Found problems: 229
2025 CMIMC Team, 9
Given a triangle, $AB=78, BC=50, AC=112,$ construct squares $ABXY, BCPQ, ACMN$ outside the triangle. Let $L_1, L_2, L_3$ be the midpoints of $\overline{MP}, \overline{QX}, \overline{NY},$ respectively. Find the area of $L_1L_2L_3.$
2018 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 1
In an $n \times n$ square array of $1\times1$ cells, at least one cell is colored pink. Show that you can always divide the square into rectangles along cell borders such that each rectangle contains exactly one pink cell.
MOAA Team Rounds, 2021.7
Compute the number of ordered pairs $(a,b)$ of positive integers satisfying $a^b=2^{100}$.
[i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]
2017 CMIMC Team, 8
Alice and Bob have a fair coin with sides labeled $C$ and $M$, and they flip the coin repeatedly while recording the outcomes; for example, if they flip two $C$'s then an $M$, they have $CCM$ recorded. They play the following game: Alice chooses a four-character string $\mathcal A$, then Bob chooses two distinct three-character strings $\mathcal B_1$ and $\mathcal B_2$ such that neither is a substring of $\mathcal A$. Bob wins if $\mathcal A$ shows up in the running record before either $\mathcal B_1$ or $\mathcal B_2$ do, and otherwise Alice wins. Given that Alice chooses $\mathcal A = CMMC$ and Bob plays optimally, compute the probability that Bob wins.
2022 CMIMC, 3
Let $ABCD$ be a rectangle with $AB=10$ and $AD=5.$ Suppose points $P$ and $Q$ are on segments $CD$ and $BC,$ respectively, such that the following conditions hold:
[list]
[*] $BD \parallel PQ$
[*] $\angle APQ=90^{\circ}.$
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What is the area of $\triangle CPQ?$
[i]Proposed by Kyle Lee[/i]
MOAA Team Rounds, 2021.2
Four students Alice, Bob, Charlie, and Diana want to arrange themselves in a line such that Alice is at either end of the line, i.e., she is not in between two students. In how many ways can the students do this?
[i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]
2016 CMIMC, 10
Let $\mathcal{P}$ be the unique parabola in the $xy$-plane which is tangent to the $x$-axis at $(5,0)$ and to the $y$-axis at $(0,12)$. We say a line $\ell$ is $\mathcal{P}$-friendly if the $x$-axis, $y$-axis, and $\mathcal{P}$ divide $\ell$ into three segments, each of which has equal length. If the sum of the slopes of all $\mathcal{P}$-friendly lines can be written in the form $-\tfrac mn$ for $m$ and $n$ positive relatively prime integers, find $m+n$.
MOAA Team Rounds, 2021.16
Let $\triangle ABC$ have $\angle ABC=67^{\circ}$. Point $X$ is chosen such that $AB = XC$, $\angle{XAC}=32^\circ$, and $\angle{XCA}=35^\circ$. Compute $\angle{BAC}$ in degrees.
[i]Proposed by Raina Yang[/i]
2022 CMIMC, 15
Let $ABC$ be a triangle with $AB = 5, BC = 13,$ and $AC = 12$. Let $D$ be a point on minor arc $AC$ of the circumcircle of $ABC$ (endpoints excluded) and $P$ on $\overline{BC}$. Let $B_1, C_1$ be the feet of perpendiculars from $P$ onto $CD, AB$ respectively and let $BB_1, CC_1$ hit $(ABC)$ again at $B_2, C_2$ respectively. Suppose that $D$ is chosen uniformly at random and $AD, BC, B_2C_2$ concur at a single point. Compute the expected value of $BP/PC$.
[i]Proposed by Grant Yu[/i]
2024 CMIMC Team, 9
Suppose we have a cubic polynomial $p(x)$ such that $p(0)=0,p(1)=1,$ and $p(x)\leq \sqrt x$ for $0\leq x \leq 1.$ Suppose $p(0.5)$ is maximized. What is the sum of $p(0.25)+p(0.75)?$
[i]Proposed by Ishin Shah[/i]
2023 CMIMC Team, 15
Equilateral triangle $T_0$ with side length $3$ is on a plane. Given triangle $T_n$ on the plane, triangle $T_{n+1}$ is constructed on the plane by translating $T_n$ by $1$ unit, in one of six directions parallel to one of the sides of $T_n$. The direction is chosen uniformly at random.
Let $a$ be the least integer such that at most one point on the plane is in or on all of $T_0, T_1, T_2, \ldots, T_a$. It can be shown that $a$ exists with probability $1$. Find the probability that $a$ is even.
[i]Proposed by Justin Hseih[/i]
2022 CMIMC, 9
For natural numbers $n$, let $r(n)$ be the number formed by reversing the digits of $n$, and take $f(n)$ to be the maximum value of $\frac{r(k)}k$ across all $n$-digit positive integers $k$.
If we define $g(n)=\left\lfloor\frac1{10-f(n)}\right\rfloor$, what is the value of $g(20)$?
[i]Proposed by Adam Bertelli[/i]
MOAA Team Rounds, 2021.8
Evaluate
\[2^{7}\times 3^{0}+2^{6}\times 3^{1}+2^{5}\times 3^{2}+\cdots+2^{0}\times 3^{7}.\]
[i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]
2019 CMIMC, 2
Determine the number of ordered pairs of positive integers $(m,n)$ with $1\leq m\leq 100$ and $1\leq n\leq 100$ such that
\[
\gcd(m+1,n+1) = 10\gcd(m,n).
\]
2016 CMIMC, 2
Right isosceles triangle $T$ is placed in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane. Suppose that the projection of $T$ onto the $x$-axis has length $6$, while the projection of $T$ onto the $y$-axis has length $8$. What is the sum of all possible areas of the triangle $T$?
[asy]
import olympiad;
size(120);
defaultpen(linewidth(0.8));
pair A = (0.9,0.6), B = (1.7, 0.8), C = rotate(270, B)*A;
pair PAx = (A.x,0), PBx = (B.x,0), PAy = (0, A.y), PCy = (0, C.y);
draw(PAx--A--PAy^^PCy--C^^PBx--B, linetype("4 4"));
draw(rightanglemark(A,B,C,3));
draw(A--B--C--cycle);
draw((0,2)--(0,0)--(2,0),Arrows(size=8));
label("$6$",(PAx+PBx)/2,S);
label("$8$",(PAy+PCy)/2,W);
[/asy]
2024 LMT Fall, 7
Let $A$, $F$, $L$, $M$, and $T$ be distinct digits such that $\overline{FALL} + \overline{LMT} = 2024$ and $F$, $L > 0$. Find the sum of all possible values of $\overline{FAT}$.
MOAA Team Rounds, 2018.3
Let $BE$ and $CF$ be altitudes in triangle $ABC$. If $AE = 24$, $EC = 60$, and $BF = 31$, determine $AF$.
MOAA Team Rounds, 2019.9
Jonathan finds all ordered triples $(a, b, c)$ of positive integers such that $abc = 720$. For each ordered triple, he writes their sum $a + b + c$ on the board. (Numbers may appear more than once.) What is the sum of all the numbers written on the board?
2025 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament, 8
Let $\triangle{ABC}$ be a triangle with incenter $I.$ The incircle of triangle $\triangle{ABC}$ touches $\overline{BC}$ at $D.$ Let $M$ be the midpoint of $\overline{BC},$ and let line $AI$ meet the circumcircle of triangle $\triangle{ABC}$ again at $L \neq A.$ Let $\omega$ be the circle centered at $L$ tangent to $AB$ and $AC.$ If $\omega$ intersects $\overline{AD}$ at point $P,$ prove that $\angle{IPM}=90^\circ.$
2018 MOAA, 2
If $x > 0$ and $x^2 +\frac{1}{x^2}= 14$, find $x^5 +\frac{1}{x^5}$.
2021 MOAA, 4
Compute the number of ordered triples $(x,y,z)$ of integers satisfying
\[x^2+y^2+z^2=9.\]
[i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]
2019 MOAA, 3
For how many ordered pairs of positive integers $(a, b)$ such that $a \le 50$ is it true that $x^2 - ax + b$ has integer roots?
MOAA Team Rounds, 2019.7
Suppose $ABC$ is a triangle inscribed in circle $\omega$ . Let $A'$ be the point on $\omega$ so that $AA'$ is a diameter, and let $G$ be the centroid of $ABC$. Given that $AB = 13$, $BC = 14$, and $CA = 15$, let $x$ be the area of triangle $AGA'$ . If $x$ can be expressed in the form $m/n$ , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers, compute $100n + m$.
2020 CMIMC Team, 13
Given $10$ points arranged in a equilateral triangular grid of side length $4$, how many ways are there to choose two distinct line segments, with endpoints on the grid, that intersect in exactly one point (not necessarily on the grid)?
MOAA Team Rounds, 2021.3
For two real numbers $x$ and $y$, let $x\circ y=\frac{xy}{x+y}$. The value of
\[1 \circ (2 \circ (3 \circ (4 \circ 5)))\]
can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n}$ for relatively prime positive integers $m$ and $n$. Compute $m+n$.
[i]Proposed by Nathan Xiong[/i]