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2013 School CompetitionCountdown Round
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1. Each interior angle of a regular polygon measures 140 degrees. How many sides does the polygon have?
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Answer: 9 (sides)
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2. What is the volume, in cubic inches, of a cube whose surface area is 96 in2?
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Answer: 64 (in3)
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3. For what whole number N is
between and ?N12
12
23
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Answer: 7
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4. Emily sees this sign in a grocery store.
She selects 25 oranges and gives the clerk one nickel. According to the price on the sign, how many cents does the clerk owe her?
ORANGES: 0.12¢ each
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Answer: 2 (cents)
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5. The base of a rectangle is 19 + 2x cm, and the height is 57 cm. How many centimeters are in the perimeter when the rectangle is a square?
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Answer: 228 (cm)
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6. The number of inches in the perimeter of a square is equal to the number of square inches in its area. What is the number of inches in the side length of the square?
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Answer: 4 (in)
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7. How many of the six integers 1 through 6 are divisors of the four-digit number 1452?
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Answer: 5 (integers)
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8. A number in the set {50, 51, 52, 53, ... , 999} is randomly selected. What is the probability that the number selected is a two digit number? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Answer: 1
19
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9. A number is randomly selected from the integers 1 through 9. What is the probability that the number is less than 7 and divisible by 3? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Answer:29
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10. What is the digit in the
thousandths place of the decimal
equivalent of ? 3
16
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Answer: 7
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11. What is the least positive integer that is divisible by three distinct primes?
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Answer: 30
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12. What is the slope of the line that contains the points (4.5, 6.85) and (1.5, 2.35)? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Answer: 32
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13. Twenty 3-foot by 3-foot square tiles completely cover a floor without overlap. Exactly how many 9-inch by 9-inch square tiles would be needed to completely cover the same floor without overlap?
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Answer: 320 (tiles)
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14. What is the remainder when 123,456 is divided by 9?
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Answer: 3
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15. The perimeters of two similar triangles are in a ratio of 5 to 2. The shortest side of the smaller triangle is 6 cm. What is the length, in centimeters, of the shortest side of the larger triangle?
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Answer: 15 (cm)
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16. What is the least positive three-digit multiple of 7?
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Answer: 105
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17. Samantha competed in a one-mile race. One-fourth of the runners finished ahead of her, two-thirds of the runners finished behind her and nobody tied her. How many runners were in the race?
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Answer: 12 (runners)
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18. The number 1212 is
of another number. What is the
other number?
34
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Answer: 1616
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19. The repeating decimal for
is 0.ababab... What is the value
of the sum a + b?
311
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Answer: 9
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20. Josh was born at noon on July 4, 1991. Angelica was born at noon on September 10, 1991. How many days older is Josh than Angelica?
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Answer: 68 (days)
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21. The Hollenbecks own a square lot with area 3600 m2. They plan to fence just three sides of this lot. How many meters of fence must they purchase?
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Answer: 180 (m)
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22. What is the 13th number in the arithmetic sequence 7, 10, 13, ...?
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Answer: 43
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23. How many distinct positive integer divisors does have?
2 3 3 3 5 5
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Answer: 24 (divisors)
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24. Presto Printing charges $1.25 per book for shipping and $3 per order for handling. What is the total cost in dollars of shipping and handling for an order of 10 books? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
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Answer: 15.50 (dollars)
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25. What is the units digit of the sum of the squares of the first nine positive integers?
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Answer: 5
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26. How many different four-digit positive integers can be written using only odd digits, if a digit cannot be used more than once in each four-digit positive integer?
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Answer: 120 (integers)
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27. What is the value of
?[ ( ) ]1 1 11 2
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Answer: 4
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28. Two distinct fractions are chosen randomly from the set
. What is the probability that their sum is less than 1? Express your answer as a common fraction.
{ , , , }13
15
710
56
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Answer:13
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29. How many non-empty subsets does a three-element set have?
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Answer: 7 (subsets)
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30. What is the greatest integer value of x for which 5 – 4x > 17?
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Answer: – 4
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31. What is the smallest integer greater than 10 that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube?
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Answer: 64
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32. One-half of the people in a room have two brown eyes, one fourth have two blue eyes and one-sixth have two green eyes. The other 9 people in the room have two hazel eyes. How many people are in the room?
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Answer: 108 (people)
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33. On a map, the distance between Jacksonville, FL and Pensacola, FL is 18.6 inches. The scale for the map is 1 inch = 20 miles. What is the actual distance, in miles, between the two cities?
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Answer: 372 (mi)
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34. Three fair, standard six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the top faces is 18? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Answer: 1
216
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35. What is the value of (6)(30) – (15)(13)?
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Answer: – 15
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36. The mean of 9 consecutive integers is 13. What is the sum of the least and greatest of these integers?
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Answer: 26
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37. What is the value of576,000 800?
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Answer: 720
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38. What is the least integer divisible by 11 that is greater than 2003?
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Answer: 2013
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39. One cubic foot is what fraction of a cubic yard? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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Answer:1
27
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40. The Lily family plans to build an outdoor garden with a powerjet pump that will pump 375 gallons of water per hour. How many quarts of water will be pumped each minute?
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Answer: 25 (quarts)
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41. A CD can store 120 minutes of sound. How many cassette tapes, each with 75 minutes of recorded sound, can be stored on 10 CD’s?
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Answer: 16 (tapes)
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42. A line with slope contains
the point P(–18, –12). What is
the x-intercept of the line?
23
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Answer: 0 or (0, 0)
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43. The arithmetic mean of eight numbers is 23. What is their sum?
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Answer: 184
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44. The lengths of the sides of a triangle are x, 13 and 37 units. How many integer values of x are possible?
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Answer: 25 (values)
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45. A customer was one day late paying a credit card bill in the amount of $4500 and was charged a 1.5% late fee. What was the amount, in dollars, of the late fee? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
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Answer: 67.50 (dollars)
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46. What common fraction with a value between 0.81 and 0.91 has the least denominator?
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Answer: 56
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47. A bug moves 1 inch up and then 2 inches to the right on a piece of paper. How many inches is the bug from its original position? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
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Answer: (in)5
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48. For how many integer values of n does n2 = |n| ?
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Answer: 3 (values)
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49. What is the number of square inches in the area of a circle with a diameter of 10 inches? Express your answer in terms of π.
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Answer: 25π (in2)
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50. The five-digit number 24,6n8 is divisible by 9. What is the value of the digit n?
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Answer: 7
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51. What is the least positive three-digit integer divisible by both 7 and 9?
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Answer: 126
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52. How many ways can $13 be made using only quarters and/or dimes?
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Answer: 27 (ways)
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53. The rectangular pool in Liberty Park is three times as long and twice as wide as the rectangular pool in Madison Park. The depths of both pools are the same. The volume of the pool in Liberty Park is how many times as great as the volume of the pool in Madison Park?
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Answer: 6 (times)
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54. A number is 18 less than its additive inverse. What is the number?
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Answer: – 9
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55. The arithmetic mean of 5, 5 and x is 5.3. What is the value of x? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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Answer: 5.9
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56. What is the largest three-digit multiple of 9 whose digits’ sum is 18?
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Answer: 990
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57. The cost of 10 pencils is $0.84. At the same rate, what is the cost, in dollars, of 25 pencils? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.
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Answer: 2.10 (dollars)
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58. For how many positive integer values of n is 3n a factor of 15! ?
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Answer: 6 (values)
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59. In how many different ways can 12 dimes be divided into three piles with an odd number of dimes in each pile?
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Answer: 0 (ways)
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60. The ratio of the number of junior high students to the number of senior high students in a school is 7 to 9. If there are 100 more senior high students than junior high students, how many junior high students are in the school?
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Answer: 350 (students)