HKTA TANG HIN MEMORIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

MATHEMATICS SOCIETY
SELECTION CONTEST 2019-2020 (S.1 – S.3)

Name: _____________________ Class: ______ ( ) Marks: ________ / 14

Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

限時：1 小時 30 分鐘

Instructions to Contestants
參賽者須知

1. There are 14 questions in this paper. The total marks are 14.
本卷共設 14 題。滿分為 14 分。

2. Put your answers on the space provided on the answer sheet.

Working steps are not required.
所有答案填在答題紙的指定空位上。無需呈交計算步驟。

3. All answers must be in exact numerals in their simplest form.

Approximations are NOT accepted.
所有答案必須以真確值表達，並化至最簡。不接受近似值。

4. Calculators are NOT allowed.

不准使用計算機。

5. The diagrams in this paper are NOT necessarily drawn to scale.

本卷的附圖不一定依比例繪成。
Each question carries 1 mark. Working steps is not required.
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

1. How many three-digit positive integers have their sum of digits divisible by 9?
有多少個三位正整數的數字之和可被 9 整除？

2. There are n students in a class. It is known that among any three students, we
can always find at least two who were born in different months of the year.
Find the largest possible value of n.
某班有 n 名學生。已知任何三名學生中，均最少有兩人的出生月份不同。求 n 的最大可
能值。

3. Ann tosses two fair coins, and Bob tosses three fair coins. Find the probability
that they obtain the same number of heads. (Note: the probability is some
number between 0 and 1.)
小文投擲兩枚勻稱硬幣，小明則擲三枚勻稱硬幣。求二人所得硬幣正面向上的數量相等的
概率。（該概率是某介乎 0 與 1 之間的數字。）

4. What is the smallest positive integer n such that has exactly 55 positive
divisors (including 1 and itself)?
已知 n 是一正整數，另 恰好有 55 個正因子（包括 1 及自己）。請問 n 的最小可能
值是甚麼？

5. In , , and . AD,
BE and CF are the three altitudes of . Find
the value of .
在 中， 、 、 。

AD、BE、CF 是 的三條垂線。求 的

值。

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6. How many sequences of positive integers are there such that the first term
and last term are 1 and 2019 respectively, and that each term is greater than
its previous term?
有多少個正整數數列的首項和尾項分別是 1 和 2019，且每項均比之前一項大？

7. Given the general term of the sequence 2, 4, 8, … is . If ,

find the value of the expression .
設數列 2, 4, 8, … 的通項是 。若 ，求算式 的值。

8. In the figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. ADPS,

ARM, ATL, BRP, BTS, BCLM and DRTC are
all straight lines. Given that ,
and the area of parallelogram ABCD is 48.
Find the area of the shaded region.
圖中 ABCD 是一平行四邊形。ADPS、ARM、
ATL、BRP、BTS、BCLM 及 DRTC 均為直線。
已知 ，平行四邊形 ABCD 的面積
是 48，求陰影部份面積。

9. Using each of four distinct non-zero digits once, we can construct 24 different
four-digit numbers. The second smallest of the numbers is a multiple of 5. The
second largest is even but not divisible by 4. The positive difference between
the fifth smallest number and the fifth largest number lies between 3000 and
4000. What is the maximum possible value of the largest of the 24 numbers?
現有四個不同的非零數字，每個使用一次，組成 24 個不同的四位數。其中，第二小的數
是 5 的倍數。第二大的數是偶數，但不是被 4 整除。第五小的數和第五大的數的差（取正
數）介乎 3000 與 4000 中間。求 24 個數中最大的數的最大可能值。

10. For any real number , the function satisfies . If

for , find the value of .
對任意實數 ，函數 皆滿足 。若對 有
，求 的值。

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11. Four different three-digit numbers have the same hundreds digit. Their sum is
divisible by the first three of them. Find the remainder when the sum is
divided by the fourth number.
已知四個不同的三位數的百位均為相等。它們的和能被它們的首三個數整除。求該和除以
第四個數的餘數。

12. In the figure, ABCD is a square. Point P lies on

BC, and . , and are the
perpendiculars from the points B, C and D to the
line AP respectively. If ,
find the length of .
附圖為正方形 ABCD，其中點 P 在線 BC 上， 。
、 及 分別是 B、C 及 D 與 AP 的垂直線。
若 ，求 的長度。

13. Given that x and y are integers such that . Find the sum of

the possible values of x.

已知整數 x，y 符合 。求 x 的可能值的和。

14. The increasing sequence 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, … consists of all the positive
integers which can be expressed as powers of 3 or sums of distinct powers of 3.
Find the 100-th term of this sequence.
遞增數列 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, … 包括所有能表示成 3 的幂，或能表示成數個互不相同
的 3 的幂的總和的數。求該數列第 100 項的值。

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 HKTA TANG HIN MEMORIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL
MATHEMATICS SOCIETY
SELECTION CONTEST 2019-2020 (S.1 – S.3)

Name: _____________________ Class: ______ ( ) Marks: ________ / 14

Answer Sheet

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