In the 2009 Stanford Olympics, Willy and Sammy are two bikers. The circular race track has two lanes, the inner lane with radius 11, and the outer with radius 12. Willy will start on the inner lane, and Sammy on the outer. They will race for one complete lap, measured by the inner track. What is the square of the distance between Willy and Sammy's starting positions so that they will both race the same distance? Assume that they are of point size and ride perfectly along their respective lanes

How many ways are there to fill in a $2\times 2$ square grid with the numbers $1,2,3,$ and $4$ such that the numbers in any two grid squares that share an edge have an absolute difference of at most $2$? [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i]

Kara rolls a six-sided die six times, and notices that the results satisfy the following conditions: [list] [*] She rolled a $6$ exactly three times; [*] The product of her first three rolls is the same as the product of her last three rolls. [/list] How many distinct sequences of six rolls could Kara have rolled? [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i]

How many ways are there to choose distinct positive integers $a, b, c, d$ dividing $15^6$ such that none of $a, b, c,$ or $d$ divide each other? (Order does not matter.) [i]Proposed by Miles Yamner and Andrew Wu[/i] (Note: wording changed from original to clarify)

The incircle of triangle $ABC$ for which $AB\neq AC$, is tangent to sides $BC,CA$ and $AB$ in points $D,E$ and $F$ respectively. Perpendicular from $D$ to $EF$ intersects side $AB$ at $X$, and the second intersection point of circumcircles of triangles $AEF$ and $ABC$ is $T$. Prove that $TX\perp TF$. [i]Proposed By Pedram Safaei[/i]

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 5$, $BC = 7$, and $CA = 8$, and let $D$ be a point on arc $\widehat{BC}$ of its circumcircle $\Omega$. Suppose that the angle bisectors of $\angle ADB$ and $\angle ADC$ meet $AB$ and $AC$ at $E$ and $F$, respectively, and that $EF$ and $BC$ meet at $G$. Line $GD$ meets $\Omega$ at $T$. If the maximum possible value of $AT^2$ can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for positive integers $a, b$ with $\gcd (a,b) = 1$, find $a + b$. [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i]

(Mathematicians A to Z) Below are the names of 26 mathematicians, one for each letter of the alphabet. Your answer to this question should be a subset of $\{A,B,\cdots,Z\}$, where each letter represents the corresponding mathematician. If two mathematicians in your subset have birthdates that are within $20$ years of each other, then your score is $0$. Otherwise, your score is $\max(3(k-3),0)$ where $k$ is the number of elements in your set. \[\begin{tabular}{cc}Niels Abel & Isaac Newton\\Etienne Bezout & Nicole Oresme \\ Augustin-Louis Cauchy & Blaise Pascal \\ Rene Descartes & Daniel Quillen \\ Leonhard Euler & Bernhard Riemann\\ Pierre Fatou & Jean-Pierre Serre \\ Alexander Grothendieck & Alan Turing \\ David Hilbert & Stanislaw Ulam \\ Kenkichi Iwasawa & John Venn \\ Carl Jacobi & Andrew Wiles \\ Andrey Kolmogorov & Leonardo Ximenes \\ Joseph-Louis Lagrange & Shing-Tung Yau \\ John Milnor & Ernst Zermelo\end{tabular}\]

Charlotte is playing the hit new web number game, Primle. In this game, the objective is to guess a two-digit positive prime integer between $10$ and $99$, called the [i]Primle[/i]. For each guess, a digit is highlighted blue if it is in the [i]Primle[/i], but not in the correct place. A digit is highlighted orange if it is in the [i]Primle[/i] and is in the correct place. Finally, a digit is left unhighlighted if it is not in the [i]Primle[/i]. If Charlotte guesses $13$ and $47$ and is left with the following game board, what is the [i]Primle[/i]? $$\begin{array}{c} \boxed{1} \,\, \boxed{3} \\[\smallskipamount] \boxed{4}\,\, \fcolorbox{black}{blue}{\color{white}7} \end{array}$$ [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu and Jason Wang[/i]

Let $a, b, c, d$ three strictly positive real numbers such that \[a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}=d^{2}+e^{2},\] \[a^{4}+b^{4}+c^{4}=d^{4}+e^{4}.\] Compare \[a^{3}+b^{3}+c^{3}\] with \[d^{3}+e^{3},\]

A right rectangular prism has integer side lengths $a$, $b$, and $c$. If $\text{lcm}(a,b)=72$, $\text{lcm}(a,c)=24$, and $\text{lcm}(b,c)=18$, what is the sum of the minimum and maximum possible volumes of the prism? [i]Proposed by Deyuan Li and Andrew Milas[/i]

Find the prime factorization of $\textstyle\sum_{1\le i < j \le 100}ij$.

Find the least $n$ such that any subset of ${1,2,\dots,100}$ with $n$ elements has 2 elements with a difference of 9.

Let $A$ and $B$ be digits between $0$ and $9$, and suppose that the product of the two-digit numbers $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{BA}$ is equal to $k$. Given that $k+1$ is a multiple of $101$, find $k$. [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i]

Let $ C_1$ and $ C_2$ be externally tangent circles with radius 2 and 3, respectively. Let $ C_3$ be a circle internally tangent to both $ C_1$ and $ C_2$ at points $ A$ and $ B$, respectively. The tangents to $ C_3$ at $ A$ and $ B$ meet at $ T$, and $ TA \equal{} 4$. Determine the radius of $ C_3$.

Suppose that $P(x)$ is a monic quadratic polynomial satisfying $aP(a) = 20P(20) = 22P(22)$ for some integer $a\neq 20, 22$. Find the minimum possible positive value of $P(0)$. [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i] (Note: wording changed from original to specify that $a \neq 20, 22$.)

You know that the binary function $\diamond$ takes in two non-negative integers and has the following properties: \begin{align*}0\diamond a&=1\\ a\diamond a&=0\end{align*} $\text{If } a<b, \text{ then } a\diamond b\&=(b-a)[(a-1)\diamond (b-1)].$ Find a general formula for $x\diamond y$, assuming that $y\gex>0$.

Triangle $ABC$ has sidelengths $AB=1$, $BC=\sqrt{3}$, and $AC=2$. Points $D,E$, and $F$ are chosen on $AB, BC$, and $AC$ respectively, such that $\angle EDF = \angle DFA = 90^{\circ}$. Given that the maximum possible value of $[DEF]^2$ can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ for positive integers $a, b$ with $\gcd (a, b) = 1$, find $a + b$. (Here $[DEF]$ denotes the area of triangle $DEF$.) [i]Proposed by Vismay Sharan[/i]

The [b]Collaptz function[/b] is defined as $$C(n) = \begin{cases} 3n - 1 & n\textrm{~odd}, \\ \frac{n}{2} & n\textrm{~even}.\end{cases}$$ We obtain the [b]Collaptz sequence[/b] of a number by repeatedly applying the Collaptz function to that number. For example, the Collaptz sequence of $13$ begins with $13, 38, 19, 56, 28, \cdots$ and so on. Find the sum of the three smallest positive integers $n$ whose Collaptz sequences do not contain $1,$ or in other words, do not [b]collaptzse[/b]. [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu and Jason Wang[/i]

Let $m>1$ be a fixed positive integer. For a nonempty string of base-ten digits $S$, let $c(S)$ be the number of ways to split $S$ into contiguous nonempty strings of digits such that the base-ten number represented by each string is divisible by $m$. These strings are allowed to have leading zeroes. In terms of $m$, what are the possible values that $c(S)$ can take? For example, if $m=2$, then $c(1234)=2$ as the splits $1234$ and $12|34$ are valid, while the other six splits are invalid.

Alice, Bob, and Charlie are visiting Princeton and decide to go to the Princeton U-Store to buy some tiger plushies. They each buy at least one plushie at price $p$. A day later, the U-Store decides to give a discount on plushies and sell them at $p'$ with $0 < p' < p$. Alice, Bob, and Charlie go back to the U-Store and buy some more plushies with each buying at least one again. At the end of that day, Alice has $12$ plushies, Bob has $40$, and Charlie has $52$ but they all spent the same amount of money: $\$42$. How many plushies did Alice buy on the first day?

Cat and Claire are having a conversation about Cat's favorite number. Cat says, "My favorite number is a two-digit positive integer with distinct nonzero digits, $\overline{AB}$, such that $A$ and $B$ are both factors of $\overline{AB}$." Claire says, "I don't know your favorite number yet, but I do know that among four of the numbers that might be your favorite number, you could start with any one of them, add a second, subtract a third, and get the fourth!" Cat says, "That's cool, and my favorite number is among those four numbers! Also, the square of my number is the product of two of the other numbers among the four you mentioned!" Claire says, "Now I know your favorite number!" What is Cat's favorite number? [i]Proposed by Andrew Wu[/i]

A pack of MIT students are holding an escape room, where students may compete in teams of 4, 5, or 6. There is \$60 dollars worth of prize money in Amazon gift cards for the winning team. If each gift card can contain any whole number of dollars, what is the minimum number of gift cards required so that the prize money can be distributed evenly among any team? [i]Lightning 4.1[/i]

Squares $ABCD$ and $BEFG$ are located as shown in the figure. It turned out that points $A, G$ and $E$ lie on the same straight line. Prove that then the points $D, F$ and $E$ also lie on the same line. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/4/2/9faf29a399d3a622c84f5d4a3cfcf5e99539c0.png[/img]

You have a triangle, $ABC$. Draw in the internal angle trisectors. Let the two trisectors closest to $AB$ intersect at $D$, the two trisectors closest to $BC$ intersect at $E$, and the two closest to $AC$ at $F$. Prove that $DEF$ is equilateral.

Show that the curve $x^{3}+3xy+y^{3}=1$ contains only one set of three distinct points, $A,B,$ and $C,$ which are the vertices of an equilateral triangle.