Weekly Contest #71

(Ended)

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Q1.

Each face of two noncongruent parallelepipeds is a rhombus whose diagonals have lengths $\sqrt{21}$ and $\sqrt{31}$. The ratio of the volume of the larger of the two polyhedra to the volume of the smaller is $\frac{m}{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$. A parallelepiped is a solid with six parallelogram faces such as the one shown below.

[asy] unitsize(2cm); pair o = (0, 0), u = (1, 0), v = 0.8*dir(40), w = dir(70);  draw(o--u--(u+v)); draw(o--v--(u+v), dotted); draw(shift(w)*(o--u--(u+v)--v--cycle)); draw(o--w); draw(u--(u+w)); draw(v--(v+w), dotted); draw((u+v)--(u+v+w)); [/asy]

Answer must be a floating-point or integer value and precision error less than 10^-6 is allowed.


Editorial
Tags: Algebra Geometry

Q2.

Find the largest prime number $p<1000$ for which there exists a complex number $z$ satisfying

  • the real and imaginary part of $z$ are both integers;
  • $|z|=\sqrt{p},$ and
  • there exists a triangle whose three side lengths are $p,$ the real part of $z^{3},$ and the imaginary part of $z^{3}.$

Answer must be a floating-point or integer value and precision error less than 10^-6 is allowed.


Editorial
Tags: Algebra Geometry

Q3.

There exists a unique positive integer $a$ for which the sum

\[U=\sum_{n=1}^{2023}\left\lfloor\dfrac{n^{2}-na}{5}\right\rfloor\]

is an integer strictly between $-1000$ and $1000$. For that unique $a$, find $a+U$.

(Note that $\lfloor x\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to $x$.)

Answer must be a floating-point or integer value and precision error less than 10^-6 is allowed.


Editorial
Tags: Algebra

Q4.

Alice knows that $3$ red cards and $3$ black cards will be revealed to her one at a time in random order. Before each card is revealed, Alice must guess its color. If Alice plays optimally, the expected number of cards she will guess correctly is $\frac{m}{n},$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n.$

Answer must be a floating-point or integer value and precision error less than 10^-6 is allowed.


Editorial
Tags: Probability