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    Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad Maclaurin paper Thursday 17 March 2022

    1. A fruit has a water content by weight of 𝑚%. When left to dry in the sun, it
    loses (𝑚 − 5)% of this water, leaving it with a water content by weight of
    50%. What is the value of 𝑚?

    2. (i) Expand and simplify (𝑥 + 1) (𝑥 2 − 𝑥 + 1).


    (ii) Find all powers of 2 that are one more than a cube.
    (A power of 2 is a number that can be written in the form 2𝑛 , where 𝑛 is
    an integer greater than or equal to 0.)

    3. How many distinct triangles satisfy all the following properties:


    (i) all three side-lengths are a whole number of centimetres in length;
    (ii) at least one side is of length 10 cm;
    (iii) at least one side-length is the (arithmetic) mean of the other two side-
    lengths?

    4. A robot sits at the origin of a two-dimensional plane. Each second the robot
    chooses a direction, North or East, and at the 𝑠th second moves 2𝑠−1 units in
    that direction. The total number of moves made by the robot is a multiple of
    3. Show that, for each possible total number of moves, there are at least four
    different routes the robot can take such that the distance from the origin to
    the robot’s final position is an integer.

    5. The equation 𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐 = 0 has two different integer solutions, and the


    equation 𝑥 2 + 𝑏𝑥 − 𝑐 = 0 also has two different integer solutions, where 𝑏
    and 𝑐 are nonzero.
    (i) Show that it is possible to find different positive integers 𝑝 and 𝑞 such
    that 2𝑏 2 = 𝑝 2 + 𝑞 2 .
    (ii) Show that it is possible to find different positive integers 𝑟 and 𝑠 such
    that 𝑏 2 = 𝑟 2 + 𝑠2 .

    6. The diagram shows a circle with points


    𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶, 𝐷 on its circumference and point 𝐸 𝐷
    on chord 𝐵𝐶. Given that ∠𝐵𝐴𝐶 = ∠𝐶𝐸 𝐷 and
    𝐴
    𝐵𝐶 = 4 × 𝐶𝐸, prove that 𝐷𝐵 = 2 × 𝐷𝐸.
    𝐶
    𝐸
    𝐵

    © 2022 UK Mathematics Trust www.ukmt.org.uk

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