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1998 DMM Tiebreaker Round - Duke Math Meet

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February 15, 2024
DMMalgebracombinatoricsgeometrynumber theory

Problem Statement

p1A Positive reals xx, yy, and zz are such that x/y+y/x=7x/y +y/x = 7 and y/z+z/y=7y/z +z/y = 7. There are two possible values for z/x+x/z;z/x + x/z; find the greater value.
p1B Real values xx and yy are such that x+y=2x+y = 2 and x3+y3=3x^3+y^3 = 3. Find x2+y2x^2+y^2.
p2 Set A={5,6,8,13,20,22,33,42}A = \{5, 6, 8, 13, 20, 22, 33, 42\}. Let S\sum S denote the sum of the members of SS; then A=149\sum A = 149. Find the number of (not necessarily proper) subsets BB of AA for which B75\sum B \ge 75.
p3 9999 dots are evenly spaced around a circle. Call two of these dots ”close” if they have 00, 11, or 22 dots between them on the circle. We wish to color all 9999 dots so that any two dots which are close are colored differently. How many such colorings are possible using no more than 44 different colors?
p4 Given a 9×99 \times 9 grid of points, count the number of nondegenerate squares that can be drawn whose vertices are in the grid and whose center is the middle point of the grid.
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