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Team Problems February, 2002: Instructions: Answer As Many of The Problems Below As You Can. at The End of The Time

1. The problem involves a diagram with points A, B, C, and D on a circle. Given that DC = DE and angle ABC is 28 degrees, the value of x is found to be 64 degrees. 2. The largest and smallest values of sin(2n) degrees where n is an integer from 0 to 2002 are found to be 1 and -1, respectively, accurate to five decimal places. 3. The graph of the equation x2 + xy + y2 = 0 in the xy-plane is described with the precise word "ellipse". 4. The 11111111th and 11111112th digits after the decimal in the decimal expansion of 1/2003 are found to be

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Team Problems February, 2002: Instructions: Answer As Many of The Problems Below As You Can. at The End of The Time

1. The problem involves a diagram with points A, B, C, and D on a circle. Given that DC = DE and angle ABC is 28 degrees, the value of x is found to be 64 degrees. 2. The largest and smallest values of sin(2n) degrees where n is an integer from 0 to 2002 are found to be 1 and -1, respectively, accurate to five decimal places. 3. The graph of the equation x2 + xy + y2 = 0 in the xy-plane is described with the precise word "ellipse". 4. The 11111111th and 11111112th digits after the decimal in the decimal expansion of 1/2003 are found to be

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TEAM PROBLEMS

February, 2002

Instructions: Answer as many of the problems below as you can. At the end of the time
allotted, turn in a list of your answers. Your answers should be expressed in simplest form.
Exact answers are required on all problems unless specified otherwise.

1. In the drawing (not to scale) at the right,


DC = DE, ABC = 28 , and the points A,
B, C, and D all lie on the same circle (not
drawn). What is the value of x (in degrees)?
2. Find the largest and smallest values of

sin (2n ) where n is an integer satisfying
0 n 2002. Express your answers accurate to five decimal digits.
3. Describe with one word the graph of x2 + xy + y 2 = 0 in the xy-plane. Be precise. For
example, square is precise enough but wrong, graph is not precise enough (and is
otherwise correct), and round is not precise enough (and may or may not be otherwise
correct).
4. The number 102002 1 is divisible by 2003. What are the 11111111th and 11111112th
digits after the decimal in the decimal expansion of 1/2003?
5. The product

2
1001 
1002 
1003 
2002 
x 22 x 22 x 22
x + 22
x + 22
x + 22
is a polynomial of degree 2002. The first 1001 factors above contain a negative term, and
n
n
the last 1001 factors do not. Interpret 22 as 2(2 ) . When the product is expanded, it
has 2003 coefficients (counting the constant term). How many of these coefficients are
positive?

Solutions are located at the website http://www.math.sc.edu/~filaseta/contests/contests.html

6. The polynomial x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1 has one root of the form a + bi where a and b are
positive real numbers and i2 + 1 = 0. If
ar + bs = cos(3 )

and

r = cos(75 ),

what is the exact value of r + s? Express your answer in a form that does not use
trigonometric functions.
7. It is known that the largest integer n such that each prime factor of n(n + 1) is 11 is
n = 9800. What is the largest integer y having each prime factor 11 and satisfying the
equation x2 2y 2 = 1 for some integer x?
8. A person is said to be n years old, where n is a nonnegative integer, if the person has
lived at least n years and has not yet lived n + 1 years. At some point in time, Tammy
is 4 years old and John is three times as old as Martha (so if John is j years old and
Martha is m years old, then j and m are nonnegative integers with j = 3m). At some
other time, Martha is twice as old as Tammy and John is five times as old as Tammy. At
yet another time, John is twice as old as Martha and Tammy is T years old. There are
different possibilities for what T can be. What is the largest possible value of T ?

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