Math Competitions

Goistein

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Has anyone heard of University of Maryland Math Competition? If not, then Google it. The questions there are a real challenge for all you bored people.

There's also USAMTS (USA Math Talent Search)

Does anyone know of other math competitions?
 
Well, I have a challenge for you people.

1.

In this problem, a half deck of cards consists of 26 cards, each labled with an integer from 1 to 13. There are two cards labled 1, two labled 2, two labled 3 etc. A certain math class has 13 students. Each day, the teacher thoroughly shuffles a half deck of cards and deals out two to each student. Each student then adds the two numbers on the cards recieved, and the resulting 13 sums are multiplied together to form a product P. If P is an evennumber, then the class must do math homework that evening. Show the the class must always do math homework.

2.

26 people attended a math party: Archemides, Bernouli, Cauchi, ..., Yau, Zeno. During the party, Archemides shook hands with 1 person, Bernoili shook hand with 2 people , Cauchy shook hands with 3 people, and similarly up to Yau who shook hands with 25 people. How many people did Zeno shake hands with? Justify that you answer is correct and that it is the only correct answer.

3.

Prove tyhat there are no integers m,n >,=1 such that
sqrt(m+sqrt(m+sqrt(m+ ... +sqrt(m)=n
where there are 2006 square root signs.

Much obliged if someone can make a picture for this.

Good luck.
 
1 is easy. If the product is odd, then all the sums must be odd. Which means each of the students must receive an odd and an even card.

This means that there must be 13 odd numbers and 13 even numbers for this to add up.

But there aren't.

So they always do homework.
 
Also, if you want to look up a very challenging competition, The Putnam competition is about as challenging as they get.
 
What's that? Does it offer scholerships? Can American Middle Schoolers enter?
 
Goistein said:
What's that? Does it offer scholerships? Can American Middle Schoolers enter?
What in the world are you?
Are you serious? You don’t know about the Putnam’s?
What is the level of your mathematics?
There are many middle school contests.
There are many secondary school contests.
There are many pre-calculus contests.

What do you want?
Do you know how to do web search?
 
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