Practice (TheColoringMethod)
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17 people attend a party. Prove: it is impossible that everyone exactly shakes hands with 3 other attendees.
Let $n>1$ be a positive integer. Prove $1+\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3}+\cdots + \frac{1}{n}$ cannot be a whole integer.
Find all orders combination of digits $A$, $B$, and $C$ such that the 6-digit number $\overline{503ABC}$ is a multiple of 7, 9, and 11.
Joe wants to measure $6$ liter water using just two containers whose capacities are $27$ liters and $15$ liters, respectively. Can you help him?
At Euclid Middle School the mathematics teachers are Miss Germain, Mr. Newton, and Mrs. Young. There are $11$ students in Mrs. Germain's class, $8$ students in Mr. Newton's class, and $9$ students in Mrs. Young's class taking the AMC 8 this year. How many mathematics students at Euclid Middle School are taking the contest?
If $a @ b = \frac{a\times b}{a+b}$ for $a,b$ positive integers, then what is $5 @10$?
The graph shows the price of five gallons of gasoline during the first ten months of the year. By what percent is the highest price more than the lowest price?
What is the sum of the mean, medium, and mode of the numbers $2,3,0,3,1,4,0,3$?
Alice needs to replace a light bulb located $10$ centimeters below the ceiling in her kitchen. The ceiling is $2.4$ meters above the floor. Alice is $1.5$ meters tall and can reach $46$ centimeters above the top of her head. Standing on a stool, she can just reach the light bulb. What is the height of the stool, in centimeters?
Which of the following figures has the greatest number of lines of symmetry?
Using only pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, what is the smallest number of coins Freddie would need so he could pay any amount of money less than a dollar?
As Emily is riding her bicycle on a long straight road, she spots Emerson skating in the same direction $1/2$ mile in front of her. After she passes him, she can see him in her rear mirror until he is $1/2$ mile behind her. Emily rides at a constant rate of $12$ miles per hour, and Emerson skates at a constant rate of $8$ miles per hour. For how many minutes can Emily see Emerson?
Ryan got $80\%$ of the problems correct on a $25$-problem test, $90\%$ on a $40$-problem test, and $70\%$ on a $10$-problem test. What percent of all the problems did Ryan answer correctly?
Six pepperoni circles will exactly fit across the diameter of a $12$-inch pizza when placed. If a total of $24$ circles of pepperoni are placed on this pizza without overlap, what fraction of the pizza is covered by pepperoni?
The top of one tree is $16$ feet higher than the top of another tree. The heights of the two trees are in the ratio $3:4$. In feet, how tall is the taller tree?
Of the $500$ balls in a large bag, $80\%$ are red and the rest are blue. How many of the red balls must be removed so that $75\%$ of the remaining balls are red?
The lengths of the sides of a triangle in inches are three consecutive integers. The length of the shortest side is $30\%$ of the perimeter. What is the length of the longest side?
What is the sum of the prime factors of $2010$?
A jar contains $5$ different colors of gumdrops. $30\%$ are blue, $20\%$ are brown, $15\%$ are red, $10\%$ are yellow, and other $30$ gumdrops are green. If half of the blue gumdrops are replaced with brown gumdrops, how gumdrops will be brown?
A square and a circle have the same area. What is the ratio of the side length of the square to the radius of the circle?
The diagram shows an octagon consisting of $10$ unit squares. The portion below $\overline{PQ}$ is a unit square and a triangle with base $5$. If $\overline{PQ}$ bisects the area of the octagon, what is the ratio $\dfrac{XQ}{QY}$?
A decorative window is made up of a rectangle with semicircles at either end. The ratio of $AD$ to $AB$ is $3:2$. And $AB$ is 30 inches. What is the ratio of the area of the rectangle to the combined area of the semicircles.
The two circles pictured have the same center $C$. Chord $\overline{AD}$ is tangent to the inner circle at $B$, $AC$ is $10$, and chord $\overline{AD}$ has length $16$. What is the area between the two circles?
In a room, $2/5$ of the people are wearing gloves, and $3/4$ of the people are wearing hats. What is the minimum number of people in the room wearing both a hat and a glove?
Hui is an avid reader. She bought a copy of the best seller Math is Beautiful. On the first day, Hui read $1/5$ of the pages plus $12$ more, and on the second day she read $1/4$ of the remaining pages plus $15$ pages. On the third day she read $1/3$ of the remaining pages plus $18$ pages. She then realized that there were only $62$ pages left to read, which she read the next day. How many pages are in this book?