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Mathematics Trust

Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad


Cayley paper
Thursday 19 March 2020
© 2020 UK Mathematics Trust

supported by

England & Wales: Year 9 or below


Scotland: S2 or below
Northern Ireland: Year 10 or below

These problems are meant to be challenging! The earlier questions tend to be easier; later
questions tend to be more demanding.
Do not hurry, but spend time working carefully on one question before attempting another.
Try to finish whole questions even if you cannot do many: you will have done well if you
hand in full solutions to two or more questions.
You may wish to work in rough first, then set out your final solution with clear explanations
and proofs.

Instructions
1. Do not open the paper until the invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 2 hours.
3. The use of blank or lined paper for rough working, rulers and compasses is allowed; squared
paper, calculators and protractors are forbidden.
4. You should write your solutions neatly on A4 paper. Staple your sheets together in the top
left corner with the Cover Sheet on top and the questions in order.
5. Start each question on a fresh A4 sheet. Do not hand in rough work.
6. Your answers should be fully simplified, and exact. They may contain symbols such as π,
fractions, or square roots, if appropriate, but not decimal approximations.
7. You should give full written solutions, including mathematical reasons as to why your
method is correct. Just stating an answer, even a correct one, will earn you very few marks;
also, incomplete or poorly presented solutions will not receive full marks.

Enquiries about the Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad should be sent to:


UK Mathematics Trust, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
T 0113 343 2339 [email protected] www.ukmt.org.uk
^ Do not hurry, but spend time working carefully on one question before
attempting another.
^ Try to finish whole questions even if you cannot do many.
^ You will have done well if you hand in full solutions to two or more questions.
^ Your answers should be fully simplified, and exact. They may contain
symbols such as π, fractions, or square roots, if appropriate, but not decimal
approximations.
^ Give full written solutions, including mathematical reasons as to why your
method is correct.
^ Just stating an answer, even a correct one, will earn you very few marks.
^ Incomplete or poorly presented solutions will not receive full marks.
^ Do not hand in rough work.
Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad Cayley paper Thursday 19 March 2020

1. In the triangle ABC, the three exterior angles a◦ , C


b◦ and c◦ satisfy a + b = 3c. c◦
Prove that the triangle ABC is right-angled.
a◦
[Note: The diagram has been included to illustrate B
the labelling only and is not drawn to scale.] A
b◦

2. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, A and B are all different and nonzero. Each of the
two six-digit integers ‘A12345’ and ‘12345A’ is divisible by B.
Find all possible pairs of values of A and B.

3. Four friends rent a cottage for a total of £300 for the weekend. The first
friend pays half of the sum of the amounts paid by the other three friends.
The second friend pays one third of the sum of the amounts paid by the other
three friends. The third friend pays one quarter of the sum of the amounts
paid by the other three friends.
How much money does the fourth friend pay?

4. Two squares ABCD and BE FG share the vertex B, A D


with E on the side BC and G on the side AB, as
shown.
The length of CG is 9 cm and the area of the shaded G F
region is 47 cm2 .
Calculate the perimeter of the shaded region. B E C

5. A ladybird is free to fly between the 1 × 1 cells of a 10 × 10 square grid. She


may begin in any 1 × 1 cell of the grid. Every second she flies to a different
1 × 1 cell that she has not visited before.
Find the smallest number of cells the ladybird must visit, including her
starting cell, so that you can be certain that there is a 2 × 2 grid of adjacent
cells, each of which she has visited.

Please turn over for question 6

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Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad Cayley paper Thursday 19 March 2020

6. Martha and Nadia play a game. Each has to make her own four-digit number,
choosing her four digits from eight “digit cards” labelled 1-8. First Martha
chooses her thousands digit, and then Nadia chooses her thousands digit.
Next, Martha chooses her hundreds digit from the remaining six cards, and
then Nadia chooses her hundreds digit. This process is repeated for the tens
and finally the units digits of their numbers. The two four-digit numbers
produced are then added together. Martha wins if the sum is not a multiple
of 6; Nadia wins if the sum is a multiple of 6.
Determine which player has a winning strategy (that is to say, which player
can guarantee that she will win no matter which digits the other player
chooses).

© 2020 UK Mathematics Trust www.ukmt.org.uk

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