Difference between revisions of "2020 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 16"

Problem

A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices are $(0, 0), (2020, 0), (2020, 2020),$ and $(0, 2020)$. The probability that the point is within $d$ units of a lattice point is $\tfrac{1}{2}$. (A point $(x, y)$ is a lattice point if $x$ and $y$ are both integers.) What is $d$ to the nearest tenth$?$

$\textbf{(A) } 0.3 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 0.4 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 0.5 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 0.6 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 0.7$

Solution

We consider an individual one by one block.

If we draw a quarter of a circle from each corner, the area covered by the circles should be $0.5$. Because of this, and the fact that there are four circles, we write

$$4 * \frac{1}{4} * \pi r^2 = \frac{1}{2}$$

Solving for $r$, we obtain $r = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}$, where with $\pi \approx 3$, we get $r = \frac{1}{\sqrt{6}}$, and from here, we simplify and see that $r \approx 0.4 \implies \boxed{\textbf{(B) } 0.4.}$ ~Crypthes

~IceMatrix