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– A

– November 6, 2024

1 What is the value of 9901 · 101 − 99 · 10101?

(A) 2 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 200 (E) 2020

2 A model used to estimate the time it will take to hike to the top of the mountain on a trail is of
the form T = aL + bG, where a and b are constants, T is the time in minutes, L is the length
of the trail in miles, and G is the altitude gain in feet. The model estimates that it will take 69
minutes to hike to the top if a trail is 1.5 miles long and ascends 800 feet, as well as if a trail is
1.2 miles long and ascends 1100 feet. How many minutes does the model estimate it will take
to hike to the top if the trail is 4.2 miles long and ascends 4000 feet?
(A) 240 (B) 246 (C) 252 (D) 258 (E) 264

3 The number 2024 is written as the sum of not necessarily distinct two-digit numbers. What is
the least number of two-digit numbers needed to write this sum?
(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 22 (D) 23 (E) 24

4 What is the least value of n such that n! is a multiple of 2024?

(A) 11 (B) 21 (C) 22 (D) 23 (E) 253

5 A data set containing 20 numbers, some of which are 6, has mean 45. When all the 6s are re-
moved, the data set has mean 66. How many 6s were in the original data set?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

6 The product of three integers is 60. What is the least possible positive sum of the three integers?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 13
√
7 In ∆ABC, ∠ABC = 90◦ and BA = BC = 2. Points P1 , P2 , . . . , P2024 lie on hypotenuse AC so
that AP1 = P1 P2 = P2 P3 = · · · = P2023 P2024 = P2024 C. What is the length of the vector sum
−−→ −−→ −−→ −−−−→
BP1 + BP2 + BP3 + · · · + BP2024 ?

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(A) 1011 (B) 1012 (C) 2023 (D) 2024 (E) 2025

8 How many angles θ with 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2π satisfy log(sin(3θ)) + log(cos(2θ)) = 0?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

9 Let M be the greatest integer such that both M + 1213 and M + 3773 are perfect squares. What
is the units digit of M ?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 6 (E) 8

10 Let α be the radian measure of the smallest angle in a 3−4−5 right triangle. Let β be the radian
measure of the smallest angle in a 7−24−25 right triangle. In terms of α, what is β?
α π π α
(A) 3 (B) α − 8 (C) 2 − 2α (D) 2 (E) π − 4α

11 There are exactly K positive integers b with 5 ≤ b ≤ 2024 such that the base-b integer 2024b is
divisible by 16 (where 16 is in base ten). What is the sum of the digits of K?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 21

12 The first three terms of a geometric sequence are the integers a, 720, and b, where a < 720 < b.
What is the sum of the digits of the least possible value of b?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 21

13 The graph of y = ex+1 + e−x − 2 has an axis of symmetry. What is the reflection of the point
(−1, 12 ) over this axis?
(A) −1, − 23 (C) −1, 21 (D) 0, 21 (E) 3, 12





(B) (−1, 0)

14 The numbers, in order, of each row and the numbers, in order, of each column of a 5×5 array of in-
tegers form an arithmetic progression of length 5. The numbers in positions (5, 5), (2, 4), (4, 3),
and (3, 1) are 0, 48, 16, and 12, respectively. What number is in position (1, 2)?
 
. ? . . .
 . . . 48 . 
 
12 . . . .
 
 . . 16 . . 
. . . . 0

(A) 19 (B) 24 (C) 29 (D) 34 (E) 39

15 The roots of x3 + 2x2 − x + 3 are p, q, and r. What is the value of

(p2 + 4)(q 2 + 4)(r2 + 4)?

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(A) 64 (B) 75 (C) 100 (D) 125 (E) 144

16 A set of 12 tokens —- 3 red, 2 white, 1 blue, and 6 black —- is to be distributed at random to

3 game players, 4 tokens per player. The probability that some player gets all the red tokens,
another gets all the white tokens, and the remaining player gets the blue token can be written
as m
n , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?

(A) 387 (B) 388 (C) 389 (D) 390 (E) 391

17 Integers a, b, and c satisfy ab + c = 100, bc + a = 87, and ca + b = 60. What is ab + bc + ca?

(A) 212 (B) 247 (C) 258 (D) 276 (E) 284
√
18 On top of a rectangular card with sides of length 1 and 2 + 3, an identical card is placed so
that two of their diagonals line up, as shown (AC, in this case).

B A

Continue the process, adding a third card to the second, and so on, lining up successive diag-
onals after rotating clockwise. In total, how many cards must be used until a vertex of a new
card lands exactly on the vertex labeled B in the figure?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) No new vertex will land on B.

19 Cyclic quadrilateral ABCD has lengths BC = CD = 3 and DA = 5 with ∠CDA = 120◦ . What
is the length of the shorter diagonal of ABCD?
31 33 39 41
(A) 7 (B) 7 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 7

20 Points P and Q are chosen uniformly and independently at random on sides AB and AC, respec-
tively, of equilateral triangle △ABC. Which of the following intervals contains the probability that
the area of △AP Q is less than half the area of △ABC?

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3 1
 1 2
 2 3
 3 7
 7

(A) 8, 2 (B) 2, 3 (C) 3, 4 (D) 4, 8 (E) 8, 1

21 Suppose that a1 = 2 and the sequence (an ) satisfies the recurrence relation
an − 1 an−1 + 1
=
n−1 (n − 1) + 1
for all n ≥ 2. What is the greatest integer less than or equal to
100
X
a2n ?
n=1

(A) 338,550 (B) 338,551 (C) 338,552 (D) 338,553 (E) 338,554

22 The figure below shows a dotted grid 8 cells wide and 3 cells tall consisting of 1′′ × 1′′ squares.
Carl places 1-inch toothpicks along some of the sides of the squares to create a closed loop that
does not intersect itself. The numbers in the cells indicate the number of sides of that square
that are to be covered by toothpicks, and any number of toothpicks are allowed if no number is
written. In how many ways can Carl place the toothpicks?

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

(A) 130 (B) 144 (C) 146 (D) 162 (E) 196

23 What is the value of

π 3π π 5π 3π 7π 5π 7π
tan2 · tan2 + tan2 · tan2 + tan2 · tan2 + tan2 · tan2 ?
16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
(A) 28 (B) 68 (C) 70 (D) 72 (E) 84

24 A disphenoid is a tetrahedron whose triangular faces are congruent to one another. What is the
least total surface area of a disphenoid whose faces are scalene triangles with integer side
lengths?
√ √ √ √
(A) 3 (B) 3 15 (C) 15 (D) 15 7 (E) 24 6

25 A graph is symmetric about a line if the graph remains unchanged after reflection in that line.
For how many quadruples of integers (a, b, c, d), where |a|, |b|, |c|, |d| ≤ 5 and c and d are not both
0, is the graph of
ax + b
y=
cx + d

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symmetric about the line y = x?

(A) 1282 (B) 1292 (C) 1310 (D) 1320 (E) 1330

– B

– November 12, 2024

1 In a long line of people, the 1013th person from the left is also the 1010th person from the right.
How many people are in the line?
(A) 2021 (B) 2022 (C) 2023 (D) 2024 (E) 2025

2 What is 10! − 7! · 6!?

(A) − 120 (B) 0 (C) 120 (D) 600 (E) 720

3 For how many integer values of x is |2x| ≤ 7π?

(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 19 (D) 20 (E) 21

4 Balls numbered 1, 2, 3, . . . are deposited in 5 bins, labeled A, B, C, D, and E, using the following
procedure. Ball 1 is deposited in bin A, and balls 2 and 3 are deposted in B. The next three
balls are deposited in bin C, the next 4 in bin D, and so on, cycling back to bin A after balls are
deposited in bin E. (For example, 22, 23, . . . , 28 are despoited in bin B at step 7 of this process.)
In which bin is ball 2024 deposited?
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

5 In the following expression, Melanie changed some of the plus signs to minus signs:

1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + · · · + 97 + 99

When the new expression was evaluated, it was negative. What is the least number of plus signs
that Melanie could have changed to minus signs?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18

6 The national debt of the United States is on track to reach 5 · 1013 dollars by 2033. How many
digits does this number of dollars have when written as a numeral in base 5? (The approximation
of log10 5 as 0.7 is sufficient for this problem.)
(A) 18 (B) 20 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) 26

7 In the figure below W XY Z is a rectangle with W X = 4 and W Z = 8. Point M lies XY , point A

lies on Y Z, and ∠W M A is a right angle. The areas of △W XM and △W AZ are equal. What is
the area of △W M A?

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W Z
A

X Y
M

(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

8 What value of x satisfies

log2 x · log3 x
= 2?
log2 x + log3 x
(A) 25 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 42 (E) 48

9 A dartboard is the region B in the coordinate plane consisting of points (x, y) such that |x|+|y| ≤
8. A target T is the region where (x2 + y 2 − 25)2 ≤ 49. A dart is thrown at a random point in B.
The probability that the dart lands in T can be expressed as m n π, where m and n are relatively
prime positive integers. What is m + n?
(A) 39 (B) 71 (C) 73 (D) 75 (E) 135

10 A list of 9 real numbers consists of 1, 2.2, 3.2, 5.2, 6.2, 7, as well as x, y, z with x ≤ y ≤ z. The
range of the list is 7, and the mean and median are both positive integers. How many ordered
triples (x, y, z) are possible?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) infinitely many

11 Let xn = sin2 (n◦ ). What is the mean of x1 , x2 , x3 , · · · , x90 ?

11 22 89 1 91
(A) 45 (B) 45 (C) 180 (D) 2 (E) 180

12 Suppose z is a complex number with positive imaginary part, with real part greater than 1, and
with |z| = 2. In the complex plane, the four points 0, z, z 2 , and z 3 are the vertices of a quadrilateral
with area 15. What is the imaginary part of z?
3 4 3 5
(A) (B) 1 (C) (D) (E)
4 3 2 3

13 There are real numbers x, y, h and k that satisfy the system of equations

x2 + y 2 − 6x − 8y = h

x2 + y 2 − 10x + 4y = k
What is the minimum possible value of h + k?

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(A) − 54 (B) − 46 (C) − 34 (D) − 16 (E) 16

14 How many different remainders can result when the 100th power of an integer is divided by 125?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 25 (E) 125

15 A triangle in the coordinate plane has vertices A(log2 1, log2 2), B(log2 3, log2 4), and C(log2 7, log2 8).
What is the area of △ABC?
√
3 √3 √7 11 11
(A) log2 7 (B) log2 7
(C) log2 3
(D) log2 √
7
(E) log2 √
3

16 A group of 16 people will be partitioned into 4 indistinguishable 4-person committees. Each

committee will have one chairperson and one secretary. The number of different ways to make
these assignments can be written as 3r M , where r and M are positive integers and M is not
divisible by 3. What is r?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

17 Integers a and b are randomly chosen without replacement from the set of integers with absolute
value not exceeding 10. What is the probability that the polynomial x3 +ax2 +bx+6 has 3 distinct
integer roots?
1
(A) 240 1
(B) 221 1
(C) 105 1
(D) 84 1
(E) 63 .

18 The Fibonacci numbers are defined by F1 = 1, F2 = 1, and Fn = Fn−1 + Fn−2 for n ≥ 3. What is

F2 F4 F6 F20
+ + + ··· + ?
F1 F2 F3 F10

(A) 318 (B) 319 (C) 320 (D) 321 (E) 322

19 Equilateral △ABC with side length 14 is rotated about√its center by angle θ, where 0 < θ < 60◦ ,
to form △DEF . The area of hexagon ADBECF is 91 3. What is tan θ?

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F
E

√ √
3 5 3 4 11 7 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 11 5 13 13

20 Suppose A, B, and C are points in the plane with AB = 40 and AC = 42, and let x be the length
of the line segment from A to the midpoint of BC. Define a function f by letting f (x) be the
area of △ABC. Then the domain of f is an open interval (p, q), and the maximum value r of
f (x) occurs at x = s. What is p + q + r + s?
(A) 909 (B) 910 (C) 911 (D) 912 (E) 913

21 The measures of the smallest angles of three different right triangles sum to 90◦ . All three tri-
angles have side lengths that are primitive Pythagorean triples. Two of them are 3 − 4 − 5 and
5 − 12 − 13. What is the perimeter of the third triangle?
(A) 40 (B) 126 (C) 154 (D) 176 (E) 208

22 Let △ABC be a triangle with integer side lengths and the property that ∠B = 2∠A. What is the
least possible perimeter of such a triangle?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

23 A right pyramid has regular octagon ABCDEF GH with side length 1 as its base and apex V.
Segments AV and DV are perpendicular. What is the square of the height of the pyramid?
√ √ √
(A) 1 (B) 1+2 2 (C) 2 (D) 32 (E) 2+3 2

24 What is the number of ordered triples (a, b, c) of positive integers, with a ≤ b ≤ c ≤ 9, such
that there exists a (non-degenerate) triangle △ABC with an integer inradius for which a, b, and

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c are the lengths of the altitudes from A to BC, B to AC, and C to AB, respectively? (Recall that
the inradius of a triangle is the radius of the largest possible circle that can be inscribed in the
triangle.)
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

25 Pablo will decorate each of 6 identical white balls with either a striped or a dotted pattern, using
either red or blue paint. He will decide on the color and pattern for each ball by flipping a fair
coin for each of the 12 decisions he must make. After the paint dries, he will place the 6 balls
in an urn. Frida will randomly select one ball from the urn and note its color and pattern. The
events ”the ball Frida selects is red” and ”the ball Frida selects is striped” may or may not be
independent, depending on the outcome of Pablo’s coin flips. The probability that these two
events are independent can be written as mn , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers.
What is m? (Recall that two events A and B are independent if P (A and B) = P (A) · P (B).)
(A) 243 (B) 245 (C) 247 (D) 249 (E) 251

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