| 1. Find all positive integers a, b, c, such that (8a-5b)2 + (3b-2c)2 + (3c-7a)2 = 2. |
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| 2. ABC is a triangle. Show that c ≥ (a+b) sin(C/2). |
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| 3. A cube side 5 is made up of unit cubes. Two small cubes are adjacent if they have a common face. Can we start at a cube adjacent to a corner cube and move through all the cubes just once? (The path must always move from a cube to an adjacent cube). |
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| 4. ABCD is a quadrilateral with ∠A = 90o, AD = a, BC = b, AB = h, and area (a+b)h/2. What can we say about ∠B? |
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| 5. Show that for any n > 5 we can find positive integers x1, x2, ... , xn such that 1/x1 + 1/x2 + ... + 1/xn = 1997/1998. Show that in any such equation there must be two of the n numbers with a common divisor (> 1). |
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| 6. Show that for some c > 0, we have |21/3 - m/n| > c/n3 for all integers m, n with n ≥ 1. |
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