The Mathematical Relay Juniors

The Mathematical Crusade 2011 The Mathematical Society, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram

Instructions
1. This question paper has 10 questions, each with a weightage of 5 marks. 2. All answers shall be evaluated only objectively. Marks shall be given only for the correct answer written in the provided space. There is no negative marking. 3. You are supposed to return the answers in the question paper, along with your rough sheets, when you are leaving. Do your rough work in separate sheets. There should only be the answer in the box provided for the same. 4. You are not permitted to leave before 35 minutes of the commencement of the event. You will be required to submit your work after 65 minutes. You are free to submit your answers anywhere between that span of time. The entire event is 100 minutes long, and the earlier you leave, the more time your seniors will have to attempt their questions (the Common and Seniors papers). 5. Tip: There are a lot of questions, especially in comparison to the time you have. If a question seems too tough to manage, consider abandoning it.

Questions
Question 1. How many subsets A of the set 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 have the property that no two elements of A sum to 11?

Question 2. How many positive integers divide 10! 1 ?

Question 3. Two circles have radii 15 and 95. If the two external tangents to the circles intersect at 60 degrees, how far apart are the centers of the circles?

Question 4. The rodent control task force went into the woods one day and caught 200 rabbits and 18 squirrels. The next day they went into the woods and caught 3 fewer rabbits and two more squirrels than the day before. Each day they went into the woods and caught 3 fewer rabbits and two more squirrels than the day before. This continued through the day when they caught more squirrels than rabbits. Up through that day how many rabbits did they catch in all?

n!, read as n factorial, is dened as n! = n (n 1) (n 2) . . . 2 1

Question 5. Paul starts with the number 19. In one step, he can add 1 to his number, divide his number by 2, or divide his number by 3. What is the minimum number of steps Paul needs to get to 1?

Question 6. The sum of nine consecutive odd numbers is 2007. Find the greatest of these nine numbers.

Question 7. Five guys are eating hamburgers. Each one puts a top half and a bottom half of a hamburger bun on the grill. When the buns are toasted, each guy randomly takes two pieces of bread o the grill. What is the probability that each guy gets a top half and a bottom half?

Question 8. And it came to pass that Jeb owned over a thousand chickens. So Jeb counted his chickens. And Jeb reported the count to Hannah. And Hannah reported the count to Joshua. And Joshua reported the count to Caleb. And Caleb reported the count to Rachel. But as fate would have it, Jeb had over-counted his chickens by nine chickens. Then Hannah interchanged the last two digits of the count before reporting it to Joshua. And Joshua interchanged the rst and the third digits of the number reported to him before reporting it to Caleb. Then Caleb doubled the number reported to him before reporting it to Rachel. Now it so happens that the count reported to Rachel was the correct number of chickens that Jeb owned. How many chickens was that?

Question 9. There is a coin of radius 5 cm, and a smaller coin of radius 3 cm that is rotating around it, such that there is no slipping. How much distance is covered by centre of the smaller coin, when it comes back to the starting point?

Question 10. Find all possible quadruples (a, b, c, d) of positive integers such that ab+cd = a + b + c + d + 3.

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