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jlacosta   0
May 1, 2025
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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random achievements
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What are some random math achievements that you have accomplished but possess no real meaning?

For example, I solved #10 on the 2024 national mathcounts team round, though my team got a 5 Click to reveal hidden text and ended up getting 30-somethingth place
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i personally have no idea
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9 AMC 8 Scores
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As far as I'm certain, I think all AMC8 scores are already out. Vote above.
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idk if this is already a thing but im postin it again :p
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ima post cdr level questions and the first person to answer (may) admit orz

1st question:

If $6$ sigmas = $41$ looksmaxxers, and $2$ looksmaxxers = $13$ skibdis, how many skibidis are in a sigma? Express your answer as a common fraction


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ima post cdr level questions and the first person to answer (may) admit orz

1st question:

If $6$ sigmas = $41$ looksmaxxers, and $2$ looksmaxxers = $13$ skibdis, how many skibidis are in a sigma? Express your answer as a common fraction


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trick problem, you never defined how many "skibidis" are in a sigma, you have only given a relation between "skibdis" and sigmas

thus the problem has no answer
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Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $n^3+9$ is a perfect square
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Find the smallest positive integer $n$ such that $n^3+9$ is a perfect square

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Waiting for the next one... :sleep2: :sleep2: :sleep2:
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Answer to #2

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$3$ concentric circles with radii $1$, $2$, and $3$ are on a dartboard, where hitting the center circle is $3$ points, hitting the region outside the center circle but within the circle with radius $2$ is worth $2$ points, and hitting the outermost region is worth $1$ point. If Mary hits the dartboard at a random location $100\%$ of the time and John hits the dartboard randomly $75\%$ of the time, what is the probability, that after $1$ throw, John has more points than Mary?
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Shawn admits orz

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$3$ concentric circles with radii $1$, $2$, and $3$ are on a dartboard, where hitting the center circle is $3$ points, hitting the region outside the center circle but within the circle with radius $2$ is worth $2$ points, and hitting the outermost region is worth $1$ point. If Mary hits the dartboard at a random location $100\%$ of the time and John hits the dartboard randomly $75\%$ of the time, what is the probability, that after $1$ throw, John has more points than Mary?

We do casework on what Mary gets

$\frac{23}{108}$
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QUESTION WORTH 2 ORZ POINTS

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ has $AB=5$, $BC=14$, and $CD=23$. How many possible integer values are there for the length of $AD$?
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is it 37?
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Ya i got $5-41$ to get $37$
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is it 37?

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Define $\pi(a, b) = \frac{a+\sqrt{ab}+b}{3}$. What integer is closest to $\pi(\pi[\pi(1, 2), \pi(3, 4)], \pi[\pi(5, 6), \pi(7, 8)])$ ?

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this hurts my head when I look at it
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around 4.28
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My computer died nooooo I just got it off the charger
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No calculators for this, right?
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holy brainrotted
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rbo how am I brainrotted
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not you, @nmlikesmath is talking about the OP

also for the most recent problem i probably can't do it without a calculator lol
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