Tareet Round 3
2y + y == 33
1. Given: A season ski pass costs $395. A day
ticket costs $40.
Find: How much money is saved with a
season ski pass compared to 38 day
tickets?
38 day tickets cost $40 x 38 = $1520
$1520-$395 = $1125 Am.
S. Given: Sum of the first 5 terms of a
2. Given: A string of numbers consists of one
1, two 2s, three 3s, etc.
Find: the 50th digit.
The sum of 1 through 9 is 45. Therefore,
starting with the 46th digit we have 10101.
The 50th digit is 1 ~
3. Given: Eunice takes 2 minutes 30 seconds
to run around a quarter-mile track.
Find: How many minutes it takes her to
run 1 mile.
1 mile is 4 quarter-mile laps with each lap
taking 2 minutes 30 seconds.
2 laps take 5 minutes.
4 laps take 10 minutes ~
4. Given: Rectangle ABCD is composed of 11
congruent rectangles. The length of AB is
6. Given: the hour and minute hands of a
33.
Find: the area of rectangle ABCD.
Let x = the width of one of the rectangles.
Lety = the length of the rectangle.
IF AB has length 33,
2y + X == 33
The length of EF is the same as the length
of AD. Therefore, 4x == 3y and x == ~ y
4
Substituting back into the first equation:
4
11
4y=33
lly = 132
y = 12
EF = AD = 3y = 36
36 x 33 = 1188 units2 Am.
sequence is 90 less than the sum of the
next 5 terms.
Find: the absolute difference between
two consecutive terms of this sequence.
Terms of an arithmetic sequence differ by
the same amount.
Let a = the first term and d be the
common difference between consecutive
terms. The sum of the first 5 terms is
a + a + d + a + 2d + a + 3d + a + 4d =
Sa + 10d. The sum of the next 5 terms is
a+Sd+a+6d+a+7d+a+8d+a+9d=
Sa+ 35d. The difference between these
two values is (Sa+ 35d) - (Sa + 10d) = 90.
Simplifying and solving ford yields
90
25d = 90 and d =
25
= 185 ~
clock create a 60° angle at 2:00.
Find: how many seconds later is the next
time when the hour and minute hands
create a 60° angle.
The minute hand takes 1 hour, 3600
seconds, to go around the clock.
Therefore, the minute hand moves~
3 600
=
1
° every second. The hour hand takes 12
10
hours, 12 x 3600 = 43200 seconds, to go
around the clock. Therefore, the hour
6 1
hand moves -720 == -120 0 every second .
Now let's look at a clock showing 2:00.
 8. Given: A room has eight light switches.
Initially, exactly 5 of the lights are on. Three
people enter the room sequentially and
independently flip one switch randomly.
Find: the probability that after the third
The minute hand is at 0° and the hour person has exited the room, exactly six of
hand is at 60°. Every second the minute the lights are on.
In order to end up with exactly 6 lights
hand moves..!.. 0 and the hour hand moves
10 on, the three people must turn two on and
~
1 0
°. This means that each second the one off, in some order. Other options that
minute hand comes..!.. - -
10
1
-
120
= E..
120
-
1
- =
-120 would not result in six lights on are
11 turning on three lights, turning off three
° closer to the hour hand.
120 lights or turning one on and two off.
Let x = the number of seconds it will take There are 3 x 2 x 1 = 6 ways to turn three
for the two hands to coincide. Then 60 = lights on. This is because when the first
11
120
x , and x =-120x1 -1 60- = 654. -54 seconds. person enters the room the number of
At this point the hands are exactly on top lights off is 3, when the second person
of each other. It will take the same enters the room there are 2 lights off and
amount of time for the minute hand to go when the third person enters the room
past the hour hand to form a 60°angle. there is 1 light off.
654. 54 X 2 = 1309. 09 o::: 1309 Ani. Similarly, there are 5 x 4 x 3 = 60 ways to
turn three lights off.
7. Given: A bag contains some number of There are 5 x 4 x S = 100 ways to turn
blue and exactly 11 yellow marbles. When two lights off then one on, in that order.
5 blue marbles are added, the probability There are S x 4 x 5 = 100 ways to turn
of randomly drawing a blue marble one light off, one light on and one light off.
exceeds 70%. There are 3 x 6 x S = 90 ways to turn one
Find: the least possible number of blue light on then two lights off.
marbles in the bag originally. There are 3 x 2 x 7 = 42 ways to turn two
Let b = the original number of blue lights on then one off.
marbles. We have the following: There are 3 x 6 x 3 = 54 ways to turn one
b +5 7 light on, one light off then one light on.
b+S+11>10 There are S x 4 x 3 = 60 ways to turn one
b+S 7 light off then two lights on.
b + 16 > 10 There are a total of 6 + 60 + 100 + 100 +
Cross-multiplying, we get 90 + 42 + 54 + 60 = 512 ways for three of
10b +SO> 7b + 112. Solving for b yields the eight switches to be flipped.
3b > 62, sob > 20 !_
3
Substituting, the Of these 512 ways, 42 + 54 + 60 = 156
ways to end with exactly 6 lights on.
least integer greater than 20 :, we get
3 The probability of exactly 6 lights being
21 + S 26
10 207 on after the third person exits the room is
21 + 16 = 37 o::: · % 156 39
when b = 21 AnL 512 = 128 W,.
 2016 Chapter Competition
Sprint Round
1. Given: Count backwards from 155 by 4.
Find: The 9th number.
The first number is 155.
The second number is 151, or 4 less.
The ninth number is 4 x 8 = 32 less.
155 - 32 = 123 AnL
2. Given: The graph, as displayed below.
Find: The difference between the
maximum and minimum values.
·- _..! .
·V<-
The highest point in terms ofy is the third
point from the right with coordinates
(1, 3). The lowest point in terms ofy is the
second point from the right with
coordinates (-2.5, -4) - at least it looks
like around -2.5. The difference in the
y-coordinates is 3 - (-4) = 7 AIU.
.
3. G1ven: 1 b b
;;=-;; , =-1
Find: a
Substituting-1 for b, we get 1/-1 = -1/a.
Cross-multiplying, we find that
a=(-1)(-1)=1 Ans.
4. Find: The sum of all two-digit multiples of
3 that have a units digit of 1.
21 is the first two-digit multiple of 3
which has a units digit of 1. Each
successive two-digit multiple of 3 with a
units digit of 1 is 30 larger. There are
three in all: 21, 51 and 81. Their sum is
21 + 51 + 81 = 153 Am.
5. Find: the sum of the first 8 terms of the
sequence beginning -4, 5 ... where each
term is the sum of the previous two terms.
The first eight terms of the sequence are
-4, 5, 1, 6, 7, 13, 20 and 33. Their sum is
-4 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 7 + 13 + 20 + 33 = 81 Ans,.
6. Given: The graph displayed below.
Find: the total cost to ship 3 packages
weighing 1.8 lbs., 2 lbs. and 4.4 lbs.
U l l J -' 3 6
Wc,glLl(ibsJ
It costs $3 to ship the 1.8-lb. package,
$3.50 to ship the 2-lb. package and $5 to
ship the 4.4-lb. package. The total cost to
mail all three packages is 3 + 3.50 + S =
11.50 AIU.
7. Given: the graph below.
Find: the degree measure of the portion
of the cookie that is flour.
.\b:i.'s Co01m: Doui;u
The cookie is made of 40% flour and.
40% of 360° is 360 x 0.4 = 144 AIU.
8. Given: 3 zoguts and 4 gimuns costs $18.
2 zoguts and 3 gimuns costs $13.
Find: the cost of 1 zogut and 1 gimun
Let z = the cost of a zogut and g = the cost
of a gimun. We can write the equations