Problem Set

02-08-2021
1. Consider the sequence and evaluate its 2016-th
term.
2. The five digit number is a perfect square. Find the value of .
3. The date index of a date is defined as month number ​ day number). Three
events each with a frequency of once in 21 days, 32 days and 9 days, respectively,
occurred simultaneously for the first time on July 31 , 1961 (Ireland joining the
European Economic Community). Find the date index of the date when they occur
simultaneously for the eleventh time.
4. There are three kinds of fruits in the market. How many ways are there to purchase 25
fruits from among them if each kind has at least 25 of its fruit available?
5. Let be an altitude in a right triangle with and on . Suppose
that the radii of the incircles of the triangles and are 33 and 56
respectively. Let be the radius of the incircle of triangle . Find the value of
.
6. In a school there are 500 students. Two-thirds of the students who do not wear glasses,
do not bring lunch. Three-quarters of the students who do not bring lunch do not wear
glasses. Altogether, 60 students who wear glasses bring lunch. How many students do
not wear glasses and do not bring lunch?
7. Let and denote the sum of all digits of and the product of all digits of
(when written in decimal form), respectively. Find the sum of all two-digit natural
numbers such that .​
8. Suppose that and are real numbers such that and the equations
and hold. Find the value of ​.
9. Between and , I looked at my watch. Mistaking the hour hand for the minute
hand and the minute hand for the hour hand, I mistook the time to be 57 minutes
earlier than the actual time. Find the number of minutes past 5 when I looked at my
watch.
10. In triangle right angled at vertex , a point is chosen on the side such
that the circle centered at of radius touches the side Let and
, and the radius of be of the form where are relatively prime positive
integers. Find the value of ​.
11. Consider the 50 term sums:

The ratio ​ is written in the lowest form ​ where ​ are relatively prime natural
numbers. Find the value of ​.
12. Find the value of the expression

when written in lowest form.

13. The hexagon has a reflex angle at a units and the condition

holds. Find the area (in sq units) of the hexagon.

14. A natural number has four digits and ends with the same four digits as that of .
Find the value of ​.
15. Points and denote the centroid and the circumcenter of the triangle
Suppose that and Find the value of .
16. Find the number of subsets of that are subsets of neither
nor ​.
17. Teams , and are in the playoffs. In the semifinal matches, plays , and
plays . The winners of those two matches will play each other in the final match
to determine the champion. When plays , the probability that wins is , and
the outcomes of all the matches are independent. The probability that will be the
champion is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
18. A triangle has vertices , and . The probability that a randomly
chosen point inside the triangle is closer to vertex than to either vertex or vertex
can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
19. Find the number of positive integers less than or equal to 2017 whose base-three
representation contains no digit equal to ​
20. A set contains four numbers. The six pairwise sums of distinct elements of the set, in
no particular order, are , and . Find the greatest possible value of
.
21. Find the sum of all positive integers such that is an integer.
22. Find the number of integer values of in the closed interval for which the
equation has exactly one real solution.
23. Find the number of positive integers less than 2017 such that

is an integer.
24. A special deck of cards contains 49 cards, each labeled with a number from 1 to 7 and
colored with one of seven colors. Each number-color combination appears on exactly
one card. Sharon will select a set of eight cards from the deck at random. Given that
she gets at least one card of each color and at least one card with each number, the
probability that Sharon can discard one of her cards and still have at least one card of
each color and at least one card with each number is , where and are relatively
prime positive integers. Find .
25. Rectangle has side lengths and . Point is the midpoint of
, point is the trisection point of closer to , and point is the intersection
of and . Point lies on the quadrilateral , and bisects the area of
. Find the area of .
26. Five towns are connected by a system of roads. There is exactly one road connecting
each pair of towns. Find the number of ways there are to make all the roads one-way
in such a way that it is still possible to get from any town to any other town using the
roads (possibly passing through other towns on the way).
27. Circle has radius 1, and the point is a point on the circle. Circle has radius
and is internally tangent to at point . Point lies on circle so that
is located counterclockwise from on . Circle has radius and is internally
tangent to at point In this way a sequence of circles and a
sequence of points on the circles are constructed, where circle has
radius and is internally tangent to circle at point , and point lies on
counterclockwise from point as shown in the figure below. There is one
point inside all of these circles. When , the distance from the center to
is , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .

28. For each integer , let be the number of 3 -element subsets of the vertices of a
regular -gon that are the vertices of an isosceles triangle (including equilateral
triangles). Find the sum of all values of such that .
29. A grid of points consists of all points in space of the form , where
, and are integers between 1 and 10, inclusive. Find the number of different lines
that contain exactly 8 of these points.
30. Tetrahedron has , and . For any
point in space, define . The least possible value of
can be expressed as , where and are positive integers, and is not
divisible by the square of any prime. Find .