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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
rrusczyk   1571
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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rrusczyk
Mar 24, 2025
SmartGroot
Mar 26, 2025
k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
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.

Are you ready to level up with Olympiad training? Registration is open with early bird pricing available for our WOOT programs: MathWOOT (Levels 1 and 2), CodeWOOT, PhysicsWOOT, and ChemWOOT. What is WOOT? WOOT stands for Worldwide Online Olympiad Training and is a 7-month high school math Olympiad preparation and testing program that brings together many of the best students from around the world to learn Olympiad problem solving skills. Classes begin in September!

Do you have plans this summer? There are so many options to fit your schedule and goals whether attending a summer camp or taking online classes, it can be a great break from the routine of the school year. Check out our summer courses at AoPS Online, or if you want a math or language arts class that doesn’t have homework, but is an enriching summer experience, our AoPS Virtual Campus summer camps may be just the ticket! We are expanding our locations for our AoPS Academies across the country with 15 locations so far and new campuses opening in Saratoga CA, Johns Creek GA, and the Upper West Side NY. Check out this page for summer camp information.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the following events:
[list][*]March 5th (Wednesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, HCSSiM Math Jam 2025. Amber Verser, Assistant Director of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, will host an information session about HCSSiM, a summer program for high school students.
[*]March 6th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar on Math Competitions from elementary through high school. Join us for an enlightening session that demystifies the world of math competitions and helps you make informed decisions about your contest journey.
[*]March 11th (Tuesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, 2025 MATHCOUNTS Chapter Discussion MATH JAM. AoPS instructors will discuss some of their favorite problems from the MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition. All are welcome!
[*]March 13th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar about Summer Camps at the Virtual Campus. Transform your summer into an unforgettable learning adventure! From elementary through high school, we offer dynamic summer camps featuring topics in mathematics, language arts, and competition preparation - all designed to fit your schedule and ignite your passion for learning.[/list]
Our full course list for upcoming classes is below:
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k i Peer-to-Peer Programs Forum
jwelsh   157
N Dec 11, 2023 by cw357
Many of our AoPS Community members share their knowledge with their peers in a variety of ways, ranging from creating mock contests to creating real contests to writing handouts to hosting sessions as part of our partnership with schoolhouse.world.

To facilitate students in these efforts, we have created a new Peer-to-Peer Programs forum. With the creation of this forum, we are starting a new process for those of you who want to advertise your efforts. These advertisements and ensuing discussions have been cluttering up some of the forums that were meant for other purposes, so we’re gathering these topics in one place. This also allows students to find new peer-to-peer learning opportunities without having to poke around all the other forums.

To announce your program, or to invite others to work with you on it, here’s what to do:

1) Post a new topic in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum. This will be the discussion thread for your program.

2) Post a single brief post in this thread that links the discussion thread of your program in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum.

Please note that we’ll move or delete any future advertisement posts that are outside the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum, as well as any posts in this topic that are not brief announcements of new opportunities. In particular, this topic should not be used to discuss specific programs; those discussions should occur in topics in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum.

Your post in this thread should have what you're sharing (class, session, tutoring, handout, math or coding game/other program) and a link to the thread in the Peer-to-Peer Programs forum, which should have more information (like where to find what you're sharing).
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jwelsh
Mar 15, 2021
cw357
Dec 11, 2023
k i C&P posting recs by mods
v_Enhance   0
Jun 12, 2020
The purpose of this post is to lay out a few suggestions about what kind of posts work well for the C&P forum. Except in a few cases these are mostly meant to be "suggestions based on historical trends" rather than firm hard rules; we may eventually replace this with an actual list of firm rules but that requires admin approval :) That said, if you post something in the "discouraged" category, you should not be totally surprised if it gets locked; they are discouraged exactly because past experience shows they tend to go badly.
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1. Program discussion: Allowed
If you have questions about specific camps or programs (e.g. which classes are good at X camp?), these questions fit well here. Many camps/programs have specific sub-forums too but we understand a lot of them are not active.
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2. Results discussion: Allowed
You can make threads about e.g. how you did on contests (including AMC), though on AMC day when there is a lot of discussion. Moderators and administrators may do a lot of thread-merging / forum-wrangling to keep things in one place.
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3. Reposting solutions or questions to past AMC/AIME/USAMO problems: Allowed
This forum contains a post for nearly every problem from AMC8, AMC10, AMC12, AIME, USAJMO, USAMO (and these links give you an index of all these posts). It is always permitted to post a full solution to any problem in its own thread (linked above), regardless of how old the problem is, and even if this solution is similar to one that has already been posted. We encourage this type of posting because it is helpful for the user to explain their solution in full to an audience, and for future users who want to see multiple approaches to a problem or even just the frequency distribution of common approaches. We do ask for some explanation; if you just post "the answer is (B); ez" then you are not adding anything useful.

You are also encouraged to post questions about a specific problem in the specific thread for that problem, or about previous user's solutions. It's almost always better to use the existing thread than to start a new one, to keep all the discussion in one place easily searchable for future visitors.
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4. Advice posts: Allowed, but read below first
You can use this forum to ask for advice about how to prepare for math competitions in general. But you should be aware that this question has been asked many many times. Before making a post, you are encouraged to look at the following:
[list]
[*] Stop looking for the right training: A generic post about advice that keeps getting stickied :)
[*] There is an enormous list of links on the Wiki of books / problems / etc for all levels.
[/list]
When you do post, we really encourage you to be as specific as possible in your question. Tell us about your background, what you've tried already, etc.

Actually, the absolute best way to get a helpful response is to take a few examples of problems that you tried to solve but couldn't, and explain what you tried on them / why you couldn't solve them. Here is a great example of a specific question.
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5. Publicity: use P2P forum instead
See https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c5h2489297_peertopeer_programs_forum.
Some exceptions have been allowed in the past, but these require approval from administrators. (I am not totally sure what the criteria is. I am not an administrator.)
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6. Mock contests: use Mock Contests forum instead
Mock contests should be posted in the dedicated forum instead:
https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c594864_aops_mock_contests
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7. AMC procedural questions: suggest to contact the AMC HQ instead
If you have a question like "how do I submit a change of venue form for the AIME" or "why is my name not on the qualifiers list even though I have a 300 index", you would be better off calling or emailing the AMC program to ask, they are the ones who can help you :)
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8. Discussion of random math problems: suggest to use MSM/HSM/HSO instead
If you are discussing a specific math problem that isn't from the AMC/AIME/USAMO, it's better to post these in Middle School Math, High School Math, High School Olympiads instead.
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9. Politics: suggest to use Round Table instead
There are important conversations to be had about things like gender diversity in math contests, etc., for sure. However, from experience we think that C&P is historically not a good place to have these conversations, as they go off the rails very quickly. We encourage you to use the Round Table instead, where it is much more clear that all posts need to be serious.
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10. MAA complaints: discouraged
We don't want to pretend that the MAA is perfect or that we agree with everything they do. However, we chose to discourage this sort of behavior because in practice most of the comments we see are not useful and some are frankly offensive.
[list] [*] If you just want to blow off steam, do it on your blog instead.
[*] When you have criticism, it should be reasoned, well-thought and constructive. What we mean by this is, for example, when the AOIME was announced, there was great outrage about potential cheating. Well, do you really think that this is something the organizers didn't think about too? Simply posting that "people will cheat and steal my USAMOO qualification, the MAA are idiots!" is not helpful as it is not bringing any new information to the table.
[*] Even if you do have reasoned, well-thought, constructive criticism, we think it is actually better to email it the MAA instead, rather than post it here. Experience shows that even polite, well-meaning suggestions posted in C&P are often derailed by less mature users who insist on complaining about everything.
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11. Memes and joke posts: discouraged
It's fine to make jokes or lighthearted posts every so often. But it should be done with discretion. Ideally, jokes should be done within a longer post that has other content. For example, in my response to one user's question about olympiad combinatorics, I used a silly picture of Sogiita Gunha, but it was done within a context of a much longer post where it was meant to actually make a point.

On the other hand, there are many threads which consist largely of posts whose only content is an attached meme with the word "MAA" in it. When done in excess like this, the jokes reflect poorly on the community, so we explicitly discourage them.
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12. Questions that no one can answer: discouraged
Examples of this: "will MIT ask for AOIME scores?", "what will the AIME 2021 cutoffs be (asked in 2020)", etc. Basically, if you ask a question on this forum, it's better if the question is something that a user can plausibly answer :)
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13. Blind speculation: discouraged
Along these lines, if you do see a question that you don't have an answer to, we discourage "blindly guessing" as it leads to spreading of baseless rumors. For example, if you see some user posting "why are there fewer qualifiers than usual this year?", you should not reply "the MAA must have been worried about online cheating so they took fewer people!!". Was sich überhaupt sagen lässt, lässt sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
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14. Discussion of cheating: strongly discouraged
If you have evidence or reasonable suspicion of cheating, please report this to your Competition Manager or to the AMC HQ; these forums cannot help you.
Otherwise, please avoid public discussion of cheating. That is: no discussion of methods of cheating, no speculation about how cheating affects cutoffs, and so on --- it is not helpful to anyone, and it creates a sour atmosphere. A longer explanation is given in Seriously, please stop discussing how to cheat.
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15. Cutoff jokes: never allowed
Whenever the cutoffs for any major contest are released, it is very obvious when they are official. In the past, this has been achieved by the numbers being posted on the official AMC website (here) or through a post from the AMCDirector account.

You must never post fake cutoffs, even as a joke. You should also refrain from posting cutoffs that you've heard of via email, etc., because it is better to wait for the obvious official announcement. A longer explanation is given in A Treatise on Cutoff Trolling.
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16. Meanness: never allowed
Being mean is worse than being immature and unproductive. If another user does something which you think is inappropriate, use the Report button to bring the post to moderator attention, or if you really must reply, do so in a way that is tactful and constructive rather than inflammatory.
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Finally, we remind you all to sit back and enjoy the problems. :D

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(EDIT 2024-09-13: AoPS has asked to me to add the following item.)

Advertising paid program or service: never allowed

Per the AoPS Terms of Service (rule 5h), general advertisements are not allowed.

While we do allow advertisements of official contests (at the MAA and MATHCOUNTS level) and those run by college students with at least one successful year, any and all advertisements of a paid service or program is not allowed and will be deleted.
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v_Enhance
Jun 12, 2020
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k i Stop looking for the "right" training
v_Enhance   50
N Oct 16, 2017 by blawho12
Source: Contest advice
EDIT 2019-02-01: https://blog.evanchen.cc/2019/01/31/math-contest-platitudes-v3/ is the updated version of this.

EDIT 2021-06-09: see also https://web.evanchen.cc/faq-contest.html.

Original 2013 post
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v_Enhance
Feb 15, 2013
blawho12
Oct 16, 2017
2012 AIME II Problem 12
xHypotenuse   2
N 12 minutes ago by mathprodigy2011
Hello guys, I want to know what was wrong with my PIE approach.

First here's the problem:

For a positive integer $p$, define the positive integer $n$ to be $p$-safe if $n$ differs in absolute value by more than $2$ from all multiples of $p$. For example, the set of $10$-safe numbers is $\{ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, \ldots\}$. Find the number of positive integers less than or equal to $10,000$ which are simultaneously $7$-safe, $11$-safe, and $13$-safe.


My approach was finding the number of 7-unsafe numbers, 11-unsafe, and 13-unsafe, then finding 77-unsafe, 91-unsafe, 143-unsafe, and finally 1001-unsafe numbers and using PIE for a complementary counting approach. But somehow I got a number over than 10,000 for the total number of unsafe numbers. Is my approach valid and have I made arithmetic errors or does the PIE approach just not work?
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xHypotenuse
38 minutes ago
mathprodigy2011
12 minutes ago
mdk2013
Sunday at 7:10 PM
mdk2013
18 minutes ago
Mop Qual stuff
HopefullyMcNats2025   57
N 30 minutes ago by DottedCaculator
How good of an award/ achievement is making MOP, I adore comp math but am scared if I dedicate all my time to it I won’t get in a good college such as MIT or Harvard
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HopefullyMcNats2025
Sunday at 11:23 PM
DottedCaculator
30 minutes ago
2025 Math and AI 4 Girls Competition: Win Up To $1,000!!!
audio-on   15
N an hour ago by stuffedmath
Join the 2025 Math and AI 4 Girls Competition for a chance to win up to $1,000!

Hey Everyone, I'm pleased to announce the dates for the 2025 MA4G Competition are set!
Applications will open on March 22nd, 2025, and they will close on April 26th, 2025 (@ 11:59pm PST).

Applicants will have one month to fill out an application with prizes for the top 50 contestants & cash prizes for the top 20 contestants (including $1,000 for the winner!). More details below!

Eligibility:
The competition is free to enter, and open to middle school female students living in the US (5th-8th grade).
Award recipients are selected based on their aptitude, activities and aspirations in STEM.

Event dates:
Applications will open on March 22nd, 2025, and they will close on April 26th, 2025 (by 11:59pm PST)
Winners will be announced on June 28, 2025 during an online award ceremony.

Application requirements:
Complete a 12 question problem set on math and computer science/AI related topics
Write 2 short essays

Prizes:
1st place: $1,000 Cash prize
2nd place: $500 Cash prize
3rd place: $300 Cash prize
4th-10th: $100 Cash prize each
11th-20th: $50 Cash prize each
Top 50 contestants: Over $50 worth of gadgets and stationary


Many thanks to our current and past sponsors and partners: Hudson River Trading, MATHCOUNTS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Automation Anywhere, JP Morgan Chase, D.E. Shaw, and AI4ALL.

Math and AI 4 Girls is a nonprofit organization aiming to encourage young girls to develop an interest in math and AI by taking part in STEM competitions and activities at an early age. The organization will be hosting an inaugural Math and AI 4 Girls competition to identify talent and encourage long-term planning of academic and career goals in STEM.

Contact:
mathandAI4girls@yahoo.com

For more information on the competition:
https://www.mathandai4girls.org/math-and-ai-4-girls-competition

More information on how to register will be posted on the website. If you have any questions, please ask here!


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audio-on
Jan 26, 2025
stuffedmath
an hour ago
AMC 10/AIME Study Forum
PatTheKing806   105
N 2 hours ago by smbellanki
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Me (PatTheKing806) and EaZ_Shadow have created a AMC 10/AIME Study Forum! Hopefully, this forum wont die quickly. To signup, do /join or \join.

Click here to join! (or do some pushups) :P

People should join this forum if they are wanting to do well on the AMC 10 next year, trying get into AIME, or loves math!
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PatTheKing806
Mar 27, 2025
smbellanki
2 hours ago
HSMC Decisions
alcumusftwgrind   6
N 2 hours ago by alcumusftwgrind
Anyone know when HSMC decisions for round 2 come out? did anyone get theirs
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alcumusftwgrind
Yesterday at 12:04 PM
alcumusftwgrind
2 hours ago
Practice AMC 12A
freddyfazbear   81
N 2 hours ago by deduck
Practice AMC 12A

1. Find the sum of the infinite geometric series 1 + 7/18 + 49/324 + …
A - 36/11, B - 9/22, C - 18/11, D - 18/7, E - 9/14

2. What is the first digit after the decimal point in the square root of 420?
A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4, E - 5

3. Two circles with radiuses 47 and 96 intersect at two points A and B. Let P be the point 82% of the way from A to B. A line is drawn through P that intersects both circles twice. Let the four intersection points, from left to right be W, X, Y, and Z. Find (PW/PX)*(PY/PZ).
A - 50/5863, B - 47/96, C - 1, D - 96/47, E - 5863/50

4. What is the largest positive integer that cannot be expressed in the form 6a + 9b + 4 + 20d, where a, b, and d are positive integers?
A - 29, B - 38, C - 43, D - 76, E - 82

5. What is the absolute difference of the probabilities of getting at least 6/10 on a 10-question true or false test and at least 3/5 on a 5-question true or false test?
A - 63/1024, B - 63/512, C - 63/256, D - 63/128, E - 0

6. How many arrangements of the letters in the word “sensor” are there such that the two vowels have an even number of letters (remember 0 is even) between them (including the original “sensor”)?
A - 72, B - 108, C - 144, D - 216, E - 432

7. Find the value of 0.9 * 0.97 + 0.5 * 0.1 * (0.5 * 0.97 + 0.5 * 0.2) rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.
A - 89.9%, B - 90.0%, C - 90.1%, D - 90.2%, E - 90.3%

8. Two painters are painting a room. Painter 1 takes 52:36 to paint the room, and painter 2 takes 26:18 to paint the room. With these two painters working together, how long should the job take?
A - 9:16, B - 10:52, C - 17:32, D - 35:02, E - 39:44

9. Statistics show that people who work out n days a week have a (1/10)(n+2) chance of getting a 6-pack, and the number of people who exercise n days a week is directly proportional to 8 - n (Note that n can only be an integer from 0 to 7, inclusive). A random person is selected. Find the probability that they have a 6-pack.
A - 13/30, B - 17/30, C - 19/30, D - 23/30, E - 29/30

10. A factory must produce 3,000 items today. The manager of the factory initially calls over 25 employees, each producing 5 items per hour starting at 9 AM. However, he needs all of the items to be produced by 9 PM, and realizes that he must speed up the process. At 12 PM, the manager then encourages his employees to work faster by increasing their pay, in which they then all speed up to 6 items per hour. At 1 PM, the manager calls in 15 more employees which make 5 items per hour each. Unfortunately, at 3 PM, the AC stops working and the hot sun starts taking its toll, which slows every employee down by 2 items per hour. At 4 PM, the technician fixes the AC, and all employees return to producing 5 items per hour. At 5 PM, the manager calls in 30 more employees, which again make 5 items per hour. At 6 PM, he calls in 30 more employees. At 7 PM, he rewards all the pickers again, speeding them up to 6 items per hour. But at 8 PM, n employees suddenly crash out and stop working due to fatigue, and the rest all slow back down to 5 items per hour because they are tired. The manager does not have any more employees, so if too many of them drop out, he is screwed and will have to go overtime. Find the maximum value of n such that all of the items can still be produced on time, done no later than 9 PM.
A - 51, B - 52, C - 53, D - 54, E - 55

11. Two congruent right rectangular prisms stand near each other. Both have the same orientation and altitude. A plane that cuts both prisms into two pieces passes through the vertical axes of symmetry of both prisms and does not cross the bottom or top faces of either prism. Let the point that the plane crosses the axis of symmetry of the first prism be A, and the point that the plane crosses the axis of symmetry of the second prism be B. A is 81% of the way from the bottom face to the top face of the first prism, and B is 69% of the way from the bottom face to the top face of the second prism. What percent of the total volume of both prisms combined is above the plane?
A - 19%, B - 25%, C - 50%, D - 75%, E - 81%

12. On an analog clock, the minute hand makes one full revolution every hour, and the hour hand makes one full revolution every 12 hours. Both hands move at a constant rate. During which of the following time periods does the minute hand pass the hour hand?
A - 7:35 - 7:36, B - 7:36 - 7:37, C - 7:37 - 7:38, D - 7:38 - 7:39, E - 7:39 - 7:40

13. How many axes of symmetry does the graph of (x^2)(y^2) = 69 have?
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

14. Let f(n) be the sum of the positive integer divisors of n. Find the sum of the digits of the smallest odd positive integer n such that f(n) is greater than 2n.
A - 15, B - 18, C - 21, D - 24, E - 27

15. A basketball has a diameter of 9 inches, and the hoop has a diameter of 18 inches. Peter decides to pick up the basketball and make a throw. Given that Peter has a 1/4 chance of accidentally hitting the backboard and missing the shot, but if he doesn’t, he is guaranteed that the frontmost point of the basketball will be within 18 inches of the center of the hoop at the moment when a great circle of the basketball crosses the plane containing the rim. No part of the ball will extend behind the backboard at any point during the throw, and the rim is attached directly to the backboard. What is the probability that Peter makes the shot?
A - 3/128, B - 3/64, C - 3/32, D - 3/16, E - 3/8

16. Amy purchases 6 fruits from a store. At the store, they have 5 of each of 5 different fruits. How many different combinations of fruits could Amy buy?
A - 210, B - 205, C - 195, D - 185, E - 180

17. Find the area of a cyclic quadrilateral with side lengths 6, 9, 4, and 2, rounded to the nearest integer.
A - 16, B - 19, C - 22, D - 25, E - 28

18. Find the slope of the line tangent to the graph of y = x^2 + x + 1 at the point (2, 7).
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

19. Let f(n) = 4096n/(2^n). Find f(1) + f(2) + … + f(12).
A - 8142, B - 8155, C - 8162, D - 8169, E - 8178

20. Find the sum of all positive integers n greater than 1 and less than 16 such that (n-1)! + 1 is divisible by n.
A - 41, B - 44, C - 47, D - 50, E - 53

21. In a list of integers where every integer in the list ranges from 1 to 200, inclusive, and the chance of randomly drawing an integer n from the list is proportional to n if n <= 100 and to 201 - n if n >= 101, what is the sum of the numerator and denominator of the probability that a random integer drawn from the list is greater than 30, when expressed as a common fraction in lowest terms?
A - 1927, B - 2020, C - 2025, D - 3947, E - 3952

22. In a small town, there were initially 9 people who did not have a certain bacteria and 3 people who did. Denote this group to be the first generation. Then those 12 people would randomly get into 6 pairs and reproduce, making the second generation, consisting of 6 people. Then the process repeats for the second generation, where they get into 3 pairs. Of the 3 people in the third generation, what is the probability that exactly one of them does not have the bacteria? Assume that if at least one parent has the bacteria, then the child is guaranteed to get it.
A - 8/27, B - 1/3, C - 52/135, D - 11/27, E - 58/135

23. Amy, Steven, and Melissa each start at the point (0, 0). Assume the coordinate axes are in miles. At t = 0, Amy starts walking along the x-axis in the positive x direction at 0.6 miles per hour, Steven starts walking along the y-axis in the positive y direction at 0.8 miles per hour, and Melissa starts walking along the x-axis in the negative x direction at 0.4 miles per hour. However, a club that does not like them patrols the circumference of the circle x^2 + y^2 = 1. Three officers of the club, equally spaced apart on the circumference of the circle, walk counterclockwise along its circumference and make one revolution every hour. At t = 0, one of the officers of the club is at (1, 0). Any of Amy, Steven, and Melissa will be caught by the club if they walk within 50 meters of one of their 3 officers. How many of the three will be caught by the club?
A - 0, B - 1, C - 2, D - 3, E - Not enough info to determine

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A list of 9 positive integers consists of 100, 112, 122, 142, 152, and 160, as well as a, b, and c, with a <= b <= c. The range of the list is 70, both the mean and median are multiples of 10, and the list has a unique mode. How many ordered triples (a, b, c) are possible?
A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4, E - 5

25. What is the integer closest to the value of tan(83)? (The 83 is in degrees)
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 6, E - 8
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freddyfazbear
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Colored Pencils for Math Competitions
Owinner   16
N 3 hours ago by deduck
I've heard using colored pencils is really useful for geometry problems. Is this only for very hard problems, or can it be used in MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8/10? An example problem would be much appreciated.
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Mar 29, 2025
deduck
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What to do...
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im in 7th grade and took the AMC 10 A/B with absouletely nauseating score, which i will not reveal. I wasnt even close to AIME frankly. My goals are the following:
7th grade: AMC 8 - DHR
8th grade:AIME qual, AMC 8 Perfect
9th grade: AMC 10 DHR maybe?, AIME 7+
10th grade: USAJMO, AIME 12+, AMC 10 DHR
11th grade: USAMO, AIME 12+, AMC 12 DHR
12th grade: USAMO, AIME great score, AMC 12 perfect or close?
These are the goals that i want to achieve. I will do literally anything to achieve them. Can someone please give me a good tip so i can follow it for the next 5 years of my life to become a 3 time USAMO qual and a 5 time AIME qual, and have an perfect AMC 8 under my belt?
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TeamsCode Spring 2025 Virtual Programming Contest
beibeizhu   0
Yesterday at 6:18 AM
Hello AoPS!
TeamsCode is proud to announce our Spring 2025 Virtual Programming Contest! It will take place on Saturday, April 5, from 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific Time through Youtube Livestream. We'll be featuring guest speaker Ion Barbus, an Analytics Manager in the Government and Public Services sector, from 4 to 5 PM.

Teams of up to 4 members will have 3 hours to solve programming problems. There will be two divisions: Novice and Advanced. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes will be distributed, through placement awards, raffle prizes, and more! Only pre-college participants are eligible for prizes.

To register for the contest, please visit: https://www.teamscode.org/contests/spring-2025. Join our Discord server here: https://discord.com/invite/Md36nAvMFM.
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ISI CMI 2025 MOCK
mqoi_KOLA   0
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Source: ME
so i started making this mock on pi day(14th march) and completed it today(just now)
1)this is not a conventional mock like the isi UGA exam, this mock has 30 questions with 4 options for each question.
2)there is no time limit , i leave it to you in what amount of time u want to attempt this.
3)every question is worth 5 marks and marks will only be awarded if you have stated proper reasoning for your answer(to avoid tukkabazi).
most problem are subjective problem which I've transformed into objective, so they require rigorous proving that's why its named UGAB.
4)you may submit your response to me .(mention the time you took)
5) the answer key will be released on 14th April here,solution will only be provided by me iff noone is able to solve that problem.
6)you may discuss the problem solutions if you want to in ISI/CMI 2025 forum.
7)happy solving, u may cheat,noone cares.
one more thing its a fun mock like if you are not able to solve the problems, just chill.
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Tennessee Math Tournament (TMT) Online 2025
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N Yesterday at 3:54 AM by Jaxman8
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce a new competition, the Tennessee Math Tournament, created by the Tennessee Math Coalition! Anyone can participate in the virtual competition for free.

The testing window is from March 22nd to April 12th, 2025. Virtual competitors may participate in the competition at any time during that window.

The virtual competition consists of three rounds: Individual, Bullet, and Team. The Individual Round is 60 minutes long and consists of 30 questions (AMC 10 level). The Bullet Round is 20 minutes long and consists of 80 questions (Mathcounts Chapter level). The Team Round is 30 minutes long and consists of 16 questions (AMC 12 level). Virtual competitors may compete in teams of four, or choose to not participate in the team round.

To register and see more information, click here!

If you have any questions, please email connect@tnmathcoalition.org or reply to this thread!

Thank you to our lead sponsor, Jane Street!

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USAJMO #5 - points on a circle
hrithikguy   207
N Yesterday at 2:17 AM by LeYohan
Points $A,B,C,D,E$ lie on a circle $\omega$ and point $P$ lies outside the circle. The given points are such that (i) lines $PB$ and $PD$ are tangent to $\omega$, (ii) $P, A, C$ are collinear, and (iii) $DE \parallel AC$. Prove that $BE$ bisects $AC$.
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hrithikguy
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LeYohan
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k Congrats Team USA!
MathyMathMan   146
N Yesterday at 1:52 AM by bhavanal
Congratulations to the USA team for placing 1st at the 65th IMO that took place in Bath, United Kingdom.

The team members were:

Jordan Lefkowitz
Krishna Pothapragada
Jessica Wan
Alexander Wang
Qiao Zhang
Linus Tang
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Practice AMC 12A
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OP is a closeted racist and attention seeker.

“OMG guys, OP is literally a racist. After taking time out of his schedule to prepare a mock AMC for us, let’s all flame this attention seeker even though there are literally no racist problems in the test.”
Hahahahahaha so funny

Also, for reference, I don’t know what all this ruckus is about, but I just want it to be clear that no racism will be tolerated here. Everyone has the right to be treated equally, no matter their background.
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freddyfazbear wrote:
Pengu14 wrote:
OP is a closeted racist and attention seeker.

“OMG guys, OP is literally a racist. After taking time out of his schedule to prepare a mock AMC for us, let’s all flame this attention seeker even though there are literally no racist problems in the test.”
Hahahahahaha so funny

Also, for reference, I don’t know what all this ruckus is about, but I just want it to be clear that no racism will be tolerated here. Everyone has the right to be treated equally, no matter their background.

Literally half of the problems were targeting a certain community of people before you changed them. Stop acting dumb.
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freddyfazbear
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Pengu14 wrote:
freddyfazbear wrote:
Pengu14 wrote:
OP is a closeted racist and attention seeker.

“OMG guys, OP is literally a racist. After taking time out of his schedule to prepare a mock AMC for us, let’s all flame this attention seeker even though there are literally no racist problems in the test.”
Hahahahahaha so funny

Also, for reference, I don’t know what all this ruckus is about, but I just want it to be clear that no racism will be tolerated here. Everyone has the right to be treated equally, no matter their background.

Literally half of the problems were targeting a certain community of people before you changed them. Stop acting dumb.

The “change” didn’t even change the problems all that much. They pretty much still have the same content as I just made some minor tweaks, and even they have the same answer key as before
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jkim0656
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mb gng im still mad i didnt qualify for amc 8

uhh u don't qual for the 8 tho...
or the 10 or the 12?
did u mean aime?
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yaxuan
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fake123 wrote:
jkim0656 wrote:
fake123 wrote:
mb gng im still mad i didnt qualify for amc 8

uhh u don't qual for the 8 tho...
or the 10 or the 12?
did u mean aime?

oh it was a joke lol I actually got a 150 on the amc 8

Orz, you got 125 more questions right on the AMC8 than the best scorers in the contest! :o
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TiguhBabeHwo
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imagine no aime platinum
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Please lock this post :sob:
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TiguhBabeHwo wrote:
imagine no aime platinum

ORZZZ teach me your ways rbo
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i just realized p17 is direct formula application
so misplaced
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@freddyfazbear

Let me start off. Im not entirely made at you. I think you taking time off of your schedule to prepare a whole mock test and solutions and anwers is very respectable. And even though i have no idea who you are, i think that judging by how much effort you put into the mock just shows that you're a good kid. So don't be impacted too much by the remarks about racism.

However, you really do need to improve your sense of maturity. Posting ginger as a reference to ______ wasn't the best choice you could make. Additionally, after reading through the comment, making questions about certain people wasn't all that mature. You know you did this, so please stop making excuses that the problems have words like "sensor" and all that.
freddyfazbear wrote:
The “change” didn’t even change the problems all that much. They pretty much still have the same content as I just made some minor tweaks, and even they have the same answer key as before

In response to this, although the change didnt change the problem's solutions and answers themselves, the content was severly changed. Originally, it was extrememly racist, and now by changing it, it looks like a normal AMC mock. That's a big change, and please stop acting like the test didn't have any racist remarks.

Still, I wish to applaud you for making not only this, but other mocks. Although this one in particular turned out a bit negative towards groups of people, I wish for all of us to recognize that you providing us with these practice AMC's was a good choice, and you should keep doing it, just with maturity improvements.
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Mathdreams
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Orz, you got 125 more questions right on the AMC8 than the best scorers in the contest! :o

Amateurs, I got a 1000 on AIME Platinum.
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TiguhBabeHwo
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yaxuan wrote:
Orz, you got 125 more questions right on the AMC8 than the best scorers in the contest! :o

Amateurs, I got a 1000 on AIME Platinum.

ORZMIT
(I didn't even get testcase legitimately for last q)
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Mathdreams wrote:
yaxuan wrote:
Orz, you got 125 more questions right on the AMC8 than the best scorers in the contest! :o

Amateurs, I got a 1000 on AIME Platinum.

ORZMIT
(I didn't even get testcase legitimately for last q)

I'm not AIME Platinum lol
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WHAT! YOU TWO ARE ORZMITTERS! QUALIFYING FOR AIME PLATINUM IS SOORZ! I DIDN'T EVEN QUALIFY FOR AMC 10!
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freddy faz bear just lost infinite aura for changing his problems
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