2019 CCA Math Bonanza Results

All problems are available on the Art of Problem Solving website at https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c821645_2019_cca_math_bonanza.

The top 10 individuals (as announced at the competition) were (with ties broken by the Tiebreaker Round):

Place Team Name Score
1 Pacific Trails Derek Liu 12
2 Apologies, San Diego Andrew Gu 11
3 Torrey Pines 2 Jeff Ren 11
4 Apologies, San Diego Michael Diao 11
5 Bishop’s Evan Ren 10
6 Del Norte Justin Li 10
7 Torrey Pines 2 Lucas Liu 10
8 Individuals 2 Christine Yang 10
9 Torrey Pines 2 Torrey Duan 9
10 Bishop’s Tobey Shim 9

Honorable mentions: Andrew Pu of Del Norte, Benjamin Hong of Individuals 2, Jerry Huang of Torrey Pines 1, Steven Zhang of Westview, and Sumith Nalabolu of Torrey Pines 1 (9).

The top 5 teams were

Place Team Total Indv Total (out of 60) Team Round (50) Lightning Round (40)
1 Apologies, San Diego 114.40 37 45 32.40
2 Torrey Pines 1 92.54 33 30 29.54
3 Torrey Pines 2 89.45 36 35 18.45
4 Bishop’s 72.49 31 25 16.49
5 Pacific Trails 71.06 20 30 21.06

The top Coordination score was 1.53 by Eastlake 1. They submitted 40 when the IQR value (D value) was 36.5.

The best middle school team was Pacific Trails.

The most improved team was Del Norte.

The best new team was Calcaholics (San Dieguito Academy).

The score distribution for the Individual Round was:

Score Frequency
15 0
14 0
13 0
12 1
11 3
10 4
9 7
8 6
7 6
6 5
5 10
4 4
3 12
2 10
1 8
0 4

The average score on the Individual Round was a 4.975. The median was a 5.

In histogram form:

IndividualRoundStats

Problem difficulty for the Individual Round was as follows:

Problem Number Solved
Solve Percentage
1 60 75.00%
2 50 62.50%
3 47 58.75%
4 31 38.75%
5 41 51.25%
6 55 68.75%
7 24 30.00%
8 27 33.75%
9 31 38.75%
10 10 12.50%
11 15 18.75%
12 1 1.25%
13 5 6.25%
14 1 1.25%
15 0 0.00%

Score distribution for the Team Round was:

Score Frequency
10 0
9 1
8 0
7 1
6 3
5 1
4 4
3 5
2 3
1 2
0 1

The average score on the Team Round was a 3.71. The median was a 3.

TeamRoundStats

Problem difficulty on the Team Round was as follows:

Problem Number Solved
Solve Percentage
1 18 85.71%
2 16 76.19%
3 4 19.05%
4 9 42.86%
5 12 57.14%
6 6 28.57%
7 5 23.81%
8 7 33.33%
9 1 4.76%
10 0 0.00%