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May 1, 2025
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Find the expected END time for the given process
superpi 2
N
24 minutes ago
by Hello_Kitty
This problem suddenly popped up in my head. But I don't know how to deal with it.
There are N bulbs. All the bulbs' available time follows same exponential distribution with parameter lambda(Or any arbitrary distribution with mean
). We do following operations
1. First, turn on the all
bulbs
2. For each
bulbs goes out, append ONE NEW BULB and turn on (This step starts and finishes immediately when kth bulb goes out)
3. Repeat 2 until all the bulbs goes out
What is the expected terminate time for the above process for given
?
Or, is there any more conditions to complete the problem?
There are N bulbs. All the bulbs' available time follows same exponential distribution with parameter lambda(Or any arbitrary distribution with mean

1. First, turn on the all

2. For each

3. Repeat 2 until all the bulbs goes out
What is the expected terminate time for the above process for given

Or, is there any more conditions to complete the problem?
2 replies
Different Paths Probability
Qebehsenuef 2
N
38 minutes ago
by Etkan
Source: OBM
A mouse initially occupies cage A and is trained to change cages by going through a tunnel whenever an alarm sounds. Each time the alarm sounds, the mouse chooses any of the tunnels adjacent to its cage with equal probability and without being affected by previous choices. What is the probability that after the alarm sounds 23 times the mouse occupies cage B?
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[Sipnayan JHS] Semifinals Round B, Average, #2
LilKirb 1
N
3 hours ago
by LilKirb
How many trailing zeroes are there in the base
representation of
?


1 reply
36x⁴ + 12x² - 36x + 13 > 0
fxandi 4
N
4 hours ago
by wh0nix
Prove that for any real
holds inequality


4 replies

2022 SMT Team Round - Stanford Math Tournament
parmenides51 5
N
4 hours ago
by vanstraelen
p1. Square
has side length
. Let the midpoint of
be
. What is the area of the overlapping region between the circle centered at
with radius
and the circle centered at
with radius
? (You may express your answer using inverse trigonometry functions of noncommon values.)
p2. Find the number of times
occurs when
for the function
.
p3. Stanford is building a new dorm for students, and they are looking to offer
room configurations:
Configuration
: a one-room double, which is a square with side length of
,
Configuration
: a two-room double, which is two connected rooms, each of them squares with a side length of
.
To make things fair for everyone, Stanford wants a one-room double (rooms of configuration
) to be exactly
m
larger than the total area of a two-room double. Find the number of possible pairs of side lengths
, where
,
, such that
.
p4. The island nation of Ur is comprised of
islands. One day, people decide to create island-states as follows. Each island randomly chooses one of the other five islands and builds a bridge between the two islands (it is possible for two bridges to be built between islands
and
if each island chooses the other). Then, all islands connected by bridges together form an island-state. What is the expected number of island-states Ur is divided into?
p5. Let
and
be the roots of the polynomial
. Compute
.
p6. Carol writes a program that finds all paths on an 10 by 2 grid from cell (1, 1) to cell (10, 2) subject to the conditions that a path does not visit any cell more than once and at each step the path can go up, down, left, or right from the current cell, excluding moves that would make the path leave the grid. What is the total length of all such paths? (The length of a path is the number of cells it passes through, including the starting and ending cells.)
p7. Consider the sequence of integers an defined by
,
for prime
and
for
. Find the smallest
such that
is a perfect power of
.
p8. Let
be a triangle whose
-excircle,
-excircle, and
-excircle have radii
,
, and
, respectively. If
and the perimeter of
is
, what is the area of
?
p9. Consider the set
of functions
satisfying:
(a)
(b)
,
(c)
,
(d)
.
If
can be written as
where
are distinct primes, compute
.
p10. You are given that
and that the first (leftmost) two digits of
are 10. Compute the number of integers
with
such that
starts with either the digit
or
(in base
).
p11. Let
be the circumcenter of
. Let
be the midpoint of
, and let
and
be the feet of the altitudes from
and
, respectively, onto the opposite sides.
intersects
at
. The line passing through
and perpendicular to
intersects the circumcircle of
at
(on the major arc
) and
, and intersects
at
. Point
lies on the line
such that
is perpendicular to
. Given that
and
, compute
.
p12. Let
be the isosceles triangle with side lengths
. Arpit and Katherine simultaneously choose points
and
within this triangle, and compute
, the squared distance between the two points. Suppose that Arpit chooses a random point
within
. Katherine plays the (possibly randomized) strategy which given Arpit’s strategy minimizes the expected value of
. Compute this value.
p13. For a regular polygon
with
sides, let
denote the regular polygon with
sides such that the vertices of
are the midpoints of every other side of
. Let
denote the polygon that results after applying f a total of k times. The area of
where
is a pentagon of side length
, can be expressed as
for some positive integers
where
is not divisible by the square of any prime and
does not share any positive divisors with
and
. Find
.
p14. Consider the function
. This function can be expressed in the form
for sequences of integers
,
. Determine
.
p15. In
, let
be the centroid and let the circumcenters of
,
, and
be
, and
, respectively. The line passing through
and the midpoint of
intersects
at
. If the radius of circle
is
, the radius of circle
is
, and
, what is the length of
?
PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected here.








p2. Find the number of times



p3. Stanford is building a new dorm for students, and they are looking to offer







To make things fair for everyone, Stanford wants a one-room double (rooms of configuration







p4. The island nation of Ur is comprised of



p5. Let




p6. Carol writes a program that finds all paths on an 10 by 2 grid from cell (1, 1) to cell (10, 2) subject to the conditions that a path does not visit any cell more than once and at each step the path can go up, down, left, or right from the current cell, excluding moves that would make the path leave the grid. What is the total length of all such paths? (The length of a path is the number of cells it passes through, including the starting and ending cells.)
p7. Consider the sequence of integers an defined by








p8. Let











p9. Consider the set


(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

If




p10. You are given that








p11. Let


























p12. Let








p13. For a regular polygon

















p14. Consider the function





p15. In

















PS. You should use hide for answers. Collected here.
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[Sipnayan SHS] Finals Round, Difficult
LilKirb 1
N
Today at 6:59 AM
by LilKirb
Let
be a polynomial with nonnegative integer coefficients. If
and
, what is the remainder when
is divided by





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inequality
luckvoltia.112 9
N
Today at 2:35 AM
by Shan3t
Given that
are nonzero real numbers, find the minimum value of the expression

![\[
P = \left| \frac{b + c + d}{a} \right| + \left| \frac{c + d + a}{b} \right| + \left| \frac{d + a + b}{c} \right| + \left| \frac{a + b + c}{d} \right|.
\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/e/3/e/e3e63937c4badb9bcb47e30778f2165e2df5ae46.png)
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2024 Miklós-Schweitzer problem 3
Martin.s 3
N
Today at 1:30 AM
by naenaendr
Do there exist continuous functions
, both nowhere differentiable, such that
is differentiable?


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prove that
luckvoltia.112 0
Today at 12:52 AM
Let
be non-negative real numbers such that
and
Prove that exactly two of the numbers
are equal to 0.


![\[
\frac{25a + 36b + 49c}{5a + 6b + 7c} + \frac{25b + 36c + 49a}{5b + 6c + 7a} + \frac{25c + 36a + 49b}{5c + 6a + 7b} = 18.
\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/a/8/a/a8a56fe414b713138e1adc48cdcedcc23200843c.png)

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Geometry Trigonometry Olympiads
Foxellar 0
Yesterday at 11:07 PM
Let
be a triangle such that
. Points
lie on segments
, respectively, such that lines
and
are the angle bisectors of triangle
. Find the measure of angle
.








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Proof of ramsey number
smadadi1000 1
N
Yesterday at 10:35 PM
by smadadi1000
How do you prove that r(n,2)=n using the pigeonhole principle?
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