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  • ...th>), we can use an easy application of the [[Shoelace Theorem]] to figure out the values of X. Since we already know the two distances (positive y and ne
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  • Call a set of integers ''spacy'' if it contains no more than one out of any three consecutive integers. How many [[subset]]s of <math>\{1,2,3,\l Since each of the elements of the subsets must be spaced at least two apart, a divider counting argument can be used.
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  • |A, B and C have a cycle race from E to F. All three set out at 10am at different speeds from E. A is 5km/h faster than B and 10km/h fas |31 points are equally spaced in a circle. In how many distinct ways can you pick 6 of them such that eve
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  • ...is, he measures the distance between the centers of the trees, which comes out to be around <math>15</math> feet. He then measures <math>2</math> feet to ...days after the first day Tony places the spider on the wall) will Tony run out of room to place the spider three feet higher?
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  • ...r blue, and there are at least five socks of each color. The Martian pulls out one sock at a time without looking. How many socks must the Martian remove ...lay a game involving a circle whose circumference is divided by 12 equally-spaced points. The points are numbered clockwise, from 1 to 12. Both start on poin
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  • ...,3,5,7</math>, we can factor the product <math>(x-1)(x-3)(x-5)(x-7)</math> out of <math>R(x)</math> to obtain a new polynomial <math>Q(x)</math> such that The evenly-spaced data suggests using [[discrete derivative|discrete derivatives]] to tackle
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  • ...this final meeting at the end of the day). These meetings will be equally spaced over the day (by symmetry -- for example by running time backwards). These ...se <math>S=s_1s_2\cdots s_n</math> at each stage instead of having to work out the lowest common multiple at every stage, the drawback is that the numbers
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  • A father takes his twins and a younger child out to dinner on the twins' birthday. The restaurant charges <math>4.95</math> evenly spaced around a circle. All quadruples are equally likely to be chosen.
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  • ...a five-minute interval. Assume vehicles in the westbound lane are equally spaced. Which of the following is closest to the number of westbound vehicles pres //commented out labeling because it doesn't look right.
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  • ...repetition, let us say that <math>(x_{1},\dotsc,x_{k})</math> is <i>spaced-out</i> if <math>|x_{i} - x_{j}| > 1</math> for all <math>i \ne j</math>. ...th> has volume <math>n^{k}</math>. Let <math>S</math> be the set of spaced-out <math>k</math>-tuples <math>(x_{1},\dotsc,x_{k})</math>. The desired probab
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  • For a positive integer <math>n\geq 3</math> plot <math>n</math> equally spaced points around a circle. Label one of them <math>A</math>, and place a mark ...nts of each tuple refer to the first and second pass respectively. Listing out the state transitions (while following the rule that we can't use the same
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  • Thereafter, <math>7</math> out of every <math>8</math> counted were red. If, in all, <math>90</math> % or ...points <math>R</math> and <math>S</math>, <math>76</math> miles apart, set out at the same time to walk towards each other.
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  • Ten points are spaced equally around a circle. How many different chords can be formed by joining ...lengths, in cm, of 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, ... as shown. Dana’s pen runs out of ink after the total of all the lengths he has drawn is 3000 cm. What is
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  • The Tigers beat the Sharks 2 out of the 3 times they played. They then played <math>N</math> more times, and Six chairs are evenly spaced around a circular table. One person is seated in each chair. Each person ge
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  • Six chairs are evenly spaced around a circular table. One person is seated in each chair. Each person ge Case 3: The movement of seats cancel out each other.
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  • ...>20</math> fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly <math>4</mat ...h>ZW</math>, <math>YX</math>, and <math>ED</math> are parallel and equally spaced. What is the ratio of the area of hexagon <math>WCXYFZ</math> to the area o
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  • ...>20</math> fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly <math>4</mat
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  • ...>20</math> fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly <math>4</mat
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  • ...er <math>(4)</math>, marks out <math>6</math>, skips <math>8</math>, marks out <math>10</math>, and so on to the end. Josh continues in this manner until ...>20</math> fence posts, placed one on each of the four corners, and spaced out the rest evenly along the edges of the garden, leaving exactly <math>4</mat
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  • ...oots lying in the first quadrant, because the imaginary parts would cancel out with those from the fourth quadrant. We have two <math>30-60-90</math> tria
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  • ...is, he measures the distance between the centers of the trees, which comes out to be around <math>15</math> feet. He then measures <math>2</math> feet to
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  • There are <math>81</math> grid points (uniformly spaced) in the square shown in the diagram below, including the points on the edge ...>0</math> points for a loss. After all the games have been played it turns out that the top three teams earned the same number of total points. What is th
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  • Three equally spaced parallel lines intersect a circle, creating three chords of lengths <math>3 ...yrone, and Kim play a card game. Each person is given <math>2</math> cards out of a set of <math>10</math> cards numbered <math>1,2,3, \dots,10.</math> Th
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  • ...me distance in <math>12</math> equal leaps. The telephone poles are evenly spaced, and the <math>41</math>st pole along this road is exactly one mile (<math> ...</math> rolls all the way around the outside of the same square and sweeps out a region of area <math>2A</math>. The value of <math>s</math> can be writte
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  • Three positive integers are equally spaced on a number line. The middle number is <math>15,</math> and the largest num ...0</math> attempts in the first half of a game, and <math>10</math> baskets out of <math>10</math> attempts in the second half. Candace took <math>12</math
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  • Five men and nine women stand equally spaced around a circle in random order. The probability that every man stands diam ...t the person opposite to him is a woman is <math>\frac{9}{13}</math> since out of the <math>13</math> people who can sit opposite to him, <math>9</math> c
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  • ...r otherwise. In other words, there will be <math>2</math> losing positions out of every <math>5</math> consecutive values of n. As <math>n</math> ranges f ...trial and error we see that <math>2, 5, 7,</math> and <math>10</math> are spaced alternating in between 2 and 3 apart. This can also be proven with modular
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