2022 AIME II Problems/Problem 4

Problem

There is a positive real number $x$ not equal to either $\tfrac{1}{20}$ or $\tfrac{1}{2}$ such that $\log_{20x} (22x)=\log_{2x} (202x).$ The value $\log_{20x} (22x)$ can be written as $\log_{10} (\tfrac{m}{n})$ , where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$ .

Solution

We could assume a variable $v$ which equals to both $\log_{20x} (22x)$ and $\log_{2x} (202x)$ .

So that $(20x)^v=22x$ (Eq1) and $(2x)^v=202x$ (Eq2)

Express Eq1 as: $(20x)^v=(2x \cdot 10)^v=(2x)^v \cdot (10^v)=22x$ (Eq3)

Substitute Eq2 to Eq3: $202x \cdot (10^v)=22x$

Thus, $v=\log_{10} (\tfrac{22x}{202x})= \log_{10} (\tfrac{11}{101})$ , where $m=11$ and $n=101$ .

Therefore, $m+n = \boxed{112}$ .

~DSAERF-CALMIT

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