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May is an exciting month! National MATHCOUNTS is the second week of May in Washington D.C. and our Founder, Richard Rusczyk will be presenting a seminar, Preparing Strong Math Students for College and Careers, on May 11th.

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I am looking to get on my school MATHCOUNTS team next year in 7th grade, and I had a question: Where do the school round questions come from? (Sprint, Chapter, Team, Countdown)
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Welcome to the math relay race! To participate, answer the problem in the latest post, then post one yourself! Please also mark the question number. E.x. if the one before you is question #35, then mark yours as question #36. Easy as pi!

Note: If you choose to help someone with a problem you don't have to make one yourself unless you want to. You are also welcome to ask a question without having to post a new problem. Please do not post a new problem until the previous one is solved. All topics are welcome except for anything >12th grade. Trig is fine. Calculus is not. :D

Question 1: If it takes 5 monkeys 5 days to eat 5 bananas, then how many days will it take for 4 monkeys to eat 4 bananas? (Hint: It's not 4)

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How many squares have you memorized. I have 1-20

Edit: to clarify i mean positive squares from 1 so if you say ten you mean you memorized the squares 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10
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Please put some of the ones you know, and try not to troll/start flame wars! Thank you :D
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Hi, can I ask about how Alcumus gives you points? (I mean the number on the red/orange/green/blue line on top that gains once you get correct answers. I'll just call it the score). I want to get my score up to 100, but I always can't and get stuck at like 98 or sth. Why is this so, and also how does alcumus make that "score" higher?
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Hi, can I ask about how Alcumus gives you points? (I mean the number on the red/orange/green/blue line on top that gains once you get correct answers. I'll just call it the score). I want to get my score up to 100, but I always can't and get stuck at like 98 or sth. Why is this so, and also how does alcumus make that "score" higher?
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what do you mean by points?
rating gain slows down as your rating gets higher, and solving easy problems doesn't make your rating go up as much
also if you're doing prealg your rating legit goes up 10x slower than like any other subject
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Hi, can I ask about how Alcumus gives you points? Many times I do a lot of questions and it doesn't give me any points. I just wanted to ask this because it keeps bugging me.

If the "points" are rating, then quick question: "Which topic are you doing?" Because if the topic is Prealgebra, then yeah. That makes sense. Getting 10 questions right in prealgebra brings your rating up by like 0.1 and then getting one wrong brings it down by 50. :skull:
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lol fr that's actually true
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/req move to Alcumus forum

I think they are referring to the bar in the top right that appears while playing Alcumus. If you want to get this bar to 100, you have to do a lot of problems in the same focus.
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/req move to Alcumus forum

I think they are referring to the bar in the top right that appears while playing Alcumus. If you want to get this bar to 100, you have to do a lot of problems in the same focus.

took me 1500 correct questions to get reciprocals to 100 :P
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