2016 Chapter Competition

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Sprint Round
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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.
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 left-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.
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02-C16SPR
1. _____________ Sheryl is counting backwards by 4. If the first number she says is 155, and the
second number she says is 151, what is the 9th number Sheryl says?
2
2. _____________ What is the difference between the maximum and
−4 −2 2 4
x minimum values of this function graphed on the
−2 coordinate plane?
−4
1 b
3. _____________ If = and b = −1, what is the value of a?
b a
4. _____________ What is the sum of all two-digit multiples of 3 that have units digit 1?
5. _____________ What is the sum of the first eight terms in the sequence beginning −4, 5, …,
where each subsequent term is the sum of the previous two terms?
y
S R
6
5
Cost (dollars)
6. _____________
$ 4 According to the graph, what is the total
3 amount Blythe will be charged to ship three
2
packages weighing 1.8 pounds, 2 pounds
and 4.4 pounds?
1
x
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Weight (lbs)
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7. _____________
degrees The graph shows the cookie dough
Flour
ingredients for Mel’s secret cookie recipe. Eggs 40%
What is the degree measure of the portion 4%
of the graph that indicates the percent of
the cookie dough that is flour? Butter
16%
Sugar
22%
Chocolate
Chips
18%
8. _____________
$ If 3 zoguts and 4 gimuns together cost $18, and 2 zoguts and 3 gimuns together
cost $13, what is the combined cost of 1 zogut and 1 gimun?
9. _____________
inches A rectangular piece of paper measures 40 inches on its long side.
It is folded in half along the dotted line. The ratio of the long side
40 of the original sheet to the short side of the original sheet is the
same as the ratio of the long side of the folded sheet to the short
side of the folded sheet. What is the length of the short side of
the original sheet? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
10. _____________ What is the greatest multiple of 3 that can be formed using one or more of the
digits 2, 4, 5 and 8, assuming no digit is used more than once?
a 6b am
11. _____________ If = for positive integers m and n, what is the value of m + n?
a 3b 5 bn
12. _____________ For what positive integer x, does 8% of x % of 200 have a value of 4?
13. _____________ The table shows the number of students enrolled for each grade at East-West
High School. Every 9th- and 10th-grade student at East-West is automatically
entered into a drawing to win a new tablet computer. One Grade Enrollment
winning student will be chosen randomly. What is the 9 192
probability that a 10th-grader at East-West will win the 10 136
drawing? Express your answer as a common fraction. 11 129
12 93
14. _____________ If 22 · 44 = 2k, what is the value of k?
15. _____________
units2 In the xy-plane, a circle has center P(5, 10) and intersects the x-axis at a single
point Q(5, 0). What is the area of circle P? Express your answer in terms of π.
16. _____________ When 3 is subtracted from 2x and the difference is divided by 5, the result is 7.
What is the value of x?
17. _____________
percent In a basketball game, Melina’s ratio of 2-point shot attempts to 3-point shot
attempts was 4:1. What percent of Melina’s attempted shots were 3-point shots?
18. _____________ What is the sum of the distinct prime factors of 2016?
19. _____________ The opposite faces of a standard six-sided die add up to seven. Two identical
standard six-sided dice are placed side by side as shown. What is the sum of the
numbers of dots on the two faces that touch each other?
20. _____________
sets How many sets of two or three distinct positive integers have a sum of 8?
a+b b+c a+c

21. _____________ If a, b and c are integers such that = 3, = 4 and = 5, what is
2 2 2
the value of a + b + c ?
22. _____________ The mean of a set of five numbers is 3k. When a sixth number is added to the set,
the mean increases by k. What is the ratio of the sixth number to the sum of the
first five numbers? Express your answer as a common fraction.
23. _____________
inches The large rectangle shown here is composed of four
squares. If the area of the large rectangle is 240 in2,
what is its perimeter?
24. _____________ What is the least positive integer n such that n! is divisible by 1000?
A
25. _____________
degrees In isosceles triangle ABC, shown here, AB = AC and mA = 32°.
Triangles ABC and PQR are congruent. Side AC intersects side PR 32˚
at X so that mPXC = 114°, and side PQ intersects side BC at Y as
shown. What is the degree measure of PYC? X
R
P 114˚
? C
B Y
Q
A B C D E
26. _____________ 1 2 3 The integers 1 through 66 are arranged in five columns A
6 5 4 to E as shown, where column C contains the multiples of 3.
7 8 9 What is the sum of the numbers in column D?
12 11 10

27. _____________
minutes On Monday, a worker began painting a fence at 8:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., two
more workers showed up and helped the first worker paint. The three workers
finished the job at 11:30 a.m. On Tuesday, the first worker began painting an
identical fence at 8:00 a.m. The other two workers showed up earlier this time,
and the job was finished at 10:54 a.m. All three workers paint at the same
constant rate. How many minutes did the first worker paint alone on Tuesday?
28. _____________ Triangle LMN, shown here, has altitude MH drawn to side LN. Circles are
M inscribed in triangles MNH and MLH, tangent to altitude MH at A and T,
respectively. If MA:AT:TH = 4:2:1, what is the ratio of the smaller
circle’s area to the larger circle’s area? Express your answer as
A a common fraction.
T
L H N
29. _____________
mi/h A bug crawls a distance of n miles at a speed of n + 1 miles per hour one day
and then crawls 2n + 1 miles at a speed of n2 + n miles per hour the next day.
If the total time for the trip was 6 hours, what was the bug’s average speed?
Express your answer as a common fraction.
30. _____________ What is the greatest 5-digit palindrome n such that 7n is a 6-digit palindrome?
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.
Units of measurement are not required in answers, but they must be correct if given. When a problem
asks for an answer expressed in a specific unit of measure or when a unit of measure is provided in the answer
blank, 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. If a problem asks for the
number of cents and 25 cents is the correct answer, $0.25 will not be accepted.
All answers
a
must be expressed in simplest form. A “common fraction” is to be considered a fraction in the
form ± b , 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 BA , where A and B are algebraic expressions and A and B do not
share a common factor. A asimplified “mixed number” (“mixed numeral,” “mixed fraction”) is to be considered
a fraction in the form ± N b , where N, a and b are natural numbers, a < b and GCF(a, b) = 1. Examples:
2 4
Problem: What is 8 ÷ 12 expressed as a common fraction? Answer: 3 Unacceptable: 6
3 12 1
Problem: What is 12 ÷ 8 expressed as a common fraction? Answer: 2 Unacceptable: 8 ,1 2
1
Problem: What is the sum of the lengths of the radius and the circumference of a circle with diameter 4 unit
1+ 2 π
expressed as a common fraction in terms of π? Answer: 8
Problem: What is 20 ÷ 12 expressed as a mixed number? Answer: 1 2

3
8
Unacceptable: 1 12 , 5
3
Ratios should be expressed as simplified common fractions unless otherwise specified. Examples:
Simplified, Acceptable Forms: 2 , π , 6
1
7 3 4 −π
Unacceptable: 3 12 , 34 , 3.5, 2:1
Radicals must be simplified. A simplified radical must satisfy: 1) no radicands have a factor which possesses
the root indicated by the index; 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: What is the value of 15 × 5 ? Answer: 5 3 Unacceptable: 75
Answers to problems asking for a response in the form of a dollar amount or an unspecified monetary
unit (e.g., “How many dollars...,” “How much will it cost...,” “What is the amount of interest...”) should
be expressed in the form ($) a.bc, where a is an integer and b and c are digits. The only exceptions to this
rule are when a is zero, in which case it may be omitted, or when b and c both are zero, in which case they
both may be omitted. Answers in the form ($)a.bc should be rounded to the nearest cent unless otherwise
specified. Examples:
Acceptable: 2.35, 0.38, .38, 5.00, 5 Unacceptable: 4.9, 8.0
2
Do not make approximations for numbers (e.g., π, 3
, 5 3 ) in the data given or in solutions unless the
problem says to do so.
Do not perform any intermediate rounding (other than the “rounding” a calculator does) when calculating
solutions. All rounding should be done at the end of the computation process.
Scientific notation should be expressed in the form a × 10n where a is a decimal, 1 < |a| < 10, and n is an
integer. Examples:
Problem: What is 6895 expressed in scientific notation? Answer: 6.895 × 103
Problem: What is 40,000 expressed 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, and 25 will not be accepted for 25.0.
The plural form of the units will always be provided in the answer blank, even if the answer appears to
require the singular form of the units.
2016
Chapter Competition
Target Round
Problems 1 & 2
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This section of the competition consists of eight problems, which will be
presented in pairs. Work on one pair of problems will be completed and
answers will be collected before the next pair is distributed. The time limit
for each pair of problems is six minutes. The first pair of problems is on the
other side of this sheet. When told to do so, turn the page over and begin
working. This round assumes the use of calculators, and calculations also
may be done on scratch paper, but no other aids are allowed. All answers
must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final
answers in the blanks in the left-hand column of the problem sheets. If you
complete the problems before time is called, use the time remaining to
check your answers.
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02-C16TAR1
1. ________________
$ George bought a season ski pass for $395 instead of buying a ticket for $40 each
day he skied. He skied 38 days last winter. How many dollars did he save by
purchasing the season pass?
2. ________________ A string of numbers consists of one 1, two 2s, three 3s and so on, so that the
number n appears n times consecutively as shown. What is the 50th digit in such
a string?
122333444455555...
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3. _____________
minutes Eunice runs around an oval quarter-mile track, completing one lap every
2 minutes, 30 seconds. At this speed, how many minutes will it take her to run
1 mile?
4. _____________
units2 Rectangle ABCD, shown here, is composed of 11 congruent rectangles. The
length of side AB is 33 units. What is the area of rectangle ABCD?
A B
D C
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02-C16TAR5
5. _____________ The sum of the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence is 90 less than the sum
of the next five terms. What is the absolute difference between two consecutive
terms of this sequence? Express your answer as a common fraction.
6. _____________
seconds The hour and minute hands of a clock create a 60° angle at 2:00. How many
seconds later is the next time when the hour and minute hands create a 60°
angle? Express your answer to the nearest whole number.
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02-C16TAR7
7. _____________
marbles In a bag containing only blue and yellow marbles, there are exactly eleven
yellow marbles. After five additional blue marbles are added to the bag, the
probability of randomly drawing a blue marble from the bag then exceeds 70%.
What is the least possible number of blue marbles in the bag originally?
8. _____________ A room has eight switches, each of which controls a different light. Initially,
exactly five of the lights are on. Three people enter the room, one after the other.
Each person independently flips one switch at random and then exits the room.
What is the probability that after the third person has exited the room, exactly
six of the lights are on? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Team Round
Problems 1−10
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This section of the competition consists of 10 problems which the team
has 20 minutes to complete. Team members may work together in any
way to solve the problems. Team members may talk to each other during
this section of the competition. This round assumes the use of calculators,
and calculations also may be done on scratch paper, but no other aids are
allowed. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. The team captain must record the team’s official answers on his/her
own competition booklet, which is the only booklet that will be scored. If the
team completes the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to
check your answers.
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02-C16TEA
1. _____________
percent A package of 8 frankfurters costs $5.00 and a package of 12 hot dog buns costs
$3.00. If Jeffrey makes a hot dog sandwich using only a frankfurter and a bun,
what percent of the cost of his hot dog sandwich comes from the bun? Express
your answer to the nearest whole number.
2. _____________ D E Triangles ABC, ACD, ADE and AEF are isosceles right
AB
C triangles as shown. What is the value of ? Express
AF
your answer as a common fraction.
B A F
3. _____________ What 6-digit number has the following properties?

• None of the digits repeat.
• The hundred-thousands digit is neither prime nor composite.
• The sum of the digits is 21.
• The ones digit is a prime number.
• The ones digit is the sum of the tens and hundreds digits.
• The thousands digit is the sum of the hundreds and ten-thousands digits.
4. _____________
feet A bicycle tire has a diameter of 22 inches and a motorcycle tire has a diameter
of 25 inches. After each tire has made 1000 revolutions, how many more feet
has the motorcycle traveled than the bicycle? Express your answer in terms of π.
5. _____________ What is the sum of the positive integers from 1 through 500 that are divisible by
2, 3, 4, 5 and 6?
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6. _____________ The mean, median, unique mode and range of a list of ten integers are all 10.
What is the greatest possible integer in the list?
7. _____________
ml A 200 milliliter solution is 7% detergent. How many milliliters of 100%
detergent need to be added so the solution will be 14% detergent? Express your
answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
8. _____________
numbers How many 3-digit numbers are there such that each of the digits is prime, and
the sum of the digits is prime?
A
L L
9. _____________
paths G G G Starting with the A on top and only moving one letter at
E E E E a time down to the left or down to the right, how many
B B B B B different paths from top to bottom spell ALGEBRA?
R R R R R R
A A A A A A A
10. _____________
tokens Kevin and Devin each have a positive integer number of tokens, and the number
of tokens Devin has is a square number less than 100. Devin says to Kevin, “If
you give me all of your tokens, my total number of tokens will still be a square
number.” Kevin says, “Yes, if, on the other hand, you give me the same number
of tokens that I already have, your total number of tokens will also be a square
number.” How many tokens does Kevin have?
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Countdown Round
Problems 1−80
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02-C16CDR
1. _____________ What is the least value of x2 if −20 ≤ x ≤ 16?
2. _____________ Two numbers have a sum of 1000 and a difference of 2. Exactly one of these
numbers is prime. What is the composite number?
3. _____________
(inches) A man who is exactly 6 feet tall has index fingers that are 3.6 inches long. If a
14-foot-tall statue of this man is built to scale, how many inches long should the
statue’s index fingers be? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
B
4. _____________
(units) Equilateral triangle ABC has side length 5 units. Segment DE is drawn
D
perpendicular to AC so that EC = 2 units. In units, what is the perimeter
of quadrilateral ABDE? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
A C
E
5. _____________ The reciprocal of x + 2 equals x – 2 for what positive number x? Express your
answer in simplest radical form.
6. _____________ Kathy’s times in minutes and seconds for three 1-mile runs are 10:13, 9:51 and
9:38. Her average time is t seconds less than 10 minutes. What is the value of t ?
7. _____________
(years Anita is three times Li’s age but only one-third Owen’s age. The sum of all three
old) of their ages is 78 years. How old is Li?
8. _____________
(rolls) Sydra repeatedly rolls two standard six-sided dice and records each resulting
sum. What is the maximum number of rolls without repeating a sum?
9. _____________ A regular octahedron is a polyhedron with eight congruent triangular faces.

What is the sum of the number of edges and the number of vertices of a regular
octahedron?
10. _____________
(zeros) When the value of the expression (0.1) ⋅ (0.01) ⋅ (0.001) ⋅ (0.0001) is written in
decimal form, how many zeros are between the decimal point and the digit 1?
11. _____________ When two standard, six-sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that the
two resulting numbers will be consecutive? Express your answer as a common
fraction.
12. _____________ What is the integer value of the expression 20 × 30 × 40 × 60 ?
13. _____________ What is the least integer n for which 3n > 2016 ?
14. _____________
(cm) If a triangle with integer side lengths has two sides measuring 18 cm and 25 cm,
what is the shortest possible perimeter, in centimeters?
2
15. _____________ What common fraction is equivalent to 1 + ?
4
3+
5+6
16. _____________
(times) Byron writes down all of the positive integers from 119 to 158. How many times
does he write the digit 2?
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17. _____________ The figure shows three circles whose diameters are collinear. The two shaded
circles are tangent to the largest circle and are also tangent to each other. The
diameter of the larger shaded circle is twice that of the smaller shaded circle.
What is the ratio of the combined area of the shaded circles to the area of
the largest circle? Express your answer as a common fraction.
18. _____________ If the mean of the numbers 3x + 10, 7x + 10 and 11x + 10 is 73, what is the
value of x?
19. _____________
(ways) In how many different ways can six identical balls be distributed into three jars
labeled A, B and C, respectively, so that each jar contains at least one ball?
20. _____________
(values) Three distinct positive integers less than 100 are added together. How many
possible values are there for the sum?
21. _____________ If 3x + 1 = 10, what is the value of 6x + 1?
22. _____________ A committee is to be formed by randomly selecting three students from a group
of two girls and three boys. What is the probability that at least one girl will be
on the committee? Express your answer as a common fraction.
23. _____________
(mm) A right triangle is inscribed in a circle. One angle of the triangle measures 30°
and the length of the side opposite that angle is 14 mm. In millimeters, what is
the circle’s diameter?
24. _____________
(mega On one computer, formatting any file takes 5 seconds and downloading a file
bytes) takes 0.3m seconds, where m is the file size, in megabytes. On a different
computer, formatting any file takes 3 seconds and downloading a file takes
0.5m seconds. For what file size, in megabytes, is the total time for formatting
and then downloading a file the same for both computers?
25. _____________ Each of the digits 1 through 8 is used exactly once to write two 4-digit integers.
What is the greatest possible difference between the two integers?
26. _____________
(meters) Zoey is training for a swim meet. During the first week of her training she
swims 300 meters each day. Each week she increases the length of her daily
swim by 100% of the previous week’s daily length. How many meters will she
swim each day during the fifth week of her training?
27. _____________ The dartboard shown consists of three regions. The innermost circle has radius
1 inch, the middle circle has radius 4 inches and the outermost circle has radius
8 inches. What is the probability that a dart landing on the board is
within the shaded region? Express your answer as common fraction.
28. _____________ What is the 24th term in the arithmetic sequence 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, …?
29. _____________
(ways) How many ways are there to make 14 cents using any combination of pennies,
nickels and dimes?
( 2n )!
30. _____________ If = 120, what is the value of n?
n!
31. _____________
(integers) How many integers between 1 and 500 are divisible by 3?
32. _____________ Twenty-four balls numbered from 1 through 24 are colored alternately red,
green, blue and yellow, in that order, then placed in a box. If a ball is randomly
drawn from the box, what is the probability that it is blue and has a prime
number? Express your answer as a common fraction.
33. _____________
(inches) A rectangular prism has length 20 inches and width 5 inches. If the surface area
of the prism is 1100 in2, what is the height of the prism, in inches?
34. _____________ When the digits of 4192 are rearranged to form a different 4-digit positive
integer, what is the least possible absolute difference between the new integer
and 4192?
35. _____________ If x > 1 and (x 6)3 ⋅ (x k)3 ⋅ (x 24)3 = x 300, what is the value of k?
36. _____________
(ft3) How many cubic feet are in the volume of a rectangular box with dimensions
9 inches by 2 feet by 2 yards?
37. _____________
(sums) Two fair six-sided dice each have faces numbered 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8. If both dice
are rolled, how many distinct sums are possible?
(dollars)
38. _____________ During a ten-day period, Omar spends an average of $18 per day. If he spends at
least $10 each day, what is the greatest number of dollars that he could spend on
any one day?
(11, 13, 12)
39. _____________ What is the sum of the distinct prime factors of 9999?
40. _____________
(units3) The coordinates of three vertices of a cube are shown. What is
the volume of the cube, in cubic units? (11, 18, 17)
(16, 13, 17)
1 3 5 7
41. _____________ What is the value of + + + ? Express your answer as a common fraction.
2 4 6 8
42. _____________
(mi/h) The one-way distance from Sisters, Oregon to the top of the McKenzie Pass is
15 miles. Ember took 2.5 hours to ride her bike from Sisters to the top of the
pass, and her return trip took 30 minutes. What was Ember’s average speed, in
miles per hour, for the entire trip?
1 1
43. _____________ Willow bakes a small cake and eats of it. Caroline then eats of what is left.
6 4
What fraction of the cake remains after Caroline eats her share? Express your
answer as a common fraction.
44. _____________
(inches) A particular circle has a radius greater than 0. The number of square inches in
the area of the circle is 6 times the number of inches in its circumference. What
is the circle’s radius, in inches?
45. _____________ If a 2 + 2ab + b 2 = 16 and c 2 + 2cd + d 2 = 36, what is the least possible value of
the sum a + b + c + d ?
46. _____________ What is the 2016th positive even integer?

1 1
47. _____________
(miles) A taxi charges $2.50 for the first
mile and $0.45 for each mile thereafter.
3 6
How many miles would the shortest ride costing $7.90 be? Express your answer
as a mixed number.
48. _____________ The height of a cone is three times its base radius. A smaller cone is created
by slicing parallel to the base so that the height of the smaller cone equals
the base radius of the larger cone. What is the ratio of the volume of the
smaller cone to the volume of the larger cone? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
49. _____________
(yards/ If a snake travels at a constant rate of 1 foot per second, how many yards per
minute) minute does it travel?
50. _____________
(meters) Bjorn walks 40 laps around a circle of diameter 70 meters. Anna walks 30 laps
around a square of side length 80 meters. Carol walks 50 laps around an
equilateral triangle of side length 60 meters. In meters, what is the greatest
distance that any one person walks?
3
51. _____________
(minutes) It takes Leo 54 minutes to mow of his lawn. How many minutes does it take
4
him to mow his entire lawn?
52. _____________ If x ∆ y = x + y − |x − y|, what is the value of (3 ∆ 4) – (2 ∆ 1)?
53. _____________
(yards) The length of two pieces of string laid end to end is 60 yards. The absolute
difference between the lengths of the two pieces of string is 30 yards. How many
yards long is the longer piece of string?
54. _____________
(integers) How many 3-digit positive, odd integers are multiples of 5?
55. _____________
(minutes) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Kole swims for 45 minutes. On
Tuesdays and Thursdays he swims for 60 minutes. What is the mean number of
minutes that Kole swims daily Monday through Friday?
56. _____________
(miles) Abdul lives 4 miles west and 2 miles north of Central Middle School. Jamal
lives 8 miles east and 7 miles north of the same school. What is the shortest
distance, in miles, between Abdul’s house and Jamal’s house?
57. _____________
(inches) Kent walks 15,000 feet per hour. How many inches does he walk each second?
58. _____________ US dollar bills are printed in sheets of 32 bills with 4 columns and 8 rows per
sheet. What is the probability that a given dollar bill was along an edge of its
original sheet? Express your answer as a common fraction.
59. _____________ The figure shows a square of side length 2 inches surrounded by four
semicircles, each with a side of the square as its diameter. The total
area of the figure can be written in simplest radical form, in terms of π,
as a + bπ in2. What is the value of a + b?
60. _____________ Using each of the digits 1, 5, 6 and 9 exactly once, what decimal number can be
written that is closest in value to 60? Express your answer as a decimal to the
nearest hundredth.
61. _____________ The average of Len’s grades on seven homework assignments is 83. If Len
earned a grade of 79 on each of the first five assignments, what is the average of
his grades on the last two assignments?
62. _____________
(students) Each of the 26 eighth-grade students at Monarch Middle School is in orchestra,
algebra or both. Of these students, 20 are in orchestra and 16 are in algebra.
How many students are in both orchestra and algebra?
63. _____________
(children) A day care facility has a rectangular play area that is 30 feet by 35 feet.
Guidelines require a minimum of 48 ft2 of usable activity area per child. What is
the maximum number of children that can occupy this play area?
64. _____________ Ky has a bag with 4 pieces of red and 2 pieces of green candy. He has another
bag with 6 pieces of red and 4 pieces of green candy. If Ky randomly takes one
piece of candy from each bag, what is the probability that both pieces of candy
will be red? Express your answer as a common fraction.
65. _____________
(ml) A mixture of 1% hydrochloric acid measures 24 ml. How many milliliters of 5%
hydrochloric acid must be added to change the mixture to 4% hydrochloric acid?
1 1
66. _____________
(inches) A photo that measures 4 inches long by 6 inches wide is re-sized to make a
2 2
similar photo that is 6 inches long. How many inches wide is the re-sized photo?
Express your answer as a mixed number.
67. _____________
(°F) The average temperature in Chicago on January 3rd was −10 °F. The average
temperature increased by 3 degrees every 7 days. In degrees Fahrenheit, what
was the average temperature on January 24th?
68. _____________
(°F) The number of times N that a cricket chirps per minute is given by the formula
N
T = 40 + , where T is the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. What is the
4
temperature in degrees Fahrenheit when a cricket chirps 36 times in 15 seconds?
69. _____________
(units2) In square units, what is the greatest possible area of a triangle with perimeter
36 units? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
70. _____________ What is the value of 12(p + 9) – 12(p – 3)?
71. _____________ Ten numbers have a mean of 32. Eight of the ten have a mean of 30 and the
remaining two numbers differ by 4. What is the greater of these two numbers?
72. _____________
(matches) The annual chess club tournament begins with 64 students in the first round. In
each round, students are paired up for chess matches. The winner of each match
advances to the next round and the loser is out of the tournament. How many
matches will be played in the second round?
73. _____________
(candies) Hannah has a bag with 8 red, 6 blue and 2 green candies. What is the least
number of candies she must take from the bag, without looking, to ensure that
she has at least 2 of the same color?
74. _____________
(questions) Ms. Clark’s semester exam consists of true-false questions, worth 3 points each,
and essay questions, worth 11 points each. There are 20 questions worth a total
of 100 points. How many of the exam questions are true-false questions?
1
75. _____________
(cups) Louis has 12 sled dogs and 6 puppies. Each sled dog eats 2 cups of dog food
2 2
twice a day and each puppy eats cup of dog food twice a day. How many cups
3
of dog food does Louis need each day to feed the dogs and puppies?
76. _____________
(percent) Last year, Martha invested $12,000. She had $4000 that earned 6% annual
interest and $6000 that earned 5% interest. If she earned $600 in total interest,
what annual percent interest did the rest of her money earn?
77. _____________ The sum of the digits of a positive 2-digit number is 7. Reversing the digits
creates a new 2-digit number that is 9 more than the original number. What is
the original number?
5
78. _____________
(inches) Fernando builds a cube out of -inch sugar cubes and another cube out of
8
1-inch sugar cubes. If the two constructed cubes are the same size, what is the
least possible edge length, in inches, of the cubes he builds?
79. _____________
(dollars) The value of Bill’s estate doubles at the end of every year. Its value at the end of
the third year is $8000. In dollars, what is its value at the end of the sixth year?
(♥)
80. _____________ If 3 ♣ = 1 ♦, 2 ♥ = 1 ♣ and 1 ♦ = 2 ♠, how many ♥ are equivalent to 1 ♠?

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9. _____________ A regular octahedron is a polyhedron with eight congruent triangular faces.

12. _____________ What is the integer value of the expression 20 × 30 × 40 × 60 ?

21. _____________ If 3x + 1 = 10, what is the value of 6x + 1?

46. _____________ What is the 2016th positive even integer?

52. _____________ If x ∆ y = x + y − |x − y|, what is the value of (3 ∆ 4) – (2 ∆ 1)?

70. _____________ What is the value of 12(p + 9) – 12(p – 3)?

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