MATHCOUNTS 

2015 
∎ Mock School Competition ∎ 
Sprint Round 
Problems 1−30 
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Name _______________________________________________________________________________
 
DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL YOU HAVE SET YOUR TIMER TO FORTY 
MINUTES. 

This section of the competition consists of 30 problems. You will have

40 minutes to complete all the problems. You must set a timer to 40 minutes before you flip
to the next page, beginning the test questions. You are not allowed to use calculators, books
or other aids during this round. Calculations may be done on scratch paper. All answers
must be complete, legible and simplified to lowest terms. Record only final answers in the
blanks in the left-hand column of the competition booklet. If you complete the problems
before time is called, use the remaining time to check your answers.

In each written round of the competition, the required unit for the answer
is included in the answer blank. The plural form of the unit is always used,
even if the answer appears to require the singular form of the unit. The
unit provided in the answer blank is the only form of the answer that will
be accepted.

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Total Correct Scorer’s Initials

1. __________ The first ten digits of pi are 3.141592653. Using that
information, find the sum of the first ten digits of pi.

2. __________ (prime numbers) The number 2 is a prime number, or a

number with only two distinct factors. How many prime numbers are at
least 1 and at most 25?

3. __________ Define x ❀ y = xy − yx + x + y . For example, 5 ❀ 1 is equal to

51 − 15 + 5 + 1 or 10 . Find 3 ❀ 4.

4. __________ Two friends, Calen and Caleb, are in

the same math class. When doing their math test, problem
#23 asks them to find the sum of the first 5 positive
integers. Calen does this problem correctly, and wrote
down his answer. Caleb gets careless, and instead finds the
product of the first 5 positive integers, and writes down his
answer. The next morning, the two meet up and compare
their answers. Assuming that each of them used correct
computation in their answers, and that they each
remember their answers correctly, what is the positive
difference between Calen’s answer and Caleb’s answer?

5. __________ Let S be one of the numbers in the set {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13,
15}, T be one of the numbers in the set {2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16}, and U be one
of the numbers in the set {1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64}. Find the smallest
possible value of S + T - U.
6. __________ When a certain number is doubled, you get a result of D.
When a certain number is tripled, you get a result of T. When a certain
number is quadrupled, you get a result of Q. Given that Q is equal to 40,
what is D + T?

7. __________ (marbles) Jamie begins a certain

day with 50 marbles. At 9 AM, Jamie’s family
holds a garage sale, and Jamie sells a total of 15
marbles. At 11 AM, Jamie meets up with Amy,
and Jamie gives Amy 5 of her marbles for a rare
“Goldik” marble. While trading, Jamie
accidentally drops three of her marbles, and
she could not find them. Finally, during dinner
at 8 PM, she gives half of her remaining
marbles to her brother, Jerry, and stores the rest of her marbles in her
marble bag. At the end of the day, how many marbles are in her marble bag?

8. __________ (bronzies) In the planet of Coversia, the

inhabitants have currencies of bronzies, silvies, and
goldies. Twenty bronzies are worth one silvie, and one
hundred silvies are equivalent to three goldies. How
many bronzies can an inhabitant fairly receive in
exchange with nine goldies and three silvies?

9. __________ What integer is closest to π2 ?

10. __________ (permutations) Jack has a fair, two sided coin and a fair,
cubical die. The coin’s heads and tails sides are labeled Y and Z,
respectively, and each side of the die is labeled with an integer between one
and six, inclusive. Jack flips the coin, and then, right afterward, rolls the die,
recording the side of the coin face-up and the side of the side that is face up.
He then decides to either place the letter or the number first in a two-item
permutation. How many possible permutations are there? Two
permutations to include are Z3 and 3Z.

11. __________ What fraction lies directly in between the two fractions
2 7
3 and 10 ? Express your answer as a common fraction.

12. __________ (square cm) Mady is an eight-year old

that enjoys to draw. One drawing from her scrapbook
is a flower, as shown. The center of the flower is a
circle, and each of the pedals are figures bound by an
irregular arc and a section of the innermost circle’s
circumference. The distance from the outermost point
on a pedal to the outermost point of the opposite pedal
is 20 centimeters, and each pedal has a length of 6
centimeters. What is the area of the center of the
flower that Mady drew in her scrapbook? Express
your answer in terms of pi.

13. __________ What is the product of the greatest common factor and
the least common multiple of 52 and 100?
14. __________ (cards) In the Pokelon Card Club, each person has a
certain number of Pokelon Cards. The founders of the club have an average
of 100 Pokelon Cards. Two friends, Pika and Charmer, with an average of
150 cards, decide to join the club. This brings up the average to 120 cards. If
a boy named Bulba joins the club with his 90 cards, what will be the average
number of Pokelon cards in the club afterward?

15. __________ Jackie and Jillie are lumberjacks that

are working on a woodcutting project. Jackie can cut 20
trees down in one hour, and Jillie can cut 15 trees down
in one hour. Jillie gets to the woodcutting shed two hours
before Jackie does, and begins working. When Jackie
arrives, she begins to work. Five hours after Jackie
arrives, they finish the woodcutting project, and their boss gives them a
$410 paycheck. Jackie and Jillie decide to split the money proportionate to
how many trees that they cut down. What is the ratio of Jackie’s earnings to
Jillie’s earnings? Express your answer as a common fraction.

16. __________ The absolute difference between two integers is three,

and the absolute difference between the integers’ squares is 33. What is the
sum of those two integers?

17. __________ Jim rolls two fair dice, with

sides labeled with integers one through six,
inclusive. He then takes the two numbers
face-up and finds their product. What is the
probability that the product of the two die is a
prime integer? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
18. __________ (inches) Mary cuts an 8.5 inch by 11 inch piece of paper
into two, congruent right triangles by cutting through the diagonal of the
piece of paper. What is the hypotenuse of one of the triangles? Express your
answer as a common fraction in simplest radical form.

19. __________ Find the greatest common prime factor of 10! , 11! , and
12! .

20.__________ The integer E is a two digit, positive integer. When E is

divided by 6, then the remainder is 3. Similarly, when E is divided by 7, then
the remainder is 3. What is the sum of the two distinct values that E could
be?

21. __________ (centimeters) A Tingy pencil has a uniform

amount of lead in each unused pencil. It is guaranteed
that every unused pencil has the capability to draw and
completely shade in 5000 circles that are 2 centimeters
in radius. Assuming that this is true, what is the radius
of the largest circle that can be drawn and shaded in
with two Tingy pencils, in centimeters?
22.__________ (articles of clothing) At an outdoor summer school, students are
instructed to bring enough clothing to have a total of 625 different outfits. At
that summer school, an outfit consists of a hat, a shirt, pants, and shoes.
Cady, a soon-to-be student at that summer school, wants to bring as little
clothing as possible, and still be able to have a total of 625 outfits. How
many articles of clothing (hats, shirts, pants, and shoes in total) are such that
you can make 625 outfits, and that the number of clothings is a minimum?

23. __________ (miles per hour) Ramon is

running a marathon. For exactly one-third of
the distance of the whole entire marathon, he
jogged at a pace of 3 miles per hour. For
another one-third of the marathon, he walked
at a rate of one mile per hour. For the other
one-third of the marathon, he sprinted at a
rate of 6 miles per hour. What is Ramon’s
average speed over the course of the
marathon?

24. __________ When (x + y)3 is expanded into a multiple variable

polynomial, what is the sum of every coefficient in the polynomial?
(Assume that terms without a coefficient has a coefficient of 1.)
25. __________ (ways) A bracelet is made with eight
different charms (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H), arranged in
an order on a circular string. Two bracelets are
considered as only one distinct arrangement if one
bracelet made be rotated or reflected to replicate the
other. Three different bracelets that are considered one
distinct arrangement are shown to the right, with four
charms instead of eight. How many distinct
arrangements are there with this bracelet with eight
different charms?

26.__________ A square with diagonal length 4 is

inscribed by a circle, as shown. When the shaded area of the
circle is removed from the figure, the perimeter of the
remaining figure can be expressed as aπ + b√c ,  where a, b,
and c are integers, and c has no square factors other than 1.
What is the value of a(a + b + c) ?

27. __________ A number, N, is the least common multiple of exactly 9

of the first 10 positive integers. The remaining number that was not used in
the least common multiple is labeled as k. What is the sum of all possible
values of k?

28.__________ (integers) The number 4096 is the first integer greater than 1
that is a perfect square, cube, and fourth power. How many integers
between 1 and 4096, inclusive, are either a perfect square, a perfect cube, or
a perfect fourth power?
29.(_____, _____) The function f (x)  =  x2 − 20x + 15  is graphed on the
Cartesian plane, forming a parabola. What are the coordinates of the
parabola’s vertex? Express your answer as an ordered pair.

30. __________ (triangles) A rectangle with vertices A, B, C, and D is drawn.

Then, diagonals AC and BD are drawn, and their intersection is labeled as
point E. Using only points A, B, C, D, and E in their respective positions as
vertices, how many distinct (not necessarily non-congruent) triangles can be
drawn?