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1. THE CANDY (coefficient 1)

Having just found empty candy wrappers around her candy box, Marie asks her four children how many of them have stolen
candy from the box.
Each child knows perfectly well what the three others have done. Each child who has stolen candy is a liar; the others tell the
truth.
Aline answers “one”, Bruno “two”, Carole “three”, and David “four”.
How many children stole candy from the box?

2. THE DROIDS (coefficient 2)

Industrial Automaton Inc. has built three droids: J1-M1, J2-M2 and J3-M3.
Each droid has a different number of antennas, and for safety reasons, that number is always at least two.
Each droid can see perfectly well and tells the truth.
The three droids are working together in a compartment of the Skytop space station.
J1-M1 says: “On the two of you, I see 6 antennas in total”.
J2-M2 says: “On the two of you, I see 5 antennas in total”.
How many antennas in total does J3-M3 see on the two other droids?

3. SHADOW AND LIGHT (coefficient 3)

On a picture of Toutânmathon's great pyramid, the area of each of the fifteen squares is 4 cm2.
The boundary between the portion of the pyramid that lies in the shade and the portion in the sunlight goes along a straight
line, from the top-left vertex to the bottom-right vertex.
On the image, what is the area (expressed in cm2) of the portion lit by the sun, i.e. the white area?

4. THE PAIR OF SHOES (coefficient 4)

A power outage has made Crépin's apartment completely dark, so that he cannot distinguish the colors or shapes (left or right
foot) of his shoes anymore.
A cabinet contains 3 black shoes for the left foot, 7 black shoes for the right foot, 5 brown shoes for the left foot, and 2
brown shoes for the right foot.
How many shoes (at least) does Crépin need to take out of the cabinet in order to be certain to have a least one pair
(left and right foot) of a single color (black or brown)?

5. THREE SQUARES (coefficient 5)

A move consists in flipping the color, from white to gray or from gray to white, of three consecutive squares in a row or
column.
One must go from the left-most grid to the right-most one, without flipping twice the same set of three squares.
Tracy succeeded in 3 moves, as shown.

Starting again from the left-most grid, Tony succeeded in a number of moves different from 3.
What is this number of moves?

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6. GUESS A PRODUCT (coefficient 6)

Michel has nine cards, numbered from 1 to 9.
He gives three to Denis, three to Julien and three to Laurent.
Each of them calculates the product of the three numbers on the cards he received.
Each of the three products is a two-digit number.
The product calculated by Denis is a multiple of 20.
The product calculated by Julien is a multiple of 16.
What is the product calculated by Laurent?
7. THE TRIANGLES (coefficient 7)

Each number from 1 to 9 must be written in a circle (one in each circle).

For each of the eight small triangles, the sum of the three numbers written at the vertices must be equal to the number given
inside it.
Complete the grid.

8. THE MARITIME MAP (coefficient 8)

Maritime itineraries must go along the dotted line segments shown on the map.
Christophe wants to go from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner by following an itinerary with the shortest possible
total length.
How many possible ways are there?

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Problems 9 to 18: Beware! For a problem to be considered completely solved, you must give the number of solutions, and
give the solution if there is only one, or two solutions if there are more than one. For all problems which may have several
solutions, there is space for writing two solutions on the answer sheet (even though there might be only one!).

9. THE JUDOKAS (coefficient 9)

A judo team was weighed before a competition.
The three heaviest teammates weigh 41% of the total weight.
The two lightest weigh 17% of the total weight.
How many judokas are there in the team?

10. THE ANT (coefficient 10)

Mimi the ant moves on a metal structure without ever making a U-turn.
It starts from any of the 18 vertices and wants to return there after having passed at least once through each of the 33 edges.
Each edge is one decimeter long.
What is the minimum distance (in decimeters) that Mimi will travel?
Note: some edges are drawn as dotted lines to help visualize their position in space.

11. THE SUBWAY LINE (coefficient 11)

A subway line is straight and connects five stations, including the two which lie at the ends of the line.
The ten distances between pairs of stations, expressed in kilometers, are all different integers.
Nine of the distances are 1 to 9 kilometers.
What is the tenth distance (in kilometers), namely the total length of the subway line?

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12. THE BIRDS (coefficient 12)

Alfred observes birds sitting on a power line. The birds can be considered as points on a line (a different point for each bird).
One of the birds is inside 60 line segments connecting two other birds.
Another one is inside 90 line segments connecting two other birds.
How many birds is Alfred seeing?
13. THE ROAD SIGN (coefficient 13)
In MathsLand, the road sign indicating a mandatory right turn (central arrow) is a large regular hexagon.

Its total area is 256 dm2.

The five small hexagons are regular and identical.
Hexagons in contact with each other touch along a line segment of positive length.
What is the total area of the six gray regions, in dm2 rounded to the nearest integer?
Note : the six edges of a regular hexagon are all of the same length, and the six angles are all equal.

14. THE STREET (coefficient 14)

Benoît's age is an integer number of years, as today is his birthday.
He lives on a street where there are only houses.
The houses are numbered consecutively from one up to a certain integer greater than or equal to two.
Benoît calculates the average of all the numbers of the houses other than his own.
He adds his age to this average, and finds that the result is exactly 20.16.
What is Benoît's age?

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15. ARITHMETIC PROGRESSIONS (coefficient 15)

Mathilde wants to write seventeen different numbers into the grid, one in each square.
Each number must be a strictly positive integer.
The five numbers along the horizontal row and each of the three vertical columns must form arithmetic progressions.
What is the smallest possible value of the largest number that Mathilde will write into the grid?
Note: an arithmetic progression (for example: 9, 7, 5, 3, 1) is a sequence of numbers in which each term is obtained from the
previous one by adding a fixed positive or negative constant.

16. THE MATHS MOBILE (coefficient 16)

Léonard has sketched a Maths Mobile.

Each integer from 1 to 13 must be written into a small circle (one per circle).
The sums of the three numbers around the triangle, the four numbers around the square, the six numbers around the hexagon,
and the five numbers around the pentagon must all be equal to each other.
They are also equal to the sums of the three numbers on each of the three large dotted circles.
What is the product of the three numbers (indicated by arrows) written in the small circles at the center of the large
circles?

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17. THE THREE COINS (coefficient 17)

Julien uses three identical coins.
He places them in a grid consisting of a single row of N squares numbered from 1 to N (at most one per square) so that two
coins never lie in adjacent squares.
N is at least 5 and at most 500.
For example, there are ten ways of placing the coins on a grid with 7 squares.
Given that the number of ways in which Julien can place the coins is a multiple of 2016, what is the value of N?

18. THE CROP CIRCLE (coefficient 18)

The crop circle in Père Dudevue's wheat field is a geometric pattern visible from the sky.

The lengths of the sides of the triangle, expressed in meters, are integers.
If one adds two meters to the length of the longest side, then one obtains the sum of the lengths of the two other sides.
The radius of the inscribed circle of the triangle, expressed in meters, is an integer.
The total area of the triangle is 2016 m2.
What is the perimeter of the triangle, in meters?
Note: if a, b and c are the side lengths, P the perimeter (a+b+c) and S the area, then P(P-2a)(P-2b)(P-2c) = 16S2.
The inscribed circle lies inside the triangle, and is tangent to each of its sides; its radius is 2S/P. 

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