MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
American Mathematics Competitions
32™ Annual
AIME |
American Invitational Mathematics Examination |
Thursday, March 13, 2014
DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOUR PROCTOR GIVES THE
SIGNAL TO BEGIN.
This is a 15-question, 3-hour examination. All answers are integers ranging
from 000 to 999, inclusive. Your score will be the number of correct answers;
ive., there is neither partial credit nor a penalty for wrong answers.
No aids other than scratch paper, graph paper, ruler, compass, and protractor
are permitted. In particular, calculators and computers are not permitted.
A combination of the AIME and the American Mathematics Contest 12 are
used to determine eligibility for participation in the USA Mathematical Olym-
piad (USAMO). A combination of the AIME and the American Mathematics
Contest 10 are used to determine eligibility for participation in the USA Junior
Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO). The USAMO & the USAJMO will be given
in your school on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, April 29 & 30, 2014.
Record all of your answers, and certain other information, on the AIME answer
form. Only the answer form will be collected from you.
After the contest period, permission to make copies of individual problems in paper or
electronic form including posting on web pages for educational use is granted without
{ee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage
and that copies bear the copyright notice.
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1. The 8 eyelets for the lace of a sneaker all lie on a rectangle, four equally spaced
on each of the longer sides. The rectangle has a width of 50 mm and a length of
80 mm. There is one eyelet at each vertex of the rectangle. The lace itself must
pass between the vertex eyelets along a width side of the rectangle and then
cross between successive eyelets until it reaches the two eyelets at the other
width side of the rectangle as shown. After passing through these final eyelets,
each of the ends of the lace must extend at least 200 mm farther to allow a knot
to be tied. Find the minimum length of the lace in millimeters.
2. An urn contains 4 green balls and 6 blue balls. A second urn contains 16 green
balls and N blue balls. A single ball is drawn at random from each urn. The
probability that both balls are of the same color is 0.58. Find N.
3. Find the number of rational numbers r, 0
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