AoPS Community 2014 AIME Problems

AIME Problems 2014

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by happiface, Minamoto, niraekjs, Lord.of.AMC, ksun48, dasobson, El Ectric, ahaanomegas, DaChickenInc,
tmathman, rrusczyk

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– March 13th

1 The 8 eyelets for the lace of a sneaker all lie on a rectangle, four equally spaced on each of the
longer sides. The rectangle has a width of 50 mm and a length of 80 mm. There is one eyelet
at each vertex of the rectangle. The lace itself must pass between the vertex eyelets along a
width side of the rectangle and then crisscross between successive eyelets until it reaches the
two eyelets at the other width side of the rectrangle as shown. After passing through these final
eyelets, each of the ends of the lace must extend at least 200 mm farther to allow a knot to be
tied. Find the minimum length of the lace in millimeters.

2 An urn contains 4 green balls and 6 blue balls. A second urn contains 16 green balls and N blue
balls. A single ball is drawn at random from each urn. The probability that both balls are of the
same color is 0.58. Find N .

3 Find the number of rational numbers r, 0 < r < 1, such that when r is written as a fraction in
lowest terms, the numerator and denominator have a sum of 1000.

4 Jon and Steve ride their bicycles on a path that parallels two side-by-side train tracks running in
the east/west direction. Jon rides east at 20 miles per hour, and Steve rides west at 20 miles per
hour. Two trains of equal length traveling in opposite directions at constant but different speeds,
each pass the two riders. Each train takes exactly 1 minute to go past Jon. The westbound train
takes 10 times as long as the eastbound train to go past Steve. The length of each train is m n,
where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

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5 Let the set S = {P1 , P2 , · · · , P12 } consist of the twelve vertices of a regular 12-gon. A subset Q
of S is called communal if there is a circle such that all points of Q are inside the circle, and all
points of S not in Q are outside of the circle. How many communal subsets are there? (Note
that the empty set is a communal subset.)

6 The graphs of y = 3(x − h)2 + j and y = 2(x − h)2 + k have y-intercepts of 2013 and 2014,
respectively, and each graph has two positive integer x-intercepts. Find h.

Let w and z be complex numbers such that |w| = 1 and |z| = 10. Let θ = arg w−z . The


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maximum possible value of tan2 θ can be written as pq , where p and q are relatively prime positive
integers. Find p + q. (Note that arg(w), for w ̸= 0, denotes the measure of the angle that the ray
from 0 to w makes with the positive real axis in the complex plane.

8 The positive integers N and N 2 both end in the same sequence of four digits abcd when written
in base 10, where digit a is not zero. Find the three-digit number abc.
√
9 Let x1 < x2 < x3 be three real roots of equation 2014x3 − 4029x2 + 2 = 0. Find x2 (x1 + x3 ).

10 A disk with radius 1 is externally tangent to a disk with radius 5. Let A be the point where the
disks are tangent, C be the center of the smaller disk, and E be the center of the larger disk.
While the larger disk remains fixed, the smaller disk is allowed to roll along the outside of the
larger disk until the smaller disk has turned through an angle of 360◦ . That is, if the center of the
smaller disk has moved to the point D, and the point on the smaller disk that began at A has
now moved to point B, then AC is parallel to BD. Then sin2 (∠BEA) = m n , where m and n are
relatively prime positive integers. Find m + n.

11 A token starts at the point (0, 0) of an xy-coordinate grid and them makes a sequence of six
moves. Each move is 1 unit in a direction parallel to one of the coordinate axes. Each move is
selected randomly from the four possible directions and independently of the other moves. The
probability the token ends at a point on the graph of |y| = |x| is m
n , where m and n are relatively
prime positive integers. Find m + n.

12 Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, and f and g be randomly chosen (not necessarily distinct) functions from A
to A. The probability that the range of f and the range of g are disjoint is m
n , where m and n are
relatively prime positive integers. Find m.

13 On square ABCD, points E, F, G, and H lie on sides AB, BC, CD, and DA, respectively, so that
EG ⊥ F H and EG = F H = 34. Segments EG and F H intersect at a point P, and the areas of
the quadrilaterals AEP H, BF P E, CGP F, and DHP G are in the ratio 269 : 275 : 405 : 411. Find
the area of square ABCD.

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A H D

z
w G
P

E
y
x

B F C
w : x : y : z = 269 : 275 : 405 : 411

14 Let m be the largest real solution to the equation

3 5 17 19
+ + + = x2 − 11x − 4.
x − 3 x − 5 x − 17 x − 19
√
There are positive integers a, b, c such that m = a + b + c. Find a + b + c.
p

15 In △ABC, AB = 3, BC = 4, and CA = 5. Circle ω intersects AB at E and √ B, BC at B and D,

and AC at F and G. Given that EF = DF and EG = 4 , length DE = c , where a and c are
DG 3 a b

relatively prime positive integers, and b is a positive integer not divisible by the square of any
prime. Find a + b + c.

– II

– March 26th

1 Abe can paint the room in 15 hours, Bea can paint 50 percent faster than Abe, and Coe can paint
twice as fast as Abe. Abe begins to paint the room and works alone for the first hour and a half.
Then Bea joins Abe, and they work together until half the room is painted. Then Coe joins Abe
and Bea, and they work together until the entire room is painted. Find the number of minutes
after Abe begins for the three of them to finish painting the room.

2 Arnold is studying the prevalence of three health risk factors, denoted by A, B, and C. within a
population of men. For each of the three factors, the probability that a randomly selected man
in the population as only this risk factor (and none of the others) is 0.1. For any two of the three
factors, the probability that a randomly selected man has exactly two of these two risk factors
(but not the third) is 0.14. The probability that a randomly selected man has all three risk factors,

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given that he has A and B is 13 . The probability that a man has none of the three risk factors given
that he does not have risk factor A is pq , where p and q are relatively prime positive integers. Find
p + q.

3 A rectangle has sides of length a and 36. A hinge is installed at each vertex of the rectangle and
at the midpoint of each side of length 36. The sides of length a can be pressed toward each
other keeping those two sides parallel so the rectangle becomes a convex hexagon as shown.
When the figure is a hexagon with the sides of length a parallel and separated by a distance of
24, the hexagon has the same area as the original rectangle. Find a2 .

4 The repeating decimals 0.ababab and 0.abcabcabc satisfy

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0.ababab + 0.abcabcabc = ,
37
where a, b, and c are (not necessarily distinct) digits. Find the three-digit number abc.

5 Real numbers r and s are roots of p(x) = x3 + ax + b, and r + 4 and s − 3 are roots of q(x) =
x3 + ax + b + 240. Find the sum of all possible values of |b|.

6 Charles has two six-sided dice. One of the dice is fair, and the other die is biased so that it comes
up six with probability 23 , and each of the other five sides has probability 15 1
. Charles chooses
one of the two dice at random and rolls it three times. Given that the first two rolls are both
sixes, the probability that the third roll will also be a six is pq , where p and q are relatively prime
positive integers. Find p + q.

7 Let f (x) = (x2 + 3x + 2)cos(πx) . Find the sum of all positive integers n for which
n
X
log10 f (k) = 1.
k=1

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8 Circle C with radius 2 has diameter AB. Circle D is internally tangent to circle C at A. Circle E
is internally tangent to circle C, externally tangent to circle D, and tangent to AB. The radius of
√
circle D is three times the radius of circle E and can be written in the form m − n, where m
and n are positive integers. Find m + n.

9 Ten chairs are arranged in a circle. Find the number of subsets of this set of chairs that contain
at least three adjacent chairs.

10 Let z be a complex number with |z| = 2014. Let P be the polygon in the complex plane whose
vertices are z and every w such that z+w
1
= z1 + w1 . Then the area enclosed by P can be written
√
in the form n 3, where n is an integer. Find the remainder when n is divided by 1000.

11 In △RED, RD = 1, ∠DRE = 75◦ and ∠RED = 45◦ . Let M be the midpoint of segment RD.
Point C lies on side ED such that
√
RC ⊥ EM . Extend segment DE through E to point A such
that CA = AR. Then AE = a−c b , where a and c are relatively prime positive integers, and b is a
positive integer. Find a + b + c.

12 Suppose that the angles of △ABC satisfy cos(3A) + cos(3B) + cos(3C) = 1. Two sides of the
triangle have lengths 10 and 13. There is a positive integer m so that the maximum possible
√
length for the remaining side of △ABC is m. Find m.

13 Ten adults enter a room, remove their shoes, and toss their shoes into a pile. Later, a child
randomly pairs each left shoe with a right shoe without regard to which shoes belong together.
The probability that for every positive integer k < 5, no collection of k pairs made by the child
contains the shoes from exactly k of the adults is m
n , where m and n are relatively prime positive
integers. Find m + n.

14 In △ABC, AB = 10, ∠A = 30◦ , and ∠C = 45◦ . Let H, D, and M be points on line BC such that
AH ⊥ BC, ∠BAD = ∠CAD, and BM = CM . Point N is the midpoint of segment HM , and
point P is on ray AD such that P N ⊥ BC. Then AP 2 = m n , where m and n are relatively prime
positive integers. Find m + n.

15 For any integer k ≥ 1, let p(k) be the smallest prime which does not divide k. Define the integer
function X(k) to be the product of all primes less than p(k) if p(k) > 2, and X(k) = 1 if p(k) = 2.
Let {xn } be the sequence defined by x0 = 1, and xn+1 X(xn ) = xn p(xn ) for n ≥ 0. Find the
smallest positive integer, t such that xt = 2090.

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