(1) [Answer: 2]

1 2 3 4 2 2 + = =
(2) [Answer: 2]
0.9874 5.0023 0.39989 1 5 0.4 2 ~ =
(3) [Answer: 6]
1 3 5 7 9 11 4 12 20 36 + + + + + = + + = is the square of 6.
(4) [Answer: 6]
1 4 6 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 4 1 6
0.25 3 3 3 3 3 3 6
4 8 4 2 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
+ + + + + = + + + + + = + + + = + = + =
(5) [Answer: 8]
Solution 1:
( ) 8 1
8 8
8
1 1
x
x
x x
+
+
= =
+ +
Solution 2:
8 8 8 17 8 136 8 144
If 17, then 8
1 17 1 18 18
x
x
x
+ + +
= = = = =
+ +
(6) [Answer: 3]
112 75 111 75 is subtracting 111 75s from 112 75s and is equal to 75. Hence,
112 75 111 75 72 75 72 3 = = .
(7) [Answer: 5]
4 119 119 + is equal to 5 119 and 5 5 119 + is equal to 5 120 . Therefore,
1 4 119 4 119 5 5 119 5 120
5
1 119 120 120
+ + + +
= = =
+
.
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(8) [Answer: 8]
Three times of a number is equal to twelve times one-fourth of that number
1 12
12 3
4 4
| |
= =
|
\ .
. So the sum of 3 times a number and one-fourth of this number is equal
to 13 times one-fourth of this number
1 1 1
12 13
4 4 4
| |
+ =
|
\ .
. This sum is given as 26
1
13 26
4
x
| |
=
|
\ .
. This gives us one-fourth of the number is 2 which means the number is
8.
(9) [Answer: 1]
1 1 1 3 5 7 5 7 3 7 3 5 3 5 7
3 5 7 3 5 3 7 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 7 3 5 3 7 5 7
3 5 3 7 5 7 3 5 7
1
3 5 7 3 5 3 7 5 7
| | | |
+ + = + +
| |
+ + + +
\ . \ .
+ +
= =
+ +
(10) [Answer: 9]
If 55% of a number is 0.9 more than 45% of the same number, then 10% of this number
is 0.9. This means that the number is 10 0.9 9 = .
(11) [Answer: 8]
1 1 1, 4 2 2, 8 2 2 2, 9 3 3, 16 4 4, 25 5 5
27 3 3 3, 32 2 2 2 2 2
= = = = = =
= =
Therefore, there are 8 cool numbers smaller than 33.
(12) [Answer: 8]
If Leonardo J r. chooses to go through K, then he needs to
go to L next since he cannot pass through B. Similarly, he
can go to Q next. The number of possible ways from L to C
is equal to the number of ways from Q to C. There are 4
different ways from L to C going up or to the left along the
segments. The total number of ways is therefore 2 4 8 = .
C
A
B
K
P
L
Q
3
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(13) [Answer: 6]
The surface area of a cube is 6 L L where L is the side length since the cube has six
faces each of whose area is L L .
The volume of a cube isL L L where L is the side length.
6 l l l l l =
implies 6 L = .
(14) [Answer: 7]
The largest two-digit prime number is 97 and the smallest two-digit prime number is 11.
So, x , the difference of these two numbers is 97 11 86 = . If we prime factorize 86, it is
86 2 43 = .
This means that the prime factors of x are 2 and 43. The larger prime factor of x is 43
and the sum of its digits is 4 3 7 + = .
(15) [Answer: 3]
Perimeter 2 2 L W = + .
where L is the length and W is the width. Its given that 2 2 L W + is 6 more than
2 W which implies 2 6 L = . Therefore 3 L = and 1 W = since L is one more than
2 W . The area is 1 3 3 L W = = .