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Fermat Contest
(Grade 11)
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
(in North America and South America)
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
(outside of North America and South America)

Time: 60 minutes ©2018 University of Waterloo

Calculating devices are allowed, provided that they do not have any of the following
features: (i) internet access, (ii) the ability to communicate with other devices,
(iii) information previously stored by students (such as formulas, programs, notes,
etc.), (iv) a computer algebra system, (v) dynamic geometry software.
Instructions
1. Do not open the Contest booklet until you are told to do so.
2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
3. Be sure that you understand the coding system for your response form. If you are not sure,
ask your teacher to clarify it. All coding must be done with a pencil, preferably HB. Fill in
circles completely.
4. On your response form, print your school name and city/town in the box in the upper right
corner.
5. Be certain that you code your name, age, grade, and the Contest you are writing
in the response form. Only those who do so can be counted as eligible students.
6. This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked
A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. After making your choice, fill in the
appropriate circle on the response form.
7. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
8. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
9. When your supervisor tells you to begin, you will have sixty minutes of working time.
10. You may not write more than one of the Pascal, Cayley and Fermat Contests in any given
year.

Do not discuss the problems or solutions from this contest online for the next 48 hours.

The name, grade, school and location, and score range of some top-scoring students will be
published on our website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some top-scoring students may be shared with other mathematical organizations
for other recognition opportunities.
 Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.

Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.

1. What is the remainder when 14 is divided by 5?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

2. Which of the following is equal to 20(x + y) − 19(y + x) for all values of x and y?
(A) 39x + 39y (B) x + y (C) 39x + y (D) x + 39y (E) 19x − 18y

6
3. The value of 8 − is
4−2
7 17
(A) 5 (B) 1 (C) (D) (E) 7
2 2

4. In the diagram, point P is on the number line at 3 and V is at 33. The number line
between 3 and 33 is divided into six equal parts by the points Q, R, S, T, U .

3 33
P Q R S T U V

What is the sum of the lengths of P S and T V ?

(A) 25 (B) 23 (C) 24 (D) 21 (E) 27

5. Mike rides his bicycle at a constant speed of 30 km/h. How many kilometres does
Mike travel in 20 minutes?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 1.5 (D) 15 (E) 10

6. In the diagram, P QRS is a rectangle. Also, 4ST U , 4U V W and 4W XR are

congruent.

P T V X Q

S U W R

What fraction of the area of rectangle P QRS is shaded?

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

7. The town of Cans is north of the town of Ernie. The town of Dundee is south of Cans
but north of Ernie. The town of Arva is south of the town of Blythe and is north of
both Dundee and Cans. The town that is the most north is
(A) Arva (B) Blythe (C) Cans (D) Dundee (E) Ernie
8. The product 8 × 48 × 81 is divisible by 6k . The largest possible integer value of k is
(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4 (E) 3

1 1
9. The average of and is
8 6
1 7 1 1 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 24 5 48 48
10. The digits 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 can be used, each exactly once, to form many five-digit
integers. Of these integers, N is the one that is as close as possible to 30 000. What
is the tens digit of N ?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 3 (D) 8 (E) 7

Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.

11. Line ` is perpendicular to the line with equation y = x − 3. Line ` has the same
x-intercept as the line with equation y = x − 3. The y-intercept of line ` is
1
(A) −3 (B) 3 (C) 3 (D) −1 (E) 0

12. The first part of the Genius Quiz has 30 questions and the second part has 50
questions. Alberto answered exactly 70% of the 30 questions in the first part correctly.
He answered exactly 40% of the 50 questions in the second part correctly. The
percentage of all of the questions on the quiz that Alberto answered correctly is
closest to
(A) 59 (B) 57 (C) 48 (D) 51 (E) 41

13. Tanis looked at her watch and noticed that, at that moment, it was 8x minutes after
7:00 a.m. and 7x minutes before 8:00 a.m. for some value of x. What time was it at
that moment?
(A) 7:08 a.m. (B) 7:40 a.m. (C) 7:32 a.m. (D) 7:36 a.m. (E) 7:31 a.m.

14. The letters A, B, C, D, and E are to be placed in the grid A E

so that each of these letters appears exactly once in each
C A
row and exactly once in each column. Which letter will
E B C
go in the square marked with ∗ ?
∗
(A) A (B) B (C) C B D
(D) D (E) E

15. There are six identical red balls and three identical green balls in a pail. Four of these
balls are selected at random and then these four balls are arranged in a line in some
order. How many different-looking arrangements are possible?
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
16. In the diagram, each line segment has length x or y. Also, each pair of adjacent sides
is perpendicular.

If the area of the figure is 252 and x = 2y, the perimeter of the figure is
(A) 96 (B) 192 (C) 288 (D) 72 (E) 168

17. The five sides of a regular pentagon are all equal in R

length. Also, all interior angles of a regular pentagon
have the same measure. In the diagram, P QRST is a
regular pentagon and 4P U T is equilateral. The measure Q U S
of obtuse ∠QU S is
(A) 172◦ (B) 168◦ (C) 170◦
(D) 176◦ (E) 174◦
P T

18. How many 7-digit positive integers are made up of the digits 0 and 1 only, and are
divisible by 6?
(A) 16 (B) 11 (C) 21 (D) 10 (E) 33

19. The function f has the properties that f (1) = 6 and f (2x + 1) = 3f (x) for every
integer x. What is the value of f (63)?
(A) 4374 (B) 1162 (C) 54 (D) 1458 (E) 486

20. The vertices of an equilateral triangle lie on a circle with radius 2. The area of the
triangle is
√ √ √ √ √
(A) 3 3 (B) 4 3 (C) 6 3 (D) 5 3 (E) 2 3

Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.

21. In the multiplication shown, each of P , Q, R, S, and T

P Q R S T 4
is a digit. The value of P + Q + R + S + T is
× 4
(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 16 4 P Q R S T
(D) 17 (E) 13
22. In the diagram, two circles touch at P . Also, QP and S
SU are perpendicular diameters of the larger circle that
intersect at O. Point V is on QP and V P is a diameter T
of the smaller circle. The smaller circle intersects SU at
T , as shown. If QV = 9 and ST = 5, what is the sum of
Q P
the lengths of the diameters of the two circles? V O
(A) 50 (B) 91 (C) 41
(D) 82 (E) 100
U

23. How many positive integers n with n ≤ 100 can be expressed as the sum of four or
more consecutive positive integers?
(A) 64 (B) 63 (C) 66 (D) 65 (E) 69

24. Consider the quadratic equation x2 − (r + 7)x + r + 87 = 0 where r is a real number.

This equation has two distinct real solutions x which are both negative exactly when
p < r < q, for some real numbers p and q. The value of p2 + q 2 is
(A) 7618 (B) 698 (C) 1738 (D) 7508 (E) 8098

25. In 4QRS, point T is on QS with ∠QRT = ∠SRT . R

Suppose that QT = m and T S = n for some integers
m and n with n > m and for which n + m is a multiple
of n − m. Suppose also that the perimeter of 4QRS is
p and that the number of possible integer values for p is
m2 + 2m − 1. The value of n − m is
(A) 4 (B) 1 (C) 3 m T n
Q S
(D) 2 (E) 5
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