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2. What is the value of 3. Evaluate without a calculator. 4. Solve for : 5. For what positive value of

AMC8 Algebra Homework -2

1. What is the value of
? ? . will the following equation be true if ?

6. Suppose 7. Solve:

and common fraction.

. What is the value of

? Express your answer as a

. Write your answers as a list of numbers, separated by

commas, e.g. "23, 19".

8. The mean of ten numbers is 7.2. When an 11th number is added to the set, the mean
becomes 5. What is the 11th number? . What is the least of these four numbers? 10. The Sprint Round competition consists of 30 problems with a time limit of 40 minutes. You completed 20 Sprint Round problems in 25 minutes. On average, how many times longer will you be able to spend on each remaining problem than you did on each of the first 20? Express your answer as a common fraction.

9. The product of four consecutive positive integers is 1 less than

11. How many integers satisfy ? 12. Two trains travel directly toward each other. One of the trains travels at a rate of 12
km/h while the other travels at a rate of 20 km/h. When the trains are 72 km apart a conductor at the front of one of the trains releases the insane pigeon Hyde. Hyde flies first from the slower of the two trains to the faster train at which point Hyde doubles back toward the slower train. Hyde continues to fly back and forth between the trains as they approach, always at a constant speed of 48 km/h. Assuming the trains never change speed until they meet and magically stop, how many kilometers has Hyde flown when the trains meet? 13. The force of gravitational attraction between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of their distance apart. If two objects have a gravitational attraction of 750 units when they are 3300 meters apart, how far apart are they when their gravitational force is 1000 units? Express your answer to the nearest meter. 14. The terms of a particular sequence are determined according to the following rule: If the value of a given term is an odd positive integer , then the value of the following term is ; if the value of a given term is an even positive integer , then the value of the following term is . Suppose that the terms of the sequence alternate between two positive integers . What is the sum of the two positive integers?

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15. Given positive integers

and possible positive value for

such that ?

and

, what is the smallest . Find .

16. A function is defined by and for 17. Each letter represents a non-zero digit. What is the value of ?

18. Two perpendicular lines intersect at the point

3, what is the coordinates.

. If the slope of one of the lines is -intercept of the other line? Express your answer as an ordered pair of

19. Given that

common fraction.

compute

. Express your answer as a ? Express your answer as a

20. If

and , what is the value of common fraction. 21. What is the greatest possible value of for the equation

22. For positive integers

, , and , what is the value of the product

23. What is the value of the following expression? 24. Let be the (shortest) distance between 2 parallel lines with slope 6 whose
are 8 units apart. Find . . .

-intercepts

25. Fully simplify 26. Fully simplify

27. Dave has pieces of candy and Ramon has pieces. Dave gives Ramon
They then each have 20 pieces of candy. What is the value of ?

of his candy.

28. One-half of a road construction 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? 29. Running at constant speed, Andy can run around a circular track once in 40 seconds. Bob, running in the opposite direction, slaps hands with Andy every time they run past each other. If they only slap hands every 15 seconds, how many seconds does it take Bob to run around the track once?

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30. What is the ratio of the width to length of a folded sheet of paper if the rectangle formed
when the sheet is folded in half as shown is similar to the original rectangular sheet? Express your answer as a common fraction in simplest radical form.

31. One caterer charges a basic fee of

plus

per person. A second caterer charges a

32.

33.

34. 35.

36.

37.

38.

basic fee of plus per person. What is the least number of people that could go to a party in order for the second caterer to be cheaper? There are three lead bricks on a table, and you have a strangely designed scale that only functions properly when it has two bricks on it. So you put two of the bricks on and they weigh 24 pounds. Another set of two bricks weighs 26 pounds. The final set of two bricks weighs 30 pounds. How much does each brick weigh? Express your answer as a list of numbers in increasing order, separated by commas: e.g., "2, 5, 7". Loc can mow his entire lawn in 20 minutes; Loc's roommate Reza needs 30 minutes to mow the entire lawn. If Loc starts mowing at 1:00, mows for five minutes and then Reza starts to help with his own mower, at what time will they finish mowing the lawn? Express your answer in the form h:mm. My trip to work is 120 miles. If I go 8 mph faster than my usual speed, I'll get to work 30 minutes earlier. How long is my trip if I don't speed up, in hours? A vendor has six jugs of punch with capacities of 13, 15, 16, 21, 21, and 22 gallons. One jug, which he keeps for himself, is full of blue punch. The other five jugs are full of red punch. Without opening any of the jugs, he sells 1/3 of the red punch to Randy and the remaining 2/3 of the red punch to Lisa. How many gallons of the blue punch did he keep for himself? Yesterday, Teddy played a game repeatedly on his computer and won exactly 85% of the games he played. Today, Teddy played the same game repeatedly, winning every game he played, until his over-all winning percentage for yesterday and today was exactly 94%. What is the minimum number of games that he played today? John noticed that the angle formed by the minute hand and hour hand on a standard 12-hour clock was 110 degrees when he left home after 6 p.m.; it was also 110 degrees when he returned before 7 p.m. that same night. If he left home for more than five minutes, for how many minutes was he away? In a bag of three marbles, there are exactly two blue marbles. If Kia randomly chooses two marbles without replacement, the probability of choosing the two blue marbles is one-third. However, before Kia chooses her two marbles, additional marbles are added to the bag. The probability of picking two blue marbles without replacement is still onethird. What is the least number of marbles that could be in the bag after the additional marbles have been added?