Problems

The sequence $1,x,y,z$ is arithmetic. The sequence $1,p,q,z$ is geometric. Both sequences are strictly increasing and contain only integers, and $z$ is as small as possible. What is the value of $x+y+z+p+q$ ?

On Monday, $6$ students went to the tutoring center at the same time, and each one was randomly assigned to one of the $6$ tutors on duty. On Tuesday, the same $6$ students showed up, the same $6$ tutors were on duty, and the students were again randomly assigned to the tutors. What is the probability that exactly $2$ …

How many ordered pairs of integers $(m, n)$ satisfy $\sqrt{n^2 - 49} = m$ ?

In the figure below $WXYZ$ is a rectangle with $WX=4$ and $WZ=8$ . Point $M$ lies $\overline{XY}$ , point $A$ lies on $\overline{YZ}$ , and $\angle WMA$ is a right angle. The areas of $\triangle WXM$ and $\triangle WAZ$ are equal. What is the area of $\triangle WMA$ ? Note: On certain tests that took place in China, …

A square of area $2$ is inscribed in a square of area $3$ , creating four congruent triangles, as shown below. What is the ratio of the shorter leg to the longer leg in the shaded right triangle?

Suzanne went to the bank and withdrew $\$800$ . The teller gave her this amount using $\$20$ bills, $\$50$ bills, and $\$100$ bills, with at least one of each denomination. How many different collections of bills could Suzanne have received?

Ted mistakenly wrote $2^m\cdot\sqrt{\frac{1}{4096}}$ as $2\cdot\sqrt[m]{\frac{1}{4096}}.$ What is the sum of all real numbers $m$ for which these two expressions have the same value?

All the high schools in a large school district are involved in a fundraiser selling T-shirts. Which of the choices below is logically equivalent to the statement "No school bigger than Euclid HS sold more T-shirts than Euclid HS"?

For which of the following integers $b$ is the base- $b$ number $2021_b - 221_b$ not divisible by $3$ ?

Grandma has just finished baking a large rectangular pan of brownies. She is planning to make rectangular pieces of equal size and shape, with straight cuts parallel to the sides of the pan. Each cut must be made entirely across the pan. Grandma wants to make the same number of interior pieces as pieces along the …

Emily sees a ship traveling at a constant speed along a straight section of a river. She walks parallel to the riverbank at a uniform rate faster than the ship. She counts $210$ equal steps walking from the back of the ship to the front. Walking in the opposite direction, she counts $42$ steps of the same size from the …

A regular hexagon of side length $1{ }$ is inscribed in a circle. Each minor arc of the circle determined by a side of the hexagon is reflected over that side. What is the area of the region bounded by these $6$ reflected arcs?

What is the median of the following list of $4040$ numbers $?$ $$1, 2, 3, \ldots, 2020, 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, \ldots, 2020^2$$

Ms. Carr asks her students to read any $5$ of the $10$ books on a reading list. Harold randomly selects $5$ books from this list, and Betty does the same. What is the probability that there are exactly $2$ books that they both select?

How many positive integer divisors of $201^9$ are perfect squares or perfect cubes (or both)?

Two jars each contain the same number of marbles, and every marble is either blue or green. In Jar $1$ the ratio of blue to green marbles is $9:1$ , and the ratio of blue to green marbles in Jar $2$ is $8:1$ . There are $95$ green marbles in all. How many more blue marbles are in Jar $1$ than in Jar $2$ ?

When $7$ fair standard $6$ -sided dice are thrown, the probability that the sum of the numbers on the top faces is $10$ can be written as $$\frac{n}{6^{7}},$$ where $n$ is a positive integer. What is $n$ ?

Which of the following expressions is never a prime number when $p$ is a prime number?

The region consisting of all points in three-dimensional space within $3$ units of line segment $\overline{AB}$ has volume $216\pi$ . What is the length $\textit{AB}$ ?

At Typico High School, $60\%$ of the students like dancing, and the rest dislike it. Of those who like dancing, $80\%$ say that they like it, and the rest say that they dislike it. Of those who dislike dancing, $90\%$ say that they dislike it, and the rest say that they like it. What fraction of students who say they …

Find the area of the shaded region.

Sola decided to fence in his rectangular garden. He bought $20$ fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly $4$ yards between neighboring posts. The longer side of his garden, including the corners, has twice as many posts as the …

The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is $4$  : $3$ . If the rectangle has diagonal of length $d$ , then the area may be expressed as $kd^2$ for some constant $k$ . What is $k$ ?

Among the positive integers less than $100$ , each of whose digits is a prime number, one is selected at random. What is the probability that the selected number is prime?

A customer who intends to purchase an appliance has three coupons, only one of which may be used: Coupon 1: $10\%$ off the listed price if the listed price is at least $\$50$ Coupon 2: $\$20$ off the listed price if the listed price is at least $\$100$ Coupon 3: $18\%$ off the amount by …