INMO PRACTICE PAPER

FULL TEST
MM 98

Time 4 Hrs.

1. Let ABCD be a parallelogram. Suppose a line passing through C and lying

outside the parallelogram meets AB and AD produced at E and F respectively.
AC 2 CE.CF AB.AE AD.AF
Show that
{1, 11, 21, 31, ........ , 541, 551}
2. Let A denote a subset of the set
having the
property that no two elements of A add up to 552. Prove that A can't have more
than 28 elements.

a+

3. If a; b; c are three real numbers and

number t, prove that abc + t = 0:

1
1
1
b c t
b
c
a

for some real

9X9
4. Some 46 squares are randomly chosen from an
chess board and are
2X2
coloured red. Show that there exists a
block of 4 squares of which at least
three are coloured red.

5. Let

n2

ak ak 1

. Let

a1, a2 , a3 ,........an

be n real numbers all greater than 1 and such that

a1 a2 a3
a
a

....... n 1 n 2n 1
1
a2 a3 a4
an
a1
1 k n 1
for
. Show that

6. Three congruent circles have a common point O and lie inside a given triangle.
Each circle touches a pair of sides of the triangle. Prove that the incentre and the
circumcentre of the triangle and the common point O are collinear.
7. A circle passes through the vertex of a rectangle ABCD and touches its sides AB

and AD at M and N respectively. If the distance from C to the line segment MN is

equal to 5 units, find the area of the rectangle ABCD.