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Solution 1
Since
Therefore, if Stephanie filled 83 cartons, she would have broken 4 eggs.
If Stephanie filled fewer than 83 cartons, she would have broken more than 12 eggs. If Stephanie filled more than 83 cartons, she would have needed more than 1000 eggs.
Thus,
Solution 2
Since
Since
Since
Since
Since
Therefore, Stephanie must have filled 83 cartons and broken 4 eggs, and so
Answer:
Solution 1
Since the side length of the square is 4, then
Therefore, the area of the square is
Since
Now, the shaded area equals the area of the entire square minus the areas of
Since
Thus, the area of
Similarly, the area of
Finally, the shaded area equals
Solution 2
Join
Since
Therefore, the shaded area consists of square
Therefore, the shaded area equals
Answer: 12
Since
Thus,
Since
Since
Answer:
Since
Therefore,
Answer: 4
Solution 1
We start by finding the prime factorization of
Note that
Therefore,
Also,
Thus,
This is a perfect cube exactly when the exponent of each of the prime factors is a multiple of 3.
Since the exponent on the prime 3 is a multiple of 3, the problem is equivalent to asking for the largest positive integer
If
If
If
Thus,
Solution 2
We note that
Therefore,
Since
Since 28 is itself not a perfect cube, then
Thus, we are looking for the largest positive integer
Since
Therefore,
Answer: 497
We want to determine the number of triples
Since
Since
Since
We proceed to consider the possible values of
When
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
For each
Since there are 1007 values of
When
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
For each
Since there are 1004 values of
In general, when
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
For each
Since there are
Since
Thus,
The number of triples in these cases range from
Therefore, when
Now, we consider the cases when
When
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
For each
Since there are 1005 values of
In general, when
Since
Since
Since
Therefore,
For each
Note that we need to have
Since there are
Since
Thus,
The number of triples in these cases range from
Therefore, when
Finally, the total number of triples that satisfy the given conditions is thus the sum of
One way to determine the sum of an arithmetic series is to multiply the number of terms by one-half and then multiply by the sum of the first and last terms.
Thus, the sum of this series is
The second series is an arithmetic series with first term
Thus, its sum is
Therefore, the total number of triples is
Answer: 338 352
Solution 1
Since 41 students are in the drama class and 15 students are in both drama and music, then
Since 28 students are in the music class and 15 students are in both drama and music, then
Therefore, there are
Thus, there are
Solution 2
If we add the number of students in the drama class and the number of students in the music class, we count the students in both classes twice.
Therefore, to obtain the total number of students enrolled in the program, we add the number of students in the drama class and the number of students in the music class, and subtract the number of students in both classes. (This has the effect of counting the students in the intersection only once.)
Thus, the number of students in the program is
Solution 1
As in (a), there are
Similarly, there are
Therefore, there are
Since there were a total of 80 students enrolled in the program, then
Solution 2
Using the method from Solution 2 to part (a), we obtain the equation
Simplifying, we obtain
Suppose that the number of students that were in both classes was
Since half of the students in the drama class were in both classes, there were also
Since one-quarter of the students in the music class were in both classes, then three-quarters of the students in the music class were in music only. Thus, the number of students in music only was three times the number of students in both classes, or
Therefore, there were
Since a total of
This tells us that
Since
The total length of the race is
When Emma has completed
Since Conrad completed the 2 km swim in 30 minutes (which is half an hour), then his speed was
Since Conrad biked 12 times as fast as he swam, then he biked at
Since Conrad biked 40 km, then the bike portion took him
Since 1 hour equals 60 minutes, then the bike portion took him
Since Conrad ran 3 times as fast as he swam, then he ran at
Since Conrad ran 10 km, then the running portion took him
Therefore, the race took him
Since Conrad began the race at 8:00 a.m., then he completed the race at 10:10 a.m.
Suppose that Alistair passed Salma after
Since Alistair swam for 36 minutes, then he had biked for
Since Salma swam for 30 minutes, then she had biked for
When Alistair and Salma passed, they had travelled the same total distance.
At this time, Alistair had swum 2 km. Since he bikes at 28 km/h, he had biked
Similarly, Salma had swum 2 km. Since she bikes at 24 km/h, she had biked
Since their total distances are the same, then
Since the race began at 8:00 a.m., then he passed her at 9:12 a.m.
Alternatively, we could notice that Salma started the bike portion of the race 6 minutes before Alistair.
Since 6 minutes is
In other words, she has a 2.4 km head start on Alistair.
Since Alistair bikes 4 km/h faster than Salma, it will take
Since 0.6 hours equals
Solution 1
Our strategy is to calculate the area of
Since
By Heron’s formula, the area of
Thus, the area of
Equating the two representations of the area, we obtain
Solution 2
Since
Therefore,
Thus,
As in (a), we calculate the area of the figure in two different ways.
Since
To determine a second expression for the area, we drop perpendiculars from
Then
The area of rectangle
If we cut out rectangle
This triangle has semi-perimeter
Equating expressions for the area, we obtain
Consider a triangle that has the given properties.
Call the side lengths
Since the lengths of the two shortest sides differ by 1, then
Thus, we call the side lengths
In a given triangle, each side must be less than half of the perimeter of the triangle. This is a result called the Triangle Inequality.
For example, in the triangle shown, the shortest path from
This means that
The semi-perimeter of the triangle with side lengths
Since the longest side length,
Therefore,
Thus, the side lengths of the triangle are
The perimeter of the triangle, in terms of
Since the perimeter of the triangle is less than 200, then
We have now used four of the five conditions, and still need to use the fact that the area of the triangle is an integer.
Since the semi-perimeter is
For
For
Now,
The even perfect squares in this range are 0, 4, 16, 36, 64.
In these cases, we have
Since the triangle has side lengths
Each of the four remaining sets of integers do form a triangle, since each side length is less than the sum of the other two side lengths.
Therefore, the four triangles that satisfy the five given conditions have side lengths