Found problems: 1111
2009 Princeton University Math Competition, 7
We randomly choose 5 distinct positive integers less than or equal to 90. What is the floor of 10 times the expected value of the fourth largest number?
2019 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 2
Your math friend Steven rolls five fair icosahedral dice (each of which is labelled $1,2, \dots,20$ on its sides). He conceals the results but tells you that at least half the rolls are $20$. Suspicious, you examine the first two dice and find that they show $20$ and $19$ in that order. Assuming that Steven is truthful, what is the probability that all three remaining concealed dice show $20$?
2015 AMC 12/AHSME, 9
A box contains $2$ red marbles, $2$ green marbles, and $2$ yellow marbles. Carol takes $2$ marbles from the box at random; then Claudia takes $2$ of the remaining marbles at random; and then Cheryl takes the last two marbles. What is the probability that Cheryl gets $2$ marbles of the same color?
$\textbf{(A) }\dfrac1{10}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\dfrac16\qquad\textbf{(C) }\dfrac15\qquad\textbf{(D) }\dfrac13\qquad\textbf{(E) }\dfrac12$
1986 IMO Shortlist, 10
Three persons $A,B,C$, are playing the following game:
A $k$-element subset of the set $\{1, . . . , 1986\}$ is randomly chosen, with an equal probability of each choice, where $k$ is a fixed positive integer less than or equal to $1986$. The winner is $A,B$ or $C$, respectively, if the sum of the chosen numbers leaves a remainder of $0, 1$, or $2$ when divided by $3$.
For what values of $k$ is this game a fair one? (A game is fair if the three outcomes are equally probable.)
2012 Brazil National Olympiad, 1
In a culturing of bacteria, there are two species of them: red and blue bacteria.
When two red bacteria meet, they transform into one blue bacterium.
When two blue bacteria meet, they transform into four red bacteria.
When a red and a blue bacteria meet, they transform into three red bacteria.
Find, in function of the amount of blue bacteria and the red bacteria initially in the culturing,
all possible amounts of bacteria, and for every possible amount, the possible amounts of red and blue bacteria.
2007 ITest, 36
Let $b$ be a real number randomly sepected from the interval $[-17,17]$. Then, $m$ and $n$ are two relatively prime positive integers such that $m/n$ is the probability that the equation \[x^4+25b^2=(4b^2-10b)x^2\] has $\textit{at least}$ two distinct real solutions. Find the value of $m+n$.
2023 AMC 10, 21
Each of $2023$ balls is placed in on of $3$ bins. Which of the following is closest to the probability that each of the bins will contain an odd number of balls?
$\textbf{(A) } \frac{2}{3} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{3}{10} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{1}{2} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{1}{3} \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac{1}{4}$
KoMaL A Problems 2019/2020, A. 772
Each of $N$ people chooses a random integer number between $1$ and $19$ (including $1$ and $19$, and not necessarily with the same distribution). The random numbers chosen by the people are independent from each other, and it is true that each person chooses each of the $19$ numbers with probability at most $99\%$. They add up the $N$ chosen numbers, and take the remainder of the sum divided by $19$. Prove that the distribution of the result tends to the uniform distribution exponentially, i.e. there exists a number $0<c<1$ such that the mod $19$ remainder of the sum of the $N$ chosen numbers equals each of the mod $19$ remainders with probability between $\frac{1}{19}-c^{N}$ and $\frac{1}{19}+c^{N}$.
2011 National Olympiad First Round, 24
There is a bag with balls whose colors are $c_1, c_2, \dots, c_n$. Let $a_i$ be the number of balls inside the bag with color $c_i$. We are drawing $n$ balls from the bag one by one with replacement. If $p(a_1,a_2,\dots, a_n)$ denotes the probability that at least two of them have same color, which one below is smaller?
$\textbf{(A)}\ p(2,2,2,1) \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ p(1,1,1,1) \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ p(2,2,3) \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ p(2,2,1) \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ p(1,1,1)$
2020 AMC 12/AHSME, 16
A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices are $(0, 0),$ $(2020, 0),$ $(2020, 2020),$ and $(0, 2020)$. The probability that the point is within $d$ units of a lattice point is $\tfrac{1}{2}$. (A point $(x, y)$ is a lattice point if $x$ and $y$ are both integers.) What is $d$ to the nearest tenth$?$
$\textbf{(A) } 0.3 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 0.4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 0.5 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 0.6 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0.7$
1994 AMC 8, 22
The two wheels shown below are spun and the two resulting numbers are added. The probability that the sum is even is
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draw(circle((0,0),3));
draw(circle((7,0),3));
draw((0,0)--(3,0));
draw((0,-3)--(0,3));
draw((7,3)--(7,0)--(7+3*sqrt(3)/2,-3/2));
draw((7,0)--(7-3*sqrt(3)/2,-3/2));
draw((0,5)--(0,3.5)--(-0.5,4));
draw((0,3.5)--(0.5,4));
draw((7,5)--(7,3.5)--(6.5,4));
draw((7,3.5)--(7.5,4));
label("$3$",(-0.75,0),W);
label("$1$",(0.75,0.75),NE);
label("$2$",(0.75,-0.75),SE);
label("$6$",(6,0.5),NNW);
label("$5$",(7,-1),S);
label("$4$",(8,0.5),NNE);
[/asy]
$\text{(A)}\ \dfrac{1}{6} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \dfrac{1}{4} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \dfrac{1}{3} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \dfrac{5}{12} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \dfrac{4}{9}$