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Consider real numbers $A$, $B$, \dots, $Z$ such that \[ EVIL = \frac{5}{31}, \; LOVE = \frac{6}{29}, \text{ and } IMO = \frac{7}{3}. \] If $OMO = \tfrac mn$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$, find the value of $m+n$. [i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
For each positive integer $n$, write the sum $\sum_{m=1}^n 1/m$ in the form $p_n/q_n$, where $p_n$ and $q_n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Determine all $n$ such that 5 does not divide $q_n$.
Let $k$ be a fixed integer greater than 1, and let ${m=4k^2-5}$. Show that there exist positive integers $a$ and $b$ such that the sequence $(x_n)$ defined by \[x_0=a,\quad x_1=b,\quad x_{n+2}=x_{n+1}+x_n\quad\text{for}\quad n=0,1,2,\dots,\] has all of its terms relatively prime to $m$. [i]Proposed by Jaroslaw Wroblewski, Poland[/i]
A sequence of integers is defined as follows: $a_1=1,a_2=2,a_3=3$ and for $n>3$, $$a_n=\textsf{The smallest integer not occurring earlier, which is relatively prime to }a_{n-1}\textsf{ but not relatively prime to }a_{n-2}.$$Prove that every natural number occurs exactly once in this sequence. [i]M. Ivanov[/i]
Find all natural numbers $n$, such that there exist relatively prime integers $x$ and $y$ and an integer $k > 1$ satisfying the equation $3^n =x^k + y^k$. [i]A. Kovaldji, V. Senderov[/i]
A [i]triangulation[/i] of a polygon is a subdivision of the polygon into triangles meeting edge to edge, with the property that the set of triangle vertices coincides with the set of vertices of the polygon. Adam randomly selects a triangulation of a regular $180$-gon. Then, Bob selects one of the $178$ triangles in this triangulation. The expected number of $1^\circ$ angles in this triangle can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$, where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers. Compute $100a + b$. [i]Proposed by Lewis Chen[/i]
Find a pair of relatively prime four digit natural numbers $A$ and $B$ such that for all natural numbers $m$ and $n$, $\vert A^m -B^n \vert \ge 400$.
For each integer $n$ ($n \ge 2$), let $f(n)$ denote the sum of all positive integers that are at most $n$ and not relatively prime to $n$. Prove that $f(n+p) \neq f(n)$ for each such $n$ and every prime $p$.
A paper cup has a base that is a circle with radius $r$, a top that is a circle with radius $2r$, and sides that connect the two circles with straight line segments as shown below. This cup has height $h$ and volume $V$. A second cup that is exactly the same shape as the first is held upright inside the fi rst cup so that its base is a distance of $\tfrac{h}2$ from the base of the fi rst cup. The volume of liquid that will t inside the fi rst cup and outside the second cup can be written $\tfrac{m}{n}\cdot V$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$. [asy] pair s = (10,1); draw(ellipse((0,0),4,1)^^ellipse((0,-6),2,.5)); fill((3,-6)--(-3,-6)--(0,-2.1)--cycle,white); draw((4,0)--(2,-6)^^(-4,0)--(-2,-6)); draw(shift(s)*ellipse((0,0),4,1)^^shift(s)*ellipse((0,-6),2,.5)); fill(shift(s)*(3,-6)--shift(s)*(-3,-6)--shift(s)*(0,-2.1)--cycle,white); draw(shift(s)*(4,0)--shift(s)*(2,-6)^^shift(s)*(-4,0)--shift(s)*(-2,-6)); pair s = (10,-2); draw(shift(s)*ellipse((0,0),4,1)^^shift(s)*ellipse((0,-6),2,.5)); fill(shift(s)*(3,-6)--shift(s)*(-3,-6)--shift(s)*(0,-4.1)--cycle,white); draw(shift(s)*(4,0)--shift(s)*(2,-6)^^shift(s)*(-4,0)--shift(s)*(-2,-6)); //darn :([/asy]
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} $
Given three positive integers $a,b,$ and $c$. Their greatest common divisor is $D$; their least common multiple is $m$. Then, which two of the following statements are true? $ \text{(1)}\ \text{the product MD cannot be less than abc} \qquad$ $\text{(2)}\ \text{the product MD cannot be greater than abc}\qquad$ $\text{(3)}\ \text{MD equals abc if and only if a,b,c are each prime}\qquad$ $\text{(4)}\ \text{MD equals abc if and only if a,b,c are each relatively prime in pairs}$ $\text{ (This means: no two have a common factor greater than 1.)}$ $ \textbf{(A)}\ 1,2 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 1,3\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 1,4\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 2,3\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 2,4 $
Steve needed to address a letter to $2743$ Becker Road. He remembered the digits of the address, but he forgot the correct order of the digits, so he wrote them down in random order. The probability that Steve got exactly two of the four digits in their correct positions is $\tfrac m n$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$.
The diagram below shows equilateral $\triangle ABC$ with side length $2$. Point $D$ lies on ray $\overrightarrow{BC}$ so that $CD = 4$. Points $E$ and $F$ lie on $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{AC}$, respectively, so that $E$, $F$, and $D$ are collinear, and the area of $\triangle AEF$ is half of the area of $\triangle ABC$. Then $\tfrac{AE}{AF}=\tfrac m n$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + 2n$. [asy] import math; size(7cm); pen dps = fontsize(10); defaultpen(dps); dotfactor=4; pair A,B,C,D,E,F; B=origin; C=(2,0); D=(6,0); A=(1,sqrt(3)); E=(1/3,sqrt(3)/3); F=extension(A,C,E,D); draw(C--A--B--D,linewidth(1.1)); draw(E--D,linewidth(.7)); dot(A); dot(B); dot(C); dot(D); dot(E); dot(F); label("$A$",A,N); label("$B$",B,S); label("$C$",C,S); label("$D$",D,S); label("$E$",E,NW); label("$F$",F,NE); [/asy]
Beyond the Point of No Return is a large lake containing 2013 islands arranged at the vertices of a regular $2013$-gon. Adjacent islands are joined with exactly two bridges. Christine starts on one of the islands with the intention of burning all the bridges. Each minute, if the island she is on has at least one bridge still joined to it, she randomly selects one such bridge, crosses it, and immediately burns it. Otherwise, she stops. If the probability Christine burns all the bridges before she stops can be written as $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$, find the remainder when $m+n$ is divided by $1000$. [i]Evan Chen[/i]
An integer-sided triangle has angles $ p\theta$ and $ q\theta$, where $ p$ and $ q$ are relatively prime integers. Prove that $ \cos\theta$ is irrational.
A positive number $\dfrac{m}{n}$ has the property that it is equal to the ratio of $7$ plus the number’s reciprocal and $65$ minus the number’s reciprocal. Given that $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers, find $2m + n$.
Denote by $\phi(n)$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$ the number of positive integer smaller than $n$ and relatively prime to $n$. Also, denote by $\omega(n)$ for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$ the number of prime divisors of $n$. Given that $\phi(n)|n-1$ and $\omega(n)\leq 3$. Prove that $n$ is a prime number.
Let $m_1,m_2,...,m_{2013} > 1$ be 2013 pairwise relatively prime positive integers and $A_1,A_2,...,A_{2013}$ be 2013 (possibly empty) sets with $A_i\subseteq \{1,2,...,m_i-1\}$ for $i=1,2,...,2013$. Prove that there is a positive integer $N$ such that \[ N \le \left( 2\left\lvert A_1 \right\rvert + 1 \right)\left( 2\left\lvert A_2 \right\rvert + 1 \right)\cdots\left( 2\left\lvert A_{2013} \right\rvert + 1 \right) \] and for each $i = 1, 2, ..., 2013$, there does [i]not[/i] exist $a \in A_i$ such that $m_i$ divides $N-a$. [i]Proposed by Victor Wang[/i]
In the diagram below, fill the $12$ circles with numbers from the following bank so that each number is used once. Two circles connected by a single line must contain relatively prime numbers. Two circles connected by a double line must contain numbers that are not relatively prime. $$\text{Bank: } 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30 ,32, 33 ,35$$ [asy] real HRT3 = sqrt(3) / 2; void drawCircle(real x, real y, real r) { path p = circle((x,y), r); draw(p); fill(p, white); } void drawCell(int gx, int gy) { real x = 0.5 * gx; real y = HRT3 * gy; drawCircle(x, y, 0.35); } void drawEdge(int gx1, int gy1, int gx2, int gy2, bool doubled) { real x1 = 0.5 * gx1; real y1 = HRT3 * gy1; real x2 = 0.5 * gx2; real y2 = HRT3 * gy2; if (doubled) { real dx = x2 - x1; real dy = y2 - y1; real ox = -0.035 * dy / sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy); real oy = 0.035 * dx / sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy); draw((x1+ox,y1+oy)--(x2+ox,y2+oy)); draw((x1-ox,y1-oy)--(x2-ox,y2-oy)); } else { draw((x1,y1)--(x2,y2)); } } drawEdge(2, 0, 4, 0, true); drawEdge(2, 0, 1, 1, true); drawEdge(2, 0, 3, 1, true); drawEdge(4, 0, 3, 1, false); drawEdge(4, 0, 5, 1, false); drawEdge(1, 1, 0, 2, false); drawEdge(1, 1, 2, 2, false); drawEdge(1, 1, 3, 1, false); drawEdge(3, 1, 2, 2, true); drawEdge(3, 1, 4, 2, true); drawEdge(3, 1, 5, 1, false); drawEdge(5, 1, 4, 2, true); drawEdge(5, 1, 6, 2, false); drawEdge(0, 2, 1, 3, false); drawEdge(0, 2, 2, 2, false); drawEdge(2, 2, 1, 3, false); drawEdge(2, 2, 3, 3, true); drawEdge(2, 2, 4, 2, false); drawEdge(4, 2, 3, 3, false); drawEdge(4, 2, 5, 3, false); drawEdge(4, 2, 6, 2, false); drawEdge(6, 2, 5, 3, true); drawEdge(1, 3, 3, 3, true); drawEdge(3, 3, 5, 3, false); drawCell(2, 0); drawCell(4, 0); drawCell(1, 1); drawCell(3, 1); drawCell(5, 1); drawCell(0, 2); drawCell(2, 2); drawCell(4, 2); drawCell(6, 2); drawCell(1, 3); drawCell(3, 3); drawCell(5, 3); [/asy]
Let $m$ be given odd number, and let $a, b$ denote the roots of equation $x^2 + mx - 1 = 0$ and $c = a^{2014} + b^{2014}$ , $d =a^{2015} + b^{2015}$ . Prove that $c$ and $d$ are relatively prime numbers.
There are nonzero real numbers $a$ and $b$ so that the roots of $x^2 + ax + b$ are $3a$ and $3b$. There are relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$ so that $a - b = \tfrac{m}{n}$. Find $m + n$.
28. [b][15][/b] Find the shortest distance between the lines $\frac{x+2}{2}=\frac{y-1}{3}=\frac{z}{1}$ and $\frac{x-3}{-1}=\frac{y}{1}=\frac{z+1}{2}$ 29. [b][15][/b] Find the largest real number $k$ such that there exists a sequence of positive reals ${a_i}$ for which $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a_n$ converges but $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{\sqrt{a_n}}{n^k}$ does not. 30. [b][15][/b] Find the largest integer $n$ such that the following holds: there exists a set of $n$ points in the plane such that, for any choice of three of them, some two are unit distance apart. 31. [b][17][/b] Two random points are chosen on a segment and the segment is divided at each of these two points. Of the three segments obtained, find the probability that the largest segment is more than three times longer than the smallest segment. 32. [b][17][/b] Find the sum of all positive integers $n\le 2015$ that can be expressed in the form $\left\lceil{\frac{x}{2}}\right \rceil +y+xy$, where $x$ and $y$ are positive integers. 33. [b][17][/b] How many ways are there to place four points in the plane such that the set of pairwise distances between the points consists of exactly $2$ elements? (Two configurations are the same if one can be obtained from the other via rotation and scaling.) 34. [b][20][/b] Let $n$ be the second smallest integer that can be written as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways. Compute $n$. If your guess is $a$, you will receive $\max(25-5\cdot \max(\frac{a}{n},\frac{n}{a}),0)$, rounded up. 35. [b][20][/b] Let $n$ be the smallest positive integer such that any positive integer can be expressed as the sum of $n$ integer 2015th powers. Find $n$. If your answer is $a$, your score will be $\max(20-\frac{1}{5}|\log _{10} \frac{a}{n}|,0)$, rounded up. 36. [b][20][/b] Consider the following seven false conjectures with absurdly high counterexamples. Pick any subset of them, and list their labels in order of their smallest counterexample (the smallest $n$ for which the conjecture is false) from smallest to largest. For example, if you believe that the below list is already ordered by counterexample size, you should write ”PECRSGA”. - [b]P.[/b] (Polya’s conjecture) For any integer $n$, at least half of the natural numbers below $n$ have an odd number of prime factors. - [b]E.[/b] (Euler’s conjecture) There is no perfect cube $n$ that can be written as the sum of three positive cubes. - [b]C.[/b] (Cyclotomic) The polynomial with minimal degree whose roots are the primitive $n$th roots of unity has all coefficients equal to $-1$, $0$, or $1$. - [b]R.[/b] (Prime race) For any integer $n$, there are more primes below $n$ equal to $2(\mod 3)$ than there are equal to $1 (\mod 3)$. - [b]S.[/b] (Seventeen conjecture) For any integer $n$, $n^{17} + 9$ and $(n + 1)^{17} + 9$ are relatively prime. - [b]G.[/b] (Goldbach’s (other) conjecture) Any odd composite integer $n$ can be written as the sum of a prime and twice a square. - [b]A.[/b] (Average square) Let $a_1 = 1$ and $a_{k+1}=\frac{1+a_1^2+a_2^2+...+a_k^2}{k}$. Then $a_n$ is an integer for any n. If your answer is a list of $4\le n\le 7$ labels in the correct order, your score will be $(n-2)(n-3)$. Otherwise, your score will be $0$.
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 $p + q$.
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 $n$.
Find all odd positive integers $ n > 1$ such that if $ a$ and $ b$ are relatively prime divisors of $ n$, then $ a\plus{}b\minus{}1$ divides $ n$.