High school Olympic Math Contest practice (2) Part A Name______________

1. A football game was played between two teams, the Cougars and the Panthers. The two teams scored a total

of 34 points, and the Cougars won by a margin of 14 points. How many points did the Panthers score?

(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 17 (D) 20 (E) 24

2. A 2 × 3 rectangle and a 3 × 4 rectangle are contained within a square without overlapping at any interior point,

and the sides of the square are parallel to the sides of the two given rectangles. What is the smallest possible

area of the square?

(A) 16 (B) 25 (C) 36 (D) 49 (E) 64

𝑥
3. Which of the following is equivalent to√ when 𝑥 < 0?
𝑥−1
1−
𝑥

𝑥
(A) −𝑥 (B) 𝑥 (C) 1 (D) √2 (E) 𝑥√−1
4. Francesca uses 100 grams of lemon juice, 100 grams of sugar, and 400 grams of water to make lemonade.

There are 25 calories in 100 grams of lemon juice and 386 calories in 100 grams of sugar. Water contains no

calories. How many calories are in 200 grams of her lemonade?

(A) 129 (B) 137 (C) 174 (D) 223 (E) 411

5. In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second side, and the length of the

third side is 15. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the triangle?

(A) 43 (B) 44 (C) 45 (D) 46 (E) 47

6. Odell and Kershaw run for 30 minutes on a circular track. Odell runs clockwise at 250 m/min and uses the

inner lane with a radius of 50 meters. Kershaw runs counterclockwise at 300 m/min and uses the outer lane with

a radius of 60 meters, starting on the same radial line as Odell. How many times after the start do they pass each

other?

(A) 29 (B) 42 (C) 45 (D) 47 (E) 50

7. A license plate in a certain state consists of 4 digits, not necessarily distinct, and 2 letters, also not necessarily

distinct. These six characters may appear in any order, except that the two letters must appear next to each other.

How many distinct license plates are possible?

(A) 104 • 262 (B) 103 • 263 (C) 5 • 104 • 262 (D) 102 • 264 (E) 5 • 103 • 263

8. How many non-similar triangles have angles whose degree measures are distinct positive integers in

arithmetic progression?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 59 (D) 89 (E) 178

9. What is the graph of 𝑦 4 + 1 = 𝑥 4 + 2𝑦 2 in the coordinate plane?

(A) two intersecting parabolas (B) two nonintersecting parabolas (C) two intersecting circles
(D) a circle and a hyperbola (E) a circle and two parabolas
10. The sequence 𝑎0 , 𝑎1 , 𝑎2 , ⋯ is a strictly increasing arithmetic sequence of positive integers such that 2𝑎7 =
227 ∙ 𝑎7 . What is the minimum possible value of 𝑎2 ?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 22

11. Regular hexagon 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷𝐸𝐹 has side length . Let 𝐺 be the midpoint of 𝐴𝐵, and let 𝐻 be the midpoint

of 𝐷𝐸. What is the perimeter of 𝐺𝐶𝐻𝐹?

(A) 4√3 (B) 8 (C) 4√5 (D) 4√7 (E) 12

13. How many four-digit positive integers have at least one digit that is a 2 or a 3?

(A) 2439 (B) 4096 (C) 4903 (D) 4904 (E) 5416
14. What is the tens digit in the sum 7! + 8! + 9! + ··· + 2006! ?

(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 9

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15. The lines 𝑥 = 4 𝑦 + 𝑎 and 𝑦 = 4 𝑥 + 𝑏intersect at the point (1,2). What is 𝑎 + 𝑏?

3 9
(A) 0 (B)4 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 4

16. Joe and JoAnn each bought 12 ounces of coffee in a 16-ounce cup. Joe drank 2 ounces of his coffee and

then added 2 ounces of cream. JoAnn added 2 ounces of cream, stirred the coffee well, and then drank 2 ounces.

What is the resulting ratio of the amount of cream in Joe’s coffee to that in JoAnn’s coffee?
6 13 14 7
(A) 7 (B) 14 (C) 1 (D) 13
(E) 6
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17. Let a and b be the roots of the equation𝑥 2 − 𝑚𝑥 + 2 = 0. Suppose that 𝑎 + and 𝑏 + are the roots of the
𝑏 𝑎

equation𝑥 2 − 𝑝𝑥 + 𝑞 = 0. What is 𝑞?
5 7 9
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 2
(E) 8

18. Two sides of an obtuse triangle of positive area are of length 5 and 11. The number of possible integer

lengths of the third side is

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

19.𝑄(𝑥) is a polynomial with integer coefficients such that 𝑄(9) = 2009. If p is a prime number such that

𝑄(𝑝) = 392, then 𝑝 can

(A) only be 2 (B) only be 3 (C) only be 5 (D) only be 7 (E) be any of 2, 3, 5 and 7
20. A chord of a circle divides the circle into two parts such that the squares inscribed in the two parts have

areas 16 and 144 square centimetres. In centimetres, the radius of the circle is

(A) 2√10 (B) 6√2 (C) 9 (D)√85 (E) 10

21. Suppose that 2 − √99 is a root of 𝑥 2 + 𝑎𝑥 + 𝑏 where 𝑏 is a negative real number and 𝑎 is an integer. The

largest possible value of 𝑎 is

(A) −4 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) none of these

 𝑛
22. Suppose 𝑛 is a positive integer and 𝑑 is a single digit in base 10. Find 𝑛 if 810 = 0. 𝑑25𝑑25𝑑25 ∙∙∙

23. If 𝑎 < 𝑏 < 𝑐 < 𝑑 < 𝑒 are consecutive positive integers such that 𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑑 is a perfect square and 𝑎 +

𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑑 + 𝑒 is a perfect cube, what is the smallest possible value of 𝑐?

24. Two skaters, Allie and Billie, are at points A and B, respectively, on a flat, frozen lake. The distance

between A and B is 100 meters. Allie leaves A and skates at a speed of 8 meters per second along a straight

line that makes an angle of 60° with AB, as shown. At the same time that Allie leaves A, Billie leaves B at a

speed of 7 meters per second and follows the straight line path that produces the earliest possible meeting of

the two skates, given their speeds. How many meters does Allie skate before meeting Billie?

60°
𝐴 100 𝐵

25. Let 𝑃(𝑥) be a polynomial with rational coefficients such that when 𝑃(𝑥) is divided by the polynomial

𝑥 2 + 𝑥 + 1, the remainder is 𝑥 + 2, and when 𝑃(𝑥) is divided by the polynomial 𝑥 2 + 1, the remainder

is 2𝑥 + 1. There is a unique polynomial of least degree with these two properties. What is the sum of the

squares of the coefficients of that polynomial?