OPM 1997 Problem 6
- Final day 2
parallel segments of lengths were painted to mark an airport atrium. However, the architect decided that the segments should have equal length. If the cost per meter of extending the lines is equal to the cost of reducing them, how long should the lines be in order to minimize costs?
Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.
Official text: Portuguese Mathematical Olympiad 1997 official paper, page 1.
Solutions
No solution is on olymmath yet. Official and human solutions come first when they arrive. AI solutions come after them, with a label.
Similar problems
These problems have the most words in common with this statement.