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MATHCOUNTS 2018 School Competition Countdown Round

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MATHCOUNTS 2018 School Competition Countdown Round

1. The forecasted maximum wind speeds, in miles per hour, for the next five days are 13, 6, 10, 5 and 8. What is the range of the wind speeds, in miles per hour?

Answer: 8 (mi/h)

2. In the geometric sequence with a first term of 6 and a second term of -6, what is the 205 th term?

Answer: 6

3. A segment with endpoints at A(2, -2) and B(14, 4) is extended through B to point C. If BC = AB, what are the coordinates for point C? Express your answer as an ordered pair.

Answer: (18, 6)

4. If a snack size tin of peaches has 40 calories and is 2% of a person’s daily caloric requirement, how many calories fulfill a person’s daily caloric requirement?

Answer: 2000 (calories)

5. If Ellen chooses a day of the week at random, what is the probability that its English spelling uses the letter “n”? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

6. A catalogue sells pencils two ways: (1) 50 cents each and (2) $2 per pack of 12. What is the least expensive purchase price for exactly 30 pencils?

Answer: 7 (dollars)

7. What is the median of 25. 0, 24. 3, 24. 1, 23. 8 and 23. 4? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

Answer: 24. 1 (yards)

8. How many 4 inch by 4 inch squares can be cut from a rectangular piece of leather measuring 4 feet by two thirds of a yard?

Answer: 72 (squares)

9. The product of three consecutive integers is 720. What is the largest of these integers?

Answer: 10

10. Margo walks to her friend’s house in 10 minutes. Using the same route, it takes Margo 20 minutes to get back home. If her average walking speed for the entire trip is 4 mi/h, how many total miles did she walk?

Answer: 2 (miles)

11. Adjacent sides of Figure 1 are perpendicular. Four sides of Figure 1 are removed to form Figure 2. What is the total 1 length, in units, 1 of the segments 8 in Figure 2? 6 2 Figure 1 Figure 2

Answer: 19 (units)

12. What is the smallest possible number of whole 2 by 3 non overlapping rectangles needed to cover a square region exactly, without extra over hangs and without gaps?

Answer: 6 (rectangles)

13. What is the area, in square units, of the four triangular faces of a right, square based pyramid that has base edges measuring 6 units and lateral edges measuring 5 units?

Answer: 48 (units 2)

14. For how many integer values of x is x 2 < 7 x?

Answer: 6 (values)

15. What is the greatest possible area, in square units, of a rectangle with a perimeter of 16 units?

Answer: 16 (units 2)

16. A 5× 5× 5 cube is formed by assembling 125 unit cubes. Nine unit squares are painted on each of the six faces of the cube according to the pattern shown. How many of the 125 unit cubes have no paint on them?

Answer: 83 (unit cubes)

17. What is the greatest common divisor of 315 and 108?

Answer: 9

18. What is 20% of 50% of 80?

Answer: 8

19. A rocket traveled 12, 000 mi in the first four hours. Then the rocket traveled 8000 mi in the next four hours. What was the rocket’s average speed, in miles per hour, for these 8 hours?

Answer: 2500 (mi/h)

20. If Kelly gets to keep an eighth of the sales of the store, how many dollars must the sales of the store be in order for Kelly to get $54?

Answer: 432 (dollars)

21. Xanthia can read 100 pages per hour and Molly can read 50 pages per hour. If they each read the same book, and the book has 225 pages, how many more minutes than Xanthia would it take for Molly to finish reading the book?

Answer: 135 (minutes)

22. The first four triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6 and 10 where each successive number can be found by adding a row of dots with one more dot than the previous row. What is the sixth triangular number?

Answer: 21

23. John has 5 quarters, and David has 5 dimes. John owes David 35 cents. John should give David m quarters and John should get n dimes from David so that John has paid his debt exactly. What is the value of m + n?

Answer: 7

24. If f (x) = 2 for all real numbers x, what is the value of f (x + 2)?

Answer: 2

25. Increasing a number by 10% is the same as multiplying it by y. What is the value of y? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

Answer: 1. 1

26. Betty draws one disc from a jar that contains 2 red discs, 5 green discs and 8 yellow discs. What is the probability that her selection is not a red disc? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

27. A triangle has side lengths of 8, 15 and 17 units. What is the area of the triangle, in square units?

Answer: 60 (units 2)

28. Jack bought an item for $300. It had been discounted by 20%. How many dollars was the discount?

Answer: 75 (dollars)

29. At what point does the line containing the points (1, 7) and (3, 11) intersect the y axis? Express your answer as an ordered pair.

Answer: (0, 5)

30. Quadrilateral ABCD is a square 2 with area 16 in. The figure represents the pieces of a Chinese tangram in which all the triangles are isosceles and piece “e” is a square. What is the A B area of the gray piece, in square inches? e D C

Answer: 2 (in 2)

31. Anna purchased 1 pound of fusilli pasta for $3. 40 and a 12 ounce package of spaghetti for $2. 20. There are 16 ounces in 1 pound. What was the average price per ounce, in cents, for her total purchase?

Answer: 20 (cents)

32. Tim can do one third of the job in 40 minutes. At this rate, how many total minutes will it take him to do the complete job?

Answer: 120 (minutes)

33. Let P = . What is the value of P if n = 2007? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

34. An 80 pound box of apples will have 10% of the apples spoil. At the same rate, how many pounds of spoiled apples will there be for every 2160 pounds of unspoiled apples?

Answer: 240 (pounds)

35. The four midpoints of adjacent sides of a square joined to form a smaller square. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller square to the area of the original square? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

36. What is the height of Jack’s house, in feet, if the house casts a shadow 56 feet long at the same time a 21 foot tree casts a shadow that is 24 feet long? Express your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer: 49 (feet)

37. What is the sum of the solutions of the equation x(2 x − 9) = 0? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

38. A recent study found that 60% of men and 80% of women surveyed support increased funding for particular medical research. The study surveyed 100 men and 900 women. What was the overall percent of the people surveyed who supported increased funding?

Answer: 78 (percent)

39. What is the value of x which satisfies ?

Answer: 49

40. A bag of grapes is to be distributed evenly to 5 kids in a class, and the grapes that are left over will be thrown out. If each student receives the greatest possible number of grapes, what is the greatest possible number of grapes that could be thrown out?

Answer: 4 (grapes)

41. The operation ◊ is defined by a ◊ b = ab 2 b + 1. What is the value of (− 1) ◊ 6?

Answer: − 41

42. What is the smallest possible area, in square units, of a triangle whose side lengths are all integers? Express your answer as a common fraction in simplest radical form.

Answer: (units 2)

4 43. When (0. 2) is written as a decimal, what is the product of the last two digits?

Answer: 6

44. A dose of a shrinking potion makes a person 50% smaller than they were before they drank it, and eating a growth cake makes a person 50% larger than they were before they ate it. After drinking 2 doses of shrinking potion and eating 1 growth cake, what is the ratio of Alice’s final size to her original size? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer:

45. If you continue this pattern in which each line segment extremity is replaced by a gradually smaller Y in the next figure, in the manner shown, how many endpoints will Figure 5 have? Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Answer: 48 (endpoints)

46. A right triangle has leg lengths of 8 and 15 units. What is the length, in units, of the median to the hypotenuse? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer: (units)

47. An 8. 5 by 11 inch piece of paper is folded in half repeatedly (never being unfolded), each time shortening then longer side. What is the length of the longest side, in inches, immediately after the second fold? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

Answer: 5. 5 (inches)

48. What is half of the absolute value of the difference of the squares of 18 and 16?

Answer: 34

49. A right triangle has an area of 120 units 2, and a leg length of 24 units. What is the perimeter of the triangle, in units?

Answer: 60 (units)

50. The number 1341 can be written as the sum of three consecutive positive integers. What is the largest of these integers?

Answer: 448

51. If the consecutive integers from 50 to 1 were written as 5049484746. . . , what would be the 67 th digit to be written?

Answer: 1

52. A square with side length 5 inches and a 3 by 6 inch rectangle are each drawn on the coordinate plane such that there are 12 in 2 of overlap. What is the area, in square inches, of the portion of the square that is not overlapping the rectangle?

Answer: 13 (in 2)

53. One cookie and two brownies cost the same as two cookies and one brownie. One cookie and one brownie together cost $1. What is the cost, in cents, of one cookie?

Answer: 50 (cents)

54. An isosceles, obtuse triangle has one angle with a degree measure that is 50% larger than the measure of a right angle. What is the measure, in degrees, of one of the two smallest angles in the triangle? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

Answer: 22. 5 (degrees)

55. Consecutive powers of 3 are added to form this sequence: 30, 30 + 31 + 32, and so on. What is the simplified value of the fourth term of the sequence?

Answer: 40

56. Five years ago, a computer that worked half as fast as a current computer cost twice as much money. The current computer’s speed to price ratio is what percent of the older computer’s speed to price ratio?

Answer: 400 (percent)

57. How many integers belong to the arithmetic sequence 13, 20, 27, 34, . . . , 2008?

Answer: 286 (integers)

58. A rectangular garden shares one side with one side of a house. An adjacent side of the garden is 8 feet long. If the area of the garden is 184 ft 2, what is the length, in feet, of the common side?

Answer: 23 (feet)

59. The equation x 2 + ax = − 14 has only integer solutions for x. If a is a positive integer, what is the greatest possible value of a?

Answer: 15

60. A right triangle has leg lengths of 7 and 24 units. A second triangle is similar to the first triangle and has a hypotenuse of 100 units. What is the length, in units, of the shorter leg of the second triangle?

Answer: 28 (units)