Found problems: 1111
2010 Purple Comet Problems, 11
A jar contains one white marble, two blue marbles, three red marbles, and four green marbles. If you select two of these marbles without replacement, the probability that both marbles will be the same color is $\tfrac{m}{n}$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n.$
2013 AMC 12/AHSME, 24
Three distinct segments are chosen at random among the segments whose end-points are the vertices of a regular 12-gon. What is the probability that the lengths of these three segments are the three side lengths of a triangle with positive area?
$ \textbf{(A)} \ \frac{553}{715} \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ \frac{443}{572} \qquad \textbf{(C)} \ \frac{111}{143} \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ \frac{81}{104} \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ \frac{223}{286}$
2012 Online Math Open Problems, 33
You are playing a game in which you have $3$ envelopes, each containing a uniformly random amount of money between $0$ and $1000$ dollars. (That is, for any real $0 \leq a < b \leq 1000$, the probability that the amount of money in a given envelope is between $a$ and $b$ is $\frac{b-a}{1000}$.) At any step, you take an envelope and look at its contents. You may choose either to keep the envelope, at which point you finish, or discard it and repeat the process with one less envelope. If you play to optimize your expected winnings, your expected winnings will be $E$. What is $\lfloor E\rfloor,$ the greatest integer less than or equal to $E$?
[i]Author: Alex Zhu[/i]
2016 AMC 12/AHSME, 23
Three numbers in the interval [0,1] are chosen independently and at random. What is the probability that the chosen numbers are the side lengths of a triangle with positive area?
$\textbf{(A) }\frac16\qquad\textbf{(B) }\frac13\qquad\textbf{(C) }\frac12\qquad\textbf{(D) }\frac23\qquad\textbf{(E) }\frac56$
2019 BMT Spring, 6
At a party, $2019$ people decide to form teams of three. To do so, each turn, every person not on a team points to one other person at random. If three people point to each other (that is, $A$ points to $B$, $B$ points to $C$, and $C$ points to $A$), then they form a team. What is the probability that after $65, 536$ turns, exactly one person is not on a team
2014 Math Prize For Girls Problems, 10
An ant is on one face of a cube. At every step, the ant walks to one of its four neighboring faces with equal probability. What is the expected (average) number of steps for it to reach the face opposite its starting face?
1974 AMC 12/AHSME, 24
A fair die is rolled six times. The probability of rolling at least a five at least five times is
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{13}{729} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{12}{729} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{2}{729} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{3}{729} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{none of these} $
2019 PUMaC Geometry B, 4
Suppose we choose two numbers $x,y\in[0,1]$ uniformly at random. If the probability that the circle with center $(x,y)$ and radius $|x-y|$ lies entirely within the unit square $[0,1]\times [0,1]$ is written as $\tfrac{p}{q}$ with $p$ and $q$ relatively prime nonnegative integers, then what is $p^2+q^2$?
2014 NIMO Summer Contest, 10
Among $100$ points in the plane, no three collinear, exactly $4026$ pairs are connected by line segments. Each point is then randomly assigned an integer from $1$ to $100$ inclusive, each equally likely, such that no integer appears more than once. Find the expected value of the number of segments which join two points whose labels differ by at least $50$.
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
2013 ELMO Shortlist, 3
Let $a_1,a_2,...,a_9$ be nine real numbers, not necessarily distinct, with average $m$. Let $A$ denote the number of triples $1 \le i < j < k \le 9$ for which $a_i + a_j + a_k \ge 3m$. What is the minimum possible value of $A$?
[i]Proposed by Ray Li[/i]
2012 AMC 12/AHSME, 13
Two parabolas have equations $y=x^2+ax+b$ and $y=x^2+cx+d$, where $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ are integers (not necessarily different), each chosen independently by rolling a fair six-sided die. What is the probability that the parabolas have at least one point in common?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \frac{1}{2} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{25}{36} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{5}{6} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{31}{36} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 1 $
2013 AMC 10, 12
Let $S$ be the set of sides and diagonals of a regular pentagon. A pair of elements of $S$ are selected at random without replacement. What is the probability that the two chosen segments have the same length?
$ \textbf{(A) }\frac25\qquad\textbf{(B) }\frac49\qquad\textbf{(C) }\frac12\qquad\textbf{(D) }\frac59\qquad\textbf{(E) }\frac45 $
2014 AMC 10, 19
Two concentric circles have radii $1$ and $2$. Two points on the outer circle are chosen independently and uniformly at random. What is the probability that the chord joining the two points intersects the inner circle?
$\textbf{(A) }\frac{1}{6}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\frac{1}{4}\qquad\textbf{(C) }\frac{2-\sqrt{2}}{2}\qquad\textbf{(D) }\frac{1}{3}\qquad\textbf{(E) }\frac{1}{2}\qquad$
1985 IMO Longlists, 6
On a one-way street, an unending sequence of cars of width $a$, length $b$ passes with velocity $v$. The cars are separated by the distance $c$. A pedestrian crosses the street perpendicularly with velocity $w$, without paying attention to the cars.
[b](a)[/b] What is the probability that the pedestrian crosses the street uninjured?
[b](b)[/b] Can he improve this probability by crossing the road in a direction other than perpendicular?
2016 Fall CHMMC, 5
Suppose you have $27$ identical unit cubes colored such that $3$ faces adjacent to a vertex are red and the other $3$ are colored blue. Suppose further that you assemble these $27$ cubes randomly into a larger cube with $3$ cubes to an edge (in particular, the orientation of each cube is random). The probability that the entire cube is one solid color can be written as $\frac{1}{2^n}$ for some positive integer $n$. Find $n$.
2019 BMT Spring, 4
Two real numbers $ x $ and $ y $ are both chosen at random from the closed interval $ [-10, 10] $. Find
the probability that $ x^2 + y^2 < 10 $. Express your answer as a common fraction in terms of $ \pi $.
2016 NIMO Problems, 4
Justine has two fair dice, one with sides labeled $1,2,\ldots, m$ and one with sides labeled $1,2,\ldots, n.$ She rolls both dice once. If $\tfrac{3}{20}$ is the probability that at least one of the numbers showing is at most 3, find the sum of all distinct possible values of $m+n$.
[i]Proposed by Justin Stevens[/i]
2004 IMO Shortlist, 4
Consider a matrix of size $n\times n$ whose entries are real numbers of absolute value not exceeding $1$. The sum of all entries of the matrix is $0$. Let $n$ be an even positive integer. Determine the least number $C$ such that every such matrix necessarily has a row or a column with the sum of its entries not exceeding $C$ in absolute value.
[i]Proposed by Marcin Kuczma, Poland[/i]
1986 IMO Longlists, 10
A set of $n$ standard dice are shaken and randomly placed in a straight line. If $n < 2r$ and $r < s$, then the probability that there will be a string of at least $r$, but not more than $s$, consecutive $1$'s can be written as $\frac{P}{6^{s+2}}$. Find an explicit expression for $P$.
2019 AMC 10, 17
A red ball and a green ball are randomly and independently tossed into bins numbered with positive integers so that for each ball, the probability that it is tossed into bin $k$ is $2^{-k}$ for $k=1,2,3,\ldots.$ What is the probability that the red ball is tossed into a higher-numbered bin than the green ball?
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{1}{4} \qquad\textbf{(B) } \frac{2}{7} \qquad\textbf{(C) } \frac{1}{3} \qquad\textbf{(D) } \frac{3}{8} \qquad\textbf{(E) } \frac{3}{7}$
2003 AMC 12-AHSME, 21
An object moves $ 8$ cm in a straight line from $ A$ to $ B$, turns at an angle $ \alpha$, measured in radians and chosen at random from the interval $ (0,\pi)$, and moves $ 5$ cm in a straight line to $ C$. What is the probability that $ AC<7$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{1}{6} \qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{1}{5} \qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{1}{4} \qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{1}{3} \qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{1}{2}$
1987 IMO Longlists, 36
A game consists in pushing a flat stone along a sequence of squares $S_0, S_1, S_2, . . .$ that are arranged in linear order. The stone is initially placed on square $S_0$. When the stone stops on a square $S_k$ it is pushed again in the same direction and so on until it reaches $S_{1987}$ or goes beyond it; then the game stops. Each time the stone is pushed, the probability that it will advance exactly $n$ squares is $\frac{1}{2^n}$. Determine the probability that the stone will stop exactly on square $S_{1987}.$
1958 February Putnam, A3
Real numbers are chosen at random from the interval $[0,1].$ If after choosing the $n$-th number the sum of the numbers so chosen first exceeds $1$, show that the expected value for $n$ is $e$.
2011 AMC 10, 16
A dart board is a regular octagon divided into regions as shown. Suppose that a dart thrown at the board is equally likely to land anywhere on the board. What is probability that the dart lands within the center square?
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$ \textbf{(A)}\ \frac{\sqrt{2} - 1}{2} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{1}{4} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{2 - \sqrt{2}}{2} \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{4} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 2 - \sqrt{2}$
2007 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 2
A candy company makes $5$ colors of jellybeans, which come in equal proportions. If I grab a random sample of $5$ jellybeans, what is the probability that I get exactly $2$ distinct colors?