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Math Olympiad Counting Techniques Guide

The document outlines a Math Olympiad Training Program for secondary students, focusing on counting techniques through various problems. It includes exercises related to digit occurrences in numbers, counting paths in graphs, and geometric figures. The problems are designed to enhance mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills for students in grades 9 and 10.

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Math Olympiad Counting Techniques Guide

The document outlines a Math Olympiad Training Program for secondary students, focusing on counting techniques through various problems. It includes exercises related to digit occurrences in numbers, counting paths in graphs, and geometric figures. The problems are designed to enhance mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills for students in grades 9 and 10.

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Math Olympiad Training Program

SECONDARY 3&4
GRADE 9&10

COUNTING TECHNIQUES

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COUNTING

1. The rooms of a hotel are numbered with three digits. The first indicates the floor
and the following two the number of the room. For example, 125 indicates room 25
of the first floor. If the hotel has a total of 5 floors numbered from 1 to 5 with 35
rooms per floor numbered from 101 to 135 on the first floor, how many times will
the digit 2 be used to number all the rooms?

2. Kevin wrote whole numbers starting from 1. Then he put a ''#" behind every 3
digits as follows: 1 2 3 # 4 5 6 # 7 8 9 # 1 0 1 # 1 1 2 # ··· What is the digit before
the 100th "#'?

3. A number is formed by writing the whole numbers from 1 to 1200 in a connected


way, as follows: 123456...119811991200
What is the 2011th digit of the above number if we count it from the right?

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4. How many whole numbers from 1 to 999 contain the digit "1"?

5. How many whole numbers from 1 to 2009 contain the digit "2"?

6. The digit 3 occurs exactly 99 times in the page numbers of a story book. What is
the page number on the last page?

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7. How many whole numbers between 1 and 1,000,000 contain the digit 5 at least
twice?

8. A river goes through a city and there are two islands. There are also six bridges
as shown in the figure. How many paths there are going out of
a shore of the river (point A) and come back (to point B) after
having spent one and only one time for each bridge?

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9. How many shortest paths are there from the bottom left corner to the top right
corner?
A path consists of straight segments. A path will be the shortest if there is no
backtracking.

a.

b. From bottom right corner to top left corner

10. A drop of water is placed at the top of the grid shown below. If it always runs
downwards along the grid lines, in how many different ways can it reach the ground?

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11. The diagram below shows the road-plan of a city. All
the lines, including the line AB, represent 2-way roads.
Due to repairs, one road is impassable at the point X. Of
all the possible routes from P to Q, there are several
shortest routes. How many such shortest routes are
there?

12. How many triangles are there in the figure below?

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