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Two teams of Augsburg students courageously entered battle in the 6th Annual NCS/MAA Team Competition on Saturday, November 16, 2002. The teams performed well on the ten questions testing their mathematical ingenuity and knowledge. The two Augsburg teams consisted of mathematics students Alexa Halford, Sarah Sletten, Hung Nguyen, Tom Staton, and Dave Wallace.
Both teams performed quite respectably: one team finishing in 17th place out of 70 participating teams. The seventy teams from twenty-three colleges and universities from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario participated in the yearly contest that is organized by the North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America. Team members were not allowed books, notes, calculators or computers while taking the exam. Previous exams can be found at http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~maancs/index.html.
The questions on the test vary in difficulty, but they require lots of mathematical knowledge and clever ways of approaching the problem. Answering any of the questions correctly demonstrates a strong background in mathematics. Amazingly, a team from Carleton College (the alma mater of our own Nick Coult) had a perfect score.