2019 Chapter Competition

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2019 Chapter Competition
Countdown Round
1. A square field, bordered on
one side by a river, has an area of
484 m2. How many meters of
fencing are required to fence its
three remaining sides?
Answer: 66 (meters)
2. In a bowl containing
100 cereal clusters, 6% of the
clusters are crunchy oat and the
rest are crispy graham. How many
crispy graham clusters must be
added so that 2% of the cereal
clusters in the bowl are crunchy
oat?
Answer: 200 (clusters)
3. If 2x + 3y = 4 and 3x + 2y = 11,
what is the value of x + y?
Answer: 3
4. A certain math club has 40
members, each of whom is a student
in the sixth, seventh or eighth grade.
If the math club has more members
in the sixth grade than it has in the
seventh and eighth grades combined,
what is the least possible number of
members in the sixth grade?
Answer: 21 (members)
5. Mazen takes 8 minutes to
bike 2 miles to work. What is his
average speed, in miles per
hour?
Answer: 15 (mi/h)
6. A standard 52-card deck has
13 cards in each of four suits. If
two cards are drawn randomly
without replacement, what is the
probability that they are the same
suit? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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Answer:
17
7. On Sunday, the low temperature
in Fargo was −6 °C. Each day after
that, the daily low temperature rose
2 °C. In degrees Celsius, what was
the low temperature in Fargo, on
Friday of that week?
Answer: 4 (°C)
8. The arithmetic mean of 3, 7, x
and y is 9. What is the arithmetic
mean of x and y?
Answer: 13
9. Gwen bought a new 100-sheet
notebook to be used exclusively
for math assignments. Beginning
on Monday, September 1st, she
uses exactly eight sheets every
week for her math assignments. At
this rate, during what month will
Gwen have used all 100 sheets in
the notebook?
Answer: November
10. The seven novels in Maria’s
favorite book series contain 335,
352, 448, 767, 1021, 656 and
767 pages. What is the median
number of pages in these novels?
Answer: 656 (pages)
11. If x is a positive real number
x
such that 4 = x4, what is the least
possible integer value of x?
Answer: 2
12. If a professional blender
operates at a rate of 24,000
revolutions per minute, how many
seconds will it take the blender to
complete 100 revolutions?
Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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Answer: (seconds)
4
13. The length of a rectangular
sheet of paper is twice its width.
Folding it in half along the dotted
line shown, creates a new rectangle
with perimeter 70 cm. How many
centimeters wide
was the original
rectangular sheet?
Answer: 14 (cm)
14. The figure shows three
different views of a cube whose
faces are numbered from 1 through
6. What number is on the face
opposite the face numbered 3?
Answer: 5
15. What is the value of

7+6×5−4×3? 2
Answer: 1
16. Two 5-inch-by-7-inch sheets of
paper are placed on a flat surface so
that the short edges of one sheet are
parallel to the long edges of the other
sheet, as shown. In square inches,
what is the maximum
possible area of the
gray region of overlap
between the two sheets?
Answer: 25 (in2)
17. If x + y = 27 and x is 50%
of y, what is the value of y?
Answer: 18
18. Before her last regular season
game, Kelsey Plum had 3340 career
points, which was close to Jackie
Stiles’ record of 3393 career points.
By the end of the game, Kelsey had
beaten Jackie’s record by 4 points.
How many points did Kelsey score
during that last game to become the
new record holder?
Answer: 57 (points)
19. Consider all of the three-
digit positive integers that can be
formed by using each of the
digits 2, 5 and 9 exactly once.
What is the absolute difference
between the greatest and least
integers formed?
Answer: 693
20. The figure shows right triangles
ABC, BCD and CDE with side
lengths AB = 3 cm, AC = 4 cm,
CD = 12 cm and CE = 16 cm. In
centimeters, what is the value of
BC + BD + DE?
Answer: 38 (cm)
21. If a  b = 1 − ab, what is the
value of (2  2)  (2  2)?
Answer: −8
22. A hand is a unit of length
equal to 4 inches. How many
hands are in 22 feet?
Answer: 66 (hands)
23. Let a  b = a2b. What is
the value of 2  (3  4)?
Answer: 144
24. How many positive two-digit
numbers are there whose digits
sum to 12?
Answer: 7 (numbers)
25. What is the greatest two-digit
number whose digits have a
product of 12?
Answer: 62
26. Together, three brothers paid
a total of $147 to buy a gift for
their mother. If Joe contributed
twice as much money as Nick,
and Kevin contributed twice as
much money as Joe, how many
dollars did Kevin contribute?
Answer: 84 (dollars)
27. How many cubes measuring
1 × 1 × 1-unit must be added to a
10 × 10 × 10-unit cube to create
an 11 × 11 × 11-unit cube?
Answer: 331 (cubes)
28. For what digit X is it true
X
that X ?
X
Answer: 4
29. How many of the first 100
positive integers are divisible by
at least four distinct primes?
Answer: 0 (integers)
30. A triangle has two sides
measuring 10 units and 25 units.
How many integer lengths are
possible for its third side?
Answer: 19 (lengths)
31. Melina drove on a highway
from mile marker 47 to mile
marker 83. Including these two
mile markers, how many mile
markers did she encounter?
Answer: 37 (mile markers)
32. Two turtles both begin walking
at the same time from the same
point. One turtle walks 1 foot east,
then 3 feet north and stops. The
other turtle walks 1 foot south, then
3 feet east and stops. How many
feet apart are the two turtles now?
Express your answer in simplest
radical form.
Answer: 2 5 (feet)
33. What is the smallest two-digit
positive integer with distinct
prime number digits?
Answer: 23
 2 3 1
34. If 5 of 4 of 7 of x is 8, what
2 1 3
is the value of 7 of 4 of 5 of x?
Answer: 8
35. In the first three games of a
basketball tournament, Eve
scored 27, 19 and 20 points,
respectively. How many points
must she score in the fourth and
final game to have scored an
average of 25 points per game
in the tournament?
Answer: 34 (points)
36. What is the value of
(10 − 9) × (8 + 7) ÷ (6 − 5) ×

(4 + 3) ÷ (2 − 1) × 0?
Answer: 0
37. Calvin owns a four-volume set of
comics. The volumes contain 79, 83, 61
and 92 comics, respectively. Every
night, Calvin reads up to ten comics.
But if he reaches the end of a volume
before reading ten comics, he stops
reading for the night instead of starting
a new volume. What is the minimum
number of nights that it will take Calvin
to complete reading all the comics?
Answer: 34 (nights)
38. Jay buys seven strings of
colored lights arranged, starting
with the first bulb, in a repeating
pattern of blue, red, purple, red
and orange until the end of the
string. If each light string contains
exactly 32 bulbs, what is the total
number of red bulbs on the light
strings Jay bought?
Answer: 91 (red bulbs)
39. If f (x) = x 2 − 3x + 2 and g
(x) = 2x + 5, what is the value
of f ( g ( f (2)))?
Answer: 12
40. In 2019, Salvatore’s birthday
was on a Wednesday in January,
on a day with units digit 4. The
same year, Lidia’s birthday was
the following week on Monday.
What is the units digit of Lidia’s
birthday?
Answer: 9
 3 2
x  3x  2 x
41. If c = 6 , what
is the value of c when x = 7?
Answer: 35
42. A car drives at a constant
speed of 70 mi/h. The car travels
a miles in 15 seconds, and it
travels b miles in 15 minutes.
a
What is the value of the ratio ?
b
Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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Answer: 60
43. Parallelogram ABCD has
diagonals AC and BD
intersecting at E. If AE = x, BE =
15 and DE = 2x + 5, what is the
length of diagonal AC, in units?
Answer: 10 (units)
44. Three times one number
added to twice a second number
is five more than twice the first
number added to the second.
What is the sum of the two
numbers?
Answer: 5
45. If x = 28, what is the
9 x  36
value of 9 ?
Answer: 32
46. Brian starts running at a
speed of 5 mi/h. Two minutes
later, Carla starts running along
the same route as Brian. If it takes
Carla 10 minutes to catch up to
Brian, at what speed is Carla
running, in miles per hour?
Answer: 6 (mi/h)
47. Pete Maravich scored 3667
total points in 83 college
basketball games. On average,
how many points did Pete score
per game? Express your answer
to the nearest whole number.
Answer: 44 (points)
48. When empty, Professor Quimby’s
suitcase weighs exactly 9 pounds.
After he packs six shirts weighing
6 ounces each, five pairs of pants
weighing 12 ounces each, and three
books weighing 18 ounces each, how
many pounds does his suitcase
weigh? Express your answer to the
nearest whole number.
Answer: 18 (pounds)
49. On March 12, Lea borrowed
two library books to be returned
within two weeks. However, Lea
returned both books on April 5,
and the library charged a fine of
25 cents per late day per late item.
How many dollars was Lea’s fine?
Answer: 5 (dollars)
50. In 2017, the price of a
motorized bike was $325. In 2018,
the price of the same bike had
increased 40%. In 2019, Val
bought the same bike on sale for
20% off the 2018 price. How many
dollars did Val pay for the bike?
Answer: 364 (dollars)
51. John correctly computes the
value of (7 × 4) − (2 × 3), while
Erika correctly computes the value
of 7 × (4 − 2) × 3. What is the
absolute difference between John’s
and Erika’s resulting values?
Answer: 20
52. The product of 90 and x is
a perfect square. What is the
least possible positive integer
value of x?
Answer: 10
53. The sum of the values of a
and b is 47. The sum of the values
of a and c is 126. The sum of the
values of b and c is 93. What is
the value of a?
Answer: 40
54. In the array shown, each
number is 1 more than the number
immediately above it, and 1 more
than the number immediately to its
left. What is the sum 6
of the 25 numbers in
the array?
Answer: 250
55. The positive number p that
satisfies x 2 + 6x + 9 = 120 is
closest in value to what integer?
Answer: 8
56. What is the sum of the
reciprocals of the even factors
of 12?
Answer: 1
57. What integer value of n makes
3 2 7 2 2 3 2 7
(3)(3 ) (3 ) (7)(7 ) (7 ) = n true?
n
Answer: 21
58. In the sequence of figures
shown, each figure has one more
row of two unit squares than the
previous figure. If this pattern
continues, how many unit squares
will Figure 50 have?
Answer: 101 (unit squares)
59. Seven consecutive even
integers have a sum of 406. What
is the sum of the least and the
greatest of the seven integers?
Answer: 116
60. How many pairs of
positive odd integers x and y
exist for which x + y = 2019?
Answer: 0 (pairs)
61. How many integers n satisfy
the inequality |4n − 11| ≤ 64?
Answer: 32 (integers)
62. In a hockey game, Sidney
earns a penalty with 2 minutes
and 33 seconds remaining in the
game. If his penalty lasts 1 minute
and 42 seconds, how many
seconds will remain in the game
at the end of his penalty?
Answer: 51 (seconds)
63. What positive real number
is a solution to the equation
1 1 1
−
x  1 x 1 2 = ? Express your
answer in simplest radical form.
Answer: 5
64. Last school year, the ratio of
teachers to students at Mathy MS
was 1:8. This year, the number
of teachers has increased by five
teachers. If the teacher to student
ratio is the same, how many
more students attend Mathy MS
this year?
Answer: 40 (students)
65. What is the median of the
squares of the first 20 positive
integers? Express your answer
as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
Answer: 110.5
66. What is the sum of the
distinct prime factors of 4242?
Answer: 113
67. Three CDs cost $39.75. Two
books and two CDs cost $138.50.
Assuming the cost of each CD is
the same and the cost of each
book is the same, what is the cost
of one book, in dollars?
Answer: 56 (dollars)
68. One bog is worth two bots.
Three bogs are worth eight bits.
How many bots are four bits
worth?
Answer: 3 (bots)
69. What is the sum of
one-eighth of 120, three-eighths
of 120, five-eighths of 120,
and seven-eighths of 120?
Answer: 240
70. A right pyramid has a
rhombus base with diagonals
of lengths 5 cm and 6 cm. If
the height of the pyramid is
8 cm, what is its volume, in
cubic centimeters?
Answer: 40 (cm3)
71. How many 4-digit integers
are there with distinct odd
digits that are arranged in
ascending order?
Answer: 5 (integers)
72. How many seven-digit
telephone numbers can be
created if the first digit cannot
be 0 or 1?
Answer: 8,000,000
(telephone numbers)
73. The table shows some values
of a linear function f (x) = mx + b,
for real numbers m and b. What
is the value of m? Express your
answer as a
common fraction.
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Answer: − 4
74. Moe has 1 cup of pure lime
juice. He will use water to create
a diluted solution that is 10% lime
juice by volume. How many cups
of water will Moe add?
Answer: 9 (cups)
75. Abe’s outfit will include a
shirt, a tie and a jacket chosen
from his selection of 4 shirts,
2 ties and 2 jackets. How many
different outfits can Abe create?
Answer: 16 (outfits)
76. If T(n) = n × n  1 ,
what is the value of 2

T(4) + T(5) + T(6) + T(7) +

T(8)?
Answer: 110
77. A rectangular prism has edge
lengths 3 inches, 4 inches and
5 inches. If the length of each
edge is increased by 10 percent,
by what percent will the volume
of the prism increase? Express
your answer to the nearest tenth.
Answer: 33.1 (percent)
78. A card is attached near one wheel
of a bicycle so that the spokes of the
wheel strike the card at regular
intervals. If the bicycle wheel, which
has five spokes, revolves at a rate of
80 revolutions per minute,
how many times do the
spokes strike the card
in 30 seconds?
Answer: 200 (times)
 7! 9!
79. What is the value 8! 8!
of ? Express your answer
as a common fraction.
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Answer:
8
80. If 2T ,

what is the value of T ? Express your

answer as a common fraction.
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Answer:
8