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2022 Canadian Team Mathematics Contest
Individual Problems

(45 minutes)

Important Notes

Problems

  1. The bar graph below shows how many students chose each flavour of ice cream on a recent field trip. What fraction of the students chose chocolate ice cream?

    A bar graph entitled Ice Cream Flavours Eaten on a Field Trip. The horizontal axis is Flavour and the vertical axis is Number of Students. There are three bars: Chocolate at height 11, Strawberry at height 5, and Vanilla at height 8.

  2. In trapezoid ABCD, AB is parallel to DC and DAB=90°. Point E is on DC so that EB=BC=CE. Point F is on AB so that DF is parallel to EB. In degrees, what is the measure of FDA?

  3. Line segment AD is divided into three segments by points B and C, so that AB:BC=1:2 and BC:CD=6:5. The length of AD is 56 units. What is the length of AB?

  4. The series below includes the consecutive even integers from 2 to 2022 inclusive, where the signs of the terms alternate between positive and negative: S=24+68+102016+20182020+2022 What is the value of S?

  5. What is the largest integer n with the properties that 200<n<250 and that 12n is a perfect square?

  6. Each of A, B, C, and D is a positive two-digit integer. These integers satisfy each of the equations B=3CD=2BCA=B+D What is the largest possible value of A+B+C+D?

  7. What is the sum of the digits of the integer equal to 3×105002022×104972022?

  8. The integers a and b have the property that the expression 2n3+3n2+an+bn2+1 is an integer for every integer n. What is the value of the expression above when n=4?

  9. Three circles with centres A, B and C have radii 31, 33 and 1+3 respectively. Each circle is externally tangent to the other two as shown.

    Three circles with each pair touching. The circle with centre A is the smallest and the circle with Center C is the largest. Centres A, B and C are joined to form a triangle. The region that is inside triangle ABC but outside the circle with with centre A is shaded.

    The area of the shaded region is of the form a3+bπ+cπ3 for some rational numbers a, b and c. What is the value of a+b+c?

  10. Starting with a four-digit integer that is not a multiple of 1000, an integer with fewer digits can be obtained by removing the leading digit and ignoring leading zeros. For example, removing the leading digit from 1023 gives the integer 23, and removing the leading digit from 2165 gives 165. How many integers from 1001 to 4999, inclusive, other than multiples of 1000, have the property that the integer obtained by removing the leading digit is a factor of the original integer?

Relay Problems

Relay #1

Seat a

What is the largest integer that can be placed in the box so that 11<23?

Seat b

Let t be TNYWR.
If 6x+t=4x9, what is the value of x+4?

Seat c

Let t be TNYWR.
What is the area of the triangle enclosed by the x-axis, the y-axis, and the line with equation y=tx+6?

Relay #2

Seat a

Let x be the number of prime numbers between 10 and 30.
What is the number equal to x24x+2?

Seat b

Let t be TNYWR.
Alida, Bono, and Cate each have some jelly beans.
The number of jelly beans that Alida and Bono have combined is 6t+3.
The number of jelly beans that Alida and Cate have combined is 4t+5.
The number of jelly beans that Bono and Cate have combined is 6t.
How many jelly beans does Bono have?

Seat c

Let t be TNYWR.
There is exactly one real number x with the property that both x2tx+36=0 and x28x+t=0.
What is the value of x?

Relay #3

Seat a

A cube has edge length x. The surface area of the cube is 1014. What is the value of x?

Seat b

Let t be TNYWR.
If 5+xt+x=23, what is the value of x?

Seat c

Let t be TNYWR.
Trapezoid ABCD has ADC=BCD=90, AD=t, BC=4, and CD=t+13.
What is the length of AB?

Team Problems

(45 minutes)

Important Notes

Problems

  1. If x=2z, y=3z1, and x=40, what is the value of y?

  2. What is the smallest two-digit positive integer that is a multiple of 6 but is not a multiple of 4?

  3. The integer 2022 is positive and has four digits. Three of its digits are 2 and one of its digits is 0. What is the difference between the largest and smallest four-digit integers that can be made using three 2’s and one 0 as digits?

  4. A total of n people were asked a question in a survey. Exactly 76% of the n people responded “yes” and exactly 24% of the n people responded “no”. What is the smallest possible value of n?

  5. In the diagram, there are exactly nine 1×1 squares.

    The bottom row is a row of 5 squares that share vertical sides with their neighbours. On top of this row is a middle row of 3 squares placed so that they are on top of the second, third, and fourth squares in the bottom row. Finally, there is a top row of one square placed so that it is on top of the square in the centre of the middle row.

    What is the largest number of 1×1 squares that can be shaded so that no two shaded squares share a side?

  6. If 1x+12x+13x=112, what is the value of x?

  7. There is exactly one isosceles triangle that has a side of length 10 and a side of length 22. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

  8. Consider the lines with equations y=mx and y=2x+28 where m is some real number. The area enclosed by the two lines and the x-axis in the first quadrant is equal to 98. What is the value of m?

  9. A solid cube has a volume of 1000cm3. A cube with volume 64cm3 is removed from one corner of the cube. The resulting solid has a total of nine faces: three large squares that were faces of the original cube, three of the original faces with a square removed from one corner, and three smaller squares. One of the smaller square faces is shaded. The ratio of the area of the shaded face to the surface area of the new solid is of the form 2:x. What is the value of x?

  10. For some integers n, the expression 8(n1)(n1)(n2) is equal to an integer M. What is the sum of all possible values of M?

  11. A total of $425 was invested in three different accounts, Account A, Account B and Account C. After one year, the amount in Account A had increased by 5%, the amount in Account B had increased by 8%, and the amount in Account C had increased by 10%. The increase in dollars was the same in each of the three accounts. How much money was originally invested in Account C?

  12. All the points on the line with equation y=3x+6 are translated up 3 units, then translated left 4 units, and then reflected in the line with equation y=x. Determine the y-intercept of the resulting line.

  13. A list of integers consists of (m+1) ones, (m+2) twos, (m+3) threes, (m+4) fours, and (m+5) fives. The average (mean) of the list of integers is 196. What is m?

  14. Ann, Bohan, Che, Devi, and Eden each ordered a different meal at a restaurant and asked for their own bill. Although the correct five bills arrived at the table, none of them were given to the correct person. If the following four statements are true, who was given the bill for Bohan’s meal?

  15. The points P(2,0), Q(11,3) and R(x,3) are the vertices of a triangle with PQR=90. What is the value of x?

  16. The equation x27x+k=0 has solutions x=3 and x=a. The equation x28x+k+1=0 has solutions x=b and x=c. What is the value of a+bc?

  17. The functions f(x) and g(x) are defined by f(x)=9x and g(x)=log3(9x). The real number x satisfies g(f(x))=f(g(2)). What is the value of x?

  18. The real number θ is an angle measure in degrees that satisfies 0<θ<360 and 20222sin2θ3sinθ+1=1. The sum of the possible values of θ is k. What is the value of k?

  19. The vertices of a 3×1×1 rectangular prism are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H so that AE, BF, CG, and DH are edges of length 3. Point I and point J are on AE so that AI=IJ=JE=1. Similarly, points K and L are on BF so that BK=KL=LF=1, points M and N are on CG so that CM=MN=NG=1, and points O and P are on DH so that DO=OP=PH=1. For every pair of the 16 points A through P, Maria computes the distance between them and lists the 120 distances. How many of these 120 distances are equal to 2?

  20. In the diagram, the circle has radius 5. Rectangle ABCD has C and D on the circle, A and B outside the circle, and AB tangent to the circle. What is the area of ABCD if AB=4AD?

  21. A square piece of paper ABCD is white on one side and grey on the other side. Initially, the paper is flat on a table with the grey side down. Point E is on BC so when the paper is folded along AE, B lands on diagonal AC. Similarly, point F is on DC so that when the paper is folded along AF, D lands on AC. After these folds, the resulting shape is kite AECF.

    Kite AECF is made up of two triangles that share side. The top triangle has vertices A, E, and F. Its base is FE and vertex A is above the base. This triangle is shaded grey. The bottom triangle has vertices C, E, and F. Its base is also FE, but vertex C is below the base. This triangle is unshaded.

    What fraction of the area of AECF is grey?

  22. The integers x, y, z, and p satisfy the equation x2+xzxyyz=p. Given that p is prime, what is the value of |y+z| in terms of p? Your answer should refer to the variable p so that it works for every prime number p.

  23. Riley has 64 cubes with dimensions 1×1×1. Each cube has its six faces labelled with a 2 on two opposite faces and a 1 on each of its other four faces. The 64 cubes are arranged to build a 4×4×4 cube. Riley determines the total of the numbers on the outside of the 4×4×4 cube. How many different possibilities are there for this total?

  24. Jane places the integers 1 through 9 in the nine cells of a 3×3 grid. The sum of the three integers in a row is called a “row sum” and the product of the three integers in a column is called a “column product”. After Jane arranges the integers, the following properties hold.

    Determine all possibilities for the largest column product.

  25. Tetrahedron ABCD has base ABC. Point E is the midpoint of AB. Point F is on AD so that FD=2AF, point G is on BD so that GD=2BG, and point H is on CD so that HD=2CH. Point M is the midpoint of FG and point P is the point of intersection of the line segments EH and CM. What is the ratio of the volume of tetrahedron EBCP to the volume of tetrahedron ABCD?