Problem Set 2006

[Problem 1 | Problem 2 | Problem 3 | Problem 4 | Problem 5 ]

[Problem 6 | Problem 7 | Problem 8 | Problem 9 | Problem 10 | General Analysis]

2006 Results | 2006 Report

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Problem 1	PC^3
Submissions	358
Solutions	41
Fastest Solution	16 minutes
% Submissions Correct	11.5%
% Teams Solving Problem	51.2%
Description	This problem required teams to work out who had won a programming contest.

Problem 2	Birds of a feather should not play together
Submissions	262
Solutions	30
Fastest Solution	7 minutes
% Submissions Correct	11.4%
% Teams Solving Problem	37.5%
Description	This problem was about a word game. Teams had to work out who had won.

Problem 3	Simple Encryption
Submissions	95
Solutions	63
Fastest Solution	21 minutes
% Submissions Correct	66.3%
% Teams Solving Problem	78.8%
Description	In this problem, the aim was to decrypt a secret message. It proved to be the easiest problem to solve.

Problem 4	Safe Packing
Submissions	124
Solutions	44
Fastest Solution	14 minutes
% Submissions Correct	35.5%
% Teams Solving Problem	55%
Description	Here the teams had to how manyitems could be shipped in boxes whose sizes were determined by the Fibonacci sequence.

Problem 5	The flat cupboard
Submissions	109
Solutions	38
Fastest Solution	58 minutes
% Submissions Correct	34.9%
% Teams Solving Problem	47.5%
Description	In this problem, teams had to tell Bob's mother how many items had to be moved in order for her to remove an item from Bob's cupboard.

Problem 6	Wiring assistant
Submissions	5
Solutions	0
Fastest Solution
% Submissions Correct	0%
% Teams Solving Problem	0%
Description	Here teams had to identify a path on a printed circuit board to connect 2 given points. Only 3 teams submitted a solution, and none solved it.

Problem 7	Word find
Submissions	24
Solutions	3
Fastest Solution	172 minutes
% Submissions Correct	12.5%
% Teams Solving Problem	3.8%
Description	This was a second generation word find puzzle.

Problem 8	Software dispatcher
Submissions	9
Solutions	1
Fastest Solution	236 minutes
% Submissions Correct	11.1%
% Teams Solving Problem	1.3%
Description	In this problem, teams had to dispatch firefighters to fires.

Problem 9	Video watcher
Submissions	19
Solutions	3
Fastest Solution	112 minutes
% Submissions Correct	15.8%
% Teams Solving Problem	3.8%
Description	Here teams had to help Rob maximise his pay for a day of watching security videos.

Problem 10	The prank
Submissions	31
Solutions	13
Fastest Solution	117 minutes
% Submissions Correct	41.9%
% Teams Solving Problem	16.3%
Description	This problem had similarities to the first problem, but in this case the data had firstly to be unscrambled.

 

General Analysis

80 teams solved a total of 236 problems in 1039 attempts. This is an average of 2.95 problems per team, with a success rate of 1 solution ever 4.4 submissions.

Problems Solved	Number of Teams	Percentage of Teams
8	2	2.5
7	3	3.75
6	3	3.75
5	15	18.75
4	12	15
3	7	8.75
2	12	15
1	13	16.25
0	13	16.25

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