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– February 5th
1 A taxi ride costs $1.50 plus $0.25 per mile traveled. How much does a 5-mile taxi ride cost?
(A) $2.25 (B) $2.50 (C) $2.75 (D) $3.00 (E) $3.25
2 Alice is making a batch of cookies and needs 2 12 cups of sugar. Unforunately, her measuring
cup holds only 14 cup of sugar. How many times must she fill that cup to get the correct amount
of sugar?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 20
3 Square ABCD has side length 10. Point E is on BC, and the area of △ABE is 40. What is BE?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
B E C
A D
4 A softball team played ten games, scoring 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 runs. They lost by one
run in exactly five games. In each of the other games, they scored twice as many runs as their
opponent. How many total runs did their opponents score?
(A) 35 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 55
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5 Tom, Dorothy, and Sammy went on a vacation and agreed to split the costs evenly. During their
trip Tom paid $105, Dorothy paid $125, and Sammy paid $175. In order to share the costs equally,
Tom gave Sammy t dollars, and Dorothy gave Sammy d dollars. What is t − d?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 35
6 Joey and his five brothers are ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. One afternoon two of his brothers whose
ages sum to 16 went to the movies, two brothers younger than 10 went to play baseball, and Joey
and the 5-year-old stayed home. How old is Joey?
(A) 3 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 13
7 A student must choose a program of four courses from a menu of courses consisting of English,
Algebra, Geometry, History, Art, and Latin. This program must contain English and at least one
mathematics course. In how many ways can this program be chosen?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 16
8 What is the value of
22014 + 22012
?
22014 − 22012
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(A) − 1 (B) 1 (C) 3 (D) 2013 (E) 24024
9 In a recent basketball game, Shenille attempted only three-point shots and two-point shots.
She was successful on 20% of her three-point shots and 30% of her two-point shots. Shenille
attempted 30 shots. How many points did she score?
(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 36
10 A flower bouquet contains pink roses, red roses, pink carnations, and red carnations. One third
of the pink flowers are roses, three fourths of the red flowers are carnations, and six tenths of
the flowers are pink. What percent of the flowers are carnations?
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 60 (E) 70
11 A student council must select a two-person welcoming committee and a three-person planning
committee from among its members. There are exactly 10 ways to select a two-person team
for the welcoming committee. It is possible for students to serve on both committees. In how
many different ways can a three-person planning committee be selected?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 25
12 In △ABC, AB = AC = 28 and BC = 20. Points D, E, and F are on sides AB, BC, and AC,
respectively, such that DE and EF are parallel to AC and AB, respectively. What is the perimeter
of parallelogram ADEF ?
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B E C
(A) 48 (B) 52 (C) 56 (D) 60 (E) 72
13 How many three-digit numbers are not divisible by 5, have digits that sum to less than 20, and
have the first digit equal to the third digit?
(A) 52 (B) 60 (C) 66 (D) 68 (E) 70
14 A solid cube of side length 1 is removed from each corner of a solid cube of side length 3. How
many edges does the remaining solid have?
(A) 36 (B) 60 (C) 72 (D) 84 (E) 108
15 Two sides of a triangle have lengths 10 and 15. The length of the altitude to the third side is the
average of the lengths of the altitudes to the two given sides. How long is the third side?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 18
16 A triangle with vertices (6, 5), (8, −3), and (9, 1) is reflected about the line x = 8 to create a
second triangle. What is the area of the union of the two triangles?
28 31 32
(A) 9 (B) (C) 10 (D) (E)
3 3 3
17 Daphne is visited periodically by her three best friends: Alice, Beatrix, and Claire. Alice visits
every third day, Beatrix visits every fourth day, and Claire visits every fifth day. All three friends
visited Daphne yesterday. How many days of the next 365-day period will exactly two friends
visit her?
(A) 48 (B) 54 (C) 60 (D) 66 (E) 72
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18 Let points A = (0, 0), B = (1, 2), C = (3, 3), and D = (4, 0). Quadrilateral ABCD
iscut into
equal area pieces by a line passing through A. This line intersects CD at point pq , rs , where
these fractions are in lowest terms. What is p + q + r + s?
(A) 54 (B) 58 (C) 62 (D) 70 (E) 75
19 In base 10, the number 2013 ends in the digit 3. In base 9, on the other hand, the same number
is written as (2676)9 and ends in the digit 6. For how many positive integers b does the base-b
representation of 2013 end in the digit 3?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 13 (D) 16 (E) 18
20 A unit square is rotated 45◦ about its center. What is the area of the region swept out by the
interior of the square?
√ √ √ √
(A) 1 − 22 + π4 (B) 12 + π4 (C) 2 − 2 + π4 (D) 22 + π4 (E) 1 + 42 + π8
21 A group of 12 pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins among themselves as fol-
lows. The k th pirate to take a share takes 12k
of the coins that remain in the chest. The number
of coins initially in the chest is the smallest number for which this arrangement will allow each
pirate to receive a positive whole number of coins. How many coins does the 12th pirate receive?
(A) 720 (B) 1296 (C) 1728 (D) 1925 (E) 3850
22 Six spheres of radius 1 are positioned so that their centers are at the vertices of a regular
hexagon of side length 2. The six spheres are internally tangent to a larger sphere whose center
is the center of the hexagon. An eighth sphere is externally tangent to the six smaller spheres
and internally tangent to the larger sphere. What is the radius of this eighth sphere?
√ √
(A) 2 (B) 32 (C) 53 (D) 3 (E) 2
23 In △ABC, AB = 86, and AC = 97. A circle with center A and radius AB intersects BC at points
B and X. Moreover BX and CX have integer lengths. What is BC?
(A) 11 (B) 28 (C) 33 (D) 61 (E) 72
24 Central High School is competing against Northern High School in a backgammon match. Each
school has three players, and the contest rules require that each player play two games against
each of the other’s school’s players. The match takes place in six rounds, with three games
played simultaneously in each round. In how many different ways can the match be scheduled?
(A) 540 (B) 600 (C) 720 (D) 810 (E) 900
25 All diagonals are drawn in a regular octagon. At how many distinct points in the interior of the
octagon (not on the boundary) do two or more diagonals intersect?
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(A) 49 (B) 65 (C) 70 (D) 96 (E) 128
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– February 20th
1 What is 2+4+6
1+3+5 − 2+4+6 ?
1+3+5
5 7 49 43
(A) − 1 (B) 36 (C) 12 (D) 20 (E) 3
2 Mr Green measures his rectangular garden by walking two of the sides and finds that it is 15
steps by 20 steps. Each or Mr Green’s steps is two feet long. Mr Green expect half a pound of
potatoes per square foot from his garden. How many pounds of potatoes does Mr Green expect
from his garden?
(A) 600 (B) 800 (C) 1000 (D) 1200 (E) 1400
3 On a particular January day, the high temperature in Lincoln, Nebraska, was 16 degrees higher
than the low temperature, and the average of the high and low temperatures was 3◦ . In degrees,
what was the low temperature in Lincoln that day?
(A) − 13 (B) − 8 (C) − 5 (D) 3 (E) 11
4 When counting from 3 to 201, 53 is the 51st number counted. When counting backwards from
201 to 3, 53 is the nth number counted. What is n?
(A) 146 (B) 147 (C) 148 (D) 149 (E) 150
5 Positive integers a and b are each less than 6. What is the smallest possible value for 2 · a − a · b?
(A) − 20 (B) − 15 (C) − 10 (D) 0 (E) 2
6 The average age of 33 fifth-graders is 11. The average age of 55 of their parents is 33. What is
the average age of all of these parents and fifth-graders?
(A) 22 (B) 23.25 (C) 24.75 (D) 26.25 (E) 28
7 Six points are equally spaced around a circle of radius 1. Three of these points are the vertices
of a triangle that is neither equilateral nor isosceles. What is the area of this triangle?
√ √ √
(A) 33 (B) 23 (C) 1 (D) 2 (E) 2
8 Ray’s car averages 40 miles per gallon of gasoline, and Tom’s car averages 10 miles per gallon
of gasoline. Ray and Tom each drive the same number of miles. What is the cars’ combined rate
of miles per gallon of gasoline?
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(A) 10 (B) 16 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 40
9 Three positive integers are each greater than 1, have a product of 27000, and are pairwise rela-
tively prime. What is their sum?
(A) 100 (B) 137 (C) 156 (D) 160 (E) 165
10 A basketball team’s players were successful on 50% of their two-point shots and 40% of their
three-point shots, which resulted in 54 points. They attempted 50% more two-point shots than
three-point shots. How many three-point shots did they attempt?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30
11 Real numbers x and y satisfy the equation x2 + y 2 = 10x − 6y − 34. What is x + y?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 6 (E) 8
12 Let S be the set of sides and diagonals of a regular pentagon. A pair of elements of S are
selected at random without replacement. What is the probability that the two chosen segments
have the same length?
2 4 1 5 4
(A) 5 (B) 9 (C) 2 (D) 9 (E) 5
13 Jo and Blair take turns counting from 1 to one more than the last number said by the other
person. Jo starts by saying ”1”, so Blair follows by saying ”1, 2”. Jo then says ”1, 2, 3”, and so on.
What is the 53rd number said?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8
14 Define a♣b = a2 b − ab2 . Which of the following describes the set of points (x, y) for which
x♣y = y♣x?
(A) a finite set of points (B) one line (C) two parallel lines (D two intersecting lines
(E) three lines
15 A wire is cut into two pieces, one of length a and the other of length b. The piece of length a is
bent to form an equilateral triangle, and the piece of length b is bent to form a regular hexagon.
The triangle and the hexagon have equal area. What is ab ?
√ √ √
(A) 1 (B) 26 (C) 3 (D 2 (E) 3 2 2
16 In △ABC, medians AD and CE intersect at P , P E = 1.5, P D = 2, and DE = 2.5. What is the
area of AEDC?
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D
P
A E B
(A) 13 (B) 13.5 (C) 14 (D) 14.5 (E) 15
17 Alex has 75 red tokens and 75 blue tokens. There is a booth where Alex can give two red tokens
and receive in return a silver token and a blue token, and another booth where Alex can give three
blue tokens and receive in return a silver token and a red token. Alex continues to exchange
tokens until no more exchanges are possible. How many silver tokens will Alex have at the end?
(A) 62 (B) 82 (C) 83 (D 102 (E) 103
18 The number 2013 has the property that its units digit is the sum of its other digits, that is 2 + 0 +
1 = 3. How many integers less than 2013 but greater than 1000 share this property?
(A) 33 (B) 34 (C) 45 (D) 46 (E) 58
19 The real numbers c, b, a form an arithmetic sequence with a ≥ b ≥ c ≥ 0. The quadratic ax2 +
bx + c has exactly one root. What is this root?
√ √ √ √
(A) − 7 − 4 3 (B) − 2 − 3 (C) − 1 (D) − 2 + 3 (E) − 7 + 4 3
20 The number 2013 is expressed in the form
a1 !a2 ! · · · am !
2013 = ,
b1 !b2 ! · · · bn !
where a1 ≥ a2 ≥ · · · ≥ am and b1 ≥ b2 ≥ · · · ≥ bn are positive integers and a1 + b1 is as small
as possible. What is |a1 − b1 |?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D 4 (E) 5
21 Two non-decreasing sequences of nonnegative integers have different first terms. Each se-
quence has the property that each term beginning with the third is the sum of the previous
two terms, and the seventh term of each sequence is N . What is the smallest possible value of
N?
(A) 55 (B) 89 (C) 104 (D 144 (E) 273
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22 The regular octagon ABCDEF GH has its center at J. Each of the vertices and the center are
to be associated with one of the digits 1 through 9, with each digit used once, in such a way that
the sums of the numbers on the lines AJE, BJF , CJG, and DJH are equal. In how many ways
can this be done?
(A) 384 (B) 576 (C) 1152 (D) 1680 (E) 3546
A B
H C
G D
F E
23 In triangle ABC, AB = 13, BC = 14, and CA = 15. Distinct points D, E, and F lie on segments
BC, CA, and DE, respectively, such that AD ⊥ BC, DE ⊥ AC, and AF ⊥ BF . The length of
segment DF can be written as mn , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is
m + n?
(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D 27 (E) 30
24 A positive integer n is nice if there is a positive integer m with exactly four positive divisors
(including 1 and m) such that the sum of the four divisors is equal to n. How many numers in
the set {2010, 2011, 2012, . . . , 2019} are nice?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D 4 (E) 5
25 Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer N and writes both its base-5 and base-6 repre-
sentations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treat-
ing the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer S. For exam-
ple, if N = 749, Bernardo writes the numbers 10,444 and 3,245, and LeRoy obtains the sum
S = 13, 689. For how many choices of N are the two rightmost digits of S, in order, the same as
those of 2N ?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D 20 (E) 25
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