Question 1
A basketball player made 5 baskets during a game. Each basket was worth either 2 or 3 points. How many different numbers could represent the total points scored by the player?
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Question 2
A block of calendar dates has the numbers through in the first row, though in the second, though in the third, and through in the fourth. The order of the numbers in the second and the fourth rows are reversed. The numbers on each diagonal are added. What will be the positive difference between the diagonal sums?
Solution
(4+9+16+25)-(1+10+17+22)=4
Question 3
Assume that is a positive real number. Which is equivalent to ?
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Question 4
A semipro baseball league has teams with players each. League rules state that a player must be paid at least and that the total of all players' salaries for each team cannot exceed What is the maximum possible salary, in dollars, for a single player?
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Question 5
For real numbers and , define . What is ?
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Question 6
Points and lie on . The length of is times the length of , and the length of is times the length of . The length of is what fraction of the length of ?
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Question 7
An equilateral triangle of side length is completely filled in by non-overlapping equilateral triangles of side length . How many small triangles are required?
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Question 8
A class collects to buy flowers for a classmate who is in the hospital. Roses cost each, and carnations cost each. No other flowers are to be used. How many different bouquets could be purchased for exactly ?
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Question 9
A quadratic equation has two real solutions. What is the average of these two solutions?
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Question 10
Points and are on a circle of radius and . Point is the midpoint of the minor arc . What is the length of the line segment ?
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Question 11
Suppose that is a sequence of real numbers satisfying ,
and that and . What is ?
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Question 12
Postman Pete has a pedometer to count his steps. The pedometer records up to 99999 steps, then flips over to 00000 on the next step. Pete plans to determine his mileage for a year. On January 1 Pete sets the pedometer to 00000. During the year, the pedometer flips from 99999 to 00000 forty-four times. On December 31 the pedometer reads 50000. Pete takes 1800 steps per mile. Which of the following is closest to the number of miles Pete walked during the year?
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Question 13
For each positive integer , the mean of the first terms of a sequence is . What is the 2008th term of the sequence?
Solution
Thus, the sum of the first 2007 terms is 2007^2 and the sum of the first 2008 terms is 2008^2. Hence, the 2008th term is 2008^2-2007^2
Question 14
Triangle has , , and in the first quadrant. In addition, and . Suppose that is rotated counterclockwise about . What are the coordinates of the image of ?
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4AB^2 = AB^2 + 25
AB = 5 / sqrt of 3 and OB = 5
Question 15
How many right triangles have integer leg lengths and and a hypotenuse of length , where ?
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Question 16
Two fair coins are to be tossed once. For each head that results, one fair die is to be rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the die rolls is odd? (Note that if no die is rolled, the sum is .)
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Question 17
A poll shows that of all voters approve of the mayor's work. On three separate occasions a pollster selects a voter at random. What is the probability that on exactly one of these three occasions the voter approves of the mayor's work?
Solution
YNN
NYN
NNY
where Y stands for a voter who approved of the work, and N stands for a person who didn't approve of the work.
The probability of each of these is (0.7)(0.3)(0.3)=0.063. Thus, the answer is 3 * 0.063=0.189
Question 18
Bricklayer Brenda would take nine hours to build a chimney alone, and Bricklayer Brandon would take hours to build it alone. When they work together, they talk a lot, and their combined output decreases by bricks per hour. Working together, they build the chimney in hours. How many bricks are in the chimney?
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Question 19
A cylindrical tank with radius feet and height feet is lying on its side. The tank is filled with water to a depth of feet. What is the volume of water, in cubic feet?
Solution
Thus angle BAC = 120, and the area ABEC is 120/460 of total area of the circle
You can also find the area of triangle BAC. Then you can easily calculate the shared area.
Question 20
The faces of a cubical die are marked with the numbers , , , , , and . The faces of another die are marked with the numbers , , , , , and . What is the probability that the sum of the top two numbers will be , , or ?
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1 2 2 3 3 4
1
3
4
5
6
8
Calculate the sum of the colume+row, and see how many of the values in the resulting cells are 5, 7 or 9. These will be the qualifying cases. The total number of cells in the table will be the total number of cases.
Question 21
Ten chairs are evenly spaced around a round table and numbered clockwise from through . Five married couples are to sit in the chairs with men and women alternating, and no one is to sit either next to or across from his/her spouse. How many seating arrangements are possible?
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Question 22
Three red beads, two white beads, and one blue bead are placed in line in random order. What is the probability that no two neighboring beads are the same color?
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Question 23
A rectangular floor measures by feet, where and are positive integers with . An artist paints a rectangle on the floor with the sides of the rectangle parallel to the sides of the floor. The unpainted part of the floor forms a border of width 1 foot around the painted rectangle and occupies half of the area of the entire floor. How many possibilities are there for the ordered pair ?
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Question 24
Quadrilateral has , angle and angle . What is the measure of angle ?
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Question 25
Michael walks at the rate of feet per second on a long straight path. Trash pails are located every feet along the path. A garbage truck travels at feet per second in the same direction as Michael and stops for seconds at each pail. As Michael passes a pail, he notices the truck ahead of him just leaving the next pail. How many times will Michael and the truck meet?
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Answer Keys
Question 1: E
Question 2: B
Question 3: D
Question 4: C
Question 5: A
Question 6: C
Question 7: C
Question 8: C
Question 9: A
Question 10: A
Question 11: B
Question 12: A
Question 13: B
Question 14: B
Question 15: A
Question 16: A
Question 17: B
Question 18: B
Question 19: E
Question 20: B
Question 21: C
Question 22: C
Question 23: B
Question 24: C
Question 25: B