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Anil Saigal
07/09/2008
FOR STUDENTS
PROBLEM # 1
What is the approximate ratio of the area of the shaded square compared to the area of the large square? (See Fig. 1)
FOR GROWNUPS
PROBLEM # 2
Show that 10^2008 − 10^8 is divisible by 2008.
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Problem Solutions 06/26/08PROBLEM # 1
If 4 apples and 2 oranges equals $1 and 2 apples and 3 orange equals $0.70, how much does each apple and each orange cost? There are no quantity discounts.
Solution:
Apple cost 20 cents and oranges cost 10 cents.
FOR GROWNUPS
The sequence a1, a2,... is geometric with a1 = a and commom ratio r, where a and r are positive integers.
Given that log 8 a1 + log 8 a2 + ... + log 8 a12 = 2006, find the number of possibleordered pairs (a, r).
Solution:
46 pairs.
Congratulations to Anindya Basu, Aseem Chandawarkar, Sitaram Chandawarkar, Mahesh Danke, Shailesh Goregaokar, Roopesh Mathur, Prabhakar Nadkarni and Ashwin ShivaShankar, who were winners of the last set of puzzles.
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Fig. 1