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Hamilton Olympiad 2025

Anyone got any questions/comments on the Hamilton Olympiad 2025.
I got 1, 2 and 4, I started out on the 5th and submitted in the hope of a few cheap marks.
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Reply 1

Original post by Math nerd
Anyone got any questions/comments on the Hamilton Olympiad 2025.
I got 1, 2 and 4, I started out on the 5th and submitted in the hope of a few cheap marks.


What did you get for 2?

Reply 2

My argument was you need to maximise the number of 4x9 tiles and you can do this by creating a 135x80 rectangle adjacent to a 5x80 rectangle so the minimum number of tiles was 316 if I remember correctly

Reply 3

Original post by Math nerd
My argument was you need to maximise the number of 4x9 tiles and you can do this by creating a 135x80 rectangle adjacent to a 5x80 rectangle so the minimum number of tiles was 316 if I remember correctly

You know the solutions are on ukmt?

Reply 4

UKMT released the thresholds today..Hamilton was hard

Cayley Hamilton Maclaurin
Gold 45 41 45
Silver 39 34 37
Bronze 34 30 31
Distinction 30 23 27
Merit 17 10 16

Reply 5

Original post by toppov
UKMT released the thresholds today..Hamilton was hard
Cayley Hamilton Maclaurin
Gold 45 41 45
Silver 39 34 37
Bronze 34 30 31
Distinction 30 23 27
Merit 17 10 16

Thanks, hadn’t spotted this

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