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Chapter Competition
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Sprint Round
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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.
If you are wearing a calculator wrist watch, please give it to your proctor now. 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.

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02-C17SPR
1. _____________ What integer is closest in value to 21.476?

mL
2. _____________ 500 mL
What is the volume of the solution in the beaker? Express your
400
300 answer to the nearest hundred.
200
100

3. _____________ Debbie is counting by fives. If the first number she says is 110, what is the fifth
number Debbie says?

4. _____________ What is the difference between seven times six and five times four?

5. _____________
ounces A carton of one dozen jumbo eggs has a total weight of 32 ounces. If the carton
itself weighs 2 ounces, how much does each egg weigh, on average? Express
your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

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6. _____________
feet Given that 3 feet = 1 yard and 240 yards = 1 cable, how many feet are equal to
1 cable?

7. _____________ Velma earned the following scores on seven science quizzes: 88, 95, 84, 100, 86,
99, 94. What is the median of Velma’s quiz scores?

8. _____________
students When half of the students in Mr. Freeman’s class joined the National Math Club,
there were 13 students who did not join. What is the total number of students in
Mr. Freeman’s class?

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9. _____________ What is the value of 100 − ?
0.1

10. _____________
units Points A through F are evenly spaced on the number line shown. How many
units long is segment CF?

A B C D E F
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11. _____________
students The number of 8th graders who responded to a poll of 6th and 8th graders
was one-fourth of the number of 6th graders who responded. If a total of
100 students responded to the poll, how many of the students who responded
were 6th graders?

12. _____________
triangles How many triangles of any size are in the Belgian truss shown?

13. _____________
cats The ratio of dogs to cats in a pet store is 7:5. If there are 6 more dogs than cats,
how many cats are in the pet store?

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14. _____________
inches Right triangle XYZ, with YZ = 5 inches, has area 30 in2. What is the
length of side XY?

Y 5 Z

()?
−2
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15. _____________ What is the value of
3

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16. _____________ If the sum of the positive integer a and 5 is less than 12, what is the sum of all
possible values of a?

17. _____________
percent The table shows the five methods of transportation that the 360 students who
attend Newburg Middle School use to get to school. If every student chooses
exactly one of these as his or her primary method of transportation to school,
what percent of the students bike to school?

T  N M  S 


Method of Transportation # Students
Car 66
Bus 138
Bike 90
Scooter 18
Walk 48

18. _____________
large jugs A camel can carry a maximum weight equal to either 18 identical large jugs of
water or 30 identical small jugs of water. If the camel is loaded with 25 small
jugs of water, how many additional large jugs of water can the camel carry?

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19. _____________ What decimal is equivalent to percent?
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20. _____________ What is the sum of the solutions of x2 + 5x + 6 = 0?

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21. _____________ What is the quotient when 1000 is divided by 23 × 52?

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22. _____________
$ On the side of a taxi, fares are listed as $2.25 for the first mile and 75¢ for
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each additional mile. What is the fare for a 3-mile ride in this taxi?
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23. _____________
boys Last summer, 150 students attended the Apollo Math Camp, of whom 96 were
girls and 54 were boys. Also, 68 were 7th graders and 82 were 8th graders. How
many 8th-grade boys attended the camp if 40 of the girls were 7th graders?

24. _____________ What is the largest sum that results when one of the arrangements of the digits
of 2017 is added to one of the arrangements of the digits of 2016, if none of the
digits 0, 1 or 2 can occupy the same position in both numbers?

x y
25. _____________
pairs How many pairs of positive integers x and y are solutions of + = 1?
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26. _____________ What positive value should replace x in this statement to make it true?

55 × 59 − 53 × 57 = x 2 − 1

27. _____________ The Pythagoreans proved this pattern:


12 = 1
22 = 1 + 3
32 = 1 + 3 + 5
42 = 1 + 3 + 5 + 7
Nicomachus discovered this pattern:
13 = 1
23 = 3 + 5
33 = 7 + 9 + 11
43 = 13 + 15 + 17 + 19
What is the value of s in this equation:
13 + 23 + 33 + 43 + 53 + 63 + 73 + 83 = s 2

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28. _____________
in 2
In right triangle ABC, shown here, mB = 90° and AB = 6 inches. If
inscribed circle Q has area 4π in2, what is the area of triangle ABC?
Q
B C

29. _____________ Yu has 12 coins, consisting of 5 pennies, 4 nickels and 3 dimes. He tosses them
all in the air. What is the probability that the total value of the coins that land
heads-up is exactly 30 cents? Express your answer as a common fraction.

30. _____________
ordered How many ordered quintuples (a, b, c, d, e) have coordinates of value −1, 0 or 1
quintuples and satisfy a + b 2 + c 3 + d 4 + e 5 = 2?

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2017 5
Chapter Competition 6
Target Round
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Problems 1 & 2
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This section of the competition consists of eight problems, which will be
presented in pairs. Work on one pair of problems will be completed and
answers will be collected before the next pair is distributed. The time limit
for each pair of problems is six minutes. The first pair of problems is on the
other side of this sheet. When told to do so, turn the page over and begin
working. This round assumes the use of calculators, and calculations also
may be done on scratch paper, but no other aids are allowed. 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 problem sheets. If you
complete the problems before time is called, use the time remaining to
check your answers.

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02-C17TAR1
1. ________________
units2 What is the area, in square units, of the rectangle with vertices A(0, 0), B(0, 3),
C(2, 3) and D(2, 0)?

2. ________________ What is the greatest possible absolute difference between any two values of
the five expressions shown? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest
thousandth.

(0.5)3 (0.3)3

35
53

0.5 × 0.3 0.3 ÷ 0.5

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3. _____________
tickets At a high school football game, 139 tickets were sold. Adult tickets sold for
$13.50 each, and student tickets sold for $8.50 each. If ticket sales totaled
$1576.50, how many adult tickets were sold?

4. _____________ A data set of four positive integers has a mean of 5, a median of 4 and a mode
of 2. What’s the greatest integer in this set?

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5. _____________
pounds A bundle of 25 one-dollar bills weighs of an ounce. How many pounds
10
would 4000 one-dollar bills weigh?

6. _____________ All elements of the sequence a, b, c, d, 6 are positive integers, and a > b. Each
of the last three terms is the average of the previous two terms. What is the value
of a?

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7. _____________
ft/s Three-fifths of the way up a hill, Jack and Jill realized that they had forgotten
their bucket. Jill continued up the hill, while Jack went back down the hill to
get the bucket. Two minutes after turning back, Jack reached the bottom of the
hill at the exact same time that Jill reached the top. If the total distance from the
bottom to the top of the hill is 1260 feet, what is the absolute difference in Jack’s
downhill speed and Jill’s uphill speed, in feet per second? Express your answer
as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

8. _____________ Twenty-five chips, each marked with a different integer from 1 through 25,
are placed in a jar. A student draws a chip from the jar and tells everyone the
number. The chip is then returned to the jar. Nine more students do the same
thing. What is the probability that at least two of the ten students draw the same
chip? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

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Team Round
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This section of the competition consists of 10 problems which the team
has 20 minutes to complete. Team members may work together in any
way to solve the problems. Team members may talk to each other during
this section of the competition. This round assumes the use of calculators,
and calculations also may be done on scratch paper, but no other aids are
allowed. All answers must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest
terms. The team captain must record the team’s official answers on his/her
own competition booklet, which is the only booklet that will be scored. If the
team completes the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to
check your answers.

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02-C17TEA
1. _____________ A Lagado number is a number of the form 3n + 1 where n is a nonnegative
integer. A Lagado prime is a Lagado number greater than 1 which is not
divisible by any Lagado number other than 1 and itself. What is the fifth
Lagado prime?

2. _____________
in2 A circle is inscribed in a right isosceles triangle whose legs are 8 inches long.
How many square inches are in the area of the shaded portion? Express your
answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth.

8 8

3. _____________
pairs A standard deck of playing cards has 52 cards divided into four suits (clubs,
diamonds, hearts, spades). Each suit consists of nine “number cards”, each
containing a different number from 2 to 10, and four “face cards” that include a
jack, a queen, a king and an ace. In the game of Cribbage, points are earned if
you can combine two cards that sum to 15. Jacks, queens and kings each have
a value of 10, aces each have a value of 1, and all number cards have a value of
the number shown. How many different unordered pairs of two cards sum to 15
in a standard 52-card deck?

4. _____________ The sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, ... is called the triangular numbers, and the nth
element of the sequence is found by adding the first n positive integers. What
is the positive integer that, when multiplied by any triangular number, always
yields a product one less than a perfect square?

5. _____________ Points A(−7, 4) and B(13, −11) are two points in the coordinate plane. P is
on segment AB and divides it so that AP:PB = 2:3. What is the product of the
coordinates of P?

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6. _____________ What is the greatest number that evenly divides the sum of any six consecutive
whole numbers?

7. _____________ All of the possible sequences of four consecutive positive integers less than 200
are created. One of these sequences is called orderly if the smallest member
is divisible by 2, the next smallest member is divisible by 3, the next smallest
is divisible by 4, and the largest is divisible by 5. What is the probability that
a randomly-selected sequence is orderly? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

8. _____________ This Pythagorean Claw is composed of eight squares, labeled A through H and
seven 30-60-90 right triangles. For each triangle, its hypotenuse is the side of a
square, and the side opposite its 60-degree angle is the side of a different square.
Which letter represents the largest square with area less than one-half that of
square A?

C D
E
B
F
G
A
H

9. _____________ What is the greatest two-digit prime number such that the sum of its digits is
also a prime number?

10. _____________ If n is a positive integer less than 100, what is the sum of all possible values of n
for which n2 + 55 is a perfect square?

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2017
Chapter Competition
Countdown Round
Problems 1−80

This booklet contains problems to be used


in the Countdown Round.

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1. _____________ If f (x) = x 2 − 3 and g (x) = 2x + 1, what is f (g (3))?

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2. _____________ What is the value of 8 2 ?
(4 )

3. _____________ Robin rolls two fair octahedral dice, each with faces numbered 1 through 8.
What is the probability that the sum of the numbers she rolls is 8? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

4. _____________ What is 120% of 45% of 1200?

5. _____________ What is the greatest two-digit prime number whose digits are both prime
numbers?

6. _____________ What is the value of 2122 − 2112?

(inches)
7. _____________ A stalk of corn is 32 inches tall. It grows by 25% of its height each month for
the next three months. What is the height of the stalk, in inches, at the end of the
3-month period? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

8. _____________ Three-fourths of the sum x + 3 is four less than twice x. What is the value of x?

9. _____________
(inches) A rhombus has an area of 84 in2 and a diagonal of length 14 inches. What is the
length, in inches, of the other diagonal?

10. _____________
(squares) How many squares of any size are in this figure consisting of
adjacent unit squares surrounding a larger square?

11. _____________ If a, b and c are positive integers such that a + b + c = 7, what is the least
possible value of a! + b! + c!?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
12. _____________ What is the value of the sum + + + + + + + ?
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

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13. _____________ If the gray region of the figure shown is a quarter-circle centered
at A, what is the probability that a tiny drop of ink that falls at
random onto square ABCD lands on the gray region? Express
your answer as a common fraction in terms of π. D C

14. _____________ The mean of seven of Charlotte’s scores is 80. The mean of three of those scores
is 60. What is the mean of the other four scores?

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15. _____________ What common fraction has a value that is halfway between and ?
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16. _____________ If 16 x + 3 = 2 5x, what is the value of x?

17. _____________ What is the value of 1 + 2 − 4 + 8 + 16 − 32?

18. _____________ A person who has a quarters and b nickels has $5.60 more than a person who
has a nickels and b quarters. What is the value of a − b?

19. _____________
(integers) For how many positive integers m does the line given by y = mx intersect the
segment with endpoints (20, 17) and (17, 20)?

20. _____________
(times) An earthquake that measures x + 1 on the Richter scale is 10 times as strong as
an earthquake that measures x on the same scale for any positive number x. How
many times stronger is an earthquake that measures 6.9 than one measuring 4.9
on the Richter scale?

21. _____________
(minutes) At the time 2:58 p.m., the digits displayed on a clock form an arithmetic
sequence in the order in which they appear. How many minutes later will the
digits displayed next form an arithmetic sequence?

22. _____________ What is the value of (1 + 3 + 5 +  + 2017) − (2 + 4 + 6 +  + 2016)?

23. _____________
(cents) Rebecca uses a $20 bill to pay for five notebooks that cost $3.97 each including
tax. How many cents should Rebecca receive in change?

24. _____________
(permu- How many permutations of three different letters can be made from the letters of
tations) LINES?
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25. _____________ Jess selects a 3-digit positive integer at random. What is the probability that she
selects a number with at least one odd digit? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

26. _____________ What is the value of (5−1 + 6−1)−1? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(packages)
27. _____________ A 120-pound box contains packages of candy, each with a total weight of
6 ounces. Ignoring the weight of the packaging, how many packages of candy
are in the box?

28. _____________ For what positive real number x, is (x + 3) the reciprocal of (x − 3)? Express
your answer in simplest radical form.

29. _____________ What is the least integer x for which x (x = 1?


2 − 9)

30. _____________ The arithmetic mean of ten numbers is 37. What number can be added to the set
so that the arithmetic mean of the eleven numbers is 41?

31. _____________ This figure shows an equilateral triangle with an inscribed circle of radius
5 cm that is circumscribed around a smaller equilateral triangle. What
is the ratio of the area of the smaller triangle to the area of the larger
triangle? Express your answer as a common fraction.

32. _____________ What is the least positive integer that contains each of the digits from 1 to 3 at
least once and is divisible by 9?

33. _____________ If 2x + 3 = 1000, what is the value of 4x2 − 9? y


Z(0, 9)

34. _____________
(units2) What is the area, in square units, of quadrilateral WXYZ, shown
X(0, 5)
here, with coordinates W(−6, 0), X(0, 5), Y(5, 2) and Z(0, 9)?
Y(5, 2)
x
W(−6, 0)

(in2)
35. _____________ A diagonal on one face of a cube measures 4 3 inches. What is the total surface
area of the cube, in square inches?

36. _____________ The lines given by the equations 2y + ax + 6 = 0 and 4y + x − 30 = 0 are


perpendicular. What is the value of a?

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37. _____________
(outcomes) Six identical cupcakes are distributed to two friends. If each friend gets at least
one cupcake, how many possible outcomes are there?

38. _____________ What is the value of the sum 2 + 2(2) + 2(2)(2) + 2(2)(2)(2)?

39. _____________
(arrange- Bill, Melissa and three friends are seated at a round table. Melissa does not sit
ments) next to Bill. Assume that two arrangements are considered the same if they are
rotations of each other. How many distinct seating arrangements are possible?

1 1
40. _____________ Given that x + = 4, what is the value of x 4 + 4 ?
x x

41. _____________ In the arithmetic sequence 12, w, x, y, z, 47, what is the value of y?

42. _____________ What is the 2017th odd positive integer?

43. _____________ If (x + y) 2 = 31 and (x − y) 2 = 29, what is the value of xy? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

44. _____________
(pounds) Madeline has eight dogs. The mean weight of the lightest six is 40 pounds. The
mean weight of the heaviest six is 55 pounds. What is the least possible range of
weights of her dogs?

45. _____________
(questions) The Trivia Nite Quiz has 25 questions. Each correct answer adds four points,
each wrong answer subtracts one point, and skipped questions are ignored. Liz
answered all of the questions and had 12 wrong answers. Malaika got the same
score without any wrong answers. How many questions did Malaika skip?

46. _____________
(points) How many points on the circle given by x 2 + y 2 = 169 have a pair of integer
coordinates?

47. _____________ What is the value of the arithmetic series 26 + 39 + 52 + ⋯ + 143?

48. _____________ The two distinct solutions of the equation x 2 + bx + c = 0 are reciprocals. What
is the value of c?

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49. _____________ Three vertices of a regular octagon are chosen at random to form the
vertices of a triangle. What is the probability that such a triangle is
isosceles? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(cm )
50. _____________
2
Nine different rectangles can be formed by choosing a width from the set {1 cm,
3 cm, 4 cm} and a length from the set {6 cm, 10 cm, 11 cm}. What is the mean
of the areas of these nine rectangles, in square centimeters?

51. _____________ The mean and unique mode of the list 3, 4, 5, x are the same integer. What is the
value of x?

52. _____________
(units) What is the length, in units, of a tangent from the point (10, 0) to the circle given
by x 2 + y 2 = 25? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

53. _____________ Let A be the set {3, 6, 9, 12} and B be the set of prime numbers between 30 and
50. One value from A and one value from B are chosen at random. What is the
probability that their sum contains at least one 5 as a digit? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

54. _____________ What is the slope of the line containing the points (−2, 3) and (1, 9)?

(in )
55. _____________
2
A wooden cube, 4 inches on each edge, is cut into eight 2-inch cubes. What is
the sum of the surface areas of the eight cubes, in square inches?

56. _____________ Three tennis balls are stacked tightly in a cylindrical can. What fraction
of the volume of the can is filled by the balls? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

57. _____________ What is the product of all real numbers x such that x 3 + 2x 2 − 6x − 12 = 0?

58. _____________ What is the value of 252 − (20)(30)?

59. _____________ What is the sum of all four-digit positive integers that contain each of the digits
6, 7, 8 and 9?

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60. _____________ What is the geometric mean of 7 and 7 7 ?

61. _____________ In a sequence of numbers, each term after the second is the sum of the two
previous terms. The first three terms are 3, 3, 6. What is the value of the first
term greater than 200?

(arrange-
62. _____________ How many more unique arrangements of the letters in the name JESSE are there
ments) than in the name ALANA?

63. _____________ What is the greatest value of x such that x 2 − 11x + 30 = 0?

64. _____________ What is the value of the expression:


1 × 9 + 2 × 99 + 3 × 999 + 4 × 9999 + 5 × 99999?

(in2)
65. _____________ Two 8.5-inch by 11-inch sheets of paper are lying flat on an otherwise
unoccupied 2-foot by 3-foot tabletop. Exactly 700 in2 of the table are not
covered by the sheets of paper. What is the area of the overlap of the two sheets,
in square inches?

66. _____________ Square WXYZ in the coordinate plane has vertices W(2, −7), X(−6, 8), Y(9, 16)
and Z(a, b). What is the value of a + b?

3 3
67. _____________ What is the least value of x that is a solution of 5 + = 5+ ? Express your
x x
answer as a common fraction.

(feet)
3
68. _____________ On a scale model of a building, one room measures 2 inches long by
7 8
1 inches wide. If the actual room is 19 feet long, how many feet wide is it?
8

69. _____________
(units) Two legs of a right triangle have lengths 10 and 15. What is the length of the
hypotenuse, in units? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

70. _____________ Jim eats two-fifths of a chocolate bar and leaves the remaining three-fifths in the
kitchen. Marie comes in and eats one-third of the remaining bar, and then Sage
finds it and eats one-fourth of what’s left. What fraction of the original chocolate
bar remains? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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(frapts)
71. _____________ On Mercury, 13 farfels equal 14 freks, 7 freks equal 16 fremps, 8 fremps equal
11 frindels, 12 frindels equal 9 frapts. How many frapts is 26 farfels?

72. _____________
(cubes) How many cubes of edge length 0.5 inches are needed to fill a cube with edge
length 2 inches?

73. _____________ What is the slope of the perpendicular bisector of the segment connecting points
(20, 15) and (19, 84)? Express your answer as a common fraction.

1 2
− − −1
74. _____________ What is the arithmetic mean of 27 3 , 27 3
and 27 ? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

75. _____________
(cm) Larry needs three pieces of ribbon totaling 30 meters in length for an art project.
He needs one piece of ribbon that is 15 cm longer than twice the length of the
shortest piece, and he needs another piece that is 30 cm shorter than three times
the length of the second piece. What is the length of the shortest piece of ribbon
that Larry needs, in centimeters?

1
76. _____________
(hours) How many hours are in of one week?
28

77. _____________ What is the sum of the odd integers from 1 through 17, inclusive?

48 24
78. _____________ If = , what is the ratio of x to y? Express your answer as a
2x + 5 y 3x − 2 y
common fraction.

79. _____________
(dollars) Rich works for Wall Smart earning $20 per hour. By mistake his wage was
reduced by 50%. To attempt to fix the mistake, his reduced wage is increased
by 50%. How many dollars does Rich currently earn per hour?

80. _____________ For what value of c does the parabola given by y = x 2 − 10x + c have exactly one
x-intercept?

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