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9 What competitions do you do
VivaanKam   6
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I know I missed a lot of other competitions so if you didi one of the just choose "Other".
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AM-GM Inequalitie with square root
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For $x \geq 0$, show that
$2x+\frac{3}{8} \geq 4\sqrt{x}$.
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2023 EMCC Individual Speed Test - Exeter Math Club Competition
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20 problems for 25 minutes.


p1. Evaluate the following expression, giving your answer as a decimal: $\frac{20\times 2\times 3}{
20+2+3}$ .


p2. Given real numbers $x$ and $y$, we have that $2x + 3y = 20$ and $3x + 4y = 12$. Find the value of $x + y$.


p3. Alan, Daria, and Max want to sit in a row of three airplane seats. If Alan cannot sit in the middle, in how many ways can they sit down?


p4. Jack thinks of two distinct positive integers $a$ and $b$. He notices that neither $a$ nor $b$ is a perfect square, but $ab$ is a perfect square. What is the smallest possible value of $a + b$?


p5. What is the smallest integer greater than $2023$ whose digits sum to $4$?


p6. Triangle $ABC$ has $AB = AC$ and $\angle B = 60^o$. The altitude drawn from $C$ intersects $AB$ at $X$, where $BX = 4$. What is the area of $ABC$?


p7. Archyuta writes a program to create words with at least one letter. The probability of having $n$ letters in the word for each positive integer $n$ is $\frac{1}{2^n}$ . Each letter of the word is chosen randomly and independently from the uppercase English alphabet. The probability of Archyuta’s program outputting “EMCC” can be written as $\frac{1}{k}$ for some positive integer $k$. What is the greatest nonnegative integer $a$ such that $2^a$ divides $k$?


p8. What is the greatest whole number less than $1000$ that can be expressed as the sum of seven consecutive whole numbers, as the sum of five consecutive whole numbers, and as the sum of three consecutive whole numbers?


p9. Given a square $ABCD$ with side length $7$, square $EFGH$ is inscribed in $ABCD$ such that $E$ is on side $AB$ and $G$ is on side $CD$ such that $EA = 3$ and $GD = 4$. If square PQRS inscribed in $EFGH$ such that $PQ \parallel AB$, find the side length of $PQRS$.
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p10. Michael wants to do some exercise by going up and down a moving escalator. He first runs up the escalator, taking $30$ seconds to reach the top. Tired, he then walks at one-third of his running speed back down the escalator, taking 30 seconds to reach the bottom. Assuming his running speed and the escalator’s speed are constant, what is the ratio of his running speed to the escalator’s speed?


p11. Bob the architect has $4$ bricks shaped like rectangular prisms each of dimension $1$ foot by $1$ foot by $2$ feet which he stores inside a $2$ feet by $2$ feet by $2$ feet hollow box. In how many ways can he fit his bricks into the box? (Rotations and reflections of a configuration are considered distinct.)


p12. $P$ is a point lying inside rectangle $ABCD$. If $\angle PAB = 40^o$, $\angle PBC = 50^o$ and $\angle PCD = 60^o$, find $\angle PDA$ in degrees.


p13. Let $N$ be a positive integer. If $4$ of $N$s divisors are prime and $346$ of $N$s divisors are composite, how many of $N$s divisors are perfect squares?


p14. Two positive integers have a product of $2^{23}$. Let $S$ be the sum of all distinct possible values of their absolute difference. Find the remainder when $S$ is divided by $1000$.


p15. A rectangle has area $216$. The internal angle bisectors of each of its four vertices are drawn, bounding a square region with area $18$. Find the perimeter of the rectangle.


p16. Let $\vartriangle ABC$ be a right triangle, with a right angle at $B$. The perpendicular bisector of hypotenuse $\overline{AC}$ splits the triangle into a smaller triangle and a quadrilateral. If the triangle has an area of $5$ and the quadrilateral has an area of $13$, find the length of $\overline{AC}$.


p17. Let $N$ be the sum of the $2023$ smallest positive perfect squares minus the sum of the $2023$ smallest positive odd numbers. What is the largest prime factor of $N$?


p18. Anna designs a logo, shown below, consisting of a large square with side length $12$ and two congruent equilateral triangles placed inside the square, one in each corner and with one overlapping side. What is the distance between the marked vertices?
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p19. How many ways are there to place an isosceles right triangle with legs of length $1$ in each unit square of a two-by-two grid, such that no two isosceles triangles share an edge? One valid construction is shown on the left, followed by an invalid construction on the right.
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p20. Mr. Ibbotson and Dr. Drescher are playing a game where they write numbers on the blackboard. On the first turn, Mr. Ibbotson begins by writing $1$, followed by Dr. Drescher writing another $1$ on the second turn. Each turn afterwards, they take the two newest numbers on the board and concatenate them, writing the resulting number of the board. For instance, the first few numbers on the board are $1$, $1$, $11$, $111$, $11111$, $...$ How many turns does it take for them to write a number which is divisible by $63$?


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9 AMC 10 Prep
bluedino24   9
N an hour ago by Math-lover1
I'm in 7th grade and thought it would be good to start preparing for the AMC 10. I'm not extremely good at math though.

What are some important topics I should study? Please comment below. Thanks! :D
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prime factorization formula questions
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N Apr 8, 2025 by Charizard_637
If i have a number, say $N$ with prime factorization $p_1^{e_1}p_2^{e_2}...p_n^{e_n}$, and I want to find $3, 4, 5, ..., k$ numbers that multiply to $N$, does anybody know a formula for this?
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prime factorization formula questions
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If i have a number, say $N$ with prime factorization $p_1^{e_1}p_2^{e_2}...p_n^{e_n}$, and I want to find $3, 4, 5, ..., k$ numbers that multiply to $N$, does anybody know a formula for this?
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I dont get the question
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for example if I have the number $900 = 2^2 \cdot 3^2 \cdot 5^2$, how many pairs of $3$ numbers multiply to $900$
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misunderstood problem - will change
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not really because if you pick $150$, $300$, and $450$ then their product far exceed $900$
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I’m not sure, but Click to reveal hidden text

@bove I think 2bove was responding to your example.
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yeah i misunderstood the problem sorry about that
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We assume the pairs are ordered (for example $(30,30,1)\ne(1,30,30)$). We have $\binom{e_1+k-1}{k-1}$ distribute the $e_1$ factors of $p_1$ among the $k$ values. Continuing for all primes gives the product $\prod_{i=1}^n\binom{e_i+k-1}{k-1}$. For the example, the answer is $\binom{2+3-1}{3-1}^3=216$. The number of unordered pairs would be messy because you have to do casework with pairs containing repeated values.
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i wonder if there is a general way to convert that formula such that the formula counts unordered pairs
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Soupboy0 wrote:
for example if I have the number $900 = 2^2 \cdot 3^2 \cdot 5^2$, how many pairs of $3$ numbers multiply to $900$

Bro you goofy ahh you did this before (unless you're not talking about indistingushable pairs then I am NOT the person to help you for that)
Distribute the 2s to each of (1, 1, 1)
There are 2 so it is (2+3-1)C(3-1) = 4C2 = 6
Now the 3s
Now the 5s (they are all independent because they are prime)
should be 216 ordered pairs
Now someone else shall bash
So I guess its just you set them all to one for the ordered pairs, do for each prime and multiply using the multiplication version of the summation formula (exp + groupcount - 1)C(groupcount - 1) I wish I could show you in LaTeX but I am not that smart

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