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SAMPLE School competition

Sprint Round Problems 1−30
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DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
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This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have 40 minutes to
complete all the problems. You are not allowed to use calculators, books or 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 left-hand
column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use
the remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer is included in
the answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used, even if the answer appears to
require the singular form of the unit. The unit provided in the answer blank is the only form
of the answer that will be accepted.

Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

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1. _____________
cm According to the ruler, how many centimeters long is the piece of washi tape
shown here?

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2. _____________ What is the tens digit of this sum?

12,345
+ 56,789

3. _____________
ounces Dora drinks a 12-ounce can of cola. Erika drinks half of a 20-ounce bottle of
cola. How many more ounces of cola does Dora drink than Erika?

4. _____________ What is the result when one hundred twenty-eight thousand is subtracted from
one million?

5. _____________
inches What is the side length of a rectangle that has width 7 inches and area 105 in2 ?

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6. _____________ What integer is closest to −7π?

7. _____________
degrees On Monday at 8 p.m., the temperature measured −17 degrees. Between
8 p.m. on Monday and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, the temperature increased
23 degrees. On Tuesday, between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m., the temperature
decreased 5 degrees. What was the temperature on Tuesday at 3 p.m.?

STUDENT LUNCH DATA

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% LUNCH ORDERS This table shows all five lunch options on Friday
PIZZA 132 at a middle school and the number of students
NUGGETS 112
that ordered each. Based on this, what percent of
BURGER 88
SPAGHETTI 44
the lunch orders on Friday were for spaghetti?
SALAD 24

9. _____________ What is the 40th positive odd integer?

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10. _____________ What is the value of the expression 1 + , in simplest form?
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11. _____________ If (x 2y 3) 2 = x ay b, what is the value of a + b?

12. _____________
matches For each rock-paper-scissors match, paper beats rock, rock beats scissors,
scissors beat paper and two identical items result in a tie. Based on this table,
which summarizes the results of Kalyani and Mark’s last 200 matches, how
many matches did Kalyani win?

13. _____________
inches Given that a mile equals 5280 feet, how many inches are in one-sixth of a mile?

14. _____________ Maria was born on January 1, 2000. Her mother was born on January 1, 1975
and her father was born on January 1, 1970. In what year was the sum of their
ages 100?

15. _____________
% A bicycle that originally cost $200 is on sale for $140. By what percent was the
price reduced?
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16. _____________
feet Jay’s dog outgrew his rectangular pen that measured 10 feet by 14 feet. To make
it larger, he increased each side length by the same amount, which increased the
pen’s area by 81 square feet. What is the greater side length of the larger pen?

17. _____________
years Parker has three sons: Alfred, Beto and Dell. When Alfred turned 11 years old,
Beto was 9 years old and Dell was 4 years old. What was the average of their
ages when Alfred turned 37?

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units2 Triangle ABC has an area of 40 units2. Point D is on side AC, and AD:DC = 3:1.
What is the area of triangle BDC?

19. _____________
people Kendra surveyed 100 people who own a dog or a cat, or both. Of those
surveyed, 15 own both a dog and a cat, and the number of people who own
a dog is four times the number of people who own a cat. How many people
surveyed own a cat?

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units2 What is the area of the region in the first quadrant that
lies between the lines x + 3y = 12 and x + 3y = 18?

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21. _____________ What is the absolute difference between the mean and median of the first 100
positive integers?

22. _____________
units2 The square labeled A has area 81 units2. The square labeled B has area 16 units2.
The square labeled C has area 36 units2. These three squares along with the
shaded, non-overlapping rectangles labeled D, E and F are arranged to form a
large square as shown. What is the area of rectangle D?

D E

F B
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23. _____________ If a fair coin is tossed four times, what is the probability of it landing
heads up at least three times? Express your answer as a common fraction.

24. _____________ If n is an integer for which the greatest common factor of n and 18 is 6 and the
least common multiple of n and 9 is 126, what is the value of n?

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25. _____________ The lines given by the equations y = 9 − x and y = mx + b are perpendicular
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and intersect at a point on the x-axis. What is the value of b?

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26. _____________ If two standard, fair 6-sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that the product
of the two numbers rolled is a perfect square? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

27. _____________
gallons Gracie has made 2 gallons of punch that contains 50% juice. After Gracie pours
out some of her mixture and replaces it with an equal amount of pure 100% juice,
she has 2 gallons of punch that contains 65% juice. How many gallons of the
original mixture did Gracie pour out? Express your answer as a common fraction.

28. _____________
hours Ursula’s starting location ( )  is on the shore of a river that measures 8 km
across. Her destination ( ) is 27 km downshore on the opposite side of the
river. Ursula rows a boat in a straight line, at a speed of 5 km/h, to a point that is
6 km downshore on the opposite side, and then runs the remaining distance, at a
speed of 14 km/h. How many hours will it take Ursula to reach her destination?
Express your answer as a mixed number.

8 km

27 km

29. _____________ A cylinder whose height is 3 times its radius is inscribed in a cone whose height
is 6 times its radius. What fraction of the cone’s volume lies inside the cylinder?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

30. _____________ What value of x yields the minimum value of the sum
| x − 20 | + | x − 21 | + | x − 22 | + | x − 23 | + ⋯ + | x − 210 |?

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