International Math Bowl
Open Round Practice Test 1
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Time limit: 60 minutes.
Instructions: In this round, you will compete in teams to answer as many of the 25 short
answer questions as possible. All answers must be expressed as integers. No calculators
are allowed.
Scoring: 1 point will be awarded for each correct answer; incorrect or blank answers will
be given 0 points.
1. What is gcd(108, 144) × lcm(108, 144)?
2. Let x be the answer to this question. Find 6 − 2x.
3. Circle ω is centered at point O with radius 15. Chord AC and radius OB are perpen-
dicular and intersect at M with M B = 6. What is the area of △AOC?
4. If x and y are real numbers, the minimum value of x2 − 2xy + 6y 2 − 4y + 3 can be
written as m
n
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?
5. There are 14 pillars made of gold in a row that support a hallway in one of the temples
in Olympus. Rob the robber has snuck into Olympus and wishes to steal some of
these pillars and sell them back in the human world to get rich. However, they are
immensely heavy, so he will only carry 1, 2, 3, or 4 of them back to the human world.
Also, the roof of the temple is made of solid silver, so Rob cannot steal two adjacent
pillars or the roof will cave in. In how many ways can he safely steal the pillars and
become rich?
6. A yard is equal to three feet. For positive integers a and b, the area of an a foot by b
foot rectangle in square yards is numerically equal to the perimeter of the same a foot
by b foot rectangle in feet. Find the number of possible ordered pairs (a, b).
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7. If sin(θ) − cos(θ) = 52 for π ≤ θ ≤ 3π
2
, cos(2θ) can be written in the form a c b where a,
b, and c are positive integers, a and c are relatively prime, and b is square-free. What
is a + b + c?
8. An ant is on the coordinate plane at the point (0, 0), and wishes to escape the region
|x| + |y| < 3. Every second, the ant randomly chooses a number n between 0 and 1,
and moves to the right n units and up 1 − n units. What is the expected number of
seconds it will take for the ant to escape?
9. There is a positive integer n such that 2024n has 30 positive integer divisors (including
1 and 2024n itself) and 2024n + 1 has 4 positive integer divisors (including 1 and
2024n + 1 itself). What is n?
10. Sam and Ritwik are going to a math competition. They will each arrive at a uniform
randomly selected time between 12 AM on October 12 and 12 AM on October 13.
The probability that Brandon and Satvik arrive within one hour of one another can be
expressed as m
n
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?
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11. What is the remainder when i=1 j=1 k=1 (ijk) is divided by 7?
12. In △ABC, AB · BC · CA = 180, and sin(∠ABC) · sin(∠ABC + ∠BCA) · sin(∠BCA) =
1
. Find the area of △ABC.
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13. If f (x + y) = f (x) + f (y) + xy − 1 for all real x and y, find
f (−20) + f (−19) + · · · + f (19) + f (20).
14. Given that x and y are positive real numbers and x + 2y = 14, let N be the maximum
value of x3 y 4 . Find the last two digits of N 100 .
15. Triangle ABC has side lengths AB = 5, BC = 6 and AC = 7. Points D, E, and F are
the midpoints of sides BC, AC, and AB respectively. The quantity AD2 + BE 2 + CF 2
can be written as m n
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is
m + n?
16. Two points are chosen uniformly at random in rectangular prism R with side lengths
6, 8, and 9. What is the expected value of the volume of rectangular prism with the
least possible volume such that the rectangular prism has sides parallel to the sides of
R and it must contain both points?
17. Fearless Fiona is wandering into the Forest of Functions. Fiona fumbles on the following
functional equation for f : R → R
f (xy + f (x) + f (y)) = f (x) + f (xy) + y
Find the final sum of all possible f (1048575).
18. Let x, y, z be positive real numbers such that xyz = 576 and
logx (2y) = logy (3z) = logz (4x).
Then x can be represented in the form 2a 3b for rational numbers a and b. The quantity
a + b can be written as m
n
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find
m + n.
19. How many ways can the letters in INTERNATIONAL be rearranged so that the
letters I and N never touch?
20. Let X > 999 be a positive integer with its last three digits being A B C such that X 3
also has the same last three digits. Find the sum of all possible values of
(100A + 10B + C).
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21. Let △ABC have side lengths AB = 6, AC = 10, BC = 14. Let X be a randomly
chosen point on the incircle of △ABC. Find the expected value of AX 2 + BX 2 + CX 2 .
22. Polynomial f (x) = x3 + Ax2 + Bx + C has roots r, s, t with nonzero integers A, B, C,
and polynomial g(x) = x3 + Dx2 + Ex + F has roots r2 , s2 , t2 . If D
A
F
= C = −5 and
E
B
= 3. Find f (2).
23. Two regular hexagons share a side and together make a concave decagon w after
removing the shared side. Define a triangle partition of w as a set of non-degenerate
triangles with fixed position which satisfy the following properties:
(a) All the vertices of the triangles are vertices of w.
(b) No two triangles overlap (shared sides don’t count as overlap).
(c) The union of the regions bounded by the triangles is the region bounded by w.
Find the number of all such triangle partitions of w.
24. Let ABC be a triangle with AB = 13, AC = 14, BC = 15. Let D be on segment AC.
If O, O1 , and O2 are the circumcenters of △ABC, △ABD, and △DBC respectively,
then the maximum possible area of triangle △OO1 O2 is pq for relatively prime positive
integers p and q. Find p + q.
25. Let Sn be the set of all strings of length n whose only characters are 1 and ∗. For
any element x in Sn for some n, let f (x) be the result obtained after evaluating the
string x as an expression by removing all unused or repeated ∗ terms. For example,
the string ∗1 ∗ ∗11 ∗ ∗111 ∗ ∗ would be evaluated as 1 · 11 · 111 = X
1221, ignoring the
repeated, beginning, and end multiplication characters. Let an = f (x), as in the
x∈Sn
∞
X an p
sum of f (x) across all x ∈ Sn . Then n
= for relatively prime positive integers
n=1
11 q
p and q. Find p + q (Note that a string x with only ∗ characters is defined to have
f (x) = 1).
