The Sixteenth Annual
Math Prize for Girls
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Test Version A
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NOTES
1. This test contains 20 problems. You will have 150 minutes (2.5 hours) to
take the test. Your score will be the number of correct answers.
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Math Prize for Girls 2024 Version A
1. The lengths of the sides of a (nondegenerate) triangle are consecutive
even perfect squares. What is the smallest possible perimeter of the
triangle?
2. In square ABCD, an ant travels from A to the opposite vertex C along
a zigzag path that starts at A, goes straight to P , then straight to Q,
then straight to C, where AP = P Q = QC = CD and m∠AP Q =
m∠P QC. What is cos(m∠AP Q)? Express your answer as a fraction
in simplest form.
3. How many positive integers divide evenly into 198 − 212 ?
4. You have a rectangular grid of squares, 3 columns wide and 6 rows high.
How many ways are there to color half of its 18 squares black and the
other half white so that no two rows have the exact same pattern of
black and white squares?
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5. The graph of a cubic polynomial has a local maximum at (−10, 10) and
a local minimum at (10, −10). What is its leading coefficient? Express
your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
6. Let C be a circle with radius 1 and center O. Let A and B be the
endpoints of a 90◦ arc on the circumference of C. The circumference of
a circle D, with center Q, intersects the circumference of C at points A
and B in right angles. Let P be one of the points on the circumference
of D such that OP forms a 60◦ angle with the tangent line to D at P .
Determine cot2 (m∠P OQ).
7. In how many ways can an isosceles right triangle with legs of length 5
be tiled by isosceles right triangles with legs of length 1?
8. Let C be a circle. Let S be the set of points in C that are the centroids
of obtuse triangles inscribed in C. What fraction of the area of C is
occupied by S? Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
(The centroid of a triangle, also known as the center of mass, is the
point where the three medians intersect.)
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9. Six points are chosen uniformly and independently at random on the
boundary of an equilateral triangle with perimeter P . (“Uniformly”
means that the probability that a point lies on a particular segment of
the boundary of length L is equal to L/P .) What is the probability
that the convex hull of the 6 points is a quadrilateral? Express your
answer as a fraction in simplest form.
10. Let Fn be the Fibonacci sequence defined by F1 = F2 = 1 and Fn+1 =
Fn + Fn−1 for integer n > 1. How many integers have the form Fa − Fb
where 1 ≤ b < a ≤ 30?
11. The quartic polynomial p has integer coefficients and 4 distinct positive
integer roots. If p(4) = −256 and p(5) = −135, what are its roots?
Write your answer as a list of numbers in increasing order separated
by commas.
12. A circle of radius r is drawn in the xy-coordinate plane centered at the
point (r, 0). An ant walks a zigzag path that begins at the origin with
slope m. Each time the ant meets either the circumference of the circle
or the x-axis, the ant changes direction by negating the slope of the
line it is on. The ant always drifts to the right. The ant reaches (2r, 0)
after creating a zigzag path with 10 segments. If the first segment of
the ant’s journey is 1 unit long, what is the total
√ distance that the ant
traveled? Write your answer in the form a + b c, where a, b, and c are
positive integers and c is square-free.
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13. Let p be the unique polynomial of degree 6 such that
n 6
p(n) = (−1)
n
for n = 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , 6. What is p(7)?
14. The set S contains 2024 elements. What is the size of a largest collec-
tion C of subsets of S with the property that the intersection of every
three subsets in C is nonempty, but the intersection of every four is
empty?
15. Let 4ABC be equilateral with side length 999. Point P is in the
interior of BC. The distances from P to A, B, and C are all integers.
What is AP ?
16. For every positive integer n, let dn be the greatest common divisor of
n2 + 1 and n2 + n + 10. Let m be the maximum value attained by the
sequence dn . Let k be the smallest positive integer such that dk = m.
What is k?
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17. Define fn (x) recursively by setting f0 (x) = |x| and letting
fn (x) = |n − fn−1 (x)|
for every integer n > 0. Let c be the unique positive integer such that
f100 (c) = 0. What is the area sandwiched between the x-axis and the
graph of y = f100 (x) for −c < x < c?
18. Consider the 24 points in four-dimensional space whose coordinates are
the various permutations of 1, 2, 3, and 4. Among these 24 points, how
many subsets of 4 form the vertices of a square?
19. The sequence an is defined recursively as follows: a1 = tan(15◦ /2) and
1 − 2an − a2n
an+1 = ,
1 + 2an − a2n
for every integer n ≥ 1. Determine the number A such that −90 <
A < 90 and a100 = tan A◦ .
20. Let ABC be a triangle with ∠ACB right. Let M be the midpoint of
the hypotenuse. Let O be the foot of the altitude from C. Let N be
the intersection of the angle bisector at C and the hypotenuse. Given
that M N = 53 and N O = 45, determine the length of the hypotenuse.
