RIPMWC 2019 Solutions

RIPMWC 2019 Solutions

Q1 Answer: - 2018
Solution:

Q2 Answer: 30
Solution:
Number of 3-digit numbers = 2×3×2
= 12
Number of 4-digit numbers = 3×3×2×1
= 18
Total number = 12 + 18
= 30

Q3 Answer: 175
Solution:

= 175

Q4 Answer: None of the above

Solution:
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Q5 Answer: 3027
Solution:

= 3027

Q6 Answer: 33
Solution
From 12, 22, ..., 272, number of perfect squares = 27

From 13, 23, ..., 93, number of perfect cubes = 9

From 16, 26, 36, number of perfect power 6 = 3

Required number = 27 + 9 – 3
= 33

Q7 Answer: 1.75
Solution:
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Q8 Answer: 231
Solution:
Let the angles subtended at the centre be a, b, c, d and e.

a + b + c + d + e = 540°

Q9 Answer: 24.9
Solution:

75 – x = 50.1
x = 24.9

Q10 Answer: 135

Solution:
Number of triangles or Number of triangles

= 165 – 20 – 10 = 135
= 135

Q11 Answer: 1008

Solution:
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Q12 Answer: 1⁄2015

Solution:

Q13 Answer: 63
Solution:

Q14 Answer: 39°

Solution:
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Q15 Answer: 5
Solution:
Current position Position after next turn
1 2
2 4
3 6
4 1
5 3
6 5
7 7

2019 → 2018 → 2017 → 2016

6 → 3 → 5 → 6

0←1←2←3
6←5←3←6

Q16 Answer: 245

Solution:
Let the total number of pupils be M and the number of pencils per pupil (for class Z) be x.

Q17 Answer: 110

Solution:
Let A be the area of the first (smallest) shaded triangle.
Total area of the shaded parts

= 45A
Total area of the unshaded parts
= 81A – 45A
= 36A
Total area of the shaded strips
= 5⁄4 x 88
= 110
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Q18 Answer: None of the above

Solution:
Suppose to find the largest A such that

Q19 Answer: 60
Solution:
If the first digit of John's number is 1, then Esther's number will begin 112.
If the first digit of John's number is 2, then Esther's number will begin 111.
In either case, Esther's number begins with 1.
Since the first 729 digits are the same, John's number begins with a 1 and so Esther's
number begins with 112, John's number begins with 112112111.

Step # Length No. of “1”s No. of “2”s Ends in

0 1 1 0 1
1 3 2 1 2
2 9 7 2 1
3 27 20 7 2
4 81 61 20 1
5 243 182 61 2
6 729 547 182 1
Some observations:
1. If at one step, the string ends in 1, then the next step, it will end in 2 since 1 becomes 112.
Similarly, If at one step, the string ends in 2, then the next step, it will end in 1 since 2
becomes 111.
2. Since 1 becomes 112 and 2 becomes 111, the number of 2 at each step will be equal to
the number of 1 in the preceding step. The number of 1 in each step is 3n – (no. of 2s)
How do we get five consecutive 1's in step 6?
Clearly, we can never get 2 consecutive 2's which would produce 111111.
11111 can only be produced by 21 in the previous step. Since Step 5 ends in 2, no. of “21” in
step 5 is therefore 61 – 1 = 60.
Hence the answer is 60.
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Q20 Answer: 7⁄41

Solution:

OR

using approximation

Treat values after as insignificant (values too small to be considered)

Just add the first 4 terms = approx. 0.170….

7⁄ = approx. 0.171
41

No need to be exact, you only have 3min per question!

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Q1 Answer: 9099

Q2 Answer: 192
Solution:
81 = 32 × (m – 1) + 2(2n – 1) + 1 with m = 3 and n = 9
2021 = 32 × (64 – 1) + 2(3 – 1) + 1
So, m = 64 and n = 3
m × n = 192

Q3 Answer: 1073
Solution:
Since 2021 = 43 × 47, the number of factors of A is (1 + 1) × (1 + 1) = 4
Going through the given options, we find:
If A = 1331 = 113, A2 = 116, A2 will have 7 factors.
If A = 6859 = 193, A2 = 196, A2 will have 7 factors.
If A = 783 = 33 × 29, A2 will have 8 factors.
And if A = 1073 = 29 × 37, A2 will have 9 factors (9 is a square number)
[Note: For A to have 4 factors, the number must be of one of the two forms:
A = pq where p and q are distinct primes or A = p3, where p is prime.
If A = p3 is a perfect cube, then A2 (= p6) will have 7 factors which is NOT a square number.
Therefore A must not be a perfect cube of a prime.]
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Q4 Answer: 2 statements are true

Solution:
Draw the diagonal of the given shaded square parallel to GF.
Join C and F. EF = Base of the original shaded square
Area of △ EFG = ½ S cm2
Area of △ CDF = Area of △ CFE = Area of △ EFG = ½ S cm2
Area of △ CDE = 2 x Area of △ EFG = S cm2
Area of △ ABC = 2 × Area of △ CDE = 2S cm2

Q5 Answer: 297⁄14
Solution

Q6 Answer: 4⁄3 m/s

Solution:
When they meet for the 4th time, the total distance covered by them is 1600 m.
Since they are running in opposite directions, the speed for this journey is the sum of their
individual speeds.
Sum of the 2 speeds = 1600⁄240 m/s = 20⁄3 m/s
Adrian's speed : Bryan's speed = 2 : 3
Adrian's speed = 2⁄5 x 20⁄3 = 8⁄3 m/s
Bryan's speed = 3⁄5 x 20⁄3 = 12⁄3 m/s
So, the difference between Bryan's speed and Adrian's speed = 12⁄5 - 8⁄3 = 4⁄3 m/s

Q7 Answer: 4th
Solution:
Sum of six consecutive integers = x + x + 1 + x + 2 + x + 3 + x + 4 + x + 5
One of the numbers is removed.
So, 5x + y = 662, where y is the sum of the constants in the remaining 5 numbers.
So, 662 – y has to be a multiple of 5.
If x is removed, y = 15 and 662 – 15 is not a multiple of 5.
If x + 1 is removed, y = 14 and 662 – 14 is not a multiple of 5.
If x + 2 is removed, y = 13 and 662 – 13 is not a multiple of 5.
If x + 3 is removed, y = 12 and 662 – 12 is a multiple of 5.
We can verity that the other values of y will not give a multiple of 5.
So, the number that was removed is in the 4th position.
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Q8 Answer: 1200
Solution:
Let 5x be the number of marbles in Bag C.
After the transfer:

x = 400
So, the number of marbles in Bag C at the end = 1200

X = 400 So, the number of marbles in Bag C at the end = 1200

Q9 Answer: 70
Solution:
Let the number be abc.
Value of b Number of ways
9 0
8 1×4=4
7 2×4=8
6 3×3=9
5 4 × 3 = 12
4 5 × 2 = 10
3 6 × 2 = 12
2 7×1=7
1 8×1=8
0 0
Total 70

Q10 Answer: None of the above

Solution:
When nine consecutive numbers are written in the circles, the sum of three numbers along
each line will be the same, only when the central circle is occupied by the smallest number,
or by the middle number or by the largest number. That is, when the circles are filled with
numbers 1 to 9, the central circle can be occupied by 1, or 5 or 9 as shown.
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The sum will be the least when the central circle is occupied by 1.
Similarly, any set of nine consecutive numbers can be arranged as shown.

The sum of numbers along each line is 3x + 12.

If 2021 is the largest number, then x + 9 = 2021 ⇒ x = 2012.

So, the least sum is 3 × 2012 + 12 = 6048.

Q11 Answer:

Solution:

Q12 Answer: 24
Solution:
The sum of the last digits of 1a, 5e and 4d given that d is odd, is 1 + 5 + 4 = 10
The last digit of 2b is 6, 2, 4, 8 according as b(mod 4) is 0, 1, 2 or 3.
The last digit of 3c is 1, 3, 9, 7 according as c(mod 4) is 0, 1, 2 or 3.
Considering all possible sums of the last digits of the two quantities, when the last digit of
2b is 6, then the last digit of S is certainly not 1.
Therefore b must be a multiple of 4.
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Q13 Answer: 156

Solution:
The top view is a square. This means that, Layer 1 is made up of 36 cubes with 6 cubes on
each side, Layer 2 is made up of 25 cubes with 5 cubes on each side, and so on.

Total number of faces to be painted = 21 + 21 + 21 + 21 + 36 + 36 = 156

Q14 Answer: None of the above

Solution:
There are 9 2-digit palindromic numbers taking up 18 (= 9 × 2) positions.
There are 90 3-digit palindromic numbers taking up the next 270 (= 90 × 3) positions.
There are 90 4-digit palindromic numbers taking up the next 360 (= 90 × 4) positions.
18 + 270 + 360 = 648
Therefore, the starting position of 5-digit palindromic numbers will be 649.
The first three 5-digit palindromes are 10001, 10101 and 10201.
Therefore, the digit 2 is at the 661st position.

Q15 Answer: 8 : 9
Solution:

Splitting each model into smaller congruent triangles, the ratio of areas is 8 : 9.

Q16 Answer: 14
Solution:
The first term which is a multiple of 18 is 3! × 4! = 1 × 2 × 3 × 1 × 2 × 3 × 4
And so, for all 18 divides [n! × (n + 1)!].
Now consider only the terms 1! × 2! + 2! × 3!, which is equal to 14.
So the remainder is 14.
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Q17 Answer: 1
Solution:

=1

Q18 Answer: None of the above

Solution:
The last point must have been won by Player A, because otherwise Player A would have won
the game earlier and the score line would not have reached 11 - 8.
Let us represent the order in which the teams score by strings made up of A's and B's. For
example, let the string BAB represent Player B scoring the first point, Player A scoring the
second point and Player B scoring the third point.
So, the string that represents the last 11 points will look like **********A, where 2 of the
*'s are A's and 8 of the *'s are B's.
The number of ways the 2 A's and 8 B's can be arranged can be calculated as follows.

Total number of ways = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9

= 45
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Q19 Answer: 3
Solution:
There are 64 small cubes in a 4 × 4 × 4 cube.
If one face of the large cube is painted, then there are 42 = 16 small cubes with paint on at
least one face.
If two faces are painted, then there are either 32 (= 16 + 16) painted small cubes or 28 (= 32
– 4) small painted cubes depending on whether opposite or adjacent faces are painted.
If three faces are painted, there are either 40 (= 16 + 16 + 8) painted small cubes or 37 (= 28
+ 9) small painted cubes depending on whether two of the painted faces are opposite or not
(all 3 faces sharing a corner).

Q20 Answer: 42
Solution:
If n is a multiple of the magic number or HCF of n and magic number should not be equal to
1, then the round will end with some students left out.
The LCM of the given numbers is one value of n which would meet the requirement.

4=2×2
6=2×3
7=1×7
8=2×2×2
9=3×3
LCM = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 7 = 504

Since the round does not end until the parcel comes back to the student who started the
round, the passing can go on. This means that the possible minimum value of n is a factor of
the LCM 504 which is the product of distinct primes. So dividing the LCM by (2 × 2 × 3) to
reduce it, we get 42. Note that while 42 is not a multiple of 4, 8 and 9, it is seen that: 2 × 42
is a multiple of 4 while 3 × 42 is a multiple of 9 and 2 × 2 × 42 is a multiple of 8.
So, 42 is the minimum value of n.