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-ICOUNTS
1995-96
I Chapter Competition I
Sprint Round
Name
School
DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO
This round of the competition consists of 30 problems.

You will have 40 minutes to complete the problems. You
are not allowed to use calculators, slide rules, books, or
any other aids during this round. If you are wearing a

calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now.
Calculations may be done on scratch paper. All answers
must be complete, legible, and

simplified to lowest terms.
Record only final answers in the blanks in the right-hand
column of the competition booklet. If you complete the
problems before time is called, use the remaining time to
check your answers.
Total Correct Scorer’s Initials
MATHCOUNTS is a cooperative project of the National Society of Professional Engineers, The Dow Chemical
Company Foundation, the CNA Insurance Companies, the General Motors Foundation, the Intel Founda-
tion, Texas Instruments Incorporated, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Sara walks to school along a path that is 1.30 miles. She
returns on shortcut that is 0.75 miles. How many total
a
miles does she Walk to and from school in 5 days? Express

your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
Kristie had $250 in her savings account. She made deposits

of $25, $52, and $38, Withdrawals of $30 and $15 and earned
interest of $2.15. To the nearest cent, how many dollars were
in her account after these transactions?
Forty—five percent of the area of circle 0 is contained in the

shaded region. How many degrees are in the measure of the
non—reflex angle, ZMON?
Laura received in change pennies, dimes and quarters

totalling $1.57. What is the minimum number of coins she
could have received?
A straight line passes through the three points (2,5), (4, 8)

and (6,y). What is the Value of 3;?
Beginning with the second day of a seven-day Week, Potter

ate 4 moredog biscuits than he ate the day before. He ate
a total of 105 biscuits
during the Week. How many biscuits
did he eat on the fifth day?
By how much does theproduct of 3, 4 and 5 exceed the sum
of the squares of these numbers?
Three angles of a quadrilateral are 21°, 66° and 134°. How

many degrees are in the measure of the fourth angle?
What is the sum of all integers n satisfying —107r g n 3 107:?
10. How many positive integer factors of 72 are also multiples 10.
of 2?
11. Two triangles have sides with unit lengths 3, 7 and 9 and 11.
4.5, 10.5 and 13.5, respectively. What is the ratio of the
number of square units in the area of the smaller triangle to
the number of square units in the area of the larger triangle?
12. Thesalary of a salesperson was a 4% commission on all sales. 12.

Her Commission rate is then raised to 4.5%. What will be
the percent of increase in her salary, assuming she sells the
same amount of merchandise?
13. How many different, positive three~digit numbers can be made 13.
using any three of the following five digits: 1,2, 2,3 and 3?
l32;u;l1 of the figL11‘CEr3 is an squzire formed by COI1IlCCl;l‘i1g
midpoints of opposite sides of 2.1 larger squa,re. What l"m.<:l;io11
of the largest square is slladed?
15. A school bus has a maximum capacity of 44 passengerss.

Clemente school is taking field trip, Elild the school rules
a
say that the ratio of students; to adults must be at most

10 to 1. Given that 121 students are going on the trip, what
is the minimum number of buses needed?
16. A number is randonlly selected from the following set.
Express as a common fraction the probability that the

fraction will terminate when written as a d.e<:imal.
312 5 31
5’2’3’7712°8
1. 7. A ca,r—rental company charges $50 for the first 500 miles

driven and $0.25 for each additional mile. Given that
Meghan was cliarged $239.25 for total mileage, how many
miles did she drive?
18. A family of four dines at a resta.ura,nt where the cost of the

bullet is $13.25 per person, plus 4.5% tax. How many dollars
W
is the total bill, to the nearest cent, if tax is added after the
bill is totalled?
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m 2:
3 and as 2
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20. How many square units are in the area of the triangle in 20.
the first quadrant bounded by the axes and the line with
equation :2: + y = 10‘?
21. f__is tl_i_e____midpoint__9_f E5,

AP BP 4, 1:5 _L -575, :2 2: 21.
BD _L DC’, AB J. BC. How many units, expressed in simple
radical form, are in the perimeter of pentagon ABCDP?
22. Evaluate: (80)(80) ——
(77)(83). 22.
23. Of the 90% of students in a math class who earned a passing 23.
grade, 10% earned a B+ or better. What percent of the
entire math class received a 13+ or better?
24. A man has a 10 In x 10 m square garden. In the center is a 24.

2 m X 2 m square patch which he cannot use. He divides his
usable space into four congruent rectangular patches. What
is the number of meters in the perimeter of each rectangle?
25. Which of the following ratios has the largest Value? 25.
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26. Baby Steven weighed six pounds at birth and gained two 26.
pounds a week. Mother Ilene weighed 159 pounds when
Steven was born. Ilene started exercising and eating low—fat
foods and lost one pound per Week. How many Weeks past
his birth did Baby Steven weigh one—fourth as much as
Mother Ilene?
27. When the numerator of a common fraction in simplest form 27.

is decreased by 6 and the denominator is decreased by 9,
the resulting fraction is equivalent to the original fraction.
Express the original number as a common fraction.
28. In order to direct observers to a school exhibit, the students 28.

are building road of
a paper sheets that measure 18” by
24” each. The path is 18” wide. They need to tape around
the outside of each sheet of paper completely, either to join
the sheet to another or to stick the paper to the floor.
(When two sheets meet at an edge, only one piece of tape is

used to hold the sheets together.) What is the least number
of feet of tape they need for a 100-foot~long path? Express
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
29. The formula d x

\/1.5h gives the distance (d) in miles you 29.
can see to the horizon from a height of h feet above the
earth. To the nearest mile, how many miles can you see to
the horizon from the top of the Empire State Building at
1250 feet?
30. Define (wAy) to mean 253 ~«—
3y. Evaluate ((4A3)A(5A3)). 30.
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MAT!

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

This round of the competition consists of 30 problems.

any other aids during this round. If you are wearing a

must be complete, legible, and

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

miles does she Walk to and from school in 5 days? Express

Kristie had $250 in her savings account. She made deposits

in her account after these transactions?

Forty—five percent of the area of circle 0 is contained in the

Laura received in change pennies, dimes and quarters

A straight line passes through the three points (2,5), (4, 8)

Beginning with the second day of a seven-day Week, Potter

of the squares of these numbers?

Three angles of a quadrilateral are 21°, 66° and 134°. How

What is the sum of all integers n satisfying —107r g n 3 107:?

12. Thesalary of a salesperson was a 4% commission on all sales. 12.

15. A school bus has a maximum capacity of 44 passengerss.

say that the ratio of students; to adults must be at most

16. A number is randonlly selected from the following set.

Express as a common fraction the probability that the

1. 7. A ca,r—rental company charges $50 for the first 500 miles

18. A family of four dines at a resta.ura,nt where the cost of the

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12 :: O has solutions 19.

21. f__is tl_i_e____midpoint__9_f E5,

22. Evaluate: (80)(80) ——

24. A man has a 10 In x 10 m square garden. In the center is a 24.

27. When the numerator of a common fraction in simplest form 27.

28. In order to direct observers to a school exhibit, the students 28.

(When two sheets meet at an edge, only one piece of tape is

29. The formula d x

30. Define (wAy) to mean 253 ~«—

3y. Evaluate ((4A3)A(5A3)). 30.

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