ka May Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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May 1, 2025
May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.
Are you interested in working towards MATHCOUNTS and don’t know where to start? We have you covered! If you have taken Prealgebra, then you are ready for MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics. Already aiming for State or National MATHCOUNTS and harder AMC 8 problems? Then our MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Advanced course is for you.
Summer camps are starting next month at the Virtual Campus in math and language arts that are 2 - to 4 - weeks in duration. Spaces are still available - don’t miss your chance to have an enriching summer experience. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!
Be sure to mark your calendars for the following upcoming events:
[list][*]May 9th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, Casework 2: Overwhelming Evidence — A Text Adventure, a game where participants will work together to navigate the map, solve puzzles, and win! All are welcome.
[*]May 19th, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, What's Next After Beast Academy?, designed for students finishing Beast Academy and ready for Prealgebra 1.
[*]May 20th, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 1 Math Jam, Problems 1 to 4, join the Canada/USA Mathcamp staff for this exciting Math Jam, where they discuss solutions to Problems 1 to 4 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz!
[*]May 21st, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Mathcamp 2025 Qualifying Quiz Part 2 Math Jam, Problems 5 and 6, Canada/USA Mathcamp staff will discuss solutions to Problems 5 and 6 of the 2025 Mathcamp Qualifying Quiz![/list]
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Consider a polynomial where are nine distinct integers. Prove that there exists an integer such that for all integers the number is divisible by a prime number greater than 20.
We say that a finite set of points in the plane is balanced if, for any two different points and in , there is a point in such that . We say that is centre-free if for any three different points , and in , there is no points in such that .
(a) Show that for all integers , there exists a balanced set consisting of points.
(b) Determine all integers for which there exists a balanced centre-free set consisting of points.
The following is the construction of the twindragon fractal.
Let be the solid square region with vertices at
Recursively, the region consists of two copies of : one copy which is rotated counterclockwise around the origin and scaled by a factor of , and another copy which is also rotated counterclockwise around the origin and scaled by a factor of , and then translated by .
We have displayed and below.
Let be the limiting region of the sequence .
The area of the smallest convex polygon which encloses can be written as for relatively prime positive integers and . Find .
p1. One day, a researcher placed two groups of species that were different, namely amoeba and bacteria in the same medium, each in a certain amount (in unit cells). The researcher observed that on the next day, which is the second day, it turns out that every cell species divide into two cells. On the same day every cell amoeba prey on exactly one bacterial cell. The next observation carried out every day shows the same pattern, that is, each cell species divides into two cells and then each cell amoeba prey on exactly one bacterial cell. Observation on day shows that after each species divides and then each amoeba cell preys on exactly one bacterial cell, it turns out kill bacteria. Determine the ratio of the number of amoeba to the number of bacteria on the first day.
p2. It is known that is a positive integer. Let .
Find
p3. Budi arranges fourteen balls, each with a radius of cm. The first nine balls are placed on the table so that
form a square and touch each other. The next four balls placed on top of the first nine balls so that they touch each other. The fourteenth ball is placed on top of the four balls, so that it touches the four balls. If Bambang has fifty five balls each also has a radius of cm and all the balls are arranged following the pattern of the arrangement of the balls made by Budi, calculate the height of the center of the topmost ball is measured from the table surface in the arrangement of the balls done by Bambang.
p4. Given a triangle whose sides are cm, cm, and cm. Find the maximum possible area of the rectangle can be made in the triangle .
p5. There are people waiting in line to buy tickets to a show with the price of one ticket is Rp.. Known of them they only have Rp. in banknotes and the rest is only has a banknote of Rp. If the ticket seller initially only has Rp., what is the probability that the ticket seller have enough change to serve everyone according to their order in the queue?
P6. It is given the integer with
Determine the sum of all the digits of such . (It is implied that is written with a decimal representation.)
P7. Three groups of lines divides a plane into regions. Every pair of lines in the same group are parallel. Let and respectively be the number of lines in groups 1, 2, and 3. If no lines in group 3 go through the intersection of any two lines (in groups 1 and 2, of course), then the least number of lines required in order to have more than 2018 regions is ....
P8. It is known a frustum where and are squares with both planes being parallel. The length of the sides of and respectively are and , and the height of the frustum is . Points and respectively are intersections of the diagonals of and and the line is perpendicular to the plane . Construct the pyramids and and calculate the volume of the 3D figure which is the intersection of pyramids and .
P9. Look at the arrangement of natural numbers in the following table. The position of the numbers is determined by their row and column numbers, and its diagonal (which, the sequence of numbers is read from the bottom left to the top right). As an example, the number is on the 3rd row, 4th column, and on the 6th diagonal. Meanwhile the position of the number is on the 3rd row, 5th column, and 7th diagonal.
(Image should be placed here, look at attachment.)
a) Determine the position of the number based on its row, column, and diagonal.
b) Determine the average of the sequence of numbers whose position is on the "main diagonal" (quotation marks not there in the first place), which is the sequence of numbers read from the top left to the bottom right: 1, 5, 13, 25, ..., which the last term is the largest number that is less than or equal to .
P10. It is known that is the set of 3-digit integers not containing the digit . Define a gadang number to be the element of whose digits are all distinct and the digits contained in such number are not prime, and (a gadang number leaves a remainder of 5 when divided by 7. If we pick an element of at random, what is the probability that the number we picked is a gadang number?
The problems are really difficult to find online, so here are the problems.
P1. It is known that two positive integers and satisfy dan . The number is a fraction in its simplest form.
a) Determine the smallest possible value of .
b) If the denominator of the smallest value of is (equal to some number) , determine all positive factors of .
c) On taking one factor out of all the mentioned positive factors of above (specifically in problem b), determine the probability of taking a factor who is a multiple of 4.
I added this because my translation is a bit weird. Indonesian Version
Diketahui dua bilangan bulat positif dan dengan dan . Bilangan merupakan suatu pecahan sederhana.
a) Tentukan bilangan terkecil yang mungkin.
b) Jika penyebut bilangan terkecil tersebut adalah , tentukan semua faktor positif dari .
c) Pada pengambilan satu faktor dari faktor-faktor positif di atas, tentukan peluang terambilnya satu faktor kelipatan 4.
P2. Let the functions be given in the following graphs. Graph Construction Notes
I do not know asymptote, can you please help me draw the graphs? Here are its complete description:
For both graphs, draw only the X and Y-axes, do not draw grids. Denote each axis with or depending on which line you are referring to, and on their intercepts, draw a small node (a circle) then mark their or coordinates only (since their other coordinates are definitely 0).
Graph (1) is the function , who is a quadratic function with -2 and 4 as its -intercepts and 4 as its -intercept. You also put right besides the curve you have, preferably just on the right-up direction of said curve.
Graph (2) is the function , which is piecewise. For ,, whereas for ,. You also put right besides the curve you have, on the lower right of the line, on approximately .
Define the function with for all where is the domain of .
a) Draw the graph of the function .
b) Determine all values of so that .
P3. The quadrilateral has side lengths cm and cm. All four of its vertices lie on a circle. Calculate the area of quadrilateral .
P4. There exists positive integers and , with and . It is known that , where is a 3-digit number whose number in its tens place is 5. Determine the number/quantity of all possible values of .
P5. The 8-digit number (the original problem does not have an overline, which I fixed) is arranged from the set . Such number satisfies . Determine the quantity of different possible (such) numbers.
Three squares are drawn on the sides of triangle (i.e., the square on has as one of its sides and lies outside ). Show that the lines drawn from the vertices ,, and to the centers of the opposite squares are concurrent.
1. Do you think isogonal conjugates should be renamed to angular conjugates?
2. Do you think isotomic conjugates should be renamed to cevian conjugates?
Given triangle ABC, it is true that BD = CF where D and F are points in the same half-plane with respect to line BC and it is also known that BD is parallel to AC and CF is parallel to AB. Show that BF, CD and the interior bisector of A are concurrent.
In square , and are points on sides and , respectively, such that . If and , find the area of .
Answer Confirmation
Solution
Let side length of and area of . Since Is a square, is a right angle, and , which means . Since is a right angle, , which means . Since and both contain a right angle and , we can show that through AA postulate. Because they are similar, , and substituting values, we get , so , and . Using pythagorean theorem on , we get . Since we want x^2, we multiply both sides by , so .