1) How many addition signs should be put between digits of the number 987654321 and

where should we put them to get a total of 99?

2) Divide the face of the clock into three parts with two lines so that the sum of the
numbers in the three parts are equal.

3) A man has to be at work by 9:00 a.m. and it takes him 15 minutes to get dressed, 20
minutes to eat and 35 minutes to walk to work. What time should he get up?

4) Replace each blank with the correct digit.

4 3 _ 2
4 5 _
_ 1 2 7
---------
8 8 9 3

5) In the first year of production a play sells 1572 tickets, in its second year it sells 1753
tickets, in its third year it sells 152 less than in its second year. How many tickets are sold
in 3 years?

6) The Riddler has left a clue for Batman to follow at the scene of each crime. These are
the clues that Batman has found:

 (1) There is a 1 in the thousands place.

 (2) The digit in the tens place is 9 times the digit in the thousands place.
 (3) Multiply the digit in the thousands place by 2.
 (4) The digit in the ones place is a hand without a thumb.
 (5) The digit in the hundreds is 2 less than the number in the tens.

Solve the riddle to find the number and help Batman stop the Riddler.

7) Scientists have just discovered people on Neptune. There are 3 villages, 2 cities and 1
super city on Neptune. These are the populations in 1994 and 1996.

1994 1996

Eilosa 129 204

Vertu 308 292
Pridi 90 50
Dedrun 500 600
Antran 700 693
Maran 1200 1500

List the places in order of increasing size in 1994 and 1996.

In which year was the population of the planet greater?

8) Rachel, Kim and Shawn went to Cuba for a vacation. On the way to Cuba, the plane
made the trip in 315 minutes. On the return trip, the flight took 216 minutes. They stayed
in Cuba for 3629 minutes. Estimate how long the trip took to the nearest 10.

How long did the trip really take?

9) The mass of the Great Pyramid is 557t greater than that of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Stone Henge has a mass of 2695t which is 95t less than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. There
once was a Greater Pyramid which had a mass twice that of the Great Pyramid, what was
the mass of the Greater Pyramid.

10) Find the number of faces, edges and vertices on the figure shown.

 What would this figure be called?

 What would the two figures contained in it be called?

11) If every vertex of a regular pentagon is connected to every other vertex, how many
triangles are formed?

12) If you begin with a one digit integer, multiply by 3, add 8, divide by 2 and subtract 6,
you will get the integer back. Find the number.

13) This stairway is made of cubes. How many cubes would be needed to make the steps
9 steps high?
14) If Jane is older than Kim, Kim is older than Shawn. Shawn is younger than Jane and
Rachel is older than Jane

List the people from oldest to youngest.

15) There are 12 people in a room. 6 people are wearing socks and 4 people are wearing
shoes, 3 people are wearing both. How many people are in bare feet?

16) One morning grasshopper fell down a hole 2 metres deep. He would climb 1/4 of a
metre every day but at night he slid down 1/8 pf a metre. At this rate, how many days
until the grasshopper gets out?

17) Place the digits 9,4, 7, 6, 5, 1, in the boxes in order to get the largest result.

[ ][ ] x [ ][ ] + [ ] x [ ] = ?

18) Four boys work together painting houses for the summer. For each house they paint
they get $256.00. If the boys work for 4 months of summer and their expenses are
$152.00 per month, how many houses must they paint for each of them to have one
thousand dollars at the end of the summer?

19) In her first year a dog breeder's dogs produce 2 puppies. In her second year her dogs
produce three-times as many puppies. In her third year her dogs produce 5 times as many
puppies as the first year. How many puppies will the breeder have produced in her first 3
years?

If she sells the puppies for $200.00 each, how much will she have made?
20) A grocery store has a sale on bananas. If you buy six bananas you get the sale price.
If the grocer has 489 bananas how many bunches of six can he sell at his sale price? In
this case how many can be sold at the regular price?

21) Some students hold a bake sale to raise money for their school library. They sold
fudge and squares and cookies. One of each type of treat was put into 95 paper bags and
the students were allowed to keep the left overs. If they started out with 110 cookies, 130
pieces of fudge and 116 squares, the students put the same number of each kind of treat in
each bag(eg. 2cookies, 1 fudge, 1 square. How many of each treat did they keep?

22) Describe the shaded area of the following figure in terms of a fraction.

23) Sixteen players enter a tennis tournament. If there can be no draws how many games
must be played if each player can be eliminated by one loss.

24) If a man can walk 4km in 1 hour and his wife can walk 5km in 1 hour, how many
minutes will it take them to meet if they begin walking at the same time at opposite ends
of a 12km road, and have agreed to meet at the half way point?

25) In how many different ways can the cars of a three car train be arranged?

26) In 1989 the price of a soccer ball was $8.00. A financial analyst predicted that the
price would rise $0.25/year for the next 10 years. In what year will the price be $9.75?

27) A math student interviewed 50 fifth graders. 41 said they like peanut butter
sandwiches, 35 liked jam sandwiches and 30 liked both on their sandwiches.

How many students liked neither?

28) How many unit cubes are needed to build this solid figure?

29) See how many triangles you can draw using any three of the five points on the circle
as vertices.

30) Two girls went on a vacation together and they agreed to split all expenses. They trip
was prepaid so Mary wrote a cheque for food and one for lodging. Clare wrote the
cheques for gas and entertainment. How much does Clare owe Mary?

FOOD LODGING
Mary: $56.97 $83.29

GAS ENTERTAINMENT

Clare: $41.96 $37.47

31) The record for the greatest number of consecutive jumping jacks is 14500 in 5 hours
and 35 minutes. If Joe does 55 jumping jacks per minute, how long will it take Joe to tie
the record?
32) A line of length 4 is divided into nine equal segments. Find a fraction to describe the
length AB.

33) Rachel opened her math book and found that the sum of the facing pages was 243.
What pages did she open to?
1)      1)  9+8+7+65+4+3+2+1 = 99   -> 7 addition signs.

     2)  9+8+7+6+5+43+21 = 99    -> 6 addition signs.

2)

26+26+26 = 78

5)      9 hours - (15 + 20 + 35)

     9 hours - 70 minutes
     7 hours + 120 minutes - 70 minutes = 7 hours and 50 minutes = 7:50
AM

6)

          4 3 1 2
            4 5 4
          4 1 2 7
         ---------
          8 8 9 3

7)

     +1572          1753

     +1753          -152
     +1601         ------
     ------         1601
      4926

8)      2794

9)

                    1994      1996

     Eilosa         129       204

     Vertu          308       292
     Pridi           90        50
     Dedrun         500       600
     Antran         700       693
     Maran         1200      1500
                  -----------------
                   2927      3339

    3339 - 2927 = 412 therefore the population in '96 is greater

10)

             ESTIMATE       ACTUAL

               320            315
               220            216
              3630           3629
             ------         ------
              4170           4160

11)

Mass of Stone Henge + 95t = Mass of Leaning Tower

Mass of Leaning Tower + 557t = Mass of Great Pyramid

Therefore the mass of the Great Pyramid  = 2(2695t + 95t + 557t) = 6694t

12)

     17 edges       9 faces        10 vertices

     Pentagonal Prism contains a  rectangular prism and a right

     trianglular prism.

16)

    1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10  = 10 triangles

    1,2 / 2,3 / 6,4 / 4,1 / 10,7 / 7,6 / 9,8 / 8,10 / 9,5 / 5,3 = 10
triangles
    7,0,5 / 4,0,8 / 2,0,7 / 5,0,4 / 8,0,2 = 5 triangles
    1,2,3 / 1,4,6 / 6,7,10 / 10,8,9 / 9,5,3 = 5 triangles
    2,0,7,8,10 / 4,0,8,5,9 / 7,0,5,2,3, / 8,0,2,4,1 / 5,0,4,7,6 = 5
triangles

    Answer:   35 triangles

19)
        Trial and error

        [(2 * 3 + 8)/2] - 6 = 1  <- NO

        [(6 * 3 + 8)/2] - 6 = 7  <- NO
        [(8 * 3 + 8)/2] - 6 = 10 <- NO
        [(4 * 3 + 8)/2] - 6 = 4  <- YES!!  The number is 4

Algebraically: [(3*x + 8)/2] -6 = 4

20)      Find a pattern.

     2 steps        3 cubes             2 + 1

     3 steps        6 cubes             3 + (2 + 1)
     4 steps       10 cubes             4 + (3 + 2 + 1)
     5 steps

     9 steps       45 cubes             9 + (8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 +

1)

     You will need 45 cubes.

23)

24)

Answer: 

          12 - 7 = 5 people in bare feet!

25)      Each day the grasshopper goes 1/8 m until the day when the 

     grasshopper is at 1.75m in morning, he gets out of the hole that 

     day.  1.75/(1/8)=14  and 14 + 1 = 15 days.

28)      [9][5] * [7][6] + [4] * [1] = 7224

29)      Must earn 4 x $1,000.00 + 4 x $152.00= 4608

     Number of houses = 4608/$256/house 
                      = 18 houses.

30)

          2 + 3(2) + 5(2) = 18

          18($200.00) = $3600.00

32)      489 divided by 6 equals 81 with a remainder of 3

     He casn sell 81 bunches, which wuld leave him 3 to sell at regular
     price.

33)

     110 divide by 95 equals 1 with a remainder of 15  cookies

     130 divide by 95 equals 1 with a remainder of 35  fudge
     116 divide by 95 equals 1 with a remainder of 21  squares 
     110 - 95 = 15 cookies
     130 - 95 = 35 fudge
     116 - 95 = 21 squares

     The students kept 15 cookies, 35 pieces of fudge and 21

     squares.

34)      A rectangle = (5-1)(4-1) = (4)(3) = 12

     - each shaded area.

     (1)        (3-1)(2-1) = (2)(1) = 2

     (2)        (4-2)(3-2) = (2)(1) = 2
     (3)        (5-4)(4-3) = (1)(1) = 1
     (4)        (3-2)(4-3) = (1)(1) = 1

                                      6

     Area shaded / Area of rectangle = 6/12 = 1/2

35)      ROUND          PLAYERS REMAINING        GAMES

       1                     16                8

       2                   16 - 8              4
       3                    8 - 4              2
       4                    4 - 2              1 
                                              ----
                                               15

36)
     Time for Man                  Time for Wife

     6km / 4km/hr                  6km / 5km/hr 

     =                             =
     3/2 * 60min                   6/5 * 60min
     =                             =
     90 minutes                    72 minutes

     As the woman will get there first, she will have to wait for 
     the man.  The time taken to meet will be 90 minutes.

37)

     (1)  [1] - [2] - [3]

     (2)  [2] - [3] - [1]
     (3)  [3] - [2] - [1]
     (4)  [2] - [1] - [3]
     (5)  [3] - [1] - [2]
     (6)  [1] - [3] - [2]
     There are three different ways.

38)

     $9.75 - $8.00 = $1.75

     $1.75/$0.25/yr = 7 years

     Therefore, 1989 + 7 = 1996

39)

     
        Only Jam        Only Peanut Butter      Jam/Peanut Butter
        35 - 30              41 - 30                    30
           5                    11

     Number that liked neither = 50 - (5+11+30) = 4

41)

     In a full cube 3 x 3 x 3 = 27

     There are 5 missing cubes, therefore there are 22 cubes needed to 
     build this figure.

42)
              123  234   345
             124  235
             125  245
             134
135
             145

     There are 10 possible triangles.

     Each will be used 6 times.

45)

               $56.97
                83.29
                41.96
              + 37.47
             ---------
              $219.69

          1/2(219.69) = 109.85

     $109.85 - (Clare's payment) = $30.42 = amount Clare owes Mary.

46)

     1min/55 * 14500 = 263.64 min

                     = 4h 23.64 min.

47)

4 * 3/9 = 12/9 = 4/3 = AB

48) 243/2 = 121.5

121.5 pages are whole numbers therefore the pages are 121 and 122