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2018 4
School Competition 5
Sprint Round 6
Problems 1−30
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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 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. _____________ The average of Jerrold’s vocabulary quizzes is 88.75. What is Jerrold’s quiz
average expressed to the nearest whole number?

2. _____________ What is the value of 25 − 5 × 6?

3. _____________
$ A particular store sells items for only $1, $3 and $5 and charges no sales tax. If
Georgia buys nine $1 items, seven $3 items and three $5 items
from this store, what is the total amount she will be charged?

$1 $3 $5

4. _____________
°F Water boils at 212 °F and freezes at 32 °F. What is the difference between the
boiling point and freezing point of water?

Boiling Point Freezing Point

212 °F 32 °F

5. _____________ If the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence are 26, 16, 6, −4, −14, what is the
sixth term of this sequence?

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6. _____________ If = 23, what is the value of n?
2n

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7. _____________ What is the slope of the line containing the points −2 −1 0
(0, 0)
1 2 3 4 5 6
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(0, 0) and (3, −6) as shown? −1
−2
−3
−4
−5
(3, −6)
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−8

8. _____________ The least common multiple of 15 and 20 is k. What is the least common multiple
of 12 and k?

9. _____________
pounds When Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal faced off in the 2001 NBA Finals,
O’Neal weighed exactly twice as much as Iverson, and their weights totaled
495 pounds. How many pounds did Iverson weigh?

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10. _____________ If 3x + 7 = 22, what is the value of . Express your answer as a common
3 x + 11
fraction.

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11. _____________ The table shows the results of Jake’s last twenty times at bat. Based on this data,
what is the probability that Jake hits a double on his next time at bat? Express
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
Batting Results
Result Number
Home Run 3
Triple 1
Double 2
Single 8
Walk 3
Out 3

12. _____________
percent A square pen that is surrounded by a fence is divided into two rectangular
regions by adding a new fence that connects the midpoints of two opposite
sides. By what percent has the total length of fencing been increased?

13. _____________ What is the sum of the greatest common factor of 4 and 18 and the least
common multiple of 4 and 18?

14. _____________
years Claire’s three sons, from oldest to youngest, are Evan, Joel and Alex. The
difference between the ages of Evan and Joel is the same as the difference
between the ages of Joel and Alex. If the sum of the three ages is 39, how old is
Joel?

15. _____________
mile Danica started her trip at mile marker 66 and ended her trip at mile marker 194.
marker She drove at a constant speed the entire trip. Which mile marker had she reached
by 75% of her trip?

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16. _____________ What is the value of (20 + 12)2 − (20 − 12)2?

17. _____________
visitors The table shows the number of visitors over a 4-week period to a new website.
What was the average number of visitors to the site per week?

Website Visitors
Week Visitors
1 1028
2 1100
3 1060
4 1056

18. _____________
percent The Venn diagram shows the number of students at Ramanujan Middle School
who play both volleyball and basketball, the number who play one of these
sports but not the other, and the number who play neither of these sports. All
students at the school are represented in the diagram. What percent of the
students at the school play basketball?
Neither
140

Both
Volleyball Basketball
50 15 45

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19. _____________ Josie selected a number n. She divided n by 2 and then subtracted from the
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result. She took half of that result and then subtracted to get the final result
2
of 10. What is the value of n?

20. _____________
times Scott repeatedly rolls a pair of standard six-sided dice and keeps track of the
sum of the two numbers rolled each time. So far he has not rolled any sum
twice. What is the maximum possible number of times he has thrown the dice?

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21. _____________
cm An annulus is a ring bounded by two concentric circles. In the figure, annulus A
has an inner circle of radius 2 cm and an outer circle of radius 6 cm. Annulus B
has an outer circle of radius 9 cm. If annulus B has area equal to that of
annulus A, what is the radius of the inner circle of annulus B?

A B

22. _____________ Let Q = {1.7, 1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 2.3, s}. What is the absolute difference between the
greatest and least possible values of the median of set Q? Express your answer
as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

23. _____________
tickets A bag contains 25 tickets, each colored either red or yellow. Red tickets are
worth $0.50, and yellow tickets are worth $5.00. If the expected value of a ticket
drawn at random from this bag is $3.20, how many of the tickets are red?

24. _____________ If a and b are integers such that a2 − b2 = 100, what is the greatest possible value
of a?

25. _____________
cents In cents, what is the least total amount that cannot be obtained by using a
combination of fewer than eight coins from a collection of pennies, nickels,
dimes and quarters?

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26. _____________
fourth How many of the first one thousand perfect fourth powers have either 1 or 6 as
powers their units digit?

27. _____________ Seven jars hold a total of 250 candies. They are lined up left to right from fullest
to emptiest. The left-most jar has 72 candies, and the right-most jar has 13.
No two jars hold the same number of candies. What is the positive difference
between the greatest number of candies that could be in the second jar from the
left, and the least number of candies that could be in that jar?

28. _____________ What is the greatest integer k such that 2k is a factor of 67!?

29. _____________
nets How many distinct tetrahedron nets, formed from four connected equilateral
triangles, can be cut from the figure shown?

30. _____________
triangles The rows and columns of lattice points in a three-by-three
square array are evenly spaced one unit apart. How many
distinct triangles with at least one side of length 2 units
can be drawn using three lattice points for the vertices?

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