1999_HiMCM_Outstanding_Papers

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HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICAL CONTEST IN MODELING

OUTSTANDING PAPERS

Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation.

NSF Project Award Number ESI-9708171

ly as possible. Consider a 2 mile stretch of a major thoroughfare withcross streets every city block. Build a mathematical model that satisfiesboth the commuters on the thoroughfare as well as those on the crossstreets trying to enter the thoroughfare as a function of the traffic lights.Assume there is a light at every intersection along your 2 mile stretch.First, you may assume the city blocks are of constant length. You maythen wish to generalize to blocks of variable length.

helpful to team members and advisors. Because ofspace considerations, the four outstanding papersthat appear here have been edited to remove

redundancies and shorten wording as much as pos-sible. In particular, since summaries tend to repeatanalyses found elsewhere in the papers, we haveincluded only one to serve as an example.