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Years 11 and 12
Solutions
1. D 10 0.2
10 100
50
0.2 2
3. E The angles in the triangle are 180 130 50 , 180 70 110 and 180 160 20
respectively. Hence x 180 20 160
4. A 11 6 35
24 6
4
5. C The perfect squares less than 100 are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81
From this it easily follows that the largest possible two digit sum is 81 16 97
6. A 315 27 10 9 n
315 3 3
10
32
n
3 45 3 2 n
22 .5 n
9. C Let x be the radius of the smaller circle. (I.e smaller square has area x 2 )
From Pythagoras’ Theorem the radius of the larger circle is 2 x . (I.e. larger square has area 2x 2 )
Considering combinations we notice that there are 4 ways it can contain no factor 5,
5 ways it can contain exactly one factor 5,
5 ways it can contain exactly two factor 5s and
4 ways it can contain exactly three factor fives.
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Australian Mathematics Competition 2001
Years 11 and 12
Solutions
x2
xy x y y x 1 x y
x
I.e. , so the common term is xy
x 1 x 1
16. C There are 10 primes less than 30: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29.
10! 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Hence there are 10
C3 120 numbers
3!7! 3 2 17 6 5 4 3 2 1
1
x 1 1 2
x2 x 1
2
2 x 2 2 x 12 0
1
x
2 1 3
4
18. C
The 10th term S10 S 9 103 3 9 3 3 1000 729 271
19. C The total area is 12. A straight line with slope 1 will cut off a triangle with area 2 from the vertical
rectangle (area = 8) resulting in a two parts of area 6.
20. D I 510 a b 50 a 5b a 5b 49
a I.e. a 5b is divisible by 7
divisible by 7
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Australian Mathematics Competition 2001
Years 11 and 12
Solutions
21. C Let a, b, c and d be the four numbers. This gives four equations: a b c 3d 51
a b 3c d 63
a 3b c d 69
3a b c d 87
I.e. a b c d 45 , so a 21 , b 12 , c 5 and d 3 .
22. C Let r denote the radius of the circle. We then note that since it is a right-angled triangle:
r 72 r 82 15 r 2 15r 56 0 (I.e. r 2 15r 56 )
23. B For the toy car to be able to return it has to turn more than 180 :
24. D Let x denote the time in minutes it takes from when the first train left to the two trains pass.
The time taken on the two stretches is then:
Therefore x 40
100 x 30
x 2 30 x 4000 0
30 130
x
2
x 80 (Since the negative solution can be ignored)
25. A Pr second is red Pr first is red and second is red Pr first is white and second is red
m mk n m
mn mnk mn mnk
mm k n
m nm n k
4 2h 42 2x
h 2
2 2 x 10 x 10 x
h x 10 – x
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Australian Mathematics Competition 2001
Years 11 and 12
Solutions
27. D Glue together 2001 3 667 shapes each with 2 acute angles and extend the two outer ones to form a
cone:
acute
…
acute
3
2
1 1
0 x y z 10
To mimimise the length of the four hypotenuses is equivalent to finding the shortest distance from
0,0 to 10 ,7 . The solution is therefore 10 2 7 2 149
Hence there are a total of 1 2 6 4 5 2 2 24 10 36 ways of covering the room with the mats.
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