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1. NUMBER GUESSING (coefficient 1)

Each number below an operation symbol (-, x or +) must be the result of that operation performed on the two numbers above

it.
The number in the square labelled a must be smaller than the number in the square labelled b.
Write each number from 1 to 7 into a square (one per square).

2. LETTER GUESSING (coefficient 2)

Each letter always represents the same digit, different from 0, and two different letters represent different digits.
A + A + A + BB + BB + CCC = DDDD.
What digits are represented by the letters?

3. THE COLORING (coefficient 3)

Trina wants to color each of the seventeen edges in the picture in blue, yellow, or red (a single color for each edge).

Each color must appear exactly once around each of the eight small triangles.
The number of edges colored in blue must be twice the number of edges colored in yellow.
How many edges will be colored in red?

4. THE TETRAMINOS (coefficient 4)

All the little squares have the same size.

One has removed a little square from the upper-right corner of a 5x5 grid.
On the other hand, seven different shapes are available; they can be rotated but not reflected (front to back).
All the shapes except one can be placed together on the truncated grid without overlapping: which one is missing?
Each shape is designated by a letter. Give the letter corresponding to your answer: I, J, L, O, S, T or Z. 

5. THE TWO SEQUENCES (coefficient 5)

The grid must contain twice each number from 1 to 6 (one number per cell); a 2, a 1 and a 6 are already placed.
The six two-digit numbers (braces above the grid) must be all different and in increasing order from left to right.
The four three-digit numbers (braces below the grid) must be all different and in increasing order from left to right.

What will be the first (left-most) three-digit number?

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6. THE CASTLE (coefficient 6)

The large equilateral triangle is the outer perimeter of Castle Brilliant seen from above. 
Each of the small gray equilateral triangles is a tower with an area of 77 m2.
The white hexagon represents an inner courtyard with a perimeter equal to the sum of the perimeters of the three gray
triangles.
What is the area of the courtyard, in m2 and rounded to the nearest integer?
Note: an equilateral triangle has three edges of equal lengths.

7. TRIANGLES AND SQUARES (coefficient 7)

In a collection of geometric figures, 20 are triangles and all others are squares.
Each figure is colored in either blue or red.
The number of blue figures is 16 more than the number of red triangles.
The number of blue triangles is one more than the number of red figures.
What is the total number of squares (blue and red)?

8. THE PYRAMID (coefficient 8)

Cleo wants to build a pyramid with 22 blue cubes, 22 yellow cubes, and 22 red cubes.
The floors are numbered from 1 to 11 starting from the bottom.
The number of cubes in each floor is 12 minus the floor number.
For example, the 7th floor consists of 5 cubes.
Each floor must be of a single color.
Two consecutive floors are never of the same color.
There are four consecutive floors in which one of the three colors does not appear at all.
What is the sum of the numbers of those four floors?

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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 TRAIN (coefficient 9)

A train contains exactly one car without a passenger compartment, namely the restaurant car.
Every other car is subdivided into the same number of compartments.
The compartments and the cars, including the restaurant car, are numbered starting from the front of the train.
Hercule Poirot is sitting in the 4th car and in the 39th compartment, while Miss Marple is in the 8th car and in the 63rd
compartment.
How many compartments are there in each car other than the restaurant car?
10. THE SWITCHES (coefficient 10)
Each of the four lamps is connected to exactly one switch.
Each of the four switches makes one lamp (and only one) light up, in one of the two positions, A or B, and switches it off
(gray) in the other position.
The switches are not necessarily placed directly below the lamps that they control.
Lucy wants to light all four lamps simultaneously.
She made three attempts.
From left to right, how (A or B) should Lucy position the switches?

11. HETEROGENEOUS SQUARE (coefficient 11)

The grid must contain the numbers from 1 to 9 (one per cell), with 5 and 6 already placed.
The eight values obtained by summing the three numbers lying in a same row, column, or main diagonal must be all
different.
The sums take all the values from 10 to 18 except 13. 
Complete the grid.

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12. CARD GUESSING (coefficient 12)

Each of the seven dwarves writes a number on a card and gives it to Snow White.
These numbers are not all distinct.
On one hand, for each of the twenty-one pairs of cards, Snow White calculates the sum of the two numbers written on them.
She only obtains three distinct sums: 54, 66, and 78.
On the other hand, she calculates the sum of the numbers on the seven cards.
One third of this sum is not a prime number (it can be divided by a positive integer other than 1 and itself).
What is the sum?

13. ALMOST SQUARE (coefficient 13)

In a square ABCD whose edges are 9 cm long, one places I between C and D, J between I and A, K between J and B, L

between K and C so that the length ratios CI/CD, IJ/IA, JK/JB and KL/KC are all equal to 2/3.
What is the area of the gray quadrilateral IJKL, in cm2 rounded to the nearest integer?

14. ALMOST IN ORDER (coefficient 14)

Before a game, Véronique the photographer lines up the eleven players in a football team from left to right.
The heights of the players, expressed in centimeters, are all the even integers from 170 to 190 (they are all different).
The height of any player other than the left-most one must be at most three centimeters more than the height of any player
placed to his left.
In other words, the heights are in decreasing order from left to right up to 3 centimeters.
How many ways are there for Véronique to arrange the eleven players?

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15. THE BASKETBALL TEAM (coefficient 15)
After a game, the five players of a basketball team sit around a round table in a pub.
Big Zita serves a glass of beer to each of them.
Her height is an integer amount of centimeters and at most two hundred.
The sizes of the five glasses, in centiliters, are integers.
The product of the sizes of the glasses of two players sitting next to each other is never a multiple of Zita's height.
The product of the sizes of the glasses of two players who are not next to each other is always a multiple of Zita's height.
What is Zita's height, in centimeters?

16. ALL CONNECTED (coefficient 16)

On each grid, a certain set of cells is colored in gray so that:

    - in each 2x2 square, at least one cell is gray, and at most three are gray;

   - the set of gray cells is connected edge-wise (two cells touching by a corner do not form a connected set).
On a 4x4 grid, there are at least five gray cells, and on a 5x5 grid, there are at least seven.
On an N x N grid, there are 2016 gray cells. What is the value of N? 

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17. CUTS (coefficient 17)

Blaise cuts a square with edge length one meter into rectangles.
At each step, Blaise chooses a direction, horizontal or vertical, and cuts each of the rectangles delimited by the previous cuts
along that direction all the way from one edge to the opposite edge.
Rectangles may be squares.
For example, after three steps, the sum of the perimeters of the eight rectangles delimited by the cuts may be 18 meters (first
diagram) or 12 meters (second diagram).
Blaise has subdivided three unit squares in this manner, making different sets of cuts. For each of them, he calculated the
sum of the perimeters of the rectangles delimited by the cuts at the end of the process.
The three sums add up to 2016 meters.
The number of steps was the same for each of the three squares: what was it?

18. THE SKI RESORT (coefficient 18)

Maths Ski Resort has four mountain slopes.

The distances AB, BC, CD et DE (along the slopes) are all equal to 700 meters.
A, B and D are on a straight line.
A, C and E are on a straight line.
The distances AD and AE are equal to each other.
How much is the distance BE, in meters and rounded to the nearest integer?
If needed, take √2 ≈ 1,414, √3 ≈ 1,732 or √5 ≈ 2,236.
Note: for any angle x, cos x + cos 3x = 2 cos x cos 2x, and if  sin x ≠ 0, then cos x = sin 2x / (2 sin x). 

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