2015 Canadian Team Mathematics Contest
Individual Problems
(45 minutes)
Important Notes
Calculating devices are allowed, provided that they do not have any of
the following features: (i) internet access, (ii) the ability to
communicate with other devices, (iii) previously stored information
such as formulas, programs, notes, etc., (iv) a computer algebra
system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
Express answers as simplified exact numbers except where otherwise
indicated. For example, and
are simplified exact
numbers.
Problems
What is the smallest integer
for which
is larger than 300?
Kim places two very long (and very heavy) ladders, each 15 m long, on
a flat floor between two vertical and parallel walls. Each ladder
leans against one of the walls. The two ladders touch the floor at
exactly the same place. One ladder reaches 12 m up one wall and the
other ladder reaches 9 m up the other wall.
In metres, how far apart
are the walls?
In a group of 20 friends, 11 like to ski, 13 like to snowboard, and 3
do not like to do either. How many of the friends like to both ski and
snowboard?
The pair is the
solution of the system of equations
Determine the value of
.
What is the smallest two-digit positive integer
for which the product
is a perfect square?
Clara leaves home by bike at 1:00 p.m. for a meeting scheduled with
Quinn later that afternoon. If Clara travels at an average of 20 km/h,
she would arrive half an hour before their scheduled meeting time. If
Clara travels at an average of 12 km/h, she would arrive half an hour
after their scheduled meeting time. At what average speed, in km/h,
should Clara travel to meet Quinn at the scheduled time?
Each entry in the list below is a positive integer:
If the
sum of any four consecutive terms in the list is 17, what is the value
of ?
The sum of the lengths of all of the edges of rectangular prism
is 24.
If the total
surface area of the prism is 11, determine the length of the diagonal
.
In the diagram, is a square.
Points and
are on a parabola that is
tangent to the -axis.
If
has coordinates
, determine the equation of the parabola.
Determine the sum of all positive integers
for which
is divisible by 257.
Relay Problems
Relay #0
Seat a
Evaluate .
Seat b
Let be TNYWR.
The average of the five numbers
is
.
The average of the four numbers
is
.
What is the value of ?
Seat c
Let be TNYWR.
The lines with equations and
intersect at the point
. What is the value of
?
Relay #1
Seat a
If , what is the value of
?
Seat b
Let be TNYWR.
If , what is the
value of ?
Seat c
Let be TNYWR.
In the diagram,
.
If ,
,
, and
, what is the length of
?
Relay #2
Seat a
has vertices
,
and
. What is the area of
?
Seat b
Let be TNYWR.
In last night’s 75 minute choir rehearsal, Canada’s Totally Musical Choir
spent 6 minutes warming up, 30 minutes learning notes,
minutes learning words, and the
rest of the rehearsal singing their pieces. If the choir spent
% of the rehearsal singing their
pieces, what is the value of ?
Seat c
Let be TNYWR.
In the diagram, the number that goes in each unshaded box above the bottom
row is the sum of the numbers in the two unshaded boxes immediately below
to the left and to the right. For example,
.
In the diagram, there are five rows of boxes.
In the bottom row, there are nine boxes, in the second row (row above the bottom row) there are seven.
In the third row, there are five, in the fourth row, there are three, and in the fifth row, there is one box.
There are a total of 10 shaded boxes. There are 4 in the bottom row, they are the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth boxes in the bottom row.
There are 3 in the second row, they are the second, fourth, and sixth boxes.
There are two in the third row, they are the second, and fourth boxes. There is only one in the fourth row, it is the second box.
There are no shaded boxes in the fifth row.
There are eight numbers/values (all in unshaded boxes) in the diagram.
In the bottom row: the first box (from the left) is 8, the third box is x, the fifth box is y, the seventh box is 9, and the ninth box is 14.
In the second row, the seventh box is 23. In the third row, the third box is 3(x+y), and in the fifth row, the box is t.
What is the value of
?
Relay #3
Seat a
What is the surface area of a rectangular prism with edge lengths of 2, 3
and 4?
Seat b
Let be TNYWR.
In the diagram, line segments and
are parallel.
intersects
at
and
at
.
intersects
at
and
at
.
If
,
, and
, what is the
value of ?
Seat c
Let be TNYWR.
Determine the number of integers
for which
is divisible by
.
(If is a positive integer, the
symbol (read “
factorial") represents the product of the integers from
to
. For example,
or
.)
Team Problems
(45 minutes)
Important Notes
Calculating devices are not permitted.
Express answers as simplified exact numbers except where otherwise
indicated. For example, and
are simplified exact
numbers.
Problems
What is the value of
?
A cube has an edge length of 10. The length of each edge is increased
by 10%. What is the volume of the resulting cube?
A cylinder has height 4. Each of its circular faces has a
circumference of . What is
the volume of the cylinder?
In how many different ways can
be written as the sum of 3
different prime numbers? That is, determine the number of triples
of prime numbers with
and
.
In the diagram, ,
and
are straight line segments.
If ,
, and
, determine the measure of
.
For how many one-digit positive integers
is the product
divisible by
?
The points ,
and
are collinear (that is,
lie on the same straight line). What is the value of
?
What is the difference between the largest possible three-digit
positive integer with no repeated digits and the smallest possible
three-digit positive integer with no repeated digits?
Determine the number of pairs
of positive integers for
which and
.
A telephone pole that is 10 m tall was struck by lightning and broken
into two pieces. The top piece,
, has fallen down. The top of
the pole is resting on the ground, but it is still connected to the
main pole at . The pole is still
perpendicular to the ground at .
If the angle between and the
flat ground is , how high
above the ground is the break (that is, what is the length of
)?
If and
evaluate
.
What is the largest perfect square that can be written as the product
of three different one-digit positive integers?
A moving sidewalk runs from Point
to Point
. When the sidewalk is turned
off (that is, is not moving) it takes Mario 90 seconds to walk from
Point to Point
. It takes Mario 45 seconds to
be carried from Point to Point
by the moving sidewalk when he
is not walking. If his walking speed and the speed of the moving
sidewalk are constant, how long does it take him to walk from Point
to Point
along the moving sidewalk when
it is moving?
A square has side length and a
diagonal of length . Write the
area of the square in the form
where
,
and
are positive integers.
In the diagram, determine the number of paths that follow the arrows
and spell the word “WATERLOO".
In the diagram, there are eight rows.
Each row has a letter of the word "Waterloo".
The top row has one W.
The second row (just below the top) has 2 A's.
The W in the top row has two arrows pointing downwards, each going to one A. This pattern continues throughout all the rows.
The third row has three T's.
The fourth row has four E's.
The fifth row has three R's.
The sixth row has two L's.
The second last row has one O.
The last row also has one O.
What is the measure, in degrees, of the smallest positive angle
for which
?
If
,
determine the value of .
The roots of are the
squares of the roots of
.
What is the value of
?
Zach has twelve identical-looking chocolate eggs. Exactly three of the
eggs contain a special prize inside. Zach randomly gives three of the
twelve eggs to each of Vince, Wendy, Xin, and Yolanda. What is the
probability that only one child will receive an egg that contains a
special prize (that is, that all three special prizes go to the same
child)?
Define
and
suppose that
(Each sum contains 2015 terms.) Determine the value of
.
For each positive integer ,
define the point to have
coordinates
and
the point to have coordinates
. For how
many integers with
is the area of
trapezoid a
perfect square?
In the diagram, is
right-angled at and
. A circle
with centre is drawn passing
through . The circle intersects
at
and
at
.
If
and
, determine the value of
.
Suppose that is a positive
integer and that the set
contains exactly
distinct positive integers. If
the mean of the elements of is
equal to of the
largest element of and is also
equal to of the
smallest element of , determine
the minimum possible value of .
A circular cone has vertex , a
base with radius 1, and a slant height of 4. Point
is on the circumference of the
base and point is on the line
segment with
. Shahid draws the shortest
possible path starting at ,
travelling once around the cone, and ending at
.
If
is the point on this path that
is closest to , what is the
length ?
Each of the five regions in the figure below is to be labelled with a
unique integer taken from the set
. The
labelling is to be done so that if two regions share a boundary and
these regions are labelled with the integers
and
, then
and
are not both multiples of
2,
and
are not both multiples of
3, and
and
are not both multiples of
5.
To describe the figure more easily, lets label the five regions in the figure.
The top left region is 1, top right is 2, bottom left is 4, bottom right is 5, and the center region is 3.
Region 1 shares a boundary with regions 2, 3, and 4.
Region 2 shares a boundary with regions 1, 3, and 5.
Region 3 shares a boundary with regions 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Region 4 shares a boundary with regions 1, 3, and 5.
Region 5 shares a boundary with regions 2, 3, and 4.