Western Australian Junior Mathematics Olympiad October 27, 2001 Individual Questions
Western Australian Junior Mathematics Olympiad October 27, 2001 Individual Questions
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8. A shop sells hamburgers which contain some of the following: meat burger,
vegetable burger, lettuce, tomato, carrot, mayonnaise and tomato sauce.
(a) You must have a meat burger or a vegetable burger, but cant have both.
(b)You can also have any number of the other ingredients, even none, but:
(c) If you have a meat burger you can also have tomato sauce, but not if you
have a vegetable burger.
(d)If you have lettuce or tomato or both you can have mayonnaise, but not
otherwise.
How many di_erent hamburgers can be constructed according to these
rules?
(3 marks)
9. Let ABCD be a trapezium with AB parallel to CD, AB = 2CD and the diagonal
BD = 72 cm. If N is the midpoint of AB and M and P are the intersection
points of BD with NC and AC, respectively, fnd MP.
(3 marks)
10. Two buses start travelling at the same time - bus 1 from city A to city B,
and bus 2 from city B to city A using the same road. Both buses travel with
constant speeds. For the frst time they meet 7km from A. After both buses
reach their destinations (cities B and A respectively, possibly at diferent
times), they immediately start travelling back along the same road and with
the same speeds. They meet again 4 km from B. Find the distance between
the cities A and B. Explain how you obtained your answer. (4 marks)
Team Questions
1. Find six consecutive positive integers whose sum is 513.
2. Find a set of at least two consecutive positive integers whose sum is 30.
3. There are three possible solutions to question 2. Can you fnd them all?
4. Find a set of at least two consecutive positive integers whose sum is 56.
5. Show how any odd integer can be written as the sum of at least 2
consecutive integers.
6. Some positive integers cant be written in this way. What are they?
7. Can you prove your answer to question 6?