Wednesday, 4 June 2014

SMO 2014 (Open Section) Answers

SMO 2014 Open Questions

SMO 2014 (Open Section) Answers

1. 49840
2. 120
3. 0
4. 4480
5. 3
6. 6
7. 31
8. 31340
9. 61
10. 1
11. 4
12. 220
13. 3239
14. 51
15. 4356
16. 3
17. 126
18. 3021
19. 2013
20. 270
21. 5005
22. 9
23. 16
24. 64
25. 2744

Answers are provided by Clarence Chew.

SMO (Open) Previous Years' Cut-off Points (Inclusive of Round 2 scores)
2013 Gold (26), Silver (13), Bronze (10), HM (9), Round 2 (14), Top 30 (28)
2012 Gold (21), Silver (8), Bronze (6), HM (5), Round 2 (8)
2011 Gold (18), Silver (9), Bronze (6), HM (5), Round 2 (9)
2010 Gold (38), Silver (9), Bronze (6), HM (5)
2009 Gold (27-29), Silver (9), Bronze (6), HM (5)
2008 Gold (27), Silver (11), Bronze (10), HM (6)
2007 Gold (19-20), Silver (9), Bronze (6), HM (5)

9 comments:

  1. What is the criteria for Bronze?

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  2. How many points for honourable mention,bronze and silver?Can give a good estimate?Thanks(:

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  3. hi do u mind scanning the hard copy n upload it into this blog? thanks a lot!

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  4. I heard many people saying this year is the easiest in many years. Cut off should be higher than past year I guess

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  5. Does anyone have workings for qn 18?

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    1. 1 way to do it is to sub a=1/bc and manipulate. However, since this is Round 1 and an inequality question, it is easy to see that a=b=c is the ideal case and thus the expression is 2014*1.5=3021

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  6. Haha nvm I managed to solve it. :)

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  7. Any idea about q17, I think the answer is 128

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