Weekly Contest #81

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Q1.

The repeating decimals $0.abab\overline{ab}$ and $0.abcabc\overline{abc}$ satisfy

\[0.abab\overline{ab}+0.abcabc\overline{abc}=\frac{33}{37},\]

where $a$$b$, and $c$ are (not necessarily distinct) digits. Find the three digit number $abc$.

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


Editorial
Tags: Algebra

Q2.

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 $\frac{m}{n}$, 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: Combinatorics Probability

Q3.

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

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


Editorial
Tags: Combinatorics

Q4.

Let $f(x)=(x^2+3x+2)^{\cos(\pi x)}$. Find the sum of all positive integers $n$ for which       \[\left |\sum_{k=1}^n\log_{10}f(k)\right|=1.\]

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


Editorial
Tags: Algebra

Q5.

Charles has two six-sided die. One of the die is fair, and the other die is biased so that it comes up six with probability $\frac{2}{3}$ and each of the other five sides has probability $\frac{1}{15}$. 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 $\frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p+q$.

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


Editorial
Tags: Combinatorics Probability