Problems

MA310

Spring 1999

• The Average Traveler
• The Quadratic Formula
• The Foolish Fly
• The Early Arrival
• Passing Boats
• Crawling Insects
• Circular Track
• The Bead Problem
• Colored Hats
• Consecutive Integers
• Numerous Offspring
• SETI
• Colorful Triangles and Squares
• Colorful Tetrahedra and Cubes
• Slicing Shapes
• Some Summations
• Fibonacci Formula
• Some Counting Formulas
• Pairing Off People
• Towers of Hanoi
• Polygonal Ears
• How Many Triangulations?
• Triple Duel
• 100
• Penny Piles
• One Dollar
• Number Guessing Cards
• Weird Multiplication
• Deltahedra
• Handshaking
• The Game of Hex
• How Far Away is the Horizon?
• Curve Stitching
• Various Loci
• Some Reflections on Light
• South-East-North
• More Handshaking
• Pigeonhole Problems
• Intersecting Circles
• Dissections
• Desert Excursion
• The Chessboard and the Dominoes
• Which Way?
• Mixed Labels
• The Rectangle and the Oil Well
• Generalized Pythagoras
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