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Rax

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I didnt even know it was on....................stupid school
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Ah, i did it
Did anyone do question 2 well in the junor division? It was the one about dominoes and the rectangle, i think i got the 2x10 rectangle wrong

(How many ways to tile a 2x10 rectangle with identical dominoes - i.e. no dots)
 
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phlab.gtx said:
Did anyone do question 2 well in the junor division? It was the one about dominoes and the rectangle, i think i got the 2x10 rectangle wrong

(How many ways to tile a 2x10 rectangle with identical dominoes - i.e. no dots)
Hey this was Q1 in the senior division. I used a combinatorics approach but I think they expected you to use Fibonacci. BTW the answer to the 2x10 was 89 ways (10C0 + 9C1 + 8C2 + 7C3 + 6C4 + 5C5 or simply the 11th Fibonacci number).
 

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icycloud said:
Hey this was Q1 in the senior division. I used a combinatorics approach but I think they expected you to use Fibonacci. BTW the answer to the 2x10 was 89 ways (10C0 + 9C1 + 8C2 + 7C3 + 6C4 + 5C5 or simply the 11th Fibonacci number).
Ugh, don't even talk about it. I got the fact that it's the standard Fibonacci sequence with the first term of 1 taken out, but forgot about it when solving the recurrence and got the general form of each term for the standard Fibonacci sequence. :mad1:
 

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the last senr questions seems impossible.

sum phys olympiad guy sed u use a rotating frame of reference?
 
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The Cricket team one I had no clue where to start, nor did I with the ants one
 

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Yeah, that cricket team question was weird. I mean they didn't even give you the total number of plays in the team...or is it 11, cos the team's called something like "cricket eleven"? I ended up giving a table, anyhow. Meh.
 
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But didn't it ask for the number of amatuers in the team? and the total income?
 
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Yeh it did. I didn't get it out but apparently it was no amateurs.
 

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