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16th PMO Qualifying
16th PMO Qualifying
Qualifying Stage
12 October 2013
5 7 9 11 13 15
1. Simplify − + − + − .
6 12 20 30 42 56
3 7 5 9
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8 12 14 14
2. Brad and Angelina each tipped their waiter 50 pesos. Brad tipped 4%
of his bill while Angelina tipped 10% of her bill. What is the total bill
of the two?
(a) 1500 pesos (b) 1750 pesos (c) 1250 pesos (d) 2250 pesos
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2013
5. Consider the sum S = x! + i!, where x is a one-digit nonnegative
i=0
integer. How many possible values of x are there so that S is divisible
by 4?
6. Find the number of integer solutions less than 5 that satisfy the in-
equality (x3 + 4x2 )(x2 − 3x − 2) ≤ (x3 + 4x2 )(2x2 − 6).
13. The figures below, consisting of unit squares, are the first four in a
sequence of ”staircases,” How many unit squares are there in the 2013th
staircase?
15. Let AB be a chord of circle C with radius 13. If the shortest distance
of AB to point C is 5, what is the perimeter of ∆ABC?
4x+1 − 3
1. Find the range of the function f (x) =
4x + 1
(a) (−3, 1) (c) (−3, 4)
(b) (−4, 3) (d) (4, +∞)
2. If k consecutive integers sum to −1, find the sum of the largest and
smallest term.
4. Let (a, b) and (c, d) be two points of the circles C1 and C2 . The circle C1
is centered at the origin and passes through P (16, 16), while the circle
C2 is centered at P and passes through the origin. Find a + b + c + d.
√ 32
(a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 16 2 (d) √
3
8. How many trailing zeros does 126! have when written in decimal nota-
tion?
1 1 1 π2
9. It is known that 1 + + + + · · · = . Find the sum
4 9 16 6
1 1 1
1+ + + + ··· .
9 25 49
π2 π2 π2 π2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8 9 10 12
1. Let an be a sequence such that the average of the first and second terms
is 1, the average of the second and third terms is 2, the average of the
third and fourth terms is 3, and so on. Find the average of the 1st and
100th terms.
a 1 a3
3. If = , determine .
a2 + 1 3 a6 + a5 + a4 + a3 + a2 + a + 1
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
25 29 33 36
PART 2 (1) C (2) A (3) C (4) B (5) B (6) D (7) A (8) C (9) A (10) C
PART 1 (1) A (2) B (3) B (4) C (5) A (6) C (7) D (8) A (9) A (10) A (11) B (12) D (13) B (14) D (15) C
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