1.

Every person at a party of twenty-eight people said hello to each of the other people at the
party exactly once. How many "hello's" were said at the party?

= (n/2) (n - 1)
= (28/2)(28-1)
= (14)(27)
= 378 hellos

2. There are four volumes of Shakespeare's collected works on a shelf. The volumes are in order
from left to right. The pages of each volume are exactly two inches thick. The covers are each
1/6 inch thick. A bookworm started eating at page one of Volume I and ate through to the last
page of Volume IV. What is the distance the bookworm traveled?

Two volumes' worth of pages + six covers =

2x2 + 6 x 1/6 =
4 + 1 = 5 inches
* Didn't have to eat any pages of Volume I or Volume IV because the volumes are lined up, left
to right.

3. Suppose that thirty-two students signed up for classes during an orientation session. If exactly
twenty of them signed up for Chemistry and exactly sixteen of them signed up for English, how
many of them signed up for both Chemistry and English?

This is a problem you can visualize using a Venn Diagram

Let A = signed up for chemistry, and B = signed up for English
Number of (A or B ) = Number of A + Number of B - Number of ( A and B ) -
32 = 20 + 16 - Number of (A and B) which must equal 4

4. A hunter left camp and walked five miles south and two miles east. He shot a bear and walked
five miles north back to camp. What color was the bear?
He starts at the North Pole. This means he walks south for a mile, but when he heads east for a mile
he's just walking round in part of a circle, and stays one mile from the North pole. So what color is
the bear? It has to be a polar bear, so it's WHITE!

5. Suppose Pat has eight shirts and four pairs of pants. How many different outfits can Pat make by
combining one shirt with one pair of pants?
the answer is 64.
how you get the answer:
8 = shirts 8x4=32
4=pants 32x2=64
2=articles of clothing

6. Six normal drinking glasses are standing in a row. The first three are full of water and the
following three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you change the arrangement so that
no full glass is next to another full glass and that no empty glass is next to an empty glass, and
we still have three full and three empty glasses?

A , B , C , D , E , F are six glasses . A, B, C are full and D, E, F are empty.

They are placed in a row.

We are to move the full glass B and to pore total juice of it from glass B to the glass E ,
then put the empty glass B in its own position .

*Now the row will be like this : A– full, B–empty, C–full, D–empty, E–full, F– empty
 7. Suppose you work at a bowling alley. After work one day, you decide to line up bowling pins
in a triangular pattern with one pin in the first row, two pins in the second, three pins in the third, and
so on.

(a) How many total pins would you need to use in order to complete four rows?

(b) How many total pins would you need to use in order to complete ten rows?

(c) How many total pins would you need to use in order to complete one hundred rows?

How about one thousand rows?

1) We are given that every row has one extra pin than the last one and since there are four
rows and the First row start with 1 pin then the total number of pins in four rows would be-
1+2+3+4= 10

2) To complete 10 rows the total number of pins needed would be-

Applying arithmetic progression to find out

Sn = n/2 (2a + (n-1) d)
= 5 x (2+9) =55

3) Now for 100 rows applying same formula again

Sn = n/2 (2a + (n-1) d)
= 50 x (2+99) =5050

4) Now for 1000 rows applying the formula

Sn = n/2 (2a + (n-1) d)
= 500x (2+999) =500500

8. Pat and Kim bought the same item. Pat said he paid 20% less than the list price. Kim said that if she
would have paid 25% more for the item, she would have paid the list price. Who paid the least?
None, because they paid the same amount
Let us assume that the price is 100
so: 100 – 20% = 80
80+25% = 100
or 100 x 0.8 = 80
80 x 1.25 = 100 ( where 1.25 is from 100 + 25%)

9. A family has seven children. If we list the possible genders of the children (for example bbggbgb
where b is a boy and g is a girl), how many lists are possible?

128 possible outcomes

We can solve this through combination.

2 possible outcomes, that is, a boy and a girl.
So, 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 or 2⁷ = 128 possible outcomes
10. In a class of 25 students, 17 lived with both parents, 21 lived with their mothers, and 20 lived with
their fathers. How many lived with neither parent?

21–17=4
20 -17=3
17+4+3= 24
So therefore Total - 24=25–24= 1
` 1 student lived with neither parent

11. For each of the following statements, determine whether the statement is true or false. If the
statement is true, give two specific examples that illustrate the statement. If it is false, give a specific
counterexample.

(a) If a < b, then a + c < b + c. A. TRUE

(b) If a < b, then ac < bc. B. FALSE

(c) If Person X knows Person Y and Person Y knows Person Z, then Person X knows Person Z. C. TRUE

12. How many forty passenger buses are needed for a school field trip, if 156 students and five teachers
will be going on the field trip?

156 + 5 = 161
161/40= 4.025

13. Use inductive reasoning to predict the next three terms in each given sequence.

(a) 3, 6, 12, 24, … A. 48, 96, 192

(b) 0.1, 0.12, 0.121, 0.1212, … B. 0.12121, 0.121212, 0.1212121

(c) 13, 31, 15, 51, 17, 71, 19, 91, C. 21,111, 23,131, 25,151

14. Use inductive reasoning to find the ones digit for the numeric value of 2^50.
4/50 = 12.2 BECAUSE 22 = 4
12.2 = .2 = 4
15. A grocery store is having a special on cans of soup which is normally price at 45¢ per can. The
advertisement reads 3 for $1.00. You buy only one can of soup. How much does it cost?
45¢ One can of Soup

16. Bill and Sue both work a night shift. Bill has every sixth night off and Sue has every fifth night off. If
they both have tonight off, how many nights will it be before they are both off at the same time again?

LCM of 5 and 6.
Notice they have no factors in common (other than 1), so their lowest common multiple is just the
product.
5=5
6=2×3
LCM (5, 6) = 2 × 3 × 5
= 30
Answer: After 30 nights

17. How many different rectangles with an area of twelve square units can be formed using unit
squares?
12 can be expresses as 1 x 12, 2 x 6, 3 x 4.
*Hence we can have three rectangles of dimensions 1 by 12, 2 by 6 and 3 by 4 that can be formed using
a unit square.

*If it is not a repetition we also can have 12 by 1, 6 by 2 and 4 by 3 rectangles also using a unit square,
making it 6 types in all.

18. Compare these two problems: (1) Kim made 1 out of 3 free throws on one day and 1 out of 4 free
throws the next day. What fraction represents the portion of free throws Kim made over the two days?
(2) Kim ate 1/3 of a pie on day and 1/4 of a pie the next day. What fraction represents the amount of the
pie Kim ate over the two days?

* using the LCD 1/3 +1/4 = 4/12 + 3/12 = 7/12

* without 1/3 + ¼ = 2/7