What percentage of the square's area is colored blue?
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Jason Dyer
15 can be written as the difference between two positive perfect squares: \[15 = 16-1= 4^2 - 1^2.\] Which of the following numbers cannot be written as the difference of two positive perfect squares?
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Arjen Vreugdenhil
A factory manufactures wooden squares whose side length should be one meter. However, the side length of the squares is not always \(\SI{1}{\meter}\) but varies uniformly between \(\SI{1}{\meter}\) and \(\SI{1.1}{\meter}.\) Note that the height and the breadth of each square piece remain equal to each other.
Two inspectors, Alice and Bob, want to calculate the average area of a square.
- Alice claims that the average area is \(\SI{1.1025}{\meter\squared}\) because the average side length is \(\SI{1.05}{\meter}\) and \(1.05 \times 1.05 = 1.1025.\)
- Bob claims that the average area is \(\SI{1.1050}{\meter\squared}\) because the the area is between \((\SI{1}{\meter} \times \SI{1}{\meter})\) and \((\SI{1.1}{\meter} \times \SI{1.1}{\meter}),\) and \(\frac{1 \times 1 + 1.1 \times 1.1}{2} = 1.105\).
Who is correct?
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Agnishom Chattopadhyay
An accelerometer is made using tubular sections, as shown below. The accelerometer is placed in a rocket that travels in the \(\vec{x}\) direction, and the liquid levels are steady at \(\SI{20}{\centi\meter}\) and \(\SI{10}{\centi\meter}.\)
Find the magnitude of the rocket’s acceleration (in \(\text{m/s}^2\)). Submit your answer to 3 decimal places.
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Details and Assumptions:
- The diameter of the tube is much smaller than the heights of the liquid in the two arms.
- \(g = 10 \text{ m/s}^{2}.\)
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Vignesh Rao
A ladder is placed on a stairway (as shown). What is the length of the shorter leg?
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Details and Assumptions:
- Each step has the same horizontal run of \(15 \text{ cm}\) and vertical run of \(10 \text{ cm}.\)
- Each leg of the ladder rests on the horizontal midpoint of a step.
- The angles that the legs make with the steps are congruent.
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Hosam Hajjir