Found problems: 85335
Two two-digit numbers $a$ and b satisfy that the product $a \cdot b$ divides the four-digit number one gets by writing the two digits in $a$ followed by the two digits in $b$. Determine all possible values of $a$ and $b$.
[i]25 problems for 30 minutes[/i]
[b]p1.[/b] Compute $2^2 + 0 \cdot 0 + 2^2 + 3^3$.
[b]p2.[/b] How many total letters (not necessarily distinct) are there in the names Jerry, Justin, Jackie, Jason, and Jeffrey?
[b]p3.[/b] What is the remainder when $20232023$ is divided by $50$?
[b]p4.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a square. The fraction of the area of $ABCD$ that is the area of the intersection of triangles $ABD$ and $ABC$ can be expressed as $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ relatively prime positive integers. Find $a + b$.
[b]p5.[/b] Raymond is playing basketball. He makes a total of $15$ shots, all of which are either worth $2$ or $3$ points. Given he scored a total of $40$ points, how many $2$-point shots did he make?
[b]p6.[/b] If a fair coin is flipped $4$ times, the probability that it lands on heads more often than tails is $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ relatively prime positive integers. Find $a + b$.
[b]p7.[/b] What is the sum of the perfect square divisors of $640$?
[b]p8.[/b] A regular hexagon and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. The ratio of the area between the hexagon and equilateral triangle can be expressed in the form $\frac{a}{b}$ , where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $a + b$.
[b]p9.[/b] If a cylinder has volume $1024\pi$, radius of $r$ and height $h$, how many ordered pairs of integers $(r, h)$ are possible?
[b]p10.[/b] Pump $A$ can fill up a balloon in $3$ hours, while pump $B$ can fill up a balloon in $5$ hours. Pump $A$ starts filling up a balloon at $12:00$ PM, and pump $B$ is added alongside pump $A$ at a later time. If the balloon is completely filled at $2:00$ PM, how many minutes after $12:00$ PM was Pump $B$ added?
[b]p11.[/b] For some positive integer $k$, the product $81 \cdot k$ has $20$ factors. Find the smallest possible value of $k$.
[b]p12.[/b] Two people wish to sit in a row of fifty chairs. How many ways can they sit in the chairs if they do not want to sit directly next to each other and they do not want to sit with exactly one empty chair between them?
[b]p13.[/b] Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length $2$ and $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$. Let $P$ be a point in the same plane such that $2PM = BC$. The minimum value of $AP$ can be expressed as $\sqrt{a}-b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers such that $a$ is not divisible by any perfect square aside from $1$. Find $a + b$.
[b]p14.[/b] What are the $2022$nd to $2024$th digits after the decimal point in the decimal expansion of $\frac{1}{27}$ , expressed as a $3$ digit number in that order (i.e the $2022$nd digit is the hundreds digit, $2023$rd digit is the tens digit, and $2024$th digit is the ones digit)?
[b]p15.[/b] After combining like terms, how many terms are in the expansion of $(xyz+xy+yz+xz+x+y+z)^{20}$?
[b]p16.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a trapezoid with $AB \parallel CD$ where $AB > CD$, $\angle B = 90^o$, and $BC = 12$. A line $k$ is dropped from $A$, perpendicular to line $CD$, and another line $\ell$ is dropped from $C$, perpendicular to line $AD$. $k$ and $\ell$ intersect at $X$. If $\vartriangle AXC$ is an equilateral triangle, the area of $ABCD$ can be written as $m\sqrt{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers such that $n$ is not divisible by any perfect square aside from $1$. Find $m + n$.
[b]p17.[/b] If real numbers $x$ and $y$ satisfy $2x^2 + y^2 = 8x$, maximize the expression $x^2 + y^2 + 4x$.
[b]p18.[/b] Let $f(x)$ be a monic quadratic polynomial with nonzero real coefficients. Given that the minimum value of $f(x)$ is one of the roots of $f(x)$, and that $f(2022) = 1$, there are two possible values of $f(2023)$. Find the larger of these two values.
[b]p19.[/b] I am thinking of a positive integer. After realizing that it is four more than a multiple of $3$, four less than a multiple of $4$, four more than a multiple of 5, and four less than a multiple of $7$, I forgot my number. What is the smallest possible value of my number?
[b]p20.[/b] How many ways can Aston, Bryan, Cindy, Daniel, and Evan occupy a row of $14$ chairs such that none of them are sitting next to each other?
[b]p21.[/b] Let $x$ be a positive real number. The minimum value of $\frac{1}{x^2} +\sqrt{x}$ can be expressed in the form \frac{a}{b^{(c/d)}} , where $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are all positive integers, $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime, $c$ and $d$ are relatively prime, and $b$ is not divisible by any perfect square. Find $a + b + c + d$.
[b]p22.[/b] For all $x > 0$, the function $f(x)$ is defined as $\lfloor x \rfloor \cdot (x + \{x\})$. There are $24$ possible $x$ such that $f(x)$ is an integer between $2000$ and $2023$, inclusive. If the sum of these $24$ numbers equals $N$, then find $\lfloor N \rfloor$.
Note: Recall that $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$, called the floor function. Also, $\{x\}$ is defined as $x - \lfloor x \rfloor$, called the fractional part function.
[b]p23.[/b] Let $ABCD$ be a rectangle with $AD = 1$. Let $P$ be a point on diagonal $\overline{AC}$, and let $\omega$ and $\xi$ be the circumcircles of $\vartriangle APB$ and $\vartriangle CPD$, respectively. Line $\overleftrightarrow{AD}$ is extended, intersecting $\omega$ at $X$, and $\xi$ at $Y$ . If $AX = 5$ and $DY = 2$, find $[ABCD]^2$.
Note: $[ABCD]$ denotes the area of the polygon $ABCD$.
[b]p24.[/b] Alice writes all of the three-digit numbers on a blackboard (it’s a pretty big blackboard). Let $X_a$ be the set of three-digit numbers containing a somewhere in its representation, where a is a string of digits. (For example, $X_{12}$ would include $12$, $121$, $312$, etc.) If Bob then picks a value of $a$ at random so $0 \le a \le 999$, the expected number of elements in $X_a$ can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find$ m + n$.
[b]p25.[/b] Let $f(x) = x^5 + 2x^4 - 2x^3 + 4x^2 + 5x + 6$ and $g(x) = x^4 - x^3 + x^2 - x + 1$. If $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are the roots of $g(x)$, then find $f(a) + f(b) + f(c) + f(d)$.
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Csongi bought a $12$-sided convex polygon-shaped pizza. The pizza has no interior point with three or more distinct diagonals passing through it. Áron wants to cut the pizza along $3$ diagonals so that exactly $6$ pieces of pizza are created. In how many ways can he do this? Two ways of slicing are different if one of them has a cut line that the other does not have.
1400 real numbers are given. Prove that one can choose three of them like $x,y,z$ such that :
$$\left|\frac{(x-y)(y-z)(z-x)}{x^4+y^4+z^4+1}\right| < 0.009$$
Find all functions $f : \mathbb{R} \to\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(x +y) = f(x) f(y) f(xy)$ for all $x, y \in \mathbb{R}.$
Given that $x$, $y$, and $z$ are positive integers such that $\displaystyle{\frac{x}{y} + \frac{y}{z} + \frac{z}{x} = 2}$. Find the number of all possible $x$ values.
The point $ P$ is a fixed point on a circle and $ Q$ is a fixed point on a line. The point $ R$ is a variable point on the circle such that $ P,Q,$ and $ R$ are not collinear. The circle through $ P,Q,$ and $ R$ meets the line again at $ V$. Show that the line $ VR$ passes through a fixed point.
Determine all functions $f:(0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ satisfying $$\left(x+\frac{1}{x}\right)f(y)=f(xy)+f\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)$$ for all $x,y>0$.
The dimensions of a wooden octahedron are natural numbers. We painted all its surface (the six faces), cut it by planes parallel to the cubed faces of an edge unit and observed that exactly half of the cubes did not have any painted faces. Prove that the number of octahedra with such property is finite.
(It may be useful to keep in mind that $\sqrt[3]{\frac{1}{2}}=1,79 ... <1,8$).
[hide=original wording] Las dimensiones de un ortoedro de madera son enteras. Pintamos toda su superficie (las seis caras), lo cortamos mediante planos paralelos a las caras en cubos de una unidad de arista y observamos que exactamente la mitad de los cubos no tienen ninguna cara pintada. Probar que el número de ortoedros con tal propiedad es finito[/hide]
How many noncongruent integer-sided triangles with positive area and perimeter less than $15$ are neither equilateral, isosceles, nor right triangles?
$\textbf{(A) }3\qquad\textbf{(B) }4\qquad\textbf{(C) }5\qquad\textbf{(D) }6\qquad\textbf{(E) }7$
Convex quadrilateral is divided by diagonals into four triangles with congruent inscribed circles. Prove that this quadrilateral is rhombus.
There are 21 competitors with distinct skill levels numbered 1, 2,..., 21. They participate in a ping-pong tournament as follows. First, a random competitor is chosen to be "active", while the rest are "inactive." Every round, a random inactive competitor is chosen to play against the current active one. The player with the higher skill will win and become (or remain) active, while the loser will be eliminated from the tournament. The tournament lasts for 20 rounds, after which there will only be one player remaining. Alice is the competitor with skill 11. What is the expected number of games that she will get to play?
Compute: \[\lim_{x\to 0}\text{ }\dfrac{x^2}{1-\cos(x)}\]
How many pairs of positive integers $(a,b)$ with $a + b \le 100$ satisfy the equation $\frac{a + b^{-1}}{a^{-1} + b} = 13$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 1\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 5\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 7\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 9\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 13 $
Let $(a_n)_{n\ge 1}$ and $(b_n)_{n\ge 1}$ be two sequences of natural numbers such that $a_{n+1} = na_n + 1, b_{n+1} = nb_n - 1$ for every $n\ge 1$. Show that these two sequences can have only a finite number of terms in common.
Alex is training to make $\text{MOP}$. Currently he will score a $0$ on $\text{the AMC,}\text{ the AIME,}\text{and the USAMO}$. He can expend $3$ units of effort to gain $6$ points on the $\text{AMC}$, $7$ units of effort to gain $10$ points on the $\text{AIME}$, and $10$ units of effort to gain $1$ point on the $\text{USAMO}$. He will need to get at least $200$ points on $\text{the AMC}$ and $\text{AIME}$ combined and get at least $21$ points on $\text{the USAMO}$ to make $\text{MOP}$. What is the minimum amount of effort he can expend to make $\text{MOP}$?
Given that $ \minus{} 4\le x\le \minus{} 2$ and $ 2\le y\le 4$, what is the largest possible value of $ (x \plus{} y)/x$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ \minus{}\!1\qquad
\textbf{(B)}\ \minus{}\!\frac {1}{2}\qquad
\textbf{(C)}\ 0\qquad
\textbf{(D)}\ \frac {1}{2}\qquad
\textbf{(E)}\ 1$
[b]p1.[/b] How many real roots does the equation $2x^7 + x^5 + 4x^3 + x + 2 = 0$ have?
[b]p2.[/b] Given that $f(n) = 1 +\sum^n_{j=1}(1 +\sum^j_{i=1}(2i + 1))$, find the value of $f(99)-\sum^{99}_{i=1} i^2$.
[b]p3.[/b] A rectangular prism with dimensions $1\times a \times b$, where $1 < a < b < 2$, is bisected by a plane bisecting the longest edges of the prism. One of the smaller prisms is bisected in the same way. If all three resulting prisms are similar to each other and to the original box, compute $ab$. Note: Two rectangular prisms of dimensions $p \times q\times r$ and$ x\times y\times z$ are similar if $\frac{p}{x} = \frac{q}{y} = \frac{r}{z}$ .
[b]p4.[/b] For fixed real values of $p$, $q$, $r$ and $s$, the polynomial $x^4 + px^3 + qx^2 + rx + s$ has four non real roots. The sum of two of these roots is $4 + 7i$, and the product of the other two roots is $3 - 4i$. Compute $q$.
[b]p5.[/b] There are $10$ seats in a row in a theater. Say we have an infinite supply of indistinguishable good kids and bad kids. How many ways can we seat $10$ kids such that no two bad kids are allowed to sit next to each other?
[b]p6.[/b] There are an infinite number of people playing a game. They each pick a different positive integer $k$, and they each win the amount they chose with probability $\frac{1}{k^3}$ . What is the expected amount that all of the people win in total?
[b]p7.[/b] There are $100$ donuts to be split among $4$ teams. Your team gets to propose a solution about how the donuts are divided amongst the teams. (Donuts may not be split.) After seeing the proposition, every team either votes in favor or against the propisition. The proposition is adopted with a majority vote or a tie. If the proposition is rejected, your team is eliminated and will never receive any donuts. Another remaining team is chosen at random to make a proposition, and the process is repeated until a proposition is adopted, or only one team is left. No promises or deals need to be kept among teams besides official propositions and votes. Given that all teams play optimally to maximize the expected value of the number of donuts they receive, are completely indifferent as to the success of the other teams, but they would rather not eliminate a team than eliminate one (if the number of donuts they receive is the same either way), then how much should your team propose to keep?
[b]p8.[/b] Dominic, Mitchell, and Sitharthan are having an argument. Each of them is either credible or not credible – if they are credible then they are telling the truth. Otherwise, it is not known whether they are telling the truth. At least one of Dominic, Mitchell, and Sitharthan is credible. Tim knows whether Dominic is credible, and Ethan knows whether Sitharthan is credible. The following conversation occurs, and Tim and Ethan overhear:
Dominic: “Sitharthan is not credible.”
Mitchell: “Dominic is not credible.”
Sitharthan: “At least one of Dominic or Mitchell is credible.”
Then, at the same time, Tim and Ethan both simultaneously exclaim: “I can’t tell exactly who is credible!”
They each then think for a moment, and they realize that they can. If Tim and Ethan always tell the truth, then write on your answer sheet exactly which of the other three are credible.
[b]p9.[/b] Pick an integer $n$ between $1$ and $10$. If no other team picks the same number, we’ll give you $\frac{n}{10}$ points.
[b]p10.[/b] Many quantities in high-school mathematics are left undefined. Propose a definition or value for the following expressions and justify your response for each. We’ll give you $\frac15$ points for each reasonable argument.
$$(i) \,\,\,(.5)! \,\,\, \,\,\,(ii) \,\,\,\infty \cdot 0 \,\,\, \,\,\,(iii) \,\,\,0^0 \,\,\, \,\,\,(iv)\,\,\, \prod_{x\in \emptyset}x \,\,\, \,\,\,(v)\,\,\, 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...$$
[b]p11.[/b] On the back of your answer sheet, write the “coolest” math question you know, and include the solution. If the graders like your question the most, then you’ll get a point. (With your permission, we might include your question on the Mixer next year!)
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Let $f, g$ be functions $\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that for all reals $x,y$, $$f(g(x) + y) = g(x + y)$$
Prove that either $f$ is the identity function or $g$ is periodic.
[i]Proposed by Pranjal Srivastava[/i]
$ABC$ is an acute angle triangle such that $AB>AC$ and $\hat{BAC}=60^{\circ}$. Let's denote by $O$ the center of the circumscribed circle of the triangle and $H$ the intersection of altitudes of this triangle. Line $OH$ intersects $AB$ in point $P$ and $AC$ in point $Q$. Find the value of the ration $\frac{PO}{HQ}$.
Suppose $P(x)$ is a degree $n$ monic polynomial with integer coefficients such that $2013$ divides $P(r)$ for exactly $1000$ values of $r$ between $1$ and $2013$ inclusive. Find the minimum value of $n$.
We have an empty equilateral triangle with length of a side $l$. We put the triangle, horizontally, over a sphere of radius $r$. Clearly, if the triangle is small enough, the triangle is held by the sphere. Which is the distance between any vertex of the triangle and the centre of the sphere (as a function of $l$ and $r$)?
Determine all positive integers $n>2$, such that $n = a^3 + b^3$, where $a$ is the smallest positive divisor of $n$ greater than $1$ and $b$ is an arbitrary positive divisor of $n$.
Square $ABCD$ is divided into four rectangles by $EF$ and $GH$. $EF$ is parallel to $AB$ and $GH$ parallel to $BC$. $\angle BAF = 18^\circ$. $EF$ and $GH$ meet at point $P$. The area of rectangle $PFCH$ is twice that of rectangle $AGPE$. Given that the value of $\angle FAH$ in degrees is $x$, find the nearest integer to $x$.
[asy]
size(100); defaultpen(linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(10));
pair D2(pair P) {
dot(P,linewidth(3)); return P;
}
// NOTE: I've tampered with the angles to make the diagram not-to-scale. The correct numbers should be 72 instead of 76, and 45 instead of 55.
pair A=(0,1), B=(0,0), C=(1,0), D=(1,1), F=intersectionpoints(A--A+2*dir(-76),B--C)[0], H=intersectionpoints(A--A+2*dir(-76+55),D--C)[0], E=F+(0,1), G=H-(1,0), P=intersectionpoints(E--F,G--H)[0];
draw(A--B--C--D--cycle);
draw(F--A--H); draw(E--F); draw(G--H);
label("$A$",D2(A),NW);
label("$B$",D2(B),SW);
label("$C$",D2(C),SE);
label("$D$",D2(D),NE);
label("$E$",D2(E),plain.N);
label("$F$",D2(F),S);
label("$G$",D2(G),W);
label("$H$",D2(H),plain.E);
label("$P$",D2(P),SE);
[/asy]
Find a five-digit positive integer $n$ (in base $10$) such that $n^3 - 1$ is divisible by $2556$ and which minimizes the sum of digits of $n$.