Problems

What is the sum of all real numbers $x$ for which $|x^2-12x+34|=2?$

For how many positive integers $n \le 1000$ is $$\left\lfloor \dfrac{998}{n} \right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \dfrac{999}{n} \right\rfloor+\left\lfloor \dfrac{1000}{n}\right \rfloor$$ not divisible by $3$ ? (Recall that $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$ .)

Let $T$ be the triangle in the coordinate plane with vertices $(0,0), (4,0),$ and $(0,3).$ Consider the following five isometries (rigid transformations) of the plane: rotations of $90^{\circ}, 180^{\circ},$ and $270^{\circ}$ counterclockwise around the origin, reflection across the $x$ -axis, and reflection across the …

Jason rolls three fair standard six-sided dice. Then he looks at the rolls and chooses a subset of the dice (possibly empty, possibly all three dice) to reroll. After rerolling, he wins if and only if the sum of the numbers face up on the three dice is exactly $7.$ Jason always plays to optimize his chances of winning. …

Points $P$ and $Q$ lie in a plane with $PQ=8$ . How many locations for point $R$ in this plane are there such that the triangle with vertices $P$ , $Q$ , and $R$ is a right triangle with area $12$ square units?

There are $10$ people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly $3$ of the other $9$ people: the $2$ people standing next to him or her, as well as the person directly across the circle. How many ways are there for the $10$ people to split up into $5$ pairs so that the members of each pair know …

Let $D(n)$ denote the number of ways of writing the positive integer $n$ as a product $$n = f_1\cdot f_2\cdots f_k,$$ where $k\ge1$ , the $f_i$ are integers strictly greater than $1$ , and the order in which the factors are listed matters (that is, two representations that differ only in the order of the factors are …

For a set of four distinct lines in a plane, there are exactly $N$ distinct points that lie on two or more of the lines. What is the sum of all possible values of $N$ ?

A child builds towers using identically shaped cubes of different colors. How many different towers with a height $8$ cubes can the child build with $2$ red cubes, $3$ blue cubes, and $4$ green cubes? (One cube will be left out.)

Real numbers between 0 and 1, inclusive, are chosen in the following manner. A fair coin is flipped. If it lands heads, then it is flipped again and the chosen number is 0 if the second flip is heads and 1 if the second flip is tails. On the other hand, if the first coin flip is tails, then the number is chosen …

The function $f$ is defined by $$f(x) = \lfloor|x|\rfloor - |\lfloor x \rfloor|$$ for all real numbers $x$ , where $\lfloor r \rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to the real number $r$ . What is the range of $f$ ?

What is the sum of all real numbers $x$ for which the median of the numbers $4,6,8,17,$ and $x$ is equal to the mean of those five numbers?

The base-ten representation for $19!$ is $121,6T5,100,40M,832,H00$ , where $T$ , $M$ , and $H$ denote digits that are not given. What is $T+M+H$ ?

Right triangles $T_1$ and $T_2$ have areas 1 and 2, respectively. A side of $T_1$ is congruent to a side of $T_2$ , and a different side of $T_1$ is congruent to a different side of $T_2$ . What is the square of the product of the other (third) sides of $T_1$ and $T_2$ ?

Raashan, Sylvia, and Ted play the following game. Each starts with $\$1$ . A bell rings every $15$ seconds, at which time each of the players who currently have money simultaneously chooses one of the other two players independently and at random and gives $\$1$ to that player. What is the probability that after the …

How many sequences of $0$ s and $1$ s of length $19$ are there that begin with a $0$ , end with a $0$ , contain no two consecutive $0$ s, and contain no three consecutive $1$ s?

For how many (not necessarily positive) integer values of $n$ is the value of $4000\cdot \left(\tfrac{2}{5}\right)^n$ an integer?

How many ordered pairs of real numbers $(x,y)$ satisfy the following system of equations? \begin{align} x+3y&=3 \\ \big||x|-|y|\big|&=1 \end{align}

Let $S$ be a set of $6$ integers taken from $\{1,2,\dots,12\}$ with the property that if $a$ and $b$ are elements of $S$ with $a<b$ , then $b$ is not a multiple of $a$ . What is the least possible value of an element in $S$ ?

A number $m$ is randomly selected from the set $\{11,13,15,17,19\}$ , and a number $n$ is randomly selected from $\{1999,2000,2001,\ldots,2018\}$ . What is the probability that $m^n$ has a units digit of $1$ ?

Three young brother-sister pairs from different families need to take a trip in a van. These six children will occupy the second and third rows in the van, each of which has three seats. To avoid disruptions, siblings may not sit right next to each other in the same row, and no child may sit directly in front of his or …

How many ordered pairs $(a, b)$ of positive integers satisfy the equation $$a\cdot b + 63 = 20\cdot \text{lcm}(a, b) + 12\cdot\text{gcd}(a,b),$$ where $\text{gcd}(a,b)$ denotes the greatest common divisor of $a$ and $b$ , and $\text{lcm}(a,b)$ denotes their least common multiple?

Let $S$ be a set of points $(x,y)$ in the coordinate plane such that two of the three quantities $3,~x+2,$ and $y-4$ are equal and the third of the three quantities is no greater than this common value. Which of the following is a correct description for $S?$

Alice refuses to sit next to either Bob or Carla. Derek refuses to sit next to Eric. How many ways are there for the five of them to sit in a row of 5 chairs under these conditions?

How many triangles with positive area have all their vertices at points $(i,j)$ in the coordinate plane, where $i$ and $j$ are integers between $1$ and $5$ , inclusive?