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Those are a good selection of subjects that you are certain about, and it seems that your are going for the more academic subjects. So for the other subject, physics would be an interesting course and it scales well, Japanese beginner would also be an interesting course but would require a fair...

Re: Australian Mathematics Competition The answers for 26-29 that you put down is what I got also. Also, which question was the one you stuffed up?

She is wrong!!!

Re: Trials next week ! lol you have done sooo much more than me =S I have not opened a HSC maths textbook in almost a month!

Re: Australian Mathematics Competition How did you think you went? =)

Re: Australian Mathematics Competition The pattern was 6, 6 + 9, 6 + 9 + 12, 6 + 9 + 12 + 15, . . . So we have to find the 11th term, which is the sum of the first 11 terms of the arithmetic sequence with a = 6, d = 3. T_{11} = S_{11} = \frac{11}{2}(12 + 10 \cdot 3) = 11(6 + 15) =11...

Re: How did u go in the Australian Maths Competition? $Question: A magician deposits the same numbers of rabbits (at least one) at each of five houses. To get to the first house he crosses a magic river once, and to get to any house from another, he also crosses a magic river once. Each time...

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? ... except me =(

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? Sorry, its 8. I can show you my solution if you want.

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? I thought that question number 15 (intermediate) was a bit hard for a question 15, it was $What is the last digit of$\,\,6 \times 8^{2009} I got it only using modular arithmetic, but compared to last year q 15 its pretty hard. There is also the...

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? same! That question was annoying! I looked at the clock and i was like, theres no way i am going to be folding paper when i have 9 questions left, so i just folded the paper in my head =)

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? Yeh, that (E).

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? Can you remember what answers you came to, i got (E)?

Re: How did people go in the maths comp today? What was the 26 senior question?

Re: 2009 AMT Mathematics Competition Yeh, nice. For that question i cbf even trying, I despise brute force!!!