EF Exam

Texas A&M Math Contest 23 October, 2010 (NOTE: If units are appropriate, please include them in your answer.) 1.

How many 3-digit positive integers have digits whose product equals 24? ABC has integer side lengths, and BD bisects ABC . If AD = 3 and DC = 8, what is the smallest possible value of the perimeter? The polynomial x3 ax2 + bx 2010 = 0 has three positive integer solutions. What is the smallest possible value of a? 1 For nonzero numbers x and y dene the operation (x, y ) = x . Given that y B = (a, (a, a)) is dened, but (a, B ) is undened, list all possible values of a.

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x 2y 3z = 2 5. Given the system of equations x 4y 13z = 14 has an innite number of soax + by + cz = 0 b+c lutions, what is ? a
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Given rectangle ABCD and a point P inside the rectangle such that P A = 4, P B = 3, P C = 10. Find P D . Given ABC with cos(2A B ) + sin(A + B ) = 2 and AB = 4, what is BC ? Compute tan 75 1 . Answer must be a single fraction with a rationalized detan 75 + 1 nominator.

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A frog makes 3 jumps, each 1 meter in length. The directions of the jumps are chosen independently and at random. What is the probability that the frogs nal position is at most 1 meter from its starting position?

For problems 10-11, given a set S , a permutation p on S is a function p : S S such that p is one-to-one and onto. Permutations are often written in cyclic notation. For example, if S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} and p = (1 3 6)(2 5), then p(1) = 3, p(3) = 6, p(6) = 1, p(2) = 5, p(5) = 2, and p(4) = 4.
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For permutations p and q on the set S above, dene the operator p q to mean apply p, then apply q . Compute (1 4 2 5 3) (2 4 6)(3 5). Write your answer in cyclic notation, starting with 1.

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Since p = (1 4 2 5 3) is one-to-one, it has an inverse (which is also a permutation). Write p1 in cyclic notation, starting with 1.

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You are given P and Q are monic quadratic polynomials, P (Q(x)) has zeros at x = 23, x = 21, x = 17, and x = 15, and Q(P (x)) has zeros at x = 59, x = 57, x = 51, and x = 49. Find the sum of the minimum values of P and Q. Find the number of positive integers x 2010 such that 2x x2 is not divisible by 7. x50 , nd f (50) (0) (the ftieth derivative of f evaluated at x = 0). 1x

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x2 y2 + = 1 at the point (a, b). Find 9 4 positive values y1 and y2 such that, if b (y1 , y2), the y -intercept of N lies outside the ellipse. Let N be the line normal to the ellipse

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An ellipse with semi-axes 3 and 4 rolls without slipping along the curve x (c > 0). Given that the ellipse completes one revolution when it y = c sin 3 traverses one period of the curve, nd c.

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For any positive integer n, dene n to be the closest integer to 2 n + 2 n . n 2 n=1

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