Question 1

Walter has exactly one penny, one nickel, one dime and one quarter in his pocket. What percent of one dollar is in his pocket?

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Question 2

Jose is years younger than Zack. Zack is years older than Inez. Inez is years old. How old is Jose?

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Question 3

Which of the following operations has the same effect on a number as multiplying by and then dividing by ?

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Question 4

A teacher tells the class, "Think of a number, add 1 to it, and double the result. Give the answer to your partner. Partner, subtract 1 from the number you are given and double the result to get your answer." Ben thinks of , and gives his answer to Sue. What should Sue's answer be?

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Question 5

Find the smallest whole number that is larger than the sum

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Question 6

Figures , , and are squares. The perimeter of is and the perimeter of is . The perimeter of is

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Question 7

At Clover View Junior High, one half of the students go home on the school bus. One fourth go home by automobile. One tenth go home on their bicycles. The rest walk home. What fractional part of the students walk home?

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Question 8

An American traveling in Italy wishes to exchange American money (dollars) for Italian money (lire). If 3000 lire = $1.60, how much lire will the traveler receive in exchange for $1.00?

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Question 9

Three congruent circles with centers , , and are tangent to the sides of rectangle as shown. The circle centered at has diameter and passes through points and . The area of the rectangle is

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Question 10

A jacket and a shirt originally sold for <dollar/>80 and <dollar/>40, respectively. During a sale Chris bought the <dollar/>80 jacket at a discount and the <dollar/>40 shirt at a discount. The total amount saved was what percent of the total of the original prices?

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Question 11

Jane can walk any distance in half the time it takes Hector to walk the same distance. They set off in opposite directions around the outside of the 18-block area as shown. When they meet for the first time, they will be closest to

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Question 12

A lucky year is one in which at least one date, when written in the form month/day/year, has the following property: The product of the month times the day equals the last two digits of the year. For example, 1956 is a lucky year because it has the date 7/8/56 and . Which of the following is NOT a lucky year?

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Question 13

In the figure, , , and are right angles. If

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Question 14

A team won 40 of its first 50 games. How many of the remaining 40 games must this team win so it will have won exactly 70% of its games for the season?

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Question 15

What is the digit to the right of the decimal point in the decimal form of ?

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Question 16

Students from three middle schools worked on a summer project. Seven students from Allen school worked for 3 days. Four students from Balboa school worked for 5 days. Five students from Carver school worked for 9 days. The total amount paid for the students' work was <dollar/>774. Assuming each student received the same amount for a day's work, how much did the students from Balboa school earn altogether?

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Question 17

The table below gives the percent of students in each grade at Annville and Cleona elementary schools:

Annville has 100 students and Cleona has 200 students. In the two schools combined, what percent of the students are in grade 6?

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Question 18

The area of each of the four congruent L-shaped regions of this 100-inch by 100-inch square is 3/16 of the total area. How many inches long is the side of the center square?

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Question 19

The graph shows the distribution of the number of children in the families of the students in Ms. Jordan's English class. The median number of children in the family for this distribution is

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Question 20

Diana and Apollo each roll a standard die obtaining a number at random from 1 to 6. What is the probability that Diana's number is larger than Apollo's number?

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Question 21

A plastic snap-together cube has a protruding snap on one side and receptacle holes on the other five sides as shown. What is the smallest number of these cubes that can be snapped together so that only receptacle holes are showing?

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Question 22

The number 6545 can be written as a product of a pair of positive two-digit numbers. What is the sum of this pair of numbers?

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Question 23

How many four-digit whole numbers are there such that the leftmost digit is odd, the second digit is even, and all four digits are different?

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Question 24

In parallelogram , is the altitude to the base and is the altitude to the base . [Note: Both pictures represent the same parallelogram.] If , , and , then

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Question 25

Buses from Dallas to Houston leave every hour on the hour. Buses from Houston to Dallas leave every hour on the half hour. The trip from one city to the other takes 5 hours. Assuming the buses travel on the same highway, how many Dallas-bound buses does a Houston-bound bus pass in the highway (not in the station)?

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Answer Keys

Question 1: D
Question 2: C
Question 3: E
Question 4: C
Question 5: C
Question 6: C
Question 7: B
Question 8: D
Question 9: C
Question 10: A
Question 11: D
Question 12: E
Question 13: E
Question 14: B
Question 15: B
Question 16: C
Question 17: D
Question 18: C
Question 19: D
Question 20: B
Question 21: B
Question 22: A
Question 23: B
Question 24: C
Question 25: D