Problem 1

Compute the sum of all the roots of

Problem 2
Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then
divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divided the result by
3, giving an answer of 43. What would her answer have been had she worked
the problem correctly?

Problem 3
According to the standard convention for exponentiation,

If the order in which the exponentiations are performed is changed, how many
other values are possible?

Problem 4
Find the degree measure of an angle whose complement is 25% of its
supplement.

Problem 5
Each of the small circles in the figure has radius one. The innermost circle is
tangent to the six circles that surround it, and each of those circles is tangent
to the large circle and to its small-circle neighbors. Find the area of the shaded
region.

Problem 6
For how many positive integers does there exist at least one positive
integer such that ?
infinitely many
Problem 7
A arc of circle A is equal in length to a arc of circle B. What is the ratio
of circle A's area and circle B's area?

Problem 8
Betsy designed a flag using blue triangles, small white squares, and a red
center square, as shown. Let be the total area of the blue triangles, the
total area of the white squares, and the area of the red square. Which of
the following is correct?

Problem 9
Jamal wants to save 30 files onto disks, each with 1.44 MB space. 3 of the files
take up 0.8 MB, 12 of the files take up 0.7 MB, and the rest take up 0.4 MB. It
is not possible to split a file onto 2 different disks. What is the smallest
number of disks needed to store all 30 files?

Problem 10
Sarah places four ounces of coffee into an eight-ounce cup and four ounces of
cream into a second cup of the same size. She then pours half the coffee from
the first cup to the second and, after stirring thoroughly, pours half the liquid
in the second cup back to the first. What fraction of the liquid in the first cup
is now cream?

Problem 11
Mr. Earl E. Bird gets up every day at 8:00 AM to go to work. If he drives at an
average speed of 40 miles per hour, he will be late by 3 minutes. If he drives
at an average speed of 60 miles per hour, he will be early by 3 minutes. How
many miles per hour does Mr. Bird need to drive to get to work exactly on
time?

Problem 12
Both roots of the quadratic equation are prime numbers.
The number of possible values of is

Problem 13
Two different positive numbers and each differ from their reciprocals by .
What is ?

Problem 14
For all positive integers , let .

Let . Which of the following relations is true?

Problem 15
The mean, median, unique mode, and range of a collection of eight integers
are all equal to 8. The largest integer that can be an element of this collection
is

Problem 16
Tina randomly selects two distinct numbers from the set , and

Sergio randomly selects a number from the set . What is the

probability that Sergio's number is larger than the sum of the two numbers
chosen by Tina?

Problem 17
Several sets of prime numbers, such as use each of the nine

nonzero digits exactly once. What is the smallest possible sum such a set of
primes could have?

Problem 18
Let and be circles defined by

and respectively. What is the length of the shortest line

Problem 19
The graph of the function is shown below. How many solutions does the
equation have?

Problem 20
Suppose that and are digits, not both nine and not both zero, and the
repeating decimal is expressed as a fraction in lowest terms. How many
different denominators are possible?

Problem 21
Consider the sequence of numbers: For , the -th
term of the sequence is the units digit of the sum of the two previous terms.
Let denote the sum of the first terms of this sequence. The smallest
value of for which is:

Problem 22
Triangle is a right triangle with as its right
angle, , and . Let be randomly chosen
inside , and extend to meet at . What is the probability

that ?
Problem 23
In triangle , side and the perpendicular bisector of meet in
point , and bisects . If and , what is the area
of triangle ?

Problem 24
Find the number of ordered pairs of real numbers such

that .

Problem 25
The nonzero coefficients of a polynomial with real coefficients are all
replaced by their mean to form a polynomial . Which of the following could
be a graph of and over the interval ?
Problem 1
The arithmetic mean of the nine numbers in the
set is a -digit number , all of whose

digits are distinct. The number does not contain the digit

Problem 2
What is the value of

when ?

Problem 3
For how many positive integers is a prime number?

Problem 4

Let be a positive integer such that is an integer. Which of

Problem 5
Let and be the degree measures of the five angles of a pentagon.
Suppose that and and form an arithmetic
sequence. Find the value of .

Problem 6
Suppose that and are nonzero real numbers, and that the
equation has solutions and . Then the pair is

Problem 7
The product of three consecutive positive integers is times their sum. What
is the sum of their squares?

Problem 8
Suppose July of year has five Mondays. Which of the following must occur
five times in August of year ? (Note: Both months have 31 days.)

Problem 9
If are positive real numbers such that form an increasing

arithmetic sequence and form a geometric sequence, then is

Problem 10
How many different integers can be expressed as the sum of three distinct
members of the set ?

Problem 11
The positive integers and are all prime numbers. The
sum of these four primes is

Problem 12

For how many integers is the square of an integer?

Problem 13
The sum of consecutive positive integers is a perfect square. The smallest
possible value of this sum is

Problem 14
Four distinct circles are drawn in a plane. What is the maximum number of
points where at least two of the circles intersect?

Problem 15
How many four-digit numbers have the property that the three-digit
number obtained by removing the leftmost digit is one ninth of ?
Problem 16
Juan rolls a fair regular octahedral die marked with the numbers through .
Then Amal rolls a fair six-sided die. What is the probability that the product of
the two rolls is a multiple of 3?

Problem 17
Andy’s lawn has twice as much area as Beth’s lawn and three times as much
area as Carlos’ lawn. Carlos’ lawn mower cuts half as fast as Beth’s mower
and one third as fast as Andy’s mower. If they all start to mow their lawns at
the same time, who will finish first?

Problem 18
A point is randomly selected from the rectangular region with
vertices . What is the probability that is closer to

the origin than it is to the point ?

Problem 19
If and are positive real numbers such
that and , then is

Problem 20
Let be a right-angled triangle with . Let and be
the midpoints of legs and , respectively. Given that
and , find .

Problem 21
For all positive integers less than , let
Calculate .

Problem 22

For all integers greater than , define .

Let and . Then

Problem 23
In , we have and . Side and the median from

to have the same length. What is ?

Problem 24
A convex quadrilateral with area contains a point in its
interior such that . Find the
perimeter of .

Problem 25
Let , and let denote the set of points in the

coordinate plane such that

The area of is closest to