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Problem 1: Solution Edit
Makarla attended two meetings during her -hour work day. The first meeting took minutes and
the second meeting took twice as long. What percent of her work day was spent attending meetings?
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Problem 2
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Problem 3
A ticket to a school play cost dollars, where is a whole number. A group of 9th graders buys tickets
costing a total of $ , and a group of 10th graders buys tickets costing a total of $ . How many
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[edit]Problem 4
A month with days has the same number of Mondays and Wednesdays.How many of the seven
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Problem 5
Lucky Larry's teacher asked him to substitute numbers for , , , , and in the
expression and evaluate the result. Larry ignored the parenthese but added
and subtracted correctly and obtained the correct result by coincidence. The number Larry sustitued
for , , , and were , , , and , respectively. What number did Larry substitude for ?
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[edit]Problem 6
At the beginning of the school year, of all students in Mr. Wells' math class answered "Yes" to
the question "Do you love math", and answered "No." At the end of the school year,
answered "Yes" and answerws "No." Altogether, of the students gave a different answer at
the beginning and end of the school year. What is the difference between the maximum and the
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Problem 7
Shelby drives her scooter at a speed of miles per hour if it is not raining, and miles per hour if it
is raining. Today she drove in the sun in the morning and in the rain in the evening, for a total of
miles in minutes. How many minutes did she drive in the rain?
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[edit]Problem 8
Every high school in the city of Euclid sent a team of students to a math contest. Each participant in
the contest received a different score. Andrea's score was the median among all students, and hers
was the highest score on her team. Andrea's teammates Beth and Carla placed th
and th
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[edit]Problem 9
Let be the smallest positive integer such that is divisible by , is a perfect cube, and is a
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Problem 10
The average of the numbers and is . What is ?
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[edit]Problem 11
A palindrome between and is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is
divisible by ?
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[edit]Problem 12
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Problem 13
In , and . What is ?
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[edit]Problem 14
Let , , , , and be postive integers with and let be the largest
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[edit]Problem 15
For how many ordered triples of nonnegative integers less than are there exactly two
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Problem 16
Positive integers , , and are randomly and independently selected with replacement from the
set . What is the probability that is divisible by ?
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Problem 17
The entries in a array include all the digits from through , arranged so that the entries in
every row and column are in increasing order. How many such arrays are there?
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[edit]Problem 18
A frog makes jumps, each exactly meter long. The directions of the jumps are chosen
independenly at random. What is the probability that the frog's final position is no more than meter
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[edit]Problem 19
A high school basketball game between the Raiders and Wildcats was tied at the end of the first
quarter. The number of points scored by the Raiders in each of the four quarters formed an increasing
geometric sequence, and the number of points scored by the Wildcats in each of the four quarters
formed an increasing arithmetic sequence. At the end of the fourth quarter, the Raiders had won by
one point. Neither team scored more than points. What was the total number of points scored by
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[edit]Problem 20
A geometric sequence has , , and for some real number .
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Problem 21
Let , and let be a polynomial with integer coefficients such that
, and
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[edit]Problem 22
Let be a cyclic quadralateral. The side lengths of are distinct integers less than
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[edit]Problem 23
Monic quadratic polynomial and have the property that has zeros
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[edit]Problem 24
is the union of intervals of the form . What is the sum of the lengths of these intervals?
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Problem 25
For every integer , let be the largest power of the largest prime tha divides . For
example . What is the largest integer such that divides