Practice (2)

2874

A rug is made with three different colors as shown. The areas of the three differently colored regions form an arithmetic progression. The inner rectangle is one foot wide, and each of the two shaded regions is

$1$ foot wide on all four sides. What is the length in feet of the inner rectangle?

2875

What is the area of the shaded region of the given

$8 \times 5$ rectangle?

2876

Three distinct integers are selected at random between

$1$ and

$2016$ , inclusive. Which of the following is a correct statement about the probability

$p$ that the product of the three integers is odd?

2877

Five friends sat in a movie theater in a row containing

$5$ seats, numbered

$1$ to

$5$ from left to right. (The directions "left" and "right" are from the point of view of the people as they sit in the seats.) During the movie Ada went to the lobby to get some popcorn. When she returned, she found that Bea had moved two seats to the right, Ceci had moved one seat to the left, and Dee and Edie had switched seats, leaving an end seat for Ada. In which seat had Ada been sitting before she got up?

2878

How many ways are there to write

$2016$ as the sum of twos and threes, ignoring order? (For example,

$1008\cdot 2 + 0\cdot 3$ and

$402\cdot 2 + 404\cdot 3$ are two such ways.)

2879

Seven cookies of radius $1$ inch are cut from a circle of cookie dough, as shown. Neighboring cookies are tangent, and all except the center cookie are tangent to the edge of the dough. The leftover scrap is reshaped to form another cookie of the same thickness. What is the radius in inches of the scrap cookie?

2880

A triangle with vertices

$A(0, 2)$ ,

$B(-3, 2)$ , and

$C(-3, 0)$ is reflected about the

$x$ -axis, then the image

$\triangle A'B'C'$ is rotated counterclockwise about the origin by

$90^{\circ}$ to produce

$\triangle A''B''C''$ . Which of the following transformations will return

$\triangle A''B''C''$ to

$\triangle ABC$ ?

2881

Let

$N$ be a positive multiple of

$5$ . One red ball and

$N$ green balls are arranged in a line in random order. Let

$P(N)$ be the probability that at least

$\tfrac{3}{5}$ of the green balls are on the same side of the red ball. Observe that

$P(5)=1$ and that

$P(N)$ approaches

$\tfrac{4}{5}$ as

$N$ grows large. What is the sum of the digits of the least value of

$N$ such that

$P(N) < \tfrac{321}{400}$ ?

2882

Each vertex of a cube is to be labeled with an integer

$1$ through

$8$ , with each integer being used once, in such a way that the sum of the four numbers on the vertices of a face is the same for each face. Arrangements that can be obtained from each other through rotations of the cube are considered to be the same. How many different arrangements are possible?

2883

In rectangle

$ABCD,$

$AB=6$ and

$BC=3$ . Point

$E$ between

$B$ and

$C$ , and point

$F$ between

$E$ and

$C$ are such that

$BE=EF=FC$ . Segments

$\overline{AE}$ and

$\overline{AF}$ intersect

$\overline{BD}$ at

$P$ and

$Q$ , respectively. The ratio

$BP:PQ:QD$ can be written as

$r:s:t$ where the greatest common factor of

$r,s$ and

$t$ is 1. What is

$r+s+t$ ?

2884

For some particular value of $N$ , when $(a+b+c+d+1)^N$ is expanded and like terms are combined, the resulting expression contains exactly $1001$ terms that include all four variables $a, b,c,$ and $d$ , each to some positive power. What is $N$ ?

2885

Circles with centers

$P, Q$ and

$R$ , having radii

$1, 2$ and

$3$ , respectively, lie on the same side of line

$l$ and are tangent to

$l$ at

$P', Q'$ and

$R'$ , respectively, with

$Q'$ between

$P'$ and

$R'$ . The circle with center

$Q$ is externally tangent to each of the other two circles. What is the area of triangle

$PQR$ ?

2886

For some positive integer

$n$ , the number

$110n^3$ has

$110$ positive integer divisors, including

$1$ and the number

$110n^3$ . How many positive integer divisors does the number

$81n^4$ have?

2887

A binary operation

$\diamondsuit$ has the properties that

$a\,\diamondsuit\, (b\,\diamondsuit \,c) = (a\,\diamondsuit \,b)\cdot c$ and that

$a\,\diamondsuit \,a=1$ for all nonzero real numbers

$a, b,$ and

$c$ . (Here

$\cdot$ represents multiplication). The solution to the equation

$2016 \,\diamondsuit\, (6\,\diamondsuit\, x)=100$ can be written as

$\tfrac{p}{q}$ , where

$p$ and

$q$ are relatively prime positive integers. What is

$p+q?$

2888

A quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle of radius

$200\sqrt{2}$ . Three of the sides of this quadrilateral have length

$200$ . What is the length of the fourth side?

2889

How many ordered triples

$(x,y,z)$ of positive integers satisfy

$\text{lcm}(x,y) = 72, \text{lcm}(x,z) = 600$ and

$\text{lcm}(y,z)=900$ ?

2890

Which of these describes the graph of

$x^2(x+y+1)=y^2(x+y+1)$ ?

2891

The five small shaded squares inside this unit square are congruent and have disjoint interiors. The midpoint of each side of the middle square coincides with one of the vertices of the other four small squares as shown. The common side length is

$\tfrac{a-\sqrt{2}}{b}$ , where

$a$ and

$b$ are positive integers. What is

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2892

Each of the

$100$ students in a certain summer camp can either sing, dance, or act. Some students have more than one talent, but no student has all three talents. There are

$42$ students who cannot sing,

$65$ students who cannot dance, and

$29$ students who cannot act. How many students have two of these talents?

2893

In $\triangle ABC$ , $AB = 6$ , $BC = 7$ , and $CA = 8$ . Point $D$ lies on $\overline{BC}$ , and $\overline{AD}$ bisects $\angle BAC$ . Point $E$ lies on $\overline{AC}$ , and $\overline{BE}$ bisects $\angle ABC$ . The bisectors intersect at $F$ . What is the ratio $AF$ : $FD$ ?

2894

The graphs of

$y=\log_3 x, y=\log_x 3, y=\log_\frac{1}{3} x,$ and

$y=\log_x \dfrac{1}{3}$ are plotted on the same set of axes. How many points in the plane with positive

$x$ -coordinates lie on two or more of the graphs?

2895

Let

$ABCD$ be a square. Let

$E, F, G$ and

$H$ be the centers, respectively, of equilateral triangles with bases

$\overline{AB}, \overline{BC}, \overline{CD},$ and

$\overline{DA},$ each exterior to the square. What is the ratio of the area of square

$EFGH$ to the area of square

$ABCD$ ?

2896

Jerry starts at

$0$ on the real number line. He tosses a fair coin

$8$ times. When he gets heads, he moves

$1$ unit in the positive direction; when he gets tails, he moves

$1$ unit in the negative direction. The probability that he reaches

$4$ at some time during this process

$\frac{a}{b},$ where

$a$ and

$b$ are relatively prime positive integers. What is

$a + b?$ (For example, he succeeds if his sequence of tosses is

$HTHHHHHH.$ )

2897

Three numbers in the interval

$\left[0,1\right]$ are chosen independently and at random. What is the probability that the chosen numbers are the side lengths of a triangle with positive area?

2898

There is a smallest positive real number

$a$ such that there exists a positive real number

$b$ such that all the roots of the polynomial

$x^3-ax^2+bx-a$ are real. In fact, for this value of

$a$ the value of

$b$ is unique. What is the value of

$b?$

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