CMIMC 2016

The **2016 Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition (CMIMC)** is the first annual Carnegie Mellon Competition held at Carnegie Mellon University. The competition took place on April 2, 2016, at Pittsburgh, PA.

## Registration

### Registration Schedule

 February 9, 2016
 March 6, 2016
 April 2, 2016

### Registration Rules

* The competition is open only to high school students.
* Competitors do not have to be from the United States.
* Competitors register on teams consisting of up to six individuals. Teams must be accompanied by at least one adult coach.
* "Minor competitors" will need a parent/guardian to sign and submit and competitions permission and liability waiver.
* Teams do not have to be regional, however "team stacking" is highly discouraged and will lead to disqualification.
* The registration fee is $30 per competitor, paid online. The late registration is $8 per competitor.

## Contest Rules

### General

* No calculators or other electronic devices are allowed during a round.
* Communications between different teams is forbidden during rounds.
* Contestants can submit written questions during the rounds.
* Problems may be disputed or challenged by writing asking any CMIMC member during lunch.

### Power Round

*For a list of past power round topics, please visit this page.*

* The power round consists of three proof-based problems to be solved in 60 minutes. All the problems are related to the same interesting topic.
* Partial solutions will be awarded partial credit.
* Each power round questions is worth 10 points.

### Team Round

*For more information, please visit this page.*

* The team round consists of ten short-answer problems to be solved in 30 minutes.
* Team members are allowed to collaborate with each other during this round.
* Each team round problem is worth one point.

### Individual Rounds

*For more information on general individual round rules, please visit this page.*
*For more information on a specific individual test, please find the test on this page.*

* Each individual round consists of ten-short answer questions to be solved in 60 minutes.
* Each competitor takes two different individual rounds out of the five available: algebra, combinatorics, geometry, number theory, and computer science.
* Each individual question is worth one point.

### Finals

*For more information, please visit this page.*

* The final round consists of fifteen short-answer problems - three from each of the five topics - to be solved in 60 minutes.
* Each of the final round problems are worth one point.

## Conventions

* Answers to short-answer problems are integers, or, on the Computer Science test, they could be strings.
* Diagrams do not have to be drawn to scale.
* The vertices of a polygon appear in the order by which it is named. So, for example, heptagon ABCDEFG has vertices appearing in that order.

## Awards

* Awards are given to the top ten scoring individuals from each subject, and the top five scoring teams for the power round, team round, and overall.
* The individual round awards will be calculated using the formula 16I+F, where I is the score he or she got on that round, and F is the score he or she got on the finals round.
* The individual round awards will be calculated using the formula 16I+F, where I is the score he or she got on that round, and F is the score he or she got on the finals round.
* The overall team awards will be calculated using the formula 3P+9T+4A+4B+4C+4D+4E+4F. where P is the power round score, T is the team round score, and A, B, C, D, E, and F are the individual scores, such that A, B, C, D, E, and F are in decreasing order.

## Competition Schedule

All of these events took place on April 2, 2016, the date of the competition.

 8:35 am - 8:55 am
 9:00 am - 10:00 am
 10:15 am - 11:15 am
 11:25 am - 12:25 pm
 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
 1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
 2:30 pm - 4:55 pm
 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

## Results

### Algebra

 2
 3
 4
 5
 HM

### Combinatorics

 2
 3
 4
 5
 HM

### Computer Science

 2
 3
 4
 5
 HM

### Geometry

 2
 3
 4
 5
 HM

### Number Theory

 2
 3
 4
 5
 HM

### Power Round

 2
 3
 4
 5
 8
 9
 10

### Team Overall

 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
 10

## Trivia

* All of the short-answer problems are integers.