1

1. Tami had 1800 baseball cards. She sold 2 of them and then 1. ______________
4
gave away 5 of her remaining ones. How many cards does
Tami have left?

2. During the 20th century, eighteen different men held the office 2. ______________
of President of the United States. Eleven of them were
members of the Republican Party. What percent of the
eighteen presidents was Republican? Round your answer to
the nearest whole number.

3. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 10,200 athletes 3. ______________

participated in 28 different sports over a period of 16 days.
What was the average number of athletes per sport? Round
your answer to the nearest whole number.

4. A tree doubled its height every year until 4. ______________

it reached a height of 32 feet at the end of
6 years. What was the height of the tree,
in feet, at the end of 3 years?

5. The formula d = 16t2 is used to calculate the distance, d, in 5. ______________

feet, a free falling object, starting from rest, will travel in
t seconds. How many seconds will it take for a ball, starting
from rest, to free fall from a height of 64 feet to the ground?

6. What is the sum of the reciprocals of the natural-number 6. ______________

factors of 6?

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7. What coordinate on the number line is equidistant from the 7. ______________
coordinates -5.65 and 8.75? Express your answer as a decimal
to the nearest hundredth.

8. What is the largest integer whose cube is less than 10,000? 8. ______________

9. Enrollment information for a high school computer class is 9. ______________

provided. What is the median age of the students in the class?

Age Number
(in years) of Students
14 5
15 9
16 6
17 3
18 1

10. Chelsea has made 6 of 17 free throw attempts. How many 10. ______________
consecutive free throws must she make to raise her
percentage of free throws made to exactly 50%?

11. Define a # b = ab − a + b −8 for all real numbers a and b. 11. ______________

x # 3 = 37. What is the value of x?

12. The sum of a negative integer, N, and its square is 6. What is 12. ______________
the value of N?

13. What is the sum of the prime numbers between 30 and 50? 13. ______________

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14. A circular spinner to be used in a game is divided by radii into 14. ______________
5 wedge-shaped pieces such that 4 pieces have equal area and
the area of the remaining piece is twice the area of any one of
the other pieces. How many degrees are in the central angle of
the largest piece?

15. What is the probability that a randomly selected positive 15. ______________
integer less than or equal to 100 is divisible by 7? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

16. Fifty people arrange themselves in three rows, such that the 16. ______________
first and third rows have the same number of people, while the
middle row has 2 more people than each of the other rows.
How many people are in the first row?

17. The number of inches in both the length and the width of a 17. ______________
rectangle are prime numbers. The area of the rectangle is
391 square inches. What is the number of inches in the
perimeter of the rectangle?

18. What is the ratio of x to y given that 4(5x + 3y) = 3(x + 7y) ? 18. ______________
Express your answer as a common fraction.

19. Cheldelin Middle School has 12 doors to enter or leave the 19. ______________
building. In how many ways is it possible to enter the building
by one door and leave the building by a different door?

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20. A jar contains 10 red, 7 blue and 5 yellow marbles. Blue 20. ______________
marbles are then added in order to change the probability of
randomly selecting a blue marble from the jar to “greater
than 21 .” What is the least number of blue marbles that must
be added?

21. How many positive perfect squares less than 300 are multiples 21. ______________
of 9?

22. What is the least common multiple of the numbers 1332 and 22. ______________
888?

23. What is the probability that the square root of a randomly 23. ______________
selected two-digit whole number is less than eight? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

24. Mathman rides 53 of a mile in 1 21 minutes on his bicycle. What 24. ______________
is his average speed in miles per hour?

25. During the month of June, Jonathan ran 2 miles on each 25. ______________
Tuesday and Thursday, and 7 miles on each Saturday and
Sunday. He did not run on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.
June 1 was on a Friday. How many miles did Jonathan run in
June?

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26. Before taking his last test in a class, the arithmetic mean of 26. ______________
Brian’s test scores is 91. He has determined that if
he scores 98 on his last test, the arithmetic mean
of all his test scores will be exactly 92. How
many tests, including the last test, does Brian
take for this class?

27. A 24-foot by 72-foot rectangular dance floor is completely 27. ______________

tiled with 1-foot by 1-foot square tiles. Two opposite corners
of the dance floor are connected by a diagonal. This diagonal
passes through the interior of exactly how many tiles?

28. The length of the year on the planet Mars is 28. ______________
exactly 697 days. If Mars has a calendar with a
12-day week, and year 0 begins on the first day of
the week, what is the next year which will begin
on the first day of the week?

29. The addition problem below has a unique solution. Each of the 29. ______________
letters A, B and C represents a different nonzero digit. What is
the product of A, B and C?
AB B
+ BBA
CAB C

30. Solve for x: 33 ⋅ 9 3 ⋅ 27 3 ⋅ 813 = 9 x . 30. ______________

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MATHCOUNTS Ò

2004
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

Name

School

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

This round of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will

have 40 minutes to complete the problems. You are not
allowed to use calculators, books or any other aids during this
round. If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give
it to your proctor now. Calculations may be done on scratch
paper. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to
lowest terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the
right-hand column of the competition booklet. If you complete
the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to
check your answers.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

CNA Foundation The Dow Chemical Company Foundation
National Society of Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lockheed Martin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEC Foundation of America
Texas Instruments Incorporated
3M Foundation

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1. There are three 7th-grade math classes, each with 24 students. 1. ________________
No student is taking more than one math class. How many
students are in 7th-grade math classes altogether?

2. A particular triangle has sides of length 14 cm, 8 cm and 9 cm. 2. ________________

In centimeters, what is the perimeter of the triangle?

3. The sum of the squares of two positive integers is 73. What is 3. ________________
the sum of the two positive integers?

4. Kaleb defined a clever integer as an even integer that is greater 4. ________________

than 20, less than 120, and such that the sum of its digits is 9.
What fraction of all clever integers is divisible by 27? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

5. Based on this graph, what percent of 5. ________________

viewers watched one hour or more of
television?

1 1 1
6. Solve for x: − = . 6. ________________
2 3 x

7. The points (x, y) represented in this table lie on a straight line. 7. ________________
The point (28, t) lies on the same line. What is the value of t ?
x y
1 7
3 13
5 19

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8. Place a digit 0 through 9 in each blank so the equation below is 8. ________________
true. What is the sum of the six digits you placed in the blanks?

( _6_ ,3_1 ) - ( 76,_35 ) = ( _9,28_ )

9. A pizza costing $17.60 is cut into 16 equal pieces. Brad eats six 9. ________________
pieces. In dollars, how much was the portion of the pizza that
Brad ate? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest
hundredth.

10. This net is folded into a cube. When the cube is 10. ________________
rolled, the lateral product is the product of the
numbers on the four lateral faces. The numbers
on the top and bottom faces are not included in
the product. What is the greatest possible lateral
product for this cube?

11. Rick has a cup containing at least one penny, at least one nickel 11. ________________
and at least one dime. The total value of the coins in the cup is
$1.25. What is the sum of the largest possible number of nickels
in the cup and the smallest possible number of nickels in the
cup?

12. On Friday, a snowboard originally priced at $100 was 12. ________________

discounted 50%. On Monday, that sale price was reduced by
30%. In dollars, what is the price of the snowboard after the
Monday reduction?

13. The sum of two numbers x and y is 153, and the value of the 13. ________________
x
fraction is 0.7. What is the value of y - x?
y

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14. Given the set {3, 6, 12}, how many unique values can be 14. ________________
created by forming fractions xy such that x and y are distinct
members of the given set?

15. There are eight furlongs in a mile. There are two weeks in a 15. ________________
fortnight. The British cavalry traveled 2800 furlongs in a
fortnight. How many miles per day did the cavalry average?

16. The number 121 is a palindrome, because it reads the same 16. ________________
backwards as forward. How many integer palindromes are
between 100 and 500?

17. How many diagonals does a regular seven-sided polygon 17. ________________
contain?

18. A detective is standing at a corner 18. ________________

D. A witness tells the detective,
“The shortest distance from you to
the suspect is exactly four blocks.”
How many different intersection
points on this map are exactly four
blocks from D, when traveling the
shortest path along the segments of
the grid?

3 83 8
19. Define a ∆ b = a 2 − b. What is the value of 2 4 ∆13 ∆ 33∆5 ? 19. ________________

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20. Five consecutive terms of the Warloe sequence are given below. 20. ________________
In the Warloe sequence, each term after the third term is the sum
of the previous three terms. The 8th term has been identified.
What is the sum of the 1st term and the 13th term in the Warloe
sequence? 8 term
th

... , 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, ...

21. If −2a + 1 < 13 , what is the sum of the distinct possible integer- 21. ________________
values of a?

22. Ilian will randomly choose a value for p from the integers 0 22. ________________
p
through 13, inclusive, and will make 13 the coordinate of
point A. The coordinate of point B is 23 . Points A and B will be
on the same number line. What is the probability that point A
and point B will be less than 15 of a unit from each other?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. This graph depicts Speed versus 23. ________________

Time for a car trip. Which
scenario below, (A, B, C
or D), best describes this graph?

A. A car was going up a hill, then along a level street, and then
down the hill.
B. A car was going forward, then stopped, and then drove
backwards.
C. A car was speeding up, then advanced at a constant speed,
and then decreased in speed.
D. A car was heading northeast, then went east, and then went
southeast.

24. How many terms of the arithmetic sequence 88, 85, 82, ... 24. ________________
appear before the number -17 appears?

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25. The product of the digits of 3214 is 24. How many distinct 25. ________________
four-digit positive integers are such that the product of their
digits equals 12?

26. Starting at the M in the center, you may 26. ________________

move left, right, up or down to an adjoining
letter. How many distinct paths can be
followed to spell the word MATH?

27. A regular pentagon and a regular hexagon 27. ________________

are coplanar and share a common side
AD , as shown. What is the degree
measure of angle BAC?

28. The coordinates of the vertices of a parallelogram are (10, 1), 28. ________________
(7, -2), (4, 1) and (x, y). What is the sum of the distinct
possible values for x ?

29. Camy made a list of every possible distinct five-digit positive 29. ________________
even integer that can be formed using each of the digits 1, 3, 4,
5 and 9 exactly once in each integer. What is the sum of the
integers on Camy’s list?

30. A particular right square-based pyramid has a volume of 30. ________________

63,960 cubic meters and a height of 30 meters. What
is the number of meters in the length of the lateral
height ( AB ) of the pyramid? Express your answer
to the nearest whole number.

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Forms of Answers
The following list explains acceptable forms for answers. Coaches should ensure that Mathletes® are familiar with
these rules prior to participating at any level of competition. Judges will score competition answers in compliance
with these rules for forms of answers.

All answers must be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the
form , where a and b are natural numbers, and GCF(a,b) = 1. In some cases the term “common fraction” is to
be considered a fraction in the form , where A and B are algebraic expressions, and A and B do not share a
common factor. A simplified “mixed number” (“mixed numeral,” “mixed fraction”) is to be considered a fraction in
the form N , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a,b) = 1.
Examples:
Problem: Express 8 divided by 12 as a common fraction. Answer: 23 Unacceptable: 46 , 12
8

Problem: Express 12 divided by 8 as a common fraction. Answer: 23 Unacceptable: 46 , 12

8
Problem: Express the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with a diameter
of as a common fraction in terms of p. Answer:
Problem: Express 20 divided by 12 as a mixed number. Answer: 1 Unacceptable: 1 ,

Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions, unless otherwise specified. Examples:
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: , , Unacceptable: 3 , , 3.5, 2:1

Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy the following conditions: 1) no radicands have
perfect square factors other than one; 2) no radicands contain fractions; and 3) no radicals appear in the
denominator of a fraction. Numbers with fractional exponents are not in radical form. Examples:
Problem: Evaluate × . Answer: 5 Unacceptable:

Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified monetary
unit (e.g. “How many dollars...,” “What is the amount of interest...”) should be expressed in the form
($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits. The only exceptions to this rule are when a is zero, in
which case it may be omitted, or when b and c are both zero, in which case they may both be omitted. Examples:
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0

Units of measurement are not required in answers, but must be correct if given. When a problem asks for
an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure, equivalent answers expressed in other units are not acceptable.
For example, if a problem asks for the number of ounces and 36 oz is the correct answer, 2 lbs 4 oz will not be
accepted. Similarly, if a problem asks for the number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be
accepted.

Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., p, , ) in the data given or in solutions, unless the problem
says to do so.

Do not do any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator performs) when calculating
solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the calculation process.

Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10 and n is an integer.
For example:
Problem: Write 6895 in scientific notation. Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: Write 40,000 in scientific notation. Answer: 4 × 104 or 4.0 × 104

An answer expressed to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy than called for in the problem will not
be accepted. Whole number answers should be expressed in their whole number form.
Thus, 25.0 will not be accepted for 25, nor vice versa.
2005
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

Name

School

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
This round of the competition consists of 30 problems.
You will have 40 minutes to complete the problems. You
are not allowed to use calculators, books or any other aids
during this round. If you are wearing a calculator wrist
watch, please give it to your proctor now. Calculations
may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be
complete, legible and simplified to lowest terms. Record
only final answers in the blanks in the right-hand column
of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems
before time is called, use the remaining time to check your
answers.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

CNA Foundation ADC Foundation
National Society of Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lockheed Martin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Texas Instruments Incorporated
3M Foundation

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1. The chart below gives the air distance in miles between selected 1. _________________
miles
world cities. What is the distance from Honolulu to Cape
Town?

Bangkok Cape Town Honolulu London

Bangkok 6300 6609 5944
Cape Town 6300 11,535 5989
Honolulu 6609 11,535 7240
London 5944 5989 7240

Primary Barrier
2. The pie chart shown represents a to Internet Access 2. _________________
%
survey of Canadians who do not use Canadian Non-Users
the Internet. What is the percent of
Canadian non-users for whom cost is
not the primary barrier?

3. It is now 12:00:00 midnight, as read on a12-hour digital clock. 3. _________________

In 122 hours, 39 minutes and 44 seconds the time will be A:B:C.
What is the value of A + B + C?

4. Shooting hoops for 30 minutes burns 150 calories. How many 4. _________________
calories
calories would Kendra burn shooting hoops if she shot hoops
30 minutes every day for one week?

5. Olga purchases a rectangular mirror 5. _________________

sq cm
(the shaded region) that fits exactly
inside a frame. The outer perimeter of
the frame measures 60 cm by 80 cm.
The width of each side of the frame
is 10 cm. What is the area of the
mirror?

6. The product of two positive whole numbers is 2005. If neither 6. _________________

number is 1, what is the sum of the two numbers?

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7. Three friends each ordered a large cheese pizza. Shauntee ate 23 7. _________________
of her pizza, Carlos ate 89 of his pizza and Rocco ate 27
26
of his
pizza. If the remaining portions from the three pizzas are put
together, what fraction of a large pizza do they make? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

8. It takes 24 minutes for Jana to walk one 8. _________________

miles
mile. At that rate, how far will she walk in 10
minutes? Express your answer as a decimal to
the nearest tenth.

9. Roslyn has ten boxes. Five of the boxes contain pencils, four of 9. _________________
boxes
the boxes contain pens, and two of the boxes contain both pens
and pencils. How many boxes contain neither pens nor pencils?

10. How many combinations of pennies, nickels and/or dimes are 10. _________________
combinations
there with a total value of 25¢?

11. What is the value of the following expression: 11. _________________

1 − 3 + 5 − 7 + 9 − ….. − 43 + 45 − 47 + 49 ?

12. A rectangular tile measures 3 inches by 4 inches. What is the 12. _________________
tiles
fewest number of these tiles that are needed to completely cover
a rectangular region that is 2 feet by 5 feet?

13. When plotted in the standard rectangular coordinate system, 13. _________________
square units
trapezoid ABCD has vertices A(1, −2), B(1, 1), C(5, 7) and
D(5, 1). What is the area of trapezoid ABCD?

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14. Trey receives a 5% commission on every sale he makes. On the 14. _________________
cents
sale of a $60 coat (before any discounts), how many more cents
will he receive if his commission is based on the original price of
the coat rather than the price of the coat after a 20% discount?

15. Five distinct points A, B, C, D and E lie on a line, but not 15. _________________
units
necessarily in that order. Use the information below to determine
the number of units in the length of segment DC.
• E is the midpoint of segment AB.
• D is the midpoint of segment AE.
• Both C and E are the same distance from B.
• The distance from D to B is 9 units.

16. In the 19th century, Britain used a money system which included 16. _________________
farthings
pence, farthings, shillings and pounds. The following conversions
were used:
4 farthings = 1 pence
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound
How many total farthings were equivalent to 1 pound and 5 pence?

17. What is the sum of all the distinct positive two-digit factors of 144? 17. _________________

18. The points B(1, 1), I(2, 4) and G(5, 1) are plotted in the standard ( , )
18. _________________
rectangular coordinate system to form triangle BIG. Triangle BIG
is translated five units to the left and two units upward to triangle
B’I’G’, in such a way that B’ is the image of B, I’ is the image of I,
and G’ is the image of G. What is the midpoint of segment B’G’?
Express your answer as an ordered pair.

19. The positive difference of the cube of an integer and the square of 19. _________________
the same integer is 100. What is the integer?

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20. A rectangular sheet of paper is folded twice and then cut, as 20. _________________
shown below. All fold lines are dashed, and the portion that is to
be cut away is shaded.

Which of the following drawings (A, B, C, D, E or F) shows

what the paper looks like when it is unfolded after the cuts?

21. Henry took five tests, and his average score was 57 points. He 21. _________________
points
scored at least 50 points on each test. There were 100 points
possible on each test. What is the highest score that Henry could
have earned on any of the five tests?

22. How many ordered pairs (x, y) satisfy BOTH conditions below? 22. _________________
ordered pairs
Condition I: x = 1 or y = 0 or y = 2
Condition II: x = 0 or x = 2 or y = 1

23. Zan has created this rule for generating sequences of whole 23. _________________
numbers.
If a number is 25 or less, double the number.
If a number is more than 25, subtract 12 from it.
For example, if Zan starts with 10, she gets the sequence 10, 20,
40, 28, 16, … . If the third number in Zan’s sequence is 36, what
is the sum of the four distinct numbers that could have been the
first number in her sequence?

24. Reverse the two digits of my age, divide by three, add 20, and 24. _________________
years
the result is my age. How many years old am I?

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25. The sequence of integers in 25. _________________
the row of squares and in each
of the two columns of squares
form three distinct arithmetic
sequences. What is the value
of N?

26. To be able to walk to the center C of a circular fountain, a repair 26. _________________
square feet
crew places a 16-foot plank from A to B and then a 10-foot plank
from D to C, where D is the
midpoint of AB . What is the
area of the circular base of the
fountain? Express your answer
in terms of π.

27. The function f is defined by f (n) = f (n − 1) + f (n − 2). It is also 27. _________________

true that f (1) = 3 and f (3) = 10. What is the value of f (6)?

a 3 b 8 c 2 ad
28. If = , = and = , what is the value of 2 ? Express 28. _________________
b 4 c 9 d 3 b
your answer as a common fraction.

29. A play has two male roles, two female roles and two roles that can ways
29. _________________
be either gender. Only a man can be assigned to a male role, and
only a woman can be assigned to a female role. If five men and six
women audition, in how many ways can the six roles be assigned?

30. What is the arithmetic mean of all of the positive two-digit integers 30. _________________
with the property that the integer is equal to the sum of its first digit
plus its second digit plus the product of its two digits?

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MATHCOUNTS
®

2006
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

Name

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
This section of the competition consists of 30 problems.
You will have 40 minutes to complete all the problems.
You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other
aids during this round. Calculations may be done on
scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and
simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the
blanks in the right-hand column of the competition booklet.
If you complete the problems before time is called, use the
remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit

for the answer is included in the answer blank. The plural
form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears
to require the singular form of the unit. The unit provided
in the answer blank is the only form of the answer that will
be accepted.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

National Society of ADC Foundation Raytheon Company
Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation Shell Oil Company
National Council of Lockheed Martin Texas Instruments Incorporated
Teachers of Mathematics
National Aeronautics and 3M Foundation
CNA Foundation Space Administration Xerox Corporation
Northrop Grumman Foundation

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1. Two identical blue boxes together weigh B B R R R
1. ________________
ounces
the same as three identical red boxes
together. Each red box weighs 10 ounces.
How much does one blue box weigh?

2. Three black chips have been placed on the 1 2 3 2. ________________

game board shown. What is the number in
4 5 6 7
the square where a fourth chip should be
placed so that it shares neither a row nor a 8 9 10
column with any of the existing chips? 11 12 13

3. What is the greatest number of cubes, with edge length 3. ________________

cubes
1 inch, that can
be placed into a
rectangular box 3
measuring 3 inches by
3 inches by 9 inches? 1
3
9

4. What fraction is equal to six times one-seventh? Express your 4. ________________

answer as a common fraction.

5. Krista put 1 cent into her new bank on a Sunday morning. On 5. ________________
Monday she put 2 cents into her bank. On Tuesday she put
4 cents into her bank, and she continued to double the amount
of money she put into her bank each day for two weeks. On
what day of the week did the total amount of money in her
bank first exceed $2?

6. According to the table below, what is the median value of the $

6. ________________
59 salaries paid to this company’s employees?

# of Employees with Salary

Position Title
this Title for Position
President 1 $130,000
Vice-President 5 $90,000
Director 10 $75,000
Associate Director 6 $50,000
Administrative Specialist 37 $23,000

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7. Each side of square ABCD H G 7. ________________
sq cm
is doubled in length to form D C
square EFGH. The perimeter
of square EFGH is 40 cm. A B
What is the area of E F
square ABCD?

8. New York and Denver are in different time zones. When it is 8. ________________
a.m.
noon in New York, it is 10 a.m. in Denver. A train leaves New
York at 2 p.m. (New York time) and arrives in Denver 45 hours
later. What time is it in Denver when the train arrives?

9. A survey of 400 patients at a hospital classified the patients 9. ________________

percent
by gender and blood type, as shown in the table below. What
percent of the patients with type AB blood are male?

Type A Type B Type O Type AB TOTAL

Male 45 60 80 15 200
Female 55 40 100 5 200
TOTAL 100 100 180 20 400

10. One type of cat food recommends that a cat have a daily 10. ________________
pounds
serving of 13 ounce of dry cat food per pound of body weight.
If a cat is fed 3 23 ounces of dry food a day according to these
recommendations, how many pounds does the cat weigh?

11. Roger has exactly one of each of the first 22 states’ new U.S. 11. ________________
quarters. The quarters were released in the same order that the
states joined the union. The graph below shows the number of
states that joined the union in each decade. What fraction of
Roger’s 22 coins represents states that joined the union during
the decade 1780 through 1789? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

12
# of States that Joined

10
the Union

8
6
4
2

9 09 29 49 69 89 09 9
0- 178 0 -18 20-18 40-18 60-18 80-18 00-19 0-195
178 18 0 18 18 18 18 19 195
Decades

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12. In the sequence 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 27, ..., the first term is 0. 12. ________________
Subsequent terms are produced by alternately adding and
multiplying by each successive integer beginning with 1. For
instance, the second term is produced by adding +1 ×1 +2 ×2
1 to the first term; the third term is produced by
multiplying the second term by 1; the fourth term 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 27, ...
is produced by adding 2 to the third term; and so
on. What is the value of the first term that is greater than 125?

13. Carolyn, Julie and Roberta share $77 in a ratio of 4:2:1, 13. ________________
$
respectively. How much money did Carolyn receive?

14. To weigh things on a balance scale, one or more objects are 14. ________________
weights
placed on one pan and weights are placed onto the other pan
until the two pans are balanced. We see A is balanced by the
4 weights shown, and B is balanced by the 5 weights shown.
We have the following weights: 1, 1, 3, 3, 9, 9, 27 and 27.
What is the minimum number of these weights it would take to
balance the total weight of A plus B?
A

A
3 B 9 3
B
9 3 1 9 3 1 ?

15. If a = 2, b = 3 and c = 4, what is the numerical value of the 15. ________________

expression (b – c)2 + a (b + c) ?

16. The hexagon with the “R” is colored 16. ________________

ways
red. Each hexagon is colored either
red, yellow or green, such that no two
hexagons with a common side are R
colored the same color. In how many
different ways can the figure be colored?

17. If one quart of paint is exactly enough for two coats of paint quarts
17. ________________
on a 9-foot by 10-foot wall, how many quarts of paint are
needed to apply one coat of paint to a 10-foot by 12-foot wall?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

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18. Ten unit cubes are glued together as shown. 18. ________________
sq units
What is the surface area of the resulting solid?

19. The graph shows the total 160 19. ________________

miles per hour

Total Driving Distance

distance Sam drove from

Since 6 a.m. (miles)

6 a.m to 11 a.m. How many 120
miles per hour is the car’s
average speed for the period 80
from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.?
40

0
6 7 8 9 10 11
Time of Day (a.m.)

20. A stock loses 10% of its value on Monday. On Tuesday it loses 20. ________________
percent
20% of the value it had at the end of the day on Monday. What is
the overall percent loss in value from the beginning of Monday to
the end of Tuesday?

21. The numbers 1, 2 and 3 are written in these nine unit squares. 21. ________________
• Each of the numbers appears three times, and
there is only one number placed in each of the
nine unit squares.
• Each number is in a unit square horizontally
or vertically adjacent to a unit square with the same number.
• The sum of the numbers in the leftmost column and the sum
of the numbers in the top row are each 7.
What is the sum of the numbers in the four shaded squares?

22. Five balls are numbered 1 through 5 and placed in a bowl. Josh 22. ________________
will randomly choose a ball from the bowl, look at its number and
then put it back into the bowl. Then Josh will again randomly
choose a ball from the bowl and look at its number. What is the
probability that the product of the two numbers will be even and
greater than 10? Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. If a certain negative number is multiplied by six, the result is the 23. ________________
same as 20 less than the original number. What is the value of the
original number?

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24. If 2004 is split after the third digit into a three-digit integer 24. ________________
and a one-digit integer, then the two integers, 200 and 4, have
a common factor greater than one. The years 2005 and 2006
each have this same property, too. What is the first
odd-numbered year after 2006 that has this property?

25. Two consecutive even numbers are each squared. The 25. ________________
difference of the squares is 60. What is the sum of the original
two numbers?

20
15
26. What is the area of the pentagon shown here square units
26. ________________
with sides of length 15, 20, 27, 24 and 20 units? 27
20

24

27. At the beginning of my bike ride I feel good, so I can travel 27. ________________
hours
20 miles per hour. Later, I get tired and travel only 12 miles
per hour. If I travel a total of 122 miles in a total time of
8 hours, for how many hours did I feel good? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

28. When reading a book, Charlie made a list by writing down the pages
28. ________________
page number of the last page he finished reading at the end of
each day. (He always finished reading a page that he started.)
His mom thought his list indicated the amount of pages he
had read on each day. At the end of the 8th day of reading, she
added the numbers on his list and thought Charlie had read
432 pages. If Charlie started reading the book on page one,
and he read the same amount of pages each day of this eight-
day period, how many pages did he actually read by the end of
the 8th day?

29. Suppose that each distinct letter in the COU 29. ________________
equation MATH = COU + NTS is replaced + NT S
by a different digit chosen from 1 through 9 MA T H
in such a way that the resulting equation is
true. If H = 4, what is the value of the greater of C and N?

1
30. One gear turns 33 3 times in a minute. Another gear turns 30. ________________
seconds
45 times in a minute. Initially, a mark on each gear is pointing
due north. After how many seconds will the two gears next
have both their marks pointing due north?

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1. Triangle ABC is an obtuse, isosceles triangle. Angle A measures 1. ________________
degrees
20 degrees. What is the measure of the
largest interior angle of triangle ABC?

2. Quentin spent $480 to purchase 30 books. Using the same $

2. ________________
average price per book, how much will 45 books cost?

3. In Clara county, 25% of households earn less than $30,000 per percent
3. ________________
year, and 65% of households earn less than $80,000 per year.
What is the largest possible percent of households that could
earn between $30,000 and $80,000 per year?

4. For what value of x is the following equation true: 4. ________________

3000 + x - 2000 = 1500 + 1000?

5. How many cubic feet are in one cubic yard? One yard is equal cu feet
5. ________________
to three feet.

1 cu ft 1 cu yd

6. Forty-eight congruent parallelograms with sides of length feet

6. ________________
62 feet and 20 feet are placed in a chevron pattern forming
hexagon ABCDEF, as shown. What is the perimeter of hexagon
ABCDEF?
A B

F C

E D

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7. The mean of four distinct positive integers is 5. If the largest 7. ________________
integer is 13, what is the smallest integer?

8. Congruent segments are used to form equilateral triangles in segments

8. ________________
this sequence so that each figure contains one more triangle
than the preceding figure. Figure 3 of the sequence is made
with seven congruent segments. How many congruent
segments must be used to make Figure 25 of the sequence?

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

9. What is the sum of the odd integers from 11 through 39, 9. ________________
inclusive?

10. The average amount of money spent by a person who attended $

10. ________________
a local sporting event in 2000 was $8.00, of which 75% was
the ticket price. In 2005, the average amount of money spent
by a person who attended a local sporting event increased
by 50%, but the ticket price did not increase. By how many
dollars did the non-ticket costs of 2000 increase to become the
non-ticket costs of 2005?

11. The I-Pick-Up messenger service delivers packages using the $

11. ________________
following rate structure: $1 per ounce of the packages’ weight
plus $5 for each distinct drop-off site. Then a 4% service fee
per order is added to the subtotal of the weight and drop-off
site charges. Chen Li places the order below. How much
should I-Pick-Up charge for Chen Li’s order? (There are
16 ounces in one pound.)
1 four-ounce package to Imatrin
1 two-pound package to Imatrin
1 eight-pound package to Storyville

12. A line contains the points (-1, 6), (6, k) and (20, 3). What is 12. ________________
the value of k?

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13. A particular convex polygon with seven sides has exactly 13. ________________
diagonals
one right angle. How many diagonals does this seven-sided
polygon have?

14. The product of three consecutive odd integers is 1287. What is 14. ________________
the sum of the three integers?

15. In square ABCD, point M is the midpoint of side AB and point 15. ________________
N is the midpoint of side BC. What is the ratio of the area
of triangle AMN to the area of square ABCD? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

16. How many non-congruent triangles are there with sides of triangles
16. ________________
integer length having at least one side of length five units and
having no side longer than five units?

17. What is the value of the following expression: 17. ________________

1 1 1 1 1
? Express your
3 9 27 81 243
answer as a common fraction.

18. A customer ordered 15 pieces of gourmet chocolate. The order 18. ________________
combinations
can be packaged in small boxes that contain 1, 2 or 4 pieces
of chocolate. Any box that is used must be full. How many
different combinations of boxes can be used for the customer’s
15 chocolate pieces? One such combination to be included is
to use seven 2-piece boxes and one 1-piece box.

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19. The value of [x] is the greatest integer less than or equal to x. 19. ________________
What is the arithmetic mean of the 10 members of the set

[; P=, ; =, ;0=, ; =, ;0.689=, ¨ª

1
2
1
2
P
4 ·¹, ¨ª P3 ·¹, ;2=, ¨ª 5 ·¹ , ;P=]?

Express your answer as a common fraction.

20. The summary of a survey of 100 students listed the following 20. ________________
students
totals:
59 students did math homework
49 students did English homework
42 students did science homework
20 students did English and science homework
29 students did science and math homework
31 students did math and English homework
12 students did math, science and English homework
How many students did no math, no English and no science
homework?

21. Given that 6x + y = 15, the value of 3x can be written in terms of y 21. ________________
as ay + b for some numbers a and b. What is the simplified value
of a + b?

22. Suelyn counts up from 1 to 9, and then immediately counts down 22. ________________
again to 1, and then back up to 9, and so on, alternately counting
up and down (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,...). What is
the 1000th integer in her list?

23. The positive three-digit integer N yields a perfect square when 23. ________________
divided by 5. When N is divided by 4, the result is a perfect cube.
What is the value of N?

24. Grady rides his bike 60% faster than his little brother Noah. If miles per hour
24. ________________
Grady rides 12 miles further than Noah in two hours, how fast
does Noah ride?

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25. The length of a diagonal of a square is 2 3 units. What is 25. ________________
sq units
the area of the square? Express your answer in simplest
a a
form as c , where is a common fraction and c has no
b b
perfect square factors other than 1 .

26. Either increasing the radius or the height of a cylinder by six 26. ________________
inches
inches will result in the same volume. The original height of
the cylinder is two inches. What is the original radius?

27. Consider this pattern where 1 27. ________________

the positive, odd integers 3 5
are arranged in a triangular
formation. The 1st through 7 9 11
4th rows are shown; each row 13 15 17 19
has one more entry than the
previous row. What is the sum
of the integers in the 15th row?

28. Four couples are at a party. Four people of the eight are 28. ________________
randomly selected to win a prize. No person can win more
than one prize. What is the probability that both members
of at least one couple win a prize? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

29. The points of this 3-by-3 grid are equally spaced 29. ________________
sets
horizontally and vertically. How many different
sets of three points of this grid can be the three
vertices of an isosceles triangle?

30. In parallelogram ABCD, AB = 16 cm, DA = 3 2 cm, and centimeters

30. ________________
sides AB and DA form a 45-degree interior angle. In isosceles
trapezoid WXYZ with WX ≠ YZ, segment WX is the longer
parallel side and has length 16 cm, and two interior angles each
have a measure of 45 degrees. Trapezoid WXYZ has the same
area as parallelogram ABCD. What is the length of segment YZ?

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1. What is the average student headcount for the spring terms of the 1. ________________
students
‘02-‘03, ‘03-‘04 and ‘04-‘05 academic years? Express your answer
to the nearest whole number.

Total Student Headcount (2002-2003 to 2005-2006)

11,700 11,500 11,600 11,300

10,900 10,700
10,500 Fall Term

Spring Term

‘02-‘03 ‘03-‘04 ‘04-‘05 ‘05-‘06

Academic Year

2. Each of the five numbers 1, 5, 9, 13 and 17 is 2. ________________

placed in one of the five squares so that the sum of
the three numbers in the horizontal row equals the
sum of the three numbers in the vertical column.
What is the largest possible sum of the three
numbers in the horizontal row?

3. Angie decided to use her class as a sample to predict 3. ________________

students
the total number of students in her school wearing
red on Valentine’s Day. She counted 11 students
wearing red in her class of 24 students. Using this
ratio, how many of the 480 students in her school
will she estimate are wearing red?

4. Erik can set up and burn a single CD on his 4. ________________

minutes
computer in 3.5 minutes. At this rate, how long will
it take Erik to set up and burn 20 of this same CD?

$
5. ________________
5. At a local restaurant, appetizers range in price from $5.45 to
$12.75, entrees range in price from $10.50 to $22.50, and desserts
range in price from $6.25 to $10.50. Assuming a meal consists of
exactly one item from each of these three categories, what is the
least expensive meal possible?

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6. Tom’s mathematics test had 60 questions: 10 arithmetic questions, 6. ________________
questions
30 algebra questions and 20 geometry questions. Although he
correctly answered 70% of the arithmetic questions, 50% of the
algebra questions and 50% of the geometry questions, he did not pass
the test because he got fewer than 60% of the questions right. How
many more questions would he have needed to answer correctly to
earn a passing grade of 60%?

7. Use each of the digits 3, 4, 5 and 8 exactly once such 7. ________________

that each square contains one digit and the largest
possible product is made. What is the product?

8. The sum of three positive integers is 20. If the smaller two integers 8. ________________
differ by five, what is the smallest possible value of the largest
integer?

9. Sugar can be purchased in either 3-pound or 5-pound bags. 9. ________________

5-pound bags
A 3-pound bag of sugar costs $2.10 while a 5-pound bag
costs $3.39. When spending the least amount of money
possible to purchase exactly 34 pounds of sugar, how
many 5-pound bags of sugar will be purchased?

10. A triangle has three different integer side lengths and a perimeter of 10. ________________
units
20 units. What is the maximum length of any one side?

M 1 3
11. For how many integer values of M is strictly between and ? 11. ________________
values
30 3 5

12. Alex, Bing, Cara, Dan and Earl are people playing marbles. Alex 12. ________________
marbles
holds 15 marbles, Bing holds 2 marbles, Cara holds 3 marbles, Dan
holds 7 marbles, and Earl holds 8 marbles. What is the least possible
number of marbles that must change holders so
that each player will hold an equal number of
marbles?

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13. A pen and its ink refill together cost $1.10. The pen costs $1 more $
13. ________________
than the ink refill. What is the cost of the pen?

14. In quadrilateral ABCD, AB = 5, BC = 8 and CD = 20 units. 14. ________________

units
Angle B and angle C are both right angles. What is the length of
segment AD?

15. The length of the longer side of rectangle R is 10 percent more 15. ________________
than the length of a side of square S. The length of the shorter side
of rectangle R is 10 percent less than
the length of a side of square S. What
is the ratio of the area of rectangle R
to the area of square S? Express your
R S
answer as a common fraction.

16. On a standard clock, how many degrees does the 16. ________________
degrees
minute hand rotate during the time period from
4:12 pm to 4:48 pm of the same day?

17. A segment has endpoints P(1, 1) and Q(x, y). The coordinates of 17. ________________
the midpoint of segment PQ are positive integers with a product
of 36. What is the maximum possible value of x?

18. The point at (a, b) on a Cartesian plane is reflected over the y-axis 18. ________________
to the point at (j, k). If a + j = 0 and b + k = 0, what is the value
of b?

19. Two shaded identical rectangular W 19. ________________

inches
decorative tiles are first placed (one Y
each) at the top and at the base of a
door frame for a hobbit’s house, as
shown in Figure 1. The distance from
W to H is 45 inches. Then the same
two tiles are rearranged at the top
and at the base of the door frame, as
Z
shown in Figure 2. The distance from
Y to Z is 37 inches. What is the height H
Figure 1 Figure 2
of the door frame?
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20. The median of the set {n, n + 5, n + 6, n + 9, n + 15} is 9. What is 20. ________________
the mean?

21. Quadrilateral CDEF is a parallelogram. Its area is 36 square 21. ________________

sq units
units. Points G and H are the midpoints of sides CD and EF,
respectively. What is the area of triangle of CDJ?

D E

G H

I J
C F

22. A fair, twenty-faced die has 19 of its faces numbered from 1 22. ________________
through 19 and has one blank face. Another fair, twenty-faced die
has 19 of its faces numbered from 1 through 8 and 10 through 20
and has one blank face. When the two dice are rolled, what is the
probability that the sum of the two numbers facing up will be 24?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. Let P = (2 - 3 - 4 + 7)2347 and Q = (-2 + 3 + 4 - 7)2347. What is the 23. ________________
value of (2 + 3 + 4 + 7)(P + Q)?

24. For a particular circle, a central angle of 75° will intercept an arc 24. ________________
feet
of length 10� feet. What is the radius of this circle?

25. On a True/False test, Amy answered the first three questions 25. ________________
%
wrong but answered the rest of the questions correctly. On the
same test, Scott answered exactly two questions wrong. He
answered the last question wrong, the 26 questions before it
correctly, and the question before that wrong. If Amy and Scott
were both incorrect on the same question exactly once, what is
the greatest possible percent of the total number of questions that
Amy could have answered correctly?

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A B 26. ________________
sq units
26. Rectangle ABCD has an area of 320 square
units. Points X, Y and Z are midpoints of X Y
segments AD, BC and CD, respectively.
What is the total area of the shaded regions? D C
Z

27. ________________
27. A jar contains two red marbles, three green marbles, ten white
marbles and no other marbles. Two marbles are randomly
drawn from this jar without replacement. What is the
probability that these two marbles drawn will both be red?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

28. ________________
sq feet
28. A decorative arrangement of floor tiles forms
concentric circles, as shown in the figure to
the right. The smallest circle has a radius
of 2 feet, and each successive circle has a
radius 2 feet longer. All the lines shown
intersect at the center and form 12 congruent
central angles. What is the area of the shaded
region? Express your answer in terms of �.

29. ________________
points
29. At how many points do the graphs of the equations y = x and 3

y = x2 + 4x intersect?

30. ________________
30. If � = 3.1415926..., what is the exact value of
π − 3.14 + π − 227 ? Express your answer as a common fraction

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1. In the integer 45,075,123, the 2 represents the value 20. By what 1. ________________
factor would the value represented by the 5 in the thousands place
have to be multiplied to equal the value represented by the 5 in the
millions place?

2. Twenty-seven increased by twice a number is 39. What is the 2. ________________

number?

3. Using the bar graph,

what is the positive 3. ________________
students
difference between
number of students
at the school
with the largest
enrollment and the
number of students
at the school
with the smallest
enrollment?

4. June and Julia live 1 mile apart. It takes June 4 minutes to ride her 4. ________________
minutes
bike directly to Julia’s house. At the same rate, how long would
it take June to ride the 3.5 miles from her own house to Bernard’s
house?

5. Two complete cycles of a pattern are shown below. If the pattern 5. ________________
continues, what will be the 103rd letter?

AABBBCCCCCAABBBCCCCC...

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6. What is the length, in inches, of segment AB? Express your 6. ________________
inches
answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

A B

1 IN 2 3 4 5

1 1
7. What is the positive difference between the sum of 2 and 3 7. ________________
1
and the product of 12 and 3 ? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

8. If three identical cylinders weigh as much as five identical 8. ________________

cylinders
spheres, and three of these spheres weigh as much as twelve
identical cubes, then how many cylinders weigh as much as sixty
cubes?

9. Bill and Jill both exercise on Monday, 9. ________________

January 1. Bill exercises every 5th day and Jill
exercises every 4th day. What day of the week
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc.) is the next day
on which they both exercise?

10. Rayna writes each letter of her name—R, A, Y, N and A—on 10. ________________
a separate piece of 1-by-1 paper. She then puts the 5 pieces of
paper in a bag and randomly selects one of the 5 pieces. What is
the probability that she selects the piece with the R written on it?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

11. ________________
$
11. Amanda, Ben and Carlos share a sum of
money. Their portions are in the ratio of
1:2:7, respectively. If Amanda’s portion
is $20, what is the total amount of money
shared?

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x
12. If 9 < 52 and x is a positive integer, how many distinct values 12. ________________
values
are possible for x?

13. Louis earns a base monthly salary of $1200 $

13. ________________
with 5% commission on sales. For a month
with $25,000 in sales, what are Louis’ total
earnings?

14. Set L contains exactly four consecutive, positive, odd integers. 14. ________________
The sum of the greatest integer and twice the least integer is
39. What is the least integer in the set?

15. Janea has a square garden with an area of 1600 square feet. She 15. ________________
sq feet
plans to create a straight path from the middle of one side to
the middle of the opposite side. If the path is 3 feet wide, how
many square feet of garden will be turned into path?

~~ PATH ~~

16. For integers a, b and k, we know that a >12, b < 20 and a < b. 16. ________________
If b = 7k, what is the value of k?

a
17. A fraction, b , not necessarily in lowest terms is equivalent to 17. ________________
5 a
9 . When 5 is added to the denominator of b , the value of the
1
new fraction becomes equivalent to 2 . What is the sum of a
and b?

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18. How many positive whole-number divisors does 196 have? 18. ________________
divisors

19. Lines l and m are parallel and l B C 19. ________________

points A, B and D are collinear. 5x – 8°
What is the value of x? m D
143°

n +1
20. What is the only integer value of n for which 13− n is a 20. ________________
positive prime number?

21. A set of 7 positive integers has a unique mode of 1, a mean of 21. ________________
5 and a median of 6. What is the largest possible value for any
of the integers in the set?

22. Given that the diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular 22. ________________
units
bisectors of each other, what is the perimeter of a rhombus with
diagonals of lengths 12 and 16 units?

23. Chun is playing a game in which he can score 0, 2, 6 or 23. ________________

sequences
10 points in each round. After four rounds the sum of his
scores is 16. How many different scoring sequences could have
produced this sum? (One such sequence to include is 0, 6, 10,
0.)

24. Janice bought 30 items each priced at 30 cents, 2 dollars or 24. ________________
items
3 dollars. If her total purchase price was $30.00, how many
30-cent items did she purchase?

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25. If the ratio of 2x − y to x + y is 2 to 3, what is the ratio of x to 25. ________________
y? Express your answer as a common fraction.

26. The members of a band are arranged in a rectangular 26. ________________

members
formation. When they are arranged in 8 rows, there are
2 positions unoccupied in the formation. When they are
arranged in 9 rows, there are 3 positions unoccupied. How
many members are in the band if the membership is between
100 and 200?

27. Jerry is presently twice as old as his brother and six years older 27. ________________
years
than his sister. How many years from now will Jerry’s age be
2
3 of the combined ages of his brother and sister at that time?

28. In a sequence of positive integers each term after the first is 13 28. ________________
of the sum of the term that precedes it and the term that follows
it in the sequence. What is the 5th term of this sequence if the
1st term is 2 and the 4th term is 34?

29. In a 7-by-7 checkerboard, as shown, 29. ________________

two unit squares will be chosen at
random and without replacement. What
is the probability that the two squares
are adjacent to each other (share a side)?
Express your answer as a common
fraction.

30. A circle is centered at (5, 15) and has a 30. ________________

radius of 130 units. Point Q (x, y) is on the
circle, has integer coordinates, and the value
of the x-coordinate is twice the value of the
y-coordinate. What is the maximum possible
value for x?

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1. In this Number Wall, you add the 1. ________________
46
numbers next to each other and write
the sum in the block directly above the
two numbers. Which number will be in 15
the block labeled ‘n’? n 4 8 7

2. How many integers between 500 and 1000 contain both the integers
2. ________________
digits 3 and 4?

3. Giselle will combine blue paint, green paint and white paint in quarts
3. ________________
the ratio 3:2:4, respectively. If she uses 12 quarts of white paint,
how many quarts of green paint should she use?

4. If m  n = (m2 – n) ÷ n, for all real numbers m and n, where 4. ________________

n ≠ 0, what is the value of 6  3?

5. How many six-inch by six-inch square tiles are needed to cover tiles
5. ________________
a three-foot by two-foot rectangular section of floor?

A
6. In the circle with center O and 6. ________________
degrees
diameters AC and BD, the angle D
AOD measures 54 degrees. What O
B
is the measure, in degrees, of angle
AOB?
C

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7. A copy of the Sunday Times costs $0.95 more than a copy of the 7. ________________
$
Sunday News. Ms. Jones buys both papers for $7.25. How much
does the Sunday News cost?

8. For what value of m will the graphs of the y = 2x + 1 8. ________________

three lines y = 2x + 1, x = 3, and y = mx + 3
have a single point of intersection? Express
your answer as a common fraction.
x=3

9. The 20 leaves of a 40-page book are numbered 1 through 40. 9. ________________

The first and last leaves are ripped out. What is the sum of the
remaining page numbers?

10. John opened a new bag of jelly beans and ate three-fourths jelly beans
10. ________________
of the jelly beans in the bag. Then Mike ate two-thirds of the
remaining jelly beans. Finally, Fred ate the ten jelly beans that
were left. How many jelly beans were in the unopened bag of
jelly beans?

11. Joshua has taken four tests. His median score is 11. ________________
points
80 points and the difference between his greatest
score and his least score is 12 points. What is
the maximum possible value of the mean of his
scores?

G
12. Regular pentagon ABCDE and regular H F 12. ________________
degrees
hexagon AEFGHI are drawn on
opposite sides of line segment AE such E
I
that they are coplanar. What is the
degree measure of angle DEF? A D

B C

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13. The sum of two numbers is 20. If four times the larger number 13. ________________
exceeds three times the smaller number by 143, what is the
larger number?

14. The first and seventh terms of a sequence are each 10. Starting 14. ________________
with the third term, each term is the sum of the previous two
terms. What is the fifth term?

15. All of the possible positive four-digit integers are formed integers
15. ________________
that use only the digits 1, 3, 5 and 7 with repetition of
digits allowed. How many of these four-digit integers are
palindromes?

16. If it takes 96 people 6 days to pave 1 mile of road, how many 16. ________________
days
days will it take 64 people to pave 2 miles of road? (The
time required to pave a road
is directly proportional to the
length of the road and inversely
proportional to the number of
workers on the job.)

17. A grandfather clock chimes at the start of 17. ________________

seconds
each hour. Beginning precisely at six o’clock
the grandfather clock chimes 6 times with
the final chime beginning exactly 10 seconds
after six o’clock. If the chimes are uniformly
spaced, how long after 12 o’clock does the
twelfth chime begin?

18. A bag contains exactly six balls; two are red and four are 18. ________________
green. Sam randomly selects one of the six balls and puts it on
the table. Then he randomly selects one of the five remaining
balls. What is the probability that the two selected balls are of
different colors? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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19. What is the value of (1 − 12 ) + (2 − 12 ) + (3 − 12 ) + ... + (50 − 12 ) ? 19. ________________

20. How many subsets of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} have either 4 or 5 as 20. ________________

subsets
their largest element?

21. The average of A and 3B is 7, the average of A and 3C is 21. ________________

8, and the average of A and 3D is 9. What is the average
of A, B, C and D?

22. Ms. Quinn traveled at a constant speed for a distance of 22. ________________
50 miles on her trip to a campground. On a later trip, she
traveled at a constant speed for a distance of 400 miles to a ski
resort, driving three times as fast as she had on her earlier trip
to the campground. What is the ratio of the time it took for her
second trip to the time it took for her first trip? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

23. In rectangle ABCD, side AB measures E 23. ________________

sq units
6 units and side BC measures 3 units, as
shown. Points F and G are on side CD
with segment DF measuring 1 unit and D 1 2 C
segment GC measuring 2 units, and lines F G
AF and BG intersect at E. What is the 3
area of triangle AEB?
A 6 B

24. In a survey of 100 readers, all of whom liked fiction and/or people
24. ________________
non-fiction, three times as many people reported liking fiction
as those who reported liking non-fiction. Of those surveyed,
eight liked both fiction and non-fiction. How many people
reported liking non-fiction?

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25. An equilateral triangle has two 25. ________________
vertices at (0, 5) and (8, 5). If the
third vertex is in the first quadrant,
what is its y-coordinate? Express
(0, 5) (8, 5)
your answer in simplest radical
form.

26. What is the area enclosed by the graph of |x| + |y| = 10? 26. ________________
sq units

27. If f(x) = 5x – 3, g(x) = 3x2 + 1 and h(x) = f(x) + g(x), what is the 27. ________________
sum of the x-values for which h(x) = 0? Express your answer as
a common fraction.

28. Two real numbers have an average of 7. The average of their 28. ________________
squares is 54. What is the product of the two numbers?

29. In triangle ABC, AB = AC and D is a point on AC so that 29. ________________

degrees
BD bisects angle ABC. If BD = BC, what is the measure, in
degrees, of angle A?

30. Given m and n are positive integers such that for some positive 30. ________________
integer x, x + 43 = m and x + 16 = n, what is the value of the
product mn?

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scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and
simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the
blanks in the right-hand column of the competition booklet.
If you complete the problems before time is called, use the
remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit

for the answer is included in the answer blank. The plural
form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears
to require the singular form of the unit. The unit provided
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1. If a woodchuck could chuck 60 pounds of wood in 1.5 days, 1. ________________
pounds
how many pounds of wood could a woodchuck chuck in
6 days?

2. In degrees Fahrenheit, half the temperature of Papa’s oatmeal degrees

2. ________________
is equal to 20 degrees cooler than Baby’s oatmeal. If Papa’s
oatmeal is 180 degrees, what is the temperature of Baby’s
oatmeal?

3. Exactly one number is to be selected from 5 3. ________________

each of the four rows of this Number Wall. 4 -6
What is the largest possible product of any
such four numbers? 1 2 3
3 - 2 4 -5

4. Hannah’s number of runs scored in softball this season is 75% 4. ________________

runs
of April’s number of runs scored this season. If April scored
16 runs this season, how many runs did Hannah score?

5. A, B and C are circular regions as shown. A 5. ________________

items
There are 7 items in circle C. There are
exactly 20 items in A and 10 of those
items are not in B. How many items are in C B
B, but not in C?

6. A signature line on a certificate is 4 inches long. If Karla wants 6. ________________

inches
to leave a 34 -inch blank space at each end of her signature, how
long is the portion of the line on which she can sign her name?
Express your answer as a mixed number.

Karla Spaghetti
Karla Spaghetti, Chapter Coordinator

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7. Kwanisha defined the operation ⊗ as a ⊗ b = a2 + b + 1. Using 7. ________________
Kwanisha’s definition, what is the value of 6 ⊗ 5?

8. Malton has twice as many moons as Planar. The number of 8. ________________

moons
Nero’s moons is the cube of the number of Malton’s moons.
Ufda has 4 more moons than Jir. If you double the number of
Nero’s moons and add the number of Planar’s moons, then you
will get the number of Jir’s moons. If Planar has 1 moon, how
many moons does Ufda have?
P U
M J N

9. The sum of three consecutive prime numbers is 173. What is 9. ________________

the largest of these numbers?

10. If (3x)(9) = 81, what is the value of x? 10. ________________

11. If Kenton walks for 60 minutes at the rate of 3 mph 11. ________________
miles
and then runs for 15 minutes at the rate of 8 mph, how
many miles will he travel?

12. If x and y are each integers greater than 3 and less than 20, 12. ________________
what is the sum of the three possible values of x that satisfy the
x 3
equation = ?
y 4

13. The graph to the right shows

Number of Home Runs by Top Hitters in April 13. ________________
home
runs
the number of home runs in KEY:
Number of Top Hitters

- one (1) baseball player

April for the top hitters in
the league. What is the mean
(average) number of home runs
hit by these players?
6 7 8 9 10
Number of Home Runs

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14. If is expressed in decimal form, what digit is in the 92nd 14. ________________
33
place to the right of the decimal point?

15. In a particular game, a player can earn either 3 points or 15. ________________
turns
5 points on each turn. If Capri has earned a total of 18 points,
what is the fewest number of turns she could have taken?

16. A fonk originally was priced at $100 when fonks were first %
16. ________________
introduced. The price of a fonk then increased by 20% once it
became popular to own a fonk. Now that fonks are out
of style, their price has decreased by 30% from the price
when they were popular. This current price of a fonk is
what percent of the original price?

17. Growing Worms are created as 17. ________________

cm
shown here. Notice that each body
segment is a regular hexagon and
its head and tail are equilateral
triangles. A Stage 1 Growing Worm
has a perimeter of 8 cm. What is
the perimeter of a Stage 4 Growing Stage 1
Stage 2
Worm?
Stage 3

18. Each term of a sequence is one more than twice the term before 18. ________________
it. If the first term is 1, what is the sum of the first 5 terms of
the sequence?

19. If a fly is buzzing randomly around a room 8 ft long, 12 ft wide 19. ________________
and 10 ft high, what is the probability that, at any
given time, the fly is within 6 feet of the ceiling?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

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20. If five less than three-fourths of an integer is the same as five 20. ________________
more than one-eighth of the same integer, what is the integer?

21. What is the sum of the negative integers that satisfy the 21. ________________
inequality 2x ‒ 3 ≥ ‒11?

22. Sets A and B, shown in the Venn diagram, are such that 22. ________________
elements
the total number of elements in set A is twice the total
number of elements in set B. Altogether,
there are 3011 elements in the union of A B
A and B, and their intersection has 1000 1000
elements. What is the total number of
elements in set A?

23. The quotient of two consecutive positive integers is 1.02. What 23. ________________
is the sum of these two integers?

24. What is the area enclosed by the graph of |x| + |2y| = 10 shown 24. ________________
sq units
here? y

25. Two similar right triangles have areas of 6 square inches and 25. ________________
inches
150 square inches. The length of the hypotenuse of the smaller
triangle is 5 inches. What is the sum of the lengths of the legs
of the larger triangle?

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26. If a committee of six students is chosen at random from a 26. ________________
group of six boys and four girls, what is the probability that
the committee contains the same number of boys and girls?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

27. The point A(3, 4) is reflected over the 27. ________________

sq units
x-axis to B. Then B is reflected over
the line y = x to C. What is the area of
triangle ABC?

28. Tonisha leaves Maryville at 7:15 a.m. headed back to college :

28. ________________
a.m.
after summer break. Since she is towing a trailer with all of her
belongings, she is limited to an average speed of 45 mph. Her
friend Sheila leaves Maryville an hour later taking the same
route averaging the speed limit of 60 mph.
At what time will Sheila pass Tonisha?

29. Fido’s leash is tied to a stake at the center of his yard, which is 29. ________________
in the shape of a regular hexagon. His leash is exactly
long enough to reach the midpoint of each side of
his yard. If the fraction of the area of Fido’s yard that
he is able to reach while on his leash is expressed in
simplest radical form as (( a )/b)π, what is the value
of the product ab?

30. In the figure, circle O has radius 6 units. Chord CD has length 30. ________________
sq units
8 units and is parallel to
C D
segment KB. If KA = 12 units
and points K, A, O and B are
K A O B collinear, what is the area of
triangle KDC? Express your
answer in simplest radical form.

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legible and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the
left-hand column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems before time is
called, use the remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in
the answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears
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02-C12SPR
1. _____________
hours Mrs. Smith teaches for 5 12 hours each day. If she teaches
for six days, for how many total hours does Mrs. Smith
teach?

2. _____________ An operation  is defined as a  b = 6a − b. What is the value of 4  22?

3. _____________
dollars If 7 apples cost x dollars, how many dollars do 70 apples cost?
Express your answer in terms of x.

4. _____________
families Family Sizes of East Elementary The results of a survey of the 20 families at
10 East Elementary are shown in the graph. During
Number of Families

the survey, each family was asked how many

5 children were in their family. How many of the
families surveyed had three or more children?
1 2 3 4
Number of Children Per Family

5. _____________
ounces The total weight of five identical blocks is 3 pounds 12 ounces. There
are 16 ounces in a pound. How many ounces does each block weigh?

4 1
6. _____________ What is the value of x if = ?
2x 3

7. _____________
cups Maureen rented a lemonade stand for $10.00 per week.
She sells her lemonade for 75¢ per cup, but also spends
25¢ per cup of lemonade on supplies. How many cups
of lemonade must she sell in one week so that her costs
(rent and supplies) are equal to her sales?

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8. _____________
cents Hugo has 5 quarters, 13 dimes and 7 nickels. Luigi has 6 quarters, 10 dimes and
2 nickels. In cents, how much more than Luigi does Hugo have?

y
( , )
9. _____________ Square ABCD has vertices A(0, 0), B(4, 0), C(4, 4)
and D(0, 4). A point P in the interior of square
ABCD is chosen and reflected over the line D C
containing segment CD to point Q. Point Q is
then reflected over the line containing segment
x
BC to point R. What are the coordinates of the A B
midpoint of segment PR? Express your answer as
an ordered pair.

10. _____________
% What percent of the positive integers less than or equal to 36 are factors of 36?

11. _____________
dollars In one round of a television game show, three questions are asked. The second
question is worth twice as much as the first. The third question is worth three
times as much as the second. If the third question is worth $12,000, what is the
first question worth, in dollars?

12. _____________
cm2 In the figure shown, the distance between adjacent
dots in each row and in each column is 1 cm. In square
centimeters, what is the area of the shaded region?

13. _____________ Seven consecutive positive integers have a sum of 91. What is the largest of
these integers?

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14. _____________ If Friday the 13th occurs in a month, then the sum of the calendar dates for
the Fridays in that month is 6 + 13 + 20 + 27 = 66. What is the largest sum of
calendar dates for seven consecutive Fridays in any given year?

15. _____________
cm3 A cylindrical container has a diameter of 8 cm and a volume of 754 cm3. A
different cylindrical container, which also has a diameter of 8 cm, is twice as
tall as the original container. What is the volume of the second container?

16. _____________
degrees The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1:3:5. What is the degree measure of
the largest angle in the triangle?

17. _____________ Four numbers are written in a row. The mean of the first two numbers is 10,
and the mean of the last two numbers is 20. What is the mean of all four
numbers?

18. _____________
seconds Carol, Jane, Kim, Nancy and Vicky, competed in a 400-meter race.
• Nancy beat Jane by 6 seconds.
• Carol finished 11 seconds behind Vicky.
• Nancy finished 2 seconds ahead of Kim, but 3 seconds behind Vicky.
By how many seconds did Kim finish the race ahead of Carol?

19. _____________ S and T are both two-digit integers less than 80. Each number is divisible by 3,
and T also is divisible by 7. S is a perfect square. If the sum S + T is a multiple
of 11, what is the value of T ?

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20. _____________ In a stack of six cards, each card is labeled with a different integer from 0 to 5,
inclusive. If two cards are selected at random without replacement, what is
the probability that their sum will be 3? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

21. _____________
minutes Okta can stay in the sun for 16 minutes before getting sunburned. If he uses a
sunscreen with SPF 20, he can stay in the sun 20 times as long before getting
sunburned, or 20 × 16 = 320 minutes. This morning, he spent 9 minutes in the
sun before putting on sunscreen. If he then applies SPF 20 sunscreen, how
many more minutes can he stay in the sun before getting burned?

22. _____________ A bag contains red and yellow balls. There are ten of each color and they
are numbered 1 through 10. If Arthur draws two balls at random, without
replacement, what is the probability that he draws the yellow ball numbered 3
followed by a red ball? Express your answer as a common fraction.

C
23. _____________
units2 In trapezoid ABCD, AB = BC = 2AD and AD = 5 units.
What is the area of trapezoid ABCD?
D

A B

y
1
24. _____________ One line has a slope of − 3 and contains the
point (3, 6). Another line has a slope of 5 and
3
contains the point (3, 0). What is the product of
the coordinates of the point at which the two lines
x intersect?

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25. _____________
miles A car traveled a certain distance at 20 miles per hour. The car then traveled
twice the original distance at 40 miles per hour. If the entire trip lasted four
hours, what was the total number of miles driven?

26. _____________ Consider all integer values of a and b for which a < 2 and b ≥ −2. What is the
minimum value of b – a?

triangles
27. _____________ In the figure shown, the diagonals of a square are drawn and
then two additional segments are drawn from each vertex to
a diagonal. How many triangles are in the figure?

28. _____________
units Six circles of radius 1 unit are drawn tangent to the sides of a regular hexagon.
Each circle is also tangent to two other circles as shown in the drawing. What
is the perimeter of the hexagon? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

1 2
29. _____________ If x2 + 2 = 3, what is the value of 2 x 2 ? Express your answer as a
x ( x + 1)
common fraction.

30. _____________
cm A circle is inscribed in a rhombus with sides of length 4 cm. If the two acute
angles in the rhombus each measure 60°, what is the length of the circle’s
radius? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

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Forms of Answers
The following list explains acceptable forms for answers. Coaches should ensure that Mathletes are
familiar with these rules prior to participating at any level of competition. Judges will score competition
answers in compliance with these rules for forms of answers.

All answers must

a
be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction
in the form ± b , where a and b are natural numbers and GCF(a, b) = 1. In some cases the term “common
fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the form BA , where A and B are algebraic expressions and A and
B do not share a common factor. A simplified
a
“mixed number” (“mixed numeral,” “mixed fraction”) is to
be considered a fraction in the form ± N b , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a, b) = 1.
Examples:
2 4
Problem: Express 8 divided by 12 as a common fraction. Answer: 3 Unacceptable: 6
Problem: Express 12 divided by 8 as a common fraction. Answer:
3
2 Unacceptable:
12
8 , 1 12
Problem: Express the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with a diameter
1 1+ 2 π
of 4 as a common fraction in terms of π. Answer: 8

Problem: Express 20 divided by 12 as a mixed number. Answer: 1 23 8

Unacceptable: 1 12 , 5
3

Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions unless otherwise specified. Examples:
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: 2 , π , 6
1
7 3 4 −π
Unacceptable: 3 12 , 34 , 3.5, 2:1

Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy: 1) no radicands have a factor which
possesses the root indicated by the index; 2) no radicands contain fractions; and 3) no radicals appear in
the denominator of a fraction. Numbers with fractional exponents are not in radical form. Examples:
Problem: Evaluate 15 × 5 . Answer: 5 3 Unacceptable: 75
Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified
monetary unit (e.g., “How many dollars...,” “How much will it cost...,” “What is the amount of
interest...”) should be expressed in the form ($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits.
The only exceptions to this rule are when a is zero, in which case it may be omitted, or when b and c are
both zero, in which case they may both be omitted. Examples:
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0
Units of measurement are not required in answers, but they must be correct if given. When a
problem asks for an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure or when a unit of measure is provided
in the answer blank, equivalent answers expressed in other units are not acceptable. For example, if a
problem asks for the number of ounces and 36 oz is the correct answer, 2 lbs 4 oz will not be accepted. If
a problem asks for the number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be accepted.
2
Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., π, 3
, 5 3 ) in the data given or in solutions unless
the problem says to do so.
Do not do any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator performs) when
calculating solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the calculation process.

Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10, and n is an
integer. Examples:
Problem: Write 6895 in scientific notation. Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: Write 40,000 in scientific notation. Answer: 4 × 104 or 4.0 × 104
An answer expressed to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy than called for in the problem will not
be accepted. Whole number answers should be expressed in their whole number form.
Thus, 25.0 will not be accepted for 25, and 25 will not be accepted for 25.0.
The plural form of the units will always be provided in the answer blank, even if the answer
appears to require the singular form of the units.
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during this round. If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your
proctor now. Calculations may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete,
legible and simplified to lowest terms. ecord only final answers in the blanks in the
left-hand column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems before time is
called, use the remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in
the answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears
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1. _____________
: p.m. Marti lives in New York and wishes to call her friend Kathy who lives in
Honolulu. The chart below shows the times in several cities when it is 12:00
noon in New York. If Marti calls Kathy when the time is 6:30 p.m. in New
York, what time is it in Honolulu?
City Time when it is 12:00 noon in New York
Chicago, IL 11:00 AM
Denver, CO 10:00 AM
Los Angeles, CA 9:00 AM
Honolulu, HI 7:00 AM

2. _____________ What is the value of 1 − 2 + 4 − 8 + 16 − 32 + 64 − 128 + 256 − 512 + 1024?

3. _____________
minutes At a university’s graduation ceremony, 690 names are to be read at a pace of
one name every 10 seconds. How many minutes will it take to read all of the
names?

Apples Collected
by Ms. Pinski’s Class
10
Number of Apples

4. _____________
red The apples collected by Ms. Pinski’s class are
apples represented in the bar graph shown. How many
5
more red apples than yellow apples were collected?

Red Yellow Green

Apple Color

5. _____________
cm The perimeter of a particular rectangle is 18 cm, and the length of the rectangle
is one-third its perimeter. What is the width of the rectangle?

6. _____________ One-half of the sum of n and 8 is equal to 7. What is the value of n?

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7. _____________ When (37 × 45) − 15 is simplified, what is the units digit?

8. _____________ One witness to a crime said that the suspect was 25 years old and 69 inches tall.
A second witness claimed that the suspect was 35 years old and 74 inches tall.
The third witness reported that the suspect was 65 inches tall and 35 years old.
Each witness correctly identified either the suspect’s height or age, but not both.
If a is the suspect’s age in years, and b is the suspect’s height in inches, what is
the value of the sum a + b?

9. _____________
times Zeno’s pet rabbit always jumps halfway to a carrot no matter how far away he
is from the carrot. He will eat the carrot if he lands within 6 inches
of it. How many times must Zeno’s rabbit jump to eat a carrot
that is initially 12 feet away?

10. _____________
outfits Mellie has 6 pairs of pants and 10 shirts. She then buys 2 more
pairs of pants. If an outfit consists of a pair of pants and a shirt,
how many more outfits can Mellie make now compared to
the number that she could make before this purchase?

60˚ 60˚

11. _____________
degrees Two equilateral triangles are drawn in a square, as shown. In
degrees, what is the measure of each obtuse angle in the rhombus ?
formed by the intersection of the two triangles? 60˚

12. _____________
$ Seven pounds of Mystery Meat and four pounds of Tastes Like Chicken cost
$78.00. Tastes Like Chicken costs $3.00 more per pound than Mystery Meat. In
dollars, how much does a pound of Mystery Meat cost?

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13. _____________
cm The perimeter of a rectangle is 22 cm and its area is 24 cm2. What is the smaller
of the two integer dimensions of the rectangle?

14. _____________
blocks On Tuesdays, Mr. Cansetti walks from his home, located at one end of
Main Street, to the grocery store at the other end of Main Street. On his way
down Main Street, he passes the post office and the police station, in that order.
Mr. Cansetti’s home is 7.5 blocks from to the police station. The post office is
6 blocks from the grocery store and 3.5 blocks from the police station. How
many blocks does Mr. Cansetti walk from his home to the grocery store?

pigs
15. _____________ Farmer Hank has fewer than 100 pigs on his farm. If he groups the pigs five to
a pen, there are always three pigs left over. If he groups the pigs seven to a pen,
there is always one pig left over. However, if he groups
the pigs three to a pen, there are no pigs left over. What
is the greatest number of pigs that Farmer Hank could
have on his farm?

days
16. _____________ Three people can paint 5 rooms in 2 days. Working at this same rate, how many
days will it take 6 people to paint 15 rooms?

17. _____________ At the school’s carnival, one game featured this unique square
dartboard with five smaller, shaded squares, shown here. The
length of a side of the square dartboard is 4 times the length of
a side of any of the five congruent, shaded squares. To win a
prize, a player’s dart has to land in a shaded region. If a player’s
dart randomly hits the dartboard, what is the probability of her
winning a prize? Express your answer as a common fraction.

18. _____________ A line passes through the points (−2, 8) and (5, −13). When the equation of the
line is written in the form y = mx + b, what is the product of m and b?

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19. _____________
ft2 Mr. Mayfeld is designing a sign for his ice cream shop. The
sign will be a shape consisting of a semicircle and an isosceles
triangle that he will paint to look like a cone with a scoop of A B
ice cream. He will cut the figure out of a rectangular piece of
plywood measuring 2 ft by 4 ft, as shown. The shaded regions
will be cut away. If BE = 3BG and AB is parallel to CE , what
is the total area of the resulting figure? Express your answer as
a decimal to the nearest tenth.

C E
D

20. _____________
license A state license plate contains the state logo in the center, preceded by
plates three letters and followed by three digits. If the first two letters must both be
consonants, excluding Y, how many different license plates are possible?

21. _____________
cm3 A right square pyramid has a base with a perimeter of 36 cm and
a height of 12 cm. At one-third of the distance up from the base
to the apex, the pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to its base.
What is the volume of the top pyramid?

22. _____________ Four integers are chosen from 1 to 10, inclusive, with repetition allowed. What
is the greatest possible difference between the mean and the median of the four
integers? Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. _____________
books Jay and Mike were walking home with heavy books in their
backpacks. When Mike complained about the weight in his
backpack, Jay remarked, “If I take one of your books, I will be
carrying twice as many books as you will be carrying, but if
you take one of my books, we’ll be carrying the same number
of books.” How many books is Mike carrying in his backpack?

24. _____________
cm A right rectangular prism has a volume of 720 cm3. Its surface area is 484 cm2.
If all edge lengths are integers, what is the length of the longest segment that
can be drawn that connects two vertices? Express your answer in simplest
radical form.

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25. _____________ Avi and Hari agree to meet at their favorite restaurant between 5:00 p.m. and
6:00 p.m. They have agreed that the person who arrives first will wait for the
other only 15 minutes before leaving. What is the probability that the two of
them will actually meet at the restaurant, assuming that the arrival times are
random within the hour? Express your answer as a common fraction.

26. _____________ When the local convenience store was bought by a new owner, the old sodas
were replaced by new ones that were 20% larger. In addition, the price of the
new, larger sodas was 20% less than the price of the old, smaller sodas. What is
the ratio of the cost per ounce for the old soda to the cost per ounce for the new
soda? Express your answer as a common fraction.

27. _____________
hours Working in pairs, Alana and Bob can complete a job in 2 hours, Bob and Cody
can do the job in 3 hours, and Alana and Cody can do the same job in 4 hours.
How many hours will it take for Alana, Bob and Cody working together to
complete this job? Express your answer as a common fraction.

28. _____________ What fraction of the first 100 triangular numbers are evenly divisible by 7?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

29. _____________ 12
The analog clock shown has a minute hand with an arrow tip that
11 1
10 2
is exactly twice as far from the clock’s center as the hour hand’s
9 3 arrow tip. If point A is at the tip of the minute hand, and point
8 4 B is at the tip of the hour hand, what is the ratio of the distance
7
6
5 that point B travels in 3 hours to the distance that point A travels
in 9 hours? Express your answer as a common fraction.

30. _____________
percent What percent of the interval with endpoints −5 and 5 consists of real numbers x
8
satisfying the inequality x + 1 > ?
x -1

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understand that any competitor found to be in violation of this honor pledge is subject to disqualification.

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This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to complete
all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other aids during this round.
If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now. Calculations
may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand column of the competition
booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to check
your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in the
answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to require
the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form of the
answer that will be accepted.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

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1. _____________ What is the value of  if = 5?
3

2. _____________
$ Arturo bought a shirt on sale for 30% off its original price of $10. He then sold
it for a price that was 50% more than the price he paid for it. How much did
Arturo sell the shirt for?

3. _____________
quarts Sally is mixing a cleaning solution. She wants the ratio of bleach to water to be
1:8. How many quarts of bleach should she add to 24 quarts of water?

4. _____________
triangles A square is divided by its four lines of symmetry. Triangles of different sizes are
formed. How many total triangles are formed?

5. _____________
inches There are already 4.5 inches of snow on the ground. Snow is falling at an
average rate of 1.5 inches per hour and is predicted to continue for nine more
hours. If the prediction is correct, how many inches of snow will be on the
ground when the snow stops after 9 hours?

6. _____________ If x and y are positive integers such that xy = 100, what is the positive difference
between the maximum and minimum possible values of x + y?

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bugs If a bat catches a total of 560 bugs in 7 nights, and each night the bat catches the
same number of bugs, how many bugs did the bat catch on the fifth night?

8. _____________
cm Kaylee cut a 20-cm by 20-cm piece of paper along a diagonal to form two
congruent triangles. What is the length of the hypotenuse of one of the triangles?
Express your answer in simplest radical form.

ab
9. _____________ If a ۞ b = and a ۞ 4 = 3, what is the value of a?
a +b

10. _____________ What is the probability Kai will select a red or blue marble when he selects
one marble from a jar containing three green, two red and five blue marbles?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

11. _____________
lines There are six points in a plane, and no three of these points are
collinear. How many distinct lines are determined by all possible
pairs of these six points?

Salaries
6
Number of Workers

5
12. _____________
$ The bar graph shows the salaries of workers at 4
the Oro De Montana office, and all the salaries 3 6
5
2
are multiples of $1000. What is the absolute 1
4
2 2
value of the difference between the greatest 0
41,000 51,000 61,000 71,000 81,000
possible mean salary for the employees and the to to to to to
50,000 60,000 70,000 80,000 90,000
least possible mean salary? Salary ($)

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13. _____________ What is the sum of the first 2000 positive integers?

14. _____________
years On the ceiling of a cavern, a stalactite grows downward 0.004 inches per
year. Ten feet directly below on the cavern’s floor, a stalagmite grows upward
0.006 inches per year. How many years will it take them to meet?

15. _____________ The product of three distinct positive integers is 144. If the sum of the three
integers is 26, what is the sum of their squares?

16. _____________
ordered How many ordered triples (x, y, z) of positive integers have the property that
triples x + y + z = 6?

17. _____________ If the slope of a line is k, and the line passes through the points (0, k + 3) and
(−3, 0), what is the value of k? Express your answer as a common fraction.

18. _____________
permu- How many permutations of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 have 1 before 3 and 2 before 4?
tations One such permutation to include is 2134.

( -8 ) ?
4
19. _____________ What is the value of 3

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20. _____________ The line y = − x + 4 intersects a perpendicular line at (6, 2). What is the
3
y-intercept of that perpendicular line? Express your answer as an ordered pair.

21. _____________ The nine regions on a spinner are numbered with positive integers 1 through 9,
and the probability of the spinner landing on a given region is proportional to
the label for that region. For example, since 4 × 2 = 8, the probability of landing
on 8 is twice the probability of landing on 4. What is the probability that this
spinner will land on an odd number? Express your answer as a common fraction.

22. _____________ The length of the diagonal of rectangle ABCD equals half the rectangle’s
perimeter less four-fifths of the length of the shorter side. What is the ratio of
the length of the shortest side of the rectangle to the length of its longest side?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

B
23. _____________
units An equilateral triangle, with sides of length 2 units has a circular arc
centered at B, inscribed as shown. What is the length of a segment
drawn parallel to side AC with endpoints D and E? Express your
answer in simplest radical form. D E
A C

24. _____________
units On a number line, how many units apart are the two points that are twice as far
from 0 as they are from 9?

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25. _____________ For what positive integer n does 3n3 + 3n2 + 4n = nn?

26. _____________
combi- How many different combinations of three numbers can be selected from the set
nations {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} so that the numbers could represent the side lengths of a
triangle?

1 3 3 3 2 5
27. _____________ If + = and - = , what is the value of x + y?
x y 4 x y 12

28. _____________ What is the smallest prime number that divides some number of the form
424242…42 + 1 or of the form 424242…42 − 1?

29. _____________
units Point E lies within rectangle ABCD. If AE = 7, BE = 5 and CE = 8, what is DE?
Express your answer in simplest radical form.

30. _____________ What is the value of 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + , where all subsequent numbers in

the expression are 2s? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

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Signature ______________________________________________ Date _______________

Printed Name ________________________________________________________________

School ______________________________________________________________________

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to complete
all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other aids during this round.
If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now. Calculations
may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand column of the competition
booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to check
your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in the
answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to require
the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form of the
answer that will be accepted.

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1. _____________ If = and b = 10, what is the value of a?
b 5

2. _____________
triangles Square ABCD, shown here, has diagonals AC and BD that intersect at E. How
many triangles of any size are in the figure? A D

B C

3. _____________ When the integers 1 to 100 inclusive are written, what digit is written the fewest
number of times?

4. _____________ Danica wrote the digits from 1 to 8 across a sheet of paper, as shown, and then
circled one digit. If the digits to the left of the circled digit had the same sum as
those to the right of the circled digit, which digit did Danica circle?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

$
5. _____________ Sally received a sum of money for her birthday. She spent
one-third of that money on bus fare to travel downtown. She
spent half of the money that remained to treat her best friend
to a movie, after which Sally had $12.00 remaining. How
much money did Sally receive for her birthday?

6. _____________ When six is added to a number, the result is three times the original number.
What is the original number?

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7. _____________
$ Each time one of Yuan's paintings sells, the gallery sends Yuan a payment equal
to 60% of the purchase amount, and the gallery keeps the remainder. If
three of Yuan’s paintings sold recently for $200, $300 and $500, he
should expect to receive three payments totaling how many dollars
from his gallery?

8. _____________ If x is 15% of 500 and y is 200% of x, what is the value of the sum x + y ?

9. _____________ The square in Figure 1 is cut along its diagonals creating four congruent
triangles that then are arranged to create Figure 2. What is the probability that a
randomly chosen point within the boundary of Figure 2 is in any of the shaded
triangles? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Figure 1 Figure 2

3
10. _____________ If b = 5, what is the value of 2b?

11. _____________
$ This table shows every category of Martin's monthly expenses. Once completed,
it will depict how 100% of Martin’s monthly income is budgeted. Based on the
information provided, what is Martin’s monthly income?

Car Loan
Rent Utilities Food Gasoline Savings
Payment
Percent of
35% 15% 20% 15% 10%
Income
Dollars of
$80
Income

12. _____________
units2 The points A(−1, 2) and B(3, 2) are graphed on a
coordinate plane. Point C is the reflection of point A
x
over the x-axis. What is the area of triangle ABC?

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13. _____________ What is the greatest prime factor of the product 6 × 14 × 22?

14. _____________ If + = 5 and − = 3, what is the value of + ?

15. _____________ Ms. Spice tells her class that she is thinking of a positive common
fraction. The product of the numerator and denominator is 60. When she
adds 1 to the numerator and divides the denominator by 2, the resulting
fraction is equal to 1. What common fraction is Ms. Spice thinking of ?

papers
16. _____________ Working alone, a professor grades a paper every 10 minutes. The professor
spends 20 minutes training an assistant. Then, working together, they grade
2 papers every 15 minutes. For how many graded papers is the amount of time
it would take the professor working alone the same as the amount
of time it would take the professor and her assistant working
together, including the time required for training?

17. _____________ If b = a2 and c = 3b − 2, what is the product of all values of a for which b = c?

18. _____________ A set of six distinct positive integers has a mean of 8, a median of 8 and no term
greater than 13. What is the least possible value of any term in the set?

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19. _____________ If x y = (x + y)2 for positive integers x and y, what is the value of (1 2) 3?

20. _____________ Segment XY is drawn parallel to the base of triangle ABC. If the A
area of trapezoid BCYX is 10 units2 and the area of triangle AXY
is 8 units2, what is the ratio of XY to BC? Express your answer X Y
as a common fraction. B C

21. _____________ What is the greatest possible absolute difference between the mean and the
median of five single-digit positive integers? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

22. _____________ If f is a function such that f(f(x)) = x2 – 1, what is f(f(f(f(3))))?

23. _____________ If the sum of an arithmetic progression of six positive integer terms is 78, what is
the greatest possible difference between consecutive terms?

24. _____________
units2 Points A, B and C have coordinates (−4, 2), (1, 2) and
(−1, 5), respectively. If triangle ABC is reflected across
the y-axis, what is the area of the region that is the
x
intersection of triangle ABC and its reflection? Express
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

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25. _____________ On a standard die with six faces, each face contains a different number from 1
through 6. Jake has a non-standard die with six faces, and each face on Jake’s
die contains an expression with a different value from 1 through 6. In no
particular order, the six expressions are a + 1, 2a – 5, 3a – 10, b + 8, 2b + 5 and
3b + 10. If a and b are integers, what is the value of the product a × b?

26. _____________ For a particular sequence a1 = 3, a2 = 5 and an = an – 1 – an – 2, for n ≥ 3. What is

the 2015th term in this sequence?

27. _____________ If Desi flips a fair coin eight times, what is the probability that he
will get the same number of heads and tails? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

28. _____________
ordered How many ordered pairs of integers (x, y) satisfy the equation x + | y| = y + | x|
pairs if −10 ≤ x ≤ 10 and −10 ≤ y ≤ 10?

1
29. _____________ When is expressed as a decimal, what is the 10th digit to the right of the
98
decimal point?

30. _____________ For positive integers n and m, each exterior angle of a regular n-sided polygon
is 45 degrees larger than each exterior angle of a regular m-sided polygon. One
example is n = 4 and m = 8 because the measures of each exterior angle of a
square and a regular octagon are 90 degrees and 45 degrees, respectively. What
is the greatest of all possible values of m?

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Forms of Answers
The following list explains acceptable forms for answers. Coaches should ensure that Mathletes are familiar
with these rules prior to participating at any level of competition. Judges will score competition answers in
compliance with these rules for forms of answers.

All answers
a
must be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the
form ± b , where a and b are natural numbers and GCF(a, b) = 1. In some cases the term “common fraction”
is to be considered a fraction in the form BA , where A and B are algebraic expressions and A and B do not
share a common factor. A asimplified mixed number ( mixed numeral, mixed fraction ) is to be considered
a fraction in the form ± N b , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a, b) = 1. Examples:
2 4
Problem: Express 8 divided by 12 as a common fraction. Answer: 3 Unacceptable: 6
3 12 1
Problem: Express 12 divided by 8 as a common fraction. Answer: 2 Unacceptable: 8 ,1 2
Problem: Express the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with a diameter
1 1+ 2 π
of 4 as a common fraction in terms of π. Answer: 8

Problem: Express 20 divided by 12 as a mixed number. Answer: 1 2

3
8
Unacceptable: 1 12 , 5
3

Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions unless otherwise specified. Examples
7 3 4 −π 1
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: 2 , π , 6 Unacceptable: 3 12 , 34 , 3.5, 2:1

Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy 1) no radicands have a factor which possesses
the root indicated by the index; 2) no radicands contain fractions; and 3) no radicals appear in the denominator
of a fraction. Numbers with fractional exponents are not in radical form. Examples:
Problem: Evaluate 15 × 5 . Answer: 5 3 Unacceptable: 75

Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified monetary
unit (e.g., “How many dollars...,” “How much will it cost...,” “What is the amount of interest...”) should
be expressed in the form ($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits. The only exceptions to this
rule are when a is zero, in which case it may be omitted, or when b and c are both zero, in which case they
may both be omitted. Answers in the form ($)a.bc should be rounded to the nearest cent unless otherwise
specified. Examples
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0
2
Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., , 3
, 5 3 ) in the data given or in solutions unless the
problem says to do so.
Do not perform any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator does) when calculating
solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the computation process.

Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10, and n is an
integer. Examples:
Problem: Write 5 in scientific notation. Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: Write 40,000 in scientific notation. Answer: 4 × 104 or 4.0 × 104
An answer expressed to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy than called for in the problem will not be
accepted. Whole number answers should be expressed in their whole number form.
Thus, 25.0 will not be accepted for 25, and 25 will not be accepted for 25.0.
Units of measurement are not required in answers, but they must be correct if given. When a problem
asks for an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure or when a unit of measure is provided in the answer
blank, equivalent answers expressed in other units are not acceptable. For example, if a problem asks for the
number of ounces and 36 oz is the correct answer, 2 lbs 4 oz will not be accepted. If a problem asks for the
number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be accepted.
The plural form of the units will always be provided in the answer blank, even if the answer appears to
require the singular form of the units.
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School ______________________________________________________________________

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to complete
all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other aids during this round.
If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now. Calculations
may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand column of the competition
booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to check
your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in the
answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to require
the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form of the
answer that will be accepted.

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1. _____________ Sheryl is counting backwards by 4. If the first number she says is 155, and the
second number she says is 151, what is the 9th number Sheryl says?

2
2. _____________ What is the difference between the maximum and
−4 −2 2 4
x minimum values of this function graphed on the
−2 coordinate plane?
−4

1 b
3. _____________ If = and b = −1, what is the value of a?
b a

4. _____________ What is the sum of all two-digit multiples of 3 that have units digit 1?

5. _____________ What is the sum of the first eight terms in the sequence beginning −4, 5, …,
where each subsequent term is the sum of the previous two terms?

y
S R
6
5
Cost (dollars)

6. _____________
$ 4 According to the graph, what is the total
3 amount Blythe will be charged to ship three
2
packages weighing 1.8 pounds, 2 pounds
and 4.4 pounds?
1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Weight (lbs)

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7. _____________
degrees The graph shows the cookie dough
Flour
ingredients for Mel’s secret cookie recipe. Eggs 40%
What is the degree measure of the portion 4%
of the graph that indicates the percent of
the cookie dough that is flour? Butter
16%
Sugar
22%

Chocolate
Chips
18%

8. _____________
$ If 3 zoguts and 4 gimuns together cost $18, and 2 zoguts and 3 gimuns together
cost $13, what is the combined cost of 1 zogut and 1 gimun?

9. _____________
inches A rectangular piece of paper measures 40 inches on its long side.
It is folded in half along the dotted line. The ratio of the long side
40 of the original sheet to the short side of the original sheet is the
same as the ratio of the long side of the folded sheet to the short
side of the folded sheet. What is the length of the short side of
the original sheet? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

10. _____________ What is the greatest multiple of 3 that can be formed using one or more of the
digits 2, 4, 5 and 8, assuming no digit is used more than once?

a 6b am
11. _____________ If = for positive integers m and n, what is the value of m + n?
a 3b 5 bn

12. _____________ For what positive integer x, does 8% of x % of 200 have a value of 4?

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13. _____________ The table shows the number of students enrolled for each grade at East-West
High School. Every 9th- and 10th-grade student at East-West is automatically
entered into a drawing to win a new tablet computer. One Grade Enrollment
winning student will be chosen randomly. What is the 9 192
probability that a 10th-grader at East-West will win the 10 136
drawing? Express your answer as a common fraction. 11 129
12 93

14. _____________ If 22 · 44 = 2k, what is the value of k?

15. _____________
units2 In the xy-plane, a circle has center P(5, 10) and intersects the x-axis at a single
point Q(5, 0). What is the area of circle P? Express your answer in terms of π.

16. _____________ When 3 is subtracted from 2x and the difference is divided by 5, the result is 7.
What is the value of x?

17. _____________
percent In a basketball game, Melina’s ratio of 2-point shot attempts to 3-point shot
attempts was 4:1. What percent of Melina’s attempted shots were 3-point shots?

18. _____________ What is the sum of the distinct prime factors of 2016?

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19. _____________ The opposite faces of a standard six-sided die add up to seven. Two identical
standard six-sided dice are placed side by side as shown. What is the sum of the
numbers of dots on the two faces that touch each other?

20. _____________
sets How many sets of two or three distinct positive integers have a sum of 8?

a+b b+c a+c

21. _____________ If a, b and c are integers such that = 3, = 4 and = 5, what is
2 2 2
the value of a + b + c ?

22. _____________ The mean of a set of five numbers is 3k. When a sixth number is added to the set,
the mean increases by k. What is the ratio of the sixth number to the sum of the
first five numbers? Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. _____________
inches The large rectangle shown here is composed of four
squares. If the area of the large rectangle is 240 in2,
what is its perimeter?

24. _____________ What is the least positive integer n such that n! is divisible by 1000?

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25. _____________
degrees In isosceles triangle ABC, shown here, AB = AC and mA = 32°.
Triangles ABC and PQR are congruent. Side AC intersects side PR 32˚
at X so that mPXC = 114°, and side PQ intersects side BC at Y as
shown. What is the degree measure of PYC? X
R
P 114˚

? C
B Y
Q
A B C D E
26. _____________ 1 2 3 The integers 1 through 66 are arranged in five columns A
6 5 4 to E as shown, where column C contains the multiples of 3.
7 8 9 What is the sum of the numbers in column D?
12 11 10

27. _____________
minutes On Monday, a worker began painting a fence at 8:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., two
more workers showed up and helped the first worker paint. The three workers
finished the job at 11:30 a.m. On Tuesday, the first worker began painting an
identical fence at 8:00 a.m. The other two workers showed up earlier this time,
and the job was finished at 10:54 a.m. All three workers paint at the same
constant rate. How many minutes did the first worker paint alone on Tuesday?

28. _____________ Triangle LMN, shown here, has altitude MH drawn to side LN. Circles are
M inscribed in triangles MNH and MLH, tangent to altitude MH at A and T,
respectively. If MA:AT:TH = 4:2:1, what is the ratio of the smaller
circle’s area to the larger circle’s area? Express your answer as
A a common fraction.
T
L H N

29. _____________
mi/h A bug crawls a distance of n miles at a speed of n + 1 miles per hour one day
and then crawls 2n + 1 miles at a speed of n2 + n miles per hour the next day.
If the total time for the trip was 6 hours, what was the bug’s average speed?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

30. _____________ What is the greatest 5-digit palindrome n such that 7n is a 6-digit palindrome?

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Forms of Answers
The following list explains acceptable forms for answers. Coaches should ensure that Mathletes are familiar
with these rules prior to participating at any level of competition. Judges will score competition answers in
compliance with these rules for forms of answers.

Units of measurement are not required in answers, but they must be correct if given. When a problem
asks for an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure or when a unit of measure is provided in the answer
blank, equivalent answers expressed in other units are not acceptable. For example, if a problem asks for the
number of ounces and 36 oz is the correct answer, 2 lbs 4 oz will not be accepted. If a problem asks for the
number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be accepted.
All answers
a
must be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the
form ± b , where a and b are natural numbers and GCF(a, b) = 1. In some cases the term “common fraction”
is to be considered a fraction in the form BA , where A and B are algebraic expressions and A and B do not
share a common factor. A asimplified “mixed number” (“mixed numeral,” “mixed fraction”) is to be considered
a fraction in the form ± N b , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a, b) = 1. Examples:
2 4
Problem: What is 8 ÷ 12 expressed as a common fraction? Answer: 3 Unacceptable: 6
3 12 1
Problem: What is 12 ÷ 8 expressed as a common fraction? Answer: 2 Unacceptable: 8 ,1 2
1
Problem: What is the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with diameter 4 unit
1+ 2 π
expressed as a common fraction in terms of π? Answer: 8

Problem: What is 20 ÷ 12 expressed as a mixed number? Answer: 1 2

3
8
Unacceptable: 1 12 , 5
3

Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions unless otherwise specified. Examples:
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: 2 , π , 6
1
7 3 4 −π
Unacceptable: 3 12 , 34 , 3.5, 2:1

Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy: 1) no radicands have a factor which possesses
the root indicated by the index; 2) no radicands contain fractions; and 3) no radicals appear in the denominator
of a fraction. Numbers with fractional exponents are not in radical form. Examples:
Problem: What is the value of 15 × 5 ? Answer: 5 3 Unacceptable: 75

Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified monetary
unit (e.g., “How many dollars...,” “How much will it cost...,” “What is the amount of interest...”) should
be expressed in the form ($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits. The only exceptions to this
rule are when a is zero, in which case it may be omitted, or when b and c both are zero, in which case they
both may be omitted. Answers in the form ($)a.bc should be rounded to the nearest cent unless otherwise
specified. Examples:
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0
2
Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., π, 3
, 5 3 ) in the data given or in solutions unless the
problem says to do so.
Do not perform any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator does) when calculating
solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the computation process.

Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10, and n is an
integer. Examples:
Problem: What is 6895 expressed in scientific notation? Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: What is 40,000 expressed in scientific notation? Answer: 4 × 104 or 4.0 × 104
An answer expressed to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy than called for in the problem will not be
accepted. Whole number answers should be expressed in their whole number form.
Thus, 25.0 will not be accepted for 25, and 25 will not be accepted for 25.0.
The plural form of the units will always be provided in the answer blank, even if the answer appears to
require the singular form of the units.
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I pledge to uphold the highest principles of honesty and integrity as a Mathlete®. I will neither give nor 8
accept unauthorized assistance of any kind. I will not copy another’s work and submit it as my own. I
understand that any competitor found to be in violation of this honor pledge is subject to disqualification. 9
Signature ______________________________________________ Date _______________

Printed Name ________________________________________________________________

School ______________________________________________________________________

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to complete
all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other aids during this round.
If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now. Calculations
may be done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. Record only final answers in the blanks in the left-hand column of the competition
booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to check
your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in the
answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to require
the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form of the
answer that will be accepted.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

National Sponsors
Raytheon Company
Northrop Grumman Foundation
U.S. Department of Defense
National Society of Professional Engineers
CNA Foundation
Phillips 66
Texas Instruments Incorporated
3Mgives
Art of Problem Solving
NextThought

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1. _____________ What integer is closest in value to 21.476?

mL
2. _____________ 500 mL
What is the volume of the solution in the beaker? Express your
400
300 answer to the nearest hundred.
200
100

3. _____________ Debbie is counting by fives. If the first number she says is 110, what is the fifth
number Debbie says?

4. _____________ What is the difference between seven times six and five times four?

5. _____________
ounces A carton of one dozen jumbo eggs has a total weight of 32 ounces. If the carton
itself weighs 2 ounces, how much does each egg weigh, on average? Express
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

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6. _____________
feet Given that 3 feet = 1 yard and 240 yards = 1 cable, how many feet are equal to
1 cable?

7. _____________ Velma earned the following scores on seven science quizzes: 88, 95, 84, 100, 86,
99, 94. What is the median of Velma’s quiz scores?

8. _____________
students When half of the students in Mr. Freeman’s class joined the National Math Club,
there were 13 students who did not join. What is the total number of students in
Mr. Freeman’s class?

10
9. _____________ What is the value of 100 − ?
0.1

10. _____________
units Points A through F are evenly spaced on the number line shown. How many
units long is segment CF?

A B C D E F
10 20

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11. _____________
students The number of 8th graders who responded to a poll of 6th and 8th graders
was one-fourth of the number of 6th graders who responded. If a total of
100 students responded to the poll, how many of the students who responded
were 6th graders?

12. _____________
triangles How many triangles of any size are in the Belgian truss shown?

13. _____________
cats The ratio of dogs to cats in a pet store is 7:5. If there are 6 more dogs than cats,
how many cats are in the pet store?

X
14. _____________
inches Right triangle XYZ, with YZ = 5 inches, has area 30 in2. What is the
length of side XY?

Y 5 Z

()?
−2
1
15. _____________ What is the value of
3

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16. _____________ If the sum of the positive integer a and 5 is less than 12, what is the sum of all
possible values of a?

17. _____________
percent The table shows the five methods of transportation that the 360 students who
attend Newburg Middle School use to get to school. If every student chooses
exactly one of these as his or her primary method of transportation to school,
what percent of the students bike to school?

T N M S

Method of Transportation # Students
Car 66
Bus 138
Bike 90
Scooter 18
Walk 48

18. _____________
large jugs A camel can carry a maximum weight equal to either 18 identical large jugs of
water or 30 identical small jugs of water. If the camel is loaded with 25 small
jugs of water, how many additional large jugs of water can the camel carry?

1
19. _____________ What decimal is equivalent to percent?
2

20. _____________ What is the sum of the solutions of x2 + 5x + 6 = 0?

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21. _____________ What is the quotient when 1000 is divided by 23 × 52?

1
22. _____________
$ On the side of a taxi, fares are listed as $2.25 for the first mile and 75¢ for
1 2
each additional mile. What is the fare for a 3-mile ride in this taxi?
4

23. _____________
boys Last summer, 150 students attended the Apollo Math Camp, of whom 96 were
girls and 54 were boys. Also, 68 were 7th graders and 82 were 8th graders. How
many 8th-grade boys attended the camp if 40 of the girls were 7th graders?

24. _____________ What is the largest sum that results when one of the arrangements of the digits
of 2017 is added to one of the arrangements of the digits of 2016, if none of the
digits 0, 1 or 2 can occupy the same position in both numbers?

x y
25. _____________
pairs How many pairs of positive integers x and y are solutions of + = 1?
12 36

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26. _____________ What positive value should replace x in this statement to make it true?

55 × 59 − 53 × 57 = x 2 − 1

27. _____________ The Pythagoreans proved this pattern:

12 = 1
22 = 1 + 3
32 = 1 + 3 + 5
42 = 1 + 3 + 5 + 7
Nicomachus discovered this pattern:
13 = 1
23 = 3 + 5
33 = 7 + 9 + 11
43 = 13 + 15 + 17 + 19
What is the value of s in this equation:
13 + 23 + 33 + 43 + 53 + 63 + 73 + 83 = s 2

A
28. _____________
in 2
In right triangle ABC, shown here, mB = 90° and AB = 6 inches. If
inscribed circle Q has area 4π in2, what is the area of triangle ABC?
Q
B C

29. _____________ Yu has 12 coins, consisting of 5 pennies, 4 nickels and 3 dimes. He tosses them
all in the air. What is the probability that the total value of the coins that land
heads-up is exactly 30 cents? Express your answer as a common fraction.

30. _____________
ordered How many ordered quintuples (a, b, c, d, e) have coordinates of value −1, 0 or 1
quintuples and satisfy a + b 2 + c 3 + d 4 + e 5 = 2?

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