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Found problems: 233

2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 24

Tags: hmmt , function , geometry
Given a point $p$ and a line segment $l$, let $d(p,l)$ be the distance between them. Let $A$, $B$, and $C$ be points in the plane such that $AB=6$, $BC=8$, $AC=10$. What is the area of the region in the $(x,y)$-plane formed by the ordered pairs $(x,y)$ such that there exists a point $P$ inside triangle $ABC$ with $d(P,AB)+x=d(P,BC)+y=d(P,AC)?$

2016 HMNT, 4

Tags: hmmt
A rectangular pool table has vertices at $(0, 0) (12, 0) (0, 10),$ and $(12, 10)$. There are pockets only in the four corners. A ball is hit from $(0, 0)$ along the line $y = x$ and bounces off several walls before eventually entering a pocket. Find the number of walls that the ball bounces off of before entering a pocket.

2016 HMNT, 1

Tags: hmmt , probability
DeAndre Jordan shoots free throws that are worth $1$ point each. He makes $40\%$ of his shots. If he takes two shots find the probability that he scores at least $1$ point.

2016 HMNT, 10

Tags: hmmt
Quadrilateral $ABCD$ satisfies $AB = 8, BC = 5, CD = 17, DA = 10$. Let $E$ be the intersection of $AC$ and $BD$. Suppose $BE : ED = 1 : 2$. Find the area of $ABCD$.

2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 3

Tags: hmmt
Let $S$ be the set of integers of the form $2^x+2^y+2^z$, where $x,y,z$ are pairwise distinct non-negative integers. Determine the $100$th smallest element of $S$.

2016 HMIC, 5

Let $S = \{a_1, \ldots, a_n \}$ be a finite set of positive integers of size $n \ge 1$, and let $T$ be the set of all positive integers that can be expressed as sums of perfect powers (including $1$) of distinct numbers in $S$, meaning \[ T = \left\{ \sum_{i=1}^n a_i^{e_i} \mid e_1, e_2, \dots, e_n \ge 0 \right\}. \] Show that there is a positive integer $N$ (only depending on $n$) such that $T$ contains no arithmetic progression of length $N$. [i]Yang Liu[/i]

2016 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 5

Tags: hmmt
Steph Curry is playing the following game and he wins if he has exactly $5$ points at some time. Flip a fair coin. If heads, shoot a $3$-point shot which is worth $3$ points. If tails, shoot a free throw which is worth $1$ point. He makes $\frac12$ of his $3$-point shots and all of his free throws. Find the probability he will win the game. (Note he keeps flipping the coin until he has exactly $5$ or goes over $5$ points)

2012 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 4

During the weekends, Eli delivers milk in the complex plane. On Saturday, he begins at $z$ and delivers milk to houses located at $z^3,z^5,z^7,\ldots,z^{2013}$ in that order; on Sunday, he begins at $1$ and delivers milk to houses located at $z^2,z^4,z^6,\ldots,z^{2012}$ in that order. Eli always walks directly (in a straight line) between two houses. If the distance he must travel from his starting point to the last house is $\sqrt{2012}$ on both days, find the real part of $z^2$.

2023 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 10

Tags: hmmt , geometry
Triangle $ABC$ has incenter $I$. Let $D$ be the foot of the perpendicular from $A$ to side $BC$. Let $X$ be a point such that segment $AX$ is a diameter of the circumcircle of triangle $ABC$. Given that $ID = 2$, $IA = 3$, and $IX = 4$, compute the inradius of triangle $ABC$.

2016 HMNT, 8

Tags: hmmt
Let $P_1P_2 \ldots P_8$ be a convex octagon. An integer $i$ is chosen uniformly at random from $1$ to $7$, inclusive. For each vertex of the octagon, the line between that vertex and the vertex $i$ vertices to the right is painted red. What is the expected number times two red lines intersect at a point that is not one of the vertices, given that no three diagonals are concurrent?

2016 HMNT, 25-27

Tags: hmmt
25. Chris and Paul each rent a different room of a hotel from rooms $1 - 60$. However, the hotel manager mistakes them for one person and gives ”Chris Paul” a room with Chris’s and Paul’s room concatenated. For example, if Chris had $15$ and Paul had $9$, ”Chris Paul” has $159$. If there are $360$ rooms in the hotel, what is the probability that ”Chris Paul” has a valid room? 26. Find the number of ways to choose two nonempty subsets $X$ and $Y$ of $\{1, 2, \ldots , 2001\}$, such that $|Y| = 1001$ and the smallest element of $Y$ is equal to the largest element of $X$. 27. Let $r_1, r_2, r_3, r_4$ be the four roots of the polynomial $x^4 - 4x^3 + 8x^2 - 7x + 3$. Find the value of $$\frac{r_1^2}{r_2^2+r_3^2+r_4^2}+\frac{r_2^2}{r_1^2+r_3^2+r_4^2}+\frac{r_3^2}{r_1^2+r_2^2+r_4^2}+\frac{r_4^2}{r_1^2+r_2^2+r_3^2}$$

2016 HMNT, 28-30

Tags: hmmt
28. The numbers $1-10$ are written in a circle randomly. Find the expected number of numbers which are at least $2$ larger than an adjacent number. 29. We want to design a new chess piece, the American, with the property that (i) the American can never attack itself, and (ii) if an American $A_1$ attacks another American $A_2$, then $A_2$ also attacks $A_1$. Let $m$ be the number of squares that an American attacks when placed in the top left corner of an 8 by 8 chessboard. Let $n$ be the maximal number of Americans that can be placed on the $8$ by $8$ chessboard such that no Americans attack each other, if one American must be in the top left corner. Find the largest possible value of $mn$. 30. On the blackboard, Amy writes $2017$ in base-$a$ to get $133201_a$. Betsy notices she can erase a digit from Amy’s number and change the base to base-$b$ such that the value of the the number remains the same. Catherine then notices she can erase a digit from Betsy’s number and change the base to base-$c$ such that the value still remains the same. Compute, in decimal, $a + b + c$.

2011 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 6

Let $ABCD$ be a cyclic quadrilateral, and suppose that $BC = CD = 2$. Let $I$ be the incenter of triangle $ABD$. If $AI = 2$ as well, find the minimum value of the length of diagonal $BD$.

2016 HMNT, 7-9

Tags: hmmt
7. What is the minimum value of the product $$\prod_{i=1}^6\frac{a_i-a_{i+1}}{a_{i+2}-a_{i+3}}$$ given that $(a_1, a_2, a_3, a_4, a_5, a_6)$ is a permutation of $(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)$? (note $a_7 = a_1, a_8 = a_2 \ldots$) 8. Danielle picks a positive integer $1 \le n \le 2016$ uniformly at random. What is the probability that $\text{gcd}(n, 2015) = 1$? 9. How many $3$-element subsets of the set $\{1, 2, 3, . . . , 19\}$ have sum of elements divisible by $4$?

2012 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 5

Find all ordered triples $(a,b,c)$ of positive reals that satisfy: $\lfloor a\rfloor bc=3,a\lfloor b\rfloor c=4$, and $ab\lfloor c\rfloor=5$, where $\lfloor x\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.

2019 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 10

Tags: hmmt , algebra
The sequence of integers $\{a_i\}_{i = 0}^{\infty}$ satisfies $a_0 = 3$, $a_1 = 4$, and \[a_{n+2} = a_{n+1} a_n + \left\lceil \sqrt{a_{n+1}^2 - 1} \sqrt{a_n^2 - 1}\right\rceil\] for $n \ge 0$. Evaluate the sum \[\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty} \left(\frac{a_{n+3}}{a_{n+2}} - \frac{a_{n+2}}{a_n} + \frac{a_{n+1}}{a_{n+3}} - \frac{a_n}{a_{n+1}}\right).\]

2016 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 6

Tags: hmmt , geometry
Let $P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_6$ be points in the complex plane, which are also roots of the equation $x^6+6x^3-216=0$. Given that $P_1P_2P_3P_4P_5P_6$ is a convex hexagon, determine the area of this hexagon.

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.

2014 HMNT, 2

Let $f(x) = x^2 + 6x + 7$. Determine the smallest possible value of $f(f(f(f(x))))$ over all real numbers $x.$

2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 34

Tags: hmmt
For how many unordered sets $\{a,b,c,d\}$ of positive integers, none of which exceed $168$, do there exist integers $w,x,y,z$ such that $(-1)^wa+(-1)^xb+(-1)^yc+(-1)^zd=168$? If your answer is $A$ and the correct answer is $C$, then your score on this problem will be $\left\lfloor25e^{-3\frac{|C-A|}C}\right\rfloor$.

2016 HMNT, 19-21

Tags: hmmt
19. Let $S$ be the set of all positive integers whose prime factorizations only contain powers of the primes $2$ and $2017$ ($1$, powers of $2$, and powers of $2017$ are thus contained in $S$). Compute $\sum_{s\in S}\frac1s$. 20. Let $\mathcal{V}$ be the volume enclosed by the graph $$x^ {2016} + y^{2016} + z^2 = 2016$$ Find $\mathcal{V}$ rounded to the nearest multiple of ten. 21. Zlatan has $2017$ socks of various colours. He wants to proudly display one sock of each of the colours, and he counts that there are $N$ ways to select socks from his collection for display. Given this information, what is the maximum value of $N$?

2016 HMNT, 6

Tags: hmmt , geometry
Let $P_1, P_2, \ldots, P_6$ be points in the complex plane, which are also roots of the equation $x^6+6x^3-216=0$. Given that $P_1P_2P_3P_4P_5P_6$ is a convex hexagon, determine the area of this hexagon.

2016 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 3

Let $V$ be a rectangular prism with integer side lengths. The largest face has area $240$ and the smallest face has area $48$. A third face has area $x$, where $x$ is not equal to $48$ or $240$. What is the sum of all possible values of $x$?

2014 HMNT, 3

Compute the greatest common divisor of $4^8 - 1$ and $8^{12} - 1$.

2013 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 10

Let $N$ be a positive integer whose decimal representation contains $11235$ as a contiguous substring, and let $k$ be a positive integer such that $10^k>N$. Find the minimum possible value of \[\dfrac{10^k-1}{\gcd(N,10^k-1)}.\]