2010 Math Hour Olympiad - University of Washington - Grades 8-9
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March 4, 2022
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Problem Statement
Round 1
p1. In the convex quadrilateral with diagonals and , you know that angle is congruent to angle , and that angle is congruent to angle . Show that angle is congruent to angle .
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p2. In how many different ways can you place chips in the squares of a chessboard so that
(a) there is at most one chip in each square, and
(b) every row and every column contains exactly three chips.
p3. Students from Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were split into pairs consisting of one student from each house. The pairs of students were sent to Honeydukes to get candy for Father's Day. For each pair of students, either the Hufflepuff student brought back twice as many pieces of candy as the Ravenclaw student or the Ravenclaw student brought back twice as many pieces of candy as the Hufflepuff student. When they returned, Professor Trelawney determined that the students had brought back a total of pieces of candy. Could she have possibly been right? Why or why not? Assume that candy only comes in whole pieces (cannot be divided into parts).
p4. While you are on a hike across Deception Pass, you encounter an evil troll, who will not let you across the bridge until you solve the following puzzle. There are six stones, two colored red, two colored yellow, and two colored green. Aside from their colors, all six stones look and feel exactly the same. Unfortunately, in each colored pair, one stone is slightly heavier than the other. Each of the lighter stones has the same weight, and each of the heavier stones has the same weight. Using a balance scale to make TWO measurements, decide which stone of each color is the lighter one.
p5. Alex, Bob and Chad are playing a table tennis tournament. During each game, two boys are playing each other and one is resting. In the next game the boy who lost a game goes to rest, and the boy who was resting plays the winner. By the end of tournament, Alex played a total of games, Bob played games, and Chad played games. Who lost the second game?
Round 2
p6. Consider a set of finitely many points on the plane such that if we choose any three points from the set, then the area of the triangle is less than . Show that all of these points can be covered by a triangle whose area is less than .
p7. A palindrome is a number that is the same when read forward and backward. For example, and are palindromes. Can the number obtained by writing the numbers from to in order be a palindrome for some ? (For example, if , the number obtained is , which is not a palindrome.)
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