[u]Round 5[/u]
[b]p13.[/b] Sally is at the special glasses shop, where there are many different optical lenses that distort what she sees and cause her to see things strangely. Whenever she looks at a shape through lens , she sees a shape with more sides than the original (so a square would look like a hexagon). When she looks through lens , she sees the shape with fewer sides (so a hexagon would look like a triangle). How many sides are in the shape that has more diagonals when looked at from lense than from lense ?
[b]p14.[/b] How many ways can you choose cells of a by grid such that they aren't in the same row or column?
[b]p15.[/b] If and then what are all the possible values of ?
[u]Round 6[/u]
[b]p16.[/b] In Canadian football, linebackers must wear jersey numbers from while defensive linemen must wear numbers from (both intervals are inclusive). If a team has linebackers and defensive linemen, how many ways can it assign jersey numbers to the players such that no two people have the same jersey number?
[b]p17.[/b] What is the maximum possible area of a right triangle with hypotenuse ?
[b]p18.[/b] people are to play touch football. One will be designated the quarterback, while the other eight will be divided into two (indistinct) teams of . How many ways are there for this to be done?
[u]Round 7[/u]
[b]p19.[/b] Express the decimal in base .
[b]p20.[/b] people throw their hats in a pile. One at a time, they each take one hat out of the pile so that each has a random hat. What is the expected number of people who get their own hat?
[b]p21.[/b] What is the area of the largest possible trapezoid that can be inscribed in a semicircle of radius ?
[u]Round 8[/u]
[b]p22.[/b] What is the base expression of ?
[b]p23.[/b] Let equal the ratio of the surface area of a sphere of radius to the volume of that same sphere. Let be a quadratic polynomial in the form with and the minimum value of equal to . Express as a function of (e.g. in terms of ).
[b]p24.[/b] In the country of Tahksess, the income tax code is very complicated. Citizens are taxed on their first \20, 00045\%\ and on their next \60, 0005\% increase in tax rate aecting \ more than the previous tax rate. The maximum tax rate, however, is . What is the overall tax rate (percentage of money owed) on million dollars in income?
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