BmMT 2023 Team Round April 15, 2023
Time limit: 60 minutes.
Instructions: For this test, you work in teams of five to solve 20 short answer questions. All
answers must be expressed in simplest form unless specified otherwise. Submit a single answer
sheet for grading. Only answers written inside the boxes on the answer sheet will be considered for
grading.
No calculators.
1. There exist real numbers B, M , and T such that B + M + T = 23 and B − M − T = 20.
Compute M + T .
2. Kaity has a rectangular garden that measures 10 yards by 12 yards. Austin’s triangular garden
has side lengths 6 yards, 8 yards, and 10 yards. Compute the ratio of the area of Kaity’s garden
to the area of Austin’s garden.
3. Nikhil’s mom and brother both have ages under 100 years that are perfect squares. His mom is
33 years older than his brother. Compute the sum of their ages.
4. Madison wants to arrange 3 identical blue books and 2 identical pink books on a shelf so that
each book is next to at least one book of the other color. In how many ways can Madison
arrange the books?
5. Two friends, Anna and Bruno, are biking together at the same initial speed from school to the
mall, which is 6 miles away. Suddenly, 1 mile in, Anna realizes that she forgot her calculator
at school. If she bikes 4 miles per hour faster than her initial speed, she could head back to
school and still reach the mall at the same time as Bruno, assuming Bruno continues biking
towards the mall at their initial speed. In miles per hour, what is Anna and Bruno’s initial
speed, before Anna has changed her speed? (Assume that the rate at which Anna and Bruno
bike is constant.)
6. Let a number be “almost-perfect” if the sum of its digits is 28. Compute the sum of the third
smallest and third largest almost-perfect 4-digit positive integers.
7. Regular hexagon ABCDEF is contained in rectangle P QRS such that line AB lies on line P Q,
point C lies on line QR, line DE lies on line RS, and point F lies on line SP . Given that
P Q = 4, compute the perimeter of AQCDSF .
P A B Q
F C
S E D R
8. Compute the number of ordered pairs (m, n), where m and n are relatively prime positive
integers and mn = 2520. (Note that positive integers x and y are relatively prime if they share
no common divisors other than 1. For example, this means that 1 is relatively prime to every
positive integer.)
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9. A geometric sequence with more than two terms has first term x, last term 2023, and common
ratio y, where x and y are both positive integers greater than 1. An arithmetic sequence with
a finite number of terms has first term x and common difference y. Also, of all arithmetic
sequences with first term x, common difference y, and no terms exceeding 2023, this sequence
is the longest. What is the last term of the arithmetic sequence?
10. Andrew is playing a game where he must choose three slips, uniformly at random and without
replacement, from a jar that has nine slips labeled 1 through 9. He wins if the sum of the three
chosen numbers is divisible by 3 and one of the numbers is 1. What is the probability Andrew
wins?
11. Circle O is inscribed in square ABCD. Let E be the point where O meets line segment AB.
Line segments EC and ED intersect O at points P and Q, respectively. Compute the ratio of
the area of triangle △EP Q to the area of triangle △ECD.
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12. Define a recursive sequence by a1 = 2 and a2 = 1, and
1 + an−1
an =
an−2
for n ≥ 3. The product
a1 a2 a3 . . . a2023
can be expressed in the form ab · cd · ef , where a, b, c, d, e, and f are positive (not necessarily
distinct) integers, and a, c, and e are prime. Compute a + b + c + d + e + f .
13. An increasing sequence of 3-digit positive integers satisfies the following properties:
• Each number is a multiple of 2, 3, or 5.
• Adjacent numbers differ by only one digit and are relatively prime. (Note that positive
integers x and y are relatively prime if they share no common divisors other than 1.)
What is the maximum possible length of the sequence?
14. Circles OA and OB with centers A and B, respectively, have radii 3 and 8, respectively, and
are internally tangent to each other at point P . Point C is on circle OA such that line BC is
tangent to circle OA . Extend line P C to intersect circle OB at point D ̸= P . Compute CD.
√
15. Compute the product of all real solutions x to the equation x2 + 20x − 23 = 2 x2 + 20x + 1.
16. Compute the number of divisors of 729, 000, 000 that are perfect powers. (A perfect power is an
integer that can be written in the form ab , where a and b are positive integers and b > 1.)
17. The arithmetic mean of two positive integers x and y, each less than 100, is 4 more than their
geometric mean. Given x > y, compute the sum of all possible values for x + y. (Note that the
√
geometric mean of x and y is defined to be xy.)
18. Ankit and Richard are playing a game. Ankit repeatedly writes the digits 2, 0, 2, 3, in that
order, from left to right on a board until Richard tells him to stop. Richard wins if the resulting
number, interpreted as a base-10 integer, is divisible by as many positive integers less than or
equal to 12 as possible. For example, if Richard stops Ankit after 7 digits have been written,
the number would be 2023202, which is divisible by 1 and 2. Richard wants to win the game as
early as possible. Assuming Ankit must write at least one digit, after how many digits should
Richard stop Ankit?
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19. Eight chairs are set around a circular table. Among these chairs, two are red, two are blue, two
are green, and two are yellow. Chairs that are the same color are identical. If rotations and
reflections of arrangements of chairs are considered distinct, how many arrangements of chairs
satisfy the property that each pair of adjacent chairs are different colors?
20. Four congruent spheres are placed inside a right-circular cone such that they are all tangent to
the base and the lateral face of the cone, and each sphere is tangent
√ to exactly two other spheres.
If the radius of the cone is 1 and the height of the cone is 2 2, what is the radius of one of the
spheres?