Problem 1
On a
particular January day, the high temperature in Lincoln, Nebraska, was

degrees higher than the low temperature, and the average of the high and low
temperatures was

.
In degrees, what was the low temperature in Lincoln that day?
Solution
Problem 2
Mr. Green
measures his rectangular garden by walking two of the sides and finds that it is

steps by

steps. Each of Mr. Green’s steps is

feet long. Mr. Green expects a half a pound of potatoes per square foot from his
garden. How many pounds of potatoes does Mr. Green expect from his garden?
Solution
Problem 3
When counting
from

to

,

is the

number counted. When counting backwards from

to

,

is the

number counted. What is

?
Solution
Problem 4
Ray's car
averages

miles per gallon of gasoline, and Tom's car averages

miles per gallon of gasoline. Ray and Tom each drive the same number of miles.
What is the cars' combined rate of miles per gallon of gasoline?
Solution
Problem 5
The average
age of

fifth-graders is

.
The average age of

of their parents is

.
What is the average age of all of these parents and fifth-graders?
Solution
Problem 6
Real numbers

and

satisfy the equation

.
What is

?
Solution
Problem 7
Jo and Blair
take turns counting from

to one more than the last number said by the other person. Jo starts by saying

,
so Blair follows by saying

.
Jo then says

,
and so on. What is the

number said?
Solution
Problem 8
Line

has equation

and goes through

.
Line

has equation

and meets line

at point

.
Line

has positive slope, goes through point

,
and meets

at point

.
The area of

is

.
What is the slope of

?
Solution
Problem 9
What is the
sum of the exponents of the prime factors of the square root of the largest
perfect square that divides

?
Solution
Problem 10
Alex has

red tokens and

blue tokens. There is a booth where Alex can give two red tokens and receive in
return a silver token and a blue token, and another booth where Alex can give
three blue tokens and receive in return a silver token and a red token. Alex
continues to exchange tokens until no more exchanges are possible. How many
silver tokens will Alex have at the end?
Solution
Problem 11
Two bees
start at the same spot and fly at the same rate in the following directions. Bee

travels

foot north, then

foot east, then

foot upwards, and then continues to repeat this pattern. Bee

travels

foot south, then

foot west, and then continues to repeat this pattern. In what directions are the
bees traveling when they are exactly

feet away from each other?

east,

west

north,

south

north,

west

up,

south

up,

west
Solution
Problem 12
Cities

,

,

,

,
and

are connected by roads

,

,

,

,

,

,
and

.
How many different routes are there from

to

that use each road exactly once? (Such a route will necessarily visit some
cities more than once.)
Solution
Problem 13
The internal
angles of quadrilateral

form an arithmetic progression. Triangles

and

are similar with

and

.
Moreover, the angles in each of these two triangles also form an arithemetic
progression. In degrees, what is the largest possible sum of the two largest
angles of

?
Solution
Problem 14
Two
non-decreasing sequences of nonnegative integers have different first terms.
Each sequence has the property that each term beginning with the third is the
sum of the previous two terms, and the seventh term of each sequence is

.
What is the smallest possible value of

?
Solution
Problem 15
the number

is expressed in the form
,
where

and

are positive integers and

is as small as possible. What is

?
Solution
Problem 16
Let

be an equiangular convex pentagon of perimeter

.
The pairwise intersections of the lines that extend the sides of the pentagon
determine a five-pointed star polygon. Let

be the perimeter of this star. What is the difference between the maximum and
the minimum possible values of

.
Solution
Problem 17
Let

and

be real numbers such that
What is the difference between the maximum and minimum possible values
of

?
Solution
Problem 18
Barbara and
Jenna play the following game, in which they take turns. A number of coins lie
on a table. When it is Barbara’s turn, she must remove

or

coins, unless only one coin remains, in which case she loses her turn. What it
is Jenna’s turn, she must remove

or

coins. A coin flip determines who goes first. Whoever removes the last coin wins
the game. Assume both players use their best strategy. Who will win when the
game starts with

coins and when the game starts with

coins?

Barbara will win with

coins and Jenna will win with

coins.

Jenna will win with

coins, and whoever goes first will win with

coins.

Barbara will win with

coins, and whoever goes second will win with

coins.

Jenna will win with

coins, and Barbara will win with

coins.

Whoever goes first will win with

coins, and whoever goes second will win with

coins.
Solution
Problem 19
In triangle

,

,

,
and

.
Distinct points

,

,
and

lie on segments

,

,
and

,
respectively, such that

,

,
and

.
The length of segment

can be written as

,
where

and

are relatively prime positive integers. What is

?
Solution
Problem 20
For

,
points

and

are the vertices of a trapezoid. What is

?
Solution
Problem 21
Consider the
set of 30 parabolas defined as follows: all parabolas have as focus the point
(0,0) and the directrix lines have the form

with a and b integers such that

and

.
No three of these parabolas have a common point. How many points in the plane
are on two of these parabolas?
Solution
Problem 22
Let

and

be integers. Suppose that the product of the solutions for

of the equation

is the smallest possible integer. What is

?
Solution
Problem 23
Bernardo
chooses a three-digit positive integer

and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later
LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as
base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer

.
For example, if

,
Bernardo writes the numbers 10,444 and 3,245, and LeRoy obtains the sum

.
For how many choices of

are the two rightmost digits of

,
in order, the same as those of

?
Solution
Problem 24
Let

be a triangle where

is the midpoint of

,
and

is the angle bisector of

with

on

.
Let

be the intersection of the median

and the bisector

.
In addition

is equilateral with

.
What is

?
Solution
Problem 25
Let

be the set of polynomials of the form

where

are integers and

has distinct roots of the form

with

and

integers. How many polynomials are in

?
Solution