Berkeley mini Math Tournament 2024

Relay Round

April 14, 2024

Time limit: 40 minutes.
Instructions: For this test, you will work in teams of up to five to solve 7 sets of short
answer questions, with 20 questions in total. You may work on any problem from any set at
any time. Submit a single answer sheet for grading. Only answers written inside the boxes
on the answer sheet will be considered for grading.
Note: Some questions may depend on other questions’ answers. The drawing at the top
of every set indicates which other answers are used for which problems. The integrated
drawing of all 7 sets will be shown on the top of the first page. All answers for this round
are numerical values (not in terms of any variables).
No calculators.
Answer format overview:
• Carry out any reasonable calculations. For instance, you should evaluate 21 + 13 , but you
do not need to evaluate large powers such as 78 .
• Write rational numbers in lowest terms. Decimals are also acceptable, provided they
are exact. You may use constants such as π in your answers.
√ √
• Move all square factors outside radicals. For example, write 3 7 instead of 63.
√
2 √1
• Denominators do not need to be rationalized. Both 2
and 2
are acceptable.
• Do not express an answer using a repeated sum or product.
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2 5 7 13 11

20 1 3 4 6 14 12 17

Set 1

1 2

1. Aditya is walking in a park. There are four statues in the park and one-way roads between some
pairs of statues, as shown by the letters and arrows in the diagram below. Aditya may visit the
same statue more than once, but he refuses to travel along the same road more than once. In
how many ways can he travel from statue A to statue D?

A D

2. Let N1 be the answer to Problem 1.

What is the sum of all positive integers x such that

x + N1 = xN1 /x ?

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Set 2

3
5
4

3. Suppose a, b, c, and m are numbers satisfying the system of equations:

a+b+c
= m,
3
a − m = −20,
b − m = −24.

What is the value of c − m?

4. A bag contains 9 cinnamon candies and 1 cherry candy. Nikki takes five candies from the bag
uniformly at random without replacement. What is the probability that the second candy she
takes is a cherry candy?

5. Let N3 be the units digit of the answer to Problem 3 and N4 be the answer to Problem 4.
Luke the frog and Barti the dolphin are racing across the length of a pond, starting at the same
time. Luke hops at the speed of N3 meters per second, and Barti swims at the speed of N14
meters per second. Given Luke reaches the other side of the pond 30 seconds after Barti, what
is the length of the pond, in meters?

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Set 3

6 7 8

6. In quadrilateral ABCD, point E lies on CD such that angle ∠EBC = 32◦ , angle ∠BCE = 40◦ ,
BD = BE, and AD and BE are parallel. Compute angle ∠ADB in degrees. Note that the
diagram below is not drawn to scale.

B E

A D

7. Let N6 be the answer to Problem 6.

x2
Define a function f (x) = 1+x2
. Let

A = f (1) + f (2) + f (3) + · · · + f (N6 )

and      
1 1 1
B = f (1) + f +f + ··· + f .
2 3 N6
Find A + B.

8. Let N7 be the answer to Problem 7.

Theo draws rectangle ABCD in the plane. He makes a copy of this rectangle in the same plane,
rescales the copy by some factor, and shifts the copy in the plane
√ to produce
√ a similar rectangle,
√
A1 B1 C1 D1 , such that AB is parallel to A1 B1 . Given AA1 = 65, BB1 = 20, and CC1 = N7 ,
compute DD1 .

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Set 4

10
9
11 12
9. Nine cupcakes are arranged in a line in increasing size from left to right. In the line, the cup-
cake flavors alternate between chocolate and vanilla with the leftmost cupcake being chocolate.
Andrew eats one chocolate cupcake, one vanilla cupcake, and then another chocolate cupcake,
so that each cupcake eaten is larger than all cupcakes eaten before it. In how many ways can
Andrew choose his three cupcakes?
10. Let N9 be the answer to Problem 9.
Clara plays a game with a list of the integers from 1 to N9 , inclusive. First, Clara randomizes
the order of the list. Then, in each round of the game, she removes the first and last elements
from the list and adds the bigger of these numbers to her score. If she began the game with a
score of 0, what is the smallest possible score that Clara could have achieved at the end of the
game?
11. Let N9 be the answer to Problem 9.
A sequence of real numbers a0 , a1 , a2 , . . . satisfies a0 = N9 and an+1 = an − an−1 for n ≥ 1.
Given that
a0 + a1 + a2 + · · · + a2024 = 2024,
compute a2 .
12. Let N11 be the smallest prime that does not divide the answer to Problem 11.
In the diagram below, let G be the intersection of AB and DE, and let H be the intersection of
AC and DF . Suppose that equilateral triangle △ABC is the reflection of triangle △DEF about
←→
the line GH and that AB = N11 · AG. Let circle O1 be tangent to all four sides of quadrilateral
AGDH, and let points B, C, F , and E all lie on circle O2 . Find the ratio of the area of O1 to
the area of O2 . Note that the diagram below is not drawn to scale.

B C

G H

E F

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Set 5

13

14

13. Let N14 be the answer to Problem 14.

√
The lines y = 201
x and y = 20−N1
14
x intersect the line y = 22 at distinct points A and B,
respectively. Let point O be the origin of the coordinate plane. Find the area of triangle
△ABO, given that it is a positive integer.

14. Let N13 be the answer to Problem 13.

Find the number of ways to choose two positive integers a and b such that a ≤ b < a + b ≤ 2N13 .

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Set 6

15 16 17

18

15. Justin is playing a game. He initially writes the following list of 7 numbers:

1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.

Then, on every turn of the game, he chooses either the median (the 4th greatest element) or
arithmetic mean (the sum of all elements divided by 7) of the list. He adds that number to
every element of the list, and this becomes his new list. If the arithmetic mean of Justin’s list
is greater than 500, the game ends. What is the minimum number of turns it could take for the
game to end?

16. For a non-negative integer a and a positive integer b ≥ 2, let a ⋆ b denote the remainder when
a + 1 is divided by b. For example, 2 ⋆ 3 = 0 and 1 ⋆ 10 = 2. Compute

(((((1 ⋆ 2024) ⋆ 2023) ⋆ 2022) ⋆ · · · ) ⋆ 61).

17. Zain is riding a bike in the coordinate plane. They start at (0, 0) and bike to all the points with
integer coordinates in a spiral pattern: they first bike to (0, 1), then to (−1, 1), (−1, 0), (−1, −1),
(0, −1), and so on, turning left if they haven’t visited the point to their left and going straight
otherwise. Every time Zain reaches a point (x, y) whose coordinates satisfy |x + y| = 2024, they
briefly celebrate on that point. Suppose the 4144th point Zain celebrates on is (a, b). Compute
b.

18. Let N15 be the answer to Problem 15, N16 be the answer to Problem 16, and N17 be the answer
to Problem 17.
Triangle △XY Z has a right angle at Y . Points A and D lie on XY and Y Z, respectively, such
that AD is parallel to XZ. Let AD intersect the inscribed circle of △XY Z at points B and
C, with A closer to B than C. Suppose AB = N16 , BC = N17 , and CD = N15 . Compute the
smallest possible value of XZ.

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Set 7

19

20

19. Let N19 be the answer to this problem and N20 be the answer to Problem 20.
Parallel lines ℓ1 , ℓ2 , and ℓ3 are arranged with ℓ2 between ℓ1 and ℓ3 such that adjacent lines are
distance N20 apart. Point√A lies on ℓ1 , point B lies on ℓ2 , and point C lies on ℓ3 such that
AB = N19 and BC = N20 10. Compute AC.

20. Let N19 be the answer to Problem 19 and N20 be the answer to this problem.
Suppose that exactly 2 of the following 3 expressions are equal:

N20 + N19 , 2N20 − N19 , and N19 N20 .

Compute N20 .