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1. Dylan’s boyhood lasted 6 of his life. He grew a beard after 12 more. After a 7 more of
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his life he is married. Five years later he had a son. The son lived 2 as long as his father,
and the father died 4 years after his son. How old was Dylan when he died?

Solution:
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x  x  x 5 x 4
x= 6 12 7 2 = 84
2. Cathy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the
result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divided the result by 3, giving an answer
of 43. What would her answer have been had she worked the problem correctly?

Solution: Let Cathy’s number be c. She subtracted 9 then divided the result by 3, so she
(c  9) (c  9)
 43
computed 3 . She got an answer of 43 when she did this, so 3 . We
multiply both sides by 3 to get c – 9 = 129. We then add 9 to both sides to find c = 138.
Now, we compute the answer Cathy should have found. She was supposed to subtract 3
from this number, which would have given her 138 – 3 = 135. Then, she was supposed to
135
 15
divide by 9, which would give her 9 .

3. The “border number” of an n  n square is

defined as the number of units squares whose
edges border the edges of a larger square.
The border numbers of
1 1, 2  2, 3  3, 4  4, and 5  5 squares are
1 4 8 12 16
illustrated. What is the border number of a 20
unit by 20 unit square?

Solution:
n  2   n  2  2 n2   n  2  .
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The pattern is or
20  2   20  2   2  40  36  76.
4. The figure shows a square ABCD and the diagonal
AC = 7 cm. Find the area of the square ABCD.

Solution: AD  DC
AC 2  AD 2  DC 2
7 2  2  AD 2 
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AD 2   24.5
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Area of square ABCD = AD2 = 24.5 cm2

5. There are 2 blue marbles, 6 yellow marbles, and 5 green marbles in a bag. One at a time,
two marbles are drawn randomly from the bag, with replacement after each drawing.
What is the probability that all two are green?

Solution:
There are total 2  6  5  13 marbles. There are 5 green marbles. The probability to draw
5
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a green marble is then 13 By the fundamental counting principle, the probability that all
 5   5  25
    .
three are green is  13   13  169