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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
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Yesterday at 3:18 PM
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
Question about USAMO, self esteem, and college
xHypotenuse   9
N 18 minutes ago by dorothykim123
Hello everyone. I know this question may sound ridiculous/neagtive but I really want to know how the rest of the community thinks on this issue. Please excuse this yap session and feel free to ignore this post if it doesn't make sense, I don't think I really have a sane mind these days and something has gotten into my head.

I want your advice on what I should do in this situation. It has been my dream to make usamo since ~second semester of 9th grade and I started grinding from that time on. Last year, I qualified for the aime and got a 5. This year I really wanted to qualify for the olympiad and studied really hard. I spent my entire summer working on counting and probability, the subject I suck at the most. And yet, on amc 12, I fumbled hard. I usually mocked ~120-130s on amc 10s but on amc 12 this year, I got really mediocre scores ~100. So I had no chance of making usamo.

So during winter of 2024-2025 I kinda gave up on aime studying and I was like "hey, if I can't get into usamo, maybe ill qualify for usapho." Since I was pretty good at physics at that time. So I spended my winter hard grinding for f=ma and guess what? The test had stupid and ridiculous questions and I only got an 11. What really sucks is that even with the stupid amount of cheaters in f=ma, if I changed all of my "D" guesses to "C," then I would have qualified. Since I solved 10 actually and guessed the rest. Absolutely unfair that only 1 of my guesses were correct.

And also since I didn't study for aime, I ended up being super rusty and so I only got a 7. Solved 9 tho. (I usually can consistently solve 10+ on aimes).

And now here's my senior year and ofc I want to apply to a prestigious college. But it feels stupid that I don't have any usamo or usapho titles like the people I know do. I think I will have good essays primarily due to a varied amount of life experiences but like, I don't feel like I will contribute much to the college without being some prestigious olympiad qualifier. So this led to me having a self esteem issue.

This also led me to the question: should I study one last year so that I can get into usamo in my senior year, or is there no point? Since like, colleges don't care about whatever the hell you do in your senior year, and also, it seems just 'weird' to be grinding math contests while the rest of the people from my school are playing around, etc. So this time around I've really been having an internal crisis between my self esteem (since getting into usamo will raise my self esteem a lot) and college/senior choices.

I know this may seem like a dumb question to some and you are free to completely ignore the post. That's fine. I just really want advice for what I should do in this situation and it would really help bring my life quality up

Thanks,
hypotenuse
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xHypotenuse
3 hours ago
dorothykim123
18 minutes ago
Game About Passing Pencils
WilliamSChen   0
an hour ago
A group of $n$ children sit in a circle facing inward with $n > 2$, and each child starts with an arbitrary even number of pencils. Each minute, each child simultaneously passes exactly half of all of their pencils to the child to their right. Then, all children that have an odd number of pencils receive one more pencil.
Prove that after a finite amount of time, the children will all have the same number of pencils.

I do not know the source.
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WilliamSChen
an hour ago
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An nxn Checkboard
MithsApprentice   26
N an hour ago by NicoN9
Source: USAMO 1999 Problem 1
Some checkers placed on an $n \times n$ checkerboard satisfy the following conditions:

(a) every square that does not contain a checker shares a side with one that does;

(b) given any pair of squares that contain checkers, there is a sequence of squares containing checkers, starting and ending with the given squares, such that every two consecutive squares of the sequence share a side.

Prove that at least $(n^{2}-2)/3$ checkers have been placed on the board.
26 replies
MithsApprentice
Oct 3, 2005
NicoN9
an hour ago
Is this FE solvable?
Mathdreams   4
N 2 hours ago by Mathdreams
Find all $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that \[f(2x+y) + f(x+f(2y)) = f(x)f(y) - xy\]for all reals $x$ and $y$.
4 replies
Mathdreams
Tuesday at 6:58 PM
Mathdreams
2 hours ago
Coaxial circles related to Gergon point
Headhunter   0
2 hours ago
Source: I tried but can't find the source...
Hi, everyone.

In $\triangle$$ABC$, $Ge$ is the Gergon point and the incircle $(I)$ touch $BC$, $CA$, $AB$ at $D$, $E$, $F$ respectively.
Let the circumcircles of $\triangle IDGe$, $\triangle IEGe$, $\triangle IFGe$ be $O_{1}$ , $O_{2}$ , $O_{3}$ respectively.

Reflect $O_{1}$ in $ID$ and then we get the circle $O'_{1}$
Reflect $O_{2}$ in $IE$ and then the circle $O'_{2}$
Reflect $O_{3}$ in $IF$ and then the circle $O'_{3}$

Prove that $O'_{1}$ , $O'_{2}$ , $O'_{3}$ are coaxial.
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Headhunter
2 hours ago
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Equation with powers
a_507_bc   6
N 2 hours ago by EVKV
Source: Serbia JBMO TST 2024 P1
Find all non-negative integers $x, y$ and primes $p$ such that $$3^x+p^2=7 \cdot 2^y.$$
6 replies
a_507_bc
May 25, 2024
EVKV
2 hours ago
no numbers of the form 80...01 are squares
Marius_Avion_De_Vanatoare   2
N 2 hours ago by EVKV
Source: Moldova JTST 2024 P5
Prove that a number of the form $80\dots01$ (there is at least 1 zero) can't be a perfect square.
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Marius_Avion_De_Vanatoare
Jun 10, 2024
EVKV
2 hours ago
f((x XOR f(y)) + y) = (f(x) XOR y) + y
the_universe6626   3
N 3 hours ago by jasperE3
Source: Janson MO 5 P4
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}_{\ge0}$ such that
\[f((x\oplus f(y))+y)=(f(x)\oplus y)+y\]Note: $\oplus$ denotes the bitwise XOR operation. For example, $1001_2 \oplus 101_2 = 1100_2$.

(Proposed by ja.)
3 replies
the_universe6626
Feb 21, 2025
jasperE3
3 hours ago
2024 8's
Marius_Avion_De_Vanatoare   3
N 3 hours ago by EVKV
Source: Moldova JTST 2024 P2
Prove that the number $ \underbrace{88\dots8}_\text{2024\; \textrm{times}}$ is divisible by 2024.
3 replies
Marius_Avion_De_Vanatoare
Jun 10, 2024
EVKV
3 hours ago
pretty well known
dotscom26   0
3 hours ago
Let $\triangle ABC$ be a scalene triangle such that $\Omega$ is its incircle. $AB$ is tangent to $\Omega$ at $D$. A point $E$ ($E \notin \Omega$) is located on $BC$.

Let $\omega_1$, $\omega_2$, and $\omega_3$ be the incircles of the triangles $BED$, $ADE$, and $AEC$, respectively.

Show that the common tangent to $\omega_1$ and $\omega_3$ is also tangent to $\omega_2$.

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dotscom26
3 hours ago
0 replies
Thanks u!
Ruji2018252   6
N 3 hours ago by jasperE3
Find all $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ and
\[ f(x+y)+f(x^2+f(y))=f(f(x))^2+f(x)+f(y)+y,\forall x,y\in\mathbb{R}\]
6 replies
Ruji2018252
Mar 26, 2025
jasperE3
3 hours ago
MOP Cutoffs Out?
Mathandski   28
N Yesterday at 10:36 PM by Yrock
MAA has just emailed a press release announcing the formula they will be using this year to come up with the MOP cutoff that applies to you! Here's the process:

1. Multiply your age by $1434$, let $n$ be the result.

2. Calculate $\varphi(n)$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler's totient theorem, which calculates the number of integers less than $n$ relatively prime to $n$.

3. Multiply your result by $1434$ again because why not, let the result be $m$.

4. Define the Fibonacci sequence $F_0 = 1, F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}$ for $n \ge 2$. Let $r$ be the remainder $F_m$ leaves when you divide it by $69$.

5. Let $x$ be your predicted USA(J)MO score.

6. You will be invited if your score is at least $\lfloor \frac{x + \sqrt[r]{r^2} + r \ln(r)}{r} \rfloor$.

7. Note that there may be additional age restrictions for non-high schoolers.

See here for MAA's original news message.

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Edit (4/2/2025): This was an April Fool's post.
Here's the punchline
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Mathandski
Tuesday at 11:02 PM
Yrock
Yesterday at 10:36 PM
mdk2013
Mar 30, 2025
mdk2013
Yesterday at 10:23 PM
Moving P(o)in(t)s
bobthegod78   69
N Yesterday at 8:42 PM by akliu
Source: USAJMO 2021/4
Carina has three pins, labeled $A, B$, and $C$, respectively, located at the origin of the coordinate plane. In a move, Carina may move a pin to an adjacent lattice point at distance $1$ away. What is the least number of moves that Carina can make in order for triangle $ABC$ to have area 2021?

(A lattice point is a point $(x, y)$ in the coordinate plane where $x$ and $y$ are both integers, not necessarily positive.)
69 replies
bobthegod78
Apr 15, 2021
akliu
Yesterday at 8:42 PM
Practice AMC 10A
freddyfazbear   59
N Mar 30, 2025 by Andrew2019
Practice AMC 10A

1. Find the sum of the infinite geometric series 1 + 7/18 + 49/324 + …
A - 36/11, B - 9/22, C - 18/11, D - 18/7, E - 9/14

2. What is the first digit after the decimal point in the square root of 420?
A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4, E - 5

3. Caden’s calculator is broken and two of the digits are swapped for some reason. When he entered in 9 + 10, he got 21. What is the sum of the two digits that got swapped?
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

4. Two circles with radiuses 47 and 96 intersect at two points A and B. Let P be the point 82% of the way from A to B. A line is drawn through P that intersects both circles twice. Let the four intersection points, from left to right be W, X, Y, and Z. Find (PW/PX)*(PY/PZ).
A - 50/5863, B - 47/96, C - 1, D - 96/47, E - 5863/50

5. Two dice are rolled, and the two numbers shown are a and b. How many possible values of ab are there?
A - 17, B - 18, C - 19, D - 20, E - 21

6. What is the largest positive integer that cannot be expressed in the form 6a + 9b + 4 + 20d, where a, b, and d are positive integers?
A - 29, B - 38, C - 43, D - 76, E - 82

7. What is the absolute difference of the probabilities of getting at least 6/10 on a 10-question true or false test and at least 3/5 on a 5-question true or false test?
A - 63/1024, B - 63/512, C - 63/256, D - 63/128, E - 0

8. How many arrangements of the letters in the word “sensor” are there such that the two vowels have an even number of letters (remember 0 is even) between them (including the original “sensor”)?
A - 72, B - 108, C - 144, D - 216, E - 432

9. Find the value of 0.9 * 0.97 + 0.5 * 0.1 * (0.5 * 0.97 + 0.5 * 0.2) rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.
A - 89.9%, B - 90.0%, C - 90.1%, D - 90.2%, E - 90.3%

10. Two painters are painting a room. Painter 1 takes 52:36 to paint the room, and painter 2 takes 26:18 to paint the room. With these two painters working together, how long should the job take?
A - 9:16, B - 10:52, C - 17:32, D - 35:02, E - 39:44

11. Suppose that on the coordinate grid, the x-axis represents climate, and the y-axis represents landscape, where -1 <= x, y <= 1 and a higher number for either coordinate represents better conditions along that particular axis. Accordingly, the points (0, 0), (1, 1), (-1, 1), (-1, -1), and (1, -1) represent cities, plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains, respectively. An area is classified as whichever point it is closest to. Suppose a theoretical new area is selected by picking a random point within the square bounded by plains, desert, snowy lands, and mountains as its vertices. What is the probability that it is a plains?
A - 1 - (1/4)pi, B - 1/5, C - (1/16)pi, D - 1/4, E - 1/8

12. Statistics show that people who work out n days a week have a (1/10)(n+2) chance of getting a 6-pack, and the number of people who exercise n days a week is directly proportional to 8 - n (Note that n can only be an integer from 0 to 7, inclusive). A random person is selected. Find the probability that they have a 6-pack.
A - 13/30, B - 17/30, C - 19/30, D - 23/30, E - 29/30

13. A factory must produce 3,000 items today. The manager of the factory initially calls over 25 employees, each producing 5 items per hour starting at 9 AM. However, he needs all of the items to be produced by 9 PM, and realizes that he must speed up the process. At 12 PM, the manager then encourages his employees to work faster by increasing their pay, in which they then all speed up to 6 items per hour. At 1 PM, the manager calls in 15 more employees which make 5 items per hour each. Unfortunately, at 3 PM, the AC stops working and the hot sun starts taking its toll, which slows every employee down by 2 items per hour. At 4 PM, the technician fixes the AC, and all employees return to producing 5 items per hour. At 5 PM, the manager calls in 30 more employees, which again make 5 items per hour. At 6 PM, he calls in 30 more employees. At 7 PM, he rewards all the pickers again, speeding them up to 6 items per hour. But at 8 PM, n employees suddenly crash out and stop working due to fatigue, and the rest all slow back down to 5 items per hour because they are tired. The manager does not have any more employees, so if too many of them drop out, he is screwed and will have to go overtime. Find the maximum value of n such that all of the items can still be produced on time, done no later than 9 PM.
A - 51, B - 52, C - 53, D - 54, E - 55

14. Find the number of positive integers n less than 69 such that the average of all the squares from 1^2 to n^2, inclusive, is an integer.
A - 11, B - 12, C - 23, D - 24, E - 48

15. Find the number of ordered pairs (a, b) of integers such that (a - b)^2 = 625 - 2ab.
A - 6, B - 10, C - 12, D - 16, E - 20

16. What is the 420th digit after the decimal point in the decimal expansion of 1/13?
A - 4, B - 5, C - 6, D - 7, E - 8

17. Two congruent right rectangular prisms stand near each other. Both have the same orientation and altitude. A plane that cuts both prisms into two pieces passes through the vertical axes of symmetry of both prisms and does not cross the bottom or top faces of either prism. Let the point that the plane crosses the axis of symmetry of the first prism be A, and the point that the plane crosses the axis of symmetry of the second prism be B. A is 81% of the way from the bottom face to the top face of the first prism, and B is 69% of the way from the bottom face to the top face of the second prism. What percent of the total volume of both prisms combined is above the plane?
A - 19%, B - 25%, C - 50%, D - 75%, E - 81%

18. What is the greatest number of positive integer factors an integer from 1 to 100 can have?
A - 10, B - 12, C - 14, D - 15, E - 16

19. On an analog clock, the minute hand makes one full revolution every hour, and the hour hand makes one full revolution every 12 hours. Both hands move at a constant rate. During which of the following time periods does the minute hand pass the hour hand?
A - 7:35 - 7:36, B - 7:36 - 7:37, C - 7:37 - 7:38, D - 7:38 - 7:39, E - 7:39 - 7:40

20. Find the smallest positive integer that is a leg in three different Pythagorean triples.
A - 12, B - 14, C - 15, D - 20, E - 21

21. How many axes of symmetry does the graph of (x^2)(y^2) = 69 have?
A - 2, B - 3, C - 4, D - 5, E - 6

22. Real numbers a, b, and c are chosen uniformly and at random from 0 to 3. Find the probability that a + b + c is less than 2.
A - 4/81, B - 8/81, C - 4/27, D - 8/27, E - 2/3

23. Let f(n) be the sum of the positive integer divisors of n. Find the sum of the digits of the smallest odd positive integer n such that f(n) is greater than 2n.
A - 15, B - 18, C - 21, D - 24, E - 27

24. Find the last three digits of 24^10.
A - 376, B - 576, C - 626, D - 876, E - 926

25. A basketball has a diameter of 9 inches, and the hoop has a diameter of 18 inches. Peter decides to pick up the basketball and make a throw. Given that Peter has a 1/4 chance of accidentally hitting the backboard and missing the shot, but if he doesn’t, he is guaranteed that the frontmost point of the basketball will be within 18 inches of the center of the hoop at the moment when a great circle of the basketball crosses the plane containing the rim. No part of the ball will extend behind the backboard at any point during the throw, and the rim is attached directly to the backboard. What is the probability that Peter makes the shot?
A - 3/128, B - 3/64, C - 3/32, D - 3/16, E - 3/8
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freddyfazbear
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aidan0626
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i would not recommend doing that
they removed it for a reason
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freddyfazbear
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aidan0626 wrote:
i would not recommend doing that
they removed it for a reason

Doing what
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DhruvJha
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freddyfazbear wrote:
aidan0626 wrote:
i would not recommend doing that
they removed it for a reason

Doing what

just write normal problems dawg
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Owinner
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aidan0626 wrote:
i would not recommend doing that
they removed it for a reason

ye because the problem involved a master whipping its workers
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DhruvJha
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like the problems are of decent quality just change up the words and make it sound real, then its golden
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freddyfazbear
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DhruvJha wrote:
like the problems are of decent quality just change up the words and make it sound real, then its golden

Wait what do you mean by “sound real”
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Cerberusman
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freddyfazbear wrote:
DhruvJha wrote:
like the problems are of decent quality just change up the words and make it sound real, then its golden

Wait what do you mean by “sound real”

he means no slavery innuendos bro.
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fruitmonster97
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If the intended solution to problem four is spoiler, then in my opinion you're doing something wrong. This isn't a normal AMC 10 - I'm going to guess that half of the people taking a normal AMC 10 don't even know powers wrt circles, not even mentioning radax. The problems are probably trivial to you, but if you compare them to an official amc, you'll see quite a few discrepancies.

But it's ok! The first few tests by well-known pwriters aren't great either, I think you'll find. It's great to keep trying, because peactice makes progress. (this is not sarcastic)
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AbhayAttarde01
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oh theres this as well
so lets list
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14, 21 (hahahaha 69 so funny hahahha)
16 (hahahaha 420 so funny haahahaha)
17 (we get the reference)
25 (if you know the reference, you are a legend)
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MathRook7817
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AbhayAttarde01 wrote:
oh theres this as well
so lets list
8 (we know exactly whats happening here)
11 (facism?????)
14, 21 (hahahaha 69 so funny hahahha)
16 (hahahaha 420 so funny haahahaha)
17 (we get the reference)
25 (if you know the reference, you are a legend)

whats the reference
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freddyfazbear
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MathRook7817 wrote:
AbhayAttarde01 wrote:
oh theres this as well
so lets list
8 (we know exactly whats happening here)
11 (facism?????)
14, 21 (hahahaha 69 so funny hahahha)
16 (hahahaha 420 so funny haahahaha)
17 (we get the reference)
25 (if you know the reference, you are a legend)

whats the reference

A “Green FN” is just a fancy term we use in the basketball community for making a successful shot into the hoop, preferably a clean one that goes in smoothly
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Pengu14
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What happened to the mock :skull:
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hashbrown2009
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Bro took it down due to the sheriff's warnings I'm guessing @above
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freddyfazbear
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Sorry for the technical issues. The test is now back up!
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Andrew2019
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20 is misplaced
(5,12,13)
(9,12,15)
(12,16,20)
and since 12 is the smallest option its that
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