MATHCOUNTS



MATHCOUNTS

Team Round

2007

1. Four circular chips are each centered on one of four 1.

adjacent squares on a checkerboard such that the

centers of the chips are the four vertices of a square.

What is the area of this square if the checkerboard’s

squares each measure two inches on a side?

2. A sculpture of a clothespin is 20 feet high. A normal 2.

clothespin of this shape is five inches high. Using this

scale, how many feet tall would a sculpture of a

5-foot, 7-inch woman be?

3. All of the ID codes in Agueleo’s school are three-digit 3.

positive integers. For Agueleo’s ID code, the product

of the digits is 216, the sum of the digits is 19, and the

integer ID code is aslarge as possible.

What is Agueleo’s ID code?

4. A subtraction square is a 3 by 3 grid of integers where, 4.

in each row from left to right, and in each column from

top to bottom, the first integer minus the second

integer equals the third integer. The integer k is in the top k

left unit square of the subtraction square, as shown.

When the subtraction square is filled in completely,

what is the sum of all nine integers?

Express your answer in simplest form in terms of k.

5. Two right pyramids with congruent square bases and 5.

equilateral triangular faces can be joined at their bases to form

an octahedron with eight congruent, equilateral triangular

faces. The total surface area of a particular such octahedron

with edge length 2 units is x square units. The volume of

this octahedron is y cubic units. What is the value of x + y?

Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

6. In a particular list of three-digit perfect squares, the 6.

first perfect square can be turned into each of the others

by rearranging its digits. What is the largest number of

distinct perfect squares that could be in the list?

7. Charlie plans to build a square pyramid-like figure 7.

using unit cubes. The top level will have one cube.

Given any level, the vertices of the largest bottom

square coincide with the centers

of the top faces of the four corner

cubes of the level below. The top

three levels are shown. When Charlie

finishes gluing together all of the unit

cubes of the first eight levels, what is

the total surface area of all of the faces

of the resulting solid?

8. If [pic] 8.

what is the largest possible value of r – s?

Express your answer as a mixed number.

9. For positive integers K and T, it is true that 27 × K = [pic] 9.

K > 100 and K ÷ T is an integer. What is the smallest

possible value of K ÷ T ?

10. In a bag of three marbles, there are exactly two 10.

blue marbles. If Kia randomly chooses two marbles

without replacement, the probability of choosing the two

blue marbles is one-third. However, before Kia chooses

her two marbles, additional marbles are added to the bag.

The probability of picking two blue marbles without

replacement is still one-third. What is the least number of

marbles that could be in the bag after the additional marbles

have been added?

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