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Evaluating,
Answer: (D)
Since
Since
Thus,
Alternatively, we could have added the original two equations to obtain
Answer: (E)
When
Answer: (E)
There are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.
Thus, there are
Since there are 7 days in a week, the number of minutes in a week is
Of the given choices, this is closest to (C) 10 000.
Answer: (C)
Using the given rule, the output of the machine is
Answer: (D)
Since there are 3 doors and 2 colour choices for each door, there
are
Using “B” to represent black and “G” to represent gold, these ways are
BBB, BBG, BGB, BGG, GBB, GBG, GGB, and GGG.
Answer: (A)
Since juice boxes come in packs of 3, Danny needs to buy at least
6 packs for the 17 players. (If Danny bought 5 packs, he would have 15
juice boxes which is not enough; with 6 packs, he would have 18 juice
boxes.)
Since apples come in bags of 5, Danny needs to buy at least 4 bags. (We
note that
Therefore, the minimum amount that Danny can spend is
Answer: (B)
Riding at 15 km/h, Bri finishes the 30 km in
Riding at 20 km/h, Ari finishes the 30 km in
Therefore, Bri finishes 0.5 h after Ari, which is 30 minutes.
Answer: (C)
In total, the three tanks contain
If the water is divided equally between the three tanks, each will
contain
Therefore,
(We note that 800 L would also need to be moved from Tank C to Tank B,
and at this point, the three tanks will contain 3000 L.)
Answer: (B)
Suppose that
Since
This means that
Since
Therefore,
Answer: (B)
Suppose that Mathilde had
From the given information, 100 is 25% more than
From the given information, 100 is 20% less than
Therefore, at the beginning of last month, they had a total of
Answer: (E)
A rectangle with length 8 cm and width
Suppose that the radius of the semi-circle is
The area of a circle with radius
Since the rectangle and the semi-circle have the same area, then
Since
Answer: (B)
The equation
Thus, we can re-write the equation as
When
Answer: (A)
The line with a slope of 2 and
To find its
The line with a slope of
To find its
The distance between the points on the
Answer: (E)
The 1st term is 16.
Since 16 is even, the 2nd term is
Since 9 is odd, the 3rd term is
Since 5 is odd, the 4th term is
Since 3 is odd, the 5th term is
Since 2 is even, the 6th term is
This previous step shows us that when one term is 2, the next term
will also be 2.
Thus, the remaining terms in this sequence are all 2.
In particular, the 101st term is 2.
Answer: (B)
The given arrangement has 14 zeroes and 11 ones showing.
Loron can pick any row or column in which to flip the 5 cards over.
Furthermore, the row or column that Loron chooses can contain between 0
and 5 of the cards with different numbers on their two sides.
Of the 5 rows and 5 columns, 3 have 4 zeroes and 1 one, 2 have 3 zeroes
and 2 ones, and 5 have 2 zeroes and 3 ones.
This means that the number of zeroes cannot decrease by more than 4 when
the cards in a row or column are flipped, since the only way that the
zeroes could decrease by 5 is if all five cards in the row or column had
0 on the top face and 1 on the bottom face.
Therefore, there cannot be as few as
For completeness, we will show that the other ratios are indeed
achievable.
If Loron chooses the first column and if this column includes 3 cards
with ones on both sides, and 2 cards with zeroes on one side (facing up)
and ones on the reverse side, then flipping the cards in this column
yields
Thus, the ratio
If Loron chooses the fifth column and if this column includes 1 card
with a one on both sides and 4 cards with zeroes on one side (facing up)
and ones on the reverse side, then flipping the cards in this column
yields
Thus, the ratio
If Loron chooses the first column and if the top 4 cards in this column
have the same numbers on both sides and the bottom card has a one on the
top side and a zero on the reverse side, then flipping the cards in this
column yields
Thus, the ratio
If Loron chooses the first column and if the first, fourth and fifth
cards in this column have the same numbers on both sides and the second
and third cards each has a one on the top side and a zero on the reverse
side, then flipping the cards in this column yields
Thus, the ratio
Therefore, the only ratio of the five that are given that is not
possible is
Answer: (C)
We start by finding the prime factors of 1184:
Thus, the positive divisors are
The sum,
Answer: (A)
Each group of four jumps takes the grasshopper 1 cm to the east
and 3 cm to the west, which is a net movement of 2 cm to the west, and 2
cm to the north and 4 cm to the south, which is a net movement of 2 cm
to the south.
In other words, we can consider each group of four jumps, starting with
the first, as resulting in a net movement of 2 cm to the west and 2 cm
to the south.
We note that
Thus, after 79 groups of four jumps, the grasshopper is
The grasshopper has made
After the 317th jump (1 cm to the east), the grasshopper is 157 cm west
and 158 cm south of its original position.
After the 318th jump (2 cm to the north), the grasshopper is 157 cm west
and 156 cm south of its original position.
After the 319th jump (3 cm to the west), the grasshopper is 160 cm west
and 156 cm south of its original position.
After the 320th jump (4 cm to the south), the grasshopper is 160 cm west
and 160 cm south of its original position.
After the 321st jump (1 cm to the east), the grasshopper is 159 cm west
and 160 cm south of its original position.
After the 322nd jump (2 cm to the north), the grasshopper is 159 cm west
and 158 cm south of its original position.
After the 323rd jump (3 cm to the west), the grasshopper is 162 cm west
and 158 cm south of its original position, which is the desired
position.
As the grasshopper continues jumping, each of its positions will always
be at least 160 cm south of its original position, so this is the only
time that it is at this position.
Therefore,
Answer: (A)
If
Since
Since
Thus,
Since
Thus,
When
We note also that, when
We can also check that there is no integer
Answer: (B)
If
In this case, we can write
Since
This in turn means that, if
We note also that as
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
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For
For
For
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For
For
For
Of the integers
Answer: (D)
From the given information, if
Since all of the numbers that we can use are positive, then
This means that the largest integer in the list, which is 13, cannot be
either
Thus, for
Therefore, the next largest possible value for
Here, we could have
The remaining integers (4, 5 and 6) can be put in the shapes in the following way that satisfies the requirements.
This tells us that the largest possible value of
Answer: 20
Solution 1
Starting with the given relationship between
Since
Therefore,
Solution 2
Since
Answer: 05
We write an integer
That is,
For each such integer
We want to count the number of such integers
When
First, we count the number of
If
If
Similarly, when
In other words, the number of integers
Using a similar process, we can determine that the number of such
integers
We have to be more careful counting the number of integers
Consider the integers
If
If
As
(Note that when
Finally, we consider the integers
If
If
If
Continuing in this way, we find that there are
Having considered all cases, we see that the number of such integers
Answer: 24
Solution 1
Suppose that
We are told that
Since the perimeter of
Join
The area of
Since these triangles are right-angled, then
Multiplying by 2, we obtain
Finally, we also note that, using the Pythagorean Theorem twice, we
obtain
We need to determine the value of
Since
Substituting into
We note that
Since
Thus, these divisors are
Since we need
This means that
The rightmost two digits of
Solution 2
As in Solution 1, we have
Re-arranging and squaring the first equation and using the second and
third equations, we obtain
This gives,
Therefore,
We note that
This means that
The rightmost two digits of
Answer: 60
Throughout this solution, we will not explicitly include units,
but will assume that all lengths are in metres and all areas are in
square metres.
The top face of the cube is a square, which we label
Since the cube has edge length 4, then the side length of square
This means that
These vertices are the farthest points on
Since
Next, the rope cannot reach to the bottom face of the cube because
the shortest distance along the surface of the cube from
Also, since the rope is anchored to the centre of the top face and all
of the faces are square, the rope can reach the same area on each of the
four side faces.
Suppose that the area of one of the side faces that can be reached is
We thus need to determine the value of
Suppose that one of the side faces is square
When the rope is stretched tight, its loose end traces across square
Notice that the farthest that the rope can reach down square
Suppose that this arc cuts
We want to determine the area of square
We will calculate the value of
We will calculate this latter area by determining the area of sector
We note that
Since
By the Pythagorean Theorem,
Thus, the area of
Furthermore, since
Thus, the area of rectangle
To find the area of sector
Now,
Thus, the area of the sector is
Putting this all together, we obtain
Therefore, the integer closest to
Answer: 81