【全网首发】2021AIME I 真题及答案
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Zou and Chou are practicing their 100-meter sprints by running races against each other. Zou wins the first race, and after that, the probability that one of them wins a race is if they won the previous race but only if they lost the previous race. The probability that Zou will win exactly of the races is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
In the diagram below, is a rectangle with side lengths and , and is a rectangle with side lengths and as shown. The area of the shaded region common to the interiors of both rectangles is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Find the number of positive integers less than that can be expressed as the difference of two integral powers of
Find the number of ways identical coins can be separated into three nonempty piles so that there are fewer coins in the first pile than in the second pile and fewer coins in the second pile than in the third pile.
Call a three-term strictly increasing arithmetic sequence of integers special if the sum of the squares of the three terms equals the product of the middle term and the square of the common difference. Find the sum of the third terms of all special sequences.
Segments and are edges of a cube and is a diagonal through the center of the cube. Point satisfies and . What is ?
Find the number of pairs of positive integers with such that there exists a real number satisfying
Find the number of integers such that the equationhas distinct real solutions.
Let be an isosceles trapezoid with and Suppose that the distances from to the lines and are and respectively. Let be the area of Find
Consider the sequence of positive rational numbers defined by and for , if for relatively prime positive integers and , then Determine the sum of all positive integers such that the rational number can be written in the form for some positive integer .
Let be a cyclic quadrilateral with and . Let and be the feet of the perpendiculars from and , respectively, to line and let and be the feet of the perpendiculars from and respectively, to line . The perimeter of is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Let be a dodecagon (12-gon). Three frogs initially sit at and . At the end of each minute, simultaneously, each of the three frogs jumps to one of the two vertices adjacent to its current position, chosen randomly and independently with both choices being equally likely. All three frogs stop jumping as soon as two frogs arrive at the same vertex at the same time. The expected number of minutes until the frogs stop jumping is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Circles and with radii and , respectively, intersect at distinct points and . A third circle is externally tangent to both and . Suppose line intersects at two points and such that the measure of minor arc is . Find the distance between the centers of and .
For any positive integer denotes the sum of the positive integer divisors of . Let be the least positive integer such that is divisible by for all positive integers . Find the sum of the prime factors in the prime factorization of .
Let be the set of positive integers such that the two parabolasintersect in four distinct points, and these four points lie on a circle with radius at most . Find the sum of the least element of and the greatest element of .
Solution 1 Make the translation to obtain . Multiply the first equation by 2 and sum, we see that . Completing the square gives us ; this explains why the two parabolas intersect at four points that lie on a circle*. For the upper bound, observe that , so .
For the lower bound, we need to ensure there are 4 intersections to begin with. (Here I'm using the un-translated coordinates.) Draw up a graph, and realize that two intersections are guaranteed, on the so called "right branch" of . As we increase the value of k, two more intersections appear on the "left branch." does not work because the "leftmost" point of is which lies to the right of , which is on the graph . While technically speaking this doesn't prove that there are no intersections (why?), drawing the graph should convince you that this is the case. Clearly, no k less than 4 works either. does work because the two graphs intersect at , and by drawing the graph, you realize this is not a tangent point and there is in fact another intersection nearby, due to slope. Therefore, the answer is .
Let be the intersection of and . From vertical angles, we know that . Also, given that and are rectangles, we know that . Therefore, by AA similarity, we know that triangles and are similar.
Let . Then, we have . By similar triangles, we know that and . We have .
Solving for , we have . The area of the shaded region is just .
Thus, the answer is .
~yuanyuanC
Suppose It follows that Since is a rectangle, we have and The equation of the circle with center and radius is and the equation of the circle with center and radius is We now have a system of two equations with two variables. Expanding and rearranging respectively giveSubtracting from we get Simplifying and rearranging produceSubstituting into giveswhich is a quadratic of We clear fractions by multiplying both sides by then solve by factoring:Since is in Quadrant IV, we have It follows that the equation of is Let be the intersection of and and be the intersection of and Since is the -intercept of we obtain By symmetry, quadrilateral is a parallelogram. Its area is from which the requested sum is ~MRENTHUSIASM
Let the intersection of and be , and let , so .
By the Pythagorean theorem, , so , and thus .
By the Pythagorean theorem again, : Solving, we get , so the area of the parallelogram is , and .
~JulianaL25
Again, let the intersection of and be . By AA similarity, with a ratio. Define as . Because of similar triangles, . Using , the area of the parallelogram is . Using , the area of the parallelogram is . These equations are equal, so we can solve for and obtain . Thus, , so the area of the parallelogram is .
~mathboy100
Let , and . Also let . also has to be by parallelogram properties. Then and must be because the sum of the segments has to be .
We can easily solve for by the Pythagorean Theorem:It follows shortly that .
Also, , and . We can then say that , so .
Now we can apply the Pythagorean Theorem to . This simplifies (not-as-shortly) to . Now we have to solve for the area of . We know that the height is because the height of the parallelogram is the same as the height of the smaller rectangle.
From the area of a parallelogram (we know that the base is and the height is ), it is clear that the area is , giving an answer of . ~ishanvannadil2008 for the solution sketch, Tuatara for rephrasing and .
Let the intersection of and be . It is useful to find , because and . From there, subtracting the areas of the two triangles from the larger rectangle, we get Area = .
let . Let . Note, . Area = . The answer is . ~ twotothetenthis1024
We want to find the number of positive integers which can be written in the form for some non-negative integers (note that if , then ). We first observe must be at most 10; if , then . As , we can first choose two different numbers from the set in ways. This includes , , , , which are invalid as in this case. For all other choices and , the value of is less than 1000.
We claim that for all other choices of and , the values of are pairwise distinct. More specifically, if where and , we must show that . Suppose otherwise for sake of contradiction; rearranging yields . We use the fact that every positive integer has a unique binary representation:
If then ; from here we can deduce either and (contradicting the assumption that , or and (contradicting the assumption and ).
If then , and it follows that , also contradicting the assumption . Hence we obtain contradiction.*
Then there are choices for for which is a positive integer less than 1000; by the above claim, each choice of results in a different positive integer . Then there are integers which can be expressed as a difference of two powers of 2.
Note by Ross Gao
Case 1: When our answer is in the form , where is an integer such that .
We start with the subcase where it is , for some integer where (this is because the case where yields , which doesn't work because it must be a positive integer.) Note that , and . Our answer needs to be less than , so the maximum possible result (in this case) is . Our lowest result is . All the positive powers of two less than work, so we have possibilities for this subcase. For subcases and , we have and possibilities, respectively. Case 2: When our answer is in the form of , where is an integer such that .
We can start with the subcase where . We notice that , and which is less than , so the greatest result in this subcase is actually , and the lowest is . Thus, we have possibilities. For the other four subcases, we have and possibilities, respectively. Answer: We note that these are our only cases, as numbers in the form of and beyond are greater than .
Thus, our result is . ~jehu26
We look for all positive integers of the form where Performing casework on we can enumerate all possibilities in the table below:As indicated by the X-marks, the ordered pairs generate which are invalid. Note that each of the remaining ordered pairs generates one unique desired positive integer. We prove this statement as follows:
Together, we have justified our claim in bold. Our answer is ~MRENTHUSIASM
First, you need to notice that it is impossible to have overlapping, making the problem easier.
Case 1 : There are ways here, from to It is easy to see here that this continues all the way down to one. However, when the case gets to , there are 5 ways instead of 4 because is smaller than 1000.
Thus, So the answer is
Suppose we have coin in the first pile. Then all work for a total of piles. Suppose we have coins in the first pile, then all work, for a total of . Continuing this pattern until coins in the first pile, we have the sum .
Let the three piles have coins respectively. If we disregard order, then we just need to divide by at the end.
We know . Since are positive integers, there are ways from Stars and Bars.
However, we must discard the cases where or or . The three cases are symmetric, so we just take the first case and multiply by 3. We have for 32 solutions. Multiplying by 3, we will subtract 96 from our total.
But we undercounted where . This is first counted 1 time, then we subtract it 3 times, so we add it back twice. There is clearly only 1 way, for a total of 2.
Hence, the answer is
Let the piles have and coins, with . Then, let , and , such that each . The sum is then . This is simply the number of positive solutions to the equation . Now, we take cases on .
If , then . Each value of corresponds to a unique value of , so there are solutions in this case. Similarly, if , then , for a total of solutions in this case. If , then , for a total of solutions. In general, the number of solutions is just all the numbers that aren't a multiple of , that are less than or equal to .
We then add our cases to getas our answer.
We make an equation for how this is true. a+b+c = 66, where a is less than b, is less than c. We don't have a clear solution, so we'll try complimentary counting. First, let's find where a doesn't have to be less than b, which doesn't have to be less than c. We have =2080 by stars and bars. Now we need to subtract off the cases where it doesn't satisfy the condition.
We first by starting out with a = b. We can write that as 2b + c = 66. We can find there are 32 integer solutions to this equation. There are 32 solutions for b=c, and a = c by symmetry. We also need to subtract 2 from the 96, because we counted 22, 22, 22 3 times. We then have to divide by 6 because there are 3! ways to order the a, b, and c. Therefore, we have = ~Arcticturn
Let the terms be , , and . Then we want , or . Rearranging, we get . Simplifying further, . Looking at this second equation, since the right side must be an integer, must equal . Looking at the first equation, we see since is positive. This means we must test . After testing these, we see that only and work which give and respectively. Thus the answer is . ~JHawk0224
Let the common difference be and let the middle term be . Then, we have that the sequence isThis means that the sum of the squares of the 3 terms of the sequence isWe know that this must be equal to so we can write thatand it follows that Now, we can treat as a constant and use the quadratic formula to getWe can factor pull out of the square root to getHere, it is easy to test values of . We find that and are the only positive integer values of that make a positive integer. gives and , but we can ignore the latter. gives , as well as a fraction which we can ignore.
Since and are the only two solutions and we want the sum of the third terms, our answer is . -BorealBear, minor edit by Kinglogic To prove this, let , then which is then remembering that and are integers see if you can figure it out. -PureSwag
Proceed as in solution 2, until we reachWrite , it follows that for some (positive) integer k and .
Taking both sides modulo , , so .
When , we have and . When , we have and . Summing the two cases, we have .
-Ross Gao
As in Solution 1, write the three integers in the sequence as , , and .
Then the sum of the squares of the three integers is .
Setting this equal to the middle term times the common difference squared, which is ,
and solving for we get: The numerator has to be positive, so the denominator has to be positive too for the sequence
to be strictly increasing; that is, .
For to be a perfect square, must be a perfect square as well.
This means that is divisible by 3, and whatever left over is a perfect square.
We can express this as an equation: let the perfect square left over be . Then: . Now when you divide the numerator and denominator by 3, you are left with . Because the sequence is of integers, d must also be an
integer, which means that must divide .
Taking the above equation we can solve for : .
This means that is divisible by . is automatically divisible by , so must be divisible by . Then must be either of . Plugging back into the equation, , so . , so .
Finally,
First scale down the whole cube by 12. Let point P have coordinates , A have coordinates , and be the side length. Then we have the equationsThese simplify intoAdding the first three equations together, we get . Subtracting this from the fourth equation, we get , so . This means . However, we scaled down everything by 12 so our answer is . ~JHawk0224
Once the equations for the distance between point P and the vertices of the cube have been written. We can add the first, second, and third to receive,Subtracting the fourth equation gives,Since point , and since we scaled the answer is ~Aaryabhatta1
Let E be the vertex of the cube such that ABED is a square. By the British Flag Theorem, we can easily we can show thatandHence, adding the two equations together, we get . Substituting in the values we know, we get .
Thus, we can solve for , which ends up being .
The maximum value of is , which is achieved at for some integer . This is left as an exercise to the reader.
This implies that , and that and , for integers .
Taking their ratio, we haveIt remains to find all that satisfy this equation.
If , then . This corresponds to choosing two elements from the set . There are ways to do so.
If , by multiplying and by the same constant , we have that . Then either , or . But the first case was already counted, so we don't need to consider that case. The other case corresponds to choosing two numbers from the set . There are ways here.
Finally, if , note that must be an integer. This means that belong to the set , or . Taking casework on , we get the sets . Some sets have been omitted; this is because they were counted in the other cases already. This sums to .
In total, there are pairs of .
This solution was brought to you by ~Leonard_my_dude~
In order for , .
This happens when mod This means that and for any integers and .
As in Solution 1, take the ratio of the two equations: Now notice that the numerator and denominator of are both odd, which means that and have the same power of two (the powers of 2 cancel out).
Let the common power be : then , and where and are integers between 1 and 30.
We can now rewrite the equation: Now it is easy to tell that mod and mod . However, there is another case: that mod and mod . This is because multiplying both and by will not change the fraction, but each congruence will be changed to mod mod .
From the first set of congruences, we find that and can be two of .
From the second set of congruences, we find that and can be two of .
Now all we have to do is multiply by to get back to and . Let’s organize the solutions in order of increasing values of , keeping in mind that and are bounded between 1 and 30.
For we get .
For we get For we get If we increase the value of more, there will be less than two integers in our sets, so we are done there.
There are 8 numbers in the first set, 7 in the second, 4 in the third, 4 in the fourth, 2 in the fifth, and 2 in the sixth.
In each of these sets we can choose 2 numbers to be and and then assign them in increasing order. Thus there are: possible pairings of that satisfy the conditions.
-KingRavi
We know that the range of is between and .
Thus, the only way for the sum to be is for of and to both be .
The of is equal to 1.
Assuming and are both positive, m and n could be . There are ways, so .
If bother are negative, m and n could be . There are ways, so .
However, the pair could also be and so on. The same goes for some other pairs.
In total there are of these extra pairs.
The answer is
Let Then the equation becomes , or . Note that since , is nonnegative, so we only care about nonnegative solutions in . Notice that each positive solution in gives two solutions in (), whereas if is a solution, this only gives one solution in , . Since the total number of solutions in is even, must not be a solution. Hence, we require that has exactly positive solutions and is not solved by If , then is negative, and therefore cannot be the absolute value of . This means the equation's only solutions are in . There is no way for this equation to have solutions, since the quadratic can only take on each of the two values at most twice, yielding at most solutions. Hence, . also can't equal , since this would mean would solve the equation. Hence, At this point, the equation will always have exactly positive solutions, since takes on each positive value exactly once when is restricted to positive values (graph it to see this), and are both positive. Therefore, we just need to have the remaining solutions exactly. This means the horizontal lines at each intersect the parabola in two places. This occurs when the two lines are above the parabola's vertex . Hence we have: Hence, the integers satisfying the conditions are those satisfying There are such integers. Note: Be careful of counting at the end, you may mess up and get 59.
Graph (If you are having trouble, look at the description in the next two lines and/or the diagram in solution 3). Notice that we want this to be equal to and .
We see that from left to right, the graph first dips from very positive to at , then rebounds up to at , then falls back down to at .
The positive are symmetric, so the graph re-ascends to at , falls back to at , and rises to arbitrarily large values afterwards.
Now we analyze the (varied by ) values. At , we will have no solutions, as the line will have no intersections with our graph.
At , we will have exactly solutions for the three zeroes.
At for any strictly between and , we will have exactly solutions.
At , we will have solutions, because local maxima are reached at .
At , we will have exactly solutions.
To get distinct solutions for , both and must produce solutions.
Thus and , so is required.
It is easy to verify that all of these choices of produce distinct solutions (none overlap), so our answer is .
We take cases for the outermost absolute value, then rearrange:Let We will rewrite as a piecewise function without using any absolute value:We graph with all extremum points labeled, as shown below. The fact that is an even function ( holds for all real numbers so the graph of is symmetric about the -axis) should facilitate the process of graphing.
Graph in Desmos: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/tdbbceyb9f Since has distinct real solutions, it is clear that each case has distinct real solutions geometrically. We shift the graph of down by units, where
Taking the intersection of these two cases gives from which there are such integers ~MRENTHUSIASM
Removing the absolute value bars from the equation successively, we get The discriminant of this equation is Equating the discriminant to , we see that there will be two distinct solutions to each of the possible quadratics above only in the interval . However, the number of zeros the equation has is determined by where and intersect, namely at . When , , will have only solutions, and when , , then there will be real solutions, if they exist at all. In order to have solutions here, we thus need to ensure , so that exactly out of the possible equations of the form given above have y-intercepts below and only real solutions, while the remaining equations have solutions. This occurs when , so our final bounds are , giving us valid values of .
Construct your isosceles trapezoid. Let, for simplicity, , , and . Extend the sides and mark the intersection as . Following what the question states, drop a perpendicular from to labeling the foot as . Drop another perpendicular from to , calling the foot . Lastly, drop a perpendicular from to , labeling it . In addition, drop a perpendicular from to calling its foot .
--DIAGRAM COMING SOON--
Start out by constructing a triangle congruent to with its side of length on line . This works because all isosceles triangles are cyclic and as a result, .
Notice that by AA similarity. We are given that and by symmetry we can deduce that . As a result, . This gives us that .
The question asks us along the lines of finding the area, , of the trapezoid . We look at the area of and notice that it can be represented as . Substituting , we solve for , getting .
Now let us focus on isosceles triangle , where . Since, is an altitude from to of an isosceles triangle, must be equal to . Since and , we can solve to get that and .
We must then set up equations using the Pythagorean Theorem, writing everything in terms of , , and . Looking at right triangle we getLooking at right triangle we getNow rearranging and solving, we get two equationThose are convenient equations as which gives usAfter some "smart" calculation, we get that .
Notice that the question asks for , and by applying the trapezoid area formula. Fortunately, this is just , and plugging in the value of , we get that .
~Math_Genius_164
Call AD and BC . Draw diagonal AC and call the foot of the perpendicular from B to AC . Call the foot of the perpendicular from A to line BC F, and call the foot of the perpindicular from A to DC H. Triangles CBG and CAF are similar, and we get that Therefore, . It then follows that triangles ABF and ADH are similar. Using similar triangles, we can then find that . Using the Law of Cosine on ABC, We can find that the cosine of angle ABC is . Since angles ABF and ADH are equivalent and supplementary to angle ABC, we know that the cosine of angle ADH is 1/3. It then follows that . Then it can be found that the area is . Multiplying this by , the answer is . -happykeeper
Let the foot of the altitude from A to BC be P, to CD be Q, and to BD be R.
Note that all isosceles trapezoids are cyclic quadrilaterals; thus, is on the circumcircle of and we have that is the Simson Line from . As , we have that , with the last equality coming from cyclic quadrilateral . Thus, and we have that or that , which we can see gives us that . Further ratios using the same similar triangles gives that and .
We also see that quadrilaterals and are both cyclic, with diameters of the circumcircles being and respectively. The intersection of the circumcircles are the points and , and we know and are both line segments passing through an intersection of the two circles with one endpoint on each circle. By Fact 5, we know then that there exists a spiral similarity with center A taking to . Because we know a lot about but very little about and we would like to know more, we wish to find the ratio of similitude between the two triangles.
To do this, we use the one number we have for : we know that the altitude from to has length 10. As the two triangles are similar, if we can find the height from to , we can take the ratio of the two heights as the ratio of similitude. To do this, we once again note that . Using this, we can drop the altitude from to and let it intersect at . Then, let and thus . We then have by the Pythagorean Theorem on and : Then, . This gives us then from right triangle that and thus the ratio of to is . From this, we see then thatandThe Pythagorean Theorem on then gives that Then, we have the height of trapezoid is , the top base is , and the bottom base is . From the equation of a trapezoid, , so the answer is .
- lvmath
First, draw the diagram. Then, notice that since is isosceles, , and the length of the altitude from to is also . Let the foot of this altitude be , and let the foot of the altitude from to be denoted as . Then, . So, . Now, notice that , where denotes the area of triangle . Letting , this equality becomes . Also, from , we have . Now, by the Pythagorean theorem on triangles and , we have and . Notice that , so . Squaring both sides of the equation once, moving and to the right, dividing both sides by , and squaring the equation once more, we are left with . Dividing both sides by (since we know is positive), we are left with . Solving for gives us .
Now, let the foot of the perpendicular from to be . Then let . Let the foot of the perpendicular from to be . Then, is also equal to . Notice that is a rectangle, so . Now, we have . By the Pythagorean theorem applied to , we have . We know that , so we can plug this into this equation. Solving for , we get .
Finally, to find , we use the formula for the area of a trapezoid: . The problem asks us for , which comes out to be .
~advanture
Let and be the feet of the altitudes from to and , respectively.
Claim: We have pairs of similar right triangles: and .
Proof: Note that is cyclic. We need one more angle, and we get this from this cyclic quad: Let . We obtain from the similarities and .
By Ptolemy, , so .
We obtain , so .
Applying the Pythagorean theorem on , we get .
Thus, , and , yielding .
Let and be the perpendiculars from to and respectively. Next, let be the intersection of and We set and as shown below.
From here, we obtain by segment subtraction, and and by the Pythagorean Theorem.
Since and are both complementary to we have from which by AA. It follows that or Since by vertical angles, we have by AA, with the ratio of similitude It follows that Since by angle chasing, we have by AA, with the ratio of similitude It follows that By the Pythagorean Theorem on right we have or Solving this system of equations ( and ), we get and so and Finally, the area of isfrom which
We know that when so is a possible value of . Note also that for . Then unless and are not relatively prime which happens when divides or divides , so the least value of is and . We know . Now unless and are not relatively prime which happens the first time divides or divides or , and . We have . Now unless and are not relatively prime. This happens the first time divides implying divides , which is prime so and . We have . We have , which is always reduced by EA, so the sum of all is .
Let be all terms in the form where and is some positive integer. We wish to find Suppose for some positive integer To find we look for the smallest positive integer for whichis reducible: If is reducible, then there exists a common factor for and By the Euclidean Algorithm, we haveSince and are not relatively prime, and is fixed, the smallest value of such that is reducible occurs when is the smallest prime factor of We will prove that for such value of the number can be written in the form where must be a positive integer.
We start with and then find by filling out the table below recursively:As the answer is Remark Alternatively, from we can setWe cross-multiply, rearrange, and apply Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick to getSince to find the smallest we need to be the smallest prime factor of Now we continue with the last two paragraphs of the solution above.
Let be the intersection of and . Let .
Firstly, since , we deduce that is cyclic. This implies that , with a ratio of . This means that . Similarly, . HenceIt therefore only remains to find .
From Ptolemy's theorem, we have that . From Brahmagupta's Formula, . But the area is also , so . Then the desired fraction is for an answer of .
The angle between diagonals satisfies(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_quadrilateral#Angle_formulas). Thus,orThat is, or Thus, or In this context, . Thus, ~y.grace.yu
We assume that the two quadrilateral mentioned in the problem are similar (due to both of them being cyclic). Note that by Ptolemy’s, one of the diagonals has length WLOG we focus on diagonal To find the diagonal of the inner quadrilateral, we drop the altitude from and and calculate the length of Let be (Thus By Pythagorean theorem, we haveNow let be (thus making ). Similarly, we haveWe see that , the scaled down diagonal is just which is times our original diagonal implying a scale factor of Thus, due to perimeters scaling linearly, the perimeter of the new quadrilateral is simply making our answer -fidgetboss_4000
The expected number of steps depends on the distance between the frogs, not on the order in which these distances appear. Let where denote the expected number of steps that it takes for two frogs to meet if traversing in clockwise or counterclockwise order, the frogs are , and vertices apart. Then , giving ; (1) , giving ; (2) , giving ; (3)
Plug in (1) and (3) into (2), we see that . . Each step is one minute. The answer is .
Let and be the center and radius of , and let and be the center and radius of .
Since extends to an arc with arc , the distance from to is . Let . Consider . The line is perpendicular to and passes through . Let be the foot from to ; so . We have by tangency and . Let .Since is on the radical axis of and , it has equal power with respect to both circles, sosince . Now we can solve for and , and in particular,We want to solve for . By the Pythagorean Theorem (twice):Therefore, .
Denote by , , and the centers of , , and , respectively. Let and denote the radii of and respectively, be the radius of , and the distance from to the line . We claim thatwhere . This solves the problem, for then the condition implies , and then we can solve to get . Denote by and the centers of and respectively. Set as the projection of onto , and denote by the intersection of with . Note that . Now recall thatFurthermore, note thatSubstituting the first equality into the second one and subtracting yieldswhich rearranges to the desired.
WLOG assume is a line. Note the angle condition is equivalent to the angle between and being . We claim the angle between and is fixed as varies.
Proof: Perform an inversion at , sending and to two lines and intersecting at . Then is sent to a circle tangent to lines and , which clearly intersects at a fixed angle. Therefore the angle between and is fixed as varies.
Now simply take to be a line. If intersects and and , respectively, and the circles' centers are and , then the projection of to at gives that is a triangle. Therefore, ~spartacle
Suppose we label the points as shown here. By radical axis, the tangents to at and intersect on . Thus is harmonic, so the tangents to at and intersect at . Moreover, because both and are perpendicular to , and because . Thus
We first claim that must be divisible by 42. Since is divisible by 2021 for all positive integers , we can first consider the special case where .
Then . In order for this expression to be divisible by , a necessary condition is . By Fermat's Little Theorem, . Moreover, if is a primitive root modulo 43, then , so must be divisible by 42.
By similar reasoning, must be divisible by 46, by considering .
We next claim that must be divisible by 43 and 47. Consider the case . Then , so is divisible by 2021 if and only if is divisible by 2021.
Lastly, we claim that if , then is divisible by 2021 for all positive integers . The claim is trivially true for so suppose . Let be the prime factorization of . Since is multiplicative, we haveWe can show that for all primes and integers , wherewhere each expression in parentheses contains terms. It is easy to verify that if or then for this choice of , so suppose and . Each expression in parentheses equals multiplied by some power of . If , then FLT implies , and if , then (since is also a multiple of 43, by definition). Similarly, we can show , and a simple CRT argument shows . Then .
Then the prime factors of are , , , , , and , and the answer is . ~scrabbler94
Since the problem works for all positive integers , let's plug in and see what we get. Since we have Simplifying using CRT and Fermat's Little Theorem, we get that and Then, we can look at just like in Solution 1 to find that and also divide . There don't seem to be any other odd "numbers" to check, so we can hopefully assume that the answer is the sum of the prime factors of From here, follow solution 1 to get the final answer.
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It says the problem implies that it works for all positive integers , we basically know that If , than from "USEMO 2019 Problem 4 which was (mod ) we have that. From here we can just let or be a power of 2 which we can dowhich is a geo series. We can plug in like in Solution 2 and use CRT which when we prime factorize we get that which like everyone knows. We use CRT to find that \begin{align*} 2^n &\equiv 1 \pmod{43}, \\ 2^n &\equiv 1 \pmod{47}. \end{align*}. We see that this is just FLT which is we see all multiples of 42 will work for first and 46 for the second. We can figure out that it is just which when we add up we get that it's just the sum of the prime factors of lcm(42,43,46,47) which you can just look at Solution 1 to find out the sum of the prime factors and get the answer.
Remarks: This was kind of used in what cosmicgenius and Solution 2 said and what mathisawesome2169 said and It "Reminded me of 2019 USEMO Problem 4 when solving the which gave . Sorry if it's bad I need to do something else so I kind of rushed.
only needs to satisfy and for all . Let's work on the first requirement (mod 43) first. All works for . If , let 's prime factorization be . The following 3 statements are the same. (1) For , no matter , it is true (2) For all ,One can either use brute force or Dirichlet's Theorem to show such exists. Therefore (3) For all ,According to Fermat's Little Theorem, is sufficient. To show it's necessary we just need to show 43 has a prime primitive root. This can be done either by brute force or as follows. 43 is prime and it must have a primitive root that's coprime to 43. All numbers of the form are also primitive roots of 43. According to Dirichlet's Theorem there must be primes among them.
Similar arguments for (mod 47) lead to and . Therefore
Make the translation to obtain . Multiply the first equation by 2 and sum, we see that . Completing the square gives us ; this explains why the two parabolas intersect at four points that lie on a circle*. For the upper bound, observe that , so .
For the lower bound, we need to ensure there are 4 intersections to begin with. (Here I'm using the un-translated coordinates.) Draw up a graph, and realize that two intersections are guaranteed, on the so called "right branch" of . As we increase the value of k, two more intersections appear on the "left branch." does not work because the "leftmost" point of is which lies to the right of , which is on the graph . While technically speaking this doesn't prove that there are no intersections (why?), drawing the graph should convince you that this is the case. Clearly, no k less than 4 works either. does work because the two graphs intersect at , and by drawing the graph, you realize this is not a tangent point and there is in fact another intersection nearby, due to slope. Therefore, the answer is .
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