The Fourteenth Annual

Math Prize for Girls

Sunday, October 9, 2022

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.
2. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
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 Math Prize for Girls 2022

1. Determine the real value of t that minimizes the expression

p p
t2 + (t2 − 1)2 + (t − 14)2 + (t2 − 46)2 .

Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

2. Let b and c be random integers from the set {1, 2, . . . , 100}, chosen
uniformly and independently. What is the probability that the roots
of the quadratic x2 + bx + c are real? Express your answer as a fraction
in simplest form.

3. Let ABCD be the square face of a cube with edge length 2. A plane P
that contains A and the midpoint of BC splits the cube into two pieces
of the same volume. What is the square of the area of the intersection
of P and the cube?

4. Determine the largest integer n such that n < 103 and n3 −1 is divisible
by 103.

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5. Given a real number a, the floor of a, written ⌊a⌋, is the greatest

integer less than or equal to a. For how many real numbers x such that
1 ≤ x ≤ 20 is
x2 + ⌊2x⌋ = ⌊x2 ⌋ + 2x ?

6. An L-shaped region is formed by attaching two 2 by 5 rectangles to

adjacent sides of a 2 by 2 square as shown below.

The resulting shape has an area of 24 square units. How many ways
are there to tile this shape with 2 by 1 dominos (each of which may be
placed horizontally or vertically)?

7. The quadrilateral ABCD

√ is an isosceles trapezoid with AB = CD = 1,
BC = 2, and DA = 1+ 3. What is the measure of ∠ACD in degrees?

8. Let S be the set of numbers of the form n5 − 5n3 + 4n, where n is an

integer that is not a multiple of 3. What is the largest integer that is
a divisor of every number in S?

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9. Let △P QO be the unique right isosceles triangle inscribed in the parabola

y = 12x2 with P in the first quadrant, right angle at Q in the second
quadrant, and O at the vertex (0, 0). Let △ABV be the unique right
isosceles triangle inscribed in the parabola y = x2 /5 + 1 with A in
the first quadrant, right angle at B in the second quadrant, and V at
the vertex (0, 1). The y-coordinate of A can be uniquely written as
uq 2 + vq + w, where q is the x-coordinate of Q and u, v, and w are
integers. Determine u + v + w.

10. An algal cell population is found to have ak cells on day k. Each day,
the number of cells at least doubles. If a0 ≥ 1 and a3 ≤ 60, how
many quadruples of integers (a0 , a1 , a2 , a3 ) could represent the algal
cell population size on the first 4 days?

11. Let A, B, C, D, E, and F√be 6 points √

around a circle,
√ listed in clockwise
√
order. We
√ have AB = 3 2, BC = 3 3, CD = 6 6, DE = 4 2, and
EF = 5 2. Given that AD, BE, and CF are concurrent, determine
the square of AF .

12. Solve the equation

sin 9◦ sin 21◦ sin(102◦ + x) = sin 30◦ sin 42◦ sin x,

for x where x is a degree measure between 0◦ and 90◦ .

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13. The roots of the polynomial x4 − 4ix3 + 3x2 − 14ix − 44 form the
vertices of a parallelogram in the complex plane. What is the area of
the parallelogram?

14. Across the face of a rectangular post-it note, you idly draw lines that
are parallel to its edges. Each time you draw a line, there is a 50%
chance it’ll be each direction and you never draw over an existing line
or the edge of the post-it note. After a few minutes, you notice that
you’ve drawn 20 lines. What is the expected number of rectangles that
the post-it note will be partitioned into?

15. What is the smallest positive integer m such that 15!m can be expressed
in more than one way as a product of 16 distinct positive integers, up
to order?

16. A snail begins a journey starting at the origin √ of a coordinate plane.

The snail moves along line segments of length 10 and in any direction
such that the horizontal and vertical displacements are both integers.
As the snail moves, it leaves a trail tracing out its entire journey. After
a while, this trail can form various polygons. What is the smallest
possible area of a polygon that could be created by the snail’s trail?
Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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17. Let O be the set of odd numbers between 0 and 100. Let T be the set
of subsets of O of size 25. For any finite subset of integers
P S, let P (S)
be the product of the elements of S. Define n = S∈T P (S). If you
divide n by 17, what is the remainder? (The remainder is an integer
between 0 and 16, inclusive.)
18. Let A be the locus of points (α, β, γ) in the αβγ-coordinate space that
satisfy the following properties:
I We have α, β, γ > 0.
II We have α + β + γ = π.
III The intersection of the three cylinders in the xyz-coordinate space
given by the equations
y 2 + z 2 = sin2 α
z 2 + x2 = sin2 β
x2 + y 2 = sin2 γ
is nonempty.
Determine the area of A. Express your answer in terms of π.
19. Let S− be the semicircular arc defined by
3 1
(x + 1)2 + (y − )2 = and x ≤ −1.
2 4
Let S+ be the semicircular arc defined by
3 1
(x − 1)2 + (y − )2 = and x ≥ 1.
2 4
Let R be the locus of points P such that P is the intersection of two
lines, one of the form Ax + By = 1 where (A, B) ∈ S− and the other
of the form Cx + Dy = 1 where (C, D) ∈ S+ . What is the area of R?
Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
20. Let an = n(2n + 1). Evaluate
X π
sin( (ak − aj )) .
1≤j<k≤36
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