The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Statistics on the 2017 Competition

Score-Rank Correspondence

Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
90	1	70	21	55	66.5	41	184	27	484	13	933
89	2	69	22.5	54	68.5	40	207	26	497.5	12	1005
88	3	68	24	53	72.5	39	233.5	25	505.5	11	1115.5
87	4	67	25	52	81	38	255	24	517	10	1274.5
85	5	66	26	51	93.5	37	270	23	538.5	9	1448
82	6	64	28	50	107.5	36	276	22	575	8	1565.5
81	7	63	30	49	122	35	281	21	621.5	6	1614
80	8	62	31.5	48	134	34	289.5	20	693.5	5	1620.5
79	10.5	61	34	47	142.5	33	302.5	19	771	4	1643
78	13.5	60	39	46	149.5	32	326	18	823	3	1693.5
75	15	59	45	45	154	31	358.5	17	856	2	1836.5
73	16	58	51	44	158	30	397	16	872.5	1	2146
72	17	57	59	43	162.5	29	439	15	885.5	0	3493
71	19	56	64.5	42	171	28	467	14	903.5

Frequency Distribution of Problem Scores of the Top 502 Contestants

Score	A1	A2	A3	A4	A5	A6	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	Total
10	352	230	111	87	10	2	267	233	225	9	32	3	1561
9	39	9	21	1	0	0	116	62	9	4	17	1	279
8	34	6	12	40	4	3	54	32	4	4	5	2	200
7	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	18	12	45	24	0	7	37	84	41	1	13	2	284
1	6	5	22	0	1	4	13	21	8	3	38	2	123
0	50	159	72	152	163	40	3	49	75	132	72	94	1061
NA	3	81	219	198	322	446	11	21	140	349	325	398	2513

Transcribed to HTML by Kiran S. Kedlaya (kedlaya[at]ucsd[dot]edu).