HMMT November 2021 #0kgt

HMMT November 2021Hard

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Understand the scale

Scale 0.5: Easiest math competition problems, often solvable even for early middle school students without experience. 1: Problems strictly for beginners, often at a moderate middle school level. 1.5: Problems for stronger beginner students, on the level of the middling problems in most middle school contests. 2: For motivated beginners, harder questions from the previous categories. 2.5: More advanced beginner problems, hardest questions from previous categories. 3: Early intermediate problems that require more creative thinking. 3.5: Tougher early intermediate problems that consistently stretch into higher-level creative thinking or conceptual knowledge. 4: Intermediate-level problems. 4.5: Upper intermediate problems approaching the upper bound for non-invitational sprint math competitions. 5: More difficult AIME problems or simple proof-based Olympiad-style problems. 6: High-level AIME-styled questions or introductory Olympiad-level questions. 7: Tougher Olympiad-level questions, may require more technical knowledge. 8: High-level Olympiad-level questions. 9: Expert Olympiad-level questions. 9.5: The hardest problems appearing on Olympiads which the strongest students could reasonably solve. 10: Historically notorious problems, generally unsuitable for even very hard competitions because they are exceedingly tedious, long, and difficult.

Problem

Problem: Let $n$ be the answer to this problem. Suppose square $ABCD$ has side-length $3$ . Then, congruent non-overlapping squares $EHGF$ and $IHJK$ of side-length $\frac{n}{6}$ are drawn such that $A$ , $C$ , and $H$ are collinear, $E$ lies on $BC$ and $I$ lies on $CD$ . Given that $AJG$ is an equilateral triangle, then the area of $AJG$ is $a + b \sqrt{c}$ , where $a$ , $b$ , $c$ are positive integers and $c$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $a + b + c$ . Proposed by: Akash Das