MATHCOUNTS

2008
State Competition
Sprint Round
Problems 1–30

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INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
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 right-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.

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1. John saw an ad for tomato soup at 24¢ per can. At the price 1. ________________
cans
advertised, what is the greatest number of whole cans of soup
John could buy for $1.00?

2. Yvonne purchased a jacket at Right Price, and $

2. ________________
the lowest price on the tag was $4. This was the
sale price, which was calculated by taking 75%
off of the original price. What was the original
price of Yvonne’s jacket?

3. What is the greatest number of interior right angles a convex 3. ________________

right
octagon can have? angles

4. Tamara knows that the arithmetic mean of her five quiz scores 4. ________________
%
is 95%. However, she has misplaced one of these quizzes. The
ones she can find have scores of 100%, 100%, 99% and 98%.
What is her score on the misplaced quiz?

5. How many integers between 100 and 300 have both 11 and 8 5. ________________
integers
as factors?

6. One-half of a road construction 6. ________________

workers
project was completed by 6 workers
in 12 days. Working at the same
rate, what is the smallest number of
workers needed to finish the rest of
the project in exactly four days?

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7. The trisectors of angles B and C of scalene A 7. ________________
degrees
triangle ABC meet at points P and Q, as
shown. Angle A measures 39 degrees and
angle QBP measures 14 degrees. What is the Q
measure of angle BPC? P
B C

8. What non-zero, real value of x satisfies (5x)4 = (10x)3? Express 8. ________________

your answer as a common fraction.

9. A clock loses 5 seconds every 12 minutes. At this rate, how 9. ________________

minutes
many minutes will the clock lose in a 24-hour period?

10. Elliott Farms has a silo for storage. The silo is a 10. ________________
cu meters
right circular cylinder topped by a right circular
cone, both having the same radius. The height
of the cone is half the height of the cylinder. The
27 meters
diameter of the base of the silo is 10 meters and
the height of the entire silo is 27 meters. What is
the volume, in cubic meters, of the silo? Express
your answer in terms of �.

11. For how many non-negative real values of x is 144 − 3 x an 11. ________________
values
integer?

12. Jim’s stride measures 2 12 feet, and Jeffrey’s stride measures 12. ________________
2 23 feet. There are 5280 feet in a mile. If Jim and Jeffrey each
walk one mile, what is the ratio of the number of strides Jim
takes to the number of strides Jeffrey takes? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

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13. Kelly drove north for 12 miles and then east for 9 miles at an 13. ________________
minutes
average rate of 42 miles per hour to arrive at the town of Prime.
Brenda left from the same location, at the same time, and drove
along a straight road to Prime at an average rate of
45 miles per hour. How many minutes earlier than
Kelly did Brenda arrive?

14. A bag contains 21 marbles; there are only red marbles and blue 14. ________________
marbles in the bag. There are twice as many red marbles as there
are blue marbles. If exactly two marbles were to be selected at
random, without replacement, what is the probability that one
would be red and one would be blue? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

15. The integers from 1 through 15 are written in numerical order in 15. ________________
pencil going clockwise around a circle. A student begins moving
clockwise around the circle erasing every third integer that has
not yet been erased until only the integer 11 remains. Which
integer did the student erase first?

16. Two sides of a square are divided into fourths and 16. ________________
another side of the square is trisected, as shown.
A triangle is formed by connecting three of these
points, as shown. What is the ratio of the area of the
shaded triangle to the area of the square? Express
your answer as a fraction.

17. Lauren solved the equation |x – 5| = 2. Meanwhile Jane solved ( , )

17. ________________
an equation of the form x2 + bx + c = 0 that had the same two
solutions for x as Lauren’s equation. What is the ordered pair
(b, c)?

18. In triangle ABC, AB is congruent to AC, the measure of A 18. ________________

isosceles
angle ABC is 72° and segment BD bisects angle ABC triangles
with point D on side AC. If point E is on side BC such
that segment DE is parallel to side AB, and point F is on D
side AC such that segment EF is parallel to segment BD, F
how many isosceles triangles are in the figure shown? B C
E

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19. Positive integers x and y have a product of 56 and x < y. Seven 19. ________________
times the reciprocal of the smaller integer plus 14 times the
reciprocal of the larger integer equals 4. What is the value of x?

20. When a positive integer is divided by 7, the remainder is 4. When 20. ________________
the same integer is divided by 9, the remainder is 3. What is the
smallest possible value of this integer?

21. A circle with a radius of 2 units has its center at (0, 0). A circle with 21. ________________
a radius of 7 units has its center at (15, 0). A line tangent to both
circles intersects the x-axis at (x, 0) to the right of the origin. What
is the value of x? Express your answer as a common fraction.

22. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 1, another term of the 22. ________________
sequences
sequence is 91 and all of the terms of the sequence are integers.
How many distinct arithmetic sequences meet these three
conditions?

23. A circular cylindrical post with a circumference of 23. ________________

feet
4 feet has a string wrapped around it, spiraling from the
bottom of the post to the top of the post. The string evenly
loops around the post exactly four full times, starting at the
bottom edge and finishing at the top edge. The height of the
post is 12 feet. What is the length, in feet, of the string?

24. The areas of two squares differ by 100 square units, and the 24. ________________
units
perimeters of the two squares differ by 10 units. What is the
perimeter, in units, of the smaller square?

25. How many integers between 1 and 200 are multiples of both 3 and 25. ________________
integers
5 but not of either 4 or 7?
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26. Kevin will start with the integers 1, 2, 3 and 4 each used exactly 26. ________________
sums
once and written in a row in any order. Then he will find the sum
of the adjacent pairs of integers in each row to make a new row,
until one integer is left. For example, if he starts with 3, 2, 1,
4, and then takes sums to get 5, 3, 5, followed by 8, 8, he ends
with the final sum 16. Including all of Kevin’s possible starting
arrangements of the integers 1, 2, 3 and 4, how many possible
final sums are there?

27. A rectangular band formation is a formation with m band members 27. ________________
members
in each of r rows, where m and r are integers. A particular band
has less than 100 band members. The director arranges them in
a rectangular formation and finds that he has two members left
over. If he increases the number of members in each row by 1 and
reduces the number of rows by 2, there are exactly enough places
in the new formation for each band member. What is the largest
number of members the band could have?

28. A right cylinder with a base radius of 3 units is inscribed in a 28. ________________
cu units
sphere of radius 5 units. What is the total volume, in cubic units,
of the space inside the sphere and outside the cylinder? Express
your answer as a common fraction in terms of �.

29. Given that x2 – 5x + 8 = 1, what is the positive value of 29. ________________

x4 – 10x3 + 25x2 – 9?

30. An o-Pod MP3 player stores and plays entire songs. Celeste has 30. ________________
10 songs stored on her o-Pod. The time length of each song is
different. When the songs are ordered by length, the shortest song
is only 30 seconds long and each subsequent song is 30 seconds
longer than the previous song. Her favorite song is 3 minutes, 30
seconds long. The o-Pod will play all the songs in random order
before repeating any song. What is the probability that she hears
the first 4 minutes, 30 seconds of music - there are no pauses
between songs - without hearing every second of her favorite
song? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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