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yongcheng3315

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AMC Problem type changes (1950-1999)
« on: December 09, 2010, 08:37:28 AM »
From former AMC Chairman Dr. Harold Reiter's book (The contest book VII)

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Re: AMC Problem type changes (1950-1999)
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 11:37:03 AM »
I just noticed, something is wrong with Dr. Reiter's chart. In the last column, the number of problems only adds up to 215 or so. I was wondering how the number of Geometry problems could be going down so much without other types going up!

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Re: AMC Problem type changes (1950-1999)
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2014, 08:27:21 PM »
The cut off is 5 problems in one topic. Probably some problems were ignored because the same type of problems is less than 5. I do not see any problems with inequality, radical equation, polynomial, ..