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Are you ready for Beast Academy 3B?

Before beginning
Beast Academy 3B, a
student should be able
to classify polygons, skip-
count, and understand the A student ready
concepts of perimeter for Beast Academy
and area. 3B should be able to
answer at least 9 of the
13 problems below
correctly.

Step 1. The student should try to answer every question without a calculator and without help.
Step 2. Check the student’s answers using the solutions at the end of this document.
Step 3. The student should be given a second chance on problems that he or she answered incorrectly.

1. Connect 3 of the points below to 2. Connect 4 of the points below to

make an obtuse triangle. make a square.

3. Circle the shape or shapes below that cannot be made with seven dominoes ( ).

Fill in the blanks to complete each skip-counting pattern below:

4. 5, 10, 15, _____, 25, _____, _____, 40, ...

5. 13, 19, _____, _____, _____, 43, 49, _____, 61, ...

6. _____, _____, 23, _____, 31, _____, _____, 43, ...

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Answer each:

7. Ella begins at 9 and skip-counts by 7’s. Jack begins at 9 and skip- 7. ________
counts by 8’s. What is the next number that both Ella and Jack will
say?

8. What is the perimeter of a regular pentagon with sides of length 7? 8. ________

9. The height of a rectangle is increased by 3 inches. The new 9. ________

rectangle has a perimeter of 30 inches. What was the perimeter of
the original rectangle?

10. What is the perimeter of the rectilinear shape below? 10. ________
9

11. What is the area of the rectilinear shape below? 11. ________
9

6
10

12. Six squares are arranged as shown. The perimeter of each 12. ________
square is 5. What is the perimeter of the shape they make?

13. One side of a triangle is 3 inches long. Another side of the same
triangle is 6 inches long. Circle every value below that could be the
length of the triangle’s third side.

2 inches 5 inches 8 inches 11 inches 14 inches

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Solutions
1. An obtuse triangle must have one obtuse angle. 7. We write the first few numbers Ella says:
There is only one way to connect three of the points to 9, 16, 23, 30, 37, 44, 51, 58, 65, 72, 79, ...
make an obtuse triangle, as shown below. We also write the first few numbers that Jack says:
9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81, ...
The next number that Ella and Jack both say is 65.
2. There is only one way to connect four of the points to 8. A regular pentagon has 5 sides with equal length, so the
make a square, as shown below: perimeter of a regular pentagon with sides of length 7 is
7+7+7+7+7=35.
9. When we make a rectangle 3 inches taller, the length of
each vertical side increases by 3.

3. If we color each shape with light and dark squares like a +3 +3

chess board, the first and fourth shapes each have 8 dark
squares and 6 light squares. The second and third shapes
have 7 light and 7 dark squares.
So, the perimeter of the original rectangle is 6 inches
less than the perimeter of the new rectangle. The new
rectangle has a perimeter of 30 inches, so the perimeter
of the original rectangle is 30−6=24 inches.
10. The short sides on the right side of the figure must add up
Since 7 dominoes will always cover 7 light squares to 5, and the short sides on the bottom of the figure must
and 7 dark squares, the first and fourth shapes are add up to 9, so the perimeter of the shape is the same as
impossible to make with dominoes. the perimeter of a 5 by 9 rectangle:
9

(9+5)+(9+5)=14+14=28.
Below are possible ways to make the other two shapes.
11. We can split the rectilinear shape into two rectangles as
follows: 9
9

6 6
4. We skip-count by 5’s, beginning at 5. 10
+5 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5 +5
4 4
5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, ... 3 3
5. We skip-count by 6’s, beginning at 13.
The area of the 6 by 9 rectangle is 9+9+9+9+9+9=54
+6 +6 +6 +6 +6 +6 +6 +6
squares.
13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, ... The area of the 4 by 3 rectangle is 4+4+4=12 squares.
6. We look at the two closest numbers in the pattern: 23 and The area of the original shape is
31. We look for the number we can add to 23 twice to get 54+12=66 (squares).
31. Because 31−23=8, we need to add 8 to get from 23 12. Each square has 4 sides, and it takes 12 of those sides
to 31. Since 4+4=8, we can add 4 twice to get 8. So, we to make the perimeter of the new shape. 4+4+4=12, so
are skip-counting by 4’s. this is the same as the number of sides in three squares.
+4 +4 +4 +4 +4 Since the perimeter of each square is 5, the perimeter of
__, __, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, ... the new shape is 5+5+5=15.
When skip-counting by 4’s, we add 4 to get the next 13. The sum of the two shortest sides of a triangle must be
number. To get the previous number, we can do the greater than the length of the longest side. If 6 is the
opposite: subtract 4. We work backwards from 23 by longest side of the triangle, then the third side must be
subtracting to find the first two numbers in the pattern. longer than 6−3=3 inches. If the third side of the triangle
−4 −4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 is the longest, it must be shorter than 3+6=9 inches.
This leaves two possible lengths in the list:
15, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 43, ...
2 inches 5 inches 8 inches 11 inches 14 inches

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