SECONDARY 1

1. What is the 2023rd letter from the left in the letter sequence

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2. What is the remainder when 22023 is divided by 7?

𝑘
3. How many positive integers 𝑘 less than or equal to 120 are there such that is
120

NOT in lowest terms?

4. What should 𝑥 be so that 1234𝑥67 is divisible by 11?

5. How many integers from 1 to 1000 are divisible by 3 or 7?

1 1 1 1 1 1
6. Evaluate the sum + + + + + ⋯+ .
2 6 12 20 30 420

7. How many different triangles do you see?

8. Each of the shapes represents a number in the equation below. Each shape
represents the same number everywhere it occurs. What is the numerical value of
the square?

9. A basketball bounces back up about ½ the height from which it is dropped. If a

basketball is dropped from 120 feet and keeps bouncing, what is its vertical
height after it hits the floor for the 3rd time?

10. Tony, Don, Eliza, and Tim are running for School Governor. When the election
results came in, Tim received more votes than Eliza. Don received more votes
than Tom. Tony received less votes than Eliza. Who was elected School
Governor?
11. There are 2 boys and their father trying to cross the river in a boat. Each of
the boys weighs 100 pounds, and the father weighs 200 pounds. The boat can
only hold 200 pounds at a time. How many trips will it take them to get
everyone over to the other side of the river?

12. You have a list of 7 numbers. The average of the numbers is 9. If you take
away one of the numbers, the average of the numbers is 8. What number did
you take away?

13. Simplify the expression 4x – [2x – 3y – (x + 4y)] + (x – 8)

u u
14. If = w and 3v = 2w, what is the value of ?
18 v
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15. Reduce 1
to a single fraction in simplest form.
1−
1
1+
a −1

16. For what values of x does the inequality − 2 x 2 + 12 x − 14  0 hold?

17. The sum of the first 15 terms of an arithmetic progression is 270. Find the
common difference if the 15th term is 39.
18. Solve 1 − 5 x + 1 − x = 2 .

19. What is the area of a rhombus if the its diagonals 𝑑1 and 𝑑2 are in the ratio
5: 12 and one side is 26 cm long?

20. How many squares are there on a 8 × 8 square grid? (Count how many
squares are there of size 1 × 1, 2 × 2, etc.)

21. The interior angles of a pentagon are measured in degrees and form an
arithmetic sequence. If all angle measures are integers, what is the maximum
value of the second to the largest angle?
22. Two sides of a triangle are 3 and 7. If the third side is an integer, what is the
largest possible length of the third side?

𝑎√𝑏
23. The area of a regular hexagon with side length 5 is square units, where
𝑐
𝑎
𝑏 has no perfect square divisors greater than 1 and is in lowest terms. What is
𝑐
a+b+c?

24. In 𝛥𝐴𝐵𝐶, point 𝐷 is on side 𝐵𝐶 so that 𝐴𝐷 bisects ∠𝐵𝐴𝐶. If 𝐴𝐵 =

24, 𝐴𝐶 = 42, and 𝐵𝐶 = 33, what is the length of 𝐵𝐷?

25. In a senior prom, the seniors pinged their glasses. There were 253 pings. How
many seniors came to the party?

26. A group wants to select a president, vice president, and a secretary from a
list of 8 students. How many ways can the three officers be selected?
27. If a coin is tossed six times, in how many ways can it fall four heads and two
tails?

28. Eight friends are playing chess in which the players race to the last spot on
the board. The friends agree to play for first, second, and third place. How
many ways are there for the eight friends to take those places?

29. If you pick a 4-digit number, what are the chances that a palindrome which is
divisible by 4 is chosen?

30. How many integers from 1 to 300 are not divisible by 2, 3 and 5?