USA Mathematical Talent Search
Round 4 Problems
Year 19 Academic Year 20072008
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Please follow the rules below:
1. You must show your work and prove your answers on all problems. If you just send a
numerical answer for a problem with no proof, you will get no more than 1 point.
2. If you have not already sent an Entry Form, download an Entry Form from the Forms
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and submit the completed form with your solutions.
3. If you have already sent in an Entry Form and a Permission Form, you do not need to
resend them.
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8. No single page should contain solutions to more than one problem. Every solution you
submit should begin on a new page, and you should only submit work on one side of
each piece of paper.
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10. Submit your solutions by March 11, 2008 (postmark deadline), via one (and only one!)
of the methods below.
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11. Reread Items 110.
USA Mathematical Talent Search
Round 4 Problems
Year 19 Academic Year 20072008
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1/4/19. In the diagram at right, each vertex is labeled with a different
positive factor of 2008, such that if two vertices are connected by an
edge, then the label of one vertex divides the label of the other vertex.
In how many different ways can the vertices be labeled? Two labelings
are considered the same if one labeling can be obtained by rotating
and/or reflecting the other labeling.
n + n + n + n < n,
2/4/19. Determine, with proof, the greatest integer n such that
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13
where bxc is the greatest integer less than or equal to x.
3/4/19. Let 0 < < 1. Define a sequence {an } of real numbers by a1 = 1 and for all integers
k 1,
Xa
a2k = ak ,
a2k+1 = (1 )ak .
Find the value of the sum
2k a2k+1
in terms of .
k=1
4/4/19. Suppose that w, x, y, z are positive real numbers such that w + x < y + z. Prove that
it is impossible to simultaneously satisfy both
(w + x)yz < wx(y + z)
(Continued on next page.)
and
(w + x)(y + z) < wx + yz.
USA Mathematical Talent Search
Round 4 Problems
Year 19 Academic Year 20072008
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5/4/19. Let P1 P2 P3 P13 be a regular 13-gon. For 1 i 6, let di = P1 Pi+1 . The 13
diagonals of length d6 enclose a smaller regular 13-gon, whose side length we denote by s.
Express s in the form
s = c1 d1 + c2 d2 + c3 d3 + c4 d4 + c5 d5 + c6 d6 ,
where c1 , c2 , c3 , c4 , c5 , and c6 are integers.
P4
P5
P3
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P6
d4
d3
d2
d5
P7
P2
d1
d6
P1
P8
P13
P9
P12
P10
P11
Round 4 Solutions must be submitted by March 11, 2008.
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