Date: August 11, 2019 Time: 10 AM to 1 PM

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PRMO - 2019
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1. From a square with sides of length 5, triangular p

pieces from the four corners are removed to 9. Let the rational number be closest to but
q
form a regular octagon. Find the area removed
22
to the nearest integer? not equal to among all rational numbers
7
Answer (04) with denominator < 100. What is the value of
2. Let f(x) = x2 + ax + b. If for all nonzero real x p – 3q?
 1  1 Answer (14)
f  x    f(x)  f  
 x x 10. Let ABC be a triangle and let  be its
and the roots of f(x) = 0 are integers, what is circumcircle. The internal bisectors of angles
the value of a2 + b2 ? A, B and C intersect  at A 1 , B 1 and C 1
Answer (13) respectively and the internal bisectors of
3. Let x1 be a positive real number and for every angles A1, B1 and C1 of the triangle A1B 1C 1
intersect  at A2, B2 and C2, respectively. If the
integer n  1 let xn 1  1  x1x 2 ...xn 1xn . If
smallest angle of triangle ABC is 40°, what is
x5 = 43, what is the sum of digits of the largest the magnitude of the smallest angle of triangle
prime factor of x6? A2B2C2 in degrees?
Answer (13)
Answer (55)
4. An ant leaves the anthill for its morning
exercise. It walks 4 feet east and then makes a 11. How many distinct triangles ABC are there, up
160° turn to the right and walks 4 more feet. It to similarity, such that the magnitudes of
then makes another 160° turn to the right and angles A, B and C in degrees are positive
walks 4 more feet. If the ant continues this integers and satisfy
pattern until it reaches the anthill again, what cos A cos B + sin A sin B sin kC = 1
is the distance in feet it would have walked?
for some positive integer k, where kC does not
Answer (36)
exceed 360°?
5. Five persons wearing badges with numbers 1,
2, 3, 4, 5 are seated on 5 chairs around a Answer (06)
circular table. In how many ways can they be 12. A natural number k > 1 is called good if there
seated so that no two persons whose badges exist natural numbers
have consecutive numbers are seated next to
each other? (Two arrangements obtained by a1 < a2 < ...< ak
rotation around the table are considered such that
different.)
Answer (10) 1 1 1
+ + ... + =1
a1 a2 ak
6. Let abc be a three digit number with nonzero
digits such that a2 + b2 = c2. What is the largest Let f(n) be the sum of the first n good numbers,
n  1. Find the sum of all values of n for which
possible prime factor of abc ? f(n + 5)/f(n) is an integer.
Answer (29)
Answer (18)
7. On a clock, there are two instants between
12 noon and 1 PM, when the hour hand and the 13. Each of the numbers x1, x2, .... x101 is  1. What
minute hand are at right angles. The difference
in minutes between these two instants is
is the smallest positive value of  xi x j ?
1  i < j 101
b Answer (10)
written as a  , where a, b, c are positive e
c 14. Find the smallest positive integer n  10 such
b
integers, with b < c and in the reduced that n + 6 is a prime and 9n + 7 is a perfect
c square.
form. What is the value of a + b + c?
Answer (51) Answer (53)
8. How many positive integers n are there such 15. In how many ways can a pair of parallel
2n diagonals of a regular polygon of 10 sides be
that 3  n  100 and x  x  1 is divisible by
x2 + x + 1? selected?
Answer (49) Answer (30)
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16. A pen costs `13 and a note book costs `17. 24. A 1 × n rectangle (n  1) is divided into n unit
A school spends exactly `10000 in the year (1 × 1) squares. Each square of this rectangle
2017-18 to buy x pens and y note books is coloured red, blue or green. Let f(n) be the
such that x and y are as close as possible (i.e., number of colourings of the rectangle in which
|x – y| is minimum). Next year, in 2018-19 the there are an even number of red squares. What
school spends a little more than `10000 and is the largest prime factor of f(9)/f(3)? (The
buys y pens and x note books. How much more number of red squares can be zero.)
did the school pay?
Answer (40) Answer (37)
17. Find the number of ordered triples (a, b, c) of 25. A village has a circular wall around it, and the
positive integers such that 30a + 50b + 70c wall has four gates pointing north, south, east
 343. and west. A tree stands outside the village,
Answer (30) 16 m north of the north gate, and it can be just
18. How many ordered pairs (a, b) of positive seen appearing on the horizon from a point
integers with a < b and 100  a, b  1000 48 m east of the south gate. What is the
satisfy gcd(a, b) : lcm(a, b) = 1 : 495? diameter, in meters, of the wall that surrounds
Answer (20) the village?
19. Let AB be a diameter of a circle and let C be a Answer (24)
point on the segment AB such that AC : CB =
6 : 7. Let D be a point on the circle such that 26. Positive integers x, y, z satisfy xy + z = 160.
DC is perpendicular to AB. Let DE be the Compute the smallest possible value of x + yz.
diameter through D. If [XYZ] denotes the area
of the triangle XYZ, find [ABD]/[CDE] to the Answer (50)
nearest integer. 27. We will say that a rearrangement of the letters
Answer (04) of a word has no fixed letters if, when the
20. Consider the set E of all natural numbers n rearrangement is placed directly below the
such that when divided by 11, 12, 13 word, no column has the same letter repeated.
respectively, the remainders, in that order, are For instance, H B R A T A is a rearrangement
distinct prime numbers in an arithmetic with no fixed letters of B H A R A T. How many
progression. If N is the largest number in E, distinguishable rearrangements with no fixed
find the sum of digits of N. letters does B H A R A T have? (The two As are
Answer (*) considered identical.)
*The minimum possible value of N is 29 but
Answer (93)
maximum possible value can not be calculated.
21. Consider the set E = {5, 6, 7, 8, 9}. For any 28. Let ABC be a triangle with sides 51, 52, 53. Let
partition {A, B} of E, with both A and B non-  denote the incircle of ABC. Draw tangents
empty, consider the number obtained by to  which are parallel to the sides of ABC. Let
adding the product of elements of A to the r1, r 2, r 3 be the inradii of the three corner
product of elements of B. Let N be the largest triangles so formed. Find the largest integer
prime number among these numbers. Find the that does not exceed r1 + r2 + r3.
sum of the digits of N.
Answer (17) Answer (15)
22. What is the greatest integer not exceeding the 29. In a triangle ABC, the median AD (with D on
1599 1 BC) and the angle bisector BE (with E on AC)
sum n  1 n
? are perpendicular to each other. If AD = 7 and
Answer (78) BE = 9, find the integer nearest to the area of
triangle ABC.
23. Let ABCD be a convex cyclic quadrilateral.
Suppose P is a point in the plane of the Answer (47)
quadrilateral such that the sum of its
distances from the vertices of ABCD is the 30. Let E denote the set of all natural numbers n
least. If such that 3 < n < 100 and the set (1, 2, 3,..., n)
{PA, PB, PC, PD} = {3, 4, 6, 8}, can be partitioned into 3 subsets with equal
sums. Find the number of elements of E.
what is the maximum possible area of ABCD?
Answer (55) Answer (63)
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