CAMA Advanced Mathematics Competition October 2023
You are given 4 hours. Each problem is worth 7 points. Each question is worth 1 point.
Problems are meant to be kept confidential even after the test until 1 April 2024.
All results must be proven to obtain the 7 points.
Problem 1. Which n × m boards can be tiled using L-shaped tetrominoes (that is, L-shaped
pieces with 4 squares)?
Problem 2. A sequence of positive integers an begins with a1 = a and a2 = b for positive
integers a and b. Subsequent terms in the sequence satisfy the following two rules for all
positive integers n:
a2n+1 = a2n a2n−1 , a2n+2 = a2n+1 + 4.
Exactly m of the numbers a1 , a2 , a3 , ..., a2 022 are square numbers. What is the maximum
possible value of m?
Problem 3. Let ABC be a triangle with an obtuse angle A and incentre I. Circles ABI
and ACI intersect BC again at X and Y respectively. The lines AX and BI meet at P ,
and the lines AY and CI meet at Q. Prove that BCQP is cyclic.
Problem 4. Let x, y, z be positive real numbers. Prove that
(xy 2 + yz 2 + zx2 )(x2 y + y 2 z + z 2 x)(xy + yz + zx)(x + y + z) ≥ 1/9(xyz)3 .
Question 1. Find the remainder mod 11 of the number of ways of turning 10 lights on or
off.
a)1, b)3, c)5, d)7, e)9
Question 2. Find xyz given that
3x ∗ 3y ∗ 3z = 9
13
2x + 2y + 2z =
2
x+y =0
a) − 2, b) − 3, c) − 21 , d) − 4, e) − 1
Question 3. Iker has just taken out his NID card, because he need it to travel to Winchester.
But David and Alexandro, two of his friends, have decided to steal it. But as they are a bit
clumsy, they have only stolen 3 digit. Now the DNI is something like this: 1x94y6z2E. Were
x, y, z are non-negative integers, between 0 and 9. Now you have to help Iker to find them.
Here are some clues. The number 1x94y6z2 is a multiple of 12, but not of 8. z is bigger
than y y is bigger than x It is also known that the letter in the DNI corresponds with the
remainder of dividing 1x94y6z2 by 23. As the letter is E, the remainder is equal to 22. Iker
loves ’1’, and he remember that, unluckily, his NID doesn’t have any 1 in his digits. Help
Iker to know the value of x + y + z.
a) 23 b) 20 c) 17 d) 26 e) 22
1
Question 4. How many times does 10 divide 310!?
a)75, b)76, c)77, d)78, e)79
Question 5. Determine the number of real solutions (x, y, z) to the following system of
equations
x + y + z = 13
xy + xz + yz = 47.75
xyz = 35.75
a)0, b)2, c)3, d)4, e)6
Question 6. Consider a necklace with 8 red beads and 32 green beads. We will say a necklace
is ’based’ if between any two red beads there are at least two green beads. How many based
necklaces are there?
a)0, b)245336, c)30667, d)10222, e)120534
Question 7. Ana decides to play with the random number generator and generates 4 different
random numbers from 1 to 9. What is the probability 3 of the 4 numbers she has generated
add up to 15.
Question 8. Triangle ABC with AB = 14, AC = 30, BC = 40 is inscribed in a circle
ω. The tangents to ω at B and C meet at a point T . The tangent to ω at A intersects the
perpendicular bisector of AT at point P . Compute the area of triangle P BC.
Question 9. Let f (x) = x2 + 6x + 1 and R be the set of all points (x, y) in the coordinate
plane such that f (x) + f (y) ≤ 0 and f (x) − f (y) ≤ 0. The best approximation for the area
of R is a)21, b)22, c)23, d)24, e)25.
Question 10. The number of squarefree integers from {1, 2, . . . , 1000} is closest to:
a)200, b)300, c)400, d)500, e)600
