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A semipro baseball league has teams with $ 21$ players each. League rules state that a player must be paid at least $ \$15,000$, and that the total of all players' salaries for each team cannot exceed $ \$700,000$. What is the maximum possiblle salary, in dollars, for a single player? $ \textbf{(A)}\ 270,000 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 385,000 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 400,000 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 430,000 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 700,000$
A spider built a web on the unit circle. The web is a planar graph with straight edges inside the circle, bounded by the circumference of the circle. Each vertex of the graph lying on the circle belongs to a unique edge, which goes perpendicularly inward to the circle. For each vertex of the graph inside the circle, the sum of the unit outgoing vectors along the edges of the graph is zero. Prove that the total length of the web is equal to the number of its vertices on the circle.
Let $a, b, c$ be positive integers satisfying $\gcd (a, b) = \gcd (b, c) = \gcd (c, a) = 1$. Show that $2abc-ab-bc-ca$ cannot be represented as $bcx+cay +abz$ with nonnegative integers $x, y, z.$
The chords $AC$ and $BD$ of a, circle with centre $O$ intersect at the point $K$. The circumcentres of triangles $AKB$ and $CKD$ are $M$ and $N$ respectively. Prove that $OM = KN$. (A Zaslavsky )
Prove that the number of ways of choosing $6$ among the first $49$ positive integers, at least two of which are consecutive, is equal to $\binom{49}6-\binom{44}6$.
If $2x-3y-z=0$ and $x+3y-14z=0$, $z \neq 0$, the numerical value of $\frac{x^2+3xy}{y^2+z^2}$ is: $ \textbf{(A)}\ 7\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 2\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 0\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ -20/17\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ -2 $
In CMI, each person has atmost $3$ friends. A disease has infected exactly $2023$ peoplein CMI . Each day, a person gets infected if and only if atleast two of their friends were infected on the previous day. Once someone is infected, they can neither die nor be cured. Given that everyone in CMI eventually got infected, what is the maximum possible number of people in CMI?
If $I$ is the incenter of a triangle $ABC$ and $R$ is the radius of its circumcircle then \[AI+BI+CI\leq 3R\]
Let $a,b,c$ positive real numbers and $a+b+c = 1$. Prove that \[a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + \frac{3}{\frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c}} \ge 2(ab + bc + ac)\]
The roots of the equation $x^2 + (3a + b)x + a^2 + 2b^2 = 0$ are $x_1$ and $x_2$ with $x_1 \ne x_2$. Determine the values of $a$ and $b$ so that the roots of the equation $ x^2 - 2a(3a + 2b)x + 5a^2b^2 + 4b^4 = 0$ let $x^2_1$ and $x^2_2$.
We have $2p-1$ integer numbers, where $p$ is a prime number. Prove that we can choose exactly $p$ numbers (from these $2p-1$ numbers) so that their sum is divisible by $p$.
Farmer John is grazing his cows at the origin. There is a river that runs east to west $50$ feet north of the origin. The barn is $100$ feet to the south and $80$ feet to the east of the origin. Farmer John leads his cows to the river to take a swim, then the cows leave the river from the same place they entered and Farmer John leads them to the barn. He does this using the shortest path possible, and the total distance he travels is $d$ feet. Find the value of $d$.
For positive $a,b,c$, such that $abc=1$ prove the inequality: $4(\sqrt[3]{\frac{a}{b}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{b}{c}}+\sqrt[3]{\frac{c}{a}}) \leq 3(2+a+b+c+\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+ \frac{1}{c})^{\frac{2}{3}}$.
Triangle $\triangle ABC$ in the figure has area $10$. Points $D$, $E$ and $F$, all distinct from $A$, $B$ and $C$, are on sides $AB$, $BC$ and $CA$ respectively, and $AD = 2$, $DB = 3$. If triangle $\triangle ABE$ and quadrilateral $DBEF$ have equal areas, then that area is [asy] size(200); defaultpen(linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(10)); pair A=origin, B=(10,0), C=(8,7), F=7*dir(A--C), E=(10,0)+4*dir(B--C), D=4*dir(A--B); draw(A--B--C--A--E--F--D); pair point=incenter(A,B,C); label("$A$", A, dir(point--A)); label("$B$", B, dir(point--B)); label("$C$", C, dir(point--C)); label("$D$", D, dir(point--D)); label("$E$", E, dir(point--E)); label("$F$", F, dir(point--F)); label("$2$", (2,0), S); label("$3$", (7,0), S);[/asy] $ \textbf{(A)}\ 4\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 5\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 6\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac{5}{3}\sqrt{10}\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \text{not uniquely determined}$
For $n \in \mathbb N$, let $f(n)$ be the number of positive integers $k \leq n$ that do not contain the digit $9$. Does there exist a positive real number $p$ such that $\frac{f(n)}{n} \geq p$ for all positive integers $n$?
Find the smallest integer $n$ for which it's possible to cut a square into $2n$ squares of two sizes: $n$ squares of one size, and $n$ squares of another size. [i](Proposed by Bogdan Rublov)[/i]
The sum of $25$ consecutive even integers is $10,000$. What is the largest of these $25$ consecutive integers? $\textbf{(A)}\mbox{ }360\qquad\textbf{(B)}\mbox{ }388\qquad\textbf{(C)}\mbox{ }412\qquad\textbf{(D)}\mbox{ }416\qquad\textbf{(E)}\mbox{ }424$
[b]p1.[/b] Jack made $3$ quarts of fruit drink from orange and apple juice. His drink contains $45\%$ of orange juice. Nick prefers more orange juice in the drink. How much orange juice should he add to the drink to obtain a drink composed of $60\%$ of orange juice? [b]p2.[/b] A square is tiled by smaller squares as shown in the figure. Find the area of the black square in the middle if the perimeter of the big square $ABCD$ is $40$ cm. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/c/d54925cba07f63ec8578048f46e1e730cb8df3.png[/img] [b]p3.[/b] For one particular number $a > 0$ the function f satisfies the equality $f(x + a) =\frac{1 + f(x)}{1 - f(x)}$ for all $x$. Show that $f$ is a periodic function. (A function $f$ is periodic with the period $T$ if $f(x + T) = f(x)$ for any $x$.) [b]p4.[/b] If $a, b, c, x, y, z$ are numbers so that $\frac{x}{a}+\frac{y}{b}+\frac{z}{c}= 1$ and $\frac{a}{x}+\frac{b}{y}+\frac{c}{z}= 0$. Show that $\frac{x^2}{a^2} +\frac{y^2}{b^2} +\frac{z^2}{c^2} = 1$ [b]p5.[/b] Is it possible that a four-digit number $AABB$ is a perfect square? (Same letters denote the same digits). [b]p6.[/b] A finite number of arcs of a circle are painted black (see figure). The total length of these arcs is less than $\frac15$ of the circumference. Show that it is possible to inscribe a square in the circle so that all vertices of the square are in the unpainted portion of the circle. [img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/2/c/bdfa61917a47f3de5dd3684627792a9ebf05d5.png[/img] PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected [url=https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2760506p24143309]here[/url].
Consider a box of dimensions $10$ cm $\times 16$ cm $\times 1$ cm. Determine the maximum number of balls of diameter $ 1$ cm that the box can contain.
Let the incenter and the $A$-excenter of $\triangle ABC$ be $I$ and $I_A$, respectively. Let $BI$ intersect $AC$ at $E$ and $CI$ intersect $AB$ at $F$. Suppose that the reflections of $I$ with respect to $EF$, $FI_A$, $EI_A$ are $X$, $Y$, $Z$, respectively. Show that $\odot(XYZ)$ and $\odot(ABC)$ are tangent to each other.
Consider a sequence $1^{0.01},\ 2^{0.02},\ 2^{0.02},\ 3^{0.03},\ 3^{0.03},\ 3^{0.03},\ 4^{0.04},\ 4^{0.04},\ 4^{0.04},\ 4^{0.04},\ \cdots$. (1) Find the 36th term. (2) Find $\int x^2\ln x\ dx$. (3) Let $A$ be the product of from the first term to the 36th term. How many digits does $A$ have integer part? If necessary, you may use the fact $2.0<\ln 8<2.1,\ 2.1<\ln 9<2.2,\ 2.30<\ln 10<2.31$. [i]2010 National Defense Medical College Entrance Exam, Problem 4[/i]
A convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ is circumscribed about a circle of radius $r$. What is the maximum value of $\frac{1}{AC^2}+\frac{1}{BD^2}$?
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that for any two real numbers $x,y$ holds $$f(xf(y)+2y)=f(xy)+xf(y)+f(f(y)).$$ [i]Proposed by Patrik Bak, Slovakia[/i]
Rectangles $1\times20$, $1\times 19$, ..., $1\times 1$ were cut out of $20\times20$ table. Prove that from the remaining part of the table $36$ $1\times2$ dominos can be cut [I]Proposed by S. Berlov[/i]
Suppose $\tan \alpha = \dfrac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are integers and $q \neq 0$. Prove that the number $\tan \beta$ for which $\tan {2 \beta} = \tan {3 \alpha}$ is rational only when $p^2 + q^2$ is the square of an integer.