1 Rules

1. This is a 25-question, multiple choice test. Each question is followed by answers marked A,
B, C, D and E. Only one of these is correct.

2. You will receive 6 points for each correct answer, 1.5 points for each problem left unanswered,
and 0 points for each incorrect answer.

3. No aids are permitted other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, protractor and
erasers. Calculators are not allowed.

4. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.

5. You will have 75 minutes working time to complete the test.

2 Problems
1. Jonathan has five marbles and finds three more marbles every day. How many marbles does
he have after two weeks?
(A) 42 (B) 47 (C) 50 (D) 54 (E) 60

2. Let f (x) = x2 . Compute f (f (f (f (f (2))))).

1 5
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 2 (E) 4

3. Two positive numbers sum to 13 and multiply to 36. Find the sum of their square roots.
√ √ √
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 + 6 (D) 1 + 2 3 (E) 6

4. Derek runs three times as fast as Ben. If it takes Derek 8 minutes to run 3 miles, how many
miles can Ben run in an hour?
15 25
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 2 (D) 8 (E) 3

5. Max buys n boxes that each contain m smaller boxes with k marbles each. Given that
n > m > k > 1, which of the following could NOT be the total number of marbles Max has?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 64

6. A child with $n is taxed n% of his or her money. Ishaan has $5 and Grace has $15. How
much less total tax can the children pay by splitting their money evenly between them?
(A) $0.25 (B) $0.50 (C) $0.75 (D) $1.00 (E) $1.25

7. Kihan is practicing his English. Bryan reads an n-letter word to Kihan n times. Each time,
Kihan either writes the word correctly or with one letter too many. Which of the following
could be the total number of letters Kihan writes?
(A) 21 (B) 33 (C) 48 (D) 78 (E) 109

8. Louis has five times as many birds as Peter. If Louis gives one bird to Peter, the ratio of the
number of birds they have remains an integer. What is the maximum number of birds Peter
could have originally had?
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 25 (E) 30

9. In an infinite geometric sequence, the 2017th term is 482 and the common ratio is 34 . How
many terms in the sequence are integers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 9

10. Each side of a regular hexagon is extended in both directions. These six lines intersect at six
points that form a larger regular hexagon. What is the ratio of the area of the larger hexagon
to the area of the smaller hexagon?
√ √ √
(A) 3 (B) 3 2 3 (C) 2 (D) 4 3 3 (E) 3

11. Isosceles trapezoid ABCD has two squares inscribed, as shown in the diagram. If CD = 1
and AB = 5, find the area of square KLM N .

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 D C

K L

A N M B

7 9 13
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D) 5 (E) 2
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12. Yash and Sai both compute the sum 1000 + 1000 + · · · + 1000
1000 . Yash sums all 1000 terms and
rounds his answer to the nearest hundredth, but Sai rounds each of the terms to the nearest
hundredth first before summing them. What is the difference in their final answers?
(A) 0 (B) 0.25 (C) 0.5 (D) 1 (E) 5

13. Bryan and Emily play a game. Both players start with a collection of marbles, and they take
turns making moves by taking enough marbles from the other player to double his or her
own collection. Bryan starts with B marbles, Emily starts with 10 marbles, and Emily moves
first. After three moves, the game ends because a fourth move is not possible. Find the sum
of the possible values of B.
(A) 120 (B) 136 (C) 200 (D) 212 (E) 234

14. In the following diagram, ABCD is a rectangle with AD = 1 and AB = 3. Point O is the
midpoint of AB and a circle centered at O has radius r. Segments CG and DH are tangents
to the circle such that AG = GH = HB = 1. Find r.

D C

G O H
A B
√ √ √
5 1 2 3 5
(A) 10 (B) 4 (C) 7 (D) 5 (E) 6

15. How many ways are there to seat three couples in a row such that no two lovers are separated
by more than two people?
(A) 216 (B) 252 (C) 336 (D) 420
(E) 432
p √
16. Let S be the sum of all positive integers n such that n + 9 n is an integer. Find the sum
of the digits of S.
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16

17. Bryan, Kihan, and Kesavan each randomly and independently choose a positive integer from
the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. What is the probability that a randomly chosen subset of the set contains
both Bryan’s and Kihan’s numbers but not Kesavan’s?
3 2 1 3 7
(A) 50 (B) 25 (C) 10 (D) 25 (E) 50

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18. Circles C1 and C2 are in the first quadrant. C1 has radius 3 and is tangent to the y axis and
the line y = kx. C2 has radius 2 and is tangent to the x axis and the line y = kx. Given that
C1 and C2 are externally tangent, find k.
√ √
1 7 2 3 3
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 2

19. In trapezoid ABCD, angles A and D are right angles and BD = 1 and AC = 3. The circle
with center A and radius AB intersects the circle with center C and radius CB at points B
and E. Given that E lies on line BD, compute AD.
√ √ √
10 9 2 2 3 10
(A) 5 (B) 2 (C) 10 (D) 3 (E) 10

20. Call a sequence of distinct positive integers a0 , . . . , an approaching if a0 = 1, an = 10, and

|ak − 10| ≤ |ak−1 − 10| for all 1 ≤ k ≤ n. There are N approaching sequences. Compute the
sum of the last two digits of N .
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

21. Let p(x) be a quadratic with real coefficients and complex roots r1 , r2 such that p(0) = r1 r2 .
Given that 2r1 and 2r2 are roots of p(p(x)), compute the sum of all possible values of r1 + r2 .
3 5
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 2 (E) 4

22. Define c(a, b) as the number obtained by writing a and b together. For example, c(1, 2) = 12.
A sequence of integers an is constructed such that a1 = 334 and ak is either c(333, ak−1 ) or
c(334, ak−1 ) for all k > 1. Given that aj is a multiple of 99, compute the minimum possible
value of j.
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

23. Isosceles triangle ABC has AB = AC and circumcenter O. The circle with diameter AO
intersects BC at P and Q, with P closer to B, such that BP = QC = 4 and P Q = 6.
Compute the area of ABC.
√ √ √ √
(A) 7 31 (B) 40 (C) 24 3 (D) 12 13 (E) 20 7

24. Hubert throws 7 frogs onto the number line such that each frog lands on a distinct integer.
Let d denote the distance between the farthest two frogs. Given that the average distance
between any two frogs is 200, compute the minimum possible value of d.
(A) 350 (B) 352 (C) 354 (D) 356 (E) 358

25. A set of three odd positive integers {a, b, c} is called lardish if a, b, c are in arithmetic pro-
gression and a2 + b2 + c2 is divisible by each of a, b, and c. Compute the number of integers
S less than 100 such that there exists a lardish set whose elements average to S.
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

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