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TWENTY MOCK
MATHCOUNTS
SPRINT ROUND TESTS
Twenty Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Tests

sam Chen and Guiling P. Chen

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Copyright © 2011 by Sam Chen and Guiling P. Chen

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ISBN - 13: 978-1456589141

ISBN-10: 1456589148
This book is dedicated to Mrs. Tonya McLawhorn, my Mathcounts coach at Arendell Parrott
Academy.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We like to credit and thank the following math competitions for their great math problems:

China Hope Cup Math Competition, China Hua Luo Geng Cup Math competition, China
Elementary School Math Competition, China Middle School Math Competition, China Yingchun
Cup Math competition, and China Zou Mei Math Competition.

We like to thank the following Mathcounts coaches who kindly reviewed the manuscripts and
made corrections and comments:

Tonya McLawhorn

Arendell Parrott Academy

Mike Whitley

Broad Creek Middle School

Wendy Hopkins

The Epiprany School

Melanie Simmons

North East Elementary School

Sandra W. Lamm

Greenfield School

Sally Davis

Smyrna Elementary School

TABLE OF CONTENTS

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test | and answer keys......... 1

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 2 and answer keys......... 9

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 3 and answer keys......... 16

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 4 and answer keys......... 24

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 5 and answer keys......... 32

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 6 and answer keys......... 40

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 7 and answer keys.......48

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 8 and answer keys........ 55

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 9 and answer keys......... 62

10. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 10 and answer keys... ..70

ae Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 11 and answer keys..... .78

fr. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 12 and answer keys.......86

13: Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 13 and answer keys..... .93

14. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 14 and answer keys......100

1S. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 15 and answer keys......108

16. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 16 and answer keys....117

We Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 17 and answer keys.....125

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 18 and answer keys......133

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 19 and answer keys......141

. Mock Mathcounts Sprint Round Test 20 and answer keys......149

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Practice Test 1
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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.

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1. Which number is a prime number? 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2013.

2. How many obtuse angles are there among the four angles of 89°, 126°, 180°, and
216")

3. How many of the numbers from 1 to 2011 are simultaneously divisible by 2, 3, and 5?

4. Alex and Bob are standing in front of a big mirror. Alex looks at the mirror and reads
the number on Bob’s sportswear as shown in the figure. What is the number of Bob’s
sportswear?

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5. How many three-digit positive integers are there such that the three digits are in
increasing order (like145) or decreasing order (like 321)?

6. In the sequence 7', 7’, 7°, ..., 7°", how many terms have 3 as the units digit?

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7. How many integer values of x if the expression : aE i represents integers?

8. Ten congruent cubes are put together as shown in the figure. If the cube A
is removed, what is the difference of the surface areas before removing the
cube A and after removing the cube A?
9. According to the pattern below, the positive integer 2011 is in the mth row and mth
column. What is the value of n + m?

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10. a), az, a3, and a, are the number of triangles in Figure (1), (2), (3) and (4),
respectively. aj=3. a2=8, a3=15. a3=24. What is ao ?

(1) (2) 3) A)

11. 2011 students are standing in a row. They are called in the following pattern: 1, 2, 3,
4, 3,2, 1, 2,3, 4, 3, 2, ..... What number is the 201 1" student called?

12. At 3:30 P.M, the acute angle formed by the hour and the minute hands on a clock is
x°. Find the value of x.

13. aand b are prime numbers. 3a + 2b is a prime number less than 20. How many pairs
of (a, b) are there?
14. A number machine is shown as follows. When input x = 3 and y = - 2, what is the
result?

15. Four distinct balls are randomly put into three distinguishable boxes. Find the
probability that no box is empty. Express your answer as a common fraction.

16. Randomly pick three digits from 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to form a three-digit number. Find
the probability that the sum of the digits of the three-digit number is nine. Repetition of
digits is allowed. Express your answer as a common fraction.

17. As shown in the figure, one toy face is obtained by sliding the other. The coordinates
of the eyes of the left toy face are (-4, 2) and (-2, 2), respectively. One of the eyes of the
right toy face is (3, 4). Find the sum of the coordinates of the other eye of the toy face on
the right.
18. Less than forty identical small balls can be arranged to form a square. These balls can
also be arranged to form an equilateral triangle. Find the number of small balls.

19. Add a single term to a polynomial 4x°+1 to result in a square number. How many
different such single terms are there?

20. Alex wants to make a cylinder shaped container by using a D . Cc

piece of rectangle shaped metal sheet as shown in the figure. What
is the volume of this container in terms of 1?

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21. As shown in the figure, Both ABCD and CEFG are squares. Connect AG and AG
meets CE at H. Connect HF. Find the shaded area.

22. As shown in the figure, EABCD is a road along the lake. West ——te Fast
When Alex starts to walk along the road, he goes from west
to east (from E to A). He first turn 100° at A, that is ZA=
100°. Second time he turns 150° at B, that is ZB= 150°.
Third time he turns, at C, he walks from west toward east
again. Find degrees he turns at C, that is find 2C.
23. Draw a line L passing through point (1, 3). Line L intersects the x-axis at a and the
y-axis at b. How many such lines can be drawn? Both a and 5 are positive integers.

24. After a math test, Ms. Leighton calculated the average score of 20 students who took
the test and she got 85 points. Alex was late for the test and he made up the test later and
he got exactly 85 points on the test. When Ms. Leighton re-calculated the class average,
what did she get?

25. A six —digit number a2011b is divisible by 12. How many such six-digit numbers are
there?

26. The sum of 7 interior angles and one exterior angle of a convex n-gon is 1350°. Find
n.

27. There are four switches on an instrument board. If any two neighboring switches
cannot be turned off at the same time, how many different combinations are there?

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28. There are 100 students in 8" grade at Parrott Academy. 75 of them got perfect scores
on Math and 80 of them got perfect scores on English. At least x students got perfect
scores on both subjects and at most y students got perfect scores on both subjects. Find
the value x+y.
29. Find a point P that is on the same plane as the equilateral triangle ABC such that
APAB, APAC, and APBC are all isosceles triangles. How many possible such points of P
are there?

30. A positive number has a decimal part and an integer part. The decimal part, the
integer part, and the positive number itself form a geometric sequence. Find this positive
number.
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Practice Test 2
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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.

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1. Calculate: rates = 13 +12
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2. A letter band folded once is shown in the figure, what is the letter? (It is not L).

73 +82 +91 +x =550. Find the value of x.

3.194+284+374+46+55+64+4+

4. Fill each square with a digit from the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 to make the
subtraction true. What is the number subtracted?

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5. There are some marbles in a bag. Alex takes out half of them each time and then puts
one marble back. After seven times, there are 3 marbles left in the bag. How many
marbles were there in the bag originally?

6. A fifteen-story building has an elevator from the 4" floor up (including the 4" floor)
and does not have an elevator from the first floor to third floor. Catherine wants to get to
the top floor. It takes her 30 seconds to get to the second floor from the first floor. The
elevator’s speed is 10 times Catherine’s speed. How many seconds does it take for her to
get to the top floor if her walking speed is constant?

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7. Fifteen unit cubes on the table are painted red on all visible faces. When these cubes
are dissembled, what is the sum of the faces that are painted red?

8. A rectangular paper of 48 cm long and 2 cm wide is folded in half lengthwise. The

resulting figure is folded again the same way and then it is cut along the length every 2
cm. How many squares can be obtained?

9. Alex’s great-grandfather Bob is over 100 years old. Bob was born in the year that is a
4-digit number with two neighboring digits identical. The sum of the 4 digits is 24. What
year was Bob born?

10. Many triangles can be formed by connecting three vertices of a regular hexagon. How
many of these triangles have at least one side that is a side of the hexagon?

11. A small frog is jumping up a set of stairs. Each time, the frog jumps 4 cm high
starting from height of 10 cm above the ground. When the frog stops after jumping 99
times, how high is the frog from the ground?

12. Karen writes down her mother’s age then write her own age after her mother’s age to
form a 4-digit number. If the positive difference of their ages is subtracted from this 4-
digit number, another 4-digit number 4289 is obtained. How old is Karen?

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13. When 1 is added to a counting number, the result is a multiple of 2. When 1 is added
to the double of the number, the result is a multiple of 3. When 1 is added to the triple of
the number, the result is a multiple of 5. What is the smallest such number?

14. In a classroom, the number of boys is two times of the number of girls. If 12 boys
walk away, then the number of girls is two times of the number of boys left. How many
total students are there in this classroom?

15. What is the least number of squares that you should shade such that there is exactly
one square shaded in each row, each column, and each diagonal? Two of the squares are
shaded for you already.

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16. Only one student can drive among Alex, Bob, Catherine, and Donna. Alex says: “I
can drive”. Bob says: “I can’t drive”. Catherine says: “Alex can’t drive”. Donna says
nothing. It is known that only one person is correct. Who can drive?

17 Define x @ y=3x+7y, find (1®1)+(2®2)+(3@3)+...+(10@10)

18. Alex has five pieces of square-shaped chocolate with the side lengths 10 cm, 11 cm,
12 cm, 13 cm, and 14 cm, respectively. Alex will eat 2 cm? of them each day. How many
days can these five pieces of chocolate last?

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19. The average value of some distinct positive integers is 100. One of these numbers is
108. If the number 108 is taken away, the average value becomes 99. What is the greatest
value of the largest number in them?

20. As shown in the figure, ABCD is a trapezoid. The areas of AABE

and AADE are 2 cm’ and 3 cm”, respectively. Find the area of ACDE.
Express your answer as a common fraction.

21. Take any 10 numbers from 1 to 20 and add them together to get the sum m. Add the
other 10 numbers to get the sum n. How many different products of m and n are there?

22. Train A is 120 meters long with a speed of 80 km/ hour and is driving east. Train B is
280 meters long and is driving west and meets train A at the west end of a 130 meter long
bridge. The two trains are separated at the east end of the bridge. What is the train B’s
speed?

23. Sam starts to drive from T and passes A, B, C, D, and E each

once and back to T. No road can be traced twice. The numbers in the
figure are the number of hours needed to cover the distance of the
section. At least how many hours are needed?

24. A TV store makes a profit of $60 per TV sold at the original price. This week the
price is marked down. The number of TVs sold is doubled and the total profit increased
by 0.5 times. How many dollars are each TV’s price reduced?

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25. List the numbers from 2010 to 1020 from the largest to the smallest in a row to form a
positive integer: 2010200920082007.....10211020. What is the 999" digit counted from
the left end?

26. The sum of 50 distinct positive integers is 2010. At most how many even positive
integers are there?

27. As shown in the figure, ABC is a triangle with the area

1. Extend BA to D such that DA = AB. Extend CA to E
such that EA = 2AC. Extend CB to F such that FB = 3BC.
Find the area of triangle DEF.

28. The difference of two positive integers is 11. The sum of the digits of one positive
integer is divisible by 11. The sum of the digits of the other positive integer is divisible
by 11 as well. What is the smallest possible value of the smaller integer?

29. Alex walks from village A and Bob walks from village B toward each other starting
at the same time. They meet in 8 hours. If each person increases the speed by 2 km per
hour, they will meet at the point 3 km away from the middle of the distance AB. What is
Alex’s speed if he walks faster than Bob? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest
tenth.

30. A ball of radius 10 cm is rolling along the interior wall of the container. It rolls
exactly one round and back to its original position. Find the total area brushed by the ball
rolling. Use 3.14 for 7 in your calculation.

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Practice Test 3
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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
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1. Calculate: 82 — 38+ 49-51

2. MacDonald’s sells a special hamburger that costs $10 each. Every Tuesday the
restaurant has a discount that when you buy two hamburgers, you get one free. If Alex
and his friends want to buy 9 hamburgers on Tuesday, at least how many dollars do they
need to pay?

3. Bob’s mom just bought 72 eggs for Bob this morning. Bob has a hen that can lay one
egg per day. If Bob eats 4 eggs per day, how many days the eggs can last?

4. The sum of five counting numbers made only by the digit 8 is 1000. What is the
difference between the largest number and the second largest number of the five
numbers?

5. Given: 1x9+2=11
12x9+3=111
123 x 9 +43 =1111
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What is the value of A + ®?=

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6. What is the integer part of the expression —_ +
100 ° 100 ° 16

7. Eastern Elementary School has 2400 students. Each student has five class periods
every day. Each teacher has four classes to teach everyday and each classroom has
exactly 30 students. Determine the number of teachers in the school.

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8. Alex goes to a store to buy some pens with the money he has. He is lucky to find out
that the store has a discount of 25% so he is able to buy 25 more pens with his money.
How many pens could he have bought with his money originally before discount?

9. Find the shaded area in the figure with the two hearts. The large |
square has the side of 40 mm and the small square has the side of 20
mm. Express your answer in terms of 7.

10. The product of a 2-digit integer and 4.02 is 3-digit integer. What is 10 times the 3-
digit integer?

11. There are 30 days in April with five Saturdays and five Sundays. What day is the first
day of April?

12. Charles throws three darts at the target with the scores in
each section indicated in the figure. The score is zero if missed,
What is the smallest sum of the total scores impossible for ita
Charles to get? ‘2.

13. Two identical scales are balanced as shown in the figure by balls, triangle blocks and
weighs. How many grams do the one ball and one triangle block weigh?

‘@ aals] Ors] A

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14. Find the value of 4+B+C+D+E+F+G if ABCD + EFG = 2010. Each letter
represents a different digit.

15. There are 40 boys in a group originally. Each time three boys are removed from the
group while two girls are added to the group. How many times are needed so that the
number of boys is the same as the number of girls in the group?

16. Bob’s team right now has a winning rate of 45%. If his team can win 6 out the next 8
games, the winning rate will be increased to 50%. How many games has Bob’s team
already won?

17. Define amb = ~~, find the value: 2010m2010m2010m.... m2010m 2010.
. total 9 ms

18. As shown in the figure, the side of the larger square is 10 cm, and the side of the
smaller square is 6 cm. Find the shaded area.

19. The sum of two positive integers is 70. Their greatest common factor is 7. What is
the greatest possible value for the difference of these two positive integers?

20. There are five cards each labeled with a different number of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Randomly put them on the table in a row to form a 5-digit number. What is the
probability that the 5-digit number is divisible by either 5 or 2? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

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21. Given a? +a=1 andb’ +b =1, where a # b, find the value ofa’b+ab’.

22. AABC with BD = DE = EC, CF: AC = 1: 3. If the areas of AADH is 24 square

centimeters more than the area of AHEF, find the area of AABC.

23. The positive difference between the number of factors of a positive integer and the
number of factors of another integer that is two times the positive integer is 2. The
positive difference between the number of factors of the positive integer and the number
of factors of another integer that is three times the positive integer is 3. What is the
positive integer?

24. The figure shows a 6 x 6 squares partially filled with the numbers | to 6. How many
ways are there to fill the rest of squares with the numbers | to 6 such that each number
appears exactly once in each row and each column.

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25. Figure 1 shows a 3 by 3 squares. Each small square contains an arrow and a number.
The direction of the arrow points to another square where the next consecutive number is
located. Note that these two squares are not necessarily next to each other. A cycle is
finished if you complete the move from the square marked “1” to the square marked “9”.
Figure 2 also shows a cycle of the move with some numbers missing. Find the number in
the small square marked with the letter “A”. Note that the symbol “*” means the cycle is
finished.

Figure | Figure 2

26. Figure 2 (8 x 5 rectangle) is obtained by turning Figure 1 180°. If figure 2 is put on

the top of figure 1 such that they are completely overlapped, find the number of 1 = 1
shaded squares that are overlapped.

Figure 2

27. Alex, Bob, Charles, and Danny finished a math test consisting of 10 questions. Each
person got exactly 8 questions correct. At least how many questions did they all get
correct?

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28. 2010 students line up in a column. Each student takes turns from number one to
number 2010 to say a number following the rule below: if the number a student says is an
one-digit number, the next student must say another number that is the sum of the number
and 8; if the number a student says is a two-digit number, the next student must say
another number that is the sum of the units digit of the number and 7. Now the number
the first student says is 1, what is the number that the last student says?

29. There are three flowers in a greenhouse.

(1) There is only one day in a week that three flowers will bloom together.

(2) No flower can bloom for three consecutive days.

(3) It will not exceed one day in a week such that any two flowers do not bloom at the
same time.

(4) Flower A will not bloom on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.

(5) Flower B will not bloom on Thursday and Saturday.

(6) Flower C will not bloom on Sunday.

What day do the three flowers bloom at the same time?

30. A cylinder’s height is three times its radius. The cylinder is cut into two parts as
shown. If the surface area of the resulting larger cylinder is 3 times the surface area of the
resulting smaller cylinder, what is the ratio of their volumes?

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2. 60
3, 24
4. 800
5. 12351
6. 16
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11. Saturday
12. 22
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14. 30
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Problems 1-30

Name

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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.

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I. Calculate: (11 + 12+ 13+ 14+ 15+ 16+ 17)-+7

2. If the pattern continues: 2A3 = 2+3+4,5A4=5+6+7+8....., what is 3A5?

3. Alex has fourteen $5 and $10 bills totaling $100. How many of these bills are $5?

4. Find the sum of all positive two-digit odd integers not divisible by 9.

5. There are five Mondays and four Tuesdays in August of a year. What day is August
8" of the year?

6. Select three numbers from 2, 5, 7, and 9 to form a 3-digit number that has the
remainder 2 when divided by 3. How many such 3-digit numbers are there?

7. What is the ratio of the rotational speed of the second hand to that of the hour hand of
a clock?

8. Alex, Bob, and Charlie are students who participate in three different clubs (Math,
Science, and Writing) from three schools (Hope School, Cox School, and Ashley
School). Alex is not from Hope School, Bob is not from Cox School. The student from
Hope School is not in the Science club, the student from Cox School is in the Math club.
Bob is not in the Writing club. Which school is Charlie from and what club is he in?

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9. Twenty five apples are distributed to kids such that no matter how the apples are
distributed, it is always true that at least one kid gets 7 apples or more. What is the value
for n?

10. There are 40 students in a class. 32 of them took the math exam in the morning and
24 of them took the reading exam in the afternoon. There are 20 students who took both
exams. How many students did not take any exam?

11. As shown in the figures, there are 6 small circles in the first figure, 10, 16, and 24
circles in the successive figures. If the pattern follows, how many small circles are in the
sixth figure?

12. In a map with the ratio of 1:50,000,000, the distance is 2 cm between Apex and
Burham, and 3 cm between Apex and Cali. Find the greatest possible real distance in
kilometers between Burham and Cali.

13. ABCD 1s a square. The diagonals meet at point O. Draw

isosceles triangles using the sides AD, AB, and BC as shown in
the figure. The number of right triangles is m and the number of
squares 1s n. What is m + n?
14. There are two rabbits in a racing tournament. One is big and one is small. The small
rabbit runs 10 steps before the big rabbit starts to run. The time used by the small rabbit
to run 4 steps is exactly the same as the time used by the big rabbit to run 3 steps. The
distance covered by the small rabbit in 7 steps is exactly the same as the distance
covered by the big rabbit in 5 steps. How many steps does the big rabbit need to run in
order to catch the small rabbit?

15. The store’s rule is that you can use 3 empty cans to exchange for 1 can of soda.
Alex’s class has 17 kids and each bought a can of soda at the beginning of the party. At
most, how many more cans of soda can Alex’s class get by exchanging?

16. A wall with a hole is shown in the figure. How many bricks are needed to repair it?

17. There are three small circles in a big circle as shown in the figure. Fill each small
circle with one of the numbers 1 to 7 such that n, the sum of the three numbers in each
line is the same as the sum of three numbers in each big'circle. Find n. (Each number can
only be used once).
18. m is the smallest positive integer and n is the greatest positive integer such that the
sum of the digits of each positive integer is 15 and each digit is different. What is m + n?

19. An escalator moves up at a constant speed connecting the first floor and the second
floor. Two children walk up on the escalator. The boy walks 20 stairsin 1 minute, and the
girl walks 15 stairs ina minute. The boy reaches the second floor in 5 minutes and the
girl reaches the second floor in 6 minutes. How many stairs are visible when the escalator
is still?

20. A TV company needs to assemble 2400 TV sets. Two groups start to work at the
same time. Group A can assemble 60 sets each day and Group B can assemble 62 sets
each day. How many days have passed when there are still 204 sets left unassembled?

21. At most, how many regions can 6 lines divide a rectangle?

22. There are 3 consecutive odd positive integers. The positive difference between the
product of the first two odd integers and the product of the last two odd integers is 252.
What is the smallest number of the three integers?

23. A number of identical unit cubes is used to form a solid. Figures below show the
different views of the solid. The first figure is the front view, second is the left view and
the third one is the top view. How many cubes are there?

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24. A square shape garden is shown in the figure. Find the area of the shaded portion.

25. A tank is filled with some water. If the weight of the water is doubled, the total
weight is then 10 kg. If the weight of the water is five times the weight of the water
originally, the total weight is then 19 kg. Find the weight of the water originally in the
tank.

26. There are some positive integers m and n such that the product of (m—n) and (m + n)
is 77. What are these positive integers?

27. Mouse A and Mouse B are separated by a distance of 1.62 meters underground. They
decide to meet by digging all the way through. Mouse A will double his speed every day,
that is, he starts to dig 2 cm the first day, 4 cm the second day, and so on. Mouse B will
dig at a constant speed, that is, 6 cm per day. How many centimeters will Mouse A have
dug when they finally meet?

28. Eastern Middle School has three 8" grade classes: A, B, and C. The school has a
competition for math, reading and science for all 8'" praders. Each subject gives awards
to the top three students: first place 5 points, second place 3 points, and third place 1
point. It is known that the number of students in class A getting into the top three is the
smallest. The number of students in class B getting into the top three is twice as many as
the number of students in class A getting into top three. But, the total number of points
for these two classes is the same and they both ranked first (tie). How many points does
class C get?
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29. Alex, Bob, and Charlie together have $168. They start to exchange their money in
the following way: at first, Alex gives Bob some money that is exactly the same as the
amount Bob has. Bob then gives Charlie some money that is exactly the same as the
amount Charlie has. In the end, Charlie gives some money that is exactly the same as the
amount Alex has at that time. After the exchanges, each person has the same amount of
money as the others. How many more dolloars does Alex have at the beginning than
Bob? ;

30. Train A ‘s speed is 20 meters per second and Train B ‘s speed is 14 meters per
second. If they start at the same time with their heads at the same starting points but on
different rails, train A can passes train B completely in 40 seconds. If train A and train B
start at the same time with their tails at the same starting points, train A can pass train B
completely in 30 seconds. Train A’s length is m and train B ‘s length is n. What is the
value m+n?

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Problems 1-30

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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
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1. Calculate: 10098 + 96 —94+92—904 +--+ 4—9

2. If the pattern continues, what is the value of x?

3. Twenty pounds of apples and thirty pounds of pears cost $132. Two pounds of apples
costs the same as 2.5 pounds of pears. How much does one pound of apples cost?

4. There is only one person who knows French among Alex, Bob, and Charlie.

Alex: I know French

Bob: I do not know French.

Charlie: Alex does not know French.

If there is only one person who speaks the truth, which person is it?

5. The average value of 10 numbers is 789. The average of eight of those ten is 678. Find
the average of the other two numbers.

6. If the difference of two 4-digit positive integers is 3456, it is said that they form a pair.
How many such pairs are there?

7. Fill out four blank regions as shown in the figure with one of the digits:
3, 5, 7, and 8 such that the sum of the four numbers in each circle is 21.
Which number needs to be in the middle region?

58.
8. Five pieces of square papers of side length of 10 cm are stacked
such that the overlapping part of the two squares is one fourth of the 10cm
area of a square. Find the perimeter of the resulting figure.

9. Five teams A, B, C, D and E are having a soccer tournament with each team playing
once with every other team. Up to today, team A has played 4 games, team B has played
3 games, team C has played 2 games, and team D has played one game. How many
games has team E played?

10. Shown in the figure is a plot of scores in three subjects (Music, Sport, and Art) for
three teams A, B, and C. Which team should be ranked first based on total points earn?

Points

100

(. Music
@ Sport
ES art

11. Ayden and Kinston are 720 meters apart. Alex walks from Ayden toward Kinston,
and Bob walks from Kinston toward Ayden, at the same time. After 8 minutes they are
200 meters apart. Alex’s speed is 30 meters per minute. What is the positive difference
between Bob’s speed and Alex’s speed?

12. The figure shows the numbers of days needed for each person
(Alex, Bob, and Charlie) to make 3,000 toys. They need to make n
toys. The three people work together for 5 days, then Alex and Bob
work together for three more days to finish the job. Find n.
13. Ninety six students are arranged in a rectangular shape. There are 6 students in each
row. The distance is 1 meter between every two students. What is the area of the
rectangle?

14. As shown in the figure, seven congruent small circles are fit exactly in the large circle
with a radius of 3. All the circles are tangent to one or another. Find the shaded area.

15. Alex puts 127 marbles into n bags in a way such that no matter how many marbles (1
to 127) you ask for, he is always able to meet your requirement immediately by handing
you one or more bags without taking out any marble from any bag. What is the smallest
value for n?

16. There are 48 students in Bob’s class. 23 of them participate in Science Club, 26
participate in Art club, and 12 participate in both clubs. How many students do not
participate in any of the two clubs?

17. The sum of the ages of Bob, his’s father, mother, and older sister is 83 this year. The
sum of their ages 5 years ago was 65. How old is Bob now?

18. Place each of the digits 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9 in one of the boxes to make a two-digit
number and a 3-digit number such that the product is the largest you can produce.

Pe alt

be)
19. How many ways are there to use four numbers from 1 to 10 such that the sum of the
four numbers is odd?

20. Arrange the positive integers 1, 2, 3, 4,... as shown in the figure. What is the number
in the first row of the 20" column?

21. A, B, C, and D are four positive integers in order from smallest to the greatest. Taking
two of them at a time and adding the pair together will result in 5 different numbers: 21,
23, 24, 25, and 27. What is the average value of A, B, C, and D?

22. A rectangular solid placed on the ground with one side attached to a wall is formed by
gluing unit cubes together. The rectangular solid has the length 40, width 20, and height
16. If the rectangular solid is painted red on all visible faces and then dissembled, at
most how many unit cubes have no faces painted red at all?

23. There are four regions (each region has four teams) in a soccer tournament. The
selection rule is that each team plays each other team within the region once. The top
team will represent the region in the final tournament. Each of the four teams in the final
competition plays each other team twice. How many games are there total?

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24. A road 50 meters long is placed with flowers on both sides of the road. The distance
between any two neighboring flowers is 2 meters. At most, how many flowers can be
placed?

25. Find the sum of the digits in the quotient when 1234112341 .....12341is divided by 7.
repeated 20 times

26. Two identical white square bricks and two identical black rectangle bricks are placed
as shown in the figure. Find the area of the white square brick.

27. Candy is placed inside one of the five boxes labeled 1 to 5. Each box has attached a
note as follows:

Box 1: Candy is in box 5.

Box 2: Candy is inside box 4 or 5.

Box 3: Candy is not in box 3.

Box 4: Candy is not inside the box 5.

Box 5: Candy is inside box 4.

Alex is told that only one note is correct. Which box has the candy?

S|
28. There are 200 lamps labeled 1 to 200 and each is controlled by an independent switch
which shows “off” position right now. There are 200 kids and each is numbered 1 to 200.
Each kid needs to operate every switch once that is a multiple of his/her number. How
many lamps are on after every kid finishes?

29. Use the digits a, b, and c without repetition to form six 3-digit positive integers. The
sum of these six positive integers is 3774. It is known that the greatest digit of a, b, and c
is twice as much as the smallest one. What is the greatest of the six positive integers?

30. Tommy Turtle and Robby Rabbit are having the big race of 1000 meters. Robby can
run 40 meters in one minute and will rest 25 minutes for every 5 minutes running.
Tommy can run 8 meters in one minute and will not rest at all. What will be result of the
race?

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Answer Keys to practice test 5:

1. 50 pi
2oAT 28. 14
3. $3/Ib 29. 854
4. Charlie 30. tie
Bll VADte:
6.5544
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12. 3400
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16. 11. (48 — 37)
17. 3 years old
18.

mm (CHOC)
93 x 862 or 80,166

20. 210
2112
22. 10830 (10530 and 10830)
23.36 (4x6+2x6)
24.52
25. 340
26. 1225 cm”

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Problems 1-30

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Date

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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
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 Pil ieietaset. ft ] ; ,
1. Calculate 75 ~ i+ ~ (= rete )|x 12 . Express your answer as a common fraction.

2. A new fraction is formed when the numerator of a fraction is reduced 25% while the
denominator is increased 25%. What is the percent of reduction of the new fraction to the
original fraction?

3. When the fraction : is converted into the decimal form, what is the 2011" digit after

the decimal point?

4. If 20112011.....2011 20 is divisible by 18, find the smallest value for n.

repeated
7 times

5. If 35p +13q =135 , where both p and q are prime numbers, find the values of p and q.

6. A*B=Ax2-—Bx3+AxB. Find 5*3.

7. The sum of the numerator and denominator of a fraction in the simplest form is 86. If
: eg te:
both the numerator and the denominator are 9 less, the new fraction is o What is the

original fraction?

8. How many 3-digit positive integers with three distinct digits are divisible by 15?

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9. A good number has the property that when it is divided by 13, the quotient and the
remainder are the same. How many good numbers are there between | and 200?

10. Four nets are labeled (1), (2), (3), and (4) as shown in the figure. Which one can be
folded to form the cube?

@ Q) @

11. As shown in the figure, both ABCD and DEFG are squares. ED = 2AB. The area of
the triangle BEG is 6. What is the area of the square ABCD?

Paes a

12. The perimeter of a rectangle is 48 cm. The length and width of the rectangle are in the
ratio 5:3. Find the area of the rectangle.

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13. ABCD is a square. AB = 12 cm. AE= 5 cm. DEFG is a rectangle. FG = 13 cm. Find
DG. Express your answer as a common fraction.

14. As shown in the figure, a sector with the center angle of 60° is cut off the circle. Find
the ratio of the areas of the shaded portion to the sector that is cut off.

15. A right circular cone-shaped cup contains 3 liters of water. The water level is exactly
half of the height of the cup. How many more liters of water are needed to make the cup
full of water?

16. The sum of the edges of a rectangular prism is 24 cm. The three dimensions of the
rectangular prism are distinct integers. Find the volume of the prism.
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17. The time right now is 8:30 in the morning. What will be the time after the second
hand turns 2011 revolutions?

18. Alex alone can finish a job in 5 hours. If Alex and Bob work together, the job can be
done in 2 hours. How many hours can Bob finish the job alone? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

19. A rectangular prism with two square bases is cut into two congruent cubes. The sum
of the surface areas of the two cubes is 98 cm’ more than the surface area of the
rectangular prism. Find the volume of the rectangular prism.

20. The price of shirt A is increased by $0.16 which is 16% of the original price. The
price of shirt B is increased by $3.36 which is also 16% of the original price. What is the
positive difference of the two original prices for these two shirts?

21. Alex, Bob, and Catherine evenly divide a bag of candy. Each person eats 8 pieces of
candy. The sum of the number of candy left is exactly the number of candy each person
gets at the beginning. How many pieces of candy are there in the bag originally?

22. A water container is full of water now. 10% of water is used in the morning. 59 liters
are used in the afternoon. 20% of water remaining is used in the evening. One liter less
than half of water in a full container remains in the end. What is the volume of water in
the beginning?

23. Alex bought 99 adult and children tickets with $280. Children tickets cost $2 each
and adult tickets cost $3 each. How many children tickets are bought?

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24. A sixth grade class has 36 students. The number of boys is = of the number of total

students. 20% of the girls are 12 years or older. How many girls are less than 12 years
old?

25. 2011 boxes containing marbles are arranged in a row from left to right. The first box
contains 9 marbles. The third box contains 6 marbles. Every four neighboring boxes have
a sum of 32 marbles. How many marbles are there in the last box?

26. How many paths are there from A to E if no point or line segment can be traced
twice?

A B Cc

<iD

G E E

27. There are nine distinct regions within the 5 rings as shown in the picture below. Peter
is going to place a different number from 2 to 10 in each of the nine regions so that the
sum of the numbers inside any ring is 15. Two numbers are already placed as shown.

eSB
28. Bob needs to paint the exterior surface of a half cylinder log lying on the ground.
What is the total area he needs to paint if he does not want to move the log? Express your
answer in terms of 7.

29. A marching band of 800 meters long moves at a constant speed of 80 meters per
minute. Alex runs from the front to the end of the marching band with a constant speed
that is 3 times the speed of the marching band. He talks to the last person in the end of the
marching band for one minute and runs back to the front with the same speed. Find the
total minutes needed for Alex to run both ways. Express your answer as a decimal to the
nearest tenth.

30. Seven lamps are arranged in a row as shown in the figure below. Each lamp has its
own switch. Now lamps A, C, E, and G are on and other lamps are off. Ben starts to turn
each switch from A to G the following way: if the lamp is on, he turns it off; if the lamp
is off, he turns it on. He repeats the pattern until he turns the switches 2011 times. Which
lamps are on finally?

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Answer keys to practice test 6
173
2. 40%
3.2 (2/7 = 0.285714. 2011 + 6 =335 R1)
4.4
5.p=2,q=5
6. 16
7 41/45
8. 47. For a 3-digit positive integer abc, when c = 5, we have 23 such integers; when c =
0, we have 24 of these integers. .
9 12
L0G:
11.3 cm?
i 435
13. 144/13
$4524
$5321
16.6 cm?
17. 6:01 pm
18. 10/3 hours
19. 686 cm”
20. $20
21. 36
22; 210 Iitets
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24. 12
23.6
26. 14
27,

OSES
28. 641
29. 8.5 min.
30. A, D, F (2011 = 7x287+2, AB no change, CDEFG change).

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Practice Test 7
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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
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L; Caleulate
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2. ais a digit from | to 9. How many times a is a+ aa + aaa + ...+ aaaaaa ?

aa means a 2-digit positive integer.

3. Mis a positive integer greater than 10. M+ 2 is a multiple of 3; M+ 3 is a multiple of

4; M+ 4 isa multiple of 5; and M+ 5 is a multiple of 6. What is the smallest 7?

4. When A is divided by 2011, the remainder is B and the quotient is 2010. What are the
last two digits of A if B gets the greatest possible value?

5. There are n numbers in a group and the sum of any two numbers in this group is
divisible by 46. These numbers are selected from 1 to 2011. What is the greatest possible
value for n?

6. Positive integers 1 to 2011 are listed in the table below. The number 2011 is in the mth
row and nth column. Find the value of m +n.

7. A+B+C=6. A+B-C=15. A—B=17. Find Ax BxC.

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9. In a country there are coins valued at 1¢, 2¢, 5¢, and 10¢. You are a visitor of that
country and you have 4 coins with you (one 1¢, one 2¢, one 5¢, and one 10¢). How
many different payments can you make using these 4 coins?

10. The product of two positive integers is 735. The product of one of the two integers
and 3 less than the other integer is 672. Find the two integers.

11. ABCD, AEFG, GHIJ, and JKLM are squares. Cro

Points E, H, and K are the midpoints of AD, GF,
and JI, respectively. AB = 8 cm. Find the
perimeter of the shape formed by BCDEFHIKLM.

12. Find the area of the circle if the shaded area is 5 square units.
Express your answer in terms of 7.

13. An isosceles trapezoid is formed by cutting off the top part of an isosceles right
triangle with the long base of 10 cm and the short base of 4 cm. Find the area of the
trapezoid.
14. The length is 2 times the width of a rectangle. The diagonal is 9 cm. Two of the
rectangles are put together as shown in the figure. What is the total area? Express your
answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

15. Find the perimeter of the shaded area as shown in the figure. Express your answer in
terms of 7.

16. A rectangular prism is formed by gluing together 9 unit cubes. Ignoring the units,
what is the greatest possible sum of the surface area and the volume of the rectangular
prism?

17. A radio is originally priced at $50. This price is then reduced twice and becomes
$40.50. If the percent of two reductions is the same, what is it?

18. Alex finished -of his homework problems in the first week and 30% in the second

week. It is known that the number of problems solved in the second week is 30 more than
the problems solved in the first week. How many problems did Alex have for his
homework?

19. Alex adds salt to a 25% salt solution of 1000 grams and the concentration of the
solution becomes 50%. Later he wants to get a 30% solution. How many grams of water
does he need to add?

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20. There are 40 students in a sixth grade class. The average score for the whole class of a
math test is 80. The average scores are 83 for boys and 78 for girls. How many girls are
in the class?

21. Mr. Smith’s age is half of his father’s age. Mr. Smith’s father’s age is 15 times Mr.
Smith’s son’s age. Two years from now, the sum of three people’s ages will be 100. How
old is Mr. Smith?

22. Three boxes are weighted by two at a time and the following weighs are obtained: 56
kg, 59 kg, and 60 kg. What is the difference in kg between heaviest box and the lightest
box?

23. The sum of the number of students in class A and class B is 85. The sum of ;of

students in class A and ;of students in class B is 42. How many students are in class A?

24. A store bought some oranges for re-sale. 40% were sold in the first day. 50% of the
remaining was sold in the second day. The amount of oranges sold in the third day was
2 :
- of the amount sold in the first day. There were 50 kg of oranges left at the end of third

day. How many kilograms of oranges were bought by the store for resale?

25. There are 60 students in a sixth grade class. Thirty nine of the 60 students are with the
math club and 31 are with the computer club. Eight students are not in any of the two
clubs. How many students are in both clubs?

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26. You are given seven consecutive positive integers. Fill each small circle with one of
the seven consecutive positive integers. The sum of any two numbers that are inside the
two circles next to each other is the same and this sum is also the same as the number
besides the line segment that connects the two circles. What integer should be in circle
A?

27. Three identical cups contain sweet water with the ratios 1:5, 1:8, and 1:9 of sugar to
water, respectively. Now pour three cups into a larger container. What is the ratio of
sugar to water of the mixture? Express your answer as a common fraction.

28. There are five cards each labeled with a different number of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. How
many distinct sums can be obtained using these cards?

29. Sue owns 6 pairs of shoes and each pair has a distinct color. If she picks 4 shoes at
random, what is the probability that she gets exactly one pair of the same color?

30. How many integers in {1, 2, 3, ..., 2011} can be expressed as the difference of two
square numbers?

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Answer keys to practice 7

ial
2.123456
3. 61
4. 20 (A = 2010x2012)
5. 44
6. 316 (310+6)
7.54
8.9/28
9.15
1021535
11.46 cm
12.5%
13.21 cm
14. 64.8 cm?
1>.-12%
16. 47 (38+9)
17. 10%
18. 300
19. 1000 g
20. 24
2130
22.4kg
23. 40
24. 1500 kg
Zo018
26. 6
270 WAS
28. 13 (1 to 15, only 1 and 2 are not achievable).
29. 16/33 (C(6,1)*[C(10,2)-C(5, 1)|/CU2,4))
30. 1508 (all the odd integers (1006) and multiples of 4 (502)).

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DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

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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
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a)
1. Calculate: 197 * 198 —196 x 199

2. How many two-digit prime numbers are there such that when the units and tens digits
are switched, a new 2-digit prime number will be formed? 13 is one of the 2-digit prime
numbers with this property.

3. There are 6 boxes of marbles and each box has the same numbers of marbles. If 200
marbles are taken from each box, the number of the remaining marbles is exactly the
same as the sum of the number of marbles originally in two boxes. How many marbles
are there in each box originally?

4. Four times the sum of 1 and 9 equal 8080. Find the value of n.

5. Mr. Smith and his 6" grade students are standing in a row to be counted. If the
counting starts from the left side, Mr. Smith’s number is 15. If the counting starts from
the right side, Mr. Smith’s number is 17. How many students are in Mr. Smith’s class?

6. Alex was doing a math problem: first step a positive integer n was multiplied by 8,
then 13 is subtracted. Alex made some mistake and what he did was the following: n was
multiplied by 6 and then 3 was added. Fortunately Alex got the correct answer. Find the
number n.

7. When a number 7 is taken out from the sum of some consecutive positive integers
starting from 1, the new sum the numbers remaining is 265. What is n?

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8. What is the greatest possible 3-digit positive integer that always has a remainder of 3
when it is divided by 4, 6, and 8?

9. List all the positive integers starting from1 that are not divisible by 3, what is the 100
number?

10. Add one number 7 to the list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 such that the average value
of the 11 numbers is 6. Find n.

11. There are 10 positive integers in a list. If the greatest number m is removed from the
list, the average value of the 9 remaining numbers is 22. If the smallest number 7 is
removed from the list, the average value of the 9 remaining numbers is 25. Find the value
m—n.

12. Alex’s class has 30 students. Fifteen of the 30 students are in the Math Club and
twelve are in the Science Club. Six students in the class are in both clubs. m students are
in only one club and n students are not in any of the two clubs. Find the values for m + n.

13. Several students put money together to buy some books. If each student pays $9,
there will be $5 more than needed; if each student pays $7, there will be $9 less than
needed. What is the cost of the books?

14. Alex and Sam run a 100-meter race. When Alex is 32 meters away from the finish
line, Sam is 15 meters away from the finish line. When Alex is 20 meters away from the
finish line, how many meters away from the finish line is Sam?

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15. Alex and Bob together invest $500 for a business. If Bob adds $20, the amount of
money invested by Alex will be exactly 3 times Bob’s money. What is the amount of
money Alex invests?

16. One day a ship goes with the current for 21 km and against current for 4 km. Another
day the ship goes against the current for 7 km and then with the current for 12 km. The
times used in the two trips are the same. Find the ratio of the speed of the ship to the
speed of the current. Express your answer as a common fraction.

17. Five desks and 8 chairs cost $375. Each desk costs $10 more than each chair. Find
the cost of each desk.

18. Alex runs exactly one round along a circular path of 400 meters. His speed is 6
meters per second for the first half of the time and 4 meters per second for the second half
of the time. How many seconds does it take for Alex to run the second half of the
distance of the path? Express your answer to the nearest seconds.

19. What is the acute angle formed by the hour and minute hands at 4:16 P.M.?

20. As shown in the figure, a square of side length 5 cm has some area overlapped with
another square of side length of 4 cm. Find the difference of the non-overlapping areas of
two squares.

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21. As shown in the figure, O is a point inside triangle ABC. OB bisects ZABC. OC
bisects ZACB. ZBOC =130°. Find ZA.

22. As shown in the figure, ABCD is a rectangle. SED = AD. SBF = BC. 3AG = AB.
3HC = DC. EGFH is a parallelogram with the area of 21. Find the area of the rectangle
ABCD.

A eae

gi

BF C
23. How many different 2-digit even numbers can be formed by using two digits from 0,
1, 2, and 3?

24. A 6-digit numbers in the form of a20110 is divisible by 45. What is the greatest sum
of a and b?

25. Put 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in a row randomly. Any three neighboring digits can
form a 3-digit number. There are 7 such 3-digit numbers for any one arrangement of
these 9 digits. Find the smallest possible sum of seven such 3-digit numbers.

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26. A dragonfly has 6 legs and 2 pairs of wings. A cicada has 6 legs and 1-pair of wings.
A spider has 8 legs with no wings. The number of these insects is 60. The number of legs
is 400. The number of wings is 50 pairs. Find the number of dragonflies.

27. There are 4 balls labeled 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, in a box. Randomly take out two
balls and the positive difference of the numbers on these two balls is x. What is the
greatest possible value of x?

28. Alex spent 6 days to finish reading a book of 300 pages. The number of pages he read
in the third day was the sum of the numbers of pages he read in the first and second days.
From the third day, the number of pages he read each day was the sum of the number of
pages he read in the last two days. How many pages did Alex read in the fifth day?

29. Regular hexagon ABCDEF has an area of 24 square

units. M and N are the midpoints of AF and CD,
respectively. If MP//AB, MO//EF, PN//BC, and ON//ED,
find the area of rhombus MPNO.

30. As shown in the figure, A, B, C, and D represent four 3-digit ye .

numbers, 863, 796, 375, and 483, but not necessarily in that order. x Ww S
Each symbol in the figure represents a different digit. What B O = =
number is A?

Cc +k
DY OF
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Answer keys to practice test 8:

te
258
3. 300
4.2011
5. 30
6.8
71s
8. 987
9. 149
10. 11
i277
12. 24 (15+9)
13. $58
14.0
15. 390
16. 2:1=2/1
17.95
18. 46 2/3=47
19. 32°
20.9
21.80°
29.35
DES
JA.945=14
25 AD
26. 10
Mpa
28.75
29. 8
30. 796

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

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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
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1. Calculate [2231.25 +22.3X75+2,23125]X0.9+4

2. Calculate:

1 ] ] a i l hovel va tt
1 ot3 ars > ang ie? 9 gg tll gat ls
126 7}5
tag 15 gpg tl? 512 #19 1024
=
Express your answer as a mixed number.

3. Find the
=
greatest integer closest to S.
2
S= et
S= 50" 20 KIT
(aces
go X3t
ae
+e X10

4. Look at the pattern in the first three figures:

5. There are 10 red, 10 yellow, and 10 blue gloves in a bag. Each time you take out one
glove from the bag without looking. At least, how many gloves do you need to take out to
guarantee that you have at least two pairs of gloves with the different colors? If two
gloves have the same color, they form a pair.

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6. The sum of the digits of a 3-digit positive integer is 16. The units digit of the integer
is bigger than the hundreds digit. If the positions of the units digit and hundreds digit are
switched, a new number will be formed. The new number is 56 more than two times the
original number. Find the original 3-digit number.

7. There are 150 2x2 tiles. How many different rectangular shapes can be obtained using
these 150 tiles?

8. If two consecutive odd numbers are both prime numbers, they are called twin prime
numbers. (3, 5) and (5, 7) are examples of twin prime numbers. How many pairs of twin
prime numbers are there less than 100?

9. The product of Alex, Bob, and Charles’ ages is n. The product of n and 361 is 361361.
What is Alex’s age if he is the oldest among the three people?

10. Fill each square with a different digit to form two 2-digit positive integers and make
the following equation true. What is the greatest sum of the four digits used?

(ILI <LI =1995

11. The product of two different positive integers is 7 times their sum. Find the larger one
of the two numbers.

12. All six graders in Hope Middle School went to a math competition. The number of
boys is 4/9 of the number of total students. The sum of the scores obtained by boys is 6/7
of the sum of the scores obtained by girls. If the average score for boys is 90, find the
average score for girls.

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13. Alex and Bob start at the same time to climb a hill. When they reach the top of the
hill, they turn back immediately and double their speeds. By the time Alex reaches the
top of the hill, Bob is 500 meters away from the top of the hill. When Alex returns to the
bottom of the hill, Bob is still at the middle of the hill. Find the distance from the bottom
to the top of the hill.

14. The hour hand and the minute hand are in the opposite position after 4 o’clock. What
time is it?

15. k45k7 is a 5-digit positive integer divisible by 3. The number of possible values for k
is m. The number of such 5-digit positive integers that are also divisible by 9 is n. Find
the value of m+ n.

16. Seven lattice points are marked in the figure. Use these 7 points as the vertices to
from some squares and isosceles right triangles. The number of squares formed is m and
the number of isosceles right triangles formed is n. Find the value of m + n.

17. Five times the number of girls in a class is the same as four times the number of boys
in the same class. If 10 girls leave and 30 boys leave, two times the number of girls
remaining is 7 more than three times the number of boys remaining. How many girls are
in the class originally?

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18. Find the 89" term in the sequence: 2, 9, 17, 24, 32, 39, 47, 54, 62, ...

19. Four high school boys and four girls are assigned to four middle schools to proctor
the AMC 8 exam. Each middle school needs to have one boy and one girl. How many
ways are there to assign them?

20. A frog is jumping from point A in the clockwise direction as shown in the figure.
First, the frog jumps | step, say jumping from A and landing on B. Second, the frog
jumps 2 steps, say jumping from B passing C and landed on D. Third, the frog jumps 3
steps, say jumping from D and landed on A. Continuing the pattern until it jumps a total
of 2011 steps. How many of these six vertices of the hexagon have the frog not landed
on?

21. ABCD is a square. AD = 4 cm. BE = 2 cm. and DF = 1 cm. Find the shaded area.
Express your answer as a mixed number.

A D
22. Car A leaving Kinston travels to Durham and Car B leaving Durham travels to
Kinston at the same time along the same road. They meet at the place that is 60 km from
Durham. Both cars turn around right way after they arrive at their destinations, and they
meet again at the place that is 50 km from Kinston. Find the distance from Kinston to
Durham.

23. How many palindrome numbers are there from | to 2011?

24. Find the sum of the last four digits of S if

S =15+195 +1995 + 19995 +...+.1 9999..99 5
——_. --—-~

repeated 44 times

25. What is the 100" digit in the list: 182764125216...... 2

26. ABC is a triangle. D is a point on AB. Connect CD. E and F are two points on CD.
The areas of AADE, AAEC, ABDF, and ABFC are S, = 1, S2 = 4, S3 = 7, and S4 = 3,
respectively. Find the area of ABEF.

éA

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 2011
27. What is the last digit of the greatest value of k such that 3~ " can be expressed as the
sum of & consecutive positive integers?

28. Two cars drive in the same direction. One is driving at 40 mph and the other is
driving at 50 mph. They are 15 miles apart. In how many hours will the cars be exactly
30 miles apart? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

29. A rectangular box has the length 3 cm, width 2 cm, and height 1 cm. When the
rectangular box is unfolded, what is the smallest possible perimeter of the plane figure
(net)?

30. ABC is an isosceles right triangle. AB = AC = 2 cm. Use B and C as the centers to
draw arcs AD and AE. Find the shaded area. Express your answer in terms of 7.

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Answer keys to practice test 9

l . 2007+ 4=2011

N 100 oe
1024
19
875
13
439.
6
8 pairs
ca
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10. 20
30
ws 84
13. 3000 m

14. 4: ve
11
LS: m+n=3+l1 =4
16. 3+14=17
17. 36
18. 662
19. 576
20. 2 (C and F)

74 yl cm’.
11
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23: HLS.
24. 24
Pim 2
26. 5
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28. 1.5 hour
Zo 22 cm
ah 4-7
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@ Sprint Round Competition &
Practice Test 10
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

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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
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1. Calculate: 2011 +37 + 270 + (37 x 2)

2. Calculate: 82.54 + 835.27 — 20.38 + 2+ 2x 6.23 —390.81—9x1.03

3. Ina 6" grade class, the number of girls is two times the number of boys. If the average
height is 150 cm for girls and 162 cm for boys, what is the average height of all students?

4. How many triangles are there?

5. Mr. Edwards has the same number of oranges, apples and bananas. He gives each
student 1 orange, 3 apples, and 5 bananas. He has 24 apples left. What is the sum of the
numbers of apples and bananas left?

6. Alex arranged some red balls in a row on a table. He then put two yellow balls between
every two red balls. Finally he put two blue balls between any two balls that are already
on the table. Once he found a pattern, he continued the pattern until the total number of
balls on the table was 2011. How many balls were yellow?

7. How many 3-digit positive integers are there such that each digit is different from other
digits and the sum of the digits is 6?

yi
8. There are three boxes containing apples. If they are weighted by two at a time, the
weights are 63 kg, 65 kg, and 66 kg, respectively. What is the difference between the
heaviest box and the lightest box?

9. Alex has an infinite amount of coins valued at 1¢, 2¢, 5¢, and 10¢. He takes out 16¢ to
buy 1 pencil with no change needed. At most how many different ways are there?

10. Fill each square with one of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. What is the greatest possible
product?

11. What is the units digit of the 2011" number in the following Fibonacci sequence 1, 1,
DLE es eral eA Belered

12. Fill each square with one of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 such that the digit in the black
square is bigger than the two neighboring digits. How many different arrangements are
there?

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13. As shown in the figure, the line segments represent the roads

WA
of a park consisting of 8 congruent right triangles. The long leg of Prax
each triangle is 240 meters and the short leg is 100 meters. The A
hypotenuse is 260 meters. Alex likes to walk through every road
of the park, starting at point A and ending also at A. If he keeps
his walking speed at 60 meters per minute, what are the least
possible number of minutes he needs?
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14. Yesterday 420 apples were evenly divided among a 6" grade class. Today a new
student comes and 420 apples are still evenly divided but each student gets two apples
less than last time. How many students were there yesterday?

15. As shown in the figure, a rectangle with the area of 2009 cm” is divided into one
smaller rectangle, two isosceles right triangles, and three trapezoids. The isosceles right
triangle and the trapezoid have the same area. B is the midpoint of AC. Find the shaded
area.

16. Using the digits 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 each once to form a 6-digit number that is divisible
by 667. What is the quotient when the 6-digit number is divided by 667?

17. Select some numbers from positive integers 1 to 6 such that the sum of the selected
numbers is a multiple of 3, but not a multiple of 5. How many different ways are there to
do this? Note that you are allowed to select one number.

18. If books are put into boxes with 24 books in each box, the last box will be 2 books
short. If the books are put into boxes with 28 books in each box, the last box will still be
2 books short. If the books are put into boxes with 32 books in each box, the last box will
contain 30 books. How many books are there if the number of books is less than 1000?

qd
19. If congruent regular pentagons are used to form a circular shape, how many
pentagons are needed? The following figure shows part of the circular shape with 3
pentagons.

20. The product of the digits of a 5-digit positive integer is 25 times the sum of its digits.
What is the greatest possible value of the 5-digit number?

21. The area of a regular hexagon A;A2A3A4A5Ag¢ 1s 2009 cm’. B,, Bo, Bs, Bs Bs, and Be
are the middle points of the sides of the hexagon as shown in the figure. Find the shaded
area.

22. There are 64 1x11 cubes. Thirty four of them are white and thirty are black. A
4x4x4 cube is formed using these 64 small cubes. What is the greatest ratio of the white
area to the black area of the surface of the 4x4x4 cube? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

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23. A mail man needs to go through every street to deliver Post
mail starting from the post office and coming back after he Office 3 2
finishes. What is the shortest distance he needs to go? The line Q¥ NY
segments represent the street and the number on each line 3
segment is the length of the street in miles. He is allowed to go ;
through any street more than once. All streets are two-way
streets. 3 3

24. There are 12 teams in a soccer tournament. Every two teams play exactly once. The
winner gets 3 points and the loser gets 0 points. One point is given to both teams for a tie
game. When the tournament is over, what is the greatest possible difference between the
3™ team’s score and the fourth team’s score?

25. Some of the faces of one NXNXN cube are painted red and then cut into 1x1x1
cubes. The number of cubes with at least one face painted is 52% of the number of total
1x1x1 cubes. Find the value of N.

26. If two composite numbers are relatively prime and their least common multiple is
126, find their sum.

27. AB is a 2-digit positive integer with two distinct digits and has the following
property: (AB)? —(BA)” =x’. Find AB.

28. Calculate: 1155 cee aaa arte

Wink Sukns 8x9x10 9xlOx1]

VP,
29. A special clock is special in the following way:

(1). The minute hand completes one round every 10 minutes; and (2). While the minute
hand moves 6 rounds, the hour hand only moves one round.

Now both hands are overlapped. We call this the first time they lie in a straight line. How
many minutes does it take for them to lie in a straight line 6 times?

30. ABCD is a parallelogram. Triangle ABP has an area of 73 cm” and triangle BPC has
an area of 100 cm”. Find the area of triangle BPD.

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Answer keys to practice test 10:

58.
4520:
. 154 cm.
20.
48.
447.
14.
3 kg.
SD
NAARWN
CO25.
10. 52x43 1=22412
11. 9. (2011 = 60x33+31.The pattern repeats every 60 digits)
2. (G:
13.60 min.
14.14.
15. 861 cm”.
16.1434.
£7.89;
18. 630 books.
19. 10.
20. 55332.
21. 1148 cm’.
223111.
23. 46 miles.
24. 22:
255 5:
26:23.
2100:
28. 651
29. 30 min.
30. 27 cm’.

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 MATHCOUNTS
@ Sprint Round Competition &
Practice Test 11
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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
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 1 14 104 1004
—+—+—+—Be=
2 oe oes 008

2. Wa*b=a+bh+a, find (1*2)*3'=

3. 16 3A=48 =5C . whatisA*

B C=

4. The list], 3, 9, 25, 69, 189, 517, ... has the following property: starting from
the third number in the list, each number is 1 more than 2 times the sum the two numbers
before it. For example, 9 = 1+2x(1+3). What is the remainder when the 2011" number in
the list is divided by 6?

5. Three days are used to fish and two days are used to dry the fishing net. Under this
timing pattern, how many days would you fish in 100 days?

6. Alex wants to calculate the average value of six numbers. He should use division in
the last step, but instead he uses multiplication. His wrong result is 1800. Find the correct
answer for Alex.

7. A 3-digit number abc is 99 less than another 3-digit number cba. If a, b, and c are all
distinct, what is the greatest value for abc?

8. The total number of apples in two bags is 20. The number of apples in each bag is the
same if 7 apples are taken out of bag A and put into bag B. How many apples are in bag
A originally?
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9. The following figure is a monthly calendar in March. The sum of the digits of the
four numbers inside the rectangle is 5+6+1+2+1+3=18. What is the greatest sum of the
digits of four numbers that can be obtained by moving this rectangle around the calendar?

2 8
% 4
9 40 11)
i6 17 18 19 20 21 22
23-24 25 26 27 28 29
o0 31

10. During Thanksgiving, a store uses the following discounts for an electrical appliance
originally marked $100:

(1) Take $20 off the original price and then deduct 20%.

(2) Discount by 20% of the original price, and then take $20 off.

What is the positive difference of money a customer can have from these two ways?

11. ABCD is a square with AB = 12 cm. Point Eis on CD. BO

_L AE at O. OB=9 cm.
How long is AE?

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12. As shown in the figure, the length of one side of each small square is 1 cm. How
many different triangles with an area of 3 cm’ can be drawn using a combination of three
of the lattice points as vertices?

13. There are 27 seats in a row and n seats already taken. Alex finds that no matter which
seat he is going to take, he is always beside someone. Find the least value of n.

14. How many ways are there to take three numbers from | to 9 such that the sum of
these three numbers is a multiple of 3?

15. There are 4 red balls, 7 yellow balls, and 8 black balls in a bag. At least how many
balls are needed to be taken out randomly in order to guarantee getting 6 balls of the
same color?

16. There are 6 bags of candy on the table containing 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 13 pieces of
candy, not necessarily in that order. Alex takes away 2 bags, and Bob takes away 3 bags.
The number of candy Bob has is 2 times of the number of candy Alex has. What is the
number of candy in the bag left on the table?

17. Two years ago, Alex’s age was 4 times the age of his son, Bob. Two years from
now, Alex’s age will be 3 times Bob’s age. How old is Alex now?

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18. Alex has some toy cars and toy airplanes. The total number of cars and airplanes is
30. Each toy airplane has three wheels and each toy car has 4 wheels. The total number of
wheels is 110. How many toy airplanes does Alex have?

19. If 3a+2b=24, find the value of <a-54+—b.

20. $6.90 can buy 3 pounds of apples and 2 pounds of oranges. $22.80 can buy 8 pounds
o apples and 9 pounds of oranges. How much does it cost to buy | pound of apples and 1
pound of oranges?

21. ABCD is a square. AB = 4. BEFG is also a square. BE =6. O, is the center of

ABCD and O, is the center of BEFG. Find the shaded area O, O, B.

22. What is the angle formed by the minute and hour hands at 4:16 P.M.?

1 l
23. If ——+——= a , find the value for A.
2072 65009 A

24. Alex can finish a job alone in 40 days. If Bob works on the job for 10 days and Alex
joins in on the eleventh day, they can complete the job by working together for another
20 days. How many days will it take for Bob to finish the job if he works alone?

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25. You are given a 3-digit positive integer. When you reverse the digits of the 3-digit
positive integer, you still get a 3-digit positive integer. The sum of these two 3-digit
positive integers is 888. How many such 3-digit positive integers are there?

26. There are 7 cards each with a number on it: [0.1] .12).18).191.9).19). How many ways
can you take 3 cards to make a 3-digit even i Note that card |°! can be treated as |
if flipped around.

27. The circle graph shows the results of a 2010 family spending of $24,300. How many
dollars were spent on Education?

28. Point O is on the line segment AB. ZBOC is 90°.

ZBOD: 2COD=4 1. Find ZAQD.

29. Alex has 6 red balls and 4 green balls. How many ways are there such that Alex can
arrange them in a row so that no two green balls are next to each other?

30. A group of monkeys can evenly divide 56 pears among themselves (every monkey
gets the same number of pears). If four more monkeys join them and they have to re-do

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the distribution, each monkey will get n pears and there will be one pear left over. Find
the value of n.

Answer keys to practice test 11:

i
pees
2. 1*2=142+1=3, 3*3=34+3+3=44

a pe ted S59 48h

3: 45
Note the pattern of the remainders when these numbers is divided by 6:
~t 35. Sale asy Seoalp Sets. SmMce 2011 = 3070225 heremaumderas:
3 days fishing every
5 days. 100+5
< 3=60
1800
= 6=300. 300= 6=50
Naw
abc +99 = cba, a=c+9, To make abc greatest, ifa=9, thenc =0, cha is not

3-digit number, contradiction. If a=8, then c=9, b=7, so abc =879,

8s (2047 42) 5217
9. Group is 18, 19, 25, 26. 1+8+1+9+2+5+2+6=34
10. 0.8a-16- 0.8a-20= $4.
11. InOECB, 22+ZOEC=180° , since73+ZOEC=180 , soZ2=Z3,

Z#\=ZDAC, so, AS = a that is ie = aoe Answer: AE =16

AE AD AE 12
12. 6=1 X 6=2 X3. when the base is 3, we have 4 X 2=8. When the base is =2, we have
1 X 2=2. So total 8+2=10.
13.9
14. (1) All3 numbers are multiple of 3: 1 way
(2) the remainder is 1 when divided by : lway
(3) the remainder is 2 when divided by 3: 1 way
(4) one number has remainder 1, one number has the remainder 2 and one
number has the remainder 3: 3 X 3 X 3=27ways. Total 1+1+1+27=30 ways.
15. 44+5+5+1=15 16. 13+7+4=2X (349) , 5.
17. 2x(x+4)=3x, x=8, Alex’s age 8 X 4=32. This year 32+2=34.
182.40

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19. capri teas Sey
4 2 ea
20. 29.7/11=2.7.
21. The difference between the areas of one right trapezoid minus two right trapezoid.
(243) X52-2 X2+2-3 X3+2=6.
22. 120-6 X 16+0.5 X 16=32.

BU ee sola
2072 “65009 “Sx7x37
AFL sematdingy"
--7*37x251 259 2008 .2008
1 ie
24. 60.
y Na
26. 15 (units digit is 2) +23 (units digit is 6) =38
27. 24300 (1-10%-24%-12%-36%) =4374.
28. ZBOD: ZCOD=4:1, soZBOC: ZCOD=3:1.ZCOD=30°.ZAOD=60.
29.35.
30. 56 has the factor: : 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 28, and 56. 55 has the factors:1, 5, 11, and 55.
Only 11=7+4, so there are originally 7 monkeys, Answer:55~ 11=5.

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Practice Test 12
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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
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1. Calculate: 13x 23+1001

2. A rectangle with the length 12 cm and width 10 cm is cut into two

parts along the dashed line as shown in the figure. What is the sum
of the perimeters of the two parts?

3. There are 10 rows of the following arrangement of 3’s. What

is the sum of all numbers?

4. The average age of five teachers is 36 and no one is less than 30 years old. Find the
greatest possible age of the oldest one.

5. Find 143+ab if 7a=11 and 9b =13.

6. Alex and Bob are standing in front of a big mirror. Alex looks at the mirror and reads
the number on Bob’s sportswear as shown in the figure. What is the number of Bob’s
sportswear?

CUUE
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7. An unlimited number of darts are to be thrown at a dartboard with possible scores as
shown in the figure. At least how many darts must be thrown in order to get exactly 120
points?

8. What is the smallest units digit of the product of three consecutive odd positive
integers?

9. A 2-digit positive integer has 5 divisors. Find the greatest value of such a 2-digit
number.

10. How many integers from 1 to 1000 are multiples of 2 and 3 but not 5?

11. A 6" grade class has 23 students. The average score of their math midterm test was
72. A new student named Sam with a score of 96 is added to the class. What will be the
new average score for the class?

12. How many 3-digit numbers divisible by 6 are there such that when the digits are
rearranged, the new numbers are still divisible by 6?

13. m candies are distributed between n kids. If each kid gets 3, there will be 24 candies
left. If each kid gets 5, there will be 14 left. Find m + n.

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14. Alex’s age is 7 times his grandson Bob’s age. Alex’s age was 10 times Bob’s age 3
years ago. Alex’s age was n times Bob’s age 6 years ago. Find n.

15. Peter and Sam together have 24 candies. If Peter eats 3 of his candies, and Sam eats 2
of his candies, then the number of Peter’s candies will be 3 more than the number of
Sam’s candies. How many candies does Peter have originally?

16. A square-shaped pond has the side length of 100 meters. 208 trees are planted two
meters away from the pond also in a square shape. If the trees are evenly spaced, find the
distance between any two trees.

17. Five machines can produce 600 parts in 3 hours. How many parts can 11 machines
produce in 8 hours?

18. Alex walked to school this morning. His brother Bob left on a bike 30 minutes later
to catch him. Bob’s speed is two times Alex’s speed. How many minutes did it take for
Bob to catch Alex?

19. In a country there are two kinds of coins valued at 2¢ and 5¢. You are a visitor of that
country and you have ten coins of each kind. How many different payments can you
make by using these coins?

20. Hope Middle School starts their first class at 8:00 A.M. There are 15-minute breaks
between every two periods. There are 4 periods in the morning with each period lasting
AO minutes. What time is it when 4" period is finished?

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21. ABCD is a square with the area of 36. DE = 4. Find the length BF.

23. What is the greatest possible value of the remainder when 2011 is divided by a two-
digit number?

24. There are m ways to take two fruits from 5 apples, 3 oranges, and 2 bananas. There
are n ways to take two different fruits from 5 apples, 3 oranges, and 2 bananas. Find m +
n.

25. 5-digit number 8abc8 is divisible by 2009. Find 3-digit number abc.

26. The units digit of a 6-digit number is 1. If the digit 1 is moved to the leftmost
position, the new number is one-third of the original number. Find the original 6-digit
number.

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27. A bag contains 9 red balls, 6 yellow balls, 2 green balls, and one purple ball. These
balls are identical except different in color. At least how many balls must be taken out of
bag without looking to guarantee that 4 balls are the same color?

28. Alex and his four cows want to cross a river. The times taking for cows A, B, C, and
D to cross the river are 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, and 6 minutes, respectively. Alex
needs to go with two cows when crossing the river (he rides on the back of one of the two
cows). He needs to ride on the back of one cow for returning. At least how long does it
take for Alex and his cows to cross the river?

29. Alex has 7 different small gifts. He likes to choose five of the seven gifts for his five
friends Bob, Catherine, Danny, Emily, and Frank with one gift for each person. Bob likes
to have the puzzle book or the toy car. Catherine likes to have the camera or the puzzle
book. How many ways are there for Alex to give out the five gifts?

30. As shown in the figure, both ABCD and BEFG are

squares. The shaded area is 10. Find the area of ABCD.

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 Answer keys to practice test 12

1. 1300
2.94 cm
3. 300
4.60
5. 63
6. 9005
7.10 (17x4+1144+-4x2)
8.3
9.81
1On1S3
Li1e73
12. 16
13. 44
14. 19
15.14
16.2
173520
18.30 min.
19. 66
ZORA25
219
22.360°
2391
24. 31+45=76
25. 437
26. 428571
27.10
28. 13 min.
297 180
30. 20

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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.

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. Calculate: ee
1x2 2x3 3x4 2010
x2011

. Find the sum of the digits in the product 99......... 599 Xe SS rane 8)
OH TE

repeated 2011 times repeated 2011 times

. If 2 is added to the numerator of a fraction, the result is = ; if 2 is subtracted from the

denominator of the fraction, the result is = . Find the fraction.

. ais a prime number and d is an odd positive number. If a’ + b = 2011, what is the
value of a+ b+ 2?

. How many consecutive zeros are there at the end of 30! ?

pe
. The sum of the reciprocals of three prime numbers is ee = Find the greatest number

of the three primes.

. A new positive integer is obtained by inserting one “0” between a 2-digit number. This
new number is 9 times the original number. Find the original 2-digit number.

. The numerator is 12 less than the denominator in a fraction. After simplification, the
’ a ese
fraction equals a Find the fraction in its original form.

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9. At most how many regions can be divided by 10 lines on a plane?

10. How many squares are there in the figure?

11. A 5-digit number N is written on a card. When Alex turns the card around, he sees
another 5-digit number which is 78633 larger than N. Find N.

12. Coach Mark is picking up his teams of Little League Baseball. 2011 kids are lined up
to be picked. His way is simple. He counts the heads starting from left to right by
only saying three numbers: 1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3;.... Then he counts the players from right
to left also saying 1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3;..... Any one who is counted “1” twice will be the
team member. How many lucky kids will be picked?

13. Boxes A, B, and C contain 55 pieces of candy altogether. Box A contains three times
as much candy as Box B contains. Box C contains least number of candies. Find the
greatest possible number of candies in Box A.

14. There are 361 machines to be transported from River South to River North. At least
how many boats are needed such that each boat transports the same number of
machines and all machines are transported at the same time? It is known that no boat
is big enough to hold 361 machines at once.

ve)
15. There are two water containers A and B. Container A has water weighted 0.2kg. If
1/3 of water in container B is poured into container A, the weights of water in two
containers will be the same. Find the weight of water originally in container B.
Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

16. The circumference is 5 a meters for the front tire and 6 L meters for the back tire of

acar. When the car travels n meters, the number of rotations of the front tire is 99
times more than the number of rotation of the back tire. What is n?

17. Alex, Bob, and Charles each can complete a job alone in 10 hours, 15 hours, and 20
hours, respectively. At first, Alex and Bob worked on the job for 2 hours and then
Alex left. Three hours later Charles joined Bob (who did not take any breaks) and
they finished the job. What is the total number of hours that the three people worked
on the job?

18. Ben plans to finish reading a storybook in a certain number of days. If he reads 3
pages each day, he will leave 15 pages unfinished. If he reads 5 pages each day, he
will only have 2 pages to read in the last day. How many pages are there in the book?

19. Alex and Bob are partners in a business. The sum of their money was $150,000. Last
week Alex made 20% profit and Bob lost 20%. At this time, Bob’s money was 1/3 of
Alex’s money. What was the amount of money Bob had after his loss?

20. A pharmacist wants to dilute a 20% hydrogen peroxide solution to 15%. How much
5% hydrogen peroxide solution must he add to make 450 grams of 15% solution?

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21. Alex travels from Greenville to Winterville and Bob travels from Winterville to
Greenville. They start at the same time and they meet at a place 700 meters from
Greenville after a while. After they reach their destination, they return right way and
meet the second time at a place 400 meters from Winterville. Find the distance from
Greenville to Winterville.

22. It takes 2 hours for a ship to travel forth and back between Washington and New
Bern. When returning to go with the current, the speed of the ship is 8 km/hour more
than the speed of the ship traveling against the current. The distance traveled in the
second hour is 6 km more than the distance traveled in the first hour. What is the
distance from Washington to New Bern?

23. Alex is 36 years old. His son Bob is 8 years old. How many years later Bob’s age will

be 7 of Alex’s age?

24. A pond is fully filled with water. There is a hole at the bottom of the pond with water
coming into the pond at a constant rate. The pond can be empty with 10 pumps
pumping water out of it in 20 hours and 15 pumps in 10 hours. With the same rates,
how many hours does it take 25 pumps to empty the pond?

25. A toy car is traveling along a 400- meter long path. The speed of the car is changing
every second as follows: 2 meters per second, 3 meters per second; 2 meters per
second, 3 meters per second; and so on. How many seconds does it take for the car to
complete the path?

26. Alex, Bob, Catherine, David together have $190. If $10 is given to Alex, $20 is taken
away from Bob, Catherine’s money is doubled, and half of David’s money 1s taken
away, they will have the same amount of money. What is the original amount of
money for Alex?
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27. During a school football game night, the principal plans to buy two drinks for every
one who is attending the game night. Each bottle of drinks costs $1.8. There are 1194
people that night. The store allows the principal to use every 6 empty bottles to
exchange for a new bottle of drinks. What is the amount of money the principle
saved? Express your answer in dollars to the nearest cents.

28. As shown in the figure, ABCD is a trapezoid and BD is the A D

diagonal. The area of ABDC is 10 cm’ more than the area of
AABD. BC + AD = 15 cm. BC — AD = 5 cm. Find the area
of trapezoid ABCD.

29: Shown in the figure is a portion of bee-house consisting of small

hexagons. The middle small hexagon is the first layer, and the six
hexagons surrounding it is the second layer. If the bee-house has a
total of 6 layers and each small hexagon has a bee residing in it,
how many bees are there in this bee-house?

30. Using four different colors to color the five regions as shown in the figure such that
neighboring regions have different colors. How many ways are there to color?

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 Answer keys for practice test 13

1. 2010/2011
2. 18099 (9x2011)
3. 42/77
4.2011
Seat
6. 59
745
8. 14/26
9. 56
10. 100 (16 + 9 + 4x9+9+4+4x4+4+1+1x4+1)
11. 10968
12.671
13. 39
14.19
15. 0.6
16. 3705 meters
17. 9 hours
18. 42 pages
19. $40000
20. 150 grams
21. 1700 meters
22.15
23.12 years
24. 5 hours
25. 160 seconds
26. $30
27. $716.4
28. 30 cm*
29.91
30. 96

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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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
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1. Calculate: (2 Lederpons
iMadiOas 323
2011 Seon 4°"

2. The sum of a positive integer and its reciprocal is 20.05. Find this positive integer.

3. The sum of four positive integers is 38. Find the smallest value x and the greatest value
y of the product of the four positive integers. Write your answer in the form of (x, y).

4. How many of a— 1, a, a+ 1, and a +2 are composite numbers if a=2011?

5. p is a prime number such that both p + 2 and p + 4 are prime numbers. Find the value

of 2 = —.. Express your answer as a common fraction.

Pp pt2 pt

6. Four distinct positive even numbers a, b, c, and d satisfy that a + b + c + d= 20. How
many quadruples (a, b, c, d) are there?

7. The sum of 10 consecutive positive integers is 10055. Find the sum of the middle two
positive integers.

eee 1 10 20
8. The quotients are all positive integers when a number is divided by | ene or iS

Find the smallest possible value for this number.

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9. How many ways are there from A to B if you can only
walk to left or up along the grid lines?

10. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are arranged, one per small circle, in the figure
shown so that the sum, S, of the 4 numbers around each large circle is 15. What is the
sum of the numbers in the two left circles?

11. There are some marbles in a bag. = of them are red. If 6 red marbles are added to

the bag, the ratio of the number of red marbles to the total number of marbles in the

bag iss. How many marbles are there in the bag after the addition?

12. The number of flowers that are not blooming was 55 more than 2 times of the number
of flowers blooming last year in Duke’s garden. There are 100 more flowers
blooming this year and the number of flowers blooming is 4 times of the number of
flowers not blooming. How many flowers are there in Duke’s garden?

13. There are two boxes of apples weighing 110 kg together. 1/5 of apples from box A
and 1/4 of apples from box B will weigh 25 kg. How many kilograms of apples are
in box A originally?

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14. The temperature conversion formula from Celsius (°C) to Fahrenheit (°F) is: C=(F —
32) x 5 +9. What is 32°F in Celsius °C?

15. Alex has a pile of oranges. The first time he gives away 5 of them, the second time

: 1 oh Pie
he gives Ee of the remaining, the third time he gives away oy of the

remaining, ..., and the twentieth time he gives away — of the remaining. Find the

ratio of the number of oranges Alex originally has to the number of oranges left.

16. Alex sold two identical shirts at $120 each. He made 20% profit on the first shirt and
lost 20% on the second shirt. Find the positive difference between the money he paid
and the money he made.

17. Ten kids play tennis in three courts from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. If each person plays the
same amount of time x, what is x in hours? Express your answer in decimal form.

18. Alex has just enough money to buy only one of the following fruit: (1) 40 kg apples,
(2) 60 kg oranges, or (3) 120 kg pears. In the end, he bought all three kinds of fruit
with the same weight of each kind. What is the total weight of all fruit he bought?

19. One bottle contains 40% salt solution and another one contains 10%. The mixture of
the two becomes 30%. If 300 grams of 20% salt solution is added, the concentration
of the mixture becomes 25%. What is the weight in grams of the 40% salt solution
originally?

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20. Alex walks to Greenville from Washington at 9:00 a.m. at a speed of 6 km/hour. He
needs to rest 15 minutes for every one-hour of walking. What is the time when he has
walked a distance of 21 km?

21. The distance between two points G and Y located on Highway 94 is 4.5 km. If Alex
at G and Bob at Y walk toward each other at the same time they can meet in 0.5
hours. If Alex at G walks toward Bob and Bob walks away from Alex at the same
time and same direction, Alex will catch Bob in 3 hours. Find Alex’s speed in
km/hour. Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

22. Peter is walking down on an upward-moving escalator for 100 stairs to reach the
bottom. Sara is walking up on the same escalator with 50 steps to reach the top. If
Peter’s speed is two times of Sara’s speed, how many stairs are visible on the
escalator when it is switched off?

23. Farmer Bob owns a piece of grassland. The grass grows at a constant rate and each
cow eats at a constant rate. 17 cows can eat all of grass in 30 days. 19 cows can eat
all of grass in 24 days. The height of the grass before the cows begin grazing is
constant. A group of cows eat the grass for 6 days and then 4 cows are sold. The rest
of cows will eat up the grass in 2 days. How many cows are there originally?

24. A nonstandard thermometer reads temperature 99 °C of a boiling water of 100 °C. It

reads 4°C of a freezing water of 0 °C. It reads x °C of a classroom air of 25 °C. Find
the value of x. Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

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25. The number of 8" graders in a middle school is 36% of the total number of students.

The number of 7" graders is of the number of 8" graders. The number of 6"

graders is 16 less than the number of 7" graders. What is the total number of students
in the school?

26. The sum of the money that Alex, Bob, and Cindy have is $54. They want to buy a gift
for their Mathcounts coach, Mr. Whitley. Each student contributes the same amount

of money. Alex contributes =of his money. Bob contributes ,of his money. Cindy

contributes of her money. What is the sum of money remaining for Alex and

Cindy?

27. As shown in the figure, two identical triangles have some parts overlapped. Find the
shaded area.

28. ABC is an isosceles triangle. D is the midpoint of the semicircle. BC is the diameter.
AB=BC= 10 cm. Find the shaded area in terms of 7.

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29. Three circles A. B. and C are shown in the figure. The shaded area in circle A is — of

the area of circle A. The shaded area in circle B is :of the area of circle B. The shaded

area in circle C is ;of the area of circle C. If the sum of the areas of circles A and B is

E of the area of circle C, what is the ratio of the area of circle A to the area of circle B?

30. In a soccer tournament, the rule is as follows: the winner of a game gets 3 points,
each of the two teams gets one point for a tie game, and the loser gets zero point. In
the end, the champion team has the least number of wins but highest points. At least,
how many points does the champion get?

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 Answer keys to practice test 14

1.80
2. 20
3. (35, 8100)
4.3
SS FD/1OS
6. 24
7.2011
8. 60/7
9. 90
10.6
11.42
|
PsA re
£3, 50
14.0
| ee |
16. 10
17. 2.4 hours
18. 60 kg
19. 200 grams
20 1:15
ZESS 25
2251S
23.40
242715
25. 1100
26. 14
27. 84 cm’.
28. = + Eee cm” or 150 + 257) cm?
2 4 4
2923:1
30.11

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Practice Test 15
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

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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
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1. Calculate: (1234+ 2341+ 3412+ 4123)+(1+2+3+4).

2. What is the greatest square number that is not exceeding 2011?

3. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 to form two four-digit numbers. What is the
smallest difference of these two numbers?

4. Alex bought two horses (one black and one white) and one saddle. The white horse
and the saddle cost $800. The black horse and the saddle cost $600. The cost for the
two horses is $1000. How much does the saddle cost?

5. A group of monkey goes out to pick up some bananas. Monkey A picks up one banana.
Monkey B picks up two bananas. Monkey C picks up three bananas, and so on. When
they come back home, they put all the bananas together and divide among them
evenly. Each monkey gets 8 bananas. How many monkeys are there in this group?

6. Bob’s class is going to a field trip to Disney World. They will rent two types of buses.
Bus type A has 45 seats and the fee is $215. Bus type B has 60 seats and the fee is
$300. If the school rents x buses of type A, there will be 15 students without seats. If
the school rents (x — 1) buses of type B , the buses will be all full and every student
gets a seat. What is the least amount of money the school needs to pay for renting the
buses?

7. As shown in the figure, how many squares do not contain the

letter “A”?

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 8. As shown in the figure, parallelogram ABCD is divided into a triangle ADF and a
trapezoid ABCF. The difference of the areas of two shapes is 14 cm’. AE=7 cm.
Find the length of FC.

Catherine was reading a book. She said to Tom: “the number of pages I have read is
2.4 times the number of pages I have not read”. Tom counted and said: “the number
of pages you have read is 42 pages more than the number of pages you have not
read”. How many pages are there in the book?

10. As shown in the figure, a piece of square-shaped paper ABCD has the side length of
20 cm. Points F and F are the midpoints of AB and BC, respectively. The paper is
cut along the dash lines in figure (a) and is re-arranged into figure (b) . Find the
shaded area.

(2)
1% Alex, Bob, Charles, and Danny run for a 60-meter race. The average time for Bob,
Charles, and Danny to run 60 meters is 4 minutes. The average time for Alex, Bob,
Charles, and Danny to run 60 meters is 5 minutes. How long does it take Alex to run
this 60-meter race?

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12. A rectangular garden 345 meters long and 240 meters wide is planted with trees
along the perimeter with an equal distance between any two neighboring trees. A tree
is planted in each corner and at the midpoint of each side. At least how many trees are
planted?

13. Alex has been throwing discus five times. If both the best score and the worst score
are removed, the average score for him is 9.73 meters. If only the best score is
removed, the average score for him is 9.51 meters. If only the worst score is removed,
the average score for him is 9.77 meters. Find the difference between his best score
and his worst score. Express your answer in the decimal form to the nearest
hundredth.

14. Alex from Ayden and Bob from Beaufort are driving toward each other at the same
time. They meet the first time at a point that is 32 km away from Ayden. After Alex
arrives at Beaufort and Bob arrives at Ayden, they turn around right away. They
meet the second time at a point that is 64 km away from Ayden. Find the distance
from Ayden to Beaufort.

ES. First, fold a piece of square paper along the diagonal. Second, cut a hole near each
vertex of the triangle obtained. Third, unfold the paper. Which figure can you have?

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16. As shown in the figure is a chart showing the number of cars sold in March 2010 ata
car dealer store. It is predicted that the number of cars being sold in April will be
5%, 10%, and 20% increases for Toyota, Nissan and Honda, respectively. What
will be the total predicted number of cars being sold in April?
Number of cars sold

40 |
30 | ~-fage
20 |

Toyota Nissan Honda Manufacture

ye a and b are positive integers. Define ® as : a@b= an (m isa fixed

xax
constant). If 1®4=2®3, find the value of 3 @4. Express your answer as a
common fraction.

1
18. Find the integer part of Sif S=
les Col eees
2005 2006 2007 2008

ee. Glue 16 identical small unit cubes together to form a large rectangular prism with the
volume of 16 cm>. This large rectangular prism is then painted with red over the
surfaces and then 1s separated back into 16 small cubes. The greatest number of small
cubes with exactly three faces painted is x and the smallest number of small cubes
with exactly three faces painted is y. Find the value of x +y.

20, The product of m counting numbers is 2010. The sum of these counting numbers
is also 2010. What 1s the greatest value of n?

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21. As shown in the figure, there are two roads AE and CF in a piece of triangle-shaped
land ABC. The intersection point is D.DF = DC and AD = 2DE.. Find the ratio of
the areas of AACF and ACFB.

22. Two trains A and B are traveling toward each other along the parallel trails. Train A
is 280 meters long and train B is 385 meters long. Alex is sitting on the train A and
finds that it takes 11 seconds for train B to pass. Bob is sitting on the train B and
finds that it takes x seconds for train A to pass. Find the value of x.

23. The line segments a, b, c, d, e, and f share the Cc ¢@

same vertex A.ald, ble, c1/f.The b
angle formed by a and b is 30° . The angle
formed by e and f is 45° . Find the angle
formed by c and d. 30° 45°

24. A special container is used to grow some microorganisms. The procedures are: first
put a number of microorganisms into the container, and then seal the container.
When a night is passed, the number of microorganisms is doubled. However, if the
container is opened during the daytime, the number of microorganisms in the
container will be reduced by 16 immediately. Mary put x microorganisms into the
container in the first day. She was eager to see the test result and opened once the
container during the daytime in the second day, third day, and the fourth day. On the
fifth day, when she opened the container, she was surprised to find that no one
microorganism was left in the container. Find the value of x.

Blas)
23, Mr. Chan exercises everyday by walking three hours. First he walks on a flat road,
second he walks uphill, and third he walks back along the same way. Mr. Chan’s
speed is 4 km per hour for the flat road, 3 km per hour for the uphill road, and 6 km
per hour for the downhill road. Find the total distance he walks everyday.

26. A container is full of water. You are given three iron balls: large-sized ball L,
medium-sized ball M, and small-sized ball S. First, you put ball S into the container.
Second, you take the ball S out and put the ball M into the container. Third, you take
the ball M out and put the ball L into the container. The volume of water that
overflowed when you put ball S into the container is three times the volume of water
that overflowed when you put ball M into the container. The volume of water that
overflowed when you put ball L into the container is two times the volume of water
that overflowed when you put ball S into the container. Find the ratio of the volumes
of balls L, M, and S.

27. Ana, Bill, and Clare each have a whole number amount of money. Ana gives Bill and
Clare enough, respectively, so that Bill and Clare double their amount. Then Bill
gives Ana and Clare enough, respectively, so that Ana and Clare double their amount.
Then Clare gives Ana and Bill enough, respectively, so that Ana and Bill double their
amount. At the end, each person had the same amount of money. How much money
did Ana have to begin with if she lost $100 during the exchange?

28. Fill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7 and 8 each into a circle that is the vertex of a
cube as shown in the figure such that the sum of the four numbers
in each face is constant. Find the sum of three numbers that are in
the circles that are connected by the line segments to the circle
with a “1” in it.

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29. Water is constantly flowing into a reservoir at a rate of 40 m’ per hour. During the
first week, five water pumps were used to pump out water from the reservoir and after
2.5 hours the reservoir was empty. During the second week, eight water pumps were
used to pump out water from the reservoir and after 1.5 hours the reservoir was
empty. During the third week, thirteen water pumps were used to pump out water
from the reservoir and after x hours the reservoir was empty. Find the value of x in
hour. Express your answer in the decimal form to the nearest tenth.

30. Two roads intersect perpendicularly. Alex walks toward the North from a point that is
1200 meters South of the intersection point. Bob walks from the intersection point
toward East. They start at the same time. After 10 minutes both of them are the same
distance away from the intersection. After 100 minutes both of them are the same
distance away from the intersection again. How far away is Alex from the intersection
now?

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

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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.

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 8 8°
1. Calculate: 23 — wis Ke 1) 2.5 2 +x (— 4) + (24 je 26 a)

2. Alex likes to know the time by watching the mirror on the wall. Which of the
following reflection images does Alex think is closest to 8:00 A.M.?

HOHOWO
(A) (B) (C) (D)

3. Sue can do :of a job in :hour. With this rate, how long can Sue complete the job?

Express your answer as a common fraction.

4. As shown in the figure, ZAOB = 86°. Ray OC bisects ZAOE. Ray OD bisects
ZBOE. Find ZCOD.

Site 1b = ce 1, find the value for

Vs b'® aa

a” eae b? 4. ce"

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6. In the figure, AB // CD and CE // FG. If <BAC = 100°
and £GFC = 110°, find x.

7. Simplify p;(2).-+ pr (a) — pz) it pila) = ax? + ax—3;

Pela) = x? —38xr+1; pala) = 52’ —2r—8.

Express your answer in terms of x.

8. Find the value for y.

9. If the equations 2x +7 = 3 and br — 10 =—2

have the same solution for x, what is b?

10. m is the number of triangles in figure 1 and n is the number of triangles in figure 2.
Find m + n.

] 2

11. March 18, 2011 is Friday. What day was January 1“, 2008?
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12. ABCD is a trapezoid with AD//BC. P is the midpoint of
the diagonal BD. If the area of AAPD= 15 and the area of A WK D
ABPC = 20, find the area for ABCD.

B Wee ce

13. Find the number of solutions to the equation 2-++-| z—1[|—| +3 |= 0,

14. Belk store’s manager Alex bought a shirt at $a. He first marked the sale price that
was m% higher than what he paid. Later on he changed his mind and sold this shirt to his
friend Bob at the price that is n% of the first marked price. What price did Bob pay?
Express your answer in terms of a, m and n.

15. As shown in the figure, the smaller square has the side length of 1 and the larger
square has the side length of 2. Both squares are in the same level. The smaller square
now is moving through the larger square. The time used for the smaller square to go
through the larger square is fp. S represents the shaded area that is changed with time f.
Which figure shows the correct relationship between S and 7?

5
i
3
2
| tea
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O to ft

(A)

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16. Square ABCD is rotated 90° along the point D in a clockwise direction. What is the
sum of the coordinates of B after rotation?

17. If the sum of reciprocals of three prime numbers is = , find the sum of these three

prime numbers.

18. Find the sum of the coefficients of the expansion of (2x” —7xy +3y’)’.

19. 6 rays are drawn from the point O such that or bisects <BOc,
OF bisects 7AOD, ZAOB = 120° ZEOF = 135°, Find 00D

20. A solid is formed by small cubes. The different views are shown in the figure below.
At least how many cubes are necessary to form such a solid?

Fey Coo
Front view Left view

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21. Find the value of x? — yy? ta+y+31 if e(a2 +1) = 3540,
and y(y ~ 1) = 1560.

22. If x is a prime number, find the integer solution for the system equation

* +y—z=0,
4xa-y—z=0

23. 1.5 hens lay 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days. How many eggs are laid by 6 hens in 8 days?

24. Find the positive valueof atb+c if

b’ + 2ac = 14
c? + 2ab = 29
a+ 2b = 21

2.1 S\kR=14+2+3+e-4+n, and nm! =1X2X3X%--Xa,

fe 2008 2009
5 : 2009!| ss
find the value of 0081 + Dyk Du

26. Find the greatest value of a’ — ab + 6° if a and b are positive integers.

2a +36
= 15,

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27. The sum of 11 consecutive positive integers is 363. The smallest integer in the group
is m and the greatest integer is n. Find m + n.

28. What is the smallest value of 2011(6— a)? a and b are positive integers.
@< 2011; 6> 2011,

29. What is the sum of all possible values for k

ore Ska ae
=k
a sees c ?

a: 1
30. Find the greatest sum of A and B if chee = ais Both A and B are 3-digit integers.

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16. 440 =4
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27. 28+38=66
28. 4022.
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30. 494+988=1482

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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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
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1. Which figure, if viewed from the front, side or top, does not show any view shaped
like a rectangle?

CA) (B) (C) (D)-

2. Find the sum of all negative factors of 105.

3. Which of the following nets cannot be folded into a cube?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

4. City workers want to pave five straight roads inside the Elm Street Park. A lamppost
will be installed in any intersection of the five roads. At most how many lampposts are
needed?

5. A ship moves 40 miles from A to B as shown in the figure. It then moves 40 miles
from B to C. Find the distance from A to C.

45°
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6. Calculate , [-4x [— y4)—i]+ o =

7. The hard drive of a computer consists of three pie-shaped sections. The number of total
spaces in each section and the rate of usage of the spaces in each section are shown in the
figure. What is the total rate of usage of the hard drive?

gj «Used spaces CJ Unused spaces

Total spaces - 12.5GB Total spaces - 15.8 GB Total spaces - 10.2 GB

8. As shown in the figure, there are two smaller squares in a large square. The areas of
two smaller squares are m and n respectively. Find m/n.

ae
Kees’
9. The large rectangle has the length of 8 and width of 6. The small rectangle has the
length of 4 and width of 3 as shown in the figure. The shaded section is rotated along the
dashed line to form a solid. What is the surface area of the solid?
10. 120 students are assigned into 48 groups. Each group has either three girls or two
boys. How many girls are there?

a 5 C 3a+2b+c
11. If =— and abc 0, find ;
Bs xe a a-—2b—3c

12. Alex and Bob made a trip to a food store together to buy food on two consecutive
days. The food prices were different on both days. Each time Alex bought 10,000 kg food
and Bob spent $10,000. Was the total average price lower for Alex or for Bob?

13. A toy car costs $5 and a toy truck costs $7. Alex spent $142 on them. What is the
minimum number of toys Alex could have purchased?

14. There are m fractions between —2/3 and —1/3 with 21 as the denominator. There are n
fractions between —2/3 and —1/3 with 10 as the denominator. Find the value of m+n.

15. Point A is —3 and point B is —1/2 on a number line. Now move the line segment AB
along the number line to the right to A'B'. The midpoint of A'B' is 3. What distance did
AB move?

16. As shown in the figure, each circle has the area of 30. The
overlapping areas of A and B, B and C, and C and A are 6, 8, and 5,
respectively. The total area covered by the three circles is 73. Find the
shaded area.

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17. As shown in the figure, Z7BOD = 45°. Find the sum of all angles that is not greater
than 90°.

18. The fraction 6/7 is written in the decimal form. In how many digits after the decimal
point is the sum of the digits exactly 2011?

(A)a=-b. (B).a=b (C).a=1/. (D)a=- 1/.

20..%= - . Find the value of (x — 2)? —2(2—2x)-(1+ x)—x).

21. As shown in the figure, a solid consisting of more than 8 cubes is viewed from front
and top. Which one of the following figures (A), (B), (C), and (D) cannot be obtained
from left view of the solid?

i Front view Top view

BEBE (D)

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22. As shown in the figure, rectangle ABCD with AE = BG= BF = ne = ae ba

H, and G are on the same line. Find the shaded area.

23. The measures of three interior angles in a triangle are x, 2x, and 3x, respectively. Find
the greatest angle of the triangle.

24. Find the number ofsolutions to the equation |z — 2| + jz +3] =6.,

25. Which ofthe following inequalities is true if |a@°— | =— |a|* +8 9

(Aja > 6, (Boa <6, (Cya > b, (Da < b.

26. As shwon in the figure, two lines AB and CD are parallel .

Find 41 + /2+234+4+4+4
27. Find a if x = 0.7 is the solution to the equation: ax + ee

28. Alex wanted to make n identical parts. He used machine A to make '4 of the parts and
used machine B to finish the rest of the parts. He spent 4 hours to make all these parts.
Machine B can make 8 more parts than machine A in every hour. Alex made 12 more
parts in the second two hours than in the first two hours. Find the value of n.

Del a oe =o. fodx. 4 7x + 8x 13x 415:

30. The greatest common factor of two positive integers x and y is 4. The least common
multiple of xandy is 20. Find x? y? +3xy +1.

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Practice Test 18
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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.

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1. The students’ activities at Eastern Middle School are represented by the following pie
chart. Four regions correspond to the percentage of students participating in English,
Drawing, Math Clubs and other activities. What percent of the students participate in the
Math Club?

x
17%

> Math

4 Drawing 3
Se 92686
i.
Ss

3x+7
2. How many integer values of x for the equation: = 4? [x] represents the

greatest integer not exceeding x.

3. How many positive integer solutions are there to the equation: x+ y+z=7?

4. As shown in the figure, ABCD and BEFG are two squares. Point O is the intersection
point of BF and EG. Square ABCD has the area of 9 cm”. CG = 2 cm. Find the area of
triangle DEO. Express your answer as a common fraction.

GQ 4

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5. A rocket has the speed of 7.8 km per second. Alex, the rider, did four cartwheels in
three minutes. What was the distance traveled by the rocket while Alex completed one
cartwheel?

6. a+b=3. a’b+ab* =—30. Find the value

of a” —ab+b’ +11.

7. Ben owns some properties and the properties brought some profit for him in the last
three years. Below are the profit and property value charts. Which year did Ben get the
highest profit rate? Note: profit rate= SBOE 10098,
property value

$ $
Sol ee ae S000 - = - --+------- —
i eee eens a Of 3
300F--- : 3200
BS 3000F 77"

2003 2004 2005 year 2003 2004 2005 year

Profit Chart Property value Chart

13x 17x (—4+0.125) + (-14

eee
8. Calculate:
ear
Ficee
1
9. The reciprocal of (m — 2) is — 7ies+2). Find the value of m? + —,;. Express your
m m
answer as a common fraction.

10. nis a natural number. If both m + 20 and n — 21 are square numbers, find the value for
n.

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11. Find the value of a if x = 2 is a solution of the following equation

= (als (44444) -7] +10} =1

12. The figure shows four circles each with a radius of 2.cm

inscribed in a square. The shaded area is som , finda.

13. A tennis club sells tennis rackets with some discounts:

(a) Everyone will get a 25% discount; (b) Member of the club can get 35% more
discount; (c) Senior member of the club can get 40% more discount in addition to
other discounts.

If a senior member of the club bought a racket with $585, how many dollars did he
save?

14. A six-digit number 3434ab is divisible by both 8 and 9. If a+b=c, findc.

15. A store sells some precious medal. The price is $ 0.73 per gram. The seller thought it
was $0.73 per gram. When he sold b kg, he found out he made a mistake and lost
$146. Find the value of b . Express your answer in the decimal form to the nearest
tenth.

16. Greenville has 2476 residents. Every resident can speak English or Spanish. There are
1765 residents can speak English and 987 can speak Spanish. How many people
can speak both English and Spanish?

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17. If the values of x and y are decreased 25% each, what is the percent decrease of the
value of xy”? Express your answer as a common fraction.

18. As shown in the figure, DA = DB = DC. Find the value of x.

a)

19. A 3 by 3 cube is painted red on all faces. The cube is then cut into 27 small cubes.
The number of small cubes with no faces painted red is m and the number of small cubes
with at least two faces painted red is n. Find m+n.

20. As shown in the figure, rectangle ABCD is formed by 3x4 small squares. How many
rectangles are there that are not squares?

D c

A a”

21. The circumference of the circle is 4 and is equally divided into four parts by 0, 1, 2,
and 3, as shown in the figure. The number “0” on the circumference is pointing at “-1”
on the number line. The circle is then rotating along the number axis without sliding.
Which number on the circle will be overlapping with the number —2011 on the number
line?

Oo
Core. eee ee a

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22. Triangle ABC is shown in the figure with ZACB = 90°. AC = 8 cm. BC = 6 cm.
Using AC and BC as the side lengths of the two squares AEDC and BCFG, respectively,
find the sum of the area of triangle BEF and the area of hexagon AEDFGB.

23. The three integer sides of a triangle are a, b, and c. LCM (a, b, c) = 60. GCF (a, b) =
4. GCF (b, c) =3. Find the smallest value of a + b +c.

24. If m is a positive integer, what is the last digit of 2”7°''—3x2”?

25. A street map is shown in the figure. A, B, C, ..., X, Y, and Z

are all intersections of the streets. A watchdog at an intersection
point can watch all the streets that are connected to this point.
How many watchdogs are needed in order to watch all the
streets?

26-716 oy a ae , find the value of A a

m
m

27. Alex, Bob, Charlie, and Danny are friends. The average ages of any three people plus
the age of the remaining person are 29, 23, 21, and 17, respectively. What is the sum of
the ages of these four friends?

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28. All kids in Peter’s class are standing in a row for a PE class with Alex standing on
the most left position and Bob standing on the most right position. Mr. Edwards starts to
count the number of kids in the class. The first time he starts to count from Alex to Bob.
Charles is counted “20”. The second time he starts from Bob to Alex. This time Danny is
counted “20”. Mr. Edwards finds that there are exactly 13 kids between Charles and
Danny. What is the sum of all the possible values for the number of kids in the class?

29. Alex walked from Greenville to Kinston. Emily walked from Kinston to Greenville.
Alex started 5.5 minutes earlier than Emily. Emily walked 30 meters more than Alex in
one minute. They met at Ayden that is between Greenville and Kinston. Alex used 4
more minutes to walk from Greenville to Ayden than the time he used to walk from
Ayden to Kinston. Emily used 3 more minutes to walk from Ayden to Greenville than
the time she used to walk from Kinston to Ayden. What is the distance from Greenville
to Kinston?

30. Arrange 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in any order in a row. If any three neighboring

numbers can form a three-digit number, we will get a total of seven such three-digit
numbers in an arrangement. The sum of these seven three-digit numbers is N. For
example, one of the arrangements is: 1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 5, 8, 9, 6. We get seven three-digit
numbers: 134, 342, 427, 275, 758, 589, and 896. The sum of these numbers is N = 3421.
Find the greatest possible value of N.

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 Answer keys to practice test 18

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4. 25/4
5.351
6. 50
7.2004
8. 16
9.9/4
10. 421
11-4
12. 66
13. $1,415
14.4
15. 19.8kg
16.276 (1765+987-2476=276)
17. 37/64
18. 10
19. 21 (20+1)
20. 40
D3
22. 66
23. 31
24.0
25.4 (D,N, Y, F)
26. 36
27. 45
28. 78 (53 + 25)
29. 1440 m
30. 4648

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Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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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
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1. Ifthe n-th prime number is 47, what is n?

2. Four identical dice are first put in the position (a), then are re-arranged into position
(b). Find the sum of four numbers on the four bottom faces.

(a) (b)

; ; a b
3. Define the operation of four rational numbers a, b, c, and d: d = ad — be. If
Cc
2x —4
=18, find the value of x.
x

4. Alex had 20 matches already in his tennis tournament and he won 95% of these
matches. If from now on Alex always wins until the tournament is over, he will win 96%
of all matches. How many matches is Alex going to play from now on?

5. As shown in the figure, D is on the leg BC of right AABC. BD = 2, and DC =3. If

AB=m, AD =n, find the value of m? —n’.

m
6. The average value of p, q, and r is 4, and the average value of p, g, 7, and x is 5. Find
x

7. Three rational numbers a, b, and c satisfy a -b :c=2 : 3 : 5. Find the value of

C 2 2. 2 :
at+b+tc if a” +b° +c” =abc. Express your answer as a common fraction.

8. Alex and Betsy are running along a circular path. Alex runs faster than Betsy. If they
start at the same time and same location but run in opposite directions, they will meet
every 25 minutes. Now they start at the same location, same time, and same direction. It
takes Alex 15 minutes to catch Betsy the first time and to run a total of 16 rounds more
than Betsy runs. How many rounds does Betsy run?

9. You have 100 kg of a solution that is 15% salt. You can either add x kg pure salt to
bring the solution up by a 5% or add y kg pure water to reduce the solution down by a
5%. Find the value of x+y. Express your answer to the nearest hundredth.

10. A metal wire of 25 cm long is bent to form a triangle with three side lengths of a, b,
and c with a <b <c. Ifa, b, and c all are prime numbers, how many such triplets are
there?

St ae : ‘ ‘ax+4 y=8
11. a is a positive integer. The solution to the system equation
3x+2y=6
satisfiesx>0, y <0. Find the value of a.

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12. The two diagonals of a quadrilateral are perpendicular and their lengths are 8 cm and
10 cm, respectively. Connect the middle points of the sides of the quadrilateral to form a
new quadrilateral. Find the area of this new quadrilateral.

13. ais the length of the diagonal of a square. b and c are the lengths of two diagonals
of a rhombus. If b:a = a:c, find the ratio of the areas of the square to the area of bthe
rhombus.

14. A right triangle has one side length 11 cm. The other two sides also have integer
lengths. Find the perimeter of this triangle.

15. Ifthe lengths of three sides of a triangle can satisfy the equationx* - 9x +18 = 0,
what is the greatest possible value of the perimeter of the triangle?

16. aandb are distinct real numbers. 10a+b atl Find the value of a+b.
10b+a b+1

17. Alex bought x red posters and y blue posters using $213. Each red poster costs $7
and each blue poster costs $19. Find the greatest value of x+y.

18. Find the sum of all the integer solutions of the inequality |x—I| + |x— 2|SS .,

19. Point (1, 2) is on the curve determined by the function y = “ The function has the
x
same y value when x = b as y=x-+1. Find the sum of all possible values of b.

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20. As shown in the figure, A , B, C, and D are four small islands. Three bridges are built
to connect these islands. How many different ways are there to build the bridges?

2
21. Three boxes A, B, and C have a total of 55 pieces of candy. The number of candy in
box A is three times the number of candy in box B. Box C contains the least number of
candy. At most how many pieces of candy are there in box A?

22. As shown in the figure, the number in the line segment is the time (in hours) needed
to travel between the two cities the line segment connected. What is the least hours
needed for Alex to travel from city A to city B?

23. Five cups labeled are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and five labeled lids are labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and
5. Put five lids randomly on five cups. How many ways are there such that at least two
lids match two cups with the same numbers?

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24. Three boys and three girls are to be seated in a row of six chairs. Find the probability
that exactly three girls are seated together. Express your answer as a common fraction.

25. The Fibonacci sequence is the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ..., where each term after the
second term is the sum of the previous two terms. What is the remainder when the 2011
term in the sequence is divided by 7?

26. A time counter using tiny sands is shown in the figure. Sands are moving constantly
from the upper bowl to the bottom bowl. It takes five minutes for all the sand to move
from the upper bow] to the bottom bowl. H is the height of the region shown in the figure.
Which figure represents the relationship between H and t correctly?

27. As shown in the figure, each switch has a probability of 1/2 to be on or off. How
many ways are there for the electricity current to go from P to Q?
28. As shown in the figure, triangle ABC has the area of 5. AE = ED. BD = 2DC. Find
the shaded area.

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29. There is an ant located at a vertex of a regular tetrahedron. The ant walks from one
vertex to another vertex along the edge with 1/3 probability of going any direction. What
is the probability 1t comes back to the starting vertex after traveling four edges?

30. Put all natural numbers in a list from left to right as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..... Remove all
numbers that are multiples of 2. Remove all numbers that are multiples of 3. Keep all
numbers that are multiples of 7. What is the 2011" number on the list after removals?

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@ Sprint Round Competition &
Practice Test 20
Problems 1-30

Name

Date

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

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LT Calculate: 2008 < 2006+2007 < 2005-2007 X 2006-2008 X 2005.

De When a positive integer m is divided by another positive integer n, the quotient is

20 and the remainder is 8. What is the smallest possible value for m?

3: How many squares in the figure do not contain the letter A?

4. Alex has a book of x pages. If he reads y pages each day, he can finish the book in 20
days. If he reads y+3 pages each day, he can finish the book in 16 days. Find the
value of x.

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5. Alex’s age is mi of Bob’s age. After 15 years, Alex’s age will be 11 of Bob’s age.
How old is Alex now?

6. Ina certain time interval, the sum of the numbers of complete rotations made by hour
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minute, and second hands is exactly 1466. How many seconds are there in this
interval?

7. Alex and his brother Bob walk to school from their home along a straight road. They
start at the same time. Alex’s speed is 60 meters per minute and Bob’s speed is 90
meters per minute. Bob turns around right after he arrives at the school and meets
Alex on the way. After they meet, Alex spends three more minutes to arrive at the
school. Find the distance from Alex’s home to his school.

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8. As shown in the figure, ABCD is a rectangle. When a square ADFE is cut off, the
perimeter of the rectangle EFCB is 100 cm. Find the length of AB.
A E B

D F Cc

As shown in the figure, there are three squares and one circle. The area of the
biggest square is 60 cm’. What is the area of the smallest square?

10. Three identical cubes with each face using one of the labels A, B, C, D, E, and F
are shown below. Which letter is opposite to the letter E?

11. | Sam’s class made some toy pigs. Each student made a paper-pig first. Then every
two students working together made a clay-pig. After that every three students
working together made a cotton-pig. At last, every four students working together
made a metal-pig. When they finished, Mrs. Whaley counted a total of 100 toy
pigs made by the class. How many students were there in Sam’s class?

12. a, b, and c are all natural numbers. Define the operation: “#” : #(a, b, c)=
a-—b+c
. Find #(1, 2, 3). Express your answer as a common fraction.
a+bxc

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13. | When counting number n is divided by 2, the remainder is 1. When n is divided
by 3, the remainder is 2. When n is divided by 4, the remainder is 1. When n is
divided by 5, the remainder is 1. Find the smallest value for n.

14. What is the value of p°+5 if both p and p°+5 are prime numbers?

15. The following four figures are composed of simpler figures 4, B, C, or D with
each simpler figure a line segment or a square . The sign of the composition is
written as “*”’.

A*B B*C CD B*D

Use the letters and the composition sign to represent the following figure.

16. Three identical red marbles and four identical yellow marbles are arranged in a
row such that no red marbles are next to each other. How many ways are there to
do so?

ae Ty at
We x, y, and z are distinct natural numbers. If — +— + — =1, find the value x+y+z.
x Eyre

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18. If a:b < 71.2, and b:c =0.75: a find the value of c:a. Express your answer

in simplest ratio form.

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0.1+0.2+0.34+0.4+0.5+0.6+0.7+0.8+0.9
your answer as a common fraction.

20. Insert the signs +, —, x, or + into the small square 1LJ2LJ3LJ4LJ5 to form an
expression. Each square is inserted with one sign and no sign is allowed to use
twice. What is the greatest possible result?

21. As shown in the figure is a 3 X 3 magic square. Each square is filled with one number
such that the sum of three numbers in each row, column and each diagonal 1s the
same. Which number should go in the square marked “*” ?

22 Alex can finish a job in 10 days. Bob can finish the job in 15 days. Charlie can finish
the job in 20 days. They worked together for three days then Alex left. Bob and
Charlie continued to work together x days to finish the job. What is x?

23. A solar system contains two planets and a sun. Planet A completes an orbit around
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the sun in 15 months. Planet B completes an orbit around the sun in x months. Every
144 months, Planet A circulates 35 more rounds than the Planet B does. Find x and
express it as a common fraction.

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24. Three numbers p, p+1, and p+3 are all prime numbers. What is the reciprocal of
the sum of the reciprocals of three numbers? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

25. The number “0” is inserted into a two-digit positive integer to form a new three-digit
number. The three-digit number is one less than 8 times the original two-digit
number. Find the original two-digit number.

26. How many different ways are there from A to B if one can only move to the right or
down?

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27. An electronic watch shows the time at 10 o’clock, 28 minutes and six seconds below.
If we write down the time, we get a six-digit code: 102806. How many such six-digit
codes can be obtained from 10 am to 10:30 am if all digits are different?

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28. As shown in the figure, ABCD is a square with the side length 10 cm. AB is also
the diameter of the half circle. Find the shaded area. Express your answer in terms of
Te

29. Alex hates banks, and he puts all his money into a box under his bed. There is some
money in his box now. His salary is a fixed amount each month. He puts the money
after spending in his moneybox. If he spends $1,000 each month, one and half years
later his moneybox will have $8,000. If he spends $800 each month, two years later
his moneybox will have $12,800. Find the amount of money now in his moneybox.

30. The salt in a cup of water becomes 15 % after a certain amount of water is added.
The salt becomes 12 % after the same amount of water is added the second time.
The salt becomes x % after the same amount of water is added the third time. Find
the value for x.

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