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2024-2025 MATHCOUNTS Practice

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Sprint Round
Calculators are not allowed.

All answers must be expressed in simplest form.

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1. people

Of 1000 people surveyed, one-third of the 630 people who reported owning a cat also own a dog. If each person surveyed
owns a cat, a dog or both, how many own a dog?

2.

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What number is of of of 60? Express your answer as a common fraction.

3. units

A single portion of a special concoction is a mixture of 3 units of ingredient A, 5 units of ingredient B and 11 units of
ingredient C. If Jaden wants to make 90 portions, how many more units of ingredient C does she need than ingredient B?

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4.

What is the arithmetic mean of and ? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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5.
Given that 75% of a certain number is 88, what is of the number?

6. cm

The length of a rectangle is three times its width. The area of the rectangle is 75 cm . What is its width?

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7. pets

Aaron and Jackson have a large number of pets: fish, cats and chickens. The pets have a total of 50 legs, 48 eyes and 6
wings. Assuming each cat has 4 legs, each chicken has 2 legs and 2 wings, and each pet has 2 eyes, how many pets do
Aaron and Jackson have?

8. jelly beans

All the jelly beans in Sammi’s cup are red, yellow or orange. Five are red and seven are orange. If two-thirds are yellow, how
many jelly beans are there in Sammi’s cup?

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9. days

Six people are invited to attend a five-day conference scheduled for Monday through Friday. Grace will attend only on Monday
and Thursday. Becca will attend every day except Monday. Carmen will attend every day except Thursday. Davis will attend
only on Thursday. Ernie will only attend either Thursday or Friday. Frank will attend every day except Monday and Wednesday.
On how many days during the conference will at least three of these six people be in attendance?

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10. Robin is thinking of a number. She asks, “If 29 added to 19 times my number equals 732, what is my number?”

11. $

The price of a pizza is directly proportional to its area. If a 12-inch pizza costs $12.00, how much does a 14-inch pizza cost?
Express your answer to the nearest dollar.

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12. $

Zu’s zoo offers a promotional deal: get a free cotton candy and a free soda with the purchase of five admission
tickets. A group of 20 students will each purchase an admission ticket. If half of them want cotton candy and one-fourth of
them want soda, how many dollars would they save by using the promotional deal?

13.

Yixin thinks of a positive number that is a perfect cube, and Aly thinks of a number that is a perfect square.
If the sum of their numbers is 31, what is the product of their numbers?

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14. p.m.

Sonja can write three book reviews per hour before 10:00 p.m., and she can write one and a half reviews per hour between
10:00 p.m. and midnight. If Sonja starts writing reviews at 7:30 p.m., at what time will she finish writing the tenth book review?

15. inches

When Jim was 10 years old, he was 4 feet 8 inches tall. When he was 20 years old, Jim was 6 feet 2 inches tall. By how many

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inches did Jim’s height increase in those 10 years?

16.

If and , what is the value of ?

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17.

What is the value of the expression ? Express your answer as a common fraction.

inches
18.

The sum of the heights of Alex and his two brothers, Evan and Joel, is 221 inches. Alex is 8 inches taller than Evan and 5
inches taller than Joel. What is Alex’s height, in inches?

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19. units²

On a coordinate grid, Micah constructs a pentagon with vertices A(0, 0), B(0, 2), C(3, 4), D(4, 2) and E(2, −1). What is the area
of pentagon ABCDE?

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20. times

While working on a history project, Erika writes down a list of years starting with 1809 and ending with 2025. How many times
did Erika write the digit 1?

21.

What is the probability that a sequence of five flips of a fair coin will not land heads up twice in a row?

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Express your answer as a common fraction.

22.

The greatest common factor of 42 and 24 is . What is the least common multiple of and 15?

mm

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23. The incircle of a triangle is a circle tangent to all three sides of the triangle, as shown in this example. What is the radius of
the incircle of a right triangle with side lengths of 12, 35 and 37 mm?

students

A local college has 985 students, of whom 460 play a varsity sport and 571 belong to a club. What is the absolute difference

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between the least and greatest possible numbers of students who play a varsity sport AND belong to a club?
24.

25. points

Saila took nine exams, each scored out of 100 points. She received a passing score of 60 or above on each of them. If the
mean of her nine scores was 80 points, what is the greatest possible value of the median of her nine scores?

units

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26. Rectangles and are adjacent, as shown, with

and . If rectangle has area 110 units , what is the perimeter of rectangle
?

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27. integers

How many positive integers are each a divisor of both 630 and 360 but not a divisor of 60?

28.

Filip expresses a number in the form . Gala expresses the same number as . If Henry wants to express

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this number in the form , what would be the value of ?

29. candies

Jenny has a bag that contains equal numbers of red, green, yellow, orange and purple candies. She likes only the red candies.
If she randomly selects a candy from her bag and discards any non-red candy she selects, then she is guaranteed to select a
red candy within a minimum of 45 random elections. What is the total number of candies in her bag?

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30. ft²

The figure is the floor plan of a seven-sided room. Side lengths and right angles of the room are as shown. The dashed line
separates the floor into a pentagon and a square. What is the total area of the floor in the room?

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