Found problems: 14842
2016 ASMT, General
[u]General Round[/u]
[b]p1.[/b] Alice can bake a pie in $5$ minutes. Bob can bake a pie in $6$ minutes. Compute how many more pies Alice can bake than Bob in $60$ minutes.
[b]p2.[/b] Ben likes long bike rides. On one ride, he goes biking for six hours. For the first hour, he bikes at a speed of $15$ miles per hour. For the next two hours, he bikes at a speed of $12$ miles per hour. He remembers biking $90$ miles over the six hours. Compute the average speed, in miles per hour, Ben biked during the last three hours of his trip.
[b]p3.[/b] Compute the perimeter of a square with area $36$.
[b]p4.[/b] Two ants are standing side-by-side. One ant, which is $4$ inches tall, casts a shadow that is $10$ inches long. The other ant is $6$ inches tall. Compute, in inches, the length of the shadow that the taller ant casts.
[b]p5.[/b] Compute the number of distinct line segments that can be drawn inside a square such that the endpoints of the segment are on the square and the segment divides the square into two congruent triangles.
[b]p6.[/b] Emily has a cylindrical water bottle that can hold $1000\pi$ cubic centimeters of water. Right now, the bottle is holding $100\pi$ cubic centimeters of water, and the height of the water is $1$ centimeter. Compute the radius of the water bottle.
[b]p7.[/b] Given that $x$ and $y$ are nonnegative integers, compute the number of pairs $(x, y)$ such that $5x + y = 20$.
[b]p8.[/b] A sequence an is recursively defined where $a_n = 3(a_{n-1}-1000)$ for $n > 0$. Compute the smallest integer $x$ such that when $a_0 = x$, $a_n > a_0$ for all $n > 0$.
[b]p9.[/b] Compute the probability that two random integers, independently chosen and both taking on an integer value between $1$ and $10$ with equal probability, have a prime product.
[b]p10.[/b] If $x$ and $y$ are nonnegative integers, both less than or equal to $2$, then we say that $(x, y)$ is a friendly point. Compute the number of unordered triples of friendly points that form triangles with positive area.
[b]p11.[/b] Cindy is thinking of a number which is $4$ less than the square of a positive integer. The number has the property that it has two $2$-digit prime factors. What is the smallest possible value of Cindy's number?
[b]p12.[/b] Winona can purchase a pencil and two pens for $250$ cents, or two pencils and three pens for $425$ cents. If the cost of a pencil and the cost of a pen does not change, compute the cost in cents of five pencils and six pens.
[b]p13.[/b] Colin has an app on his phone that generates a random integer betwen $1$ and $10$. He generates $10$ random numbers and computes the sum. Compute the number of distinct possible sums Colin can end up with.
[b]p14.[/b] A circle is inscribed in a unit square, and a diagonal of the square is drawn. Find the total length of the segments of the diagonal not contained within the circle.
[b]p15.[/b] A class of six students has to split into two indistinguishable teams of three people. Compute the number of distinct team arrangements that can result.
[b]p16.[/b] A unit square is subdivided into a grid composed of $9$ squares each with sidelength $\frac13$ . A circle is drawn through the centers of the $4$ squares in the outermost corners of the grid. Compute the area of this circle.
[b]p17.[/b] There exists exactly one positive value of $k$ such that the line $y = kx$ intersects the parabola $y = x^2 + x + 4$ at exactly one point. Compute the intersection point.
[b]p18.[/b] Given an integer $x$, let $f(x)$ be the sum of the digits of $x$. Compute the number of positive integers less than $1000$ where $f(x) = 2$.
[b]p19.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral with $BA = BC$ and $DA = DC$. Let $E$ and $F$ be the midpoints of $BC$ and $CD$ respectively, and let $BF$ and $DE$ intersect at $G$. If the area of $CEGF$ is $50$, what is the area of $ABGD$?
[b]p20.[/b] Compute all real solutions to $16^x + 4^{x+1} - 96 = 0$.
[b]p21.[/b] At an M&M factory, two types of M&Ms are produced, red and blue. The M&Ms are transported individually on a conveyor belt. Anna is watching the conveyor belt, and has determined that four out of every five red M&Ms are followed by a blue one, while one out of every six blue M&Ms is followed by a red one. What proportion of the M&Ms are red?
[b]p22.[/b] $ABCDEFGH$ is an equiangular octagon with side lengths $2$, $4\sqrt2$, $1$, $3\sqrt2$, $2$, $3\sqrt2$, $3$, and $2\sqrt2$,in that order. Compute the area of the octagon.
[b]p23.[/b] The cubic $f(x) = x^3 +bx^2 +cx+d$ satisfies $f(1) = 3$, $f(2) = 6$, and $f(4) = 12$. Compute $f(3)$.
[b]p24.[/b] Given a unit square, two points are chosen uniformly at random within the square. Compute the probability that the line segment connecting those two points touches both diagonals of the square.
[b]p25.[/b] Compute the remainder when: $$5\underbrace{666...6666}_{2016 \,\, sixes}5$$ is divided by $17$.
[u]General Tiebreaker [/u]
[b]Tie 1.[/b] Trapezoid $ABCD$ has $AB$ parallel to $CD$, with $\angle ADC = 90^o$. Given that $AD = 5$, $BC = 13$ and $DC = 18$, compute the area of the trapezoid.
[b]Tie 2.[/b] The cubic $f(x) = x^3- 7x - 6$ has three distinct roots, $a$, $b$, and $c$. Compute $\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}$ .
[b]Tie 3.[/b] Ben flips a fair coin repeatedly. Given that Ben's first coin flip is heads, compute the probability Ben flips two heads in a row before Ben flips two tails in a row.
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1991 IMO Shortlist, 8
$ S$ be a set of $ n$ points in the plane. No three points of $ S$ are collinear. Prove that there exists a set $ P$ containing $ 2n \minus{} 5$ points satisfying the following condition: In the interior of every triangle whose three vertices are elements of $ S$ lies a point that is an element of $ P.$
2018 Rio de Janeiro Mathematical Olympiad, 2
Let $(a_n)$ be a sequence of integers, with $a_1 = 1$ and for evert integer $n \ge 1$, $a_{2n} = a_n + 1$ and $a_{2n+1} = 10a_n$. How many times $111$ appears on this sequence?
2021 Estonia Team Selection Test, 1
The board has a natural number greater than $1$. At each step, Igor writes the number $n +\frac{n}{p}$ instead of the number $n$ on the board , where $p$ is some prime divisor of $n$.
Prove that if Igor continues to rewrite the number infinite times, then he will choose infinitely times the number $3$ as a prime divisor of $p$.
[hide=original wording]На доске записано какое-то натуральное число, большее 1. На каждом шагу Игорь переписывает имеющееся на доске число n на число n +n/p, где p - это какой-нибудь простой делитель числа n. Доказать, что если Игорь будет продолжать переписывать число бесконечно долго, то он
бесконечно много раз выберет в качестве простого делителя p число 3.[/hide]
1965 All Russian Mathematical Olympiad, 057
Given a board $3\times3$ and $9$ cards with some numbers (known to the players). Two players, in turn, put those cards on the board. The first wins if the sum of the numbers in the first and the third row is greater than in the first and the third column. Prove that it doesn't matter what numbers are on the cards, but if the first plays the best way, the second can not win.
2024 Germany Team Selection Test, 1
Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers greater than $1$. In each unit square of an $m\times n$ grid lies a coin with its tail side up. A [i]move[/i] consists of the following steps.
[list=1]
[*]select a $2\times 2$ square in the grid;
[*]flip the coins in the top-left and bottom-right unit squares;
[*]flip the coin in either the top-right or bottom-left unit square.
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Determine all pairs $(m,n)$ for which it is possible that every coin shows head-side up after a finite number of moves.
[i]Thanasin Nampaisarn, Thailand[/i]
2011 Israel National Olympiad, 5
We have two lists of numbers: One initially containing 1,6,11,...,96, and the other initially containing 4,9,14,...,99. In every turn, we erase two numbers from one of the lists, and write $\frac{1}{3}$ of their sum (not necessarily an integer) in the other list. We continue this process until there are no possible moves.
[list=a]
[*] Prove that at the end of the process, there is exactly one number in each list.
[*] Prove that those two numbers are [u]not[/u] equal.
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2016 All-Russian Olympiad, 6
A square is partitioned in $n^2\geq 4$ rectanles using $2(n-1)$ lines,$n-1$ of which,are parallel to the one side of the square,$n-1$ are parallel to the other side.Prove that we can choose $2n$ rectangles of the partition,such that,for each two of them,we can place the one inside the other (possibly with rotation).
2017 Princeton University Math Competition, 17
Zack keeps cutting the interval $[0, 1]$ of the number line, each time cutting at a uniformly random point in the interval, until the interval is cut into pieces, none of which have length greater than $\frac35$ . The expected number of cuts that Zack makes can be written as $\frac{p}{q}$ for $p$ and $q$ relatively prime positive integers. Find $p + q$.
2006 Estonia Math Open Senior Contests, 6
Kati cut two equal regular $ n\minus{}gons$ out of paper. To the vertices of both $ n\minus{}gons$, she wrote the numbers 1 to $ n$ in some order. Then she stabbed a needle through the centres of these $ n\minus{}gons$ so that they could be rotated with respect to each other. Kati noticed that there is a position where the numbers at each pair of aligned vertices are different. Prove that the $ n\minus{}gons$ can be rotated to a position where at least two pairs of aligned vertices contain equal numbers.
1987 China Team Selection Test, 3
Let $ G$ be a simple graph with $ 2 \cdot n$ vertices and $ n^{2}+1$ edges. Show that this graph $ G$ contains a $ K_{4}-\text{one edge}$, that is, two triangles with a common edge.
2010 Greece Junior Math Olympiad, 4
Three parallel lines $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_3$ of a plane are given such that the line $\ell_2$ has the same distance $a$ from $\ell_1$ and $\ell_3$. We put $5$ points $M_1, M_2, M_3,M_4$ and $M_5$ on the lines $\ell_1, \ell_2$ and $\ell_3$ in such a way that each line contains at least one point. Detennine the maximal number of isosceles triangles that are possible to be formed with vertices three of the points $M_1, M_2, M_3, M_4$ and $M_5$ in the following cases:
(i) $M_1,M_2,M_3 \in \ell_2, M_4 \in \ell_1$ and $M_5 \in \ell_3$.
(ii) $M_1,M_2 \in \ell_1, M_3,M_4 \in \ell_3$ and $M_5 \in \ell_2$.
2021-2022 OMMC, 8
Isaac repeatedly flips a fair coin. Whenever a particular face appears for the $2n+1$th time, for any nonnegative integer $n$, he earns a point. The expected number of flips it takes for Isaac to get $10$ points is $\tfrac ab$ for coprime positive integers $a$ and $b$. Find $a + b$.
[i]Proposed by Isaac Chen[/i]
LMT Team Rounds 2021+, B6
Maisy is at the origin of the coordinate plane. On her first step, she moves $1$ unit up. On her second step, she moves $ 1$ unit to the right. On her third step, she moves $2$ units up. On her fourth step, she moves $2$ units to the right. She repeats this pattern with each odd-numbered step being $ 1$ unit more than the previous step. Given that the point that Maisy lands on after her $21$st step can be written in the form $(x, y)$, find the value of $x + y$.
Proposed by Audrey Chun
2006 Indonesia MO, 4
A black pawn and a white pawn are placed on the first square and the last square of a $ 1\times n$ chessboard, respectively. Wiwit and Siti move alternatingly. Wiwit has the white pawn, and Siti has the black pawn. The white pawn moves first. In every move, the player moves her pawn one or two squares to the right or to the left, without passing the opponent's pawn. The player who cannot move anymore loses the game. Which player has the winning strategy? Explain the strategy.
1989 ITAMO, 2
There are $30$ men with their $30$ wives sitting at a round table. Show that there always exist two men who are on the same distance from their wives. (The seats are arranged at vertices of a regular polygon.)
1997 Chile National Olympiad, 7
In a career in mathematics, $7$ courses are taught, among which students can choose the ones you want. Determine the number of students in the career, knowing that:
$\bullet$ No two students have chosen the same courses.
$\bullet$ Any two students have at least one course in common.
$\bullet$ If the race had one more student, it would not be possible to do both.
2008 BAMO, 3
A triangle is constructed with the lengths of the sides chosen from the set $\{2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144\}$. Show that this triangle must be isosceles.
(A triangle is isosceles if it has at least two sides the same length.)
1998 All-Russian Olympiad Regional Round, 8.3
There are 52 cards in the deck, 13 of each suit. Vanya draws from the deck one card at a time. Removed cards are not returned to the deck. Every time Before taking out the card, Vanya makes a wish for some suit.Prove that if Vanya makes a wish every time, , the cards of which are in the deck has no less cards left than cards of any other suit, then the hidden suit will fall with the suit of the card drawn at least 13 times.
2013 AMC 10, 4
When counting from $3$ to $201$, $53$ is the $51^{\text{st}}$ number counted. When counting backwards from $201$ to $3$, $53$ is the $n^{\text{th}}$ number counted. What is $n$?
$\textbf{(A) }146\qquad \textbf{(B) } 147\qquad\textbf{(C) } 148\qquad\textbf{(D) }149\qquad\textbf{(E) }150$
Mid-Michigan MO, Grades 7-9, 2010
[b]p1.[/b] Find the smallest whole number $n \ge 2$ such that the product $(2^2 - 1)(3^2 - 1) ... (n^2 - 1)$ is the square of a whole number.
[b]p2.[/b] The figure below shows a $ 10 \times 10$ square with small $2 \times 2$ squares removed from the corners. What is the area of the shaded region?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/7/5/a829487cc5d937060e8965f6da3f4744ba5588.png[/img]
[b]p3.[/b] Three cars are racing: a Ford $[F]$, a Toyota $[T]$, and a Honda $[H]$. They began the race with $F$ first, then $T$, and $H$ last. During the race, $F$ was passed a total of $3$ times, $T$ was passed $5$ times, and $H$ was passed $8$ times. In what order did the cars finish?
[b]p4.[/b] There are $11$ big boxes. Each one is either empty or contains $8$ medium-sized boxes inside. Each medium box is either empty or contains $8$ small boxes inside. All small boxes are empty. Among all the boxes, there are a total of $102$ empty boxes. How many boxes are there altogether?
[b]p5.[/b] Ann, Mary, Pete, and finally Vlad eat ice cream from a tub, in order, one after another. Each eats at a constant rate, each at his or her own rate. Each eats for exactly the period of time that it would take the three remaining people, eating together, to consume half of the tub. After Vlad eats his portion there is no more ice cream in the tube. How many times faster would it take them to consume the tub if they all ate together?
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2023 USAJMO, 3
Consider an $n$-by-$n$ board of unit squares for some odd positive integer $n$. We say that a collection $C$ of identical dominoes is a [i]maximal grid-aligned configuration[/i] on the board if $C$ consists of $(n^2-1)/2$ dominoes where each domino covers exactly two neighboring squares and the dominoes don't overlap: $C$ then covers all but one square on the board. We are allowed to slide (but not rotate) a domino on the board to cover the uncovered square, resulting in a new maximal grid-aligned configuration with another square uncovered. Let $k(C)$ be the number of distinct maximal grid-aligned configurations obtainable from $C$ by repeatedly sliding dominoes. Find the maximum value of $k(C)$ as a function of $n$.
[i]Proposed by Holden Mui[/i]
1983 Polish MO Finals, 3
Consider the following one-player game on an infinite chessboard. If two horizontally or vertically adjacent squares are occupied by a pawn each, and a square on the same line that is adjacent to one of them is empty, then it is allowed to remove the two pawns and place a pawn on the third (empty) square. Prove that if in the initial position all the pawns were forming a rectangle with the number of squares divisible by $3$, then it is not possible to end the game with only one pawn left on the board.
2001 Moldova National Olympiad, Problem 1
Consider the set $M=\{1,2,...,n\},n\in\mathbb N$. Find the smallest positive integer $k$ with the following property: In every $k$-element subset $S$ of $M$ there exist two elements, one of which divides the other one.
2018 Baltic Way, 8
A graph has $N$ vertices. An invisible hare sits in one of the vertices. A group of hunters tries to kill the hare. In each move all of them shoot simultaneously: each hunter shoots at a single vertex, they choose the target vertices cooperatively. If the hare was in one of the target vertices during a shoot, the hunt is finished. Otherwise the hare can stay in its vertex or jump to one of the neighboring vertices.
The hunters know an algorithm that allows them to kill the hare in at most $N!$ moves. Prove that then there exists an algorithm that allows them to kill the hare in at most $2^N$ moves.