IMC 2013 — Keystage 3 (IWYMIC) — individual

Different letters stand for different digits, identical letters for identical digits. The three-digit number $\overline{ABB}$ is twenty-five less than $\overline{CDC}$. Find the positive integer square root of $\overline{ABBCDC}$.

A square house thirty metres on each side occupies the northeast corner of a square farm one hundred twenty metres on each side. Two V-shaped fences divide the remaining land into three equal-area V-shaped plots, as shown. The two perpendicular segments of each fence have equal lengths. Find the total length of the shorter fence.

In how many arrangements of the six distinct letters in MOUSEY does neither consecutive word YOU nor ME appear? MOUSEY itself is an example.

How many pairs of positive integers $a\le b$ make $2(\sqrt{15/a}+\sqrt{15/b})$ an integer?

A square of side eighty centimetres contains two semicircles touching at its centre and a small circle tangent to the square and both semicircles, as shown. Find the small radius in centimetres.

What is the greatest length of a block of consecutive positive integers, each a sum of squares of two positive integers?

Right isosceles triangle $APQ$ lies in rectangle $ABCD$, with right-angle vertex $P$ on $BC$ and $Q$ on $CD$. Given $BP=1$ cm and $\angle APB=60^\circ$, find $[ADQ]$ in square centimetres.

Lea wears a diamond, a gold and an ivory ring on her right hand. Each can be on any of five fingers; distinct orders on the same finger count differently. How many ways can she wear all three?

For positive integers $a,b,c$, $\gcd(b+c,c+a,a+b)=k\gcd(a,b,c)$. Find the maximum $k$.

Triangle $ABC$ has $BC=4,CA=5,AB=3$ cm. Circles centred at $A,B,C$ are pairwise tangent. A fourth circle encloses and is tangent to all three, as shown. Find its radius in centimetres.

Positive integers $a\lt b$ have arithmetic mean $(a+b)/2$ and geometric mean $\sqrt{ab}$ which are two-digit positive integers with the same digits in reversed order. Find the minimum $a$.

A factory cuts a $7\times7$ metal sheet without waste into $2\times2$ squares and L-shaped three-cell plates formed by removing one cell from a $2\times2$ square. Find the minimum number of L-shaped plates.

Let $$S_n=\sum_{i=1}^n\frac1i+\sum_{j=1}^n\left(\sum_{i=j}^n\frac1i\right)^2.$$ Each successive bracket drops the first term of the preceding bracket. Find $S_{2013}$.

In square $ABCD$, $\angle PCB=\angle QDC=\angle RAD=\angle SBA$, as shown. If $[ABCD]=2[PQRS]$, find $\angle PCB$ in degrees.

Eight coins in a row initially all show heads. A move flips two adjacent coins only if they currently show the same side. How many different heads-and-tails patterns can be reached after any number of moves?