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4673-S: Student
Problem - only undergraduate and pre-college students are eligible
to submit a solution.
Proposed by Douglas
Joy, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Replace the letters in the following cryptarithm by base
10 digits in a one-to-one manner so as to obtain a valid addition operation
in base 10. Also show that your solution is unique, i.e., that your solution
is the only possible solution.
4674-OBG: Oldie
But Goodie - Proposed by Murray J. Levanthal, NY.
Given an equilateral triangle ABC, and a point P so that
PA = PB + PC. Show that the locus of P is a circle. (From a New York City
examination for teachers.)
4675*: Proposed
by Michael Brozinsky, West Hempstead, NY.
If N points are chosen at random on the surface of a
sphere, find the probability that they are on a hemisphere.
Note: If N points are chose on the circumference of a
circle, the probability that they are on a semicircle is known to be n/(2n-1).
4676: Proposed
by Richard L. Francis, Cape Girardeau, MO.
Suppose p is
a repunit prime.
(a) Show that 10p
+ 1 is necessarily composite.
(b) Is 10000p
+ 1111 necessarily composite?
4677: Proposed
by Richard L. Francis, Cape Girardeau, MO.
(a) Is the centroid of a triangle the same as the centroid
of its Morley triangle?
(b) Is the incenter of a triangle the same as the incenter
of its Morley triangle?
4678: Proposed
by Ghunaym M. Ghunaym, Albany, GA.
Determine the unit's digit of the number
4679: Proposed
by Charles P. Howerton, Denver, CO.
Suppose that A, B, C, D are points in 3-dimensional space
such that
(i) AB = BC = CD = DA, and
(ii) AC = BD =
Prove that the points A, B, C, D are coplanar and are
the vertices of a square.