American TV series: Start with the little Sheldon's wool

Chapter 210 When the game is on

Sum and difference multiple problems, arithmetic sequence problems, summation of sequence, binary system and its applications, divisors and multiples, average value, etc.

The knowledge points in the second game and the first game are basically the same, but the question bank is simply changed.

In this case, Melford High School and Peterborough High School took turns answering questions in the first round of preliminary rounds. The questions they encountered at the beginning were still not very difficult.

This can be seen as the organizers deliberately giving the competition teams warm-up time.

As the first few players from both sides answered questions at a fast pace, it wasn't long before it was Mike's turn to answer questions.

“5498、27679、948、3769、4559……”

The old professor in charge of asking the question reported eight groups of unordered numbers in a row, and then asked: "Please calculate the sum and average of this group of numbers."

average value……

Mike was lucky. Questions like summation and average were among the simplest types of questions even in the first round of question bank.

You only need to know simple addition and division operations to get the answer easily.

However, faced with this simplest question, Mike did not forget that he still had the task of confusing his opponent.

With a cautious look on his face, he took the calculation paper and automatic pen prepared by the organizer for the contestants, then compared them with the numbers of the original question that appeared on the big screen, and started his own calculation process.

Ten seconds later, a smile appeared on his face and he answered loudly with the correct answer.

Mike, who possesses the level [-] [Performance] skill, knows very well the principle that too much is too little.

A person who can be selected by the Mathematical Olympiad team cannot be a fool, so the character he is currently performing is that of an "ordinary" high school student with some talent but not much talent.

Of course, a performance of this level cannot be hidden from acquaintances.But for people who have ulterior motives and are unfamiliar with it, it is very confusing.

The fact was just as Mike thought. Carter, who had been observing the Melford players in the audience, frowned slightly after seeing the answers on the stage.

Then, he said to other players from Marymount College beside him: "If I remember correctly, the guy named Mike in the Melford team is probably an 11th grade student."

"Yeah, he's so handsome, but it's a pity that this is a Mathematical Olympiad competition..." The only female member of the Marymount Mathematical Olympiad team said with an incomprehensible expression.

The girl's name is Caroline, an 11th grade student at Marymount College and the only woman in the team.

Because women are naturally somewhat different from men in terms of logical thinking and spatial thinking.

In high-level mathematics categories, logical thinking and spatial imagination are often required.

Therefore, in summary, Caroline can be regarded as the "short board" in Marymount's Mathematical Olympiad team.

After watching Mike's performance at this moment, although the girl's face did not show it clearly, she could not help but feel contempt in her heart.

Along with it, there are also some secret joyful emotions.

In short, in her mind, she has decided that Mike is not as good as herself.

Knowing that someone is at the bottom always makes people feel more at ease unconsciously.

This situation is equivalent to the fact that the more disadvantaged a person is in a certain aspect, the more he cares about it.

Of course, while this kind of chain of contempt makes people careless, it also makes people's self-confidence soar.

It would be a good thing for Caroline if she could grasp this state.

On the other side, Carter, who was looking for the shortcomings of the Melford Mathematical Olympiad team, had already focused on Katie, the female team member.

However, Mike's first round of answering questions gave the captain of the Mariemont Mathematical Olympiad team a big "surprise."

After confirming Mike's information, he turned his attention to the other party.

Obviously, Carter is probably already thinking about his team's opponents in the subsequent "Sudden Death Match".

In the next few rounds of questions and answers, Mike did not disappoint him.

As the difficulty of the questions deepened, it took Mike longer and longer to arrive at the correct answer, and the look on his face became more solemn.

Finally, Mike was "stumped" by a logical question about "cows eating grass".

The same pasture full of green grass can now feed 10 cows for 20 days, or 15 cows for 10 days. If it feeds 25 cows, how many days can it feed?
There are two main types of "cow eating grass" problems: 1. Find time. 2. Find the number of heads.

And this question is asking for time.As the time for answering the questions passed, Mike, holding the automatic pen in his hand, had a look of confusion on his face.

With the preparation of previous rounds of answering questions, his current performance can easily make people think that he has no way to start with this question.

The teammates who were also in the question-answering area, except for Captain Kevin who was thoughtful, Katie and the others couldn't help but wipe their sweat for Mike at this moment.

Of course, seeing Mike's poor performance, the most excited person was Teacher Sharon, who invited him to the Mathematical Olympiad team.

"Don't be nervous...relax, this question is not difficult..." Teacher Sharon clenched her fists and sat in the audience, whispering to encourage Mike.

She now has some doubts as to whether Mike's previous superb performance in the Mathematical Olympiad was really real.

But in the end, Teacher Sharon was more willing to believe that Mike's performance was just because he was too nervous.

Compared to the nervous teacher Sharon, little Sheldon sitting next to him acted very calmly from the beginning.

Although he didn't know what Mike's intention was, he always believed that this match would not be difficult for the opponent at all.

After all, little Sheldon can figure out the answer to this relatively difficult "cow eating grass" question in just one second.

By the same token, it shouldn’t take Mike more than a second to answer this question.

As for Marymount College, after Carter saw Mike's confused expression, he was already thinking about whether he had made a mistake in treating Melford High School as his opponent.

Based on Mike's current performance, the Melford High School Mathematical Olympiad team will probably not make it to the finals.

……

But no matter what everyone thought, Mike in the Melford answering area on the stage still waited until 20 seconds passed before he started calculating the answer to the question with a look of surprise on his face.

In the end, for such a moderately difficult Mathematical Olympiad question, Mike reported the correct answer when the 30-second answer time was almost over.

At the same time, many people who were paying attention to the answer situation felt like they were on a roller coaster, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Mike's behavior of barely passing the test also built some confidence for the players of the opponent Petersburg High School.

But before they could be happy for long, the 11th-grade members of the Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad team were also stumped by a medium-difficulty "Drawer Principle" question.

This classmate’s reaction was almost exactly the same as Mike’s before.Unfortunately, until the end of the answering time, this person could not come up with an answer.

Therefore, Peterborough High School also lost the opportunity to enter the second round due to a mistake in a question.

"Congratulations to Melford High School for qualifying for the semi-finals~"

At the end of the second game, the old professor in charge announced the result.

After that, after two more games, four teams, including Marymount College and Melford High School, locked in their qualifications for the afternoon semifinals.

"Mike, what was your situation before and why did you do that?" During the lunch break, in the canteen of the event organizer, Teacher Sharon, who couldn't care less about eating, asked her doubts.

After a period of calming down, she seemed to get some other meanings from Mike's abnormal behavior.

But what exactly it is remains to be determined.

"Yeah, Mike, that wasn't your real level at all..." Katie didn't believe that Mike would be stumped by a Mathematical Olympiad question.

After seeing the probing expressions of several people, Mike glanced at Captain Kevin who made the suggestion and said, "It's better that you explain it to them."

"No problem." Captain Kevin, who has an out-of-the-box personality, took over the task of explaining the plan to everyone.

To be honest, although he was the first to suggest the idea of ​​pretending to be a cute newbie, he was still surprised that Mike could play the cute newbie so perfectly.

If he hadn't known about it earlier, he would probably have been confused by Mike's superb performance.

Next, when he explained to everyone the reason why Mike performed so poorly in previous games, Katie and others immediately showed expressions of realization.

This is the right situation.

It can be said that although Mike did not spend much time in the Mathematical Olympiad team, his super high level of Mathematical Olympiad still made him the "backbone" of the team.

"The difficulty of the competition in the afternoon will be much higher. I hope you'd better focus on answering the questions..." Although Teacher Sharon doesn't agree with the eccentric approach in the Mathematical Olympiad competition.

However, she didn’t say much about what Mike and Kevin did. Instead, she took advantage of the lunch break to share a lot of experiences from the Mathematical Olympiad competition with the team members.

(End of this chapter)