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Student Mathematics Competition Illinois Section of The Mathematical Association of America North Central College, March 31, 2000

The document describes a student mathematics competition with six problems. Students are instructed to complete four of the six problems by showing their work on provided paper and justifying their answers. The problems cover a range of mathematical topics including ratios of dice rolls, inequalities, limits, geometry, and equations with fractions.

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Student Mathematics Competition Illinois Section of The Mathematical Association of America North Central College, March 31, 2000

The document describes a student mathematics competition with six problems. Students are instructed to complete four of the six problems by showing their work on provided paper and justifying their answers. The problems cover a range of mathematical topics including ratios of dice rolls, inequalities, limits, geometry, and equations with fractions.

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Student Mathematics Competition Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America North Central College, March 31, 2000

Do any four of the six problems. Put your solutions on the papers provided, beginning each problem solution on a new page. Only hand in four solutions. Entries will be graded on the basis of correctness, clarity of exposition, and elegance of solution. Enjoy the problem solving. 1. You roll 2000 dice one time and nd that the ratio of the sum of the numbers on the top faces to the sum of the numbers of the bottom was again an integer. How many dierent integers are possible for the sum of the numbers on the top faces? Justify your answer

2. Prove that if x1 , x2 , . . . , xn are positive, real numbers, then x1 + 1 x2 x2 + 1 x3 xn1 + 1 xn xn + 1 x1 2n .

3. A snail is crawling in the garden. It starts at a certain point and crawls 15 minutes in one direction. Then it makes a 90 turn to either the left or right and crawls 15 minutes in this new direction. The snail repeats this process of crawling and turning until it returns to the starting point. Show that snail is at the starting point after a whole number of hours. x x2 0 t3 + 1 dt 4. Evaluate lim . x 2 x0 0 t cos t dt 5. Suppose ABCD is a rectangle and E is a point such that AE = 1, CE = 2 and DE = 3, as shown below. Find all possible lengths for BE and justify your answer(s).
A B

6. Let n be a positive number. Show there are a nite number of solutions to the equation 1 1 1 1 + + + + = 1, x1 x2 x3 xn where x1 , x2 , x3 , . . . , xn are positive integers.

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