2005 AIME I Exam Solutions
Scroll down to view professionally curated solutions from LIVE by Po-Shen Loh, print PDF solutions, view answer key, or:
All of the real AMC 8, AMC 10, AMC 12, and AIME problems in our complete solution collection are used with official legal permission of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
1.
Six congruent circles form a ring with each circle externally tangent to the two circles adjacent to it. All six circles are internally tangent to a circle with radius Let be the area of the region inside and outside all of the six circles in the ring. Find (The notation denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to )
Difficulty rating: 2010
Solution:
Let be the common radius of the six circles. Adjacent circles are externally tangent, so their centers are apart, and the six centers form a regular hexagon with side Since a regular hexagon's circumradius equals its side length, each center is at distance from the center of Internal tangency to means the distance from to each small center plus equals so and
Therefore and
2.
For each positive integer let denote the increasing arithmetic sequence of integers whose first term is and whose common difference is For example, is the sequence For how many values of does contain the term
Difficulty rating: 1840
Solution:
The th term of is so is a term exactly when for some positive integer that is, exactly when divides Every divisor works, since is then a positive integer.
Since the number of divisors is
3.
How many positive integers have exactly three proper divisors, each of which is less than (A proper divisor of a positive integer is a positive integer divisor of other than itself.)
Difficulty rating: 2070
Solution:
An integer with exactly three proper divisors has exactly four divisors in total, so it is either with and distinct primes (proper divisors ) or with prime (proper divisors ).
In the first case we need and both less than There are primes below giving such numbers. In the second case we need which holds for giving more.
The total is
4.
The director of a marching band wishes to place the members into a formation that includes all of them and has no unfilled positions. If they are arranged in a square formation, there are members left over. The director finds that if they are arranged in a rectangular formation with more rows than columns, the desired result can be obtained. Find the maximum number of members this band can have.
Difficulty rating: 2230
Solution:
Let the band have members, with for the square formation and for the rectangular formation with columns. Multiplying by and completing the square gives so
Writing with the larger factor second: from we get and so and From we get and so and
The maximum is achieved by a rectangle.
5.
Robert has indistinguishable gold coins and indistinguishable silver coins. Each coin has an engraving of a face on one side, but not on the other. He wants to stack the eight coins on a table into a single stack so that no two adjacent coins are face to face. Find the number of possible distinguishable arrangements of the coins.
Difficulty rating: 2300
Solution:
Choose the coin orientations and the gold/silver positions independently. Record the orientations from bottom to top as a string of U (engraved face up) and D (engraved face down). Two adjacent coins are face to face exactly when the lower coin's engraved side faces up and the upper coin's engraved side faces down — that is, exactly when a U is immediately followed by a D.
A string of U's and D's avoids the pattern UD exactly when every D precedes every U, so the string is for some there are allowable orientation strings. Independently, the gold coins occupy of the positions in ways.
The total is
6.
Let be the product of the nonreal roots of Find (The notation denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to )
Difficulty rating: 2290
Solution:
Adding to both sides turns the left side into a perfect fourth power: So is a fourth root of the four roots are (real) and (nonreal).
The product of the conjugate pair of nonreal roots is Since we have so
7.
In quadrilateral and Given that where and are positive integers, find
Difficulty rating: 2450
Solution:
Extend rays and until they meet at Triangle has angles at and so it is equilateral: Writing we get and
The Law of Cosines in triangle with and gives so and
Thus
8.
The equation has three real roots. Given that their sum is where and are relatively prime positive integers, find
Difficulty rating: 2500
Solution:
Let Then and so the equation becomes that is, Since the three roots are real and is strictly increasing, they correspond to three positive real roots of the cubic.
Each so using Vieta's formulas for the product of the roots. Then
9.
Twenty-seven unit cubes are each painted orange on a set of four faces so that the two unpainted faces share an edge. The cubes are then randomly arranged to form a cube. Given that the probability that the entire surface of the larger cube is orange is where and are distinct primes and and are positive integers, find
Difficulty rating: 2920
Solution:
Each unit cube has one "bad edge": the edge shared by its two unpainted faces. The larger cube's surface is entirely orange exactly when every unit cube's bad edge touches no visible face. A uniformly random orientation places the bad edge uniformly among the cube's edge positions, so for each unit cube we count the edge positions both of whose faces are hidden.
A corner cube shows faces meeting at a vertex; the safe edges are those of the hidden faces meeting at the opposite vertex, so the probability is An edge cube shows adjacent faces, which touch edges, leaving safe: probability A face-center cube shows face touching edges, leaving safe: probability The center cube is always fine.
With corner, edge, and face-center cubes, the probability is so
10.
Triangle lies in the Cartesian plane and has area The coordinates of and are and respectively, and the coordinates of are The line containing the median to side has slope Find the largest possible value of
Difficulty rating: 2560
Solution:
The median to passes through the midpoint of The line through with slope is and lies on this line, so and
By the shoelace formula with and so giving or
Since the smaller value gives the larger sum
11.
A semicircle with diameter is contained in a square whose sides have length Given that the maximum value of is where and are integers, find
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
Scale to a semicircle of radius and ask for the smallest square containing it when its diameter makes angle with one pair of sides, where Squeeze the semicircle between two pairs of parallel lines in the square's two side directions: in each direction one line of the pair is tangent to the arc and the other passes through an endpoint of the diameter, and the distances between the pairs are and So the smallest enclosing square in that orientation has side which is minimized when giving side
Scaling this optimal configuration so the square has side the radius becomes so
Thus
12.
For positive integers let denote the number of positive integer divisors of including and For example, and Define by Let denote the number of positive integers with odd, and let denote the number of positive integers with even. Find
Difficulty rating: 2760
Solution:
Divisors of pair up as and so is odd exactly when is a perfect square. Hence changes parity exactly at the squares, which means is odd exactly when the number of squares up to namely is odd.
For each there are integers with namely Since the odd values all have their full blocks within range, so
Then and
13.
A particle moves in the Cartesian plane from one lattice point to another according to the following rules:
• From any lattice point the particle may move only to or
• There are no right angle turns in the particle's path. That is, the sequence of points visited contains neither a subsequence of the form nor a subsequence of the form
How many different paths can the particle take from to
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
The forbidden right-angle turns say exactly that a rightward step may never immediately follow an upward step, and vice versa; a diagonal step may follow or precede anything. So at each lattice point track three counts the numbers of legal paths from arriving there by a diagonal, rightward, or upward step. The rules give
Starting from the single empty path at (which may begin with any step), fill in the grid up to Along the axes only all-rightward or all-upward paths survive, and the interior builds up quickly; at the three counts come out to and
The total number of paths is
14.
Consider the points and There is a unique square such that each of the four points is on a different side of Let be the area of Find the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 3160
Solution:
Since segments and cross, and lie on opposite sides of the square, as do and Let be the slope of the side through so that side lies on and the perpendicular side through lies on The side length of the square equals both the distance between the parallel sides through and and the distance between the sides through and so giving or
For the points and fall on opposite sides of the line through which is impossible if that line contains a side of the square, so Then the side length is so
The remainder when is divided by is
15.
In The incircle of the triangle divides the median containing into three segments of equal length. Given that the area of is where and are integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime, find
Difficulty rating: 3270
Solution:
Let be the midpoint of and let the incircle cut median at and with Let the incircle touch at and at By Power of a Point, so Since (tangents from ), we get
Write and The standard tangent length gives so while the median length formula gives Substituting into
Then the sides are with and Heron's formula gives so