Wednesday, September 15, 2010

29th Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Problems 1997

29th Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Problems 19971.  How many pairs of positive integers have greatest common divisor 5! and least common multiple 50! ? 2.  A finite number of closed intervals of length 1 cover the interval [0, 50]. Show that we can find a subset of at least 25 intervals with every pair disjoint.