USAMno (darn 8char)

by djmathman, May 2, 2015, 4:59 PM

So USAMO happened.

#1: What is this problem. I thought about the $x+y$, $x-y$ trick (due to something I can't reveal atm) but saw the resulting equation and passed on the opportunity because I thought nothing would make of it. Whoops. So instead I only did the case where $3|x$ and $3|y$; it still took three pages, and I found half the set of total solutions, so clearly I should get half the points for this problem right?
#2: Was scared to complex bash, then homothety and "all you have to do is construct a parallelogram" made it really easy. Except I made a minor typo (basically I wrote $\cos(a+b)$ instead of $\cos(a-b)$ in multiple places but it doesn't affect what I wanted to prove at all since things "cancelled out" anyway) so I'm not sure whether I'm getting a 6 or a 7 though.
#3: Combo + #3 = didn't attempt
#4: This problem scarred my soul. It took me an hour just to figure out the answer in the $2\times 2$ case, and then a half hour to realize the general case was easy and that I had been thinking the wrong way all that time. But then I realized I had to prove that the row and column sum invariant implied equivalency, and this is where I died. I eventually stumbled on an induction argument but I had zero time to write it so it's quite sketchy. (And also it turns out I mis-applied stars and bars so my final answer is wrong as well. This should only be -1, but still, combo is bad.)
#5: Worked on this for 30 minutes, got nowhere.
#6: Didn't attempt.

1-3/7/0/1-3/0/0=8-13 projected (but leaning more toward the 8). USAMO is fat.

Modulo ARML it looks like my years as a high school math contest contestant are over :(

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duuuuuude which arml are u going to?

by DrMath, May 5, 2015, 1:22 AM

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penn state^^ :D :D :D

by forthegreatergood, May 5, 2015, 1:35 AM

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Hm combo, nt, and alg. are hard. Should have been more geo...

by Eugenis, May 5, 2015, 8:53 PM

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LOL nice projected score; I guess you way over-compensated for their strictness.
Probably like 3/7/0/6/0/0

by mathguy623, Apr 23, 2016, 11:39 PM

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