MATHCOUNTS Ò

2004
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

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, 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

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

CNA Foundation The Dow Chemical Company Foundation
National Society of Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lockheed Martin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEC Foundation of America
Texas Instruments Incorporated
3M Foundation

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1. There are three 7th-grade math classes, each with 24 students. 1. ________________
No student is taking more than one math class. How many
students are in 7th-grade math classes altogether?

2. A particular triangle has sides of length 14 cm, 8 cm and 9 cm. 2. ________________

In centimeters, what is the perimeter of the triangle?

3. The sum of the squares of two positive integers is 73. What is 3. ________________
the sum of the two positive integers?

4. Kaleb defined a clever integer as an even integer that is greater 4. ________________

than 20, less than 120, and such that the sum of its digits is 9.
What fraction of all clever integers is divisible by 27? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

5. Based on this graph, what percent of 5. ________________

viewers watched one hour or more of
television?

1 1 1
6. Solve for x: − = . 6. ________________
2 3 x

7. The points (x, y) represented in this table lie on a straight line. 7. ________________
The point (28, t) lies on the same line. What is the value of t ?
x y
1 7
3 13
5 19

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8. Place a digit 0 through 9 in each blank so the equation below is 8. ________________
true. What is the sum of the six digits you placed in the blanks?

( _6_ ,3_1 ) - ( 76,_35 ) = ( _9,28_ )

9. A pizza costing $17.60 is cut into 16 equal pieces. Brad eats six 9. ________________
pieces. In dollars, how much was the portion of the pizza that
Brad ate? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest
hundredth.

10. This net is folded into a cube. When the cube is 10. ________________
rolled, the lateral product is the product of the
numbers on the four lateral faces. The numbers
on the top and bottom faces are not included in
the product. What is the greatest possible lateral
product for this cube?

11. Rick has a cup containing at least one penny, at least one nickel 11. ________________
and at least one dime. The total value of the coins in the cup is
$1.25. What is the sum of the largest possible number of nickels
in the cup and the smallest possible number of nickels in the
cup?

12. On Friday, a snowboard originally priced at $100 was 12. ________________

discounted 50%. On Monday, that sale price was reduced by
30%. In dollars, what is the price of the snowboard after the
Monday reduction?

13. The sum of two numbers x and y is 153, and the value of the 13. ________________
x
fraction is 0.7. What is the value of y - x?
y

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14. Given the set {3, 6, 12}, how many unique values can be 14. ________________
created by forming fractions xy such that x and y are distinct
members of the given set?

15. There are eight furlongs in a mile. There are two weeks in a 15. ________________
fortnight. The British cavalry traveled 2800 furlongs in a
fortnight. How many miles per day did the cavalry average?

16. The number 121 is a palindrome, because it reads the same 16. ________________
backwards as forward. How many integer palindromes are
between 100 and 500?

17. How many diagonals does a regular seven-sided polygon 17. ________________
contain?

18. A detective is standing at a corner 18. ________________

D. A witness tells the detective,
“The shortest distance from you to
the suspect is exactly four blocks.”
How many different intersection
points on this map are exactly four
blocks from D, when traveling the
shortest path along the segments of
the grid?

3 83 8
19. Define a ∆ b = a 2 − b. What is the value of 2 4 ∆13 ∆ 33∆5 ? 19. ________________

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20. Five consecutive terms of the Warloe sequence are given below. 20. ________________
In the Warloe sequence, each term after the third term is the sum
of the previous three terms. The 8th term has been identified.
What is the sum of the 1st term and the 13th term in the Warloe
sequence? 8 term
th

... , 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, ...

21. If −2a + 1 < 13 , what is the sum of the distinct possible integer- 21. ________________
values of a?

22. Ilian will randomly choose a value for p from the integers 0 22. ________________
p
through 13, inclusive, and will make 13 the coordinate of
point A. The coordinate of point B is 23 . Points A and B will be
on the same number line. What is the probability that point A
and point B will be less than 15 of a unit from each other?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. This graph depicts Speed versus 23. ________________

Time for a car trip. Which
scenario below, (A, B, C
or D), best describes this graph?

A. A car was going up a hill, then along a level street, and then
down the hill.
B. A car was going forward, then stopped, and then drove
backwards.
C. A car was speeding up, then advanced at a constant speed,
and then decreased in speed.
D. A car was heading northeast, then went east, and then went
southeast.

24. How many terms of the arithmetic sequence 88, 85, 82, ... 24. ________________
appear before the number -17 appears?

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25. The product of the digits of 3214 is 24. How many distinct 25. ________________
four-digit positive integers are such that the product of their
digits equals 12?

26. Starting at the M in the center, you may 26. ________________

move left, right, up or down to an adjoining
letter. How many distinct paths can be
followed to spell the word MATH?

27. A regular pentagon and a regular hexagon 27. ________________

are coplanar and share a common side
AD , as shown. What is the degree
measure of angle BAC?

28. The coordinates of the vertices of a parallelogram are (10, 1), 28. ________________
(7, -2), (4, 1) and (x, y). What is the sum of the distinct
possible values for x ?

29. Camy made a list of every possible distinct five-digit positive 29. ________________
even integer that can be formed using each of the digits 1, 3, 4,
5 and 9 exactly once in each integer. What is the sum of the
integers on Camy’s list?

30. A particular right square-based pyramid has a volume of 30. ________________

63,960 cubic meters and a height of 30 meters. What
is the number of meters in the length of the lateral
height ( AB ) of the pyramid? Express your answer
to the nearest whole number.

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 Forms of Answers
The following list explains acceptable forms for answers. Coaches should ensure that Mathletes® are familiar with
these rules prior to participating at any level of competition. Judges will score competition answers in compliance
with these rules for forms of answers.

All answers must be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the
form , where a and b are natural numbers, and GCF(a,b) = 1. In some cases the term “common fraction” is to
be considered a fraction in the form , where A and B are algebraic expressions, and A and B do not share a
common factor. A simplified “mixed number” (“mixed numeral,” “mixed fraction”) is to be considered a fraction in
the form N , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a,b) = 1.
Examples:
Problem: Express 8 divided by 12 as a common fraction. Answer: 23 Unacceptable: 46 , 12
8

Problem: Express 12 divided by 8 as a common fraction. Answer: 23 Unacceptable: 46 , 12

8
Problem: Express the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with a diameter
of as a common fraction in terms of p. Answer:
Problem: Express 20 divided by 12 as a mixed number. Answer: 1 Unacceptable: 1 ,

Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions, unless otherwise specified. Examples:
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: , , Unacceptable: 3 , , 3.5, 2:1

Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy the following conditions: 1) no radicands have
perfect square factors other than one; 2) no radicands contain fractions; and 3) no radicals appear in the
denominator of a fraction. Numbers with fractional exponents are not in radical form. Examples:
Problem: Evaluate × . Answer: 5 Unacceptable:

Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified monetary
unit (e.g. “How many dollars...,” “What is the amount of interest...”) should be expressed in the form
($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits. The only exceptions to this rule are when a is zero, in
which case it may be omitted, or when b and c are both zero, in which case they may both be omitted. Examples:
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0

Units of measurement are not required in answers, but must be correct if given. When a problem asks for
an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure, equivalent answers expressed in other units are not acceptable.
For example, if a problem asks for the number of ounces and 36 oz is the correct answer, 2 lbs 4 oz will not be
accepted. Similarly, if a problem asks for the number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be
accepted.

Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., p, , ) in the data given or in solutions, unless the problem
says to do so.

Do not do any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator performs) when calculating
solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the calculation process.

Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10 and n is an integer.
For example:
Problem: Write 6895 in scientific notation. Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: Write 40,000 in scientific notation. Answer: 4 × 104 or 4.0 × 104

An answer expressed to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy than called for in the problem will not
be accepted. Whole number answers should be expressed in their whole number form.
Thus, 25.0 will not be accepted for 25, nor vice versa.
 2005
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

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, 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

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

CNA Foundation ADC Foundation
National Society of Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lockheed Martin
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Texas Instruments Incorporated
3M Foundation

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1. The chart below gives the air distance in miles between selected 1. _________________
miles
world cities. What is the distance from Honolulu to Cape
Town?

Bangkok Cape Town Honolulu London

Bangkok 6300 6609 5944
Cape Town 6300 11,535 5989
Honolulu 6609 11,535 7240
London 5944 5989 7240

Primary Barrier
2. The pie chart shown represents a to Internet Access 2. _________________
%
survey of Canadians who do not use Canadian Non-Users
the Internet. What is the percent of
Canadian non-users for whom cost is
not the primary barrier?

3. It is now 12:00:00 midnight, as read on a12-hour digital clock. 3. _________________

In 122 hours, 39 minutes and 44 seconds the time will be A:B:C.
What is the value of A + B + C?

4. Shooting hoops for 30 minutes burns 150 calories. How many 4. _________________
calories
calories would Kendra burn shooting hoops if she shot hoops
30 minutes every day for one week?

5. Olga purchases a rectangular mirror 5. _________________

sq cm
(the shaded region) that fits exactly
inside a frame. The outer perimeter of
the frame measures 60 cm by 80 cm.
The width of each side of the frame
is 10 cm. What is the area of the
mirror?

6. The product of two positive whole numbers is 2005. If neither 6. _________________

number is 1, what is the sum of the two numbers?

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7. Three friends each ordered a large cheese pizza. Shauntee ate 23 7. _________________
of her pizza, Carlos ate 89 of his pizza and Rocco ate 27
26
of his
pizza. If the remaining portions from the three pizzas are put
together, what fraction of a large pizza do they make? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

8. It takes 24 minutes for Jana to walk one 8. _________________

miles
mile. At that rate, how far will she walk in 10
minutes? Express your answer as a decimal to
the nearest tenth.

9. Roslyn has ten boxes. Five of the boxes contain pencils, four of 9. _________________
boxes
the boxes contain pens, and two of the boxes contain both pens
and pencils. How many boxes contain neither pens nor pencils?

10. How many combinations of pennies, nickels and/or dimes are 10. _________________
combinations
there with a total value of 25¢?

11. What is the value of the following expression: 11. _________________

1 − 3 + 5 − 7 + 9 − ….. − 43 + 45 − 47 + 49 ?

12. A rectangular tile measures 3 inches by 4 inches. What is the 12. _________________
tiles
fewest number of these tiles that are needed to completely cover
a rectangular region that is 2 feet by 5 feet?

13. When plotted in the standard rectangular coordinate system, 13. _________________
square units
trapezoid ABCD has vertices A(1, −2), B(1, 1), C(5, 7) and
D(5, 1). What is the area of trapezoid ABCD?

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14. Trey receives a 5% commission on every sale he makes. On the 14. _________________
cents
sale of a $60 coat (before any discounts), how many more cents
will he receive if his commission is based on the original price of
the coat rather than the price of the coat after a 20% discount?

15. Five distinct points A, B, C, D and E lie on a line, but not 15. _________________
units
necessarily in that order. Use the information below to determine
the number of units in the length of segment DC.
• E is the midpoint of segment AB.
• D is the midpoint of segment AE.
• Both C and E are the same distance from B.
• The distance from D to B is 9 units.

16. In the 19th century, Britain used a money system which included 16. _________________
farthings
pence, farthings, shillings and pounds. The following conversions
were used:
4 farthings = 1 pence
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound
How many total farthings were equivalent to 1 pound and 5 pence?

17. What is the sum of all the distinct positive two-digit factors of 144? 17. _________________

18. The points B(1, 1), I(2, 4) and G(5, 1) are plotted in the standard ( , )
18. _________________
rectangular coordinate system to form triangle BIG. Triangle BIG
is translated five units to the left and two units upward to triangle
B’I’G’, in such a way that B’ is the image of B, I’ is the image of I,
and G’ is the image of G. What is the midpoint of segment B’G’?
Express your answer as an ordered pair.

19. The positive difference of the cube of an integer and the square of 19. _________________
the same integer is 100. What is the integer?

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20. A rectangular sheet of paper is folded twice and then cut, as 20. _________________
shown below. All fold lines are dashed, and the portion that is to
be cut away is shaded.

Which of the following drawings (A, B, C, D, E or F) shows

what the paper looks like when it is unfolded after the cuts?

21. Henry took five tests, and his average score was 57 points. He 21. _________________
points
scored at least 50 points on each test. There were 100 points
possible on each test. What is the highest score that Henry could
have earned on any of the five tests?

22. How many ordered pairs (x, y) satisfy BOTH conditions below? 22. _________________
ordered pairs
Condition I: x = 1 or y = 0 or y = 2
Condition II: x = 0 or x = 2 or y = 1

23. Zan has created this rule for generating sequences of whole 23. _________________
numbers.
If a number is 25 or less, double the number.
If a number is more than 25, subtract 12 from it.
For example, if Zan starts with 10, she gets the sequence 10, 20,
40, 28, 16, … . If the third number in Zan’s sequence is 36, what
is the sum of the four distinct numbers that could have been the
first number in her sequence?

24. Reverse the two digits of my age, divide by three, add 20, and 24. _________________
years
the result is my age. How many years old am I?

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25. The sequence of integers in 25. _________________
the row of squares and in each
of the two columns of squares
form three distinct arithmetic
sequences. What is the value
of N?

26. To be able to walk to the center C of a circular fountain, a repair 26. _________________
square feet
crew places a 16-foot plank from A to B and then a 10-foot plank
from D to C, where D is the
midpoint of AB . What is the
area of the circular base of the
fountain? Express your answer
in terms of π.

27. The function f is defined by f (n) = f (n − 1) + f (n − 2). It is also 27. _________________

true that f (1) = 3 and f (3) = 10. What is the value of f (6)?

a 3 b 8 c 2 ad
28. If = , = and = , what is the value of 2 ? Express 28. _________________
b 4 c 9 d 3 b
your answer as a common fraction.

29. A play has two male roles, two female roles and two roles that can ways
29. _________________
be either gender. Only a man can be assigned to a male role, and
only a woman can be assigned to a female role. If five men and six
women audition, in how many ways can the six roles be assigned?

30. What is the arithmetic mean of all of the positive two-digit integers 30. _________________
with the property that the integer is equal to the sum of its first digit
plus its second digit plus the product of its two digits?

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 MATHCOUNTS
®

2006
Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

Name

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
This section of the competition consists of 30 problems.
You will have 40 minutes to complete all the problems.
You are not allowed to use calculators, books or other
aids during this round. 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.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit

for the answer is included in the answer blank. The plural
form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears
to require the singular form of the unit. The unit provided
in the answer blank is the only form of the answer that will
be accepted.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

Founding Sponsors National Sponsors

National Society of ADC Foundation Raytheon Company
Professional Engineers General Motors Foundation Shell Oil Company
National Council of Lockheed Martin Texas Instruments Incorporated
Teachers of Mathematics
National Aeronautics and 3M Foundation
CNA Foundation Space Administration Xerox Corporation
Northrop Grumman Foundation

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1. Two identical blue boxes together weigh B B R R R
1. ________________
ounces
the same as three identical red boxes
together. Each red box weighs 10 ounces.
How much does one blue box weigh?

2. Three black chips have been placed on the 1 2 3 2. ________________

game board shown. What is the number in
4 5 6 7
the square where a fourth chip should be
placed so that it shares neither a row nor a 8 9 10
column with any of the existing chips? 11 12 13

3. What is the greatest number of cubes, with edge length 3. ________________

cubes
1 inch, that can
be placed into a
rectangular box 3
measuring 3 inches by
3 inches by 9 inches? 1
3
9

4. What fraction is equal to six times one-seventh? Express your 4. ________________

answer as a common fraction.

5. Krista put 1 cent into her new bank on a Sunday morning. On 5. ________________
Monday she put 2 cents into her bank. On Tuesday she put
4 cents into her bank, and she continued to double the amount
of money she put into her bank each day for two weeks. On
what day of the week did the total amount of money in her
bank first exceed $2?

6. According to the table below, what is the median value of the $

6. ________________
59 salaries paid to this company’s employees?

# of Employees with Salary

Position Title
this Title for Position
President 1 $130,000
Vice-President 5 $90,000
Director 10 $75,000
Associate Director 6 $50,000
Administrative Specialist 37 $23,000

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7. Each side of square ABCD H G 7. ________________
sq cm
is doubled in length to form D C
square EFGH. The perimeter
of square EFGH is 40 cm. A B
What is the area of E F
square ABCD?

8. New York and Denver are in different time zones. When it is 8. ________________
a.m.
noon in New York, it is 10 a.m. in Denver. A train leaves New
York at 2 p.m. (New York time) and arrives in Denver 45 hours
later. What time is it in Denver when the train arrives?

9. A survey of 400 patients at a hospital classified the patients 9. ________________

percent
by gender and blood type, as shown in the table below. What
percent of the patients with type AB blood are male?

Type A Type B Type O Type AB TOTAL

Male 45 60 80 15 200
Female 55 40 100 5 200
TOTAL 100 100 180 20 400

10. One type of cat food recommends that a cat have a daily 10. ________________
pounds
serving of 13 ounce of dry cat food per pound of body weight.
If a cat is fed 3 23 ounces of dry food a day according to these
recommendations, how many pounds does the cat weigh?

11. Roger has exactly one of each of the first 22 states’ new U.S. 11. ________________
quarters. The quarters were released in the same order that the
states joined the union. The graph below shows the number of
states that joined the union in each decade. What fraction of
Roger’s 22 coins represents states that joined the union during
the decade 1780 through 1789? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

12
# of States that Joined

10
the Union

8
6
4
2

9 09 29 49 69 89 09 9
0- 178 0 -18 20-18 40-18 60-18 80-18 00-19 0-195
178 18 0 18 18 18 18 19 195
Decades

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12. In the sequence 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 27, ..., the first term is 0. 12. ________________
Subsequent terms are produced by alternately adding and
multiplying by each successive integer beginning with 1. For
instance, the second term is produced by adding +1 ×1 +2 ×2
1 to the first term; the third term is produced by
multiplying the second term by 1; the fourth term 0, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 27, ...
is produced by adding 2 to the third term; and so
on. What is the value of the first term that is greater than 125?

13. Carolyn, Julie and Roberta share $77 in a ratio of 4:2:1, 13. ________________
$
respectively. How much money did Carolyn receive?

14. To weigh things on a balance scale, one or more objects are 14. ________________
weights
placed on one pan and weights are placed onto the other pan
until the two pans are balanced. We see A is balanced by the
4 weights shown, and B is balanced by the 5 weights shown.
We have the following weights: 1, 1, 3, 3, 9, 9, 27 and 27.
What is the minimum number of these weights it would take to
balance the total weight of A plus B?
A

A
3 B 9 3
B
9 3 1 9 3 1 ?

15. If a = 2, b = 3 and c = 4, what is the numerical value of the 15. ________________

expression (b – c)2 + a (b + c) ?

16. The hexagon with the “R” is colored 16. ________________

ways
red. Each hexagon is colored either
red, yellow or green, such that no two
hexagons with a common side are R
colored the same color. In how many
different ways can the figure be colored?

17. If one quart of paint is exactly enough for two coats of paint quarts
17. ________________
on a 9-foot by 10-foot wall, how many quarts of paint are
needed to apply one coat of paint to a 10-foot by 12-foot wall?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

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18. Ten unit cubes are glued together as shown. 18. ________________
sq units
What is the surface area of the resulting solid?

19. The graph shows the total 160 19. ________________

miles per hour

Total Driving Distance

distance Sam drove from

Since 6 a.m. (miles)

6 a.m to 11 a.m. How many 120
miles per hour is the car’s
average speed for the period 80
from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m.?
40

0
6 7 8 9 10 11
Time of Day (a.m.)

20. A stock loses 10% of its value on Monday. On Tuesday it loses 20. ________________
percent
20% of the value it had at the end of the day on Monday. What is
the overall percent loss in value from the beginning of Monday to
the end of Tuesday?

21. The numbers 1, 2 and 3 are written in these nine unit squares. 21. ________________
• Each of the numbers appears three times, and
there is only one number placed in each of the
nine unit squares.
• Each number is in a unit square horizontally
or vertically adjacent to a unit square with the same number.
• The sum of the numbers in the leftmost column and the sum
of the numbers in the top row are each 7.
What is the sum of the numbers in the four shaded squares?

22. Five balls are numbered 1 through 5 and placed in a bowl. Josh 22. ________________
will randomly choose a ball from the bowl, look at its number and
then put it back into the bowl. Then Josh will again randomly
choose a ball from the bowl and look at its number. What is the
probability that the product of the two numbers will be even and
greater than 10? Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. If a certain negative number is multiplied by six, the result is the 23. ________________
same as 20 less than the original number. What is the value of the
original number?

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24. If 2004 is split after the third digit into a three-digit integer 24. ________________
and a one-digit integer, then the two integers, 200 and 4, have
a common factor greater than one. The years 2005 and 2006
each have this same property, too. What is the first
odd-numbered year after 2006 that has this property?

25. Two consecutive even numbers are each squared. The 25. ________________
difference of the squares is 60. What is the sum of the original
two numbers?

20
15
26. What is the area of the pentagon shown here square units
26. ________________
with sides of length 15, 20, 27, 24 and 20 units? 27
20

24

27. At the beginning of my bike ride I feel good, so I can travel 27. ________________
hours
20 miles per hour. Later, I get tired and travel only 12 miles
per hour. If I travel a total of 122 miles in a total time of
8 hours, for how many hours did I feel good? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

28. When reading a book, Charlie made a list by writing down the pages
28. ________________
page number of the last page he finished reading at the end of
each day. (He always finished reading a page that he started.)
His mom thought his list indicated the amount of pages he
had read on each day. At the end of the 8th day of reading, she
added the numbers on his list and thought Charlie had read
432 pages. If Charlie started reading the book on page one,
and he read the same amount of pages each day of this eight-
day period, how many pages did he actually read by the end of
the 8th day?

29. Suppose that each distinct letter in the COU 29. ________________
equation MATH = COU + NTS is replaced + NT S
by a different digit chosen from 1 through 9 MA T H
in such a way that the resulting equation is
true. If H = 4, what is the value of the greater of C and N?

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30. One gear turns 33 3 times in a minute. Another gear turns 30. ________________
seconds
45 times in a minute. Initially, a mark on each gear is pointing
due north. After how many seconds will the two gears next
have both their marks pointing due north?

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