Answer: 841.0

Let $x_1\leq x_2\leq \cdots\leq x_{100}$ be real numbers such that $|x_1| + |x_2| + \cdots + |x_{100}| = 1$ and $x_1 + x_2 + \cdots + x_{100} = 0$ . Among all such $100$ -tuples of numbers, the greatest value that $x_{76} - x_{16}$ can achieve is $\tfrac mn$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$

Solution:
To find the greatest value of $x_{76} - x_{16}$ $x_{76}$ must be as large as possible, and $x_{16}$ must be as small as possible. If $x_{76}$ is as large as possible, $x_{76} = x_{77} = x_{78} = \dots = x_{100} > 0$ . If $x_{16}$ is as small as possible, $x_{16} = x_{15} = x_{14} = \dots = x_{1} < 0$ . The other numbers between $x_{16}$ and $x_{76}$ equal to $0$ . Let $a = x_{76}$ $b = x_{16}$ . Substituting $a$ and $b$ into $|x_1| + |x_2| + \cdots + |x_{100}| = 1$ and $x_1 + x_2 + \cdots + x_{100} = 0$ we get: \[25a - 16b = 1\] \[25a + 16b = 0\] $a = \frac{1}{50}$ $b = -\frac{1}{32}$
$x_{76} - x_{16} = a - b = \frac{1}{50} + \frac{1}{32} = \frac{41}{800}$ $m+n = \boxed{841}$

Solution:
Define $s_N$ to be the sum of all the negatives, and $s_P$ to be the sum of all the positives.
Since the sum of the absolute values of all the numbers is $1$ $|s_N|+|s_P|=1$
Since the sum of all the numbers is $0$ $s_N=-s_P\implies |s_N|=|s_P|$
Therefore, $|s_N|=|s_P|=\frac 12$ , so $s_N=-\frac 12$ and $s_P=\frac 12$ since $s_N$ is negative and $s_P$ is positive.
To maximize $x_{76}-x_{16}$ , we need to make $x_{16}$ as small of a negative as possible, and $x_{76}$ as large of a positive as possible.
Note that $x_{76}+x_{77}+\cdots+x_{100}=\frac 12$ is greater than or equal to $25x_{76}$ because the numbers are in increasing order.
Similarly, $x_{1}+x_{2}+\cdots+x_{16}=-\frac 12$ is less than or equal to $16x_{16}$
So we now know that $\frac 1{50}$ is the best we can do for $x_{76}$ , and $-\frac 1{32}$ is the least we can do for $x_{16}$
Finally, the maximum value of $x_{76}-x_{16}=\frac 1{50}+\frac 1{32}=\frac{41}{800}$ , so the answer is $\boxed{841}$


Answer: 4.0

Let $y=mx+b$ be the image when the line $x-3y+11=0$ is reflected across the $x$ -axis. The value of $m+b$ is
$\text{(A) -6} \quad \text{(B) } -5\quad \text{(C) } -4\quad \text{(D) } -3\quad \text{(E) } -2$

Solution: $\fbox{C}$ First we want to put this is slope-intercept form, so we get $y=\dfrac{1}{3}x+\dfrac{11}{3}$ . When we reflect a line across the x-axis, the line's x-intercept stays the same, while the y-intercept and the slope are additive inverses of the original line. Since $m+b$ is the sum of the slope and the y-intercept, we get $-\dfrac{1}{3}-\dfrac{11}{3}=\boxed{4}$


Answer: 2.0

Let $z$ be a complex number satisfying $12|z|^2=2|z+2|^2+|z^2+1|^2+31.$ What is the value of $z+\frac 6z?$
$\textbf{(A) }-2 \qquad \textbf{(B) }-1 \qquad \textbf{(C) }\frac12\qquad \textbf{(D) }1 \qquad \textbf{(E) }4$

Solution: Using the fact $z\bar{z}=|z|^2$ , the equation rewrites itself as \begin{align*} 12z\bar{z}&=2(z+2)(\bar{z}+2)+(z^2+1)(\bar{z}^2+1)+31 \\ -12z\bar{z}+2z\bar{z}+4(z+\bar{z})+8+z^2\bar{z}^2+(z^2+\bar{z}^2)+32&=0 \\ \left((z^2+2z\bar{z}+\bar{z}^2)+4(z+\bar{z})+4\right)+\left(z^2\bar{z}^2-12z\bar{z}+36\right)&=0 \\ (z+\bar{z}+2)^2+(z\bar{z}-6)^2&=0. \end{align*} As the two quantities in the parentheses are real, both quantities must equal $0$ so \[z+\frac6z=z+\bar{z}=\boxed{2}.\]

Solution:
Let $z = a + bi$ $z^2 = a^2-b^2+2abi$
By the equation given in the problem
\[12(a^2+b^2) = 2((a+2)^2 + b^2) + ((a^2-b^2+1)^2 + (2ab)^2) + 31\]
\[12a^2 + 12b^2 = 2a^2 + 8a + 8 + 2b^2 + a^4 + b^4 + 1 + 2a^2 - 2b^2 - 2a^2b^2 + 4a^2b^2 + 31\]
\[a^4 + b^4 - 8a^2 - 12b^2 + 2a^2b^2 + 8a + 40 = 0\]
\[(a^2+b^2)^2 - 12(a^2+b^2) + 4(a^2 + 2a + 1) + 36=0\]
\[(a^2 + b^2 - 6)^2 + 4(a+1)^2 = 0\]
Therefore, $a^2 + b^2 - 6 = 0$ and $a+1 = 0$
$a = -1$ $b^2 = 6-1 = 5$ $b = \sqrt{5}$
\[z + \frac{6}{z} = \frac{ a^2 - b^2 + 6 + 2abi }{ a+bi } = \frac{ 1 - 5 + 6 + 2(-1)\sqrt{5} i }{ -1 + i \sqrt{5} } = \frac{ 2 - 2i \sqrt{5} }{-1 + i \sqrt{5}} = \boxed{2}\]

Solution: Let $x = z + \frac{6}{z}$ . Then $z = \frac{x \pm \sqrt{x^2-24}}{2}$ . From the answer choices， we know that $x$ is real and $x^2<24$ , so $z = \frac{x \pm i\sqrt{24-x^2}}{2}$ . Then we have \[|z|^2 = 6\] \[|z+2|^2 = (\frac{x}{2} + 2)^2 + \frac{24-x^2}{4} = 2x+10\] \[|z^2+1|^2 = |xz -6 +1|^2 = \left(\frac{x^2}{2}-5\right)^2 + \frac{x^2(24-x^2)}{4} = x^2 +25\] Plugging the above back to the original equation, we have \[12*6 = 2(2x+10) + x^2 + 25 + 31\] \[(x+2)^2 = 0\] So $x = \boxed{2}$

Solution:
There are actually several ways to see that $|z|^2 = 6.$ I present two troll ways of seeing it, and a legitimate way of checking.
Rewrite using $w \overline{w} = |w|^2$
$12z \overline{z} + 2(z+2)(\overline{z} + 2) + (z^2+1)(\overline{z}^2+1)+31$ $12 z \overline{z} = 2z \overline{z} + 4z + 4 \overline{z} + 8 + z^2 \overline{z}^2+z^2+\overline{z}^2 + 1 + 31.$ $12 z \overline{z} = 4(z + \overline{z}) + (z \overline{z})^2 + (z + \overline{z})^2 + 40.$
Symmetric in $z$ and $\overline{z},$ so if $w$ is a sol, then so is $\overline{w}$
TROLL OBSERVATION #1: ALL THE ANSWERS ARE REAL. THUS, $z + \frac{6}{z} \in \mathbb{R},$ which means they must be conjugates and so $|z|^2 = 6.$
TROLL OBSERVATION #2: Note that $z+\frac{6}{z} = \overline{z} + \frac{6}{\overline{z}}$ because either solution must give the same answer! which means that $|z|^2 = 6.$
Alternatively, you can check:
Let $a = w + \overline{w} \in \mathbb{R},$ and $r = |w|^2 \in \mathbb{R}.$ Thus, we have $a^2+4a+40+r^2-12r=0,$ and the discriminant of this must be nonnegative as $a$ is real. Thus, $16-4(40+r^2-12r) \geq 0$ or $(r-6)^2 \leq 0,$ which forces $r = 6,$ as claimed.
Thus, we plug in $z \overline{z} = 6,$ and get: $72 = 4(z + \overline{z}) + 76 + (z + \overline{z})^2,$ ie. $(z+\overline{z})^2 + 4(z + \overline{z}) + 4 = 0,$ or $(z+\overline{z} + 2)^2 = 0,$ which means $z + \overline{z} = \boxed{2} = 6 / z$

Solution: Observe that all the answer choices are real. Therefore, $z$ and $\frac{6}{z}$ must be complex conjugates as this is the only way for both their sum (one of the answer choices) and their product ( $6$ ) to be real. Thus $|z|=|\tfrac{6}{z}|=\sqrt{6}$ . We will test all the answer choices, starting with $\textbf{(A)}$ . Suppose the answer is $\textbf{(A)}$ . If $z+\tfrac{6}{z}=-2$ then $z^{2}+2z+6=0$ and $z=\frac{-2\pm\sqrt{4-24}}{2}=-1\pm\sqrt{5}i$ . Note that if $z=-1+\sqrt{5}i$ works, then so does $-1-\sqrt{5}i$ . It is relatively easy to see that if $z=-1+\sqrt{5}i$ , then $12|z|^{2}=12\cdot 6=72, 2|z+2|^{2}=2|1+\sqrt{5}i|=2\cdot 6=12, |z^{2}+1|^{2}=|-3-2\sqrt{5}i|^{2}=29,$ and $72=12+29+31$ . Thus the condition \[12|z|^{2}=2|z+2|^{2}+|z^{2}+1|^{2}+31\] is satisfied for $z+\tfrac{6}{z}=-2$ , and the answer is $\boxed{2}$


Answer: 147.0

Let $z$ be a complex number with $|z|=2014$ . Let $P$ be the polygon in the complex plane whose vertices are $z$ and every $w$ such that $\frac{1}{z+w}=\frac{1}{z}+\frac{1}{w}$ . Then the area enclosed by $P$ can be written in the form $n\sqrt{3}$ , where $n$ is an integer. Find the remainder when $n$ is divided by $1000$

Solution: I find that generally, the trick to these kinds of AIME problems is to interpret the problem geometrically, and that is just what I did here.  Looking at the initial equation, this seems like a difficult task, but rearranging yields a nicer equation: \[\frac1{z+w}=\frac1z+\frac1w\] \[\frac w{z+w}=\frac wz+1\] \[\frac w{z+w}=\frac{w+z}z\] \[\frac{w-0}{w-(-z)}=\frac{(-z)-w}{(-z)-0}\] We can interpret the difference of two complex numbers as a vector from one to the other, and we can interpret the quotient as a vector with an angle equal to the angle between the two vectors.  Therefore, after labeling the complex numbers with $W$ $w$ ), $V$ $-z$ ), and $O$ $0$ ), we can interpret the above equation to mean that the $\angle OWV=\angle OVW$ , and hence triangle $OWV$ is isosceles, so length $OW$ $OV$ .  Rearranging the equation \[\frac{w-0}{w-(-z)}=\frac{(-z)-w}{(-z)-0},\] we find that \[(w-0)((-z)-0)=-(w-(-z))^2.\] Taking the magnitude of both sides and using the fact that $OW=OV\implies |w-0|=|(-z)-0|$ , we find that \[|w-0|^2=|w-(-z)|^2,\] so length $OW=VW$ and triangle $OWV$ is equilateral.  There are only two possible $W$ 's for which $OWV$ is equilateral, lying on either side of $OV$ .  After drawing these points on the circle of radius 2014 centered at the origin, it is easy to see that $z$ and the two $w$ 's form an equilateral triangle (this can be verified by simple angle chasing).  Drawing a perpendicular bisector of one of the sides and using 30-60-90 triangles shows that the side length of this triangle is $2014\sqrt3$ and hence its area is $\frac{\sqrt3(2014\sqrt3)^2}4=\boxed{147}\sqrt3+1000k\sqrt3,$ for some integer $k$


Answer: 125.0

Let $z=a+bi$ be the complex number with $\vert z \vert = 5$ and $b > 0$ such that the distance between $(1+2i)z^3$ and $z^5$ is maximized, and let $z^4 = c+di$ . Find $c+d$

Solution:
Let's consider the maximization constraint first: we want to maximize the value of $|z^5 - (1+2i)z^3|$ Simplifying, we have
$|z^3| * |z^2 - (1+2i)|$
$=|z|^3 * |z^2 - (1+2i)|$
$=125|z^2 - (1+2i)|$
Thus we only need to maximize the value of $|z^2 - (1+2i)|$
To maximize this value, we must have that $z^2$ is in the opposite direction of $1+2i$ . The unit vector in the complex plane in the desired direction is $\frac{-1}{\sqrt{5}} + \frac{-2}{\sqrt{5}} i$ . Furthermore, we know that the magnitude of $z^2$ is $25$ , because the magnitude of $z$ is $5$ . From this information, we can find that $z^2 = \sqrt{5} (-5 - 10i)$
Squaring, we get $z^4 = 5 (25 - 100 + 100i) = -375 + 500i$ . Finally, $c+d = -375 + 500 = \boxed{125}$

Solution:
WLOG, let $z_{1}=5(\cos{\theta_{1}}+i\sin{\theta_{1}})$ and
$z_{2}=1+2i=\sqrt{5}(\cos{\theta_{2}+i\sin{\theta_{2}}})$
This means that
$z_{1}^3=125(\cos{3\theta_{1}}+i\sin{3\theta_{1}})$
$z_{1}^4=625(\cos{4\theta_{1}}+i\sin{4\theta_{1}})$
Hence, this means that
$z_{2}z_{1}^3=125\sqrt{5}(\cos({\theta_{2}+3\theta_{1}})+i\sin({\theta_{2}+3\theta_{1}}))$
And
$z_{1}^5=3125(\cos{5\theta_{1}}+i\sin{5\theta_{1}})$
Now, common sense tells us that the distance between these two complex numbers is maxed when they both are points satisfying the equation of the line $yi=mx$ , or when they are each a $180^{\circ}$ rotation away from each other.
Hence, we must have that $5\theta_{1}=3\theta_{1}+\theta_{2}+180^{\circ}\implies\theta_{1}=\frac{\theta_{2}+180^{\circ}}{2}$
Now, plug this back into $z_{1}^4$ (if you want to know why, reread what we want in the problem!)
So now, we have that $z_{1}^4=625(\cos{2\theta_{2}}+i\sin{2\theta_{2}})$
Notice that $\cos\theta_{2}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}$ and $\sin\theta_{2}=\frac{2}{\sqrt{5}}$
Then, we have that $\cos{2\theta_{2}}=\cos^2{\theta_{2}}-\sin^2{\theta_{2}}=-\frac{3}{5}$ and $\sin{2\theta_{2}}=2\sin{\theta_{2}}\cos{\theta_{2}}=\frac{4}{5}$
Finally, plugging back in, we find that $z_{1}^4=625(-\frac{3}{5}+\frac{4i}{5})=-375+500i$
$-375+500=\boxed{125}$


Answer: 784.0

Let $z_1,z_2,z_3,\dots,z_{12}$ be the 12 zeroes of the polynomial $z^{12}-2^{36}$ . For each $j$ , let $w_j$ be one of $z_j$ or $i z_j$ . Then the maximum possible value of the real part of $\sum_{j=1}^{12} w_j$ can be written as $m+\sqrt{n}$ where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers. Find $m+n$

Solution: The twelve dots above represent the $12$ roots of the equation $z^{12}-2^{36}=0$ . If we write $z=a+bi$ , then the real part of $z$ is $a$ and the real part of $iz$ is $-b$ . The blue dots represent those roots $z$ for which the real part of $z$ is greater than the real part of $iz$ , and the red dots represent those roots $z$ for which the real part of $iz$ is greater than the real part of $z$ . Now, the sum of the real parts of the blue dots is easily seen to be $8+16\cos\frac{\pi}{6}=8+8\sqrt{3}$ and the negative of the sum of the imaginary parts of the red dots is easily seen to also be $8+8\sqrt{3}$ . Hence our desired sum is $16+16\sqrt{3}=16+\sqrt{768}$ , giving the answer $\boxed{784}.$

Solution:
The equation $z^{12}-2^{36}=0$ can be factored as follows: \[(z^6-2^{18})(z^6+2^{18})=0\] \[(z^2-2^6)(z^2+2^6)({(z^2+2^6)}^2-z^2\cdot2^6)({(z^2-2^6)}^2+z^2\cdot2^6)=0\] \[(z^2-2^6)(z^2+2^6)(z^2+2^6-z\cdot2^3)(z^2+2^6+z\cdot2^3) (z^2-2^6-iz\cdot2^3)(z^2-2^6+i z\cdot2^3)=0\]
Since this is a 12th degree equation, there are 12 roots. Also, since each term in the equation is even, the positive or negative value of each root is another root. That would mean there are 6 roots that can be multiplied by $-1$ and since we have 6 factors, that’s 1 root per factor. We just need to solve for $z$ in each factor and pick whether or not to multiply by $i$ and $-1$ for each one depending on the one that yields the highest real value. After that process, we get $8+8+2((4\sqrt{3}+4)+(4\sqrt{3}-4))$ Adding the values up yields $16+16\sqrt{3}$ , or $16+\sqrt{768}$ , and $16+768=\boxed{784}$

Solution:
Clearly, the roots are: $2^3*(\cos{\frac{k\pi}{12}}+i\sin{\frac{k\pi}{12}}), k\in{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}$
Now, realize for $z=a+bi$ $\operatorname{Re}(iz)=-b$ $\operatorname{Re}(z)=a$ $\operatorname{Re}(z)<\operatorname{Re}(iz)$ is true when $a<-b$
This means:
When $a>0$ $b<-a<0$
When $a<0$ $0<b<-a$
For the 12 roots of the polynomial in the original equation, $8\cos{k\pi/12}=\operatorname{Re}(z), k\in{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}$ $-8\sin{k\pi/12}=\operatorname{Im}(iz), k\in{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}$
So $8\cos{k\pi/12}<-8\sin{k\pi/12}$ $-\cos{k\pi/12}>\sin{k\pi/12}$ . This can be easily true for roots that are in the 3rd quadrant in the complex plane.
This cannot be true for roots in the 1st quadrant because that would yield a negative number bigger than a positive one.
Consider the roots in the 2nd and 4th quadrants. Calculate the roots, choose, and then add the ones up. You will get $\boxed{784}$

Solution: Use De Moivre's Theorem to brute force all the roots out. Then choose the greater value of $\operatorname{Re}(z), \operatorname{Re}(iz)$ . After adding everything up, you get $\boxed{784}$


Answer: 56.0

Let $z_1=18+83i,~z_2=18+39i,$ and $z_3=78+99i,$ where $i=\sqrt{-1}.$ Let $z$ be the unique complex number with the properties that $\frac{z_3-z_1}{z_2-z_1}~\cdot~\frac{z-z_2}{z-z_3}$ is a real number and the imaginary part of $z$ is the greatest possible. Find the real part of $z$

Solution:
Now that we’ve proven this fact, we know that all four points lie on a circle (intuitively one can also observe this because $z=z_1$ and $z=z_2$ satisfy the property in the question, and $z=z_3$ techincally gives no imaginary part), so let’s draw that in;

While $Z_1, Z_2, Z_3$ are fixed, $Z$ can be anywhere on the circle because those are the only values of $Z$ that satisfy the problem requirements. However, we want to find the real part of the $Z$ with the maximum imaginary part. This Z would lie directly above the center of the circle, and thus the real part would be the same as the x-value of the center of the circle. So all we have to do is find this value and we’re done.
Consider the perpendicular bisectors of $Z_1Z_2$ and $Z_2Z_3$ . Since any chord can be perpendicularly bisected by a radius of a circle, these two lines both intersect at the center. Since $Z_1Z_2$ is vertical, the perpendicular bisector will be horizontal and pass through the midpoint of this line, which is (18, 61). Therefore the equation for this line is $y=61$ $Z_2Z_3$ is nice because it turns out the differences in the x and y values are both equal (60) which means that the slope of the line is 1. The slope of the perpendicular bisector is therefore -1 and it passes through the midpoint, (48,69), so the equation of this line is $y=-x+117$ . Finally, equating the two yields \[61=-x+117 \implies x = \boxed{056}\]

Solution:
We know that \[z_3-z_1 = (78+99i)-(16+83i) = 60 + 16i.\] \[z_2-z_1=(18+39i)-(18+83i) = -44i.\] Hence, \[\frac{z_3-z_1}{z_2-z_1} = \frac{60 + 16i}{-44i} = \frac{15i-4}{11} = \frac{c}{15i+4}\] where $c \in R$ .
Let $z = a+bi$ . Then, \[\frac{z-z_2}{z-z_3} = \frac{(a+bi)-(18+39i)}{(a+bi)-(78+99i)} =\] \[\frac{z-z_2}{z-z_3} = \frac{(a-18)+i(b-39)}{(a-78)+i(b-99)} =\] \[\frac{z-z_2}{z-z_3} = \frac{((a-18)+i(b-39)((a-78)+i(99-b))}{((a-78)+i(b-99))((a-78)+i(99-b)} =\] \[\frac{z-z_2}{z-z_3} = \frac{((a-18)+i(b-39)((a-78)+i(99-b))}{k}\] The numerator is: \[(a-18)(a-78)-(b-39)(99-b)+i((b-39)(a-78) + (99-b)(a-18))=\] \[a^2+b^2-96a-138b+18 \cdot 78 + 39 \cdot 99 + i(60a - 60b + 39 \cdot 78 + 18 \cdot 99)\] The ratio of the imaginary part to the real part must be $\frac{15}{4}$ because $\frac{z_3-z_1}{z_2-z_1} = \frac{c}{15i+4}.$ Hence, \[\frac{60a - 60b + 39 \cdot 78 - 18 \cdot 99}{a^2+b^2-96a-138b+18 \cdot 78 + 39 \cdot 99} = \frac{15}{4} \implies\] \[\frac{4a-4b+84}{a^2+b^2-96a-138b+9(2 \cdot 78 + 39 \cdot 11)} = \frac{1}{4} \implies\] \[16a - 16b + 336 = a^2 + b^2 -96a - 138b +5265 \implies\] \[0 = a^2 + b^2 -112a-122b+4929.\] Evidently, $b$ is maximized when $112a-a^2$ is maximized or when $a = \boxed{056}.$

Solution:
Algebra Bash
First we calculate $\frac{z_3 - z_1}{z_2 - z_1}$ , which becomes $\frac{15i-4}{11}$
Next, we define $z$ to be $a+bi$ for some real numbers $a$ and $b$ . Then, $\frac {z-z_2}{z-z_3}$ can be written as $\frac{(a-18)+(b-39)i}{(a-78)+(b-99)i}.$ Multiplying both the numerator and denominator by the conjugate of the denominator, we get:
$\frac {[(a-18)(a-78)+(b-39)(b-99)]+[(a-78)(b-39)-(a-18)(b-99)]i}{(a-78)^2+(b-99)^2}$
In order for the product to be a real number, since both denominators are real numbers, we must have the numerator of $\frac {z-z_2}{z-z_3}$ be a multiple of the conjugate of $15i-4$ , namely $-15i-4$ So, we have $(a-18)(a-78)+(b-39)(b-99) = -4k$ and $(a-78)(b-39)-(a-18)(b-99) = -15k$ for some real number $k$
Then, we get: $(a-18)(a-78)+(b-39)(b-99) = \frac{4}{15}[(a-78)(b-39)-(a-18)(b-99)]$
Expanding both sides and combining like terms, we get:
$a^2 - 112a +b^2 - 122b + 4929 = 0$
which can be rewritten as:
$(a-56)^2 + (b-61)^2 = 1928$
Now, common sense tells us that to maximize $b$ , we would need to maximize $(b-61)^2$ . Therefore, we must set $(a-56)^2$ to its lowest value, namely 0. Therefore, $a$ must be $\boxed{056}.$

Solution:
We see that $\frac{z_3-z_1}{z_2-z_1}=\frac{60+16i}{-44i}=\frac{15i-4}{11}$
Now, let $z-z_3=a+bi$ , in which case $z=(a+78)+(b+99)i$ and $z-z_2=(a+60)+(b+60)i$
We now have that $\left(\frac{(a+60)+(b+60)i}{a+bi}\right)\left(\frac{15i-4}{11}\right)$ is real, meaning that: \[((a+60)+(b+60)i)\left(\frac{15i-4}{a+bi}\right)\] is also real.
We see that: \[\frac{15i-4}{a+bi}=\frac{(15i-4)(a-bi)}{a^2+b^2}=\frac{(15b-4a)+(15a+4b)i}{a^2+b^2},\] so therefore, $x=((a+60)+(b+60)i)((15b-4a)+(15a+4b)i)$ is real.
This means that $Im(x)=0$ , so we now have that: \[(a+60)(15a+4b)+(b+60)(15b-4a)=15a^2+15b^2+660a+1140b=0 \Rightarrow a^2+b^2+44a+76b=0.\]
This can be rewritten as: \[(a+22)^2+(b+38)^2=22^2+38^2.\] In order to maximize $Im(z)$ we want to maximize $b$ , and in order to maximize $b$ we want $a+22=0$ and $a=-22$ , so $Re(z)=a+78=-22+78=\boxed{056}$ .
(Note: $Im(\omega)$ is the imaginary part of $\omega$ , and $Re(\omega)$ is the real part of $\omega$ )
~Stormersyle

Solution: We will just bash. Let $z=a+bi$ where $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ . We see that $\frac{z_3-z_1}{z_2-z_1}=\frac{-4+15i}{11}$ after doing some calculations. We also see that $\frac{[(a-18)+(b-39)i][(a-78)-(b-99)i]}{\text{some real stuff}}.$ We note that $[(a-18)+(b-39)i][(a-78)-(b-99)i]$ is a multiple of $-4-15i$ because the numerator has to be real. Thus, expanding it out, we see that $(a-18)(a-78)+(b-39)(b-99)=-4k \\ (a-78)(b-39)-(a-18)(b-99)=-15k.$ Hence, $(a-18)(a-78)+(b-39)(b-99)=\frac{4}{15}[(a-78)(b-39)-(a-18)(b-99)] \implies a^2-96a+b^2-138b+5265=16a-16b+336 \\ (a-56)^2+(b-61)^2=1928.$ To maximize the imaginary part, $(a-56)^2$ must equal $0$ so hence, $a=\boxed{56}$


Answer: 512.0

Let ( $a_1$ $a_2$ , ... $a_{10}$ ) be a list of the first 10 positive integers such that for each $2\le$ $i$ $\le10$ either $a_i + 1$ or $a_i-1$ or both appear somewhere before $a_i$ in the list. How many such lists are there?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \ 120\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 512\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \ 1024\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 181,440\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \ 362,880$

Solution:
If we have 1 as the first number, then the only possible list is $(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)$
If we have 2 as the first number, then we have 9 ways to choose where the $1$ goes, and the numbers ascend from the first number, $2$ , with the exception of the $1$ .
For example, $(2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)$ , or $(2,3,4,1,5,6,7,8,9,10)$ . There are $\dbinom{9}{1}$ ways to do so.
If we use 3 as the first number, we need to choose 2 spaces to be 2 and 1, respectively. There are $\dbinom{9}{2}$ ways to do this.
In the same way, the total number of lists is: $\dbinom{9}{0} +\dbinom{9}{1} + \dbinom{9}{2} + \dbinom{9}{3} + \dbinom{9}{4}.....\dbinom{9}{9}$
By the binomial theorem , this is $2^{9}$ $512$ , or $\boxed{512}$

Solution: Arrange the spaces and put arrows pointing either up or down between them. Then for each arrangement of arrows there is one and only one list that corresponds to up. For example, all arrows pointing up is $(1,2,3,4,5...10)$ . There are 9 arrows, so the answer is $2^{9}$ $512$ $\boxed{512}$

Solution: Notice that the answer to the problem is solely based on the length of the lists, i.e. 10. We can replace 10 with smaller values, such as 2 and 3, and try to find a pattern. If we replace it with 2, we can easily see that there are two possible lists, $(1, 2)$ and $(2, 1)$ . If we replace it with 3, there are four lists, $(1, 2, 3), (2, 1, 3), (2, 3, 1),$ and $(3, 2, 1)$ . Since 2 and 4 are both powers of 2, it is likely that the number of lists is $2^{n-1}$ , where $n$ is the length of the lists. $2^{10-1}=512=\boxed{512}$

Solution:
If $a_1=10$ , the sequence must be $10, 9, 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1$ . If $a_2=10$ , then $a_1=9$ , and the sequence is $9, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5,4,3,2,1$ . If $a_3=10$ , then the possible sequences are \[9,8,10,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 \text{ and}\] \[8,9,10,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.\] In general, for an $n$ -length sequence, if $a_i=n$ , then $a_1$ through $a_{i-1}$ can be filled in $f(i-1)$ ways with $n-i+1$ through $n-1$ , and $a_{i+1}$ through $a_{n}$ must be sorted in decreasing order with the remaining numbers ( $1$ through $n-i$ ), in one way. Thus $f(n) = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} f(i)$ , where $f(0)=1$
We can see (or prove by induction) that $f(n)=2^{n-1} ~\forall~ n \ge 1$ . Hence, $f(10)=2^9=\boxed{512}$


Answer: 80.0

Let ABCDEF be a convex equilateral hexagon in which all pairs of opposite sides are parallel. The triangle whose sides are extensions of segments AB, CD, and EF has side lengths 200, 240, and 300. Find the side length of the hexagon.

Solution:
(Sorry i have zero idea how to make drawings)
Draw a good diagram!
Let $AB \cap DC$ $CD \cap FE$ , and $BA \cap EF$ be P, Q, and R, respectively. Let $QR=200, RP=300, PQ=240$ . Notice that all smaller triangles formed are all similar to the larger $(200,240,300)$ triangle. Let the side length of the hexagon be x. Triangle $\triangle BCP \sim \triangle RQP$ , so $\frac{BC}{BP} =\frac{x}{BP} =\frac{200}{300} \implies BP=\frac{3x}{2}$ . Triangle $\triangle AFR \sim \triangle PQR$ , so $\frac{AF}{AR}=\frac{x}{AR} = \frac{240}{300} \implies AR=\frac{5x}{4}$ . We know $RA+AB+BP=300$ , so $\frac{5}{4}x + x + \frac{3}{2}x = 300$ . Solving, we get $x=\boxed{080}$ . -westwoodmonster

Solution: Draw an accurate diagram using the allowed compass and ruler: Draw a to-scale diagram of the $(200,240,300)$ triangle (e.g. 10cm-12cm-15cm). Because of the nature of these lengths and the integer answer needed, it can be assumed that the side length of the hexagon will be divisible by 10. Therefore, a trial-and-error method can be set up, wherein line segments of length $n\cdot 10$ , scaled to the same scale as the triangle, can be drawn to represent the sides of the hexagon. For instance, side $BC$ would be drawn parallel to the side of the triangle of length 300, and would have endpoints on the other sides of the triangle. Using this method, it would be evident that line segments of length 80 units, scaled proportionally (4cm using the scale above), would create a perfect equilateral hexagon when drawn parallel to the sides of the triangle. $x=\boxed{080}$ . - lackolith


Answer: 92.0

Let X and Y be the following sums of arithmetic sequences:
\begin{eqnarray*}X &=& 10+12+14+\cdots+100,\\ Y &=& 12+14+16+\cdots+102.\end{eqnarray*}
What is the value of $Y - X?$
$\textbf{(A)}\ 92\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 98\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 100\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 102\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 112$

Solution:
We see that both sequences have equal numbers of terms, so reformat the sequence to look like:
\begin{align*} Y = \ &12 + 14 + \cdots + 100 + 102\\ X = 10 \ + \ &12 +  14 + \cdots + 100\\ \end{align*} From here it is obvious that $Y - X = 102 - 10 = \boxed{92}$

Solution: \begin{align*} X&=10+12+14+\cdots +100 \\ Y&=X-10+102 = X+92 \\  Y-X &= (X+92)-X \\      &= \boxed{92} $\blacksquare$

Solution:
In an actual contest, this would probably take too much time but is nevertheless a solution.
The general formula for computing sums of any arithmetic sequence where $x$ is the number of terms, $f$ is the first term and $l$ is the last term is $\frac{(f+l)x}{2}$ . If one uses that formula for both sequences, they will get $2530$ as the sum for $X$ and $2622$ as the sum for $Y$ .
Subtracting $X$ from $Y$ , one will get the answer $\boxed{92}$ .
- danfan


Answer: 92.0

Solution: We see that every number in Y's sequence is two more than every corresponding number in X's sequence. Since there are 46 numbers in each sequence, the difference must be $46\cdot 2=\boxed{92}$


Answer: 112.0

Let [mathjax]A, M,[/mathjax] and [mathjax]C[/mathjax] be nonnegative integers such that [mathjax]A + M + C=12[/mathjax]. What is the maximum value of [mathjax]A \cdot M \cdot C + A \cdot M + M \cdot C + A \cdot C[/mathjax]?
[katex] \mathrm{(A) \ 62 } \qquad \mathrm{(B) \ 72 } \qquad \mathrm{(C) \ 92 } \qquad \mathrm{(D) \ 102 } \qquad \mathrm{(E) \ 112 }  [/katex]

Solution: It is not hard to see that \[(A+1)(M+1)(C+1)=\] \[AMC+AM+AC+MC+A+M+C+1\] Since $A+M+C=12$ , we can rewrite this as \[(A+1)(M+1)(C+1)=\] \[AMC+AM+AC+MC+13\] So we wish to maximize \[(A+1)(M+1)(C+1)-13\] Which is largest when all the factors are equal (consequence of AM-GM).  Since $A+M+C=12$ , we set $A=M=C=4$ Which gives us \[(4+1)(4+1)(4+1)-13=112\] so the answer is $\boxed{112}.$

Solution: Assume $A$ $M$ , and $C$ are equal to $4$ . Since the resulting value of $AMC+AM+AC+MC$ will be $112$ and this is the largest answer choice, our answer is $\boxed{112}$

Solution:
We start off the same way as Solution 4, using AM-GM to observe that $AMC \leq 64$ . We then observe that
$(A + M + C)^2 = A^2 + M^2 + C^2 + 2(AM + MC + AC) = 144$ , since $A + M + C = 12$
We can use the AM-GM inequality again, this time observing that $\frac{A^2 + M^2 + C^2}{3} \geq \sqrt[3]{{(AMC)}^2}$
Since $AMC \leq 64$ $3 \sqrt[3]{{(AMC)}^2} \leq 48$ . We then plug this in to yield
$A^2 + M^2 + C^2 + 2(AM + MC + AC) = 144 \geq 48 + 2(AM + MC + AC)$
Thus, $AM + MC + AC \leq 48$ . We now revisit the original equation that we wish to maximize. Since we know $AMC \leq 64$ , we now have upper bounds on both of our unruly terms. Plugging both in results in $48 + 64 = \boxed{112}$

Solution: The largest number for our value would be $A = M = C.$ So $3A = 12$ and $A = M = C = 4.$ $4\times4\times4 + 4\times4 + 4\times4 = 112$ or $\boxed{112}$


Answer: 23.0

Let \(O=(0,0)\), \(A=\left(\tfrac{1}{2},0\right)\), and \(B=\left(0,\tfrac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)\) 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 \(A\) and \(B\),  that does not belong to any segment from \(\mathcal{F}\) other than \(\overline{AB}\). Then \(OC^2=\tfrac{p}{q}\), where \(p\) and \(q\) are relatively prime positive integers. Find \(p+q\).

Solution:
By Furaken
Let $C = (\tfrac18,\tfrac{3\sqrt3}8)$ This is sus, furaken randomly guessed C and proceeded to prove it works Draw a line through $C$ intersecting the $x$ -axis at $A'$ and the $y$ -axis at $B'$ . We shall show that $A'B' \ge 1$ , and that equality only holds when $A'=A$ and $B'=B$
Let $\theta = \angle OA'C$ . Draw $CD$ perpendicular to the $x$ -axis and $CE$ perpendicular to the $y$ -axis as shown in the diagram. Then \[8A'B' = 8CA' + 8CB' = \frac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} + \frac{1}{\cos\theta}\] By some inequality (I forgot its name), \[\left(\frac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} + \frac{1}{\cos\theta}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} + \frac{1}{\cos\theta}\right) \cdot (\sin^2\theta + \cos^2\theta) \ge (3+1)^3 = 64\] We know that $\sin^2\theta + \cos^2\theta = 1$ . Thus $\tfrac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} + \tfrac{1}{\cos\theta} \ge 8$ . Equality holds if and only if \[\frac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} : \frac{1}{\cos\theta} = \frac{3\sqrt3}{\sin\theta} : \frac{1}{\cos\theta} = \sin^2\theta : \cos^2\theta\] which occurs when $\theta=\tfrac\pi3$ . Guess what, $\angle OAB$ happens to be $\tfrac\pi3$ , thus $A'=A$ and $B'=B$ . Thus, $AB$ is the only segment in $\mathcal{F}$ that passes through $C$ . Finally, we calculate $OC^2 = \tfrac1{64} + \tfrac{27}{64} = \tfrac7{16}$ , and the answer is $\boxed{023}$ .
~Furaken

Solution:
$y=-(\tan \theta) x+\sin \theta=-\sqrt{3}x+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}, x=\frac{\sqrt{3}-2\sin \theta}{2\sqrt{3}-2\tan \theta}$
Now, we want to find $\lim_{\theta\to\frac{\pi}{3}}\frac{\sqrt{3}-2\sin \theta}{2\sqrt{3}-2\tan \theta}$ . By L'Hôpital's rule, we get $\lim_{\theta\to\frac{\pi}{3}}\frac{\sqrt{3}-2\sin \theta}{2\sqrt{3}-2\tan \theta}=\lim_{\theta\to\frac{\pi}{3}}cos^3{x}=\frac{1}{8}$ . This means that $y=\frac{3\sqrt{3}}{8}\implies OC^2=\frac{7}{16}$ , so we get $\boxed{023}$

Solution:
The equation of line $AB$ is \[ y = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} x - \sqrt{3} x.  \hspace{1cm} (1) \]
The position of line $PQ$ can be characterized by $\angle QPO$ , denoted as $\theta$ .
Thus, the equation of line $PQ$ is
\[ y = \sin \theta - \tan \theta \cdot x . \hspace{1cm} (2) \]
Solving (1) and (2), the $x$ -coordinate of the intersecting point of lines $AB$ and $PQ$ satisfies the following equation:
\[ \frac{\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3} x}{\sin \theta} + \frac{x}{\cos \theta} = 1 . \hspace{1cm} (1) \]
We denote the L.H.S. as $f \left( \theta; x \right)$
We observe that $f \left( 60^\circ ; x \right) = 1$ for all $x$ .
Therefore, the point $C$ that this problem asks us to find can be equivalently stated in the following way:
We interpret Equation (1) as a parameterized equation that $x$ is a tuning parameter and $\theta$ is a variable that shall be solved and expressed in terms of $x$ .
In Equation (1), there exists a unique $x \in \left( 0, 1 \right)$ , denoted as $x_C$ $x$ -coordinate of point $C$ ), such that the only solution is $\theta = 60^\circ$ . For all other $x \in \left( 0, 1 \right) \backslash \{ x_C \}$ , there are more than one solutions with one solution $\theta = 60^\circ$ and at least another solution.
Given that function $f \left( \theta ; x \right)$ is differentiable, the above condition is equivalent to the first-order-condition \[ \frac{\partial f \left( \theta ; x_C \right) }{\partial \theta} \bigg|_{\theta = 60^\circ} = 0 . \]
Calculating derivatives in this equation, we get \[ - \left( \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3} x_C \right) \frac{\cos 60^\circ}{\sin^2 60^\circ} + x_C \frac{\sin 60^\circ}{\cos^2 60^\circ} = 0. \]
By solving this equation, we get \[ x_C = \frac{1}{8} . \]
Plugging this into Equation (1), we get the $y$ -coordinate of point $C$ \[ y_C = \frac{3 \sqrt{3}}{8} . \]
Therefore,
\begin{align*}
OC^2 & = x_C^2 + y_C^2 \\
& = \frac{7}{16} .
\end{align*}
Therefore, the answer is $7 + 16 = \boxed{23}$

Solution:
Let $s$ be a segment in $\mathcal{F}$ with x-intercept $a$ and y-intercept $b$ . We can write $s$ as
\begin{align*}
\frac{x}{a} + \frac{y}{b} &= 1 \\
y &= b(1 - \frac{x}{a}).
\end{align*}
Let the unique point in the first quadrant $(x, y)$ lie on $s$ and no other segment in $\mathcal{F}$ . We can find $x$ by solving \[b(1 - \frac{x}{a}) = (b + db)(1 - \frac{x}{a + da})\] and taking the limit as $da, db \to 0$ . Since $s$ has length $1$ $a^2 + b^2 = 1^2$ by the Pythagorean theorem. Solving this for $db$ , we get
\begin{align*}
a^2 + b^2 &= 1 \\
b^2 &= 1 - a^2 \\
\frac{db^2}{da} &= \frac{d(1 - a^2)}{da} \\
2a\frac{db}{da} &= -2a \\
db &= -\frac{a}{b}da.
\end{align*}
After we substitute $db = -\frac{a}{b}da$ , the equation for $x$ becomes \[b(1 - \frac{x}{a}) = (b -\frac{a}{b} da)(1 - \frac{x}{a + da}).\]
In $\overline{AB}$ $a = \frac{1}{2}$ and $b = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ . To find the x-coordinate of $C$ , we substitute these into the equation for $x$ and get
\begin{align*}
\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}(1 - \frac{x}{\frac{1}{2}}) &= (\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}} da)(1 - \frac{x}{\frac{1}{2} + da}) \\
\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}(1 - 2x) &= (\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \frac{da}{\sqrt{3}})(1 - \frac{x}{\frac{1 + 2da}{2}}) \\
\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3}x &= \frac{3 - 2da}{2\sqrt{3}}(1 - \frac{2x}{1 + 2da}) \\
\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3}x &= \frac{3 - 2da}{2\sqrt{3}} \cdot \frac{1 + 2da - 2x}{1 + 2da} \\
\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3}x &= \frac{3 + 6da - 6x - 2da - 4da^2 + 4xda}{2\sqrt{3} + 4\sqrt{3}da} \\
(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} - \sqrt{3}x)(2\sqrt{3} + 4\sqrt{3}da) &= 3 + 6da - 6x - 2da - 4da^2 + 4xda \\
3 + 6da - 6x - 12xda &= 3 + 4da - 6x - 4da^2 + 4xda \\
2da &= -4da^2 + 16xda \\
16xda &= 2da + 4da^2 \\
x &= \frac{da + 2da^2}{8da}.
\end{align*}
We take the limit as $da \to 0$ to get \[x = \lim_{da \to 0} \frac{da + 2da^2}{8da} = \lim_{da \to 0} \frac{1 + 2da}{8} = \frac{1}{8}.\] We substitute $x = \frac{1}{8}$ into the equation for $\overline{AB}$ to find the y-coordinate of $C$ \[y = b(1 - \frac{x}{a}) = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}(1 - \frac{\frac{1}{8}}{\frac{1}{2}}) = \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{8}.\] The problem asks for \[OC^2 = x^2 + y^2 = (\frac{1}{8})^2 + (\frac{3\sqrt{3}}{8})^2 = \frac{7}{16} = \frac{p}{q},\] so $p + q = 7 + 16 = \boxed{023}$

Solution:
Let's move a little bit from $A$ to $A_1$ , then $B$ must move to $B_1$ to keep $A_1B_1 = 1$ $AB$ intersects with $A_1B_1$ at $C$ . Pick points $A_2$ and $B_2$ on $CA_1$ and $CB$ such that $CA_2 = CA$ $CB_2 = CB_1$ , we have $A_1A_2 = BB_2$ . Since $AA_1$ is very small, $\angle CA_1A \approx 60^\circ$ $\angle CBB_1 \approx 30^\circ$ , so $AA_2\approx \sqrt{3}A_1A_2$ $B_1B_2 \approx \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}BB_2$ , by similarity, $\frac{CA}{CB} \approx \frac{CA}{CB_2} = \frac{AA_2}{B_1B_2} = \frac{\sqrt{3}A_1A_2}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}BB_2} = 3$ . So the coordinates of $C$ is $\left(\frac{1}{8}, \frac{3\sqrt{3}}{8}\right)$
so $OC^2 = \frac{1}{64} + \frac{27}{64} = \frac{7}{16}$ , the answer is $\boxed{023}$


Answer: 211.0

Let \(b\ge 2\) be an integer. Call a positive integer \(n\) \(b\text-\textit{eautiful}\) if it has exactly two digits when expressed in base \(b\)  and these two digits sum to \(\sqrt n\). For example, \(81\) is \(13\text-\textit{eautiful}\) because \(81  = \underline{6} \ \underline{3}_{13} \) and \(6 + 3 =  \sqrt{81}\). Find the least integer \(b\ge 2\) for which there are more than ten \(b\text-\textit{eautiful}\) integers.

Solution:
We write the base- $b$ two-digit integer as $\left( xy \right)_b$ .
Thus, this number satisfies \[ \left( x + y \right)^2 = b x + y \] with $x \in \left\{ 1, 2, \cdots , b-1 \right\}$ and $y \in \left\{ 0, 1, \cdots , b - 1 \right\}$
The above conditions imply $\left( x + y \right)^2 < b^2$ . Thus, $x + y \leq b - 1$
The above equation can be reorganized as \[ \left( x + y \right) \left( x + y - 1 \right) = \left( b - 1 \right) x . \]
Denote $z = x + y$ and $b' = b - 1$ .
Thus, we have \[ z \left( z - 1 \right) = b' x , \hspace{1cm} (1) \] where $z \in \left\{ 2, 3, \cdots , b' \right\}$ and $x \in \left\{ 1, 2, \cdots , b' \right\}$
Next, for each $b'$ , we solve Equation (1).
We write $b'$ in the prime factorization form as $b' = \Pi_{i=1}^n p_i^{k_i}$ .
Let $\left(A, \bar A \right)$ be any ordered partition of $\left\{ 1, 2, \cdots , n \right\}$ (we allow one set to be empty).
Denote $P_A = \Pi_{i \in A} p_i^{k_i}$ and $P_{\bar A} = \Pi_{i \in \bar A} p_i^{k_i}$
Because ${\rm gcd} \left( z, z-1 \right) = 1$ , there must exist such an ordered partition, such that $P_A | z$ and $P_{\bar A} | z-1$
Next, we prove that for each ordered partition $\left( A, \bar A \right)$ , if a solution of $z$ exists, then it must be unique.
Suppose there are two solutions of $z$ under partition $\left( A, \bar A \right)$ $z_1 = c_1 P_A$ $z_1 - 1 = d_1 P_{\bar A}$ , and $z_2 = c_2 P_A$ $z_2 - 1 = d_2 P_{\bar A}$ .
W.L.O.G., assume $c_1 < c_2$ .
Hence, we have \[ \left( c_2 - c_1 \right) P_A = \left( d_2 - d_1 \right) P_{\bar A} . \]
Because ${\rm gcd} \left( P_A, P_{\bar A} \right) = 1$ and $c_1 < c_2$ , there exists a positive integer $m$ , such that $c_2 = c_1 + m P_{\bar A}$ and $d_2 = d_1 + m P_A$ .
Thus,
\begin{align*}
z_2 & = z_1 + m P_A P_{\bar A} \\
& = z_1 + m b' \\
& > b' .
\end{align*}
However, recall $z_2 \leq b'$ . We get a contradiction.
Therefore, under each ordered partition for $b'$ , the solution of $z$ is unique.
Note that if $b'$ has $n$ distinct prime factors, the number of ordered partitions is $2^n$ .
Therefore, to find a $b'$ such that the number of solutions of $z$ is more than 10, the smallest $n$ is 4.
With $n = 4$ , the smallest number is $2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 7 = 210$ .
Now, we set $b' = 210$ and check whether the number of solutions of $z$ under this $b'$ is more than 10.
We can easily see that all ordered partitions (except $A = \emptyset$ ) guarantee feasible solutions of $z$ .
Therefore, we have found a valid $b'$ .
Therefore, $b = b' + 1 = \boxed{211}$


Answer: 15.0

Let \[P(x) = 24x^{24} + \sum_{j = 1}^{23}(24 - j)(x^{24 - j} + x^{24 + j}).\] Let $z_{1},z_{2},\ldots,z_{r}$ be the distinct zeros of $P(x),$ and let $z_{k}^{2} = a_{k} + b_{k}i$ for $k = 1,2,\ldots,r,$ where $a_{k}$ and $b_{k}$ are real numbers. Let
where $m, n,$ and $p$ are integers and $p$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $m + n + p.$

Solution:
This can be factored as:
\[P(x) = x\left( x^{23} + x^{22} + \cdots + x^2 + x + 1 \right)^2\]
Note that $\left( x^{23} + x^{22} + \cdots + x^2 + x + 1 \right) \cdot (x-1) = x^{24} - 1$ .
So the roots of $x^{23} + x^{22} + \cdots + x^2 + x + 1$ are exactly all $24$ -th complex roots of $1$ , except for the root $x=1$
Let $\omega=\cos \frac{360^\circ}{24} + i\sin \frac{360^\circ}{24}$ . Then the distinct zeros of $P$ are $0,\omega,\omega^2,\dots,\omega^{23}$
We can clearly ignore the root $x=0$ as it does not contribute to the value that we need to compute.
The squares of the other roots are $\omega^2,~\omega^4,~\dots,~\omega^{24}=1,~\omega^{26}=\omega^2,~\dots,~\omega^{46}=\omega^{22}$
Hence we need to compute the following sum:
\[R = \sum_{k = 1}^{23} \left|\, \sin \left( k\cdot \frac{360^\circ}{12} \right) \right|\]
Using basic properties of the sine function, we can simplify this to
\[R = 4 \cdot \sum_{k = 1}^{5} \sin \left( k\cdot \frac{360^\circ}{12} \right)\]
The five-element sum is just $\sin 30^\circ + \sin 60^\circ + \sin 90^\circ + \sin 120^\circ + \sin 150^\circ$ .
We know that $\sin 30^\circ = \sin 150^\circ = \frac 12$ $\sin 60^\circ = \sin 120^\circ = \frac{\sqrt 3}2$ , and $\sin 90^\circ = 1$ .
Hence our sum evaluates to:
\[R = 4 \cdot \left( 2\cdot \frac 12 + 2\cdot \frac{\sqrt 3}2 + 1 \right) = 8 + 4\sqrt 3\]
Therefore the answer is $8+4+3 = \boxed{015}$

Solution:
As in Solution 1, we find that the roots of $P(x)$ we care about are the 24th roots of unity except $1$ . Therefore, the squares of these roots are the 12th roots of unity. In particular, every 12th root of unity is counted twice, except for $1$ , which is only counted once.
The possible imaginary parts of the 12th roots of unity are $0$ $\pm\frac{1}{2}$ $\pm\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ , and $\pm 1$ . We can disregard $0$ because it doesn't affect the sum.
$8$ squares of roots have an imaginary part of $\pm\frac{1}{2}$ $8$ squares of roots have an imaginary part of $\pm\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ , and $4$ squares of roots have an imaginary part of $\pm 1$ . Therefore, the sum equals $8\left(\frac{1}{2}\right) + 8\left(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right) + 4(1) = 8 + 4\sqrt{3}$
The answer is $8+4+3=\boxed{015}$


Answer: 36.0

Solution:
Note that $z = \mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})$
Also note that $z^{k} = z^{k + 8}$ for all positive integers $k$ because of De Moivre's Theorem. Therefore, we want to look at the exponents of each term modulo $8$
$1^2, 5^2,$ and $9^2$ are all $1 \pmod{8}$
$2^2, 6^2,$ and $10^2$ are all $4 \pmod{8}$
$3^2, 7^2,$ and $11^2$ are all $1 \pmod{8}$
$4^2, 8^2,$ and $12^2$ are all $0 \pmod{8}$
Therefore,
$z^{1^2} = z^{5^2} = z^{9^2} = \mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})$
$z^{2^2} = z^{6^2} = z^{10^2} = \mathrm{cis }(180^{\circ}) = -1$
$z^{3^2} = z^{7^2} = z^{11^2} = \mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})$
$z^{4^2} = z^{8^2} = z^{12^2} = \mathrm{cis }(0^{\circ}) = 1$
The term thus $\left(z^{1^2}+z^{2^2}+z^{3^2}+\dots+z^{{12}^2}\right)$ simplifies to $6\mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})$ , while the term $\left(\frac{1}{z^{1^2}}+\frac{1}{z^{2^2}}+\frac{1}{z^{3^2}}+\dots+\frac{1}{z^{{12}^2}}\right)$ simplifies to $\frac{6}{\mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})}$ . Upon multiplication, the $\mathrm{cis }(45^{\circ})$ cancels out and leaves us with $\boxed{36}$

Solution: We first calculate that $z^4 = -1$ . After a bit of calculation for the other even powers of $z$ , we realize that they cancel out add up to zero. Now we can simplify the expression to $\left(z^{1^2} + z^{3^2} + ... + z^{11^2}\right)\left(\frac{1}{z^{1^2}} + \frac{1}{z^{3^2}} + ... + \frac{1}{z^{11^2}}\right)$ . Then, we calculate the first few odd powers of $z$ . We notice that $z^1 = z^9$ , so the values cycle after every 8th power. Since all of the odd squares are a multiple of $8$ away from each other, $z^1 = z^9 = z^{25} = ... = z^{121}$ , so $z^{1^2} + z^{3^2} + ... + z^{11^2} = 6z^{1^2}$ , and $\frac{1}{z^{1^2}} + \frac{1}{z^{3^2}} + ... + \frac{1}{z^{11^2}} = \frac{6}{z^{1^2}}$ . When multiplied together, we get $6 \cdot 6 = \boxed{36}$ as our answer.


Answer: 36.0

Solution: It is well known that if $|z|=1$ then $\bar{z}=\frac{1}{z}$ . Therefore, we have that the desired expression is equal to \[\left(z^1+z^4+z^9+...+z^{144}\right)\left(\bar{z}^1+\bar{z}^4+\bar{z}^9+...+\bar{z}^{144}\right)\] We know that $z=e^{\frac{i\pi}{4}}$ so $\bar{z}=e^{\frac{i7\pi}{4}}$ . Then, by De Moivre's Theorem, we have \[\left(e^{\frac{i\pi}{4}}+e^{i\pi}+...+e^{2i\pi}\right)\left(e^{\frac{i7\pi}{4}}+e^{i7\pi}+...+e^{2i\pi}\right)\] which can easily be computed as $\boxed{36}$

Solution:
$z=\mathrm{cis }(\pi/4)$
Perfect squares mod 8: $1,4,1,0,1,4,1,0,1,4,1,0$
$1/z=\overline{z}=\mathrm{cis }(7\pi/4)$
$6\mathrm{cis }(\pi/4)\cdot 6\mathrm{cis }(7\pi/4)=\boxed{36}$


Answer: 5.0

Let a sequence $\{u_n\}$ be defined by $u_1=5$ and the relationship $u_{n+1}-u_n=3+4(n-1), n=1,2,3\cdots.$ If $u_n$ is expressed as a polynomial in $n$ , the algebraic sum of its coefficients is:
$\text{(A) 3} \quad \text{(B) 4} \quad \text{(C) 5} \quad \text{(D) 6} \quad \text{(E) 11}$

Solution:
Note that the first differences create a linear function, so the sequence ${u_n}$ is quadratic.
The first three terms of the sequence are $5$ $8$ , and $15$ .  From there, a system of equations can be written. \[a+b+c=5\] \[4a+2b+c=8\] \[9a+3b+c=15\] Solve the system to get $a=2$ $b=-3$ , and $c=6$ .  The sum of the coefficients is $\boxed{5}$


Answer: 58.0

Let points $A = (0, 0)$ $B = (1, 2)$ $C=(3, 3)$ , and $D = (4, 0)$ .  Quadrilateral $ABCD$ is cut into equal area pieces by a line passing through $A$ .  This line intersects $\overline{CD}$ at point $\left(\frac{p}{q}, \frac{r}{s}\right)$ , where these fractions are in lowest terms.  What is $p+q+r+s$
$\textbf{(A)}\ 54\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 58\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 62\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 70\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 75$

Solution:
First, we shall find the area of quadrilateral $ABCD$ . This can be done in any of three ways:
Pick's Theorem $[ABCD] = I + \dfrac{B}{2} - 1 = 5 + \dfrac{7}{2} - 1 = \dfrac{15}{2}.$
Splitting: Drop perpendiculars from $B$ and $C$ to the x-axis to divide the quadrilateral into triangles and trapezoids, and so the area is $1 + 5 + \dfrac{3}{2} = \dfrac{15}{2}.$
Shoelace Theorem : The area is half of $|1 \cdot 3 - 2 \cdot 3 - 3 \cdot 4| = 15$ , or $\dfrac{15}{2}$
$[ABCD] = \frac{15}{2}$ .  Therefore, each equal piece that the line separates $ABCD$ into must have an area of $\frac{15}{4}$
Call the point where the line through $A$ intersects $\overline{CD}$ $E$ .  We know that $[ADE] = \frac{15}{4} = \frac{bh}{2}$ .  Furthermore, we know that $b = 4$ , as $AD = 4$ .  Thus, solving for $h$ , we find that $2h = \frac{15}{4}$ , so $h = \frac{15}{8}$ .  This gives that the y coordinate of E is $\frac{15}{8}$
Line CD can be expressed as $y = -3x+12$ , so the $x$ coordinate of E satisfies $\frac{15}{8} = -3x + 12$ .  Solving for $x$ , we find that $x = \frac{27}{8}$
From this, we know that $E = \left(\frac{27}{8}, \frac{15}{8}\right)$ $27 + 15 + 8 + 8 = \boxed{58}$

Solution:
Let the point where the altitude from $E$ to $\overline{AD}$ be labeled $F$ .
Following the steps above, you can find that the height of $\triangle ADE$ is $\frac{15}{8}$ , and from there split the base into two parts, $x$ , and $4-x$ , such that $x$ is the segment from the origin to the point $F$ , and $4-x$ is the segment from point $F$ to point $D$ . Then, by the Pythagorean Theorem $x=\frac{27}{8}$ , and the answer is $\boxed{58}$


Answer: 58.0

Let points $A = (0,0) , \ B = (1,2), \ C = (3,3),$ and $D = (4,0)$ . Quadrilateral $ABCD$ is cut into equal area pieces by a line passing through $A$ . This line intersects $\overline{CD}$ at point $\left (\frac{p}{q}, \frac{r}{s} \right )$ , where these fractions are in lowest terms. What is $p + q + r + s$
$\textbf{(A)} \ 54 \qquad \textbf{(B)} \ 58 \qquad  \textbf{(C)} \ 62 \qquad \textbf{(D)} \ 70 \qquad \textbf{(E)} \ 75$

Solution:
If you have graph paper, use Pick's Theorem to quickly and efficiently find the area of the quadrilateral. If not, just find the area by other methods.
Pick's Theorem states that
$A$ $I$ $+$ $\frac{B}{2}$ $1$ , where $I$ is the number of lattice points in the interior of the polygon, and $B$ is the number of lattice points on the boundary of the polygon.
In this case,
$A$ $5$ $+$ $\frac{7}{2}$ $1$ $7.5$
so
$\frac{A}{2}$ $3.75$
The bottom half of the quadrilateral makes a triangle with base $4$ and half the total area, so we can deduce that the height of the triangle must be $\frac{15}{8}$ in order for its area to be $3.75$ . This height is the y coordinate of our desired intersection point.
Note that segment CD lies on the line $y = -3x + 12$ . Substituting in $\frac{15}{8}$ for y, we can find that the x coordinate of our intersection point is $\frac{27}{8}$
Therefore the point of intersection is ( $\frac{27}{8}$ $\frac{15}{8}$ ), and our desired result is $27+8+15+8= \boxed{58}$


Answer: 58.0

Solution:
Let the point of intersection be $E$ , with coordinates $(x, y)$ . Then, $ABCD$ is cut into $ABCE$ and $AED$
Since the areas are equal, we can use Shoelace Theorem to find the area. This gives $3 + 3x - 3y = 4y$
The line going through $CD$ is $y = -3x + 12$ . Since $E$ is on $CD$ , we can substitute this in, giving $3 + 3x = -21x + 84$ . Solving for $x$ gives $\frac{27}{8}$ . Plugging this back into the line equation gives $y = \frac{15}{8}$ , for a final answer of $\boxed{58}$


Answer: 901.0

Let set $\mathcal{A}$ be a 90- element subset of $\{1,2,3,\ldots,100\},$ and let $S$ be the sum of the elements of $\mathcal{A}.$ Find the number of possible values of $S.$

Solution:
The smallest $S$ is $1+2+ \ldots +90 = 91 \cdot 45 = 4095$ . The largest $S$ is $11+12+ \ldots +100=111\cdot 45=4995$ . All numbers between $4095$ and $4995$ are possible values of S, so the number of possible values of S is $4995-4095+1=901$
Alternatively, for ease of calculation, let set $\mathcal{B}$ be a 10-element subset of $\{1,2,3,\ldots,100\}$ , and let $T$ be the sum of the elements of $\mathcal{B}$ . Note that the number of possible $S$ is the number of possible $T=5050-S$ . The smallest possible $T$ is $1+2+ \ldots +10 = 55$ and the largest is $91+92+ \ldots + 100 = 955$ , so the number of possible values of T, and therefore S, is $955-55+1=\boxed{901}$


Answer: 1107.0

Let the letters $F$ $L$ $Y$ $B$ $U$ $G$ represent distinct digits. Suppose $\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}~\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}$ is the greatest number that satisfies the equation
\[8\cdot\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}~\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}=\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}~\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}.\]
What is the value of $\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}+\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}$
$\textbf{(A)}\ 1089 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 1098 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 1107 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 1116 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 1125$

Solution:
The highest that $FLYFLY$ can be would have to be $124124$ , and it cannot be higher than that because then it would exceed the $6$ -digit limit set on $BUGBUG$
So, if we start at $124124\cdot8$ , we get $992992$ , which would be wrong because both $B \& U$ would be $9$ , and the numbers cannot be repeated between different letters.
If we move on to the next highest, $123123$ , and multiply by $8$ , we get $984984$ . All the digits are different, so $FLY+BUG$ would be $123+984$ , which is $1107$ . So, the answer is $\boxed{1107}$

Solution:
Notice that $\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}~\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y} = 1000(\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}) + \underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}$
Likewise, $\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}~\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G} = 1000(\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}) + \underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G}$
Therefore, we have the following equation:
$8 \times 1001(\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}) = 1001(\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G})$
Simplifying the equation gives
$8(\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}) = (\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G})$
We can now use our equation to test each answer choice.
We have that $123123 \times 8 = 984984$ , so we can find the sum:
$\underline{F}~\underline{L}~\underline{Y}+\underline{B}~\underline{U}~\underline{G} = 123 + 984 = 1107$
So, the correct answer is $\boxed{1107}$

Solution: Note that $FLY+BUG = 9 \cdot FLY$ . Thus, we can check the answer choices and find $FLY$ through each of the answer choices, we find the 1107 works, so the answer is $\boxed{1107}$


Answer: 134.0

Let the set $S = \{P_1, P_2, \dots, P_{12}\}$ consist of the twelve vertices of a regular $12$ -gon. A subset $Q$ of $S$ is called "communal" if there is a circle such that all points of $Q$ are inside the circle, and all points of $S$ not in $Q$ are outside of the circle. How many communal subsets are there? (Note that the empty set is a communal subset.)

Solution: By looking at the problem and drawing a few pictures, it quickly becomes obvious that one cannot draw a circle that covers $2$ disjoint areas of the $12$ -gon without including all the vertices in between those areas. In other words, in order for a subset to be communal, all the vertices in the subset must be adjacent to one another. We now count the number of ways to select a row of adjacent vertices. We notice that for any subset size between $1$ and $11$ , there are $12$ possible subsets like this (this is true because we can pick any of the $12$ vertices as a "starting" vertex, include some number of vertices counterclockwise from that vertex, and generate all possible configurations). However, we also have to include the set of all $12$ vertices, as well as the empty set. Thus, the total number is $12\cdot11 + 2 = \boxed{134}$


Answer: 484.0

Let the set $\mathcal{S} = \{8, 5, 1, 13, 34, 3, 21, 2\}.$ Susan makes a list as follows: for each two-element subset of $\mathcal{S},$ she writes on her list the greater of the set's two elements. Find the sum of the numbers on the list.

Solution:
Order the numbers in the set from greatest to least to reduce error: $\{34, 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1\}.$ Each element of the set will appear in $7$ two-element subsets , once with each other number.
Therefore the desired sum is $34\cdot7+21\cdot6+13\cdot5+8\cdot4+5\cdot3+3 \cdot2+2\cdot1+1\cdot0=\boxed{484}$

Solution:
Thinking of this problem algorithmically, one can "sort" the array to give: \[{1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34}\]
Now, notice that when we consider different pairs, we are only going to fixate one element and look at the all of the next elements in the array, basically the whole $j = i + 1$ shebang. Then, we see that if we set the sum of the whole array to $x,$ we get out answer to be
\[(x-1) + (x-3) + (x-6) + (x-11) + (x-19) + (x-32) + (x-53) = 7x - 125\]
Finding $7x$ isn't hard, and we see that it is equal to $609$
\[609 - 125 = \boxed{484}\]


Answer: 400.0

Let triangle $ABC$ be a right triangle in the xy-plane with a right angle at $C_{}$ . Given that the length of the hypotenuse $AB$ is $60$ , and that the medians through $A$ and $B$ lie along the lines $y=x+3$ and $y=2x+4$ respectively, find the area of triangle $ABC$

Solution: We first seek to find the angle between the lines $y = x + 3$ and $y = 2x + 4$  Let the acute angle the red line makes with the $x-$ axis be $\alpha$ and the acute angle the blue line makes with the $x-$ axis be $\beta$ . Then, we know that $\tan \alpha = 1$ and $\tan \beta = 2$ . Note that the acute angle between the red and blue lines is clearly $\beta - \alpha$ . Therefore, we have that: \[\tan (\beta - \alpha) = \frac{2 - 1}{1 + 2} = \frac{1}{3}\] It follows that $\cos (\beta - \alpha) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{10}}$ and $\sin (\beta - \alpha) = \frac{3}{\sqrt{10}}$ . From now on, refer to $\theta = \beta - \alpha$  Suppose $ABC$ is our desired triangle. Let $E$ be the midpoint of $CA$ and $D$ be the midpoint of $AB$ such that $CE = EA = m$ and $AD = DB = n$ . Let $G$ be the centroid of the triangle (in other words, the intersection of $EB$ and $CD$ ). It follows that if $CG = 2x$ $GD = x$ and if $GB = 2y$ $GE = y$ . By the Law of Cosines on $\triangle GEB$ , we get that: \[GE^2 + GC^2 - 2GE \cdot GC \cdot \cos \theta = CE^2 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[(2x)^2 + y^2 - (2x)(y)(2)\cos \theta = m^2\] By the Law of Cosines on $\triangle GDB$ , we get that: \[DG^2 + GB^2 -2 DG \cdot GB \cdot \cos \theta = DB^2 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[(2y)^2+x^2-(2y)(x)(2)\cos \theta = n^2\] Adding yields that: \[5x^2+5y^2 - 8xy\cos \theta = m^2 + n^2\] However, note that $(2m)^2 + (2n)^2 = 60^2 \Longleftrightarrow m^2+n^2 = 30^2$ . Therefore, \[5x^2+5y^2 - 8xy\cos \theta = 30^2\] We also know that by the Law of Cosines on $\triangle CGB$ \[CG^2 + GB^2 - 2CG \cdot GB \cdot \cos (180 - \theta) = CB^2 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[(2x)^2 + (2y)^2 + 2(2x)(2y) \cos \theta = 60^2 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[x^2+y^2+2xy \cos \theta = 30^2 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[5x^2+5y^2 + 10xy \cos \theta = 30^2 \cdot 5\] Subtracting this from the $5x^2+5y^2 - 8xy\cos \theta = 30^2$ we got earlier yields that: \[xy \cos \theta = 200\] but recall that $\cos \theta = \frac{3}{\sqrt{10}}$ to get that: \[xy = \frac{200 \sqrt{10}}{3}\] Plugging this into the $x^2 + y^2 + 2xy \cos \theta = 30^2$ , we get that: \[x^2 + y^2 = 500\] Aha! How convenient. Recall that $(2x)^2 + y^2 - (2x)(y)(2)\cos \theta = m^2$ and $(2y)^2+x^2-(2y)(x)(2)\cos \theta = n^2$ . Then, we clearly have that: \[m^2n^2 = ((2x)^2 + y^2 - (2x)(y)(2)\cos \theta)((2y)^2+x^2-(2y)(x)(2)\cos \theta = n^2) \Longleftrightarrow\] \[m^2n^2 = 17x^2y^2 - 4xy \cos \theta (5x^2 + 5y^2) + 16x^2y^2 \cos ^2 \theta + 4x^4 + 4y^4 \Longleftrightarrow\] \[m^2n^2 = 17 \cdot \frac{200^2 \cdot 10}{9} - 800(5 \cdot 500) + 16 \cdot 200^2 + 4 \left( (x^2+y^2)^2-2x^2y^2\right) \Longleftrightarrow\] \[\frac{m^2n^2}{100^2} = \frac{680}{9} - 8 \cdot 5 \cdot 5 + 16 \cdot 2^2 + 4 \left( 5^2 - 2 \cdot \frac{2^2 \cdot 10}{9}\right) \Longleftrightarrow\] \[\frac{m^2n^2}{100^2} = 4\] But note that the area of our triangle is $2m \cdot 2n \cdot \frac {1}{2} = 2mn$ . As $mn = 200$ , we get a final answer of $\boxed{400}$


Answer: 17.0

Letters $A,B,C,$ and $D$ represent four different digits selected from $0,1,2,\ldots ,9.$ If $(A+B)/(C+D)$ is an integer that is as large as possible, what is the value of $A+B$
$\mathrm{(A) \  }13 \qquad \mathrm{(B) \  }14 \qquad \mathrm{(C) \  } 15\qquad \mathrm{(D) \  }16 \qquad \mathrm{(E) \  } 17$

Solution:
If we want $\frac{A+B}{C+D}$ to be as large as possible, we want to try to maximize the numerator $A+B$ and minimize the denominator $C+D$ .  Picking $A=9$ and $B=8$ will maximize the numerator, and picking $C=0$ and $D=1$ will minimize the denominator.
Checking to make sure the fraction is an integer, $\frac{A+B}{C+D} = \frac{17}{1} = 17$ , and so the values are correct, and $A+B = 17$ , giving the answer $\boxed{17}$


Answer: 107.0

Lilypads $1,2,3,\ldots$ lie in a row on a pond. A frog makes a sequence of jumps starting on pad $1$ . From any pad $k$ the frog jumps to either pad $k+1$ or pad $k+2$ chosen randomly with probability $\tfrac{1}{2}$ and independently of other jumps. The probability that the frog visits pad $7$ is $\tfrac{p}{q}$ , where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p+q$

Solution: Let $P_n$ be the probability the frog visits pad $7$ starting from pad $n$ . Then $P_7 = 1$ $P_6 = \frac12$ , and $P_n = \frac12(P_{n + 1} + P_{n + 2})$ for all integers $1 \leq n \leq 5$ . Working our way down, we find \[P_5 = \frac{3}{4}\] \[P_4 = \frac{5}{8}\] \[P_3 = \frac{11}{16}\] \[P_2 = \frac{21}{32}\] \[P_1 = \frac{43}{64}\] $43 + 64 = \boxed{107}$

Solution:
Define a one jump to be a jump from $k$ to $k + 1$ and a two jump to be a jump from $k$ to $k + 2$
Case 1: (6 one jumps) $\left (\frac{1}{2} \right)^6 = \frac{1}{64}$
Case 2: (4 one jumps and 1 two jumps) $\binom{5}{1} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^5 = \frac{5}{32}$
Case 3: (2 one jumps and 2 two jumps) $\binom{4}{2} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^4 = \frac{3}{8}$
Case 4: (3 two jumps) $\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^3 = \frac{1}{8}$
Summing the probabilities gives us $\frac{43}{64}$ so the answer is $\boxed{107}$

Solution: Let $P_n$ be the probability that the frog lands on lily pad $n$ . The probability that the frog never lands on pad $n$ is $\frac{1}{2}P_{n-1}$ , so $1-P_n=\frac{1}{2}P_{n-1}$ . This rearranges to $P_n=1-\frac{1}{2}P_{n-1}$ , and we know that $P_1=1$ , so we can compute $P_7$ \begin{align*} P_1&=1\\ P_2&=1-\dfrac{1}{2} \cdot 1=\dfrac{1}{2}\\ P_3&=1-\dfrac{1}{2} \cdot \dfrac{1}{2}=\dfrac{3}{4}\\ P_4&=\dfrac{5}{8}\\ P_5&=\dfrac{11}{16}\\ P_6&=\dfrac{21}{32}\\ P_7&=\dfrac{43}{64}\\ \end{align*} We calculate $P_7$ to be $\frac{43}{64}$ , meaning that our answer is $\boxed{107}$

Solution: For any point $n$ , let the probability that the frog lands on lily pad $n$ be $P_n$ . The frog can land at lily pad $n$ with either a double jump from lily pad $n-2$ or a single jump from lily pad $n-1$ . Since the probability when the frog is at $n-2$ to make a double jump is $\frac{1}{2}$ and same for when it's at $n-1$ , the recursion is just $P_n = \frac{P_{n-2}+P_{n-1}}{2}$ . Using the fact that $P_1 = 1$ , and $P_2 = \frac{1}{2}$ , we find that $P_7 = \frac{43}{64}$ $43 + 64 = \boxed{107}$


Answer: 15.0

Line $l$ in the coordinate plane has equation $3x-5y+40=0$ . This line is rotated $45^{\circ}$ counterclockwise about the point $(20,20)$ to obtain line $k$ . What is the $x$ -coordinate of the $x$ -intercept of line $k?$
$\textbf{(A) } 10 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 15 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 20 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 25 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 30$

Solution:
The slope of the line is $\frac{3}{5}$ . We must transform it by $45^{\circ}$
$45^{\circ}$ creates an isosceles right triangle, since the sum of the angles of the triangle must be $180^{\circ}$ and one angle is $90^{\circ}$ . This means the last leg angle must also be $45^{\circ}$
In the isosceles right triangle, the two legs are congruent. We can therefore construct an isosceles right triangle with a line of $\frac{3}{5}$ slope on graph paper. That line with $\frac{3}{5}$ slope starts at $(0,0)$ and will go to $(5,3)$ , the vector $<5, 3 >$
Construct another line from $(0,0)$ to $(3,-5)$ , the vector $<3,-5>$ . This is $\perp$ and equal to the original line segment. The difference between the two vectors is $<2,8>$ , which is the slope $4$ , and that is the slope of line $k$
Furthermore, the equation $3x-5y+40=0$ passes straight through $(20,20)$ since $3(20)-5(20)+40=60-100+40=0$ , which means that any rotations about $(20,20)$ would contain $(20,20)$ . We can create a line of slope $4$ through $(20,20)$ . The $x$ -intercept is therefore $20-\frac{20}{4} = \boxed{15.}$ ~lopkiloinm ~ShawnX (diagram)

Solution: Let $P$ be $(20, 20)$ and $X, Y$ be $(20, 0)$ and $(0, 20)$ respectively. Since the slope of the line is $3/5$ we know that $\tan{\angle{YPA}} = 3/5.$ Segments $\overline{PA}$ and $\overline{PB}$ represent the before and after of rotating $l$ by 45 counterclockwise. Thus, $\angle{XPB} = 45 - \angle{YPA}$ and \[BX = 20 \tan{\angle{XPB}} = 20 \cdot \frac{1 - 3/5}{1 + 3/5} = 5\] by tangent addition formula. Since $BX$ is 5 and the sidelength of the square is 20 the answer is $20 - 5 \implies \boxed{15}.$

Solution: First note that the given line goes through $(20,20)$ with a slope of $\frac{3}{5}$ . This means that $(25,23)$ is on the line. Now consider translating the graph so that $(20,20)$ goes to the origin, then $(25,23)$ becomes $(5,3)$ . We now rotate the line $45^\circ$ about the origin using a rotation matrix. This maps $(5,3)$ to \[\begin{bmatrix} \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2} & -\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2} \\ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2} & \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} 5 \\ 3\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}\sqrt{2} \\ 4\sqrt{2}\end{bmatrix}\] The line through the origin and $(\sqrt{2}, 4\sqrt{2})$ has slope $4$ . Translating this line so that the origin is mapped to $(20,20)$ , we find that the equation for the new line is $4x-60$ , meaning that the $x$ -intercept is $x=\frac{60}{4}=\boxed{15}$

Solution:
A quick check tells us that $(20,20)$ falls on the given line. Common sense tells us that if the slope of the original line is $1$ , or 45 degrees from the horizontal, a 45 counter clockwise rotation will result in a vertical line, and the x-intercept will be $(20,0)$ .
Thinking of a 45 degree counter clockwise rotation as a 90 degree counter clockwise rotation that is bisected will helps in visualizing this line of reasoning.
Therefore, it follows that if the original line is made steeper, then the x-intercept will move away from $(20,0)$ to the right. If the original line is made lower, then the opposite will happen. Our given line has slope $3/5$ , so the answer must be $A$ or $B$ $A$ can be eliminated because an x-intercept of $(10,0)$ can only occur when the original line is horizontal. In conclusion, the answer must be $\boxed{15}$


Answer: 15.0

Solution:
Since the slope of the line is $\frac{3}{5}$ , and the angle we are rotating around is x, then $\tan x = \frac{3}{5}$ $\tan(x+45^{\circ}) = \frac{\tan x + \tan(45^{\circ})}{1-\tan x*\tan(45^{\circ})} = \frac{0.6+1}{1-0.6} = \frac{1.6}{0.4} = 4$
Hence, the slope of the rotated line is $4$ . Since we know the line intersects the point $(20,20)$ , then we know the line is $y=4x-60$ . Set $y=0$ to find the x-intercept, and so $x=\boxed{15}$

Solution:
Using the protractor you brought, carefully graph the equation and rotate the given line $45^{\circ}$ counter-clockwise about the point $(20,20)$ . Scaling everything down by a factor of 5 makes this process easier.
It should then become fairly obvious that the x intercept is $x=\boxed{15}$ (only use this as a last resort).


Answer: 50.0

Line segment $\overline{AB}$ is a diameter of a circle with $AB = 24$ . Point $C$ , not equal to $A$ or $B$ , lies on the circle. As point $C$ moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of $\triangle ABC$ traces out a closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?
$\textbf{(A) } 25 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 38  \qquad \textbf{(C) } 50  \qquad \textbf{(D) } 63 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 75$

Solution:
For each $\triangle ABC,$ note that the length of one median is $OC=12.$ Let $G$ be the centroid of $\triangle ABC.$ It follows that $OG=\frac13 OC=4.$
As shown below, $\triangle ABC_1$ and $\triangle ABC_2$ are two shapes of $\triangle ABC$ with centroids $G_1$ and $G_2,$ respectively:  Therefore, point $G$ traces out a circle (missing two points) with the center $O$ and the radius $\overline{OG},$ as indicated in red. To the nearest positive integer, the area of the region bounded by the red curve is $\pi\cdot OG^2=16\pi\approx\boxed{50}.$

Solution: We assign coordinates. Let $A = (-12,0)$ $B = (12,0)$ , and $C = (x,y)$ lie on the circle $x^2 +y^2 = 12^2$ . Then, the centroid of $\triangle ABC$ is $G = \left(\frac{-12 + 12 + x}{3}, \frac{0 + 0 + y}{3}\right) = \left(\frac x3,\frac y3\right)$ . Thus, $G$ traces out a circle with a radius $\frac13$ of the radius of the circle that point $C$ travels on. Thus, $G$ traces out a circle of radius $\frac{12}{3} = 4$ , which has area $16\pi\approx \boxed{50}$

Solution: First we can draw a few conclusions from the given information. Firstly we can see clearly that the distance from the centroid to the center of the circle will remain the same no matter $C$ is on the circle. Also we can see that because the two legs of every triangles will always originate on the diameter, using inscribed angle rules, we know that $\angle C = \frac{180^\circ}{2} = 90^\circ$ . Now we know that all triangles $ABC$ will be a right triangle. We also know that the closed curve will simply be a circle with radius equal to the centroid of each triangle. We can now pick any arbitrary triangle, calculate its centroid, and the plug it in to the area formula. Using a $45^\circ$ $45^\circ$ $90^\circ$ triangle in conjunction with the properties of a centroid, we can quickly see that the length of the centroid is $4$ now we can plug it in to the area formula where we get $16\pi\approx\boxed{50}$


Answer: 50.0

Solution:
For each $\triangle ABC,$ note that the length of one median is $OC=12.$ Let $G$ be the centroid of $\triangle ABC.$ It follows that $OG=\frac13 OC=4.$
As shown below, $\triangle ABC_1$ and $\triangle ABC_2$ are two shapes of $\triangle ABC$ with centroids $G_1$ and $G_2,$ respectively:  Therefore, point $G$ traces out a circle (missing two points) with the center $O$ and the radius $\overline{OG},$ as indicated in red. To the nearest positive integer, the area of the region bounded by the red curve is $\pi\cdot OG^2=16\pi\approx\boxed{50}.$

Solution: We assign coordinates. Let $A = (-12,0)$ $B = (12,0)$ , and $C = (x,y)$ lie on the circle $x^2 +y^2 = 12^2$ . Then, the centroid of $\triangle ABC$ is $G = \left(\frac{-12 + 12 + x}{3}, \frac{0 + 0 + y}{3}\right) = \left(\frac x3,\frac y3\right)$ . Thus, $G$ traces out a circle with a radius $\frac13$ of the radius of the circle that point $C$ travels on. Thus, $G$ traces out a circle of radius $\frac{12}{3} = 4$ , which has area $16\pi\approx \boxed{50}$

Solution: First we can draw a few conclusions from the given information. Firstly we can see clearly that the distance from the centroid to the center of the circle will remain the same no matter $C$ is on the circle. Also we can see that because the two legs of every triangles will always originate on the diameter, using inscribed angle rules, we know that $\angle C = \frac{180^\circ}{2} = 90^\circ$ . Now we know that all triangles $ABC$ will be a right triangle. We also know that the closed curve will simply be a circle with radius equal to the centroid of each triangle. We can now pick any arbitrary triangle, calculate its centroid, and the plug it in to the area formula. Using a $45^\circ$ $45^\circ$ $90^\circ$ triangle in conjunction with the properties of a centroid, we can quickly see that the length of the centroid is $4$ now we can plug it in to the area formula where we get $16\pi\approx\boxed{50}$


Answer: 4351.0

Lines $L_1,L_2,\dots,L_{100}$ are distinct. All lines $L_{4n}, n$ a positive integer, are parallel to each other.
All lines $L_{4n-3}, n$ a positive integer, pass through a given point $A.$ The maximum number of points of intersection of pairs of lines from the complete set $\{L_1,L_2,\dots,L_{100}\}$ is
$\textbf{(A) }4350\qquad \textbf{(B) }4351\qquad \textbf{(C) }4900\qquad \textbf{(D) }4901\qquad  \textbf{(E) }9851$

Solution:
We partition $\{L_1,L_2,\dots,L_{100}\}$ into three sets. Let \begin{align*} X &= \{L_n\mid n\equiv0\pmod{4}\}, \\ Y &= \{L_n\mid n\equiv1\pmod{4}\}, \\ Z &= \{L_n\mid n\equiv2,3\pmod{4}\}, \\ \end{align*} from which $|X|=|Y|=25$ and $|Z|=50.$
Any two distinct lines can intersect at most once. To maximize the number of points of intersection, note that each point must be passed by exactly two lines. If three or more lines pass through the same point, then we can create more points of intersection by translating the lines.
We construct the sets one by one:
Together, the answer is $626+3725=\boxed{4351}.$


Answer: 945.0

Lines $l_1^{}$ and $l_2^{}$ both pass through the origin and make first-quadrant angles of $\frac{\pi}{70}$ and $\frac{\pi}{54}$ radians, respectively, with the positive x-axis. For any line $l^{}_{}$ , the transformation $R(l)^{}_{}$ produces another line as follows: $l^{}_{}$ is reflected in $l_1^{}$ , and the resulting line is reflected in $l_2^{}$ . Let $R^{(1)}(l)=R(l)^{}_{}$ and $R^{(n)}(l)^{}_{}=R\left(R^{(n-1)}(l)\right)$ . Given that $l^{}_{}$ is the line $y=\frac{19}{92}x^{}_{}$ , find the smallest positive integer $m^{}_{}$ for which $R^{(m)}(l)=l^{}_{}$

Solution:
Let $l$ be a line that makes an angle of $\theta$ with the positive $x$ -axis. Let $l'$ be the reflection of $l$ in $l_1$ , and let $l''$ be the reflection of $l'$ in $l_2$
The angle between $l$ and $l_1$ is $\theta - \frac{\pi}{70}$ , so the angle between $l_1$ and $l'$ must also be $\theta - \frac{\pi}{70}$ . Thus, $l'$ makes an angle of $\frac{\pi}{70}-\left(\theta-\frac{\pi}{70}\right) = \frac{\pi}{35}-\theta$ with the positive $x$ -axis.
Similarly, since the angle between $l'$ and $l_2$ is $\left(\frac{\pi}{35}-\theta\right)-\frac{\pi}{54}$ , the angle between $l''$ and the positive $x$ -axis is $\frac{\pi}{54}-\left(\left(\frac{\pi}{35}-\theta\right)-\frac{\pi}{54}\right) = \frac{\pi}{27}-\frac{\pi}{35}+\theta = \frac{8\pi}{945} + \theta$
Thus, $R(l)$ makes an $\frac{8\pi}{945} + \theta$ angle with the positive $x$ -axis. So $R^{(n)}(l)$ makes an $\frac{8n\pi}{945} + \theta$ angle with the positive $x$ -axis.
Therefore, $R^{(m)}(l)=l$ iff $\frac{8m\pi}{945}$ is an integral multiple of $\pi$ . Thus, $8m \equiv 0\pmod{945}$ . Since $\gcd(8,945)=1$ $m \equiv 0 \pmod{945}$ , so the smallest positive integer $m$ is $\boxed{945}$


Answer: 79.0

Located inside equilateral triangle $ABC$ is a point $P$ such that $PA=8$ $PB=6$ , and $PC=10$ .  To the nearest integer the area of triangle $ABC$ is:
$\textbf{(A)}\ 159\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 131\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 95\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 79\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 50$

Solution:
Notice that $6^2+8^2=10^2.$ That makes us want to construct a right triangle.
Rotate $\triangle APC$ $60^{\circ}$ about A. Note that $\triangle PAC \cong \triangle P'AB$ , so \[\angle P'AP = \angle PAB + \angle P'AB = \angle PAB + \angle PAC = 60^{\circ}.\]
Therefore, $\triangle APP'$ is equilateral, so $P'P=8$ , which means $\angle P'PB = 90^{\circ}.$
Let $\angle BP'P = \alpha .$ Notice that $\cos\alpha = \frac{8}{10}=\frac{4}{5},$ and $\sin\alpha = \frac{3}{5}.$
Applying the Law of Cosines to $\triangle APC$ (remembering $\angle APC = \angle AP'B$ ): \begin{align*} AC^2 &= 10^2+8^2-2\cdot10\cdot8\cdot \cos(60^{\circ}+\alpha)\\&= 164-160(\cos60\cos\alpha-\sin60\sin\alpha)\\&= 164-160(\frac{2}{5}-\frac{3\sqrt3}{10}) \\&= 164-16(4-3\sqrt3) \\ &= 100+48\sqrt3.\end{align*}
We want to find the area of $\triangle ABC$ , which is \[AC^2\cdot\frac{\sqrt3}{4}=25\sqrt3+36\approx\boxed{79}.\]

Solution:
Fun formula:  Given a point whose distances from the vertices of an equilateral triangle are $a$ $b$ , and $c$ , the side length of the triangle is:
\[s=\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}\left(a^2+b^2+c^2\pm\sqrt{6(a^2b^2+b^2c^2+c^2a^2)-3(a^4+b^4+c^4)}\right)}\]
Given that the area of an equilateral triangle is $\frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}s^2$ , the answer is:
\begin{align*} [ABC] &= \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}\cdot\frac{1}{2}\left(a^2+b^2+c^2\pm\sqrt{6(a^2b^2+b^2c^2+c^2a^2)-3(a^4+b^4+c^4)}\right)\\ &= \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{6\cdot 16(3^2 4^2+4^2 5^2+5^2 3^2)-3\cdot16(3^4+4^4+5^4)}\right)\\ &= \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{96(144+400+225)-48(81+256+625)}\right)\\ &= \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{96\cdot769-48\cdot962}\right) = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{96\cdot769-96\cdot481}\right)\\ &= \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{96\cdot288}\right) = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{8}\left(200\pm\sqrt{96\cdot96\cdot3}\right)\\ &= 25\sqrt{3}\pm36 \approx \{6.5, \text{or } 78.5\} \end{align*}
$6.5$ is not a choice, therefore the answer is $\boxed{79}$

Solution:
Rotate $P$ and $B$ $60^{\circ}$ CCW around $A$ , becoming $X$ and $C$ .  Rotate $P$ and $C$ $60^{\circ}$ CCW around $B$ , becoming $Y$ and $A$ .  Rotate $P$ and $A$ $60^{\circ}$ CCW around $C$ , becoming $Z$ and $B$

Notice that since $\triangle AXC\cong\triangle APB$ $\triangle BYA\cong\triangle BPC$ , and $\triangle CZB\cong\triangle CPA$ , then
\[[AYBZCX]=2\cdot[ABC]\]
Now the area of the big hexagon is easy to compute since it's comprised of 3 equilateral triangle and 3 right triangles:
\begin{align*}[ABC] &= \frac{1}{2}[AYBZCX] = \frac{1}{2}\left(\underbrace{3\cdot\frac12\cdot6\cdot8}_{\text{3 right triangles}}+\underbrace{\frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}\left(6^2+8^2+10^2\right)}_{\text{3 equilateral triangles}}\right)\\ &= \frac{1}{2}\left(72+\frac{\sqrt{3}}{4}\cdot200)\right) = 36+25\sqrt{3}\\ &\approx \boxed{79}


Answer: 79.0

Solution: Let $s$ be the side length of $ABC.$ Notice that $s\le 14$ by the triangle inequality. This means that \[[ABC]\le\dfrac{14^2\sqrt{3}}{2}\approx 84.87.\] This automatically rules out choices $A, B,$ and $C.$ Now, we will look at if the area is $50$ . By the equilateral triangle area formula, $s$ would equal $10\sqrt{\dfrac{2}{\sqrt{3}}}\approx 10.75.$ This is very close to $10.$ If $s=10,$ $\angle APB=90$ and $\angle APC, \angle BPC<90$ by the Pythagorean theorem and Pythagorean inequalities. Thus, \[\angle APB+\angle APC+\angle BPC<270.\] $\angle APB+\angle APC+\angle BPC$ needs to be $360,$ and it probably cannot increase by more than $90$ by just adding $0.75$ to $s$ (more rigorous proof below) Thus, the only viable answer choice is $\boxed{79}.$


Answer: 0.4

Logan is constructing a scaled model of his town. The city's water tower stands 40 meters high, and the top portion is a sphere that holds 100,000 liters of water. Logan's miniature water tower holds 0.1 liters. How tall, in meters, should Logan make his tower?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 0.04 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{0.4}{\pi} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 0.4 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{4}{\pi} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 4$

Solution: The water tower holds $\frac{100000}{0.1} = 1000000$ times more water than Logan's miniature. The volume of a sphere is: $V=\dfrac{4}{3}\pi r^3$ . Since we are comparing the heights (m), we should compare the radii (m) to find the ratio. Since, the radius is cubed, Logan should make his tower $\sqrt[3]{1000000} = 100$ times shorter than the actual tower. This is $\frac{40}{100} = \boxed{0.4}$


Answer: 0.4

Solution: The water tower holds $\frac{100000}{0.1} = 1000000$ times more water than Logan's miniature. The volume of a sphere is: $V=\dfrac{4}{3}\pi r^3$ . Since we are comparing the heights (m), we should compare the radii (m) to find the ratio. Since, the radius is cubed, Logan should make his tower $\sqrt[3]{1000000} = 100$ times shorter than the actual tower. This is $\frac{40}{100} = \boxed{0.4}$


Answer: 14.0

Loki, Moe, Nick and Ott are good friends. Ott had no money, but the others did. Moe gave Ott one-fifth of his money, Loki gave Ott one-fourth of his money and Nick gave Ott one-third of his money. Each gave Ott the same amount of money. What fractional part of the group's money does Ott now have?
$\text{(A)}\ \frac{1}{10}\qquad\text{(B)}\ \frac{1}{4}\qquad\text{(C)}\ \frac{1}{3}\qquad\text{(D)}\ \frac{2}{5}\qquad\text{(E)}\ \frac{1}{2}$

Solution: Since Ott gets equal amounts of money from each friend, we can say that he gets $x$ dollars from each friend. This means that Moe has $5x$ dollars, Loki has $4x$ dollars, and Nick has $3x$ dollars. The total amount is $12x$ dollars, and since Ott gets $3x$ dollars total, $\frac{3x}{12x}= \frac{3}{12} = \boxed{14}$

Solution: Assume Moe, Loki, and Nick each give Ott $$ 1$ . Therefore, Moe has $$ 5$ , Loki has $$ 4$ , and Nick has $$ 3$ . After everyone gives Ott some fraction of their money, the total money at the end situation will be the same as the original; which is $$ 12$ . Ott gets $$ 1$ $+$ $$ 1$ $+$ $$ 1$ $=$ $$ 3$ . Thus, the answer is $\frac{3}{12}=\boxed{14}$


Answer: 101.0

Lola, Lolo, Tiya, and Tiyo participated in a ping pong tournament. Each player competed against each of the other three players exactly twice. Shown below are the win-loss records for the players. The numbers $1$ and $0$ represent a win or loss, respectively. For example, Lola won five matches and lost the fourth match. What was Tiyo’s win-loss record?
\[\begin{tabular}{c | c} Player & Result \\ \hline Lola & \texttt{111011}\\ Lolo & \texttt{101010}\\ Tiya & \texttt{010100}\\ Tiyo & \texttt{??????} \end{tabular}\] $\textbf{(A)}\ \texttt{000101} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \texttt{001001} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \texttt{010000} \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \texttt{010101} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \texttt{011000}$

Solution: We can calculate the total number of wins ( $1$ 's) by seeing how many matches were players, which is $12$ matches played. Then, we can calculate the # of wins already on the table, which is $5 + 3 + 2 = 10$ , so there are $12 - 10 = 2$ wins left in the mystery player. Now, we will make the key observation that there is only $2$ wins ( $1$ 's) per column as there are $2$ winners and $2$ losers in each round. Strategically looking through the columns counting the $1$ 's and putting our own $2$ $1$ 's when the column isn't already full yields $\boxed{000101}$

Solution:
In total, there will be $\binom{4}{2} \cdot 2 = 6 \cdot 2 = 12$ games because there are $\binom{4}{2}$ ways to choose a pair of people from the four players. And, each player will play each other player exactly twice. Each of these $12$ games will have $1$ winner and $1$ loser, so there will be a total of $12$ $1$ 's and $12$ $0$ 's in the win-loss table. Therefore, Tiyo will have $12-10=2$ $1$ 's and $12-8=4$ $0$ 's in his record.
Now, all we have to do is figure out the order of these $1$ 's and $0$ 's. In every round, there are two games; the players are split into two pairs and the people in those pairs play each other. Thus, every round should have $2$ winners and $2$ losers which means that every column of the win-loss table should have $2$ $1$ 's and $2$ $0$ 's. Looking at the filled-in table so far, we see that columns $4$ and $6$ need one more $1$ , so Tiyo must have $1$ 's in those columns and $0$ 's gone in the others.
Therefore, our answer is $\boxed{000101}.$

Solution:
We can look one by one. We see that Lola and Lolo won the first game and Tiya lost. This shows that Tiyo must have lost as well because the results must be $2$ wins and $2$ loses. We use the same logic for games $2$ and $3$ , giving us $0$ 's again. We look at the choices, and we see A is the only that starts with $3$ $0$ 's
This shows our answer is $\boxed{000101}.$


Answer: 24.0

Luka is making lemonade to sell at a school fundraiser. His recipe requires $4$ times as much water as sugar and twice as much sugar as lemon juice. He uses $3$ cups of lemon juice. How many cups of water does he need?
$\textbf{(A) }6 \qquad \textbf{(B) }8 \qquad \textbf{(C) }12 \qquad \textbf{(D) }18 \qquad \textbf{(E) }24$

Solution: We have $\text{water} : \text{sugar} : \text{lemon juice} = 4\cdot 2 : 2 : 1 = 8 : 2 : 1,$ so Luka needs $3 \cdot 8 = \boxed{24}$ cups.

Solution:
Since the amount of sugar is twice the amount of lemon juice, Luka uses $3\cdot2=6$ cups of sugar.
Since the amount of water is $4$ times the amount of sugar, he uses $6\cdot4=\boxed{24}$ cups of water.

Solution: The ratio is $\text{Water}:\text{Sugar}:\text{Lemon Juice},$ or $8:2:1.$ Since we know that Luka used 3 cups of lemon juice, he needs $3\cdot2=6$ cups of sugar. Because the amount of water is $4$ times the amount of sugar Luka needs, he will need $6\cdot4=\boxed{24}$ cups of water.


Answer: 10.0

Maddy and Lara see a list of numbers written on a blackboard. Maddy adds $3$ to each number in the list and finds that the sum of her new numbers is $45$ . Lara multiplies each number in the list by $3$ and finds that the sum of her new numbers is also $45$ . How many numbers are written on the blackboard?
$\textbf{(A) }10\qquad\textbf{(B) }5\qquad\textbf{(C) }6\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$

Solution:
Let there be $n$ numbers in the list of numbers, and let their sum be $S$ . Then we have the following
\[S+3n=45\]
\[3S=45\]
From the second equation, $S=15$ . So, $15+3n=45$ $\Rightarrow$ $n=\boxed{10}.$

Solution: Let $x_1,x_2,x_3,...,x_n$ where $x_n$ represents the $n$ th number written on the board. Lara's multiplied each number by $3$ , so her sum will be $3x_1+3x_2+3x_3+...+3x_n$ . This is the same as $3\cdot (x_1+x_2+x_3+...+x_n)$ . We are given this quantity is equal to $45$ , so the original numbers add to $\frac{45}{3}=15$ . Maddy adds $3$ to each of the $n$ terms which yields, $x_1+3+x_2+3+x_3+3+...+x_n+3$ . This is the same as the sum of the original series plus $3 \cdot n$ . Setting this equal to $45$ $15+3n=45 \Rightarrow n =\boxed{10}.$


Answer: 25.0

Makarla attended two meetings during her $9$ -hour work day. The first meeting took $45$ minutes and the second meeting took twice as long. What percent of her work day was spent attending meetings?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 15 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 20 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 25 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 30 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 35$

Solution: The total number of minutes in her $9$ -hour work day is $9 \times 60 = 540.$ The total amount of time spend in meetings in minutes is $45 + 45 \times 2 = 135.$ The answer is then $\frac{135}{540}$ $= \boxed{25}$


Answer: 25.0

Solution: The total number of minutes in her $9$ -hour work day is $9 \times 60 = 540.$ The total amount of time spend in meetings in minutes is $45 + 45 \times 2 = 135.$ The answer is then $\frac{135}{540}$ $= \boxed{25}$


Answer: 8.0

Malaika is skiing on a mountain. The graph below shows her elevation, in meters, above the base of the mountain as she skis along a trail. In total, how many seconds does she spend at an elevation between $4$ and $7$ meters? [asy] // Diagram by TheMathGuyd. Found cubic, so graph is perfect. import graph; size(8cm); int i; for(i=1; i<9; i=i+1) { draw((-0.2,2i-1)--(16.2,2i-1), mediumgrey); draw((2i-1,-0.2)--(2i-1,16.2), mediumgrey); draw((-0.2,2i)--(16.2,2i), grey); draw((2i,-0.2)--(2i,16.2), grey); } Label f;  f.p=fontsize(6);  xaxis(-0.5,17.8,Ticks(f, 2.0),Arrow());  yaxis(-0.5,17.8,Ticks(f, 2.0),Arrow());  real f(real x)  {  return -0.03125 x^(3) + 0.75x^(2) - 5.125 x + 14.5;  }  draw(graph(f,0,15.225),currentpen+1); real dpt=2; real ts=0.75; transform st=scale(ts); label(rotate(90)*st*"Elevation (meters)",(-dpt,8)); label(st*"Time (seconds)",(8,-dpt)); [/asy] $\textbf{(A)}\ 6 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 8 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 10 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 12 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 14$

Solution:
We mark the time intervals in which Malaika's elevation is between $4$ and $7$ meters in red, as shown below:  The requested time intervals are:
In total, Malaika spends $(4-2) + (10-6) + (14-12) = \boxed{8}$ seconds at such elevation.

Solution: Notice that the entire section between the $2$ second mark and the $14$ second mark is between the $4$ and $7$ feet elevation level except the $2$ seconds where she skis just under the $4$ feet mark and when she skis just above the $7$ feet mark, making the answer $14-2-2-2=\boxed{8}.$


Answer: 8.0

Malcolm wants to visit Isabella after school today and knows the street where she lives but doesn't know her house number. She tells him, "My house number has two digits, and exactly three of the following four statements about it are true."
(1) It is prime.
(2) It is even.
(3) It is divisible by 7.
(4) One of its digits is 9.
This information allows Malcolm to determine Isabella's house number. What is its units digit?
$\textbf{(A) }4\qquad\textbf{(B) }6\qquad\textbf{(C) }7\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }9$

Solution: Notice that (1) cannot be true. Otherwise, the number would have to be prime and be either even or divisible by 7. This only happens if the number is 2 or 7, neither of which are two-digit numbers, so we run into a contradiction. Thus, we must have (2), (3), and (4) be true. By (2), the $2$ -digit number is even, and thus, the digit in the tens place must be $9$ . The only even $2$ -digit number starting with $9$ and divisible by $7$ is $98$ , which has a units digit of $\boxed{8}.$

Solution: (Statement 1) Cannot be true, because only one of these four statements is true, and (Statement 1) states that the number is prime, which would make (Statement 2) and (Statement 3) false, which is not possible. And since the number being described is even, it must end with an even number (0,2,4,6,8). And since the number being described is a two-digit number, the first digit must be 9 (according to statement 4) because we are looking for the units digit (the digit in the one's place of a number). And so if we plug in the number 9 to all of the even answers, we will get three possible outcomes. $94$ $96$ , and $98$ . Because the number described is divisible by 7 (according to statement 3), the only possible answer for the number being described would be $98$ . So, the answer is $\boxed{8}.$

Solution:
Like solutions 1 and 2, Statement 1 can't be true because it would contradict both Statements 2 and 3. Therefore, the other three must be true. We know the following:
The only multiple of 14 that has a tens digit of 9 is 98. Thus, our answer is $\boxed{8}.$


Answer: 59.0

Many states use a sequence of three letters followed by a sequence of three digits as their standard license-plate pattern. Given that each three-letter three-digit arrangement is equally likely,  the probability that such a license plate will contain at least one palindrome (a three-letter arrangement or a three-digit arrangement that reads the same left-to-right as it does right-to-left) is $\dfrac{m}{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$

Solution: Using complementary counting, we count all of the license plates that do not have the desired property.  To not be a palindrome, the first and third characters of each string must be different.  Therefore, there are $10\cdot 10\cdot 9$ three-digit non-palindromes, and there are $26\cdot 26\cdot 25$ three-letter non-palindromes.  As there are $10^3\cdot 26^3$ total three-letter three-digit arrangements, the probability that a license plate does not have the desired property is $\frac{10\cdot 10\cdot 9\cdot 26\cdot 26\cdot 25}{10^3\cdot 26^3}=\frac{45}{52}$ .  We subtract this from 1 to get $1-\frac{45}{52}=\frac{7}{52}$ as our probability.  Therefore, our answer is $7+52=\boxed{059}$

Solution: Note that we can pick the first and second letters/numbers freely with one choice left for the last letter/number for there to be a palindrome. Thus, the probability of no palindrome is \[\frac{25}{26}\cdot \frac{9}{10}=\frac{45}{52}\] thus we have $1-\frac{45}{52}=\frac{7}{52}$ so our answer is $7+52 = \boxed{059}.$


Answer: 21.5

Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal length to the height in a standard television screen is $4:3$ . The horizontal length of a " $27$ -inch" television screen is closest, in inches, to which of the following?
$\textbf{(A) } 20 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 20.5 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 21 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 21.5 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 22$

Solution:
If you divide the television screen into two right triangles, the legs are in the ratio of $4 : 3$ , and we can let one leg be $4x$ and the other be $3x$ . Then we can use the Pythagorean Theorem.
\begin{align*}(4x)^2+(3x)^2&=27^2\\ 16x^2+9x^2&=729\\ 25x^2&=729\\ x^2&=\frac{729}{25}\\ x&=\frac{27}{5}\\ x&=5.4\end{align*}
The horizontal length is $5.4\times4=21.6$ , which is closest to $\boxed{21.5}$

Solution: One can realize that the diagonal, vertical, and horizontal lengths all make up a $3,4,5$ triangle. Therefore, the horizontal length, being the $4$ in the $4 : 3$ ratio, is simply $\frac{4}{5}$ times the hypotenuse. $\frac{4}{5}\cdot27=21.6 \approx \boxed{21.5}$


Answer: 21.5

Solution:
If you divide the television screen into two right triangles, the legs are in the ratio of $4 : 3$ , and we can let one leg be $4x$ and the other be $3x$ . Then we can use the Pythagorean Theorem.
\begin{align*}(4x)^2+(3x)^2&=27^2\\ 16x^2+9x^2&=729\\ 25x^2&=729\\ x^2&=\frac{729}{25}\\ x&=\frac{27}{5}\\ x&=5.4\end{align*}
The horizontal length is $5.4\times4=21.6$ , which is closest to $\boxed{21.5}$

Solution: One can realize that the diagonal, vertical, and horizontal lengths all make up a $3,4,5$ triangle. Therefore, the horizontal length, being the $4$ in the $4 : 3$ ratio, is simply $\frac{4}{5}$ times the hypotenuse. $\frac{4}{5}\cdot27=21.6 \approx \boxed{21.5}$


Answer: 3.5

Margie bought $3$ apples at a cost of $50$ cents per apple. She paid with a 5-dollar bill. How much change did Margie receive?
$\textbf{(A)}\ \textdollar 1.50 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \textdollar 2.00 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ \textdollar 2.50 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \textdollar 3.00 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ \textdollar 3.50$

Solution: $50$ cents is equivalent to $\textdollar 0.50.$ Then the three apples cost $3 \times \textdollar 0.50 = \textdollar 1.50.$ The change Margie receives is $\textdollar 5.00 - \textdollar 1.50 = \boxed{3.50}$


Answer: 160.0

Margie's car can go $32$ miles on a gallon of gas, and gas currently costs $ $4$ per gallon. How many miles can Margie drive on $\textdollar 20$ worth of gas?
$\textbf{(A) }64\qquad\textbf{(B) }128\qquad\textbf{(C) }160\qquad\textbf{(D) }320\qquad \textbf{(E) }640$

Solution: Margie can afford $20/4=5$ gallons of gas. She can go $32\cdot5=\boxed{160}$ miles on this amount of gas.


Answer: 42.0

Margie's winning art design is shown. The smallest circle has radius 2 inches, with each successive circle's radius increasing by 2 inches. Which of the following is closest to the percent of the design that is black?
[asy] real d=320; pair O=origin; pair P=O+8*dir(d); pair A0 = origin; pair A1 = O+1*dir(d); pair A2 = O+2*dir(d); pair A3 = O+3*dir(d); pair A4 = O+4*dir(d); pair A5 = O+5*dir(d); filldraw(Circle(A0, 6), white, black); filldraw(circle(A1, 5), black, black); filldraw(circle(A2, 4), white, black); filldraw(circle(A3, 3), black, black); filldraw(circle(A4, 2), white, black); filldraw(circle(A5, 1), black, black); [/asy]
$\textbf{(A)}\ 42\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 44\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 45\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 46\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 48\qquad$

Solution:
Let the smallest circle be 1, the second smallest circle be 2, the third smallest circle be 3, etc. \[\begin{array}{c|cc} \text{circle \#} & \text{radius} & \text{area} \\ \hline 1 & 2 & 4\pi \\ 2 & 4 & 16\pi \\ 3 & 6 & 36\pi \\ 4 & 8 & 64\pi \\ 5 & 10 & 100\pi \\ 6 & 12 & 144\pi \end{array}\]
The entire circle's area is $144\pi$ . The area of the black regions is $(100-64)\pi + (36-16)\pi + 4\pi = 60\pi$ . The percentage of the design that is black is $\frac{60\pi}{144\pi} = \frac{5}{12} \approx \boxed{42}$


Answer: 240.0

Maria buys computer disks at a price of $4$ for $$5$ and sells them at a price of $3$ for $$5$ .  How many computer disks must she sell in order to make a profit of $$100$
$\text{(A)}\ 100 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 120 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 200 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 240 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 1200$

Solution:
This is the equivalent of saying she buys $12$ for $$15$ and sells $12$ for $$20$ , so for every dozen disks she sells, she profits $$5$
She needs to profit $$100$ , so she needs to sell $\frac{100}{5}=20$ dozen disks, which is $240\rightarrow \boxed{240}$


Answer: 50.0

Marla has a large white cube that has an edge of 10 feet. She also has enough green paint to cover 300 square feet. Marla uses all the paint to create a white square centered on each face, surrounded by a green border. What is the area of one of the white squares, in square feet? $\textbf{(A)}\hspace{.05in}5\sqrt2\qquad\textbf{(B)}\hspace{.05in}10\qquad\textbf{(C)}\hspace{.05in}10\sqrt2\qquad\textbf{(D)}\hspace{.05in}50\qquad\textbf{(E)}\hspace{.05in}50\sqrt2$

Solution: If Marla evenly distributes her $300$ square feet of paint between the 6 faces, each face will get $300\div6 = 50$ square feet of paint. The surface area of one of the faces of the cube is $10^2 = 100$ square feet. Therefore, there will be $100-50 = \boxed{50}$ square feet of white on each side.


Answer: 125.0

Martians measure angles in clerts.  There are $500$ clerts in a full circle.  How many clerts are there in a right angle?
$\text{(A)}\ 90 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 100 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 125 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 180 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 250$

Solution: The right angle is $1/4$ of the circle, hence it contains $500/4=125\rightarrow \boxed{125}$ clerts.


Answer: 340.0

Mary chose an even $4$ -digit number $n$ . She wrote down all the divisors of $n$ in increasing order from left to right: $1,2,\ldots,\dfrac{n}{2},n$ . At some moment Mary wrote $323$ as a divisor of $n$ . What is the smallest possible value of the next divisor written to the right of $323$
$\textbf{(A) } 324 \qquad \textbf{(B) } 330 \qquad \textbf{(C) } 340 \qquad \textbf{(D) } 361 \qquad \textbf{(E) } 646$

Solution:
Let $d$ be the next divisor written to the right of $323.$
If $\gcd(323,d)=1,$ then \[n\geq323d>323^2>100^2=10000,\] which contradicts the precondition that $n$ is a $4$ -digit number.
It follows that $\gcd(323,d)>1.$ Since $323=17\cdot19,$ the smallest possible value of $d$ is $17\cdot20=\boxed{340}(323,d)=17\cdot19\cdot20=6460.\] ~MRENTHUSIASM ~tdeng

Solution:
Let $d$ be the next divisor written to the right of $323.$
Since $n$ is even and $323=17\cdot19,$ we have $n=2\cdot17\cdot19\cdot k=646k$ for some positive integer $k.$ Moreover, since $1000\leq n\leq9998,$ we get $2\leq k\leq15.$ As $d>323,$ it is clear that $d$ must be divisible by $17$ or $19$ or both.
Therefore, the smallest possible value of $d$ is $17\cdot20=\boxed{340}(323,d)=17\cdot19\cdot20=6460.\] ~MRENTHUSIASM ~bjhhar

Solution: The prime factorization of $323$ is $17 \cdot 19$ . Our answer must be a multiple of either $17$ or $19$ or both. Since $17 < 19$ , the next smallest divisor that is divisble by $17$ would be $323 + 17 = \boxed{340}$

Solution: Since prime factorizing $323$ gives you $17 \cdot 19$ , the desired answer needs to be a multiple of $17$ or $19$ , this is because if it is not a multiple of $17$ or $19$ $n$ will be more than a $4$ digit number. For example, if the answer were to instead be $324$ $n$ would have to be a multiple of $2^2\cdot3^4\cdot17\cdot19$ for both $323$ and $324$ to be a valid factor, meaning $n$ would have to be at least $104652$ , which is too big. Looking at the answer choices, $\textbf{(A)}$ and $\textbf{(B)}$ are both not a multiple of neither $17$ nor $19$ $\textbf{(C)}$ is divisible by $17$ $\textbf{(D)}$ is divisible by $19$ , and $\textbf{(E)}$ is divisible by both $17$ and $19$ . Since $\boxed{340}$ is the smallest number divisible by either $17$ or $19$ it is the answer. Checking, we can see that $n$ would be $6460$ , a $4$ -digit number. Note that $n$ is also divisible by $2$ , one of the listed divisors of $n$ . (If $n$ was not divisible by $2$ , we would need to look for a different divisor.)

Solution:
Note that $323$ multiplied by any of the answer choices results in a $5$ or $6$ -digit $n$ . So, we need a choice that shares a factor(s) with $323$ , such that the factors we'll need to add to the prime factorization of $n$ (in result to adding the chosen divisor) won't cause our number to multiply to more than $4$ digits.
The prime factorization of $323$ is $17\cdot19$ , and since we know $n$ is even, our answer needs to be
We see $340$ achieves this and is the smallest to do so ( $646$ being the other). So, we get $\boxed{340}$


Answer: 340.0

Solution:
Let $d$ be the next divisor written to the right of $323.$
If $\gcd(323,d)=1,$ then \[n\geq323d>323^2>100^2=10000,\] which contradicts the precondition that $n$ is a $4$ -digit number.
It follows that $\gcd(323,d)>1.$ Since $323=17\cdot19,$ the smallest possible value of $d$ is $17\cdot20=\boxed{340}(323,d)=17\cdot19\cdot20=6460.\] ~MRENTHUSIASM ~tdeng

Solution:
Let $d$ be the next divisor written to the right of $323.$
Since $n$ is even and $323=17\cdot19,$ we have $n=2\cdot17\cdot19\cdot k=646k$ for some positive integer $k.$ Moreover, since $1000\leq n\leq9998,$ we get $2\leq k\leq15.$ As $d>323,$ it is clear that $d$ must be divisible by $17$ or $19$ or both.
Therefore, the smallest possible value of $d$ is $17\cdot20=\boxed{340}(323,d)=17\cdot19\cdot20=6460.\] ~MRENTHUSIASM ~bjhhar

Solution: The prime factorization of $323$ is $17 \cdot 19$ . Our answer must be a multiple of either $17$ or $19$ or both. Since $17 < 19$ , the next smallest divisor that is divisble by $17$ would be $323 + 17 = \boxed{340}$

Solution: Since prime factorizing $323$ gives you $17 \cdot 19$ , the desired answer needs to be a multiple of $17$ or $19$ , this is because if it is not a multiple of $17$ or $19$ $n$ will be more than a $4$ digit number. For example, if the answer were to instead be $324$ $n$ would have to be a multiple of $2^2\cdot3^4\cdot17\cdot19$ for both $323$ and $324$ to be a valid factor, meaning $n$ would have to be at least $104652$ , which is too big. Looking at the answer choices, $\textbf{(A)}$ and $\textbf{(B)}$ are both not a multiple of neither $17$ nor $19$ $\textbf{(C)}$ is divisible by $17$ $\textbf{(D)}$ is divisible by $19$ , and $\textbf{(E)}$ is divisible by both $17$ and $19$ . Since $\boxed{340}$ is the smallest number divisible by either $17$ or $19$ it is the answer. Checking, we can see that $n$ would be $6460$ , a $4$ -digit number. Note that $n$ is also divisible by $2$ , one of the listed divisors of $n$ . (If $n$ was not divisible by $2$ , we would need to look for a different divisor.)

Solution:
Note that $323$ multiplied by any of the answer choices results in a $5$ or $6$ -digit $n$ . So, we need a choice that shares a factor(s) with $323$ , such that the factors we'll need to add to the prime factorization of $n$ (in result to adding the chosen divisor) won't cause our number to multiply to more than $4$ digits.
The prime factorization of $323$ is $17\cdot19$ , and since we know $n$ is even, our answer needs to be
We see $340$ achieves this and is the smallest to do so ( $646$ being the other). So, we get $\boxed{340}$