MiDi

First Round

15 January 2020

1. 101 010 × 73 =

O
A 7 300 O
D 7 373 730

O
B 737 373 O
E 730 730 730

O
C 7 307 300

2. 19 electric poles are equally spaced along the same side of a straight road. The
distance between two successive poles is 9 metres. What is the total distance between
the first and the last pole?

O 152
A O
B 162 O 171
C O 172
D O Another value
E

3. The side of the smallest square is one third of the side of the medium square; the
side of the medium square is half the side of the large square. If the area of the smallest
square is 11 cm2 , what is the area of the largest square?

O 66
A OB 121 O 396
C O 4356
D O
E Another answer
4. Which is the largest of the following numbers?

O
A 2 × 3 × 1034 O
D 1035

O
B 0.6 × 1034 O
E 6000 × 1032

O
C 0.0006 × 1036

5. In the (imprecise) figure below, what is the measure of the angle AEF
[ ?

C
E D
?
77,6◦
23,9◦
A B
F

O 53.5
A ◦
O
B 53.57◦ O 53.6
C ◦
O 53.7
D ◦
O
E 53.8◦
6. No answer given - A 3 is written at the left of a two-digit number, thereby creating
a three-digit number. Twice this three-digit number equals 27 times the original
number. What was the original number?

7. Every week Carla buys two loafs of bread. She slices them at home with a slicer
which she bought 100 e ˙ If the unsliced loaf of bread is always sold 0.05 e less than
the sliced one, in which year will Carla be able to recoup the cost of the slicer ?

O
A In the 1st year O
D In the 10th year

O
B In the 2nd year O
E In the 20th year

O
C In the 5th year

8. How many whole positive divisor are there in 2020 ?

O2
A O
B 4 O8
C O 10
D OE 12

9. There are only two candidates in an election. The winner has 140 more votes than
the loser and therefore obtained 60% of the total number of votes. How many votes
were there in total?

O 560
A O
B 700 O 840
C O 1400
D OE None of these answers

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10. No answer given - Which whole number is closest to 2020 ?
11. No answer given -The solid below has the shape of a cross and is made of 9
identical cubes, each of edge length 20 cm. What is, in squared decimetres, the total
external area of the solid?

12. The sum of three different prime numbers is 40. What is the difference between
the two largest of these three numbers?

O0
A O B 12 O 16
C O 20
D O
E 24

√ √ √ √ √ √
13. | 3 − π| + | 3 − 2| + 4| 36 − 9| − | 2 − π| =

O π − √2
A O B π+
√
2 O 2π
C O 2π + √2 O
D E 12

14. The question sheets of the Math Olympiads are locked in a safe. The safe can only
be opened when three identical keys are inserted at the same time in three locks. There
are six jury members and they each have a valid key. But,
ˆ Peter is only available on Tuesday and Thursday.
ˆ Lisa is available on any day, except Monday, Thursday or Friday.
ˆ Michael is not free on Monday, Friday and Saturday, but he is available on the
other days.
ˆ Jules has other commitments on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing on
the other days.
ˆ Andrea is only free on Monday and Tuesday.
ˆ Ben can only be there on Tuesday.
How many days the week can the safe be opened?

O0
A O B 1 O2
C O3
D O
E 4
15. If a, b, c are natural numbers, then 2a × 4b × 8c is a perfect square if:

O
A In the a + b is even; OD In the a is even;

O
B In the a + b is odd; OE In the a is odd and b + c is even.

O
C In the a + c is even;

16. A person chooses a 10-digit natural number and keeps it secret. We ask this
person to square the number, then to subtract 9 from the result, then to divide the
answer by the initial number minus three, and finally to subtract 4. The final result:

O Does not depend on the initial number.

O Is always the initial number minus 1.
A

O Is always the initial number.

B

O Is always the initial number plus 1.

C

O Is always the initial number plus 2.

D
E

17. Nina writes the 26 letters of the alphabet one after the other, and starts again:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz...
If she keeps writing the letters this way, what will be the 2020th she will write?

Oq
A O
B r Os
C Ot
D O Another letter
E

18. No answer given - A square with side 3 cm is centred in a square with side 8 cm;
There sides are pairwise parallel. Two vertices of the small square are connected to two
vertices of the large square, and the shaded shape is created. What is, in cm2 , the area
of the shaded region?

19. No answer given - What is the largest natural number N such that
N 2020
≤ ?
N +1 2024
20. A 10 by 12 rectangle is inscribed in a semi-circle, with the 12 units side placed
along the diameter. What is the area of the semi-circle? The diagram is not on scale.

O 13π
A OB 49π O 68π
C O 169π/2
D O 136π
E

21. Yesterday in my school, in at least one of the classes, there were strictly more
than 15 girls. Today, this is not true any more. So, today, there is certainly:

O There is a class with 15. girls or more.

O In every class there is strictly less than 15 girls.
A

O In every class there 15 girls or less.

B

O There is a class with strictly less than 15. girls.

C

O There is a class with at least 15 boys.

D
E

22. No answer given - A number n is strictly between 1 and 20. Anne adds up all the
natural numbers from 1 to n included, and Benji adds up all the numbers from n + 1 to
20 included. They find the same sum. What is the value of n ?

23. Square ABCD has side 1. Inside this square there are four quarter circles, two
large ones and two small ones.Each small quarter circle is tangent to the two large
circles, and the two large quarter circles are tangent to each other. What is the area of
the shaded region?

D C

A B

O O O O O
√ √ √ √
( 2−1)π ( 2+1)π (2− 2)π 2π
A π4 B 2
C 8
D 2
E 4

24. No answer given - Some gems are priced at a value which is proportional to the
square of their weight. A shop keeper buys such a gem for 1800 e . Unfortunately the
stone is broken into two pieces whose weights are in a ratio of 1 to 2. What is the
financial loss for the shop keeper, in euros?
25. In the figure below, circle C has radius 1, and is tangent to line AB and cuts
segment [AC] in D. Moreover, |AB| = 2|BC|. Then |AD| =

C
D

A B

O √√5 − 1
O 5+1
A

O 1/2
B

O 1.5
C

O Cannot be found with the given statements

D
E

26. Matilda loves Playing on her telephone. So far she has won 2400 out of the 3639
games she played. This is because she has a trick to how to never loose a game! How
many more games does she have to play (and win) in order for her success rate to reach
2/3 ?

O 39
A O
B 40 O 77
C O 78
D O 79
E

27. While a cyclist is coming back home, she takes a short rest and then increases her
speed significantly. Which of the graphs below would show this situation? The
abscissas show the time t and the ordinates are the distances d in-between the cyclist
and her home.

d d d d d
G1 G2 G3 G4 G5

t t t t t

OG
A 1 O
B G2 OG
C 3 OG
D 4 OG
E 5
28. What is the length of the side of square ABCD?

D C
9

7
8
A B

O 13
A O
B 14 O √97
C O √194
D O √338
E

29. No answer given - How many triplets of consecutive whole numbers (x, y, z) are
there such that x < y < z and xyz = x + y + z?

30. Segment [AB] is tangent in its midpoint to a circle. The lines perpendicular to
AB in A and B intercect the circle in D and C, as shown in the figure. What should be
the ratio of the length of segment [AB] to the radius of the circle for ABCD to be a
square?

D C

A M B

O 4/5
A OB 1 O √2
C O 8/5
D O2
E