ΒΆ 1985 AIME Problems and Solutions
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Individual Problems and Solutions
For problems and detailed solutions to each of the 1985 AIME problems, please refer below:
Problem 1: Let , and for let . Calculate the product .
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Problem 2: When a right triangle is rotated about one leg, the volume of the cone produced is . When the triangle is rotated about the other leg, the volume of the cone produced is . What is the length (in ) of the hypotenuse of the triangle?
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Problem 3: Find if and are positive integers which satisfy , where .
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Problem 4: A small square is constructed inside a square of area by dividing each side of the unit square into equal parts, and then connecting the vertices to the division points closest to the opposite vertices, as shown in the figure on the right. Find the value of if the area of the small square (shaded in the figure) is exactly .
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Problem 5: A sequence of integers is chosen so that for each . What is the sum of the first terms of this sequence if the sum of the first terms is , and the sum of the first terms is
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Problem 6: As shown in the figure on the right, is divided into six smaller triangles by lines drawn from the vertices through a common interior point. The areas of four of these triangles are as indicated. Find the area of .
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Problem 7: Assume that and are positive integers such that and . Determine .
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Problem 8: The sum of the following seven numbers is exactly :
It is desired to replace each by an integer approximation , so that the sum of the 's is also , and so that , the maximum of the "errors" , is as small as possible. For this minimum , what is
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Problem 9: In a circle, parallel chords of lengths and determine central angles of and radians, respectively, where . If , which is a positive rational number, is expressed as a fraction in lowest terms, what is the sum of its numerator and denominator?
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Problem 10: How many of the first positive integers can be expressed in the form
where is a real number, and denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to ?
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Problem 11: An ellipse has foci at and in the -plane and is tangent to the -axis. What is the length of its major axis?
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Problem 12: Let and be the vertices of a regular tetrahedron, each of whose edges measures meter. A bug, starting from vertex , observes the following rule: at each vertex it chooses one of the three edges meeting at that vertex, each edge being equally likely to be chosen, and crawls along that edge to the vertex at its opposite end. Let be the probability that the bug is at vertex when it has crawled exactly meters. Find the value of .
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Problem 13: The numbers in the sequence are of the form , where . For each , let be the greatest common divisor of and . Find the maximum value of as ranges through the positive integers.
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Problem 14: In a tournament each player played exactly one game against each of the other players. In each game the winner was awarded point, the loser got points, and each of the two players earned point if the game was a tie. After the completion of the tournament, it was found that exactly half of the points earned by each player were earned in games against the ten players with the least number of points. (In particular, each of the ten lowest scoring players earned half of her/his points against the other nine of the ten). What was the total number of players in the tournament?
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Problem 15: Three squares are each cut into two pieces and , as shown in the first figure below, by joining the midpoints of two adjacent sides. These six pieces are then attached to a regular hexagon, as shown in the second figure, so as to fold into a polyhedron. What is the volume (in ) of this polyhedron?
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