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Revision as of 12:00, 5 July 2013
Problem
An arbitrary circle can intersect the graph 
in
Solution
Consider a circle with center on the positive y-axis and that passes through the origin. As the radius of this circle becomes arbitrarily large, its shape near the x-axis becomes very similar to that of 
, which intersects infinitely many times. It therefore becomes obvious that we can pick a radius large enough so that the circle intersects the sinusoid as many times as we wish, 
.
See Also
| 1985 AHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 9 |
Followed by Problem 11 | |
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| All AHSME Problems and Solutions | ||
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