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PRMO-2019 (11-08-2019) - Qs & Ans
PRMO-2019 (11-08-2019) - Qs & Ans
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WRONG METHODS CORRECT METHOD
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5. Make the marks only in the spaces provided.
6. Carefully tear off the duplicate copy of the OMR without
tampering the Original.
7. Please do not make any stray marks on the answer sheet.
6. The answer you write on OMR sheet is irrelevant. The darkened bubble will be considered as your final answer.
7. Questions 1 to 6 carry 2 marks each; questions 7 to 21 carry 3 marks each; questions 22 to 30 carry 5 marks each.
8. All questions are compulsory.
9. There are no negative marks.
10. Do all rough work in the space provided below for it. You also have blank pages at the end of the question paper
to continue with rough work.
11. After the exam, you may take away the Candidate's copy of the OMR sheet.
12. Preserve your copy of OMR sheet till the end of current olympiad season. You will need it later for verification purposes.
13. You may take away the question paper after the examination.
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PRMO-2019
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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