Mustang Math Tournament

HERDING HEXES EXAMPLE RULES

1. This round serves as AN EXAMPLE. It reuses questions from MMT 2021’s

Bingo Round, and the grid layout, number of questions, and scoring rules
may ALL be different on MMT 2023 competition day!
2. The “Hexes” Round will consist of 36 questions to be solved in 60 minutes.
3. The questions will vary in difficulty, but not necessarily in increasing order -
rather the difficult problems will be randomly distributed.
4. The Hexes board is the hexagonal board shown below. The numbers refer to
question numbers

5. In this round, each question in the inner ring is worth 2 points, each
question in the middle ring is worth 3 points, and each question in the outer
ring is worth 4 points. Additionally, each correct answer that is connected
with other correct answers to the center hexagon is worth double points!
6. You are not expected to solve all the questions in this round within the
allotted time. Instead, we encourage you to strategize how you might use
your time to maximize your points!

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 HERDING HEXES EXAMPLE ROUND
1. Find the sum of real numbers and that satisfy the equations and
. Express your answer in decimal form.
2. The trainers are having a potluck to celebrate their victory in a stakes race! Medha
made a cm by cm pan of brownies, and needs to divide them into brownies with
dimensions cm by cm. What is the maximum number of whole brownies she can
have?
3. The price of sugar cubes was originally at dollars at the end of the first day. Each
morning, a merchant increases the price of sugar cubes by multiplicatively, and
each afternoon, he decreases the current price by multiplicatively. This increase
and decrease in prices goes on forever. What is the sum of the prices of sugar cubes at
the end of each day over all the days?
4. The 3D irregular shape formed by a square pyramid with its base as one of the faces of
a cube. All edges equal to . The volume of the entire shape can be expressed as
. Find .
5. A triangle has vertices , , and . Find the area of the triangle.
6. A jar contains black, gold, green, and white horse toys. of the toys are black, are
gold, are green, and are white. Find the fraction of total toys that are green.
7. A function f is defined as . Evaluate .
8. A trainer wants to build a regular sixteen-sided pen. What is the measure of each
interior angle?
9. Find the larger root of the quadratic .
10. Evaluate .
11. Stallions Daniel and Fiona are racing. Daniel can run meters per minute, and
Fiona can run meters per minute. However, every seconds, Daniel needs a
second rest (when he completely stops), while Fiona doesn’t need any breaks. They
begin running at the same time from the starting line on a meter circular track.
After they start racing, how long will it take, in minutes, until the next time the two
stallions are side-by-side again? Express your answer in decimal form.
12. A parabola has equation . The radius of the circle with center at
that has two points of tangency with this parabola has length . Find .
13. Horse trainer Evan wanted to distribute sugar cubes to his stallions evenly without any
remaining. Splitting the sugar cubes into equal piles left cubes leftover. After
dividing the sugar cubes into equal piles, there was still cube left. He finally
succeeded when he divided the sugar cubes into equal piles. What is the minimum
amount of sugar cubes that he has?

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 14. The least common multiple of and is . Find the smallest value of , where
is an integer.
15. A rhombus with side length has one diagonal of length . If the length of the other
diagonal is , find .
16. A frustum of a cone or pyramid is defined as the portion of the object which remains
after its upper part has been cut off by a plane parallel to its base. A frustum of a cone
is formed by folding the net in the diagram such that the straight segments meet
perfectly. The radius of the outer circle is , the inner circle is , and the central
angle is . The frustum of a square pyramid of the same height is then perfectly
inscribed within the cone frustum such that all vertices and the lateral edges of the
pyramid frustum are on the cone. The volume outside of the pyramid frustum but
inside the cone frustum can be expressed as . Find expressed as a common
fraction.

17. The trainers need to put foals in a row for a race. However, the foals Emily and
Seabiscuit need to be together or otherwise both will throw a tantrum. How many
lineups are there such that no tantrums are thrown?
18. In the stable, there is a drawer of red and blue blankets where the ratio of red blankets
to blue blankets is . A horse has figured out how to open the drawer and has
taken a blanket at random. What is the probability the horse has a blue blanket?

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 19. Two foals Abby and Becky are searching for a treat hidden in the Primes horse barn,
which has infinitely many stalls. Foal Abby searches the first stall, and then the two
foals take turns going through each stall until one of them finds the treat. Each stall has
a chance of containing the treat. What is the probability that the foal Becky will find
the treat?
20. Triangle ABC has area . D, E, and F are the midpoints of , , and ,
respectively. G and H are the midpoints of and , respectively. I is the midpoint
of . Find the area of triangle HID in decimal form.
21. Find the sum of the distinct prime factors of .
22. Two colts are trying to meet up to race. Each can arrive at any time between pm,
and will stay for minutes before leaving. What is the probability that these horses
will meet and race that day?
23. How many integers from to (inclusive) are relatively prime to ?
24. Wilson is leaving to go to Krish’s house. Wilson’s clock gains minutes every hour,
and Krish’s clock loses minutes every hour. (i.e Wilson's clock progresses minutes
for every hour of real time and Krish's clock progresses minutes for every hour of
real time). Besides the gain or loss of time, the clocks advance normally at a constant
rate. Both set their clocks to the right time at am, and when Wilson leaves his house
the same day, his clock shows that the time is 9:00 am. When he arrives at Krish’s
house, he notices that on Krish’s clock, the time is 10:30 am. How long did Wilson
travel to get to Krish’s house? Express your answer in hours as a common fraction.
25. A five-term mountain sequence is defined as , where , ,
, and . 5 distinct random numbers are selected from the first 20
positive integers. What is the probability that these numbers form a mountain
sequence in the order that they were selected?
26. There are rings to be distributed among Abbie, Betty, Charlie and Daniel. Abbie
insists on receiving more rings than any other siblings. Betty and Charlie are twins,
and want to receive the same amount of rings. Find the number of ways the rings can
be distributed amongst the siblings Abbie, Betty, Charlie, and Daniel if siblings can
receive candies.
27. A sequence is constructed by interweaving two geometric sequences, and , like
this: . When the number of terms in the
sequence is , the sum of the sequence is divisible by . Find the total number of
terms the next time the sum of the sequence is divisible by
28. Find the perimeter of an equilateral triangle with side length .

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 29. In a math camp, there are algebra and geometry classes. Everyone in the camp is
taking at least one class. of the total people chose the algebra class, and of the
total people chose the geometry class. If people chose both classes, find the number
of people who only chose algebra.
30. Stallions Charlie and Charlotte are fighting over a circular-cone shaped carrot with
base radius and height . As a trainer, Arpit must make a circular cut parallel to the
base such that both stallions get an equal share. If the radius of the cut is , find .
31. In Horse Paradise, saddles can be traded for horseshoes. horseshoes can be
traded for reins and bales of hay can be obtained for reins. How many bales of
hay can I get from saddles?
32. Consider the toy below constructed by placing two regular pyramids above and below
a cube. A trainer paints each face of the toy with one of the colors black, gold, green,
and white such that the faces completely opposite (parallel) to each other are painted
the same color. What is the number of unique ways she can paint it such that no two
adjacent faces (ones that share an edge) share the same color? Note that two ways are
not considered unique if they can be rotated to look like another.

33. How many ways can foals split into pairs (unordered) for the relay race?
34. A fraction can expressed as . Find in decimal form.
35. Grace is saving change from different shopping trips. She has pennies, nickels, dimes,
and quarters in her piggy bank. She has a total of coins, and her coins are worth
dollars. Grace notices that the number of dimes she has is one more than twice
the number of quarters and the number of pennies is also one more than twice the
number of nickels. How many pennies does she have?
36. The reciprocal of every prime greater than or equal to results can be expressed as a
repeating decimal in the form . We can define the n-digit number to be
, which is the part that repeats. Find the greatest common divisor of all
such repeating parts for all primes greater than or equal to 7.

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