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1. Tami had 1800 baseball cards. She sold 2 of them and then 1. ______________
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gave away 5 of her remaining ones. How many cards does
Tami have left?

2. During the 20th century, eighteen different men held the office 2. ______________
of President of the United States. Eleven of them were
members of the Republican Party. What percent of the
eighteen presidents was Republican? Round your answer to
the nearest whole number.

3. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia, 10,200 athletes 3. ______________


participated in 28 different sports over a period of 16 days.
What was the average number of athletes per sport? Round
your answer to the nearest whole number.

4. A tree doubled its height every year until 4. ______________


it reached a height of 32 feet at the end of
6 years. What was the height of the tree,
in feet, at the end of 3 years?

5. The formula d = 16t2 is used to calculate the distance, d, in 5. ______________


feet, a free falling object, starting from rest, will travel in
t seconds. How many seconds will it take for a ball, starting
from rest, to free fall from a height of 64 feet to the ground?

6. What is the sum of the reciprocals of the natural-number 6. ______________


factors of 6?

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7. What coordinate on the number line is equidistant from the 7. ______________
coordinates -5.65 and 8.75? Express your answer as a decimal
to the nearest hundredth.

8. What is the largest integer whose cube is less than 10,000? 8. ______________

9. Enrollment information for a high school computer class is 9. ______________


provided. What is the median age of the students in the class?

Age Number
(in years) of Students
14 5
15 9
16 6
17 3
18 1

10. Chelsea has made 6 of 17 free throw attempts. How many 10. ______________
consecutive free throws must she make to raise her
percentage of free throws made to exactly 50%?

11. Define a # b = ab − a + b −8 for all real numbers a and b. 11. ______________


x # 3 = 37. What is the value of x?

12. The sum of a negative integer, N, and its square is 6. What is 12. ______________
the value of N?

13. What is the sum of the prime numbers between 30 and 50? 13. ______________

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14. A circular spinner to be used in a game is divided by radii into 14. ______________
5 wedge-shaped pieces such that 4 pieces have equal area and
the area of the remaining piece is twice the area of any one of
the other pieces. How many degrees are in the central angle of
the largest piece?

15. What is the probability that a randomly selected positive 15. ______________
integer less than or equal to 100 is divisible by 7? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

16. Fifty people arrange themselves in three rows, such that the 16. ______________
first and third rows have the same number of people, while the
middle row has 2 more people than each of the other rows.
How many people are in the first row?

17. The number of inches in both the length and the width of a 17. ______________
rectangle are prime numbers. The area of the rectangle is
391 square inches. What is the number of inches in the
perimeter of the rectangle?

18. What is the ratio of x to y given that 4(5x + 3y) = 3(x + 7y) ? 18. ______________
Express your answer as a common fraction.

19. Cheldelin Middle School has 12 doors to enter or leave the 19. ______________
building. In how many ways is it possible to enter the building
by one door and leave the building by a different door?

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20. A jar contains 10 red, 7 blue and 5 yellow marbles. Blue 20. ______________
marbles are then added in order to change the probability of
randomly selecting a blue marble from the jar to “greater
than 21 .” What is the least number of blue marbles that must
be added?

21. How many positive perfect squares less than 300 are multiples 21. ______________
of 9?

22. What is the least common multiple of the numbers 1332 and 22. ______________
888?

23. What is the probability that the square root of a randomly 23. ______________
selected two-digit whole number is less than eight? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

24. Mathman rides 53 of a mile in 1 21 minutes on his bicycle. What 24. ______________
is his average speed in miles per hour?

25. During the month of June, Jonathan ran 2 miles on each 25. ______________
Tuesday and Thursday, and 7 miles on each Saturday and
Sunday. He did not run on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.
June 1 was on a Friday. How many miles did Jonathan run in
June?

©2001 MATHCOUNTS Foundation: 2002 Chapter Sprint Round


26. Before taking his last test in a class, the arithmetic mean of 26. ______________
Brian’s test scores is 91. He has determined that if
he scores 98 on his last test, the arithmetic mean
of all his test scores will be exactly 92. How
many tests, including the last test, does Brian
take for this class?

27. A 24-foot by 72-foot rectangular dance floor is completely 27. ______________


tiled with 1-foot by 1-foot square tiles. Two opposite corners
of the dance floor are connected by a diagonal. This diagonal
passes through the interior of exactly how many tiles?

28. The length of the year on the planet Mars is 28. ______________
exactly 697 days. If Mars has a calendar with a
12-day week, and year 0 begins on the first day of
the week, what is the next year which will begin
on the first day of the week?

29. The addition problem below has a unique solution. Each of the 29. ______________
letters A, B and C represents a different nonzero digit. What is
the product of A, B and C?
AB B
+ BBA
CAB C

30. Solve for x: 33 ⋅ 9 3 ⋅ 27 3 ⋅ 813 = 9 x . 30. ______________

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