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1988 MCM A: The Drug Runner Problem
Two listening posts 5.43 miles apart pick up a brief radio signal. The sensing devices were orien...
1992 MCM A：The Emergency PowerRestoration Problem
Power companies serving coastal regions must have emergency-response systems for power outages du...
1995 MCM B： Aluacha Balaclava College
Background : Aluacha Balaclava College, specializing in undergraduate education, has just hired ...
1995 MCM A： The Single Helix
The problem proposed here consists of assisting a small biotechnological company in designing, pr...
1994 MCM B：The Concrete Slab Problem
The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is considering constructing dwellings of va...
1994 MCM A：The Communications Network Problem
In your company, information is shared among departments on a daily basis. This information inclu...
1993 MCM B：The Optimal Composting Problem
An environmentally conscious institutional cafeteria is recycling customers’ uneaten food into co...
1993 MCM A：The Coal-Tipple Operations Problem
The Aspen-Boulder Coal Company runs a loading facility consisting of a large coal tipple. When th...
1992 MCM B：The Air-Traffic-Control Radar Problem
You are to determine the power to be radiated by an air-traffic-control radar at a major metropol...
1991 MCM B：The Water Tank Problem
Some state water-right agencies require from communities data on the rate of water use, in gallon...
1988 MCM B: The Railroad Flatcar Problem
Two railroad flatcars are to be loaded with seven types of packing crates. The crates have the sa...
1991 MCM A：The Steiner Tree Problem
The cost for a communication line between two stations is proportional to the length of the line....
2000 HiMCM B：Elections
It is almost election time and it is time to revisit the electoral vote process. The constitution...
2000 HiMCM A：Bank Robbers
The First National Bank has just been robbed (the position of the bank on the map is marked). The...
1999 HiMCM：Traffic Lights Problem
Major thoroughfares in big cities are usually highly congested. Traffic lights are used to allow ...
1990 MCM B: The Snowplow Problem
The solid lines of the map (see Figure 1) represent paved two-lane county roads in a snow-removal...
1990 MCM A: The Brain-Drug Problem
Researchers on brain disorders test the effects of new medical drugs (e.g., dopamine against Park...
1989 MCM B: The Aircraft Queuing Problem
A common procedure at airports is to assign aircraft (AC) to runways on a first-come-firstserved ...
1989 MCM A: The Midge Classification Problem
Two species of midges, Af and Apf, have been identified by biologists Grogan and Wirth (1981) on ...
1996 MCM A： The Submarine Detection Problem
Background Information: The world’s oceans contain an ambient noise field. Seismic disturbances,...