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Find the number of subsets of $\{1,2,3,\ldots,10\}$ that contain exactly one pair of consecutive integers. Examples of such subsets are $\{\mathbf{1},\mathbf{2},5\}$ and $\{1,3,\mathbf{6},\mathbf{7},10\}.$
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Let $\triangle ABC$ be an equilateral triangle with side length $55.$ Points $D,$ $E,$ and $F$ lie on $\overline{BC},$ $\overline{CA},$ and $\overline{AB},$ respectively, with $BD = 7,$ $CE=30,$ and $AF=40.$ Point $P$ inside $\triangle ABC$ has the property that \[\angle AEP = \angle BFP = \angle CDP.\] Find $\tan^2(\a...
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Each face of two noncongruent parallelepipeds is a rhombus whose diagonals have lengths $\sqrt{21}$ and $\sqrt{31}$ . The ratio of the volume of the larger of the two polyhedra to the volume of the smaller is $\frac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$ . A parallelepiped is a ...
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The following analog clock has two hands that can move independently of each other. [asy] unitsize(2cm); draw(unitcircle,black+linewidth(2)); for (int i = 0; i < 12; ++i) { draw(0.9*dir(30*i)--dir(30*i)); } for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) { ...
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The numbers of apples growing on each of six apple trees form an arithmetic sequence where the greatest number of apples growing on any of the six trees is double the least number of apples growing on any of the six trees. The total number of apples growing on all six trees is $990.$ Find the greatest number of apples ...
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Recall that a palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward. Find the greatest integer less than $1000$ that is a palindrome both when written in base ten and when written in base eight, such as $292 = 444_{\text{eight}}.$
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Let $\triangle ABC$ be an isosceles triangle with $\angle A = 90^\circ.$ There exists a point $P$ inside $\triangle ABC$ such that $\angle PAB = \angle PBC = \angle PCA$ and $AP = 10.$ Find the area of $\triangle ABC.$
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Let $x,y,$ and $z$ be real numbers satisfying the system of equations \begin{align*} xy + 4z &= 60 \\ yz + 4x &= 60 \\ zx + 4y &= 60. \end{align*} Let $S$ be the set of possible values of $x.$ Find the sum of the squares of the elements of $S.$
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Let $S$ be the set of all positive rational numbers $r$ such that when the two numbers $r$ and $55r$ are written as fractions in lowest terms, the sum of the numerator and denominator of one fraction is the same as the sum of the numerator and denominator of the other fraction. The sum of all the elements of $S$ can be...
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Consider the L-shaped region formed by three unit squares joined at their sides, as shown below. Two points $A$ and $B$ are chosen independently and uniformly at random from inside the region. The probability that the midpoint of $\overline{AB}$ also lies inside this L-shaped region can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n},$ w...
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Each vertex of a regular dodecagon ( $12$ -gon) is to be colored either red or blue, and thus there are $2^{12}$ possible colorings. Find the number of these colorings with the property that no four vertices colored the same color are the four vertices of a rectangle.
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Let $\omega = \cos\frac{2\pi}{7} + i \cdot \sin\frac{2\pi}{7},$ where $i = \sqrt{-1}.$ Find the value of the product \[\prod_{k=0}^6 \left(\omega^{3k} + \omega^k + 1\right).\]
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Circles $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ intersect at two points $P$ and $Q,$ and their common tangent line closer to $P$ intersects $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ at points $A$ and $B,$ respectively. The line parallel to $AB$ that passes through $P$ intersects $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$ for the second time at points $X$ and $Y,$ r...
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Let $N$ be the number of ways to place the integers $1$ through $12$ in the $12$ cells of a $2 \times 6$ grid so that for any two cells sharing a side, the difference between the numbers in those cells is not divisible by $3.$ One way to do this is shown below. Find the number of positive integer divisors of $N.$ \[\be...
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Find the number of collections of $16$ distinct subsets of $\{1,2,3,4,5\}$ with the property that for any two subsets $X$ and $Y$ in the collection, $X \cap Y \not= \emptyset.$
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In $\triangle ABC$ with side lengths $AB = 13,$ $BC = 14,$ and $CA = 15,$ let $M$ be the midpoint of $\overline{BC}.$ Let $P$ be the point on the circumcircle of $\triangle ABC$ such that $M$ is on $\overline{AP}.$ There exists a unique point $Q$ on segment $\overline{AM}$ such that $\angle PBQ = \angle PCQ.$ Then $AQ$...
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Let $A$ be an acute angle such that $\tan A = 2 \cos A.$ Find the number of positive integers $n$ less than or equal to $1000$ such that $\sec^n A + \tan^n A$ is a positive integer whose units digit is $9.$
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A cube-shaped container has vertices $A,$ $B,$ $C,$ and $D,$ where $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ are parallel edges of the cube, and $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BD}$ are diagonals of faces of the cube, as shown. Vertex $A$ of the cube is set on a horizontal plane $\mathcal{P}$ so that the plane of the rectangl...
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For each positive integer $n$ let $a_n$ be the least positive integer multiple of $23$ such that $a_n \equiv 1 \pmod{2^n}.$ Find the number of positive integers $n$ less than or equal to $1000$ that satisfy $a_n = a_{n+1}.$
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Among the $900$ residents of Aimeville, there are $195$ who own a diamond ring, $367$ who own a set of golf clubs, and $562$ who own a garden spade. In addition, each of the $900$ residents owns a bag of candy hearts. There are $437$ residents who own exactly two of these things, and $234$ residents who own exactly thr...
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A list of positive integers has the following properties: $\bullet$ The sum of the items in the list is $30$ . $\bullet$ The unique mode of the list is $9$ . $\bullet$ The median of the list is a positive integer that does not appear in the list itself. Find the sum of the squares of all the items in the list.
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Find the number of ways to place a digit in each cell of a 2x3 grid so that the sum of the two numbers formed by reading left to right is $999$ , and the sum of the three numbers formed by reading top to bottom is $99$ . The grid below is an example of such an arrangement because $8+991=999$ and $9+9+81=99$ . \[\begin{...
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Let $x,y$ and $z$ be positive real numbers that satisfy the following system of equations: \[\log_2\left({x \over yz}\right) = {1 \over 2}\] \[\log_2\left({y \over xz}\right) = {1 \over 3}\] \[\log_2\left({z \over xy}\right) = {1 \over 4}\] Then the value of $\left|\log_2(x^4y^3z^2)\right|$ is $\tfrac{m}{n}$ where $m$ ...
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Let $ABCDEF$ be a convex equilateral hexagon in which all pairs of opposite sides are parallel. The triangle whose sides are extensions of segments $\overline{AB}$ , $\overline{CD}$ , and $\overline{EF}$ has side lengths $200, 240,$ and $300$ . Find the side length of the hexagon.
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Alice chooses a set $A$ of positive integers. Then Bob lists all finite nonempty sets $B$ of positive integers with the property that the maximum element of $B$ belongs to $A$ . Bob's list has $2024$ sets. Find the sum of the elements of $A$ .
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Let $N$ be the greatest four-digit integer with the property that whenever one of its digits is changed to $1$ , the resulting number is divisible by $7$ . Let $Q$ and $R$ be the quotient and remainder, respectively, when $N$ is divided by $1000$ . Find $Q+R$ .
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Torus $T$ is the surface produced by revolving a circle with radius 3 around an axis in the plane of the circle that is a distance 6 from the center of the circle (so like a donut). Let $S$ be a sphere with a radius 11. When $T$ rests on the inside of $S$ , it is internally tangent to $S$ along a circle with radius $r_...
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Let $\triangle$ $ABC$ have incenter $I$ and circumcenter $O$ with $\overline{IA} \perp \overline{OI}$ , circumradius $13$ , and inradius $6$ . Find $AB \cdot AC$ .
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Find the number of triples of nonnegative integers $(a, b, c)$ satisfying $a + b + c = 300$ and \[a^2 b + a^2 c + b^2 a + b^2 c + c^2 a + c^2 b = 6,000,000.\]
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Let $O(0,0),A(\tfrac{1}{2},0),$ and $B(0,\tfrac{\sqrt{3}}{2})$ be points in the coordinate plane. Let $\mathcal{F}$ be the family of segments $\overline{PQ}$ of unit length lying in the first quadrant with $P$ on the $x$ -axis and $Q$ on the $y$ -axis. There is a unique point $C$ on $\overline{AB},$ distinct from $A$ a...
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Let $\omega\neq 1$ be a 13th root of unity. Find the remainder when \[\prod_{k=0}^{12}(2-2\omega^k+\omega^{2k})\] is divided by 1000.
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Let $b \geq 2$ be an integer. Call a positive integer $n$ $b\textit{-eautiful}$ if it has exactly two digits when expressed in base $b$ , and these two digits sum to $\sqrt{n}$ . For example, $81$ is $13$ -eautiful because $81=\underline{6}$ $\underline{3}_{13}$ and $6+3=\sqrt{81}$ . Find the least integer $b\geq 2$ fo...
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Find the number of rectangles that can be formed inside a fixed regular dodecagon ( $12$ -gon) where each side of the rectangle lies on either a side or a diagonal of the dodecagon. The diagram below shows three of those rectangles. [asy] unitsize(0.6 inch); for(int i=0; i<360; i+=30) { dot(dir(i), 4+black); draw(dir(i...
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