Solution 1:The area of the pan is = . Since the area of each piece is , there are pieces. Thus, the answer is .
Solution 2:By dividing the each of the dimensions by , we get a grid which makes pieces. Thus, the answer is .
Problem 2
答案:D
Solution:Let Sam drive at exactly mph in the first half hour, mph in the second half hour, and mph in the third half hour. Due to , and that min is half an hour, he covered miles in the first mins. SImilarly, he covered miles in the nd half hour period. The problem states that Sam drove miles in min, so that means that he must have covered miles in the third half hour period. , so .? Therefore, Sam was driving miles per hour in the third half hour.
Problem 3
答案:B
Solution 1:We have ways to choose the pairs, and we have ways for the values to be switched so (harry1234)
Solution 2:We have four available numbers . Because different permutations do not matter because they are all addition and multiplication, if we put on the first space, it is obvious there are possible outcomes .
Problem 4
答案:B
Solution 1:Let be the length of the shortest dimension and be the length of the longest dimension. Thus, , , and . Divide the first to equations to get . Then, multiply by the last equation to get , giving . Following, and . The final answer is .
Solution 2:Simply use guess and check to find that the dimensions are by by . Therefore, the answer is .
Problem 5:
答案:D
Solution 1:Consider finding the number of subsets that do not contain any primes. There are four primes in the set: , , , and . This means that the number of subsets without any primes is the number of subsets of , which is just . The number of subsets with at least one prime is the number of subsets minus the number of subsets without any primes. The number of subsets is . Thus, the answer is .
Solution 2 (Using Answer Choices):Well, there are 4 composite numbers, and you can list them in a 1 number format, a 2 number, 3 number, and a 4 number format. Now, we can use permutations. Using the answer choices, the only multiple of 15 is
Problem 6:
答案:D
Solution 1:Notice that the only two ways such that more than draws are required are ; ; ; and . Notice that each of those cases has a chance, so the answer is , or .
Solution 2:Notice that only the first two draws are important, it doesn't matter what number we get third because no matter what combination of numbers is picked, the sum will always be greater than 5. Also, note that it is necessary to draw a in order to have 3 draws, otherwise will be attainable in two or less draws. So the probability of getting a is . It is necessary to pull either a or on the next draw and the probability of that is . But, the order of the draws can be switched so we get:, or ? By: Soccer_JAMS
Problem 7:
答案:D
Solution? 1 (Work using Answer Choices) :Use the answer choices and calculate them. The one that works is D
Solution 2 (More Algebraic Approach):Let the number of semicircles be and let the radius of each semicircle to be . To find the total area of all of the small semicircles, we have . Next, we have to find the area of the larger semicircle. The radius of the large semicircle can be deduced to be . So, the area of the larger semicircle is . Now that we have found the area of both A and B, we can find the ratio. , so part-to-whole ratio is .When we divide the area of the small semicircles combined by the area of the larger semicircles, we get . This is equal to . By setting them equal, we find that . This is our answer, which corresponds to choice . Solution by: Archimedes15; edited correct by kevinmathz
Problem 8:
答案:C
Solution 1:A staircase with steps contains toothpicks. This can be rewritten as .So, ? So, ?? Inspection could tell us that , so the answer is
Solution 2:Layer : stepsLayer : stepsLayer : stepsLayer : stepsFrom inspection, we can see that with each increase in layer the difference in toothpicks between the current layer and the previous increases by . Using this pattern:
From this we see that the solution is indeed
By: Soccer_JAMS
Problem 9:
答案:D
Solution 1:It can be seen that the probability of rolling the smallest number possible is the same as the probability of rolling the largest number possible, the probability of rolling the second smallest number possible is the same as the probability of rolling the second largest number possible, and so on. This is because the number of ways to add a certain number of ones to an assortment of 7 ones is the same as the number of ways to take away a certain number of ones from an assortment of 7 6s. So, we can match up the values to find the sum with the same probability as 10. We can start by noticing that 7 is the smallest possible roll and 42 is the largest possible role. The pairs with the same probability are as follows: (7, 42), (8, 41), (9, 40), (10, 39), (11, 38)... However, we need to find the number that matches up with 10. So, we can stop at (10, 39) and deduce that the sum with equal probability as 10 is 39. So, the correct answer is , and we are done.?? Written By: Archimedes15
Solution 2:Let's call the unknown value . By symmetry, we realize that the difference between 10 and the minimum value of the rolls is equal to the difference between the maximum and .? So,, and our answer is By: Soccer_JAMS
Solution 3 (Simple Logic):For the sums to have equal probability, the average sum of both sets of 7 dies has to be (6+1) x 7 = 49. Since having 10 is similar to not having 10, you just subtract 10 from the expected total sum. 49 - 10 = 39 so the answer is By: epicmonster
Solution 4:The expected value of the sums of the die rolls is , and since the probabilities should be distributed symmetrically on both sides of , the answer is , which is . By: dajeff
Problem 10:
答案:E
Solution 1:Consider the cross-sectional plane and label its area . Note that the volume of the triangular prism that encloses the pyramid is , and we want the rectangular pyramid that shares the base and height with the triangular prism. The volume of the pyramid is , so the answer is . (AOPS12142015)
Solution 2:We can start by finding the total volume of the parallelepiped. It is , because a rectangular parallelepiped is a rectangular prism. Next, we can consider the wedge-shaped section made when the plane cuts the figure. We can find the volume of the triangular pyramid with base EFB and apex M. The area of EFB is . Since BC is given to be , we have that FM is . Using the formula for the volume of a triangular pyramid, we have . Also, since the triangular pyramid with base HGC and apex M has the exact same dimensions, it has volume as well. The original wedge we considered in the last step has volume , because it is half of the volume of the parallelepiped. We can subtract out the parts we found to have . Thus, the volume of the figure we are trying to find is . This means that the correct answer choice is . Written by: Archimedes15NOTE: For those who think that it isn't a rectangular prism, please read the problem. It says "rectangular parallelepiped." If a parallelepiped is such that all of the faces are rectangles, it is a rectangular prism.
Problem 11:
答案:C
Solution 1:Because squares of a non-multiple of 3 is always , the only expression is always a multiple of is . This is excluding when , which only occurs when , then which is still composite.
Solution 2 (Bad Solution):?We proceed with guess and check: . Clearly only is our only option left. (franchester)
Solution 3:From Fermat's Little Theorom, if is coprime with . So for any , - divisible by 3, so not a prime. The only choice is
Solution 4:Primes can only be or . Therefore, the square of a prime can only be . then must be , so it is always divisible by . Therefore, the answer is .
Problem 12:
答案:C
Solution 1:Let . Therefore, lies on the circle with equation . Let it have coordinates . Since we know the centroid of a triangle with vertices with coordinates of is , the centroid of is . Because , we know that , so the curve is a circle centered at the origin. Therefore, its area is . -tdeng
Solution 2(no coordinates):We know the centroid of a triangle splits the medians into segments of ratio 2:1, and the median of the triangle that goes to the center of the circle is the radius (length ), so the length from the centroid of the triangle to the center of the circle is always . The area of a circle with radius is , or around . -That_Crazy_Book_Nerd
Problem 13
答案:C
Solution 1:Note that for some odd will suffice . Each , so the answer is (AOPS12142015)
Solution 2 :If we divide each number by , we see a pattern occuring in every 4 numbers. . We divide by to get with left over. One divisible number will be in the left over, so out answer is .
Solution 3:Note that is divisible by , and thus is too. We know that is divisible and isn't so let us start from . We subtract to get 2. Likewise from we subtract, but we instead subtract times or to get . We do it again and multiply the 9's by to get . Following the same knowledge, we can use mod to finish the problem. The sequence will just be subtracting 1, multiplying by 10, then adding 1. Thus the sequence is . Thus it repeats every four. Consider the sequence after the 1st term and we have 2017 numbers. Divide by four to get remainder . Thus the answer is plus the 1st term or .??? -googleghosh
Problem 14
答案:D
Solution:To minimize the number of values, we want to maximize the number of times they appear. So, we could have 223 numbers appear 9 times, 1 number appear once, and the mode appear 10 times, giving us a total of =
Problem 15
答案:A
Solution:Consider one-quarter of the image (the wrapping paper is divided up into 4 congruent squares). The length of each dotted line is . The area of the rectangle that is by is . The combined figure of the two triangles with base is a square with as its diagonal. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, each side of this square is . Thus, the area is the side length squared which is . Similarly, the combined figure of the two triangles with base is a square with area . Adding all of these together, we get . Since we have four of these areas in the entire wrapping paper, we multiply this by 4, getting .
Problem 16
答案:E
Solution 1:By Euler's Totient Theorem, Alternatively, one could simply list out all the residues to the third power ? Therefore the answer is congruent to
Solution 2 (not very good one): Note that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Note that Therefore, . Thus, . However, since cubing preserves parity, and the sum of the individual terms is even, the some of the cubes is also even, and our answer is
Solution 3:We first note that . So what we are trying to find is what mod . We start by noting that is congruent to mod . So we are trying to find mod . Instead of trying to do this with some number theory skills, we could just look for a pattern. We start with small powers of and see that is mod , is mod , is mod , is mod , and so on... So we see that since has an even power, it must be congruent to mod , thus giving our answer . You can prove this pattern using mods. But I thought this was easier. -TheMagician
Solution 4 (Lazy solution):Assume are multiples of 6 and find (which happens to be 4). Then is congruent to or just . -Patrick4Presiden
Problem 17
答案:B
Solution 1:Let . Then . Now notice that since we have . Thus by the Pythagorean Theorem we have which becomes . Our answer is . (Mudkipswims42)
Solution 2 :Denote the length of the equilateral octagon as . The length of can be expressed as . By Pythagoras, we find that:
Since , we can say that . We can discard the negative solution, so ~ blitzkrieg21
Problem 18:
答案:D
Solution 1 (Casework):We can begin to put this into cases. Let's call the pairs , and , and assume that a member of pair is sitting in the leftmost seat of the second row. We can have the following cases then.Case 1: Second Row: a b c Third Row: b c aCase 2: Second Row: a c b Third Row: c b aCase 3: Second Row: a b c Third Row: c a bCase 4: Second Row: a c b Third Row: b a c
For each of the four cases, we can flip the siblings, as they are distinct. So, each of the cases has possibilities. Since there are four cases, when pair has someone in the leftmost seat of the second row, there are 32 ways to rearrange it. However, someone from either pair , , or could be sitting in the leftmost seat of the second row. So, we have to multiply it by 3 to get our answer of . So, the correct answer is .
Written By: Archimedes15
Solution 2:Call the siblings , , , , , and .There are 6 choices for the child in the first seat, and it doesn't matter which one takes it, so suppose Without loss of generality that takes it (a is an empty seat):Then there are 4 choices for the second seat (, , , or ). Again, it doesn't matter who takes the seat, so WLOG suppose it is :
The last seat in the first row cannot be because it would be impossible to create a second row that satisfies the conditions. Therefore, it must be or . Suppose WLOG that it is . There are two ways to create a second row:
Therefore, there are possible seating arrangements.
Written by: R1ceming
Solution 3(Using the Answers):Notice how given an arrangement of the children that works (the answers tell us there is at least one) we can swap each pair of the siblings in one of 2 ways for = 8 arrangements, and each of the 3 pairs can take each others' spaces in 3! = 6 ways. This means that the answer must be divisible by 48.
Written by: Kevin Schmidt
Problem 19
答案:E
Solution 1: Let Joey's age be , Chloe's age be , and we know that Zoe's age is . We know that there must be values such that where is an integer. Therefore, and . Therefore, we know that, as there are solutions for , there must be solutions for . We know that this must be a perfect square. Testing perfect squares, we see that , so . Therefore, . Now, since , by similar logic, , so and Joey will be and the sum of the digits is
Solution 2: Here's a different way of saying your solution. If a number is a multiple of both Chloe's age and Zoe's age, then it is a multiple of their difference. Since the difference between their ages does not change, then that means the difference between their ages has 9 factors. Therefore, the difference between Chloe and Zoe's age is 36, so Chloe is 37, and Joey is 38. The common factor that will divide both of their ages is 37, so Joey will be 74. 7 + 4 =
Solution 3:Similar approach to above, just explained less concisely and more in terms of the problem (less algebra-y)Let denote Chloe's age, denote Joey's age, and denote Zoe's age, where is the number of years from now. We are told that is a multiple of exactly nine times. Because is at and will increase until greater than , it will hit every natural number less than , including every factor of . For to be an integral multiple of , the difference must also be a multiple of , which happens if is a factor of . Therefore, has nine factors. The smallest number that has nine positive factors is (we want it to be small so that Joey will not have reached three digits of age before his age is a multiple of Zoe's). We also know and . Thus,By our above logic, the next time is a multiple of will occur when is a factor of . Because is prime, the next time this happens is at , when .
Problem 20
答案:B
Solution 1:
Thus, .
Solution 2:Start out by listing some terms of the sequence.
Notice that whenever is an odd multiple of , and the pattern of numbers that follow will always be +3, +2, +0, -1, +0. The closest odd multiple of to is , so we have
Solution 3 (Bashy Pattern Finding):Writing out the first few values, we get: . Examining, we see that every number where has , , and . The greatest number that's 1 (mod 6) and less is , so we have
Problem 21
答案:C
Solution 1:Prime factorizing gives you . Looking at the answer choices, is the smallest number divisible by or .
Solution 2:Let the next largest divisor be . Suppose . Then, as , therefore, However, because , . Therefore, . Note that . Therefore, the smallest the gcd can be is and our answer is .
Problem 22
答案:C
Solution:Note that the obtuse angle in the triangle has to be opposite the side that is always length 1. This is because the largest angle is always opposite the largest side, and if 2 sides of the triangle were 1, the last side would have to be greater than 1 to make an obtuse triangle. Using this observation, we can set up a law of cosines where the angle is opposite 1:where and are the sides that go from and is the angle opposite the side of length 1.By isolating , we get:
For to be obtuse, must be negative. Therefore, is negative. Since and must be positive, must be negative, so we must make positive. From here, we can set up the inequality Additionally, to satisfy the definition of a triangle, we need: The solution should be the overlap between the two equations in the 1st quadrant.
By observing that is the equation for a circle, the amount that is in the 1st quadrant is . The line can also be seen as a chord that goes from to . By cutting off the triangle of area that is not part of the overlap, we get .
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Problem 23
答案:B
Solution :Let , and . Therefore, . Thus, the equation becomesUsing Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick, we rewrite this equation asSince and , we have and , or and . This gives us the solutions and . Obviously, the first pair does not work. The second pair can be ordered in two ways. Thus, the answer is . (awesomeag)
Problem 24
答案:C
Solution 1:
The desired area (hexagon ) consists of an equilateral triangle () and three right triangles (, , and ).
Notice that (not shown) and are parallel. divides transversals and into a ratio. Thus, it must also divide transversal and transversal into a ratio. By symmetry, the same applies for and as well as and
In , we see that and . Our desired area becomes
Solution 2:Now, if we look at the figure, we can see that the complement of the hexagon we are trying to find is composed of 3 isosceles trapezoids (AXFZ, XBCY, and ZYED), and 3 right triangles (With one vertice on each of X, Y, and Z). We know that one base of each trapezoid is just the side length of the hexagon which is 1, and the other base is 3/2 (It is halfway in between the side and the longest diagonal) with a height of (by using the Pythagorean theorem and the fact that it is an isosceles trapezoid) to give each trapezoid having an area of for a total area of (Alternatively, we could have calculated the area of hexagon ABCDEF and subtracted the area of triangle XYZ, which, as we showed before, had a side length of 3/2). Now, we need to find the area of each of the small triangles, which, if we look at the triangle that has a vertice on X, is similar to the triangle with a base of YC = 1/2. Using similar triangles we calculate the base to be 1/4 and the height to be giving us an area of per triangle, and a total area of . Adding the two areas together, we get . Finding the total area, we get . Taking the complement, we get
Solution 3 (Trig) :Notice, the area of the convex hexagon formed through the intersection of the 2 triangles can be found by finding the area of the triangle formed by the midpoints of the sides and subtracting the smaller triangles that are formed by the region inside this triangle but outside the other triangle. First, let's find the area of the area of the triangle formed by the midpoint of the sides. Notice, this is an equilateral triangle, thus all we need is to find the length of its side. To do this, we look at the isosceles trapezoid outside this triangle but inside the outer hexagon. Since the interior angle of a regular hexagon is and the trapezoid is isosceles, we know that the angle opposite is , and thus the side length of this triangle is . So the area of this triangle is Now let's find the area of the smaller triangles. Notice, triangle cuts off smaller isosceles triangles from the outer hexagon. The base of these isosceles triangles is perpendicular to the base of the isosceles trapezoid mentioned before, thus we can use trigonometric ratios to find the base and height of these smaller triangles, which are all congruent due to the rotational symmetry of a regular hexagon. The area is then and the sum of the areas is Therefore, the area of the convex hexagon is
Problem 25
答案:C
Solution 1:This rewrites itself to .Graphing and we see that the former is a set of line segments with slope from to with a hole at , then to with a hole at etc.Here is a graph of and for visualization.Now notice that when then graph has a hole at which the equation passes through and then continues upwards. Thus our set of possible solutions is bounded by . We can see that intersects each of the lines once and there are lines for an answer of .
Solution 2 (Alternative, Bashy Solution):Same as the first solution, .We can write as . Expanding everything, we get a quadratic in in terms of : We use the quadratic formula to solve for {x}: Since , we get an inequality which we can then solve. After simplifying a lot, we get that .Solving over the integers, , and since is an integer, there are solutions. Each value of should correspond to one value of , so we are done.
Solution 3:Let where is the integer portion of and is the decimal portion. We can then rewrite the problem below:From here, we getSolving for ...
Because , we know that cannot be less than or equal to nor greater than or equal to . Therefore:
There are 199 elements in this range, so the answer is
Solution 4:As in the first solution, we can write .Now obviously, .So, x can get be .Hence, the answer is .-Pi_3.14_Squared