2014 Puerto Rico Team Selection Test

1

Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram with $AB>BC$ and $\angle DAB$ less than $\angle ABC$. The perpendicular bisectors of sides $AB$ and $BC$ intersect at the point $M$ lying on the extension of $AD$. If $\angle MCD=15^{\circ}$, find the measure of $\angle ABC$

2

We have shortened the usual notation indicating with a sub-index the number of times that a digit is conseutively repeated. For example, $1119900009$ is denoted $1_3 9_2 0_4 9_1$. Find $(x, y, z)$ if $2_x 3_y 5_z + 3_z 5_x 2_y = 5_3 7_2 8_3 5_1 7_3$

3

Is it possible to tile an $8\times8$ board with dominoes ($2\times1$ tiles) so that no two dominoes form a $2\times2$ square?

4

Let $S$ be the set of natural numbers whose digits are different and belong to the set $\{1, 3, 5, 7\}$. Calculate the sum of the elements of $S$.

5

In a cycling competition with $14$ stages, one each day, and $100$ participants, a competitor was characterized by finishing $93^{\text{rd}}$ each day.What is the best place he could have finished in the overall standings? (Overall standings take into account the total cycling time over all stages.)

6

Natural numbers are written in the cells of of a $2014\times2014$ regular square grid such that every number is the average of the numbers in the adjacent cells. Describe and prove how the number distribution in the grid can be.

7

Consider $N$ points in the plane such that the area of a triangle formed by any three of the points does not exceed $1$. Prove that there is a triangle of area not more than $4$ that contains all $N$ points.