2000 AIME II Exam Solutions
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1.
The number can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 1890
Solution:
Since the two terms equal and Their sum is
Since the answer is
2.
A point whose coordinates are both integers is called a lattice point. How many lattice points lie on the hyperbola
Difficulty rating: 2110
Solution:
Factor The factors and have the same parity, and their product is even, so both must be even. Writing and gives
Each ordered pair of positive integers with yields exactly one solution with and has divisors, hence such pairs. Replacing by gives the solutions with and is impossible since
In total there are lattice points.
3.
A deck of forty cards consists of four 's, four 's, and four 's. A matching pair (two cards with the same number) is removed from the deck. Given that these cards are not returned to the deck, let be the probability that two randomly selected cards also form a pair, where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2020
Solution:
After the matching pair is removed, cards remain: nine numbers with four cards each and one number with only two cards. The number of ways to draw a pair is out of equally likely draws.
Since shares no factor with the probability is in lowest terms, and
4.
What is the smallest positive integer with six positive odd integer divisors and twelve positive even integer divisors?
Difficulty rating: 2070
Solution:
Write with odd. The odd divisors of are exactly the divisors of so Every even divisor is (for ) times an odd divisor, so there are of them, and gives
So where is the smallest odd number with exactly divisors. The shapes are (smallest ) and (smallest ), so and
5.
Given eight distinguishable rings, let be the number of possible five-ring arrangements on the four fingers (not the thumb) of one hand. The order of rings on each finger is significant, but it is not required that each finger have a ring. Find the leftmost three nonzero digits of
Difficulty rating: 2300
Solution:
Choose which five rings to use in ways, and order them (reading down the first finger, then the second, and so on) in ways. It remains to split the ordered list into four possibly empty consecutive blocks, one per finger: the number of compositions of into nonnegative parts, which by stars and bars is
Therefore whose leftmost three nonzero digits are
6.
One base of a trapezoid is units longer than the other base. The segment that joins the midpoints of the legs divides the trapezoid into two regions whose areas are in the ratio Let be the length of the segment joining the legs of the trapezoid that is parallel to the bases and that divides the trapezoid into two regions of equal area. Find the greatest integer that does not exceed
Difficulty rating: 2450
Solution:
Let the bases be and The midsegment has length and splits the trapezoid into two trapezoids of equal height, whose areas are proportional to the sums of their parallel sides, and Setting gives so the bases are and
Extend the legs to meet at an apex, creating similar triangles: a segment parallel to the bases with length cuts off a triangle of area for a fixed constant The segment of length bisects the trapezoid's area exactly when so
Then and the greatest integer not exceeding it is
7.
Given that find the greatest integer that is less than
Difficulty rating: 2360
Solution:
Multiply both sides by Each term on the left becomes for while the right side becomes
Since the first half of the binomial row sums to so
Hence so and the greatest integer less than this is
8.
In trapezoid leg is perpendicular to bases and and diagonals and are perpendicular. Given that and find
Difficulty rating: 2450
Solution:
Place and so that is vertical and The diagonals give vectors and and perpendicularity means so
Then Setting this becomes that is, The positive root is so
9.
Given that is a complex number such that find the least integer that is greater than
Difficulty rating: 2330
Solution:
From we get so a point on the unit circle. By de Moivre's theorem,
Since this equals The least integer greater than is
10.
A circle is inscribed in quadrilateral tangent to at and to at Given that and find the square of the radius of the circle.
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
Let the incircle have center and radius The tangent lengths from are and lies on each angle bisector, so the half-angles at the four vertices satisfy with
Then and the tangent addition formula turns this into
Cross-multiplying gives so and
11.
The coordinates of the vertices of isosceles trapezoid are all integers, with and The trapezoid has no horizontal or vertical sides, and and are the only parallel sides. The sum of the absolute values of all possible slopes for is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
Since all vertices are lattice points, is an integer vector with so is one of Write where points along and is perpendicular. Because the vector has the same perpendicular component and the equal leg lengths force its -component to be (the value gives a parallelogram). Hence is parallel to
Discard (parallelogram) and (then degenerate). The choices and make vertical or horizontal, which is forbidden. The remaining eight choices give equal to with slopes each is realizable by placing suitably far along
The sum of the absolute values is so
12.
The points and lie on the surface of a sphere with center and radius It is given that and that the distance from to triangle is where and are positive integers, and are relatively prime, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find
Difficulty rating: 2560
Solution:
The foot of the perpendicular from to the plane of is equidistant from and (the slant segments to the vertices all have length ), so it is the circumcenter of triangle
By Heron's formula with the area is so the circumradius is The distance from to the plane is
Here and is squarefree, so
13.
The equation has exactly two real roots, one of which is where and are integers, and are relatively prime, and Find
Difficulty rating: 2920
Solution:
Group the equation as Since the left side factors as
The quartic factor is always positive, so the two real roots are the roots of namely The root of the form is with and Thus
14.
Every positive integer has a unique factorial base expansion meaning that where each is an integer, and Given that is the factorial base expansion of find the value of
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Since telescoping gives for Group the given number as with parenthesized groups for
The group for contributes factorial-base digits for and the lone contributes all other digits are Every digit satisfies so by uniqueness this is the factorial base expansion.
In the alternating sum, sits at an even index and contributes Each group's range starts at an even index and has length so it splits into consecutive pairs, each contributing for per group. The total is
15.
Find the least positive integer such that
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Since dividing by gives So the sum times equals with signs on odd arguments and signs on even arguments.
Because and supplementary arguments here have the same parity, the terms cancel in supplementary pairs: cancels cancels and so on for every pair of arguments summing to The only survivors are (its partner is out of range) and
Hence the sum equals so the least such is