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1996 MCM B： The Contest Judging Problem
Background Information: When determining the winner of a competition like the Mathematical Conte...
2001 MCM A：Choosing a Bicycle Wheel
Cyclists have different types of wheels they can use on their bicycles. The two basic types of wh...
2003 MCM B：Gamma Knife Treatment Planning
Stereotactic radiosurgery delivers a single high dose of ionizing radiation to a radiographically...
2003 MCM A：The Stunt Person
An exciting action scene in a movie is going to be filmed, and you are the stunt coordinator! A s...
2002 MCM Problem：If we SCRUB our land too much, we may lose the LIZARDs
Picture by Grant Hokit The Florida scrub lizard is a small, gray or gray-brown lizard that lives...
2002 MCM B：Airline Overbooking
You're all packed and ready to go on a trip to visit your best friend in New York City. After y...
2002 MCM A：Wind and Waterspray
An ornamental fountain in a large open plaza surrounded by buildings squirts water high into the ...
2001 ICM Problem：Our Waterways - An Uncertain Future
Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, are small, fingernail-sized, freshwater mollusks unintention...
2001 MCM B: Escaping a Hurricane's Wrath (An Ill Wind...)
Evacuating the coast of South Carolina ahead of the predicted landfall of Hurricane Floyd in 1999...
2000 ICM Problem：Elephants: When is Enough, Enough?
"Ultimately, if a habitat is undesirably changed by elephants, then their removal should be consi...
1997 MCM A： The Velociraptor Problem
The velociraptor, Velociraptor mongoliensis, was a predator dinosaur that lived during the late C...
2000 MCM B：Radio Channel Assignments
We seek to model the assignment of radio channels to a symmetric network of transmitter locations...
2000 MCM A： Air traffic Control
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert Machol, former chief scientist of the Federal Aviation Agen...
1999 ICM Problem： Ground Pollution
Background Several practically important but theoretically difficult mathematical problems perta...
1999 MCM B： Unlawful Assembly
Many public facilities have signs in rooms used for public gatherings which state that it is "unl...
1999 MCM A：Deep Impact
For some time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been considering the ...
1998 MCM B： Grade Inflation
Background Some college administrators are concerned about the grading at A Better Class (ABC) c...
1998 MCM A： MRI Scanners
Introduction Industrial and medical diagnostic machines known as Magnetic Resonance Imagers (MR...
1997 MCM B： Mix Well For Fruitful Discussions
Small group meetings are gaining popularity for the discussion of important issues, particularly ...
2003 ICM Problem：Aviation Baggage Screening Strategies: To Screen or Not to Screen, that is the Question
You are an analysis team in the Office of Security Operations for the Transportation Security Adm...