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1Metka is standing \(60\) m east and \(80\) m south of the spot where Tine is standing. Both are the same distance from a linden tree in the town park, and the tree stands due east of Tine's spot. At the …Open2The value of the expression \(10^{2016} - 10^{15}\) is a natural number. What is the sum of the digits of that number? A \(1\) B \(17\) C \(2001\) D \(18\,000\) E \(18\,009\)3An airline charges a passenger nothing for baggage as long as its mass does not exceed a fixed permitted mass. Every kilogram above that must be paid for, always at the same price per kilogram. Mr and …4A real number \(a\) satisfies \(a^{2} - \tfrac{1}{2}a = \tfrac{1}{4}\). What is the value of \(a^{3} - \tfrac{1}{2}a\)? A \(-\tfrac{1}{4}\) B \(\tfrac{1}{4}\) C \(\tfrac{1}{2}\) D \(4\) E \(\tfrac{1}{8}\) …5Polona wants to draw three lines through one common point, as in the picture, so that the angles between them satisfy \(\beta = 2\alpha\) and \(\alpha = 3\gamma\). How many degrees must the angle \(\alpha\) …6The digits of a five-digit number add up to \(44\). What is the product of the digits of that number? A \(2^{3} \cdot 3^{8}\) B \(2^{3} \cdot 9^{3}\) C \(8 \cdot 4^{9}\) D \(8 \cdot 3^{4}\) E None of the …7Let \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) and \(w\) be natural numbers. At most how many of the six sums \[ x+y, \quad x+z, \quad x+w, \quad y+z, \quad y+w, \quad z+w \] can be odd? A \(2\) B \(3\) C \(4\) D \(5\) E \(6\) …8What is the value of \[ 2^{0^{2^{3}}} + 0^{2^{3^{2}}} + 2^{3^{2^{0}}} + 3^{2^{0^{2}}} \, ? \] A \(3\) B \(4\) C \(7\) D \(12\) E Greater than \(100\).9A goldsmith owns two alloys. The first is \(90\%\) gold, the second \(54\%\) gold. He melts together \(320\) g of the first alloy and \(160\) g of the second to obtain a new alloy. What percentage of gold …10For how many integers \(k\) is the number \(k + 6\) an integer multiple of the number \(k - 6\)? A \(0\) B \(4\) C \(6\) D \(8\) E \(12\)11Five semicircles, all of different sizes, stand side by side on one straight segment: each semicircle has its diameter on the segment, consecutive semicircles touch, and the five diameters together fill …12The three presents in the picture are all boxes in the shape of a cuboid with edge lengths \(10\) cm, \(20\) cm and \(30\) cm. Reading from left to right, the ribbon tying them measures \(x\) cm, \(y\) …13What is the largest natural number \(n\) with the property that, when \(n\) is divided by \(20\), the remainder is equal to the quotient? A \(21\) B \(92\) C \(231\) D \(399\) E \(440\)14Borut drew the table of size \(2 \times 7\) shown in the picture. He now wants to colour some of its cells so that every cell he leaves uncoloured shares a side with at least one coloured cell. What is …15Birds have gathered on a large pond. Exactly one third of them are swans and all the remaining birds are ducks. It turns out that \(70\%\) of all the birds on the pond are white, and every one of the swans …16Let \(a\) and \(b\) be non-zero real numbers with \(a \ne -1\) and \(b \ne -1\), satisfying \[ \frac{a}{b+1} + \frac{b}{a+1} = 1 . \] Which of the following statements about the expression \(\dfrac{a}{b} + \dfrac{b}{a} - \dfrac{1}{ab}\) …17Five brothers - Jure, Klemen, Luka, Miha and Nace - bought a bar of chocolate. When they unwrapped it, they found that it had snapped into the seven pieces shown below, so they shared those seven pieces …18Let \(N\) be the number whose decimal expansion consists of \(2025\) copies of the digit \(3\): \[ N = \underbrace{33\ldots3}_{2025} . \] What remainder does \(N\) leave when it is divided by \(12\)? A …19Let \(k\), \(m\) and \(n\) be natural numbers, none of which is divisible by \(5\). Prove that at least one of the three numbers \(k^2 - m^2, \qquad m^2 - n^2, \qquad n^2 - k^2\) is divisible by \(5\). …20The smallest natural number whose square ends in three fours is \(38\), because \(38^2 = 1444\). Which natural number is the next smallest one with this property?21A prime number \(p\) is given. Find all pairs of natural numbers \(x\) and \(y\) (positive integers) that satisfy \[ p\,(x - 5) = x\,y . \]22Is there a natural number \(n\) with the following property: if \(n\) is multiplied by the sum of its own digits, then the digits of the resulting product add up to \(3\)?23The real numbers \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) satisfy \(xyz = 1\). Compute the value of \[ \frac{x+1}{xy+x+1} + \frac{y+1}{yz+y+1} + \frac{z+1}{zx+z+1}. \]24Let \(a\) and \(b\) be real numbers for which \[ \frac{a}{1+a} + \frac{b}{1+b} = 1 . \] Prove that \[ \frac{a}{1+b^{2}} - \frac{b}{1+a^{2}} = a - b . \]25Find all real numbers \(x\) for which \[ \Biggl|\, \Bigl|\, \bigl|\, |x| - 2 \,\bigr| - 20 \,\Bigr| - 200 \,\Biggr| = 2007 . \]26Find all pairs of prime numbers \(p\) and \(q\) for which the number \[ 2p^{2}q + 45pq^{2} \] is a perfect square.27Find all real numbers \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) that satisfy the system \[ \begin{aligned} x + y + 2z &= 0, \\ xy - z^2 &= 0, \\ y^2 + 5z + 6 &= 0. \end{aligned} \]28The integers \(a\), \(b\), \(c\), \(d\) satisfy \(a > b > c > d\) and \[ (1 - a)(1 - b)(1 - c)(1 - d) = 10 . \] Which values can the expression \(a + b - c - d\) take?29Determine all prime numbers \(p\) and \(q\) for which the number \[ 2^{2} + p^{2} + q^{2} \] is also prime.30Find every natural number \(n \ge 10\) all of whose decimal digits are nonzero and which has the following property: deleting any single digit of \(n\) leaves a number that divides \(n\).31Find all triples of prime numbers \(p\), \(q\), \(r\) for which \[ p + q^{2} = r^{4} . \]32Real numbers \(a\) and \(b\) satisfy \(|a| \ne |b|\) and \(a \ne 0\), together with \[ \frac{a-b}{a^{2}+ab} + \frac{a+b}{a^{2}-ab} = \frac{3a-b}{a^{2}-b^{2}} . \] Determine the value of \(\dfrac{b}{a}\). …33Eva, Igor, Marko and Marusa each wrote one natural number on a sheet of paper. Deleting the last digit of Eva's number gives Igor's number; deleting the last digit of Igor's number gives Marko's number; …34Jure drew four distinct lines in the plane, one arrangement after another, and for each arrangement he wrote down the number \(n\) of points at which at least two of his lines cross. Which of the sets …35In the convex quadrilateral \(ABCD\) the line through \(A\) and \(D\) and the line through \(B\) and \(C\) meet at a right angle, as the figure shows. Furthermore \(|CD| = 1\), \(|AC| = 2\) and \(|BD| = 3\). …36The horizontal segment in the picture is divided into six parts of equal length, and every triangle appearing in the picture is equilateral. The whole figure is shaded in two colours, light grey and dark …37What is the value of the expression \[ 2019^{3} - 3 \cdot 2019 \cdot 2018 - 2018^{3} \, ? \] A \(-1\) B \(0\) C \(1\) D \(2018\) E \(2019\)38Each of the five figures drawn below is bounded entirely by semicircular arcs, and the largest arc is the same in all five figures. Among the figures with the smallest perimeter, which one has the largest …39Peter covered a wound with two rectangular plasters, laid across each other as in the picture. The region covered by both plasters at once has area \(40 \ \mathrm{cm}^{2}\) and perimeter \(30 \ \mathrm{cm}\). …40In triangle \(ABC\) the angle at \(A\) is a right angle. Points \(D\), \(E\) and \(F\) are chosen on the sides \(AB\), \(BC\) and \(CA\) respectively, so that \[ |BD| = |BE| \qquad\text{and}\qquad |CF| = |CE| , \] …41Tine collects stamps. For his birthday he received a new album with room for plenty of them, so he took \(2002\) tolars out of his money box and decided to spend all of it on stamps. A friend offered him …42Oliver rolled an ordinary die \(100\) times and multiplied together all \(100\) numbers that came up on top. The product he obtained was \(6^{70}\). What is the smallest possible number of rolls on which …43Let \(a\), \(b\), \(c\) be nonzero real numbers such that \[ a(b + c) + b(c + a) + c(a + b) = ab + bc + ca . \] Prove that the value of \[ \frac{a^{2}(b + c) + b^{2}(a + c) + c^{2}(a + b)}{abc} \] is an …44Find all primes \(p\), \(q\), \(r\) and \(s\) for which \[ p + q = r \qquad\text{and}\qquad q + r = s^{2} . \]45A large rectangle is cut into seven smaller rectangles, each of which has both of its side lengths equal to a whole number of metres. Five of the seven pieces have their areas written in them, as shown …46Tina wrote one natural number on each of five slips of paper and refused to say which numbers they were. Sharp-witted Zan talked her into revealing instead all the sums that can be formed from two of the …47A natural number is written on each face of a cube. At every vertex of the cube one writes the product of the numbers on the three faces that meet at that vertex. The eight numbers at the vertices add …48Find every prime \(p\) for which the number \(p^2 + 11\) has fewer than \(11\) positive divisors.49Determine every pair of coprime natural numbers \(m\) and \(n\) for which \[ \frac{5m - n}{m + n} \] is itself a natural number. (Here the natural numbers are the positive integers \(1, 2, 3, \ldots\).) …50Find all pairs of natural numbers \(m\) and \(n\) whose sum equals \(2007\) and whose product is divisible by \(2007\).51Find the smallest natural number \(n\) that is divisible by \(20\) and for which \(n^2\) is a perfect cube and \(n^3\) is a perfect square.52The nonzero real numbers \(x\), \(y\), \(z\) satisfy \[ 3x + 2y = z \qquad \text{and} \qquad \frac{3}{x} + \frac{1}{y} = \frac{2}{z} . \] Prove that the value of \(5x^{2} - 4y^{2} - z^{2}\) is always an …53Find all pairs of real numbers \(x\) and \(y\) satisfying \[ x + y^{2} = xy + 1 \qquad\text{and}\qquad xy = 4 + y . \]54For a real number \(a\), let \([a]\) denote the largest integer that is not greater than \(a\). Find all integers \(y\) for which there exists a real number \(x\) satisfying \[ \left[\frac{x+23}{8}\right] = \left[\sqrt{x}\,\right] = y . \] …55Let \(m\) and \(n\) be positive integers such that \(5m+n\) divides \(5n+m\). Prove that \(m\) divides \(n\).56The real numbers \(x\) and \(y\) satisfy \[ x^{3} + x^{2} + xy + x + y + 2 = 0 \qquad\text{and}\qquad y^{3} - y^{2} + 3y - x = 0 . \] Determine the value of \(x - y\).57A kangaroo called Pythagoras likes exactly those natural numbers that are divisible by \(4\), have digit sum \(3\), and have exactly five digits equal to \(0\) in their decimal representation. How many …58Find all prime numbers \(p\), \(q\) and \(r\) that satisfy \[ r^{4} = pq + 4 . \]59Find all natural numbers \(n\) whose cube equals the sum of the squares of three divisors of \(n\), where the three divisors need not be different from one another.60Prove that there are no natural numbers \(a\) and \(b\) satisfying \[ \sqrt{a} + \sqrt{b} = \sqrt{2021} . \]61Find all pairs of natural numbers \(a\) and \(b\) for which \[ v = ab - 2a - 4b , \] where \(v\) denotes the least common multiple of \(a\) and \(b\).62Determine the smallest possible value of \[ \left|25^{m} - 36^{n}\right| \] where \(m\) and \(n\) are positive integers.63Find all real numbers \(x\) that satisfy the equation \[ \left(\frac{x^{2}-13}{2x+1}\right)^{2} \;-\; 8\cdot\frac{x^{2}-13}{2x+1} \;=\; 48 . \]64Find every real number \(x\) for which \[ \left(2x^{2} + 7x + 6\right)^{3} - \left(x^{2} + 3x + 2\right)^{3} = \left(x^{2} + 4x + 4\right)\left(117x^{2} + 128x + 52\right) . \]
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