Pre-Algebra

2008
Sponsored by the Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Indiana State Mathematics Contest

This test was prepared by faculty at Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Indiana State University

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1. One and twenty-eight hundredths is equal to A. B. C. D. E. 1.128 1.028 1.28 128.00 None of these

2. The median number in the data set { 0.3, 0.9, 0.18, 0.27, 0.081 } is: A. B. C. D. E. 0.30 0.9 0.18 0.27 0.081
0.01 0.5 1 , b= , and c = , then: 0.05 0.1 0.5
a>b>c

3. If a =

A. B. C. D. E.

b>c>a
c>a>b

a>c>b

None of the Above

4. In PQR, angle P contains 60 degrees and the bisectors of angles Q and R meet at T. The number of degrees in angle QTR is: A. B. C. D. E. 150 120 60 90 None of these

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5.

1 of 1% is: 100

A. B. C. D. E.

0.1 0.00001 0.0001 0.000001 None of these

6.

210 4 is divisible by
A. B. C. D. E. 31 11 9 7 5

7. A merchant reduces the price of a $25.00 item by 5%. The sale price is: A. B. C. D. E. $23.75 $8.75 $16.25 $17.25 $16.00

8. The number of divisors of 105 is: A. B. C. D. E. 7 8 9 10 11

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9. The average of a set of integers is 6. The sum of the integers is 18. The number of integers in the set is:
A. B. C. D. E.

3 108 12 6 None of these

10. A class of 20 students averaged 66% on an examination; another class of 30 students averaged 56% on the same examination. The average percentage for all 50 students was:
A. B. C. D. E.

63 62 61 60 50

11. If A and B are nonzero digits, the number of digits (not necessarily different) in the sum of 9876 + A32 + B1 is:
A. B. C. D. E.

4 6 7 8 None of these

12. The approximate number of seconds in one year is: A. B. C. D. E. 80,000 500,000 1,500,000 3,000,000 30,000,000

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13. Five students wrote a mathematics test. The average mark was 68. If the marks of four boys were 75, 62, 84, and 53, the mark of the fifth boy was:
A. B. C. D. E.

66 68 76 56 None of these

14. How many positive factors of 36 are also multiples of 4?

A. B. C. D. E.

2 3 4 5 6

15.

90 + 91 + 92 + 93 + 94 + 95 + 96 + 97 + 98 + 99 = ?
A. B. C. D. E.

845 895 945 1025 1045

16. A ream of paper containing 500 sheets is 5 cm thick. Approximately how many sheets of this type of paper would there be in a stack 7.5 cm high?
A. B. C. D. E.

256 550 667 750 None of these

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24 17. If a = 2 , the largest number in the set 3a, 4a, , a 2 ,1 is: a A. B. C. D. E.

3a

4a

24 a
a2

18. A square and a triangle have equal perimeters. The lengths of the three sides of the triangle are 6.2 cm, 8.3 cm, and 9.5 cm. The area of the square is, in cm2:

A. B. C. D. E.

24 36 68 64 144

19. If you walk for 45 minutes at a rate of 4 mph and then run for 30 minutes at a rate of 10 mph, how many miles have you gone at the end of one hour and 15 minutes?

A. B. C. D. E.

3.5 miles 7 miles 9 miles 480 miles None of these

20. The difference between a 6.5% sales tax and a 6% sales tax on an item priced at $200 before tax is:

A. B. C. D. E.

$0.10 $1.00 $5.00 $10.00 None of these

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21. The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:3. If there are 30 students in the class, how many more girls than boys are in the class?

A. B. C. D. E.

18 12 9 6 None of these

22. If the radius of a circle is decreased by 10%, then the circumference of the circle is decreased by:

A. B. C. D. E.

1% 10% 20% 21% 40%

23. A contest began at noon one day and ended 1000 minutes later. At what time did the contest end?

A. B. C. D. E.

10:00 p.m. Midnight 2:30 a.m. 4:40 a.m. None of these

24. If A B =

A+ B , then ( 30 50 ) 80 is: 2
60 80 120 160 None of these

A. B. C. D. E.

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25. The three numbers 1, 2, and 3 can be used to form a three-digit number such as 231. The number of these three-digit numbers that are divisible by 3 is: A. B. C. D. E. 2 1 6 4 0

26. The smallest product one could obtain by multiplying two numbers in the set {7, 5, 1,1,3} is:

A. B. C. D. E.

-35 -21 -15 -1 None of these

27. The difference between the lowest common multiple and greatest common divisor of the numbers 5, 10, and 35 is:

A. B. C. D. E.

1745 35 65 5 None of these

28. Rearranging the digits of the number 579 produces different numbers. The sum of all such numbers, including 579, is:

A. B. C. D. E.

4662 4065 3705 3687 None of these

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29. If

1 2 1 = , then = 2x + 3 5 2x +1 A. B. C. D.
E.
2

3 2 2 3 1 2 8 5

30. If a, a, and a + 9d , (where d > 0 ) are the angles of a right-angled triangle, then the ratio a:d is:

A. B. C. D. E.

4:1 8:1 20:21 9:1 None of these

31. The side, front, and bottom face of a rectangular cube have areas of 2 x, 2y, and xy cm 2 , respectively. The volume of the cube, in cm3, is:

A. B. C. D. E.

xy 2xy x2y2 4xy None of these

32. The area of a circle is 9 cm 2 . The diameter of this circle is, in cm:

A. B. C. D. E.

3 6 9 3/2 None of these

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33. If the area of a square is 36, then the circumference of its inscribed circle is:

A. B. C. D. E.

36 6 9 12 None of these

34. If the radius of the circle is increased by 100%, the area is increased by:

A. B. C. D. E.

100% 200% 300% 400% None of these

35. Two circles have diameters PS and QR. If PS = 2QR, then the ratio of their areas is:

A. B. C. D. E.

9:1 4:1 3:1 2:1 None of these

36. If the distance between consecutive fence posts is 5 meters, the number of posts needed to build a fence around a triangular region with sides 20m, 20m, and 30m is:

A. B. C. D. E.

15 12 14 16 None of these

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37. A number which is a multiple of 15, but not a multiple of 18 is:

A. B. C. D. E.

180 320 360 420 540

38. The smallest value of k so that 75k is a perfect square is: A. B. C. D. E. 3 6 9 10 5

39. Henry has $240 more than my cousin Joe, who has $150 more than my friend Ann. Together the three people have $990. The amount Ann has, in dollars, is: A. B. C. D. E. $150 $200 $390 $450 $600

40. A sequence is 1, 2, 5, 10, 17, . A possible eighth number in this sequence is: A. B. C. D. E. 24 26 37 50 65

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