FSJM – SEMI-FINAL- 20 MARCH 2021

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START for ALL PARTICIPANTS 4. Eight-sided Die (coefficient 4)

1. Squares (coefficient 1) 1
Matilda has drawn 2
eleven squares in
her exercise book.
She decides to The figure shows the pattern of an eight-
erase some of them sided die, on which you want to write the
such that the sides numbers 1 to 8, and the shape of this die
of the remaining once assembled. When assembled, the sum
squares never of the numbers on every pair of opposite
intersect. sides is the same.
How many What number will be written on the
squares should she erase, at a shaded side?
minimum?
5. Sharing a Chocolate Bar (coefficient 5)
2. Darts (coefficient 2)
Matthew has a target and
four darts. On the
example in the drawing,
he scored only 4 points
9 3 1 as two darts fell outside
the target.
Matthew has a 4-by-5 square rectangular
chocolate bar. He wants to share it with his
What's the smallest
three friends while keeping a piece for
total he can't achieve
himself. Each should receive an unbroken
with four darts?
piece and all the pieces should be the same
shape and consist of whole squares of
3. Chambers in the Labyrinth (coeff. 3)
chocolate.
How many different shapes of pieces
could each friend receive?
We consider rotated or upside-down pieces
as the same.

END for CE PARTICIPANTS

6. Ceiling Lamp (coefficient 6)

A square ceiling is
Each of the chambers in this labyrinth covered with four
contains 1, 2, 3 or 4 gold coins as shown in identical square tiles
the figure. Once you have entered the and four identical
labyrinth (arrow at the top left), you can rectangular tiles leaving
only move right or down. You must collect only a small square
all the gold coins from the chambers you space free (in grey) to
pass through. How many different paths hang a lamp.
allow you to collect a total of exactly 21 Arranging the eight tiles in different
gold coins before exiting (arrow lower ways, without overlapping, on the
right)? ceiling, how many different places are
there where you can hang the lamp?
7. The ConsecYears (coefficient 7) stops as soon as she inscribes a figure with
A ConsecYear is a year written as two an area smaller than 1dm2.
consecutive whole numbers, such as 78 How many diamonds did Matilda draw?
(from 7,8) or 2021 (from 20,21). Matilda
adds up the numbers of the ConsecYears 10. Eight Divisors (coefficient 10)
from years 12 to 2021. Lisa has fun adding the numbers 1 to 21
What will be the result? and finds that the resulting number has
Note: Writing a multi-digit whole number eight divisors.
never starts with a 0. What is the smallest number that has
exactly eight divisors?
8. Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces
(coefficient 8) 11. Gift Wrapping (coefficient 11)
Matthew received as a gift Emil wants to give his
a jigsaw puzzle with a girlfriend a box of chocolates
large number of pieces of volume 225cm3. The box
which are all based on a is a rectangular
square of the same size. parallelepiped with all edges
The four corner pieces measuring whole numbers
have two flat sides, like of cm strictly greater than
the example, but can also have two hollows 1cm, with the top and
or two bumps. The other edge pieces all bottom faces being square.
have one flat side. No interior piece has a He wants to put a nice ribbon around it,
flat side, each side having a hollow or a placed as shown in the drawing which does
bump. The hollows and bumps are the same not necessarily respect the proportions of
size and are in the middle of the sides. To the box.
sort the pieces of his puzzle, Matthew Knowing that the knot uses 25 cm of
makes piles, each comprising all those ribbon, what will be the overall length
pieces that overlap perfectly, each piece needed to wrap the gift?
being placed either right side up or upside-
down. END for C1 PARTICIPANTS
When he has sorted all the pieces, how
many piles will Matthew get, at most? 12. Diagonals
(coefficient 12)
END for CM PARTICIPANTS 1 2 3 John draws a regular
pentagon and all its
Problems 9 to 18: beware! For a problem to be 4 5 6 diagonals. These
completely solved, you must give both the number of
solutions, AND give the solution if there is only one, or 7 10 delimit eleven regions
give any two correct solutions if there are more than 8 9 within the pentagon.
one. For all problems that may have more than one
solution, there is space for two answers on the answer
11
sheet (but there may still be just one solution).

9. Even How many regions will he get if he

Smaller draws a regular heptagon and all of its
(coefficient 9) diagonals?
Matilda wants to A heptagon is a 7-sided polygon.
create a mosaic
that gives an idea of infinity. She draws a
rectangle of 8m by 4m on the ground and
inscribes a diamond whose vertices are the
midpoints of the sides of the rectangle, then
she inscribes in this diamond a second
rectangle whose vertices are the midpoints
of the sides of the diamond, and so on,
alternating diamonds and rectangles. She
13. Play the Lottery (coefficient 13) whose base is not necessarily decimal. The
Alex likes to play the lottery where you have sum of the numbers written in each row,
to fill in a grid of 6 numbers randomly each column and each of the large diagonals
chosen from the range 1 to 42. On the grid, is always the same.
the numbers will be arranged in ascending
order.

He plays each time by writing 6 numbers by

using the 10 digits from 0 to 9, each once
and only once, such as the selection 5, 7,
18, 26, 39, 40. By comparison with other Kryptonian texts,
How many different selections can he it is established that ° corresponds to our
compose?
Note: a number never starts with a 0. digit 0, that = 9 and that
represent three consecutive whole numbers
14. Fair Shares (coefficient 14) written in ascending order.
We consider the set E = {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; What is the sum of the nine numbers
7; 8}. We can divide it into two subsets E1 = written in this square?
{1; 2; 3; 4; 8} and E2 = {5; 6; 7}, such This sum to be given in base 10.
that the sum of the elements of E1 equals
the sum of the elements of E2. END for L1, GP PARTICIPANTS
If we consider the set E of the numbers
which go from 1 to n, where n can take 17. Four Small Cubes (coefficient 17)
all the values from 1 to 21, for which Adelaide paints the six
value of n can we divide the set E into faces of a 2 x 2 x 1cm
two subsets E1 and E2, such that the rectangular parallelepiped
sum of the elements of E1 is equal to green, then cuts it into
the sum of the elements of E2? four cubes of 1cm per
side. Her little sister
END for C2 PARTICIPANTS Sophie takes the four cubes then, without
taking into account the painted faces,
15. The Robot (coefficient assembles them randomly and glues them
15) together so as to reconstitute a
A robot moves in a spiral on parallelepiped of dimensions 2 × 2 × 1cm.
a grid as shown. He takes What is the probability, expressed as
steps of 50 cm. Starting an irreducible fraction, that the visible
from point A, take one step east then turn area painted green on the six faces of
90 ° to the left and advance 2 steps north, the new parallelepiped is 12 cm2?
then turn 90 ° and advance 3 steps west,
turn 90 ° and go 4 paces south and so on. 18. Sharing the Garden (coefficient 18)
In each new direction he takes one more In the town of Mathville, there is a
step than in the previous direction. triangular garden ABC whose sides measure
After walking 2080 steps, how far from AB = 36m, AC = 38 m and BC = 60 m. The
its starting point is it? gardener wishes to build a rectilinear fence
If necessary, take 1.414 for √2 and give the DE which connects the sides AB and BC (D
answer in cm and round to the nearest cm. is located on the side AB and E on the side
BC) so that the two parts of the garden thus
16. Kryptonian Square (coeff. 16) delimited by the fence have the same area
A magic square has just reached us from and also the same perimeter.
the planet Krypton. This square contains How many metres from B are the two
nine integers all different written in a ends of the barrier?
positional numbering system similar to ours
(numbers written from left to right) but END for L2, HC PARTICIPANTS