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Problem 1
Luka is making lemonade to sell at a school fundraiser. His recipe requires times as much water as
sugar and twice as much sugar as lemon juice. He uses cups of lemon juice. How many cups of water
does he need?

Solution

Problem 2
Four friends do yardwork for their neighbors over the weekend, earning and
respectively. They decide to split their earnings equally among themselves. In total how much will the
friend who earned give to the others?

Solution

Problem 3
Carrie has a rectangular garden that measures feet by feet. She plants the entire garden with
strawberry plants. Carrie is able to plant strawberry plants per square foot, and she harvests an average
of strawberries per plant. How many strawberries can she expect to harvest?

Solution

Problem 4
Three hexagons of increasing size are shown below. Suppose the dot pattern continues so that each
successive hexagon contains one more band of dots. How many dots are in the next hexagon?

Solution

Problem 5
Three fourths of a pitcher is filled with pineapple juice. The pitcher is emptied by pouring an equal amount
of juice into each of cups. What percent of the total capacity of the pitcher did each cup receive?

Solution

Problem 6
Aaron, Darren, Karen, Maren, and Sharon rode on a small train that has five cars that seat one person each.
Maren sat in the last car. Aaron sat directly behind Sharon. Darren sat in one of the cars in front of Aaron.
At least one person sat between Karen and Darren. Who sat in the middle car?

Solution

Problem 7
How many integers between and have four distinct digits arranged in increasing order? (For
example, is one integer.)

Solution

Problem 8
Ricardo has coins, some of which are pennies ( -cent coins) and the rest of which are nickels ( -cent
coins). He has at least one penny and at least one nickel. What is the difference in cents between the
greatest possible and least possible amounts of money that Ricardo can have?

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Problem 9
Akash's birthday cake is in the form of a inch cube. The cake has icing on the top and the four
side faces, and no icing on the bottom. Suppose the cake is cut into smaller cubes, each measuring
inch, as shown below. How many small pieces will have icing on exactly two sides?

Solution

Problem 10
Zara has a collection of marbles: an Aggie, a Bumblebee, a Steelie, and a Tiger. She wants to display
them in a row on a shelf, but does not want to put the Steelie and the Tiger next to one another. In how
many ways can she do this?

Solution

Problem 11
After school, Maya and Naomi headed to the beach, miles away. Maya decided to bike while Naomi took
a bus. The graph below shows their journeys, indicating the time and distance traveled. What was the
difference, in miles per hour, between Naomi's and Maya's average speeds?

Solution

Problem 12
For a positive integer the factorial notation represents the product of the integers from to . (For
example, .) What value of satisfies the following equation?

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Problem 13
Jamal has a drawer containing green socks, purple socks, and orange socks. After adding more
purple socks, Jamal noticed that there is now a chance that a sock randomly selected from the
drawer is purple. How many purple socks did Jamal add?

Solution

Problem 14
There are cities in the County of Newton. Their populations are shown in the bar chart below. The
average population of all the cities is indicated by the horizontal dashed line. Which of the following is
closest to the total population of all cities?

Solution

Problem 15
Suppose of equals of What percentage of is

Solution

Problem 16
Each of the points and in the figure below represents a different digit from to Each
of the five lines shown passes through some of these points. The digits along each line are added to
produce five sums, one for each line. The total of the five sums is What is the digit represented by B?

Solution

Problem 17
How many factors of have more than factors? (As an example, has factors, namely
and )

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Problem 18
Rectangle is inscribed in a semicircle with diameter as shown in the figure. Let
and let What is the area of

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Problem 19
A number is called flippy if its digits alternate between two distinct digits. For example, and
are flippy, but and are not. How many five-digit flippy numbers are divisible by

Solution

Problem 20
A scientist walking through a forest recorded as integers the heights of trees standing in a row. She
observed that each tree was either twice as tall or half as tall as the one to its right. Unfortunately some of
her data was lost when rain fell on her notebook. Her notes are shown below, with blanks indicating the
missing numbers. Based on her observations, the scientist was able to reconstruct the lost data. What was
the average height of the trees, in meters?

Solution

Problem 21
A game board consists of squares that alternate in color between black and white. The figure below
shows square in the bottom row and square in the top row. A marker is placed at A step consists
of moving the marker onto one of the adjoining white squares in the row above. How many -step paths
are there from to (The figure shows a sample path.)

Solution

Problem 22
When a positive integer is fed into a machine, the output is a number calculated according to the rule
shown below.

For example, starting with an input of the machine will output Then if the output
is repeatedly inserted into the machine five more times, the final output is

When the same -step process is applied to a different starting value of the final output is What is
the sum of all such integers

Solution

Problem 23
Five different awards are to be given to three students. Each student will receive at least one award. In how
many different ways can the awards be distributed?

Solution

Problem 24
A large square region is paved with gray square tiles, each measuring inches on a side. A border
inches wide surrounds each tile. The figure below shows the case for . When , the gray

tiles cover of the area of the large square region. What is the ratio for this larger value of

Solution

Problem 25
Rectangles and and squares and shown below, combine to form a rectangle that is
3322 units wide and 2020 units high. What is the side length of in units?

Solution

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