Set 1

Team name:
1. (5 points) A string has been cut into 4 pieces, all of different lengths. The length
of each piece is 2 times the length of the next smaller piece. What fraction of the
original string is the longest piece?
2. (5 points) Suppose a and b are positive integers such that ab = 22023 . Compute the
smallest possible value of ba .
3. (5 points) A multiple choice test has 10 questions on it. Each question answered
correctly is worth 5 points, each unanswered question is worth 1 point, and each
question answered incorrectly is worth 0 points. How many of the integers between
30 and 50, inclusive, are not possible total scores?
4. (5 points) A knight begins on the lower-left square of a standard chessboard. How
many squares could the knight end up at after exactly 2009 legal knight’s moves? (A
knight’s move is 2 squares either horizontally or vertically, followed by 1 square in a
direction perpendicular to the first.)

Set 2
Team name:
1. (6 points) Each of two boxes contains three chips numbered 1, 2, 3. A chip is drawn
randomly from each box and the numbers on the two chips are multiplied. What is
the probability that their product is even?
2. (6 points) William is popping 2022 balloons to celebrate the new year. For each
popping round he has two attacks that have the following effects:
a) halve the number of balloons (William can not halve an odd number of balloons)
b) pop 1 balloon
How many popping rounds will it take for him to finish off all the balloons in the
least amount of moves?
3. (6 points) Theo and Wendy are commuting to school from their houses. Theo travels
at x miles per hour, while Wendy travels at x + 5 miles per hour. The school is
4 miles from Theo’s house and 10 miles from Wendy’s house. If Wendy’s commute
takes double the amount of time that Theo’s commute takes, how many minutes does
it take Wendy to get to school?
4. (6 points) Compute the sum of all possible real values of x which satisfies the equation
4x − 2021 × 2x + 1024 = 0.

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Set 3
Team name:

1. (7 points) A small village has n people. During their yearly elections, groups of three
people come up to a stage and vote for someone in the village to be the new leader.
After every possible group of three people has voted for someone, the person with
the most votes wins. This year, it turned out that everyone in the village had the
exact same number of votes! If 10 ≤ n ≤ 100, what is the number of possible values
of n?

2. (7 points) Ditty can bench 80 pounds today. Every week, the amount he benches
increases by the largest prime factor of the weight he benched in the previous week.
For example, since he started benching 80 pounds, next week he would bench 85
pounds. What is the minimum number of weeks from today it takes for Ditty to
bench at least 2021 pounds?

3. (7 points) All the roots of the polynomial z 6 − 10z 5 + Az 4 + Bz 3 + Cz 2 + Dz + 16

are positive integers, possibly repeated. What is the value of B?

4. (7 points) Compute the sum of all prime numbers p with p ≥ 5 such that p divides
(p + 3)p−3 + (p + 5)p−5 .

Set 4
Team name:

1. (8 points) A random 3 digit integer is chosen. What is the probability it has an even
tens digit and is divisible by 9?

2. (8 points) A 2 × 3 grid has each entry as one of 0, 1, and 2. For how many such grids
is the sum of the numbers in every row and in every column a multiple of 3? Grids
obtainable through rotations and reflections of another grid are considered distinct.

3. (8 points) Let A, B, C, D be four points on a circle in that order. Also, AB =

3, BC = 5, CD = 6, and DA = 4. Let diagonals AC and BD intersect at P .
Compute AP/CP .

4. (8 points) Evaluate

log3 7 · log5 9 · log7 11 · log9 13 · · · log21 25 · log23 27

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Set 5
Team name:

1. (9 points) In triangle ABC, AB = 86 and AC = 97. A circle centered at A passing

through B intersects BC at B and D. If BD and CD are integers, find BC.

2. (9 points) Find the maximum value of the function f (x) = 3 sin x + 4 cos x.

3. (9 points) Let P (x) = x3 + x2 − r2 x − 2020 be a polynomial with r as a root. What

is P (1)?

4. (9 points) Find the integer k such that the decimal (in base k) 0.23k = 0.232323...k
7
is equivalent to 51 (in base 10).

Set 6
Team name:

1. (10 points) A standard deck of 54 playing cards (with four cards of each of thirteen
ranks, as well as two Jokers) is shuffled randomly. Cards are drawn one at a time
until the first queen is reached. What is the probability that the next card is also a
queen?
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2. (10 points) William draws a triangle △ABC with AB = 3, BC = 1, and AC = 2
on a piece of paper and cuts out △ABC. Let the angle bisector of ∠ABC meet AC
at point D. He folds △ABD over BD. Denote the new location of point A as A′ .
After William folds △A′ CD over CD, what area of the resulting figure is covered by
three layers of paper?

3. (10 points) Suppose we have a polynomial p(x) = x2 + ax + b with real coefficients

a + b = 1000 and b > 0. Find the smallest possible value of b such that p(x) has two
integer roots.
n2 + 7n + 136
4. (10 points) Find the sum of all positive integers n > 1 for which is
n−1
the square of a positive integer.

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Set 7
Team name:

1. (12 points) Six standard fair six-sided dice are rolled and arranged in a row at random.
Compute the expected number of dice showing the same number as the sixth die in
the row.

2. (12 points) Suppose that point D lies on side BC of triangle ABC such that AD
bisects ∠BAC, and let l denote the line through A perpendicular to AD. If the
distances from B and C to l are 5 and 6, respectively, compute AD.

3. (12 points) Find the smallest positive integer n for which

1!2! · · · (n − 1)! > n!2 .

4. (12 points) A positive integer is called primer if it has a prime number of distinct
prime factors. A positive integer is called primest if it has a primer number of distinct
primer factors. Find the smallest primest number.

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Set 8
Team name:
1. (14 points) In a game, N people are in a room. Each of them simultaneously writes
down an integer between 0 and 100 inclusive. A person wins the game if their number
is exactly two-thirds of the average of all the numbers written down. There can be
multiple winners or no winners in this game. Let m be the maximum possible number
such that it is possible to win the game by writing down m. Find the smallest possible
value of N for which it is possible to win the game by writing down m in a room of
N people.
2. (14 points) A bug is on a corner of a cube. A healthy path for the bug is a path
along the edges of the cube that starts and ends where the bug is located, uses no
edge multiple times, and uses at most two of the edges adjacent to any particular
face. Find the number of healthy paths.
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3. (14 points) Tetrahedron ABCD has side lengths AB = 6, BD = 6 2, BC = 10,
AC = 8, CD√ = 10, and AD = 6. The distance from vertex A to face BCD can be
written as a c b , where a, b, c are positive integers, b is square-free, and gcd(a, c) = 1.
Find 100a + 10b + c.
4. (14 points) A counter begins at 0. Then, every second, the counter either increases by
1 or resets back to 0 with equal probability. The expected value of the counter after
ten seconds can be written as mn , where m, n are positive integers and gcd(m, n) = 1.
Find 100m + n.

Set 9
Team name:
1. (17 points) A1 A2 . . . A12 is a regular duodecagon with side length 1 and center at
point O. What is the area of the region covered by circles (A1 A2 O), (A3 A4 O),
(A5 A6 O), (A7 A8 O), (A9 A10 O), and (A11 A12 O)? (ABC) denotes the circle passing
through points A, B, and C.
2. (17 points) Compute the number of ways to select 99 cells of a 19 × 19 square grid
such that no two selected cells share an edge or vertex.
3. (17 points) Determine the number of integers 2 ≤ n ≤ 2016 such that nn − 1 is
divisible by 2, 3, 5, 7.
4. (17 points) Compute
10000 10000 10000 10000 10000
⌊ ⌋+⌊ ⌋ + ... + ⌊ ⌋−⌊ ⌋ − ... − ⌊ ⌋.
1 2 100 101 10000

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Set 10
Team name:
For each question, your score is calculated as
   α 
A B
10 × min ,
B A

Where A is the answer, B is your guess, and α is a constant which varies depending on the
problem. Don’t worry too much about the formula, basically you get more points as your
guess gets more accurate.

1. (α = 2.0) How many hours does Daniel have on the game Trackmania 2020? For
reference, he’s in about the top 0.1% of players.

2. (α = 3.0) What is the sum of each execs’ highest ever score on the AMC 12?

3. (α = 5.0) How many mutual discord friends do Daniel and Charles have?

4. (α = 7.0) How many times has Shanna changed her discord profile picture in the
past year?

5. (α = 6.0) What is the sum of the Adventure Ranks of all of the execs in Genshin
Impact?

6. (α = 2.0) What is the sum of the number of minutes that the execs have listened to
Spotify for this year? (As shown on their Spotify wrapped)

7. (α = 7.0) What is the total number of documents in the OTHS math club google
drive folder?

8. (α = 5.0) How many times has Bob used the word ”fish” in his Discord DMs with
any other executive?

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1 Answers
Set 1:
8
1. (Cayley 2012)
15
2. 1 (HMMT 2023 Feb)

3. 6 (Cayley 2020)

4. 32 (HMMT 2009 Nov)

Set 2:
5
1. 9 (AMC 8 2015)

2. 18 (SMT 2022)

3. 24 (BMT 2022)

4. 10 (BMT 2021)

Set 3:

1. 61 (HMMT 2020 Feb)

2. 56 (BMT 2021)

3. -88 (AMC 10 2021)

4. 322 (BMT 2021)

Set 4:
1
1. 18 (Original)

2. 9 (HMMT 2018 Feb)

3. 2/5 (HMMT 2017 Feb)

4. 6 (AMC12B 2018)

Set 5:

1. 61 (Original)

2. 5 (Original)

3. -4038 (HMMT 2020 Feb)

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 4. 16 (AMC10 2019)

Set 6:
2
1. (HMMT 2017 Nov)
27
√
2 3−3
2. (SMT 2023)
4
3. 852 (SMT 2023)

4. 42 (HMMT 2006 Feb)

Set 7:
11
1. 6 (HMMT 2023 Nov)
60
2. 11 (HMMT 2023 Nov)

3. 8 (HMMT 2018 Nov)

4. 72 (HMMT 2018 Nov)

Set 8:

1. 34 (HMMT 2018 Feb)

2. 6 (HMMT 2018 Feb)

3. 2851 (HMMT 2022 Nov)

4. 103324 (HMMT 2022 Nov)

Set 9:
√
1. 2π + 3 3 (SMT 2023)

2. 1000 (HMMT 2023 Feb)

3. 9 (HMMT 2016 Feb)

4. 10000 (OMMC 2023)

Set 10:

1. 641

2. 471

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3. 65

4. 17

5. 201

6. 38, 810

7. 21

8. 73