Accord Institute Advanced Math and Science Program

GAUSS LEAGUE TEST-1

(1) Simplify the following expression:

120 ÷ 24 × 6 ÷ 3 − 2 ÷ 2.
a2 +15
(2) If a = 4 find a2 −15

(3) Janet divides a number by 3 and gets 4 as her answer. However, she should
have multiplied the number by 4 and then add 3 to get the correct answer.
What is the correct answer?

(4) Jack has $63. Cruz has one third as much as Jack and Kelly has two sev-
enths as much as Cruz. How many dollars does Kelly have?

(5) Gennifer solved 3 problems correctly among the first 5 problems on a test.
What % of the remaining 10 problems must she correctly solve so that her
overall rate is 80%?

(6) The ratio of chickens to cows in a farm is 4 : 7. If there is more than 50

animals on the farm, at least how many cows are there?

11m+111
(7) Find the value of m if 3 = 3m + 45.

(8) Find a number whose distance to 22 is 44 more than its distance to 88.

(9) Mr. Reader reads 7 pages more than the previous day everyday. He finishes
his 777 page-book in 7 days. What is the number of pages he read on the
second day?

(10) In an exam with 225 problems, 1/5 of the problems are easy, 4/5 of the
remaining problems have normal difficulty and the rest of the problems are
difficult. How many difficult problems are there in the exam?

(11) Simplify
20.25 × 4.5 − 0.125.
(12) Find the closest integer to
0.11 + 0.12 + 0.13 + · · · + 0.97 + 0.98 + 0.99.
(13) LA Lakers won 21 of their first 50 games in a season of 90 games. To guar-
antee a play-off spot they need to have at least 50% winning rate at the
end of the season. At least what percent of the remaining games do they
need to win to accomplish this?

(14) Julio sells 20% of his merchandize with 20% profit, 30% of it with 40%
profit, and the rest with 10% profit. What percent of profit did he make
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overall?
p √
(15) Simplify 43 + 33 − 3+ 36

(16) Simplify √ √ √ √
( 72 − 32) × ( 18 + 8).
(17) Adam and Betty competes in solving problems in December. Adam solves
1 problem on the first day and every day solves one more problem than
the day before. Betty solves 33 problems on the first day and every day
solves one less problem than the day before. Altogether, how many more
problems than 1, 000 did Adam and Betty solve during the month?

(18) One third of the eggs are eaten by three fourths of the students in a class.
The rest of the eggs are not eaten. Each student eats 0 or 1 egg. If 9
students did not eat any eggs, how many eggs were there at the beginning?

(19) a, b, and c are positive integers.

a 3 b 7
b = 2 and c = 6 .
What is the minimum value of a + b + c?

(20) a, b, and c are positive integers and a + b + c = 17.

Find the maximum value of 2a + 3b + 4c.

(21) a and b are positive integers where

a+b 2a − b ab
= = .
7 3 110
Find a + b.

1√ 1√
(22) 3+2 2
+ 3−2 2
can be simplified to

(23) 40% of the students in a class are boys. A group of 10 boys join the class
and the percent of the boys increase to 55%. After that, a group of 10 girls
join the class. What percent of the class is boys in the end?

(24) Hannah reads three books in a row: Jerry Pot, Harry Potter, and Larry
Pottest, which combine to 5, 555 pages. She reads 1 page on the first day, 2
pages on the second page, 3 pages on the third day. She continues reading
one more page than the previous day till less than 100 pages are left to read
one day. How many pages are left to read on that last day?

(25) We call a positive integer ‘cool’ if it is a positive integer raised to a an

integer power more than 1. So squares, cubes, fourth powers and larger
powers of positive integers are all cool numbers. How many cool numbers
are there among the first 1, 000 positive integers?