Meet+5+Topics


 * __Meet 5 Topics:__**

5A Puzzle Problems (20 minutes) • Word problems, one or more variables • Max-min problems not requiring calculus • Problems found in "brain-teaser" type books • Logic puzzles, including the use of Venn Diagrams

5B Areas, Perimeters, and Volumes • Triangles - including Heron's formula and ability to use ideas of elementary trigonometry to find certain lengths • Trapezoids and parallelograms • Circles, sectors of circles • Volumes of familiar 3-dimensional objects

5C Counting and Probability • Permutations, with and without replacement • Combinations, with and without replacement • Using the principle of inclusion, exclusion • Using the binomial and multinomial expansions • Nonnegative integer solutions to x1+x2+...+xn = b. • Definition, simple applications of probability (when to multiply, when to add)

5D Variations of Problems appearing on the previous year’s AMC 12 (contest A)