The 2022 High School Math Competition took place online on April 30.
A total of69 students from 18 different schools participated in the event,including a handful ofinternational participants.The event was organized by SoM graduate student Trevor Gunn, together with10 volunteers who assisted in running the event.
Some sample problems from the event included:
- Find all prime numbers p such that p + 28 and p + 50 are also primes.
- How many binary strings are there of length 10 which do not contain either '101' or '010' as a substring?
All of the problems - andsolutions! - are posted onthe HSMC websitehttps://hsmc.gatech.edu/examsfor anyone interested in seeing what the participants were up against.
The top five scores in each category were:
Top 5 (Multiple Choice)
- Eric Sun from Alpharetta High School
- Hwidong Jeon from Chattahoochee High School
- Cyrus Zhou (not on the registration list)
- Edward Ju from Chattahoochee High School
and a 5-way tie for 5th place
- Ashley Lu (Alpharetta High School)
- Ethan Chen (Wheeler High School)
- Christopher Lee (not registered)
- Emily Abigail Schierts (Forsyth Central High School)
- Richard Kang (Wheeler High School)
Top 5 (Proofs)
- Daniel Lin (Walton High School)
- Zinnun Malikov (not registered)
- Sagnik Nandi (South Forsyth High School)
- Emily Abigail Schierts (Forsyth Central High School
- Christopher Lee (not registered)