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Cayley Contest
(Grade 10)
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
(in North America and South America)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
(outside of North America and South America)

Time: 60 minutes ©2022 University of Waterloo

Calculating devices are allowed, provided that they do not have any of the following
features: (i) internet access, (ii) the ability to communicate with other devices,
(iii) information previously stored by students (such as formulas, programs, notes,
etc.), (iv) a computer algebra system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
You must not access any website or electronic materials other than this contest
system and the PDF of the contest paper.
Instructions
1. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
2. After making your choice, fill in the appropriate answer in this online system. We recommend
that you also keep track of your answers on paper during the contest. If you need to change
your answer before submitting, you may change to a different answer or to “No answer” if
you would like to leave the question unanswered.
3. When you are finished answering questions, click “Submit” under the answers to Question 25
to submit your contest. Be sure to submit your responses within 60 minutes of when you
click the link to download the contest paper PDF.
4. The correct answer to each question in Part C is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive. A
one-digit answer (such as “7”) must be coded with a leading zero (“07”).
5. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
6. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
7. You may not write more than one of the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat Contests in any given
year.

Do not discuss the problems or solutions from this contest online for the next 48 hours.

The name, grade, school and location, and score range of some top-scoring students will be
published on our website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some top-scoring students may be shared with other mathematical organizations
for other recognition opportunities.
 Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.

Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.

1 2 3
1. What is the value of + + ?
1 2 3
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) 3 (D) 9 (E) 10

2. If 3n = 9 + 9 + 9, then n equals
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 18 (D) 9 (E) 27

3. One movie is 1 hour and 48 minutes long. A second movie is 25 minutes longer than
the first. How long is the second movie?
(A) 2 hours and 13 minutes
(B) 1 hour and 48 minutes
(C) 2 hours and 25 minutes
(D) 2 hours and 3 minutes
(E) 2 hours and 48 minutes

4. Lucy tracked the number of cardinals and the number of blue jays that she saw each
day for three days. The graph below summarizes the birds that she saw.

Birds Spotted by Lucy

6
Number of Birds

5
4 Cardinals
3
Blue Jays
2
1

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

How many more cardinals than blue jays did she see over the three days?
(A) 7 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 1

5. The number 2023 is written on one side of a classroom

window using the style of numbers shown. If you were
to stand on the other side of the window, how would the
number appear?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)
6. In the diagram, points B, C and D lie on a line. Also,
∠ABC = 90◦ and ∠ACD = 150◦ . The value of x is A
(A) 30 (B) 45 (C) 90 x˚
150˚
(D) 150 (E) 60
B D
C

7. The surface area of a cube is 24. The volume of the cube is

√
(A) 4 (B) 3 3 (C) 9 (D) 16 (E) 8

8. Charlie is making a necklace with yellow beads and green beads. She has already
used 4 green beads and 0 yellow beads. How many yellow beads will she have to add
so that 45 of the total number of beads are yellow?
(A) 16 (B) 4 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 12

9. A positive number is increased by 60%. By what percentage should the result be

decreased to return to the original value?
(A) 57.5% (B) 40% (C) 62.5% (D) 50% (E) 37.5%

10. Each of five doors is randomly either open or closed. What is the probability that
exactly two of the five doors are open?
5 13 9 1 7
(A) 16 (B) 32 (C) 25 (D) 2 (E) 16

Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.

11. Karim has 23 candies. He eats n candies and divides the remaining candies equally
among his three children so that each child gets an integer number of candies. Which
of the following is not a possible value of n?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 14

12. A 6 m by 8 m rectangular field has a fence around it. There is a post at each of the
four corners of the field. Starting at each corner, there is a post every 2 m along each
side of the fence. How many posts are there?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20

13. The integer 2023 is equal to 7 × 172 . Which of the following is the smallest positive
perfect square that is a multiple of 2023?
(A) 20232 (B) 4 × 2023 (C) 7 × 2023 (D) 17 × 2023 (E) 7 × 17 × 2023

14. Points A, B, C, and D are on a line in that order.

The distance from A to D is 24.
The distance from B to D is 3 times the distance from A to B.
Point C is halfway between B and D.
What is the distance from A to C?
(A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 9 (E) 15
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15. Suppose that a = , where n is a positive integer with n > 1.
n
Which of the following statements is true?
1 1 1
(A) a < < a2 (B) a2 < a < (C) a < a2 <
a a a
1 2 1 2
(D) < a < a (E) < a < a
a a

16. In the diagram, ABCF is a rectangle with AB = 30 cm

and AF = 14 cm. Points E and D are on F C so that A B
F E = 5 cm and the area of quadrilateral ABDE is
266 cm2 . The length of DC is
(A) 17 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 19 cm
(D) 20 cm (E) 18 cm F C
E D

17. Megan and Hana raced their remote control cars for 100 m.
The two cars started at the same time.
The average speed of Megan’s car was 54 m/s.
Hana’s car finished 5 seconds before Megan’s car.
What was the average speed of Hana’s car?
4 5 4 6 3
(A) 5 m/s (B) 2 m/s (C) 3 m/s (D) 5 m/s (E) 2 m/s

18. A factory makes chocolate bars. Five boxes, labelled V , W , X, Y , Z, are each packed
with 20 bars. Each of the bars in three of the boxes has a mass of 100 g. Each of the
bars in the other two boxes has a mass of 90 g. One bar is taken from box V , two
bars are taken from box W , four bars are taken from box X, eight bars are taken
from box Y , and sixteen bars are taken from box Z. The total mass of these bars
taken from the boxes is 2920 g. The boxes containing the 90 g bars are labelled
(A) V and W (B) W and Z (C) X and Y (D) V and Z (E) W and Y

19. The average of a, b and c is 16. The average of c, d and e is 26. The average of a, b,
c, d, and e is 20. The value of c is
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 26 (E) 30

20. A robotic grasshopper jumps 1 cm to the east, then 2 cm to the north, then 3 cm to
the west, then 4 cm to the south. After every fourth jump, the grasshopper restarts
the sequence of jumps: 1 cm to the east, then 2 cm to the north, then 3 cm to the
west, then 4 cm to the south. After a total of n jumps, the position of the grasshopper
is 162 cm to the west and 158 cm to the south of its original position. The sum of
the squares of the digits of n is
(A) 22 (B) 29 (C) 17 (D) 14 (E) 13
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.
Each correct answer is an integer from 0 to 99, inclusive.
A one-digit answer (such as “7”) must be coded with a leading zero (“07”).
Note: The integer formed by the rightmost two digits of 12 345 is 45.
The integer formed by the rightmost two digits of 6307 is 7, coded 07.

21. A line has equation y = mx − 50 for some positive integer m. The line passes through
the point (a, 0) for some positive integer a. What is the sum of all possible values
of m?

22. The integers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 are to be placed in the circles and squares
below with one number in each shape.

x y

Each integer must be used exactly once and the integer in each circle must be equal
to the sum of the integers in the two neighbouring squares. If the integer x is placed
in the leftmost square and the integer y is placed in the rightmost square, what is the
largest possible value of x + y?

23. In the diagram, ABC is a quarter-circle centred at B.

Each of square P QRS, square SRT B and square RU V T A
Q
has side length 10. Points P and S are on AB, points T P
and V are on BC, and points Q and U are on the quarter-
circle. Line segment AC is drawn. Three triangular
regions are shaded, as shown. What is the integer closest U
S R
to the total area of the shaded regions?

B T V C

24. Carina is in a tournament in which no game can end in a tie. She continues to play
games until she loses 2 games, at which point she is eliminated and plays no more
games. The probability of Carina winning the first game is 12 . After she wins a game,
the probability of Carina winning the next game is 43 . After she loses a game, the
probability of Carina winning the next game is 31 . The probability that Carina wins
3 games before being eliminated from the tournament equals ab , where the fraction ab
is in lowest terms. What is the value of a + b?

25. A set consists of five different odd positive integers, each greater than 2. When these
five integers are multiplied together, their product is a five-digit integer of the form
AB 0AB, where A and B are digits with A 6= 0 and A 6= B. (The hundreds digit
of the product is zero.) For example, the integers in the set {3, 5, 7, 13, 33} have a
product of 45 045. In total, how many different sets of five different odd positive
integers have these properties?
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Cayley
2023
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