Texas A&M High School Math Contest Best Student Open 2007

1. Solve the equation 2. Let tan() = and 90 degrees. 6+ |x 1| + |x 2| + |x 3| = 4 3 2 2. Find the angle if it is an angle between 0

3. Find the smallest number N such that its decimal representation is N = aa . . . a and it is divisible by 29. 4. Solve for x: 4x 3x1/2 = 3x+1/2 22x1 5. Find the last two digits of 7555 . 6. Let x > 0. Find the limit
x0

lim xx

7. Find the volume of the largest cube with sides parallel to the coordinate planes that can be t inside B . B = {(x, y, z )| x2 + y 2 + z 2 1, z 0} 8. Fix 0 < x0 < 1. A sequence is dened by xi+1 = {a} is the fractional part of a. For example {1.3} = 0.3 and 8 7 = 1 7 1 xi for i = 0, 1, . . . , where

Find the largest possible x0 such that x0 = x1 = x2007 . 9. Find the value of

i=1

1 i(i + 1)(i + 2)

3 ) and B (4, 5) nd the minimum distance |AC | + |BC | 10. Given the points A(1, 2 where C is a point on the line 2x + y = 1.

11. Find the limit

n

lim

1 + 1/2 + + 1/n log(n)

12. Solve the equation 2e2|x|1 + 2e12|x| = 7 12x2 13. We ip a regular coin 2007 times and record the outcome: heads or tails. The 1 probability of getting heads or tails each time is . Let p1 be the probability that 2 the number of heads recorded at the end is twice the number of tails and p2 be the p1 probability that the number of tails recorded at the end is 1338. Find the ratio . p2 14. Find the number of zeros at the end of 2007! 15. Find the smallest of the following numbers 20062007
2008

, 20072006

2008

, 20072008

2006

, 20062008

2007

16. Find the smallest integer larger than 1024 1025 + 1026 1027 + 2025 + 2026 17. Calculate the integral
1 0

207 200 x (1 x)7 dx 7

18. Calculate the sum of the squares of the real roots of x2007 x2005 x2003 x3 2x = 0