Found problems: 233
2016 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 1
If $a$ and $b$ satisfy the equations $a +\frac1b=4$ and $\frac1a+b=\frac{16}{15}$, determine the product of all possible values of $ab$.
2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 5
Thaddeus is given a $2013 \times 2013$ array of integers each between $1$ and $2013$, inclusive. He is allowed two operations:
1. Choose a row, and subtract $1$ from each entry.
2. Chooses a column, and add $1$ to each entry.
He would like to get an array where all integers are divisible by $2013$. On how many arrays is this possible?
2014 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 1
Let $O_1$ and $O_2$ be concentric circles with radii 4 and 6, respectively. A chord $AB$ is drawn in $O_1$ with length $2$. Extend $AB$ to intersect $O_2$ in points $C$ and $D$. Find $CD$.
2019 HMNT, 2
$2019$ students are voting on the distribution of $N$ items. For each item, each student submits a vote on who should receive that item, and the person with the most votes receives the item (in case of a tie, no one gets the item). Suppose that no student votes for the same person twice. Compute the maximum possible number of items one student can receive, over all possible values of $N$ and all possible ways of voting.
2018 PUMaC Combinatorics A, 6
Michael is trying to drive a bus from his home, $(0,0)$, to school, located at $(6,6)$. There are horizontal and vertical roads at every line $x=0,1,\ldots,6$ and $y=0,1,\ldots,6$. The city has placed $6$ roadblocks on lattice point intersections $(x,y)$ with $0\leq x,y \leq 6$. Michael notices that the only path he can take that only goes up and to the right is directly up from $(0,0)$ to $(0,6)$, and then right to $(6,6)$. How many sets of $6$ locations could the city have blocked?
2019 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 5
Isosceles triangle $ABC$ with $AB = AC$ is inscibed is a unit circle $\Omega$ with center $O$. Point $D$ is the reflection of $C$ across $AB$. Given that $DO = \sqrt{3}$, find the area of triangle $ABC$.
2011 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 9
Let $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ be two circles that intersect at points $A$ and $B$. Let line $l$ be tangent to $\omega_1$ at $P$ and to $\omega_2$ at $Q$ such that $A$ is closer to $PQ$ than $B$. Let points $R$ and $S$ lie along rays $PA$ and $QA$, respectively, so that $PQ = AR = AS$ and $R$ and $S$ are on opposite sides of $A$ as $P$ and $Q$. Let $O$ be the circumcenter of triangle $ASR$, and $C$ and $D$ be the midpoints of major arcs $AP$ and $AQ$, respectively. If $\angle APQ$ is $45$ degrees and $\angle AQP$ is $30$ degrees, determine $\angle COD$ in degrees.
2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 36
(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.
\[\begin{tabular}{cc}Niels Abel & Isaac Newton\\Etienne Bezout & Nicole Oresme \\ Augustin-Louis Cauchy & Blaise Pascal \\ Rene Descartes & Daniel Quillen \\ Leonhard Euler & Bernhard Riemann\\ Pierre Fatou & Jean-Pierre Serre \\ Alexander Grothendieck & Alan Turing \\ David Hilbert & Stanislaw Ulam \\ Kenkichi Iwasawa & John Venn \\ Carl Jacobi & Andrew Wiles \\ Andrey Kolmogorov & Leonardo Ximenes \\ Joseph-Louis Lagrange & Shing-Tung Yau \\ John Milnor & Ernst Zermelo\end{tabular}\]