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Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad
Hamilton paper
Monday 15 March 2021
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England & Wales: Year 10
Scotland: S3
Northern Ireland: Year 11
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. Write on one side of the paper only and start each question on a fresh sheet.
5. Write your participant ID and question number neatly in the top left corner of each page and
arrange them with your cover sheet on top, so that your teacher can easily upload them to
the marking platform. 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 365 1121
[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 Hamilton paper Monday 15 March 2021
1. Naomi has a broken calculator. All it can do is either add one to the previous
answer, or square the previous answer. (It performs the operations correctly.)
Naomi starts with 2 on the screen. In how many ways can she obtain an
answer of 1000?
2. The diagram shows two unshaded squares inside a larger
square.
What fraction of the larger square is shaded?
3. For how many positive integers 𝑛 less than 200 is 𝑛𝑛 a cube and (𝑛 + 1) 𝑛+1 a
square?
4. 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 is a rectangle with area 6 cm2 . 𝐷 𝐺 𝐶
The point 𝐸 lies on 𝐴𝐵, 𝐹 lies on 𝐵𝐶, 𝐺 lies
on 𝐶𝐷 and 𝐻 lies on 𝐷 𝐴. The point 𝐼 lies on
𝐻 𝐼 𝐹
𝐴𝐶 and is the point of intersection of 𝐸𝐺 and
𝐹𝐻, and 𝐴𝐸 𝐼𝐻 and 𝐼 𝐹𝐶𝐺 are both rectangles. 𝐴 𝐸 𝐵
One possible diagram is shown to the right.
Given that the combined area of 𝐴𝐸 𝐼𝐻 and
𝐼 𝐹𝐶𝐺 is 4 cm2 , find all possible values for the
area of rectangle 𝐴𝐸 𝐼𝐻 in cm2 .
5. Find all real numbers 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧 such that 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 𝑧 2 = 𝑥 − 𝑧 = 2.
6. Humpty buys a box of 15 eggs, with 3 rows and 5 columns. Each meal he
removes one egg to cook and eat. If necessary, he moves one or more eggs
in the box so that between meals there are always two lines of reflective
symmetry. What is the smallest total number of extra egg moves he can
make while he empties the box?
Note: You must carefully justify that your answer is minimal; that it is
impossible to make fewer extra egg moves while emptying the box.
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