Tiffin Year 9 Mentoring Sheet 2 November

All problems UKMT

Please ensure you have full proofs for each. The key is using as few words as possible but ensuring
that all statements are justified and your proof is complete in the sense it considers all cases. Each
of your solutions will be marked out of 10.
1. [Cayley 2015 Q1] A train travelling at constant speed takes five seconds to pass completely
through a tunnel which is 85m long, and eight seconds to pass completely through a second
tunnel which is 160m long.
What is the speed of the train?
2. [Cayley 2009 Q4] In a rectangle ABCD, the side AB has length 2 and the side AD has length
1. Let the circle with centre B and passing through C meet AB at X.
Find (in degrees).
3. [Hamilton 2015 Q3] The diagram shows two circular arcs and in a
right-angled triangle , where = 90. The centres of the arcs
are and .
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Prove that 2 2 = .
4. [Cayley 2008 Q4] The number N is the product of the first 99 positive
integers. The number M is the product of the first 99 positive integers after each has been
reversed. That is for example, the reverse of 8 is 8; of 17 is 71; and of 20 is 02.
Find the exact value of .
5. [Cayley 2012 Q4] The diagram shows seven circles. Each of the three arrows
indicates a line of three circles. The digits from 1 to 7 inclusive are to be placed
in the circles, one per circle, so that the sum of the digits in each of the three
indicated lines of three circles is the same. Find all possible values of .
6. [Hamilton 2013 Q5] When Anne entered the room, the mean age increased by 4 years.
When Beth then entered the room, the mean age increased by a further 3 years. Anne and
Beth were the same age.
How many people were in the room before Anne entered?
7. (Optional) [Maclaurin 2014 Q6] The T-tetromino is the shape made by joining
four 1 1 squares edge to edge, as shown. The rectangle has dimensions 2
2, where and are integers. The expression can be tiled by means that
can be covered exactly with identical copies of without gaps or overlaps.
(a) Prove that can be tiled by when both and are even.
(b) Prove that cannot be tiled by when both and are odd.