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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
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N Mar 26, 2025 by SmartGroot
I write today to announce my retirement as CEO from Art of Problem Solving. When I founded AoPS 22 years ago, I never imagined that we would reach so many students and families, or that we would find so many channels through which we discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. I am very proud of all we have accomplished and I’m thankful for the many supporters who provided inspiration and encouragement along the way. I'm particularly grateful to all of the wonderful members of the AoPS Community!

I’m delighted to introduce our new leaders - Ben Kornell and Andrew Sutherland. Ben has extensive experience in education and edtech prior to joining AoPS as my successor as CEO, including starting like I did as a classroom teacher. He has a deep understanding of the value of our work because he’s an AoPS parent! Meanwhile, Andrew and I have common roots as founders of education companies; he launched Quizlet at age 15! His journey from founder to MIT to technology and product leader as our Chief Product Officer traces a pathway many of our students will follow in the years to come.

Thank you again for your support for Art of Problem Solving and we look forward to working with millions more wonderful problem solvers in the years to come.

And special thanks to all of the amazing AoPS team members who have helped build AoPS. We’ve come a long way from here:IMAGE
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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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March is the month for State MATHCOUNTS competitions! Kudos to everyone who participated in their local chapter competitions and best of luck to all going to State! Join us on March 11th for a Math Jam devoted to our favorite Chapter competition problems! Are you interested in training for MATHCOUNTS? Be sure to check out our AMC 8/MATHCOUNTS Basics and Advanced courses.

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2025 INTEGIRLS NYC/NJ Math Competition
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NYC/NJ INTEGIRLS will be hosting our second annual math competition on May 3rd, 2025 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST at Rutgers University. Last year, we proudly organized the largest math competition for girls globally, welcoming over 500 participants from across the tristate area. Join other female-identifying and non-binary "STEMinists" in solving problems, socializing, playing games, and more! If you are interested in competing, please register at https://forms.gle/jqwEiq5PgqefetLj7

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N 22 minutes ago by Inaaya
Hi everyone!

The Princeton International School of Math and Science (PRISMS) Math Team is delighted that $PROM^2$ for Girls, PRISMS Online Math Meet for Girls, is happening this spring! https://www.prismsus.org/events/prom/home/index

We warmly invite all middle school girls to join us! This is a fantastic opportunity for young girls to connect with others interested in math as well as prepare for future math contests.

This contest will take place online from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST on Saturday, April 26th, 2025.

The competition will include a team and individual round as well as activities like origami. You can see a detailed schedule here. https://prismsus.org/events/prom/experience/schedule.

Registration is FREE, there are cash prizes for participants who place in the top 10 and cool gifts for all participants.

1st place individual: $500 cash
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Some FAQs:
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A: You can find some archived here: https://www.prismsus.org/events/prom/achieve/achieve

Registration is open now. https://www.prismsus.org/events/prom/register/register. Email us at prom2@prismsus.org with any questions.

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Fixed point as P varies
tenniskidperson3   86
N an hour ago by ErTeeEs06
Source: 2016 USAJMO 1
The isosceles triangle $\triangle ABC$, with $AB=AC$, is inscribed in the circle $\omega$. Let $P$ be a variable point on the arc $\stackrel{\frown}{BC}$ that does not contain $A$, and let $I_B$ and $I_C$ denote the incenters of triangles $\triangle ABP$ and $\triangle ACP$, respectively.

Prove that as $P$ varies, the circumcircle of triangle $\triangle PI_BI_C$ passes through a fixed point.
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AMC 10B #17
evt917   27
N Dec 16, 2024 by sadas123
Source: AMC 10B 2024 problem 17
In a race among 5 snails, there is at most one tie, but that tie can involve any number of snails. For example, the result of the race might be that Dazzler is first; Abby, Cyrus, and Elroy are tied for second, and Bruna is fifth. How many different results of the race are possible?

$
\textbf{(A) }180 \qquad
\textbf{(B) }361 \qquad
\textbf{(C) }420 \qquad
\textbf{(D) }431 \qquad
\textbf{(E) }720 \qquad
$
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In a race among 5 snails, there is at most one tie, but that tie can involve any number of snails. For example, the result of the race might be that Dazzler is first; Abby, Cyrus, and Elroy are tied for second, and Bruna is fifth. How many different results of the race are possible?

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\textbf{(A) }180 \qquad
\textbf{(B) }361 \qquad
\textbf{(C) }420 \qquad
\textbf{(D) }431 \qquad
\textbf{(E) }720 \qquad
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confirm (D)?
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D is correct
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Mathiscool24
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I got D: 431
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pingpongmerrily
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yeah super bashy confirm D

almost got this wrong :skull:
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andrewcheng
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confirm D
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you could already narrow it down to b or d because there's the case that all snails tie
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aleyang
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D, casework for how many snails tie
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0 tied: 5!
2 tied: (5c2), now you just arrange one "block" and 3 others so (5c2)4!
3 tied: 5c3 * 3!
4 tied: 5c4 *2!
5 tied: 1
120+240+60+10+1=431
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lucaswujc
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D its just casework
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this seemed really misplaced
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mathprodigy2011
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I should've taken 10b bruh
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megarnie
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Case 1: There exists a tie
The number of values for $m$ people in the tie is $\binom 5m \cdot (6-m )! = \frac{5! (6-m)}{m!} = (6-m) \cdot \prod_{i=m + 1}^5 i$.

Summing this from $m = 2$ to $m = 5$ gives $4 \cdot 60 + 3 \cdot 20 + 2 \cdot 5 + 1 = 311$.

Case 2: There is no tie
Then it's just $5! = 120$.

The answer is $311 + 120 = \boxed{\textbf{(D)}\ 431}$.
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I am glad that 430 wasn't an option. At first, I got 430 but then realized that I forgot the case where all of them tie. I fixed it and got 431(D)
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I missed the case where none of them were tied and I had 311. So I just let it blank :oops_sign:
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Solution
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The answer is $431.$

There are two cases.

Case 1: No ties. If this happens, we get $5! = 120.$

Case 2: One tie. Again, we split into more cases. If the tie contains $n$ people, then there are ${5 \choose n}$ ways to choose the people in the tie, and $(6-n)!$ ways to arrange the people (the tied people are consider “one person). So, adding over all $2 \le n \le 5,$ we get $311.$

Thus, we get $120+311=431,$ as desired.
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Combo really fell off after P12; just casework here. I think there was a similar problem on the official AoPS AMC10 practice mock exam to this one.
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Bro, i left this blank cuz it felt too hard but i did it mentally on the car ride back :banging head
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zlrara01 wrote:
this seemed really misplaced

yeah it was
Just casework bash
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It was a really nice bash too because it canceled out neatly
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This was actually not that bad as I initially thought.
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https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/Solutions%202009-10%20Mini.pdf mathcounts mini #2, you just have to calculate if 2+ ties are possible and subtract, just thought it was interesting.
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please don't tell me i got this wrong

isnt it D
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SpeedCuber7 wrote:
please don't tell me i got this wrong

isnt it D

i dont know what i got

i am 1000% sure i put d
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Yiyj1 wrote:
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please don't tell me i got this wrong

isnt it D

i dont know what i got

i am 1000% sure i put d

then you put d and you got it right :thumbsup:
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Easily one of the best questions on the test imo
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In a race among 5 snails, there is at most one tie, but that tie can involve any number of snails. For example, the result of the race might be that Dazzler is first; Abby, Cyrus, and Elroy are tied for second, and Bruna is fifth. How many different results of the race are possible?


$
\textbf{(A) }180 \qquad
\textbf{(B) }361 \qquad
\textbf{(C) }420 \qquad
\textbf{(D) }431 \qquad
\textbf{(E) }720 \qquad
$

I remember on the actual test I took like 5 minutes just finding all of the casework :skull
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