2024 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 14
- The following problem is from both the 2024 AMC 10B #14 and 2024 AMC 12B #9, so both problems redirect to this page.
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A dartboard is the region B in the coordinate plane consisting of points such that . A target T is the region where . A dart is thrown and lands at a random point in B. The probability that the dart lands in T can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is ?
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Solution 1
Inequalities of the form are well-known and correspond to a square in space with centre at origin and vertices at , , , . The diagonal length of this square is clearly , so it has an area of Now, Converting to polar form, and
The union of these inequalities is the circular region for which every circle in has a radius between and , inclusive. The area of such a region is thus The requested probability is therefore yielding We have
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Solution 2 (Calculus)
Expressing the Area of Region
Region
In each quadrant, this can be expressed by the following functions:
First quadrant:
In the first quadrant,
Expressing the Area of Region
To find the area, we switch to polar coordinates with
The area of
The probability
So the probability is of the form
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Solution 2
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See also
2024 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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