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One ticket to a show costs at full price. Susan buys 4 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 25% discount. Pam buys 5 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 30% discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?
An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures 100 cm by 40 cm and has a height of 50 cm. It is filled with water to a height of 40 cm. A brick with a rectangular base that measures 40 cm by 20 cm and a height of 10 cm is placed in the aquarium. By how many centimeters does the water rise?
The larger of two consecutive odd integers is three times the smaller. What is their sum?
Kate rode her bicycle for 30 minutes at a speed of 16 mph, then walked for 90 minutes at a speed of 4 mph. What was her overall average speed in miles per hour?
Last year Mr. Jon Q. Public received an inheritance. He paid in federal taxes on the inheritance, and paid
of what he had left in state taxes. He paid a total of
for both taxes. How many dollars was his inheritance?
Triangles and
are isosceles with
and
. Point
is inside triangle
, angle
measures 40 degrees, and angle
measures 140 degrees. What is the degree measure of angle
?
Let , and
be five consecutive terms in an arithmetic sequence, and suppose that
. Which of
or
can be found?
A star-polygon is drawn on a clock face by drawing a chord from each number to the fifth number counted clockwise from that number. That is, chords are drawn from 12 to 5, from 5 to 10, from 10 to 3, and so on, ending back at 12. What is the degree measure of the angle at each vertexin the star polygon?
Yan is somewhere between his home and the stadium. To get to the stadium he can walk directly to the stadium, or else he can walk home and then ride his bicycle to the stadium. He rides 7 times as fast as he walks, and both choices require the same amount of time. What is the ratioof Yan's distance from his home to his distance from the stadium?
A triangle with side lengths in the ratio is inscribed in a circle with radius 3. What is the area of the triangle?
A finite sequence of three-digit integers has the property that the tens and units digits of each term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the next term, and the tens and units digits of the last term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the first term. For example, such a sequence might begin with the terms 247, 475, and 756 and end with the term 824. Let be the sum of all the terms in the sequence. What is the largest prime factor that always divides
?
Integers and
, not necessarily distinct, are chosen independently and at random from 0 to 2007, inclusive. What is the probability that
is even?
A piece of cheese is located at in a coordinate plane. A mouse is at
and is running up the line
. At the point
the mouse starts getting farther from the cheese rather than closer to it. What is
?
Let a, b, c, d, and e be distinct integers such that
The set is augmented by a fifth element
, not equal to any of the other four. The median of the resulting set is equal to its mean. What is the sum of all possible values of
?
How many three-digit numbers are composed of three distinct digits such that one digit is the average of the other two?
Suppose that and
. What is
?
The polynomial has real coefficients, and
What is
Triangles and
have areas
and
respectively, with
and
What is the sum of all possible x-coordinates of
?
Corners are sliced off a unit cube so that the six faces each become regular octagons. What is the total volume of the removed tetrahedra?
The sum of the zeros, the product of the zeros, and the sum of the coefficients of the function are equal. Their common value must also be which of the following?
For each positive integer , let
denote the sum of the digits of
For how many values of
is
Square has area
and
is parallel to the x-axis. Vertices
, and
are on the graphs of
and
respectively. What is
For each integer , let
be the number of solutions to the equation
on the interval
. What is
?
Call a set of integers spacy if it contains no more than one out of any three consecutive integers. How many subsets of including the empty set, are spacy?
Solution 2
, so
. But we can't find any more variables, because we don't know what
is. So the answer is
.
Let the distance from Yan's initial position to the stadium be and the distance from Yan's initial position to home be
. We are trying to find
, and we have the following identity given by the problem:
Thus and the answer is
Another way of solving this problem is by setting the distance between Yan's home and the stadium, thus filling in one variable. Let us set the distance between the two places to be , where
is a random measurement (cause life, why not?) The distance to going to his home then riding his bike, which is
times faster, is equal to him just walking to the stadium. So the equation would be: Let
the distance from Yan's position to his home. Let
the distance from Yan's home to the stadium.
But we're still not done with the question. We know that Yan is from his home, and is
or
from the stadium.
, the
's cancel out, and we are left with
. Thus, the answer is
~ProGameXD
Assume that the distance from the home and stadium is 1, and the distance from Yan to home is . Also assume that the speed of walking is 1, so the speed of biking is 7. Thus
We need
divided by
=
If 45 is expressed as a product of five distinct integer factors, the absolute value of the product of any four it as least , so no factor can have an absolute value greater than 5. Thus the factors of the given expression are five of the integers
. The product of all six of these is
, so the factors are -3, -1, 1, 3, and 5. The corresponding values of a, b, c, d, and e are 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1, and their sum is 25 (C).
The prime factorization of is
. Therefore, the 5 distinct integer factors must have some negative numbers in them. Because there are two
's in the prime factorization, one of them must be negative and the other positive. Because there is a
, there must also be a
to cancel the negatives out. The 5 distinct integer factors must be
. The corresponding values of
and
are
. and their sum is
All three cases are valid, so our solution is .
We can find the number of increasing arithmetic sequences of length 3 possible from 0 to 9, and then find all the possible permutations of these sequences.
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This gives us a total of sequences. There are
to permute these, for a total of
.
However, we note that the conditions of the problem require three-digit numbers, and hence our numbers cannot start with zero. There are numbers which start with zero, so our answer is
.
Observe that, if the smallest and largest digit have the same parity, this uniquely determines the middle digit. If the smallest digit is not zero, then any choice of the smallest and largest digit gives possible 3-digit numbers; otherwise,
possible 3-digit numbers. Hence we can do simple casework on whether 0 is in the number or not.
Case 1: 0 is not in the number. Then there are ways to choose two nonzero digits of the same parity, and each choice generates
3-digit numbers, giving
numbers.
Case 2: 0 is in the number. Then there are ways to choose the largest digit (2, 4, 6, or 8), and each choice generates
3-digit numbers, giving
numbers.
Thus the total is .
This solution takes advantage of the choices available, and as such, will get you nowhere on the AIME and most other contests. Observe that there's a common mistake where people forget that 0 could be part of the number. 4 valid permutations of and
result in
total that they miss. Looking at the answers, only two differ by
, namely
and
. So it's safe to bet that the answer is
This is just the cosine difference identity, which simplifies to
A fourth degree polynomial has four roots. Since the coefficients are real(meaning that complex roots come in conjugate pairs), the remaining two roots must be the complex conjugates of the two given roots, namely . Now we work backwards for the polynomial:
Thus our answer is .
Just like in Solution 1 we realize that the roots come in conjugate pairs. Which means the roots are So our polynomial is
(1)
Looking at the equation of the polynomial . We see that
If we plug in into equation (1) we get
.
Now if we multiply a complex number by its conjugate we get the sum of the squares of its real and imaginary parts. Using this property on the above we multiply and get So the answer is
.
From , we have that the height of
is
. Thus
lies on the lines
.
using 45-45-90 triangles, so in
we have that
. The slope of
is
, so the equation of the line is
. The point
lies on one of two parallel lines that are
units away from
. Now take an arbitrary point on the line
and draw the perpendicular to one of the parallel lines; then draw a line straight down from the same arbitrary point. These form a 45-45-90
, so the straight line down has a length of
. Now we note that the y-intercept of the parallel lines is either
units above or below the y-intercept of line
; hence the equation of the parallel lines is
.
We just need to find the intersections of these two lines and sum up the values of the x-coordinates. Substituting the into
, we get
.
We are finding the intersection of two pairs of parallel lines, which will form a parallelogram. The centroid of this parallelogram is just the intersection of and
, which can easily be calculated to be
. Now the sum of the x-coordinates is just
.
20.
Since the sides of a regular polygon are equal in length, we can call each side . Examine one edge of the unit cube: each contains two slanted diagonal edges of an octagon and one straight edge. The diagonal edges form
right triangles, making the distance on the edge of the cube
. Thus,
, and
.
Each of the cut off corners is a pyramid, whose volume can be calculated by . Use the base as one of the three congruent isosceles triangles, with the height being one of the edges of the pyramid that sits on the edges of the cube. The height is
. The base is a
with leg of length
, making its area
. Plugging this in, we get that the area of one of the tetrahedra is
. Since there are 8 removed corners, we get an answer of
21.
By Vieta's formulas, the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation is , the product of the zeros is
, and the sum of the coefficients is
. Setting equal the first two tells us that
. Thus,
, so the common value is also equal to the coefficient of
.
To disprove the others, note that:
22.
For the sake of notation let . Obviously
. Then the maximum value of
is when
, and the sum becomes
. So the minimum bound is
. We do casework upon the tens digit:
Case 1: . Easy to directly disprove.
Case 2: .
, and
if
and
otherwise.
Case 3: .
, and
if
and
otherwise.
Case 4: . But
, and
clearly sum to
.
Case 5: . So
and
(recall that
), and
. Fourth solution.
In total we have solutions, which are
and
.
Clearly, . We can break this into three cases:
Case 1:
Case 2: ,
(not to be confused with
),
Case 3: ,
,
The solutions are thus and the answer is
.
As in Solution 1, we note that and
.
Obviously, .
As , this means that
, or equivalently that
.
Thus . For each possible
we get three possible
.
(E. g., if , then
is a number such that
and
, therefore
.)
For each of these nine possibilities we compute as
and check whether
.
We'll find out that out of the 9 cases, in 4 the value has the correct sum of digits.
This happens for .
Clearly . Thus,
Now we need a bound for
. It is clear that the maximum for
(from
) which means the maximum for
is
. This means that
.
Now check all multiples of from
to
and we find that only
work, so our answer is
.
Remark: this may seem time consuming, but in reality, calculating for
values is actually very quick, so this solution would only take approximately 3-5 minutes, helpful in a contest.
23.
Let be the x-coordinate of
and
, and
be the x-coordinate of
and
be the y-coordinate of
and
. Then
and
. Since the distance between
and
is
, we have
, yielding
.
However, we can discard the negative root (all three logarithmic equations are underneath the line and above
when
is negative, hence we can't squeeze in a square of side 6). Thus
.
Substituting back, , so
.
24.
By looking at various graphs, we obtain that, for most of the graphs
Notice that the solutions are basically reflections across . However, when
, the middle apex of the sine curve touches the sine curve at the top only one time (instead of two reflected points), so we get here
.
So
if and only if
or
.
The first occurs whenever , or
for some nonnegative integer
. Since
,
. So there are
solutions in this case.
The second occurs whenever , or
for some nonnegative integer
. Here
so that there are
solutions here.
However, we overcount intersections. These occur whenever
which is equivalent to
dividing
. If
is even, then
is odd, so this never happens. If
, then there won't be intersections either, since a multiple of 8 can't divide a number which is not even a multiple of 4.
This leaves . In this case, the divisibility becomes
dividing
. Since
and
are relatively prime (subtracting twice the second number from the first gives 1),
must divide
. Since
,
. Then there is only one intersection, namely when
.
Therefore we find is equal to
, unless
, in which case it is one less, or
. The problem may then be finished as in Solution 1.
25.
Let denote the number of spacy subsets of
. We have
.
The spacy subsets of can be divided into two groups:
Hence,
From this recursion, we find that
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 28 | 41 | 60 | 88 | 129 |
And so the answer is ,
.
Since each of the elements of the subsets must be spaced at least two apart, a divider counting argument can be used.
From the set we choose at most four numbers. Let those numbers be represented by balls. Between each of the balls there are at least two dividers. So for example, o | | o | | o | | o | | represents
.
For subsets of size there must be
dividers between the balls, leaving
dividers to be be placed in
spots between the balls. The number of way this can be done is
.
Therefore, the number of spacy subsets is .
A shifting argument is also possible, and is similar in spirit to Solution 2. Clearly we can have at most elements. Given any arrangment, we subract
from the
element in our subset, when the elements are arranged in increasing order. This creates a bijection with the number of size
subsets of the set of the first
positive integers. For instance, the arrangment o | | o | | o | | | o | corresponds to the arrangment o o o | o |. Notice that there is no longer any restriction on consectutive numbers. Therefore, we can easily plug in the possible integers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for
:
In general, the number of subsets of a set with elements and with no
consecutive numbers is
.
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