Question 1
What is ?
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Question 2
For real numbers and , define . What is ?
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Question 3
A football game was played between two teams, the Cougars and the Panthers. The two teams scored a total of 34 points, and the Cougars won by a margin of 14 points. How many points did the Panthers score?
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Question 4
Circles of diameter 1 inch and 3 inches have the same center. The smaller circle is painted red, and the portion outside the smaller circle and inside the larger circle is painted blue. What is the ratio of the blue-painted area to the red-painted area?
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Question 5
A rectangle and a rectangle are contained within a square without overlapping at any point, and the sides of the square are parallel to the sides of the two given rectangles. What is the smallest possible area of the square?
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Question 6
A region is bounded by semicircular arcs constructed on the side of a square whose sides measure , as shown. What is the perimeter of this region?
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Question 7
Which of the following is equivalent to when ?
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Question 8
A square of area 40 is inscribed in a semicircle as shown. What is the area of the semicircle?
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Question 9
Francesca uses 100 grams of lemon juice, 100 grams of sugar, and 400 grams of water to make lemonade. There are 25 calories in 100 grams of lemon juice and 386 calories in 100 grams of sugar. Water contains no calories. How many calories are in 200 grams of her lemonade?
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Question 10
In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second side, and the length of the third side is 15. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 11
What is the tens digit in the sum
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So all that is needed is the tens digit of the sum 7!+8!+9!
7!+8!+9!=5040+40320+362880=408240
Question 12
The lines and intersect at the point . What is ?
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Question 13
Joe and JoAnn each bought 12 ounces of coffee in a 16 ounce cup. Joe drank 2 ounces of his coffee and then added 2 ounces of cream. JoAnn added 2 ounces of cream, stirred the coffee well, and then drank 2 ounces. What is the resulting ratio of the amount of cream in Joe's coffee to that in JoAnn's coffee?
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Question 14
Let and be the roots of the equation . Suppose that and are the roots of the equation . What is ?
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Question 15
Rhombus is similar to rhombus . The area of rhombus is and . What is the area of rhombus ?
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Question 16
Leap Day, February 29, 2004, occurred on a Sunday. On what day of the week will Leap Day, February 29, 2020, occur?
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Question 17
Bob and Alice each have a bag that contains one ball of each of the colors blue, green, orange, red, and violet. Alice randomly selects one ball from her bag and puts it into Bob's bag. Bob then randomly selects one ball from his bag and puts it into Alice's bag. What is the probability that after this process the contents of the two bags are the same?
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Question 18
Let be a sequence for which
, , and for each positive integer .
What is ?
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Question 19
A circle of radius is centered at . Square has side length . Sides and are extended past to meet the circle at and , respectively. What is the area of the shaded region in the figure, which is bounded by , , and the minor arc connecting and ?
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Question 20
In rectangle , we have , , , for some integer . What is the area of rectangle ?
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Question 21
For a particular peculiar pair of dice, the probabilities of rolling , , , , , and , on each die are in the ratio . What is the probability of rolling a total of on the two dice?
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Question 22
Elmo makes sandwiches for a fundraiser. For each sandwich he uses globs of peanut butter at per glob and blobs of jam at per blob. The cost of the peanut butter and jam to make all the sandwiches is . Assume that , , and are positive integers with . What is the cost of the jam Elmo uses to make the sandwiches?
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Question 23
A triangle is partitioned into three triangles and a quadrilateral by drawing two lines from vertices to their opposite sides. The areas of the three triangles are 3, 7, and 7 as shown. What is the area of the shaded quadrilateral?
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Question 24
Circles with centers and have radii and , respectively, and are externally tangent. Points and on the circle with center and points and on the circle with center are such that and are common external tangents to the circles. What is the area of the concave hexagon ?
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Question 25
Mr. Jones has eight children of different ages. On a family trip his oldest child, who is 9, spots a license plate with a 4-digit number in which each of two digits appears two times. "Look, daddy!" she exclaims. "That number is evenly divisible by the age of each of us kids!" "That's right," replies Mr. Jones, "and the last two digits just happen to be my age." Which of the following is not the age of one of Mr. Jones's children?
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Answer Keys
Question 1: C
Question 2: A
Question 3: A
Question 4: D
Question 5: B
Question 6: D
Question 7: A
Question 8: B
Question 9: B
Question 10: A
Question 11: C
Question 12: E
Question 13: E
Question 14: D
Question 15: C
Question 16: E
Question 17: D
Question 18: E
Question 19: A
Question 20: E
Question 21: C
Question 22: D
Question 23: D
Question 24: B
Question 25: B