IMLEM Meet #1

October, 2021

Intermediate
Mathematics League
of
Eastern Massachusetts

CLUSTER COORDINATORS - A reminder to all students of some of the rules and of appropriate
behavior during this meet:
 No calculators (or only scientific calculators allowed for meets #4, #5)
 Everyone take a moment to turn off any electronic devices that you want to have with you
during the rounds. No electronic devices may be on during the rounds. Use of these devices
during the rounds will result in a disqualification.
Category 1
Mystery
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) Reid can read 200 pages in four hours. At this rate, how many minutes
would it take Reid to read 700 pages?

2) A pen and a pencil cost a total of $1.10. The pen costs a dollar more than
the pencil. How many cents does the pencil cost? Express your answer
as a whole number of cents.

3) A book has 430 pages, numbered consecutively 1 through 430. How many
times was the digit 1 used in numbering the pages?

ANSWERS

1) ______

2) ______

3) ______
Solutions to Category 1
Mystery
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) How many MINUTES! At 200 pages per 4 HOURs,

Reid can read 700 pages in 700 / (200 / 4), or 14 Answers
hours. Convert 3.5 hours to minutes: (14)(60) =
840 minutes. 1) 840

2) Students may inadvertently figure than the pen costs 2) 5

a dollar and the pencil costs ten cents. But then the
pen would only cost 90 cents more than the pencil. 3) 193
A quick finagling of the numbers should yield that
the pen costs $1.05 and the pencil just 5 cents.

3) Making an organized list may help. For the range of numbers from 1-99,
the teens alone produce the digit 1 eleven times. For the rest, one more than
a multiple of 10 (1, 21, 31, 41, etc.) produces another nine ones, for a total of
20 ones. The same should hold true for the other ranges of 100 numbers:

range number of ones digits

1-99 20 includes the extra 1 for the number 11

100-199 120 (20, plus an extra 100 ones for the hundreds digits
200-299 20
300-399 20
400-430 13

The total number of ones is 20 + 120 + 20 + 20 + 13, or 193.

Category 2
Geometry
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) Five rays emanate from a common point, as

shown. Angles 2 and 5 have the same
measure. Angles 3 and 4 are complementary.
Angle 1 measures 174 degrees. How many
degrees are in the measure of angle 2 ?
(Figure not drawn to scale)

2) The two horizontal lines are parallel.

Angle 1 measures 114 degrees.
Angle 2 measures 71 degrees.
How many degrees are in the
measure of angle 3 ?

3) Angles C, DFE, and BGF are right angles. Angle FDE measures
72 degrees. What is the measure of angle CBG ?

Answers

1)

2)

3)
Solutions to Category 2
Geometry
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) The sum of all five angles is 360 degrees. Since Answers

angles 3 and 4 are complementary, their sum
is 90 degrees. The sum of angles 1, 3, and 4 is 1) 48
174 + 90, or 264 degrees. The remaining two
angles, 2 and 5, are the same measure, so their 2) 43
sum is 360 - 264, or 96 degrees. Half that is 48
degrees. So, angle 2 measures 48 degrees. 3) 162

2) Corresponding angles are congruent, so the

corresponding angle above angle 1 measures 114
degrees and its adjacent collinear angle measures
180 - 114, or 66 degrees. Also, vertical angles are congruent, the the
angle vertical to angle 2 measures 71 degrees and its corresponding
angle above it measures 71 degrees. The sum of the angles of the
triangle is 180 degrees, so that angle 3 measures 180 - (66 + 71),
or 180 - 137, or 43 degrees.

3) Angle E measures
180 - (DFE + (FDE)
= 180 - (72 + 90)
= 180 - 162
= 18 degrees.
Angle A measures
180 - (C + E)
= 180 - (90 + 18)
= 180 - 108
= 72 degrees.
Angle ABG measures
180 - (BGA + A)
= 180 - (90 + 72)
= 180 - 162
= 18 degrees.
Therefore, angle CBG measures 180 - ABG
= 180 - 18
= 162 degrees.
Category 3
Number Theory
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) What is the sum of all prime numbers between 10 and 20 ?

2) Find the value of C if

C is a whole number,
C is divisible by 6,
C > 60,
C does not have a factor of 5,
C < 100,
C is not divisible by 11, and
the sum of the digits of C is 12.

3) What is the largest prime factor of the product of all even numbers from
2 through 200, inclusive?

Answers

1)

2)

3)
Solutions to Category 3
Number Theory
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) The sum of the prime numbers between 10 and 20

is 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 = 60. Answers

2) C is between 60 and 100. Those whose digits have 1) 60

a sum of 12 are 66, 75, 84, and 93. Only 66 and
84 are divisible by 6 but 66 is divisible by 11. 2) 84
So, the number is 84.
3) 97
3) Clue: the largest prime number that is less than 100
is 97. Then (97((2) = 194, the largest even number
less than 200 that has 97 as a factor. When all the
even numbers from 2 through 200 are multiplied,
then 97 will be that product's largest prime factor.
Category 4
Arithmetic
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) What is the value of 16 + 4 100 -  6 x 20 ÷ 5 x 2   ?

2) For this set of numbers { 7, 12, 9, 3, 9, 20, 12, 6, 12 } ,

A = the median,
B = the mean, and
C = the mode.
What is the value of A - B + C ?

3) The mean of five numbers is 7. The mean of seven other numbers is 11.
The mean of yet another three numbers is 10. If the number 2 is thrown
into the set, then what is the mean of all 16 numbers?

Answers

1)

2)

3)
Solutions to Category 4
Arithmetic
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) 16 + 4 [ 100 - ( 6 x 20 / 5 x 2 ) ] Answers
= 16 + 4 [ 100 - ( 120 / 5 x 2 ) ]
= 16 + 4 [ 100 - ( 24 x 2 ) ] 1) 224
= 16 + 4 [ 100 - 48 ]
= 16 + 4 [ 52 ] 2) 11
= 16 + 208
= 224 3) 9

2) For A, arrange the numbers in order, then

select the middle value. 3 6 7 9 9 12 12 12 20
The middle value is 9, so A = 9.
B = the sum of the nine numbers divided by 9.
= 90 / 9
= 10
C = the most frequent value = 12.
A - B + C = 9 - 10 + 12
= 11

3) The mean of all 16 numbers is equal to the sum of the 16 numbers

divided by 16
= [ (5)(7) + (7)(11) + (3)(10) + 2 ] / 16
= [ 35 + 77 + 30 + 2 ] / 16
= 144 / 16
= 9
Category 5
Algebra
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) If M = 17, A = - 3, T = 6, and H = - 5, then what is the value of

M - A - T - H ?

2) If 3X - 8 = 19
and 16 - 2Y = 26
and 4 (7Z + 3) = 180
then what is the value of 10XYZ ?

3) Find the value of N if

2(N + 1) + 3(4N - 5) - 6(7N + 8) - 9(10N - 11) = 12(13 - 14N) + 32

Answers

1)

2)

3)
Solutions to Category 5
Algebra
Meet #1 - October, 2021

1) M - A - T - H Answers
= 17 - ( - 3 ) - 6 - ( - 5 )
= 17 + 3 - 6 + 5 1) 19
= 19
2) - 2700
2) 3X - 8 = 19, so 3X = 27 and X = 9.
16 - 2Y = 26 so 2Y = - 10 and Y = - 5. 3) 3
4 (7Z + 3) = 180 so 7Z + 3 = 45
and 7Z = 42 and Z = 6.
10XYZ = (10) (9) ( - 5 ) (6)
= - 2700

3) 2(N + 1) + 3(4N - 5) - 6(7N + 8) - 9(10N - 11) = 12(13 - 14N) + 32

2N + 2 + 12N - 15 - 42N - 48 - 90N + 99 = 156 - 168N + 32
- 118N + 38 = 188 - 168N
50N = 150
N = 3
Category 6
Team Round Each of the following six
Meet #1 - October, 2021 problems is worth six points.

1) What is the maximum number of points where a circle and a square can
intersect?

2) A set of W consecutive positive integers has a sum of 45. What is the

maximum value of W ?

3) How many degrees are in the measure of angle EDF ? Refer to the
diagram at the bottom of the page.

4) How many 3-digit numbers greater than 500 consist of three different
non-zero digits?

5) At my local farm stand, there were 60 more apples than peaches and
five times as many apples as peaches. How many apples were there?

6) The answers to questions #1-5 are represented by the letters A, B, C, D,

and E in the following expression.
What is the value of 3BD + 5AC - 7E ?

ANSWERS

1) _________

2) _________

3) _________

4) _________

5) _________

6) _________
Solutions to Category 6
Team Round
Meet #1 - October, 2021

ANSWERS 1) If a circle just intersects the four vertices of a

square, then there are four points of intersection.
1) 8 shrink the circle a bit and there can be as many
as 8 points of intersection.
2) 9
2) There are several sets of consecutive positive
3) 11 integers whose sum is 45, for instance
14, 15, 16 and 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. But the set with
4) 280 the maximum number of numbers is
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Therefore, W = 9.
5) 75
3) The sum of the measures of the four angles of
6) 7475 a quadrilateral is 360. ABCD has vertex angles
of 100, 90, 48, and angle BCD. The sum of
the three given angles is 238, so angle BCD must
measure 360 - 238, or 122. So, angle BCE
is 122 - 84, or 38 degrees. Then angle AEC measures
360 - (100 + 90 + 38), or 360 - 228, or 132 degrees. Its vertical angle,
FED, also measures 132 degrees. The sum of the measures of
triangle FED is 180 degrees, so that angle EDF = 180 - (37 + 132), or
180 - 169, or 11 degrees.

4) from 501-520: 512, 513, 514, 516, 517, 518, 519. That's seven numbers.
from 520-530: 521, 523, 524, 526, 527, 528, 529. That's seven numbers.
The same holds true for each decade of numbers in the 500s, except for
550-560 where there are none, just like for 500-510. So, from 500-600,
there are eight decades of seven numbers for a total of 56 numbers.
The same holds true for the subsequent centuries of numbers from
600-1000 with no exceptions. There are five centuries in total, so there
are (5)(56), or 280 3-digit numbers greater than 500 consisting of three
different non-zero digits. The permutation 5 x 8 x 7 also yields 280.

5) Let X = the number of peaches and X + 60 = the number of apples.

Then 5X = X + 60, 4X = 60, and X = 15. So, the number of apples
is 15 + 60, or 75.

6) 3BD + 5AC - 7E
= (3)(9)(280) + (5)(8)(11) - (7)(75) = 7560 + 440 - 525
= 7475