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I State Competition I

Sprint Round

Name

School

Chapter

DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE

INSTRUCTED TO DO SO

This round of the competition consists of 30 problems.

You will have 40 minutes to complete the problems. You
are not allowed to use calculators, slide rules, books, or

any other aids during this round‘. Calculations may be

done on scratch paper. All answers must be complete,
legible, and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final
answers in the blanks in the right—hand column of the

competition booklet. If you complete the problems before

time is called, use the remaining time to check your
answers.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

MATHCOUNTS is a cooperative project of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the CNA

Insurance Companies, The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, the General Motors Foundation, the Intel
Foundation, Texas Instruments Incorporated, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, andthe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
1. How many times would a piece of paper need to be folded in 1.
half to create 256 layers?

2. Shauna did a number trick with Zach. She told him to pick 2.
an even number, double it, add 48, divide by 4, subtract 7,
multiply by 2 and subtract his original number. She then
told him the result he should have attained. What was it?

3. Find the number of units in the length of diagonal DA of 3.

the regular hexagon shown. Express your answer in simple
radical form.

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A.

4. In a state with a 5% sales tax, Joe buys a shirt for $24.00. 4.

Two weeks later, the same shirt goes on sale for 20% less
than its original price. How many dollars, including sales
tax and rounded to the nearest hundredth, would Joe have
saved by waiting to purchase the shirt on sale‘?

5. Two boys and four girls are officers of the Math Club. When 5.
the photographer takes picture for the school yearbook,
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she asks the club’s six officers and the faculty sponsor tosit
in a row with the faculty sponsor in the middle and the two
boys not next to one another. How many different seating
arrangements are possible?

6. The square of the sum of 3, 4 and 5 is divided by the sum of 6.

the squares of 3, 4 and 5. By how much does this quotient
exceed the reciprocal of one—half? Express your answer as a
decimal.

7. A regular polyhedron with f faces, 71 Vertices and e edges is 7.

made by cutting a regular tetrahedron with an edge length
of one unit from each of the four corners of a tetrahedron
with an edge length of three units. Compute f + v + e.

8. Two concentric circles drawn such that the inner circle

are 8.
covers 81% of the of the outer circle. Given that the
area

radius of the outer circle is ten units, how many units are in
the radius of the inner circle?

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9. How many different arithmetic sequences are there with all
of the following properties:

a) the first term is 119,

b) the last term is 179,

c) the common difference is a whole number, and

d) the total number of terms is at least three?

10. In the 3 Xgrid shown, the points are one unit apart
4 10.
horizontally vertically. Given that two points are
and
randomly selected from the grid, what is the probability,
expressed as a common fraction, that the distance between
them is \/§?

11. Find the smallest positive integer :1: so that the fraction below 11.

represents a fraction whose decimal equivalent terminates.

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12. How many positive integers are factors of 2175? 12.

13. An equilateral triangle and a square have the same perimeter. 13.
What is the ratio of the area of the triangle to the area of
the square? Express your answer as a common fraction in
simplest radical form.
14. How many unique sets of three prime numbers exist for 14.
which the sum of the members of the set is 44?

15. How many combinations of two positive two-digit integers 15.

have 429 as the product?

16. P and Q are reflections of (2, ———3) across th__e___:1:-axis and 16.
the y—axis, respectively. Find the length of P62 in simplest
radical form.

17. Nan has art class every sixth day of school. Assume that 17.
school is held Monday through Friday for 36 consecutive
weeks. School starts on a Monday and Nan has art the first
dayof school. How many times during the school year will
Nan have art on Monday?
18. Blocks of modeling clay are six inches by two inches by 18.
one inch. How many whole blocks are needed to mold a
cylindrical sculpture seven inches high and four inches in
diameter?
19.‘ Two numbers have a sum of ~——4 and a product of -32. What 19.
is the absolute value of their difference?

20. Four of the ordered pairs listed are solutions of the same 20.
linear equation and one is not. Give the letter of the one

that is not

A(O,~5), B(3,-4), C’(——6,—1), D(-9,~—8), E(6,~—3)

21. There are three allowable moves in the portion of the bee 21.
hive shown: from one cell to a cell directly to the right; from
one cell toadjacent cell which is up and to the right;
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or from one a bordering cell which is down and to

cell to
the right. How many distinct paths are there from cell A to
cell B?

22. A caterer offers five different appetizers, three different drinks 22.
and four different sandwiches. How many combinations of
two appetizers, two drinks and two sandwiches can Scott
choose for his party?

23. When each side of square 8 is increased by 2 feet, the area 23.
is increased by 24 square feet. By how many feet does each
side of the original square have to be decreased in order to
decrease the area of the original square by 24 square feet?

24. In the two circles shown, the radius of the inner circle is 24.
four and the number of square units in the area of the
units,
inner circle equals the number of square units in the area of
the shaded region. How many units are in the length of the
radius of the largest circle? Express your answer in simplest
radical form.
25. The Sprint Round competition consists of 30
problems with
a time limit of 40 minutes. You completed 20 Sprint Round
problems in 25 minutes. On average, how many times longer
will you be able to spend on each remaining problem than
you did on each of the first 20? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

26. After a price reduction of 92% an item has its price increased 26.
to itsoriginal value. What the percent of increase?
was

Express your answer as a common fraction in terms of

27. The minute hand on a twelve—hour clock is twelve cm long 27.

and the hour hand is six cm long. VVhat is the ratio of the
greatest distance traveled by any point on the hour hand in
twelve hours to the greatest distance traveled by any point
on the minute hand in twelve hours?

28. Expressed in terms of in, what is the sum of all the terms in 28.
this arithmetic sequence:

(n~—— 7),(77.-2),...,(n-l-428)

29. A Circle is tangent to two sides of a square and its diagonal. 29.
Given that the length of a side of the square is four units,
how many units are in the radius of the circle. Express your
answer as a common fraction in simplest radical form.

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30. Consider the 16 points in the first quadrant of a Cartesian 30.

coordinate with integer coordinates less than or equal
plane
to 4. How many squares can be formed using four of these
points as Vertices?