1. W%at is the product of all factors of 6?

2, T three pieces of t i ~ areb ~48,~72

md M . The mvmill operator needs €6 Cut €he tiEbef iate
l o p sf e q i Iength with no waste, WQT m ~ feet
p l o ~ gis
the greatest possible length she can ~ ' 7
3. What is the positive differelace between 5% of 680
and 4% of 500?

4. Sam purchased 3$ pounds of cheese. He used half of the

purchased cheese for a casserole and pound for sandwiches.
Express as a mixed number the er of pounds of cheese
he has left.
5. A painter can paint an 8' x 50' wall in 2 hours: At this rate,
how many hours will it take her to paint a 10' x 60' wall?

6. What is the remainder when (99)(101) is divided by 91

7. What is the greatest common multiple of 8 and 12 that is

less than 90?
8. How many distinct prime divisors does 900 have?

9. What is the value of (6! t 4!)?.

10. If ABC is an equilateral triangle with aa area of 6square

units, how many units long is each dde?

11. How many coins are in $25 worth of quarters?

12. What is the fourth term in the d € h e t i c sequence

16,10,4,.. .?
13. Find the positive difference beinma the mean and the mode
of this set of data: 1,1,2,2,2,3,8, 4j9.

14. How many three-digit even i n t e g ~e* ~ which are greater

than 199?
15. The ratio of boys to girls ia i& 54, ff the class has
36 students, how many are bqys3

16. Solve for r: #? = 6.

3 7
17. Express as a mixed number the product of the fractions 2,
12
and B.
I d . How many squ&e iac4es &X ia the area of pi rectagle W$QW
length is f e u iRdie8 &id whose width is f f ~ w ?

19. Find the s-ma of €Be f b t ten terms of the a d t h e t i e slequeace

2,5,8,. . ..

20. How many centimeters long is the radius of a &ek whese

area is 9n cm2?
21, Find the aim 472 += (219 9 a@),

46. Find the positive difference between 2(6) $448) a d 8(3 3). +
24. A bus holds 42 students. How many buses wiIl be needed
to transport 450 eighth-grade students to Hershey Park for
their class trip?

25. Express as a common fraction the sum of the reciprocals of

the first two prime numbers.

26. Express 1 + 4 as a common fraction. 26. i

27. What is the positive difference between 9.and the mean of 27. .
the numbers in the set {6,7,7,8,9,9,10,12)? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

28. What common fraction in simplest form ia the interval

4< x c has the smallest denominator?
21. 1
29. M is the midpoint of m.
The length of i~ 5 units more 29. .
than the length of AM, How many units are h the len&h
of IMB?
30. Gerard has 18 more marbles than Esther. riamy marbles 30. .
should Gerard give to Esther so that they bs%hkave the
same number of marbles?

31. A prime number less than twenty L rwdsdr ~ e l ~ What d , 31.

is the probability, expressed as a r n m z z i ~hietion,
~ that the
units digit of its square is one? i
32. The point with coordinates (5, -11) is the midpoint of the 32.
segment with one endpoint at (9,l). Find the sum of the
coordinates of the other endpoint.
33. I3 the azea of the shaded region is 6 r;quee units, how many
qw-e uaits in the area of ABBC?

34. Forty percent of all glibs are blue. Sixty percent sf all
blue glib are smooth. What paceat of all glibs are blue
and smooth?

35. What is the eum of all odd integers between -10 and 121

36. In our neighborhood, a dog barks every 20 minutes and a cat

meows every 12 minutes. If both events occurred at 10:00pm,
what is the next time that evening at which both a dog
barks and a cat meows?

37. The four-minute mile is equivalent to how many miles per

hour?

38. A rectangle's perimeter is 22. Its length is 5 less than 3 times

its width. How many square units me h its area?

39. The Pony Express carried mail 2000 miles between

St. Joseph, MO, and Sacraments, CA, h 10 days. Given
that it costs $5.00 for each ounce of mail carried by the
Pony Express, how many dollars were &aged for a rider to
carry a 15-pound satchel of mail?

40. Samantha won the election for class p ~ ~ d e over

a t Samuel
by a margin of 32 votes. Given t h t ohcy mzdvd a total of
332 votes, how many votes did Samud IT%&$?

41. At Medium Middle School, 60% of t ; k ~nudmts participate

in sports. Of those GO%, 26% partidpaix h track. What
percent of all the students in the scfigol participate in sports
but not in track?

42. The circumference of a circle is 50n units. In terms of n,

how many square units are in its area?
43. What is %Belagest @Bole number value of a that makes the
following iiiequdity t ~ i e ?

44. Find the sum of the f bt six t e r n ia ~ O ~ Z Rsequence

SZ~
, , , . . . Express your answer u e ~ . &izz&.
m
45. Compute the value of f (-4) @VEQ f ( z ) = a: =I%].
46. Find the sum of all solutions of the eqation 1% = = 3.
1 n
47, 9 ~ for1n: ~- = -
5 ! 6!'
48, The sum of a positive number and its square k 53. Rad the
nu~sber.
49. A c i . m & ~ ~m&es
n er, s a l e drawing of a
100 meter x 86 meter b d b g , where 1 centimeter represato
2.5 meters. E m maay eoa&zeters are in the smaller
dimension of the &~Wriag ~f she building?
50. Write as a common fiwtioa:

51. How many integers are greater than 87 and 1- than 321?
52. Select four different digits from the set {I,2,3,4) and place
one in each box. What is the largest posdble product that
can be obtained?

53. In a magic square, the sum of the entries sf e& rm, c~latraa
and diagonal is the same. Find the value af B in the rmgic
square pictured.
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54, Lines 4x + 5y = 40 md Aa: By = 10 intersect on the e = a Z ~ , 54.
+
Lines 4x - 5y = 50 and A% By = 10 intersect on the y-axis.
Find A - B.
55. Given a o b = a(a =I- b) + b(a + b), find 9 0 7. 55. -
56, The figure cons-hts of five congruent squazet. The afea of 56. , -
the figure is 180 square centimeters. How ~y ceiitiaeters
are in its perimeter?

57. Find k given 33 + 33 -t- 33 = 2 4 3 ~ 3 ~ . 57.

58. 20% of the retail price of an article is profit for the 58%
shopkeeper. What percent of the shopkeeper's original cost
is this profit?

59. Steve reads 20 pages in 50 minutes. At that rate, how many 59.
hours will it take him to read 50 pages? Express your answer
as a mixed number.
60. In a 12-hour period of time, for how many minutes is at least 60.
one "6" displayed on a digital clock?

61. The regular price of a tennis racket is $90. If it is 61.

discounted 20%, what is the sale price in dollars?

62. How many non-negative integers have a square less than 30? 62.

63. The surface area of a cube is 48 square units. How many 63.
units, expressed in simplest radical f ~ m&re
, in the length of
an edge of the cube?

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