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Canadian Intermediate
Mathematics Contest
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
(in North America and South America)
Thursday, November 14, 2024
(outside of North America and South America)

Time: 2 hours c 2024 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.
Do not open this booklet until instructed to do so.
There are two parts to this paper. The questions in each part are arranged roughly in order of
increasing difficulty. The early problems in Part B are likely easier than the later problems in
Part A.
PART A
1. This part consists of six questions, each worth 5 marks.
2. Enter the answer in the appropriate box in the answer booklet.
For these questions, full marks will be given for a correct answer which is placed in the box.
Part marks will be awarded only if relevant work is shown in the space provided in the
answer booklet.
PART B
1. This part consists of three questions, each worth 10 marks.
2. Finished solutions must be written in the appropriate location in the answer
booklet. Rough work should be done separately. If you require extra pages for your
finished solutions, they will be supplied by your supervising teacher. Insert these pages into
your answer booklet. Write your name, school name, and question number on any inserted
pages.
3. Marks are awarded for completeness, clarity, and style of presentation. A correct solution,
poorly presented, will not earn full marks.
At the completion of the contest, insert your student information form inside your
answer booklet.

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 the website, cemc.uwaterloo.ca. In addition, the name, grade, school and location,
and score of some students may be shared with other mathematical organizations for other
recognition opportunities.
 Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest
NOTE:
1. Please read the instructions on the front cover of this booklet.
2. Write solutions in the answer booklet provided.
3. Express answers as simplified√exact numbers except where otherwise indicated.
For example, π + 1 and 1 − 2 are simplified exact numbers.
4. While calculators may be used for numerical calculations, other mathematical
steps must be shown and justified in your written solutions and specific marks
may be allocated for these steps. For example, while your calculator might be
able to find the x-intercepts of the graph of an equation like y = x3 − x, you
should show the algebraic steps that you used to find these numbers, rather than
simply writing these numbers down.
5. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
6. No student may write both the Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest and the
Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest in the same year.

PART A
For each question in Part A, full marks will be given for a correct answer which is placed in
the box. Part marks will be awarded only if relevant work is shown in the space provided
in the answer booklet.

1. A container in the shape of a cube has dimensions 4 cm by 4 cm by 4 cm. The

container is sitting on a horizontal table on one of its faces and is filled with water
to a depth of 2 cm. In cm3 , what is the volume of the water in the container?

2. A group of students were asked to choose their favourite of the three colours red,
green and blue. Unfortunately, some of the results of the survey were lost. All of
the remaining data are expressed in both the pie graph and the bar graph shown
below. What is the total number of students that were surveyed?

Frequency Number of Students

Red
Blue
45%
Green
35% 8

Blue Red Green Blue

3. In the diagram, ABDE is a square and 4BCD is equilateral. What is the measure
of ∠ECB?

B D

A E

a b
4. The positive integers a and b satisfy 2a < b. The sum + is greater than 27 and
4 2
less than 28. What is the greatest possible value of a?

5. Lakshmi creates a table with 95 rows and 7 columns. She places a positive integer
in each of the 95 × 7 = 665 cells according to the following rules.

• Every integer in the first (leftmost) column is 5.

• The cells in the second column contain the consecutive integers from 5 through
99 in order with 5 at the top and 99 at the bottom.
• Every integer in the remaining columns is equal to the sum of the integers in
the two cells directly to its left in the same row.

The first three rows of the table are shown below.

5 5 10 15 25 40 65
5 6 11 17 28 45 73
5 7 12 19 31 50 81
.. .. .. .. .. .. ..
. . . . . . .

How many different two-digit integers are in exactly 5 of the cells in the table?

6. Eight points are equally spaced around the circumference of a circle and pairs of
points are connected by 4 diameters, as shown. The eight points are to be labelled
randomly using the integers from 1 through 8, each exactly once. What is the
probability that at least one of the four diameters has a multiple of 3 at one of its
ends and a multiple of 2 at its other end?
 PART B
For each question in Part B, your solution must be well-organized and contain words of
explanation or justification. Marks are awarded for completeness, clarity, and style of
presentation. A correct solution, poorly presented, will not earn full marks.
Useful Fact for Part B :
k(k + 1)(2k + 1)
The sum of the first k perfect squares is equal to .
6
k(k + 1)(2k + 1)
That is, 12 + 22 + 32 + · · · + k 2 = .
6

1. (a) In the diagram, A(2, 3) and C(6, 7) are two of y

the vertices of 4ABC. If AB is horizontal and
BC is vertical, determine the area of right-angled C(6, 7)
4ABC.

A(2, 3) B
x

(b) In the diagram, 4XY Z has vertices X(5, 10), Y (3, 4) and Z(a, 4), for some real
number a > 3, which means that side Y Z is horizontal. If the area of 4XY Z
is 24, determine the value of a.
y

X(5, 10)

Y (3, 4) Z(a, 4)
x

(c) Quadrilateral P QRS has vertices P (28, 4), Q(c, c), R(25, c + 2), and S(2c, c).
The diagonal QS is horizontal and divides P QRS into two triangles, as shown.
There is one positive integer c with the property that the area of P QRS is 180.
Determine this value of c.
y

R(25, c + 2)

Q(c, c) S(2c, c)

P (28, 4)
x
2. (a) Beryl ran 30 km. She ran the first 20 km at 12 km/h and the last 10 km at
10 km/h. Determine the total amount of time, in hours, that it took for Beryl
to run 30 km.
(b) Carol walked 10 km in 2 hours and 18 minutes. For the first x km, she walked
at 6 km/h. For the remaining (10 − x) km, she walked at 4 km/h. Determine
the value of x.
(c) Daryl rode his bicycle for a total of 3 hours. He rode a km at 24 km/h followed
by b km at 16 km/h. Determine the number of pairs (a, b) of positive integers
for which this is possible.
(d) Errol competed in an endurance competition that took 5 hours. He ran r km at
12 km/h, then he jogged j km at 8 km/h, and finally walked w km at 4 km/h.
Determine the number of triples (r, j, w) of positive integers for which this is
possible.

3. Given an increasing list of consecutive integers, the 3-sign sum of the list is the sum
of the integers in the list, in order, except that every third integer is subtracted
instead of added. For example, the 3-sign sum of the list 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 is
3 + 4 − 5 + 6 + 7 − 8 + 9 = 16.

(a) Determine the 3-sign sum of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

For a positive integer n, a slice of the list 1, 2, 3, . . . , n − 1, n is an increasing list

of at least 1 and at most n consecutive integers, each of which is between 1 and n
inclusive. For example, 1, 2 and 2, 3, 4 are both slices of the list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. As
another example, the list 1, 2, 3 has a total of six slices. They are given in the left
column of the table below with their 3-sign sums in the right column.

Slice 3-sign sum

1, 2, 3 1+2−3=0
1, 2 1+2=3
2, 3 2+3=5
1 1
2 2
3 3

For a positive integer n, the Ghimire number of n, denoted Gn , is the sum of the
3-sign sums of all slices of 1, 2, 3, . . . , n − 1, n. For example, using the information
from the table above, G3 = 0 + 3 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 14.
G3n − 2G3n−1 + G3n−2
(b) For each integer n ≥ 1, show that is a perfect square.
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(c) Determine the remainder when G2025 − G2024 is divided by 27.
 2024
Canadian
Intermediate
Mathematics
Contest
(English)