First Annual Math Talent Quest

April 17th, 2012

PLEASE DO NOT START UNTIL

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO
Instructions:
1. Answers in Part A are letters A – E; answers in Parts B and C are integers
ranging from 000 to 999. There is only one correct answer for each problem.

2. Each of the problems 1-8 is worth 10 points. Each of the problems 9-16 is
worth 20 points. Each of the problems 17-24 is worth 30 points.

3. There is neither partial credit nor any penalty for wrong answers; your score
is the sum of the full point values for each problem correctly solved.

4. You may only use scratch paper, pencil or pen, ruler, compass, protractor,
and graph paper during this contest. No other aids may be used during the
test.

5. Once the test begins, you are not allowed to ask any questions regarding the
content of the test; this includes questions relating to the interpretation of
directions or the meanings of words. If you have any questions, please ask
them now.

6. Add leading zeros to any 1 or 2-digit answers for problems 9-24. For example,
if your answers are 0, 4, and 29, you should put 000, 004, and 029,
respectively, as your answers on your answer sheet.

7. You have 60 minutes to complete this test.

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 Part A, General Level (10 points each)

1. Compute 2  (2  2  (2  2  2))

A) 6 B) 20 C) 24 D) 28 E) 36

2. Jason’s uncle is 17 years older than Jason, and Jason’s dad is 7 years older than Jason’s
uncle. How many years older than Jason is Jason’s dad?

A) 12 B) 17 C) 24 D) 31 E) 36

3. Find the remainder when (2  3  4    99) is divided by 100.

A) 0 B) 48 C) 49 D) 50 E) 98

4. The first 7 terms in a sequence are: 1,2,4,7,11,16,22. What is the 10th term of this
sequence?

A) 44 B) 46 C) 49 D) 55 E) 64

5. Compute the remainder when (9+99+999+9999+99999) is divided by 99.

A) 9 B) 27 C) 33 D) 99 E) 111

6. Jessica climbs a mountain. It takes her two and a half hours to climb the first five miles,
after which she takes a half-hour lunch break. Feeling refreshed, she finishes the steeper
last mile to the summit in one hour. What is Jessica’s average speed (in miles per hour)
from the base of the mountain to the summit?

A) 1.0 B) 1.5 C) 2.0 D) 2.5 E) 3.0

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7. Compute .
1 1 1 1 1
(1  )(1  )(1  )  (1  )(1  )
2 3 4 99 100

A) 100 B) 101 C) 120 D) 121 E) 200

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8. In the figure shown below, some segment lengths are given by AC=100, FE=70,
BE=60, FG=40. Find the area of rectangle BCIH.

A B C

H
G I

F E D

A) 200 B) 300 C) 600 D) 700 E) 2400

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 Part B, Intermediate Level (20 points each)

a
9. The repeating decimal 2.141414 can be expressed as the fraction such that a and
b
b have no common factors. Find a  b .

10. How many positive integers less than 1000 are multiples of 3 or 7, but not 21?

11. A teacher hands out candies to her students. If she gives 5 candies to each student,
then she would have 2 candies left over. If she gives 7 candies to each student, then she
would be not have enough; she would be in short by 6 candies. How many candies does
the teacher have?

12. Find the number of rectangles in the following figure:

13. As shown on the right, each of the boxes represents a digit 0-9,
with no digit appearing twice and with no addend having a leading +
zero. What is the largest of the three addends? 2 0 1 2

14. In a certain kind of four-digit number, the sum of any two adjacent digits is less than
or equal to 2, and the sum of any three adjacent digits is greater or equal to 3. Find the
number of all such four-digit numbers.

15. Tom sleeps soon after 2 A.M. after he has done a lot of math. Just before he went
asleep, he looked at the clock and found something interesting: the hour-hand and the
minute-hand exactly overlap each other. He wakes up soon after 8 A.M. because he
wants to do more math, and he again noticed something interesting: the hour-hand and
the minute-hand form a straight line. If Tom sleeps for x hours, find 100 x .

16. In the figure at right, square ABCD has an area of 1 and

FC=3FD, and CE=2BE. The area of the shaded region in the
x
graph can be expressed as . Find x  y.
y

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 Part C, Championship Level (30 points each)

17. Compute ( 26  8 3  26  8 3 ) 2 .

18. If the numbers 10, a 2 , a 2  b 2 , ab, b 2 are in arithmetic progression, calculate the value
of a 2  b 2 .

19. Find the number of ordered pairs ( x, y ) of integer solutions for the equation
x
xy   10 .
y

20. (No figure is provided for this problem.) In triangle ABC, points D and E are on side
BC such that BD=DE=EC. F is the midpoint of side AC. Let G be the intersection point
of BF and AD, and let H be the intersection point of BF and AE. Let the ratio of
a
Area DEHG : Area ABC be a fraction in lowest terms. Find a  b .
b

21. (No figure is provided for this problem). In triangle ABC, C  3A , BC=81, and
AB=144. Find AC.

22. Find the remainder when 2012 9 is divided by 100.

23. ABCD is an isosceles trapezoid as shown at right. A

number of facts are given: AD=24 ， BC=48, E is the
midpoint of AD, and FG is the midline of the trapezoid.
The point H is positioned so that it is the reflection of
point A respect to the segment BE. Find the length of
segment FG when the unspecified lengths in the figure
are adjusted so that the point H falls on FG.

24. There are 169 rocks on the table. Allen is allowed to take at most 22 rocks each turn
and must take away all the rocks in exactly 8 turns. Let the number of ways that Allen
can remove all the rocks be X. Find the remainder when X is divided by 1000.