International Teenagers’

Mathematics Olympiad (ITMO) 2019

13th to 16th October, 2019
City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar(Campus I), Lucknow, India

Key Stage III Individual Contest

Time limit: 120 minutes
Information:
⚫ You are allowed 120 minutes for this paper, consisting of 12 questions in Section
A to which only numerical answers are required, and 3 questions in Section B to
which full solutions are required.
⚫ Each question in Section A is worth 5 points. No partial credits are given. There
are no penalties for incorrect answers, but you must not give more than the
number of answers being asked for. For questions asking for several answers, full
credit will only be given if all correct answers are found. Each question in
Section B is worth 20 points. Partial credits may be awarded.
⚫ Diagrams shown may not be drawn to scale.
Instructions:
⚫ Write down your name, your contestant number and your team’s name in the
space provided on the first page of the question paper.
⚫ For Section A, enter your answers in the space provided after the individual
questions on the question paper. For Section B, write down your solutions on
spaces provided after individual questions.
⚫ You must use either a pencil or a ball-point pen which is either black or blue.
⚫ You may not use instruments such as protractors, calculators and electronic
devices.
⚫ At the end of the contest, you must hand in the envelope containing the question
paper and all scratch papers.

Team: Name: Code: Score:

For Juries Use Only

Section A Section B Sign by
No. Total Jury
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3
Score

Score
Section A.
In this section, there are 12 questions. Fill in the correct answer in the space
provided at the end of each question. Each correct answer is worth 5 points.

1. The subset B of the set of integers from 1 to 100, inclusive, has the property that
no two elements of B have a sum equal to 125. What is the maximum possible
number of elements in B?
Answer:
2. Each of the numbers N, N + 1 and N + 2 has exactly 4 divisors.
If K = N + ( N + 1) + ( N + 2) , how many divisors does K have?

Answer:
3. The area of the parallelogram ABCD is 2 cm2. The line parallel to AD intersects
the boundary of the parallelogram at P and R, and the line parallel to AB
intersects AD and BC at S and Q, as shown in the figure below. What is the total
area, in cm2, of the triangles AQR, BSR, DPQ and CSP?

A P
B

S Q

D C
R Answer: cm2
2x + 7
4. Let f1 ( x) = − and f n+1 ( x) = f1 ( f n ( x)) for any positive integer n.
x+3
Evaluate f 2019 (2020) .
Answer:
5. How many prime numbers do not have any multiples consisting only of the digit 1?
Answer:
6. In triangle ABC, ABC = 90 and AB = 20 cm. Point D is on AC so that BD is
perpendicular to AC. E is on BC so that ACB = 2BAE , point F is on AC so
that EF is perpendicular to AC. If EF = 10 cm, what is the length, in cm, of BD?
A

D
F

Answer: cm
B E C
7. Let 1918 + 2  20  1917 + 3  202  1916 + + 19  2018 = (t + 4)  1918 . Compute t.
Answer:
8. Find all real numbers x such that x3 −  x  = 3 .
Answer:
9. A circle is inscribed in a quadrilateral ABCD so that
AB + BC + CD + DA = 2019(sin A + sin B + sin C + sin D) cm.
The circle touches AB, BC, CD and DA at P, Q, R and S respectively. The area of the
quadrilateral ABCD is double of the area of the quadrilateral PQRS. What is the
radius, in cm, of the inscribed circle?

S
D
P
R

B Q C
Answer: cm
10. Points N and E are inside the square ABCD such that AN⊥DN and DE⊥CE.
Points F and M are on DN and DE respectively, such that CF⊥DN and AM⊥DE,
as shown in the figure below. If EF = 38 2 cm, what is the area, in cm2, of the
quadrilateral MENF ?
A B
N

E
F
M

D C
Answer: cm2
11. Bunny the Rabbit stands on the square labelled B, as shown in the figure below.

A B C

In one step, Bunny the Rabbit can jump once to the box next to it (in the image it can
move from B to A or to C). In how many ways can Bunny the Rabbit return to point
B if he starts from point B and makes in 8 steps?
Answer: ways
12. Let
(1 + x)2020 = a0 + a1x + a2 x 2 + ... + a2020 x 2020
(1 + y)2000 = b0 + b1 y + b2 y 2 + ... + b2000 y 2000
(1 + z )4020 = c0 + c1z + c2 z 2 + ... + c4020 z 4020
2000
If cn =  ak bk for some integers n, then find the sum of all possible values of n.
k =0
Answer:
Section B.
Answer the following 3 questions, and show your detailed solution in the
space provided after each question. Each question is worth 20 points.
1. There are 13 boxes containing the same number of marbles in each box. The
number of marbles per box is more than 100 but less than 300 pieces. Renard
took 6 boxes and distributed all the marbles equally to his 14 friends and left 10
marbles. Thedy took 3 boxes and distributed all the marbles equally to 15 of his
friends and left 9 marbles, and lastly, Dinko took all the marbles from the
remaining boxes and distributed them to 6 friends and left 2 marbles. What is the
largest possible number of marbles in each box?

Answer: marbles
2. Let ABCD be a quadrilateral such that AB is parallel to DC and AC = BC . A
line through the midpoint M of AB meets the line AD at P and the line BD at Q. If
P and Q are in different sides of CD and ACP = 113 , what is the measure, in
degrees, of BCQ ?
P

D C

A M B


Answer:
3. Let p be the total number of ways to add numbers from the set { −2 , −1, 1, 2} to
a 5  5 size table, where the product of the numbers in every box of each row
and the product of the numbers in every box of each column are always equal to
−2 . What is the value of p?

Answer: