SESSION 1

1. What is the unit digit in the expansion of 72003?

2. An eight digit number contains two 1’s, two 2’s, two 3’s and two 4’s. The 1’s are separated by one
digit, the 2’s by two digits, the 3’s by three digits, and the 4’s by four digits. What is the largest
such number?

3. If A, B and C are distinct digits, can the three-digit numbers ABC and CBA both be divisible by 7?
Explain.

4. The pattern AABBBCCCCAABBBCCCC… continuously repeats. What is the 2003rd letter in the
pattern?

5. Find the smallest number greater than 2000 that is divisible 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

6. What is the smallest counting number that is divisible by each of the first 10 counting numbers?

7. What is the largest possible value of a + b + c + d in the prime factorization tree shown?

210

a x b

3 x c x d x 2

8. If the five-digit number 5DDDD is divisible by 6, then find the digit D.

9. In numbering the pages of a book, a total of 510 digits were printed. If the first page is 1, how
many pages does the book have?

10. Find the smallest number greater than 1000 that is divisible by 5 and 13 but not 4.

11. What is the sum of all the digits of all counting numbers that are less than 100?

12. A number is called decreasing if each digit is less than the preceding digit. How many 3 digit
decreasing numbers are less than 500?

13. What is the digit in the tens place in the expansion of 32003?

14. If each letter in the alphabet is assigned a numerical value (A=1, B=2, C=3, …, Z=26), find the
sum of all the prime numbers that correspond to the number of a letter. What is the highest letter
that represents a factor of the sum.

15. How many of the first 500 counting numbers are divisible by 2,3,5 and 7?

16. Form a number from the digits 0 through 9 so that the first digit is divisible by 1, the first 2 digits
are divisible by 2, the first 3 digits are divisible by 3 and so on until the ten digit number is
divisible by 10.

17. Starting Jan 1, the 1st dwarf visits Snow White everyday. The 2nd dwarf visits Snow White on Jan 2
and every 2nd day thereafter. The pattern continues for each of the 7 dwarfs, that is, the 7th dwarf
visits Snow White on Jan 7 and every 7th day thereafter. What is the total number of dwarf visits
up to and including the 1st day when all 7 dwarfs visit Snow White?
SESSION 2

1. Form two four-digit numbers from the digit 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 using each digit exactly once
so that the absolute value of the difference of the two numbers is as small as possible.

2. A unit fraction is a proper fraction with a numerator of 1. Find all ways to express 4/5 as the sum
of three different unit fractions.

3. Find the smallest possible real value of (x-3)1/2 + (x+3)1/2, if x is real.

4. If a and b are positive integers, neither of which is divisible by 10, and if a x b = 10,000, find a+b.

5. Compute the product: 2/2003 x 4/2002 x 6/2001 x … x 4004/2 x 4006/1.

6. The average of a and b is 10, whereas the average of b and 10 is c/2. What is the average of a and
c?

7. Express 0.111… + 0.010101… + 0.000100010001… as a reduced fraction.

8. If a * b = (a+b) / (a-b), what is (6 * 4) * 3?

9. If the repeating decimal 0.84515151… is represented by the fraction a/b, where a and b are
positive integers with no common factors greater than 1, find a+b.

10. If A is 35% less than B and C is 75% more than B, what percent of C is A?

11. Each letter in the puzzle below represents a different digit. All digits in NINE are odd. What is the
least possible value of NINE?

FOUR
+ FI V E
NIN E

12. How many digits are there before the 100th 3 in the non-repeating decimal
0.43443444344443444443…?

13. In a certain planet, 7 1/7 moudads are equal in value to 3 1/3 koudads. How many koudads are
3 1/3 moudads worth?

14. Find 2003rd digit to the right of the decimal in the expansion of 1/13.
SESSION 3

1. The sum of two numbers is 7 and their product is 25. Find the sum of their reciprocals.

2. A rectangular picture has a frame that is 1 inch wide. If the area of the frame alone is 100 sq. in.,
find all possible values of the perimeter of the picture without the frame.

3. One factor of (ax2-bx+a) is x-2. Find a:b.

4. When 20 is divided by x/272 the remainder is 12. Find x.

5. If (16101+8101+4101+2101+1) ÷ (2100+1) = Q + R, find R.

6. What is the value of (x+x2+x3+x4+x5+x6+x7) ÷ (x-3+x-4+x-5+x-6+x-7+x-8+x-9)?

7. Find k, if (x4-2x3+kx2-x-1) ÷ (x-1) = Q + R and R = 3.

8. Find k, if (kx200-7x98+6x35+9x13-3) ÷ (x+1) = Q + R and R =2.

9. What is the value of k so that (x-3) is a factor of (x3-x2+k-3).

10. If a2b = 5, find 2a6b – 4.

11. What is (23x+2-3x)?

12. For integers a and b we define a * b = ab + ba. If 2 * x = 100, what is the value of x.

13. If x > 0, an integer, what is (1-1/2)(1-1/3)(1-1/4) … (1-1/x).

14. If xy = 2 and x2+y2 = 5, what is x/y + y/x ?

15. In the sequence …, a, b, c, d, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …, each term is the sum of the preceding terms.
What is a?

16. Find the value of n if 32003-32002+32001-32000 = n(32000).

SESSION 4

1. If 4(9a-13b) = 6(a-2b), what is the ratio of a to b?

2. If Ivan races his bicycle at 15 kph, he will pass a checkpoint at 11:00 AM. Froilan, starting
together with Ivan, races his bicycle at 10 kph. He passes the same checkpoint 2 hours later. How
many km is the checkpoint from starting line?

3. A train that is 0.5 mile long travels at a steady rate of 50 miles per hour. It enters a two-mile long
tunnel at exactly 2:00 PM. At what time does the rear of the train emerge from the tunnel?

4. If a two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits, then the number formed by reversing the
digits of the original number is the sum of its digits multiplied by what number?

5. A father’s age is three times the sum of the ages of his two children. In 4 years, he will be twice as
old as the sum of their ages. How old is the father?

6. Two candles of equal length are lit at 10:00 PM. One candle takes 6 hours to burn out, the other
takes 3 hours. When is one candle twice as long as the other?

7. A mathematician has lived 1/6 of his life as a boy, 1/8 of his life as a youth, 1/2 of his life as a
married man and has spent the last 15 years as a widower. How old is the mathematician?

8. I am mailing 8 boxes, each containing the same gift, to 8 different people. After sealing the boxes,
I realized that I accidentally packed my address book in one of the boxes. By using a balance
scale, what is the fewest number of weighings that I can use tofind my address book?

9. Millicent has balancing scale and finds that a glass and a bowl balance a mug. The bowl alone
balances a glass and plate, and 3 plates balance 2 mugs. How many glasses balance a bowl?

10. What is the greatest possible perimeter of this triangle given that the triangle is isosceles.

5x+20 3x+76

x+1.96
SESSION 5

1. If 4x-3y = 5 and 5x+ky =6 are parallel, what is k ?

2. What is the value of k if the line x-5y = 3 is perpendicular to the line (k+1)x+y = 0.

3. Find the equation of the line passing through the intersection of 2y-x = 1 and 2y+x = 3 and parallel
to y = 5.

4. Find k so that the line joining (k,1) and (3,4) and the line joining (-1,2) and (8,0) are parallel.

5. Find a if the line 2x-y+3 = 0 and ax+3y-4 = 0 are perpendicular to each other.

6. Find the value of k so that the line through M (3,k) and A (2,8) is perpendicular to the line through
T (3/2,0) and H (1/2,1).

7. The line through the points (2,-4) and (4,k) has slope k. Find k.

8. If the lines x+2y = -4 and ax-3y = -7 are perpendicular to each other, find a.

9. Find k so that the line 6y+(2k-1)x = 12 is parallel to 3y-2x = 6.

10. Find k so that 2x-3y = 5 and ky+3x-20 = 0 will be perpendicular.

11. Given the 2 points (-1,2) and (3,2), find 2 other points so that the resulting figure is a square.
(There are two possible solutions).

12. Given the 3 points (0,4), (4,4) and (2,1), find a fourth point so that the 4 points will form a
parallelogram. (There are 3 possible solutions)

13. In which quadrant(s) will the solution set of y > 1-x be found?

14. Watermelons are sold at P60 each and pineapples at P25 each. If a vendor sold at least P1,500
worth of fruit, what is the minimum number of each kind of fruit did he sell?

15. Twice the money of Kevin plus thrice the money of Reuben is at most P150. What is the
maximum amount of money each boy could have?
SESSION 6

1. How many terms are there in the expansion of (x+1)14?

2. Expand mentally (x-1)(x4+x3+x2+x+1).

3. If a+b = 2 and a2+b2 = 2, find a4+b4.

4. If x4+y4 = 2 and x8+y8 = 3, what is the value of x16+y16?

5. If x+y =3 and x2+y2 = 5, what is the value of x4+y4?

6. If x2+y2 = 29 and x5y5 = 100,000, what is (x-y)2?

7. Determine x+y+z given that x2+y2+z2 = xy+xz+yz = 3.

8. Find the product of two numbers if their difference is 48 and the sum of their squares is 3264.

9. The sum of the squares of two numbers is 225 and the square of their sum is 441. What is the
reciprocal of their product?

10. Compute the product mentally:

[(2003+2)(2003-2)+(2003-2)(2003+2)][(2003-2)(2003+2)-(2003+2)(2003-2)]

11. If the reciprocal of x+1 is x-1. What is x?

12. If the perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 36 cm and if the altitude to its base is 12 cm, what is the
area of the triangle?

13. A rectangular picture has a frame that is 1 cm wide. If the area of the frame alone is 100 cm2, find
all possible values of the perimeter of the picture without the frame.

14. Prove that a2+b2+c2 is never less than ab+ac+bc for all real numbers a,b and c.

15. The difference between the square of 2 consecutive odd integers is 128. What is the product of the
2 integers?

16. If m+n = 3 and m2+n2 = 6, find the numerical value of m3+n3.

17. A bamboo 18 meters high is broken by the wind. Its top touched the ground 6 meters from the
root. How long are the segments of the bamboo?

18. If z = -x, what are all the values of y for which (x+y)2+(y+z)2 = 2x2?
SESSION 7

1. Benedict’s age is 16 more than the sum of Joseph’s age and Geoffrey’s age. The square of
Benedict’s age is 1632 more than the square of the sum of Joseph’s age and Geoffrey’s age. What
is the sum of Benedict’s, Joseph’s and Geoffrey’s age?

2. A piece of wire is 52 cm long. It is cut into 2 pieces, each of which is then bent to form a square.
The total area of the 2 squares is 97 sq. cm. How much longer is the side of the larger square than
the side of the smaller square?

3. Prove that neither 999919 nor 1000343 is prime.

4. Find all positive values of k for which the equation 3x+k = 2 and kx+3 = 2 have a common
solution for x.

5. The number 248-1 has 2 factors between 60 and 70. Find them.

6. Compute the sum of the prime factors of 216-1.

7. The total surface area of a cube expressed in cm2 has the same value as the cube’s volume,
expressed in cm3. Compute the length of the side of the cube.

8. What is the largest value of k such that 16x2+kx-13x+49 is a perfect square?

9. A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length a cm and one other side of length b cm. If a and b differ
by 1, what is the length of the remaining side of the triangle?

10. If x and y are positive integers and x+y+xy = 34, what is x+y?

11. Two numbers have a product of 19551 and a sum of 280. Find the difference of the 2 numbers.

12. Find the value of k for which 22003+22002+22001+22000 = k(22000).

13. For what value of k will 9ab+63a+5cb+k be factorable?

14. By what polynomial of lowest degree must (2x2+23x+56)(x2+2x-48) be multiplied to make it a

perfect square?

15. Find all values of k so that 4y2+ky-4 can be factored using integers.

16. What is the square root of (5x2-21x+4)(3x2-10x-8)(15x2+7x-2)?

17. The line through points (m,-9) and (97,m) has slope m. Find m.

18. If a2 – b2 = 96 and a < 100, find all possible values of a and b.