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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
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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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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
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exponents
Arvind_sn   38
N an hour ago by lightsynth123
What is the highest possible $e$ in $2^{e}<200$?
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lightsynth123
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Water Watermelon
hwenterprise   22
N an hour ago by lightsynth123
A giant watermelon weighed 50 pounds and was 99 percent water. After sitting in the hot sun, some of the water evaporated so that the watermelon was only 98 percent water. What is the new weight of the watermelon?
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lightsynth123
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Construct problem
makurorin   9
N an hour ago by lightsynth123
Construct angle 3 degree.
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How to see the light
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N 3 hours ago by Leeoz
My subject is pretty weird but what I mean is the "light" at the end of the "tunnel" (the end of a very long post). For example, the Bogus Proof Marathon. It has like 7k replies and I really can't scroll down 7000 messages so, how do people reach the end of the reply chain? :yoda:
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No more topics!
real math problems
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N Yesterday at 5:33 PM by swaga
Ill be posting questions once in a while. Here's the first question:

What fraction of numbers from $1$ to $1000$ have the digit $7$ and are divisible by $3$?
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real math problems
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Ill be posting questions once in a while. Here's the first question:

What fraction of numbers from $1$ to $1000$ have the digit $7$ and are divisible by $3$?
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i was typing up a casework solution and then realized I could do it a different way lol
kind of casework?
this is my first attempt at this if I'm wrong I'll see where I got it wrong
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Next problem: Find the exact value of $\lfloor(\frac{8}{3})^{10}\rfloor$ without a calculator.
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hide tag no work we do a little trolling
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hide tag no work we do a little trolling

yea i was thinking the same thing
i wonder if therers a non bash way to do it
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official approved solution
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3) A $m \times n$ grid is made. $mn$ unit squares are created by separating the side with length $m$ in $m$ portions and separating the side with length $n$ in $n$ portions. Find, with proof, a formula for how many rectangles with sides parallel to the grid can be created in terms of $m$ and $n$. For example, when $m = 2$ and $n = 2$, it can be found by casework that $9$ rectangles can be created.
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sol
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elizhang101412
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bro you are not slick with that ai usage :skull:
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cheltstudent
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wut... I have a parental controlled computer
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4) If positive integers $(a, b, c, d)$ satisfy $\frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b}+\frac{1}{c}+\frac{1}{d}=\frac{13}{40}+\frac{13}{42}$, find the ordered pair $(a, b, c, d)$
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Answer
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that's the trivial sol @above, but i'd be suprised if this didn't have multiple sols:
greedy algorithm:
a=2: then 1/b+1/c+1/d=133/840. b=8 yields 1/c+1/d=1/105. The sols here can be found using sfft, some trivial ones for (c,d) are (106,105*106) and (210,210). b=9 and c=9 yields d=45, for example.
a=3: (3,4,21,840)
a=4: (4,4,8,105), (4,5,6,56)
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elizhang101412
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cheltstudent wrote:
wut... I have a parental controlled computer

can you stop trying this bruh literally all the text is formatted like an ai
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5) If $p$ and $q$ are positive integers, what is the probability that $5^p+7^q$ is divisible by $6$?
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Solution
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idk man seems kinda sus
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ya, it's same method but completely different wording
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yeah it's def AI
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broooooooooooooooooo, i literally didn't
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broooooooooooooooooo, i literally didn't

lying is banned
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6) Leeoz posts a daily problem every $19, 20$, or $21$ hours, with equal probability. Soupboy0 posts a daily problem every $18, 21$, or $22$ hours, with equal probability. If both Leeoz and Soupboy0 post at the same time, what is the expected time that will elapse in hours before Leeoz and Soupboy0 post again?
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i have no idea lol i just thought that looked like a cool problem
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probably ai
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cheltstudent
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Bogus one was, but not this.
This one came from my cousin who might have used AI idk.
Anyway, BACK ON TOPIC
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Reason I used AI for Bogus Proof: It was never an MSM problem, and people would have probably taken ages to solve
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iwastedmyusername
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ai didnt even solve it...
it just said 2p choose p is congruent to 2 mod p^3 but 7 isnt divisible by 3 without explaining why
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6) Leeoz posts a daily problem every $19, 20$, or $21$ hours, with equal probability. Soupboy0 posts a daily problem every $18, 21$, or $22$ hours, with equal probability. If both Leeoz and Soupboy0 post at the same time, what is the expected time that will elapse in hours before Leeoz and Soupboy0 post again?
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Pretty sure there is a neater solution by graphing successful region of points... but yeah... I'm too dumb for that.
THIS IS NOT AI.
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bro what is this obvious AI solution :skull:
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