Answer to the Problem of the Week for the week of February 14, 2005 |
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Valentines for Everone! |
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In Mr. P's A.P. Calculus classes, all the students gave each of the other students a valentine. The women received a total of 798 valentines and the men got 684. How many students were in Mr. P's class, how many women and how many men? |
Solution to the Problem: The answer is 39 students: 21 women and 18 men. |
1. wajih Ansari | Harrisonburg Virginia |
2. Chris Rogers | Winchester, Virginia |
3. Kirstine Wynn | St. Olaf's College, Northfield, Minnesota |
4. David & Judy Dixon | Bennettsville, South Carolina |
5. Jim Arrison | Norristown, Pennsylvania |
6. Dave Smith | Toledo, Ohio |
7. Walt Arrison | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
8. Tarpley Ashworth | Harrisonburg, Virginia |
9. Jeffrey Gaither | Winchester, Virginia |
10. Kevin Jacobson | Columbus, Georgia |
11. Tristan Collins | Winchester, Virginia |
12. James Alarie | University of Michigan -- Flint, Flint, Michigan |
13. Ben Swartz | Winchester, Virginia |
14. Keith Mealy | Cincinnati, Ohio |
15. Mac Dillon | Columbus, Georgia |
16. António Baptista | Lisboa, Portugal |
17. Weimers Winners | Lordstown, Ohio |
18. Emily Auerbach | Columbus, Georgia |
19. Cameron S. | Columbus, Geeorgia |
20. Bahadir ¨The incredible Hulk¨ Güngör, Jonathan ¨Superduperguy¨ Aldenfalk Jansson & Ako ¨Superman¨ Saleh |
Tullängskolan, Örebro of Sweden |
21. James Taylor | Lordstown, Ohio |
22. Johnas Eklof | Tullängskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
23. Cameron Burkholder | Winchester, Virginia |
24. Mikael Holmquist | Tullängskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
25. Sheila Shah | Arlington, Virginia |
26. Gilbert Melanson | Sierra Vista, Arizona |
27. Viktor "questionmark" Logrell | Tullängsskolan, Örebro, Sweden |
28. Jim Kennedy | Limerick, Ireland |
29. Arsalan Heydarian | Harrisonburg Virginia |
30. Trey Mason | Winchester, Virginia |
31. Hamza Rashid | Harrisonburg Virginia |
32. Larry Schwartz | Trumbull, Connecticut |
33. Misty Carlisle | Winchester, Virginia |
34. Jaime Garcia | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia |
35. Arin Smith | Winchester, Virginia |
36. Deepak Tyagi | ---------- |