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Solution 1
Since opposite angles are equal,
In
Therefore,
Solution 2
In
Since the sum of the angles in
Answer:
We list the twelve integers from smallest to largest:
Answer: 9898
Solution 1
Each of the three column sums represents the total of the three entries in that column.
Therefore, the sum of the three column sums is equal to the sum of the nine entries in the table.
Thus, the sum of the nine entries in the table is
Similarly, the sum of the three row sums must equal the sum of the nine entries in the table.
Thus,
Solution 2
From the second column,
From the second row,
Since
From the first column,
Since
From the first row,
Answer:
Since the top of the cookie is a circle with radius 3 cm, its area is
Since a chocolate chip has radius 0.3 cm, its area is
We are told that
Therefore,
Answer:
Since
Rearranging, we obtain
Since
Since
Since
When
When
Note further that if
(There are other values of
Thus, when
Therefore, the smallest possible value of
Answer: 5
In the grid, there are 5 empty cells.
Ignoring the restrictions on placement, there are 3 choices of letter that can mark each square.
This means that there are
To count the number of ways in which the grid can be completed so that it includes at least one pair of squares side-by-side in the same row or same column that contain the same letter, we count the number of ways in which the grid can be completed so that no pair of side-by-side squares contains the same letter, and subtract this total from
We focus on the top left and bottom middle squares. Each of these must be S or T.
We consider the four possible cases.
Case 1:
The bottom left square cannot be S, but can be R or T (2 choices).
The top right square cannot be R, and so can be T or S.
If the top right square is T, then the bottom right square cannot be S or T and so must be R.
If the top right square is S, then the bottom right square can be R or T (2 choices).
This means that there are 2 possibilities for the left side of the grid and 3 for the right side of the grid. These sets of possibilities are independent and so there are
These are
Case 2:
As in Case 1, there are 6 configurations. These can be obtained from those in Case 1 by changing the T’s to S’s and the S’s to T’s in the list of possibilites in Case 1.
Case 3:
Here, the bottom left cell must be R.
As in Case 1, there are 3 possible ways to fill the right side.
This gives 3 configurations:
Case 4:
As in Case 3, there are 3 configurations. These can be obtained from those in Case 3 by changing the T’s to S’s and the S’s to T’s in the list of possibilities from Case 3.
In total, there are thus
This means that there are
Answer: 225
Since Figure 1 is formed by 3 squares and each subsequent Figure has 2 additional squares, then Figure 8 is formed by
Solution 1
Figure 1 is formed by 3 squares, and each subsequent Figure includes one extra square in each row.
Thus, Figure 12 consists of a top row of 12 squares and a bottom row of 13 squares.
The perimeter of Figure 12 equals 12 cm (top sides of top row) plus 2 cm (right side of figure) plus 13 cm (bottom sides of bottom row) plus 3 cm (“up, right, up" on left side), or 30 cm.
Solution 2
Figure 1 is formed by 3 squares, and each subsequent Figure includes one extra square in each row.
The perimeter of Figure 1 is 8 cm.
When moving from one Figure to the next, the outer edges change in the following way: a length of 1 cm is added to each of the top and bottom rows, and the right side (length 2 cm) of the original Figure is replaced with the right side (length 2 cm) of the new Figure.
Therefore, when moving from one Figure to the next, the perimeter increases by 2 cm.
Since the perimeter of Figure 1 is 8 cm, then the perimeter of Figure 12 is equal to
Solution 1
As in Solution 2 to (b), we notice that moving from one figure to the next increases the perimeter by 2 cm.
Since Figure 1 has perimeter 8 cm and Figure
In other words,
Solution 2
As in Solution 2 to (b), we notice that moving from one figure to the next increases the perimeter by 2 cm.
Since Figure
Using a similar argument to that in Solution 2 to (c), we see that the perimeter of Figure
Using the formula from Solution 2 to (c) with
From the given information, we want
Since
Therefore,
Since
Alternatively, we could note that
Since
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
Since
Thus,
Since
Furthermore,
Throughout this solution, we use the appreviation BPI to represent “balanced positive integer”.
In addition, we call a BPI of the form
The integer
Since the right side is an integer that is a multiple of 5, then
Since
Therefore,
Since
Therefore, there are four BPIs of the form
If the digits
Since we are looking for exactly three
Thus, at least two of
Consider
Here,
Since
Since each of
This means that the remaining digit equals
There are three arrangements of the digits
Therefore, if
We note that
Consider a fixed three digit integer
If
These come from the 6 different arrangements of
If
If
This means that the
Next, we note that for a fixed
If this were possible, then
and , which would give or .
Sinceand are positive digits, then which means that and are the same.
Since there can be at most 1
We note as well that if
We are now ready to tackle the given problem by looking at various values of
Since the number of
Let us look next at
For each of
For there to exist an
We look systematically at each value of
In other words, for each of
For
In each case, if
If
If
If
If
If
Consider
The integer
Are there other BPIs of the form
Thus,
Also,
Therefore,
In the case
Consider
The integer
Are there other BPIs of the form
The groupings associated with
We know so far that
The only value of
Therefore,
We still need to consider
Consider
Here, we need
Since 5 and 7 are the only digits divisible by 5 and 7, respectively, then two of
Therefore,
This means that there are six
Consider
Here, we need
Using a similar argument to the previous case, one of the digits (say
Thus,
Therefore, we have groupings of BPIs that come from
In conclusion, for each of