Found problems: 72
EMCC Guts Rounds, 2014
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] What is $2 + 22 + 1 + 3 - 31 - 3$?
[b]p2.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rhombus. Given $AB = 5$, $AC = 8$, and $BD = 6$, what is the perimeter of the rhombus?
[b]p3.[/b] There are $2$ hats on a table. The first hat has $3$ red marbles and 1 blue marble. The second hat has $2$ red marbles and $4$ blue marbles. Jordan picks one of the hats randomly, and then randomly chooses a marble from that hat. What is the probability that she chooses a blue marble?
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] There are twelve students seated around a circular table. Each of them has a slip of paper that they may choose to pass to either their clockwise or counterclockwise neighbor. After each person has transferred their slip of paper once, the teacher observes that no two students exchanged papers. In how many ways could the students have transferred their slips of paper?
[b]p5.[/b] Chad wants to test David's mathematical ability by having him perform a series of arithmetic operations at lightning-speed. He starts with the number of cubic centimeters of silicon in his 3D printer, which is $109$. He has David perform all of the following operations in series each second:
$\bullet$ Double the number
$\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number
$\bullet$ Divide the number by $4$
$\bullet$ Subtract $5$ from the number
$\bullet$ Double the number
$\bullet$ Subtract $4$ from the number
Chad instructs David to shout out after three seconds the result of three rounds of calculations. However, David computes too slowly and fails to give an answer in three seconds. What number should David have said to Chad?
[b]p6.[/b] Points $D, E$, and $F$ lie on sides $BC$, $CA$, and $AB$ of triangle $ABC$, respectively, such that the following length conditions are true: $CD = AE = BF = 2$ and $BD = CE = AF = 4$. What is the area of triangle $ABC$?
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] In the $2, 3, 5, 7$ game, players count the positive integers, starting with $1$ and increasing, which do not contain the digits $2, 3, 5$, and $7$, and also are not divisible by the numbers $2, 3, 5$, and $7$. What is the fifth number counted?
[b]p8.[/b] If A is a real number for which $19 \cdot A = \frac{2014!}{1! \cdot 2! \cdot 2013!}$ , what is $A$?
Note: The expression $k!$ denotes the product $k \cdot (k - 1) \cdot ...\cdot 2 \cdot 1$.
[b]p9.[/b] What is the smallest number that can be written as both $x^3 + y^2$ and $z^3 + w^2$ for positive integers $x, y, z,$ and $w$ with $x \ne z$?
[u]Round 4[/u]
[i]Each of the three problems in this round depends on the answer to one of the other problems. There is only one set of correct answers to these problems; however, each problem will be scored independently, regardless of whether the answers to the other problems are correct. In addition, it is given that the answer to each of the following problems is a positive integer less than or equal to the problem number.
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[b]p10.[/b] Let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is the sum of a side length of a square with perimeter $B$ and a side length of a square with area $C$?
[b]p11.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $C$ be the answer to problem $12$. What is $(C - 1)(A + 1) - (C + 1)(A - 1)$?
[b]p12.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $10$ and let $B$ be the answer to problem $11$. Let $x$ denote the positive difference between $A$ and $B$. What is the sum of the digits of the positive integer $9x$?
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2020
[b]p1.[/b] The number $2020$ is very special: the sum of its digits is equal to the product of its nonzero digits. How many such four digit numbers are there? (Numbers with only one nonzero digit, like $3000$, also count)
[b]p2.[/b] A locker has a combination which is a sequence of three integers between $ 0$ and $49$, inclusive. It is known that all of the numbers in the combination are even. Let the total of a lock combination be the sum of the three numbers. Given that the product of the numbers in the combination is $12160$, what is the sum of all possible totals of the locker combination?
[b]p3.[/b] Given points $A = (0, 0)$ and $B = (0, 1)$ in the plane, the set of all points P in the plane such that triangle $ABP$ is isosceles partitions the plane into $k$ regions. The sum of the areas of those regions that are bounded is $s$. Find $ks$.
[b]p4.[/b] Three families sit down around a circular table, each person choosing their seat at random. One family has two members, while the other two families have three members. What is the probability that every person sits next to at least one person from a different family?
[b]p5.[/b] Jacob and Alexander are walking up an escalator in the airport. Jacob walks twice as fast as Alexander, who takes $18$ steps to arrive at the top. Jacob, however, takes $27$ steps to arrive at the top. How many of the upward moving escalator steps are visible at any point in time?
[b]p6.[/b] Points $A, B, C, D, E$ lie in that order on a circle such that $AB = BC = 5$, $CD = DE = 8$, and $\angle BCD = 150^o$ . Let $AD$ and $BE$ intersect at $P$. Find the area of quadrilateral $PBCD$.
[b]p7.[/b] Ivan has a triangle of integers with one number in the first row, two numbers in the second row, and continues up to eight numbers in the eighth row. He starts with the first $8$ primes, $2$ through $19$, in the bottom row. Each subsequent row is filled in by writing the least common multiple of two adjacent numbers in the row directly below. For example, the second last row starts with$ 6, 15, 35$, etc. Let P be the product of all the numbers in this triangle. Suppose that P is a multiple of $a/b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers and $a > 1$. Given that $b$ is maximized, and for this value of $b, a$ is also maximized, find $a + b$.
[b]p8.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral. Given that triangle $ABD$ is equilateral, $\angle CBD = 15^o$, and $AC = 1$, what is the area of $ABCD$?
[b]p9.[/b] Let $S$ be the set of all integers greater than $ 1$. The function f is defined on $S$ and each value of $f$ is in $S$. Given that $f$ is nondecreasing and $f(f(x)) = 2x$ for all $x$ in $S$, find $f(100)$.
[b]p10.[/b] An [i]origin-symmetric[/i] parallelogram $P$ (that is, if $(x, y)$ is in $P$, then so is $(-x, -y)$) lies in the coordinate plane. It is given that P has two horizontal sides, with a distance of $2020$ between them, and that there is no point with integer coordinates except the origin inside $P$. Also, $P$ has the maximum possible area satisfying the above conditions. The coordinates of the four vertices of P are $(a, 1010)$, $(b, 1010)$, $(-a, -1010)$, $(-b, -1010)$, where a, b are positive real numbers with $a < b$. What is $b$?
[b]p11.[/b] What is the remainder when $5^{200} + 5^{50} + 2$ is divided by $(5 + 1)(5^2 + 1)(5^4 + 1)$?
[b]p12.[/b] Let $f(n) = n^2 - 4096n - 2045$. What is the remainder when $f(f(f(... f(2046)...)))$ is divided by $2047$, where the function $f$ is applied $47$ times?
[b]p13.[/b] What is the largest possible area of a triangle that lies completely within a $97$-dimensional hypercube of side length $1$, where its vertices are three of the vertices of the hypercube?
[b]p14.[/b] Let $N = \left \lfloor \frac{1}{61} \right \rfloor + \left \lfloor\frac{3}{61} \right \rfloor+\left \lfloor \frac{3^2}{61} \right \rfloor+... +\left \lfloor\frac{3^{2019}}{61} \right \rfloor$. Given that $122N$ can be expressed as $3^a - b$, where $a, b$ are positive integers and $a$ is as large as possible, find $a + b$.
Note: $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is defined as the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.
[b]p15.[/b] Among all ordered triples of integers $(x, y, z)$ that satisfy $x + y + z = 8$ and $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 134$, what is the maximum possible value of $|x| + |y| + |z|$?
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2021
[u]Round 5[/u]
[b]p13.[/b] Vincent the Bug is at the vertex $A$ of square $ABCD$. Each second, he moves to an adjacent vertex with equal probability. The probability that Vincent is again on vertex $A$ after $4$ seconds is $\frac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $p + q$.
[b]p14.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 2$, $AC = 3$, and $\angle BAC = 60^o$. Let $P$ be a point inside the triangle such that $BP = 1$ and $CP =\sqrt3$, let $x$ equal the area of $APC$. Compute $16x^2$.
[b]p15.[/b] Let $n$ be the number of multiples of$ 3$ between $2^{2020}$ and $2^{2021}$. When $n$ is written in base two, how many digits in this representation are $1$?
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] Let $f(n)$ be the least positive integer with exactly n positive integer divisors. Find $\frac{f(200)}{f(50)}$ .
[b]p17.[/b] The five points $A, B, C, D$, and $E$ lie in a plane. Vincent the Bug starts at point $A$ and, each minute, chooses a different point uniformly at random and crawls to it. Then the probability that Vincent is back at $A$ after $5$ minutes can be expressed as $\frac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $p + q$.
[b]p18.[/b] A circle is divided in the following way. First, four evenly spaced points $A, B, C, D$ are marked on its perimeter. Point $P$ is chosen inside the circle and the circle is cut along the rays $PA$, $PB$, $PC$, $PD$ into four pieces. The piece bounded by $PA$, $PB$, and minor arc $AB$ of the circle has area equal to one fifth of the area of the circle, and the piece bounded by $PB$, $PC$, and minor arc $BC$ has area equal to one third of the area of the circle. Suppose that the ratio between the area of the second largest piece and the area of the circle is $\frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $p + q$.
[u]Round 7 [/u]
[b]p19.[/b] There exists an integer $n$ such that $|2^n - 5^{50}|$ is minimized. Compute $n$.
[b]p20.[/b] For nonnegative integers $a = \overline{a_na_{n-1} ... a_2a_1}$, $b = \overline{b_mb_{m-1} ... b_2b_1}$, define their distance to be $$d(a, b) = \overline{|a_{\max\,\,(m,n)} - b_{\max\,\,(m,n)}||a_{\max\,\,(m,n)-1} - b_{\max\,\,(m,n)-1}|...|a_1 - b_1|}$$ where $a_k = 0$ if $k > n$, $b_k = 0$ if $k > m$. For example, $d(12321, 5067) = 13346$. For how many nonnegative integers $n$ is $d(2021, n) + d(12345, n)$ minimized?
[b]p21.[/b] Let $ABCDE$ be a regular pentagon and let $P$ be a point outside the pentagon such that $\angle PEA = 6^o$ and $\angle PDC = 78^o$. Find the degree-measure of $\angle PBD$.
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] What is the least positive integer $n$ such that $\sqrt{n + 3} -\sqrt{n} < 0.02$ ?
[b]p23.[/b] What is the greatest prime divisor of $20^4 + 21 \cdot 23 - 6$?
[b]p24.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram and let $M$ be the midpoint of $AC$. Suppose the circumcircle of triangle $ABM$ intersects $BC$ again at $E$. Given that $AB = 5\sqrt2$, $AM = 5$, $\angle BAC$ is acute, and the area of $ABCD$ is $70$, what is the length of $DE$?
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2023
[b]p1.[/b] We define $a \oplus b = \frac{ab}{a+b}$. Compute $(3 \oplus 5) \oplus (5 \oplus 4)$.
[b]p2.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a quadrilateral with $\angle A = 45^o$ and $\angle B = 45^o$. If $BC = 5\sqrt2$, $AD = 6\sqrt2$, and $AB = 18$, find the length of side $CD$.
[b]p3.[/b] A positive real number $x$ satisfies the equation $x^2 + x + 1 + \frac{1}{x }+\frac{1}{x^2} = 10$. Find the sum of all possible values of $x + 1 + \frac{1}{x}$.
[b]p4.[/b] David writes $6$ positive integers on the board (not necessarily distinct) from least to greatest. The mean of the first three numbers is $3$, the median of the first four numbers is $4$, the unique mode of the first five numbers is $5$, and the range of all 6 numbers is $6$. Find the maximum possible value of the product of David’s $6$ integers.
[b]p5.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral such that $\angle A = \angle B = 120^o$ and $\angle C = \angle D = 60^o$. There exists a circle with center $I$ which is tangent to all four sides of $ABCD$. If $IA \cdot IB \cdot IC \cdot ID = 240$, find the area of quadrilateral $ABCD$.
[b]p6.[/b] The letters $EXETERMATH$ are placed into cells on an annulus as shown below. How many ways are there to color each cell of the annulus with red, blue, green, or yellow such that each letter is always colored the same color and adjacent cells are always colored differently?
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[b]p7.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square, and let $\omega$ be a quarter circle centered at $A$ passing through points $B$ and $D$. Points $E$ and $F$ lie on sides $BC$ and $CD$ respectively. Line $EF$ intersects $\omega$ at two points, $G$ and $H$. Given that $EG = 2$, $GH = 16$ and $HF = 9$, find the length of side $AB$.
[b]p8.[/b] Let x be equal to $\frac{2022! + 2021!}{2020! + 2019! + 2018!}$ . Find the closest integer to $2\sqrt{x}$.
[b]p9.[/b] For how many ordered pairs of positive integers $(m, n)$ is the absolute difference between $lcm(m, n)$ and $gcd(m, n)$ equal to $2023$?
[b]p10.[/b] There are $2023$ distinguishable frogs sitting on a number line with one frog sitting on $i$ for all integers $i$ between $-1011$ and $1011$, inclusive. Each minute, every frog randomly jumps either one unit left or one unit right with equal probability. After $1011$ minutes, over all possible arrangements of the frogs, what is the average number of frogs sitting on the number $0$?
[b]p11.[/b] Albert has a calculator initially displaying $0$ with two buttons: the first button increases the number on the display by one, and the second button returns the square root of the number on the display. Each second, he presses one of the two buttons at random with equal probability. What is the probability that Albert’s calculator will display the number $6$ at some point?
[b]p12.[/b] For a positive integer $k \ge 2$, let $f(k)$ be the number of positive integers $n$ such that n divides $(n-1)!+k$. Find $$f(2) + f(3) + f(4) + f(5) + ... + f(100).$$
[b]p13.[/b] Mr. Atf has nine towers shaped like rectangular prisms. Each tower has a $1$ by $1$ base. The first tower as height $1$, the next has height $2$, up until the ninth tower, which has height $9$. Mr. Atf randomly arranges these $9$ towers on his table so that their square bases form a $3$ by $3$ square on the surface of his table. Over all possible solids Mr. Atf could make, what is the average surface area of the solid?
[b]p14.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral whose diagonals are perpendicular. Let $E$ be the intersection of $AC$ and $BD$, and let the feet of the altitudes from $E$ to the sides $AB$, $BC$, $CD$, $DA$ be $W, X, Y , Z$ respectively. Given that $EW = 2EY$ and $EW \cdot EX \cdot EY \cdot EZ = 36$, find the minimum possible value of $\frac{1}{[EAB]} +\frac{1}{[EBC]}+\frac{1}{[ECD]} +\frac{1}{[EDA]}$. The notation $[XY Z]$ denotes the area of triangle $XY Z$.
[b]p15.[/b] Given that $x^2 - xy + y^2 = (x + y)^3$, $y^2 - yz + z^2 = (y + z)^3$, and $z^2 - zx + x^2 = (z + x)^3$ for complex numbers $x, y, z$, find the product of all distinct possible nonzero values of $x + y + z$.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2017
[i]Round 5[/i]
[b]p13.[/b] Kelvin Amphibian, a not-frog who lives on the coordinate plane, likes jumping around. Each step, he jumps either to the spot that is $1$ unit to the right and 2 units up, or the spot that is $2$ units to the right and $1$ unit up, from his current location. He chooses randomly among these two choices with equal probability. He starts at the origin and jumps for a long time. What is the probability that he lands on $(10, 8)$ at some time in his journey?
[b]p14.[/b] Points $A, B, C$, and $D$ are randomly chosen on the circumference of a unit circle. What is the probability that line segments $AB$ and $CD$ intersect inside the circle?
[b]p15.[/b] Let $P(x)$ be a quadratic polynomial with two consecutive integer roots. If it is also known that $\frac{P(2017)}
{P(2016)} = \frac{2016}{2017}$ , find the larger root of $P(x)$.
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] Let $S_n$ be the sum of reciprocals of the integers between $1$ and $n$ inclusive. Find a triple $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers such that $S_{2017} \cdot S_{2017} - S_{2016} \cdot S_{2018} = \frac{S_a+S_b}{c}$ .
[b]p17.[/b] Suppose that $m$ and $n$ are both positive integers. Alec has $m$ standard $6$-sided dice, each labelled $1$ to $6$ inclusive on the sides, while James has $n$ standard $12$-sided dice, each labelled $1$ to $12$ inclusive on the sides. They decide to play a game with their dice. They each toss all their dice simultaneously and then compute the sum of the numbers that come up on their dice. Whoever has a higher sum wins (if the sums are equal, they tie). Given that both players have an equal chance of winning, determine the minimum possible value of mn.
[b]p18.[/b] Overlapping rectangles $ABCD$ and $BEDF$ are congruent to each other and both have area $1$. Given that $A,C,E, F$ are the vertices of a square, find the area of the square.
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] Find the number of solutions to the equation $$||| ... |||||x| + 1| - 2| + 3| - 4| +... - 98| + 99| - 100| = 0$$
[b]p20.[/b] A split of a positive integer in base $10$ is the separation of the integer into two nonnegative integers, allowing leading zeroes. For example, $2017$ can be split into $2$ and $017$ (or $17$), $20$ and $17$, or $201$ and $7$. A split is called squarish if both integers are nonzero perfect squares. $49$ and $169$ are the two smallest perfect squares that have a squarish split ($4$ and $9$, $16$ and $9$ respectively). Determine all other perfect squares less than $2017$ with at least one squarish split.
[b]p21.[/b] Polynomial $f(x) = 2x^3 + 7x^2 - 3x + 5$ has zeroes $a, b$ and $c$. Cubic polynomial $g(x)$ with $x^3$-coefficient $1$ has zeroes $a^2$, $b^2$ and $c2$. Find the sum of coefficients of $g(x)$.
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] Two congruent circles, $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$, intersect at points $A$ and $B$. The centers of $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ are $O_1$ and $O_2$ respectively. The arc $AB$ of $\omega_1$ that lies inside $\omega_2$ is trisected by points $P$ and $Q$, with the points lying in the order $A, P, Q,B$. Similarly, the arc $AB$ of $\omega_2$ that lies inside $\omega_1$ is trisected by points $R$ and $S$, with the points lying in the order $A,R, S,B$. Given that $PQ = 1$ and $PR =\sqrt2$, find the measure of $\angle AO_1B$ in degrees.
[b]p23.[/b] How many ordered triples of $(a, b, c)$ of integers between $-10$ and $10$ inclusive satisfy the equation $-abc = (a + b)(b + c)(c + a)$?
[b]p24.[/b] For positive integers $n$ and $b$ where $b > 1$, define $s_b(n)$ as the sum of digits in the base-$b$ representation of $n$. A positive integer $p$ is said to dominate another positive integer $q$ if for all positive integers $n$, $s_p(n)$ is greater than or equal to $s_q(n)$. Find the number of ordered pairs $(p, q)$ of distinct positive integers between $2$ and $100$ inclusive such that $p$ dominates $q$.
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EMCC Accuracy Rounds, 2010
[b]p1.[/b] Calculate $\left( \frac12 + \frac13 + \frac14 \right)^2$.
[b]p2.[/b] Find the $2010^{th}$ digit after the decimal point in the expansion of $\frac17$.
[b]p3.[/b] If you add $1$ liter of water to a solution consisting of acid and water, the new solutions will contain of $30\%$ water. If you add another $5$ liters of water to the new solution, it will contain $36\frac{4}{11}\%$ water. Find the number of liters of acid in the original solution.
[b]p4.[/b] John places $5$ indistinguishable blue marbles and $5$ indistinguishable red marbles into two distinguishable buckets such that each bucket has at least one blue marble and one red marble. How many distinguishable marble distributions are possible after the process is completed?
[b]p5.[/b] In quadrilateral $PEAR$, $PE = 21$, $EA = 20$, $AR = 15$, $RE = 25$, and $AP = 29$. Find the area of the quadrilateral.
[b]p6.[/b] Four congruent semicircles are drawn within the boundary of a square with side length $1$. The center of each semicircle is the midpoint of a side of the square. Each semicircle is tangent to two other semicircles. Region $R$ consists of points lying inside the square but outside of the semicircles. The area of $R$ can be written in the form $a - b\pi$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive rational numbers. Compute $a + b$.
[b]p7.[/b] Let $x$ and $y$ be two numbers satisfying the relations $x\ge 0$, $y\ge 0$, and $3x + 5y = 7$. What is the maximum possible value of $9x^2 + 25y^2$?
[b]p8.[/b] In the Senate office in Exie-land, there are $6$ distinguishable senators and $6$ distinguishable interns. Some senators and an equal number of interns will attend a convention. If at least one senator must attend, how many combinations of senators and interns can attend the convention?
[b]p9.[/b] Evaluate $(1^2 - 3^2 + 5^2 - 7^2 + 9^2 - ... + 2009^2) -(2^2 - 4^2 + 6^2 - 8^2 + 10^2- ... + 2010^2)$.
[b]p10.[/b] Segment $EA$ has length $1$. Region $R$ consists of points $P$ in the plane such that $\angle PEA \ge 120^o$ and $PE <\sqrt3$. If point $X$ is picked randomly from the region$ R$, the probability that $AX <\sqrt3$ can be written in the form $a - \frac{\sqrt{b}}{c\pi}$ , where $a$ is a rational number, $b$ and $c$ are positive integers, and $b$ is not divisible by the square of a prime. Find the ordered triple $(a, b, c)$.
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2017
[b]p1.[/b] Compute $2017 + 7201 + 1720 + 172$.
[b]p2. [/b]A number is called [i]downhill [/i]if its digits are distinct and in descending order. (For example, $653$ and $8762$ are downhill numbers, but $97721$ is not.) What is the smallest downhill number greater than 86432?
[b]p3.[/b] Each vertex of a unit cube is sliced off by a planar cut passing through the midpoints of the three edges containing that vertex. What is the ratio of the number of edges to the number of faces of the resulting solid?
[b]p4.[/b] In a square with side length $5$, the four points that divide each side into five equal segments are marked. Including the vertices, there are $20$ marked points in total on the boundary of the square. A pair of distinct points $A$ and $B$ are chosen randomly among the $20$ points. Compute the probability that $AB = 5$.
[b]p5.[/b] A positive two-digit integer is one less than five times the sum of its digits. Find the sum of all possible such integers.
[b]p6.[/b] Let $$f(x) = 5^{4^{3^{2^{x}}}}.$$ Determine the greatest possible value of $L$ such that $f(x) > L$ for all real numbers $x$.
[b]p7.[/b] If $\overline{AAAA}+\overline{BB} = \overline{ABCD}$ for some distinct base-$10$ digits $A, B, C, D$ that are consecutive in some order, determine the value of $ABCD$. (The notation $\overline{ABCD}$ refers to the four-digit integer with thousands digit $A$, hundreds digit $B$, tens digit $C$, and units digit $D$.)
[b]p8.[/b] A regular tetrahedron and a cube share an inscribed sphere. What is the ratio of the volume of the tetrahedron to the volume of the cube?
[b]p9.[/b] Define $\lfloor x \rfloor$ as the greatest integer less than or equal to x, and ${x} = x - \lfloor x \rfloor$ as the fractional part of $x$. If $\lfloor x^2 \rfloor =2 \lfloor x \rfloor$ and $\{x^2\} =\frac12 \{x\}$, determine all possible values of $x$.
[b]p10.[/b] Find the largest integer $N > 1$ such that it is impossible to divide an equilateral triangle of side length $ 1$ into $N$ smaller equilateral triangles (of possibly different sizes).
[b]p11.[/b] Let $f$ and $g$ be two quadratic polynomials. Suppose that $f$ has zeroes $2$ and $7$, $g$ has zeroes $1$ and $ 8$, and $f - g$ has zeroes $4$ and $5$. What is the product of the zeroes of the polynomial $f + g$?
[b]p12.[/b] In square $PQRS$, points $A, B, C, D, E$, and $F$ are chosen on segments $PQ$, $QR$, $PR$, $RS$, $SP$, and $PR$, respectively, such that $ABCDEF$ is a regular hexagon. Find the ratio of the area of $ABCDEF$ to the area of $PQRS$.
[b]p13.[/b] For positive integers $m$ and $n$, define $f(m, n)$ to be the number of ways to distribute $m$ identical candies to $n$ distinct children so that the number of candies that any two children receive differ by at most $1$. Find the number of positive integers n satisfying the equation $f(2017, n) = f(7102, n)$.
[b]p14.[/b] Suppose that real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy the equation $$x^4 + 2x^2y^2 + y^4 - 2x^2 + 32xy - 2y^2 + 49 = 0.$$ Find the maximum possible value of $\frac{y}{x}$.
[b]p15.[/b] A point $P$ lies inside equilateral triangle $ABC$. Let $A'$, $B'$, $C'$ be the feet of the perpendiculars from $P$ to $BC, AC, AB$, respectively. Suppose that $PA = 13$, $PB = 14$, and $PC = 15$. Find the area of $A'B'C'$.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2012
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] Ravi has a bag with $100$ slips of paper in it. Each slip has one of the numbers $3, 5$, or $7$ written on it. Given that half of the slips have the number $3$ written on them, and the average of the values on all the slips is $4.4$, how many slips have $7$ written on them?
[b]p2.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, point $D$ lies on side $AB$ such that $AB \perp CD$. It is given that $\frac{CD}{BD}=\frac12$, $AC = 29$, and $AD = 20$. Find the area of triangle $BCD$.
[b]p3.[/b] Compute $(123 + 4)(123 + 5) - 123\cdot 132$.
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4. [/b] David is evaluating the terms in the sequence $a_n = (n + 1)^3 - n^3$ for $n = 1, 2, 3,....$ (that is, $a_1 = 2^3 - 1^3$ , $a_2 = 3^3 - 2^3$, $a_3 = 4^3 - 3^3$, and so on). Find the first composite number in the sequence. (An positive integer is composite if it has a divisor other than 1 and itself.)
[b]p5.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers strictly less than $100$ that are not divisible by $3$.
[b]p6.[/b] In how many ways can Alex draw the diagram below without lifting his pencil or retracing a line? (Two drawings are different if the order in which he draws the edges is different, or the direction in which he draws an edge is different).
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/9/6/9d29c23b3ca64e787e717ceff22d45851ae503.png[/img]
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] Fresh Mann is a $9$th grader at Euclid High School. Fresh Mann thinks that the word vertices is the plural of the word vertice. Indeed, vertices is the plural of the word vertex. Using all the letters in the word vertice, he can make $m$ $7$-letter sequences. Using all the letters in the word vertex, he can make $n$ $6$-letter sequences. Find $m - n$.
[b]p8.[/b] Fresh Mann is given the following expression in his Algebra $1$ class: $101 - 102 = 1$. Fresh Mann is allowed to move some of the digits in this (incorrect) equation to make it into a correct equation. What is the minimal number of digits Fresh Mann needs to move?
[b]p9.[/b] Fresh Mann said, “The function $f(x) = ax^2+bx+c$ passes through $6$ points. Their $x$-coordinates are consecutive positive integers, and their y-coordinates are $34$, $55$, $84$, $119$, $160$, and $207$, respectively.” Sophy Moore replied, “You’ve made an error in your list,” and replaced one of Fresh Mann’s numbers with the correct y-coordinate. Find the corrected value.
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] An assassin is trying to find his target’s hotel room number, which is a three-digit positive integer. He knows the following clues about the number:
(a) The sum of any two digits of the number is divisible by the remaining digit.
(b) The number is divisible by $3$, but if the first digit is removed, the remaining two-digit number is not.
(c) The middle digit is the only digit that is a perfect square.
Given these clues, what is a possible value for the room number?
[b]p11.[/b] Find a positive real number $r$ that satisfies $$\frac{4 + r^3}{9 + r^6}=\frac{1}{5 - r^3}- \frac{1}{9 + r^6}.$$
[b]p12.[/b] Find the largest integer $n$ such that there exist integers $x$ and $y$ between $1$ and $20$ inclusive with $$\left|\frac{21}{19} -\frac{x}{y} \right|<\frac{1}{n}.$$
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2014
[b]p1.[/b] What is the units digit of the product of the first seven primes?
[b]p2. [/b]In triangle $ABC$, $\angle BAC$ is a right angle and $\angle ACB$ measures $34$ degrees. Let $D$ be a point on segment $ BC$ for which $AC = CD$, and let the angle bisector of $\angle CBA$ intersect line $AD$ at $E$. What is the measure of $\angle BED$?
[b]p3.[/b] Chad numbers five paper cards on one side with each of the numbers from $ 1$ through $5$. The cards are then turned over and placed in a box. Jordan takes the five cards out in random order and again numbers them from $ 1$ through $5$ on the other side. When Chad returns to look at the cards, he deduces with great difficulty that the probability that exactly two of the cards have the same number on both sides is $p$. What is $p$?
[b]p4.[/b] Only one real value of $x$ satisfies the equation $kx^2 + (k + 5)x + 5 = 0$. What is the product of all possible values of $k$?
[b]p5.[/b] On the Exeter Space Station, where there is no effective gravity, Chad has a geometric model consisting of $125$ wood cubes measuring $ 1$ centimeter on each edge arranged in a $5$ by $5$ by $5$ cube. An aspiring carpenter, he practices his trade by drawing the projection of the model from three views: front, top, and side. Then, he removes some of the original $125$ cubes and redraws the three projections of the model. He observes that his three drawings after removing some cubes are identical to the initial three. What is the maximum number of cubes that he could have removed? (Keep in mind that the cubes could be suspended without support.)
[b]p6.[/b] Eric, Meena, and Cameron are studying the famous equation $E = mc^2$. To memorize this formula, they decide to play a game. Eric and Meena each randomly think of an integer between $1$ and $50$, inclusively, and substitute their numbers for $E$ and $m$ in the equation. Then, Cameron solves for the absolute value of $c$. What is the probability that Cameron’s result is a rational number?
[b]p7.[/b] Let $CDE$ be a triangle with side lengths $EC = 3$, $CD = 4$, and $DE = 5$. Suppose that points $ A$ and $B$ are on the perimeter of the triangle such that line $AB$ divides the triangle into two polygons of equal area and perimeter. What are all the possible values of the length of segment $AB$?
[b]p8.[/b] Chad and Jordan are raising bacteria as pets. They start out with one bacterium in a Petri dish. Every minute, each existing bacterium turns into $0, 1, 2$ or $3$ bacteria, with equal probability for each of the four outcomes. What is the probability that the colony of bacteria will eventually die out?
[b]p9.[/b] Let $a = w + x$, $b = w + y$, $c = x + y$, $d = w + z$, $e = x + z$, and $f = y + z$. Given that $af = be = cd$ and $$(x - y)(x - z)(x - w) + (y - x)(y - z)(y - w) + (z - x)(z - y)(z - w) + (w - x)(w - y)(w - z) = 1,$$ what is $$2(a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2 + e^2 + f^2) - ab - ac - ad - ae - bc - bd - bf - ce - cf - de - df - ef ?$$
[b]p10.[/b] If $a$ and $b$ are integers at least $2$ for which $a^b - 1$ strictly divides $b^a - 1$, what is the minimum possible value of $ab$?
Note: If $x$ and $y$ are integers, we say that $x$ strictly divides $y$ if $x$ divides $y$ and $|x| \ne |y|$.
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EMCC Accuracy Rounds, 2013
[b]p1.[/b] Find the largest possible number of consecutive $9$’s in which an integer between $10,000,000$ and $13,371,337$ can end. For example, $199$ ends in two $9$’s, while $92,999$ ends in three $9$’s.
[b]p2.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square of side length $2$. Equilateral triangles $ABP$, $BCQ$, $CDR$, and $DAS$ are constructed inside the square. Compute the area of quadrilateral $PQRS$.
[b]p3.[/b] Evaluate the expression $7 \cdot 11 \cdot 13 \cdot 1003 - 3 \cdot 17 \cdot 59 \cdot 331$.
[b]p4.[/b] Compute the number of positive integers $c$ such that there is a non-degenerate obtuse triangle with side lengths $21$, $29$, and $c$.
[b]p5.[/b] Consider a $5\times 5$ board, colored like a chessboard, such that the four corners are black. Determine the number of ways to place $5$ rooks on black squares such that no two of the rooks attack one another, given that the rooks are indistinguishable and the board cannot be rotated. (Two rooks attack each other if they are in the same row or column.)
[b]p6.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a trapezoid of height $6$ with bases $AB$ and $CD$. Suppose that $AB = 2$ and $CD = 3$, and let $F$ and $G$ be the midpoints of segments $AD$ and $BC$, respectively. If diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at point $E$, compute the area of triangle $FGE$.
[b]p7.[/b] A regular octahedron is a solid with eight faces that are congruent equilateral triangles. Suppose that an ant is at the center of one face of a regular octahedron of edge length $10$. The ant wants to walk along the surface of the octahedron to reach the center of the opposite face. (Two faces of an octahedron are said to be opposite if they do not share a vertex.) Determine the minimum possible distance that the ant must walk.
[b]p8.[/b] Let $A_1A_2A_3$, $B_1B_2B_3$, $C_1C_2C_3$, and $D_1D_2D_3$ be triangles in the plane. All the sides of the four triangles are extended into lines. Determine the maximum number of pairs of these lines that can meet at $60^o$ angles.
[b]p9.[/b] For an integer $n$, let $f_n(x)$ denote the function $f_n(x) =\sqrt{x^2 - 2012x + n}+1006$. Determine all positive integers $a$ such that $f_a(f_{2012}(x)) = x$ for all $x \ge 2012$.
[b]p10.[/b] Determine the number of ordered triples of integers $(a, b, c)$ such that $(a + b)(b + c)(c + a) = 1800$.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2013
[u]Round 5[/u]
[b]p13.[/b] In coordinate space, a lattice point is a point all of whose coordinates are integers. The lattice points $(x, y, z)$ in three-dimensional space satisfying $0 \le x, y, z \le 5$ are colored in n colors such that any two points that are $\sqrt3$ units apart have different colors. Determine the minimum possible value of $n$.
[b]p14.[/b] Determine the number of ways to express $121$ as a sum of strictly increasing positive Fibonacci numbers.
[b]p15.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rectangle with $AB = 7$ and $BC = 15$. Equilateral triangles $ABP$, $BCQ$, $CDR$, and $DAS$ are constructed outside the rectangle. Compute the area of quadrilateral $P QRS$.
[u] Round 6[/u]
Each of the three problems in this round depends on the answer to one of the other problems. There is only one set of correct answers to these problems; however, each problem will be scored independently, regardless of whether the answers to the other problems are correct.
[b]p16.[/b] Let $C$ be the answer to problem $18$. Suppose that $x$ and $y$ are real numbers with $y > 0$ and
$$x + y = C$$
$$x +\frac{1}{y} = -2.$$
Compute $y +\frac{1}{y}$.
[b]p17.[/b] Let $A$ be the answer to problem $16$. Let $P QR$ be a triangle with $\angle P QR = 90^o$, and let $X$ be the foot of the perpendicular from point $Q$ to segment $P R$. Given that $QX = A$, determine the minimum possible area of triangle $PQR$.
[b]p18.[/b] Let $B$ be the answer to problem $17$ and let $K = 36B$. Alice, Betty, and Charlize are identical triplets, only distinguishable by their hats. Every day, two of them decide to exchange hats. Given that they each have their own hat today, compute the probability that Alice will have her own hat in $K$ days.
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] Find the number of positive integers a such that all roots of $x^2 + ax + 100$ are real and the sum of their squares is at most $2013$.
[b]p20.[/b] Determine all values of $k$ such that the system of equations
$$y = x^2 - kx + 1$$
$$x = y^2 - ky + 1$$
has a real solution.
[b]p21.[/b] Determine the minimum number of cuts needed to divide an $11 \times 5 \times 3$ block of chocolate into $1\times 1\times 1$ pieces. (When a block is broken into pieces, it is permitted to rotate some of the pieces, stack some of the pieces, and break any set of pieces along a vertical plane simultaneously.)
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] A sequence that contains the numbers $1, 2, 3, ... , n$ exactly once each is said to be a permutation of length $n$. A permutation $w_1w_2w_3... w_n$ is said to be sad if there are indices $i < j < k$ such that $w_j > w_k$ and $w_j > w_i$. For example, the permutation $3142756$ is sad because $7 > 6$ and $7 > 1$. Compute the number of permutations of length $11$ that are not sad.
[b]p23.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 39$, $BC = 56$, and $CA = 35$. Compute $\angle CAB - \angle ABC$ in degrees.
[b]p24.[/b] On a strange planet, there are $n$ cities. Between any pair of cities, there can either be a one-way road, two one-way roads in different directions, or no road at all. Every city has a name, and at the source of every one-way road, there is a signpost with the name of the destination city. In addition, the one-way roads only intersect at cities, but there can be bridges to prevent intersections at non-cities. Fresh Mann has been abducted by one of the aliens, but Sophy Moore knows that he is in Rome, a city that has no roads leading out of it. Also, there is a direct one-way road leading from each other city to Rome. However, Rome is the secret police’s name for the so-described city; its official name, the name appearing on the labels of the one-way roads, is unknown to Sophy Moore. Sophy Moore is currently in Athens and she wants to head to Rome in order to rescue Fresh Mann, but she does not know the value of $n$. Assuming that she tries to minimize the number of roads on which she needs to travel, determine the maximum possible number of roads that she could be forced to travel in order to find Rome. Express your answer as a function of $n$.
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EMCC Speed Rounds, 2024
[i]20 problems for 25 minutes.[/i]
[b]p1.[/b] Compute $\frac{2024}{2 + 0 \times 2 - 4}.$
[b]p2.[/b] Find the smallest integer that can be written as the product of three distinct positive odd integers.
[b]p3.[/b] Bryan’s physics test score is a two-digit number. When Bryan reverses its digits and adds the tens digit of his test score, he once again obtains his test score. Determine Bryan’s physics test score.
[b]p4.[/b] Grant took four classes today. He spent $70$ minutes in math class. Had his math class been $40$ minutes instead, he would have spent $15\%$ less total time in class today. Find how many minutes he spent in his other classes combined.
[b]p5.[/b] Albert’s favorite number is a nonnegative integer. The square of Albert’s favorite number has $9$ digits. Find the number of digits in Albert’s favorite number.
[b]p6.[/b] Two semicircular arcs are drawn in a rectangle, splitting it into four regions as shown below. Given the areas of two of the regions, find the area of the entire rectangle.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/a/22109b346c7bdadeaf901d62155de4c506b33c.png[/img]
[b]p7.[/b] Daria is buying a tomato and a banana. She has a $20\%$-off coupon which she may use on one of the two items. If she uses it on the tomato, she will spend $\$1.21$ total, and if she uses it on the banana, she will spend $\$1.31$ total. In cents, find the absolute difference between the price of a tomato and the price of a banana.
[b]p8.[/b] Celine takes an $8\times 8$ checkerboard of alternating black and white unit squares and cuts it along a line, creating two rectangles with integer side lengths, each of which contains at least $9$ black squares. Find the number of ways Celine can do this. (Rotations and reflections of the cut are considered distinct.)
[b]p9.[/b] Each of the nine panes of glass in the circular window shown below has an area of $\pi$, eight of which are congruent. Find the perimeter of one of the non-circular panes.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/c/0d3644dde33b68f186ba1ff0602e08ce7996f5.png[/img]
[b]p10.[/b] In Alan’s favorite book, pages are numbered with consecutive integers starting with $1$. The average of the page numbers in Chapter Five is $95$ and the average of the page numbers in Chapter Six is $114$. Find the number of pages in Chapters Five and Six combined.
[b]p11.[/b] Find the number of ordered pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers such that $a + b = 2024$ and $$\frac{a}{b}>\frac{1000}{1025}.$$
[b]p12.[/b] A square is split into three smaller rectangles $A$, $B$, and $C$. The area of $A$ is $80$, $B$ is a square, and the area of $C$ is $30$. Compute the area of $B$.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/d/5/43109b964eacaddefd410ddb8bf4e4354a068b.png[/img]
[b]p13.[/b] A knight on a chessboard moves two spaces horizontally and one space vertically, or two spaces vertically and one space horizontally. Two knights attack each other if each knight can move onto the other knight’s square. Find the number of ways to place a white knight and a black knight on an $8 \times 8$ chessboard so that the two knights attack each other. One such possible configuration is shown below.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/2/b4a83fbbab7e54dda81ac5805728d268b6db9f.png[/img]
[b]p14.[/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $N$ for which the median of the positive divisors of $N$ is $9$.
[b]p15.[/b] Let $x$, $y$, and $z$ be nonzero real numbers such that
$$\begin{cases} 20x + 24y = yz \\
20y + 24x = xz \end{cases}$$
Find the sum of all possible values of $z$.
[b]p16.[/b] Ava glues together $9$ standard six-sided dice in a $3 \times 3$ grid so that any two touching faces have the same number of dots. Find the number of dots visible on the surface of the resulting shape. (On a standard six-sided die, opposite faces sum to $7$.)
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/5/5/bc71dac9b8ae52a4456154000afde2c89fd83a.png[/img]
[b]p17.[/b] Harini has a regular octahedron of volume $1$. She cuts off its $6$ vertices, turning the triangular faces into regular hexagons. Find the volume of the resulting solid.
[b]p18.[/b] Each second, Oron types either $O$ or $P$ with equal probability, forming a growing sequence of letters. Find the probability he types out $POP$ before $OOP$.
[b]p19.[/b] For an integer $n \ge 10$, define $f(n)$ to be the number formed after removing the first digit from $n$ (and removing any leading zeros) and define $g(n)$ to be the number formed after removing the last digit from $n$. Find the sum of the solutions to the equation $f(n) + g(n) = 2024$.
[b]p20.[/b] In convex trapezoid $ABCD$ with $\overline{AB} \parallel \overline{CD}$ and $AD = BC$, let $M$ be the midpoint of $\overline{BC}$. If $\angle AMB = 24^o$ and $\angle CMD = 66^o$, find $\angle ABC$, in degrees.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2016
[u]Round 5[/u]
[b]p13.[/b] Initially, the three numbers $20$, $201$, and $2016$ are written on a blackboard. Each minute, Zhuo selects two of the numbers on the board and adds $1$ to each. Find the minimum $n$ for which Zhuo can make all three numbers equal to $n$.
[b]p14.[/b] Call a three-letter string rearrangeable if, when the first letter is moved to the end, the resulting string comes later alphabetically than the original string. For example, $AAA$ and $BAA$ are not rearrangeable, while $ABB$ is rearrangeable. How many three-letters strings with (not necessarily distinct) uppercase letters are rearrangeable?
[b]p15.[/b] Triangle $ABC$ is an isosceles right triangle with $\angle C = 90^o$ and $AC = 1$. Points $D$, $E$ and $F$ are chosen on sides $BC$,$CA$ and $AB$, respectively, such that $AEF$, $BFD$, $CDE$, and $DEF$ are isosceles right triangles. Find the sum of all distinct possible lengths of segment $DE$.
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] Let $p, q$, and $r$ be prime numbers such that $pqr = 17(p + q + r)$. Find the value of the product $pqr$.
[b]p17.[/b] A cylindrical cup containing some water is tilted $45$ degrees from the vertical. The point on the surface of the water closest to the bottom of the cup is $6$ units away. The point on the surface of the water farthest from the bottom of the cup is $10$ units away. Compute the volume of the water in the cup.
[b]p18.[/b] Each dot in an equilateral triangular grid with $63$ rows and $2016 = \frac12 \cdot 63 \cdot 64$ dots is colored black or white. Every unit equilateral triangle with three dots has the property that exactly one of its vertices is colored black. Find all possible values of the number of black dots in the grid.
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] Tomasz starts with the number $2$. Each minute, he either adds $2$ to his number, subtracts $2$ from his number, multiplies his number by $2$, or divides his number by $2$. Find the minimum number of minutes he will need in order to make his number equal $2016$.
[b]p20.[/b] The edges of a regular octahedron $ABCDEF$ are painted with $3$ distinct colors such that no two edges with the same color lie on the same face. In how many ways can the octahedron be painted? Colorings are considered different under rotation or reflection.
[b]p21.[/b] Jacob is trapped inside an equilateral triangle $ABC$ and must visit each edge of triangle $ABC$ at least once. (Visiting an edge means reaching a point on the edge.) His distances to sides $AB$, $BC$, and $CA$ are currently $3$, $4$, and $5$, respectively. If he does not need to return to his starting point, compute the least possible distance that Jacob must travel.
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] Four integers $a, b, c$, and $d$ with a $\le b \le c \le d$ satisfy the property that the product of any two of them is equal to the sum of the other two. Given that the four numbers are not all equal, determine the $4$-tuple $(a, b, c, d)$.
[b]p23.[/b] In equilateral triangle $ABC$, points $D$,$E$, and $F$ lie on sides $BC$,$CA$ and $AB$, respectively, such that $BD = 4$ and $CD = 5$. If $DEF$ is an isosceles right triangle with right angle at $D$, compute $EA + FA$.
[b]p24.[/b] On each edge of a regular tetrahedron, four points that separate the edge into five equal segments are marked. There are sixteen planes that are parallel to a face of the tetrahedron and pass through exactly three of the marked points. When the tetrahedron is cut along each of these sixteen planes, how many new tetrahedrons are produced?
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2018
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] How many distinct ways are there to scramble the letters in $EXETER$?
[b]p2.[/b] Given that $\frac{x - y}{x - z}= 3$, find $\frac{x - z}{y - z}$.
[b]p3.[/b] When written in base $10$, $9^9 =\overline{ABC420DEF}.$ Find the remainder when $A + B + C + D + E + F$ is divided by $9$.
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] How many positive integers, when expressed in base $7$, have exactly $3$ digits, but don't contain the digit $3$?
[b]p5.[/b] Pentagon $JAMES$ is such that its internal angles satisfy $\angle J = \angle A = \angle M = 90^o$ and $\angle E = \angle S$. If $JA = AM = 4$ and $ME = 2$, what is the area of $JAMES$?
[b]p6.[/b] Let $x$ be a real number such that $x = \frac{1+\sqrt{x}}{2}$ . What is the sum of all possible values of $x$?
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] Farmer James sends his favorite chickens, Hen Hao and PEAcock, to compete at the Fermi Estimation All Star Tournament (FEAST). The first problem at the FEAST requires the chickens to estimate the number of boarding students at Eggs-Eater Academy given the number of dorms $D$ and the average number of students per dorm $A$. Hen Hao rounds both $D$ and $A$ down to the nearest multiple of $10$ and multiplies them, getting an estimate of $1200$ students. PEAcock rounds both $D$ and $A$ up to the nearest multiple of $10$ and multiplies them, getting an estimate of $N$ students. What is the maximum possible value of $N$?
[b]p8.[/b] Farmer James has decided to prepare a large bowl of egg drop soup for the Festival of Eggs-Eater Annual Soup Tasting (FEAST). To flavor the soup, Hen Hao drops eggs into it. Hen Hao drops $1$ egg into the soup in the first hour, $2$ eggs into the soup in the second hour, and so on, dropping $k$ eggs into the soup in the $k$th hour. Find the smallest positive integer $n$ so that after exactly n hours, Farmer James finds that the number of eggs dropped in his egg drop soup is a multiple of $200$.
[b]p9.[/b] Farmer James decides to FEAST on Hen Hao. First, he cuts Hen Hao into $2018$ pieces. Then, he eats $1346$ pieces every day, and then splits each of the remaining pieces into three smaller pieces. How many days will it take Farmer James to eat Hen Hao? (If there are fewer than $1346$ pieces remaining, then Farmer James will just eat all of the pieces.)
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] Farmer James has three baskets, and each basket has one magical egg. Every minute, each magical egg disappears from its basket, and reappears with probability $\frac12$ in each of the other two baskets. Find the probability that after three minutes, Farmer James has all his eggs in one basket.
[b]p11.[/b] Find the value of $\frac{4 \cdot 7}{\sqrt{4 +\sqrt7} +\sqrt{4 -\sqrt7}}$.
[b]p12.[/b] Two circles, with radius $6$ and radius $8$, are externally tangent to each other. Two more circles, of radius $7$, are placed on either side of this configuration, so that they are both externally tangent to both of the original two circles. Out of these $4$ circles, what is the maximum distance between any two centers?
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2018
[u]Round 5[/u]
[b]p13.[/b] Find all ordered pairs of real numbers $(x, y)$ satisfying the following equations:
$$\begin{cases} \dfrac{1}{xy} + \dfrac{y}{x}= 2 \\ \dfrac{1}{xy^2} + \dfrac{y^2}{x} = 7 \end{cases}$$
[b]p14.[/b] An egg plant is a hollow prism of negligible thickness, with height $2$ and an equilateral triangle base. Inside the egg plant, there is enough space for four spherical eggs of radius $1$. What is the minimum possible volume of the egg plant?
[b]p15.[/b] How many ways are there for Farmer James to color each square of a $2\times 6$ grid with one of the three colors eggshell, cream, and cornsilk, so that no two adjacent squares are the same color?
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] In a triangle $ABC$, $\angle A = 45^o$, and let $D$ be the foot of the perpendicular from $A$ to segment $BC$. $BD = 2$ and $DC = 4$. Let $E$ be the intersection of the line $AD$ and the perpendicular line from $B$ to line $AC$. Find the length of $AE$.
[b]p17.[/b] Find the largest positive integer $n$ such that there exists a unique positive integer $m$ satisfying
$$\frac{1}{10} \le \frac{m}{n} \le \frac19$$
[b]p18.[/b] How many ordered pairs $(A,B)$ of positive integers are there such that $A+B = 10000$ and the number $A^2 + AB + B$ has all distinct digits in base $10$?
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] Pentagon $JAMES$ satisfies $JA = AM = ME = ES = 2$. Find the maximum possible area of $JAMES$.
[b]p20.[/b] $P(x)$ is a monic polynomial (a polynomial with leading coecient $1$) of degree $4$, such that $P(2^n+1) =8^n + 1$ when $n = 1, 2, 3, 4$. Find the value of $P(1)$.
[b]p21[/b]. PEAcock and Zombie Hen Hao are at the starting point of a circular track, and start running in the same direction at the same time. PEAcock runs at a constant speed that is $2018$ times faster than Zombie Hen Hao's constant speed. At some point in time, Farmer James takes a photograph of his two favorite chickens, and he notes that they are at different points along the track. Later on, Farmer James takes a second photograph, and to his amazement, PEAcock and Zombie Hen Hao have now swapped locations from the first photograph! How many distinct possibilities are there for PEAcock and Zombie Hen Hao's positions in Farmer James's first photograph? (Assume PEAcock and Zombie Hen Hao have negligible size.)
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] How many ways are there to scramble the letters in $EGGSEATER$ such that no two consecutive letters are the same?
[b]p23.[/b] Let $JAMES$ be a regular pentagon. Let $X$ be on segment $JA$ such that $\frac{JX}{XA} = \frac{XA}{JA}$ . There exists a unique point $P$ on segment $AE$ such that $XM = XP$. Find the ratio $\frac{AE}{PE}$ .
[b]p24.[/b] Find the minimum value of the function $$f(x) = \left|x - \frac{1}{x} \right|+ \left|x - \frac{2}{x} \right| + \left|x - \frac{3}{x} \right|+... + \left|x - \frac{9}{x} \right|+ \left|x - \frac{10}{x} \right|$$ over all nonzero real numbers $x$.
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2010
[b]p1.[/b] A very large lucky number $N$ consists of eighty-eight $8$s in a row. Find the remainder when this number $N$ is divided by $6$.
[b]p2.[/b] If $3$ chickens can lay $9$ eggs in $4$ days, how many chickens does it take to lay $180$ eggs in $ 8$ days?
[b]p3.[/b] Find the ordered pair $(x, y)$ of real numbers satisfying the conditions $x > y$, $x+y = 10$, and $xy = -119$.
[b]p4.[/b] There is pair of similar triangles. One triangle has side lengths $4, 6$, and $9$. The other triangle has side lengths $ 8$, $12$ and $x$. Find the sum of two possible values of $x$.
[b]p5.[/b] If $x^2 +\frac{1}{x^2} = 3$, there are two possible values of $x +\frac{1}{x}$. What is the smaller of the two values?
[b]p6.[/b] Three flavors (chocolate strawberry, vanilla) of ice cream are sold at Brian’s ice cream shop. Brian’s friend Zerg gets a coupon for $10$ free scoops of ice cream. If the coupon requires Zerg to choose an even number of scoops of each flavor of ice cream, how many ways can he choose his ice cream scoops? (For example, he could have $6$ scoops of vanilla and $4$ scoops of chocolate. The order in which Zerg eats the scoops does not matter.)
[b]p7.[/b] David decides he wants to join the West African Drumming Ensemble, and thus he goes to the store and buys three large cylindrical drums. In order to ensure none of the drums drop on the way home, he ties a rope around all of the drums at their mid sections so that each drum is next to the other two. Suppose that each drum has a diameter of $3.5$ feet. David needs $m$ feet of rope. Given that $m = a\pi + b$, where $a$ and $b$ are rational numbers, find sum $a + b$.
[b]p8.[/b] Segment $AB$ is the diameter of a semicircle of radius $24$. A beam of light is shot from a point $12\sqrt3$ from the center of the semicircle, and perpendicular to $AB$. How many times does it reflect off the semicircle before hitting $AB$ again?
[b]p9.[/b] A cube is inscribed in a sphere of radius $ 8$. A smaller sphere is inscribed in the same sphere such that it is externally tangent to one face of the cube and internally tangent to the larger sphere. The maximum value of the ratio of the volume of the smaller sphere to the volume of the larger sphere can be written in the form $\frac{a-\sqrt{b}}{36}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. Find the product $ab$.
[b]p10.[/b] How many ordered pairs $(x, y)$ of integers are there such that $2xy + x + y = 52$?
[b]p11.[/b] Three musketeers looted a caravan and walked off with a chest full of coins. During the night, the first musketeer divided the coins into three equal piles, with one coin left over. He threw it into the ocean and took one of the piles for himself, then went back to sleep. The second musketeer woke up an hour later. He divided the remaining coins into three equal piles, and threw out the one coin that was left over. He took one of the piles and went back to sleep. The third musketeer woke up and divided the remaining coins into three equal piles, threw out the extra coin, and took one pile for himself. The next morning, the three musketeers gathered around to divide the coins into three equal piles. Strangely enough, they had one coin left over this time as well. What is the minimum number of coins that were originally in the chest?
[b]p12.[/b] The diagram shows a rectangle that has been divided into ten squares of different sizes. The smallest square is $2 \times 2$ (marked with *). What is the area of the rectangle (which looks rather like a square itself)?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/4/a/7b8ebc1a9e3808096539154f0107f3e23d168b.png[/img]
[b]p13.[/b] Let $A = (3, 2)$, $B = (0, 1)$, and $P$ be on the line $x + y = 0$. What is the minimum possible value of $AP + BP$?
[b]p14.[/b] Mr. Mustafa the number man got a $6 \times x$ rectangular chess board for his birthday. Because he was bored, he wrote the numbers $1$ to $6x$ starting in the upper left corner and moving across row by row (so the number $x + 1$ is in the $2$nd row, $1$st column). Then, he wrote the same numbers starting in the upper left corner and moving down each column (so the number $7$ appears in the $1$st row, $2$nd column). He then added up the two numbers in each of the cells and found that some of the sums were repeated. Given that $x$ is less than or equal to $100$, how many possibilities are there for $x$?
[b]p15.[/b] Six congruent equilateral triangles are arranged in the plane so that every triangle shares at least one whole edge with some other triangle. Find the number of distinct arrangements. (Two arrangements are considered the same if one can be rotated and/or reflected onto another.)
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2022
[b]p1.[/b] Compute $1 + 3 + 6 + 10 + 15 + 21 + 28 + 36 + 45 + 55$.
[b]p2.[/b] Given that $a$, $b$, and $c$ are positive integers such that $a+b = 9$ and $bc = 30$, find the minimum possible value of $a + c$.
[b]p3.[/b] Points $X$ and $Y$ lie outside regular pentagon $ABCDE$ such that $ABX$ and $DEY$ are equilateral triangles. Find the degree measure of $\angle XCY$ .
[b]p4.[/b] Let $N$ be the product of the positive integer divisors of $8!$, including itself. The largest integer power of $2$ that divides $N$ is $2^k$. Compute $k$.
[b]p5.[/b] Let $A=(-20, 22)$, $B = (k, 0)$, and $C = (202, 2)$ be points on the coordinate plane. Given that $\angle ABC = 90^o$, find the sum of all possible values of $k$.
[b]p6.[/b] Tej is typing a string of $L$s and $O$s that consists of exactly $7$ $L$s and $4$ $O$s. How many different strings can he type that do not contain the substring ‘$LOL$’ anywhere? A substring is a sequence of consecutive letters contained within the original string.
[b]p7.[/b] How many ordered triples of integers $(a, b, c)$ satisfy both $a+b-c = 12$ and $a^2+b^2-c^2 = 24$?
[b]p8.[/b] For how many three-digit base-$7$ numbers $\overline{ABC}_7$ does $\overline{ABC}_7$ divide $\overline{ABC}_{10}$? (Note: $\overline{ABC}_D$ refers to the number whose digits in base $D$ are, from left to right, $A$, $B$, and $C$; for example, $\overline{123}_4$ equals $27$ in base ten).
[b]p9.[/b] Natasha is sitting on one of the $35$ squares of a $5$-by-$7$ grid of squares. Wanda wants to walk through every square on the board exactly once except the one Natasha is on, starting and ending on any $2$ squares she chooses, such that from any square she can only go to an adjacent square (two squares are adjacent if they share an edge). How many squares can Natasha choose to sit on such that Wanda cannot go on her walk?
[b]p10.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $AB = 13$, $BC = 14$, and $CA = 15$. Point $P$ lies inside $ABC$ and points $D,E$, and $F$ lie on sides $BC$, $CA$, and $AB$, respectively, so that $PD \perp BC$, $PE \perp CA$, and $PF \perp AB$. Given that $PD$, $PE$, and $PF$ are all integers, find the sum of all possible distinct values of $PD \cdot PE \cdot PF$.
[b]p11.[/b] A palindrome is a positive integer which is the same when read forwards or backwards. Find the sum of the two smallest palindromes that are multiples of $137$.
[b]p12.[/b] Let $P(x) = x^2+px+q$ be a quadratic polynomial with positive integer coefficients. Compute the least possible value of p such that 220 divides p and the equation $P(x^3) = P(x)$ has at least four distinct integer solutions.
[b]p13.[/b] Everyone at a math club is either a truth-teller, a liar, or a piggybacker. A truth-teller always tells the truth, a liar always lies, and a piggybacker will answer in the style of the previous person who spoke (i.e., if the person before told the truth, they will tell the truth, and if the person before lied, then they will lie). If a piggybacker is the first one to talk, they will randomly either tell the truth or lie. Four seniors in the math club were interviewed and here was their conversation:
Neil: There are two liars among us.
Lucy: Neil is a piggybacker.
Kevin: Excluding me, there are more truth-tellers than liars here.
Neil: Actually, there are more liars than truth-tellers if we exclude Kevin.
Jacob: One plus one equals three.
Define the base-$4$ number $M = \overline{NLKJ}_4$, where each digit is $1$ for a truth-teller, $2$ for a piggybacker, and $3$ for a liar ($N$ corresponds to Neil, $L$ to Lucy, $K$ corresponds to Kevin, and $J$ corresponds to Jacob). What is the sum of all possible values of $M$, expressed in base $10$?
[b]p14.[/b] An equilateral triangle of side length $8$ is tiled by $64$ equilateral triangles of unit side length to form a triangular grid. Initially, each triangular cell is either living or dead. The grid evolves over time under the following rule: every minute, if a dead cell is edge-adjacent to at least two living cells, then that cell becomes living, and any living cell remains living. Given that every cell in the grid eventually evolves to be living, what is the minimum possible number of living cells in the initial grid?
[b]p15.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $AB = 7$, $BC = 11$, and $CA = 13$. Let $\Gamma$ be the circumcircle of $ABC$ and let $M$, $N$, and $P$ be the midpoints of minor arcs $BC$ , $CA$, and $AB$ of $\Gamma$, respectively. Given that $K$ denotes the area of $ABC$ and $L$ denotes the area of the intersection of $ABC$ and $MNP$, the ratio $L/K$ can be written as $a/b$ , where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $a + b$.
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EMCC Team Rounds, 2012
[b]p1. [/b]The longest diagonal of a regular hexagon is 12 inches long. What is the area of the hexagon, in square inches?
[b]p2.[/b] When Al and Bob play a game, either Al wins, Bob wins, or they tie. The probability that Al does not win is $\frac23$ , and the probability that Bob does not win is $\frac34$ . What is the probability that they tie?
[b]p3.[/b] Find the sum of the $a + b$ values over all pairs of integers $(a, b)$ such that $1 \le a < b \le 10$. That is, compute the sum $$(1 + 2) + (1 + 3) + (1 + 4) + ...+ (2 + 3) + (2 + 4) + ...+ (9 + 10).$$
[b]p4.[/b] A $3 \times 11$ cm rectangular box has one vertex at the origin, and the other vertices are above the $x$-axis. Its sides lie on the lines $y = x$ and $y = -x$. What is the $y$-coordinate of the highest point on the box, in centimeters?
[b]p5.[/b] Six blocks are stacked on top of each other to create a pyramid, as shown below. Carl removes blocks one at a time from the pyramid, until all the blocks have been removed. He never removes a block until all the blocks that rest on top of it have been removed. In how many different orders can Carl remove the blocks?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/b/e/9694d92eeb70b4066b1717fedfbfc601631ced.png[/img]
[b]p6.[/b] Suppose that a right triangle has sides of lengths $\sqrt{a + b\sqrt{3}}$,$\sqrt{3 + 2\sqrt{3}}$, and $\sqrt{4 + 5\sqrt{3}}$, where $a, b$ are positive integers. Find all possible ordered pairs $(a, b)$.
[b]p7.[/b] Farmer Chong Gu glues together $4$ equilateral triangles of side length $ 1$ such that their edges coincide. He then drives in a stake at each vertex of the original triangles and puts a rubber band around all the stakes. Find the minimum possible length of the rubber band.
[b]p8.[/b] Compute the number of ordered pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers less than or equal to $100$, such that a $b -1$ is a multiple of $4$.
[b]p9.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $\angle C = 90^o$. Point $P$ lies on segment $BC$ and is not $B$ or $C$. Point $I$ lies on segment $AP$. If $\angle BIP = \angle PBI = \angle CAB = m^o$ for some positive integer $m$, find the sum of all possible values of $m$.
[b]p10.[/b] Bob has $2$ identical red coins and $2$ identical blue coins, as well as $4$ distinguishable buckets. He places some, but not necessarily all, of the coins into the buckets such that no bucket contains two coins of the same color, and at least one bucket is not empty. In how many ways can he do this?
[b]p11.[/b] Albert takes a $4 \times 4$ checkerboard and paints all the squares white. Afterward, he wants to paint some of the square black, such that each square shares an edge with an odd number of black squares. Help him out by drawing one possible configuration in which this holds. (Note: the answer sheet contains a $4 \times 4$ grid.)
[b]p12.[/b] Let $S$ be the set of points $(x, y)$ with $0 \le x \le 5$, $0 \le y \le 5$ where $x$ and $y$ are integers. Let $T$ be the set of all points in the plane that are the midpoints of two distinct points in $S$. Let $U$ be the set of all points in the plane that are the midpoints of two distinct points in $T$. How many distinct points are in $U$? (Note: The points in $T$ and $U$ do not necessarily have integer coordinates.)
[b]p13.[/b] In how many ways can one express $6036$ as the sum of at least two (not necessarily positive) consecutive integers?
[b]p14.[/b] Let $a, b, c, d, e, f$ be integers (not necessarily distinct) between $-100$ and $100$, inclusive, such that $a + b + c + d + e + f = 100$. Let $M$ and $m$ be the maximum and minimum possible values, respectively, of $$abc + bcd + cde + def + ef a + f ab + ace + bdf.$$ Find $\frac{M}{m}$.
[b]p15.[/b] In quadrilateral $ABCD$, diagonal $AC$ bisects diagonal $BD$. Given that $AB = 20$, $BC = 15$, $CD = 13$, $AC = 25$, find $DA$.
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EMCC Speed Rounds, 2010
[i]20 problems for 20 minutes.
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[b]p1.[/b] Evaluate $\frac{\sqrt2 \cdot \sqrt6}{\sqrt3}.$
[b]p2.[/b] If $6\%$ of a number is $1218$, what is $18\%$ of that number?
[b]p3.[/b] What is the median of $\{42, 9, 8, 4, 5, 1,13666, 3\}$?
[b]p4.[/b] Define the operation $\heartsuit$ so that $i\heartsuit u = 5i - 2u$. What is $3\heartsuit 4$?
p5. How many $0.2$-inch by $1$-inch by $1$-inch gold bars can fit in a $15$-inch by $12$-inch by $9$-inch box?
[b]p6.[/b] A tetrahedron is a triangular pyramid. What is the sum of the number of edges, faces, and vertices of a tetrahedron?
[b]p7.[/b] Ron has three blue socks, four white socks, five green socks, and two black socks in a drawer. Ron takes socks out of his drawer blindly and at random. What is the least number of socks that Ron needs to take out to guarantee he will be able to make a pair of matching socks?
[b]p8.[/b] One segment with length $6$ and some segments with lengths $10$, $8$, and $2$ form the three letters in the diagram shown below. Compute the sum of the perimeters of the three figures.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/0/9f7d6d42b1d68cd6554d7d5f8dd9f3181054fa.png[/img]
[b]p9.[/b] How many integer solutions are there to the inequality $|x - 6| \le 4$?
[b]p10.[/b] In a land for bad children, the flavors of ice cream are grass, dirt, earwax, hair, and dust-bunny. The cones are made out of granite, marble, or pumice, and can be topped by hot lava, chalk, or ink. How many ice cream cones can the evil confectioners in this ice-cream land make? (Every ice cream cone consists of one scoop of ice cream, one cone, and one topping.)
[b]p11.[/b] Compute the sum of the prime divisors of $245 + 452 + 524$.
[b]p12.[/b] In quadrilateral $SEAT$, $SE = 2$, $EA = 3$, $AT = 4$, $\angle EAT = \angle SET = 90^o$. What is the area of the quadrilateral?
[b]p13.[/b] What is the angle, in degrees, formed by the hour and minute hands on a clock at $10:30$ AM?
[b]p14.[/b] Three numbers are randomly chosen without replacement from the set $\{101, 102, 103,..., 200\}$. What is the probability that these three numbers are the side lengths of a triangle?
[b]p15.[/b] John takes a $30$-mile bike ride over hilly terrain, where the road always either goes uphill or downhill, and is never flat. If he bikes a total of $20$ miles uphill, and he bikes at $6$ mph when he goes uphill, and $24$ mph when he goes downhill, what is his average speed, in mph, for the ride?
[b]p16.[/b] How many distinct six-letter words (not necessarily in any language known to man) can be formed by rearranging the letters in $EXETER$? (You should include the word EXETER in your count.)
[b]p17.[/b] A pie has been cut into eight slices of different sizes. Snow White steals a slice. Then, the seven dwarfs (Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Doc, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy) take slices one by one according to the alphabetical order of their names, but each dwarf can only take a slice next to one that has already been taken. In how many ways can this pie be eaten by these eight persons?
[b]p18.[/b] Assume that $n$ is a positive integer such that the remainder of $n$ is $1$ when divided by $3$, is $2$ when divided by $4$, is $3$ when divided by $5$, $...$ , and is $8$ when divided by $10$. What is the smallest possible value of $n$?
[b]p19.[/b] Find the sum of all positive four-digit numbers that are perfect squares and that have remainder $1$ when divided by $100$.
[b]p20.[/b] A coin of radius $1$ cm is tossed onto a plane surface that has been tiled by equilateral triangles with side length $20\sqrt3$ cm. What is the probability that the coin lands within one of the triangles?
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2013
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] Five girls and three boys are sitting in a room. Suppose that four of the children live in California. Determine the maximum possible number of girls that could live somewhere outside California.
[b]p2.[/b] A $4$-meter long stick is rotated $60^o$ about a point on the stick $1$ meter away from one of its ends. Compute the positive difference between the distances traveled by the two endpoints of the stick, in meters.
[b]p3.[/b] Let $f(x) = 2x(x - 1)^2 + x^3(x - 2)^2 + 10(x - 1)^3(x - 2)$. Compute $f(0) + f(1) + f(2)$.
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] Twenty boxes with weights $10, 20, 30, ... , 200$ pounds are given. One hand is needed to lift a box for every $10$ pounds it weighs. For example, a $40$ pound box needs four hands to be lifted. Determine the number of people needed to lift all the boxes simultaneously, given that no person can help lift more than one box at a time.
[b]p5.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a right triangle with a right angle at $A$, and let $D$ be the foot of the perpendicular from vertex$ A$ to side $BC$. If $AB = 5$ and $BC = 7$, compute the length of segment $AD$.
[b]p6.[/b] There are two circular ant holes in the coordinate plane. One has center $(0, 0)$ and radius $3$, and the other has center $(20, 21)$ and radius $5$. Albert wants to cover both of them completely with a circular bowl. Determine the minimum possible radius of the circular bowl.
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] A line of slope $-4$ forms a right triangle with the positive x and y axes. If the area of the triangle is 2013, find the square of the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle.
[b]p8.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a right triangle with a right angle at $B$, $AB = 9$, and $BC = 7$. Suppose that point $P$ lies on segment $AB$ with $AP = 3$ and that point $Q$ lies on ray $BC$ with $BQ = 11$. Let segments $AC$ and $P Q$ intersect at point $X$. Compute the positive difference between the areas of triangles $AP X$ and $CQX$.
[b]p9.[/b] Fresh Mann and Sophy Moore are racing each other in a river. Fresh Mann swims downstream, while Sophy Moore swims $\frac12$ mile upstream and then travels downstream in a boat. They start at the same time, and they reach the finish line 1 mile downstream of the starting point simultaneously. If Fresh Mann and Sophy Moore both swim at $1$ mile per hour in still water and the boat travels at 10 miles per hour in still water, find the speed of the current.
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] The Fibonacci numbers are defined by $F_0 = 0$, $F_1 = 1$, and for $n \ge 1$, $F_{n+1} = F_n + F_{n-1}$. The first few terms of the Fibonacci sequence are $0$, $1$, $1$, $2$, $3$, $5$, $8$, $13$. Every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of nonconsecutive, distinct, positive Fibonacci numbers, for example, $7 = 5 + 2$. Express $121$ as the sum of nonconsecutive, distinct, positive Fibonacci numbers. (It is not permitted to use both a $2$ and a $1$ in the expression.)
[b]p11.[/b] There is a rectangular box of surface area $44$ whose space diagonals have length $10$. Find the sum of the lengths of all the edges of the box.
[b]p12.[/b] Let $ABC$ be an acute triangle, and let $D$ and $E$ be the feet of the altitudes to $BC$ and $CA$, respectively. Suppose that segments $AD$ and $BE$ intersect at point $H$ with $AH = 20$ and $HD = 13$. Compute $BD \cdot CD$.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2022
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] Let $ABCDEF$ be a regular hexagon. How many acute triangles have all their vertices among the vertices of $ABCDEF$?
[b]p2.[/b] A rectangle has a diagonal of length $20$. If the width of the rectangle is doubled, the length of the diagonal becomes $22$. Given that the width of the original rectangle is $w$, compute $w^2$.
[b]p3.[/b] The number $\overline{2022A20B22}$ is divisible by 99. What is $A + B$?
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] How many two-digit positive integers have digits that sum to at least $16$?
[b]p5.[/b] For how many integers $k$ less than $10$ do there exist positive integers x and y such that $k =x^2 - xy + y^2$?
[b]p6.[/b] Isosceles trapezoid $ABCD$ is inscribed in a circle of radius $2$ with $AB \parallel CD$, $AB = 2$, and one of the interior angles of the trapezoid equal to $110^o$. What is the degree measure of minor arc $CD$?
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] In rectangle $ALEX$, point $U$ lies on side $EX$ so that $\angle AUL = 90^o$. Suppose that $UE = 2$ and $UX = 12$. Compute the square of the area of $ALEX$.
[b]p8.[/b] How many digits does $20^{22}$ have?
[b]p9.[/b] Compute the units digit of $3 + 3^3 + 3^{3^3} + ... + 3^{3^{...{^3}}}$ , where the last term of the series has $2022$ $3$s.
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] Given that $\sqrt{x - 1} + \sqrt{x} = \sqrt{x + 1}$ for some real number $x$, the number $x^2$ can be written as $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$.
[b]p11.[/b] Eric the Chicken Farmer arranges his $9$ chickens in a $3$-by-$3$ grid, with each chicken being exactly one meter away from its closest neighbors. At the sound of a whistle, each chicken simultaneously chooses one of its closest neighbors at random and moves $\frac12$ of a unit towards it. Given that the expected number of pairs of chickens that meet can be written as $\frac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers, compute $p + q$.
[b]p12.[/b] For a positive integer $n$, let $s(n)$ denote the sum of the digits of $n$ in base $10$. Find the greatest positive integer $n$ less than $2022$ such that $s(n) = s(n^2)$.
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2015
[u]Round 1[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] Alec rated the movie Frozen $1$ out of $5$ stars. At least how many ratings of $5$ out of $5$ stars does Eric need to collect to make the average rating for Frozen greater than or equal to $4$ out of $5$ stars?
[b]p2.[/b] Bessie shuffles a standard $52$-card deck and draws five cards without replacement. She notices that all five of the cards she drew are red. If she draws one more card from the remaining cards in the deck, what is the probability that she draws another red card?
[b]p3.[/b] Find the value of $121 \cdot 1020304030201$.
[u]Round 2[/u]
[b]p4.[/b] Find the smallest positive integer $c$ for which there exist positive integers $a$ and $b$ such that $a \ne b$ and $a^2 + b^2 = c$
[b]p5.[/b] A semicircle with diameter $AB$ is constructed on the outside of rectangle $ABCD$ and has an arc length equal to the length of $BC$. Compute the ratio of the area of the rectangle to the area of the semicircle.
[b]p6.[/b] There are $10$ monsters, each with $6$ units of health. On turn $n$, you can attack one monster, reducing its health by $n$ units. If a monster's health drops to $0$ or below, the monster dies. What is the minimum number of turns necessary to kill all of the monsters?
[u]Round 3[/u]
[b]p7.[/b] It is known that $2$ students make up $5\%$ of a class, when rounded to the nearest percent. Determine the number of possible class sizes.
[b]p8.[/b] At $17:10$, Totoro hopped onto a train traveling from Tianjin to Urumuqi. At $14:10$ that same day, a train departed Urumuqi for Tianjin, traveling at the same speed as the $17:10$ train. If the duration of a one-way trip is $13$ hours, then how many hours after the two trains pass each other would Totoro reach Urumuqi?
[b]p9.[/b] Chad has $100$ cookies that he wants to distribute among four friends. Two of them, Jeff and Qiao, are rivals; neither wants the other to receive more cookies than they do. The other two, Jim and Townley, don't care about how many cookies they receive. In how many ways can Chad distribute all $100$ cookies to his four friends so that everyone is satisfied? (Some of his four friends may receive zero cookies.)
[u]Round 4[/u]
[b]p10.[/b] Compute the smallest positive integer with at least four two-digit positive divisors.
[b]p11.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a trapezoid such that $AB$ is parallel to $CD$, $BC = 10$ and $AD = 18$. Given that the two circles with diameters $BC$ and $AD$ are tangent, find the perimeter of $ABCD$.
[b]p12.[/b] How many length ten strings consisting of only $A$s and Bs contain neither "$BAB$" nor "$BBB$" as a substring?
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EMCC Guts Rounds, 2011
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] Let $a_1, a_2, ... , a_{2011}$ be a sequence of numbers such that $a_1 = 2011$ and $a_1+a_2+...+a_n = n^2 \cdot a_n$ for $n = 1, 2, ... 2011$. (That is, $a_1 = 1^2\cdot a_1$, $a_1 + a_2 = 2^2 \cdot a_2$, $...$) Compute $a_{2011}$.
[b]p17.[/b] Three rectangles, with dimensions $3 \times 5$, $4 \times 2$, and $6 \times 4$, are each divided into unit squares which are alternately colored black and white like a checkerboard. Each rectangle is cut along one of its diagonals into two triangles. For each triangle, let m be the total black area and n the total white area. Find the maximum value of $|m - n|$ for the $6$ triangles.
[b]p18.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $\angle BAC = 90^o$, and the length of segment $AB$ is $2011$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$ and $D$ the midpoint of $AM$. Let $E$ be the point on segment $AB$ such that $EM \parallel CD$. What is the length of segment $BE$?
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] How many integers from $1$ to $100$, inclusive, can be expressed as the difference of two perfect squares? (For example, $3 = 2^2 - 1^2$).
[b]p20.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $\angle ABC = 45$ and $\angle ACB = 60^o$. Let $P$ and $Q$ be points on segment $BC$, $F$ a point on segment $AB$, and $E$ a point on segment $AC$ such that $F Q \parallel AC$ and $EP \parallel AB$. Let $D$ be the foot of the altitude from $A$ to $BC$. The lines $AD$, $F Q$, and $P E$ form a triangle. Find the positive difference, in degrees, between the largest and smallest angles of this triangle.
[b]p21.[/b] For real number $x$, $\lceil x \rceil$ is equal to the smallest integer larger than or equal to $x$. For example, $\lceil 3 \rceil = 3$ and $\lceil 2.5 \rceil = 3$. Let $f(n)$ be a function such that $f(n) = \left\lceil \frac{n}{2}\right\rceil + f\left( \left\lceil \frac{n}{2}\right\rceil\right)$ for every integer $n$ greater than $1$. If $f(1) = 1$, find the maximum value of $f(k) - k$, where $k$ is a positive integer less than or equal to $2011$.
[u]Round 8[/u]
The answer to each of the three questions in this round depends on the answer to one of the other questions. There is only one set of correct answers to these problems; however, each question will be scored independently, regardless of whether the answers to the other questions are correct.
[b]p22.[/b] Let $W$ be the answer to problem 24 in this guts round. Let $f(a) = \frac{1}{1 -\frac{1}{1- \frac{1}{a}}}$. Determine$|f(2) + ... + f(W)|$.
[b]p23.[/b] Let $X$ be the answer to problem $22$ in this guts round. How many odd perfect squares are less than $8X$?
[b]p24.[/b] Let $Y$ be the answer to problem $23$ in this guts round. What is the maximum number of points of intersections of two regular $(Y - 5)$-sided polygons, if no side of the first polygon is parallel to any side of the second polygon?
[u]Round 9[/u]
[b]p25.[/b] Cross country skiers $s_1, s_2, s_3, ..., s_7$ start a race one by one in that order. While each skier skis at a constant pace, the skiers do not all ski at the same rate. In the course of the race, each skier either overtakes another skier or is overtaken by another skier exactly two times. Find all the possible orders in which they can finish. Write each possible finish as an ordered septuplet $(a, b, c, d, e, f, g)$ where $a, b, c, d, e, f, g$ are the numbers $1-7$ in some order. (So a finishes first, b finishes second, etc.)
[b]p26.[/b] Archie the Alchemist is making a list of all the elements in the world, and the proportion of earth, air, fire, and water needed to produce each. He writes the proportions in the form E:A:F:W. If each of the letters represents a whole number from $0$ to $4$, inclusive, how many different elements can Archie list? Note that if Archie lists wood as $2:0:1:2$, then $4:0:2:4$ would also produce wood. In addition, $0:0:0:0$ does not produce an element.
[b]p27.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rectangle with $AB = 10$ and $BC = 12$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $CD$, and $P$ be the point on $BM$ such that $DP = DA$. Find the area of quadrilateral $ABPD$.
[u]Round 10[/u]
[b]p28.[/b] David the farmer has an infinitely large grass-covered field which contains a straight wall. He ties his cow to the wall with a rope of integer length. The point where David ties his rope to the wall divides the wall into two parts of length $a$ and $b$, where $a > b$ and both are integers. The rope is shorter than the wall but is longer than $a$. Suppose that the cow can reach grass covering an area of $\frac{165\pi}{2}$. Find the ratio $\frac{a}{b}$ . You may assume that the wall has $0$ width.
[b]p29.[/b] Let $S$ be the number of ordered quintuples $(a, b, x, y, n)$ of positive integers such that $$\frac{a}{x}+\frac{b}{y}=\frac{1}{n}$$ $$abn = 2011^{2011}$$ Compute the remainder when $S$ is divided by $2012$.
[b]p30.[/b] Let $n$ be a positive integer. An $n \times n$ square grid is formed by $n^2$ unit squares. Each unit square is then colored either red or blue such that each row or column has exactly $10$ blue squares. A move consists of choosing a row or a column, and recolor each unit square in the chosen row or column – if it is red, we recolor it blue, and if it is blue, we recolor it red. Suppose that it is possible to obtain fewer than $10n$ blue squares after a sequence of finite number of moves. Find the maximum possible value of $n$.
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EMCC Accuracy Rounds, 2015
[b]p1.[/b] A number of Exonians took a math test. If all of their scores were positive integers and the mean of their scores was $8.6$, find the minimum possible number of students.
[b]p2.[/b] Find the least composite positive integer that is not divisible by any of $3, 4$, and $5$.
[b]p3.[/b] Five checkers are on the squares of an $8\times 8$ checkerboard such that no two checkers are in the same row or the same column. How many squares on the checkerboard share neither a row nor a column with any of the five checkers?
[b]p4.[/b] Let the operation $x@y$ be $y - x$. Compute $((... ((1@2)@3)@ ...@ 2013)@2014)@2015$.
[b]p5.[/b] In a town, each family has either one or two children. According to a recent survey, $40\%$ of the children in the town have a sibling. What fraction of the families in the town have two children?
[b]p6.[/b] Equilateral triangles $ABE$, $BCF$, $CDG$ and $DAH$ are constructed outside the unit square $ABCD$. Eliza wants to stand inside octagon $AEBFCGDH$ so that she can see every point in the octagon without being blocked by an edge. What is the area of the region in which she can stand?
[b]p7.[/b] Let $S$ be the string $0101010101010$. Determine the number of substrings containing an odd number of $1$'s. (A substring is defined by a pair of (not necessarily distinct) characters of the string and represents the characters between, inclusively, the two elements of the string.)
[b]p8.[/b] Let the positive divisors of $n$ be $d_1, d_2, ...$ in increasing order. If $d_6 = 35$, determine the minimum possible value of $n$.
[b]p9.[/b] The unit squares on the coordinate plane that have four lattice point vertices are colored black or white, as on a chessboard, shown on the diagram below.
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/6/4/f400d52ae9e8131cacb90b2de942a48662ea8c.png[/img]
For an ordered pair $(m, n)$, let $OXZY$ be the rectangle with vertices $O = (0, 0)$, $X = (m, 0)$, $Z = (m, n)$ and $Y = (0, n)$. How many ordered pairs $(m, n)$ of nonzero integers exist such that rectangle $OXZY$ contains exactly $32$ black squares?
[b]p10.[/b] In triangle $ABC$, $AB = 2BC$. Given that $M$ is the midpoint of $AB$ and $\angle MCA = 60^o$, compute $\frac{CM}{AC}$ .
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EMCC Accuracy Rounds, 2020
[b]p1.[/b] What is $(2 + 4 + ... + 20) - (1 + 3 + ...+ 19)$?
[b]p2.[/b] Two ants start on opposite vertices of a dodecagon ($12$-gon). Each second, they randomly move to an adjacent vertex. What is the probability they meet after four moves?
[b]p3.[/b] How many distinct $8$-letter strings can be made using $8$ of the $9$ letters from the words $FORK$ and $KNIFE$ (e.g., $FORKNIFE$)?
[b]p4.[/b] Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length $8$ and let $D$ be a point on segment $BC$ such that $BD = 2$. Given that $E$ is the midpoint of $AD$, what is the value of $CE^2 - BE^2$?
[b][color=#f00](mistyped p4)[/color][/b] Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length $8$ and let $D$ be a point on segment $BC$ such that $BD = 2$. Given that $E$ is the midpoint of $AD$, what is the value of $CE^2 + BE^2$?
[b]p5.[/b] You have two fair six-sided dice, one labeled $1$ to $6$, and for the other one, each face is labeled $1$, $2$, $3$, or $4$ (not necessarily all numbers are used). Let $p$ be the probability that when the two dice are rolled, the number on the special die is smaller than the number on the normal die. Given that $p = 1/2$, how many distinct combinations of $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$ can appear on the special die? The arrangement of the numbers on the die does not matter.
[b]p6.[/b] Let $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ be two circles with centers $A$ and $B$ and radii $3$ and $13$, respectively. Suppose $AB = 10$ and that $C$ is the midpoint of $AB$. Let $\ell$ be a line that passes through $C$ and is tangent to $\omega_1$ at $P$. Given that $\ell$ intersects $\omega_2$ at $X$ and $Y$ such that $XP < Y P$, what is $XP$?
[b]p7.[/b] Let $f(x)$ be a cubic polynomial. Given that $f(1) = 13$, $f(4) = 19$, $f(7) = 7$, and $f(10) = 13$, find $f(13)$.
[b]p8.[/b] For all integers $0 \le n \le 202$ not divisible by seven, define $f(n) = \{\sqrt{7n}\}$. For what value $n$ does $f(n)$ take its minimum value? (Note: $\{x\} = x - \lfloor x \rfloor$, where $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.)
[b]p9.[/b] Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 14$ and $AC = 25$. Let the incenter of $ABC$ be $I$. Let line $AI$ intersect the circumcircle of $BIC$ at $D$ (different from $I$). Given that line $DC$ is tangent to the circumcircle of $ABC$, find the area of triangle $BCD$.
[b]p10.[/b] Evaluate the infinite sum $$\frac{4^2 + 3}{1 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 7} +\frac{6^2 + 3}{3 \cdot 5 \cdot 7 \cdot 9}+\frac{8^2 + 3}{5 \cdot 7 \cdot 9 \cdot 11}+ ...$$
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