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MATHEMATICS WIZARD 2009

February 28, 2009
Bulwagang Manileo, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
Final Round
LEVEL I
Question No. 1
The 5-digit number
5A55B is divisible by 72.
What does A represent?
Question No. 2
How many pairs of integers
x,y are there which satisfy
the equation

?
2
1 1 1
= +
y x
Question No. 3
Find the sum of all prime
numbers p such that
p 1(mod3) and p < 40.
Question No. 4
Donald Duck can eat 2
pizzas in 3 minutes, while
Goofy can eat 3 pizzas in 2
minutes. At these rates,
how many pizzas can they
eat together in an hour?
Question No. 5
A Dog and Cat club found it
could achieve a membership
ratio of 2 dogs to one cat
either by inducting 24 dogs
or by expelling x cats. What
is x?
Question No. 6
The n
th
triangular number
is defined as the sum of
the first n positive
integers. Find the 35
th

triangular number.
Question No. 7
How many triples of real
numbers (x,y,z) are there
such that xy = z, xz = y
and yz = x?
Question No. 8
A right isosceles triangle is drawn
with legs of 12 cm. A triangle is
then inscribed by connecting the
midpoints of all the sides of the
first triangle. If triangles are
continuously inscribed in the same
fashion, what is the sum of the
areas of every triangle drawn?
Question No. 9
Let r, s, t be the roots of
x
3
7x
2
+ 8x + 2 = 0.
What is the value of
?
1 1 1
t s r
+ +
Question No. 10
During a recent period of time,
eleven days had some rain was
always followed by a clear
afternoon. An afternoon rain was
always preceded by a clear
morning. A total of nine mornings
and twelve afternoons were clear.
How many days had no rain at all?
LEVEL II
Question No. 1
What is the ratio of the
area of a square inscribed
in a semi-circle to the
area of a square inscribed
in the entire circle?
Question No. 2
What is the smallest
positive integer a for
which there is an integer
c and a right triangle with
side lengths a and 17 and
a hypotenuse of length c?
Question No. 3
Given the relation


with a
1
= 1, evaluate
8
1
+ =
n n
a a
n
n
a

lim
Question No. 4
How many positive
integers less than 10,000
are of the form x
8
+ y
8

for some integers x > 0
and y > 0?
Question No. 5
Ajay, Bjay, Cjay, Djay and
Ejay put their hats in a pile.
When they pick up their
hats later, each one gets
someone elses hat. How
many ways can this be
done?
Question No. 6
Twelve people are equally
spaced around a large
circle. What is the largest
number of wires that can be
stretched between pairs of
people so that no two wires
intersect at any point inside
the circle?
Question No. 7
The lower two vertices of a
square lie on the y-axis and
the upper two vertices of
the square lie on the
parabola y = 15 x
2
. What
is the area of the square?
Question No. 8
Three problems were given to
participants of a math contest. Each
participant got 0, 1, 2, or 3 points for
each problem. After the papers
graded it turned out that no pair of
participants received matching scores
for more than one problem. What is
the largest possible number of
participants?
Question No. 9
On the television station MYX, A% of
the airtime is devoted to the airing of
quality music, B% of the airing of
other music, C% of the airing of
advertisement, and D% of the airing
of other programming, A, B, C, and D
are positive integers and add up to
100. A<B, C is twice B, and D is four
times C. If D is a multiple of 9, find A.
Question No. 10
For how many values of
b, 0 < b < 24, could
p
2
b (mod 24) for some
prime number p?
LEVEL III
Question No. 1
The following inequalities hold for all positive
integers n:


What is the greatest integer which is less
than
1
1 4
1
1 <
+
< + n n
n
n n

=
+
24
1
1 4
1
n
n
Question No. 2
Someone rolls three dice
where you cannot see them,
and states (truthfully) that
there is at least one four.
What is the probability the
three dice sum to 12?
Question No. 3
Evaluate

) 5 (
1
3 2
k
k

=
Question No. 4
Let a
n
and b
n
be two arithmetic
progressions with n > 0, the
sum of the first n terms of
which are S
a
(n) and S
b
(n),
respectively. Given that


and a
2
= 4, determine b
4
.
8 2
9 5
) (
) (
+
+
=
n
n
n S
n S
b
a
Question No. 5
Evaluate

=
+
3
2 4
4 5
1
n
n n
Question No. 6
Four distinct numbers are
chosen from the first nine
natural numbers. What is
the probability that 5 is
the second largest of
those chosen?
Question No. 7
Consider the relation
a
n
=3a
n-1
+(1/2)a
n

for a
1
= 1 and a
2
= 2.
Find the 2009
th
term.
Question No. 8
Let f be a function defined for the
positive integers such that for every
positive integer n,
(i) f(n) is a positive integer;
(ii) f(n+1)>f(n); and
(iii) f(f(n)) = f(n)
How many such functions are there?
Question No. 9
A train that is one mile long is moving at a
constant speed. A rabbit, who runs faster
than the train, starts at the back of the
train and runs alongside until it reaches the
front of the train. At that instant, it
immediately turns around and runs back
(at the same rate) until it again reaches the
back of the train. At that instant, the back
of the train is now precisely where the front
of the train was when the rabbit started
running. In total, how far did the rabbit
run?
Question No. 10
Find the last digit of
777
777


Congratulations to the
MSP-NCR
Math Wizard 2009
winners!