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AIME 1992

American Invitational Mathematics Examination 1992.

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Problem 2

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A positive integer is called ascending if, in its decimal representation, there are at least two digits and each digit is less than any digit to its right. How many ascending positive integers are there?

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Problem 3

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A tennis player computes her win ratio by dividing the number of matches she has won by the total number of matches she has played. At the start of a weekend, her win ratio is exactly .500.500. During the weekend, she plays four matches, winning three and losing one. At the end of the weekend, her win ratio is greater than .503.503. What's the largest number of matches she could've won before the weekend began?

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Problem 5

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Let SS^{}_{} be the set of all rational numbers rr^{}_{}, 0<r<10^{}_{}<r<1, that have a repeating decimal expansion in the form 0.abcabcabc…=0.abc‾0.abcabcabc\ldots=0.\overline{abc}, where the digits aa^{}_{}, bb^{}_{}, and cc^{}_{} are not necessarily distinct. To write the elements of SS^{}_{} as fractions in lowest terms, how many different numerators are required?

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Problem 6

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For how many pairs of consecutive integers in {1000,1001,1002,…,2000}\{1000,1001,1002,\ldots,2000\} is no carrying required when the two integers are added?

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Problem 7

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Faces ABCABC^{}_{} and BCDBCD^{}_{} of tetrahedron ABCDABCD^{}_{} meet at an angle of 30∘30^\circ. The area of face ABCABC^{}_{} is 120120^{}_{}, the area of face BCDBCD^{}_{} is 8080^{}_{}, and BC=10BC=10^{}_{}. Find the volume of the tetrahedron.

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Problem 9

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Trapezoid ABCDABCD^{}_{} has sides AB=92AB=92^{}_{}, BC=50BC=50^{}_{}, CD=19CD=19^{}_{}, and AD=70AD=70^{}_{}, with ABAB^{}_{} parallel to CDCD^{}_{}. A circle with center PP^{}_{} on ABAB^{}_{} is drawn tangent to BCBC^{}_{} and ADAD^{}_{}. Given that AP=mnAP^{}_{}=\frac mn, where mm^{}_{} and nn^{}_{} are relatively prime positive integers, find m+nm+n^{}_{}.

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Problem 10

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Consider the region AA in the complex plane that consists of all points zz such that both z40\frac{z}{40} and 40z‾\frac{40}{\overline{z}} have real and imaginary parts between 00 and 11, inclusive. What is the integer that is nearest the area of AA?

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Problem 11

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Lines l1l_1^{} and l2l_2^{} both pass through the origin and make first-quadrant angles of π70\frac{\pi}{70} and π54\frac{\pi}{54} radians, respectively, with the positive x-axis. For any line ll^{}_{}, the transformation R(l)R(l)^{}_{} produces another line as follows: ll^{}_{} is reflected in l1l_1^{}, and the resulting line is reflected in l2l_2^{}. Let R(1)(l)=R(l)R^{(1)}(l)=R(l)^{}_{} and R(n)(l)=R(R(n−1)(l))R^{(n)}(l)^{}_{}=R\left(R^{(n-1)}(l)\right). Given that ll^{}_{} is the line y=1992xy=\frac{19}{92}x^{}_{}, find the smallest positive integer mm^{}_{} for which R(m)(l)=lR^{(m)}(l)=l^{}_{}.

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Problem 12

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In a game of Chomp, two players alternately take bites from a 5-by-7 grid of unit squares. To take a bite, a player chooses one of the remaining squares, then removes ("eats") all squares in the quadrant defined by the left edge (extended upward) and the lower edge (extended rightward) of the chosen square. For example, the bite determined by the shaded square in the diagram would remove the shaded square and the four squares marked by ×.\times. (The squares with two or more dotted edges have been removed form the original board in previous moves.)

The object of the game is to make one's opponent take the last bite. The diagram shows one of the many subsets of the set of 35 unit squares that can occur during the game of Chomp. How many different subsets are there in all? Include the full board and empty board in your count.

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Problem 14

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In triangle ABCABC^{}_{}, A′A', B′B', and C′C' are on the sides BCBC, ACAC^{}_{}, and ABAB^{}_{}, respectively. Given that AA′AA', BB′BB', and CC′CC' are concurrent at the point OO^{}_{}, and that AOOA′+BOOB′+COOC′=92\frac{AO^{}_{}}{OA'}+\frac{BO}{OB'}+\frac{CO}{OC'}=92, find AOOA′⋅BOOB′⋅COOC′\frac{AO}{OA'}\cdot \frac{BO}{OB'}\cdot \frac{CO}{OC'}.

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Problem 15

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Define a positive integer nn^{}_{} to be a factorial tail if there is some positive integer mm^{}_{} such that the decimal representation of m!m! ends with exactly nn zeroes. How many positive integers less than 19921992 are not factorial tails?

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