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Editor
George Berzsenyi
Rose-Hulman

Section
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Editors

Bela Bajnok, GettysburgCollege-, Brad Brock, Center for Communications Research', Bart Goddard and John Rickert, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
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This section features problems for students of mathematics at the undergraduate and high school levels. We inviteyou to sub
detailed, well-written solutions as well as problems appro

priate to these levels. For additional challenges, youmay wish to see the problem sections of The American MathematicalMonthly, MathematicsMagazine, and The College MathematicsJournal?also published by theMathematical Association of America (MAA). Students at the high school levelmay also wish to take part in theUSA Mathematical Talent Search; for informationabout this program, you should contact the editor of this section. Active and regular involvement in solving and posing prob cians engage in it throughout their lives. Some problems can
Problem puzzles. solving mathematical friendships lems lead is an essential part of mathematical several life; most mathemati to research fields of math

strongly section.

solution taining

Problems to be submitted should be accompanied by solu tions and commentaries about theirorigin. They should appeal to students at the undergraduate and high school levels. Each
to be submitted should be on a the solver's name, home address, separate and school sheet, con affiliation.

ematics owe their existence to initially isolated problems and

can also lead to collaborations and among its practitioners. Moreover,

deeper

results;

important

problem solving inmathematical journals is excellent training

The authors of the problems and solutions to be featured will be named as in the otherMAA publications; theproblems in the All submissions present issuewere devised by the editorial staff. will be acknowledged, but only those solutions which arrive by the deadlines will be considered for publication. Submissions to this column should be sent to the follow ing address: Math Horizons Problem Section, Box 121, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, 5500 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, IN 47803-3999. They may also be sent via e-mail:
goddard@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu or by fax: 812-877-3198.

Proposals
To be considered for publication, solutions to the problems below should be postmarked Problem no later then January 4,1994.

Problem 100,000

1. There such that

are seven positive integers n less than

x3 + y3 = n = u3 + v3, where x, y, u, and v are distinct positive integers whose are listed below, greatest common factor is 1. Six of these

If the plane is tessellated by equilateral 3, we will refer to the vertices of the of base 1, triangles is the lattice points." What triangles as "triangular one n of largest number triangular lattice points such that ? 1 n of them is exactly 93 units from the other points? Let 5 be a set of nine distinct real numbers. that there are two elements a and b in S such that 4.

Problem Prove

1729, 4104, 20683, 40033, 64232, 65728,

where

to a computer, find the (9, 34, 16, 33). Without resorting missing seventh integer. Problem 2. Evaluate

sen as (1, 12, 9, 10), (2, 16, 9, 15), (10, 27, 19, 24), and
Problem 5. What

for the first four of them, (x, y, u, v) can be cho

1+ ab

l + >/2

fraction has the smallest denominator

intheinterval (^,^)?

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