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Challenge Problem Showdown – February 13th, 2012

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Standing on the origin of an xy-coordinate plane, John takes a 1-unit step at random in one of the following 4 directions: up, down, left, or right. If he takes 3 more steps under the same random conditions, what is the probability that he winds up at the origin again?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – February 6th, 2012

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Each of three investments has a 20% of becoming worthless within a year of purchase, independently of what happens to the other two investments. If Simone invests an equal sum in each of these three investments on January 1, the approximate chance that by the end of the year, she loses no more than 1/3 of her original investment is

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Challenge Problem Showdown – January 30th, 2012

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For all positive integers n and m, the function A(n) equals the following product:
(1 + 1/2 + 1/22)(1 + 1/3 + 1/32)(1 + 1/5 + 1/52)…(1 + 1/pn + 1/pn2), where pn is the nth smallest prime number, while B(m) equals the sum of the reciprocals of all the positive integers from 1 through m, inclusive. The largest reciprocal of an integer in the sum that B(25) represents that is NOT present in the distributed expansion of A(5) is

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Challenge Problem Showdown – January 23rd, 2012

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The country of Sinistrograde uses standard digits but writes its numbers from right to left, so that place values are reversed. For instance, 12 means twenty-one. A five-digit code from Sinistrograde is accidentally interpreted from left to right. If all possible five-digit codes (including zeroes in all positions) are equally likely, what is the probability that the code is in fact interpreted correctly?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – January 16th, 2012

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If x is positive and not equal to 1, then the product of x1/n for all positive integers n such that 21 ≤ n ≤ 30 is between

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Challenge Problem Showdown – January 9th, 2012

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If k is a positive integer, which of the following must be divisible by 24?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – January 2nd, 2012

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If x and y are both integers chosen at random between 1 and 100, inclusive, what is the approximate probability that x/y is an integer?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – December 5th, 2011

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A circle is inscribed within a regular hexagon in such a way that the circle touches all sides of the hexagon at exactly one point per side. Another circle is drawn to connect all the vertices of the hexagon. Expressed as a fraction, what is the ratio of the area of the smaller circle to the area of the larger circle?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – November 28th, 2011

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If x < y < z but x2 > y2 > z2 > 0, which of the following must be positive?

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Challenge Problem Showdown – November 21th, 2011

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Here is this week’s problem:

For positive integers k and n, the k-power remainder of n is defined as r in the following equation:
n = kw + r, where w is the largest integer such that r is not negative. For instance, the 3-power remainder of 13 is 4, since 13 = 32 + 4. In terms of k and w, what is the largest possible value of r that satisfies the given conditions?

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