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Part of 2020 BMT Fall
Problems(2)
2020 BMT Team 19
Source:
1/9/2022
John is flipping his favorite bottle, which currently contains ounces of water. However, his bottle is broken from excessive flipping, so after he performs a flip, one ounce of water leaks out of his bottle. When his bottle contains k ounces of water, he has a probability of landing it on its bottom. What is the expected number of number of flips it takes for John’s bottle to land on its bottom ?
probabilitycombinatorics
circular pillar in a large circular room 2020 BMT Individual 19
Source:
1/6/2022
Alice is standing on the circumference of a large circular room of radius . There is a circular pillar in the center of the room of radius that blocks Alice’s view. The total area in the room Alice can see can be expressed in the form , where and are relatively prime positive integers and and are integers such that is square-free. Compute . (Note that the pillar is not included in the total area of the room.)
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geometrycirclesareas