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 answer sheet. If you are not sure, ask your teacher to explain it.
This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. When you have made your choice, enter the appropriate letter for that question on your answer sheet.
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 instructs you to start, you will have sixty minutes of working time.
The name, school and location of some top-scoring students will be published on the Web site, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. On this website, you will also be able to find copies of past Contests and excellent resources for enrichment, problem solving and contest preparation.
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.
How many cent coins are
needed to make cents?
Which of the following shapes has a vertical line of
symmetry?
Which of the following numbers is largest?
of is . The value of is
Ryan recorded the distance, in kilometres, that he ran on each
day from Monday to Friday, as shown.
The total distance that Ryan ran over the five days is
When the number is
increased by and the result is
then multiplied by , the final
result is
The value of that
satisfies the equation
is
In the diagram,
is a straight angle.
The value of is
In a drawer, the ratio of the number of spoons to the number of
forks is . The total number of
spoons and forks in the drawer cannot be equal to
In the diagram, a square with side length is partially shaded.
The largest shaded region is a square with side length . The other two shaded regions are
squares with side lengths and
. What is the total area of the
unshaded region?
Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.
In the sequence , each number beginning with the is the sum of the two numbers before
it. This means that the next number in the sequence is . The smallest number greater than
that appears in the sequence
is
The number has three
prime factors. The sum of these prime factors is
Trapezoid can be
divided into three equilateral triangles.
If the perimeter of the trapezoid is equal to , what is the length of
?
A container of ice cream can make cones or it can make sundaes. If such containers of ice cream are used
to make cones, what is the
greatest number of sundaes that can be made with the ice cream that
remains?
When a positive integer is
divided by , the remainder is
. When is divided by , the remainder is
A block of wood in the shape of a rectangular prism has length
, width , and height . A cylindrical hole with
radius is drilled
through the centre, as shown.
To the nearest , what
is the volume of the block of wood after the hole is drilled? (Note: The
volume of a cylinder with radius
and height is .)
The Gaussbot factory assembles robots. Each robot comes in one of
three colours: red, blue, or green. Each robot also has a number stamped
on its head: , , , or . The th robot assembled is the first robot to
have the same colour and the same number as a previously assembled
robot. What is the greatest possible value of ?
A circular spinner is divided into five equal sections. An arrow
is attached to the centre of the spinner and is positioned as shown.
The arrow is spun clockwise, and it stops in the section labelled
. Which of the following could
have been the angle of rotation?
Three different integers in a list have a mean (average)
of and a range of . What is the smallest possible integer
in the list?
Kiran has a box containing three different types of fruit:
apples, pears, and bananas. In the box, pieces of fruit are not apples, pieces of fruit are not pears, and
pieces of fruit are not bananas.
How many pieces of fruit are in the box?
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.
The prime factorization of can be written in the form
. The
value of is
The ratio of the number of quarters (worth each) to the number of dimes
(worth each) to the number
of nickels (worth each) in a
jar is . If the total value of
the quarters and dimes is ,
what is the total value of the nickels?
Five different integers, each greater than , have a sum of . The greatest common divisor of these
five positive integers is . What
is the sum of the digits of the largest possible value of ?
A network of pathways lead from a single opening to three bins,
labelled , ,
as shown. If a ball is dropped into the opening, it will follow a path and land
in one of the bins. Every time a path splits, it is equally likely for
the ball to follow either of the downward paths.
There are six different locations where the path splits. The opening leads to split 1.
From split 1, moving to the left leads to split 2 and moving to the right leads to split 4.
From split 2, moving to the left leads to split 3 and moving to the right leads to split 5.
From split 4, moving to the left leads to split 5 and moving to the right leads to split 6.
From split 3, moving to the left leads to bin A and moving to the right leads to bin B.
From split 5, moving to the left leads to bin B and moving to the right leads to split 6.
From split 6, moving to the left leads to bin B and moving to the right leads to bin C.
Ellen drops two balls,
one after the other, into the opening. What is the probability that the
two balls land in different bins?
A figure is constructed using fourteen cubes. Nine of the
cubes are used to
make the bottom layer and five additional cubes are positioned on
top of the bottom layer. The figure is shown from two different
perspectives.
First perspective
cubes form a by base layer of the figure, arranged into a front row, a middle row, and a back row. additional cubes are placed above the back row forming a shape like a rectangular arch: cubes are stacked on top of both the leftmost cube and the rightmost cube, forming a middle layer and a top layer, and cube is placed between the top cubes completing a row of cubes in the top layer.
Points and mark opposite corners of the figure: is located at the bottom-right corner of the front face and is located at the top-left corner of the back face.
Second perspective
First perspective rotated ninety degrees so that the right face in the first view becomes the front face in the second view. In this view, is located at the bottom-left corner of the front face and is located at the top-right corner of the back face.
An ant begins at and walks a
distance on the surface of the
figure to arrive at . The smallest
possible value of is closest
to