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Question 1 A scout troop buys 1000 2
candy bars at a price of five for dollars. They sell all the candy
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bars at the price of two for dollar. What was their profit, in dollars?

Points out of 6 (A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400 (E) 500

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Question 2 A positive number x has the property that x % of x is 4. What is x?

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(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 20 (E) 40
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Question 3 A gallon of paint is used to paint a room. One third of the paint is used on the first day. On
Not yet answered the second day, one third of the remaining paint is used. What fraction of the original
amount of paint is available to use on the third day?
Points out of 6

(A) 101 (B) 19 (C) 13 (D) 49 (E) 59

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Question 4 For real numbers a and b, define a ⋄ b = √a −−
2
−−−−
+ b2 . What is the value of
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(5 ⋄ 12) ⋄ ((−12) ⋄ (−5)) ?
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(A)0 (B) (C)13 (D)13√2 (E)26
2

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Question 5 Brianna is using part of the money she earned on her weekend job to buy several equally-
Not yet answered priced CDs. She used one fifth of her money to buy one third of the CDs. What fraction of
her money will she have left after she buys all the CDs?
Points out of 6
1 1 2 2 4
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D)  (E) 
5 3 5 3 5

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Question 6 At the beginning of the school year, Lisa's goal was to earn an A on at least 80%
of her 50
Not yet answered quizzes for the year. She earned an A on 22
of the first 30
quizzes. If she is to achieve her
goal, on at most how many of the remaining quizzes can she earn a grade lower than an A?
Points out of 6
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
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Question 7 A circle is inscribed in a square, then a square is inscribed in this circle, and finally, a circle
Not yet answered is inscribed in this square. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller circle to the area of
the larger square?
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(A) 16π (B) π8 (C) 316π (D) π4 (E) π2

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Question 8 An 8-foot by 10 -foot floor is tiles with square tiles of size 1 foot by 1 foot. Each tile has a
Not yet answered pattern consisting of four white quarter circles of radius 1/2 foot centered at each corner of
the tile. The remaining portion of the tile is shaded.
Points out of 6

How many square feet of the floor are shaded?

(A) 80 − 20π (B) 60 − 10π (C) 80 − 10π (D) 60 + 10π (E) 80 + 10π

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Question 9 One fair die has faces 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 and another has faces 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6. The dice are
Not yet answered rolled and the numbers on the top faces are added. What is the probability that the sum will
be odd?
Points out of 6
1 4 1 5 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 9 2 9 3

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Question 10 In△ABC , we have = AC BC
= 7 and AB = 2. Suppose that D is a point on line AB
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lies between andA D
and CD = 8. What is BD ?
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Points out of 6 (A) 3 (B) 2√3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 4√2

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Question 11 The first term of a sequence is 2005 . Each succeeding term is the sum of the cubes of the
th
Not yet answered digits of the previous term. What is the 2005 term of the sequence?
Points out of 6 (A) 29 (B) 55 (C) 85 (D) 133 (E) 250

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Question 12 Twelve fair dice are rolled. What is the probability that the product of the numbers on the top
Not yet answered faces is prime?
12 12 11 11 10
Points out of 6
(A) ( 12 )1
(B) (6)
1
(C)2 (6)1
(D)
5
2
(6)
1
(E) (6)1

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Question 13 How many numbers between 1 and 2005 are integer multiples of 3 or 4 but not 12 ?
Not yet answered (A)501 (B)668 (C)835 (D)1002 (E)1169
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Question 14
Equilateral △ABC has side length 2, M is the midpoint of AC , and C is the midpoint of
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BD .
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What is the area of △CDM ?

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√2 3 √3 –
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D) 1 (E) √2
2 4 2

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Question 15 An envelope contains eight bills: 2 ones, 2 fives, 2 tens, and 2 twenties. Two bills are drawn
Not yet answered at random without replacement. What is the probability that their sum is $20 or more?

Points out of 6
1 2 3 1 2
(A)  (B)  (C)  (D)  (E) 
4 5 7 2 3

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Question 16 The quadratic equation x 2 + mx + n has roots twice those of x 2 + px + m , and none
Not yet answered of m, n, and p is zero. What is the value of n/p ?

Points out of 6 (A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16

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Question 17 Suppose that 4a = 5, 5b = 6, 6c = 7, and 7d = 8. What is a ⋅ b ⋅ c ⋅ d?

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(A)1 (B) (C)2 (D) (E)3
Points out of 6 2 2

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D
E

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Question 18 All of David's telephone numbers have the form 555 − −
abc defg , where a, b, c, d, e , f ,
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and g are distinct digits and in increasing order, and none is either or . How many
different telephone numbers can David have?
Points out of 6
(A)1 (B)2 (C)7 (D)8 (E)9
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Question 19 On a certain math exam, 10%

of the students got 70
points, 25% got 80 points, 20%got
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points, and the rest got 95points. What is the difference between
the mean and the median score on this exam?
Points out of 6
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 5
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Question 20 What is the average (mean) of all 5-digit numbers that can be formed by using each of the
Not yet answered digits 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 exactly once?

Points out of 6 (A)48000 (B)49999.5 (C)53332.8 (D)55555 (E)56432.8

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Question 21 Forty slips are placed into a hat, each bearing a number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 , with
Not yet answered each number entered on four slips. Four slips are drawn from the hat at random and without
p
replacement. Let be the probability that all four slips bear the same number. Let be the q
Points out of 6
a
probability that two of the slips bear a number and the other two bear a number ≠ . b a
What is the value of / ? qp
(A)162 (B)180 (C)324 (D)360 (E)720

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Question 22 For how many positive integers n less than or equal to 24 is n

! evenly divisible by
Not yet answered 1 + 2 + … + ? n
Points out of 6 (A) 8  (B) 12  (C) 16  (D) 17  (E) 21 

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Question 23
In trapezoidABCD we have AB parallel to DC , E as the midpoint of BC , and F as the
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midpoint of DA . The area of ABEF is twice the area of FECD. What is AB DC ?
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/

Points out of 6
(A)2 (B)3 (C)5 (D)6 (E)8

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Question 24 x y y x
Let and be two-digit integers such that is obtained by reversing the digits of . The
Not yet answered x y x y m m
integers and satisfy 2 − 2 = 2 for some positive integer . What is + + ? x y m
Points out of 6 (A)88 (B)112 (C)116 (D)144 (E)154

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Question 25 A subset B of the set of integers from 1 to 100, inclusive, has the property that no two
Not yet answered elements of B
sum to 125. What is the maximum possible number of elements in ? B
Points out of 6 (A)50 (B)51 (C)62 (D)65 (E)68

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