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The area of polygon , in square units, is
Problem 5
The bar graph shows the grades in a mathematics class for the last grading period. If A, B, C, and D
are satisfactory grades, what fraction of the grades shown in the graph are satisfactory?
Problem 6
A ream of paper containing sheets is cm thick. Approximately how many sheets of this type of
paper would there be in a stack cm high?
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A "stair-step" figure is made of alternating black and white squares in each row. Rows through are
shown. All rows begin and end with a white square. The number of black squares in the row is
Problem 8
If , the largest number in the set is
Problem 9
The product of the 9 factors
Problem 10
The fraction halfway between and (on the number line) is
Problem 11
A piece of paper containing six joined squares labeled as shown in the diagram is folded along the
edges of the squares to form a cube. The label of the face opposite the face labeled is
Problem 12
A square and a triangle have equal perimeters. The lengths of the three sides of the triangle are
, and . The area of the square is
Problem 13
If you walk for minutes at a rate of and then run for minutes at a rate of
how many miles will you have gone at the end of one hour and minutes?
Problem 14
The difference between a sales tax and a sales tax on an item priced at before tax is
Problem 15
How many whole numbers between and contain the digit ?
Problem 16
The ratio of boys to girls in Mr. Brown's math class is . If there are students in the class, how
many more girls than boys are in the class?
Problem 17
If your average score on your first six mathematics tests was and your average score on your first
seven mathematics tests was , then your score on the seventh test was
Problem 18
Nine copies of a certain pamphlet cost less than while ten copies of the same pamphlet (at
the same price) cost more than . How much does one copy of this pamphlet cost?
Problem 19
If the length and width of a rectangle are each increased by , then the perimeter of the rectangle
is increased by
Problem 20
In a certain year, January had exactly four Tuesdays and four Saturdays. On what day did January
fall that year?
Problem 21
Mr. Green receives a raise every year. His salary after four such raises has gone up by what
percent?
Problem 22
Assume every 7-digit whole number is a possible telephone number except those that begin with or
. What fraction of telephone numbers begin with and end with ?
Note: All telephone numbers are 7-digit whole numbers.
Problem 23
King Middle School has students. Each student takes classes a day. Each teacher teaches
classes. Each class has students and teacher. How many teachers are there at King Middle
School?
Problem 24
In a magic triangle, each of the six whole numbers is placed in one of the circles so that the
sum, , of the three numbers on each side of the triangle is the same. The largest possible value for
is
Problem 25
Five cards are lying on a table as shown.
Each card has a letter on one side and a whole number on the other side. Jane said, "If a vowel is on
one side of any card, then an even number is on the other side." Mary showed Jane was wrong by
turning over one card. Which card did Mary turn over?
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Which of the following numbers has the largest reciprocal?
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The smallest sum one could get by adding three different numbers from the set
is
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The product is closest to
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A contest began at noon one day and ended minutes later. At what time did the contest end?
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How many whole numbers are between and ?
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In the product shown, is a digit. The value of is
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Using only the paths and the directions shown, how many different routes are there from to ?
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Problem 10
A picture feet across is hung in the center of a wall that is feet wide. How many feet from the end
of the wall is the nearest edge of the picture?
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Problem 11
If means , then is
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Problem 12
The table below displays the grade distribution of the students in a mathematics class on the last
two tests. For example, exactly one student received a 'D' on Test 1 and a 'C' on Test 2 (see circled
entry). What percent of the students received the same grade on both tests?
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Problem 13
The perimeter of the polygon shown is
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Problem 14
If and , then the largest value of the quotient is
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Problem 15
Sale prices at the Ajax Outlet Store are below original prices. On Saturdays an additional
discount of off the sale price is given. What is the Saturday price of a coat whose original price is
$ ?
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Problem 16
A bar graph shows the number of hamburgers sold by a fast food chain each season. However, the bar
indicating the number sold during the winter is covered by a smudge. If exactly of the chain's
hamburgers are sold in the fall, how many million hamburgers are sold in the winter?
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Problem 17
Let be an odd whole number and let be any whole number. Which of the following statements
about the whole number is always true?
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Problem 18
A rectangular grazing area is to be fenced off on three sides using part of a meter rock wall as the
fourth side. Fence posts are to be placed every meters along the fence including the two posts
where the fence meets the rock wall. What is the fewest number of posts required to fence an area
m by m?
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Problem 19
At the beginning of a trip, the mileage odometer read miles. The driver filled the gas tank
with gallons of gasoline. During the trip, the driver filled his tank again with gallons of gasoline
when the odometer read . At the end of the trip, the driver filled his tank again with
gallons of gasoline. The odometer read . To the nearest tenth, what was the car's average
miles-per-gallon for the entire trip?
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Problem 20
The value of the expression is closest to
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Problem 21
Suppose one of the eight lettered identical squares is included with the four squares in the T-shaped
figure outlined. How many of the resulting figures can be folded into a topless cubical box?
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Problem 22
Alan, Beth, Carlos, and Diana were discussing their possible grades in mathematics class this grading
period. Alan said, "If I get an A, then Beth will get an A." Beth said, "If I get an A, then Carlos will get an
A." Carlos said, "If I get an A, then Diana will get an A." All of these statements were true, but only two
of the students received an A. Which two received A's?
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Problem 23
The large circle has diameter . The two small circles have their centers on and just touch at
, the center of the large circle. If each small circle has radius , what is the value of the ratio of the area
of the shaded region to the area of one of the small circles?
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Problem 24
The students at King Middle School are divided into three groups of equal size for lunch. Each
group has lunch at a different time. A computer randomly assigns each student to one of three lunch
groups. The probability that three friends, Al, Bob, and Carol, will be assigned to the same lunch group
is approximately
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Problem 25
Which of the following sets of whole numbers has the largest average?
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Martians measure angles in clerts. There are clerts in a full circle. How many clerts are there in a
right angle?
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The area of the rectangular region is
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Problem 6
The smallest product one could obtain by multiplying two numbers in the set
is
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Problem 7
The large cube shown is made up of identical sized smaller cubes. For each face of the large cube,
the opposite face is shaded the same way. The total number of smaller cubes that must have at least
one face shaded is
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Problem 8
If and are nonzero digits, then the number of digits (not necessarily different) in the sum of the
three whole numbers is
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When finding the sum , the least common denominator used is
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The sum is between
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What fraction of the large by rectangular region is shaded?
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Problem 13
Which of the following fractions has the largest value?
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Problem 14
A computer can do additions per second. How many additions can it do in one hour?
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Problem 15
The sale ad read: "Buy three tires at the regular price and get the fourth tire for three dollars;." Sam
paid for a set of four tires at the sale. What was the regular price of one tire?
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Problem 16
Joyce made of her first shots in the first three games of this basketball game, so her seasonal
shooting average was . In her next game, she took shots and raised her seasonal shooting
average to . How many of these shots did she make?
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Problem 17
Abby, Bret, Carl, and Dana are seated in a row of four seats numbered #1 to #4. Joe looks at them and
says:
"Bret is next to Carl."

"Abby is between Bret and Carl."
However each one of Joe's statements is false. Bret is actually sitting in seat #3. Who is sitting in seat
#2?
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Problem 18
Half the people in a room left. One third of those remaining started to dance. There were then
people who were not dancing. The original number of people in the room was
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Problem 19
A calculator has a squaring key which replaces the current number displayed with its square. For
example, if the display is and the key is depressed, then the display becomes
. If the display reads , how many times must you depress the key to
produce a displayed number greater than ?
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Problem 20
"If a whole number is not prime, then the whole number is not prime." A value of which
shows this statement to be false is
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Problem 21
Suppose means , the reciprocal of . For example, . How many of the following
statements are true?
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
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Problem 22
is a rectangle, is the center of the circle, and is on the circle. If and
, then the area of the shaded region is between
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Problem 23
Assume the adjoining chart shows the U.S. population, in millions, for each region by ethnic
group. To the nearest percent, what percent of the U.S. Black population lived in the South?
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Problem 24
A multiple choice examination consists of questions. The scoring is for each correct answer,
for each incorrect answer, and for each unanswered question. John's score on the examination
is . What is the maximum number of questions he could have answered correctly?
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Problem 25
Ten balls numbered to are in a jar. Jack reaches into the jar and randomly removes one of the
balls. Then Jill reaches into the jar and randomly removes a different ball. The probability that the sum
of the two numbers on the balls removed is even is
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The product
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The figure consists of alternating light and dark squares. The number of dark squares exceeds the
number of light squares by
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If is a right angle, then this protractor indicates that the measure of is approximately
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is closest to
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Problem 8
Betty used a calculator to find the product . She forgot to enter the decimal points.
The calculator showed . If Betty had entered the decimal points correctly, the answer would
have been
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Problem 9
An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two sides of equal length. How many of the five triangles on the
square grid below are isosceles?
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Problem 10
Chris's birthday is on a Thursday this year. What day of the week will it be days after her birthday?
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is
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Problem 12
Suppose the estimated billion dollar cost to send a person to the planet Mars is shared equally by
the million people in the U.S. Then each person's share is
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Problem 13
If rose bushes are spaced about foot apart, approximately how many bushes are needed to surround
a circular patio whose radius is feet?
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Problem 14
and are whole numbers and . The largest possible value of is
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Problem 15
The reciprocal of is
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Problem 16
Placing no more than one in each small square, what is the greatest number of 's that can be put
on the grid shown without getting three 's in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally?
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Problem 17
The shaded region formed by the two intersecting perpendicular rectangles, in square units, is
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Problem 18
The average weight of boys is pounds and the average weight of girls is pounds. The
average weight of the children is
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Problem 19
What is the number in the arithmetic sequence: ?
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Problem 20
The glass gauge on a cylindrical coffee maker shows that there are cups left when the coffee
maker is full. How many cups of coffee does it hold when it is full?
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Problem 21
A fifth number, , is added to the set to make the mean of the set of five numbers
equal to its median. The number of possible values of is
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Problem 22
Tom's Hat Shoppe increased all original prices by . Now the shoppe is having a sale where all
prices are off these increased prices. Which statement best describes the sale price of an item?
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Problem 23
Maria buys computer disks at a price of for and sells them at a price of for . How many
computer disks must she sell in order to make a profit of ?
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Problem 24
The square in the first diagram "rolls" clockwise around the fixed regular hexagon until it reaches the
bottom. In which position will the solid triangle be in diagram ?
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Problem 25
A palindrome is a whole number that reads the same forwards and backwards. If one neglects the
colon, certain times displayed on a digital watch are palindromes. Three examples are: ,
, and . How many times during a -hour period will be palindromes?
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Which of the following numbers is the largest?
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Estimate to determine which of the following numbers is closest to .
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If the markings on the number line are equally spaced, what is the number ?
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Problem 7
If the value of quarters and dimes equals the value of quarters and dimes, then
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Problem 9
There are boys for every girls in Ms. Johnson's math class. If there are students in her class,
what percent of them are boys?
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Problem 10
What is the number of degrees in the smaller angle between the hour hand and the minute hand on a
clock that reads seven o'clock?
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Problem 11
Which of the five "T-like shapes" would be symmetric to the one shown with respect to the dashed line?
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Problem 12
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Problem 14
When placing each of the digits in exactly one of the boxes of this subtraction problem,
what is the smallest difference that is possible?
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Problem 15
The area of the shaded region in parallelogram is
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Problem 16
In how many ways can be written as the sum of two primes?
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Problem 17
The number is between and . The average of , , and could be
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Problem 18
Many calculators have a reciprocal key that replaces the current number displayed with its
reciprocal. For example, if the display is and the key is pressed, then the display
becomes . If is currently displayed, what is the fewest positive number of times
you must depress the key so the display again reads ?
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Problem 19
The graph below shows the total accumulated dollars (in millions) spent by the Surf City government
during . For example, about million had been spent by the beginning of February and
approximately million by the end of April. Approximately how many millions of dollars were spent
during the summer months of June, July, and August?
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Problem 20
The figure may be folded along the lines shown to form a number cube. Three number faces come
together at each corner of the cube. What is the largest sum of three numbers whose faces come
together at a corner?
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Problem 21
Jack had a bag of apples. He sold of them to Jill. Next he sold of those remaining to
June. Of those apples still in his bag, he gave the shiniest one to his teacher. How many apples did
Jack have then?
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Problem 22
The letters , , , , , and the digits , , , are "cycled" separately as follows and put
together in a numbered list:
What is the number of the line on which will appear for the first time?
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Problem 23
An artist has cubes, each with an edge of meter. She stands them on the ground to form a
sculpture as shown. She then paints the exposed surface of the sculpture. How many square meters
does she paint?
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Problem 24
Suppose a square piece of paper is folded in half vertically. The folded paper is then cut in half along
the dashed line. Three rectangles are formed-a large one and two small ones. What is the ratio of the
perimeter of one of the small rectangles to the perimeter of the large rectangle?
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Problem 25
Every time these two wheels are spun, two numbers are selected by the pointers. What is the
probability that the sum of the two selected numbers is even?
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Which digit of , when changed to , gives the largest number?
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What fraction of the square is shaded?
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Which of the following could not be the unit's digit [one's digit] of the square of a whole number?
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Which of the following is closest to the product ?
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Problem 6
Which of these five numbers is the largest?
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Problem 7
When three different numbers from the set are multiplied, the largest
possible product is
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Problem 8
A dress originally priced at dollars was put on sale for off. If tax was added to the sale
price, then the total selling price (in dollars) of the dress was
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Problem 9
The grading scale shown is used at Jones Junior High. The fifteen scores in Mr. Freeman's class were:
In Mr. Freeman's class, what percent of the students received a grade of C?
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Problem 10
On this monthly calendar, the date behind one of the letters is added to the date behind . If this sum
equals the sum of the dates behind and , then the letter is
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Problem 11
The numbers on the faces of this cube are consecutive whole numbers. The sums of the two numbers
on each of the three pairs of opposite faces are equal. The sum of the six numbers on this cube is
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Problem 12
There are twenty-four -digit numbers that use each of the four digits , , , and exactly once.
Listed in numerical order from smallest to largest, the number in the position in the list is
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Problem 13
One proposal for new postage rates for a letter was cents for the first ounce and cents for each
additional ounce (or fraction of an ounce). The postage for a letter weighing ounces was
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Problem 14
A bag contains only blue balls and green balls. There are blue balls. If the probability of drawing a
blue ball at random from this bag is , then the number of green balls in the bag is
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Problem 15
The area of this figure is . Its perimeter is
[figure consists of four identical squares]
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Problem 17
A straight concrete sidewalk is to be feet wide, feet long, and inches thick. How many cubic
yards of concrete must a contractor order for the sidewalk if concrete must be ordered in a whole
number of cubic yards?
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Problem 18
Each corner of a rectangular prism is cut off. Two (of the eight) cuts are shown. How many edges does
the new figure have?
Assume that the planes cutting the prism do not intersect anywhere in or on the prism.
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Problem 19
There are seats in a row. What is the fewest number of seats that must be occupied so the next
person to be seated must sit next to someone?
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Problem 20
The annual incomes of families range from dollars to dollars. In error, the
largest income was entered on the computer as dollars. The difference between the mean
of the incorrect data and the mean of the actual data is
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Problem 21
A list of numbers is formed by beginning with two given numbers. Each new number in the list is the
product of the two previous numbers. Find the first number if the last three are shown:
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Problem 22
Several students are seated at a large circular table. They pass around a bag containing pieces
of candy. Each person receives the bag, takes one piece of candy and then passes the bag to the next
person. If Chris takes the first and last piece of candy, then the number of students at the table could
be
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Problem 23
The graph relates the distance traveled [in miles] to the time elapsed [in hours] on a trip taken by an
experimental airplane. During which hour was the average speed of this airplane the largest?
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Problem 24
Three 's and a will balance nine 's. One will balance a and a .
How many 's will balance the two 's in this balance?
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Problem 25
How many different patterns can be made by shading exactly two of the nine squares? Patterns that
can be matched by flips and/or turns are not considered different. For example, the patterns shown
below are not considered different.
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Two hundred thousand times two hundred thousand equals
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If , then
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A "domino" is made up of two small squares:
Which of the "checkerboards" illustrated below CANNOT be covered exactly and completely by a
whole number of non-overlapping dominoes?
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Which number in the array below is both the largest in its column and the smallest in its row? (Columns
go up and down, rows go right and left.)
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The value of is closest to
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Problem 8
What is the largest quotient that can be formed using two numbers chosen from the set
?
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How many whole numbers from through are divisible by either or or both?
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Problem 10
The area in square units of the region enclosed by parallelogram is
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Problem 11
There are several sets of three different numbers whose sum is which can be chosen from
. How many of these sets contain a ?
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If , then
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Problem 13
How many zeros are at the end of the product
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Problem 14
Several students are competing in a series of three races. A student earns points for winning a race,
points for finishing second and point for finishing third. There are no ties. What is the smallest
number of points that a student must earn in the three races to be guaranteed of earning more points
than any other student?
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All six sides of a rectangular solid were rectangles. A one-foot cube was cut out of the rectangular solid
as shown. The total number of square feet in the surface of the new solid is how many more or less
than that of the original solid?
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Problem 16
The squares on a piece of paper are numbered as shown in the diagram. While lying on a table,
the paper is folded in half four times in the following sequence:
(1) fold the top half over the bottom half
(2) fold the bottom half over the top half
(3) fold the right half over the left half
(4) fold the left half over the right half.
Which numbered square is on top after step ?
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Problem 17
An auditorium with rows of seats has seats in the first row. Each successive row has one more
seat than the previous row. If students taking an exam are permitted to sit in any row, but not next to
another student in that row, then the maximum number of students that can be seated for an exam is
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Problem 18
The vertical axis indicates the number of employees, but the scale was accidentally omitted from this
graph. What percent of the employees at the Gauss company have worked there for years or more?
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Problem 19
The average (arithmetic mean) of different positive whole numbers is . The largest possible
value of any of these numbers is
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Problem 20
In the addition problem, each digit has been replaced by a letter. If different letters represent different
digits then
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Problem 21
For every rise in temperature, the volume of a certain gas expands by cubic centimeters. If the
volume of the gas is cubic centimeters when the temperature is , what was the volume of the
gas in cubic centimeters when the temperature was ?
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Problem 22
Each spinner is divided into equal parts. The results obtained from spinning the two spinners are
multiplied. What is the probability that this product is an even number?
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Problem 23
The Pythagoras High School band has female and male members. The Pythagoras High
School orchestra has female and male members. There are females who are members in
both band and orchestra. Altogether, there are students who are in either band or orchestra or
both. The number of males in the band who are NOT in the orchestra is
Solution
Problem 24
A cube of edge cm is cut into smaller cubes, not all the same size. If the edge of each of the
smaller cubes is a whole number of centimeters, then
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Problem 25
An equilateral triangle is originally painted black. Each time the triangle is changed, the middle fourth of
each black triangle turns white. After five changes, what fractional part of the original area of the black
triangle remains black?
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What is the largest difference that can be formed by subtracting two numbers chosen from the set
?
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During the softball season, Judy had hits. Among her hits were home run, triple and doubles.
The rest of her hits were singles. What percent of her hits were singles?
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Problem 5
A circle of diameter is removed from a rectangle, as shown. Which whole number is closest
to the area of the shaded region?
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Suppose that
means . For example,
is . Then the sum
is
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The digit-sum of is . How many 3-digit whole numbers, whose digit-sum is
, are even?
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Problem 8
A store owner bought pencils at each. If he sells them for each, how many of
them must he sell to make a profit of exactly ?
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Problem 9
The population of a small town is . The graph indicates the number of females and males in the
town, but the vertical scale-values are omitted. How many males live in the town?
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Problem 10
An isosceles right triangle with legs of length is partitioned into congruent triangles as shown.
The shaded area is
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Problem 11
The bar graph shows the results of a survey on color preferences. What percent preferred blue?
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Problem 12
The five tires of a car (four road tires and a full-sized spare) were rotated so that each tire was used the
same number of miles during the first miles the car traveled. For how many miles was each
tire used?
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Problem 13
Five test scores have a mean (average score) of , a median (middle score) of and a mode (most
frequent score) of . The sum of the two lowest test scores is
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Problem 14
When four gallons are added to a tank that is one-third full, the tank is then one-half full. The capacity
of the tank in gallons is
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Problem 15
What is the letter in this sequence?
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Problem 16
Which cylinder has twice the volume of the cylinder shown above?
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Problem 17
The sides of a triangle have lengths , , and , where is a whole number. What is the smallest
possible value of ?
Solution
Problem 18
On a trip, a car traveled miles in an hour and a half, then was stopped in traffic for minutes,
then traveled miles during the next hours. What was the car's average speed in miles per hour
for the -hour trip?
Solution
Problem 19
The distance between the and exits on an interstate highway is miles. If any two exits
are at least miles apart, then what is the largest number of miles there can be between two
consecutive exits that are between the and exits?
Solution
Problem 20
Which pattern of identical squares could NOT be folded along the lines shown to form a cube?
Solution
Problem 21
Northside's Drum and Bugle Corps raised money for a trip. The drummers and bugle players kept
separate sales records. According to the double bar graph, in what month did one group's sales
exceed the other's by the greatest percent?
Solution
Problem 22
Eight square tiles are arranged as shown so their outside edges form a polygon with a
perimeter of units. Two additional tiles of the same size are added to the figure so that at least one
side of each tile is shared with a side of one of the squares in the original figure. Which of the following
could be the perimeter of the new figure?
Solution
Problem 23
If two dice are tossed, the probability that the product of the numbers showing on the tops of the dice is
greater than is
Solution
Problem 24
Four circles of radius are arranged as shown. Their centers are the vertices of a square. The area of
the shaded region is closest to
Solution
Problem 25
One half of the water is poured out of a full container. Then one third of the remainder is poured out.
Continue the process: one fourth of the remainder for the third pouring, one fifth of the remainder for
the fourth pouring, etc. After how many pourings does exactly one tenth of the original water remain?
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When the fraction is expressed in simplest form, then the sum of the numerator and the
denominator will be
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Problem 3
Which of the following numbers has the largest prime factor?
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Problem 4
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Problem 5
Which one of the following bar graphs could represent the data from the circle graph?
Solution
Problem 6
A can of soup can feed adults or children. If there are cans of soup and children are fed, then
how many adults would the remaining soup feed?
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Problem 7
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Problem 8
To control her blood pressure, Jill's grandmother takes one half of a pill every other day. If one supply
of medicine contains pills, then the supply of medicine would last approximately
Solution
Problem 9
Consider the operation defined by the following table:
For example, . Then
Solution
Problem 10
This line graph represents the price of a trading card during the first months of .
The greatest monthly drop in price occurred during
Solution
Problem 11
Consider this histogram of the scores for students taking a test:
The median is in the interval labeled
Solution
Problem 12
If each of the three operation signs, , , , is used exactly ONCE in one of the blanks in the
expression
then the value of the result could equal
Solution
Problem 13
The word "HELP" in block letters is painted in black with strokes unit wide on a by rectangular
white sign with dimensions as shown. The area of the white portion of the sign, in square units, is
Solution
Problem 14
The nine squares in the table shown are to be filled so that every row and every column contains each
of the numbers . Then
Solution
Problem 15
The arithmetic mean (average) of four numbers is . If the largest of these numbers is , then the
mean of the remaining three numbers is
Solution
Problem 16
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Problem 17
Square corners, units on a side, are removed from a unit by unit rectangular sheet of
cardboard. The sides are then folded to form an open box. The surface area, in square units, of the
interior of the box is
Solution
Problem 18
The rectangle shown has length , width , and and are midpoints of
and , respectively. The area of quadrilateral is
Solution
Problem 19
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Problem 20
When is expressed as a single whole number, the sum of the digits is
Solution
Problem 21
If the length of a rectangle is increased by and its width is increased by , then the area is
increased by
Solution
Problem 22
Pat Peano has plenty of 0's, 1's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's and 9's, but he has only twenty-two 2's. How
far can he number the pages of his scrapbook with these digits?
Solution
Problem 23
Five runners, , , , , , have a race, and beats , beats , beats , and
finishes after and before . Who could NOT have finished third in the race?
Solution
Problem 24
What number is directly above in this array of numbers?
Solution
Problem 25
A checkerboard consists of one-inch squares. A square card, inches on a side, is placed on the
board so that it covers part or all of the area of each of squares. The maximum possible value of
is
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Each day Maria must work hours. This does not include the minutes she takes for lunch. If she
begins working at and takes her lunch break at noon, then her working day will end at
Solution
Problem 4
Which of the following represents the result when the figure shown below is rotated clockwise
around its center?
Solution
Problem 5
Given that and , the number of rods in one mile is
Solution
Problem 6
The unit's digit (one's digit) of the product of any six consecutive positive whole numbers is
Solution
Problem 7
If , and , then
Solution
Problem 8
For how many three-digit whole numbers does the sum of the digits equal ?
Solution
Problem 9
A shopper buys a dollar coat on sale for off. An additional dollars are taken off the sale
price by using a discount coupon. A sales tax of is paid on the final selling price. The total amount
the shopper pays for the coat is
Solution
Problem 10
For how many positive integer values of is the expression an integer?
Solution
Problem 11
Last summer students attended basketball camp. Of those attending, were boys and were
girls. Also, students were from Jonas Middle School and were from Clay Middle School. Twenty
of the girls were from Jonas Middle School. How many of the boys were from Clay Middle School?
Solution
Problem 12
Each of the three large squares shown below is the same size. Segments that intersect the sides of the
squares intersect at the midpoints of the sides. How do the shaded areas of these squares compare?
Solution
Problem 13
The number halfway between and is
Solution
Problem 14
Two children at a time can play pairball. For minutes, with only two children playing at time, five
children take turns so that each one plays the same amount of time. The number of minutes each child
plays is
Solution
Problem 15
If this path is to continue in the same pattern:
then which sequence of arrows goes from point to point ?
Solution
Problem 16
The perimeter of one square is times the perimeter of another square. The area of the larger square
is how many times the area of the smaller square?
Solution
Problem 17
Pauline Bunyan can shovel snow at the rate of cubic yards for the first hour, cubic yards for the
second, for the third, etc., always shoveling one cubic yard less per hour than the previous hour. If
her driveway is yards wide, yards long, and covered with snow yards deep, then the number of
hours it will take her to shovel it clean is closest to
Solution
Problem 18
Mike leaves home and drives slowly east through city traffic. When he reaches the highway he drives
east more rapidly until he reaches the shopping mall where he stops. He shops at the mall for an hour.
Mike returns home by the same route as he came, driving west rapidly along the highway and then
slowly through city traffic. Each graph shows the distance from home on the vertical axis versus the
time elapsed since leaving home on the horizontal axis. Which graph is the best representation of
Mike's trip?
Solution
Problem 19
Around the outside of a by square, construct four semicircles (as shown in the figure) with the four
sides of the square as their diameters. Another square, , has its sides parallel to the
corresponding sides of the original square, and each side of is tangent to one of the
semicircles. The area of the square is
Solution
Problem 20
Let and be four different digits selected from the set
If the sum is to be as small as possible, then must equal
Solution
Problem 21
A gumball machine contains red, white, and blue gumballs. The least number of gumballs a
person must buy to be sure of getting four gumballs of the same color is
Solution
Problem 22
The two wheels shown below are spun and the two resulting numbers are added. The probability that
the sum is even is
Solution
Problem 23
If , and are different digits, then the largest possible digit sum for
has the form
Solution
Problem 24
A by square is divided into four by squares. Each of the small squares is to be painted either
green or red. In how many different ways can the painting be accomplished so that no green square
shares its top or right side with any red square? There may be as few as zero or as many as four small
green squares.
Solution
Problem 25
Find the sum of the digits in the answer to
where a string of nines is multiplied by a string of fours.
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Problem 3
Which of the following operations has the same effect on a number as multiplying by and then
dividing by ?
Solution
Problem 4
A teacher tells the class,
"Think of a number, add 1 to it, and double the result. Give the answer to your partner. Partner, subtract
1 from the number you are given and double the result to get your answer."
Ben thinks of , and gives his answer to Sue. What should Sue's answer be?
Solution
Problem 5
Find the smallest whole number that is larger than the sum
Solution
Problem 6
Figures , , and are squares. The perimeter of is and the perimeter of is . The
perimeter of is
Solution
Problem 7
At Clover View Junior High, one half of the students go home on the school bus. One fourth go home
by automobile. One tenth go home on their bicycles. The rest walk home. What fractional part of the
students walk home?
Solution
Problem 8
An American traveling in Italy wishes to exchange American money (dollars) for Italian money (lire). If
3000 lire = $1.60, how much lire will the traveler receive in exchange for $1.00?
Solution
Problem 9
Three congruent circles with centers , , and are tangent to the sides of rectangle as
shown. The circle centered at has diameter and passes through points and . The area of
the rectangle is
Solution
Problem 10
A jacket and a shirt originally sold for 80 dollars and 40 dollars, respectively. During a sale Chris bought
the 80 dollar jacket at a discount and the dollar 40 shirt at a discount. The total amount
saved was what percent of the total of the original prices?
Solution
Problem 11
Jane can walk any distance in half the time it takes Hector to walk the same distance. They set off in
opposite directions around the outside of the 18-block area as shown. When they meet for the first
time, they will be closest to
Solution
Problem 12
A lucky year is one in which at least one date, when written in the form month/day/year, has the
following property: The product of the month times the day equals the last two digits of the year. For
example, 1956 is a lucky year because it has the date 7/8/56 and . Which of the
following is NOT a lucky year?
Solution
Problem 13
In the figure, , , and are right angles. If and
, then
Solution
Problem 14
A team won 40 of its first 50 games. How many of the remaining 40 games must this team win so it will
have won exactly 70% of its games for the season?
Solution
Problem 15
What is the digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal form of ?
Solution
Problem 16
Students from three middle schools worked on a summer project.
Seven students from Allen school worked for 3 days.

Four students from Balboa school worked for 5 days.
Five students from Carver school worked for 9 days.
The total amount paid for the students' work was . Assuming each student received the same
amount for a day's work, how much did the students from Balboa school earn altogether?
Solution
Problem 17
The table below gives the percent of students in each grade at Annville and Cleona elementary
schools:
Annville has 100 students and Cleona has 200 students. In the two schools combined, what percent of
the students are in grade 6?
Solution
Problem 18
The area of each of the four congruent L-shaped regions of this 100-inch by 100-inch square is 3/16 of
the total area. How many inches long is the side of the center square?
Solution
Problem 19
The graph shows the distribution of the number of children in the families of the students in Ms.
Jordan's English class. The median number of children in the family for this distribution is
Solution
Problem 20
Diana and Apollo each roll a standard die obtaining a number at random from 1 to 6. What is the
probability that Diana's number is larger than Apollo's number?
Solution
Problem 21
A plastic snap-together cube has a protruding snap on one side and receptacle holes on the other five
sides as shown. What is the smallest number of these cubes that can be snapped together so that only
receptacle holes are showing?
Solution
Problem 22
The number 6545 can be written as a product of a pair of positive two-digit numbers. What is the sum
of this pair of numbers?
Solution
Problem 23
How many four-digit whole numbers are there such that the leftmost digit is odd, the second digit is
even, and all four digits are different?
Solution
Problem 24
In parallelogram , is the altitude to the base and is the altitude to the base
. [Note: Both pictures represent the same parallelogram.] If , , and
, then
Solution
Problem 25
Buses from Dallas to Houston leave every hour on the hour. Buses from Houston to Dallas leave every
hour on the half hour. The trip from one city to the other takes 5 hours. Assuming the buses travel on
the same highway, how many Dallas-bound buses does a Houston-bound bus pass in the highway (not
in the station)?
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his answer, and then adds 2. Thuy doubles the number 10, subtracts 1 from her answer, and then adds
Search 2. Kareem subtracts 1 from the number 10, adds 2 to his number, and then doubles the result. Who
gets the largest final answer?
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Problem 3
The 64 whole numbers from 1 through 64 are written, one per square, on a checkerboard (an 8 by 8
array of 64 squares). The first 8 numbers are written in order across the first row, the next 8 across the
second row, and so on. After all 64 numbers are written, the sum of the numbers in the four corners will
be
Solution
Problem 4
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Problem 5
The letters , , , , and represent numbers located on the number line as shown.
Which of the following expressions represents a negative number?
Solution
Problem 6
What is the smallest result that can be obtained from the following process?
Choose three different numbers from the set .

Add two of these numbers.
Multiply their sum by the third number.
Solution
Problem 7
Brent has goldfish that quadruple (become four times as many) every month, and Gretel has goldfish
that double every month. If Brent has 4 goldfish at the same time that Gretel has 128 goldfish, then in
how many months from that time will they have the same number of goldfish?
Solution
Problem 8
Points and are 10 units apart. Points and are 4 units apart. Points and are 3 units
apart. If and are as close as possible, then the number of units between them is
Solution
Problem 9
If 5 times a number is 2, then 100 times the reciprocal of the number is
Solution
Problem 10
When Walter drove up to the gasoline pump, he noticed that his gasoline tank was 1/8 full. He
purchased 7.5 gallons of gasoline for . With this additional gasoline, his gasoline tank was then
5/8 full. The number of gallons of gasoline his tank holds when it is full is
Solution
Problem 11
Let be the number
where there are 1996 zeros after the decimal point. Which of the following expressions represents the
largest number?
Solution
Problem 12
What number should be removed from the list
so that the average of the remaining numbers is ?
Solution
Problem 13
In the fall of 1996, a total of 800 students participated in an annual school clean-up day. The organizers
of the event expect that in each of the years 1997, 1998, and 1999, participation will increase by 50%
over the previous year. The number of participants the organizers will expect in the fall of 1999 is
Solution
Problem 14
Six different digits from the set
are placed in the squares in the figure shown so that the sum of the entries in the vertical column is 23
and the sum of the entries in the horizontal row is 12. The sum of the six digits used is
Solution
Problem 15
The remainder when the product is divided by 5 is
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Problem 16
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Problem 17
Figure is a square. Point is the origin, and point has coordinates (2,2). What are the
coordinates for so that the area of triangle equals the area of square ?
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Problem 18
Ana's monthly salary was $2000 in May. In June she received a 20% raise. In July she received a 20%
pay cut. After the two changes in June and July, Ana's monthly salary was
Solution
Problem 19
The pie charts below indicate the percent of students who prefer golf, bowling, or tennis at East Junior
High School and West Middle School. The total number of students at East is 2000 and at West, 2500.
In the two schools combined, the percent of students who prefer tennis is
Solution
Problem 20
Suppose there is a special key on a calculator that replaces the number currently displayed with the
number given by the formula . For example, if the calculator is displaying 2 and the
special key is pressed, then the calculator will display -1 since . Now suppose
that the calculator is displaying 5. After the special key is pressed 100 times in a row, the calculator will
display
Solution
Problem 21
How many subsets containing three different numbers can be selected from the set
so that the sum of the three numbers is even?
Solution
Problem 22
The horizontal and vertical distances between adjacent points equal 1 unit. The area of triangle
is
Solution
Problem 23
The manager of a company planned to distribute a bonus to each employee from the company
fund, but the fund contained less than what was needed. Instead the manager gave each
employee a bonus and kept the remaining in the company fund. The amount of money in
the company fund before any bonuses were paid was
Solution
Problem 24
The measure of angle is , bisects angle , and bisects angle .
The measure of angle is
Solution
Problem 25
A point is chosen at random from within a circular region. What is the probability that the point is closer
to the center of the region than it is to the boundary of the region?
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number Ahn can get?
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Problem 3
Which of the following numbers is the largest?
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Problem 4
Julie is preparing a speech for her class. Her speech must last between one-half hour and three-
quarters of an hour. The ideal rate of speech is 150 words per minute. If Julie speaks at the ideal rate,
which of the following number of words would be an appropriate length for her speech?
Solution
Problem 5
There are many two-digit multiples of 7, but only two of the multiples have a digit sum of 10. The sum
of these two multiples of 7 is
Solution
Problem 6
In the number the value of the place occupied by the digit 9 is how many times as
great as the value of the place occupied by the digit 3?
Solution
Problem 7
The area of the smallest square that will contain a circle of radius 4 is
Solution
Problem 8
Walter gets up at 6:30 a.m., catches the school bus at 7:30 a.m., has 6 classes that last 50 minutes
each, has 30 minutes for lunch, and has 2 hours additional time at school. He takes the bus home and
arrives at 4:00 p.m. How many minutes has he spent on the bus?
Solution
Problem 9
Three students, with different names, line up single file. What is the probability that they are in
alphabetical order from front-to-back?
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Problem 10
What fraction of this square region is shaded? Stripes are equal in width, and the figure is drawn to
scale.
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Problem 11
Let mean the number of whole number divisors of . For example, because 3 has
two divisors, 1 and 3. Find the value of
Solution
Problem 12
Find
Solution
Problem 13
Three bags of jelly beans contain 26, 28, and 30 beans. The ratios of yellow beans to all beans in each
of these bags are , , and , respectively. All three bags of candy are dumped into one
bowl. Which of the following is closest to the ratio of yellow jelly beans to all beans in the bowl?
Solution
Problem 14
There is a set of five positive integers whose average (mean) is 5, whose median is 5, and whose only
mode is 8. What is the difference between the largest and smallest integers in the set?
Solution
Problem 15
Each side of the large square in the figure is trisected (divided into three equal parts). The corners of
an inscribed square are at these trisection points, as shown. The ratio of the area of the inscribed
square to the area of the large square is
Solution
Problem 16
Penni Precisely buys $100 worth of stock in each of three companies: Alabama Almonds, Boston
Beans, and California Cauliflower. After one year, AA was up 20%, BB was down 25%, and CC was
unchanged. For the second year, AA was down 20% from the previous year, BB was up 25% from the
previous year, and CC was unchanged. If A, B, and C are the final values of the stock, then
Solution
Problem 17
A cube has eight vertices (corners) and twelve edges. A segment, such as , which joins two vertices
not joined by an edge is called a diagonal. Segment is also a diagonal. How many diagonals does a
cube have?
Solution
Problem 18
At the grocery store last week, small boxes of facial tissue were priced at 4 boxes for $5. This week
they are on sale at 5 boxes for $4. The percent decrease in the price per box during the sale was
closest to
Solution
Problem 19
If the product , what is the sum of and ?
Solution
Problem 20
A pair of 8-sided dice have sides numbered 1 through 8. Each side has the same probability (chance)
of landing face up. The probability that the product of the two numbers that land face-up exceeds 36 is
Solution
Problem 21
Each corner cube is removed from this cube. The surface area of the
remaining figure is
Solution
Problem 22
A two-inch cube of silver weighs 3 pounds and is worth $200. How much is a three-
inch cube of silver worth?
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Problem 23
There are positive integers that have these properties:
the sum of the squares of their digits is 50, and

each digit is larger than the one to its left.
The product of the digits of the largest integer with both properties is
Solution
Problem 24
Diameter is divided at in the ratio . The two semicircles, and , divide
the circular region into an upper (shaded) region and a lower region. The ratio of the area of the upper
region to that of the lower region is
Solution
Problem 25
All of the even numbers from 2 to 98 inclusive, excluding those ending in 0, are multiplied together.
What is the rightmost digit (the units digit) of the product?
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How many triangles are in this figure? (Some triangles may overlap other triangles.)
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Problem 5
Which of the following numbers is largest?
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Problem 6
Dots are spaced one unit apart, horizontally and vertically. The number of square units enclosed by the
polygon is
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Problem 7
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Problem 8
A child's wading pool contains 200 gallons of water. If water evaporates at the rate of 0.5 gallons per
day and no other water is added or removed, how many gallons of water will be in the pool after 30
days?
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Problem 9
For a sale, a store owner reduces the price of a 10 scarf by . Later the price is lowered again,
this time by one-half the reduced price. The price is now
Solution
Problem 10
Each of the letters , , , and represents a different integer in the set , but not
necessarily in that order. If , then the sum of and is
Solution
Problem 11
Harry has 3 sisters and 5 brothers. His sister Harriet has sisters and brothers. What is the product
of and ?
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Problem 12
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Problem 13
What is the ratio of the area of the shaded square to the area of the large square? (The figure is drawn
to scale)
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Problem 14
At Annville Junior High School, of the students in the Math Club are in the Science Club, and
of the students in the Science Club are in the Math Club. There are 15 students in the Science
Club. How many students are in the Math Club?
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In the very center of the Irenic Sea lie the beautiful Nisos Isles. In 1998 the number of people on these
islands is only 200, but the population triples every 25 years. Queen Irene has decreed that there must
be at least 1.5 square miles for every person living in the Isles. The total area of the Nisos Isles is
24,900 square miles.
Problem 15
Estimate the population of Nisos in the year 2050.
Solution
Problem 16
Estimate the year in which the population of Nisos will be approximately 6,000.
Solution
Problem 17
In how many years, approximately, from 1998 will the population of Nisos be as much as Queen Irene
has proclaimed that the islands can support?
Solution
Problem 18
As indicated by the diagram below, a rectangular piece of paper is folded bottom to top, then left to
right, and finally, a hole is punched at X. What does the paper look like when unfolded?
Solution
Problem 19
Tamika selects two different numbers at random from the set and adds them. Carlos
takes two different numbers at random from the set and multiplies them. What is the
probability that Tamika's result is greater than Carlos' result?
Solution
Problem 20
Let be a square piece of paper. is folded onto and then is folded onto . The area
of the resulting figure is 9 square inches. Find the perimeter of square .
Solution
Problem 21
A cubical box contains 64 identical small cubes that exactly fill the box. How many of
these small cubes touch a side or the bottom of the box?
Solution
Problem 22
Terri produces a sequence of positive integers by following three rules. She starts with a positive
integer, then applies the appropriate rule to the result, and continues in this fashion.
Rule 1: If the integer is less than 10, multiply it by 9.
Rule 2: If the integer is even and greater than 9, divide it by 2.
Rule 3: If the integer is odd and greater than 9, subtract 5 from it.
A sample sequence:
Find the term of the sequence that begins
Solution
Problem 23
If the pattern in the diagram continues, what fraction of the interior would be shaded in the eighth
triangle?
Solution
Problem 24
A rectangular board of 8 columns has squares numbered beginning in the upper left corner and moving
left to right so row one is numbered 1 through 8, row two is 9 through 16, and so on. A student shades
square 1, then skips one square and shades square 3, skips two squares and shades square 6, skips 3
squares and shades square 10, and continues in this way until there is at least one shaded square in
each column. What is the number of the shaded square that first achieves this result?
Solution
Problem 25
Three generous friends, each with some cash, redistribute their money as follows: Amy gives enough
money to Jan and Toy to double the amount that each has. Jan then gives enough to Amy and Toy to
double their amounts. Finally, Toy gives Amy and Jan enough to double their amounts. If Toy has $36
when they begin and $36 when they end, what is the total amount that all three friends have?
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Problem 3
Which triplet of numbers has a sum NOT equal to 1?
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Problem 4
The diagram shows the miles traveled by bikers Alberto and Bjorn. After four hours, about how many
more miles has Alberto biked than Bjorn?
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Problem 5
A rectangular garden 50 feet long and 10 feet wide is enclosed by a fence. To make the garden larger,
while using the same fence, its shape is changed to a square. By how many square feet does this
enlarge the garden?
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Problem 6
Bo, Coe, Flo, Jo, and Moe have different amounts of money. Neither Jo nor Bo has as much money as
Flo. Both Bo and Coe have more than Moe. Jo has more than Moe, but less than Bo. Who has the
least amount of money?
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Problem 7
The third exit on a highway is located at milepost 40 and the tenth exit is at milepost 160. There is a
service center on the highway located three-fourths of the way from the third exit to the tenth exit. At
what milepost would you expect to find this service center?
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Problem 8
Six squares are colored, front and back, (R = red, B = blue, O = orange, Y = yellow, G = green, and W
= white). They are hinged together as shown, then folded to form a cube. The face opposite the white
face is
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Problem 9
Three flower beds overlap as shown. Bed A has 500 plants, bed B has 450 plants, and bed C has 350
plants. Beds A and B share 50 plants, while beds A and C share 100. The total number of plants is
Solution
Problem 10
A complete cycle of a traffic light takes 60 seconds. During each cycle the light is green for 25 seconds,
yellow for 5 seconds, and red for 30 seconds. At a randomly chosen time, what is the probability that
the light will NOT be green?
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Problem 11
Each of the five numbers 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13 is 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. The
largest possible value for the horizontal or vertical sum is
Solution
Problem 12
The ratio of the number of games won to the number of games lost (no ties) by the Middle School
Middies is . To the nearest whole percent, what percent of its games did the team lose?
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Problem 13
The average age of the 40 members of a computer science camp is 17 years. There are 20 girls, 15
boys, and 5 adults. If the average age of the girls is 15 and the average age of the boys is 16, what is
the average age of the adults?
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Problem 14
In trapezoid , the sides and are equal. The perimeter of is
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Problem 15
Bicycle license plates in Flatville each contain three letters. The first is chosen from the set {C,H,L,P,R},
the second from {A,I,O}, and the third from {D,M,N,T}.
When Flatville needed more license plates, they added two new letters. The new letters may both be
added to one set or one letter may be added to one set and one to another set. What is the largest
possible number of ADDITIONAL license plates that can be made by adding two letters?
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Problem 16
Tori's mathematics test had 75 problems: 10 arithmetic, 30 algebra, and 35 geometry problems.
Although she answered 70% of the arithmetic, 40% of the algebra, and 60% of the geometry problems
correctly, she did not pass the test because she got less than 60% of the problems right. How many
more problems would she have needed to answer correctly to earn a 60% passing grade?
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Problem 17
Problems 17, 18, and 19 refer to the following:
At Central Middle School the 108 students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about
problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Hansel and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar
Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, lists these items: cups flour,
eggs, tablespoons butter, cups sugar, and package of chocolate drops. They will make only full
recipes, not partial recipes.
Hansel can buy eggs by the half-dozen. How many half-dozens should he buy to make enough
cookies? (Some eggs and some cookies may be left over.)
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Problem 18
They learn that a big concert is scheduled for the same night and attendance will be down 25%. How
many recipes of cookies should they make for their smaller party?
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Problem 19
The drummer gets sick. The concert is cancelled. Hansel and Gretel must make enough pans of
cookies to supply 216 cookies. There are 8 tablespoons in a stick of butter. How many sticks of butter
will be needed? (Some butter may be left over, of course.)
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Problem 20
Figure 1 is called a "stack map." The numbers tell how many cubes are stacked in each position. Fig. 2
shows these cubes, and Fig. 3 shows the view of the stacked cubes as seen from the front.
Which of the following is the front view for the stack map in Fig. 4?
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Problem 21
The degree measure of angle is
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Problem 22
In a far-off land three fish can be traded for two loaves of bread and a loaf of bread can be traded for
four bags of rice. How many bags of rice is one fish worth?
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Problem 23
Square has sides of length 3. Segments and divide the square's area into
three equal parts. How long is segment ?
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Problem 24
When is divided by , the remainder is
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Problem 25
Points , , and are midpoints of the sides of right triangle . Points , , are
midpoints of the sides of triangle , etc. If the dividing and shading process is done 100 times
(the first three are shown) and , then the total area of the shaded triangles is
nearest
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How many whole numbers lie in the interval between and
Problem 4
In only of the working adults in Carlin City worked at home. By the "at-home" work
force increased to . In there were approximately working at home, and in
there were . The graph that best illustrates this is
Problem 5
Each principal of Lincoln High School serves exactly one -year term. What is the maximum number of
principals this school could have during an -year period?
Problem 6
Figure is a square. Inside this square three smaller squares are drawn with the side lengths
as labeled. The area of the shaded L-shaped region is
Problem 7
What is the minimum possible product of three different numbers of the set
?
Problem 8
Three dice with faces numbered 1 through 6 are stacked as shown. Seven of the eighteen faces are
visible, leaving eleven faces hidden (back, bottom, between). The total number of dots NOT visible in
this view is
Problem 9
Three-digit powers of 2 and 5 are used in this cross-number puzzle. What is the only possible digit for
the outlined square?
Problem 10
Ara and Shea were once the same height. Since then Shea has grown 20% while Ara has grown half
as many inches as Shea. Shea is now 60 inches tall. How tall, in inches, is Ara now?
Problem 11
The number 64 has the property that it is divisible by its units digit. How many whole numbers between
10 and 50 have this property?
Problem 12
A block wall 100 feet long and 7 feet high will be constructed using blocks that are 1 foot high and
either 2 feet long or 1 foot long (no blocks may be cut). The vertical joins in the blocks must be
staggered as shown, and the wall must be even on the ends. What is the smallest number of blocks
needed to build this wall?
Problem 13
In triangle , we have and . If bisects
, then
Problem 14
What is the units digit of ?
Problem 15
Triangles , , and are all equilateral. Points and are midpoints of
and , respectively. If , what is the perimeter of figure ?
Problem 16
In order for Mateen to walk a kilometer (1000m) in his rectangular backyard, he must walk the length
25 times or walk its perimeter 10 times. What is the area of Mateen's backyard in square meters?
Problem 17
The operation is defined for all nonzero numbers by . Determine
Problem 18
Consider these two geoboard quadrilaterals. Which of the following statements is true?
Problem 19
Three circular arcs of radius 5 units bound the region shown. Arcs and are quarter-circles,
and arc is a semicircle. What is the area, in square units, of the region?
Problem 20
You have nine coins: a collection of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters having a total value of $
, with at least one coin of each type. How many dimes must you have?
Problem 21
Keiko tosses one penny and Ephraim tosses two pennies. The probability that Ephraim gets the same
number of heads that Keiko gets is
Problem 22
A cube has edge length 2. Suppose that we glue a cube of edge length 1 on top of the big cube so that
one of its faces rests entirely on the top face of the larger cube. The percent increase in the surface
area (sides, top, and bottom) from the original cube to the new solid formed is closest to
Problem 23
There is a list of seven numbers. The average of the first four numbers is 5, and the average of the last
four numbers is 8. If the average of all seven numbers is , then the number common to both sets of
four numbers is
Problem 24
If and , then
Problem 25
The area of rectangle is 72. If point and the midpoints of and are joined to
form a triangle, the area of that triangle is
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Problem 3
Granny Smith has $63. Elberta has $2 more than Anjou and Anjou has one-third as much as Granny
Smith. How many dollars does Elberta have?
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Problem 4
The digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 are each used once to form the smallest possible even five-digit number.
The digit in the tens place is
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Problem 5
On a dark and stormy night Snoopy suddenly saw a flash of lightning. Ten seconds later he heard the
sound of thunder. The speed of sound is 1088 feet per second and one mile is 5280 feet. Estimate, to
the nearest half-mile, how far Snoopy was from the flash of lightning.
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Problem 6
Six trees are equally spaced along one side of a straight road. The distance from the first tree to the
fourth is 60 feet. What is the distance in feet between the first and last trees?
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Kites on Parade
Problems 7, 8 and 9 are about these kites.
To promote her school's annual Kite Olympics, Genevieve makes a small kite and a large kite for a
bulletin board display. The kites look like the one in the diagram below. For her small kite Genevieve
draws the kite on a one-inch grid. For the large kite she triples both the height and width of the entire
grid.
Problem 7
What is the number of square inches in the area of the small kite?
Solution
Problem 8
Genevieve puts bracing on her large kite in the form of a cross connecting opposite corners of the kite.
How many inches of bracing material does she need?
Solution
Problem 9
The large kite is covered with gold foil. The foil is cut from a rectangular piece that just covers the entire
grid. How many square inches of waste material are cut off from the four corners?
Solution
Problem 10
A collector offers to buy state quarters for 2000% of their face value. At that rate how much will Bryden
get for his four state quarters?
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Problem 11
Points , , and have these coordinates: , , and
. The area of quadrilateral is
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Problem 12
If , then
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Problem 13
Of the 36 students in Richelle's class, 12 prefer chocolate pie, 8 prefer apple, and 6 prefer blueberry.
Half of the remaining students prefer cherry pie and half prefer lemon. For Richelle's pie graph showing
this data, how many degrees should she use for cherry pie?
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Problem 14
Tyler has entered a buffet line in which he chooses one kind of meat, two different vegetables and one
dessert. If the order of food items is not important, how many different meals might he choose?
Meat: beef, chicken, pork

Vegetables: baked beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes
Dessert: brownies, chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, ice cream
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Problem 15
Homer began peeling a pile of 44 potatoes at the rate of 3 potatoes per minute. Four minutes later
Christen joined him and peeled at the rate of 5 potatoes per minute. When they finished, how many
potatoes had Christen peeled?
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Problem 16
A square piece of paper, 4 inches on a side, is folded in half vertically. Both layers are then cut in half
parallel to the fold. Three new rectangles are formed, a large one and two small ones. What is the ratio
of the perimeter of one of the small rectangles to the perimeter of the large rectangle?
Solution
Problem 17
For the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the dollar values of each question are shown in
the following table (where K = 1000).
Between which two questions is the percent increase of the value the smallest?
Solution
Problem 18
Two dice are thrown. What is the probability that the product of the two numbers is a multiple of 5?
Solution
Problem 19
Car M traveled at a constant speed for a given time. This is shown by the dashed line. Car N traveled
at twice the speed for the same distance. If Car N's speed and time are shown as solid line, which
graph illustrates this?
Solution
Problem 20
Kaleana shows her test score to Quay, Marty and Shana, but the others keep theirs hidden. Quay
thinks, "At least two of us have the same score." Marty thinks, "I didn't get the lowest score." Shana
thinks, "I didn't get the highest score." List the scores from lowest to highest for Marty (M), Quay (Q)
and Shana (S).
Solution
Problem 21
The mean of a set of five different positive integers is 15. The median is 18. The maximum possible
value of the largest of these five integers is
Solution
Problem 22
On a twenty-question test, each correct answer is worth 5 points, each unanswered question is worth 1
point and each incorrect answer is worth 0 points. Which of the following scores is NOT possible?
Solution
Problem 23
Points , and are vertices of an equilateral triangle, and points , and are midpoints of
its sides. How many noncongruent triangles can be drawn using any three of these six points as
vertices?
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Problem 24
Each half of this figure is composed of 3 red triangles, 5 blue triangles and 8 white triangles. When the
upper half is folded down over the centerline, 2 pairs of red triangles coincide, as do 3 pairs of blue
triangles. There are 2 red-white pairs. How many white pairs coincide?
Solution
Problem 25
There are 24 four-digit whole numbers that use each of the four digits 2, 4, 5 and 7 exactly once. Only
one of these four-digit numbers is a multiple of another one. Which of the following is it?
Solution
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Problem 3
What is the smallest possible average of four distinct positive even integers?
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Problem 4
The year 2002 is a palindrome (a number that reads the same from left to right as it does from right to
left). What is the product of the digits of the next year after 2002 that is a palindrome?
Solution
Problem 5
Carlos Montado was born on Saturday, November 9, 2002. On what day of the week will Carlos be 706
days old?
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Problem 6
A birdbath is designed to overflow so that it will be self-cleaning. Water flows in at the rate of 20
milliliters per minute and drains at the rate of 18 milliliters per minute. One of these graphs shows the
volume of water in the birdbath during the filling time and continuing into the overflow time. Which one
is it?
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Problem 7
The students in Mrs. Sawyer's class were asked to do a taste test of five kinds of candy. Each student
chose one kind of candy. A bar graph of their preferences is shown. What percent of her class chose
candy E?
Solution
Juan's Old Stamping Grounds
Problems 8,9 and 10 use the data found in the accompanying paragraph and table:
Juan organizes the stamps in his collection by country and by the decade in which they were issued.
The prices he paid for them at a stamp shop were: Brazil and France, 6 cents each, Peru 4 cents each,
and Spain 5 cents each. (Brazil and Peru are South American countries and France and Spain are in
Europe.)
Problem 8
How many of his European stamps were issued in the '80s?
Solution
Problem 9
His South American stamps issued before the '70s cost him
Solution
Problem 10
The average price of his '70s stamps is closest to
Solution
Problem 11
A sequence of squares is made of identical square tiles. The edge of each square is one tile length
longer than the edge of the previous square. The first three squares are shown. How many more tiles
does the seventh square require than the sixth?
Solution
Problem 12
A board game spinner is divided into three regions labeled , and . The probability of the arrow
stopping on region is and on region is . The probability of the arrow stopping on region is
Solution
Problem 13
For his birthday, Bert gets a box that holds 125 jellybeans when filled to capacity. A few weeks later,
Carrie gets a larger box full of jellybeans. Her box is twice as high, twice as wide and twice as long as
Bert's. Approximately, how many jellybeans did Carrie get?
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Problem 14
A merchant offers a large group of items at 30% off. Later, the merchant takes 20% off these sale
prices and claims that the final price of these items is 50% off the original price. The total discount is
Solution
Problem 15
Which of the following polygons has the largest area?
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Problem 16
Right isosceles triangles are constructed on the sides of a 3-4-5 right triangle, as shown. A capital letter
represents the area of each triangle. Which one of the following is true?
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Problem 17
In a mathematics contest with ten problems, a student gains 5 points for a correct answer and loses 2
points for an incorrect answer. If Olivia answered every problem and her score was 29, how many
correct answers did she have?
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Problem 18
Gage skated 1 hr 15 min each day for 5 days and 1 hr 30 min each day for 3 days. How long would he
have to skate the ninth day in order to average 85 minutes of skating each day for the entire time?
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Problem 19
How many whole numbers between 99 and 999 contain exactly one 0?
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Problem 20
The area of triangle is 8 square inches. Points and are midpoints of congruent
segments and . Altitude bisects . The area (in square inches) of the shaded
region is
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Problem 21
Harold tosses a nickel four times. The probability that he gets at least as many heads as tails is
Solution
Problem 22
Six cubes, each an inch on an edge, are fastened together, as shown. Find the total surface area in
square inches. Include the top, bottom and sides.
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Problem 23
A corner of a tiled floor is shown. If the entire floor is tiled in this way and each of the four corners looks
like this one, then what fraction of the tiled floor is made of darker tiles?
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Problem 24
Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to
extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a
pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear
juice?
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Problem 25
Loki, Moe, Nick and Ott are good friends. Ott had no money, but the others did. Moe gave Ott one-fifth
of his money, Loki gave Ott one-fourth of his money and Nick gave Ott one-third of his money. Each
gave Ott the same amount of money. What fractional part of the group's money does Ott now have?
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Problem 3
A burger at Ricky C's weighs 120 grams, of which 30 grams are filler. What percent of the burger is not
filler?
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Problem 4
A group of children riding on bicycles and tricycles rode past Billy Bob's house. Billy Bob counted 7
children and 19 wheels. How many tricycles were there?
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Problem 5
If 20% of a number is 12, what is 30% of the same number?
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Problem 6
Given the areas of the three squares in the figure, what is the area of the interior triangle?
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Problem 7
Blake and Jenny each took four 100-point tests. Blake averaged 78 on the four tests. Jenny scored 10
points higher than Blake on the first test, 10 points lower than him on the second test, and 20 points
higher on both the third and fourth tests. What is the difference between Jenny's average and Blake's
average on these four tests?
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Bake Sale
Problems 8, 9, and 10 use the data found in the accompanying paragraph and figures.
Four friends, Art, Roger, Paul and Trisha, bake cookies, and all cookies have the same thickness. The
shapes of the cookies differ, as shown.
Each friend uses the same amount of dough, and Art makes exactly 12 cookies.
Problem 8
Who gets the fewest cookies from one batch of cookie dough?
Solution
Problem 9
Art's cookies sell for 60 cents each. To earn the same amount from a single batch, how much should
one of Roger's cookies cost in cents?
Solution
Problem 10
How many cookies will be in one batch of Trisha's cookies?
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Problem 11
Business is a little slow at Lou's Fine Shoes, so Lou decides to have a sale. On Friday, Lou increases
all of Thursday's prices by 10%. Over the weekend, Lou advertises the sale: "Ten percent off the listed
price. Sale starts Monday." How much does a pair of shoes cost on Monday that cost 40 dollars on
Thursday?
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Problem 12
When a fair six-sided die is tossed on a table top, the bottom face cannot be seen. What is the
probability that the product of the numbers on the five faces that can be seen is divisible by 6?
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Problem 13
Fourteen white cubes are put together to form the figure on the right. The complete surface of the
figure, including the bottom, is painted red. The figure is then separated into individual cubes. How
many of the individual cubes have exactly four red faces?
Solution
Problem 14
In this addition problem, each letter stands for a different digit.
If and the letter represents an even number, what is the only possible value for ?
Solution
Problem 15
A figure is constructed from unit cubes. Each cube shares at least one face with another cube. What is
the minimum number of cubes needed to build a figure with the front and side views shown?
Solution
Problem 16
Ali, Bonnie, Carlo, and Dianna are going to drive together to a nearby theme park. The car they are
using has 4 seats: 1 driver's seat, 1 front passenger seat, and 2 back passenger seats. Bonnie and
Carlo are the only ones who know how to drive the car. How many possible seating arrangements are
there?
Solution
Problem 17
The six children listed below are from two families of three siblings each. Each child has blue or brown
eyes and black or blond hair. Children from the same family have at least one of these characteristics
in common. Which two children are Jim's siblings?
Solution
Problem 18
Each of the twenty dots on the graph below represents one of Sarah's classmates. Classmates who
are friends are connected with a line segment. For her birthday party, Sarah is inviting only the
following: all of her friends and all of those classmates who are friends with at least one of her friends.
How many classmates will not be invited to Sarah's party?
Solution
Problem 19
How many integers between 1000 and 2000 have all three of the numbers 15, 20, and 25 as factors?
Solution
Problem 20
What is the measure of the acute angle formed by the hands of the clock at 4:20 PM?
Solution
Problem 21
The area of trapezoid is . The altitude is 8 cm, is 10 cm, and is 17
cm. What is , in centimeters?
Solution
Problem 22
The following figures are composed of squares and circles. Which figure has a shaded region with
largest area?
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Problem 23
In the pattern below, the cat (denoted as a large circle in the figures below) moves clockwise through
the four squares and the mouse (denoted as a dot in the figures below) moves counterclockwise
through the eight exterior segments of the four squares.
If the pattern is continued, where would the cat and mouse be after the 247th move?
Solution
Problem 24
A ship travels from point to point along a semicircular path, centered at Island . Then it travels
along a straight path from to . Which of these graphs best shows the ship's distance from Island
as it moves along its course?
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Problem 25
In the figure, the area of square is . The four smaller squares have sides 1 cm
long, either parallel to or coinciding with the sides of the large square. In , ,
and when is folded over side , point coincides with , the center of square
. What is the area of , in square centimeters?
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Twelve friends met for dinner at Oscar's Overstuffed Oyster House, and each ordered one meal. The
portions were so large, there was enough food for people. If they shared, how many meals should
they have ordered to have just enough food for the of them?
Solution
Problem 4
Ms. Hamilton’s eighth-grade class wants to participate in the annual three-person-team basketball
tournament. Lance, Sally, Joy, and Fred are chosen for the team. In how many ways can the three
starters be chosen?
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Problem 5
Ms. Hamilton's eighth-grade class wants to participate in the annual three-person-team basketball
tournament. The losing team of each game is eliminated from the tournament. If sixteen teams
compete, how many games will be played to determine the winner?
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Problem 6
After Sally takes shots, she has made of her shots. After she takes more shots, she raises
her percentage to . How many of the last shots did she make?
Solution
Problem 7
An athlete's target heart rate, in beats per minute, is of the theoretical maximum heart rate. The
maximum heart rate is found by subtracting the athlete's age, in years, from . To the nearest whole
number, what is the target heart rate of an athlete who is years old?
Solution
Problem 8
Find the number of two-digit positive integers whose digits total .
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Problem 9
The average of the five numbers in a list is . The average of the first two numbers is . What is the
average of the last three numbers?
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Problem 10
Handy Aaron helped a neighbor hours on Monday, minutes on Tuesday, from 8:20 to 10:45 on
Wednesday morning, and a half-hour on Friday. He is paid per hour. How much did he earn for the
week?
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Problem 11
The numbers and are rearranged according to these rules:
1. The largest isn’t first, but it is in one of the first three places.
2. The smallest isn’t last, but it is in one of the last three places.
3. The median isn’t first or last.
What is the average of the first and last numbers?
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Problem 12
Niki usually leaves her cell phone on. If her cell phone is on but she is not actually using it, the battery
will last for hours. If she is using it constantly, the battery will last for only hours. Since the last
recharge, her phone has been on hours, and during that time she has used it for minutes. If she
doesn’t talk any more but leaves the phone on, how many more hours will the battery last?
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Problem 13
Amy, Bill and Celine are friends with different ages. Exactly one of the following statements is true.
I. Bill is the oldest.

II. Amy is not the oldest.
III. Celine is not the youngest.
Rank the friends from the oldest to the youngest.
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Problem 14
What is the area enclosed by the geoboard quadrilateral below?
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Problem 15
Thirteen black and six white hexagonal tiles were used to create the figure below. If a new figures is
created by attaching a border of white tiles with the same size and shape as the others, what will be
the difference between the total number of white tiles and the total number of black tiles in the new
figure?
Solution
Problem 16
Two mL pitchers contain orange juice. One pitcher is full and the other pitcher is full.
Water is added to fill each pitcher completely, then both pitchers are poured into one large container.
What fraction of the mixture in the large container is orange juice?
Solution
Problem 17
Three friends have a total of identical pencils, and each one has at least one pencil. In how many
ways can this happen?
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Problem 18
Five friends compete in a dart-throwing contest. Each one has two darts to throw at the same circular
target, and each individual's score is the sum of the scores in the target regions that are hit. The scores
for the target regions are the whole numbers through . Each throw hits the target in a region with
a different value. The scores are: Alice points, Ben points, Cindy points, Dave points, and
Ellen points. Who hits the region worth points?
Solution
Problem 19
A whole number larger than leaves a remainder of when divided by each of the numbers
and . The smallest such number lies between which two numbers?
Solution
Problem 20
Two-thirds of the people in a room are seated in three-fourths of the chairs. The rest of the people are
standing. If there are empty chairs, how many people are in the room?
Solution
Problem 21
Spinners and are spun. On each spinner, the arrow is equally likely to land on each number.
What is the probability that the product of the two spinners' numbers is even?
Solution
Problem 22
At a party there are only single women and married men with their wives. The probability that a
randomly selected woman is single is . What fraction of the people in the room are married men?
Solution
Problem 23
Tess runs counterclockwise around rectangular block . She lives at corner . Which graph
could represent her straight-line distance from home?
Solution
Problem 24
In the figure, is a rectangle and is a parallelogram. Using the measurements
given in the figure, what is the length of the segment that is perpendicular to and ?
Solution
Problem 25
Two squares intersect at right angles, bisecting their intersecting sides, as shown. The circle's
diameter is the segment between the two points of intersection. What is the area of the shaded region
created by removing the circle from the squares?
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Toolbox Connie multiplies a number by 2 and gets 60 as her answer. However, she should have divided the
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Problem 3
What is the minimum number of small squares that must be colored black so that a line of symmetry
lies on the diagonal of square ?
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Problem 4
A square and a triangle have equal perimeters. The lengths of the three sides of the triangle are 6.1
cm, 8.2 cm and 9.7 cm. What is the area of the square in square centimeters?
Solution
Problem 5
Soda is sold in packs of 6, 12 and 24 cans. What is the minimum number of packs needed to buy
exactly 90 cans of soda?
Solution
Problem 6
Suppose is a digit. For how many values of is ?
Solution
Problem 7
Bill walks mile south, then mile east, and finally mile south. How many miles is he, in a direct
line, from his starting point?
Solution
Problem 8
Suppose m and n are positive odd integers. Which of the following must also be an odd integer?
Solution
Problem 9
In quadrilateral , sides and both have length 10, sides and both
have length 17, and the measure of angle is . What is the length of diagonal ?
Solution
Problem 10
Joe had walked half way from home to school when he realized he was late. He ran the rest of the way
to school. He ran 3 times as fast as he walked. Joe took 6 minutes to walk half way to school. How
many minutes did it take Joe to get from home to school?
Solution
Problem 11
The sales tax rate in Bergville is 6%. During a sale at the Bergville Coat Closet, the price of a coat is
discounted 20% from its $90.00 price. Two clerks, Jack and Jill, calculate the bill independently. Jack
rings up $90.00 and adds 6% sales tax, then subtracts 20% from this total. Jill rings up $90.00,
subtracts 20% of the price, then adds 6% of the discounted price for sales tax. What is Jack's total
minus Jill's total?
Solution
Problem 12
Big Al the ape ate 100 delicious yellow bananas from May 1 through May 5. Each day he ate six more
bananas than on the previous day. How many delicious bananas did Big Al eat on May 5?
Solution
Problem 13
The area of polygon is 52 with , and . What is
?
Solution
Problem 14
The Little Twelve Basketball League has two divisions, with six teams in each division. Each team
plays each of the other teams in its own division twice and every team in the other division once. How
many games are scheduled?
Solution
Problem 15
How many different isosceles triangles have integer side lengths and perimeter 23?
Solution
Problem 16
A five-legged Martian has a drawer full of socks, each of which is red, white or blue, and there are at
least five socks of each color. The Martian pulls out one sock at a time without looking. How many
socks must the Martian remove from the drawer to be certain there will be 5 socks of the same color?
Solution
Problem 17
The results of a cross-country team's training run are graphed below. Which student has the greatest
average speed?
Solution
Problem 18
How many three-digit numbers are divisible by 13?
Solution
Problem 19
What is the perimeter of trapezoid ?
Solution
Problem 20
Alice and Bob play a game involving a circle whose circumference is divided by 12 equally-spaced
points. The points are numbered clockwise, from 1 to 12. Both start on point 12. Alice moves clockwise
and Bob, counterclockwise. In a turn of the game, Alice moves 5 points clockwise and Bob moves 9
points counterclockwise. The game ends when they stop on the same point. How many turns will this
take?
Solution
Problem 21
How many distinct triangles can be drawn using three of the dots below as vertices?
Solution
Problem 22
A company sells detergent in three different sized boxes: small (S), medium (M) and large (L). The
medium size costs 50% more than the small size and contains 20% less detergent than the large size.
The large size contains twice as much detergent as the small size and costs 30% more than the
medium size. Rank the three sizes from best to worst buy.
Solution
Problem 23
Isosceles right triangle encloses a semicircle of area . The circle has its center on
hypotenuse and is tangent to sides and . What is the area of triangle ?
Solution
Problem 24
A certain calculator has only two keys [+1] and [x2]. When you press one of the keys, the calculator
automatically displays the result. For instance, if the calculator originally displayed "9" and you pressed
[+1], it would display "10." If you then pressed [x2], it would display "20." Starting with the display "1,"
what is the fewest number of keystrokes you would need to reach "200"?
Solution
Problem 25
A square with side length 2 and a circle share the same center. The total area of the regions that are
inside the circle and outside the square is equal to the total area of the regions that are outside the
circle and inside the square. What is the radius of the circle?
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Toolbox Mindy made three purchases for , , and . What was her total, to the nearest
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Problem 3
Elisa swims laps in the pool. When she first started, she completed 10 laps in 25 minutes. Now she can
finish 12 laps in 24 minutes. By how many minutes has she improved her lap time?
Solution
Problem 4
Initially, a spinner points west. Chenille moves it clockwise revolutions and then counterclockwise
revolutions. In what direction does the spinner point after the two moves?
Solution
Problem 5
Points and are midpoints of the sides of the larger square. If the larger square has area
60, what is the area of the smaller square?
Solution
Problem 6
The letter T is formed by placing two inch rectangles next to each other, as shown. What is the
perimeter of the T, in inches?
Solution
Problem 7
Circle has a radius of . Circle has a circumference of . Circle has an area of . List the
circles in order from smallest to largest radius.
Solution
Problem 8
The table shows some of the results of a survey by radiostation KACL. What percentage of the males
surveyed listen to the station?
Solution
Problem 9
What is the product of ?
Solution
Problem 10
Jorge's teacher asks him to plot all the ordered pairs of positive integers for which is the
width and is the length of a rectangle with area 12. What should his graph look like?
Solution
Problem 11
How many two-digit numbers have digits whose sum is a perfect square?
Solution
Problem 12
Antonette gets on a 10-problem test, on a 20-problem test and on a 30-problem
test. If the three tests are combined into one 60-problem test, which percent is closest to her overall
score?
Solution
Problem 13
Cassie leaves Escanaba at 8:30 AM heading for Marquette on her bike. She bikes at a uniform rate of
12 miles per hour. Brian leaves Marquette at 9:00 AM heading for Escanaba on his bike. He bikes at a
uniform rate of 16 miles per hour. They both bike on the same 62-mile route between Escanaba and
Marquette. At what time in the morning do they meet?
Solution
Problem 14
Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed's English assignment.
A Novel Assignment
The students in Mrs. Reed's English class are reading the same 760-page novel. Three friends, Alice,
Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20 seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds
and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds.
If Bob and Chandra both read the whole book, Bob will spend how many more seconds reading than
Chandra?
Solution
Problem 15
A Novel Assignment
Chandra and Bob, who each have a copy of the book, decide that they can save time by "team
reading" the novel. In this scheme, Chandra will read from page 1 to a certain page and Bob will read
from the next page through page 760, finishing the book. When they are through they will tell each
other about the part they read. What is the last page that Chandra should read so that she and Bob
spend the same amount of time reading the novel?
Solution
Problem 16
A Novel Assignment
Before Chandra and Bob start reading, Alice says she would like to team read with them. If they divide
the book into three sections so that each reads for the same length of time, how many seconds will
each have to read?
Solution
Problem 17
Jeff rotates spinners , and and adds the resulting numbers. What is the probability that his
sum is an odd number?
Solution
Problem 18
A cube with 3-inch edges is made using 27 cubes with 1-inch edges. Nineteen of the smaller cubes are
white and eight are black. If the eight black cubes are placed at the corners of the larger cube, what
fraction of the surface area of the larger cube is white?
Solution
Problem 19
Triangle is an isosceles triangle with . Point is the midpoint of both
and , and is 11 units long. Triangle is congruent to triangle . What is the
length of ?
Solution
Problem 20
A singles tournament had six players. Each player played every other player only once, with no ties. If
Helen won 4 games, Ines won 3 games, Janet won 2 games, Kendra won 2 games and Lara won 2
games, how many games did Monica (the sixth player) win?
Solution
Problem 21
An aquarium has a rectangular base that measures cm by cm and has a height of cm.
The aquarium is filled with water to a depth of cm. A rock with volume is then placed
in the aquarium and completely submerged. By how many centimeters does the water level rise?
Solution
Problem 22
Three different one-digit positive integers are placed in the bottom row of cells. Numbers in adjacent
cells are added and the sum is placed in the cell above them. In the second row, continue the same
process to obtain a number in the top cell. What is the difference between the largest and smallest
numbers possible in the top cell?
Solution
Problem 23
A box contains gold coins. If the coins are equally divided among six people, four coins are left over. If
the coins are equally divided among five people, three coins are left over. If the box holds the smallest
number of coins that meets these two conditions, how many coins are left when equally divided among
seven people?
Solution
Problem 24
In the multiplication problem below , , , and are different digits. What is ?
Solution
Problem 25
Barry wrote 6 different numbers, one on each side of 3 cards, and laid the cards on a table, as shown.
The sums of the two numbers on each of the three cards are equal. The three numbers on the hidden
sides are prime numbers. What is the average of the hidden prime numbers?
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Toolbox Theresa's parents have agreed to buy her tickets to see her favorite band if she spends an average of
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students were surveyed about their pasta preferences. The choices were lasagna, manicotti,
ravioli and spaghetti. The results of the survey are displayed in the bar graph. What is the ratio of the
number of students who preferred spaghetti to the number of students who preferred manicotti?
Solution
Problem 3
What is the sum of the two smallest prime factors of ?
Solution
Problem 4
A haunted house has six windows. In how many ways can Georgie the Ghost enter the house by one
window and leave by a different window?
Solution
Problem 5
Chandler wants to buy a mountain bike. For his birthday, his grandparents send him , his
aunt sends him and his cousin gives him . He earns per week for his paper route. He
will use all of his birthday money and all of the money he earns from his paper route. In how many
weeks will he be able to buy the mountain bike?
Solution
Problem 6
The average cost of a long-distance call in the USA in was cents per minute, and the
average cost of a long-distance call in the USA in was cents per minute. Find the
approximate percent decrease in the cost per minute of a long- distance call.
Solution
Problem 7
The average age of people in a room is years. An -year-old person leaves the room. What is
the average age of the four remaining people?
Solution
Problem 8
In trapezoid , is perpendicular to , = = , and = . In addition,
is on , and is parallel to . Find the area of .
Solution
Problem 9
To complete the grid below, each of the digits 1 through 4 must occur once in each row and once in
each column. What number will occupy the lower right-hand square?
cannot be determined
Solution
Problem 10
For any positive integer , define to be the sum of the positive factors of . For example,
. Find .
Solution
Problem 11
Tiles and are translated so one tile coincides with each of the rectangles
and . In the final arrangement, the two numbers on any side common to two adjacent tiles must be
the same. Which of the tiles is translated to Rectangle ?
cannot be determined
Solution
Problem 12
A unit hexagram is composed of a regular hexagon of side length and its equilateral triangular
extensions, as shown in the diagram. What is the ratio of the area of the extensions to the area of the
original hexagon?
Solution
Problem 13
Sets and , shown in the Venn diagram, have the same number of elements. Their union has
elements and their intersection has elements. Find the number of elements in .
Solution
Problem 14
The base of isosceles is and its area is . What is the length of one of the congruent
sides?
Solution
Problem 15
Let and be numbers with . Which of the following is impossible?
Solution
Problem 16
Amanda draws five circles with radii and . Then for each circle she plots the point
, where is its circumference and is its area. Which of the following could be her graph?
Solution
Problem 17
A mixture of liters of paint is red tint, yellow tint and water. Five liters of yellow
tint are added to the original mixture. What is the percent of yellow tint in the new mixture?
Solution
Problem 18
The product of the two -digit numbers
and
has thousands digit and units digit . What is the sum of and ?
Solution
Problem 19
Pick two consecutive positive integers whose sum is less than . Square both of those integers and
then find the difference of the squares. Which of the following could be the difference?
Solution
Problem 20
Before district play, the Unicorns had won of their basketball games. During district play, they
won six more games and lost two, to finish the season having won half their games. How many games
did the Unicorns play in all?
Solution
Problem 21
Two cards are dealt from a deck of four red cards labeled and four green cards labeled
. A winning pair is two of the same color or two of the same letter. What is the
probability of drawing a winning pair?
Solution
Problem 22
A lemming sits at a corner of a square with side length meters. The lemming runs meters
along a diagonal toward the opposite corner. It stops, makes a degree right turn and runs more
meters. A scientist measures the shortest distance between the lemming and each side of the square.
What is the average of these four distances in meters?
Solution
Problem 23
What is the area of the shaded pinwheel shown in the x grid?
Solution
Problem 24
A bag contains four pieces of paper, each labeled with one of the digits "1, 2, 3" or "4", with no repeats.
Three of these pieces are drawn, one at a time without replacement, to construct a three-digit number.
What is the probability that the three-digit number is a multiple of 3?
Solution
Problem 25
On the dart board shown in the Figure, the outer circle has radius and the inner circle has radius .
Three radii divide each circle into three congruent regions, with point values shown. The probability that
a dart will hit a given region is proportional to the area of the region. When two darts hit this board, the
score is the sum of the point values in the regions. What is the probability that the score is odd?
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Toolbox Susan had 50 dollars to spend at the carnival. She spent 12 dollars on food and twice as much on
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Search The ten-letter code represents the ten digits , in order. What 4-digit
number is represented by the code word ?
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If February is a month that contains Friday the , what day of the week is February 1?
Solution
Problem 4
In the figure, the outer equilateral triangle has area , the inner equilateral triangle has area , and
the three trapezoids are congruent. What is the area of one of the trapezoids?
Solution
Problem 5
Barney Schwinn notices that the odometer on his bicycle reads , a palindrome, because it reads
the same forward and backward. After riding more hours that day and the next, he notices that the
odometer shows another palindrome, . What was his average speed in miles per hour?
Solution
Problem 6
In the figure, what is the ratio of the area of the gray squares to the area of the white squares?
Solution
Problem 7
If , what is ?
Solution
Problem 8
Candy sales from the Boosters Club from January through April are shown. What were the average
sales per month in dollars?
Solution
Problem 9
In Tycoon Tammy invested dollars for two years. During the the first year her investment
suffered a loss, but during the second year the remaining investment showed a gain.
Over the two-year period, what was the change in Tammy's investment?
Solution
Problem 10
The average age of the people in Room A is . The average age of the people in Room B is .
If the two groups are combined, what is the average age of all the people?
Solution
Problem 11
Each of the students in the eighth grade at Lincoln Middle School has one dog or one cat or both a
dog and a cat. Twenty students have a dog and students have a cat. How many students have both
a dog and a cat?
Solution
Problem 12
A ball is dropped from a height of meters. On its first bounce it rises to a height of meters. It keeps
falling and bouncing to of the height it reached in the previous bounce. On which bounce will it rise
to a height less than meters?
Solution
Problem 13
Mr. Harman needs to know the combined weight in pounds of three boxes he wants to mail. However,
the only available scale is not accurate for weights less than pounds or more than pounds.
So the boxes are weighed in pairs in every possible way. The results are , and pounds.
What is the combined weight in pounds of the three boxes?
Solution
Problem 14
Three , three , and three are placed in the nine spaces so that each row and column
contain one of each letter. If is placed in the upper left corner, how many arrangements are
possible?
Solution
Problem 15
In Theresa's first basketball games, she scored and points. In her ninth
game, she scored fewer than points and her points-per-game average for the nine games was an
integer. Similarly in her tenth game, she scored fewer than points and her points-per-game average
for the games was also an integer. What is the product of the number of points she scored in the
ninth and tenth games?
Solution
Problem 16
A shape is created by joining seven unit cubes, as shown. What is the ratio of the volume in cubic units
to the surface area in square units?
Solution
Problem 17
Ms.Osborne asks each student in her class to draw a rectangle with integer side lengths and a
perimeter of units. All of her students calculate the area of the rectangle they draw. What is the
difference between the largest and smallest possible areas of the rectangles?
Solution
Problem 18
Two circles that share the same center have radii meters and meters. An aardvark runs along
the path shown, starting at and ending at . How many meters does the aardvark run?
Solution
Problem 19
Eight points are spaced around at intervals of one unit around a square, as shown. Two of the
points are chosen at random. What is the probability that the two points are one unit apart?
Solution
Problem 20
The students in Mr. Neatkin's class took a penmanship test. Two-thirds of the boys and of the girls
passed the test, and an equal number of boys and girls passed the test. What is the minimum possible
number of students in the class?
Solution
Problem 21
Jerry cuts a wedge from a -cm cylinder of bologna as shown by the dashed curve. Which answer
choice is closest to the volume of his wedge in cubic centimeters?
Solution
Problem 22
For how many positive integer values of are both and three-digit whole numbers?
Solution
Problem 23
In square , and . What is the ratio of the area of
to the area of square ?
Solution
Problem 24
Ten tiles numbered through are turned face down. One tile is turned up at random, and a die is
rolled. What is the probability that the product of the numbers on the tile and the die will be a square?
Solution
Problem 25
Mary's winning art design is shown. The smallest circle has radius 2 inches, with each successive
circle's radius increasing by 2 inches. Approximately what percent of the design is black?
Solution
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Toolbox Bridget bought a bag of apples at the grocery store. She gave half of the apples to Ann. Then she gave
Cassie 3 apples, keeping 4 apples for herself. How many apples did Bridget buy?
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On average, for every 4 sports cars sold at the local dealership, 7 sedans are sold. The dealership
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Problem 3
The graph shows the constant rate at which Suzanna rides her bike. If she rides a total of a half an
hour at the same speed, how many miles would she have ridden?
Solution
Problem 4
The five pieces shown below can be arranged to form four of the five figures shown in the choices.
Which figure cannot be formed?
Solution
Problem 5
A sequence of numbers starts with , , and . The fourth number of the sequence is the sum of the
previous three numbers in the sequence: . In the same way, every number after the
fourth is the sum of the previous three numbers. What is the eighth number in the sequence?
Solution
Problem 6
Steve's empty swimming pool will hold gallons of water when full. It will be filled by hoses,
each of which supplies gallons of water per minute. How many hours will it take to fill Steve's
pool?
Solution
Problem 7
The triangular plot of ACD lies between Aspen Road, Brown Road and a railroad. Main Street runs
east and west, and the railroad runs north and south. The numbers in the diagram indicate distances in
miles. The width of the railroad track can be ignored. How many square miles are in the plot of land
ACD?
Solution
Problem 8
The length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and the width is decreased by 10%. What percent of the
old area is the new area?
Solution
Problem 9
Construct a square on one side of an equilateral triangle. On one non-adjacent side of the square,
construct a regular pentagon, as shown. On a non-adjacent side of the pentagon, construct a hexagon.
Continue to construct regular polygons in the same way, until you construct an octagon. How many
sides does the resulting polygon have?
Solution
Problem 10
On a checkerboard composed of 64 unit squares, what is the probability that a randomly chosen unit
square does not touch the outer edge of the board?
Solution
Problem 11
The Amaco Middle School bookstore sells pencils costing a whole number of cents. Some seventh
graders each bought a pencil, paying a total of . Some of the sixth graders each bought a
pencil, and they paid a total of . How many more sixth graders than seventh graders bought a
pencil?
Solution
Problem 12
The two spinners shown are spun once and each lands on one of the numbered sectors. What is the
probability that the sum of the numbers in the two sectors is prime?
Solution
Problem 13
A three-digit integer contains one of each of the digits , , and . What is the probability that the
integer is divisible by ?
Solution
Problem 14
Austin and Temple are miles apart along Interstate 35. Bonnie drove from Austin to her daughter's
house in Temple, averaging miles per hour. Leaving the car with her daughter, Bonnie rode a bus
back to Austin along the same route and averaged miles per hour on the return trip. What was the
average speed for the round trip, in miles per hour?
Solution
Problem 15
A recipe that makes 5 servings of hot chocolate requires 2 squares of chocolate, cup sugar, 1 cup
water and 4 cups milk. Jordan has 5 squares of chocolate, 2 cups of sugar, lots of water and 7 cups of
milk. If she maintains the same ratio of ingredients, what is the greatest number of servings of hot
chocolate she can make?
Solution
Problem 16
How many 3-digit positive integers have digits whose product equals ?
Solution
Problem 17
The positive integers and are the two smallest positive integers for which the product of and
is a square and the product of and is a cube. What is the sum of and ?
Solution
Problem 18
The diagram represents a 7-foot-by-7-foot floor that is tiled with 1-square-foot black tiles and white
tiles. Notice that the corners have white tiles. If a 15-foot-by-15-foot floor is to be tiled in the same
manner, how many white tiles will be needed?
Solution
Problem 19
Two angles of an isosceles triangle measure and . What is the sum of the three possible
values of ?
Solution
Problem 20
How many non-congruent triangles have vertices at three of the eight points in the array shown below?
Solution
Problem 21
Andy and Bethany have a rectangular array of numbers with rows and columns. Andy adds the
numbers in each row. The average of his sums is . Bethany adds the numbers in each column.
The average of her sums is . What is the value of ?
Solution
Problem 22
How many whole numbers between 1 and 1000 do not contain the digit 1?
Solution
Problem 23
On the last day of school, Mrs. Awesome gave jelly beans to her class. She gave each boy as many
jelly beans as there were boys in the class. She gave each girl as many jelly beans as there were girls
in the class. She brought jelly beans, and when she finished, she had six jelly beans left. There
were two more boys than girls in her class. How many students were in her class?
Solution
Problem 24
The letters , , and represent digits. If and , what digit
does represent?
Solution
Problem 25
A one-cubic-foot cube is cut into four pieces by three cuts parallel to the top face of the cube. The first
cut is foot from the top face. The second cut is foot below the first cut, and the third cut is
foot below the second cut. From the top to the bottom the pieces are labeled A, B, C, and D.
The pieces are then glued together end to end as shown in the second diagram. What is the total
surface area of this solid in square feet?
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Toolbox At Euclid Middle School the mathematics teachers are Miss Germain, Mr. Newton, and Mrs. Young.
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If for positive integers, then what is ?
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Problem 3
The graph shows the price of five gallons of gasoline during the first ten months of the year. By what
percent is the highest price more than the lowest price?
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Problem 4
What is the sum of the mean, median, and mode of the numbers ?
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Problem 5
Alice needs to replace a light bulb located centimeters below the ceiling in her kitchen. The ceiling
is meters above the floor. Alice is meters tall and can reach centimeters above the top of
her head. Standing on a stool, she can just reach the light bulb. What is the height of the stool, in
centimeters?
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Problem 6
Which of the following figures has the greatest number of lines of symmetry?
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Problem 7
Using only pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, what is the smallest number of coins Freddie would
need so he could pay any amount of money less than a dollar?
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Problem 8
As Emily is riding her bicycle on a long straight road, she spots Emerson skating in the same direction
mile in front of her. After she passes him, she can see him in her rear mirror until he is mile
behind her. Emily rides at a constant rate of miles per hour, and Emerson skates at a constant rate
of miles per hour. For how many minutes can Emily see Emerson?
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Problem 9
Ryan got of the problems correct on a -problem test, on a -problem test, and
on a -problem test. What percent of all the problems did Ryan answer correctly?
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Problem 10
Six pepperoni circles will exactly fit across the diameter of a -inch pizza when placed. If a total of
circles of pepperoni are placed on this pizza without overlap, what fraction of the pizza is covered
by pepperoni?
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Problem 11
The top of one tree is feet higher than the top of another tree. The heights of the two trees are in
the ratio . In feet, how tall is the taller tree?
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Problem 12
Of the balls in a large bag, are red and the rest are blue. How many of the red balls must
be removed from the bag so that of the remaining balls are red?
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Problem 13
The lengths of the sides of a triangle in inches are three consecutive integers. The length of the
shortest side is of the perimeter. What is the length of the longest side?
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Problem 14
What is the sum of the prime factors of ?
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Problem 15
A jar contains five different colors of gumdrops: are blue, are brown, red,
yellow, and the other gumdrops are green. If half of the blue gumdrops are replaced with brown
gumdrops, how many gumdrops will be brown?
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Problem 16
A square and a circle have the same area. What is the ratio of the side length of the square to the
radius of the circle?
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Problem 17
The diagram shows an octagon consisting of unit squares. The portion below is a unit square
and a triangle with base . If bisects the area of the octagon, what is the ratio ?
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Problem 18
A decorative window is made up of a rectangle with semicircles on either end. The ratio of to
is , and is 30 inches. What is the ratio of the area of the rectangle to the combined
areas of the semicircles?
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Problem 19
The two circles pictured have the same center . Chord is tangent to the inner circle at ,
is , and chord has length . What is the area between the two circles?
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Problem 20
In a room, of the people are wearing gloves, and of the people are wearing hats. What is
the minimum number of people in the room wearing both a hat and a glove?
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Problem 21
Hui is an avid reader. She bought a copy of the best seller Math is Beautiful. On the first day, Hui read
of the pages plus more, and on the second day she read of the remaining pages plus
pages. On the third day she read of the remaining pages plus pages. She then realized
that there were only pages left to read, which she read the next day. How many pages are in this
book?
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Problem 22
The hundreds digit of a three-digit number is more than the units digit. The digits of the three-digit
number are reversed, and the result is subtracted from the original three-digit number. What is the units
digit of the result?
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Problem 23
Semicircles and pass through the center . What is the ratio of the combined areas of
the two semicircles to the area of circle ?
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Problem 24
What is the correct ordering of the three numbers, , , and ?
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Problem 25
Everyday at school, Jo climbs a flight of stairs. Jo can take the stairs , , or at a time. For
example, Jo could climb , then , then . In how many ways can Jo climb the stairs?
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Toolbox Margie bought apples at a cost of cents per apple. She paid with a 5-dollar bill. How much
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Karl's rectangular vegetable garden is feet by feet, and Makenna's is feet by feet.
Whose garden is larger in area?
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Problem 3
Extend the square pattern of 8 black and 17 white square tiles by attaching a border of black tiles
around the square. What is the ratio of black tiles to white tiles in the extended pattern?
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Problem 4
Here is a list of the numbers of fish that Tyler caught in nine outings last summer:
Which statement about the mean, median, and mode is true?
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Problem 5
What time was it minutes after midnight on January 1, 2011?
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Problem 6
In a town of 351 adults, every adult owns a car, motorcycle, or both. If 331 adults own cars and 45
adults own motorcycles, how many of the car owners do not own a motorcycle?
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Problem 7
Each of the following four large congruent squares is subdivided into combinations of congruent
triangles or rectangles and is partially bolded. What percent of the total area is partially bolded?
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Problem 8
Bag A has three chips labeled 1, 3, and 5. Bag B has three chips labeled 2, 4, and 6. If one chip is
drawn from each bag, how many different values are possible for the sum of the two numbers on the
chips?
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Problem 9
Carmen takes a long bike ride on a hilly highway. The graph indicates the miles traveled during the
time of her ride. What is Carmen's average speed for her entire ride in miles per hour?
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Problem 10
The taxi fare in Gotham City is $2.40 for the first mile and additional mileage charged at the rate
$0.20 for each additional 0.1 mile. You plan to give the driver a $2 tip. How many miles can you ride for
$10?
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Problem 11
The graph shows the number of minutes studied by both Asha (black bar) and Sasha(grey bar) in one
week. On the average, how many more minutes per day did Sasha study than Asha?
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Problem 12
Angie, Bridget, Carlos, and Diego are seated at random around a square table, one person to a side.
What is the probability that Angie and Carlos are seated opposite each other?
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Problem 13
Two congruent squares, and , have side length . They overlap to form the
by rectangle shown. What percent of the area of rectangle is shaded?
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Problem 14
There are students at Colfax Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is . There are
students at Winthrop Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is . The two schools
hold a dance and all students from both schools attend. What fraction of the students at the dance are
girls?
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Problem 15
How many digits are in the product ?
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Problem 16
Let be the area of the triangle with sides of length , and . Let be the area of the
triangle with sides of length and . What is the relationship between and ?
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Problem 17
Let , , , and be whole numbers. If , then what does
equal?
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Problem 18
A fair 6-sided die is rolled twice. What is the probability that the first number that comes up is greater
than or equal to the second number?
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Problem 19
How many rectangles are in this figure?
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Problem 20
Quadrilateral is a trapezoid, , , , and the altitude is
. What is the area of the trapezoid?
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Problem 21
Students guess that Norb's age is , and . Norb says, "At
least half of you guessed too low, two of you are off by one, and my age is a prime number." How old is
Norb?
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Problem 22
What is the tens digit of ?
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Problem 23
How many 4-digit positive integers have four different digits, where the leading digit is not zero, the
integer is a multiple of 5, and 5 is the largest digit?
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Problem 24
In how many ways can 10001 be written as the sum of two primes?
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Problem 25
A circle with radius is inscribed in a square and circumscribed about another square as shown.
Which fraction is closest to the ratio of the circle's shaded area to the area between the two squares?
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Toolbox Rachelle uses pounds of meat to make hamburgers for her family. How many pounds of meat
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In the country of East Westmore, statisticians estimate there is a baby born every hours and a death
every day. To the nearest hundred, how many people are added to the population of East Westmore
each year?
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Problem 3
On February 13 listed the length of daylight as 10 hours and 24
minutes, the sunrise was , and the sunset as . The length of daylight and
sunrise were correct, but the sunset was wrong. When did the sun really set?
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Problem 4
Peter's family ordered a 12-slice pizza for dinner. Peter ate one slice and shared another slice equally
with his brother Paul. What fraction of the pizza did Peter eat?
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Problem 5
In the diagram, all angles are right angles and the lengths of the sides are given in centimeters. Note
the diagram is not drawn to scale. What is , in centimeters?
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Problem 6
A rectangular photograph is placed in a frame that forms a border two inches wide on all sides of the
photograph. The photograph measures 8 inches high and 10 inches wide. What is the area of the
border, in square inches?
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Problem 7
Isabella must take four 100-point tests in her math class. Her goal is to achieve an average grade of 95
on the tests. Her first two test scores were 97 and 91. After seeing her score on the third test, she
realized she can still reach her goal. What is the lowest possible score she could have made on the
third test?
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Problem 8
A shop advertises everything is "half price in today's sale." In addition, a coupon gives a 20% discount
on sale prices. Using the coupon, the price today represents what percentage off the original price?
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Problem 9
The Fort Worth Zoo has a number of two-legged birds and a number of four-legged mammals. On one
visit to the zoo, Margie counted 200 heads and 522 legs. How many of the animals that Margie
counted were two-legged birds?
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Problem 10
How many 4-digit numbers greater than 1000 are there that use the four digits of 2012?
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Problem 11
The mean, median, and unique mode of the positive integers 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, and are all equal. What
is the value of ?
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Problem 12
What is the units digit of ?
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Problem 13
Jamar bought some pencils costing more than a penny each at the school bookstore and paid .
Sharona bought some of the same pencils and paid . How many more pencils did Sharona buy
than Jamar?
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Problem 14
In the BIG N, a middle school football conference, each team plays every other team exactly once. If a
total of 21 conference games were played during the 2012 season, how many teams were members of
the BIG N conference?
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Problem 15
The smallest number greater than 2 that leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3, 4, 5, or 6 lies
between what numbers?
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Problem 16
Each of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 is used only once to make two five-digit numbers so that
they have the largest possible sum. Which of the following could be one of the numbers?
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Problem 17
A square with integer side length is cut into 10 squares, all of which have integer side length and at
least 8 of which have area 1. What is the smallest possible value of the length of the side of the original
square?
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Problem 18
What is the smallest positive integer that is neither prime nor square and that has no prime factor less
than 50?
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Problem 19
In a jar of red, green, and blue marbles, all but 6 are red marbles, all but 8 are green, and all but 4 are
blue. How many marbles are in the jar?
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Problem 20
What is the correct ordering of the three numbers , , and , in increasing order?
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Problem 21
Marla has a large white cube that has an edge of 10 feet. She also has enough green paint to cover
300 square feet. Marla uses all the paint to create a white square centered on each face, surrounded
by a green border. What is the area of one of the white squares, in square feet?
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Problem 22
Let be a set of nine distinct integers. Six of the elements are 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, and 14. What is the
number of possible values of the median of ?
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Problem 23
An equilateral triangle and a regular hexagon have equal perimeters. If the area of the triangle is 4,
what is the area of the hexagon?
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Problem 24
A circle of radius 2 is cut into four congruent arcs. The four arcs are joined to form the star figure
shown. What is the ratio of the area of the star figure to the area of the original circle?
Solution
Problem 25
A square with area 4 is inscribed in a square with area 5, with one vertex of the smaller square on each
side of the larger square. A vertex of the smaller square divides a side of the larger square into two
segments, one of length , and the other of length . What is the value of ?
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Toolbox Danica wants to arrange her model cars in rows with exactly 6 cars in each row. She now has 23
model cars. What is the smallest number of additional cars she must buy in order to be able to arrange
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Search A sign at the fish market says, "50% off, today only: half-pound packages for just $3 per package."
What is the regular price for a full pound of fish, in dollars?
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Problem 3
What is the value of ?
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Problem 4
Eight friends ate at a restaurant and agreed to share the bill equally. Because Judi forgot her money,
each of her seven friends paid an extra $2.50 to cover her portion of the total bill. What was the total
bill?
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Problem 5
Hammie is in the grade and weighs 106 pounds. Her quadruplet sisters are tiny babies and weigh
5, 5, 6, and 8 pounds. Which is greater, the average (mean) weight of these five children or the median
weight, and by how many pounds?
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Problem 6
The number in each box below is the product of the numbers in the two boxes that touch it in the row
above. For example, . What is the missing number in the top row?
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Problem 7
Trey and his mom stopped at a railroad crossing to let a train pass. As the train began to pass, Trey
counted 6 cars in the first 10 seconds. It took the train 2 minutes and 45 seconds to clear the crossing
at a constant speed. Which of the following was the most likely number of cars in the train?
Solution
Problem 8
A fair coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of at least two consecutive heads?
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Problem 9
The Inedible Bulk can double the distance he jumps with each succeeding jump. If his first jump is 1
meter, the second jump is 2 meters, the third jump is 4 meters, and so on, then on which jump will he
first be able to jump more than 1 kilometer?
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Problem 10
What is the ratio of the least common multiple of 180 and 594 to the greatest common factor of 180
and 594?
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Problem 11
Ted's grandfather used his treadmill on 3 days this week. He went 2 miles each day. On Monday he
jogged at a speed of 5 miles per hour. He walked at the rate of 3 miles per hour on Wednesday and at
4 miles per hour on Friday. If Grandfather had always walked at 4 miles per hour, he would have spent
less time on the treadmill. How many minutes less?
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Problem 12
At the 2013 Winnebago County Fair a vendor is offering a "fair special" on sandals. If you buy one pair
of sandals at the regular price of $50, you get a second pair at a 40% discount, and a third pair at half
the regular price. Javier took advantage of the "fair special" to buy three pairs of sandals. What
percentage of the $150 regular price did he save?
Solution
Problem 13
When Clara totaled her scores, she inadvertently reversed the units digit and the tens digit of one
score. By which of the following might her incorrect sum have differed from the correct one?
Solution
Problem 14
Abe holds 1 green and 1 red jelly bean in his hand. Bob holds 1 green, 1 yellow, and 2 red jelly beans
in his hand. Each randomly picks a jelly bean to show the other. What is the probability that the colors
match?
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Problem 15
If , , and , what is the product of , , and
?
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Problem 16
A number of students from Fibonacci Middle School are taking part in a community service project. The
ratio of -graders to -graders is , and the ratio of -graders to -graders is .
What is the smallest number of students that could be participating in the project?
Solution
Problem 17
The sum of six consecutive positive integers is 2013. What is the largest of these six integers?
Solution
Problem 18
Isabella uses one-foot cubical blocks to build a rectangular fort that is 12 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 5
feet high. The floor and the four walls are all one foot thick. How many blocks does the fort contain?
Solution
Problem 19
Bridget, Cassie, and Hannah are discussing the results of their last math test. Hannah shows Bridget
and Cassie her test, but Bridget and Cassie don't show theirs to anyone. Cassie says, 'I didn't get the
lowest score in our class,' and Bridget adds, 'I didn't get the highest score.' What is the ranking of the
three girls from highest to lowest?
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Problem 20
A rectangle is inscribed in a semicircle with longer side on the diameter. What is the area of the
semicircle?
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Problem 21
Samantha lives 2 blocks west and 1 block south of the southwest corner of City Park. Her school is 2
blocks east and 2 blocks north of the northeast corner of City Park. On school days she bikes on
streets to the southwest corner of City Park, then takes a diagonal path through the park to the
northeast corner, and then bikes on streets to school. If her route is as short as possible, how many
different routes can she take?
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Problem 22
Toothpicks are used to make a grid that is 60 toothpicks long and 32 toothpicks wide. How many
toothpicks are used altogether?
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Problem 23
Angle of is a right angle. The sides of are the diameters of semicircles
as shown. The area of the semicircle on equals , and the arc of the semicircle on has
length . What is the radius of the semicircle on ?
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Problem 24
Squares , , and are equal in area. Points and are the midpoints
of sides and , respectively. What is the ratio of the area of the shaded pentagon
to the sum of the areas of the three squares?
Solution
Problem 25
A ball with diameter 4 inches starts at point A to roll along the track shown. The track is comprised of 3
semicircular arcs whose radii are inches, inches, and inches,
respectively. The ball always remains in contact with the track and does not slip. What is the distance
the center of the ball travels over the course from A to B?
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Paul owes Paula 35 cents and has a pocket full of 5-cent coins, 10-cent coins, and 25-cent coins that
he can use to pay her. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest number of coins he
can use to pay her?
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Problem 3
Isabella had a week to read a book for a school assignment. She read an average of 36 pages per day
for the first three days and an average of 44 pages per day for the next three days. She then finished
the book by reading 10 pages on the last day. How many pages were in the book?
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Problem 4
The sum of two prime numbers is 85. What is the product of these two prime numbers?
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Problem 5
Margie's car can go 32 miles on a gallon of gas, and gas currently costs $4 per gallon. How many miles
can Margie drive on $20 worth of gas?
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Problem 6
Six rectangles each with a common base width of 2 have lengths of 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, and 36. What is the
sum of the areas of the six rectangles?
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Problem 7
There are four more girls than boys in Ms. Raub's class of 28 students. What is the ratio of number of
girls to the number of boys in her class?
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Problem 8
Eleven members of the Middle School Math Club each paid the same integer amount for a guest
speaker to talk about problem solving at their math club meeting. In all, they paid their guest speaker
. What is the missing digit A of this 3-digit number?
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Problem 9
In , is a point on side such that and measures .
What is the degree measure of ?
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Problem 10
The first AMC 8 was given in 1985 and it has been given annually since that time. Samantha turned 12
years old the year that she took the seventh AMC 8. In what year was Samantha born?
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Problem 11
Jack wants to bike from his house to Jill's house, which is located three blocks east and two blocks
north of Jack's house. After biking each block, Jack can continue either east or north, but he needs to
avoid a dangerous intersection one block east and one block north of his house. In how many ways
can he reach Jill's house by biking a total of five blocks?
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Problem 12
A magazine printed photos of three celebrities along with three photos of the celebrities as babies. The
baby pictures did not identify the celebrities. Readers were asked to match each celebrity with the
correct baby pictures. What is the probability that a reader guessing at random will match all three
correctly?
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Problem 13
If and are integers and is even, which of the following is impossible?
and are even and are odd is even

is odd none of these are impossible
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Problem 14
Rectangle ABCD and right triangle DCE have the same area. They are joined to form a trapezoid, as
shown. What is DE?
Solution
Problem 15
The circumference of the circle with center is divided into 12 equal arcs, marked the letters
through as seen below. What is the number of degrees in the sum of the angles and ?
Solution
Problem 16
The "Middle School Eight" basketball conference has 8 teams. Every season, each team plays every
other conference team twice (home and away), and each team also plays 4 games against non-
conference opponents. What is the total number of games in a season involving the "Middle School
Eight" teams?
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Problem 17
George walks mile to school. He leaves home at the same time each day, walks at a steady speed of
miles per hour, and arrives just as school begins. Today he was distracted by the pleasant weather
and walked the first mile at a speed of only miles per hour. At how many miles per hour must
George run the last mile in order to arrive just as school begins today?
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Problem 18
Four children were born at City Hospital yesterday. Assume each child is equally likely to be a boy or a
girl. Which of the following outcomes is most likely?
all 4 are boys all 4 are girls 2 are girls and 2 are boys 3 are of one gender and 1
is of the other gender all of these outcomes are equally likely
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Problem 19
A cube with 3-inch edges is to be constructed from 27 smaller cubes with 1-inch edges. Twenty-one of
the cubes are colored red and 6 are colored white. If the 3-inch cube is constructed to have the
smallest possible white surface area showing, what fraction of the surface area is white?
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Problem 20
Rectangle has sides and . A circle of radius is centered at , a
circle of radius is centered at , and a circle of radius is centered at . Which of the following is
closest to the area of the region inside the rectangle but outside all three circles?
Solution
Problem 21
The 7-digit numbers and are each multiples of 3. Which of the following
could be the value of ?
Solution
Problem 22
A 2-digit number is such that the product of the digits plus the sum of the digits is equal to the number.
What is the units digit of the number?
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Problem 23
Three members of the Euclid Middle School girls' softball team had the following conversation.
Ashley: I just realized that our uniform numbers are all 2-digit primes.
Bethany: And the sum of your two uniform numbers is the date of my birthday earlier this month.
Caitlin: That's funny. The sum of your two uniform numbers is the date of my birthday later this month.
Ashley: And the sum of your two uniform numbers is today's date.
What number does Caitlin wear?
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Problem 24
One day the Beverage Barn sold 252 cans of soda to 100 customers, and every customer bought at
least one can of soda. What is the maximum possible median number of cans of soda bought per
customer on that day?
Solution
Problem 25
A straight one-mile stretch of highway, 40 feet wide, is closed. Robert rides his bike on a path
composed of semicircles as shown. If he rides at 5 miles per hour, how many hours will it take to cover
the one-mile stretch?
Note: 1 mile= 5280 feet
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Jack and Jill are going swimming at a pool that is one mile from their house. They leave home
simultaneously. Jill rides her bicycle to the pool at a constant speed of miles per hour. Jack walks to
the pool at a constant speed of miles per hour. How many minutes before Jack does Jill arrive?
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Problem 4
The Dragonvale Middle School chess team consists of two boys and three girls. A photographer wants
to take a picture of the team to appear in the local newspaper. She decides to have them sit in a row
with a boy at each end and the three girls in the middle. How many such arrangements are possible?
Solution
Problem 5
Billy's basketball team scored the following points over the course of the first games of the season:
If his team scores 40 in the 12th game, which of the following statistics will show an increase?
Solution
Problem 6
In , , and . What is the area of ?
Solution
Problem 7
Each of two boxes contains three chips numbered , , . A chip is drawn randomly from each box
and the numbers on the two chips are multiplied. What is the probability that their product is even?
Solution
Problem 8
What is the smallest whole number larger than the perimeter of any triangle with a side of length and
a side of length ?
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Problem 9
On her first day of work, Janabel sold one widget. On day two, she sold three widgets. On day three,
she sold five widgets, and on each succeeding day, she sold two more widgets than she had sold on
the previous day. How many widgets in total had Janabel sold after working days?
Solution
Problem 10
How many integers between and have four distinct digits?
Solution
Problem 11
In the small country of Icosahedrontopia, all automobile license plates have four symbols. The first
must be a vowel ( or ), the second and third must be two different letters among the
non-vowels, and the fourth must be a digit ( through ). If the symbols are chosen at random
subject to these conditions, what is the probability that the plate will read " "?
Solution
Problem 12
How many pairs of parallel edges, such as and or and , does a cube have?
Solution
Problem 13
How many subsets of two elements can be removed from the set
so that the mean (average) of the remaining numbers is ?
Solution
Problem 14
Which of the following integers cannot be written as the sum of four consecutive odd integers?
Solution
Problem 15
At Euler Middle School, students voted on two issues in a school referendum with the following
results: voted in favor of the first issue and voted in favor of the second issue. If there were
exactly students who voted against both issues, how many students voted in favor of both issues?
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Problem 16
In a middle-school mentoring program, a number of the sixth graders are paired with a ninth-grade
student as a buddy. No ninth grader is assigned more than one sixth-grade buddy. If of all the ninth
graders are paired with of all the sixth graders, what fraction of the total number of sixth and ninth
graders have a buddy?
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Problem 17
Jeremy's father drives him to school in rush hour traffic in minutes. One day there is no traffic, so
his father can drive him miles per hour faster and gets him to school in minutes. How far in
miles is it to school?
Solution
Problem 18
An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which each term after the first is obtained by adding a
constant to the previous term. For example, is an arithmetic sequence with five
terms, in which the first term is and the constant added is . Each row and each column in this
array is an arithmetic sequence with five terms. What is the value of ?
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Problem 19
A triangle with vertices as , , and is plotted on a
grid. What fraction of the grid is covered by the triangle?
Solution
Problem 20
Ralph went to the store and bought pairs of socks for a total of . Some of the socks he bought
cost a pair, some of the socks he bought cost a pair, and some of the socks he bought cost
a pair. If he bought at least one pair of each type, how many pairs of socks did Ralph buy?
Solution
Problem 21
In the given figure hexagon is equiangular, and are squares with
areas and respectively, is equilateral and . What is the area of
?
Solution
Problem 22
On June , a group of students are standing in rows, with students in each row. On June , the
same group is standing with all of the students in one long row. On June , the same group is standing
with just one student in each row. On June , the same group is standing with students in each row.
This process continues through June with a different number of students per row each day.
However, on June , they cannot find a new way of organizing the students. What is the smallest
possible number of students in the group?
Solution
Problem 23
Tom has twelve slips of paper which he wants to put into five cups labeled , , , , . He
wants the sum of the numbers on the slips in each cup to be an integer. Furthermore, he wants the five
integers to be consecutive and increasing from to . The numbers on the papers are
and . If a slip with goes into cup and a slip with
goes into cup , then the slip with must go into what cup?
Solution
Problem 24
A baseball league consists of two four-team divisions. Each team plays every other team in its division
games. Each team plays every team in the other division games with and
. Each team plays a -game schedule. How many games does a team play within its own
division?
Solution
Problem 25
One-inch squares are cut from the corners of this inch square. What is the area in square inches of
the largest square that can fit into the remaining space?
Solution

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In rectangle , and . Point is the midpoint of . What is the
area of ?
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Problem 3
Four students take an exam. Three of their scores are and . If the average of their four
scores is , then what is the remaining score?
Solution
Problem 4
When Cheenu was a boy he could run miles in hours and minutes. As an old man he can
now walk miles in hours. How many minutes longer does it take for him to travel a mile now
compared to when he was a boy?
Solution
Problem 5
The number is a two-digit number.
• When is divided by , the remainder is .
• When is divided by , the remainder is .
What is the remainder when is divided by ?
Solution
Problem 6
The following bar graph represents the length (in letters) of the names of 19 people. What is the
median length of these names?
Solution
Problem 7
Which of the following numbers is not a perfect square?
Solution
Problem 8
Find the value of the expression
Solution
Problem 9
What is the sum of the distinct prime integer divisors of ?
Solution
Problem 10
Suppose that means What is the value of if
Solution
Problem 11
Determine how many two-digit numbers satisfy the following property: when the number is added to the
number obtained by reversing its digits, the sum is
Solution
Problem 12
Jefferson Middle School has the same number of boys and girls. of the girls and of the boys went
on a field trip. What fraction of the students were girls?
Solution
Problem 13
Two different numbers are randomly selected from the set and multiplied
together. What is the probability that the product is ?
Solution
Problem 14
Karl's car uses a gallon of gas every miles, and his gas tank holds gallons when it is full. One
day, Karl started with a full tank of gas, drove miles, bought gallons of gas, and continued
driving to his destination. When he arrived, his gas tank was half full. How many miles did Karl drive
that day?
Solution
Problem 15
What is the largest power of that is a divisor of ?
Solution
Problem 16
Annie and Bonnie are running laps around a -meter oval track. They started together, but Annie
has pulled ahead because she runs faster than Bonnie. How many laps will Annie have run
when she first passes Bonnie?
Solution
Problem 17
An ATM password at Fred's Bank is composed of four digits from to , with repeated digits allowable.
If no password may begin with the sequence then how many passwords are possible?
Solution
Problem 18
In an All-Area track meet, sprinters enter a meter dash competition. The track has
lanes, so only sprinters can compete at a time. At the end of each race, the five non-winners are
eliminated, and the winner will compete again in a later race. How many races are needed to
determine the champion sprinter?
Solution
Problem 19
The sum of consecutive even integers is . What is the largest of these consecutive
integers?
Solution
Problem 20
The least common multiple of and is , and the least common multiple of and is . What is
the least possible value of the least common multiple of and ?
Solution
Problem 21
A top hat contains 3 red chips and 2 green chips. Chips are drawn randomly, one at a time without
replacement, until all 3 of the reds are drawn or until both green chips are drawn. What is the
probability that the 3 reds are drawn?
Solution
Problem 22
Rectangle below is a rectangle with . What is the area of
the "bat wings" (shaded area)?
Solution
Problem 23
Two congruent circles centered at points and each pass through the other circle's center. The
line containing both and is extended to intersect the circles at points and . The circles
intersect at two points, one of which is . What is the degree measure of ?
Solution
Problem 24
The digits , , , , and are each used once to write a five-digit number . The three-
digit number is divisible by , the three-digit number is divisible by , and the three-
digit number is divisible by . What is ?
Solution
Problem 25
A semicircle is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with base and height so that the diameter of
the semicircle is contained in the base of the triangle as shown. What is the radius of the semicircle?
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What is the value of the expression ?
Solution
Problem 4
When 0.000315 is multiplied by 7,928,564 the product is closest to which of the following?
Solution
Problem 5
What is the value of the expression ?
Solution
Problem 6
If the degree measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio , what is the degree
measure of the largest angle of the triangle?
Solution
Problem 7
Let be a 6-digit positive integer, such as 247247, whose first three digits are the same as its last
three digits taken in the same order. Which of the following numbers must also be a factor of ?
Solution
Problem 8
Malcolm wants to visit Isabella after school today and knows the street where she lives but doesn't
know her house number. She tells him, "My house number has two digits, and exactly three of the
following four statements about it are true."
(1) It is prime.
(2) It is even.
(3) It is divisible by 7.
(4) One of its digits is 9.
This information allows Malcolm to determine Isabella's house number. What is its units digit?
Solution
Problem 9
All of Marcy's marbles are blue, red, green, or yellow. One third of her marbles are blue, one fourth of
them are red, and six of them are green. What is the smallest number of yellow marbles that Marcy
could have?
Solution
Problem 10
A box contains five cards, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Three cards are selected randomly without
replacement from the box. What is the probability that 4 is the largest value selected?
Solution
Problem 11
A square-shaped floor is covered with congruent square tiles. If the total number of tiles that lie on the
two diagonals is 37, how many tiles cover the floor?
Solution
Problem 12
The smallest positive integer greater than 1 that leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 4, 5, and 6
lies between which of the following pairs of numbers?
Solution
Problem 13
Peter, Emma, and Kyler played chess with each other. Peter won 4 games and lost 2 games. Emma
won 3 games and lost 3 games. If Kyler lost 3 games, how many games did he win?
Solution
Problem 14
Chloe and Zoe are both students in Ms. Demeanor's math class. Last night they each solved half of the
problems in their homework assignment alone and then solved the other half together. Chloe had
correct answers to only of the problems she solved alone, but overall of her answers were
correct. Zoe had correct answers to of the problems she solved alone. What was Zoe's overall
percentage of correct answers?
Solution
Problem 15
In the arrangement of letters and numerals below, by how many different paths can one spell AMC8?
Beginning at the A in the middle, a path allows only moves from one letter to an adjacent (above,
below, left, or right, but not diagonal) letter. One example of such a path is traced in the picture.
Solution
Problem 16
In the figure below, choose point on so that and have equal
perimeters. What is the area of ?
Solution
Problem 17
Starting with some gold coins and some empty treasure chests, I tried to put 9 gold coins in each
treasure chest, but that left 2 treasure chests empty. So instead I put 6 gold coins in each treasure
chest, but then I had 3 gold coins left over. How many gold coins did I have?
Solution
Problem 18
In the non-convex quadrilateral shown below, is a right angle, ,
, , and .
What is the area of quadrilateral ?
Solution
Problem 19
For any positive integer , the notation denotes the product of the integers through . What
is the largest integer for which is a factor of the sum ?
Solution
Problem 20
An integer between and , inclusive, is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is
an odd integer whose digits are all distinct?
Solution
Problem 21
Suppose , , and are nonzero real numbers, and . What are the possible
value(s) for ?
Solution
Problem 22
In the right triangle , , , and angle is a right angle. A semicircle is
inscribed in the triangle as shown. What is the radius of the semicircle?
Solution
Problem 23
Each day for four days, Linda traveled for one hour at a speed that resulted in her traveling one mile in
an integer number of minutes. Each day after the first, her speed decreased so that the number of
minutes to travel one mile increased by 5 minutes over the preceding day. Each of the four days, her
distance traveled was also an integer number of miles. What was the total number of miles for the four
trips?
Solution
Problem 24
Mrs. Sanders has three grandchildren, who call her regularly. One calls her every three days, one calls
her every four days, and one calls her every five days. All three called her on December 31, 2016. On
how many days during the next year did she not receive a phone call from any of her grandchildren?
Solution
Problem 25
In the figure shown, and are line segments each of length 2, and .
Arcs and are each one-sixth of a circle with radius 2. What is the area of the region shown?
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The value of is closest to

(1) fold the top half over the bottom half

(2) fold the bottom half over the top half

(3) fold the right half over the left half

(4) fold the left half over the right half.

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means . For example,

is . Then the sum

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The greatest monthly drop in price occurred during

The median is in the interval labeled

then the value of the result could equal

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The number halfway between and is

then which sequence of arrows goes from point to point ?

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has the form

where a string of nines is multiplied by a string of fours.

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Which of the following expressions represents a negative number?

Choose three different numbers from the set .

so that the average of the remaining numbers is ?

so that the sum of the three numbers is even?