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2024 State Competition

Sprint Round Problems 1−30
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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. 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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1. _____________ If ten more than twice a number equals 48, what is that number?

2. $_____________ If 10 eggs cost $0.75, how much will 32 eggs cost?

3. _____________ The arithmetic mean of 3, −4, 2, 0, 8 and x is 2. What is the value of x?

4. _____________ Suppose y is a two-digit multiple of both 4 and 6. The product the digits of y is
18. What is the value of y?

5. _____________
words Emily spelled each word on a 20-word spelling test. She earned 5 points for
each word spelled correctly. Three points were subtracted for each word spelled
incorrectly. Emily earned a score of 68. How many words did Emily spell
incorrectly?

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6. $_____________ Carter has several tokens, each worth 25, 10 or 5 cents. The weight of a 25-cent
token is 25 grams, the weight of a 10-cent token is 10 grams, and the weight
of a 5-cent token is 5 grams. If the combined weight of all of Carter’s tokens is
435 grams, what is the total value of his tokens?

7. _____________
cm2 Point O is the center of the two concentric circles shown.
What is the area of the shaded region? Express your 5 cm
answer in terms of π. O

16 cm

8. _____________
ounces A recipe calls for one 32-ounce jar of pickles, one packet of powdered drink
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mix, and cup of sugar. If the recipe amounts are increased proportionally so
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that 12 cups of sugar are used, how many ounces of pickles will be used?

9. _____________ The mean of three positive integers a, b and c is 10, and the median of these
integers is 5. What is the greatest possible value for c?

10. _____________
% There is a 50% chance of snow on Monday and a 60% chance of snow on
Tuesday. Assuming weather on the two days is independent, what is the
percentage chance that it snows on at least one of those two days?

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11. _____________
feet The distance an object falls from rest in a vacuum is proportional to the square
of the time it has been falling. If a Holstein cow plushie takes 3 seconds to fall
144 feet in a vacuum, how far does the plushie fall in the first 2 seconds?

12. _____________
kg Jameela weighed five giant pumpkins for the state fair. The weights, in
kilograms, of all her pumpkins are integers. The median and mean weight of the
five pumpkins are both 73 kg. If the weight of two of the pumpkins are 73 kg
and 77 kg, what is the least possible value for the range
of the weights?

13. _____________
hours There is a unique time between 2 and 3 o’clock at which the minute and hour
hands of a standard 12-hour clock form an angle of 180 degrees. How many
hours after 2 o’clock is this time? Express your answer as a common fraction.

14. _____________
round Robyn can travel from Lincoln to Omaha in 4 different ways and from Omaha
trips to Des Moines in 3 different ways. How many different round trips can Robyn
make from Lincoln to Des Moines that pass through Omaha in both directions?

15. _____________
degrees In triangle ABC, shown here, point D is on side AC such that AB = AD, and
mABC − mACB = 30 degrees. What is mDBC?
A

D
C ?
B

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 x + y + xy
16. _____________ If x y= , what is the value of
x2
  5    5  
 2   2024 1   1  2  ?
    2024  

17. _____________ The top row of this figure shows the letter printed on the front side of six
cards, and the bottom row shows the image printed on the back side of the
corresponding card. When Josie shuffles the cards and deals the first card front
side down, the back shows . What is the probability that the next card she

deals has or A on either side? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Front A B C D E F
Back      

18. _____________ The figure shows the graph of y = ax2 + bx + c where a, b and c are constants.
The function intersects the x-axis at − 6 and 6 and intersects the y-axis at 2.
What is the value of a + b + c? Express your answer as a common fraction.
y

x
0
−33 −2 −1 1 2 3

19. _____________ If a, b and c are all positive integers greater than 1 for which a + ab + abc = 415,
what is the value of c?

20. _____________
m3 The height of a right circular cone is 12 meters and the surface area of the cone
is 90π m2. What is the volume of the cone? Express your answer in terms of π.

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21. _____________ What is the greatest prime factor of 96 − 1 that does not divide 95 − 93 − 92 + 1?

22. _____________ Three fair nickels and two fair dimes are tossed. What is the probability that
at least two heads are showing and that at least one of the heads appears on a
dime? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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23. _____________
cm2 In the circle shown, AB = CD = EF = 3 cm and the points of
intersection among these three chords divide each chord into
three congruent segments. What is the area of the circle?
Express your answer as a common fraction in terms of π. A B

F D

24. _____________ Dennis rolls three fair six-sided dice, yielding values of a, b and c. What is the
expected value of |a – b| + |b – c| + |c − a| ? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

25. _____________
units A beetle starts at the point with coordinates (8, 5), travels to a point on the line
y = 2, then to some point on the line y = x, and then finally travels to the point
with coordinates (5, 4). One possible path that the beetle might follow is shown.
What is the length of the shortest possible path y=x
y
that the beetle could take? Express your answer
in simplest radical form. (8, 5)
(5, 4)

y=2

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26. _____________ Positive numbers x, y and z satisfy the equations xy(x + z)(y + z) = 165,
xz(x + y)(z + y) = 88 and yz(z + x)(y + x) = 120. What is the value of x2 + y2 + z2?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

27. _____________
A
cm2 In the figure shown, circle O has an area of 625π cm2,
CD = 16 cm, and AB = 30 cm. What is the area of the
shaded circle, which intersects points A, B and C?
O 30
C
16 B
D

2023!+ 2019 !
28. _____________
factors How many positive integer factors does − 1 have?
2019 !

29. _____________
units2 In the coordinate plane, the two curves x4 + y4 = 48 and xy = 2 intersect in four
points. What is the area of the quadrilateral whose vertices are these four points?
Express your answer in simplest radical form.

30. _____________ What is the greatest of the three prime number factors of 1034 + 1014 + 24?

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