User:Ddk001
Contents
[hide]- 1 Introduction
- 2 User Counts
- 3 Cool asyptote graphs
- 4 Problems Sharing Contest
- 5 Contributions
- 6 Problems I made
- 7 Answer key
- 8 Solutions
- 8.1 Problem 1
- 8.2 Solution 1
- 8.3 Problem 2
- 8.4 Solution 1 (Slow, probably official MAA)
- 8.5 Solution 2 (Fast)
- 8.6 Solution 3 (Faster)
- 8.7 Problem 3
- 8.8 Solution 1(Probably official MAA, lots of proofs)
- 8.9 Solution 2 (Fast, risky, no proofs)
- 8.10 Problem 4
- 8.11 Solution 1
- 8.12 Problem 5
- 8.13 Solution 1 (Euler's Totient Theorem)
- 8.14 Problem 6
- 8.15 Solution 1 (Recursion)
- 8.16 Problem 7
- 8.17 Solution 1
- 8.18 Problem 8
- 8.19 Solution 1
- 8.20 Problem 9
- 8.21 Solution 1(Wordless endless bash)
- 8.22 Problem 10
- 8.23 Solution 1 (Analytic geo)
- 8.24 Solution 2 (Hard vector bash)
- 9 Vandalism area
- 10 Problem 1
- 11 Problem 2
- 12 Problem 3
- 13 Problem 4
- 14 Problem 5
- 15 Problem 6
- 16 Problem 7
- 17 Problem 8
- 18 Problem 9
- 19 Problem 10
- 20 Problem 11
- 21 Problem 12
- 22 Problem 13
- 23 Problem 14
- 24 Problem 15
- 25 Problem 16
- 26 Problem 17
- 27 Problem 18
- 28 Problem 19
- 29 Problem 20
- 30 Problem 21
- 31 Problem 22
- 32 Problem 23
- 33 Problem 24
- 34 Problem 25
- 35 See also
Introduction
I am a 5th grader who likes making and doing problems, doing math, and redirecting pages (see Principle of Insufficient Reasons). I like geometry and don't like counting and probability. My number theory skill are also not bad.
User Counts
If this is your first time visiting this page, please change the number below by one. (Add 1, do NOT subtract 1)
For those of you who want more boxes, me too. However, this is the max number of boxes. Also, I check the pages history so I know if someone edited something.
(Please don't mess with the user count)
Doesn't that look like a number on a pyramid
Cool asyptote graphs
Asymptote is fun!
Problems Sharing Contest
Here, you can post all the math problems that you have. Everyone will try to come up with a appropriate solution. The person with the first solution will post the next problem. I'll start:
1. There is one and only one perfect square in the form
where and are prime. Find that perfect square.
1. We can expand the product in the expression. . Suppose this equals for some positive integer . We rewrite using the square of a binomial pattern to find that . Through trial and error on small values of and , we find that and must equal and in some order. The perfect square formed using these numbers is .
Note: I will be the first to admit that this solution is somewhat lucky.
2. A diamond is created by connecting the points at which a square circumscribed around the incircle of an isosceles right triangle intersects itself. has leg length . The perimeter of this diamond is expressible as , where , , and are integers, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is the remainder when is divided by ?
Contributions
2005 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 21 Solution 2
2022 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 25 Solution 5 (Now it's solution 6)
2023 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 20 Solution 3
2016 AIME I Problems/Problem 10 Solution 3
2017 AIME I Problems/Problem 14 Solution 2
2019 AIME I Problems/Problem 15 Solution 6
2022 AIME II Problems/Problem 3 Solution 3
Restored diagram for 1994 AIME Problems/Problem 7
Principle of Insufficient Reasons
Problems I made
Aime styled
Introductory
1. There is one and only one perfect square in the form
where and are prime. Find that perfect square.
2. and are positive integers. If , find .
Intermediate
3.The fraction,
where and are side lengths of a triangle, lies in the interval , where and are rational numbers. Then, can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
4. Suppose there is complex values and that satisfy
Find .
5. Suppose
Find the remainder when is divided by .
6. Suppose that there is rings, each of different size. All of them are placed on a peg, smallest on the top and biggest on the bottom. There are other pegs positioned sufficiently apart. A is made if
(i) ring changed position (i.e., that ring is transferred from one peg to another)
(ii) No rings are on top of smaller rings.
Then, let be the minimum possible number that can transfer all rings onto the second peg. Find the remainder when is divided by .
7. Suppose is a -degrees polynomial. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra tells us that there are roots, say . Suppose all integers ranging from to satisfies . Also, suppose that
for an integer . If is the minimum possible positive integral value of
.
Find the number of factors of the prime in .
Olympiad
8. (Much harder) is an isosceles triangle where . Let the circumcircle of be . Then, there is a point and a point on circle such that and trisects and , and point lies on minor arc . Point is chosen on segment such that is one of the altitudes of . Ray intersects at point (not ) and is extended past to point , and . Point is also on and . Let the perpendicular bisector of and intersect at . Let be a point such that is both equal to (in length) and is perpendicular to and is on the same side of as . Let be the reflection of point over line . There exist a circle centered at and tangent to at point . intersect at . Now suppose intersects at one distinct point, and , and are collinear. If , then can be expressed in the form , where and are not divisible by the squares of any prime. Find .
Someone mind making a diagram for this?
9. Suppose where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Proofs
10. In with , is the foot of the perpendicular from to . is the foot of the perpendicular from to . is the midpoint of . Prove that is perpendicular to .
I will leave a big gap below this sentence so you won't see the answers accidentally.
Answer key
1. 049
2. 019
3. 092
4. 170
5. 736
6. 895
7. 011
8. 054
9. 077
Solutions
- Note: All the solutions so far have been made by me :)
Problem 1
There is one and only one perfect square in the form
where and is prime. Find that perfect square.
Solution 1
. Suppose . Then,
, so since , so is less than both and and thus we have and . Adding them gives so by Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick, in some order. Hence, .
Problem 2
and are positive integers. If , find .
Solution 1 (Slow, probably official MAA)
Let and . Then,
Solution 2 (Fast)
Recall that a perfect square can be written as . Since is a perfect square, the RHS must be in this form. We substitute for to get that . To make the middle term have an exponent of , we must have . Then and , so .
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Solution 3 (Faster)
Calculating the terms on the RHS, we find that . We use trial-and-error to find a power of two that makes the RHS a perfect square. We find that works, and it produces . Then .
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Problem 3
The fraction,
where and are side lengths of a triangle, lies in the interval , where and are rational numbers. Then, can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Solution 1(Probably official MAA, lots of proofs)
Lemma 1:
Proof: Since the sides of triangles have positive length, . Hence,
, so now we just need to find .
Since by the Trivial Inequality, we have
as desired.
To show that the minimum value is achievable, we see that if , , so the minimum is thus achievable.
Thus, .
Lemma 2:
Proof: By the Triangle Inequality, we have
.
Since , we have
.
Add them together gives
Even though unallowed, if , then , so
.
Hence, , since by taking and close , we can get to be as close to as we wish.
Solution 2 (Fast, risky, no proofs)
By the Principle of Insufficient Reason, taking we get either the max or the min. Testing other values yields that we got the max, so . Another extrema must occur when one of (WLOG, ) is . Again, using the logic of solution 1 we see so so our answer is .
Problem 4
Suppose there are complex values and that satisfy
Find .
Solution 1
To make things easier, instead of saying , we say .
Now, we have . Expanding gives
.
To make things even simpler, let
, so that .
Then, if , Newton's Sums gives
Therefore,
Now, we plug in
.
We substitute to get
.
Note: If you don't know Newton's Sums, you can also use Vieta's Formulas to bash.
Problem 5
Suppose
Find the remainder when is divided by 1000.
Solution 1 (Euler's Totient Theorem)
We first simplify
so
.
where the last step of all 3 congruences hold by the Euler's Totient Theorem. Hence,
Now, you can bash through solving linear congruences, but there is a smarter way. Notice that , and . Hence, , so . With this in mind, we proceed with finding .
Notice that and that . Therefore, we obtain the system of congruences :
.
Solving yields , and we're done.
Problem 6
Suppose that there is rings, each of different size. All of them are placed on a peg, smallest on the top and biggest on the bottom. There are other pegs positioned sufficiently apart. A is made if
(i) ring changed position (i.e., that ring is transferred from one peg to another)
(ii) No bigger rings are on top of smaller rings.
Then, let be the minimum possible number that can transfer all rings onto the second peg. Find the remainder when is divided by .
Solution 1 (Recursion)
Let be the minimum possible number that can transfer rings onto the second peg. To build the recursion, we consider what is the minimum possible number that can transfer rings onto the second peg. If we use only legal , then will be smaller on the top, bigger on the bottom. Hence, the largest ring have to be at the bottom of the second peg, or the largest peg will have nowhere to go. In order for the largest ring to be at the bottom, we must first move the top rings to the third peg using , then place the largest ring onto the bottom of the second peg using , and then get all the rings from the third peg on top of the largest ring using another . This gives a total of , hence we have . Obviously, . We claim that . This is definitely the case for . If this is true for , then
so this is true for . Therefore, by induction, is true for all . Now, . Therefore, we see that
.
But the part is trickier. Notice that by the Euler's Totient Theorem,
so is equivalent to the inverse of in , which is equivalent to the inverse of in , which, by inspection, is simply . Hence,
, so by the Chinese Remainder Theorem, .
Problem 7
Suppose is a -degrees polynomial. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra tells us that there are roots, say . Suppose all integers ranging from to satisfies . Also, suppose that
for an integer . If is the minimum possible positive integral value of
.
Find the number of factors of the prime in .
Solution 1
Since all integers ranging from to satisfies , we have that all integers ranging from to satisfies , so by the Factor Theorem,
.
since is a -degrees polynomial, and we let to be the leading coefficient of .
Also note that since is the roots of ,
Now, notice that
Similarly, we have
To minimize this, we minimize . The minimum can get is when , in which case
, so there is factors of .
Problem 8
is an isosceles triangle where . Let the circumcircle of be . Then, there is a point and a point on circle such that and trisects and , and point lies on minor arc . Point is chosen on segment such that is one of the altitudes of . Ray intersects at point (not ) and is extended past to point , and . Point is also on and . Let the perpendicular bisector of and intersect at . Let be a point such that is both equal to (in length) and is perpendicular to and is on the same side of as . Let be the reflection of point over line . There exist a circle centered at and tangent to at point . intersect at . Now suppose intersects at one distinct point, and , and are collinear. If , then can be expressed in the form , where and are not divisible by the squares of any prime. Find .
Someone mind making a diagram for this?
Solution 1
Line is tangent to with point of tangency point because and is perpendicular to so this is true by the definition of tangent lines. Both and are on and line , so intersects at both and , and since we’re given intersects at one distinct point, and are not distinct, hence they are the same point.
Now, if the center of tangent circles are connected, the line segment will pass through the point of tangency. In this case, if we connect the center of tangent circles, and ( and respectively), it is going to pass through the point of tangency, namely, , which is the same point as , so , , and are collinear. Hence, and are on both lines and , so passes through point , making a diameter of .
Now we state a few claims :
Claim 1: is equilateral.
Proof:
where the last equality holds by the Power of a Point Theorem.
Taking the square root of each side yields .
Since, by the definition of point , is on . Hence, , so
, and since is the reflection of point over line , , and since , by the Pythagorean Theorem we have
Since is the perpendicular bisector of , and we have hence is equilateral.
With this in mind, we see that
Here, we state another claim :
Claim 2 : is a diameter of
Proof: Since , we have
and the same reasoning with gives since .
Now, apply Ptolemy’s Theorem gives
so is a diameter.
From that, we see that , so . Now,
, so
, so
, and we’re done.
Problem 9
Suppose where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Solution 1(Wordless endless bash)
Problem 10
In with , is the foot of the perpendicular from to . is the foot of the perpendicular from to . is the midpoint of . Prove that .
Solution 1 (Analytic geo)
Let
We set it this way to simplify calculation when we calculate the coordinates of and (Notice to find , you just need to take the x coordinate of and let the y coordinate be ).
Obviously,
Now, we see that
, so , as desired.
Solution 2 (Hard vector bash)
Solution 2a (Hard)
Hence, .
Solution 2b (Harder)
Since is the midpoint of ,
Now come the coordinates. Let
so that
.
Therefore,
Hence, we have that is perpendicular to .
Vandalism area
Here, you can add anything, delete anything, and do anything! (Don't delete this line since it's instruction and don't be inappropriate) However, do NOT vandalize before this word (Feel free to delete this and the period that follows).
Problem 1
What is the value of ?
Problem 2
Menkara has a index card. If she shortens the length of one side of this card by inch, the card would have area square inches. What would the area of the card be in square inches if instead she shortens the length of the other side by inch?
Problem 3
What is the maximum number of balls of clay of radius that can completely fit inside a cube of side length assuming the balls can be reshaped but not compressed before they are packed in the cube?
Problem 4
Mr. Lopez has a choice of two routes to get to work. Route A is miles long, and his average speed along this route is miles per hour. Route B is miles long, and his average speed along this route is miles per hour, except for a -mile stretch in a school zone where his average speed is miles per hour. By how many minutes is Route B quicker than Route A?
Problem 5
The six-digit number is prime for only one digit What is
Problem 6
Elmer the emu takes equal strides to walk between consecutive telephone poles on a rural road. Oscar the ostrich can cover the same distance in equal leaps. The telephone poles are evenly spaced, and the st pole along this road is exactly one mile ( feet) from the first pole. How much longer, in feet, is Oscar's leap than Elmer's stride?
Problem 7
As shown in the figure below, point lies on the opposite half-plane determined by line from point so that . Point lies on so that , and is a square. What is the degree measure of ?
Problem 8
A two-digit positive integer is said to be if it is equal to the sum of its nonzero tens digit and the square of its units digit. How many two-digit positive integers are cuddly?
Problem 9
When a certain unfair die is rolled, an even number is times as likely to appear as an odd number. The die is rolled twice. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is even?
Problem 10
A school has students and teachers. In the first period, each student is taking one class, and each teacher is teaching one class. The enrollments in the classes are and . Let be the average value obtained if a teacher is picked at random and the number of students in their class is noted. Let be the average value obtained if a student was picked at random and the number of students in their class, including the student, is noted. What is ?
Problem 11
Emily sees a ship traveling at a constant speed along a straight section of a river. She walks parallel to the riverbank at a uniform rate faster than the ship. She counts equal steps walking from the back of the ship to the front. Walking in the opposite direction, she counts steps of the same size from the front of the ship to the back. In terms of Emily's equal steps, what is the length of the ship?
Problem 12
The base-nine representation of the number is What is the remainder when is divided by
Problem 13
Each of balls is randomly and independently painted either black or white with equal probability. What is the probability that every ball is different in color from more than half of the other balls?
Problem 14
How many ordered pairs of real numbers satisfy the following system of equations?
Problem 15
Isosceles triangle has , and a circle with radius is tangent to line at and to line at . What is the area of the circle that passes through vertices , , and
Problem 16
The graph of is symmetric about which of the following? (Here is the greatest integer not exceeding .)
Problem 17
An architect is building a structure that will place vertical pillars at the vertices of regular hexagon , which is lying horizontally on the ground. The six pillars will hold up a flat solar panel that will not be parallel to the ground. The heights of pillars at , , and are , , and meters, respectively. What is the height, in meters, of the pillar at ?
Problem 18
A farmer's rectangular field is partitioned into by grid of rectangular sections as shown in the figure. In each section the farmer will plant one crop: corn, wheat, soybeans, or potatoes. The farmer does not want to grow corn and wheat in any two sections that share a border, and the farmer does not want to grow soybeans and potatoes in any two sections that share a border. Given these restrictions, in how many ways can the farmer choose crops to plant in each of the four sections of the field?
Problem 19
A disk of radius rolls all the way around the inside of a square of side length and sweeps out a region of area . A second disk of radius rolls all the way around the outside of the same square and sweeps out a region of area . The value of can be written as , where , and are positive integers and and are relatively prime. What is ?
Problem 20
For how many ordered pairs of positive integers does neither nor have two distinct real solutions?
Problem 21
Each of the balls is tossed independently and at random into one of the bins. Let be the probability that some bin ends up with balls, another with balls, and the other three with balls each. Let be the probability that every bin ends up with balls. What is ?
Problem 22
Inside a right circular cone with base radius and height are three congruent spheres with radius . Each sphere is tangent to the other two spheres and also tangent to the base and side of the cone. What is ?
Problem 23
For each positive integer , let be twice the number of positive integer divisors of , and for , let . For how many values of is
Problem 24
Each of the edges of a cube is labeled or . Two labelings are considered different even if one can be obtained from the other by a sequence of one or more rotations and/or reflections. For how many such labelings is the sum of the labels on the edges of each of the faces of the cube equal to ?
Problem 25
A quadratic polynomial with real coefficients and leading coefficient is called if the equation is satisfied by exactly three real numbers. Among all the disrespectful quadratic polynomials, there is a unique such polynomial for which the sum of the roots is maximized. What is ?
See also
The problems on this page are NOT copyrighted by the Mathematical Association of America's American Mathematics Competitions.