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Problem Set - 10 Nov 2023

PROBLEM 1 (2020 AMC 10A #16)

A point is chosen at random within the square in the coordinate plane whose vertices are (0, 0), (2020,
0), (2020, 2020), and (0, 2020). The probability that the point is within d units of a lattice point is 12 .
(A point (x, y) is a lattice point if x and y are both integers.) What is d to the nearest tenth?

(A) 0.3 (B) 0.4 (C) 0.5 (D) 0.6 (E) 0.7

PROBLEM 2 (2010 AMC 12A #12)

In a magical swamp there are two species of talking amphibians: toads, whose statements are always
true, and frogs, whose statements are always false. Four amphibians, Brian, Chris, LeRoy, and Mike
live together in this swamp, and they make the following statements.

Brian: "Mike and I are different species."

Chris: "LeRoy is a frog."

LeRoy: "Chris is a frog."

Mike: "Of the four of us, at least two are toads."

How many of these amphibians are frogs?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

PROBLEM 3 (2017 AMC 12B #12)

What is the sum of the roots of z 12 = 64 that have a positive real part?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2+2 3 (D) 2 2 + 6 (E) (1 + 3) + (1 + 3)i

PROBLEM 4 (2014 AMC 10A #15)

David drives from his home to the airport to catch a flight. He drives 35 miles in the first hour, but
realizes that he will be 1 hour late if he continues at this speed. He increases his speed by 15 miles
per hour for the rest of the way to the airport and arrives 30 minutes early. How many miles is the
airport from his home?

(A) 140 (B) 175 (C) 210 (D) 245 (E) 280

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PROBLEM 5 (2021 AMC 12A #12)

All the roots of the polynomial z 6 − 10z 5 + Az 4 + Bz 3 + Cz 2 + Dz + 16 are positive integers,

possibly repeated. What is the value of B ?

(A) −88 (B) −80 (C) −64 (D) −41 (E) −40

PROBLEM 6 (2012 AIME II #2)

Two geometric sequences a1 , a2 , a3 , … and b1 , b2 , b3 , … have the same common ratio, with a1 = 27, b
1 = 99, and a15 = b11 . Find a9 .

PROBLEM 7 (2011 AIME II #1)

Gary purchased a large beverage, but only drank m/n of it, where m and n are relatively prime
positive integers. If he had purchased half as much and drunk twice as much, he would have wasted
only 2/9 as much beverage. Find m + n.

PROBLEM 8 (2018 AMC 12B #16)

The solutions to the equation (z + 6)8 = 81 are connected in the complex plane to form a convex
regular polygon, three of whose vertices are labeled A, B, and C . What is the least possible area of
△ABC?

1 3 3 1
(A) 6 6 (B) 2 2− 2 (C) 2 3 − 3 2 (D) 2 2 (E) 3−1

PROBLEM 9 (2012 AMC 10A #19)

Paula the painter and her two helpers each paint at constant, but different, rates. They always start
at 8:00 AM, and all three always take the same amount of time to eat lunch. On Monday the three of
them painted 50% of a house, quitting at 4:00 PM. On Tuesday, when Paula wasn't there, the two
helpers painted only 24% of the house and quit at 2:12 PM. On Wednesday Paula worked by herself
and finished the house by working until 7:12 P.M. How long, in minutes, was each day's lunch break?

(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 42 (D) 48 (E) 60

PROBLEM 10 (2013 AMC 12A #16)

A, B , C are three piles of rocks. The mean weight of the rocks in A is 40 pounds, the mean weight
of the rocks in B is 50 pounds, the mean weight of the rocks in the combined piles A and B is 43
pounds, and the mean weight of the rocks in the combined piles A and C is 44 pounds. What is the
greatest possible integer value for the mean in pounds of the rocks in the combined piles B and C ?

(A) 55 (B) 56 (C) 57 (D) 58 (E) 59

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PROBLEM 11 (2021 AMC 12A #18)

Let f be a function defined on the set of positive rational numbers with the property that f (a ⋅ b) =
f (a) + f (b) for all positive rational numbers a and b. Suppose that f also has the property that f (p)
= p for every prime number p. For which of the following numbers x is f (x) < 0?

17 11 7 7 25
(A) 32 (B) 16 (C) 9 (D) 6 (E) 11

PROBLEM 12 (2013 AMC 12B #17)

Let a, b, and c be real numbers such that

a + b + c = 2, and

a2 + b2 + c2 = 12

What is the difference between the maximum and minimum possible values of c?

10 16 20
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 3 (E) 3

PROBLEM 13 (2018 AMC 10A #21)

Which of the following describes the set of values of a for which the curves x2 + y 2 = a2 and y = x2
− a in the real xy -plane intersect at exactly 3 points?

1 1 1 1 1 1
(A) a = 4 (B) 4 <a< 2 (C) a > 4 (D) a = 2 (E) a > 2

PROBLEM 14 (2021 AIME I #5)

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.

PROBLEM 15 (2011 AIME II #5)

The sum of the first 2011 terms of a geometric sequence is 200. The sum of the first 4022 terms is
380. Find the sum of the first 6033 terms.

PROBLEM 16 (2011 AMC 12B #19)

A lattice point in an xy -coordinate system is any point (x, y) where both x and y are integers. The
graph of y = mx + 2 passes through no lattice point with 0 < x ≤ 100 for all m such that 12 < m <
a. What is the maximum possible value of a?

51 50 51 52 13
(A) 101 (B) 99 (C) 100 (D) 101 (E) 25

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PROBLEM 17 (2021 AMC 12A #21)

The five solutions to the equation

(z − 1)(z 2 + 2z + 4)(z 2 + 4z + 6) = 0

may be written in the form xk + yk i for 1 ≤ k ≤ 5, where xk and yk are real. Let E be the unique
ellipse that passes through the points (x1 , y1 ), (x2 , y2 ), (x3 , y3 ), (x4 , y4 ), and (x5 , y5 ). The eccentricity
of E can be written in the form n,
m
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m
+ n? (Recall that the eccentricity of an ellipse E is the ratio ac , where 2a is the length of the major
axis of E and 2c is the is the distance between its two foci.)

(A) 7 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 15

PROBLEM 18 (2010 AIME II #6)

Find the smallest positive integer n with the property that the polynomial x4 − nx + 63 can be
written as a product of two nonconstant polynomials with integer coefficients.

PROBLEM 19 (2010 AMC 12A #21)

The graph of y = x6 − 10x5 + 29x4 − 4x3 + ax2 lies above the line y = bx + c except at three values
of x, where the graph and the line intersect. What is the largest of these values?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

PROBLEM 20 (2021 AMC 12A #22)

Suppose that the roots of the polynomial P (x) = x3 + ax2 + bx + c are cos 2π
7 , cos 7 , and cos 7 ,
4π 6π

where angles are in radians. What is abc?

3
3 1 7 1 1
(A) − 49 (B) − 28 (C) 64 (D) 32 (E) 28

PROBLEM 21 (2014 AIME II #7)

Let f (x) = (x2 + 3x + 2)cos(πx) . Find the sum of all positive integers n for which

∣ n ∣
∑ log10 f (k) = 1.
∣ k=1 ∣

PROBLEM 22 (2022 AIME II #6)

Let x1 ≤ x2 ≤ ⋯ ≤ x100 be real numbers such that ∣x1 ∣ + ∣x2 ∣ + ⋯ + ∣x100 ∣ = 1 and x1 + x2 + ⋯ +
x100 = 0. Among all such 100-tuples of numbers, the greatest value that x76 − x16 can achieve is n,
m

where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

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PROBLEM 23 (2013 AMC 12B #22)

Let m > 1 and n > 1 be integers. Suppose that the product of the solutions for x of the equation

8(logn x)(logm x) − 7 logn x − 6 logm x − 2013 = 0

is the smallest possible integer. What is m + n?

(A) 12 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 48 (E) 272

PROBLEM 24 (2022 AMC 12A #21)

Let

P (x) = x2022 + x1011 + 1.

Which of the following polynomials is a factor of P (x)?

(A) x2 − x + 1 (B) x2 + x + 1 (C) x4 + 1 (D) x6 − x3 + 1 (E) x6 + x3 + 1

PROBLEM 25 (2010 AMC 12B #21)

Let a > 0, and let P (x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients such that

P (1) = P (3) = P (5) = P (7) = a, and

P (2) = P (4) = P (6) = P (8) = −a.

What is the smallest possible value of a?

(A) 105 (B) 315 (C) 945 (D) 7! (E) 8!

PROBLEM 26 (2010 AIME I #6)

Let P (x) be a quadratic polynomial with real coefficients satisfying x2 − 2x + 2 ≤ P (x) ≤ 2x2 − 4x
+ 3 for all real numbers x, and suppose P (11) = 181. Find P (16).

PROBLEM 27 (2017 AMC 12B #23)

The graph of y = f (x), where f (x) is a polynomial of degree 3, contains points A(2, 4), B(3, 9), and
C(4, 16). Lines AB , AC , and BC intersect the graph again at points D, E , and F , respectively, and
the sum of the x-coordinates of D, E , and F is 24. What is f (0)?

24
(A) −2 (B) 0 (C) 2 (D) (E) 8
5

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PROBLEM 28 (2015 AIME II #8)

a3 b3 +1
Let a and b be positive integers satisfying ab+1
a+b < 32 . The maximum possible value of a3 +b3 is pq ,
where p and q are relatively prime positive integers. Find p + q .

PROBLEM 29 (2011 AIME II #9)

Let x1 , x2 , ..., x6 be non-negative real numbers such that x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5 + x6 = 1, and x1 x3 x

540 . Let p and q be positive relatively prime integers such that is the maximum
1 p
5 + x2 x4 x6 ≥ q
possible value of x1 x2 x3 + x2 x3 x4 + x3 x4 x5 + x4 x5 x6 + x5 x6 x1 + x6 x1 x2 . Find p + q .

PROBLEM 30 (2012 AIME I #9)

Let x, y, and z be positive real numbers that satisfy

2 logx (2y) = 2 log2x (4z) = log2x4 (8yz) 

= 0.

The value of xy 5 z can be expressed in the form 1 ,

2p/q
where p and q are relatively prime positive
integers. Find p + q.

PROBLEM 31 (2010 AIME I #8)

For a real number a, let ⌊a⌋ denote the greatest integer less than or equal to a. Let R denote the
region in the coordinate plane consisting of points (x, y) such that ⌊x⌋2 + ⌊y⌋2 = 25. The region R is
completely contained in a disk of radius r (a disk is the union of a circle and its interior). The
minimum value of r can be written as n ,
m
where m and n are integers and m is not divisible by the
square of any prime. Find m + n.

PROBLEM 32 (2017 AMC 12A #23)

For certain real numbers a, b, and c, the polynomial

g(x) = x3 + ax2 + x + 10

has three distinct roots, and each root of g(x) is also a root of the polynomial

f (x) = x4 + x3 + bx2 + 100x + c.

What is f (1)?

(A) − 9009 (B) − 8008 (C) − 7007 (D) − 6006 (E) − 5005

PROBLEM 33 (2021 AIME I #8)

Find the number of integers c such that the equation

∣∣20∣x∣ − x2 ∣ − c∣ = 21
∣ ∣

has 12 distinct real solutions.

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PROBLEM 34 (2020 AIME II #8)

Define a sequence recursively by f1 (x) = ∣x − 1∣ and fn (x) = fn−1 (∣x − n∣) for integers n > 1. Find
the least value of n such that the sum of the zeros of fn exceeds 500, 000.

PROBLEM 35 (2010 AIME II #10)

Find the number of second-degree polynomials f (x) with integer coefficients and integer zeros for
which f (0) = 2010.

PROBLEM 36 (2011 AIME II #11)

Let Mn be the n × n matrix with entries as follows: for 1 ≤ i ≤ n, mi,i = 10; for 1 ≤ i ≤ n − 1, m
i+1,i = mi,i+1 = 3; all other entries in Mn are zero. Let Dn be the determinant of matrix Mn . Then ∑
n=1 8Dn +1 can be represented as q , where p and q are relatively prime positive integers. Find p + q .
∞ 1 p

Note: The determinant of the 1 × 1 matrix [a] is a, and the determinant of the 2 × 2 matrix

[ ] = ad − bc
a b
c d

; for n ≥ 2, the determinant of an n × n matrix with first row or first column a1 a2 a3 … an is equal
to a1 C1 − a2 C2 + a3 C3 − ⋯ + (−1)n+1 an Cn , where Ci is the determinant of the (n − 1) × (n − 1)
matrix formed by eliminating the row and column containing ai .

PROBLEM 37 (2015 AIME II #14)

Let x and y be real numbers satisfying x4 y 5 + y 4 x5 = 810 and x3 y 6 + y 3 x6 = 945. Evaluate 2x3 +
(xy)3 + 2y 3 .

PROBLEM 38 (2021 AIME I #15)

Let S be the set of positive integers k such that the two parabolas

y = x2 − k and x = 2(y − 20)2 − k

intersect in four distinct points, and these four points lie on a circle with radius at most 21. Find the
sum of the least element of S and the greatest element of S .

PROBLEM 39 (2011 AIME I #15)

For some integer m, the polynomial x3 − 2011x + m has the three integer roots a, b, and c. Find ∣a∣
+ ∣b∣ + ∣c∣.

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PROBLEM 40 (2010 AIME I #14)

100
For each positive integer n, let f (n) = ∑k=1 ⌊log10 (kn)⌋. Find the largest value of n for which f (n) ≤
300.

Note: ⌊x⌋ is the greatest integer less than or equal to x.

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