2025 AIME II Exam Solutions
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1.
Six points and lie in a straight line in that order. Suppose that is a point not on the line and that and Find the area of
Difficulty rating: 2010
Solution:
Place the line on a number line with Then and
Write From and Subtracting gives so and then so is at height above the line.
Since and both lie on the line, is a base with height so the area is
2.
Find the sum of all positive integers such that divides the product
Difficulty rating: 1890
Solution:
Work modulo where Then so divides exactly when divides
The divisors of that are at least are and giving and The sum is
3.
Four unit squares form a grid. Each of the unit line segments forming the sides of the squares is colored either red or blue in such a way that each unit square has red sides and blue sides. One example is shown below (red is solid, blue is dashed). Find the number of such colorings.
Difficulty rating: 2440
Solution:
The segments split into the interior segments forming the central cross and boundary segments, and each unit square has exactly two interior sides (its two cross arms) and two boundary sides. Color the cross first. A square that already has red interior sides needs red boundary sides, which can be chosen in ways: way if or and ways if
Group the cross colorings by the set of red arms. If all four arms have the same color ( colorings), every square has or contributing each: total If exactly one arm is red or exactly one is blue ( colorings), the two squares touching the odd arm have and the others do not, contributing each: total If two adjacent arms are red ( colorings), the squares have contributing each: total If two opposite arms are red ( colorings), all four squares have contributing each: total
The number of colorings is
4.
The product is equal to where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2300
Solution:
By the change-of-base formula, so each factor of the product equals
All three pieces telescope over
The product is which is in lowest terms, so
5.
Suppose has angles and Let and be the midpoints of sides and respectively. The circumcircle of intersects and at points and respectively. The points and divide the circumcircle of into six minor arcs, as shown. Find where the arcs are measured in degrees.
Difficulty rating: 2720
Solution:
The medial triangle has sides parallel to those of so and Its circumcircle is the nine-point circle, whose second intersections with the sides of are the feet of the altitudes: is the foot from the foot from and the foot from By the inscribed angle theorem,
For since and lies on ray the angle equals the angle between lines and which is so For because both and lie on the circle with diameter centered at so and Isosceles triangle gives and isosceles triangle gives Hence and
Therefore
6.
Circle with radius centered at point is internally tangent at point to circle with radius Points and lie on such that is a diameter of and The rectangle is inscribed in such that is closer to than to and is closer to than to as shown. Triangles and have equal areas. The area of rectangle is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2650
Solution:
Center at the origin with Internal tangency at puts and Since and is on we get (taking above the line). Because the rectangle has vertical sides, so its vertices are with The conditions on and make the left side and the top side:
Triangle has base and height so its area is Triangle has base and height so its area is Setting these equal, so and then
The area of the rectangle is so
7.
Let be the set of positive integer divisors of Let be a randomly selected subset of The probability that is a nonempty set with the property that the least common multiple of its elements is is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2510
Solution:
Since the set has elements, and there are subsets. A subset has least common multiple exactly when it contains at least one divisor divisible by and at least one divisible by (such a subset is automatically nonempty). There are divisors not divisible by not divisible by and divisible by neither.
By inclusion-exclusion, the number of good subsets is Since the probability is and
8.
From an unlimited supply of -cent coins, -cent coins, and -cent coins, Silas wants to find a collection of coins that has a total value of cents, where is a positive integer. He uses the so-called greedy algorithm, successively choosing the coin of greatest value that does not cause the value of his collection to exceed For example, to get cents, Silas will choose a -cent coin, then a -cent coin, then -cent coins. However, this collection of coins uses more coins than necessary to get a total of cents; indeed, choosing -cent coins and -cent coins achieves the same total value with only coins.
In general, the greedy algorithm succeeds for a given if no other collection of -cent, -cent, and -cent coins gives a total value of cents using strictly fewer coins than the collection given by the greedy algorithm. Find the number of values of between and inclusive for which the greedy algorithm succeeds.
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
In any optimal collection there are at most pennies (ten pennies could become a dime) and at most dimes (five dimes could become two quarters), so its dimes and pennies are worth at most cents. Hence an optimal collection uses either quarters, like greedy, or quarters. For an amount made only of dimes and pennies, the best count is which is what greedy does on the remainder.
Let Greedy uses coins, and the only rival uses coins (possible when ), so greedy fails exactly when Tabulating: for for for for for So greedy fails exactly when and
Each residue class mod contains values of in so these residues give values, of which the values less than do not count (there ). Greedy fails for values and succeeds for
9.
There are values of in the interval where For of these values of the graph of is tangent to the -axis. Find
Difficulty rating: 2920
Solution:
exactly when is a multiple of that is, for an integer with As runs over the quantity runs over five full periods. For the solutions are values. For each of the values each period contributes solutions: values each. For we need which happens times each. So
The graph is tangent to the -axis at a zero exactly when there. At any zero, so tangency requires which means exactly the zeros with (there has an extremum, so touches without crossing). Thus and
10.
Sixteen chairs are arranged in a row. Eight people each select a chair in which to sit so that no person sits next to two other people. Let be the number of subsets of chairs that could be selected. Find the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 2790
Solution:
A person sits next to two others exactly when three consecutive chairs are all occupied, so we count -element subsets of the chairs with no three consecutive chairs chosen. The occupied chairs then form maximal blocks of size or If there are blocks, then of them are pairs and are singles, so and the pair positions can be chosen in ways. The empty chairs create gaps (including the ends), and the blocks occupy distinct gaps: ways.
Therefore
The remainder when is divided by is
11.
Let be the set of vertices of a regular -gon. Find the number of ways to draw segments of equal lengths so that each vertex in is an endpoint of exactly one of the segments.
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Two chords of a circle through equally spaced points have equal length exactly when they skip the same number of vertices, so all segments join pairs of vertices exactly apart for one common For fixed form the graph on the vertices joining each to we need a perfect matching in this graph. For the graph is a disjoint union of cycles of length while for it is disjoint diameters.
A cycle of even length has exactly perfect matchings (alternate edges), and a cycle of odd length has none. So each with even cycle length contributes give each; give each; give each; gives gives For the cycles have odd length giving For the matching is forced: way.
The total is
12.
Let be an -sided non-convex simple polygon with the following properties:
• For every integer the area of is
• For every integer
• The perimeter of the -gon is equal to
Then can be expressed as where and are positive integers, is not divisible by the square of any prime, and no prime divides all of and Find
Difficulty rating: 3160
Solution:
Let for and let be the common angle, with and Each area condition says so for Consecutive products being equal forces the to alternate between two values and with in particular
By the law of cosines, every side with has the same length where Writing the perimeter condition is Squaring gives which simplifies to so (the positive root; then as required).
Thus with squarefree and no prime dividing all of The answer is
13.
Let the sequence of rationals be defined such that and for all Then can be expressed as for relatively prime positive integers and Find the remainder when is divided by
Difficulty rating: 3370
Solution:
Let From the recurrence, and so since Here By induction where and since is divisible by every stays coprime to
Inverting the substitution, with and All are positive (for ), so making both and positive. Any common divisor of and divides their combinations and as it divides but and so Hence the fraction is in lowest terms and
Modulo Modulo the multiplicative order of divides and (it is mod and mod with mod ), so The Chinese remainder theorem gives so
14.
Let be a right triangle with and There exist points and inside the triangle such that The area of the quadrilateral can be expressed as for some positive integer Find
Difficulty rating: 3270
Solution:
Since triangle is equilateral and Let and so Because point lies on the perpendicular bisector of so similarly Then gives i.e. By sum-to-product, so
Decompose First, Next, has height over so and likewise their sum is Finally
Therefore so
15.
There are exactly three positive real numbers such that the function defined over the positive real numbers achieves its minimum value at exactly two positive real numbers Find the sum of these three values of
Difficulty rating: 3500
Solution:
For both as (the numerator tends to ) and as so attains a global minimum value on It is attained at exactly two points precisely when with two distinct positive double roots, i.e. where the roots of are positive and distinct (so ).
Matching coefficients of and the constant (the -coefficient just determines ): Substitute with then and The middle equation becomes i.e. which factors as
The positive roots give (each indeed yields matching the problem's promise of exactly three values). The sum is