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1) A square is divided 5) One day in math class, Shelley asks the teacher
into equal lengths as in “Mr. Nelson, how old are you?” Mr. Nelson
the figure. What is the responds: “This year, I am three times as old as my
ratio of shaded area to sister. However, six years ago, I was five times as
the square’s area? old as she was.” “I got it!” replies Shelley. How old
is the math teacher this year?

A) 1/4 B) 1/8 C) 3/16 D) 1/6 A) 36 B) 40 C) 49 D) None

6) I have a number such that if I multiply the

number by 4 and subtract 12, I get twice as much
𝑥−1 30 as when I first subtract 12 and then multiply by 4.
2) If = 42 what is the value of 𝑥 =?
The sum of the digits of my number is
𝑥+1
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 7
A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7

7) What is the equation of the line passing through

the point A( -1, -1) and perpendicular to
1
𝑦=− 𝑥?
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3) Suppose m and n are positive odd integers. A) 5𝑥 + 𝑦 = −4

Which of the following must also be an odd B) 5𝑥 − 𝑦 = 3
integer?
C) 5𝑥 + 𝑦 = −3
A) m+3n B) 3m-n C) (n+3)/2 D) 3mn
D) 5𝑥 − 𝑦 = −4

8) A bus starts off with some passengers. At the

first stop, 1/3 of the passengers get off and 8
4) When a bottle full of honey was weighed, its people get on. At the second stop, ½ of the
weight was 1 kilogram. When the bottle was remaining passengers get off and 2 get on the bus.
weighed with half the honey, its weight was 600 There are now half as many passengers as started
grams. What is the weight of the bottle? the trip. How many persons started the trip?

A) 400 g B) 200 g C) 150 g D) 100 g A) 18 B) 24 C) 30 D) 36

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9) In quadrilateral ABCD, 12) Each day, Mike ate 20% of the jellybeans that
sides AB and BC both have were in his jar at the beginning of that day. At the
length 10, sides CD and DA end of second day, 16 remained. How many
both have length 17, and the jellybeans were in the jar originally?
measure of angle ADC is 60◦.
What is the length of diagonal AC? A) 20 B) 25 C) 30 D) 40

A) 13.5 B) 14 C) 17 D) 18.5

13) In the pattern below, how many white cells

will be in the fourth shape?
10) After Sally takes 20 shots, she has made 55% of
her shots. After she takes 5 more shots, she raises
her percentage to 56%. How many of the last 5
shots did she make?

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

A) 65 B) 63 C) 59 D) 57

11) Jenny’s mathematics test had 75 problems: 10

arithmetic, 30 algebra, and 35 geometry problems.
Although she answered 70% of the arithmetic, 40%
14) a/b is a fraction. If 2 is added to the
of the algebra, and 60% of the geometry problems
correctly, she did not pass the test because she got numerator, the value of the fraction is ½.
less than 60% of the problems right. If 3 is added to the denominator, the fraction has a
value of 1/3. The value of the sum a + b is:
How many more questions would she have needed
to answer correctly to earn a 60% passing grade? A) 18 B) 19 C) 20 D) 25
A) 1 B) 5 C) 7 D) 9

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18) Points A, B, C and D have these coordinates:

15) If Aisha works 8 hours per day, she can paint
A(3, 2), B(3, −2), C(−3, −2) and D(−3, 0). The area
her house in 12 days. If she only works 6 hours a
of quadrilateral ABCD is
day, how many days will she need to complete
painting her house?

A) 9 B) 16 C) 24 D) 48

16) A scout troop buys 1000 candy bars at a price

of five for $2. They sell all the candy bars at a price
of two for $1. What was their profit, in dollars?

A) 12 B) 15 C) 18 D) 21
A) 100 B) 200 C) 300 D) 400

19) A line with slope 1 intersects a line with slope 5

at the point P(10, 15). What is the distance
between the x-intercepts of these two lines?

17) Evaluate the product in the multiplication

sentence.

1 1 1 1
(1 + ) × (1 + ) × (1 + ) × … .× (1 + ) =?
2 3 4 100

A) 25.5 B) 40.5 C) 50 D) 50.5

A) 2 B) 5 C) 7 D) 12

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20) Jack runs counterclockwise around rectangular 22 Half of the students in a class are girls. If the
block JKLM. He lives at corner J. Which graph could number of boys was twice as large and the number
represent his straight-line distance from home? of girls half as large, what would the percentage of
boys in the class become?

A) 50% B) 60% C) 75% D) 80%

A) B)
23) The average age of the 40 members of a
computer science camp is 17 years. There are 20
girls, 15 boys, and 5 adults. If the average age of
the girls is 15 and the average age of the boys is 16,
what is the average age of the adults?

C) D) A) 26 B) 27 C) 28 D) 29

24) The mean of a set of five different positive

integers is 15. The median is 18. The maximum
possible value of the largest of these five integers is

21) What is the slope of the line perpendicular to

A) 33 B) 35 C) 37 D) 39
6𝑥 = 3 + 𝑦

A) −6 B) −1/6 C) 6 D) 1/6

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25) What is the mean and the median of the data 27) What is the Box-and-Whisker Plot of the data
set of Sales Taxes in the selected states in the US? below?

A)

B)
A) Median = 4.7 and Mean = 5.23

B) Median = 5.6 and Mean = 4.83

C) Median = 6 and Mean = 5.29

C)
D) Median = 6 and Mean = 5.38

D)
26) What is the modal length of the Book-Titles
below?

28) What is the measure of the

acute angle formed by the hands
of a clock at 4:20 p.m.?

A) 3 B) 3 and 5 C) 2 and 5 D) 2 A) 10𝑜 B) 12𝑜 C) 18𝑜 D) 24𝑜

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29) The following figures are composed of squares 31) What is the area of
and circles. Which figure has a shaded region with the shaded pinwheel
largest area? shown in the 5×5 grid?

A) 4 B) 6 C) 8 D) 10
A) 8:3 B) 8:5 C) 2:3 D) 3:2

A) A only B) B only C) C only D) A and B

32) In square ABCE, AF = 2FE
and CD = 2DE. What is the
ratio of the area of ∆BFD to
the area of square ABCE?

A) 1/6 B) 2/9 C) 5/18 D) 1/3

30) Sai has two more marbles than Arif. Arif has
twice as many marbles as Ken. Ken has 7 less
marbles than Sai. How many marbles do they have
between them?

A) 13 B) 20 C) 27 D) 34 33) In a regular pentagon

ABCDE all the sides are
equal. What is the angle
<ECD in degrees?

A) 16𝑜 B) 24𝑜 C) 30𝑜 D) 36𝑜

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34) Each of the small circles in the figure has radius 37) Ali tosses one penny and John tosses two
one. The innermost pennies. The probability that John gets the same
circle is tangent to the number of heads that Ali gets is
six circles that surround
it, and each of those A) 1/4 B) 3/8 C) 1/2 D) 2/3
circles is tangent to the
large circle and to its
small-circle neighbors.
Find the area of the
shaded region.

38) Two dice are thrown. What is the probability

A) 𝜋 B) 1.5𝜋 C) 2𝜋 D) 3𝜋 that the product of the two numbers is a multiple
of 5?

A) 11/36 B) 1/18 C) 1/6 D) 1/36

35) Kevin tosses a nickel four times. The

probability that he gets at least as many heads as
tails is
A) 5/16 B) 3/8 C) 11/16 D) 5/8 39) A square and a triangle have equal perimeters.
The lengths of the three sides of the triangle are
6.1 cm, 8.2 cm and 9.7 cm. What is the area of the
square in square centimeters?

A) 24 B) 25 C) 36 D) 64

36) A set of three points is chosen randomly from

the grid shown. Each three-
point set has the same
probability of being chosen.
What is the probability that 40) In a mathematics contest with ten problems, a
the points lie on the same student gains 5 points for a correct answer and
straight line? loses 2 points for an incorrect answer. If Olivia
answered every problem and her score was 29,
how many correct answers did she have?
A) 2/21 B) 1/14 C) 1 /21 D) 1/7
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8