Primary Division New PRACTICE SET #1

1. What is the simplified value of

2. Johnny has stacked sugar cubes on a little table as in the accompanying

figure. How many sugar cubes did he use?

3. The sequence of digits 12345678910111213…997998999 is found by writing the positive numbers 1,

2, 3, ..., 999 in ascending order. What would be the 2017th digit from the left?

4. Determine the final result of

5. A certain two-digit number is equal to twice the sum of its digits. Find the product of its digits.

6. Let A, B and C be positive integers. The sum of 160 and the square of A is equal the sum of 5 and the
square of B. The sum of 320 and the square of A is equal to the sum of 5 and the square of C. Find A.

7. What is the simplified value of

8. What is the remainder when the expression is divided by 1001?

9. In the diagram below, five circles are tangent at the point B, C, D and E. A path is traced from A to F
entirely on the circumference of the circles so that no portion of any circumference is covered more than
once. Find the total number of possible path.

B D
E
C

F
A

10. Find the sum of the number N = 1234 and all other four-digit numbers obtained by permuting the digits
of N in all possible ways.
D C
11. The diameter of a circle (see the accompanying figure) has length of 12
units, points C and D divide the upper half circle with endpoints at A and B into
three equal arcs. What is the area of the triangle ADC (in square units)? A B

12. Consider the sequence 2, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2, 5, …. For n > 2, the n-th term of this sequence is the remainder
of the division by 7 of the sum of the two previous terms. Find the 2003-rd term.

13. Given that and find x.

14. If the base of a triangle is increased and the altitude to this base is decreased 40%,
then what is the change in the area of the triangle?

15. In the rectangle we take the point E on such that EB = 2AE

and let F be the midpoint of . Denote by G the intersection of
with and by H the intersection of and . If the area of the
 rectangle is 70 square meters what is the area of the quadrilateral

Primary Division New PRACTICE SET #1 – Answer Key

1. What is the simplified value of

Solution:
Let then the

Original Expression

2. Johnny has stacked sugar cubes on a little table as in the accompanying

figure. How many sugar cubes did he use?
Solution:
The answer is

3. The sequence of digits 12345678910111213…997998999 is found by writing the positive numbers 1,

2, 3, ..., 999 in ascending order. What would be the 2017th digit from the left?
Solution:
Let n be a positive integer in the hundreds and let us find the number of digits in the writing
Since each positive integer between 10 and 99 contributes with 2
digits and every positive integer between 100 and n contributes with 3 digits we obtain 9 + 2(99 – 10 +
1) + 3(n – 100 + 1) = 3n – 108 digits. Since we have gotten a multiple of three as the number of digits
let us solve the equation 3n – 108 = 2019. This yields n = 709. Therefore the 2017th digit is 7.

4. Determine the final result of

Solution:
Let then
Original Expression
5. A certain two-digit number is equal to twice the sum of its digits. Find the product of its digits.
Solution:
If we denote the two digits by a and b then the two-digit number becomes we
get the equation 10a + b = 2(a + b) or equivalently b = 8a which has only one solution a = 1 and b = 8.
Thus, ab = 8 .

6. Let A, B and C be positive integers. The sum of 160 and the square of A is equal the sum of 5 and the
square of B. The sum of 320 and the square of A is equal to the sum of 5 and the square of C. Find A.
Solution:
From the given information, we have
When and then and
When and then and
Since we also have ,
When , then and hence C will not be an integer.
When then and it follows
Therefore, .
7. What is the simplified value of
Solution:

Original Expression

8. What is the remainder when the expression is divided by 1001?

Solution:
Let and
it follows that each addend after 13! Is divisible by 1001.
Hence, to determine the remainder when S is divided by 1001, let us concentrate with the remainder
when the sum of the first 12 addends of S is divided by 1001.
This implies, the remainder when is 1, the remainder when is 2, the remainder
when is 6, the remainder when is 24, the remainder when is 120, the
remainder when is 720, the remainder when is 35, the remainder when is
the remainder when is 518, the remainder when is 175, the
remainder when is 924 and the remainder when is 77.
It follows the remainder of is 880.
Thus, the remainder when S is divided by 1001 is 880.

9. In the diagram below, five circles are tangent at the point B, C, D and E. A path is traced from A to F
entirely on the circumference of the circles so that no portion of any circumference is covered more than
once. Find the total number of possible path.

B D
E
C

F
A
Solution:
From the given diagram, we have 2 routes from A to B, 2 routes from B to C, 2 routes from C to B,
2 routes from D to E and 2 routes from E to F.
Therefore, there are a total of paths.

10. Find the sum of the number N = 1234 and all other four-digit numbers obtained by permuting the digits
of N in all possible ways.
Solution:
The number of all these permutations including N is 4! = 1  2  3  4 = 24. Each of the digits 1, 2, 3,
or 4 appears on each position (units, tens, hundreds, thousands) 6 times (the number of permutations of
three objects). So the sum is 1111  6  (1 + 2 + 3 + 4) = 66660.
D C
11. The diameter of a circle (see the accompanying figure) has length of 12
units, points C and D divide the upper half circle with endpoints at A and B into A B
three equal arcs. What is the area of the triangle ADC (in square units)?

Solution:
Observe that the area of the triangle ACD is the same as the area of the triangle CDO. where O is the
center of the circle of diameter . The triangle CDO is obviously equilateral (all angles equal). Its

area is then

12. Consider the sequence 2, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2, 5, …. For n > 2, the n-th term of this sequence is the remainder
of the division by 7 of the sum of the two previous terms. Find the 2003-rd term.
Solution:
 The given sequence continues as follows 2, 2, 4, 6, 3, 2, 5, 0, 5, 5, 3, 1, 4, 5, 2, 0, 2, 2, ... and -from here
on the terms clearly repeat. One can count the period as being 16. Since 2003 = 125  16 + 3 the 2003-
rd term is the same as the third term which is 4.

13. Given that and find x.

Solution:

14. If the base of a triangle is increased and the altitude to this base is decreased 40%,
then what is the change in the area of the triangle?
Solution:
Let b be the base of the triangle and h be its altitude to this base. The new triangle has base

and altitude The area of the new triangle is

which means there is no change in area.

15. In the rectangle we take the point E on such that EB = 2AE

and let F be the midpoint of . Denote by G the intersection of
with and by H the intersection of and . If the area of the
rectangle is 70 square meters what is the area of the quadrilateral

Solution:
Let AB = a and BC = b (in meters). We know that ab = 70 m2.

From the diagram, we have

and

Clearly, and DF = FC = .
Because of obvious similarity of the triangles DGF and EGA we have

Hence

Therefore,

Similarly, and then