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Western Pennsylvania ARML Practice November 12, 2016

Team Round

Problems from BMT 2016.


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1. Define an such that a1 = 3 and for all integers i, ai+1 = a2i − 2. What is a2016 ?

2. Jennifer wants to do origami, and she has a square of side length 1. However, she would prefer
to use a regular octagon for her origami, so she decides to cut the four cornerse of the square
to get a regular octagon. Once she does so, what will be the side length of the octagon that
she obtains?
3. Let ABC be a right triangle with AB = BC = 2. Let ACD be a right triangle with
∠DAC = 30◦ and ∠DCA = 60◦ . Given that ABC and ACD do not overlap, what is the
area of triangle BCD?
4. How many integers less than 400 have exactly 3 factors that are perfect squares?
5. Suppose that f is a function that takes in two integers and outputs a real number, and suppose
further that it satisfies
f (x, y + 1) + f (x, y − 1)
f (x, y) =
2
f (x + 1, y) + f (x − 1, y)
f (x, y) = .
2
What is the minimum number of pairs (x, y) we need to evaluate to be able to uniquely
determine f ?
6. How many ways are there to divide 10 candies between 3 Berkeley students and 4 Stanford
students, if each Berkeley student must get at least one candy? All students are distinguishable
and all candies are indistinguishable.

7. How many subsets of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} do not contain three consecutive integers?


8. What is the smallest possible perimeter of a triangle with integer coordinate vertices, area
1/2, and no side parallel to an axis?
9. Circles C1 and C2 intersect at points X and Y . Point A is a point on C1 such that the tangent
line with respect to C1 passing through A intersects C2 at B and C, with A closer to B than
C, such that 2016 · AB = BC. Line XY intersects p line AC at D. If circles C1 and C2 have
radii of 20 and 16, respectively, find the ratio of 1 + BC/BD.
10. Consider an urn containing 51 white and 50 black balls. Every turn, we randomly pick a ball,
record the color of the ball, and then put the ball back into the urn. We stop picking when
we have recorded n black balls, where n is an integer randomly chosen from {1, 2, . . . , 100}.
What is the expected number of turns in this game?
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11. What are the last two digits of 98 ?

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Western Pennsylvania ARML Practice November 12, 2016

12. Consider the set of axis-aligned boxes in Rd , B(a, b) = {x ∈ Rd | ∀ i, ai ≤ xi ≤ bi } for some


a, b ∈ Rd . In terms of d, what is the maximum number n such that there exists a set of n
points S = {x1 , . . . , xn } such that no matter how one partitions S into (possibly empty) sets
P, Q, there exists a box B such that all the points in P are contained in B and all the points
in Q are outside B?

13. Let s1 , s2 , s3 be the three roots of x3 + x2 + 29 x + 9. Then


3
Y
(4s4i + 81)
i=1

can be written as 2a 3b 5c . Find a + b + c.


14. Triangle ABC has side lengths AB = 5, BC = 9, and AC = 6. Define the incircle of ABC to
be C1 , then define Ci for i > 1 to be externally tangent to Ci−1 and tangent to AB and BC,
Compute the sum of the areas of all circles Cn .
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15. When expressed in decimal form, ( 6 + 7)1000 has a tens digit of a and a ones digit of b.
Determine 10a + b.

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