Found problems: 698
2008 ITest, 21
One of the boxes that Joshua and Wendy unpack has Joshua's collection of board games. Michael, Wendy, Alexis, and Joshua decide to play one of them, a game called $\textit{Risk}$ that involves rolling ordinary six-sided dice to determine the outcomes of strategic battles. Wendy has never played before, so early on Michael explains a bit of strategy.
"You have the first move and you occupy three of the four territories in the Australian continent. You'll want to attack Joshua in Indonesia so that you can claim the Australian continent which will give you bonus armies on your next turn."
"Don't tell her $\textit{that!}$" complains Joshua.
Wendy and Joshua begin rolling dice to determine the outcome of their struggle over Indonesia. Joshua rolls extremely well, overcoming longshot odds to hold off Wendy's attack. Finally, Wendy is left with one chance. Wendy and Joshua each roll just one six-sided die. Wendy wins if her roll is $\textit{higher}$ than Joshua's roll. Let $a$ and $b$ be relatively prime positive integers so that $a/b$ is the probability that Wendy rolls higher, giving her control over the continent of Australia. Find the value of $a+b$.
2014 NIMO Problems, 8
For positive integers $a$, $b$, and $c$, define \[ f(a,b,c)=\frac{abc}{\text{gcd}(a,b,c)\cdot\text{lcm}(a,b,c)}. \] We say that a positive integer $n$ is $f@$ if there exist pairwise distinct positive integers $x,y,z\leq60$ that satisfy $f(x,y,z)=n$. How many $f@$ integers are there?
[i]Proposed by Michael Ren[/i]
1963 Putnam, A2
Let $f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ be a strictly increasing function such that $f(2)=2$ and $f(mn)=f(m)f(n)$
for every pair of relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Prove that $f(n)=n$ for every positive integer $n$.
2014 AIME Problems, 14
In $\triangle ABC$, $AB=10$, $\angle A=30^\circ$, and $\angle C=45^\circ$. Let $H,D$, and $M$ be points on line $\overline{BC}$ such that $\overline{AH}\perp\overline{BC}$, $\angle BAD=\angle CAD$, and $BM=CM$. Point $N$ is the midpoint of segment $\overline{HM}$, and point $P$ is on ray $AD$ such that $\overline{PN}\perp\overline{BC}$. Then $AP^2=\tfrac{m}{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$.
2011 Bulgaria National Olympiad, 2
For each natural number $a$ we denote $\tau (a)$ and $\phi (a)$ the number of natural numbers dividing $a$ and the number of natural numbers less than $a$ that are relatively prime to $a$. Find all natural numbers $n$ for which $n$ has exactly two different prime divisors and $n$ satisfies $\tau (\phi (n))=\phi (\tau (n))$.
2013 Online Math Open Problems, 19
$A,B,C$ are points in the plane such that $\angle ABC=90^\circ$. Circles with diameters $BA$ and $BC$ meet at $D$. If $BA=20$ and $BC=21$, then the length of segment $BD$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{m}{n}$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. What is $m+n$?
[i]Ray Li[/i]
1969 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 120
Given natural $n$. Consider all the fractions $1/(pq)$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime, $0<p<q\le n , p+q>n$. Prove that the sum of all such a fractions equals to $1/2$.
2011 AIME Problems, 1
Jar A contains four liters of a solution that is $45\%$ acid. Jar B contains five liters of a solution that is $48\%$ acid. Jar C contains one liter of a solution that is $k\%$ acid. From jar C, $\tfrac{m}{n}$ liters of the solution is added to jar A, and the remainder of the solution in jar C is added to jar B. At the end, both jar A and jar B contain solutions that are $50\%$ acid. Given that $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers, find $k+m+n$.
2022 Princeton University Math Competition, 14
Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a triangle. Let $Q$ be a point in the interior of $\vartriangle ABC$, and let $X, Y,Z$ denote the feet of the altitudes from $Q$ to sides $BC$, $CA$, $AB$, respectively. Suppose that $BC = 15$, $\angle ABC = 60^o$, $BZ = 8$, $ZQ = 6$, and $\angle QCA = 30^o$. Let line $QX$ intersect the circumcircle of $\vartriangle XY Z$ at the point $W\ne X$. If the ratio $\frac{ WY}{WZ}$ can be expressed as $\frac{p}{q}$ for relatively prime positive integers $p, q$, find $p + q$.
PEN F Problems, 5
Prove that there is no positive rational number $x$ such that \[x^{\lfloor x\rfloor }=\frac{9}{2}.\]
2011 Purple Comet Problems, 1
There are relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$ so that \[\dfrac{\dfrac{1}{2}}{\dfrac{\dfrac{1}{3}}{\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{4}}+\dfrac{\dfrac{1}{3}}{\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{4}+\dfrac{1}{4}}}=\dfrac{m}{n}.\]Find $m+2n$.
2009 Purple Comet Problems, 4
There are three bags of marbles. Bag two has twice as many marbles as bag one. Bag three has three times as many marbles as bag one. Half the marbles in bag one, one third the marbles in bag two, and one fourth the marbles in bag three are green. If all three bags of marbles are dumped into a single pile, $\frac{m}{n}$ of the marbles in the pile would be green where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers.
Find $m + n.$
2014 China Girls Math Olympiad, 8
Let $n$ be a positive integer, and set $S$ be the set of all integers in $\{1,2,\dots,n\}$ which are relatively prime to $n$.
Set $S_1 = S \cap \left(0, \frac n3 \right]$, $S_2 = S \cap \left( \frac n3, \frac {2n}3 \right]$, $S_3 = S \cap \left( \frac{2n}{3}, n \right]$.
If the cardinality of $S$ is a multiple of $3$, prove that $S_1$, $S_2$, $S_3$ have the same cardinality.
1972 AMC 12/AHSME, 34
Three times Dick's age plus Tom's age equals twice Harry's age. Double the cube of Harry's age is equal to three times the cube of Dick's age added to the cube of Tom's age. Their respective ages are relatively prime to each other. The sum of the squares of their ages is
$\textbf{(A) }42\qquad\textbf{(B) }46\qquad\textbf{(C) }122\qquad\textbf{(D) }290\qquad \textbf{(E) }326$
2013 National Olympiad First Round, 10
How many positive integers $n$ are there such that there are exactly $20$ positive odd integers that are less than $n$ and relatively prime with $n$?
$
\textbf{(A)}\ 5
\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 4
\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 3
\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 2
\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{None of above}
$
2006 AIME Problems, 10
Seven teams play a soccer tournament in which each team plays every other team exactly once. No ties occur, each team has a $50\%$ chance of winning each game it plays, and the outcomes of the games are independent. In each game, the winner is awarded a point and the loser gets 0 points. The total points are accumilated to decide the ranks of the teams. In the first game of the tournament, team $A$ beats team $B$. The probability that team $A$ finishes with more points than team $B$ is $m/n$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$.
2012 AIME Problems, 9
Let $x$ and $y$ be real numbers such that $\frac{\sin{x}}{\sin{y}} = 3$ and $\frac{\cos{x}}{\cos{y}} = \frac{1}{2}$. The value of $\frac{\sin{2x}}{\sin{2y}} + \frac{\cos{2x}}{\cos{2y}}$ can be expressed in the form $\frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p + q$.
PEN O Problems, 13
Let $n$ and $k$ be given relatively prime natural numbers, $k<n.$ Each number in the set $M=\{1,2,...,n-1\}$ is colored either blue or white. It is given that [list] [*] for each $i\in M,$ both $i$ and $n-i$ have the same color, [*] for each $i\in M,i\ne k,$ both $i$ and $\left \vert i-k \right \vert $ have the same color. [/list] Prove that all numbers in $M$ have the same color.
2007 Kurschak Competition, 2
Prove that if from any $2007$ consecutive terms of an infinite arithmetic progression of integers starting with $2$, one can choose a term relatively prime to all the $2006$ other terms, then there is also a term amongst any $2008$ consecutive terms relatively prime to the rest.
2006 Romania National Olympiad, 4
Let $A$ be a set of positive integers with at least 2 elements. It is given that for any numbers $a>b$, $a,b \in A$ we have $\frac{ [a,b] }{ a- b } \in A$, where by $[a,b]$ we have denoted the least common multiple of $a$ and $b$. Prove that the set $A$ has [i]exactly[/i] two elements.
[i]Marius Gherghu, Slatina[/i]
2013 NIMO Problems, 8
A person flips $2010$ coins at a time. He gains one penny every time he flips a prime number of heads, but must stop once he flips a non-prime number. If his expected amount of money gained in dollars is $\frac{a}{b}$, where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime, compute $\lceil\log_{2}(100a+b)\rceil$.
[i]Proposed by Lewis Chen[/i]
2014 Taiwan TST Round 3, 2
Alice and Bob play the following game. They alternate selecting distinct nonzero digits (from $1$ to $9$) until they have chosen seven such digits, and then consider the resulting seven-digit number by concatenating the digits in the order selected, with the seventh digit appearing last (i.e. $\overline{A_1B_2A_3B_4A_6B_6A_7}$). Alice wins if and only if the resulting number is the last seven decimal digits of some perfect seventh power. Please determine which player has the winning strategy.
1992 India Regional Mathematical Olympiad, 2
If $\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} = \frac{1}{c}$, where $a,b,c$ are positive integers with no common factor, prove that $(a +b)$ is a square.
2014 Purple Comet Problems, 30
Three mutually tangent spheres each with radius $5$ sit on a horizontal plane. A triangular pyramid has a base that is an equilateral triangle with side length $6$, has three congruent isosceles triangles for vertical faces, and has height $12$. The base of the pyramid is parallel to the plane, and the vertex of the pyramid is pointing downward so that it is between the base and the plane. Each of the three vertical faces of the pyramid is tangent to one of the spheres at a point on the triangular face along its altitude from the vertex of the pyramid to the side of length $6$. The distance that these points of tangency are from the base of the pyramid is $\tfrac mn$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$.
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1994 Tuymaada Olympiad, 7
Prove that there are infinitely many natural numbers $a,b,c,u$ and $v$ with greatest common divisor $1$ satisfying the system of equations: $a+b+c=u+v$ and $a^2+b^2+c^2=u^2+v^2$