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2022 BAMO Exam Problem Solutions

The document contains problems from the 2022 BAMO-12 and BAMO-8 exams, covering various mathematical topics such as number arrangement, bargaining strategies, probability, and properties of polygons. Each problem presents a unique challenge that requires proof or calculation. The problems are designed for participants to demonstrate their problem-solving skills in mathematics.

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2022 BAMO Exam Problem Solutions

The document contains problems from the 2022 BAMO-12 and BAMO-8 exams, covering various mathematical topics such as number arrangement, bargaining strategies, probability, and properties of polygons. Each problem presents a unique challenge that requires proof or calculation. The problems are designed for participants to demonstrate their problem-solving skills in mathematics.

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Problems from the 2022 BAMO-12 and BAMO-8 exams

A If I have 100 cards with all the numbers 1 through 100 on them, how should I put them in order to create asimov
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B You are bargaining with a salesperson for the price of an item. Your first offer is dollars and theirs is asimov
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dollars. After you raise your offer by a certain percentage and they lower their offer by the same
percentage, you arrive at an agreed price. What is that price, in terms of and ?

C/1 The game of pool includes balls that fit within a triangular rack as shown: IceWolf10
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Seven of the balls are "striped" (not colored with a single color) and eight are "solid" (colored with a single
color). Prove that no matter how the balls are arranged in the rack, there must always be a pair of
striped balls adjacent to each other.

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Suppose that , and are six prime numbers, where
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and are positive integers. Show that must be divisible by and .

E/3 A polygon is called convex if all its internal angles are smaller than 180 . Given a convex polygon, prove MirmanStude…
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that one can find three distinct vertices , , and , where is a side of the polygon, such that the
perpendicular from to the line meets the segment (possible at of ).

4 Ten birds land on a -meter-long wire, each at a random point chosen uniformly along the wire. (That is, IceWolf10
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if we pick out any -meter portion of the wire, there is an probability that a given bird will land there.)
What is the probability that every bird sits more than one meter away from its closest neighbor?

5 Sofiya and Marquis are playing a game. Sofiya announces to Marquis that she's thinking of a polynomial of IceWolf10
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the form with three integer roots that are not necessarily distinct. She also
explains that all of the integer roots have absolute value less than (and not equal to) , where is
some fixed number which she tells Marquis. As a "move" in this game, Marquis can ask Sofiya about any
number and Sofiya will tell him whether is positive negative, or zero. Marquis's goal is to figure
out Sofiya's polynomial.

If for some positive integer , prove that there is a strategy which allows Marquis to
identify the polynomial after making at most "moves".

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