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Harvard-MIT Math Tournament #0i06

Harvard-MIT Math TournamentHard

From module Law of Cosines

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Scale 0.5: Easiest math competition problems, often solvable even for early middle school students without experience. 1: Problems strictly for beginners, often at a moderate middle school level. 1.5: Problems for stronger beginner students, on the level of the middling problems in most middle school contests. 2: For motivated beginners, harder questions from the previous categories. 2.5: More advanced beginner problems, hardest questions from previous categories. 3: Early intermediate problems that require more creative thinking. 3.5: Tougher early intermediate problems that consistently stretch into higher-level creative thinking or conceptual knowledge. 4: Intermediate-level problems. 4.5: Upper intermediate problems approaching the upper bound for non-invitational sprint math competitions. 5: More difficult AIME problems or simple proof-based Olympiad-style problems. 6: High-level AIME-styled questions or introductory Olympiad-level questions. 7: Tougher Olympiad-level questions, may require more technical knowledge. 8: High-level Olympiad-level questions. 9: Expert Olympiad-level questions. 9.5: The hardest problems appearing on Olympiads which the strongest students could reasonably solve. 10: Historically notorious problems, generally unsuitable for even very hard competitions because they are exceedingly tedious, long, and difficult.
Triangle trigonometryTrigonometry

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Problem:

Circles C1,C2,C3C_{1}, C_{2}, C_{3} have radius 11 and centers O,P,QO, P, Q respectively. C1C_{1} and C2C_{2} intersect at AA, C2C_{2} and C3C_{3} intersect at BB, C3C_{3} and C1C_{1} intersect at CC, in such a way that ∠APB=60∘\angle A P B = 60^{\circ}, ∠BQC=36∘\angle B Q C = 36^{\circ}, and ∠COA=72∘\angle C O A = 72^{\circ}. Find angle ABCA B C (degrees).

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