2024 AIME I**

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2 2024 AIME I** Problems

1. Suppose 𝐸, 𝐻, 𝐼, 𝑁, 𝑅, 𝑇, 𝑌 are positive integers satisfying the equations

𝑇 · 𝐻 · 𝑅 · 𝐸 · 𝐸 = 3, 𝑁 · 𝐼 · 𝑁 · 𝐸 · 𝑇 · 𝑌 = 90.

Find the largest possible value of 𝑇 + 𝐻 + 𝐼 + 𝑅 + 𝑇 + 𝐸 + 𝐸 + 𝑁.

2. Let 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 be a rhombus with points 𝑂 and 𝐸 on 𝐴𝐵. The circle centered at 𝑂 passing through 𝐸
intersects 𝐵𝐶 at 𝐹. If 𝐵𝑂 = 5, 𝐵𝐸 = 13, 𝐵𝐴 = 20, and 𝐹𝐶 = 15, find the area of 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷.

3. When the parabola 𝑦 = 𝑥 2 + 𝑐 is reflected across the line 𝑦 = 𝑥 + 𝑐, the resulting figure contains the
point (2025, 2024). Find the difference between the maximum and minimum possible values of 𝑐.

4. Let 𝐻𝑛 be the hexagonal grid consisting of 𝑛 columns, where every column alternates between having
3 and 2 hexagons and the first column has 3 hexagons. The figure below shows 𝐻5 . A bug on the grid
𝐻11 is at the lowest hexagon of the first column and wants to get to the highest hexagon of the eleventh
column. The bug traverses the grid in such a way that it only moves to adjacent hexagons and visits
every column exactly once. Find the number of paths the bug can take to reach the highest hexagon of
the eleventh column in this manner.

5. Let 𝑎 0 = 1, and for 𝑛 ≥ 1 define 𝑎 𝑛 recursively as

𝑎 𝑛 = (4𝑛 + 3)𝑎 𝑛−1 + 8𝑛 + 4.

Find the remainder when 𝑎 2024 is divided by 1000.

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6. Let 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐 > 1 be real numbers such that

log𝑎 𝑏 + log𝑏 𝑐 = log𝑐 𝑎 and log𝑎 𝑐 + log𝑏 𝑎 = log𝑐 𝑏.

Find the sum of the maximum and minimum possible values of (log𝑐 𝑎) (log𝑐 𝑏).

7. If 𝑃(𝑥) = 𝑥 5 − 4𝑥 + 1 and 𝑄(𝑥) = 𝑥 4 + 𝑥 3 + 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 + 1, find 𝑄(𝑎) · 𝑄(𝑏) · 𝑄(𝑐) · 𝑄(𝑑) · 𝑄(𝑒), where 𝑎,
𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, and 𝑒 are the roots of 𝑃(𝑥).

8. For any finite set 𝑋, let |𝑋 | denote the number of elements in 𝑋. Find the number of ordered triples
( 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶) such that 𝐴, 𝐵, and 𝐶 are all subsets of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and

| 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 ∪ 𝐶 | + | 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵| + | 𝐴| = 2|𝐶 |.

9. Triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 has side lengths 𝐴𝐵 = 13, 𝐵𝐶 = 14, and 𝐶 𝐴 = 15. An excircle of △𝐴𝐵𝐶 is a circle
outside △𝐴𝐵𝐶 that is tangent to one side of the triangle and to the extensions of the other two sides.
The radius of the circle externally tangent to all three excircles of △𝐴𝐵𝐶 is 𝑚𝑛 , where 𝑚 and 𝑛 are
relatively prime positive integers. Find 𝑚 + 𝑛.

10. Let 𝑆(𝑛) denote the number of ways to write 𝑛 as the sum of at most five perfect squares. Find the
sum of all positive integers 𝑛 for which 𝑆(𝑛) = 1.

11. Let 𝐴𝐵𝐶 be an equilateral triangle with side length 38. Suppose points 𝐷, 𝐸, and 𝐹 lie on 𝐵𝐶, 𝐴𝐶,
and 𝐴𝐵, respectively, such that 𝐴𝐷, 𝐵𝐸, and 𝐶𝐹 are concurrent, 𝐴𝐸 = 15, and 𝐴𝐹 = 24. Point 𝑋
lies in the plane such that 𝐷 𝑋 is tangent to the circumcircle of △𝐸 𝐹 𝑋. Find the minimum possible
integer value of 𝐴𝑋 2 .

12. One hundred people stand in a row, with the 𝑖th person holding 𝑖 fair coins for 𝑖 = 1, 2, . . . , 100. Then,
for 𝑖 = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 99, in that order, the 𝑖th person flips all of their coins and steals ℎ𝑖 coins from the
(𝑖 + 1)th person, where ℎ𝑖 is the number of coins they flip that land on heads. After that, the last person
flips all of their coins. The expected number of coins flipped by the last person that land on heads is 𝑚 𝑛,
where 𝑚 and 𝑛 are relatively prime positive integers. Find the remainder when 𝑚 is divided by 1000.

13. The incircle 𝜔 of △𝐴𝐵𝐶, with side lengths 𝐴𝐵 = 20 and 𝐴𝐶 = 24, is tangent to 𝐵𝐶 at 𝐷. Let 𝐴𝐷
meet 𝜔 at 𝐷 and 𝑃. Line 𝐵𝑃 intersects segment 𝐴𝐶 at 𝑄. Suppose 𝑃𝑄𝐶𝐷 is cyclic. Then the area of
√
△𝐴𝐵𝐶 can be expressed as 𝑚 𝑛 for positive integers 𝑚 and 𝑛 such that 𝑛 is not divisible by the square
of any prime. Find 𝑚 + 𝑛.

14. For each positive integer 𝑛, let 𝑓 (𝑛) denote the least positive integer 𝑥 such that 64 divides the remainder
when 𝑛 𝑥 is divided by 769. If no such 𝑥 exists, then 𝑓 (𝑛) = 0. Find the remainder when
768
∑︁
𝑓 (𝑛)
𝑛=2

is divided by 1000.

15. Let 𝑁 be the number of positive integers 𝑛 such that 𝑛 divides 20242024 and 128 divides

𝑛 𝜎 (𝑛) − 𝜎(𝑛𝑛 )

where 𝜎(𝑛) denotes the number of positive integers that divide 𝑛, including 1 and 𝑛. Find the remainder
when 𝑁 is divided by 1000.