Date: August 19, 2018 Time: 10 AM to 1 PM
Number of Questions: 30 Max Marks: 102
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PRMO-2018
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pencil or a black or blue ball pen. Darken the bubbles completely only after you are sure of your answer; else,
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of darkening the bubbles with detailed instructions. The second diagram shows how to mark a 2-digit number and
a 1-digit number.
Q. 1 Q. 2
INSTRUCTIONS
1. "Think before your ink". 47 05
2. Marking should be done with Blue/Black Ball Point Pen only. 0 0 0 0
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Example Below. 2 2 2 2
WRONG METHODS CORRECT METHOD 3 3 3 3
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D A C D 5 5 5 5
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marked in any other way as shown "WRONG" above, it shall 7 7 7 7
be treated as wrong way of marking. 8 8 8 8
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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.
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1. A book is published in three volumes, the pages 8. Let AB be a chord of a circle with centre O. Let C
being numbered from 1 onwards. The page numbers be a point on the circle such that ABC = 30° and
are continued from the first volume to the second O lies inside the triangle ABC. Let D be a point on
volume to the third. The number of pages in the AB such that DCO = OCB = 20°. Find the
second volume is 50 more than that in the first measure of CDO in degrees.
volume and the number pages in the third volume is Answer (80)
one and a half times that in the second. The sum of
9. Suppose a, b are integers and a + b is a root of
the page numbers on the first pages of the three
x2 + ax + b = 0. What is the maximum possible
volumes is 1709. If n is the last page number, what
value of b2?
is the largest prime factor of n?
Answer (81)
Answer (17)
10. In a triangle ABC, the median from B to CA is
2. In a quadrilateral ABCD, it is given that AB = AD = 13,
perpendicular to the median from C to AB. If the
BC = CD = 20, BD = 24. If r is the radius of the circle
median from A to BC is 30, determine (BC2 + CA2
inscribable in the quadrilateral, then what is the integer
+ AB2)/100.
closest to r?
Answer (24)
Answer (08)
11. There are several tea cups in the kitchen, some with
3. Consider all 6-digit numbers of the form abccba handles and the others without handles. The number
where b is odd. Determine the number of all such of ways of selecting two cups without a handle and
6-digit numbers that are divisible by 7. three with a handle is exactly 1200. What is the
Answer (70) maximum possible number of cups in the kitchen?
4. The equation 166 × 56 = 8590 is valid in some base Answer (29)
b 10 (that is 1, 6, 5, 8, 9, 0 are digits in base b 12. Determine the number of 8-tuples (1, 2, …8) such
in the above equation). Find the sum of all possible that 1, 2, … 8 {1, –1} and 1+ 22 + 33 + … + 88
values of b 10 satisfying the equation.
is a multiple of 3.
Answer (12)
Answer (88)
5. Let ABCD be a trapezium in which AB || CD and
13. In a triangle ABC, right-angled at A, the altitude
AD AB. Suppose ABCD has an incircle which
through A and the internal bisector of A have lengths
touches AB at Q and CD at P. Given that PC = 36
3 and 4, respectively. Find the length of the median
and QB = 49, find PQ.
through A.
Answer (84)
Answer (24)
6. Integers a, b, c satisfy a + b – c = 1 and a2 + b2
14. If x = cos1°cos2°cos3° … cos89° and y = cos2°cos6°
– c2 = –1. What is the sum of all possible values of
cos10° … cos86°, then what is the integer nearest to
a2 + b2 + c2?
2 y
Answer (18) log2 ?
7 x
7. A point P in the interior of a regular hexagon is at
distances 8, 8, 16 units from three consecutive Answer (19)
vertices of the hexagon, respectively. If r is radius of 15. Let a and b be natural numbers such that 2a – b,
the circumscribed circle of the hexagon, what is the a – 2b, and a + b are all distinct squares. What is the
integer closest to r ? smallest possible value of b?
Answer (14) Answer (21)
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16. What is the value of 24. If N is the number of triangles of different shapes
(i.e., not similar) whose angles are all integers (in
1 i j 10
(i j )
1 i j 10
(i j )?
i j odd i j even degrees), what is N/100?
Answer (55) Answer (27)
17. Triangles ABC and DEF are such that A = D, AB 25. Let T be the smallest positive integer which, when
= DE = 17, BC = EF = 10 and AC – DF = 12. divided by 11, 13, 15 leaves remainders in the sets
What is AC + DF? {7, 8, 9}, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6} respectively. What is the
Answer (30) sum of the squares of the digits of T?
18. If a, b, c 4 are integers, not all equal, and 4 abc Answer (81)
= (a + 3) (b + 3) (c + 3), then what is the value of
26. What is the number of ways in which one can
a + b + c?
choose 60 unit squares from a 11 × 11 chessboard
Answer (16) such that no two chosen squares have a side in
19. Let N = 6 + 66 + 666 + ... + 666 ... 66, where there common?
are hundred 6's in the last term in the sum. How Answer (62)
many times does the digit 7 occur in the number N? 27. What is the number of ways in which one can colour
Answer (33) the squares of a 4 × 4 chessboard with colours red
and blue such that each row as well as each column
20. Determine the sum of all possible positive integers
has exactly two red squares and two blue squares?
n, the product of whose digits equals n2 – 15n – 27
Answer (17) Answer (90)
21. Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle and let H be its 28. Let N be the number of ways of distributing 8
orthocenter. Let G1, G2 and G3 be the centroids of chocolates of different brands among 3 children such
the triangles HBC, HCA and HAB respectively. If the that each child gets at least one chocolate, and no
area of triangle G1, G2, G3 is 7 units, what is the two children get the same number of chocolates.
area of triangle ABC? Find the sum of the digits of N.
Answer (63) Answer (24)
22. A positive integer k is said to be good if there exists
29. Let D be an interior point of the side BC of a triangle
a partition of {1, 2, 3, ..., 20} into disjoint proper
ABC. Let I1 and I2 be the incentres of triangles ABD
subsets such that the sum of the numbers in each
and ACD respectively. Let AI1 and AI2 meet BC in
subset of the partition is k. How many good numbers
E and F respectively. If BI1 E = 60°, what is the
are there?
measure of CI2F in degrees?
Answer (06)
Answer (30)
23. What is the largest positive integer n such that
30. Let P(x) = a 0 + a 1 x + a 2 x 2 + ....+ a n x n be a
a2 b2 c2
n (a b c ) polynomial in which ai is a non-negative integer for
b c c a a b
29 31 29 31 29 31 each i{0, 1, 2, 3,..., n}. If P(1) = 4 and P(5) = 136,
holds for all positive real numbers a, b, c. what is the value of P(3)?
Answer (14) Answer (34)
