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1. When a positive three-digit dividend with a units digit of 2 is divided by a positive one-digit
divisor, the result is a whole-number quotient with a remainder of 1. How many distinct values are possible
for this three-digit dividend?

2. Evaluate the following cube root of a fraction:

q
3 4!5!6!
25(3!)

3. What is the sum of all possible digits which could fill the blank in 47 21 so that the resulting
five-digit number is divisible by 3?

4. The prime factorization of 75 is written, without exponents, as 3 × 5 × 5. The sum of the

prime factors is 3 + 5 + 5 = 13. For how many whole numbers is the sum of each number’s prime factors,
without exponents, equal to 13?

5. A vendor has six jugs of punch with capacities of 13, 15, 16, 21, 21, and 22 gallons. One jug,
which he keeps for himself, is full of blue punch. The other five jugs are full of red punch. Without opening
any of the jugs, he sells 1/3 of the red punch to Randy and the remaining 2/3 of the red punch to Lisa. How
many gallons of the blue punch did he keep for himself?

6. The Fibonacci sequence is the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, . . . where each term is the sum of the
previous two terms. What is the remainder when the 100th term of the sequence is divided by 4?

7. Suppose A and B are non-zero digits and A5 · B1 = 1995. Find A + B

8. Palindromic primes are numbers that are prime and which read the same backwards and
forwards: for example, 11 is a palindromic prime. What is the sum of all palindromic primes between 100 and
200.

9. What is the remainder when 1112 is divided by 13?

10. The finite sequence 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, . . . , 199 includes all integers strictly between 0
and 200 except those that are a multiple of 3 or a multiple of 5. What is the 100th term of this sequence?
11. The arithmetic progressions {2, 5, 8, 11, . . .} and {3, 10, 17, 24, . . .} have some common values.
What is the largest value less than 500 that they have in common?

12. If n and m are whole numbers, 39 < n < 81 and 19 < m < 41, what is the greatest value for
n
m + n?
m
Express your answer as a mixed number.

13. If 738 consecutive integers are added together, where the 178th number in the sequence is
4,256,815, what is the remainder when this sum is divided by 6?

14. In how many zeros does the number represented by 10! end?

15. My favorite number has two digits and an odd number of divisors. The sum of the digits is
13. What is my favorite number?

16. A stadium staircase with 150 steps is numbered from 1 to 150. Jan starts on step 130 and
steps down to step number 127, then to step number 124, and continues downward to step 13 stepping only
on every third step. Jen starts on step number 3 and steps up to step number 7, then to step number 11, and
continues upward to step 139 stepping only on every fourth step. How many steps were stepped on by both
Jan and Jen (not necessarily at the same time)?

17. Kevin and Devin each make one hat per day for charity, but they started on different days.
Today, Kevin made his 520th hat, and Devin made his 50th. A celebration is planned for the next day that
Kevin’s hat count is evenly divisible by Devin’s hat count. In how many days from today will they celebrate?

18. Given that m and n are digits, what is the sum of the values for m and n which yield the
greatest six-digit number 5m5,62n that is divisible by 44?

19. A scalene triangle has side lengths which are prime numbers and the length of its perimeter is
also prime. What is its smallest possible perimeter?

20. Let 2x + 3y = 72. How many ordered pairs (x, y), where x and y are whole numbers, will
satisfy the equation?

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21. The digits 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8 are put in an order to make a positive five-digit integer that is
divisible by 11. What is the greatest possible integer?

22. The greatest number named by the ancient Greek mathematicians was a myriad which was
the word for ten-thousand. Write a myriad of myriads as a power of 10.

23. What is the units digit in the product 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · · · 399 · 3100 where all the whole number
powers of 3 from 31 to 3100 inclusive are multiplied?

24. How many positive integers less than 100 have exactly 4 distinct positive factors?

25. For how many positive two-digit integers k will y = 2x and x + y = k simultaneously result in
positive integral values for both x and y?

26. The first term of a sequence is 2. Each term after the first is obtained by multiplying the
preceding term by 5 and then subtracting 6. What is the sum of the first five terms of the sequence?

27. The three-digit base-six number, nmn6 , is equal to the product of 234 and 345 . What digit is
represented by n?

28. In what digit does 727 end?

29. Mr. Silent won’t tell anyone his age. He will only say if you divide his age by 3 you get a
non-zero quotient with a remainder of 1. If you divide his age by 4, you get a remainder of 1. If you divide his
age by 5, you get a remainder of 1. What is the youngest Mr. Silent can be?

30. A positive three-digit integer is formed by choosing three different digits from the set
{0, 2, 4, 6, 8}. The first digit cannot be 0. What is the probability that the number is divisible by 3? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

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