2011 School Competition

Countdown Round
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2011 School Competition

Countdown Round
1. Electronics-R-Us sells a
popular brand of digital camera
for $500. They buy this camera
from their dealer for $400. What
is the percent increase from the
dealer’s price to the Electronics-
R-Us price?
Answer: 25 (percent)
2. On a particular map the
distance between Hypatia and
Euclid is 7.6 cm. If 1 cm
represents 35 km, how many
kilometers is it from Euclid to
Hypatia?
Answer: 266 (km)
3. Quadrilateral ABCD is a
parallelogram. What is the degree
measure of angle A?
Answer: 120 (degrees)
4. What is the greatest
common factor of 128, 144 and
480?
Answer: 16
5. One face of a particular cube
has an area of 81 square units.
What is the volume of the cube,
in cubic units?
Answer: 729 (cu units)
6. A sequence is formed by
adding 2 to the triple of the
previous term. If the first term is
1, how many even numbers less
than 10,000 would be terms of
the sequence?
Answer: 0 (even numbers)
7. What are the coordinates of
point A, if point A has positive
integer coordinates and is the
same distance from (2, 2) as
(2, 2) is from the origin? Express
your answer as an ordered pair.
Answer: (4, 4)
8. The lengths of the sides of a
triangle are 6 cm, 7 cm and
9 cm. In a similar triangle
whose perimeter is 110 cm, what
is the length of the longest side,
in centimeters?
Answer: 45 (cm)
9. What integer that is a
multiple of 5 and 7, but not a
multiple of 2 or 3, is closest in
value to 160?
Answer: 175
10. In Silverville, the price of a
piece of pure silver is directly
proportional to its weight. If a
two-inch cube (2  2  2) of pure
silver weighs 3.5 pounds and is
worth $480, how many dollars
would a five-inch cube
(5  5  5) be worth in
Silverville?
Answer: 7500 (dollars)
11. A haunted house has
7 windows. In how many ways
can Frankie the Ghost enter the
house by one window and
leave by a different window?
Answer: 42 (ways)
12. In a particular solution
weighing 200 grams, 99% of its
weight is water. After awhile
some water evaporates from the
solution but no other liquid loses
volume. The remaining solution
is now 98% water. How many
grams of water evaporated?
Answer: 100 (grams)
13. How many digits are in the
product (83)(512) when it is
simplified to an integer?
Answer: 12 (digits)
14. What is the value of the sum
1 ‒ 2 + 3 ‒ 4 + ….. ‒ 2010 + 2011?
Answer: 1006
15. Mei Su had 80 coins. She
gave most of them to her friends
in such a way that each of her
friends got at least one coin and
no two of her friends got the
same number of coins. What is
the largest number of friends to
whom Mei Su could have given
coins?
Answer: 12 (friends)
16. The diagonal of a square is
13 2 units. What is the perimeter
of the square, in units?
Answer: 52 (units)
17. What is the largest integer in
the solution set of x  5x  20?
2
Answer: 7
18. At Luigi’s Pizza Parlor, the
ratio of pepperoni pizza slices
sold to cheese pizza slices sold is
4:5. In total 225 slices of either
cheese or pepperoni pizza were
sold. How many pepperoni pizza
slices were sold?
Answer: 100 (slices)
19. Mr. Miller packs his suitcase
for a long trip. He packs two
different pairs of pants, four
different shirts and six ties. How
many different outfits can Mr.
Miller make with those articles
of clothing if an outfit consists of
a pair of pants, a shirt and a tie?
Answer: 48 (outfits)
20. What is the length, in units,
of the radius of a circle with an
area of 64x square units?
2

Express your answer in terms

of x.
Answer: 8x (units)
21. In how many ways can you
make exactly 40¢ using
quarters, dimes and/or nickels?
Answer: 7 (ways)
22. The value of the sum
10  17
is between two
consecutive whole numbers on
the number line. What is the
product of the two consecutive
whole numbers?
Answer: 56
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23. Dad used 30% of the 22
dozen eggs in the refrigerator.
How many eggs did he use?
Answer: 9 (eggs)
24. If f  (x) = 2x + 1 and g 
(x) = ‒3, what is the value of f  (g 
(x))?
Answer: –5
25. The sum of three consecutive
odd integers is 249. What is the
largest of those three integers?
Answer: 85
26. Jorge’s five cousins are 7,
11, 13, 8 and 6 years of age.
What is the positive difference
between the mean and the
median of their ages, in years?
Answer: 1 (year)
27. It takes a painter 8 hours to
paint 2 rooms. At this rate, how
many hours will it take
3 painters to paint 3 rooms?
Answer: 4 (hours)
28. Jonathan was born on
Monday at 3:15 pm. How many
hours old was he at 8:00 am the
next day? Express your answer
as a mixed number.
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Answer: 16 4 (hours)
29. What value of x satisfies the
1
equation 1  1 = 3?
x 2
Answer: –6
30. A right, rectangular prism
has dimensions 2z-by-z-by-z
units.
If the surface area of the prism is
90 square units, what is the value
of z?
Answer: 3
31. What is the largest possible
product of two even integers
whose sum is 58?
Answer: 840
32. The degree measures of the
angles of a trapezoid and a
quadrilateral are represented by
a, b, c, d, e and f, as shown in
the figures. What is the average
of a, b, c, d, e and f , in degrees?
a c d

b f e
Answer: 90 (degrees)
33. An item that was originally
priced at $20 is now on sale for
30% off. If the sales tax rate is
7.5%, what is the total price Brianna
will pay when purchasing this item?
Answer: 15.05 (dollars)
34. If f  (x) = 2x ‒ 4 and
g (x) = 15 ‒ 3x, what is
f  (‒1) × g (‒3)?
Answer: –144
35. If 3x + 4 = 16, what is the
2
value of x + 3x + 2?
Answer: 30
36. The mean of a set of
integers is –1. The sum of the
integers is –4. How many
integers are in the set?
Answer: 4 (integers)
37. What is the sum of the
greatest common factor and least
common multiple of 48 and 72?
Answer: 168
38. A rhombus has diagonals
measuring 2 cm and 5 cm. What
is its area, in square centimeters?
Answer: 5 (sq cm)
39. What is the value of
|23 ‒ 17| + |17 ‒ 23|?
Answer: 12
40. If 80% of a number N is
256, what is 30% of N?
Answer: 96
41. In Mr. Davidson’s 8th grade
class, there are 7 more male
students than female students.
2
If 3 of the students are male, how
many students are in the class?
Answer: 21 (students)
42. Let A be the surface area of a
16 units by 1 unit by 1 unit right,
rectangular prism, and let B be
the surface area of an 8 units by
2 units by 1 unit right, rectangular
prism. What is |A – B|, in square
units?
Answer: 14 (sq units)
43. If a # b = ab ‒ ba, what is the
value of 3 # 5?
Answer: 118
44. Each of the ten letters in the
word “statistics” is written on a
card and placed in a box. If
Edwin will choose a card
without looking, what is the
probability that he will choose a
card with a vowel? Express your
answer as a common fraction.
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Answer: 10
 x x x x
45. If 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 = 2 ,
8

what is the value of x?

Answer: 3
46. What is the remainder when
1,357,246 is divided by 9?
Answer: 1
47. How many lines of
symmetry does an isosceles right
triangle have?
Answer: 1 (line)
48. What is the sum of the
values of x that satisfy the
equation x2 – 5x + 5 = 9?
Answer: 5
49. What is the value of
(23 + 24) – 3(23)?
Answer: 0
50. Pencils are 50¢ a package and
notebooks are 35¢ each. Tina must
buy at least one package of pencils
and one notebook. If she spends the
same amount of money on pencils
as she does on notebooks, what is
the least total amount, in dollars,
she will have to spend (not
including tax)? Note: The packages
of pencils can not be divided.
Answer: 7 (dollars)
51. What is the maximum area,
in square units, of a rectangle
whose perimeter is 28 units?
Answer: 49 (sq units)
52. How many diagonals,
including all space diagonals
and face diagonals, does a
rectangular prism have?
Answer: 16 (diagonals)
53. What is one-fourth of the
75
reciprocal of the fraction 15 ?
Express your answer as a
common fraction.
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Answer: 20
54. What is the absolute value
of the difference between the
GCF and the LCM of 6, 8 and
16?
Answer: 46
55. Regular hexagon ABCDEF is
graphed in the coordinate plane.
Vertex A is located at (‒3, 3), and
vertex B is located at (5, 3). What
is the perimeter of this hexagon, in
units?
Answer: 48 (units)
56. Lightning struck a pole,
breaking it 9 feet from the
ground. Its upper section has
fallen over and touches the
ground 12 feet from the
base of the pole. How
tall, in feet, was the 9 ft
pole before it was
struck by lightning? 12 ft
Answer: 24 (feet)
57. If both bases of a trapezoid
are tripled and the height is
quadrupled, what is the ratio of
the area of the original trapezoid
to the area of the larger
trapezoid? Express your answer
as a common fraction.
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Answer:
12
58. Square A measures 8 miles
on each side. The area of square
B is 8 square miles. What is the
positive difference, in square
miles, of the areas of square A
and square B?
Answer: 56 (sq miles)
59. If x = –2 and y = –3, what is
the value of –(–x) + –(–y)?
Answer: –5
60. When the following product is
simplified, what is its value
expressed as a common fraction:
?
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Answer:
16