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
1988 AMC8 #16 · Counting, Probability & Statistics · ★★★
Placing no more than one X in each small square, what is the greatest number of X 's that can be put on the grid shown without getting three X 's in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally?
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?
1988 AMC8 #21 · Counting, Probability & Statistics · ★★★★
A fifth number, n , is added to the set {3,6,9,10} to make the mean of the set of five numbers equal to its median. The number of possible values of n is
将第五个数 n 加入集合 {3,6,9,10} 中,使得这五个数的平均数等于其中位数。n 的可能值有多少个?
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 ?
The square in the first diagram "rolls" clockwise around the fixed regular hexagon until it reaches the bottom. In which position will the solid triangle be in diagram 4 ?
1988 AMC8 #25 · Counting, Probability & Statistics · ★★★★
A palindrome is a whole number that reads the same forwards and backwards. If one neglects the colon, certain times displayed on a digital watch are palindromes. Three examples are: 1:01, 4:44, and 12:21. How many times during a 12-hour period will be palindromes?