2022 Hypatia Contest
(Grade 11)
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
(in North America and South America)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
(outside of North American and South America)

©2022 University of Waterloo
Instructions
Time: 75 minutes
Number of Questions: 4
Each question is worth 10 marks.
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) information previously stored by students (such as formulas, programs, notes, etc.), (iv) a computer algebra system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
Parts of each question can be of two types:
- SHORT ANSWER parts indicated by
- worth 2 or 3 marks each
- full marks are given for a correct answer which is placed in the box
- part marks are awarded if relevant work is shown in the space provided
- FULL SOLUTION parts indicated by
- worth the remainder of the 10 marks for the question
- must be written in the appropriate location in the answer booklet
- marks awarded for completeness, clarity, and style of presentation
- a correct solution poorly presented will not earn full marks
WRITE ALL ANSWERS IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET PROVIDED.
- Extra paper for your finished solutions supplied by your supervising teacher must be
inserted into your answer booklet. Write your name, school name, and question number
on any inserted pages.
- Express answers as simplified exact numbers except where otherwise indicated. For example, and are simplified exact numbers.
Do not discuss the problems or solutions from this contest online for the next 48 hours.
The name, grade, school and location, and score range of some top-scoring students will be
published on our website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some top-scoring students may be shared with other mathematical organizations
for other recognition opportunities.
NOTE:
- Please read the instructions for the contest.
- Write all answers in the answer booklet provided.
- For questions marked
, place your answer in the appropriate box in the answer booklet and show your work.
- For questions marked
, provide a well-organized solution in the answer booklet. Use mathematical statements and words to explain all of the steps of your solution. Work out some details in rough on a separate piece of paper before writing your finished solution.
- Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
- While calculators may be used for numerical calculations, other mathematical steps must
be shown and justified in your written solutions, and specific marks may be allocated for
these steps. For example, while your calculator might be able to find the -intercepts of the graph of an equation like , you should show the algebraic steps that you used to find these numbers, rather than simply writing these numbers down.
Questions
A regular hexagon is a polygon that has six sides with
equal length and six interior angles with equal measure. In Figure 1,
regular hexagon has side
length and its vertices lie on
the circle with centre . The
diagonals , and divide into six congruent equilateral
triangles.
In terms of , what is the radius of the
circle?
The midpoint of side is labelled , as shown in Figure 2. In terms of
, what is the length of ?
In terms of , what is the area of hexagon ?
The region that lies inside the circle
and outside hexagon is
shaded, as shown in Figure 3. The area of this shaded region is 123. Rounded to the nearest tenth,
determine the value of .
With 1 kg of muffin batter, exactly mini muffins and large muffins can be made. With 2 kg of
muffin batter, exactly mini
muffins and large muffins can be
made.
With 2 kg of muffin batter, exactly mini muffins and large muffins can also be made. What is
the value of ?
With kg of muffin batter, exactly 84 mini
muffins and 10 large muffins can be made. What is the value of ?
Determine how many mini muffins can be
made using the same amount of batter that is needed to make 7 large
muffins.
A sequence is created in such a way that
a real number is chosen as the first number in the sequence,
and
each of the following numbers in the sequence is generated by
applying a function to the previous number in the sequence.
For example, if the first number in a sequence is 1 and the following
numbers are generated by the function , then the first three numbers in
the sequence are and since and .
The first number in a sequence is and the sequence is generated by the
function . What are the
first four numbers in the sequence?
The number 7 is the third number in a
sequence generated by the function . What are all possible first
numbers in the sequence?
The first number in a sequence is and the sequence is generated by the
function . If all
numbers in the sequence are equal to , determine all possible values of .
A sequence generated by the function
alternates between
two different numbers. That is, the sequence is , with . Determine all possible values
of .
Every integer can be
written as = , where is a
positive integer, are prime numbers, and are positive
integers. For example, .
The number of positive divisors of is denoted by . It is known that
How many positive divisors does 240 have?
That is, what is the value of ?
Define an integer to be refactorable if it
is divisible by . For example,
both and have positive divisors, so is refactorable and 6 is not
refactorable. This is because is
divisible by , but 6 is not
divisible by . Determine all
refactorable numbers with .
Determine the smallest refactorable
number with .
Show that for every integer , there exists a refactorable
number such that .
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