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1. Ike and Mike go into a sandwich shop with a total of $30.00 to spend.
Sandwiches cost $4.50 each and soft drinks cost $1.00 each. Ike and
Mike plan to buy as many sandwiches as they can and use any
remaining money to buy soft drinks. Counting both soft drinks and
sandwiches, how many items will they buy?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

2. Three identical rectangles are put together to form rectangle ABCD,

as shown in the figure below. Given that the length of the shorter
side of each of the smaller rectangles 5 feet, what is the area in
square feet of rectangle ABCD?
(A) 45 (B) 75 (C) 100 (D) 125 (E) 150

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3. Which of the following is the correct order of the fractions , , and
11 15
17
, from least to greatest?
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15 17 19 15 19 17 17 19 15
(A)   (B)   (C)  
11 13 15 11 15 13 13 15 11
19 15 17 19 17 15
(D)   (E)  
15 11 13 15 13 11

4. Quadrilateral ABCD is a rhombus with perimeter 52 meters. The

length of diagonal AC is 24 meters. What is the area in square meters
of rhombus ABCD?
(A) 60 (B) 90 (C) 105 (D) 120 (E) 144

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5. A tortoise challenges a hare to a race. The hare eagerly agrees and

quickly runs ahead, leaving the slow-moving tortoise behind.
Confident that he will win, the hare stops to take a nap. Meanwhile,
the tortoise walks at a slow steady pace for the entire race. The hare
awakes and runs to the finish line, only to find the tortoise already
there. Which of the following graphs matches the description of the
race, showing the distance d traveled by the two animals over time
t from start to finish?

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6. There are 81 grid points (uniformly spaced) in the square shown in

the diagram below, including the points on the edges. Point P is the
centre of the square. Given that point Q is randomly chosen from
among the other 80 points, what is the probability that line PQ is a
line of symmetry for the square?
1 1 2 9 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 4 5 20 2

7. Shauna takes 5 tests, each worth a maximum of 100 points. Her

scores on the first three tests were 76, 94, and 87. In order to average
an 81 on all five tests, what is the lowest score she could earn on one
of the two tests?
(A) 48 (B) 52 (C) 66 (D) 70 (E) 74

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8. Gilda has a bag of marbles. She gives 20% of them to her friend
Pedro. The, Gilda gives 10% of what is left to her other friend, Ebony.
Finally, Gilda gives 25% of what is left in the bag to her brother. What
percentage of her original bag does she have left?
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(A) 20 (B) 33 (C) 38 (D) 45 (E) 54
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9. Alex and Felicia each have cats as pets. Alex buys cat food in
cylindrical cans that are 6 cm in diameter and 12 cm high. Felicia
buys cat food in cylindrical cans that are 12 cm in diameter and 6 cm
high. What is the ratio of the volume of one of Alex’s cans to the
volume of one of Felicia’s cans?
(A) 1 : 4 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 1 : 1 (D) 2 : 1 (E) 4 : 1

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10. The diagram shows the number of students at soccer practice each
weekday during last week. After computing the mean and median
values, Coach discovers that there were actually 21 participants on
Wednesday. Which of the following statements describes the change
in the mean and median after the correction is made? 8
(A) The mean increases by 1 and the median does not change.
(B) The mean increases by 1 and the median increases by 1.
(C) The mean increases by 1 and the median increases by 5.
(D) The mean increases by 5 and the median increases by 1.
(E) The mean increases by 5 and the median increases by 5.

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11. The eighth-grade class at Lincoln Middle School has 93 students.

Each student takes a math class or a foreign language class or both.
There are 70 eighth graders taking a math class, and there are 54
eighth graders taking a foreign language class. How many eighth
graders take only a math class and not a foreign language class?
(A) 16 (B) 23 (C) 31 (D) 39 (E) 70

12. The faces of a cube are painted in six different colors: red (R), white
(W), green (G), brown (B), aqua (A), and purple (P). Three views of
the cube are shown below. What is the color of the face opposite the
aqua face?
(A) red (B) white (C) green (D) brown (E) purple

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13. A palindrome is a number that has the same value when read from
left to right or from right to left. (For example, 12321 is a palindrome).
Let N be the least three-digit integer which is not a palindrome but
which is the sum of three distinct two-digit palindromes. What is the
sum of the digits of N?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

14. Isabella has 6 coupons that can be redeemed for free ice cream cones
at Pete’s Sweet Treats. In order to make the coupons last, she
decides that she will redeem one every 10 days until she has used
them all. She knows that Pete’s is closed on Sundays, but as she
circles the 6 dates on her calendar, she realizes that no circled date
falls on a Sunday. On what day of the week does Isabella redeem her
first coupon?
(A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Wednesday
(D) Thursday (E) Friday

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15. On a beach 50 people are wearing sunglasses and 35 people are

wearing caps. Some people are wearing both sunglasses and caps. If
one of the people wearing a cap is selected at random, the
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probability that this person is also wearing sunglasses is . If
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instead, someone wearing sunglasses is selected at random, what is
the probability that this person is also wearing a cap?
14 7 2 4 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
85 25 5 7 10

16. Qiang drives 15 miles at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. How
many additional miles will he have to drive at 55 miles per hour to
average 50 miles per hour for the entire trip?
(A) 45 (B) 62 (C) 90 (D) 110 (E) 135

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17. What is the value of the product

 1.3  2.4  3.5   97.99  98.100 
   .......  ?
 2.2  3.3  4.4   98.98  99.99 
1 50 9800 100
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 50
2 99 9801 99

18. The faces on each of two fair dice are numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8.
When the two dice are tossed, what is the probability that their sum
will be an even number?
4 1 5 3 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9 2 9 5 3

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19. In a tournament there are six teams that play each other twice. A
team earns 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a
loss. After all the games have been played it turns out that the top
three teams earned the same number of total points. What is the
greatest possible number of total points for each of the top three
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(A) 22 (B) 23 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 30

20. How many different real numbers x satisfy the equation

(x2 – 5)2 = 16?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 8

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21. What is the area of the triangle formed by the lines y = 5, y = 1 + x,

and y = 1 – x?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16

22. A store increased the original price of a shirt by a certain percent and
then decreased the new price by the same percent. Given that the
resulting price was 84% of the original price, by what percent was
the price increased and decreased?
(A) 16 (B) 20 (C) 28 (D) 36 (E) 40

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23. After Euclid High School’s last basketball game, it was determined
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that of the team’s points were scored by Alexa and were scored
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by Brittany. Chelsea scored 15 points. None of the other 7 team
members scored more than 2 points. What was the total number of
points scored by the other 7 team members?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

24. In triangle ABC, point D divides side AC so that AD : DC = 1 : 2. Let E

be the midpoint of BD and let F be the point of intersection of line
BC and line AE. Given that the area of △ABC is 360, what is the area
of △EBF?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 40

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25. Alice has 24 apples. In how many ways can she share them with
Becky and Chris so that each of the people has at least 2 apples?
(A) 105 (B) 114 (C) 190 (D) 210 (E) 380

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