Mock Mathcounts Competition

Made by Anderson Wang

Sprint Round

1. Gene can buy 8 cars for $2008. How much will it cost for him to buy 9
cars if every car costs the same amount?

2. Simplify:
7!4! 3!0!
−
5!6! 1!2!

Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

3. Awesome Pet Food Co. sells bags of cat food for $3 each and bags of dog
food for $5 each. Bob buys 4 bags of dog food, and Bill buys 5 bags of cat food.
What is the ratio of the amount of money Bill pays to the amount of money
Bob pays? Express your answer as a common fraction.

4. There are five people standing in a line. If the youngest person has to be
immediately next to two other people, in how many ways can they stand?

5. Andy mows a lawn at exactly the same speed as Andrew. If it takes

them two hours to mow five lawns together, how many minutes does it take for
Andrew to mow one lawn by himself?

6. AC is the diameter of a circle O, and AB 2 + BC 2 = 324, where B is a

point on the circumference of the circle that is not at point A or C. What is the
area of the circle? Express your answer in terms of pi.

7. A set of 6 positive integers has a median of 3, and it has modes 2 and

4. If the average of the numbers in the set is less than 5, what is the greatest
possible value of any integer in the set?

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8. The fraction can be written as a decimal in the form:
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a.bcdef g

What is the value of

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 ((c · a) + b) · ((f · e) + d)
?
g

9. 4ABC has side lengths AB = 13, BC = 15, and AC = 14. If the altitude
drawn from B intersects AC at point D, what is the value of CD · AD · BD ?

10. What is the sum of the perimeters of all possible obtuse triangles where
two of the side lengths are 5 and 7?

11. If 20, 082, 008 + x is divisible by 44, what is the smallest possible value
of a positive integer x?

12. If (99 + 1)(99 − 1) is converted into base 3, what will be the sum of its
digits?

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13. The answer to this problem is x. Write down the value of 2x2 − ,
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expressed as a common fraction.

14. The triangular numbers are numbers defined by t1 = 1 and tn = tn−1 +n.
For example, the first triangular number is 1, the second triangular number is
3, and the third triangular number is 6.

The square numbers are numbers defined by s1 = 1 and sn = sn−1 +(2n−1).

For example, the first square number is 1 and the second square number is 4.
What is the positive difference between the 2008th triangular number and the
2009th square number?

15. Let a be equal to the number of factors of 11 · 22 · 33 · 44 · 55 · 66 . Let b

be equal to the number of factors of 77 · 88 · 99 · 1010 . How many factors does
|a − b| have?

16. A rectangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 40. The length of one side of
the rectangle is three times the length of the other side. What is the perimeter
of the rectangle? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

17. Define a∧b = (a∨b)?a, a∨b = (ab)?b, ab = a2 −b, and a?b = a−b2 .
What is the value of 13 ∧ 9?

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 18. If I give n2 candies each to x students, I will have n candies left over.
Given that I had 100 candies before giving any away, and n and x are both
positive integers, what is x · n?

19. Andy the ant is walking along the edges of a unit cube. He starts at
one vertex, and during a move, he randomly moves to another vertex such that
there is an edge of the cube connecting the starting and
√ ending vertices. What
is the probability that, after 5 moves, Andy is exactly 3 units from his starting
place? Express your answer as a common fraction.

20. A candy store has 3 different flavors of gumballs: strawberry, blueberry,

and elderberry. Arthur wants to buy 4 gumballs for his friend Lancelot. How-
ever, Lancelot is a very picky eater and doesn’t like elderberries, so he will have
a tantrum if he gets more than 2 elderberry flavored gumballs. How many pos-
sible combinations of 4 gumballs could Arthur get without giving Lancelot a
tantrum?

21. Tom picks a random positive integer less than or equal to 2008. What
is the probability that the integer is a factor of 2008 ? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

22. Everyone in Ayops Middle School takes a math test. Mrs. Smith’s class
of 20 has an average of 89 percent. Mr. Juliani’s class of 15 has an average of
76 percent. To raise the overall average to 90 percent, what average score does
Mrs. Kaminsky’s class of 25 need? Express your answer as a decimal to the
nearest tenth.

23. 4RU S has m6 S = 90 degrees. Point C is on RS such that CS = 42 cm

long. Point Z is on RU such that U S k CZ. If CZ = 20 cm and both legs of
the right triangle have integer side lengths, how many possible values are there
for the length RC?

24. Bobo is walking along a deserted highway and wants to get a ride home.
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Every 20 minutes, the probability of a car appearing is If a car appears, the
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probability that Bobo can persuade the driver to give him a ride is . If he
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fails to persuade a driver to give him a ride, he will be discouraged and will not
even try to ask any other people for a ride until one hour has passed. In the
time period from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, what is the probability that Bobo can get
a ride? Express your answer as a common fraction.

25. A tennis court has dimensions of 40 × 75 ft. Dan runs directly from

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one corner of the tennis court along the side of the court to an adjacent corner.
Then, he runs from that corner along the long diagonal of the court to the
opposite corner. He is tired now and walks back to his starting point along the
edge of the court. What percent of the total distance Dan traveled was traveled
on the edge of the court? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

26. Trapezoid ABCD has m6 A = m6 D = 45, and side lengths AB = 3,

CD = √ 4, and DA = 8. If the length of side BC can be expressed in the form
a − b 2, what is the value of a + b?

27. Let a, b, and c be the solutions to the following equation:

−200x3 − 8x2 + 200x + 8 = 0

1 1 1
What is the value of + + ?
ab bc ca

28. A postitive integer f is considered buddies with a positive integer s if

s s f f
b c= or b c = What is the sum of all of the buddies of 120 less than
f f s s
2008?

29. When an unfair coin is flipped twice, the probability of getting one head
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and one tail is . If the coin is flipped 3 times, what is the probability that
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all of the flips will land on the same side? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

30. Express in simplest terms:

20084 − 20004 − 84 + 2 · 20002 · 82

2000 · 8 · 20082