EXAM AB HIGH SCHOOL MATH CONTEST FALL 2005

1. A chocolate bar is composed of twelve pieces. How many snaps will it require to separate all the pieces? 2. Cindy 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 if she had worked the problem correctly? 3. If P = 32000 + 32000 and if Q = 32000 32000 , what is P 2 Q2 ? 4. Some humans and some horses are in a stable. In all, there are 22 heads and 72 legs. How many humans are in the stable? 5. When the expression 156 285 557 is evaluated, it ends with a string of consecutive zeros. How many zeros are in that string? 6. Let d and e denote the solutions of 2x2 + 3x 5 = 0 . What is the value of (d + 1)(e + 1) ? 7. Mr. Earl E. Bird leaves his house for work at exactly 8:00 A.M. every morning. When he averages 40 miles per hour, he arrives at his workplace three minutes late. When he averages 60 miles per hour, he arrives three minutes early. At what average speed, in miles per hour, should Mr. Bird drive to arrive at his workplace precisely on time? 8. Let a and b be distinct real numbers for which a a + 10b + = 2. b b + 10a Find a/b . 9. Albert spent all his money in ve stores. In each store, he spent $1 more than half of what he had when he entered that store. How much money did Albert have when he entered the rst store? 10. What is the next numerically prime year? 11. Henry took ve tests and his average score was 57 points. He scored at least 50 points on each test. There were 100 points possible on each test. What is the highest score that Henry could have earned on any of the ve tests?

12. How many triangles are in the gure below?

13. Let AB be a line segment of length 1. Let C be a point on the line segment such that the ratio of the length of AC to that of CB is the same as the ratio of the length of AB to that of AC. Find this common ratio and write it in its proper form.

14. Tim buys apples at three for $1. He resells them at ve for $2. Assuming he resells every apple that he buys, how many apples must Tim buy in order to make a prot of $10 ?

15. Let a and b be real numbers such that x4 + 2x3 x2 + ax + b = (Q(x))2 for some polynomial Q(x) . What is the value of a + b ?

16. The minute hand of a 12-hour clock measures 10 cm from its tip to the center of the clock face and the hour hand from its tip to the center of the clock face is 5 cm. What is the sum of the distances, in meters , traveled by the tips of both hands in one 24-hour period? Express your answer in terms of .

17. If Ella rolls a standard six-sided die until she rolls the same number on consecutive rolls, what is the probability that her 10th roll is her last roll?