Casey went on a road trip that covered 100 miles, stopping only for a lunch break along the way. The trip took 3 hours in total and her average speed while driving was 40 miles per hour. In minutes, how long was the lunch break?
Mika would like to estimate how far she can ride a new model of electric bike on a fully charged battery. She completed two trips totaling 40 miles. The first trip used 1/2 of the total battery power, while the second trip used 3/10 of the total battery power. How many miles can this electric bike go on a fully charged battery?
Mika 想估算她新买的电动自行车充满电后最多能骑行多远。她完成了两次行程,总共骑行了 40 英里。第一次行程消耗了总电量的 1/2,第二次行程消耗了总电量的 3/10。这辆电动自行车充满电后最多能骑行多少英里?
In the figure below, each circle will be filled with a digit from 1 to 6. Each digit must appear exactly once. The sum of the digits in neighboring circles is shown in the box between them. What digit must be placed in the top circle?
Jami picked three equally spaced integer numbers on the number line. The sum of the first and the second numbers is 40, while the sum of the second and third numbers is 60. What is the sum of all three numbers?
Jami 在数轴上选取了三个等间距的整数。第一个数与第二个数之和为 40,第二个数与第三个数之和为 60。这三个数的总和是多少?
Miguel is walking with his dog, Luna. When they reach the entrance to a park, Miguel throws a ball straight ahead and continues to walk at a steady pace. Luna sprints toward the ball, which stops by a tree. As soon as the dog reaches the ball, she brings it back to Miguel. Luna runs 5 times faster than Miguel walks. What fraction of the distance from the entrance to the tree will Miguel have walked when Luna returns the ball to him?
Miguel 带着他的狗 Luna 散步。当他们走到公园入口时,Miguel 向前扔出一个球并继续匀速行走。Luna 冲向球,球停在一棵树旁。Luna 一拿到球就立刻跑回 Miguel 身边。Luna 的奔跑速度是 Miguel 步行速度的 5 倍。当 Luna 把球送回给 Miguel 时,Miguel 已经走了从入口到树这段距离的几分之几?
Buffalo Shuffle-o is a card game in which all the cards are distributed evenly among all players at the start of the game. When Annika and 3 of her friends play Buffalo Shuffle-o, each player is dealt 15 cards. Suppose 2 more friends join the next game. How many cards will be dealt to each player?
In the land of Markovia, there are three cities: A , B , and C . There are 100 people who live in A , 120 who live in B , and 160 who live in C . Everyone works in one of the three cities, and a person may work in the same city where they live. In the figure below, an arrow pointing from one city to another is labeled with the fraction of people living in the first city who work in the second city. (For example, 41 of the people who live in A work in B .) How many people work in A ?
Two towns, A and B , are connected by a straight road that is 15 miles long. Travelling from city A to town B , the speed limit changes every 5 miles: from 25 to 40 to 20 miles per hour (mph). Two cars, one at town A and one at town B , start moving toward each other at the same time. They drive at exactly the speed limit in each portion of the road. How far from town A , in miles, will the two cars meet?
Sarika, Dev, and Rajiv are sharing a large block of cheese. They take turns cutting off half of what remains and eating it: first Sarika eats half of the cheese, then Dev eats half of the remaining half, then Rajiv eats half of what remains, then back to Sarika, and so on. They stop when the cheese is too small to see. About what fraction of the original block of cheese does Sarika eat in total?
All of the marbles in Maria's collection are red, green, or blue. Maria has half as many red marbles as green marbles and twice as many blue marbles as green marbles. Which of the following could be the total number of marbles in Maria's collection?
Rohan keeps a total of 90 guppies in 4 fish tanks.
• There is 1 more guppy in the 2nd tank than in the 1st tank.
• There are 2 more guppies in the 3rd tank than in the 2nd tank.
• There are 3 more guppies in the 4th tank than in the 3rd tank.
A group of frogs (called an army) is living in a tree. A frog turns green when in the shade and turns yellow when in the sun. Initially, the ratio of green to yellow frogs was 3:1. Then 3 green frogs moved to the sunny side and 5 yellow frogs moved to the shady side. Now the ratio is 4:1. What is the difference between the number of green frogs and the number of yellow frogs now?
Wind chill is a measure of how cold people feel when exposed to wind outside. A good estimate for wind chill can be found using this calculation:
(wind chill)=(air temperature)−0.7×(wind speed)
where temperature is measured in degrees Fahrenheit (∘F) and wind speed is measured in miles per hour (mph). Suppose the air temperature is 36∘F and the wind speed is 18 mph. Which of the following is closest to the approximate wind chill?
A lake contains 250 trout, along with a variety of other fish. When a marine biologist catches and releases a sample of 180 fish from the lake, 30 are identified as trout. Assume that the ratio of trout to the total number of fish is the same in both the sample and the lake. How many fish are there in the lake?
Harold made a plum pie to take on a picnic. He was able to eat only 41 of the pie, and he left the rest for his friends. A moose came by and ate 31 of what Harold left behind. After that, a porcupine ate 31 of what the moose left behind. How much of the original pie still remained after the porcupine left?
Harold 做了一个李子派带去野餐。他只吃了这个派的 41,剩下的留给他的朋友们。一只驼鹿经过,吃掉了 Harold 剩下的 31。在那之后,一只豪猪吃掉了驼鹿剩下的派的 31。问豪猪走后,原来的派还剩下多少?
NASA's Perseverance Rover was launched on July 30, 2020. After traveling 292,526,838 miles, it landed on Mars in Jezero Crater about 6.5 months later. Which of the following is closest to the Rover's average interplanetary speed in miles per hour?
Along the route of a bicycle race, 7 water stations are evenly spaced between the start and finish lines, as shown in the figure below. There are also 2 repair stations evenly spaced between the start and finish lines. The 3rd water station is located 2 miles after the 1st repair station. How long is the race in miles?
Viswam walks half a mile to get to school each day. His route consists of 10 city blocks of equal length and he takes 1 minute to walk each block. Today, after walking 5 blocks, Viswam discovers he has to make a detour, walking 3 blocks of equal length instead of 1 block to reach the next corner. From the time he starts his detour, at what speed, in mph, must he walk in order to get to school at his usual time?
The letters P, Q, and R are entered into a 20×20 table according to the pattern shown below. How many P's, Q's, and R's will appear in the completed table?
Anna and Bella are celebrating their birthdays together. Five years ago, when Bella turned 6 years old, she received a newborn kitten as a birthday present. Today the sum of the ages of the two children and the kitten is 30 years. How many years older than Bella is Anna?
nna 和 Bella 正在一起庆祝她们的生日。五年前,当 Bella 到 6 岁的时候,她收到了一只新生的小猫作为生日礼物。今天,两个孩子与小猫的年龄之和是 30 岁。问 Anna 比 Bella 大多少岁?
Three positive integers are equally spaced on a number line. The middle number is 15, and the largest number is 4 times the smallest number. What is the smallest of these three numbers?
When the World Wide Web first became popular in the 1990 s, download speeds reached a maximum of about 56 kilobits per second. Approximately how many minutes would the download of a 4.2 -megabyte song have taken at that speed? (Note that there are 8000 kilobits in a megabyte.)
A cup of boiling water ( 212∘F ) is placed to cool in a room whose temperature remains constant at 68∘F . Suppose the difference between the water temperature and the room temperature is halved every 5 minutes. What is the water temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, after 15 minutes?
One sunny day, Ling decided to take a hike in the mountains. She left her house at 8 AM , drove at a constant speed of 45 miles per hour, and arrived at the hiking trail at 10 AM . After hiking for 3 hours, Ling drove home at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour. Which of the following graphs best illustrates the distance between Ling's car and her house over the course of her trip?
Henry the donkey has a very long piece of pasta. He takes a number of bites of pasta, each time eating 3 inches of pasta from the middle of one piece. In the end, he has $10$ pieces of pasta whose total length is 17 inches. How long, in inches, was the piece of pasta he started with?
驴 Henry 有一根很长的面条。他咬了几口面条,每次都是从一段面条的中间吃掉 3 英寸。最后,他还有 10 段面条,总长度为 17 英寸。问他开始吃的时候,那根面条的长度是多少英寸?
Four numbers are written in a row. The average of the first two is 21, the average of the middle two is 26, and the average of the last two is 30. What is the average of the first and last of the numbers?
The grid below is to be filled with integers in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row and the sum of the numbers in each column are the same. Four numbers are missing. The number x in the lower left corner is larger than the other three missing numbers. What is the smallest possible value of x ?
Steph scored 15 baskets out of 20 attempts in the first half of a game, and 10 baskets out of 10 attempts in the second half. Candace took 12 attempts in the first half and 18 attempts in the second. In each half, Steph scored a higher percentage of baskets than Candace. Surprisingly they ended with the same overall percentage of baskets scored. How many more baskets did Candace score in the second half than in the first?
A bus takes 2 minutes to drive from one stop to the next, and waits 1 minute at each stop to let passengers board. Zia takes 5 minutes to walk from one bus stop to the next. As Zia reaches a bus stop, if the bus is at the previous stop or has already left the previous stop, then she will wait for the bus. Otherwise she will start walking toward the next stop. Suppose the bus and Zia start at the same time toward the library, with the bus 3 stops behind. After how many minutes will Zia board the bus?
Luka is making lemonade to sell at a school fundraiser. His recipe requires 4 times as much water as sugar and twice as much sugar as lemon juice. He uses 3 cups of lemon juice. How many cups of water does he need?
Luka 正在做柠檬水,准备在学校的募捐会上出售。他的配料表需要的水是糖的四倍,糖是柠檬汁的两倍。他用了 3 杯柠檬汁。他需要多少杯水?
Four friends do yardwork for their neighbors over the weekend, earning $15, $20, $25, and $40, respectively. They decide to split their earnings equally among themselves. In total, how much will the friend who earned $40 give to the others?
Carrie has a rectangular garden that measures 6 feet by 8 feet. She plants the entire garden with strawberry plants. Carrie is able to plant 4 strawberry plants per square foot, and she harvests an average of 10 strawberries per plant. How many strawberries can she expect to harvest?
Three hexagons of increasing size are shown below. Suppose the dot pattern continues so that each successive hexagon contains one more band of dots. How many dots are in the next hexagonal?
Three fourths of a pitcher is filled with pineapple juice. The pitcher is emptied by pouring an equal amount of juice into each of 5 cups. What percent of the total capacity of the pitcher did each cup receive?
Ricardo has $2020$ coins, some of which are pennies ( 1 -cent coins) and the rest of which are nickels ( 5 -cent coins). He has at least one penny and at least one nickel. What is the difference in cents between the greatest possible and least amounts of money that Ricardo can have?
After school, Maya and Naomi headed to the beach, 6 miles away. Maya decided to bike while Naomi took a bus. The graph below shows their journeys, indicating the time and distance traveled. What was the difference, in miles per hour, between Naomi's and Maya's average speeds?
Jamal has a drawer containing 6 green socks, 18 purple socks, and 12 orange socks. After adding more purple socks, Jamal noticed that there is now a 60% chance that a sock randomly selected from the drawer is purple. How many purple socks did Jamal add?
A large square region is paved with n^2 gray square tiles, each measuring s inches on a side. A border d inches wide surrounds each tile. The figure below shows the case for n=3 . When n=24 , the 576 gray tiles cover 64% of the area of the large square region. What is the ratio sd for this larger value of n?
一个大正方形区域用 n2 块灰色方形瓷砖铺成,每块边长为 s 英寸。每块瓷砖四周都有宽 d 英寸的边框。下图为 n=3 的情形。当 n=24 时,576 块灰色瓷砖覆盖了大正方形面积的 64%。那么对于这个较大的 n 值,sd 的比值是多少?
Ike and Mike go into a sandwich shop with a total of $30.00 to spend. Sandwiches cost $4.50 each and soft drinks cost $1.00 each. Ike and Mike plan to buy as many sandwiches as they can, and use any remaining money to buy soft drinks. Counting both sandwiches and soft drinks, how many items will they buy?
Ike 和 Mike 带着总共 30 美元去一家三明治商店,每块三明治价格 4.5 美元,每瓶软饮价格 1 美元。Ike 和 Mike 打算尽可能多的买三明治,然后用剩下的钱去买软饮料,那么三明治和软饮总个数加起来,他们将买多少件物品?
A tortoise challenges a hare to a race. The hare eagerly agrees and quickly runs ahead, leaving the slow-moving tortoise behind. Confident that he will win, the hare stops to take a nap. Meanwhile, the tortoise walks at a slow steady pace for the entire race. The hare awakes and runs to the finish line, only to find the tortoise already there. Which of the following graphs matches the description of the race, showing the distance d traveled by the two animals over time t from start to finish?
乌龟向野兔发起挑战赛跑,野兔开心的同意了,然后迅速跑到了前面,把行动迟缓的乌龟甩在了后面,野兔很自信自己会赢,于是停下来打了个盹,同时,乌龟以缓慢但恒定的速度走完了全程。野兔醒了,当它跑到终点时,发现乌龟已经在那里了。下面哪张图和上述对比赛的描述相匹配,并正确的展示了这 2 只动物走过的距离 d 与从开始到结束这段时间 t 的关系?
Gilda has a bag of marbles. She gives 20% of them to her friend Pedro. Then Gilda gives 10% of what is left to another friend, Ebony. Finally, Gilda gives 25% of what is now left in the bag to her brother Jimmy. What percentage of her original bag of marbles does Gilda have left for herself?
Qiang drives 15 miles at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. How many additional miles will he have to drive at 55 miles per hour to average 50 miles per hour for the entire trip?
A store increased the original price of a shirt by a certain percent and then lowered the new price by the same amount. Given that the resulting price was 84% of the original price, by what percent was the price increased and decreased?
An amusement park has a collection of scale models, with a ratio of 1:20 , of buildings and other sights from around the country. The height of the United States Capitol is 289 feet. What is the height in feet of its duplicate to the nearest whole number?
On a trip to the beach, Anh traveled 50 miles on the highway and 10 miles on a coastal access road. He drove three times as fast on the highway as on the coastal road. If Anh spent 30 minutes driving on the coastal road, how many minutes did his entire trip take?
The harmonic mean of a set of non-zero numbers is the reciprocal of the average of the reciprocals of the numbers. What is the harmonic mean of 1, 2, and 4?
The clock in Sri's car, which is not accurate, gains time at a constant rate. One day as he begins shopping, he notes that his car clock and his watch (which is accurate) both say 12:00 noon. When he is done shopping, his watch says 12:30 and his car clock says 12:35. Later that day, Sri loses his watch. He looks at his car clock and it says 7:00. What is the actual time?
Lalia took five math tests, each worth a maximum of 100 points. Laila's score on each test was an integer between 0 and 100, inclusive. Laila received the same score on the first four tests, and she received a higher score on the last test. Her average score on the five tests was 82. How many values are possible for Laila's score on the last test?
Bella begins to walk from her house toward her friend Ella's house. At the same time, Ella begins to ride her bicycle toward Bella's house. They each maintain a constant speed, and Ella rides 5 times as fast as Bella walks. The distance between their houses is 2 miles, which is 10,560 feet, and Bella covers 221 feet with each step. How many steps will Bella take by the time she meets Ella?
Bella 开始从她家步行去她朋友 Ella 的家。同时,Ella 骑着自行车开始向 Bella 的家出发。她们均保持各自恒定的速度,并且 Ella 骑车的速度是 Bella 行走速度的 5 倍。她们家相距 2 英里,即 10,560 英尺,已知 Bella 每步长为 221 英尺,那么当 Bella 和 Ella 相遇时,Bella 走了多少步?
All of Marcy's marbles are blue, red, green, or yellow. One third of her marbles are blue, one fourth of them are red, and six of them are green. What is the smallest number of yellow marbles that Marcy could have?
A square-shaped floor is covered with congruent square tiles. If the total number of tiles that lie on the two diagonals is 37, how many tiles cover the floor?
Chloe and Zoe are both students in Ms. Demeanor's math class. Last night, they each solved half of the problems in their homework assignment alone and then solved the other half together. Chloe had correct answers to only 80% of the problems she solved alone, but overall 88% of her answers were correct. Zoe had correct answers to 90% of the problems she solved alone. What was Zoe's overall percentage of correct answers?
Starting with some gold coins and some empty treasure chests, I tried to put 9 gold coins in each treasure chest, but that left 2 treasure chests empty. So instead I put 6 gold coins in each treasure chest, but then I had $3$ gold coins left over. How many gold coins did I have?
When Cheenu was a boy, he could run 15 miles in 3 hours and 30 minutes. As an old man, he can now walk 10 miles in 4 hours. How many minutes longer does it take for him to walk a mile now compared to when he was a boy?
Determine how many two-digit numbers satisfy the following property: when the number is added to the number obtained by reversing its digits, the sum is 132.
Jefferson Middle School has the same number of boys and girls. 43 of the girls and 32 of the boys went on a field trip. What fraction of the students on the field trip were girls?
Jefferson 中学的男生和女生数目相同。 的女生和 的男生去郊游。那么这些去郊游的学生中,有多少比例是女生?
Karl's car uses a gallon of gas every 35 miles, and his gas tank holds 14 gallons when it is full. One day, Karl started with a full tank of gas, drove 350 miles, bought 8 gallons of gas, and continued driving to his destination. When he arrived, his gas tank was half full. How many miles did Karl drive that day?
Karl 的汽车每开 35 英里就需要 1 加仑汽油,且当他的油缸加满时,可以装 14 加仑的汽油。
一天,Karl 开始他的行程前,把油缸加满了汽油,接着开了 350 英里,之后买了 8 加仑汽油,然后继续开到目的地。当他到达目的地时,他的油缸只剩下一半汽油。问 Karl 那天总共开了多少英里?
Annie and Bonnie are running laps around a 400 -meter oval track. They started together, but Annie has pulled ahead, because she runs 25% faster than Bonnie. How many laps will Annie have run when she first passes Bonnie?
Onkon wants to cover his room's floor with his favourite red carpet. How many square yards of red carpet are required to cover a rectangular floor that is 12 feet long and 9 feet wide? (There are 3 feet in a yard.)
Jack and Jill are going swimming at a pool that is one mile from their house. They leave home simultaneously. Jill rides her bicycle to the pool at a constant speed of 10 miles per hour. Jack walks to the pool at a constant speed of 4 miles per hour. How many minutes before Jack does Jill arrive?
Jack 和 Jill 要去距离他们家 1 英里的游泳池去游泳。他们同时从家出发。Jill 以 10 英里每小时的速度骑车去泳池,Jack 以 4 英里每小时的速度走过去。那么 Jill 比 Jack 早到多少分钟?
On her first day of work, Janabel sold one widget. On day two, she sold three widgets. On day three, she sold five widgets, and on each succeeding day, she sold two more widgets than she had sold on the previous day. How many widgets in total had Janabel sold after working 20 days?
In a middle-school mentoring program, a number of the sixth graders are paired with a ninth-grade student as a buddy. No ninth grader is assigned more than one sixth-grade buddy. If 31 of all the ninth graders are paired with 52 of all the sixth graders, what fraction of the total number of sixth and ninth graders have a buddy?
Jeremy's father drives him to school in rush hour traffic in 20 minutes. One day there is no traffic, so his father can drive him 18 miles per hour faster and gets him to school in 12 minutes. How far in miles is it to school?
Jeremy 的爸爸在交通高峰期把他送到学校需要 20 分钟。这一天路上车不多,因此他爸爸开车的速度提高了 18 英里每小时,把他送到学校花了 12 分钟,那么从他家到学校的距离有多少英里?
An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which each term after the first is obtained by adding a constant to the previous term. For example, 2,5,8,11,14 is an arithmetic sequence with five terms, in which the first term is 2 and the constant added is 3 . Each row and each column in this 5×5 array is an arithmetic sequence with five terms. The square in the center is labelled X as shown. What is the value of X ?
Harry and Terry are each told to calculate 8-(2+5) . Harry gets the correct answer. Terry ignores the parentheses and calculates 8-2+5 . If Harry's answer is H and Terry's answer is T , what is H-T ?
Harry 和 Terry 都被要求计算 $8-(2+5)$。Harry 算对了,而 Terry 忽略了括号,计算的是 8-2+5。若 Harry 的答案是 H,Terry 的答案是 T,那么 H-T 是多少?
Paul owes Paula 35 cents and has a pocket full of 5-cent coins, 10-cent coins, and 25-cent coins that he can use to pay her. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest number of coins he can use to pay her?
Paul 欠了 Paula 35 美分。Paula 目前口袋里有一堆 5 美分,10 美分和 25 美分的硬币可以用来还钱,他可用于还钱的最多硬币数目和最少硬币数目的差是多少?
Isabella had a week to read a book for a school assignment. She read an average of 36 pages per day for the first three days and an average of 44 pages per day for the next three days. She then finished the book by reading 10 pages on the last day. How many pages were in the book?
The first AMC 8 was given in 1985 and it has been given annually since that time. Samantha turned 12 years old the year that she took the seventh AMC 8 . In what year was Samantha born?
George walks 1 mile to school. He leaves home at the same time each day, walks at a steady speed of 3 miles per hour, and arrives just as school begins. Today he was distracted by the pleasant weather and walked the first 21 mile at a speed of only 2 miles per hour. At how many miles per hour must George run the last 21 mile in order to arrive just as school begins today?
George 每天同一时间以恒定的 3 英里每小时的速度从家步行 1 英里去学校,且恰好准时到校。今天他被好天气吸引,因此前 英里路程的速度仅为 2 英里每小时。那么后面 英里的路程他应该以多少英里每小时的速度奔跑才能准时到校?
A sign at the fish market says, "50 % off, today only: half-pound packages for just $3 per package." What is the regular price for a full pound of fish, in dollars?
Eight friends ate at a restaurant and agreed to share the bill equally. Because Judi forgot her money, each of her seven friends paid an extra $2.50 to cover her portion of the total bill. What was the total bill?
The number in each box below is the product of the numbers in the two boxes that touch it in the row above. For example, 30=6×5. What is the missing number in the top row?
Trey and his mom stopped at a railroad crossing to let a train pass. As the train began to pass, Trey counted 6 cars in the first 10 seconds. It took the train 2 minutes and 45 seconds to clear the crossing at a constant speed. Which of the following was the most likely number of cars in the train?
The Incredible Hulk can double the distance he jumps with each succeeding jump. If his first jump is 1 meter, the second jump is 2 meters, the third jump is 4 meters, and so on, then on which jump will he first be able to jump more than 1 kilometer (1,000 meters)?
Ted's grandfather used his treadmill on 3 days this week. He went 2 miles each day. On Monday he jogged at a speed of 5 miles per hour. He walked at the rate of 3 miles per hour on Wednesday and at 4 miles per hour on Friday. If Grandfather had always walked at 4 miles per hour, he would have spent less time on the treadmill. How many minutes less?
At the 2013 Winnebago County Fair a vendor is offering a "fair special" on sandals. If you buy one pair of sandals at the regular price of $50, you get a second pair at a 40% discount, and a third pair at half the regular price. Javier took advantage of the "fair special" to buy three pairs of sandals. What percentage of the $150 regular price did he save?
A number of students from Fibonacci Middle School are taking part in a community service project. The ratio of 8th -graders to 6th -graders is 5:3 , and the the ratio of 8th -graders to 7th -graders is 8:5 . What is the smallest number of students that could be participating in the project?
Rachelle uses 3 pounds of meat to make 8 hamburgers for her family. How many pounds of meat does she need to make 24 hamburgers for a neighbourhood picnic?
In the country of East Westmore, statisticians estimate there is a baby born every 8 hours and a death every day. To the nearest hundred, how many people are added to the population of East Westmore each year?
在 East Westmore 这个国家,统计学家们估计,每 8 小时就会有 1 个婴儿出生,并且每天都会有一人去世。那么每年 East Westmore 国家的人口数会增加多少?结果精确到百位.
On February 13 The Oshkosh Northwester listed the length of daylight as 10 hours and 24 minutes, the sunrise was 6:57 AM , and the sunset as 8:15 PM . The length of daylight and sunrise were correct, but the sunset was wrong. When did the sun really set?
Peter's family ordered a 12-slice pizza for dinner. Peter ate one slice and shared another slice equally with his brother Paul. What fraction of the pizza did Peter eat?
Peter 的家人晚餐订了一块 12 片的比萨。Peter 吃了一片,然后和他的弟弟 Paul 平分了另一片。那么 Peter 所吃的比萨饼占整块的比例是多少?
Isabella must take four 100-point tests in her math class. Her goal is to achieve an average grade of 95 on the tests. Her first two test scores were 97 and 91. After seeing her score on the third test, she realized she can still reach her goal. What is the lowest possible score she could have made on the third test?
A shop advertises everything is "half price in today's sale." In addition, a coupon gives a 20% discount on sale prices. Using the coupon, the price today represents what percentage off the original price?
The Fort Worth Zoo has a number of two-legged birds and a number of four-legged mammals. On one visit to the zoo, Margie counted 200 heads and 522 legs. How many of the animals that Margie counted were two-legged birds?
Carmen takes a long bike ride on a hilly highway. The graph indicates the miles traveled during the time of her ride. What is Carmen's average speed for her entire ride in miles per hour?
The taxi fare in Gotham City is $2.40 for the first 21 mile and additional mileage charged at the rate $0.20 for each additional 0.1 mile. You plan to give the driver a $2 tip. How many miles can you ride for $10 ?
There are 270 students at Colfax Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is 5:4 . There are 180 students at Winthrop Middle School, where the ratio of boys to girls is 4:5 . The two schools hold a dance and all students from both schools attend. What fraction of the students at the dance are girls?
At Euclid Middle School, the mathematics teachers are Miss Germain, Mr. Newton, and Mrs. Young. There are 11 students in Mrs. Germain's class, 8 students in Mr. Newton's class, and 9 students in Mrs. Young's class taking the AMC 8 this year. How many mathematics students at Euclid Middle School are taking the contest?
在欧几里得中学,数学老师是 Germain 小姐,Newton 先生和 Young 女士。Germain 小姐班上的 11 位学生,Newton 先生班上的 8 位学生和 Young 女士班上的 9 位学生今年参加 AMC8 竞赛。那么欧几里得中学今年有多少学数学的学生会参加这次竞赛?
The graph shows the price of five gallons of gasoline during the first ten months of the year. By what percent is the highest price more than the lowest price?
Alice needs to replace a light bulb located 10 centimeters below the ceiling in her kitchen. The ceiling is 2.4 meters above the floor. Alice is 1.5 meters tall and can reach 46 centimeters above the top of her head. Standing on a stool, she can just reach the light bulb. What is the height of the stool, in centimeters?
Alice 需要换掉厨房的一个灯泡,灯泡位于天花板下面 10 厘米,天花板离地面 2.4 米。
Alice 有 1.5 米高,并且可以碰到离她头顶 46 厘米高的地方。当她站在凳子上,她恰好可以碰到灯泡。那么凳子的高度是多少厘米?
As Emily is riding her bicycle on a long straight road, she spots Emerson skating in the same direction 1/2 mile in front of her. After she passes him, she can see him in her rear mirror until he is 1/2 mile behind her. Emily rides at a constant rate of 12 miles per hour, and Emerson skates at a constant rate of 8 miles per hour. For how many minutes can Emily see Emerson?
Ryan got 80% of the problems correct on a 25 -problem test, 90% on a 40 -problem test, and 70% on a 10 -problem test. What percent of all the problems did Ryan answer correctly?
The top of one tree is 16 feet higher than the top of another tree. The heights of the two trees are in the ratio 3:4 . In feet, how tall is the taller tree?
Of the 500 balls in a large bag, 80% are red and the rest are blue. How many of the red balls must be removed so that 75% of the remaining balls are red?
The lengths of the sides of a triangle in inches are three consecutive integers. The length of the shortest side is 30% of the perimeter. What is the length of the longest side?
A jar contains 5 different colors of gumdrops. 30% are blue, 20% are brown, 15% are red, 10% are yellow, and other 30 gumdrops are green. If half of the blue gumdrops are replaced with brown gumdrops, how many gumdrops will be brown?
Hui is an avid reader. She bought a copy of the best seller Math is Beautiful. On the first day, Hui read 1/5 of the pages plus 12 more, and on the second day she read 1/4 of the remaining pages plus 15 pages. On the third day she read 1/3 of the remaining pages plus 18 pages. She then realized that there were only 62 pages left to read, which she read the next day. How many pages are in this book?
Bridget bought a bag of apples at the grocery store. She gave half of the apples to Ann. Then she gave Cassie 3 apples, keeping 4 apples for herself. How many apples did Bridget buy?
On average, for every 4 sports cars sold at the local dealership, 7 sedans are sold. The dealership predicts that it will sell 28 sports cars next month. How many sedans does it expect to sell?
The graph shows the constant rate at which Suzanna rides her bike. If she rides a total of a half an hour at the same speed, how many miles would she have ridden?
A sequence of numbers starts with 1 , 2 , and 3 . The fourth number of the sequence is the sum of the previous three numbers in the sequence: 1+2+3=6 . In the same way, every number after the fourth is the sum of the previous three numbers. What is the eighth number in the sequence?
Steve's empty swimming pool will hold 24,000 gallons of water when full. It will be filled by 4 hoses, each of which supplies 2.5 gallons of water per minute. How many hours will it take to fill Steve's pool?
Steve 家的游泳池当装满水时,能装 24,000 加仑的水。现在将由 4 个水管同时灌水,每个水管每分钟灌水 2.5 加仑。那么将 Steve 家的泳池灌满水要多少小时?
Austin and Temple are 50 miles apart along Interstate 35. Bonnie drove from Austin to her daughter's house in Temple, averaging 60 miles per hour. Leaving the car with her daughter, Bonnie rode a bus back to Austin along the same route and averaged 40 miles per hour on the return trip. What was the average speed for the round trip, in miles per hour?
A recipe that makes 5 servings of hot chocolate requires 2 squares of chocolate, 41 cup sugar, 1 cup water and 4 cups milk. Jordan has $5$ squares of chocolate, 2 cups of sugar, lots of water, and 7 cups of milk. If he maintains the same ratio of ingredients, what is the greatest number of servings of hot chocolate he can make?
The diagram represents a 7-foot-by-7-foot floor that is tiled with 1-square-foot black tiles and white tiles. Notice that the corners have white tiles. If a 15-foot-by-15-foot floor is to be tiled in the same manner, how many white tiles will be needed?
Andy and Bethany have a rectangular array of numbers greater than 0 with 40 rows and 75 columns. Andy adds the numbers in each row. The average of his 40 sums is A . Bethany adds the numbers in each column. The average of her 75 sums is B . What is the value of BA ?
Barney Schwinn notices that the odometer on his bicycle reads 1441 , a palindrome, because it reads the same forward and backward. After riding 4 more hours that day and 6 the next, he notices that the odometer shows another palindrome, 1661 . What was his average speed in miles per hour?
In 2005 Tycoon Tammy invested 100 dollars for two years. During the first year her investment suffered a 15% loss, but during the second year the remaining investment showed a 20% gain. Over the two-year period, what was the change in Tammy's investment?
A ball is dropped from a height of 3 meters. On its first bounce it rises to a height of 2 meters. It keeps falling and bouncing to 32 of the height it reached in the previous bounce. On which bounce will it rise to a height less than 0.5 meters?
Mr. Harman needs to know the combined weight in pounds of three boxes he wants to mail. However, the only available scale is not accurate for weights less than 100 pounds or more than 150 pounds. So the boxes are weighed in pairs in every possible way. The results are 122 , 125 and 127 pounds. What is the combined weight in pounds of the three boxes?
The students in Mr. Neatkin's class took a penmanship test. Two-thirds of the boys and 43 of the girls passed the test, and an equal number of boys and girls passed the test. What is the minimum possible number of students in the class?
Chandler wants to buy a 500 dollar mountain bike. For his birthday, his grandparents send him 50 dollars, his aunt sends him 35 dollars and his cousin gives him 15 dollars. He earns $16$ dollars per week for his paper route. He will use all of his birthday money and all of the money he earns from his paper route. In how many weeks will he be able to buy the mountain bike?
The average cost of a long-distance call in the USA in 1985 was 41 cents per minute, and the average cost of a long-distance call in the USA in 2005 was 7 cents per minute. Find the approximate percent decrease in the cost per minute of a long- distance call.
Amanda draws five circles with radii 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Then for each circle she plots the point (C,A), where C is its circumference and A is its area. Which of the following could be her graph?
A mixture of 30 liters of paint is 25% red tint, 30% yellow tint and 45% water. Five liters of yellow tint are added to the original mixture. What is the percent of yellow tint in the new mixture?
Before the district play, the Unicorns had won 45% of their basketball games. During district play, they won six more games and lost two, to finish the season having won half their games. How many games did the Unicorns play in all?
Elisa swims laps in the pool. When she first started, she completed 10 laps in 25 minutes. Now she can finish 12 laps in 24 minutes. By how many minutes has she improved her lap time?
Jorge's teacher asks him to plot all the ordered pairs (w, l) of positive integers for which w is the width and l is the length of a rectangle with area 12. What should his graph look like?
Jorget 的老师要求他画出所有的(w,l)正整数对,其中 w 和 l 分别是一个面积为 12 的矩形的宽和长。则他画的图应该是下面哪个?
Antonette gets 70 % on a 10-problem test, 80 % on a 20-problem test and 90 % on a 30-problem test. If the three tests are combined into one 60-problem test, which percent is closest to her overall score?
Cassie leaves Escanaba at 8:30 AM heading for Marquette on her bike. She bikes at a uniform rate of 12 miles per hour. Brian leaves Marquette at 9:00 AM heading for Escanaba on his bike. He bikes at a uniform rate of 16 miles per hour. They both bike on the same 62-mile route between Escanaba and Marquette. At what time in the morning do they meet?
Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed's English assignment. A Novel Assignment The students in Mrs. Reed's English class are reading the same 760 -page novel. Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20 seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds. If Bob and Chandra both read the whole book, Bob will spend how many more seconds reading than Chandra?
Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed's English assignment. A Novel Assignment The students in Mrs. Reed's English class are reading the same 760-page novel. Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20 seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds. Chandra and Bob, who each have a copy of the book, decide that they can save time by "team reading" the novel. In this scheme, Chandra will read from page 1 to a certain page and Bob will read from the next page through page 760, finishing the book. When they are through they will tell each other about the part they read. What is the last page that Chandra should read so that she and Bob spend the same amount of time reading the novel?
Chandra 和 Bob 各自都有这本书,他们决定通过”团队阅读”这本小说来节省时间。在这种方案下,Chandra 会从第一页读到某一页,Bob 会从下一页一直读到第 760 页,把书读完。当他们都完成各自的任务,他们会告诉对方自己所读的内容。那么为了使得 Chandra 和 Bob 阅读的时间相同,Chandra 所读的最后一页是第几页?
Problems 14, 15 and 16 involve Mrs. Reed's English assignment. A Novel Assignment The students in Mrs. Reed's English class are reading the same 760-page novel. Three friends, Alice, Bob and Chandra, are in the class. Alice reads a page in 20 seconds, Bob reads a page in 45 seconds and Chandra reads a page in 30 seconds. Before Chandra and Bob start reading, Alice says she would like to team read with them. If they divide the book into three sections so that each reads for the same length of time, how many seconds will each have to read?
在 Chandra 和 Bob 开始阅读前,Alice 说她想加入和他俩一起团队阅读。若他们把书分成 3 部分,使得每人阅读时间都相同,那么每人阅读时间是多少秒?
Three different one-digit positive integers are placed in the bottom row of cells. Numbers in adjacent cells are added and the sum is placed in the cell above them. In the second row, continue the same process to obtain a number in the top cell. What is the difference between the largest and smallest numbers possible in the top cell?
Connie multiplies a number by 2 and gets 60 as her answer. However, she should have divided the number by 2 to get the correct answer. What is the correct answer?
Karl bought five folders from Pay-A-Lot at a cost of $2.50 each. Pay-A-Lot had a 20%-off sale the following day. How much could Karl have saved on the purchase by waiting a day?
Karl 从 Pay-A-Lot 买了五个文件夹,每个价格为 2.5 美元。Pay-A-Lot 第二天降价 20%。那么 Karl 如果等一天他本可以省下多少钱?
Joe had walked half way from home to school when he realized he was late. He ran the rest of the way to school. He ran 3 times as fast as he walked. Joe took 6 minutes to walk half way to school. How many minutes did it take Joe to get from home to school?
Joe 从家步行去学校,当他意识到自己已经迟到时,已经走了总路程的一半,他跑完了剩下的路程,跑步的速度是步行速度的 3 倍。已知 Joe 步行的一半路程耗时 6 分钟,那么他从家到学校总共花了多少分钟?
The sales tax rate in Rubenenkoville is 6%. During a sale at the Bergville Coat Closet, the price of a coat is discounted 20% from its $90.00 price. Two clerks, Jack and Jill, calculate the bill independently. Jack rings up $90.00 and adds 6% sales tax, then subtracts 20% from this total. Jill rings up $90.00, subtracts 20% of the price, then adds 6% of the discounted price for sales tax. What is Jack's total minus Jill's total?
Big Al, the ape, ate 100 bananas from May 1 through May 5. Each day he ate six more bananas than on the previous day. How many bananas did Big Al eat on May 5?
A company sells detergent in three different sized boxes: small (S), medium (M) and large (L). The medium size costs 50% more than the small size and contains 20% less detergent than the large size. The large size contains twice as much detergent as the small size and costs 30% more than the medium size. Rank the three sizes from best to worst buy.
Twelve friends met for dinner at Oscar's Overstuffed Oyster House, and each ordered one meal. The portions were so large, there was enough food for 18 people. If they shared, how many meals should they have ordered to have just enough food for the 12 of them?
After Sally takes 20 shots, she has made 55% of her shots. After she takes 5 more shots, she raises her percentage to 56% . How many of the last 5 shots did she make?
An athlete's target heart rate, in beats per minute, is 80% of the theoretical maximum heart rate. The maximum heart rate is found by subtracting the athlete's age, in years, from 220 . To the nearest whole number, what is the target heart rate of an athlete who is 26 years old?
Handy Aaron helped a neighbor 141 hours on Monday, 50 minutes on Tuesday, from 8:20 to 10:45 on Wednesday morning, and a half-hour on Friday. He is paid $3 per hour. How much did he earn for the week?
Niki usually leaves her cell phone on. If her cell phone is on but she is not actually using it, the battery will last for 24 hours. If she is using it constantly, the battery will last for only 3 hours. Since the last recharge, her phone has been on 9 hours, and during that time she has used it for 60 minutes. If she doesn’t use it any more but leaves the phone on, how many more hours will the battery last?
Two 600 mL pitchers contain orange juice. One pitcher is 1/3 full and the other pitcher is 2/5 full. Water is added to fill each pitcher completely, then both pitchers are poured into one large container. What fraction of the mixture in the large container is orange juice?
两个容量为 600 mL 的罐子里装有橙汁。一个罐子装了 31,另一个装了 52。向每个罐子加水使其装满,然后把两个罐子的液体都倒入一个大容器中。那么大容器里的混合液中橙汁占的比例是多少?
Two-thirds of the people in a room are seated in three-fourths of the chairs. The rest of the people are standing. If there are 6 empty chairs, how many people are in the room?
At a party there are only single women and married men with their wives. The probability that a randomly selected woman is single is 52 . What fraction of the people in the room are married men?
A group of children riding on bicycles and tricycles rode past Billy Bob's house. Billy Bob counted 7 children and 19 wheels. How many tricycles were there?
一群骑自行车和三轮车的孩子经过 Billy Bob 的家。Billy Bob 数了数,一共数到了 7 个孩子和 19 个轮子,那么有多少辆三轮车?
Blake and Jenny each took four 100 -point tests. Blake averaged 78 on the four tests. Jenny scored 10 points higher than Blake on the first test, 10 points lower than him on the second test, and 20 points higher on both the third and fourth tests. What is the difference between Jenny's average and Blake's average on these four tests?
Problems 8, 9 and 10 use the data found in the accompanying paragraph and figures
Four friends, Art, Roger, Paul and Trisha, bake cookies, and all cookies have the same thickness. The shapes of the cookies differ, as shown.
∘ Art's cookies are trapezoids:
∘ Roger's cookies are rectangles:
∘ Paul's cookies are parallelograms:
∘ Trisha's cookies are triangles:
Each friend uses the same amount of dough, and Art makes exactly 12 cookies. Art's cookies sell for 60 cents each. To earn the same amount from a single batch, how much should one of Roger's cookies cost in cents?
每个朋友都用了等量的面团,Art 正好做了 12 块饼干。Art 的饼干每个卖 60 美分。为了从这批面团赚得同样的钱,那么 Roger 的饼干应该每个卖多少美分?
Business is a little slow at Lou's Fine Shoes, so Lou decides to have a sale. On Friday, Lou increases all of Thursday's prices by 10 percent. Over the weekend, Lou advertises the sale: "Ten percent off the listed price. Sale starts Monday." How much does a pair of shoes cost on Monday that cost 40 dollars on Thursday?
A ship travels from point A to point B along a semicircular path, centered at Island X . Then it travels along a straight path from B to C . Which of these graphs best shows the ship's distance from Island X as it moves along its course?
一艘船沿着以岛 X 为圆心的半圆形路径从点 A 航行到点 B。然后它沿着直线路径从 B 到 C。下面这些图表中哪一个最能显示当船沿航线行驶时,船与岛 X 的距离变化?
A birdbath is designed to overflow so that it will be self-cleaning. Water flows in at the rate of 20 milliliters per minute and drains at the rate of 18 milliliters per minute. Which one of these graphs shows the volume of water in the birdbath during the filling time and continuing into the overflow time?
A sequence of squares is made of identical square tiles. The edge of each square is one tile length longer than the edge of the previous square. The first three squares are shown. How many more tiles does the seventh square require than the sixth?
In a mathematics contest with ten problems, a student gains 5 points for a correct answer and loses 2 points for an incorrect answer. If Olivia answered every problem and her score was 29, how many correct answers did she have?
Gage skated 1 hr 15 min each day for 5 days and 1 hr 30 min each day for 3 days. How long would he have to skate the ninth day in order to average 85 minutes of skating each day for the entire time?
Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear juice?
Loki, Moe, Nick and Ott are good friends. Ott had no money, but the others did. Moe gave Ott one-fifth of his money, Loki gave Ott one-fourth of his money and Nick gave Ott one-third of his money. Each gave Ott the same amount of money. What fractional part of the group's money does Ott now have?
Loki,Moe,Nick 和 Ott 是好朋友。Ott 没有钱,但其他人有。Moe 给了 Ott 五分之一的钱, Loki 给了 Ott 四分之一的钱,Nick 给了 Ott 三分之一的钱。每个人都给了 Ott 同样的钱。那么现在 Ott 有的钱占了四个人全部的钱的几分之几?
Casey's shop class is making a golf trophy. He has to paint 300 dimples on a golf ball. If it takes him 2 seconds to paint one dimple, how many minutes will he need to do his job?
On a dark and stormy night Snoopy suddenly saw a flash of lightning. Ten seconds later he heard the sound of thunder. The speed of sound is 1088 feet per second and one mile is 5280 feet. Estimate, to the nearest half-mile, how far Snoopy was from the flash of lightning.
Six trees are equally spaced along one side of a straight road. The distance from the first tree to the fourth is 60 feet. What is the distance in feet between the first and last trees?
Homer began peeling a pile of 44 potatoes at the rate of 3 potatoes per minute. Four minutes later Christen joined him and peeled at the rate of 5 potatoes per minute. When they finished, how many potatoes had Christen peeled?
For the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the dollar values of each question are shown in the table below (where K = 1000). Between which two questions is the percent increase of the value the smallest?
Car M traveled at a constant speed for a given time. This is shown by the dashed line. Car N traveled at twice the speed for the same distance. If Car M and Car N's speed and time are shown as solid line, which graph illustrates this?
汽车 M 在给定的时间内以恒定的速度行驶,其速度和时间曲线用虚线所示。汽车 N 以两倍的速度行驶了相同的距离。如果 N 车的速度和时间曲线用实线表示,则下面哪张图表说明了这一点?
Ara and Shea were once the same height. Since then Shea has grown 20% while Ara has grown half as many inches as Shea. Shea is now 60 inches tall. How tall, in inches, is Ara now?
Ara 和 Shea 以前身高一样。自那以后,Shea 身高增高了 20%,而 Ara 增长的高度是 Shea 增长高度的一半。Shea 现在身高 60 英寸,那么 Ara 现在身高是多少英寸?
There is a list of seven numbers. The average of the first four numbers is 5 , and the average of the last four numbers is 8 . If the average of all seven numbers is 674 , then the number common to both sets of four numbers is
The third exit on a highway is located at milepost 40 and the tenth exit is at milepost 160. There is a service center on the highway located three-fourths of the way from the third exit to the tenth exit. At what milepost would you expect to find this service center?
The ratio of the number of games won to the number of games lost (no ties) by the Middle School Middies is 11/4 . To the nearest whole percent, what percent of its games did the team lose?
Tori's mathematics test had 75 problems: 10 arithmetic, 30 algebra, and 35 geometry problems. Although she answered 70% of the arithmetic, 40% of the algebra, and 60% of the geometry problems correctly, she did not pass the test because she got less than 60% of the problems right. How many more problems would she have needed to answer correctly to earn a 60% passing grade?
At Central Middle School the 108 students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, lists this items: 121 cups of flour, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons butter, 43 cups sugar, and 1 package of chocolate drops. They will make only full recipes, not partial recipes. Walter can buy eggs by the half-dozen. How many half-dozens should he buy to make enough cookies? (Some eggs and some cookies may be left over.)
中央中学 108 名参加 AMC 8 的学生晚上聚会讨论题目,平均每人吃两块曲奇。Walter 和 Gretel 今年正在烤 Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies。他们的配方可以做一盘 15 块曲奇,配料表如下:121 杯面粉、2 个鸡蛋、3 汤匙黄油、43 杯糖、1 包巧克力豆。他们只做完整的配方,不做部分配方。
Walter 可以按半打买鸡蛋。他应该买多少个半打鸡蛋才能做足够的曲奇?(可能会剩下一些鸡蛋和一些曲奇。)
At Central Middle School the 108 students who take the AMC8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Walter and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, lists this items: 121 cups flour, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons butter, 43 cups sugar, and 1 package of chocolate drops. They will make only full recipes, not partial recipes. They learn that a big concert is scheduled for the same night and attendance will be down 25% . How many recipes of cookies should they make for their smaller party?
中央中学 108 名参加 AMC8 的学生晚上聚会讨论题目,平均每人吃两块曲奇。Walter 和 Gretel 今年正在烤 Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies。他们的配方可以做一盘 15 块曲奇,配料表如下:121 杯面粉、2 个鸡蛋、3 汤匙黄油、43 杯糖、1 包巧克力豆。他们只做完整的配方,不做部分配方。
At Central Middle School, the 108 students who take the AMC 8 meet in the evening to talk about problems and eat an average of two cookies apiece. Hansel and Gretel are baking Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies this year. Their recipe, which makes a pan of 15 cookies, lists these items: 121 cups flour, 2 eggs, 3 tablespoons butter, 43 cups sugar, and 1 package of chocolate drops. They will make full recipes, not partial recipes. Hansel and Gretel must make enough pans of cookies to supply 216 cookies. There are 8 tablespoons in a stick of butter. How many sticks of butter will be needed? (Some butter may be leftover, of course.)
中央中学 108 名参加 AMC 8 的学生晚上聚会讨论题目,平均每人吃两块曲奇。Hansel 和 Gretel 今年正在烤 Bonnie's Best Bar Cookies。他们的配方可以做一盘 15 块曲奇,配料表如下:121 杯面粉、2 个鸡蛋、3 汤匙黄油、43 杯糖、1 包巧克力豆。他们只做完整的配方,不做部分配方。
In a far-off land three fish can be traded for two loaves of bread and a loaf of bread can be traded for four bags of rice. How many bags of rice is one fish worth?
A child's wading pool contains 200 gallons of water. If water evaporates at the rate of 0.5 gallons per day and no other water is added or removed, how many gallons of water will be in the pool after 30 days?
For a sale, a store owner reduces the price of a $10 scarf by 20% . Later the price is lowered again, this time by one-half the reduced price. The price is now
An Annville Junior High School, 30% of the students in the Math Club are in the Science Club, and 80% of the students in the Science Club are in the Math Club. There are 15 students in the Science Club. How many students are in the Math Club?
Three generous friends, each with some money, redistribute the money as followed: Amy gives enough money to Jan and Toy to double each of their amounts. Jan then gives enough to Amy and Toy to double their amounts. Finally, Toy gives enough to Amy and Jan to double their amounts. If Toy had 36 dollars at the beginning and 36 dollars at the end, what is the total amount that all three friends have?
三位慷慨的朋友各自拥有一些钱,按如下方式重新分配:Amy 给 Jan 和 Toy 足够的钱,使他们各自的金额翻倍。然后 Jan 给 Amy 和 Toy 足够的钱,使他们的金额翻倍。最后,Toy 给 Amy 和 Jan 足够的钱,使他们的金额翻倍。如果 Toy 一开始有 36 美元,最后也有 36 美元,那么三位朋友共有多少钱?
Julie is preparing a speech for her class. Her speech must last between one-half hour and three-quarters of an hour. The ideal rate of speech is 150 words per minute. If Julie speaks at the ideal rate, which of the following number of words would be an appropriate length for her speech?
Walter gets up at 6:30 a.m., catches the school bus at 7:30 a.m., has 6 classes that last 50 minutes each, has 30 minutes for lunch, and has 2 hours additional time at school. He takes the bus home and arrives at 4:00 p.m. How many minutes has he spent on the bus?
Three bags of jelly beans contain 26, 28, and 30 beans. The ratios of yellow beans to all beans in each of these bags are 50% , 25% , and 20% , respectively. All three bags of candy are dumped into one bowl. Which of the following is closest to the ratio of yellow jelly beans to all beans in the bowl?
Penni Precisely buys $100 worth of stock in each of three companies: Alabama Almonds, Boston Beans, and California Cauliflower. After one year, AA was up 20%, BB was down 25%, and CC was unchanged. For the second year, AA was down 20% from the previous year, BB was up 25% from the previous year, and CC was unchanged. If A, B, and C are the final values of the stock, then
At the grocery store last week, small boxes of facial tissue were priced at 4 boxes for $5 . This week they are on sale at 5 boxes for $4 . The percent decrease in the price per box during the sale was closest to
Jose, Thuy, and Kareem each start with the number 10 . Jose subtracts 1 from the number 10 , doubles his answer, and then adds 2 . Thuy doubles the number 10 , subtracts 1 from her answer, and then adds 2 . Kareem subtracts 1 from the number 10 , adds 2 to his number, and then doubles the result. Who gets the largest final answer?
The 64 whole numbers from 1 through 64 are written, one per square, on a checkerboard (an 8 by 8 array of 64 squares). The first 8 numbers are written in order across the first row, the next 8 across the second row, and so on. After all 64 numbers are written, the sum of the numbers in the four corners will be
What is the smallest result that can be obtained from the following process? Choose three different numbers from the set {3,5,7,11,13,17} . Add two of these numbers. Multiply their sum by the third number.
Brent has goldfish that quadruple (become four times as many) every month, and Gretel has goldfish that double every month. If Brent has 4 goldfish at the same time that Gretel has 128 goldfish, then in how many months from that time will they have the same number of goldfish?
When Walter drove up to the gasoline pump, he noticed that his gasoline tank was 1/8 full. He purchased 7.5 gallons of gasoline for 10 dollars. With this additional gasoline, his gasoline tank was then 5/8 full. The number of gallons of gasoline his tank holds when it is full is
In the fall of 1996, a total of 800 students participated in an annual school clean-up day. The organizers of the event expect that in each of the years 1997, 1998, and 1999, participation will increase by 50% over the previous year. The number of participants the organizers will expect in the fall of 1999 is
Ana's monthly salary was $2000 in May. In June she received a 20% raise. In July she received a 20% pay cut. After the two changes in June and July, Ana's monthly salary was
Ana 五月份的月薪是 $2000。六月份她获得了 20% 的加薪。七月份她的薪水被削减了 20%。经过六月和七月的两次变动后,Ana 的月薪是
Suppose there is a special key on a calculator that replaces the number x currently displayed with the number given by the formula 1/(1-x) . For example, if the calculator is displaying 2 and the special key is pressed, then the calculator will display -1 since 1/(1-2)=-1 . Now suppose that the calculator is displaying 5. After the special key is pressed 100 times in a row, the calculator will display
The manager of a company planned to distribute a $50 bonus to each employee from the company fund, but the fund contained $5 less than what was needed. Instead the manager gave each employee a $45 bonus and kept the remaining $95 in the company fund. The amount of money in the company fund before any bonuses were paid was
A teacher tells the class, "Think of a number, add 1 to it, and double the result. Give the answer to your partner. Partner, subtract 1 from the number you are given and double the result to get your answer." Ben thinks of 6 , and gives his answer to Sue. What should Sue's answer be?
At Clover View Junior High, one half of the students go home on the school bus. One fourth go home by automobile. One tenth go home on their bicycles. The rest walk home. What fractional part of the students walk home?
An American traveling in Italy wishes to exchange American money (dollars) for Italian money (lire). If 3000 lire = 1.60, how much lire will the traveler receive in exchange for 1.00?
A jacket and a shirt originally sold for 80 dollars and 40 dollars, respectively. During a sale Chris bought the 80 dollar jacket at a 40% discount and the 40 dollar shirt at a 55% discount. The total amount saved was what percent of the total of the original prices?
Jane can walk any distance in half the time it takes Hector to walk the same distance. They set off in opposite directions around the outside of the 18-block area as shown. When they meet for the first time, they will be closest to
Jane 走任何距离所花的时间是 Hector 走同样距离所花时间的一半。他们从如图所示的 18 个街区区域的外围向相反方向出发。当他们第一次相遇时,他们最接近哪里?
A team won 40 of its first 50 games. How many of the remaining 40 games must this team win so it will have won exactly 70 % of its games for the season?
Students from three middle schools worked on a summer project. Seven students from Allen school worked for 3 days. Four students from Balboa school worked for 5 days. Five students from Carver school worked for 9 days. The total amount paid for the students' work was 774. Assuming each student received the same amount for a day's work, how much did the students from Balboa school earn altogether?
Buses from Dallas to Houston leave every hour on the hour. Buses from Houston to Dallas leave every hour on the half hour. The trip from one city to the other takes 5 hours. Assuming the buses travel on the same highway, how many Dallas-bound buses does a Houston-bound bus pass in the highway (not in the station)?
Each day Maria must work 8 hours. This does not include the 45 minutes she takes for lunch. If she begins working at 7:25 A.M. and takes her lunch break at noon, then her working day will end at
Maria 每天需要工作 8 小时,不包括 45 分钟的午休时间。如果她于上午 7:25 开始工作,并在中午开始午休,那么她的工作日将结束于
A shopper buys a 100 dollar coat on sale for 20% off. An additional 5 dollars are taken off the sale price by using a discount coupon. A sales tax of 8% is paid on the final selling price. The total amount the shopper pays for the coat is
Two children at a time can play pairball. For 90 minutes, with only two children playing at time, five children take turns so that each one plays the same amount of time. The number of minutes each child plays is
Pauline Bunyan can shovel snow at the rate of 20 cubic yards for the first hour, 19 cubic yards for the second, 18 for the third, etc., always shoveling one cubic yard less per hour than the previous hour. If her driveway is 4 yards wide, 10 yards long, and covered with snow 3 yards deep, then the number of hours it will take her to shovel it clean is closest to
Mike leaves home and drives slowly east through city traffic. When he reaches the highway he drives east more rapidly until he reaches the shopping mall where he stops. He shops at the mall for an hour. Mike returns home by the same route as he came, driving west rapidly along the highway and then slowly through city traffic. Each graph shows the distance from home on the vertical axis versus the time elapsed since leaving home on the horizontal axis. Which graph is the best representation of Mike's trip?
Mike 离开家,在城市交通中向东缓慢行驶。当他到达高速公路上时,他更快速地向东行驶,直到到达购物中心并停下来。他在购物中心购物一小时。Mike 按原路返回,沿高速公路快速向西行驶,然后缓慢通过城市交通到达家。每个图表的纵轴表示离家距离,横轴表示离家后经过的时间。哪张图能最好地表示 Mike 的行程?
Let W,X,Y and Z be four different digits selected from the set {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}. If the sum XW+ZY is to be as small as possible, then XW+ZY must equal
A can of soup can feed 3 adults or 5 children. If there are 5 cans of soup and 15 children are fed, then how many adults would the remaining soup feed?
To control her blood pressure, Jill's grandmother takes one half of a pill every other day. If one supply of medicine contains 60 pills, then the supply of medicine would last approximately
During the softball season, Judy had 35 hits. Among her hits were 1 home run, 1 triple and 5 doubles. The rest of her hits were single. What percent of her hits were single?
A store owner bought 1500 pencils at $ 0.10 each. If he sells them for $ 0.25 each, how many of them must he sell to make a profit of exactly $ 100.00 ?
The five tires of a car (four road tires and a full-sized spare) were rotated so that each tire was used the same number of miles during the first 30,000 miles the car traveled. For how many miles was each tire used?
On a trip, a car traveled 80 miles in an hour and a half, then was stopped in traffic for 30 minutes, then traveled 100 miles during the next 2 hours. What was the car's average speed in miles per hour for the 4 -hour trip?
One half of the water is poured out of a full container. Then one third of the remainder is poured out. Continue the process: one fourth of the remainder for the third pouring, one fifth of the remainder for the fourth pouring, etc. After how many pourings does exactly one tenth of the original water remain?
For every 3∘ rise in temperature, the volume of a certain gas expands by 4 cubic centimeters. If the volume of the gas is 24 cubic centimeters when the temperature is 32∘ , what was the volume of the gas in cubic centimeters when the temperature was 20∘ ?
An equilateral triangle is originally painted black. Each time the triangle is changed, the middle fourth of each black triangle turns white. After five changes, what fractional part of the original area of the black triangle remains black?
On this monthly calendar, the date behind one of the letters is added to the date behind C. If this sum equals the sum of the dates behind A and B, then the letter is
在这张月历上,其中一个字母背后的日期与 C 背后的日期相加。如果这个和等于 A 和 B 背后日期之和,则该字母是
One proposal for new postage rates for a letter was 30¢ for the first ounce and 22¢ for each additional ounce (or fraction of an ounce). The postage for a letter weighing 4.5 ounces was
A list of 8 numbers is formed by beginning with two given numbers. Each new number in the list is the product of the two previous numbers. Find the first number if the last three are shown:
The graph relates the distance traveled [in miles] to the time elapsed [in hours] on a trip taken by an experimental airplane. During which hour was the average speed of this airplane the largest?
Many calculators have a reciprocal key x1 that replaces the current number displayed with its reciprocal. For example, if the display is 00004 and the x1 key is depressed, then the display becomes 000.25 . If 00032 is currently displayed, what is the fewest number of times you must depress the x1 key so the display again reads 00032 ?
Jack had a bag of 128 apples. He sold 25% of them to Jill. Next he sold 25% of those remaining to June. Of those apples still in his bag, he gave the shiniest one to his teacher. How many apples did Jack have then?
Jack 有一袋 128 个苹果。他将其中的 25% 卖给了 Jill。接着他将剩下苹果中的 25% 卖给了 June。然后从袋中剩下的苹果中,他把最亮的那一个送给了老师。那时 Jack 还有多少个苹果?
Betty used a calculator to find the product 0.075×2.56 . She forgot to enter the decimal points. The calculator showed 19200 . If Betty had entered the decimal points correctly, the answer would have been
Suppose the estimated 20 billion dollar cost to send a person to the planet Mars is shared equally by the 250 million people in the U.S. Then each person's share is
Problem The glass gauge on a cylindrical coffee maker shows that there are 45 cups left when the coffee maker is 36% full. How many cups of coffee does it hold when it is full?
Tom's Hat Shoppe increased all original prices by 25% . Now the shoppe is having a sale where all prices are 20% off these increased prices. Which statement best describes the sale price of an item?
Tom's Hat Shoppe 将所有原价提高 25%。现在该店正在进行促销,所有价格在提高后的基础上打 20% 折扣。以下哪句话最能描述商品的促销价格?
Maria buys computer disks at a price of 4 for $5 and sells them at a price of 3 for $5 . How many computer disks must she sell in order to make a profit of $100 ?
If the letters are replaced by digits so that the given addition problem is correct, then the number of digits (not necessarily different) in the sum of the three whole numbers is
The sale ad read: "Buy three tires at the regular price and get the fourth tire for $3. " Sam paid $240 for a set of four tires at the sale. What was the regular price of one tire?
促销广告写道:"以原价购买三个轮胎,第四个轮胎仅需 $3。" Sam 在促销中以 $240 买了一套四个轮胎。一个轮胎的原价是多少?
Joyce made 12 of her first 30 shots in the first three games of this basketball season, so her seasonal shooting average was 40% . In her next game, she took 10 shots and raised her seasonal shooting average to 50% . How many of these 10 shots did she make?
Half the people in a room left. One third of those remaining started to dance. There were then 12 people who were not dancing. The original number of people in the room was
A calculator has a squaring key x2 which replaces the current number displayed with its square. For example, if the display is 3 and the x2 key is depressed, then the display becomes 9 . If the display reads 2 , how many times must you depress the x2 key to produce a displayed number greater than 500 ?
Suppose n∗ means n1 , the reciprocal of n . For example, 5∗=51 . How many of the following statements are true? i) 3∗+6∗=9∗ ii) 6∗−4∗=2∗ iii) 2∗⋅6∗=12∗ iv) 10∗÷2∗=5∗
A picture 3 feet across is hung in the center of a wall that is 19 feet wide. How many feet from the end of the wall is the nearest edge of the picture?
Sale prices at the Ajax Outlet Store are 50% below original prices. On Saturdays an additional discount of 20% off the sale price is given. What is the Saturday price of a coat whose original price is \textdollar180?
At the beginning of a trip, the mileage odometer read 56,200 miles. The driver filled the gas tank with 6 gallons of gasoline. During the trip, the driver filled his tank again with 12 gallons of gasoline when the odometer read 56,560 . At the end of the trip, the driver filled his tank again with 20 gallons of gasoline. The odometer read 57,060 . To the nearest tenth, what was the car's average miles-per-gallon for the entire trip?
A "stair-step" figure is made of alternating black and white squares in each row. Rows 1 through 4 are shown. All rows begin and end with a white square. The number of black squares in the 37th row is
If you walk for 45 minutes at a rate of 4 mph and then run for 30 minutes at a rate of 10 mph , how many miles will you have gone at the end of one hour and 15 minutes?
If your average score on your first six mathematics tests was 84 and your average score on your first seven mathematics tests was 85, then your score on the seventh test was
King Middle School has 1200 students. Each student takes 5 classes a day. Each teacher teaches 4 classes. Each class has 30 students and 1 teacher. How many teachers are there at King Middle School?