2014 AIME I Problems

2014 AIME I (Answer Key) | AoPS Contest Collections • PDF

Instructions This is a 15-question, 3-hour examination. All answers are integers ranging from to , inclusive. Your score will be the number of correct answers; i.e., there is neither partial credit nor a penalty for wrong answers. No aids other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, and protractor are permitted. In particular, calculators and computers are not permitted.

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Problem 2

An urn contains green balls and blue balls. A second urn contains green balls and blue balls. A single ball is drawn at random from each urn. The probability that both balls are of the same color is 0.58. Find .

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Problem 3

Find the number of rational numbers such that when is written as a fraction in lowest terms, the numerator and the denominator have a sum of 1000.

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Problem 4

Jon and Steve ride their bicycles along a path that parallels two side-by-side train tracks running the east/west direction. Jon rides east as 20 miles per hour, and Steve rides west at 20 miles per hour. Two trains of equal length, traveling in opposite directions at constant but different speeds each pass the two riders. Each train takes exactly 1 minute to go past Jon. The westbound train takes 10 times as long as the eastbound train to go past Steve. The length of each train is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .

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Problem 6

The graphs and have y-intercepts of 2013 and 2014, respectively, and each graph has two positive integer x-intercepts. Find .

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Problem 7

Let w and z be complex numbers such that |w| = 1 and |z| = 10. Let \theta = \arg(\frac{w-z}{z}). The maximum possible value of \tan^2 \theta can be written as \frac{p}{q}, where p and q are relatively proime positive integers. Find p+q. (Note that \arg(w), for w \neq 0, denotes the measure of the agle that the ray from 0 to w makes with the positive real axis in the complex plane.

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Problem 8

The positive integers and both end in the same sequence of four digits when written in base 10, where digit a is not zero. Find the three-digit number .

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Problem 9

Let be the three real roots of the equation . Find .

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Problem 10

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Problem 11

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Problem 12

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Problem 13

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Problem 14

Let be the largest real solution to the equation

There are positive integers and such that . Find .

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Problem 15

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