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1. In square ABCD, let M be the midpoint of side CD, and let N be the reflection of
M over side AB. What fraction of 4M N D lies within ABCD?

1 5 2 3 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 8 3 4 8

2. Jack is reading a 100 page book. He reads two pages every minute. After every 12
pages he reads, he takes a one minute break, and then he goes back to reading. If
Jack starts reading at 2:00, what time will it be when he finishes reading his book?

(A) 2:32 (B) 2:56 (C) 2:58 (D) 3:05 (E) 3:18

3. Let a be the the largest solution to the equation

(x2 + 6x + 8)(x2 − 16x + 55) = 0,

and let b be the smallest solution. What is a − b?

(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 22

4. Pedro currently has 2 quarters, 3 dimes and 2 pennies. If he can only obtain quarters,
dimes, nickels, and pennies, what is the minimum number of coins he needs to earn
in order to reach a total of exactly 1 dollar?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 10

5. 15 students are to be randomly split into 5 groups of 3 to work on a project. Alice,

Bob, and Cooper are three of the students. Given that Alice and Bob are in the same
group, what is the probability that Cooper is not in that group?

4 3 4 8 12
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
7 4 5 9 13

6. Mark wants to distribute all 100 pieces of his candy to his five children, Albert, Bob,
Charlie, Diana and Ethan. Diana and Ethan insist on each having a prime number
of candies whose sum is also a prime number. Charlie insists on having exactly 35
candies, exactly 1 more than Albert and Bob’s amounts combined. Given that Ethan
has the smallest number of candies, how many candies must Mark give to Diana?

(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 17 (D) 23 (E) 29

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7. When all 9 diagonals of a regular hexagon are drawn, they partition the hexagon into
some number of individual regions. What percent of these regions are triangular?

(A) 25% (B) 37.5% (C) 50% (D) 62.5% (E) 75%

8. A 3-step staircase is shown below, where each side of each square is of unit length.

Extend this pattern to create two 2021-step staircases. When these two staircases are
fit together to form a 2021 × 2022 rectangle, the two staircases meet each other at a
crease of length L. What is L? (In the resulting rectangle, a crease is defined as the
total length of the segments touched by both of the original staircases.)

(A) 2022 (B) 2023 (C) 4041 (D) 4042 (E) 4043

9. Let the area of equilateral 4ABC be 9. Let O denote the center of its circumcircle.
Let ω1 and ω2 be circles centered at A and B, respectively, such that they both pass
through O. Let ω1 and ω2 intersect at P , distinct from O. What is the area of CBP A?
√ √ √
(A) 6 3 (B) 12 (C) 8 3 (D) 9 3 (E) 15

10. In a regular hexagon with side length 2, three of the sides are chosen at random. Next,
the midpoints of each of the chosen sides are drawn. What is the probability that the
triangle formed by the three midpoints has a perimeter which is an integer?

1 1 1 2 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 5 4 5 2

11. A positive integer is called a flake if it has at least three distinct prime factors. Two
flakes are defined to be in a snowflake if there exists a prime that is divisible by
the greatest common divisor of the two flakes. When two flakes in a snowflake are
multiplied, what is the smallest possible number of divisors in the resulting number?

(A) 18 (B) 27 (C) 48 (D) 54 (E) 64

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12. A group of people are in a room. It is given that 5 people have a pet dog, 6 people
have a pet cat, 8 people have a pet fish, and 3 people have no pets. If no one has
more than two pets, and no one has more than one of the same type of pet, what is
the smallest possible number of people in the room?

(A) 10 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E) 19

13. A function f is defined by a real-valued expression

p4
p
2020x + 1 |x| − 2021 − 8 2021 − |x|
f (x) = + .
x + 2020 |x − 2021|
For x in the domain of f , f (x) can be simplified to a value N . What is the remainder
when N is divided by 100?

(A) 19 (B) 21 (C) 41 (D) 59 (E) N is not an integer.

14. For a positive integer n, define a function f (n) to be equal to the largest integer k
such that n is divisible by 2k . For example, f (8) = 3 and f (12) = 2. Now, let p, q,
and r be distinct primes less than 100, so that M is the largest value that

f ((p + 1)(q + 1)(r + 1))

can take, and m is the smallest value. What is M + m?

(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16

15. A right circular cone has base radius 3 and height 4. Let s be the side length of the
largest possible cube that can be inscribed inside the cone such that two of its faces
√
are parallel to the base of the cone. Then s = a − b c, where a, b, and c are positive
integers, and c is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is a + b + c?

(A) 62 (B) 64 (C) 66 (D) 68 (E) 70

16. Bob and Bill are playing with 7 red cards and 3 blue cards. The cards are numbered
from 1 to 10, inclusive, and are flipped over so that neither person can see the numbers.
Bill knows that the blue cards are numbered 1, 8, and 9, in some order, but Bob does
not know this, nor does he know that Bill knows. Bill chooses a card first, and then
Bob chooses a different card. A player wins the game if they choose a card with a
larger number. If both players play optimally, what is the probability that Bill wins?

1 5 2 7 25
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 9 3 10 27
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17. Farmers A and B are mowing a rectangular grid of 21 rows and 23 columns of cells of
grass. A starts from the top-left cell of the grid and mows right until he has mowed
all the grass in the row. Then, B starts from where A stopped and mows down the
same column until he has mowed all the grass in the column. They keep taking turns
mowing, each time turning 90◦ clockwise, switching the farmer, and mowing only
unmowed grass in the same direction until not possible. If A and B mow at rates of
7 and 3 cells per minute, respectively, and it takes no time to turn 90◦ clockwise and
switch farmers, how long, in minutes, will it take them to finish mowing all the grass?

(A) 108 (B) 109 (C) 110 (D) 111 (E) 112

18. A sequence is defined recursively by F0 = 0, F1 = 1, and Fn = Fn−1 + Fn−2 for all

integers n ≥ 2. Let S be the sum of all positive integers n such that |Fn − n2 | ≤ 3n.
What is the sum of the digits of S?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 14

19. In triangle ABC, AB = 15 and BC = 20, with a right angle at B. Point D is chosen
on side AC and is reflected over sides AB and BC (not consecutively) to create points
M and N , respectively. What is the smallest possible value of the length M N ?

(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 30

20. A fair coin is painted such that one side is red and the other side is blue. A fair die is
painted such that all 6 faces are blue. Each move, Daniel flips the coin and rolls the
die. He then paints the face facing up on the die the color of the side facing up on
the coin. The probability that the die is completely red after 7 moves is 12pq , where p
and q are positive integers such that p is not divisible by 12. What is p + q?

(A) 35 (B) 75 (C) 110 (D) 180 (E) 215

21. What is the sum of the digits of the remainder when

(42 − 9)(52 − 9)(62 − 9) · · · (932 − 9)

is divided by 97?

(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

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22. A positive integer with 2n digits is twisted if the last n digits is some permutation of
the first n digits, and the leading digit is nonzero. Let N be the number of twisted
6-digit integers. What is the sum of the digits of N ?

(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 27 (E) 30

23. Andy and Aidan want to meet up at school to exchange phone numbers. Before
meeting, they each choose a random time between 12:00 PM and 1:30 PM to arrive.
After arriving, Andy will wait 40 minutes before leaving, while Aidan will wait 10
minutes before leaving. Later, Andy learns that he has an unexpected recital he has
to attend at 1:10 PM, so if Andy is waiting for Aidan to arrive and the time passes
1:10 PM, Andy will leave, and if Andy chose a time after 1:10 PM, Andy will not
come to the meeting at all. What is the probability that Andy and Aidan meet?

2 37 53 29 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 162 162 81 18

24. In acute 4ABC with circumcircle Γ, the lines tangent to Γ at points B and C intersect
at point D. Line segment AD intersects Γ at another point E, distinct from A, and
BC at a point F . If BF = 8, CF = 6, and EF = 4, then the area of 4BCD can be
√
expressed as m n, where m and n are positive integers, and n is not divisible by the
square of any prime. What is m + n?

(A) 146 (B) 147 (C) 148 (D) 149 (E) 150

25. Consider the quadratic equation P (x) = ax2 + bx + 144, where a and b are real
numbers. It is known that P (x) has two distinct positive integer roots, and its graph
is tangent to the graph of y = −x2 . The sum of all possible values of a1 can be written
as mn , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?

(A) 61 (B) 62 (C) 63 (D) 64 (E) 65

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