Problem 1
The expressions

=

and

=

are obtained by writing multiplication and addition
operators in an alternating pattern between successive integers. Find the
positive difference between integers

and

.
Problem 2
The nine delegates to the Economic Cooperation Conference include

officials from Mexico,

officials from Canada, and

officials from the United States. During the opening session,
three of the delegates fall asleep. Assuming that the three sleepers were
determined randomly, the probability that exactly two of the sleepers are from
the same country is

, where

and

are relatively prime positive integers. Find

.
Problem 3
There is a prime number

such that

is the cube of a positive integer. Find

.
Problem 4
Point

lies on line segment

with

and

. Points

and

lie on the same side of line

forming equilateral triangles

and

. Let

be the midpoint of

, and

be the midpoint of

. The area of

is

. Find

.
Problem 5
In a drawer Sandy has

pairs of socks, each pair a different color. on Monday, Sandy
selects two individual socks at random from the

socks in the drawer. on Tuesday Sandy selects

of the remaining

socks at random, and on Wednesday two of the remaining

socks at random. The probability that Wednesday is the first
day Sandy selects matching socks is

, where

and

are relatively prime positive integers. Find

.
Problem 6
Point

and

are equally spaced on a minor arc of a circle. Points

and

are equally spaced on a minor arc of a second circle with
center

as shown in the figure below. The angle

exceeds

by

. Find the degree measure of

.
Problem 7
In the diagram below,

is a square. Point

is the midpoint of

. Points

and

lie on

, and

and

lie on

and

, respectively, so that

is a square. Points

and

lie on

, and

and

lie on

and

, respectively, so that

is a square. The area of

is 99. Find the area of

.
Problem 8
For positive integer

, let

denote the sum of the digits of

. Find the smallest positive integer satisfying

.
Problem 9
Let

be the set of all ordered triple of integers

with

. Each ordered triple in

generates a sequence according to the rule

for all

. Find the number of such sequences for which

for some

.
Problem 10
Let

be a third-degree polynomial with real coefficients
satisfying
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Find

.
Problem 11
Triangle

has positive integer side lengths with

. Let

be the intersection of the bisectors of

and

. Suppose

. Find the smallest possible perimeter of

.
Problem 12
Consider all 1000-element subsets of the set

. From each such subset choose the least element. The
arithmetic mean of all of these least elements is

, where

and

are relatively prime positive integers. Find

.
Problem 13
With all angles measured in degrees, the product

, where

and

are integers greater than 1. Find

.
Problem 14
For each integer

, let

be the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by
the inequalities

and

, where

is the greatest integer not exceeding

. Find the number of values of

with

for which

is an integer.
Problem 15
A block of wood has the shape of a right circular cylinder with radius

and height

, and its entire surface has been painted blue. Points

and

are chosen on the edge of one of the circular faces of the
cylinder so that

on that face measures

. The block is then sliced in half along the plane that
passes through point

, point

, and the center of the cylinder, revealing a flat, unpainted
face on each half. The area of one of these unpainted faces is

, where

,

, and

are integers and

is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find

.
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