Checklist VsOSh AI 2026 Municipal Stage (Moscow), grades 9–11 · Task 1
Maths in a Chatbot
Russian title: Математика в чат-боте
Find the product a·b that a model computed after misreading the power a^b, given that its answer was 110 too small.
The task
Dima chose natural numbers a and b and asked an AI model to compute a^b by uploading a photo of the handwritten expression. Because of untidy handwriting the model read it as a·b and computed that instead; its answer was 110 less than the correct one.
What answer did the model give?
Abridged and translated by SOTA from the official Russian materials. The official statement has the exact rules, and it wins wherever this summary differs.
In English
This task was published in Russian. SOTA translated its 4 files into English on 16 September 2026.
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Read the task statement in English
Maths in a Chatbot
English translation by SOTA – AI Community of the Russian original. Organisers who would like this translation removed can email [email protected].
Task 1 of the municipal stage (Moscow) of the All-Russian School Olympiad (VsOSh) 2025/26 in artificial intelligence, grades 9–11 (variant III). Original: tasks-ai-9-11-mun-msk-25-26.pdf.
Dima chose two natural numbers and . Then he sent an AI model a request to compute . He wrote this expression on a piece of paper, photographed it and uploaded the photograph. Because of the untidy handwriting, the model recognised the expression as and computed exactly that. As a result, its answer turned out to be 110 less than the correct one.
What answer did the model give?
Translator's note: this task's points are not stated in the statement paper (whose total is 600 points); the official answers give a maximum of 100 points (exact match of the answer).
Translated by SOTA. The Russian original is the official version and wins wherever the two differ. Translated from the statement and answer PDFs of the Moscow municipal stage (grades 9–11) on vos.olimpiada.ru. The statement paper gives no per-task points; the 100 points come from the official answers. If you organise this olympiad and would like the translation removed, email [email protected] and we will take it down.
At a glance
- You get
- Statement only.
- You submit
- A number.
- Scoring
- Exact answer; the per-task maximum is not stated for this task in the statement file (the paper totals 600 points).
- Format
- Municipal stage (Moscow), 17 December 2025, grades 9–11; individual; 180 minutes; answers and programs submitted to an online testing system; maximum 600 points for the paper.