2019 AIME II Exam Solutions
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1.
Two different points, and lie on the same side of line so that and are congruent with and The intersection of these two triangular regions has area where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2220
Solution:
Place and From and solving and gives The congruence swaps and so is the reflection of across the line namely
A point lies in triangle exactly when it is on or above on 's side of line and on 's side of line similarly for triangle In the overlap the binding constraints are line and line so the intersection is the triangle with base and apex Line is and line is which meet at
The area is so
2.
Lily pads lie in a row on a pond. A frog makes a sequence of jumps starting on pad From any pad the frog jumps to either pad or pad chosen randomly with probability and independently of other jumps. The probability that the frog visits pad is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2270
Solution:
Let be the probability that the frog visits pad The frog lands on pad in exactly one of two disjoint ways: it visits pad and jumps from there (if it jumps pad is skipped forever), or it skips pad entirely, which requires visiting pad and jumping from it, landing on pad Hence
Iterating: and Since the answer is
3.
Find the number of -tuples of positive integers that satisfy the following system of equations:
Difficulty rating: 1950
Solution:
Since is prime, in one of the three factors is and the other two equal But divides and divides and divides neither nor So and
The system reduces to and Each divisor of determines giving ordered pairs, and likewise ordered pairs The total is
4.
A standard six-sided fair die is rolled four times. The probability that the product of all four numbers rolled is a perfect square is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2480
Solution:
The product is a perfect square exactly when each of the primes and appears with even exponent. Only a roll of contributes the prime so the number of s is even: or Classify the other values by the parities of their exponents of and rolls of and contribute a contributes a contributes and a contributes The exponent of is even iff the count of s plus the count of s is even, and similarly for s and s, so a collection of non- rolls works exactly when the counts of s, s, and s are all even or all odd.
With no s, all four rolls come from All-even cases: no s, s, or s gives sequences (each roll is or ); exactly two of a single kind gives two of each of two kinds gives four of one kind gives All-odd case: one one one and one roll from gives Subtotal With two s, choose their positions in ways; the other two rolls must lie in the same parity class, giving ordered pairs, for sequences. With four s there is sequence.
In total of the sequences work, so the probability is and
5.
Four ambassadors and one advisor for each of them are to be seated at a round table with chairs numbered in order to Each ambassador must sit in an even-numbered chair. Each advisor must sit in a chair adjacent to his or her ambassador. There are ways for the people to be seated at the table under these conditions. Find the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 2650
Solution:
The six even chairs form a cycle (chair is adjacent to chair ), and each odd chair lies between two consecutive even chairs. The ambassadors occupy of the even chairs, and each advisor must take one of the two odd chairs flanking their ambassador, with all choices distinct. For a maximal block of consecutive occupied even chairs, the occupants choose among the odd chairs touching the block; recording each choice as left or right, a conflict occurs exactly when someone picks right and their neighbor picks left, so the valid patterns are the strings of s followed by s: of them.
Now case on the two empty even chairs among the six positions. If they are adjacent ( ways), the occupied chairs form one block of giving patterns. If they are separated by one chair ( ways), the blocks have sizes and giving patterns. If they are opposite ( ways), the blocks have sizes and giving patterns. The number of seat configurations is
Finally, the four ambassador-advisor pairs can be assigned to the four chosen even chairs in ways, so and the remainder modulo is
6.
In a Martian civilization, all logarithms whose bases are not specified are assumed to be base for some fixed A Martian student writes down and finds that this system of equations has a single real number solution Find
Difficulty rating: 2400
Solution:
Let By the change-of-base formula, so The first equation says that is,
Substituting gives so and Then so and
7.
Triangle has side lengths and Lines and are drawn parallel to and respectively, such that the intersections of and with the interior of are segments of lengths and respectively. Find the perimeter of the triangle whose sides lie on lines and
Difficulty rating: 2790
Solution:
For a point let be the distance from to line divided by the length of the altitude from and define (to ) and (to ) similarly; then for points inside, since A chord parallel to at level cuts off a triangle at similar to with ratio so its length is The chord of length gives so is the line similarly puts at and puts at
Along any line parallel to the coordinate varies linearly, and on the chord at level inside the triangle, runs over an interval of length while the chord has length hence a segment parallel to with endpoints differing by has length The side of the new triangle on runs from where to where Its length is
Since the three lines are parallel to the sides of the triangle they bound is similar to here with ratio Its perimeter is
8.
The polynomial has real coefficients not exceeding and Find the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 2560
Solution:
Let a primitive sixth root of unity. Since we get and Therefore
Matching imaginary parts, so Since and this forces Matching real parts then gives so
Hence whose remainder upon division by is
9.
Call a positive integer -pretty if has exactly positive divisors and is divisible by For example, is -pretty. Let be the sum of the positive integers less than that are -pretty. Find
Difficulty rating: 2650
Solution:
We need and Write with then and with and The factor must be a divisor of that is at least one of
If then forces so too large. If then and too large; is larger still. If then giving either so or and so is a prime other than and and i.e.
Therefore and
10.
There is a unique angle between and such that for nonnegative integers the value of is positive when is a multiple of and negative otherwise. The degree measure of is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2840
Solution:
Since has period only matters: the tangent is positive on and negative on Suppose satisfies the condition, and let be the reduction of modulo since we have For every and the sign pattern for the exponents is the same as for so also satisfies the condition. By uniqueness, so and degrees for some
Test each: for has positive tangent — fails. For has positive tangent — fails. For then and are both in and so the pattern positive, negative, negative repeats forever.
Thus degrees, and
11.
Triangle has side lengths and Circle passes through and is tangent to line at Circle passes through and is tangent to line at Let be the intersection of circles and not equal to Then where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
By the tangent-chord angle in (tangent chord ), and in (tangent chord ), Write and so Triangles and then have and so With this gives so and Also so
From the law of cosines in so The law of cosines in triangle gives so and
Hence and
12.
For call a finite sequence of positive integers progressive if and divides for Find the number of progressive sequences such that the sum of the terms in the sequence is equal to
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Divisibility is transitive, so every term of a progressive sequence is a multiple of the first term. If a sequence with sum has length at least and first term then and dividing the remaining terms by yields a progressive sequence with first term at least and sum this correspondence is reversible. So if denotes the number of progressive sequences with sum and first term at least the answer is the leading counting the sequence
The same reduction gives the recursion with in particular when is prime. Working upward:
The divisors give arguments whose -values are summing to Adding the single-term sequence gives
13.
Regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of area Point lies inside the circle so that the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle has area while the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle has area There is a positive integer such that the area of the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle is equal to Find
Difficulty rating: 3270
Solution:
Let be the center, the side length, the apothem, and the unit vector from toward the midpoint of chord The region bounded by and the arc is the circular segment together with triangle The segment has area (sector minus triangle ), and the triangle at has area since is the distance from to the chord. Adding,
The given areas say and The normals rotate per side, so is rotated and five steps from is rotated Therefore
The region on side thus has area so
14.
Find the sum of all positive integers such that, given an unlimited supply of stamps of denominations and cents, cents is the greatest postage that cannot be formed.
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Using stamps of the denominations and produces exactly the amounts for and adding -cent stamps then covers everything above in the same residue class mod So in each class every amount at least is formable and nothing smaller is, where is the least value of congruent to mod The greatest non-formable amount is so we need the class of (which is mod ) must be covered first exactly at and every other class no later.
Case on noting If class needs with first possible at so and the other classes are covered at all less than so works. If class is first covered at so and the other classes are covered at so works.
If class first at so but then class is first covered at — fails. If class first at but then class is first covered at — fails. If class first at so but class needs giving — fails. The answer is
15.
In acute triangle points and are the feet of the perpendiculars from to and from to respectively. Line intersects the circumcircle of in two distinct points, and Suppose and The value of can be written in the form where and are positive integers, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find
Difficulty rating: 3370
Solution:
Write and Right triangles and give and so triangle is similar to triangle with ratio whence The points on the line occur in the order so the power of gives and the power of gives With and these read that is, and where
By the law of cosines, so Substituting and and gives so Then which simplifies to so and
Thus and so