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GUANGDONG-HONG KONG-MACAO
GREATER BAY AREA MATHEMATICAL
OLYMPIAD 2019 (GREATER BAY AREA REGION)

Secondary 2

Question Paper Time allowed: 75 minutes

Instructions to Contestants:

1. Each contestant should have ONE Question Book which CANNOT be taken away.
2. There are 3 sections in this exam. Section A consists of 10 questions. Each carries 4 marks. Section B consists of 10 questions.
Each carries 5 marks. Section C consists of 5 questions. Each carries 7 marks. The total number of questions is 25. Total score
is 125 marks. No points are deducted for incorrect answers or empty answers.
3. NO calculators can be used during the contest. All figures in the paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.
4. This Question Book will be collected at the end of the contest.
THIS Question Book CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY.

DO NOT turn over this Question Book without approval of the examiner.

Otherwise, contestant may be DISQUALIFIED.

Write down the answer in the simplest form. If the calculation result is a fraction, please write down the answer as a proper or mixed fraction,
decimal figure is also accepted. Marks will NOT be given for incorrect unit.
All answers should be written on the ANSWER SHEET.

Section A: 1st to 10th Question (Each carries 4 marks)

9
1) It is known that x is rational, x  0 and x  4  . Find the value of x.
9
8
8  ...

3  3
2) If  and  are the roots of x2  7 x  11  0 , find the value of .
 2    2

2023
3) If y  and y is a positive integer, find the maximum value of y.
x  10 x  48
2

1 1 1
4) If x  is a positive integer and x3  3  198 , find the value of x  .
x x x

5) It is known that the maximum value of x  a  b  x is 8. Find the value of b  a .

6) Find the value of 323  2 323  2 323  ... .

7) How many simplified fraction(s) with denominator 2019 is / are there?

8) Find the value of C110  C210  C310  ...  C710  C810  C910 .

9) Find the remainder when 20190217 is divided by 16.

10) Find the nearest positive integer of log 7 2019 .

Write down the answer in the simplest form. If the calculation result is a fraction, please write down the answer as a proper or mixed fraction,
decimal figure is also accepted. Marks will NOT be given for incorrect unit.
All answers should be written on the ANSWER SHEET.

Section B: 11th to 20th Question (Each carries 5 marks)

11) It is known that n  1  2  3  ...  k and n has at least 3 prime factors. Find the minimum value of n.

12) There is a circle with radii 3 . DG cuts the circle at F and C is the center. FAB  75 . Find the value
of DE. (Please use surd form to represent answer)

A
B
C

E
G
D F

Question 12

13) The sides of a triangle are all positive integers. Two of them are roots of f ( x)  x3  16 x2  83x  140 .
Find the possible value of the smallest length of this triangle.

14) There are red, white and blue balls each for 300 inside a box. Each time 1 ball will be taken. Players can
use 2 different colour balls to exchange 2 balls with different colours from the box. The exchange times
will not be counted. How many times are required to ensure that there are at least 100 balls for each
colour?

15) If xlog x is a positive integer and less than 2019, find the sum of all possible values of x.

16) Find the number of integral points that the equation y  3 x  2 passes through.

17) It is known that 2019a2b6 can be divisible by 44. Find the sum of all possible values of a  b .

Write down the answer in the simplest form. If the calculation result is a fraction, please write down the answer as a proper or mixed fraction,
decimal figure is also accepted. Marks will NOT be given for incorrect unit.
All answers should be written on the ANSWER SHEET.

18) Let P( x) be a quadratic polynomial. P(1)  2, P(2)  16, P(3)  54 . Find the value of P(4) .

19) Let 1000’s positive factors be a1 , a2 , a3 ,..., an , find the value of

1000 1000 1000 1000
log  log  log  ...  log .
a1 a2 a3 an

20) Inside a regular 2019-sided polygon, the distance between each vertex and the center is 1. Find the area
of the polygon. (Answer to the nearest integer)

Section C: 21st to 25th Question (Each carries 7 marks)

21) In a rectangular coordinate system, we draw 2019 line segments. Each line is parallel to x-axis or y-axis.
The Highest Common Factor (H.C.F.) between those 2 numbers is larger than 1. How many parts can at
most be cut by these straight line segments?

22) Now there is a special calculator with only 4 buttons. “AC” is to make number to be 0. The other 3
buttons are 1 , 3 and 11 . After pressing “AC”, how many times are required at least to show 2019?

23) Find the unit digit of 11  22  33  ...  2017 2017  20182018  20192019 .

24) There are 2019 terms in a Geometric Sequence. It is known that the first term and the last term are not
integers. How many positive-integral terms are there inside this sequence?

 x  5(mod 9)

25) It is known that x is a positive integer and  x  8(mod11) . Find the minimum value of x.
 x  3(mod 7)
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Write down the answer in the simplest form. If the calculation result is a fraction, please write down the answer as a proper or mixed fraction,
decimal figure is also accepted. Marks will NOT be given for incorrect unit.