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Mock Contest I

Name:
February 26, 2017

The maximum points possible is 200. You get 0


for an incorrect answer, but 2 for an unanswered
question. The number of points you get for cor-
rect problems vary.

5 points each.

1. What is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 100?

(A)10100 (B)10000 (C)5000 (D)5050 (E)2525

2. What is the units digit of 23141592653 − 1?

(A)1 (B)2 (C)5 (D)6 (E)7

3. How many diagonals are in an regular decagon?

(A)10 (B)35 (C)45 (D)65 (E)100


s r q
4. Find 90 + 90 + 90 + 90 + ....

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(A)10 (B)100 (C)9 (D)81 (E)99

5. x5 − 13x3 + 36x = 0. How many solutions for x are


there?
(A)1 (B)2 (C)3 (D)4 (E)5

6. Find the probability of getting at least 7 heads if


you toss 10 coins.
15 11 7 1 23
(A) 128 (B) 64 (C) 128 (D) 10 (E) 2048

7. Consider the following pattern:


3, 4, 5,
5, 12, 13,
7, 24, 25,
8, 15, 17,
20, 21, a
Find a.

(A)27 (B)28 (C)29 (D)30 (E)31

8. On a pond there are 16 water lily leaves in a 4 by


4 square. A frog sits on a leaf in one of the corners. It
then jumps from one leaf to another either horizontally
or vertically. The frog always jumps over at least one
leaf and never lands on the same leaf twice. What is the
greatest number of leaves (including the one it is sitting
on) that the frog can reach?

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(A)16 (B)15 (C)14 (D)13 (E)12

9. On a certain island, frogs are always either green or


blue. The number of blue frogs increased by 60% while
the number of green frogs decreased by 60%. It turns
out that the new ratio of blue frogs to green frogs is the
same as the previous ratio in the opposite order (green
frogs to blue frogs). Assuming the number of blue and
green frogs are both nonzero, by what percentage did the
overall number of frogs change?

(A)0 (B)20 (C)30 (D)40 (E)50

10. In the list of numbers 1, 2, . . . , 9999, the digits


0 through 9 are replaced with the letters A through J,
respectively. For example, the number 501 is replaced
by the string “FAB” and 8243 is replaced by the string
“ICED”. The resulting list of 9999 strings is sorted al-
phabetically. How many strings appear before “CHAI”
in this list?

(A)1899 (B)1909 (C)2708 (D)3817 (E)3818

6 points each.

11. Xena lists the whole numbers 1 through 30 once.


Emilio copies Xena’s numbers, replacing each occurrence
of the digit 2 by the digit 1. Xena adds her numbers and

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Emilio adds his numbers. How much larger is Xena’s
sum than Emilio’s?

(A)13 (B)26 (C)102 (D)103 (E)110

12. A rectangle is called “dazzling” if the number of


square units in its area is equal to twice the number of
units in its perimeter. A dazzling rectangle also must
have integer side lengths. What is the sum of all the
different possible areas of dazzling rectangles?
(A)64 (B)136 (C)236 (D)72 (E)118

13. Which of the following is equal to the value of


−10 · −9 · ... · 10?
(A)(10!)2 (B)−(10!)2 (C)55 (D)10! (E)0

14. i3 · −1 · i3 =

(A)1 (B)-1 (C)i (D)-i (E) No Solutions

15. Given that x2 ≤ 10000, which one of the following


is closest to the sum of all possible integer values of x
such that x ≡ 1 (mod 5)?

(A)97 (B)1000 (C)0 (D)1 (E)500

Short Answer 7 points each.

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16. How much metal is needed to smelt a cubical metal
box with outer side 15 inches long if the thickness of its
walls should be exactly 5 inches?

17. How many 3-digit numbers can be written as mul-


tiples of 9 when its digits are moved around?

18. Doug has 5 bugs and 20 raisins. In how many


ways can he split the 20 raisins among his 5 bugs if his
two favorite bugs, Nick and Hill, must receive at least 5
raisins each?

19. Alice and Bob are playing a game with dice. They
each have a regular, six-sided die and both start with 0
points. For each round, they each roll their dice once.
Whoever has the higher number gains 1 point. If it’s a
tie, no one gains anything. However, if someone rolls a
6, they lose all their points. What’s the probability that
after 2 rounds, one of them will have exactly 2 points?
Express your answer as a common fraction.

20. A flashlight with radius 1 cm is shined through


a table parallel to the face of the flashlight with a 10
cm radius hole in the middle. The flashlight is shined
through the middle of the hole and is shined 45 cen-
timeters above the table. There is another table 60 cm
underneath the first table. The second table is parallel

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to the first one. The flashlight projects a circle onto this
table after passing through the hole in the first table.
What is the volume of the lighted area from the hole to
the projected circle? Answer in the form π.

21. In 4ABC, we have AB = 9 and AC = 4. Points D


and E are on AC and AB respectively such that AD = 3
and AE = 2. Let F be the intersection of BD and CE.
What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral AEF D to
the area of 4ABC?

22. The function f is defined as follows;


3x2 − 8x − 3
f (x) = .
x2 + 5x + 4
If its vertical asymptotes are at x = a and x = b with a >
b, its horizontal asymptote is at y = c, its x-intercepts
are at d and e with d < e, and it’s y-intercept is at f ,
then what is the value of (a+c)(e−f
b−3d
)
? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

Short Answer 8 points each.

23. How many polynomials are in the completely fac-


tored form of x10 + 2x9 + 3x8 + 4x7 + 5x6 + 6x5 + 5x4 +
4x3 + 3x2 + 2x + 1?

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24. If Ella rolls a standard six-sided die until she rolls
the same number on consecutive rolls, what is the prob-
ability that her 6th roll is her last roll? Express your
answer as a decimal to the nearest thousandth.

25. Suppose p is a positive integer that can be ex-


pressed as the 3-digit number ABC 7 , where A, B and C
are distinct digits in base 7, and p can also be expressed
as the 3-digit number BCD13 , where B, C and D are
distinct digits in base 13. Find the sum of all possible
values of p. Express your answer in base 13, using A for
10, B for 11, and C for 12 if necessary.

26. Mick E. Mouse has a special piano with 10 keys.


He can not let go of a key until he presses down at least
3 other keys. How many different 5 note tunes can Mick
play on his piano? Tunes are considered the same if and
only if they consist of the same notes played in the same
order and they end with the same keys pressed down.

27. John is solving problems on an online website with


unlimited number of questions. Every question he gets
right counts as 1 point. Every question he gets wrong
counts as −1 point. He has a 50 percent chance of get-
ting a problem right and a 50 percent chance of getting
it wrong. If, at any point, John gets a negative score,
he shall be disqualified. Once John gets five points, the

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competition ends. Assuming he starts at 0, find the prob-
ability of him successfully making five points without
elimination.


28. A square with side length √ 10 2√is inscribed within
a circle. This square is given a 5( 3− 2) border/margin
all across. The area of the region shared by the circle
and the border (not√including the original square) can
be expressed as aπ+be c+d , where a, b, c, d, e are integers,
a, b, d and e are relatively prime, and c is not divisible
by the square of any prime. What is the value of abc de ?

29. A right cylindrical oil tank is 15 feet tall and its


circular bases have diameters of 4 feet each. When the
tank is lying flat on its side (not on one of the circular
ends), the oil inside is 1 yard deep at the deepest point.
The depth of the oil if the tank had been standing
√ upright
b c
on one of its bases can be expressed as a+ dπ feet, where
a, b, c, d are positive integers, b and d are relatively prime,
and c is not divisible by the square of any prime. What
is a + b + c + d?

Writing Problem. 15 Points.

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30. Find all possible values of x + x that satisfy the
equation (x − x15 )(x4 − 1) = 0.

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