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Mike, Jimmy, Nader, Kevin, and Larry were the top five finishers in the Regional 500-Mile Car Race. They drove yellow, orange, green, red, and blue race cars, but not necessarily in that order. Neither Kevin nor Larry drove the green car. Kevin finished faster than Mike and Larry. The blue car finished earlier than Larry's car and Nader's car. The yellow car finished faster than the green car and the orange car. Mike's car and Larry's car finished better than the orange car. Jimmy's car finished earlier than the blue car and the yellow car. Based on the information above, fill in the table below to indicate who drive which car, and which place they finished:
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Bits and Beyond...
FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM Fermat's Last Theorem is one of the famous problems of Mathematics.
This problem was formulated by Pierre de Fermat before his death. He
was a lawyer by profession, who enjoyed spending his leisure time studying
mathematics. This problem when restated is: If n is a whole number greater than 2, then there are no whole numbers
a, b, c such that an + bn = cn. For over 350 years, the proof or disproof of this conjecture occupied the minds of
mathematicians. In fact, several
more important or useful theories were derived in the effort to prove this
theorem. It was in the recent years that Andrew Wiles, a
mathematician from Princeton, proved this theory in a work consisting of
more than 200 pages.
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