2017 AIME II 考试答案
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1.
Find the number of subsets of that are subsets of neither nor
Difficulty rating: 1890
Solution:
There are subsets in all. The ones to exclude are those contained in (there are ) or contained in (another ). A subset of both is exactly a subset of the intersection and there are of those.
By inclusion-exclusion, subsets fail, so subsets have the required property.
2.
Teams and are in the playoffs. In the semifinal matches, plays and plays The winners of those two matches will play each other in the final match to determine the champion. When plays the probability that wins is and the outcomes of all the matches are independent. The probability that will be the champion is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2070
Solution:
To be champion, must first beat which happens with probability The other semifinal sends to the final with probability and with probability in the final, beats with probability and beats with probability
The probability that is champion is therefore Since and this is in lowest terms, and
3.
A triangle has vertices and The probability that a randomly chosen point inside the triangle is closer to vertex than to either vertex or vertex can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2230
Solution:
The points closer to than to lie to the right of the perpendicular bisector of the line The points closer to than to lie below the perpendicular bisector of which passes through the midpoint with slope (the negative reciprocal of the slope of ): the line
Inside the triangle, the favorable region is the quadrilateral with vertices the midpoint of and where the two bisectors meet. Splitting it along the segment from to its area is
The triangle has area so the probability is and
4.
Find the number of positive integers less than or equal to whose base-three representation contains no digit equal to
Difficulty rating: 2230
Solution:
A positive integer has no in base three exactly when every digit is or For there are such -digit numbers, and all of them are at most
Since a seven-digit string of s and s is at most exactly when it begins with or any string beginning already beats at the third digit, since its digits are nonzero. That gives seven-digit numbers.
The total is
5.
A set contains four numbers. The six pairwise sums of distinct elements of the set, in no particular order, are and Find the greatest possible value of
Difficulty rating: 2390
Solution:
Let the set be with total The six pairwise sums come in three complementary pairs: No two of the pairings of into two pairs give equal totals ( ), so and are not paired with each other; each is paired with a given sum, and the remaining two given sums are paired together. Adding all six values, where is the sum of two of the given numbers.
The largest choice is giving This is attained by the set whose pairwise sums are and with
6.
Find the sum of all positive integers such that is an integer.
Difficulty rating: 2450
Solution:
Suppose for a positive integer Multiplying by and completing the square gives so where is prime. Both factors are positive with the second one larger, so either and or and
The first system gives and and indeed The second gives and with
The requested sum is
7.
Find the number of integer values of in the closed interval for which the equation has exactly one real solution.
Solution:
The equation requires and and under those restrictions it is equivalent to that is,
For the restrictions force On this interval decreases from to while increases from to so the graphs cross exactly once. Hence every one of the negative values of works, while makes undefined.
For the restrictions force The quadratic has root product so any real roots have the same sign, and the discriminant is negative for When there are two distinct positive roots (root sum ), giving two solutions; only gives exactly one solution, the double root In total values of work.
8.
Find the number of positive integers less than such that is an integer.
Difficulty rating: 2840
Solution:
Multiplying by the sum is an integer exactly when If were odd, every term except would be even, making the total odd. If then modulo every term except vanishes while So must be a multiple of
Write Then and are all divisible by while Since supplies the factors and of the condition reduces to that is, or
For we need That range contains multiples of and values with so there are such
9.
A special deck of cards contains cards, each labeled with a number from to and colored with one of seven colors. Each number-color combination appears on exactly one card. Sharon will select a set of eight cards from the deck at random. Given that she gets at least one card of each color and at least one card with each number, the probability that Sharon can discard one of her cards and still have at least one card of each color and at least one card with each number is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:
Since the eight cards cover all seven numbers and all seven colors, exactly one number and exactly one color appear twice. Sharon can discard a card exactly when a single card carries both the repeated number and the repeated color: that card is then the unique discardable one, while if no card carries both, removing any card loses a number or a color.
Hands of the first type consist of a rainbow set of seven cards — one of each number and each color, which is one of permutation patterns — plus any of the remaining cards, and every such hand arises exactly once this way: hands. For the second type, choose the repeated number ( ways) and the two colors of its cards ( ways); the repeated color must be one of the other colors, and the numbers of its two cards come from the remaining numbers ( ways); finally match the last four numbers to the last four colors ( ways). That is hands.
The probability is so
10.
Rectangle has side lengths and Point is the midpoint of point is the trisection point of closer to and point is the intersection of and Point lies on the quadrilateral and bisects the area of Find the area of
Difficulty rating: 2920
Solution:
Place so and Line is and line is which meet at
By the Shoelace Formula, quadrilateral has area so each half must have area Triangle alone has area (base and is at horizontal distance from it), so the bisecting segment ends at a point on For the distance from to line must satisfy so giving the -coordinate Since lies on line which is we get
Triangle has base on the line and height so its area is
11.
Five towns are connected by a system of roads. There is exactly one road connecting each pair of towns. Find the number of ways there are to make all the roads one-way in such a way that it is still possible to get from any town to any other town using the roads (possibly passing through other towns on the way).
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
The assignment works if and only if no town has all four roads inbound or all four outbound. One direction is clear: an all-inbound town cannot be left, and an all-outbound town cannot be reached. Conversely, suppose every town has an inbound and an outbound road, yet town cannot be reached from town Let be the set of towns reachable from (including ) and the set of towns from which is reachable (including ). These sets are disjoint, every outbound road of a town in stays inside and every inbound road of a town in comes from inside Since has an outbound road, and similarly as one of the two sets has exactly two towns. If the outbound roads of and of must both stay inside forcing the single road between them to point both ways — a contradiction (and is symmetric).
Now count assignments with a bad town among the total. Choosing a town to be all-outbound ( ways) and orienting the remaining roads freely gives assignments, and there can be at most one all-outbound town. Similarly assignments have an all-inbound town. Assignments with both are counted twice: choose the all-outbound town (), the all-inbound town (), and the other roads freely, So assignments fail.
The number that work is
12.
Circle has radius and the point is a point on the circle. Circle has radius and is internally tangent to at point Point lies on circle so that is located counterclockwise from on Circle has radius and is internally tangent to at point In this way a sequence of circles and a sequence of points on the circles are constructed, where circle has radius and is internally tangent to circle at point and point lies on counterclockwise from point as shown in the figure below. There is one point inside all of these circles. When the distance from the center of to is where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Difficulty rating: 3060
Solution:
Work in the complex plane with centered at and and let be the center of Inductively, this holds for and since is internally tangent to at its center is then sits in direction from so rotating counterclockwise gives
Therefore The circles are nested, and their radii shrink to so the common point is the limit of the centers: at distance from the origin.
For this equals so
13.
For each integer let be the number of -element subsets of the vertices of a regular -gon that are the vertices of an isosceles triangle (including equilateral triangles). Find the sum of all values of such that
Difficulty rating: 3270
Solution:
Count isosceles triangles by apex. For a vertex of a regular -gon, the isosceles triangles whose two equal sides meet at have their other two vertices symmetric about the diameter through giving such pairs. Summing over all vertices counts each non-equilateral isosceles triangle once (it has one apex) and each equilateral triangle three times; equilateral triangles exist exactly when and then there are of them. Hence minus when
Writing and computing in each residue class gives for for for for for and for Setting each equal to gives gives gives and the other three cases have no positive integer solutions.
The sum of all such is
14.
A grid of points consists of all points in space of the form where and are integers between and inclusive. Find the number of different lines that contain exactly of these points.
Difficulty rating: 3370
Solution:
Take a primitive direction vector for the line. Any nonzero component of absolute value or more limits the line to at most grid points, so every component is or Lines parallel to a coordinate axis contain points, never If exactly one component is the line lies in one of the planes parallel to a face of the cube ( orientations, positions), and within that grid it is a diagonal of slope shifted off center; the shift by in either direction from each of the two main diagonals gives exactly points. That is lines per plane, and each lies in only one of the planes: lines.
Otherwise the direction is one of the four space-diagonal directions up to sign; by symmetry, count lines parallel to and multiply by Such a line meets the grid in points, so exactly points means Normalizing the base point so that we need with entries in using both and there are of them, hence lines per direction and in all.
The total is
15.
Tetrahedron has and For any point in space, define The least possible value of can be expressed as where and are positive integers, and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find
Difficulty rating: 3500
Solution:
Let and be the midpoints of and The medians from and from to are equal, since triangles and are congruent by by the median length formula, so Likewise Then as a median of the isosceles triangles and is perpendicular to both and so the rotation about line swaps and Also
For any point let be its image under this rotation, and let be the midpoint of which lies on line Then and so because a median of a triangle is at most half the sum of the two adjacent sides. So it suffices to minimize over points on line
Rotate about line into the plane of and line on the opposite side of from landing at with For on line with equality where segment crosses Since and with and Hence the minimum of is and since is squarefree,