31 AOÛT 2001 FINALE INTERNATIONALE SÉANCE 1

DÉBUT CATÉGORIE CM 6. THE LABYRINTH (coef. 6)

1. Marbles or Candies ? (coef. 1) Find the path that allows to go through the labyrin-
John has seven items (marbles or candies) in his left th. To go from one cell to one of its neighbours
pocket and eight in his right pocket. From time to (adjacent by a side), the difference between the two
time he takes an item from his left pocket: if it is a entrance
5 8 11 40 26 22
marble, he puts it in his right pocket, and if it is a
candy, he eats it. He never takes an item out of his 12 16 33 28 7 11
right pocket. In the end, his left pocket is empty and 15 13 36 49 5 14
his right pocket contains twelve items. 23 10 25 28 25 7
How many candies were is his left pocket in the 20 17 20 45 26 56 exit
beginning ?
numbers should be 3, or both numbers should belong
2. DRIVE OR DRINK (coef. 2) to the same multiplication table. For instance, 72
Don Key has some glasses of whisky in front of him. and 88 belong to the table of 2, to the table of 4, and
He drinks three of those and then sees each glass to the table of 8.
twice. He then thinks he has fourteen glasses in front FIN CATÉGORIE CM
of him. He then drinks three more glasses and sees
each real glass three times. How many glasses does 7. ELEVATORS EVERYWHERE (coef. 7)
he think he has in front of him ? A department store is built over eight levels, with
several elevators.
DÉBUT CATÉGORIE C1 To force the customers to visit the levels, each eleva-
3. BLACK AND WHITE (coef.3) tor only serves three levels. The owner had suffi-
Five pawns stand on this line, one in each square. ciently many elevators built so that every level can
Find their respective colors, given that : be reached from any other level with only one
- there is a black pawn with two adjacent white elevator. What is the minimum number of eleva-
pawns, tors ?
- two white pawns are never adjacent,
- the pawns at the two extremities are of different 8. MINIMUS (coef. 8)
colors, Heart, Spade, Diamond and
- the second pawn from the left is black. Club live on the square grid
represented next. They can only
4. ANTI-MAGICAL RECTANGLE (coef. 4) move along the lines of the grid.
Fill in all the empty cells of this anti- 1 1 1 2 Today, they decided to discuss
magical rectangle. the rules of a new card game,
1 2 4 Minimus, and agreed to meet on
If one adds the integers of any row or
any column, one gets at most 9, a free intersection of the grid.
and all these sums are different. Moreover, each cell But, in accordance with the name of their new game,
contains either a 1, or a 2, or a 4. they want the sum of the distances they will travel to
be minimum.
DÉBUT CATÉGORIES C2, L1, L2, GP, HC
Indicate on the grid the place of their meeting.
5. THE BOX OF DOMINOES (coef. 5) 9. THE TWO PARALLELEPIPEDS (coef. 9)
A complete box of dominoes contains 28 dominoes, Two parallelepipeds, whose edges all are an integer
from 0-0 to 6-6. number of centimeters, compare their qualities.
Alice empties the box onto the table, then observes - `I am a cube', says the first one. `You cannot say
the following: so'.
- there are 27 dominoes on the table, among which - `Yes, but my base is a square! And my height is
are six doubles, equal to the unit: 1 cm'.
- the total number of dots printed on the dominoes Both parallelepipeds have the same volume, which is
equals 158. smaller than 2001 cm3. What is this volume ?
What is the domino in the mouth of Alice's dog ? FIN CATÉGORIE C1
10. THE HOPSCOTCH (coef. 10) 6 4
Mathilda and John play hopscotch. They have to
jump from the center of a square to the center of 1 2
another square, without going back to the same 3 5
square, so that the lengths of the successive
jumps strictly increase and so that they make
the longest possible path. They first tried on a 1 sented by Mannie Hattan. In this project, the museum will be
3 by 3 hopscotch in which they can move
from square 1 to
square 6. They now want to play on a 4 by 4
hopscotch, with the same rules. Draw their
moves by numbering the squares after square 1, already in
the grid.
11. THE SLIPPERY PAWNS (coef. 11)
● ● ● terns, among which
Bernardo is playing the following game. At each step, he
moves a pawn to the right or to the left. But the pawns are slip-
pery, so that they only stop when they get on the left-most or
the right-most square, or when the next square is occupied by
another pawn. For instance, the pawn in the fifth square from
the left can only get to the fourth square or to the eighth one.
The initial position being the one represented in the picture,
how many times can Bernardo play before getting to a posi-
tion he already played before ?
FIN CATÉGORIE C2
12. Mr Hide (coef. 12)
What is the minimum number of 2cm by 2cm squares nee-
ded to be able to completely cover a disk of radius 5cm ?
13. THE FOUNTAIN OF CHAMPAGNE (coef. 13)
The king did everything very well for the wedding of his
daughter! He had a pyramid of glasses built, on which a foun-
tain of Champagne will flow. The pyramid begins with two
glasses at the top (1x2), the glasses of the bride and the groom,
then 6 glasses at the next level (2x3), then, from top to bottom,
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12 glasses (3x4), 20 glasses (4x5), and so on, to the last level
that has 2001x2002 glasses.
How many glasses were necessary to built this pyramid ?
14. MANNIE HATTAN PROJECT (coef. 14)
A project for the next math museum of Mathland has been pre-
constituted of five intersecting spheres. These five spheres will
define some closed spaces that will be the different rooms of
the museum. What is the maximum possible number of rooms
of the museum if one follows the project of M. Hattan ?
FIN CATÉGORIES L1 GP
15. THE CARPET FROM CAIRO (coef. 14)
This carpet is decora-
ted with many pat-
there are four half-
circles tangent in the
middle of the carpet,
the two larger ones
being also tangent to
the sides of the carpet.
One knows that AB=2.6m and CD=0.3m, C being situated at a
quarter of the horizontal side length from the right side and
(CD) being parallel to the vertical side of the carpet.
What is the area of the carpet ?
16. EGGS, AND EVEN MORE EGGS (coef. 14)
A hen lays an egg every day. One then chooses either to sell
this egg, or to wait 90 days to get a new hen, ready to lay eggs
itself. An egg laid on day n gives rise to a hen on day n+90,
that immediately lays.
Father Mathias has a hen.
What is the maximum number of eggs he will be able to sell
within 360 days ?
One can assume that he always gets hens and never cocks.
FIN CATÉGORIES L2 HC