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Singapore Mathematical Society Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (SMO) 2009 (Open Section, Round 1) Wednesday, 3 June 2009 0930 — 1200 Instructions to contestants 1 Answer ALL 25 questions. Write your answers in the answer sheet provided and shade the appropriate bubbles below ‘your answers. No steps are needed to justify your answers. Each question carries 1 mark, No calculators are allowed. The expression 1000 sin 10° cos 20° cos 30° cos 40° can be simplified as a sin 6°, where a and bare positive integers with 0< b<90. Find the value of 100a +b Let Ay, a, Ass Aa, As and Ay be six points on a circle inthis order such that Ay ~ 42H, AGA, = AAg and AsA, = AGA, where AyA denotes the arc length of the are Ay A; etc. It is also known that “A,A3As = 72°. Find the size of ZA,AgAp in degrees. Let P,, P.,..... Pa be 41 distinct points on the segment BC of a triangle ABC, where AB = AC 7. Evaluate the sum 9)" (AP? + PiB- F.C). Determine the largest value of X for which fp? tee 24) bx? + 61-56} +1784 Let f(x) = ay + ax + ann? + aye + aye! + asx’ be a polynomial in x where ao, a, day yy ae are constants and a; = 7. When divided by x 2004, x~ 2005, x- 2006, x - 2007 and x~ 2008, (2) leaves a remainder of 72, -30, 32, -24 and 24 respectively. Find the value of 1(2009). Find the value of S280 sin20° 2sin80° a7 10. re 2. 13. 14. 16. 7. 18. Determine the number of 8-digit positive integers such that after deleting any one digit the remaining 7-digit number is divisible by 7. It is given that Ya ~ Vb = 20, where a and b are real numbers. Find the maximum possible value of a ~ Sh Let ABC be a triangle with sides AB = 7, BC = 8 and AC =9. A unique circle can be drawn touching the side AC and the lines BA produced and BC produced. Let D be the centre of this circle. Find the value of BD* _ ) (pa ie x=4( yam09 «find the value of (x+vie#) 2k ¥2009 Let $= {1, 2, 3... 30). Determine the number of vectors (s; y, =, w) with x, », 2, © 5 such that x R satisfies the relation f(x)f{y) = N2xy + 3) + 3f{x +») — 3f(x) + 6x, where x,y ER. Find the value of (2009), Let {an} be a sequence of positive integers such that a) = 1, a= 2009 and for n 2 1, > 4993 224 ~Fyxt ~ Gy 414, = 0. Determine the value of “223 00cy) Determine the number of ways of tiling a 4x9 rectangle by tiles of size 1x2, Find the number of 7-digit positive integers such that the digits from left to right are non- increasing. (Examples of 7-digit non-increasing numbers are 9998766 and 5555555; An example of a number that is NOT non-inereasing is 7776556) 48, 19. 20. 21. 2. 2B. 24, Determine the largest prime number less than 5000 of the form a” ~ 1, where a and 1 are positive integers, and mis greater than 1 Determine the least constant M such that sant tn Tae tt Rota for any positive real numbers x1, X2y X35. X00. Six numbers are randomly selected from the integers 1 to 45 inclusive, Letp be the probability that at least three of the numbers ate consecutive. Find the value of | 1000p | (Note: x] denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x). eae (cate Evaluate J tan!) 2 |. Be “ (je) n Determine the largest prime factor of the sum 55 im Let {x,)}%1 be a sequence of real numbers such that xj =3,.x2 =24 and 1 Ginn + 5%n ag for every positive integers m, Determine the value of lim x m0 49 25. A square piece of graph paper of side length 30 mm contains 900 smallest squares each of side length Imm each. Its four rectangular comers, denoted by A, B, C, D in clockwise order, are cut away from the square piece of graph paper. The resultant graph paper, which has the shape of a cross, is shown in the figure below. Let V denote the total number of rectangles, excluding all the squares which are contained in the resultant graph paper. Find the value of 1 6mm 20mm 4mm 4mm 20mm 20mm 6mm 20mm 4mm. 50 Singapore Mathematical Society Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (SMO) 2009 (Open Section, Round 2) Saturday, 4 July 2009 0900-1330 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTESTANTS, 1. Answer ALL 5 questions. 2. Show all the steps in your working. 9. Each question carries 10 mark 4. No caleulators are allowed. 1, Let O be the center of the circle inscribed in a rhombus ABCD. Points B, F,G,H are chosen on sides AB, BC,CD and DA respectively so that EF and GH are tangent to the inscribed circle. Show that EH and FG are parallel, 2. A palindromic number is a number which is unchanged when the order of its digits is reversed. Prove that the arithmetic progression 18, 37, ... contains infinitely many palindromic numbers. 3. For k a positive integer, define A, for n = 1,2, An + (n+ 1)* Ani = 3 + Prove that An is an integer for all n > 1, and A, is odd if and only if n = 1 or 2 (mod 4). 4. Find the largest constant C' such that 4 Le es poe for all positive real numbers «1,--+,2 such that 5. Find all integers «,y and 2 with 2<@

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