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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.

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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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1. _____________ The square root of n is 4. What is the value of n?

y
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2. _____________ For the function graphed here, what is the 6
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integer value of y when x = 2? 4
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x
−1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
−2

3. _____________ Jaden writes down the following six integers: 1, 10,

101, 1010, 10101, 101010. What is the sum of the six
integers Jaden has written?

4. _____________ What is the value of 82 − 62?

5. _____________
people A survey of 100 people, each of whom owns a dog or a cat or both, showed that
63 own a dog and 58 own a cat. Based on these results, how many of the people
surveyed own both a cat and a dog?

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6. _____________
apples There are six apples in a bin, four bins in a bundle and two
bundles in a crate. How many apples are in a crate?

7. _____________
nickels Dwight has nine coins consisting of only pennies and nickels. If the total value
of the coins is 29 cents, how many nickels does Dwight have?

8. _____________
heart- After a brisk workout, Felicia counts 32 heartbeats in 15 seconds. Based on this
beats count, what is Felicia’s expected number of heartbeats in one minute?

9. _____________ What is the median of the first five prime numbers?

10. _____________ If 108 is 90% of x, what is the value of x?

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11. _____________ Regular hexagon ABCDEF with center O is shown. What fraction of the area of
hexagon ABCDEF is shaded? Express your answer as a common fraction.

A B

F O C

E D

12. _____________ Two times a number divided by eight equals two. What was the original
number?

13. _____________
triangles Two distinct segments are drawn inside a triangle from one vertex to
two points on the opposite side as shown. What is the total number
of triangles of any size in the resulting figure?

14. _____________
mi/h The table shows the minimum and maximum speeds of four types of baseball
pitches. What is the absolute difference between the minimum speed of a
fastball and the maximum speed of a knuckleball?
B P S (mi/h)

Pitch Min Speed Max Speed

Fastball 80 95
Slider 70 85
Curve 65 80
Knuckleball 55 70

15. _____________
zeros Kris multiplies the first six positive prime numbers together. How many zeros
follow the last non-zero digit of the product?

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16. _____________
mi/h Carmichael’s favorite race car driver completes 10 laps in 10 minutes. If one lap
is 2.5 miles long, what was the average speed of the driver, in miles per hour?

17. _____________ The two solutions of the equation x2 + ax + 14 = 0 are x = 2 and x = 7. What is the
value of a?

18. _____________ Cal crosses out n randomly selected days from the seven consecutive days on
her calendar, shown here. What is the minimum value of n that guarantees she
crosses out three consecutive days?

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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19. _____________ Let p ⊖ q = p − q , and let p ⊕ q = p 2 + q 2 . What is the value of
(3 ⊕4) ⊕ (20 ⊖ 16)?

20. _____________
km/h Jones is chasing a car 800 meters ahead of him. He is on a horse moving
at 50 km/h. If Jones catches up to the car in 4 minutes, how fast was
the car moving?

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21. _____________ After a hockey game, each member of the losing team shook hands with each
member of the winning team. Afterwards, each member of the winning team
gave a fist-bump to each of her teammates. Each team has 20 players. If n
handshakes occurred and m fist-bumps occurred, what is the value of n + m?

22. _____________ Diana has two fair spinners. The sectors of the first are numbered with the prime
numbers less than 10. The sectors of the second are numbered with the positive
perfect squares less than 40. On each of the spinners, all sectors have equal area.
What is the probability that if both spinners are spun, the selected numbers on
the two are not relatively prime? Express your answer as a common fraction.

23. _____________ If A represents a digit such that the sum of the two-digit numbers 2A, 3A and 4A
is the three-digit number 10A, what is the value of A?

24. _____________ A fair tetrahedral die, whose faces are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 is rolled
three times. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers
rolled is 7? Express your answer as a common fraction.

25. _____________
cm A line bisecting the larger acute angle in a triangle with sides of length 33, 44
and 55 cm divides the opposite side into two segments. What is the length of the
shorter segment of that side? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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26. _____________
ways In the grid shown, how many ways are there to spell the word “QUEUE” by
moving one square at a time either horizontally or vertically, and provided
squares may be revisited?
E U E U E
U E U E U
E U Q U E
U E U E U
E U E U E

27. _____________
mi/h The Millers went on a weekend outing 180 miles from their home. The average
speed to their destination was 20 mi/h less than the average speed returning
home. If the travel time for the entire trip was 7.5 hours, what was the Millers’
average speed to their destination?

28. _____________ The least common multiple of the consecutive positive integers from 20 through
k is greater than one billion. Assuming that k > 20, what is the least possible
value of k ?

29. _____________ In triangle ABC, shown here, P and Q lie on sides AB and AC, respectively, so
AP AQ 1
that = = . Segments PC and QB intersect at R. What is the ratio of
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the area of triangle PQR to the area of triangle ABC? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
A
P Q
R

B C

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30. _____________ If a, b and c are positive integers such that +   +   =  , then what is
a b c 7
a + b + c?

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