MATHCOUNTS. 1999-2000 @ School Competition Sprint Round Problems 1-30 — Name ___ DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED 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, slide rules, books, or any 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 blank in the right-hand column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems before time is called, use the remaining time to check your answers. ‘Total Correct Scorers Initials Founding Sponsors National Sponsors NA ‘The Dow Chemical Company Foundation National Society of Profesional Engineers ‘Texas Instruments Incorporated National Counelof Teachers of Mathematics General Motor Foundation SM Foundation Foundation Philips Petroleum Company [National Aeronautics and Space Administration1. What is the smallest number of coins needed to make 474? 2. Calculate: 6+ 4 x 3. 3. 84 is 40% of what number? 4, How many sets of five paintings can a museum curator choose from a collection of eight paintings? 5. The number of rounds of golf played by each golfer of an amateur golf association is shown in the chart below. What is the average number of rounds played by each golfer? Express your answer to the nearest whole number Number of Golfers ro2 3 4s Rounds of Golf Played 6. What is the value of a+ b-+c if 4-6-30 = 2%.3!.5¢? 7. If two figures can be made to look the same by rotations or reflections, they are not considered unique How many unique two-dimensional figures can be formed by fitting four congruent squares together so that adjacent squares share an entire edge? (Squares may not overlap.) 8. The sum of four different positive integers is 90. What is the maximum value possible for the second-largest integer? 9. The two squares shown each have an area of 1 square meter. W is the center of one square and a vertex of the other. What is the number of square meters in the shaded area? Express your answer as a common fraction. 10. Compute: a 10. 1999-2000 School Sprint RoundiL 13 14, 15, 16, 18. 19. 20. 2 A school is creating a four-digit student. code system. For security reasons, the code cannot start with an even number. How many codes are possible? A basketball player makes her free throws 55% of the time. What is the probability that she will make both of her next two free throws? Express your answer as a common fraction. How many more complete revolutions will a wheel with a circumference of 3 fect make than a wheel with a circumference of 4 feet in traveling one mile? ‘The number 25 can be written as the sum of two or five consecutive whole numbers. What is the positive difference between the products of the numbers in each set? A new sports stadium has a seating capacity of 24,000 people. One-fifth of the seats are box seats, and 2 of the remaining seats are reserved seats; all other seats are general admission. How many seats are general admission? In a class of 180 eighth-grade students, 80% went to the Science Museum. Ninety percent of the boys and 90 girls went on this trip. How many girls are in the eighth-grade class? The quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies in Jeremy's pocket total $2.35. He has as many quarters as pennies, as many dimes as nickels, and fewer quarters than dimes. How many dimes does he have? By hitting a target, Juanita can score 16, 17, 23, 26, 29 or 40 points with each arrow. What is the fewest arrows she can shoot to score exactly 100 points? ‘The endpoints of a diagonal of a rectangle are (~4,—5) and (3,4), and the sides of the rectangle are parallel to the axes. How many square units are in the area of the rectangle? Each of three students received a portion of the prize money for a contest. Ann received 160% of the amount Jeff received, and Jeff received } of what Marcia received. Marcia received $820. What was the total number of dollars of prize money? Brandon has an S-inch square pan. Barbara has a 9-inch square pan. Both pans have the same volume. What is the ratio of the height of Barbara’s pan to the height of Brandon's pan? Express your answer as a common fraction. u 4. 15, 16. 17. 18, 19. 20. 2. 2000-01 National Sprint Round22, The four squares pictured share a common vertex. The three interior squares each have a vertex at the center of the next larger square. The largest square has side length 8cm. How many square centimeters are in the shaded region? 23. Keystone Bike Shop advertised a sale for 40% off any bike. The sale prices were then discounted an additional 20%, After both discounts, Jerry paid $168 for his new bike. What was the number of dollars in the original price of Jerry’s bike? 24. What is the sum of all positive integer values of n for which "8 js an integer? 25. If aVb = a? + 2ab +6?, what is the value of (3V2)V5? 26. In the addition problem shown, a, : A band c represent. + 90% cha three different digits, What is the three-digit. sum? 27. In a sequence, each term after the first is four more than three times the previous term. The fifth term is 403. What is the first term? 28. All angles are right, angles. How many rectangles are in this diagram? 29. The numbers —2, 3 and 4 are each used once and substituted at random for a, 6, and c in the equation az +b=c. What is the probability that « is negative? Express your answer as a common fraction. 30. Patrick drove to work on Monday at an average speed of 40 mph and arrived one minute late. He left at the same time on Tuesday, drove an average speed of 45 mph, and arrived one minute early. How many miles does he drive to work each day? 22, 23. 24, 25, 26. 27. 28. 29. 30, 1999-2000 School Sprint Round