1. Suppose today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be 100 days from now?

2. Find the sum of the counting numbers from 1 to 25 inclusive. In other words, if S = 1 + 2+ 3 +...+ 24
+ 25, find the value of S .
3. A work crew of 3 people requires 3 weeks and 2 days to do a certain job. How long would it take a
work crew of 4 people to do the same job if each person of both crews works at the same rate as
each of the others? Note: each week contains six work days.
4. In three blowling games, Alice scores 139, 143, and 144. What score will Alice need in a fourth
game in order to have an average score of 145 for all four games?
5. A book has 500 pages numbered 1, 2, 3, and so on. How many times does the digit 1 appear in the
page numbers?
6. Express the following sum as a simple fraction in lowest terms.

7. In the multiplication problem at the right, A and B stand for different digits. Find A and B.

1 1 1
8. If : = + Where A and B are different whole numbers, find the value of A and the value of B.
3 A B
9. Express the extended fraction at the right as a simple fraction in lowest terms.

10. Amy can mow 600 square yards of grass in 1½ hours. At this rate, how many minutes would it take
her to mow 600 square feet?
11. X and Y are two different numbers selected from the first fifty counting numbers from 1 to 50
inclusive.
X +Y
What is the largest value that can have?
X−Y
12. The average of five weights is 13 grams. This set of five weights is then increased by another weight
of 7 grams. What is the average of the six weights?
13. In a group of 30 high school students, 8 take French, 12 take spanish and 3 take both languages.
How many students of the group take neither French nor spanish?
14. A boy has the following seven coins in his pocket: 2 pennies, 2 nickels, 2 dimes, and 1 quater. He
takes out two coins, records the sum of their values, and then puts them back with the other coins.
He continues to take out two coins, record the sum of their values, and put them back. How many
different sums can he record at most?
15. Each of the boxes in the figure at the right is a square. How many different squares can be traced
using the lines in the figure?

16. If 20 is added to one-third of a number, the result is the double of the number. What is the
number?
17. If a number ends in zeros, the zeros are called terminal zeros. For example, 520,000 has four
terminal zeros, but 502,000 has just three terminal zeros. Let N equal the product of all natural
numbers. From 1 through 20:
N = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × ... × 20
How many terminal zeros will N have when it is written in standard from?
18. In the “ magic-square” at the right, five more numbers can be placed in the boxes so that the sum
of the three numbers in each row, in each column, and in each diagonal is always the same. What
value should X have?

19. The perimeter of a rectangle is 22 inches and the inch-measure of each side is a natural number.
How many different areas in square inches can the rectangle have?
20. In the division problem at the right, the blanks represent missing digits. If A and B represent the
digits of the quotient, what are the values of A and B?

A B 31
21. A and B are whole numbers, and + = . Find the value of A and the value of B.
11 3 33
22. The product of two numbers is 144 and their difference is 10. What is the sum of the two numbers?
23. In the multiplication problemat the right, each blank space represents a missing digit. Find the
product.

24. An acute angle is an angle whose measure is between 0⁰ and 90⁰. Using the rays in the diagram,
how many different acute angles can be formed?

25. Arrange the digits 1,1,2,2,3,3, as a six-digit number in which the 1s are separated by one digit, the
2s are separated by two digits, and the 3s are separated by three digits. There are two answers.
Find one.
26. Suppose five days before the day after tomorrow was Wednesday. What day of the week was
yesterday?
27. At the right, ABCD is a square whose sides are each 2 units long. The length of the shortest path
from A to C following the lines of the diagram is 4 units. How many different shortest paths are
there from A to C?
28. A dollar was changed into 16 coins consisting of just nickels and dimes. How many coins of each
kind were in the change?
29. Each of the boxes in the figure at the right is a square. Using the lines of the figure, how many
different squares can be traced?

30. In the multiplication problem at the right, different letters stand for different digits, and ABC and
DBC each represent a three-digit number. What number does DBC represent?
( Two answers are possible; give one.)

31. Consecutive numbers are whole numbers that follow in order such as 7,8,9,10,11, and 12. Find
three consecutive numbers such that the sum of the first and third is 118.
32. The perimeter of a rectangle is 20 feet and the foot-measure of each side is a whole number. How
many rectangles with different shapes satisfy these conditions?
33. In a math contest of 10 problems, 5 points was given for each correct answer and 2 points was
deducted for each incorrect answer. If Nancy answered all 10 problems and scored 29 points, how
many correct answers did she have?
34. The number of two-dollar bills I need to pay for a purchase is 9 more than the number of five-dollar
bills I need to pay for the same purchase. What is the cost of the purchase?
35. 3×3,3×3×3, and 3×3×3×3 are “ multiplication strings ” of two 3s, three 3s, and four 3s respectively.
When each string multiplication is don, 3×3 ends in 9, 3×3×3 ends in 7, and 3×3×3×3 ends in 1. In
what digit will a multiplication string of thirty-five 3s end?
36. The last Friday of a particular month is on the 25th day of the month. What day of the week is the
first day of the month?
37. The age of a man is the same as his wife’s age with the digits reversed the sum of their ages is 99
and the man is 9 years older than his wife. How old is the man?
38. D is the of the odd numbers from 1 through 99 inclusive, and N is the sum of the even numbers
from 2 through 98 inclusive:
 D = 1 + 3 + 5 + .... + 99 and N = 2 + 4 + 6 + .... + 98
Which is greater, D or N, and by how much?
39. I have exactly ten coins whose total value is $1. If three of the coins are quarters, what are the
remaining coins?
40. One loaf of bread and six rolls cost $1.80. At the same prices, two loaves of bread and four rolls
cost $2.40. How much does one loaf of bread cost?
41. The small boxes in figures A and B At the right are congruent squares. The perimeter of Figure A is
48 inches. What is the perimeter of figure B? (The perimeterof a figure is the distance around it.)

42. The sum of the weights of Tom and Bill is 138 pounds and one boy is 3 pounds heavier than the
other. How much does the heavier boy weigh?
43. The members of an olympiad team contributed a total of $1.69 for refreshment for their weekly
practice. Each member contributed the same amount and paid for his or her share in five coins.
How many nickels were contributed by all of the members?
44. Suppose K,L, and M represent the number of points assigned to the three target regions shown at
the right. The sum of K and L is 11, the sum of L and M is 19, and the sum of K and M is 16. How
many poins are assigned to M?

45. Mrs. Winthrop want to a store, spent half of her money and then $10 more. She went to a second
store, spent half of her remaining money and then $10 more. But she then had no money left. How
much money did she have to begin with when she went to the first store?
46. A train is moving at the rate of 1 mile in 1 minute and 20 seconds. If the train continues at this rate,
how far will it travel in one hour?
47. Toytrain cars made of blocks of wood either 6 inches long or 7 inches long can be hooked together
to make longer trains. Which of the following train-lengths cannot be made by hooking together
either 6-inch train cars, 7-inch train cars, or a combination of both:
 29 inches, 30 inches, 31 inches, 32 inches,33 inches?
48. A circular track is 1000 yards in circumference. Cyclists A, B, and C start at the same place and time,
and race around the track at the following rates per minute: A at 700 yards, B at 800 yards, and C at
900 yards. What is the least number of minutes it must take for all three to be together again?