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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)

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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:

  1. SHORT ANSWER parts indicated by Lightbulb
  2. FULL SOLUTION parts indicated by Full Solution

WRITE ALL ANSWERS IN THE ANSWER BOOKLET PROVIDED.

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:
  1. Please read the instructions for the contest.
  2. Write all answers in the answer booklet provided.
  3. For questions marked Lightbulb, place your answer in the appropriate box in the answer booklet and show your work.
  4. For questions marked Full Solution, 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.
  5. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
  6. 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 \(x\)-intercepts of the graph of an equation like \(y=x^{3} -x\), you should show the algebraic steps that you used to find these numbers, rather than simply writing these numbers down.

Questions

  1. 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 \(ABCDEF\) has side length \(2x\) and its vertices lie on the circle with centre \(O\). The diagonals \(AD\), \(BE\) and \(CF\) divide \(ABCDEF\) into six congruent equilateral triangles.

    1. Lightbulb In terms of \(x\), what is the radius of the circle?

    2. Lightbulb The midpoint of side \(AB\) is labelled \(M\), as shown in Figure 2. In terms of \(x\), what is the length of \(OM\)?

    3. Lightbulb In terms of \(x\), what is the area of hexagon \(ABCDEF\)?

    4. Full Solution The region that lies inside the circle and outside hexagon \(ABCDEF\) is shaded, as shown in Figure 3. The area of this shaded region is 123. Rounded to the nearest tenth, determine the value of \(x\).

    Figures 1, 2 and 3.

  2. With 1 kg of muffin batter, exactly \(24\) mini muffins and \(2\) large muffins can be made. With 2 kg of muffin batter, exactly \(36\) mini muffins and \(6\) large muffins can be made.

    1. Lightbulb With 2 kg of muffin batter, exactly \(48\) mini muffins and \(n\) large muffins can also be made. What is the value of \(n\)?

    2. Lightbulb With \(x\) kg of muffin batter, exactly 84 mini muffins and 10 large muffins can be made. What is the value of \(x\)?

    3. Full Solution Determine how many mini muffins can be made using the same amount of batter that is needed to make 7 large muffins.

  3. A sequence is created in such a way that

    For example, if the first number in a sequence is 1 and the following numbers are generated by the function \(x^2-5\), then the first three numbers in the sequence are \(1, -4\) and \(11\) since \(1^2 - 5 = -4\) and \((-4)^2 - 5 = 11\).

    1. Lightbulb The first number in a sequence is \(3\) and the sequence is generated by the function \(x^2-3x+1\). What are the first four numbers in the sequence?

    2. Full Solution The number 7 is the third number in a sequence generated by the function \(x^2-4x+7\). What are all possible first numbers in the sequence?

    3. Lightbulb The first number in a sequence is \(c\) and the sequence is generated by the function \(x^2 - 7x - 48\). If all numbers in the sequence are equal to \(c\), determine all possible values of \(c\).

    4. Full Solution A sequence generated by the function \(x^2 - 12x + 39\) alternates between two different numbers. That is, the sequence is \(a,b,a,b,a,b,\dots\), with \(a \neq b\). Determine all possible values of \(a\).

  4. Every integer \(N>1\) can be written as \(N\) = \(p_1^{a_1}p_2^{a_2}p_3^{a_3}\cdots p_k^{a_k}\), where \(k\) is a positive integer, \(p_1<p_2<p_3< \dots <p_k\) are prime numbers, and \(a_1, a_2, a_3, \dots , a_k\) are positive integers. For example, \(1400 = 2^{3}5^{2}7^1\).

    The number of positive divisors of \(N\) is denoted by \(f(N)\). It is known that \[f(N)= (1+ a_1)(1 + a_2)(1 + a_3)\cdots(1 + a_k)\]

    1. Lightbulb How many positive divisors does 240 have? That is, what is the value of \(f(240)\)?

    2. Full Solution Define an integer \(N>1\) to be refactorable if it is divisible by \(f(N)\). For example, both \(6\) and \(8\) have \(4\) positive divisors, so \(8\) is refactorable and 6 is not refactorable. This is because \(8\) is divisible by \(4\), but 6 is not divisible by \(4\). Determine all refactorable numbers \(N\) with \(f(N)=6\).

    3. Full Solution Determine the smallest refactorable number \(N\) with \(f(N)=256\).

    4. Full Solution Show that for every integer \(m>1\), there exists a refactorable number \(N\) such that \(f(N) = m\).

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