Problems

How many two-digit positive integers have at least one $7$ as a digit?

Two eight-sided dice each have faces numbered $1$ through $8$ . When the dice are rolled, each face has an equal probability of appearing on the top. What is the probability that the product of the two top numbers is greater than their sum?

Each face of a cube is painted either red or blue, each with probability 1/2. The color of each face is determined independently. What is the probability that the painted cube can be placed on a horizontal surface so that the four vertical faces are all the same color?

A point $(x,y)$ is randomly picked from inside the rectangle with vertices $(0,0)$ , $(4,0)$ , $(4,1)$ , and $(0,1)$ . What is the probability that $x<y$ ?

Pat is to select six cookies from a tray containing only chocolate chip, oatmeal, and peanut butter cookies. There are at least six of each of these three kinds of cookies on the tray. How many different assortments of six cookies can be selected?

A large equilateral triangle is constructed by using toothpicks to create rows of small equilateral triangles. For example, in the figure, we have $3$ rows of small congruent equilateral triangles, with $5$ small triangles in the base row. How many toothpicks would be needed to construct a large equilateral triangle if …

Nebraska, the home of the AMC, changed its license plate scheme. Each old license plate consisted of a letter followed by four digits. Each new license plate consists of three letters followed by three digits. By how many times has the number of possible license plates increased?

There are $100$ players in a single tennis tournament. The tournament is single elimination, meaning that a player who loses a match is eliminated. In the first round, the strongest $28$ players are given a bye, and the remaining $72$ players are paired off to play. After each round, the remaining players play in the …

A restaurant offers three desserts, and exactly twice as many appetizers as main courses. A dinner consists of an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert. What is the least number of main courses that a restaurant should offer so that a customer could have a different dinner each night in the year $2003$ ?

A bag contains two red beads and two green beads. You reach into the bag and pull out a bead, replacing it with a red bead regardless of the color you pulled out. What is the probability that all beads in the bag are red after three such replacements?

Tina randomly selects two distinct numbers from the set $\{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 \}$ , and Sergio randomly selects a number from the set $\{ 1, 2, ..., 10 \}$ . What is the probability that Sergio's number is larger than the sum of the two numbers chosen by Tina?

Using the letters $A$ , $M$ , $O$ , $S$ , and $U$ , we can form five-letter "words". If these "words" are arranged in alphabetical order, then the "word" $USAMO$ occupies position

Pat wants to buy four donuts from an ample supply of three types of donuts: glazed, chocolate, and powdered. How many different selections are possible?

A box contains exactly five chips, three red and two white. Chips are randomly removed one at a time without replacement until all the red chips are drawn or all the white chips are drawn. What is the probability that the last chip drawn is white?

How many positive integers not exceeding $2001$ are multiples of $3$ or $4$ but not $5$ ?

There are 5 yellow pegs, 4 red pegs, 3 green pegs, 2 blue pegs, and 1 orange peg to be placed on a triangular peg board. In how many ways can the pegs be placed so that no (horizontal) row or (vertical) column contains two pegs of the same color?