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International Mathematical Olympiad National Selection Test Malaysia 2021 Round 1 Primary Time: 2.5 hours [hide=Rules] $\bullet$ For each problem you have to submit the answer only. The answer to each problem is a non-negative integer. $\bullet$ No mark is deducted for a wrong answer. $\bullet$ The maximum number of points is (1 + 2 + 3 + 4) x 5 = 50 points.[/hide] [b]Part A[/b] (1 point each) p1. Faris has six cubes on his table. The cubes have a total volume of $2021$ cm$^3$. Five of the cubes have side lengths $5$ cm, $5$ cm, $6$ cm, $6$ cm, and $11$ cm. What is the side length of the sixth cube (in cm)? p2. What is the sum of the first $200$ even positive integers? p3. Anushri writes down five positive integers on a paper. The numbers are all different, and are all smaller than $10$. If we add any two of the numbers on the paper, then the result is never $10$. What is the number that Anushri writes down for certain? p4. If the time now is $10.00$ AM, what is the time $1,000$ hours from now? Note: Enter the answer in a $12$-hour system, without minutes and AM/PM. For example, if the answer is $9.00$ PM, just enter $9$. p5. Aminah owns a car worth $10,000$ RM. She sells it to Neesha at a $10\%$ profit. Neesha sells the car back to Aminah at a $10\%$ loss. How much money did Aminah make from the two transactions, in RM? [b]Part B[/b] (2 points each) p6. Alvin takes 250 small cubes of side length $1$ cm and glues them together to make a cuboid of size $5$ cm  $\times 5$ cm  $\times 10$ cm. He paints all the faces of the large cuboid with the color green. How many of the small cubes are painted by Alvin? p7. Cikgu Emma and Cikgu Tan select one integer each (the integers do not have to be positive). The product of the two integers they selected is $2021$. How many possible integers could have been selected by Cikgu Emma? p8. A three-digit number is called [i]superb[/i] if the first digit is equal to the sum of the other two digits. For example, $431$ and $909$ are superb numbers. How many superb numbers are there? p9. Given positive integers $a, b, c$, and $d$ that satisfy the equation $4a = 5b =6c = 7d$. What is the smallest possible value of $ b$? p10. Find the smallest positive integer n such that the digit sum of n is divisible by $5$, and the digit sum of $n + 1$ is also divisible by $5$. Note: The digit sum of $1440$ is $1 + 4 + 4 + 0 = 9$. [b]Part C[/b] (3 points each) p11. Adam draws $7$ circles on a paper, with radii $ 1$ cm, $2$ cm, $3$ cm, $4$ cm, $5$ cm, $6$ cm, and $7$ cm. The circles do not intersect each other. He colors some circles completely red, and the rest of the circles completely blue. What is the minimum possible difference (in cm$^2$) between the total area of the red circles and the total area of the blue circles? p12. The number $2021$ has a special property that the sum of any two neighboring digits in the number is a prime number ($2 + 0 = 2$, $0 + 2 = 2$, and $2 + 1 = 3$ are all prime numbers). Among numbers from $2021$ to $2041$, how many of them have this property? p13. Clarissa opens a pet shop that sells three types of pets: gold shes, hamsters, and parrots. The pets inside the shop together have a total of $14$ wings, $24$ heads, and $62$ legs. How many gold shes are there inside Clarissa's shop? p14. A positive integer $n$ is called [i]special [/i] if $n$ is divisible by $4$, $n+1$ is divisible by $5$, and $n + 2$ is divisible by $6$. How many special integers smaller than $1000$ are there? p15. Suppose that this decade begins on $ 1$ January $2020$ (which is a Wednesday) and the next decade begins on $ 1$ January $2030$. How many Wednesdays are there in this decade? [b]Part D[/b] (4 points each) p16. Given an isosceles triangle $ABC$ with $AB = AC$. Let D be a point on $AB$ such that $CD$ is the bisector of $\angle ACB$. If $CB = CD$, what is $\angle ADC$, in degrees? p17. Determine the number of isosceles triangles with the following properties: all the sides have integer lengths (in cm), and the longest side has length $21$ cm. p18. Ha z marks $k$ points on the circumference of a circle. He connects every point to every other point with straight lines. If there are $210$ lines formed, what is $k$? p19. What is the smallest positive multiple of $24$ that can be written using digits $4$ and $5$ only? p20. In a mathematical competition, there are $2021$ participants. Gold, silver, and bronze medals are awarded to the winners as follows: (i) the number of silver medals is at least twice the number of gold medals, (ii) the number of bronze medals is at least twice the number of silver medals, (iii) the number of all medals is not more than $40\%$ of the number of participants. The competition director wants to maximize the number of gold medals to be awarded based on the given conditions. In this case, what is the maximum number of bronze medals that can be awarded? PS. Problems 11-20 were also used in [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h2676837p23203256]Juniors [/url]as 1-10.
Evan, Larry, and Alex are drawing whales on the whiteboard. Evan draws 10 whales, Larry draws 15 whales, and Alex draws 20 whales. Michelle then starts randomly erasing whales one by one. The probability that she finishes erasing Larry's whales first can be expressed as $\frac{p}{q}$. Compute $p+q$. [i]2022 CCA Math Bonanza Team Round #10[/i]
Pairwise distinct points $P_1,\dots,P_{1024}$, which lie on a circle, are marked by distinct reals $a_1,\dots,a_{1024}$. Let $P_i$ be $Q-$good for a $Q$ on the circle different than $P_1,\dots,P_{1024}$, if and only if $a_i$ is the greatest number on at least one of the two arcs $P_iQ$. Let the score of $Q$ be the number of $Q-$good points on the circle. Determine the greatest $k$ such that regardless of the values of $a_1,\dots,a_{1024}$, there exists a point $Q$ with score at least $k$.
In a right triangle, the point $O$ is the center of the circumcircle. Another circle of smaller radius centered at the point $O$ touches the larger leg and the altitude drawn from the top of the right angle. Find the acute angles of a right triangle and the ratio of the radii of the circumscribed and smaller circles.
Does there exist a quadratic trinomial $p(x)$ with integer coefficients such that, for every natural number $n$ whose decimal representation consists of digits $1$, $p(n)$ also consists only of digits $1$?
Function $f(x)$. which is defined on the set of non-negative real numbers, acquires real values. It is known that $f(0)\le 0$ and the function $f(x)/x$ is increasing for $x>0$. Prove that for arbitrary $x\ge 0$ and $y\ge 0$, holds the inequality $f(x+y)\ge f(x)+ f(y)$ .
Given positive integers $m$ and $n$, prove that there is a positive integer $c$ such that the numbers $cm$ and $cn$ have the same number of occurrences of each non-zero digit when written in base ten.
A circle is drawn on a plane, the center of which is not indicated. On this circle, point $A$ is marked and a second circle with center at $A$ is constructed. The second circle has a radius greater than the radius of the first and intersects the first at two points. Construct the center of the first circle using only a compass, drawing no more than five more circles.
A $20 \times 20$ checkered board is cut into several squares with integer side length. The size of a square is it's side length. What is the maximum amount of different sizes this squares can have?
Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled scalene triangle and $\Gamma$ be its circumcircle. $K$ is the foot of the internal bisector of $\angle BAC$ on $BC$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of the arc $BC$ containing $A$. $MK$ intersect $\Gamma$ again at $A'$. $T$ is the intersection of the tangents at $A$ and $A'$. $R$ is the intersection of the perpendicular to $AK$ at $A$ and perpendicular to $A'K$ at $A'$. Show that $T, R$ and $K$ are collinear.
Let H be a complex separable Hilbert space and denote $B(H)$ the algebra of bounded linear operators on H. Find all *-subalgebras C of $B(H)$ for which for all $A \in B(H)$ and $T \in C$ there exists $S \in C$ that $$TA-AT^{\ast} = TS-ST^{\ast}$$ note: *-algebra is also known as involutive algebra.
Find $P(x)\in Z[x]$ st : $P(n)|2557^{n}+213.2014$ with any $n\in N^{*}$
On the plane are given a convex $n$-gon $P_1P_2....P_n$ and a point $Q$ inside it, not lying on any of its diagonals. Prove that if $n$ is even, then the number of triangles $P_iP_jP_k$ containing the point $Q$ is even.
Let $a, b,c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that $ \sqrt{a^3b+a^3c}+\sqrt{b^3c+b^3a}+\sqrt{c^3a+c^3b}\ge \frac43 (ab+bc+ca)$
Let $x, y$ be two non-negative integers. Prove that $47$ divides $3^x - 2^y$ if and only if $23$ divides $4x + y$.
Prove that among the quadrilaterals with given lengths of the diagonals and the angle between them, the parallelogram has the least perimeter.
Let $\vartriangle A_1B_1C_1$ and $l_1, m_1, n_1$ be the trisectors closest to $A_1B_1$, $B_1C_1$, $C_1A_1$ of the angles $A_1, B_1, C_1$ respectively. Let $A_2 = l_1 \cap n_1$, $B_2 = m_1 \cap l_1$, $C_2 = n_1 \cap m_1$. So on we create triangles $\vartriangle A_nB_nC_n$ . If $\vartriangle A_1B_1C_1$ is equilateral prove that exists $n \in N$, such that all the sides of $\vartriangle A_nB_nC_n$ are parallel to the sides of $\vartriangle A_1B_1C_1$.
There are $2018$ peoples. We call the group of people as "club" if all members of same "club" are all friends, but not friends with a nonmember of "club". Prove, that we can divide peoples for $90$ rooms, such that no one room has all members of some "club".
Find all ordered pairs of integers $(x, y)$ with $y \ge 0$ such that $x^2 + 2xy + y! = 131$.
Let $ABCD$ be a trapezoid in which $AB \parallel CD$ and $AB = 2CD$. A line $\ell$ perpendicular to $CD$ was drawn through point $C$. A circle with center at point $D$ and radius $DA$ intersects line $\ell$ at points $P$ and $Q$. Prove that $AP \perp BQ$.
Suppose that $ a$, $ b$, $ c$ are positive real numbers, prove that \[ 1 < \frac {a}{\sqrt {a^{2} \plus{} b^{2}}} \plus{} \frac {b}{\sqrt {b^{2} \plus{} c^{2}}} \plus{} \frac {c}{\sqrt {c^{2} \plus{} a^{2}}}\leq\frac {3\sqrt {2}}{2} \]
There is a board with $n$ rows and $12$ columns. Each cell of the board contains a $1$ or a $0$. The board has the following properties: [list=i] [*]All rows are distinct. [*]Each row contains exactly $4$ cells with $1$. [*]For every $3$ rows, there is a column that intersects them in $3$ cells with $0$. [/list] Find the largest $n$ for which a board with these properties exists.
Prove that the product of the 99 numbers $ \frac{k^3\minus{}1}{k^3\plus{}1},k\equal{}2,3,\ldots,100$ is greater than $ 2/3$.
The boiling points of the halogens, $\ce{F2}, \ce{Cl2}, \ce{Br2}$ and $\ce{I2}$ increase in that order. This is best attributed to differences in $ \textbf{(A) }\text{covalent bond strengths}\qquad$ $\textbf{(B) }\text{dipole forces}\qquad$ $\textbf{(C) }\text{London dispersion forces}\qquad$ $\textbf{(D) }\text{colligative forces}\qquad$
Let $n\geq1$ be a positive integer. $n$ lamps are placed in a line. At minute 0, some lamps are on (maybe all of them). Every minute the state of the lamps changes: A lamp is on at minute $t+1$ if and only if at minute $t$, exactly one of its neighbors is on (the two lamps at the ends have one neighbor each, all other lamps have two neighbors). For which values of $n$ can we guarantee that all lamps will be off after some time?