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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Apr 2, 2025
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How many approaches you got? (A lot)
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N 15 minutes ago by User141208
Source: USAMO 2023/2
Let $\mathbb{R}^+$ be the set of positive real numbers. Find all functions $f \colon \mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+$ such that, for all $x,y \in \mathbb{R}^+$,
$$f(xy+f(x))=xf(y)+2.$$
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MasterScholar North Carolina Math Camp
Ruegerbyrd   5
N an hour ago by ohiorizzler1434
Is this legit? Worth the cost ($6500)? Program Fees Cover: Tuition, course materials, field trip costs, and housing and meals at Saint Mary's School.

"Themes:

1. From Number Theory and Special Relativity to Game Theory
2. Applications to Economics

Subjects Covered:

Number Theory - Group Theory - RSA Encryption - Game Theory - Estimating Pi - Complex Numbers - Quaternions - Topology of Surfaces - Introduction to Differential Geometry - Collective Decision Making - Survey of Calculus - Applications to Economics - Statistics and the Central Limit Theorem - Special Relativity"

website(?): https://www.teenlife.com/l/summer/masterscholar-north-carolina-math-camp/
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AMSP Combo 2 and Alg 2.5
idk12345678   4
N 4 hours ago by Bread10
Im gonna be taking Geo 2 and i was deciding if to take combo 2, alg2.5, both, or neither.

My main goal is to qualify for JMO in 10th grade(next yr). Ive done aops int c+p but i didnt fully understand everything.

Would combo 2 and/or alg 2 be good for jmo qual?
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Olympiad Problems Correlation with Computational?
FuturePanda   8
N 5 hours ago by deduck
Hi everyone,

Recently I;ve started doing a lot of nice combo/algebra Olympiad problems(JMO, PAGMO, CMO, etc.) and I’ve got to say, it’s been pretty fun(I’m enjoying it!). I was wondering if doing Olympiad problems also helps increase computational abilities slightly. Currently I am doing 75% computational, 25% oly but if anyone has any expreience I want to switch it to 25% computational and 75% Olympiad, though I still want to have computational skills for ARML, AIME, SMT, BMT, HMMT, etc.

If anyone has any experience, please let me know!

Thank you so much in advance!
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Mock AMC 12 2012
python123   27
N Feb 2, 2015 by DivideBy0
Hi all!

Contest season is coming up! To help with the preparation, I'm planning to host a mock AMC 12 soon. I would like to make it an online contest, so that you guys can submit answers and we can post scores, and so on. I'm putting the tentative dates as the weekend of Jan 21-22, during which sending in answers is allowed. Of course, problems will be available for practice after that as well.

Sounds good? Keep practicing, and stay posted! :)

UPDATE: Problems have been posted; please see below. You have until 11:59PM Pacific Time, Sunday 22nd, to PM me the answers.

As usual, 6 points for a correct answer, 1.5 points for not answering, and 0 points for a wrong answer.
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python123
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Mock AMC 12 2012
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Hi all!

Contest season is coming up! To help with the preparation, I'm planning to host a mock AMC 12 soon. I would like to make it an online contest, so that you guys can submit answers and we can post scores, and so on. I'm putting the tentative dates as the weekend of Jan 21-22, during which sending in answers is allowed. Of course, problems will be available for practice after that as well.

Sounds good? Keep practicing, and stay posted! :)

UPDATE: Problems have been posted; please see below. You have until 11:59PM Pacific Time, Sunday 22nd, to PM me the answers.

As usual, 6 points for a correct answer, 1.5 points for not answering, and 0 points for a wrong answer.
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Will the difficulty level be similar to past AMC 12s? There are some mock contests that are noticeably harder than the real contests.
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aeryde.xin wrote:
Will the difficulty level be similar to past AMC 12s? There are some mock contests that are noticeably harder than the real contests.

Yes, it should be similar. The test will be posted this weekend! :lol:
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See the problems here:

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Do we need to pm our solutions too or just the letter answer?
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Cortana wrote:
Do we need to pm our solutions too or just the letter answer?

Letter answers are good enough :)
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About 1.5 more days to submit answers :)
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Contest is over. You may discuss the problems.

Answers:
DCAED EBECC DBACA DDAEE ACBEB

One common mistake worth pointing out is on #13. The problem states that $x$ and $y$ are distinct, and that makes the correct answer A rather than D.

The top 6 scorers are:
exmath89 138
yankeefan6795 130.5
benjamin7xx 130.5
donutsupernova 127.5
VIPMaster 121.5
harbinger_of_doom 117.5

Thank you all, and good luck on the real tests!
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Would anyone happen to have solutions for the last 3 problems?
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You can use the mean-value theorem for $25$.
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@Diehard, could you explain this "mean-value theorem"?

#23 Solution

#24 Solution
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My mistake, this isn't really the mean-value theorem; it just looks like it. Since $2^{x}>x$ everywhere, all we need to do is translate $y=x$ until it's tangent to the graph of $y=2^{x}$. So essentially, the derivative at some point $(x,2^{x})$ must equal the slope of the line $y=x$, namely, $1$. Now it's easy to find $x$.
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Wow how do you come up with that solution during the test?
my solution to 23
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I actually did come up with that during the test (unofficial). :wink: However, I thought this test was too easy (22 looks like a challenge problem from a school textbook) and contained too many problems from previous years.
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Can someone post solutions to 16 and 22? Thanks
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it may be easier to find the altitudes to the diagonal.
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Diehard wrote:
My mistake, this isn't really the mean-value theorem; it just looks like it. Since $2^{x}>x$ everywhere, all we need to do is translate $y=x$ until it's tangent to the graph of $y=2^{x}$. So essentially, the derivative at some point $(x,2^{x})$ must equal the slope of the line $y=x$, namely, $1$. Now it's easy to find $x$.

Could someone post a solution to #25 that does not require calculus?

Thanks.
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Does anyone have a solution for 15, 18, 19
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harbinger_of_doom
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Didnt get 18 or 19... :(
22, I used law of cosines and bcsina/2. Think it's nicer than herons formula.

On 10, I actually used Vieta's instead of just pluging and chugging (didn't realize the roots were 2 and 5 :wallbash_red: )

I think some of the last 5 could have been swapped with some of the problems before it
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I am not sure how you would do #25 without a calculator and knowledge of calculus.
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I still don't get it. So mod 3 it becomes $1,0,0,0....$ which does what?
Some idea for #25
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Solution for #19

And for Problem #15, note that after $1!+2!+3!$, the rest end in a $3$ mod $10$. $3$ can't be the units digit of a perfect square, so we only have $1$ and $9$.
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Oh what, I must have messed up. I got that the majority of them become 2 mod 3 which is impossible. My bad! :( (talk about getting the right answer on accident)
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jsut did this on my own and got a 124.5, with 13, 17 wrong and omitting 18, 23, 24 (did the calc solution to 25)
Very much so not as well as i hope to get in a couple of weeks :(
@exmath those two solutions are awesome...i even had those ideas! i just didnt go through with them.
can someone post solutions to 13, 17, 18? 13 and 17 i'm pretty srue i just made silly mistakes, but i'm unsure of where.
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quantumbyte
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@prolikethis: How did you do #25 without a calculator(unless you magically know the log of the ln of 2).
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carmelninja
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I have an issue with the answer for #17

Here is my work:
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Is there anything wrong with my work? Or should the answer be (A)?
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carmelninja wrote:
Is there anything wrong with my work? Or should the answer be (A)?
pr0likethis wrote:
17 i'm pretty srue i just made silly mistakes, but i'm unsure of where.

AHSME 1996 #14, essentially this exact problem, has answer 400.
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