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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
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Apr 2, 2025
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
2025 RAMC 10
Andyluo   20
N 5 minutes ago by Pengu14
We, andyluo, MC_ADe, Arush Krisp, pengu14, mathkiddus, vivdax present...

IMAGE

About Errata(0) Test Taking Discussion Test Integrity Notes/Credits

Test-The test will be released in the following week (yes, I know this is a bit early, but it's fine)
Leaderboard Yet to be released


mods can you keep this in c & p until it finishes please
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Andyluo
3 hours ago
Pengu14
5 minutes ago
MOP Emails Out! (not clickbait)
Mathandski   83
N 17 minutes ago by ohiorizzler1434
What an emotional roller coaster the past 34 days have been.

Congrats to all that qualified!
83 replies
Mathandski
Apr 22, 2025
ohiorizzler1434
17 minutes ago
Reread again and again and again and again…
fruitmonster97   22
N 19 minutes ago by MathPerson12321
Source: 2024 AIME I Problem 1
Every morning, Aya does a $9$ kilometer walk, and then finishes at the coffee shop. One day, she walks at $s$ kilometers per hour, and the walk takes $4$ hours, including $t$ minutes at the coffee shop. Another morning, she walks at $s+2$ kilometers per hour, and the walk takes $2$ hours and $24$ minutes, including $t$ minutes at the coffee shop. This morning, if she walks at $s+\frac12$ kilometers per hour, how many minutes will the walk take, including the $t$ minutes at the coffee shop?
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fruitmonster97
Feb 2, 2024
MathPerson12321
19 minutes ago
IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 5
orl   12
N an hour ago by Maximilian113
Source: IMO ShortList 2001, combinatorics problem 5
Find all finite sequences $(x_0, x_1, \ldots,x_n)$ such that for every $j$, $0 \leq j \leq n$, $x_j$ equals the number of times $j$ appears in the sequence.
12 replies
orl
Sep 30, 2004
Maximilian113
an hour ago
Aperiodicity of Divisibility
somebodyyouusedtoknow   0
an hour ago
Source: San Diego Honors Math Contest 2025 Part II, Problem 4
Let $a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots$ be the sequence $2,1,1,2,\ldots,$ so that $a_i \in \{1,2\}$ for each $i$ and so that the decimal number $\overline{a_n a_{n-1} \cdots a_1}$ is divisible by $2^n$ for each $n \geq 1$. Show that the decimal $0.a_1a_2a_3...$ is irrational.
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somebodyyouusedtoknow
an hour ago
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2025 ELMOCOUNTS - Mock MATHCOUNTS Nationals
vincentwant   126
N an hour ago by Andyluo
text totally not copied over from wmc (thanks jason <3)
Quick Links:
[list=disc]
[*] National: (Sprint) (Target) (Team) (Sprint + Target Submission) (Team Submission) [/*]
[*] Miscellaneous: (Leaderboard) (Sprint + Target Private Discussion Forum) (Team Discussion Forum)[/*]
[/list]
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Eddison Chen (KS '22 '24), Aarush Goradia (CO '24), Ethan Imanuel (NJ '24), Benjamin Jiang (FL '23 '24), Rayoon Kim (PA '23 '24), Jason Lee (NC '23 '24), Puranjay Madupu (AZ '23 '24), Andy Mo (OH '23 '24), George Paret (FL '24), Arjun Raman (IN '24), Vincent Wang (TX '24), Channing Yang (TX '23 '24), and Jefferson Zhou (MN '23 '24) present:



[center]IMAGE[/center]

[center]Image credits to Simon Joeng.[/center]

2024 MATHCOUNTS Nationals alumni from all across the nation have come together to administer the first-ever ELMOCOUNTS Competition, a mock written by the 2024 Nationals alumni given to the 2025 Nationals participants. By providing the next generation of mathletes with free, high quality practice, we're here to boast how strong of an alumni community MATHCOUNTS has, as well as foster interest in the beautiful art that is problem writing!

The tests and their corresponding submissions forms will be released here, on this thread, on Monday, April 21, 2025. The deadline is May 10, 2025. Tests can be administered asynchronously at your home or school, and your answers should be submitted to the corresponding submission form. If you include your AoPS username in your submission, you will be granted access to the private discussion forum on AoPS, where you can discuss the tests even before the deadline.
[list=disc]
[*] "How do I know these tests are worth my time?" [/*]
[*] "Who can participate?" [/*]
[*] "How do I sign up?" [/*]
[*] "What if I have multiple students?" [/*]
[*] "What if a problem is ambiguous, incorrect, etc.?" [/*]
[*] "Will there be solutions?" [/*]
[*] "Will there be a Countdown Round administered?" [/*]
[/list]
If you have any other questions, feel free to email us at elmocounts2025@gmail.com (or PM me)!
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vincentwant
Apr 20, 2025
Andyluo
an hour ago
Number of Perfect Matchings in a Graph
somebodyyouusedtoknow   0
an hour ago
Source: San Diego Honors Math Contest 2025 Part II, Problem 3
Consider a collection of $2n$ points on the plane, no three of which are collinear, and some set of line segments between them. We say that a subset of these line segments is called a "pairing" if every one of these ($2n$) points is the endpoint of exactly one of the chosen line segments (in other words, a pairing is a perfect matching).

Show that for every $k \geq 1$, there exists such an arrangement of points and line segments (for some value of $n \geq 1$) such that there are exactly $k$ distinct (but not necessarily disjoint) pairings.
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somebodyyouusedtoknow
an hour ago
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Polynomial Factors
somebodyyouusedtoknow   0
2 hours ago
Source: San Diego Honors Math Contest 2025 Part II, Problem 2
Let $P(x)$ be a polynomial with real coefficients such that $P(x^n) \mid P(x^{n+1})$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}$. Prove that $P(x) = cx^k$ for some real constant $c$ and $k \in \mathbb{N}$.
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somebodyyouusedtoknow
2 hours ago
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weirdest expo ever
GreekIdiot   5
N 2 hours ago by maromex
Source: own
Solve $5^x-2^y=z^3$ where $x,y,z \in \mathbb {Z}$.
5 replies
GreekIdiot
Mar 6, 2025
maromex
2 hours ago
Polygons Which Don't Fit
somebodyyouusedtoknow   0
2 hours ago
Source: San Diego Honors Math Contest 2025 Part II, Problem 1
Let $P_1,P_2,\ldots,P_n$ be polygons, no two of which are similar. Show that there are polygons $Q_1,Q_2,\ldots,Q_n$ where $Q_i$ is similar to $P_i$ so that for no $i \neq j$ does $Q_i$ contain a polygon that's congruent to $Q_j$.

Note. Here, the word "contain" means for the construction we have, we cannot select a size for $Q_j$ so that $Q_j$ is wholly contained in $Q_i$, and so it does not intersect the edges of $Q_i$ at all.
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somebodyyouusedtoknow
2 hours ago
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GCD of 2^n-2, 3^n-3, 4^n-4, 5^n-5, ......
tom-nowy   1
N 2 hours ago by tom-nowy
Source: Own
Find all positive integers n such that the greatest common divisor of the sequence
\[ 2^n -2, \;\; 3^n -3, \;\; 4^n -4, \;\; 5^n-5, \, \ldots \ldots \]is $66$. Also, are there infinitely many n for which the greatest common divisor is $6$?
1 reply
tom-nowy
Aug 29, 2023
tom-nowy
2 hours ago
Similar to iran 1996
GreekIdiot   0
3 hours ago
Let $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ be a function such that $f(f(x)+y)=f(f(x)-y)+4f(x)y \: \forall x,y \: \in \: \mathbb R$. Find all such $f$.
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GreekIdiot
3 hours ago
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Weird ninja points collinearity
americancheeseburger4281   0
3 hours ago
Source: Someone I know
For some triangle, define its Ninja Point as the point on its circumcircle such that its Steiner line coincides with the Euler line of the triangle. For an triangle $ABC$, define:
[list]
[*]$O$ as its circumcentre, $H$ as its orthocentre and $N_9$ as its nine-point centre.
[*]$M_a$, $M_b$ and $M_c$ to be the midpoint of the smaller arcs.
[*]$G$ as the isogonal conjugate of the Nagel point (i.e. the exsimillicenter of the incircle and circumcircle)
[*]$S$ as the ninja point of $\Delta M_aM_bM_c$
[*]$K$ as the ninja point of the contact triangle
[/list]
Prove that:
$(a)$ Points $K$, $N_9$ and $I$ are collinear, that is $K$ is the Feuerbach point.
$(b)$ Points $H$, $G$ and $S$ are collinear
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americancheeseburger4281
3 hours ago
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Minimum where the sum of squares is greater than 3
m0nk   1
N 3 hours ago by oolite
Source: My friend
If $a,b,c \in R^+$ and $a^2+b^2+c^2 \ge 3$.Find the minimum of $S=\sqrt[3]{\frac{a^3+b^3+c^3}{3}}+\frac{a+b+c}{9}$
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m0nk
Yesterday at 4:57 PM
oolite
3 hours ago
Practice AMC 10A
freddyfazbear   57
N Mar 30, 2025 by Andrew2019
Practice AMC 10A

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. Caden’s calculator is broken and two of the digits are swapped for some reason. When he entered in 9 + 10, he got 21. What is the sum of the two digits that got swapped?
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

4. 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

5. Two dice are rolled, and the two numbers shown are a and b. How many possible values of ab are there?
A - 17, B - 18, C - 19, D - 20, E - 21

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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%

10. 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

11. Suppose that on the coordinate grid, the x-axis represents climate, and the y-axis represents landscape, where -1 <= x, y <= 1 and a higher number for either coordinate represents better conditions along that particular axis. Accordingly, the points (0, 0), (1, 1), (-1, 1), (-1, -1), and (1, -1) represent cities, plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains, respectively. An area is classified as whichever point it is closest to. Suppose a theoretical new area is selected by picking a random point within the square bounded by plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains as its vertices. What is the probability that it is a plains?
A - 1 - (1/4)pi, B - 1/5, C - (1/16)pi, D - 1/4, E - 1/8

12. 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

13. 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

14. Find the number of positive integers n less than 69 such that the average of all the squares from 1^2 to n^2, inclusive, is an integer.
A - 11, B - 12, C - 23, D - 24, E - 48

15. Find the number of ordered pairs (a, b) of integers such that (a - b)^2 = 625 - 2ab.
A - 6, B - 10, C - 12, D - 16, E - 20

16. What is the 420th digit after the decimal point in the decimal expansion of 1/13?
A - 4, B - 5, C - 6, D - 7, E - 8

17. 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%

18. What is the greatest number of positive integer factors an integer from 1 to 100 can have?
A - 10, B - 12, C - 14, D - 15, E - 16

19. 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

20. Find the smallest positive integer that is a leg in three different Pythagorean triples.
A - 12, B - 14, C - 15, D - 20, E - 21

21. 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

22. Real numbers a, b, and c are chosen uniformly and at random from 0 to 3. Find the probability that a + b + c is less than 2.
A - 4/81, B - 8/81, C - 4/27, D - 8/27, E - 2/3

23. 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

24. Find the last three digits of 24^10.
A - 376, B - 576, C - 626, D - 876, E - 926

25. 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
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Practice AMC 10A

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. Caden’s calculator is broken and two of the digits are swapped for some reason. When he entered in 9 + 10, he got 21. What is the sum of the two digits that got swapped?
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

4. 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

5. Two dice are rolled, and the two numbers shown are a and b. How many possible values of ab are there?
A - 17, B - 18, C - 19, D - 20, E - 21

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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%

10. 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

11. Suppose that on the coordinate grid, the x-axis represents climate, and the y-axis represents landscape, where -1 <= x, y <= 1 and a higher number for either coordinate represents better conditions along that particular axis. Accordingly, the points (0, 0), (1, 1), (-1, 1), (-1, -1), and (1, -1) represent cities, plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains, respectively. An area is classified as whichever point it is closest to. Suppose a theoretical new area is selected by picking a random point within the square bounded by plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains as its vertices. What is the probability that it is a plains?
A - 1 - (1/4)pi, B - 1/5, C - (1/16)pi, D - 1/4, E - 1/8

12. 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

13. 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

14. Find the number of positive integers n less than 69 such that the average of all the squares from 1^2 to n^2, inclusive, is an integer.
A - 11, B - 12, C - 23, D - 24, E - 48

15. Find the number of ordered pairs (a, b) of integers such that (a - b)^2 = 625 - 2ab.
A - 6, B - 10, C - 12, D - 16, E - 20

16. What is the 420th digit after the decimal point in the decimal expansion of 1/13?
A - 4, B - 5, C - 6, D - 7, E - 8

17. 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%

18. What is the greatest number of positive integer factors an integer from 1 to 100 can have?
A - 10, B - 12, C - 14, D - 15, E - 16

19. 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

20. Find the smallest positive integer that is a leg in three different Pythagorean triples.
A - 12, B - 14, C - 15, D - 20, E - 21

21. 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

22. Real numbers a, b, and c are chosen uniformly and at random from 0 to 3. Find the probability that a + b + c is less than 2.
A - 4/81, B - 8/81, C - 4/27, D - 8/27, E - 2/3

23. 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

24. Find the last three digits of 24^10.
A - 376, B - 576, C - 626, D - 876, E - 926

25. 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
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great problems freddy fazbear
i need help on night 7
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Problem 2 is unnecessarily very hard, but other than that, I would say the problems are pretty well written. Good job @freddyfazbear!
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MathRook7817 wrote:
great problems freddy fazbear
i need help on night 7

This one is a trick question. You might initially think that they are the same probability due to them being the same percentages, but that is actually not the case.
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giratina3 wrote:
Problem 2 is unnecessarily very hard, but other than that, I would say the problems are pretty well written. Good job @freddyfazbear!

Sorry, I just thought it would be a nice, original problem idea.
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giratina3 wrote:
Problem 2 is unnecessarily very hard, but other than that, I would say the problems are pretty well written. Good job @freddyfazbear!

Sorry, I just thought it would be a nice, original problem idea.

problem 2 is nice tho
just misplaced
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Problem 2

We use a second order Taylor series about $a=400$:
\[
f(x)=\sqrt{x},\quad a=400,\quad h=20.
\]
\[
f(a)=\sqrt{400}=20,\quad
f'(x)=\frac1{2\sqrt{x}}\;\Rightarrow\;f'(400)=\frac1{40},\quad
f''(x)=-\frac1{4x^{3/2}}\;\Rightarrow\;f''(400)=-\frac1{32000}.
\]
\[
f(420)=f(400+20)\approx f(400)+f'(400)\,20+\frac{f''(400)\,(20)^2}{2}
=20+\frac1{40}\cdot20+\frac{-\frac1{32000}\cdot400}{2}
=20.49375.
\]
Now, it remains to find the LaGrange error for this approximation to confirm that $4$ is indeed the first digit after the decimal point.

The LaGrange error is:
\[
R_2=\frac{f^{(3)}(\xi)}{3!}\,h^3,\quad400<\xi<420,
\quad f^{(3)}(x)=\frac{3}{8}x^{-5/2}.
\]So:
\[
R_2=\frac{\frac{3}{8}\,\xi^{-5/2}}{6}(20)^3
=\frac{500}{\xi^{5/2}}, 
\quad |R_2|\le\frac{500}{400^{5/2}}=\frac{500}{20^5}=0.00015625.
\]So, the first digit after the decimal point is indeed $\boxed{4}.$
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Admittedly I'm a old person (college student who's way past AMC stuff), but as someone who's written quite a few mock contests before, I'll just tell you that this "mock AMC" you wrote isn't at all representative of an actual AMC. Skimming through the test, most of the problems, particularly the later problems, are too easy and formulaic, for instance #16 is a one-trick pony where the only step involved is finding the multiplicative order of 10 modulo 13. #22 is a quotidian geometric probability. #24 is even less inspired of a problem, it's just modular arithmetic bashing.

Granted, some MAA problems can also be low quality/formulaic and I feel like the quality of the tests has overall gone down since I graduated high school a few years ago, but even official MAA tests have some particularly creative problems that actually require some clever insight. If you want some creative inspiration from modern MAA tests, take a look at 2019 AMC 10B #24 or 2020 AMC 10A #21.

At its current state, your mock test feels more like a homework assignment the professor of my intro to number theory class in college would hand out than a mock AMC.
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fidgetboss_4000 wrote:
Admittedly I'm a old person (college student who's way past AMC stuff), but as someone who's written quite a few mock contests before, I'll just tell you that this "mock AMC" you wrote isn't at all representative of an actual AMC. Skimming through the test, most of the problems, particularly the later problems, are too easy and formulaic, for instance #16 is a one-trick pony where the only step involved is finding the multiplicative order of 10 modulo 13. #22 is a quotidian geometric probability. #24 is even less inspired of a problem, it's just modular arithmetic bashing. Granted, some MAA problems can also be low quality/formulaic and I feel like the quality of the tests has overall gone down since I graduated high school a few years ago, but even official MAA tests have some particularly creative problems that actually require some clever insight. If you want some creative inspiration from modern MAA tests, take a look at 2019 AMC 10B #24 or 2020 AMC 10A #21.

That’s true, I should definitely work on making some more creative problems for the next tests I create. For problems 21-25, I just decided to make them pretty bashy though in order to eat up more time.
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20 feels way too ez, its 12 right? idk what happened with that question

And 18..

and then you go back to problem 4 and 8 WITHOUT a calculator..
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8 doesn't need a calculator? seems like basic casework
also just realized a certain arrangement of "ginger" also meets the requirements in the problem...
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fidgetboss_4000 wrote:
Admittedly I'm a old person (college student who's way past AMC stuff), but as someone who's written quite a few mock contests before, I'll just tell you that this "mock AMC" you wrote isn't at all representative of an actual AMC. Skimming through the test, most of the problems, particularly the later problems, are too easy and formulaic, for instance #16 is a one-trick pony where the only step involved is finding the multiplicative order of 10 modulo 13. #22 is a quotidian geometric probability. #24 is even less inspired of a problem, it's just modular arithmetic bashing.

Granted, some MAA problems can also be low quality/formulaic and I feel like the quality of the tests has overall gone down since I graduated high school a few years ago, but even official MAA tests have some particularly creative problems that actually require some clever insight. If you want some creative inspiration from modern MAA tests, take a look at 2019 AMC 10B #24 or 2020 AMC 10A #21.

At its current state, your mock test feels more like a homework assignment the professor of my intro to number theory class in college would hand out than a mock AMC.

For those who are wondering, here’s a quick rundown of what I had in mind when I made each problem.
1. Simple problem that should take 30 seconds
2. Easy concept but requires accuracy, sort of like problem 3 of 2024 AMC 10B
3. Think outside the box for like 1 second
4. Free if you see the trick, impossible if not.
5. Don’t forget to subtract repeated cases, which can easily catch test takers off guard
6. Just bashy casework, I guess
7. Leading the test taker into a false sense of security by getting them to think that two probabilities are equal but in reality they are not
8. Remember to multiply and divide right
9. Expected value bash
10. Rate and time problem
11. Geometric probability but it catches all the noobs if they aren’t careful enough
12. Multiply and add fractions, nothing too special
13. A very intimidating looking problem but in reality it’s just arithmetic bash
14. Turn word problem into algebra
15. Don’t forget the negative case
16. Don’t forget the initial zero after the decimal point
17. Problem that looks like it needs calculus but in reality can be destroyed easily with an invariant
18. Plug and chug the prime powers
19. Remember that the hour hand actually moves
20. Unexpected geometry and number theory collab
21. Know how to graph
22. 3D geometrical probability
23. Number theory bash
24. Euler theorem (I think that’s what it was called)
25. GREEN FN!
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Yrock wrote:
20 feels way too ez, its 12 right? idk what happened with that question

And 18..

and then you go back to problem 4 and 8 WITHOUT a calculator..

Yeah, I was thinking most people would pick 15 because they forgot 12 was part of two different non-primitive Pythagorean triples
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number 8 :hmm yes:
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I see some people are confused on problems 8 and 13.

For problem 8, you just split it up into three cases, for 0/2/4 letters in between. Then, you tackle the SNSR and EO separately and multiply them together, and add your results across all three cases.

For problem 13, yeah I know it looks complicated. But to make it easier, you just keep a running total of how many items have been produced at every hour, then at 8PM find out how many items must be made within the last hour to reach 3000, and then find the max value of n accordingly.
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