mathdragon2000’s 2017 MOCK

MATHCOUNTS: Team Round

Writers: mathdragon2000, potato36, Ultroid999OCPN, Kagebaka, math9990

August 12, 2017

Solvers: jeffisepic, IsabeltheCat, divijleisha

Instructions
DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

1. This section of the competition consists of 10 problems which the team

has 20 minutes to complete.

2. Team members may work together in any way to solve the problems.
Team members may talk to each other during this section of the com-
petition.

3. This round assumes the use of calculators, and calculations also may
be done on scratch paper, but no other aids are allowed.

4. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest terms.

5. Record only the team’s final answers in the Google Form.

6. If the team completes the problems before time is called, use the re-
maining time to check your answers.

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Mock MATHCOUNTS Team Round 2

1. Edward and Frank are playing a coin game. The coin is biased, so it
comes up tails 23 of the time. For Edward to win, he has to get the
sequence HT (H denoting heads and T denoting tails). For Frank to
win, he has to get the sequence HH. They flip the coin until either of
the sequences appear. What is the probability that Frank wins?
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2. Compute the sum of the digits of 13 + 23 + 33 + . . . + 20173 .
3. A deck of numbered cards has one 1, two 2s, three 3s, . . ., 100 100s.
Compute the arithmetic mean of all the numbers on the cards.
4. For n a positive integer, given that 16n has 20 divisors, with n as small
as possible, how many divisors does 16n2 have?
5. In rectangle ABCD, where AB = 2 and BC = 1, point E is on CD
such that CE = DE. Also, point F is on DA such that AF = DF .
Furthermore, AE and BF partition ABCD into four disjoint areas.
The ratio of the areas can be expressed in the form a : b : c : d, with
a < b < c < d integers and gcd(a, b, c, d) = 1. Find a + b + c + d.
6. A square ABCD is attached to equilateral triangle ABE, which is then
connected to another square BEF G, which is connected to another
equilateral triangle F GH, and the process is repeated, slowly forming
a large polygon with n sides and a hole in the middle. Find n.
7. Compute the remainder when 2017 is divided by 2017.
8. How many trailing zeros does 17!16!15! · · · 3!2!1! have?
9. A sequence starts with the first F1 positive integers, then skips the next
F2 , then includes the next F3 , and so forth. What is the 2017th integer
in this sequence? (Note: Fn is the nth Fibonacci number.)
10. Consider the scalene triangle ∆ABC with side lengths 2, 3, 4. Let
AB = 2, BC = 3, AC = 4, with ∠B being the obtuse angle. Draw the
perpendicular to AB from B, and extend it to meet AC at D. Then
draw the perpendicular to BD from D, and extend it to meet BC at
E. Continue this process infinitely, forming an infinite number of right
triangles. Call the largest triangle T1 , the second-largest triangle T2 ,
and so forth. What is the sum of√the areas
of the Tn for 1 ≤ n ≤ 2017?
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(The answer will be of the form a c b ·(1− de ). Input a+b+c+d+e+f .)