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PURPLE COMET MATH MEET– April 2007

MIDDLE SCHOOL – PROBLEMS

© Copyright Titu Andreescu and Jonathan Kane

Problem 1
Last Sunday at noon the date on the calendar was 15 (April 15, 2007). What will
be the date on the calendar one million minutes after that time?

Problem 2
n
How many numbers n have the property that both and 2 n are four digits
2
whole numbers?

Problem 3

Square ABCD has side length 36. Point E is on side AB a distance 12 from B,
point F is the midpoint of side BC, and point G is on side CD a distance 12 from
C. Find the area of the region that lies inside triangle EFG and outside triangle
AFD.

Problem 4

Terry drove along a scenic road using 9 gallons of gasoline. Then Terry went onto
the freeway and used 17 gallons of gasoline. Assuming that Terry gets 6.5 miles
per gallon better gas mileage on the freeway than on the scenic road, and Terry’s
average gas mileage for the entire trip was 30 miles per gallon, find the number of
miles Terry drove.

Problem 5
m
The repeating decimal 0.328181818181... can equivalently be expressed as
n
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

Problem 6

The product of two positive numbers is equal to 50 times their sum and 75 times
their difference. Find their sum.
Problem 7

There is an interval [a, b] that is the solution to the inequality


3x − 80 ≤ 2 x − 105 . Find a + b.

Problem 8

Penelope plays a game where she adds 25 points to her score each time she wins a
game and deducts 13 points from her score each time she loses a game. Starting
with a score of zero, Penelope plays m games and has a total score of 2007 points.
What is the smallest possible value for m?

Problem 9

Purple College keeps a careful count of its students as they progress each year
from the freshman class to the sophomore class to the junior class and, finally, to
the senior class. Each year at the college one third of the freshman class drops out
of school, 40 students in the sophomore class drop out of school, and one tenth of
the junior class drops out of school. Given that the college only admits new
freshman students, and that it wants to begin each school year with 3400 students
enrolled, how many students does it need to admit into the freshman class each
year?

Problem 10

Tom can run to Beth’s house in 63 minutes. Beth can run to Tom’s house in 84
minutes. At noon Tom starts running from his house toward Beth’s house while at
the same time Beth starts running from her house toward Tom’s house. When
they meet, they both run at Beth’s speed back to Beth’s house. At how many
minutes after noon will they arrive at Beth’s house?

Problem 11

The alphabet in its natural order ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


is T0. We apply a permutation to T0 to get T1 which is
JQOWIPANTZRCVMYEGSHUFDKBLX. If we apply the same permutation
to T1, we get T2 which is ZGYKTEJMUXSODVLIAHNFPWRQCB. We
continually apply this permutation to each Tm to get Tm+1. Find the smallest
positive integer n so that Tn = T0 .
Problem 12

If you alphabetize all of the distinguishable rearrangements of the letters in the


word PURPLE, find the number n such that the word PURPLE is the n-th item
in the list.

Problem 13

Evaluate the sum

12 + 2 2 − 32 − 4 2 + 52 + 6 2 − 7 2 − 8 2 + L − 1000 2 + 10012 .

Problem 14

A rectangular storage bin measures 10 feet by 12 feet, is 3 feet tall, and sits on a
flat plane. A pile of dirt is pushed up against the outside of the storage bin so that
it slants down from the top of the storage bin to points on the ground 4 feet away
from the base of the storage bin as shown. The number of cubic feet of dirt
needed to form the pile can be written as m + n π where m and n are positive
integers. Find m + n.

Problem 15

We have some identical paper squares which are black on one side of the sheet and
white on the other side. We can join nine squares together to make a 3 by 3 sheet
of squares by placing each of the nine squares either white side up or black side up.
Two of these 3 by 3 sheets are distinguishable if neither can be made to look like
the other by rotating the sheet or by turning it over. How many distinguishable 3
by 3 squares can we form?

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