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Olympiad Mark
Higher Secondary 3 rd
March 2023
Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
/50
Instructions to candidates
• This question consists of 10 questions. You must attempt ALL questions.
• The maximum mark for the whole question is 50
• The use of a scientific calculator IS NOT permitted.
• At the start of the examination, you should have:
• this question book
• rough paper
• Read the task information carefully before you begin to write.
• Write your answers at the end of this question book.
• If additional space is needed to find your answer, additional paper is available alongside this question
book. Clearly write the number of the question/s that you are answering on this rough paper.
• All work should be written in blue or black ink. Do not write working in pencil.
• Any work that you do not wish to be marked should be crossed out with a single line.
• If you have any questions at any time during the examination, you must raise your hand and wait for
an invigilator. DO NOT attempt to communicate, by any means, with any other candidate at any
time before or during the examination.
• At the end of the examination, DO NOT speak or leave your seat until you have handed this question
book to an invigilator and you have been told by an invigilator that you may leave the room.
Higher Secondary
1. Find the maximum integer n such that n! × 2023! is a factorial of an integer. [5 marks]
2. Let (a, b) be a pair of real numbers such that the following integral achieves maximum value.
Z a
420cos x (420 − x − x2 )dx
b
Find the maximum value of |a − b|. [5 marks]
3. In the trapezoid ABCD with an inscribed circle, we have AD ∥ BC, and we know that
angle B and angle C are both acute. Given AB = 7, CD = 8. Find the area of trapezoid
ABCD.
[5 marks]
4. Given 19θ = 180◦ . Evaluate the following:
(tan θ + tan 2θ)(tan 2θ + tan 3θ) . . . (tan 18θ + tan 19θ)
[5 marks]
5. Galib the Grasshopper sits on a long line of lily pads in a pond. From any lily pad, Galib
can either jump 5 pads to the right or 3 pads to the left. What is the fewest number of
jumps Galib must make to reach the lily pad located 2023 pads to the right of his starting
point? [5 marks]
6. Let P (x) be a quadratic polynomial such that |P (x)| ≤ 1 for all x ∈ {−1, 0, 1}. If 4|P (x)| ≤ a
for all x ∈ [−1, 1] where a is an integer. Find the least possible value of a. [5 marks]
7. Let ABCD be a quadrilateral with AC = 20, AD = 16. We take point P on segment CD
so that triangles ABP and ACD are congruent. If the area of triangle AP D is 28, the area
of BCP is m/n where m, n are coprime integers. Find m + n. [5 marks]
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Higher Secondary
8. Let ABC be an acute triangle. I is the incenter of ∆ABC . AI meets the circumcircle
of ∆ABC at the point D. Let E, F be on BD and CD respectively such that IE, IF are
perpendicular to BD, CD respectively. If IE + IF = AD
2
, find the value of ̸ BAC.
[5 marks]
9. Let a, b, c be real numbers such that a + b + c = 2. Given that,
1
(ax+1 + bx+1 + cx+1 ) x
lim =4
x→0 a+b+c
Find the value of abc. [5 marks]
10. Several cells are marked in a 100 × 100 table. Mehrab wants to split the square into several
rectangles such that each rectangle does not contain more than two marked cells and there
are at most k rectangles containing less than two cells. What is the smallest k such that
Mehrab will certainly be able to do this? [5 marks]
END OF EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
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