Practice (TheColoringMethod)
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A circle of radius 2 is centered at $A$. An equilateral triangle with side 4 has a vertex at $A$. What is the difference between the area of the region that lies inside the circle but outside the triangle and the area of the region that lies inside the triangle but outside the circle?
At Rachelle's school an $A$ counts 4 points, a $B$ 3 points, a $C$ 2 points, and a $D$ 1 point. Her GPA on the four classes she is taking is computed as the total sum of points divided by 4. She is certain that she will get $A$s in both Mathematics and Science, and at least a $C$ in each of English and History. She thinks she has a $\tfrac{1}{6}$ chance of getting an $A$ in English, and a $\tfrac{1}{4}$ chance of getting a $B$. In History, she has a $\tfrac{1}{4}$ chance of getting an $A$, and a $\tfrac{1}{3}$ chance of getting a $B$, independently of what she gets in English. What is the probability that Rachelle will get a GPA of at least 3.5?
A regular hexagon with sides of length 6 has an isosceles triangle attached to each side. Each of these triangles has two sides of length 8. The isosceles triangles are folded to make a pyramid with the hexagon as the base of the pyramid. What is the volume of the pyramid?
An unfair coin lands on heads with a probability of $\tfrac{1}{4}$. When tossed $n$ times, the probability of exactly two heads is the same as the probability of exactly three heads. What is the value of $n$ ?
For every composite positive integer $n$, define $r(n)$ to be the sum of the factors in the prime factorization of $n$. For example, $r(50) = 12$ because the prime factorization of $50$ is $2 \times 5^{2}$, and $2 + 5 + 5 = 12$. What is the range of the function $r$, $\{r(n): n \text{ is a composite positive integer}\}$ ?
In $\triangle ABC$, $\angle C = 90^\circ$ and $AB = 12$. Squares $ABXY$ and $ACWZ$ are constructed outside of the triangle. The points $X$, $Y$, $Z$, and $W$ lie on a circle. What is the perimeter of the triangle?
For every positive integer $n$, let $\text{mod}_5 (n)$ be the remainder obtained when $n$ is divided by 5. Define a function $f: \{0,1,2,3,\dots\} \times \{0,1,2,3,4\} \to \{0,1,2,3,4\}$ recursively as follows:
\[f(i,j) = \begin{cases}\text{mod}_5 (j+1) & \text{ if } i = 0 \text{ and } 0 \le j \le 4 \text{,}\\ f(i-1,1) & \text{ if } i \ge 1 \text{ and } j = 0 \text{, and} \\ f(i-1, f(i,j-1)) & \text{ if } i \ge 1 \text{ and } 1 \le j \le 4. \end{cases}\]
What is $f(2015,2)$?
Six chairs are evenly spaced around a circular table. One person is seated in each chair. Each person gets up and sits down in a chair that is not the same chair and is not adjacent to the chair he or she originally occupied, so that again one person is seated in each chair. In how many ways can this be done?
Four circles, no two of which are congruent, have centers at $A$, $B$, $C$, and $D$, and points $P$ and $Q$ lie on all four circles. The radius of circle $A$ is $\tfrac{5}{8}$ times the radius of circle $B$, and the radius of circle $C$ is $\tfrac{5}{8}$ times the radius of circle $D$. Furthermore, $AB = CD = 39$ and $PQ = 48$. Let $R$ be the midpoint of $\overline{PQ}$. What is $AR+BR+CR+DR$ ?
A bee starts flying from point $P_0$. She flies $1$ inch due east to point $P_1$. For $j \ge 1$, once the bee reaches point $P_j$, she turns $30^{\circ}$ counterclockwise and then flies $j+1$ inches straight to point $P_{j+1}$. When the bee reaches $P_{2015}$ she is exactly $a \sqrt{b} + c \sqrt{d}$ inches away from $P_0$, where $a$, $b$, $c$ and $d$ are positive integers and $b$ and $d$ are not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $a+b+c+d$ ?
A streaming video service offers its customers two plans. The first plan has a \$24 registration fee, a fixed monthly rate of \$5 and a charge of \$0.75 for each video download. The second plan has a \$15 registration fee, a fixed monthly rate of \$3 and a charge of \$1.50 for each video download. For how many downloads would the two plans cost the same for a year of service?
The length of a rectangle is three times its width. A new rectangle is created by decreasing the length of the original rectangle by 9 feet and increasing its width by 4 feet. The area of the new rectangle is the same as the area of the original rectangle. What is the perimeter of the new rectangle?
In equilateral triangle $ABC$, shown here, each downward pointing black triangle has its vertices at the midpoints of the sides of a larger upward pointing white triangle. What fraction of the area of $DABC$ is white? Express your answer as a common fraction.
What is the greatest possible perimeter of an isosceles triangle with sides of length $5x + 20$, $3x + 76$ and $x + 196$?
Consider an arithmetic sequence with $a_3 = 165$ and $a_{12} = 615$. For what value of n is $a_n = 2015$?
If $\sqrt{x + 7} = 2 +\sqrt{x}$ , what is the value of $x$? Express your answer as a common fraction.
The line perpendicular to $2x -2y = 2$, and with the same $y$-intercept, is graphed on the coordinate plane. What is the sum of its $x$- and $y$-intercepts?
What is the units digit of the sum of the squares of the integers from $1$ to $2015$, inclusive?
The doctor gave Amber ten vitamins, with instructions to take one or two each day until she runs out of vitamins. For example, Amber could take a vitamin a
day for ten days, or she could take two the first day and one a day for the next eight days. A third way is to take one vitamin a day for eight days and two on the ninth day. Including the three examples given, in how many different ways can Amber take the ten vitamins?
What is the radius of a circle inscribed in a triangle with sides of length $5$, $12$ and $13$ units?
A bag initially had blue, red and purple gumballs in the ratio of $2:3:4$. Five red gumballs are added to the bag. The probability of randomly drawing a red gumball is now $40%$. How many gumballs are now in the bag?
At the theater children get in for half price. The price for $5$ adult tickets and $4$ child tickets is $24.50$. How much would $8$ adult tickets and $6$ child tickets cost?
The difference between a two-digit number and the number obtained by reversing its digits is $5$ times the sum of the digits of either number. What is the sum of the two digit number and its reverse?
The first three terms of a geometric progression are $\sqrt 3$, $\sqrt[3]3$, and $\sqrt[6]3$. What is the fourth term?
The quadratic equation $x^2+ px + 2p = 0$ has solutions $x = a$ and $x = b$. If the quadratic equation $x^2+ cx + d = 0$ has solutions $x = a + 2$ and $x = b + 2$, what is the value of d?