SASMO 2014 Round 1 Secondary 2 Problems

1. The first day of 2014 was a Wednesday. There are 365 days in 2014. In what day of
the week will 2015 begin?
2. What is the maximum number of parts that can be obtained from cutting a circular
cake using 3 straight cuts?
3. Evaluate 2014  2014  2013  2015.

4. Solve = 3.

5. Find the exact value of 1  0.99999…

6. Mersenne primes are prime numbers of the form Mp = 2p  1, where p is a prime. For
example, 3 = 22  1 is a Mersenne prime. Find the 4th largest Mersenne prime.
7. Simplify (x  a) (x  b) (x  c) … (x  z).
8. How many squares are there in a 5  5 square grid?

9. If x and y are positive integers, find the values of x and y which satisfy the equation

x2  4y2 = 41.
10. Find the dimensions of all the rectangles with integral sides whose area and perimeter
are numerically equal.
11. A whole number is between 40 and 70. When it is divided by 3, the remainder is 1.
When it is divided by 7, the remainder is 2. Find the number.
2
12. Find the value of .
 2 
2  12 
  
 2  12 2
2



13. Find the value of .

14. Find the sum of the terms in the nth pair of brackets:
(1, 2, 3, 4), (5, 6, 7, 8), (9, 10, 11, 12), …

15. In the diagram, PQ and RS are parallel, PA = PB and RA = RC. Find BAC.
P
A
R
B

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16. There are 367 students in the school hall. What is the probability that two of the
students have their birthday falling on the same day of the year?

1 1
17. Let x be a number such that x   5 . Find the value of x 3  3 .
x x

18. Divide the following shape into 4 identical parts.

19. Find all the solutions to the trigonometric equation sin2 x  cos2 x = 1 for 0  x  360.

20. The diagram shows a square AEFG with an inscribed circle. ABCD is a rectangle such
that AB = 2 cm and AD = 4 cm. Find the radius of the circle.
A B E

D C

G F

21. In the following cryptarithm, all the letters stand for different digits. Find the final
four-digit product.

H E
 E H
* 8
+ * *
* * * *

22. A farmer wants to plant 10 trees in 5 rows such that there are exactly 4 trees in each
row. Draw a diagram to show how the trees should be planted.
23. Find the last three digits of 2525.
24. Find the remainder when 32014 is divided by 5.

25. Find the largest number of composite numbers less than 2014 that are relatively prime
to one another, i.e. the highest common factor of any two of them is 1.

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