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1. Evaluate the sum (−5) + (−3) + (−1) + 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9. 1.

2. There are 7 marbles in a box, of which exactly 2 are white. One 2.

marble is selected at random. What is the probability it is non-white?
Express the answer as a common fraction.

3. The ferry left Tsawwassen at 2:33 PM, and arrived at Swartz Bay at 3. minutes
4:14 PM the same day. How many minutes was the trip?

4. One angle of an isosceles triangle is 102◦ . What is the measure, in 4. degrees

degrees, of another angle of the triangle?
102

5. 10% of 20 plus 20% of 30 is how many % of 40? 5. %

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6. Express 2
+ 23 + 3
4
as a common fraction. 6.

230
7. Round to the nearest integer. 7.
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8. The sum of all the edge lengths of a cube is 36. What is the volume 8. units 3
of the cube?

9. What is the value of the smallest integer whose square root is greater 9.
than 5.5?

10. Three fair coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting exactly 10.
2 heads? Express the answer as a common fraction.

11. What is the value of the sum 11.

1000 − 999 + 998 − 997 + · · · + 4 − 3 + 2 − 1?

12. Two fair dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the 12.
numbers obtained is 6? Express the answer as a common fraction.

13. The combined cost of one candy, one chocolate bar, and one cookie is 13. $
$2.71. The combined cost of one candy, one chocolate bar, and three
cookies is $5.25. The combined cost of one candy, two chocolate bars,
and three cookies is $6.36. What is the cost of one candy? Give the
answer in $, correct to two decimal places.

14. The 8 points below represent the vertices of a regular octagon. These 14. lines
vertices are alternately painted red and blue. Lines are drawn joining
every pair of points. How many of these lines contain a red point and
a blue point?
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15. A number is put in each of the small rectangles below so that the 15.
number in any small rectangle is equal to the sum of the numbers in
the two rectangles that it sits on. What number should be put in the
rectangle labelled “?”?
121

1 ? 36

16. On Monday, 40 of the 50 students in the math class took a test. Their 16.
mean score was 60. On Tuesday, the remaining 10 students took the
test. Their mean score was 95 (they had seen the questions). What
was the mean class score on the test?

17. Sprinter Bolt ran 100 metres in 10 seconds. What was his average 17. km/hour
speed in km/hour?

18. Last summer, Alfie earned $726 working at $11.00 per hour, and 18. $/hr
another $726 working at an hourly rate which is 50% higher. What
was Alfie’s average wage per hour last summer? Give your answer in
dollars per hour, to 2 decimal places.

19. Four straight lines pass through a circular disk. What is the largest 19. regions
possible number of regions that these lines divide the disk into?

20. A lidless 4 × 4 × 4 box is completely filled with 1 × 1 × 1 cubes. How 20. cubes
many of the 1 × 1 × 1 cubes touch a side or the bottom of the box?
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21. When it was set out, the bowl of mixed nuts was (by weight) 45% 21. percent
peanuts, 25% almonds, 20% cashews, and 10% hazelnuts. Alicia
picked out all the almonds and ate them. What percent (by weight)
of the nuts in the bowl are now peanuts?

22. There is an integer N such that N 3 = 79, 507. What is the value of 22.
N?

23. Each line segment has length 1. You are only allowed to walk in 23. paths
the direction of the arrows, and must always walk full segments. At
any intersection, you can walk in any allowed direction, regardless of
where you came from. How many paths of total length 9 are there
from A to B ?

A B

24. What is the x-coordinate of the point P on the x-axis such that the 24.
distance from P to the origin is the same as the distance from P
to the point with coordinates (1/2, 1/3)? Express the answer as a
common fraction.

25. Two fair dice are rolled. What is the average value of the non-negative 25.
difference between the numbers showing on the two dice? Express the
answer as a common fraction.

26. In the diagram below, the two figures that look like squares are 26. units 2
squares, with sides 12 and 13 respectively. What is the area of the
shaded triangle? Express the answer as a common fraction.

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1. Assume that the Olympic village cost $1,120,000,000 and housed 2800 1. dollars
people during the Vancouver Olympics. What was the cost, in dollars,
per person housed during the Olympics?

2. When Alicia’s car is going at 90 km per hour, it uses 12 litres of gas 2. litres/min
to travel 100 km. How many litres of gas does it use per minute?
Give the answer as a decimal, to 2 decimal places.

3. It takes 12 hours to fill the pool with taps A and B (combined). It 3. hours
takes 36 hours with tap A alone, and it takes 8 hours with taps A,
B, and C combined. How many hours would it take to fill the pool
with tap C alone?

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4. A car is travelling at 96 km per hour. The radius of its wheels is 4. deg/sec
π
metres. How fast are its wheels rotating in degrees per second?
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5. How many five-letter “words” are there which use only the letters A 5. words
and/or B, and in which there are no consecutive occurrences of B?
(For example, AAAAA and ABAAB qualify, but ABBAB does not.)

6. Evaluate the cube root of 24 × 30 × 36 × 40 × 45. 6.

√
5−1
7. To six decimal places, = 0.618034. What common fraction 7.
2 √
a 5−1
, where 2 ≤ b ≤ 10, is nearest to ? For example, an answer
b 2
4
of is wrong, but is of the right shape.
9

8. Twenty-seven 1 × 1 × 1 cubes are coloured using 27 different colours, 8.

one colour to each cube. Red and green are two of the colours. The
27 cubes are assembled at random to make a 3 × 3 × 3 cube. What
is the probability that the red cube and the green cube meet face to
face? Express the answer as a common fraction.
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9. It is late afternoon, and a 1.2 metre tall child casts a 3 metre shadow. 9. metres
The child is standing next to an upright telephone pole, which casts
a 40 metre shadow. What is the height, in metres, of the telephone
pole?

10. In the chessboard below, the distance from point A to point B is 10. cm
33 cm. What is the length, in cm, of a side of one of the 64 little
squares on the chessboard? Express the answer as a common fraction.
B

11. A line passes through the points (−1, 10), and (2, −9). If 5x+by = c 11.
is an equation of the line, what is the value of b? Express the answer
as a common fraction.

12. In 4ABC , the heights from A and from B are each equal to 4. Side 12. units
AB is equal to 5. Given that 4ABC is not right-angled, what is
the perimeter of 4ABC ? Express the answer as a common fraction.
C

4 4

A B
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Answers on a white page will not be graded.

1. The digit-sum of a positive integer is the sum of its decimal digits. 1. integers
For example, the digit-sum of 135 is 9. How many integers between
100 and 999 have digit-sum equal to 5?

2. Define the sequence a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . as follows: a1 = 0, and for every 2.

2 2
positive integer n, an+1 = . Thus for example a2 = = 2.
1 + an 1+0
Express a5 as a common fraction.

3. How many perfect squares between 1 and 1,000,000 have 5, 6, 7, or 3.

8 as their units digit?

4. Suppose that the line with equation x + y = k passes through the 4.

midpoint of the line segment that goes from the point (1, 7) to the
point (9, 11). What is the value of k ?

5. The sum of the ages of six brothers (all of different integer ages) is a 5.
power of 5. The product of their ages is neither a multiple of 5 nor a
multiple of 3. What is the least possible age of the oldest brother?
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Answers on a white page will not be graded.

6. For any real number x, bxc (the integer part of x) is the greatest 6. integers
integer which is less than or equal to x. For example, b17.72c = 17,
and b13c = 13. How many different integers are there in the list
           
100 100 100 100 100 100
, , , , ......, , ?
1 2 3 4 99 100

7. Scientists have recently discovered an Earth-like planet 128 × 1012 7. century

km away and decided to design a self-sustained spaceship that can
travel for generations and send a human expedition to that planet.
Based on current technology, spaceships can be designed to travel
at a constant speed of 1.25% of the speed of light (after an initial
stage of acceleration to this speed). Assume that the speed of light is
300000 km/sec, and ignore the time and distance the space ship has
to travel until it reaches cruising speed. Assume also that a year has
exactly 360 days and that the ship is to be launched in the year 2050
(exactly halfway through the 21st century). In what century will the
space ship reach its destination?

8. In Question #7, how many hours (rounded to the nearest whole hour) 8. hours
will it take for the spaceship to reach its cruising speed of 1.25% of
the speed of light if it accelerates at a constant rate of 10m/sec 2 .

9. In Question #8, how many km will the spaceship travel until it 9. km

reaches its cruising speed? Give the answer in scientific notation,
correct to 3 significant digits. So an answer like 6.24 × 105 is of the
right shape.

10. The number 360000 has 105 positive factors. (Note that 1 and 360000 10. factors
are two of these factors.) How many of these 105 factors are divisible
by 4?
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11. Ten people, Alan and Beti and 8 others, are divided at random into 11.
two groups, one with 4 people and the other with 6 people. What
is the probability that Alan and Beti end up in the same group?
Express the answer as a common fraction.

12. There are 12 square tiles. Each has one letter written on it. The 12 12. words
letters are C, C, H, K, K, K, M, O, O, S, U, and U. The tiles are
arranged to form the word SKOOKUMCHUCK. How many distinct
“words” (which need not be words in any language) can be formed by
interchanging two of the tiles? Note that SKOOKUMCHUCK itself
is such a word, since it can be obtained by interchanging the two tiles
that have a C on them, and in other ways.

13. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a semicircle of radius 1 as shown. 13. units 2

What is the area of the hexagon? Please give the answer rounded to
4 places after the decimal point.

14. How many ordered pairs (a, b) are there such that a and b are pos- 14. pairs
itive integers and the least common multiple of a and b is 72? Re-
member that for example the ordered pair (18, 24) is different from
the ordered pair (24, 18), and don’t forget the ordered pair (72, 72).

15. A box contains N marbles, of which 2 are white and N −2 are black. 15.
You know that if you take out 3 marbles at random from the box,
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the probability that exactly 2 of them are white is 210 . What is the
value of N ?