2023 Cayley Contest
(Grade 10)
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
(in North America and South America)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
(outside of North American and South America)

©2022 University of Waterloo
Instructions
Time: 60 minutes
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.
- Do not open the Contest booklet until you are told to do so.
- You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
- Be sure that you understand the coding system for your response form. If you are not sure, ask your teacher to clarify it. All coding must be done with a pencil, preferably HB. Fill in circles completely.
- On your response form, print your school name and city/town in the box in the upper right corner.
- Be certain that you code your name, age, grade, and the Contest you are writing in the response form. Only those who do so can be counted as eligible students.
- Part A and Part B of this contest are multiple choice. Each of the questions in these parts
is followed by five possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. After making your choice, fill in the appropriate circle on the response form.
- The correct answer to each question in Part C is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive. After
deciding on your answer, fill in the appropriate two circles on the response form. A one-digit
answer (such as "7") must be coded with a leading zero ("07").
- Scoring:
- Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
- There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
- Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
- Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
- When your supervisor tells you to begin, you will have sixty minutes of working time.
- You may not write more than one of the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat Contests in any given year.
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 the website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location, and score of some students may be shared with other mathematical organizations for other recognition opportunities.
Scoring:
- There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
- Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.
What is the value of ?
If , then equals
One movie is 1 hour and 48 minutes long. A second movie is 25
minutes longer than the first. How long is the second movie?
Lucy tracked the number of cardinals and the number of blue jays
that she saw each day for three days. The graph below summarizes the
birds that she saw.
How many more cardinals than blue jays did she see over the three
days?
The number 2023 is written on one side of a classroom
window using the style of numbers shown.
If you were to stand on the other side of the window, how would the
number appear?
In the diagram, points ,
and lie on a line. Also, and .
The value of is
The surface area of a cube is 24. The volume of the cube is
Charlie is making a necklace with yellow beads and green beads.
She has already used 4 green beads and 0 yellow beads. How many yellow
beads will she have to add so that of the total number of beads
are yellow?
A positive number is increased by . By what percentage should the
result be decreased to return to the original value?
Each of five doors is randomly either open or closed. What is the
probability that exactly two of the five doors are open?
Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.
Karim has 23 candies. He eats candies and divides the remaining
candies equally among his three children so that each child gets an
integer number of candies. Which of the following is not a possible
value of ?
A 6 m by 8 m rectangular field has a fence around it. There is a
post at each of the four corners of the field. Starting at each corner,
there is a post every 2 m along each side of the fence. How many posts
are there?
The integer is equal to
. Which of the
following is the smallest positive perfect square that is a multiple of
2023?
Points , , , and are on a line in that order.
The distance from to is .
The distance from to is 3 times the distance from to .
Point is halfway between and .
What is the distance from to
?
Suppose that , where is a
positive integer with .
Which of the following statements is true?
In the diagram, is a
rectangle with
and . Points and are on so that and the area of
quadrilateral is .
The length of is
Megan and Hana raced their remote control cars for 100 m.
The two cars started at the same time.
The average speed of Megan’s car was m/s.
Hana’s car finished 5 seconds before Megan’s car.
What was the average speed of Hana’s car?
A factory makes chocolate bars. Five boxes, labelled , , , , , are each packed with 20 bars. Each of
the bars in three of the boxes has a mass of 100 g. Each of the bars in
the other two boxes has a mass of 90 g. One bar is taken from box , two bars are taken from box , four bars are taken from box , eight bars are taken from box , and sixteen bars are taken from box
. The total mass of these bars
taken from the boxes is 2920 g. The boxes containing the 90 g bars are
labelled
The average of , and is 16. The average of ,
and is 26. The average of , , , , and is 20. The value of is
A robotic grasshopper jumps 1 cm to the east, then 2 cm to the
north, then 3 cm to the west, then 4 cm to the south. After every fourth
jump, the grasshopper restarts the sequence of jumps: 1 cm to the east,
then 2 cm to the north, then 3 cm to the west, then 4 cm to the south.
After a total of jumps, the
position of the grasshopper is 162 cm to the west and 158 cm to the
south of its original position. The sum of the squares of the digits of
is
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.
Each correct answer is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive.
A line has equation
for some positive integer . The
line passes through the point
for some positive integer . What
is the sum of all possible values of ?
The integers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 are to be placed in the
circles and squares below with one number in each shape.
Each integer must be used exactly once and the integer in each circle
must be equal to the sum of the integers in the two neighbouring
squares. If the integer is placed
in the leftmost square and the integer is placed in the rightmost square, what
is the largest possible value of ?
In the diagram, is a
quarter-circle centred at . Each
of square , square and square has side length 10. Points and are on , points and are on , and points and are on the quarter-circle. Line segment
is drawn. Three triangular
regions are shaded, as shown.
What is the integer closest to the total area of the shaded
regions?
Carina is in a tournament in which no game can end in a tie. She
continues to play games until she loses 2 games, at which point she is
eliminated and plays no more games. The probability of Carina winning
the first game is .
After she wins a game, the probability of Carina winning the next game
is . After she loses a
game, the probability of Carina winning the next game is . The probability that Carina
wins 3 games before being eliminated from the tournament equals , where the fraction is in lowest terms. What is
the value of ?
A set consists of five different odd positive integers, each
greater than 2. When these five integers are multiplied together, their
product is a five-digit integer of the form , where and are digits with and . (The hundreds digit of the
product is zero.) For example, the integers in the set have a product of
45 045. In total, how many different sets of five different odd positive
integers have these properties?
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