

Problem 25
In the addition problem
W H I T E
+ W A T E R
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P I C N I C

each distinct letter represents a different digit. Find the number represented by the
answer PICNIC.