Singapore Math Olympiad Past Years Question - Number Theory (Junior)

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Problem 03: SMO Year-2023

The median and mean of five distinct numbers, (4,7,10,11, N), are equal. Find the sum of all possible values of (N).
(A) 18
(B) 21
(C) 26
(D) 29
(E) 35

Problem 07:SMO Year-2023

Let (n) be a positive integer such that (n+11) is a factor of (n^2+121). Find the largest possible value of (n).

Problem 08:SMO Year-2023

Find the largest integer less than or equal to \((3+\sqrt{5})^3\)

Problem 09:SMO Year-2023

The product of the two-digit number \(\overline{x 4}\) and the three-digit number \(\overline{3 y z}\) is 7656 . Find the value of (x+y+z).

Problem 10:SMO Year-2023

If (x) and (y) are real numbers such that (x+y=12) and (x y=10), find the value of (x^4+y^4).

Problem 14:SMO Year-2023

Let (x) be a real number. What is the minimum value of the following expression?
\(\frac{20 x^2+10 x+3}{2 x^2+x+1}\)

Problem 01: SMO Year-2022

Which of the five numbers, \(30^2, 10^3, 5^4, 4^5\) or \(3^6\), is the largest?

(A) \(30^2\)
(B) \(10^3\)
(C) \(5^4\)
(D) \(4^5\)
(E) \(3^6\)

Problem 03: SMO Year-2022

The following diagram shows a system of balances hanging from the ceiling with three types of weights. The balances tip down to the heavier side. If we use \(\square<\Delta\) to represent \(\square\) is lighter than \(\Delta\), which of the following is true?

Problem 07:SMO Year-2022

The digits (1,2,3,4,5) and 6 are arranged to form two positive integers with each digit appearing exactly once. How many ways can this be done if the sum of the two integers is 570 ?

Problem 12:SMO Year-2022

If (x) is a real number, how many solutions are there to the equation

\((3 x+2)^{x+5}=1 \text { ? }\)

Problem 10:SMO Year-2023

The lengths of the sides of a triangle are \( \log_{10} 12\), \(\log_{10} 75\) and \(\log _{10}n\) where (n) is a positive integer. Find the number of possible values for (n).

Problem 17:SMO Year-2022

How many integers (n) are there in \({1,2, \ldots, 2022}\) such that at least one of the digits of \(n\) is ' 2 '?

Problem 23:SMO Year-2022

How many integers (n) are there in \({1,2, \ldots, 2022}\) such that \(\lfloor\sqrt[3]{n}\rfloor\) is a factor of \(n\) ?

Problem 24:SMO Year-2022

If (x) and (y) can take any real values, what is the smallest possible value of the expression
\(2 x^2+4 x y+5 y^2+4 x+10 y+13 ?\)

Problem 08:SMO Year-2022

Consider the following product of two mixed fractions
\(m\frac{6}{7} \times n \frac{1}{3}=23\),
where (m) and (n) are positive integers. What is the value of (m+n) ?

Problem 09:SMO Year-2022

What are the last four digits of the sum
\(222+2022+20022+\cdots+2 \underbrace{0000000000}_{\text {ten } 0 s} 22\) ?

Give your answer as a 4-digit number.

Problem 01:SMO Year-2021

Let \(a\) and \(b\) be real numbers satisfying \(a<0<b\). Which of the following is not true?

(A)\(a^2 b<0\)
(B) \(a b^2<0\) (C) \(\frac{a}{b}>0\)
(D) \(b-a>0\)
(E) \(|a-b|>0\)

Problem 02:SMO Year-2021

The following diagram shows a system of balances hanging from the ceiling with three types of weights. The balances tip down to the heavier side. If we use \(\square<\Delta\) to represent is lighter than \(\triangle\), which of the following is true?

Problem 03:SMO Year-2021

Let \(x=2^{20} \cdot 3^5, y=2^5 \cdot 5^{10}\) and \(z=7^{10}\). Which of the following is true?
(A) \(x>y>z\)
(B) \(x>z>y\)
(C) \(y>z>x\)
(D) \(y>x>z\)
(E) \(z>x>y\)

Problem 05:SMO Year-2021

Which of the following is closest to the value of
\(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}+1}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{2}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{4}+\sqrt{3}}+\cdots+\frac{1}{\sqrt{2021}+\sqrt{2020}}\) ?
(A) 10
(B) 20
(C) 30
(D) 40
(E) 50

Problem 06:SMO Year-2021

Let \(x\) be a positive integer. Suppose that the lowest common multiple of \(x\) and \(14\) is \(42\) and the lowest common multiple of \(x\) and \(33\) is \(66\) . What is the value of \(x\) ?

Problem 07:SMO Year-2021

What are the last four digits of the sum
\(1+22+333+4444+\cdots+\underbrace{999999999}_{\text {nine } 9 \mathrm{~s}} \text { ? A205 }\). Give your answer as a 4-digit number.

Problem 08:SMO Year-2021

ow many distinct triples of positive integers \((a, b, c)\) satisfy \(1 \leqslant a \leqslant b \leqslant c\) and
\(\frac{1}{a_3}+\frac{1}{b_3}+\frac{1}{c_3}=1 \) ?

Problem 14:SMO Year-2021

If \(x\) is a 3-digit number, we define \(M(x)\) and \(m(x)\) respectively as the largest and smallest positive number that can be formed by rearranging the three digits of (x). For example, if \(x=123\), then \(M(123)=321\) and \(m(123)=123\). If \(y=898\), then \(M(898)=988\) and \(m(898)=889\).
Given that \(z\) is a 3-digit number that satisfies \(z=M(z)-m(z)\), what is the value of \(z\) ?

Problem 19:SMO Year-2021

Let (x) be the positive real number that satisfies \(\sqrt{x^2-4 x+5}+\sqrt{x^2+4 x+5}=3 x \).

What is the value of \(\left\lfloor 10^4 x^2\right\rfloor\) ?

Problem 25:SMO Year-2021

Suppose a positive integer (x) satisfies the following equation
\(\sqrt[5]{x+76638}-\sqrt[5]{x-76637}=5 \).

What is the value of \(x\) ?

Problem 01:SMO Year-2020

Let \(x=2^{300}, y=3^{200}\) and \(z=6^{100}\). Which of the following is true?
(A) \(x>y>z\)
(B) \(x>z>y\)
(C) \(y>z>x\)
(D) \(y>x>z\)
(E) \(z>x>y\)

Problem 03:SMO Year-2020

The following diagram shows a system of balances hanging from the ceiling with three types of weights. The balances tip down to the heavier side. If we use \(\square<\Delta\) to represent \(\square\) is lighter than \(\triangle\), which of the following is true?

(A) \(\square<0<\triangle\)
(B) \(\square<\Delta<0\)
(C) \(\triangle<\square<0\)
(D) \(\triangle<0<\square\)

Problem 04:SMO Year-2020

The integer 6 has exactly four positive factors, namely (1,2,3) and 6 . Likewise, the integer 8 has exactly four positive factors, (1,2,4) and 8 . How many integers from 9 to 50 (inclusive) have exactly four positive factors?
(A) 10
(B) 11
(C) 12
(D) 13
(E) 14

Problem 06:SMO Year-2020

Let (n) be a positive integer. Suppose the lowest common multiple of 4,5 and (n) is 2020 . What is the sum of the smallest possible value of (n) and the largest possible value of (n) ?

Problem 07:SMO Year-2020

When the five-digit integer \(\overline{2 x 6 y x}\) is divided by the four-digit integer \(\overline{5 y 27}\), the quotient is 4 and remainder is \(\overline{x 106}\), which is a four-digit integer. What is the value of the digit (x) ?

Problem 09:SMO Year-2020

A quadruple ((a, b, c, d)) of positive integers is skewed if the median and mode of (a, b, c, d) are equal, but strictly greater than the mean of (a, b, c, d). How many skewed ((a, b, c, d)) of positive integers are there that satisfy \(a \leq b \leq c \leq d\) and (a+b+c+d=40) ?

Problem 19:SMO Year-2020

Let \(X=1234 \cdots 78798081\) be the integer that consists of all the integers from 1 to 81 written from left to right. What is the remainder of (X) when divided by 2020 ?

Problem 01:SMO Year-2019

Which of the five numbers \(2^{30}, 3^{19}, 4^{14}, 6^{12}, 9^{10}\)

has the largest value?

(A) \(2^{30}\)
(B) \(3^{19}\)
(C) \(4^{14}\)
(D) \(6^{12}\)
(E) \(9^{10}\)

Problem 04:SMO Year-2019

Let \(x, y\) and \(z\) be positive integers satisfying
\(x^2+y^2+z^2=2(x y+1) \quad \text { and } \quad x+y+z=2022\) .

If \(x_1\) and \(x_2\) are two distinct solutions for \(x\), what is the value of \(x_1+x_2\) ?

(A) 2019
(B) 2020
(C) 2021
(D) 2022
(E) 2023

Problem 08:SMO Year-2019

Suppose that \(m\) and \(n\) are positive integers where \(\frac{100 m}{n}\) is a perfect cube greater than 1 . What is the minimum value of \(m+n\) ?

Problem 09:SMO Year-2019

What is the largest possible two-digit positive integer that is 18 more than the product of its two digits?

Problem 18:SMO Year-2019

A five-digit positive integer \(x\) has the following properties:
(i) \(x\) has distinct digits which are from \({1,2,3,4,5}\);
(ii) \(x>23456\).

Problem 21:SMO Year-2019

A positive integer is said to be "twelvish" if the sum of digits in its decimal representation is equal to 12. For example, the first four twelvish integers are 39,48,57 and 66 . What is the total number of twelvish integers between 1 and 999 ?


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