真题解析
A scout troop buys candy bars at a price of five for
dollars. They sell all the candy bars at the price of two for
dollar. What was their profit, in dollars?
A positive number has the property that
of
is
. What is
?
Brianna is using part of the money she earned on her weekend job to buy several equally-priced CDs. She used one fifth of her money to buy one third of the CDs. What fraction of her money will she have left after she buys all the CDs?
At the beginning of the school year, Lisa's goal was to earn an A on at least of her
quizzes for the year. She earned an A on
of the first
quizzes. If she is to achieve her goal, on at most how many of the remaining quizzes can she earn a grade lower than an A?
An -foot by
-foot floor is tiled with square tiles of size
foot by
foot. Each tile has a pattern consisting of four white quarter circles of radius
foot centered at each corner of the tile. The remaining portion of the tile is shaded. How many square feet of the floor are shaded?
In , we have
and
. Suppose that
is a point on line
such that
lies between
and
and
. What is
?
What is the area enclosed by the graph of ?
For how many values of is it true that the line
passes through the vertex of the parabola
?
On a certain math exam, of the students got
points,
got
points,
got
points,
got
points, and the rest got
points. What is the difference between the mean and the median score on this exam?
The first term of a sequence is . Each succeeding term is the sum of the cubes of the digits of the previous terms. What is the
term of the sequence?
An envelope contains eight bills: ones,
fives,
tens, and
twenties. Two bills are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability that their sum is $
or more?
The quadratic equation has roots twice those of
, and none of
and
is zero. What is the value of
?
Suppose that ,
,
, ... ,
. What is
?
A circle having center , with
,is tangent to the lines
,
and
. What is the radius of this circle?
The sum of four two-digit numbers is . None of the eight digits is
and no two of them are the same. Which of the following is not included among the eight digits?
Eight spheres of radius 1, one per octant, are each tangent to the coordinate planes. What is the radius of the smallest sphere, centered at the origin, that contains these eight spheres?
How many distinct four-tuples of rational numbers are there with
?
Let and
be points in the plane. Define
as the region in the first quadrant consisting of those points
such that
is an acute triangle. What is the closest integer to the area of the region
?
Let and
be two-digit integers such that
is obtained by reversing the digits of
. The integers
and
satisfy
for some positive integer
. What is
?
Let and
be distinct elements in the set
What is the minimum possible value of
A positive integer has
divisors and
has
divisors. What is the greatest integer
such that
divides
?
A sequence of complex numbers is defined by the rule
where is the complex conjugate of
and
. Suppose that
and
. How many possible values are there for
?
Let be the set of ordered triples
of real numbers for which
There are real numbers
and
such that for all ordered triples
in
we have
What is the value of
All three vertices of an equilateral triangle are on the parabola , and one of its sides has a slope of
. The
-coordinates of the three vertices have a sum of
, where
and
are relatively prime positive integers. What is the value of
?
Six ants simultaneously stand on the six vertices of a regular octahedron, with each ant at a different vertex. Simultaneously and independently, each ant moves from its vertex to one of the four adjacent vertices, each with equal probability. What is the probability that no two ants arrive at the same vertex?
Since means
, the statement "
" can be rewritten as "
":
Let Brianna's money. We have
. Thus, the money left over is
, so the answer is
. This was just a simple manipulation of the equation. No solving was needed!
Lisa's goal was to get an A on quizzes. She already has A's on
quizzes, so she needs to get A's on
more. There are
quizzes left, so she can afford to get less than an A on
of them. Here, only the A's matter... No complicated stuff!
There are 80 tiles. Each tile has shaded. Thus:
4 quarters of a circle is a circle so that may save you 0.5 seconds 🙂
In , we have
and
. Suppose that
is a point on line
such that
lies between
and
and
. What is
?
Draw height (Perpendicular line from point C to line AD). We have that
. From the Pythagorean Theorem,
. Since
,
, and
, so
.
If we get rid of the absolute values, we are left with the following 4 equations (using the logic that if , then
is either
or
):
We can then put these equations in slope-intercept form in order to graph them.
Now you can graph the lines to find the shape of the graph:
We can easily see that it is a rhombus with diagonals of and
. The area is
, or
You can also assign and
to be
. Then you can easily see that the diagonals are
and
. Multiply and divide by
to get D.
We see that the vertex of the quadratic function is
. The y-intercept of the line
is
. We want to find the values (if any) such that
. Solving for
, the only values that satisfy this are
and
, so the answer is
To begin, we see that the remaining of the students got
points. Assume that there are
students; we see that
students got
points,
students got
points,
students got
points,
students got
points, and
students got
points. The median is
, since the
and
terms are both
. The mean is
. The difference between the mean and median, therefore, is
.
Performing this operation several times yields the results of for the second term,
for the third term, and
for the fourth term. The sum of the cubes of the digits of
equal
, a complete cycle. The cycle is... excluding the first term, the
,
, and
terms will equal
,
, and
, following the fourth term. Any term number that is equivalent to
will produce a result of
. It just so happens that
, which leads us to the answer of
.
The only way to get a total of $ or more is if you pick a twenty and another bill, or if you pick both tens. There are a total of
ways to choose
bills out of
. There are
ways to choose a twenty and some other non-twenty bill. There is
way to choose both twenties, and also
way to choose both tens. Adding these up, we find that there are a total of
ways to attain a sum of
or greater, so there is a total probability of
.
Another way to do this problem is to use complementary counting, i.e. how many ways that the sum is less than 20. Now, you do not have to consider the 2 twenties, so you have 6 bills left. ways. However, you counted the case when you have 2 tens, so you need to subtract 1, and you get 14. Finding the ways to get 20 or higher, you subtract 14 from 28 and get 14. So the answer is
.
Let have roots
and
. Then
so and
. Also,
has roots
and
, so
and and
. Thus
.
Indeed, consider the quadratics .
If the roots of are 2a and 2b and the roots of
are a and b, then using Vieta's equations,
Therefore, substituting the second equation into the first equation gives
and substituting the fourth equation into the third equation gives
We see that we can re-write ,
,
, ... ,
as
by using substitution. By using the properties of exponents, we know that
.
Therefore, the answer is
Changing to logarithmic form, we get
. We can rewrite this as
. Applying this to the rest, we get
Let be the radius of the circle. Draw the two radii that meet the points of tangency to the lines
. We can see that a square is formed by the origin, two tangency points, and the center of the circle. The side lengths of this square are
and the diagonal is
. The diagonal of a square is
times the side length. Therefore,
.
can be written as the sum of four two-digit numbers, let's say
,
,
, and
. Then
. The last digit of
is
, and
won't affect the units digits, so
must end with
. The smallest value
can have is
, and the greatest value is
. Therefore,
must equal
or
.
Case 1:
The only distinct positive integers that can add up to is
. So,
,
,
, and
must include four of the five numbers
. We have
, or
. We can add all of
, and try subtracting one number to get to
, but to no avail. Therefore,
cannot add up to
.
Case 2:
Checking all the values for ,
,
,and
each individually may be time-consuming, instead of only having
solution like Case 1. We can try a different approach by looking at
first. If
,
, or
. That means
. We know
, so the missing digit is
Alternatively, we know that a number is congruent to the sum of its digits mod 9, so , where
is some digit. Clearly,
.
The eight spheres are formed by shifting spheres of radius and center
in the
directions. Hence, the centers of the spheres are
. For a sphere centered at the origin to contain all eight spheres, its radius must be greater than or equal to the longest distance from the origin to one of these spheres. This length is the sum of the distance from
to the origin and the radius of the spheres, or
. To verify this is the longest length, we can see from the triangle inequality that the length from the origin to any other point on the spheres is strictly smaller. Thus, the answer is
.
Using the laws of logarithms, the given equation becomesAs
must all be rational, and there are no powers of
or
in
,
. Then
.Only the four-tuple
satisfies the equation, so the answer is
.
For angle and
to be acute,
must be between the two lines that are perpendicular to
and contain points
and
. For angle
to be acute, first draw a
triangle with
as the hypotenuse. Note
cannot be inside this triangle's circumscribed circle or else
. Hence, the area of
is the area of the large triangle minus the area of the small triangle minus the area of the circle, which is
, which is approximately
. The answer is
.
let , then
where
and
are nonzero digits.By difference of squares,
For this product to be a square, the factor of
must be repeated in either
or
, and given the constraints it has to be
. The factor of
is already a square and can be ignored. Now
must be another square, and since
cannot be
or greater then
must equal
or
. If
then
,
,
, which is not a digit. Hence the only possible value for
is
. Now we have
,
,
, then
,
,
,
, and
The sum of the set is , so if we could have the sum in each set of parenthesis be
then the minimum value would be
. Considering the set of four terms containing
, this sum could only be even if it had two or four odd terms. If it had all four odd terms then it would be
, and with two odd terms then its minimum value is
, so we cannot achieve two sums of
. The closest we could have to
and
is
and
, which can be achieved through
and
. So the minimum possible value is
.
We may let , where
is not divisible by 7. Using the fact that the number of divisors function
is multiplicative, we have
. Also,
. These numbers are in the ratio 3:4, so
.
Since , let
, where
is an argument of
. We will prove by induction that
, where
.
Base Case: trivial
Inductive Step: Suppose the formula is correct for , then
Since
the formula is proven
, where
is an integer. Therefore,
The value of
only matters modulo
. Since
, k can take values from 0 to
, so the answer is
Let .
Repeating through this recursive process, we can quickly see that
Thus,
. The solutions for
are
where
. Note that
for all
, so the answer is
. (Author: Patrick Yin)
Note that for any complex number , we have
. Therefore, the magnitude of
is always
, meaning that all of the numbers in the sequence
are of magnitude
.
Another property of complex numbers is that . For the numbers in our sequence, this means
, so
. Rewriting our recursive condition with these facts, we now have
Solving for
here, we obtain
It is seen that there are two values of
which correspond to one value of
. That means that there are two possible values of
, four possible values of
, and so on. Therefore, there are
possible values of
, giving the answer as
.
Let and
. Then,
implies
,so
. Therefore,
. Since
, we find that
. Thus,
First, remember that factors to
. By the givens,
and
. These can be used to find
:
Therefore,
It follows that and
, thus
We can rearrange into
and
into
We can then put to the third power or
. Basic polynomial multiplication shows us that
Thus,
or
. We know that
so we have
.
Now we need to find out what is equal to in terms of
. We will find
by squaring
. It is basic polynomial multiplication to figure out that
. We also given that
and
. Thus
or
. Rearranging the terms of this equation we obtain that
or
. Now plugging this equation into our original equation
, we obtain the equation
Simple rearranging of this equation yields the result that
. Combining like terms we obtain the equation
.
Now we know the coefficients of and
which are
and
respectively. Adding the two coefficients we obtain an answer of
(Author: David Camacho)
We approach this problem by counting the number of ways ants can do their desired migration, and then multiple this number by the probability that each case occurs.
Let the octahedron be , with points
coplanar. Then the ant from
and the ant from
must move to plane
. Suppose, without loss of generality, that the ant from
moved to point
. Then, we must consider three cases.
Case 1: Ant from point moved to point
On the plane, points and
are taken. The ant that moves to
can come from either
or
. The ant that moves to
can come from either
or
. Once these two ants are fixed, the other two ants must migrate to the "poles" of the octahedron, points
and
. Thus, there are two degrees of freedom in deciding which ant moves to
, two degrees of freedom in deciding which ant moves to
, and two degrees of freedom in deciding which ant moves to
. Hence, there are
ways the ants can move to different points.
Case 2: Ant from point moved to point
On the plane, points and
are taken. The ant that moves to
must be from
or
, but the ant that moves to
must also be from
or
. The other two ants, originating from points
and
, must move to the poles. Therefore, there are two degrees of freedom in deciding which ant moves to
and two degrees of freedom in choosing which ant moves to
. Hence, there are
ways the ants can move to different points.
Case 3: Ant from point moved to point
By symmetry to Case 1, there are ways the ants can move to different points.
Given a point , there is a total of
ways the ants can move to different points. We oriented the square so that point
was defined as the point to which the ant from point
moved. Since the ant from point
can actually move to four different points, there is a total of
ways the ants can move to different points.
Each ant acts independently, having four different points to choose from. Hence, each ant has probability of moving to the desired location. Since there are six ants, the probability of each case occuring is
. Thus, the desired answer is
.
Let be the number of cycles of length
the can be walked among the vertices of an octahedron. For example,
would represent the number of ways in which an ant could navigate
vertices and then return back to the original spot. Since an ant cannot stay still,
. We also easily see that
.
Now consider any four vertices of the octahedron. All four vertices will be connected by edges except for one pair. Let’s think of this as a squarewith one diagonal (from top left to bottom right).
For , consider an ant at the top of the octahedron. It has four choices. Afterwards, it can either travel directly to the bottom, and then it has
ways back up, or it can travel along the sides and then go to the bottom, of which simple counting gives us
ways back up. Hence, this totals
.
Now, the number of possible ways is given by the sum of all possible cycles,
where the coefficients represent the number of ways we can configure these cycles. To find , fix any face, there are
adjacent faces to select from to complete the cycle. From the four remaining faces there are only
ways to create cycles, hence
.
To find , each cycle of
faces is distinguished by their common edge, and there are
edges, so
.
To find , each three-cycle is distinguished by the vertex, and there are
edges. However, since the two three-cycles are indistinguishable,
.
Clearly . Finally,
Each bug has possibilities to choose from, so the probability is
.
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