Adults made up of the crowd of people at a concert. After a bus carrying more people arrived, adults made up of the people at the concert. Find the minimum number of adults who could have been at the concert after the bus arrived.
Let be the number of people at the party before the bus arrives. We know that , as of people at the party before the bus arrives are adults. Similarly, we know that , as of the people at the party are adults after the bus arrives. can be reduced to , and since we are looking for the minimum amount of people, is . That means there are people at the party after the bus arrives, and thus there are adults at the party.
~eamo
Since at the beginning, adults make up of the concert, the amount of adults must be a multiple of 12.
Call the amount of people in the beginning .Then must be divisible by 12, in other words: must be a multiple of 12. Since after 50 more people arrived, adults make up of the concert, is a multiple of 25. This means must be a multiple of 5.
Notice that if a number is divisible by 5, it must end with a 0 or 5. Since 5 is impossible (obviously, since multiples of 12 end in 2, 4, 6, 8, 0,...), must end in 0.
Notice that the multiples of 12 that end in 0 are: 60, 120, 180, etc.. By trying out, you can clearly see that is the minimum number of people at the concert.
So therefore, after 50 more people arrive, there are people at the concert, and the number of adults is . Therefore the answer is .
I know this solution is kind of lame, but this is still pretty straightforward. This solution is very similar to the first one, though.
~hastapasta
Azar, Carl, Jon, and Sergey are the four players left in a singles tennis tournament. They are randomly assigned opponents in the semifinal matches, and the winners of those matches play each other in the final match to determine the winner of the tournament. When Azar plays Carl, Azar will win the match with probability . When either Azar or Carl plays either Jon or Sergey, Azar or Carl will win the match with probability . Assume that outcomes of different matches are independent. The probability that Carl will win the tournament is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Let be Azar, be Carl, be Jon, and be Sergey. The circles represent the players, and the arrow is from the winner to the loser with the winning probability as the label.
This problem can be solved by using cases.
's opponent for the semifinal is
The probability 's opponent is is . Therefore the probability wins the semifinal in this case is . The other semifinal game is played between and , it doesn't matter who wins because has the same probability of winning either one. The probability of winning in the final is , so the probability of winning the tournament in case 1 is
's opponent for the semifinal is or
It doesn't matter if 's opponent is or because has the same probability of winning either one. The probability 's opponent is or is . Therefore the probability wins the semifinal in this case is . The other semifinal game is played between and or . In this case it matters who wins in the other semifinal game because the probability of winning and or is different.
's opponent for the final is
For this to happen, must have won or in the semifinal, the probability is . Therefore, the probability that won in the final is .
's opponent for the final is or
For this to happen, or must have won in the semifinal, the probability is . Therefore, the probability that won or in the final is .
In Case 2 the probability of winning the tournament is
Adding case 1 and case 2 together we get . So the answer is
~isabelchen
A right square pyramid with volume has a base with side length The five vertices of the pyramid all lie on a sphere with radius , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Although I can't draw the exact picture of this problem, but it is quite easy to imagine that four vertices of the base of this pyramid is on a circle (Radius ). Since all five vertices are on the sphere, the distances of the spherical center and the vertices are the same: . Because of the symmetrical property of the pyramid, we can imagine that the line of the apex and the (sphere's) center will intersect the square at the (base's) center.
Since the volume is , where is the height of this pyramid, we have: according to pythagorean theorem.
Solve this equation will give us . Therefore,
~DSAERF-CALMIT (https://binaryphi.site)
To start, we find the height of the pyramid. By the volume of a pyramid formula, we haveNext, let us find the length of the non-base sides of the pyramid. By the Pythagorean Theorem, noting that the distance from one vertex of the base to the center of the base is , we haveTaking the cross section of the pyramid and transforming the problem into -d, it suffices to find the radius of the circumcircle of a triangle of side lengths , , . This turns out to be easy by the formula , and through computing this value (the work has been left out) we find that , so our answer is .
~A1001
There is a positive real number not equal to either or such thatThe value can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Define to be , what we are looking for. Then, by the definition of logs,Dividing the first equation by the second equation gives us , so by the definition of logs, . This is what the problem asked for, so the fraction gives us .
~ihatemath123
We could assume a variable which equals to both and .
So that and
Express as:
Substitute to :
Thus, , where and .
Therefore, .
~DSAERF-CALMIT (https://binaryphi.site)
We have
We have
Because , we get
We denote this common value as .
By solving the equality , we get .
By solving the equality , we get .
By equating these two equations, we get
Therefore,
Therefore, the answer is .
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
By the change of base rule, we have , or . We also know that if , then this also equals . We use this identity and find that . The requested sum is
~MathIsFun286
Twenty distinct points are marked on a circle and labeled through in clockwise order. A line segment is drawn between every pair of points whose labels differ by a prime number. Find the number of triangles formed whose vertices are among the original points.
Let , , and be the vertex of a triangle that satisfies this problem, where .
. Because is the sum of two primes, and , or must be . Let , then . There are only primes less than : . Only plus equals another prime. .
Once is determined, and . There are values of where , and values of . Therefore the answer is
Let be real numbers such that and . Among all such -tuples of numbers, the greatest value that can achieve is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
To find the greatest value of , must be as large as possible, and must be as small as possible. If is as large as possible, . If is as small as possible, . The other numbers between and equal to . Let , . Substituting and into and we get:,
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~isabelchen
Define to be the sum of all the negatives, and to be the sum of all the positives.
Since the sum of the absolute values of all the numbers is , .
Since the sum of all the numbers is , .
Therefore, , so and since is negative and is positive.
To maximize , we need to make as small of a negative as possible, and as large of a positive as possible.
Note that is greater than or equal to because the numbers are in increasing order.
Similarly, is less than or equal to .
So we now know that is the best we can do for , and is the least we can do for .
Finally, the maximum value of , so the answer is .
(Indeed, we can easily show that , , and works.)
~inventivedant
A circle with radius is externally tangent to a circle with radius . Find the area of the triangular region bounded by the three common tangent lines of these two circles.
, , , ,
, , ,
,
~isabelchen
Let the center of the circle with radius be labeled and the center of the circle with radius be labeled . Drop perpendiculars on the same side of line from and to each of the tangents at points and , respectively. Then, let line intersect the two diagonal tangents at point . Since , we haveNext, throw everything on a coordinate plane with and . Then, , and if , we haveCombining these and solving, we get . Notice now that , , and the intersections of the lines (the vertical tangent) with the tangent containing these points are collinear, and thus every slope between a pair of points will have the same slope, which in this case is . Thus, the other two vertices of the desired triangle are and . By the Shoelace Formula, the area of a triangle with coordinates , , and is
Find the number of positive integers whose value can be uniquely determined when the values of , , and are given, where denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to the real number .
We need to find all numbers between and inclusive that are multiples of , , and/or which are also multiples of , , and/or when is added to them.
We begin by noting that the LCM of , , and is . We can therefore simplify the problem by finding all such numbers described above between and and multiplying the quantity of such numbers by (/ = ).
After making a simple list of the numbers between and and going through it, we see that the numbers meeting this condition are , , , , , , , and . This gives us numbers. * = .
Soon after the test was administered, a formal request was made to also accept as an answer and MAA decided to honor this request. The gist of this request stated that the phrasing of the first part of the question could reasonably be interpreted to mean that one is given the condition to begin with that the integer is less than or equal to . In this case, if one was told that the values of , , and were , , and respectively, then the only possible choice for would be as , , and do not meet the condition as stated in the first part of the problem. ~burkinafaso
This is Solution 1 with a slick element included. Solution 1 uses the concept that is a solution for if is a multiple of , , and/or and is a multiple of , , and/or for positive integer values of and essentially any integer value of . But keeping the same conditions in mind for and , we can also say that if is a solution, then is a solution! Therefore, one doesn't have to go as far as determining the number of values between and and then multiplying by . One only has to determine the number of values between and and then multiply by . The values of that work between and are , , , and . This gives us numbers. * = .
Soon after the test was administered, a formal request was made to also accept as an answer and MAA decided to honor this request. The gist of this request stated that the phrasing of the first part of the question could reasonably be interpreted to mean that one is given the condition to begin with that the integer is less than or equal to . In this case, if one was told that the values of , , and were , , and respectively, then the only possible choice for would be as , , and do not meet the condition as stated in the first part of the problem. ~burkinafaso
1. For to be uniquely determined, AND both need to be a multiple of or Since either or is odd, we know that either or has to be a multiple of We can state the following cases:
1. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
2. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
3. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
4. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
Solving for each case, we see that there are possibilities for cases 1 and 3 each, and possibilities for cases 2 and 4 each. However, we over-counted the cases where
1. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
2. is a multiple of and is a multiple of
Each case has possibilities.
Adding all the cases and correcting for over-counting, we get
~Lucasfunnyface
Here is a detailed solution for Solution 2.
, , , , , , , , , , 30 integers.
, , , , , , , , , , 20 integers.
, , , , , , , , , , 30 integers.
, , , , , , , , , , 20 integers.
Over-counted cases:
, , , , , , , , , , , , 10 integers.
, , , , , , , , , , , , 10 integers.
~isabelchen
The problem is the same as asking how many unique sets of values of , , and can be produced by one and only one value of for positive integers less than or equal to 600.
Seeing that we are dealing with the unique values of the floor function, we ought to examine when it is about to change values, for instance, when is close to a multiple of 4 in .
For a particular value of , let , , and be the original values of , , and , respectively.
Notice when and , the value of will be 1 less than the original . The value of will be 1 greater than the original value of .
More importantly, this means that no other value less than or greater than will be able to produce the set of original values of , , and , since they make either or differ by at least 1.
Generalizing, we find that must satisfy:
Where and are pairs of distinct values of 4, 5, and 6.
Plugging in the values of and , finding the solutions to the 6 systems of linear congruences, and correcting for the repeated values, we find that there are solutions of .
By Chinese Remainder Theorem, the general solution of systems of linear congruences is:
, , Find and such that , Then
, we solve the number of values for , then multiply by to get the number of values for . We are going to solve the following systems of linear congruences:
,
No solution
,
,
No solution
,
, there are values for . For , the answer is .
~isabelchen
For solving a system of linear congruences, see https://youtu.be/-a88u99nmkw
Observe that if such that n is a solution to the desired equation, so is , where m is an integer, . So we only need to consider n from 1 to 60. As shown in Solution 2, there are 4 cases which we will split into 2 main cases:
There are 4 values of n where satisfying or .
I claim that there are 4 values of satisfying Case 1. Suppose x is one value of n satisfying or , and . Hence the solutions satisfying or , are of the form , so the values of are (mod 5), so (mod 5) and hence the value of m is unique since to satisfy and 2 and 5 are relatively prime.
A similar approach can be used to show the same for Case 2, that there are 4 values of .
Hence our answer is .
~Bxiao31415
Let and be two distinct parallel lines. For positive integers and , distinct points lie on , and distinct points lie on . Additionally, when segments are drawn for all and , no point strictly between and lies on more than two of the segments. Find the number of bounded regions into which this figure divides the plane when and . The figure shows that there are 8 regions when and .
We can use recursion to solve this problem:
1. Fix 7 points on , then put one point on . Now, introduce a function that indicates the number of regions created, where x is the number of points on . For example, because there are 6 regions.
2. Now, put the second point on . Join and will create new regions (and we are not going to count them again), and split the existing regions. Let's focus on the spliting process: line segment formed between and intersect lines , , ..., at points creating regions (we already count one region at first), then points creating regions (we already count one region at first), 4 points, etc. So, we have:
3. If you still need one step to understand this: and will still create new regions. Intersectingat points, creating regions, etc. Thus, we have:
Yes, you might already notice that:
5. (Finally) we have , and . Therefore, the answer is .
Note: we could deduce a general formula of this recursion: , where is the number of points on .
~DSAERF-CALMIT (https://binaryphi.site)
We want to derive a general function that indicates the number of bounded regions. Observing symmetry, we know this is a symmetric function about and . Now let's focus on , which is the difference caused by adding one point to the existing points of line . This new point, call it #m, when connected to point #1 on , crosses lines, thus making additional bounded regions; when connected to point #2 on , it crosses lines, thus making additional bounded regions; etc. By simple algebra/recursion methods, we see
Notice . Not very difficult to figure out:
The fact that makes us more confident about the formula. Now plug in , we get the final answer of .
Find the remainder whenis divided by .
To solve this problem, we need to use the following result:
Now, we use this result to solve this problem.
We have
Therefore, modulo 1000, .
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
Doing simple algebra calculation will give the following equation:
Next, by using Hockey-Stick Identity, we have:
~DSAERF-CALMIT (https://binaryphi.site)
Since seems like a completely arbitrary number, we can use Engineer's Induction by listing out the first few sums. These are, in the order of how many terms there are starting from term: , , , , , and . Notice that these are just , , , , , . It's clear that this pattern continues up to terms, noticing that the "indexing" starts with instead of . Thus, the value of the sum is .
~A1001
Let be a convex quadrilateral with , , and such that the bisectors of acute angles and intersect at the midpoint of . Find the square of the area of .
According to the problem, we have , , , , and
Because is the midpoint of , we have , so:
Then, we can see that is an isosceles triangle with
Therefore, we could start our angle chasing: .
This is when we found that points , , , and are on a circle. Thus, . This is the time we found that .
Thus,
Point is the midpoint of , and . .
The area of this quadrilateral is the sum of areas of triangles:
Finally, the square of the area is
~DSAERF-CALMIT (https://binaryphi.site)
Denote by the midpoint of segment . Let points and be on segment , such that and .
Denote , , , .
Denote . Because is the midpoint of , .
Because is the angle bisector of and , . Hence, and . Hence, .
Because is the angle bisector of and , . Hence, and . Hence, .
Because is the midpoint of segment , . Because and , . Thus, . Thus, \[ \alpha + \theta = \beta + \phi . \hspace{1cm} (1) \]
In , . In addition, . Thus, \[ \alpha + \beta = \theta + \phi . \hspace{1cm} (2) \]
Taking , we get . Taking , we get .
Therefore, .
Hence, and . Thus, and .
In , by applying the law of cosines, . Hence, . Hence, .
Therefore, \begin{align*} {\rm Area} \ ABCD & = {\rm Area} \ \triangle AMD + {\rm Area} \ \triangle ABM + {\rm Area} \ \triangle MCD \\ & = {\rm Area} \ \triangle AMD \left( 1 + \left( \frac{AM}{AD} \right)^2 + \left( \frac{MD}{AD} \right)^2 \right) \\ & = 6 \sqrt{5} . \end{align*}
Therefore, the square of is .
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
Let and be real numbers with and such thatFind the least possible value of
Denote .
Because , is on an ellipse whose center is and foci are and .
Hence, the sum of distance from to and is equal to twice the major axis of this ellipse, .
Because , is on an ellipse whose center is and foci are and .
Hence, the sum of distance from to and is equal to twice the major axis of this ellipse, .
Therefore, is the sum of the distance from to four foci of these two ellipses. To make this minimized, is the intersection point of the line that passes through and , and the line that passes through and .
The distance between and is .
The distance between and is .
Hence, .
Therefore,
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
There is a polynomial with integer coefficients such thatholds for every Find the coefficient of in .
Because , we have
Denote by the coefficient of . Thus,
Now, we need to find the number of nonnegative integer tuples that satisfy
Modulo 2 on Equation (1), we have . Hence, we can write . Plugging this into (1), the problem reduces to finding the number of nonnegative integer tuples that satisfy
Modulo 3 on Equation (2), we have . Hence, we can write . Plugging this into (2), the problem reduces to finding the number of nonnegative integer tuples that satisfy
Modulo 5 on Equation (3), we have . Hence, we can write . Plugging this into (3), the problem reduces to finding the number of nonnegative integer tuples that satisfy
Modulo 7 on Equation (4), we have . Hence, we can write . Plugging this into (4), the problem reduces to finding the number of nonnegative integer tuples that satisfy
The number of nonnegative integer solutions to Equation (5) is .
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
We know that . Applying this, we see thatThe last factor does not contribute to the term, so we can ignore it. Thus we only have left to solve the equation , and we can proceed from here with Solution 1.
~MathIsFun286
For positive integers , , and with , consider collections of postage stamps in denominations , , and cents that contain at least one stamp of each denomination. If there exists such a collection that contains sub-collections worth every whole number of cents up to cents, let be the minimum number of stamps in such a collection. Find the sum of the three least values of such that for some choice of and .
Notice that we must have , otherwise cent stamp cannot be represented. At least numbers of cent stamps are needed to represent the values less than . Using at most stamps of value and , it can have all the values from to cents. Plus stamps of value , every value up to can be represented. Therefore using stamps of value , stamps of value , and stamps of value , all values up to can be represented in sub-collections, while minimizing the number of stamps.
So, ,
. We can get the answer by solving this equation.
, or
,
For , , ,
For ,
, , , no solution
, , or , neither values satisfy , no solution
, ,
, ,
The least values of is , , .
~isabelchen
Two externally tangent circles and have centers and , respectively. A third circle passing through and intersects at and and at and , as shown. Suppose that , , , and is a convex hexagon. Find the area of this hexagon.
First observe that and . Let points and be the reflections of and , respectively, about the perpendicular bisector of . Then quadrilaterals and are congruent, so hexagons and have the same area. Furthermore, triangles and are congruent, so and quadrilateral is an isosceles trapezoid.Next, remark that , so quadrilateral is also an isosceles trapezoid; in turn, , and similarly . Thus, Ptolmey's theorem on yields , whence . Let . The Law of Cosines on triangle yieldsand hence . Thus the distance between bases and is (in fact, is a triangle with a triangle removed), which implies the area of is .
Now let and ; the tangency of circles and implies . Furthermore, angles and are opposite angles in cyclic quadrilateral , which implies the measure of angle is . Therefore, the Law of Cosines applied to triangle yields
Thus , and so the area of triangle is .
Thus, the area of hexagon is .
~djmathman
Denote by the center of . Denote by the radius of .
We have , , , , , are all on circle .
Denote . Denote . Denote .
Because and are on circles and , is a perpendicular bisector of . Hence, .
Because and are on circles and , is a perpendicular bisector of . Hence, .
In ,
Hence,
In ,
Hence,
In ,
Hence,
Taking , we get . Thus, .
Taking these into (1), we get . Hence,
Hence, .
In ,
In , by applying the law of sines, we get
Because circles and are externally tangent, is on circle , is on circle ,
Thus, .
Now, we compute and .
Recall and . Thus, .
We also have
Thus,
Therefore,
~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)
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