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Part of 2017 AMC 10

Problems(2)

Coin games

Source: 2017 AMC 10A #18

2/8/2017
Amelia has a coin that lands heads with probability 13\frac{1}{3}, and Blaine has a coin that lands on heads with probability 25\frac{2}{5}. Amelia and Blaine alternately toss their coins until someone gets a head; the first one to get a head wins. All coin tosses are independent. Amelia goes first. The probability that Amelia wins is pq\frac{p}{q}, where pp and qq are relatively prime positive integers. What is qpq-p?
<spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span>1<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span>2<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span>3<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span>4<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span>5<span class='latex-bold'>(A) </span>1\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(B) </span>2\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(C) </span>3\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(D) </span>4\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(E) </span>5
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Sideburns

Source: 2017 AMC 12B #13 / AMC 10B #18

2/16/2017
In the figure below, 33 of the 66 disks are to be painted blue, 22 are to be painted red, and 11 is to be painted green. Two paintings that can be obtained from one another by a rotation or a reflection of the entire figure are considered the same. How many different paintings are possible?
[asy] size(100); pair A, B, C, D, E, F; A = (0,0); B = (1,0); C = (2,0); D = rotate(60, A)*B; E = B + D; F = rotate(60, A)*C; draw(Circle(A, 0.5)); draw(Circle(B, 0.5)); draw(Circle(C, 0.5)); draw(Circle(D, 0.5)); draw(Circle(E, 0.5)); draw(Circle(F, 0.5)); [/asy]
<spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span>6<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span>8<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span>9<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span>12<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span>15<span class='latex-bold'>(A) </span> 6 \qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(B) </span> 8 \qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(C) </span> 9 \qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(D) </span> 12 \qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(E) </span> 15
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