MUMC 2010!

[the.watchman]

Hey, how did everyone go today in the Melbourne Uni Maths Comp?
I didn't do so well IMO but it was fun!

[appianway]

The fact that you posted a thread about it instead of forgetting you even sat it contradicts the "I didn't do so well" statement.

Meh. I failed hardcore. The questions weren't actually hard, but I answered barely anything in the time and made heaps of careless mistakes. There's no way with the amount that I answered that I can actually get anything. Hope EvangelionZeta or the.watchman do though!

[the.watchman]

The fact that you posted a thread about it instead of forgetting you even sat it contradicts the "I didn't do so well" statement.

Meh. I failed hardcore. The questions weren't actually hard, but I answered barely anything in the time and made heaps of careless mistakes. There's no way with the amount that I answered that I can actually get anything. Hope EvangelionZeta or the.watchman do though!

That's not a fair statement, I am merely interested to see how much I failed in comparison to the others on VN

I know, the questions seemed kinda easier this year, but I still couldn't successfully answer most of them...

[appianway]

Maybe they only seemed easy in comparison to physics, but you could work out most of them logically. Unfortunately I ended up writing down a lot of random things which didn't make sense at the last minute only to realise that they really, really made no sense whatsoever.

Oh, and you failed less than I did. So that's how you did in comparison to VN people. 

[the.watchman]

Oh, and you failed less than I did. So that's how you did in comparison to VN people. 

Very funny...
Anyone else?

[the.watchman]

Really? Outstanding for three full questions? That's cool!

[AzureBlue]

Really? Outstanding for three full questions? That's cool!

Also, you tend to do better if you have 3 full solutions, then if you made progress on all 7 questions but didn't get a solution. (as stated on the cover sheet). That's why I failed today, I think. I don't know why I always do better against the cohort above me than the cohort below me. Technically, above is stronger...

Maybe they only seemed easy in comparison to physics, but you could work out most of them logically.

Yes, MUMC is slightly different to the others. More logic.

[appianway]

I think I got 1 full mark, a few half marks and then next to nothing. And that's optimistic. Very, very optimistic.

[luken93]

Yeh I think the questions this year were easier to understand than last years, bbut I'm shockin with "prove that" questions so that takes me out of the game. I'm pretty happy though, I'm pretty sure the first question was right, the one with the numbers around the circle I got 1 arrangement?, the two questions with the polyhedron/tetrahedron I had no clue how to show it. Also, how did you prove the equation that had k, m and n in it? I'm guessing subbing in a couple of numbers and a paragraph explanation doesnt do the job?
Anyway, I'm tryin to remember the questions, post solutions if you think you got em haha
1. The number of snaps on a chocolate bar
2. The arrangement around the circle 1, 2, 3 ... 2n
3.
4. The consecutive 18 numbers
5. Sum of the digits of 9n
6. The convex tetrahedron intersecting at x and y
7. , where p=prime number and c and n are both >1
8. The polyhedron that haad different sized areas with a sphere inside

I think i got 1, some of 2, some of 3, some of 5, some of 8???

Oh well, all over for another year

[TrueTears]

ey what's some of the questions, i wanna have some fun

[appianway]

Hmm for the half marks, I had solutions but I don't think my proofs were as rigorous as they could've been. So I fully answered about 4 of the questions, but I only think one of the questions had a really rigorous bulletproof proof.

[luken93]

Hmm for the half marks, I had solutions but I don't think my proofs were as rigorous as they could've been. So I fully answered about 4 of the questions, but I only think one of the questions had a really rigorous bulletproof proof.

yeh thats what i reckon, i so wanted to say WELL IT IS OKAY, YOU MADE THE QUESTIONS SO WHY DO I NEED TO PROVE TO YOU THAT THE QUESTION CAN BE DONE WHEN YOU MADE IT
got a bit cranky halfway through aha

[luken93]

Hehe, I stole the question sheet, I'll post them up in a tick here:

TO COME

haha so did i, forgot all about it. you can upload it, otherwise I will waste the night procrastinating instead of rote learning like I should be 

[TrueTears]

(2) Find all the arrangements of the numbers around a circle so that the difference between any two numbers next to each other is at most 2.

LOL WDF THIS QUESTIONS IS IN ART N CRAFT HAHA it was a basic combinatorics Q rofl

[EvangelionZeta]

Eh, I got 1, 2 and 4, got half answers for 3 and 5 (including some made up premises...), wrote bs for 6 and 7 and didn't touch 8.  Spent the last ten minutes writing out the "What a piece of work is a man!" speech on my last page.

Colin Lu got all 8 questions fully.  =)