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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
MANHATTAN —Five Kansas State University students beat the odds — and the evens — at the university's recent 17th annual S. Thomas Parker 1xbet best casino website Competition.
The competition is part of the annual nationwide 1xbet best casino website Awareness Month and is conducted to encourage Kansas State University students to strengthen their mathematical skills and to promote 1xbet best casino website education among students.
The S. Thomas Parker endowment and university's Math Club fund the competition. The competition is open to all full-time Kansas State University students who are in their first two years of college. Participants were given three hours to solve five problems in 1xbet best casino website , ranging from high school level to the first two years of collegiate 1xbet best casino website . One problem from the competition asked students how many zeros were at the end of the answer to one times two times three times … 2,014 times 2,015.
The following students placed in the 20145 S. Thomas Parker 1xbet best casino website Competition:
From Manhattan: Nicholas Donohoue, 1xbet best casino website and physics major, second-place tie; Sarah Featherstone, chemical engineering major, third place; and Aaron Messerla, 1xbet best casino website major, first place.
Natasha Graham, physics major, Olathe, second-place tie; Jessica McCall, 1xbet best casino website and biology major, Topeka, second-place tie.
Awards will be presented Tuesday, April 14 at the annual Friends of 1xbet best casino website Banquet. Each Parker competition winner will receive a cash award and two certificates: a personal certificate and a framed certificate for the student organization of his or her choice that honors the achievement.
The next Parker Competition will be in spring 2017; there is no registration fee. For more information on the competition, including past winners, previous problems and their solutions, see the Parker competition website at http://www.math.ksu.edu/events/parker-mathcomp/ or call the 1xbet best casino website department at 785-532-6750.
