The Seventeenth Annual Harvard-MIT Math Tournament February

Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

The Harvard-MIT Math Tournament - February http://hmmt.mit.edu/february hmmt-request@mit.edu

February 22, 2014

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 February Harvard-MIT Math Tournament. As one of few Harvard-MIT collaborative student groups, we at HMMT are deeply committed to running a successful tournament and promoting mathematical problem solving to high school students. Were thrilled to see all of you in Cambridge, and we hope youre as excited as we are for the competition. We at HMMT have two goals: to run a fanstastic tournament, and to help foster the passion for mathematics that we all enjoy. While the math itself is a big part of that, we feel that the people are as big a part. Youre here with 800 of the brightest, most mathematically-gifted students in the world take advantage! Introduce yourself to students from other teams, and help strengthen the already-strong mathematical community. As usual, all of our problems are written and compiled by Harvard and MIT undergraduates. No matter how many of them you solve, we hope you nd the problems challenging and engaging, and worth the trip to Cambridge. But above all else, we hope that you have fun! Should you have any questions, comments, or concerns at any point during the tournament, please feel free to ask an HMMT sta member for help (were wearing green). If you dont know where you should be, please refer to the schedule and map found in this program or, when in doubt, nd a sta member. Whether this if your rst year at HMMT or you are loyal veterans, good luck today and enjoy your time at HMMT February 2014!

Sincerely, Sam Trabucco, MIT Joy Zheng, Harvard Tournament Directors Mitchell Lee, MIT Anderson Wang, MIT Alex Zhu, MIT Problem Czars

HMMT February 2014 Coordinators

Officers Tournament Directors Sam Trabucco Joy Zheng Scripts Team Travis Hance Pratheek Nagaraj Problem Czars Mitchell Lee Anderson Wang Alex Zhu Finance Director Anirudh Sailesh Staff Head Proctor Veronica Boyce Mini-Events Director Graham Lustiber Sign Czars Alina Acosta Joel Schneider Prize Czars Derek Wu Wayne Zhao Spokespeople Surya Bhupatiraju Cherie Hu Julia Huang Jimmy Jiang George Zhang Problem Committee Calvin Deng Eric Chen Eugene Chen Pakawut Jiradilok Bobby Shen Victor Wang Kai Xiao Photographers Landon Carter Elisa Young Building Coordinators Charles Du Helen Hu Ziyu Ma Sindy Tan David Wong Lily Zhou Head Graders Jonathan Tidor Simon Zheng Guts Round Directors Marcus Boorstin Michael Sun Hosting Coordinators Justine Jang Jimmy Jiang Food Czars Chelsea Ge Pei Tao Finance Associate James Rowan Registration Director Aaron Landesman General Ocers Melody Guan Carl Lian Elizabeth Shen

Problem Contributors Josh Alman Eric Chen Yongyi Chen Calvin Deng Casey Fu Mitchell Lee Carl Lian Pakawut Jiradilok Eli Ross Mark Velednitsky Justin Venezuala Anderson Wang Victor Wang Kai Xiao George Xing Patrick Yang Allen Yuan Alex Zhu ... and a special thanks to all of our day-of volunteers!

HMMT February Sponsors

The MIT Mathematics Department

The Harvard Mathematics Department

Jane Street Capital

Microsoft

IMC

Two Sigma

Belvedere Trading

Raytheon

Art of Problem Solving

BlueCotton

Harvard-MIT Coop

Yus Elite Education

PROMYS

HMMT February Welcomes

# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Organization Acton-Boxborough Regional High School Albany Area Math Circle ASDAN China Beijing National Day School Beijing Star Beijing STFX Education Belmont High School Bergen County Academies Team Acton-Boxborough Steinmetz CIE Shanghai NFLS BNDS Beijing Star Beijing STFX 1 Marauders BCA1 BCA2 BCA3 Choate Wild Boars Dragons Daqing 1 EMS League 1 Fairfax Math Circle 1 Florida A Florida B BDFZ1 BDFZ2 Gaussmath Mathletics Octahorons Groton Varna Lions A Don Quixote Sancho Pansa Epsilons Remin HS Beijing Math Circle Nanjing Foreign IL-IN IMSA Kent School KGSEA Las Cruces LV Fire LV ICE LV Thunder LV Lightning Lexington Alpha Lexington Beta LHS Lancers No Small Potatoes Chaee The Heuristics Mingschool MAT Minnesota Gold 1 Individual Room Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center A Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Team Room Sever 107 Sever 205 Sever 103 Sever 102 Sever 103 Sever 102 Grays 1 Sever 105 Sever 304 Sever 102 Sever 113 Sci. Center 111 Sci. Center 109 Sever 307 Sci. Center B Sci. Center B Sever 101 Sever 102 Boylston 104 Boylston 105 Boylston 103 Sci. Center B Sever 206 Sci. Center B Sci. Center 101B Boylston 105 Sever 306 Sever 310 Sever 113 Sever 111 Sever 110 Sever 109 Grays 2 Sci. Center 101B Sci. Center 116 Sci. Center 112 Grays 5 Sever 305 Sever 306 Sever 307 Sever 308 Sci. Center 112 Sci. Center 113 Sever 208 Boylston 103 Sci. Center 116 Sci. Center 109 Sever 310 Sever 113 Sever 211

Choate Rosemary Hall Collierville High Daqing Zhong Xue EMS League Fairfax Math Circle Floriday Student Ass. of Mathematics Gaosi Education Gauss Math Circle Germantown Academy Glen Whitney Groton School HS. of Math Dr. Petar Beron Varna Horace Mann School Hunter College High School

IDEA Math

Illinois/Indiana Math Team Illinois Math and Science Academy Kent School KGSEA Las Cruces Public Schools Lehigh Valley

Lexington High School Livingston High School Longfellow Middle School Loomis Chaee LSU MathCircle MathTree MN All-State Math Team

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Organization Montgomery Blair High School NC School of Science & Math New York City Math Team Newton South Niulanshan North Houston Academy Northern Secondary School Phillips Academy Phillips Exeter Academy Princeton High School Princeton Intl. School of Math and Science QHFZ Reaching for Excellence Rochester Area Math Circle Saint Louis Seattle Innity Math Circle Shenzhen Foreign Language School Shenzhen Middle School Shiyan Zhong Xue St. Marks School of Texas Star League A-Star

Tabor Academy The Hotchkiss School The Lawrenceville School The Roxbury Latin School Thomas Jeerson HS for Science and Tech

Toronto-Ottawa Schools Transitions Lab Prep School University School of NSU Upper Canada College West Windsor-Plainsboro HS North Western Mass ARML Western PA ARML WWP-High School South Yaohua Zendo All Individuals

Team Minnesota Gold 2 Montgomery Blair A Montgomery Blair B NCSSM Murph and the Magictones Party Posse Newton South Sines Niulanshan 1 Terrible Toads Toads Too Juicy Penguins Rationals Irrationals PEA Red Lion PEA-Ideamath PHS Math Team PRISMS Falcons QHFZ1 Reaching RAMC East St. Louis Washington Gold SFLS Math Club SZ Flame Tree 1 SZ Flame Tree 2 Shiyan1 SMMath A Air A Fire A Earth Seawolf Hotchkiss Lawrenceville Roxbury Latin Thomas Jeerson A Thomas Jeerson B Thomas Jeerson C Les Canadiens AB-TLUPS University School of NSU The Chuninators French from Finch Knights A Knights B WM ARML Stars AlgoRhythm & Blues Western PA ARML 1 Pirates A Pirates B Yaohua1 RDFZXS

Individual Room Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center C Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Sci. Center D Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Emerson 105

Team Room Sever 210 Sever 112 Sever 111 Sever 212 Sever 104 Sever 103 Sci. Center 103B Boylston 105 Sever 302 Sever 306 Sever 109 Sever 110 Boylston 104 Boylston 103 Sever 110 Sever 103 Sever 310 Sci. Center 113 Sci. Center 110 Sci. Center 110 Sci. Center 111 Sever 209 Sever 207 Sever 206 Sever 308 Sever 210 Grays 6 Grays 5 Grays 3 Sci. Center 103B Emerson 105 Emerson 105 Sever 115 Sever 207 Sever 208 Sever 209 Emerson 106 Sever 113 Emerson 105 Sever 303 Sever 113 Sever 106 Sever 107 Sever 201 Sever 206 Sever 204 Grays 1 Grays 2 Sever 308 Grays 3 Emerson 210

Schedule of Events
Time 8:008:45am 8:008:45am 8:509:00am 9:0012:00am 11:0011:30am 12:301:30pm 1:302:30pm 3:004:30pm Event Registration and proctor check-in Breakfast Competitors to Individual Round Rooms Individual rounds Proctor meeting Team round Lunch Guts round Location Science Center Lobby Science Center Lobby Science Center & Emerson (see previous pages) Science Center 110 Various locations Science Center B (Teams 1-65) Science Center C (Teams 65-101, Individuals) Science Center D (Parents and Coaches) Science Center B & C

5:005:30pm

Awards ceremony

Rules Highlights
http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/february/rules.shtml
Calculators and Computational Aids You may not use books, notes, calculators, pocket organizers, slide-rules, abaci, or any other computational aids. Similarly, you may not use graph paper, rulers, protractors, compasses, architectural tools, or any other drawing aids. Translators are also prohibited. Grading Policy Answers must be simplied and exact unless otherwise specied. Rational numbers should be given in lowest terms. An nth root should be simplied so that the radicand contains no fractions and is not divisible by the nth power of any prime. Denominators do not need to be rationalized. Correct mathematical notation must be used. No partial credit will be given unless otherwise specied. Protests If a student believes that an answer given on the answer key for a morning event is incorrect, an appeal must be submitted at the Science Center Lobby by 2:30 pm. If the protest concerns an afternoon event, the appeal must be submitted as soon as possible after the Guts Round. Decisions of the coordinators of the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament February are nal.

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