Problems

1. What is the units digits of

222, 222 − 22, 222 − 2, 222 − 222 − 22 − 2?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

2. What is the value of this expression in decimal form?

44 110 44
+ +
11 44 1100
(A) 6.4 (B) 6.504 (C) 6.54 (D) 6.9 (E) 6.94

3. Four squares of side length 4, 7, 9, and 10 are arranged in increasing size order so that their left edges and
bottom edges align. The squares alternate in color white-gray-white-gray, respectively, as shown in the
figure. What is the area of the visible gray region in square units?

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(A) 42 (B) 45 (C) 49 (D) 50 (E) 52

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4. When Yunji added all the integers from 1 through 9, she mistakenly left out a number. Her incorrect
number turned out to be a square number. Which number did Yunji leave out?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

5. Aaliyah rolls two standard 6-sided dice. She notices that the product of the two numbers rolled is a
multiple of 6. Which of the following integers cannot be the sum of the two numbers?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

6. Sergei skated around an ice rink, gliding along different paths. The gray lines in the figures below show
four of the paths labeled P, Q, R, and S. What is the sorted order of the four paths from shortest to
longest?

(A) P, Q, R, S (B) P, R, S, Q (C) Q, S, P, R (D) R, P, S, Q (E) R, S, P, Q

7. A 3 × 7 rectangle is covered without overlap by 3 shapes of tiles: 2 × 2, 1 × 4, and 1 × 1, shown below.

What is the minimum possible number of 1 × 1 tiles used?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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 8. On Monday Taye has $2. Every day, he either gains $3 or doubles the amount of money he had on the
previous day. How many different dollar amounts could Taye have on Thursday, 3 days later?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

9. All of the marbles in Maria’s collection are red, green, or blue. Maria has half as many red marbles as
green marbles and twice as many blue marbles as green marbles. Which of the following could be the
total number of marbles in Maria’s collection?

(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 26 (D) 27 (E) 28

10. In January 1980 the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded carbon dioxide (CO2 ) levels of 338 ppm (parts per
million). Over the years the average CO2 reading has increased by about 1.515ppm each year. What is
the expected CO2 level in ppm in January 2030? Round your answer to the nearest integer.

(A) 399 (B) 414 (C) 420 (D) 444 (E) 459

11. The coordinates of △ABC are A(5, 7), B(11, 7), and C(3, y), with y > 7. The area of △ABC is 12.
What is the value of y?

C(3, y)

A(5, 7) B(11, 7)

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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12. Rohan keeps a total of 90 guppies in 4 fish tanks.
• There is 1 more guppy in the 2nd tank than the 1st tank.
• There are 2 more guppies in the 3rd tank than the 2nd tank.
• There are 3 more guppies in the 4th tank than the 3rd tank.
How many guppies are in the 4th tank?

(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 23 (D) 24 (E) 26

13. Buzz Bunny is hopping up and down a set of stairs, one step at a time. In how many ways can Buzz start
on the ground, make a sequence of 6 hops, and end back up on the ground? (For example, one sequence
of hops is up-up-down-down-up-down.)

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 12

14. The one-way routes connecting towns A, M, C, X, Y, and Z are shown in the figure below (not drawn to
scale). The distances in kilometers along each route are marked. Traveling along these routes, what is
the shortest distance from A to Z in kilometers?
10
X Y
17
5 2 6 5

A M C Z
8 14 10
25

(A) 28 (B) 29 (C) 30 (D) 31 (E) 32

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15. Let the letters F, L, Y, B, U, G represent distinct digits. Suppose F L Y F L Y is the greatest number
that satisfies the equation
8 · F L Y F L Y = B U G B U G.
What is F L Y + B U G?

(A) 1089 (B) 1098 (C) 1107 (D) 1116 (E) 1125

16. Minh enters the numbers 1 through 81 into the cells of a 9 × 9 grid in some order. She calculates the
product of the numbers in each row and column. What is the least number of rows and columns that
could have a product divisible by 3?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

17. A chess king is said to attack all the squares one step away from it horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
For instance, king on the center square of a 3×3 grid attacks all 8 other squares, as shown below. Suppose
a white king and a black king are placed on different squares of a 3 × 3 grid so that they do not attack
each other. In how many ways can this be done?

(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 27 (D) 28 (E) 32

18. Three concentric circles centered at O have radii 1, 2, and 3. Points B and C lie on the largest circle.
The region between the two smaller circles is shaded, as is the portion of the region between the two
larger circles bounded by central angle BOC. Suppose the shaded and unshaded regions are equal in area.
What is the measure of ∠BOC in degrees?

(A) 108 (B) 120 (C) 135 (D) 144 (E) 150

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19. Jordan owns 15 pairs of sneakers. Three fifths of the pairs are red and the rest are white. Two thirds
of the pairs are high-top and the rest are low-top. The red high-top sneakers make up a fraction of the
collection. What is the least possible value of this fraction?

1 4 1 2
(A) 0 (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 15 3 3

20. Any three vertices of the cube P QRST V U W , shown in the figure below, can be connected to form a
triangle. (For example, vertices P, Q, and R can be connected to form isosceles triangle △P QR.) How
many of these triangles are equilateral and conrtain P as a vertex?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 6

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21. A group of frogs (called an army ) is living in a tree. frog turns green when in the shade and turns yellow
when in the sun. Initially, the ratio of green to yellow frogs was 3 : 1. Then 3 green frogs moved to the
sunny side and 5 yellow frogs moved to the shady side. Now the ratio is 4 : 1. What is the difference
between the number of green frogs and the number of yellow frogs now?

(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 24

22. A roll of tape is 4 inches in diameter and is wrapped around a ring that is 2 inches in diameter. A cross
section of the tape is shown in the figure below. The tape is 0.015 inches thick. If the tape is completely
unrolled, approximately how long would it be? Round your answer to the nearest 100 inches.

2 in

4 in

(A) 300 (B) 600 (C) 1200 (D) 1500 (E) 1800

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23. Rodrigo has a very large piece of graph paper. First he draws a line segment connecting the point (0, 4)
to the point (2, 0) and colors the 4 cells whose interiors intersect the segment, as shown below. Next,
Rodrigo draws a line segment connecting point (2000, 3000) to point (5000, 8000). Again he colors cells
whose interiors intersect the segment. How many cells will he color this time?

(0, 4)

(2, 0)

(A) 6000 (B) 6500 (C) 7000 (D) 7500 (E) 8000

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24. Jean made a piece of stained glass art in the shape of two mountains, as shown in the figure below. One
mountain peak is 8 feet high and the other peak is 12 feet high. Each peak forms a 90◦ angle, and the
straight sides of the mountains form 45◦ angles with the ground. The artwork has an area of 183 square
feet. The sides of the mountains meet at a point near the center of the artwork, h feet above the ground.
What is the value of h?

12
8
h
◦
45 45◦

√ √
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 4 2 (D) 6 (E) 5 2

25. A small airplane has 4 rows of seats with 3 seats in each row. Eight passengers have boarded the plane
and are distributed randomly among the seats. A married couple is next to board. What is the probability
that there will be 2 adjacent seats in the same row for the couple?

8 32 20 34 8
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
15 55 33 55 11

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 Answer Key
1. B

2. C

3. E

4. E

5. B

6. D

7. E

8. D

9. E

10. B

11. D

12. E

13. B

14. A

15. C

16. D

17. E

18. A

19. C

20. D

21. E

22. B

23. C

24. B

25. C

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