2023 MATHCOUNTS National Competition Results Answer Booklet-1

2023 Raytheon Technologies MATHCOUNTS National Competition
Monday May 15, 2023, Orlando, FL
Rank Student State Grade Rank Student State Grade

1 Channing Yang TX 7 29 Samuel Henderson KY 7
2 Oron Wang NJ 8 30 Eric Gao FL 8
S Ashvin Sinha FL 8 31 Jefferson Zhou MN 7
S Edward Chen IN 8 32 Bowen Shan AZ 6
Q Liam Reddy NV 8 33 Samuel Ding OR 8
Q Seabert Mao CA 8 34 Solon Xia KS 8
Q Varun Gadi GA 8 35 Justin Guo TN 8
Q Selena Ge MA 7 36 Akshaj Arora GA 7
C Roger Zhen TX 7 37 Kesav Kalanidhi NC 8
C Adam Ge MA 8 38 Jeffrey Xu WI 7
C Alex Sun TX 8 39 Nikhil Byrapuram MA 8
C Jason Lee NC 7 40 Leo Hong NC 6
13 Ben Jiang FL 7 41 Arush Krisp OH 7
14 Andy Lu CA 8 42 Alex Liu VA 7
15 Shunyao Yan VA 7 43 Leon Xie IA 8
16 Sola Murakami HI 8 44 Keshav Karumbunathan OR 7
17 Julian Kuang NV 7 45 Vincent Pirozzo MI 7
18 Eric Zhu NC 8 46 Christopher Sakaliyski IL 7
19 Eddy Zhang PA 7 47 Shining Sun NJ 8
20 Kevin Chen TX 8 48 Simon Deng OH 8
21 Grant Blitz IL 8 49 Arnav Iyengar DC 8
22 Sami El-Hajjar WI 8 50 Joshua Liu CO 7
23 Roger He FL 8 51 Jonah Wang CO 8
24 Christopher Cheng MA 8 52 Harish Loghashankar CA 8
25 Ryan Bansal CA 8 53 Edward Li WA 8
26 Ian Rui WA 8 54 Eric Dai NJ 8
27 Zizhan Wang GA 8 55 Jeremy Yang MD 8
28 Austin Wang MN 8 56 Miguel Shim SC 8
Rank Team Rank Team

1 Texas 13 Virginia
2 Florida 14 Pennsylvania
3 Massachusetts 15 Michigan
4 Georgia 16 Minnesota
5 North Carolina 17 Oregon
6 Maryland 18 Indiana
7 Washington 19 Ohio
8 Illinois 20 Arizona
9 Nevada 21 Hawaii
10 California 22 Colorado
11 Wisconsin 23 New York
12 New Jersey
Written Competition Champion - Oron Wang, New Jersey

Written Competition Runner-Up - Ashvin Sinha, Florida
C = Countdown Round Competitor Q = Countdown Round Quarterfinalist S = Countdown Round Semifinalist

National Competition Statistical Analysis
INDIV. TOTAL SPRINT SCORE TARGET SCORE TEAM TOTAL TEAM ROUND
Minimum 0.00 0.00 0.00 15.50 2.00
Average 25.94 16.21 9.73 36.83 10.89
Maximum 44.00 28.00 16.00 58.00 20.00
Standard Deviation 8.39 4.92 3.91 11.10 4.41
Grade Male Female Unknown TOTAL
6 13 4 0 17
7 59 6 0 65
8 125 17 0 142
Unknown 0 0 0 0
Total 197 27 0 224

National Competition Score Distributions
Number of Students per Individual Score

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15
Number of Students
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Individual Total Score
Number of Students per Sprint Score

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20
Number of Students
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10
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Individual Sprint Score
Number of Students per Target Score
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30
Number of Students
20
10
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Individual Target Score
Number of Teams per Team Score

14
12
10
Number of Teams
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65
Team Total Score (Rounded to the closest multiple of 5)
Number of Teams per Team Round Score

14
12
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Number of Teams
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Team Round Score
National Competition Question Analysis
Sprint Round
250
Number of correct responses
200
150
100
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Target Round
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Question #
Team Round
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2023 National Competition
Answer Key
The appropriate units (or their abbreviations) are provided in the

answer blanks.
Note to coordinators: Answers to the Tiebreaker Round

problems appear in the Tiebreaker Round Booklet.
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Sprint Round Answers
1. 11:00 p.m. 11. 14 combinations 21. 27
2. 52% 12. 200 pages 22. 2903

1 56 429
3. mile 13. inches 23.
4 5 2048
4. 74 14. 10 24. 141 points
2 377
5. Sunday 15. 25. cm
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6. 3:45 or 03:45 16. 6 26. 179
7. 13 correct answers 17. 18 3 units 27. 99 digits

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8. 59 km 18. units2 28.
2 4044
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9. 11 + 2 5 + 4 2 units 19. − 29. 16,456 colorings
(in any order) 5
10. 6 20. 200 units2 30. 75
Target Round Answers

1. $8.80 3. 199 5. 40 7. 1
2. 7 moves 4. 125.1 cm 6. 405 integers 8. 18 ordered triples
Team Round Answers

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1. 9 6.
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2. 3.58 miles 7. 1024 ordered lists
3. 9524 amounts 8. 450 3 in2

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4. 12 ways 9.
50
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5. 10. 56 ways
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Sprint Round Problems 1−30
HONOR PLEDGE
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I pledge to uphold the highest principles of honesty and integrity as a Mathlete®. I will neither give nor accept 6
unauthorized assistance of any kind. I will not copy another’s work and submit it as my own. I understand that
any competitor found to be in violation of this honor pledge is subject to disqualification. 7
Signature _____________________________________________ Date _________________ 8
Printed Name _________________________________________________________________ 9
State _______________________________________________________________________
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This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to
complete all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other aids during
this round. Calculations may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete,
legible and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand
column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use
the remaining time to check your answers.
In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in
the answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to
require the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form
of the answer that will be accepted.
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1. _____________
: p.m. The Mars family pays Trisha $10 per hour for babysitting until 10:00 p.m. and
$12 per hour after 10:00 p.m. One evening, Trisha babysat for 5 hours and was
paid $52. At what time did Trisha finish babysitting?
2. _____________
% If a is 75% of c and b is 39% of c, what percent of a is b?
3. _____________
miles Regan, Cordelia and Goneril are each walking along a straight road. Regan and
Cordelia are exactly one-half mile apart. Regan and Goneril are exactly three
quarters of a mile apart. What is the least possible number of miles between
Cordelia and Goneril? Express your answer as a common fraction.
4. _____________ What is the greatest integer value of k for which 4k < 300?
5. _____________ The eminent mycologist and children’s author Beatrix Potter was born on July
28th, 1866, which was a Saturday. The renowned English chemist Martha Annie
Whiteley was born 106 days later. On what day of the week was Martha Annie
Whiteley born?
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6. _____________ Hazel lives on a planet that operates on a 5-hour clock with
5
each hour containing 60 minutes. It took 2 hours 30 minutes
for Hazel to travel from home to her Grandma’s house. Hazel 4 1
arrived at 1:15. At what time did Hazel leave home?
3 2
7. _____________
correct Cyrus completed a 20-question math test. He answered every question and
answers earned 5 points for every correct answer and lost 3 points for every incorrect
answer. Cyrus earned a score of 44. How many correct answers did he have?
8. _____________
km Dallas Corbin’s Taxi Service charges $0.30 for the first kilometer traveled
and $0.05 for each additional kilometer. If the cab fare was $3.20, how many
kilometers did the taxi travel?
y
9. _____________
units What is the sum of the lengths of all 15 line
segments which have their endpoints among 3
the six points in the graph shown? Express your
answer in simplest radical form.
2
1
x
1 2 3 4
10. _____________ Four numbers have a mean of 9, a median of 10 and a unique mode of 11. What
is the range of the four numbers?
11. _____________
combi- Arnold has at least five animals on his farm, all of which are cows and chickens,
nations and he has at least one of each. Each cow has four legs and each chicken has
two legs. If the animals on Arnold’s farm have a total of no more than 20 legs,
how many different combinations of cows and chickens can Arnold have?
12. _____________
pages Susan wrote a novel that required 492 digits to number the pages beginning with
page 1. How many pages long is her book?
13. _____________
inches In the figure shown, PQRT is a parallelogram. Given that the ratio of the areas of
3
quadrilaterals PQRS and PQRT is , what is the length of segment ST? Express
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your answer as a common fraction.
T S R
8 in.
P 14 in. Q
( (( ( , what is the
2 30
x
If a is a real number greater than 1 and a a a
3 4
14. _____________
30 4 3 2
value of x?
15. _____________ The figure shows a path containing seven connectors. Suppose that two
randomly chosen connectors are removed. What is the probability that the
remaining parts of the figure will consist of exactly two disconnected paths?
Express your answer as a common fraction.
16. _____________ What is the remainder when 281 + 381 is divided by 13?
17. _____________
units An equilateral triangle has one vertex that coincides with the minimum point of
1
the graph of y = x 2, shown here. The other two vertices of the triangle lie on
3
the curve. What is the perimeter of the triangle? Express your answer in simplest
radical form. y 1 2
y= x
3
5
4
3
2
1
x
−5 −4 −3 −2 −1 1 2 3 4 5
18. _____________
units2 What is the area of the finite region bounded by the graphs of y = | x | and
y = −| x + 1 | + 2? Express your answer as a common fraction.
19. _____________ Tyler reflects point P(2, 3) across the x-axis to P′. He then reflects P′ across the
y-axis to P′′. Finally, he reflects P′′ across the line y = 2x to P′′′(a, b). What is the
value of a + b? Express your answer as a common fraction.
20. _____________
units2 What is the area of an octagon in the coordinate plane with the following
properties?
1) Both coordinates of each of its vertices are integers.
2) Two of its sides are parallel to the x-axis and have length 4.
3) Two of its sides are parallel to the y-axis and have length 5.
4) The remaining four sides are congruent.
5) All the interior angles of the octagon are congruent.
6) The perimeter of the octagon is 18 + 24 2 .
21. _____________ A right triangle with integer side lengths has perimeter N feet and area N ft2.
What is the arithmetic mean of all possible values of N?
22. _____________ Upon dividing n by 26, the quotient is q and the remainder is r. If q2 + r = 211,
what is the value of n?
23. _____________ Kate tosses six fair coins and Kathy tosses seven fair coins. What is the
probability they each have the same number of coins land heads up? Express
your answer as a common fraction.
24. _____________
points A point (x, y, z) is called a partly-lattice point if at least one of its coordinates
is an integer. Including the endpoints, how many points on the segment with
endpoints (0, 0, 0) and (50, 60, 75) are partly-lattice points?
25. _____________
cm Isosceles triangle ABC has AB = AC = 122 cm and BC = 44 cm, and right
triangle DEF has the same perimeter and area as triangle ABC. What is the
length of the hypotenuse of right triangle DEF? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
26. _____________ What is the smallest prime number p such that p2 − 26p + 1 is divisible by 167?
27. _____________
digits Let S be the set of all numbers that when written in base three have alternating
2s and 0s, have a first and last digit of 2, and are divisible by 2213. How many
digits does the fifth smallest element of S have in base three?
28. _____________ What common fraction is equivalent to the expression shown?

1 2 3 1010 1011

2021 × 2022 2019 × 2021 2017 × 2020 3 × 1013 1 × 1012
2022 2022 2022 2022 2022

1011 1010 1009 2 1
29. _____________
colorings Each square of a 4 × 4 gameboard is colored either red or
black. Two colorings are considered equivalent if one can be
obtained from the other by a rotation, but mirror images are
not necessarily the same. How many different gameboard
colorings are possible?
940,000
30. _____________ Let M = 200 . If M is rounded to the nearest integer and then divided by 100,
9 2
what is the remainder?
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Target Round Problems 1−8
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Name _________________________________________________________________________
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This section of the competition consists of eight problems, which will be presented in pairs.
Work on one pair of problems will be completed and answers will be collected before the
next pair is distributed. The time limit for each pair of problems is six minutes. The first pair
of problems is on the other side of this sheet. When told to do so, turn the page over and
begin working. This round assumes the use of calculators, and calculations also may be
done on scratch paper, but no other aids are allowed. All answers must be complete, legible
and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand
column of the problem sheets. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the
time remaining to check your answers.
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1. ________________
$ Zhang has as much money in his pocket as Kiran does. If Zhang has $6.60 in
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his pocket, how much money does Kiran have? Express your answer in dollars
to the nearest cent.
2. ________________
moves In a single chess move, the knight travels two squares in one direction
(vertically or horizontally, not diagonally), and from there to an adjacent square
in a perpendicular direction, as shown in Figure 1. On the board in Figure 2,
what is the minimum number of moves it would take for the knight to reach the
square with the star, if the knight cannot land in the empty space in the middle
of the board?
Figure 1
Figure 2
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3. _____________ Alex reads the expression 50 and interprets it as the product of an integer
y x
and a fraction. Then Evan reads 50 and interprets it as a mixed number.
y
Evan’s interpretation has a value that is exactly three times the value of Alex’s
interpretation. Given that x and y are positive integers, what is the least possible
value of x + y?
4. _____________
cm A piece of cord is cut into three pieces of equal length. A different series of knots
is tied on each piece of cord as shown. Each knot is either a figure-eight knot or
an overhand knot. The resulting knotted cords are measured, and the length of
each is shown. What was the length of the original cord before it was cut into
three smaller pieces? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
31.5 cm
33.0 cm
30.9 cm
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5. _____________ One hundred students are split into 5 groups for testing, so that at least
10 students are in each group. Each student earns a test score from 0 to 100,
inclusive. The arithmetic mean of the 100 students’ test scores is m. The
arithmetic mean score is also calculated for each of the five groups. Let M be
the arithmetic mean of the five group means. What is the maximum absolute
difference between m and M?
6. _____________
integers How many positive integers x are there that are less than 2023 and for which 5 is
not a divisor of x4 + 2x3 − x2 + 18x + 15?
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7. _____________ For real number k, consider the curve y = x2 – (k + 1)x + k – 2, which intersects
the x-axis at two points. For what value of k are the two points the closest?
8. _____________
ordered How many different ordered triples of integers (a, b, c) satisfy all three of these
triples equations?
(a − 5)(b − 5)(c − 5) = 0
(a + b − 17)(a + c − 17)(b + c − 17) = 0
a2 + b2 + c2 = 170
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Team Round Problems 1−10
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State
Team
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Members , Captain
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This section of the competition consists of 10 problems which the team has 20 minutes
to complete. Team members may work together in any way to solve the problems. Team
members may talk to each other during this section of the competition. This round assumes
the use of calculators, and calculations also may be done on scratch paper, but no other
aids are allowed. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest terms. The
team captain must record the team’s official answers on his/her own competition booklet,
which is the only booklet that will be scored. If the team completes the problems before
time is called, use the remaining time to check your answers.
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1. _____________ Kumalo drives a car with a license plate number that contains six digits (from
0 to 9). Kumalo notices that the digits are in strictly increasing order. The fourth
digit is 7; the second digit is 3; and the digit 1 does not appear. What is the last
digit on the license plate?
2. _____________
miles Tanisha rides her bike along a trail that approximates a diagonal from the
intersection of 118th and A St. to the intersection of 83rd and Z St. Numbered
streets are named in consecutive numerical order and run parallel from east
to west. Lettered streets are named in consecutive alphabetical order and run
parallel from north to south. If there are 12 blocks in one mile, how many miles
long is the trail? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
3. _____________
amounts At Math Mart, a customer’s total charge amount is calculated by first adding the
price of all items being purchased to get the subtotal. Next, a 5% sales tax of the
subtotal is calculated. Then, the sum of the subtotal and sales tax is rounded to
the nearest cent. Assuming no items sold at Math Mart have prices that include a
fraction of a cent, how many possible total charge amounts are there greater than
$0.00 and less than or equal to $100.00?
4. _____________
ways A geometry clock is composed of five squares of
side lengths 1, 1, 2, 3 and 5 inches, as shown. The
clock tells time in increments of 5 minutes. First, the
1
hour is calculated by finding the product of and
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the sum of the perimeters of the squares marked with an exclamation point.
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Then, the minute is calculated by finding the product of and the sum of the
4
perimeters of the squares with a question mark. On the clock shown, the hour is
1
( ( ( (
5
20 + 12 = 8, the minute is 20 + 8 = 35, and the time is 8:35. In how many
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different ways can the time 6:45 be shown on the clock?
5. _____________ The positive numbers a and b have the property that the ratio of their arithmetic
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mean to their geometric mean is . What is the greatest possible value of the
a 24
ratio ? Express your answer as a common fraction.
b
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6. _____________ The graph of y = ax2 + bx + c, where a, b and P
c are real constants, is shown. The point P is
located where the graph has the maximum value
of y. If OP = 4 and the angle that segment OP
makes with the x-axis is 60º, what is the value 4
of a + b + c? Express your answer as a common
fraction in simplest radical form.
O 60°
x
7. _____________
ordered How many ordered lists of integers (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i) satisfy abc = 30,
lists cde = 31, efg = 32 and ghi = 33?
8. _____________
in2 Raymond draws a regular hexagon with sides of length 20 inches. On each side
of the regular hexagon, Raymond marks five equally spaced points, dividing each
side into six congruent segments. He then randomly selects one point on each
side and draws segments between pairs of selected points, in order clockwise
around the regular hexagon, to form a new hexagon. What is the expected value
of the area of the new hexagon? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
9. _____________ If an integer n is randomly selected from 1 to 100, inclusive, what is the

probability that n is divisible by 3 but not by 9, or is divisible by 2 but not by 4?
Express your answer as a common fraction.
10. _____________
ways Consider the three-dimensional figure shown which is constructed by taking
a cube and removing triangular pyramids from two opposite corners. The
resulting figure has two congruent faces which are equilateral triangles and six
congruent faces which are pentagons. Suppose that each face is colored either
purple or blue. Two colorings are considered the same if one
can be rotated to create the other, but mirror images are not
necessarily the same. How many different ways are there to
color the faces in this manner?
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2023 Raytheon Technologies MATHCOUNTS National Competition

Monday May 15, 2023, Orlando, FL

Rank Student State Grade Rank Student State Grade

Rank Team Rank Team

Written Competition Champion - Oron Wang, New Jersey

C = Countdown Round Competitor Q = Countdown Round Quarterfinalist S = Countdown Round Semifinalist

Minimum 0.00 0.00 0.00 15.50 2.00

Average 25.94 16.21 9.73 36.83 10.89

Maximum 44.00 28.00 16.00 58.00 20.00

Standard Deviation 8.39 4.92 3.91 11.10 4.41

Grade Male Female Unknown TOTAL

Total 197 27 0 224

Number of Students per Individual Score

Number of Students per Sprint Score

Number of Teams per Team Score

Number of Teams per Team Round Score

The appropriate units (or their abbreviations) are provided in the

Note to coordinators: Answers to the Tiebreaker Round

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1. 11:00 p.m. 11. 14 combinations 21. 27

2. 52% 12. 200 pages 22. 2903

7. 13 correct answers 17. 18 3 units 27. 99 digits

Target Round Answers

2. 7 moves 4. 125.1 cm 6. 405 integers 8. 18 ordered triples

Team Round Answers

3. 9524 amounts 8. 450 3 in2

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