On a particular January day, the high temperature in Lincoln, Nebraska, was 16 degrees higher than the low temperature, and the average of the high and low temperatures was 3. In degrees, what was the low temperature in Lincoln that day?
Mr. Green measures his rectangular garden by walking two of the sides and finds that it is 15 steps by 20 steps. Each of Mr. Green's steps is 2 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?
Ray's car averages 40 miles per gallon of gasoline, and Tom's car averages 10 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?<br >
The average age of 33 fifth-graders is 11. The average age of 55 of their parents is 33. What is the average age of all of these parents and fifth-graders?
Jo and Blair take turns counting from 1 to one more than the last number said by the other person. Jo starts by saying ‘‘1", so Blair follows by saying ‘‘1,2". Jo then says ‘‘1,2,3", and so on. What is the 53rd number said?
Line l1 has equation 3x−2y=1 and goes through A=(−1,−2). Line l2 has equation y=1 and meets line l1 at point B. Line l3 has positive slope, goes through point A, and meets l2 at point C. The area of △ABC is 3. What is the slope of l3?
Alex has 75 red tokens and 75 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?
Two bees start at the same spot and fly at the same rate in the following directions. Bee A travels 1 foot north, then 1 foot east, then 1 foot upwards, and then continues to repeat this pattern. Bee B travels 1 foot south, then 1 foot west, and then continues to repeat this pattern. In what directions are the bees traveling when they are exactly 10 feet away from each other?
up, B west<br >
\textbf{(A)}\ Aeast,Bwest<br\textbf{(B)}\ Anorth,Bsouth<br\textbf{(C)}\ Anorth,Bwest<br\textbf{(D)}\ Aup,Bsouth<br\textbf{(E)}\ A
Cities A, B, C, D, and E are connected by roads AB, AD, AE, BC, BD, CD, and DE. How many different routes are there from A to B that use each road exactly once? (Such a route will necessarily visit some cities more than once.)
unitsize(10mm);
defaultpen(linewidth(1.2pt)+fontsize(10pt));
dotfactor=4;
pair A=(1,0), B=(4.24,0), C=(5.24,3.08), D=(2.62,4.98), E=(0,3.08);
dot (A);
dot (B);
dot (C);
dot (D);
dot (E);
label("A",A,S);
label("B",B,SE);
label("C",C,E);
label("D",D,N);
label("E",E,W);
guide squiggly(path g, real stepsize, real slope=45)
{
real len = arclength(g);
real step = len / round(len / stepsize);
guide squig;
for (real u = 0; u < len; u += step){
real a = arctime(g, u);
real b = arctime(g, u + step / 2);
pair p = point(g, a);
pair q = point(g, b);
pair np = unit( rotate(slope) * dir(g,a));
pair nq = unit( rotate(0 - slope) * dir(g,b));
squig = squig .. p{np} .. q{nq};
}
squig = squig .. point(g, length(g)){unit(rotate(slope)*dir(g,length(g)))};
return squig;
}
pen pp = defaultpen + 2.718;
draw(squiggly(A--B, 4.04, 30), pp);
draw(squiggly(A--D, 7.777, 20), pp);
draw(squiggly(A--E, 5.050, 15), pp);
draw(squiggly(B--C, 5.050, 15), pp);
draw(squiggly(B--D, 4.04, 20), pp);
draw(squiggly(C--D, 2.718, 20), pp);
draw(squiggly(D--E, 2.718, -60), pp);
The internal angles of quadrilateral ABCD form an arithmetic progression. Triangles ABD and DCB are similar with ∠DBA=∠DCB and ∠ADB=∠CBD. Moreover, the angles in each of these two triangles also form an arithmetic progression. In degrees, what is the largest possible sum of the two largest angles of ABCD?
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 N. What is the smallest possible value of N ?
The number 2013 is expressed in the form <br > 2013=b1!b2!...bn!a1!a2!...am!,where a1≥a2≥...≥am and b1≥b2≥...≥bn are positive integers and a1+b1 is as small as possible. What is ∣a1−b1∣?
Let ABCDE be an equiangular convex pentagon of perimeter 1. The pairwise intersections of the lines that extend the sides of the pentagon determine a five-pointed star polygon. Let s be the perimeter of this star. What is the difference between the maximum and the minimum possible values of s?
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 2 or 4 coins, unless only one coin remains, in which case she loses her turn. When it is Jenna's turn, she must remove 1 or 3 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 2013 coins and when the game starts with 2014 coins?
Whoever goes first will win with 2013 coins, and whoever goes second will win with 2014 coins.
In triangle ABC, AB=13, BC=14, and CA=15. Distinct points D, E, and F lie on segments BC, CA, and DE, respectively, such that AD⊥BC, DE⊥AC, and AF⊥BF. The length of segment DF can be written as nm, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m+n?
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 y=ax+b with a and b integers such that a∈{−2,−1,0,1,2} and b∈{−3,−2,−1,1,2,3}. No three of these parabolas have a common point. How many points in the plane are on two of these parabolas?
Let m>1 and n>1 be integers. Suppose that the product of the solutions for x of the equation
8(lognx)(logmx)−7lognx−6logmx−2013=0
is the smallest possible integer. What is m+n?
Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer N 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 S. For example, if N=749, Bernardo writes the numbers 10444 and 3245, and LeRoy obtains the sum S=13,689. For how many choices of N are the two rightmost digits of S, in order, the same as those of 2N?
Let ABC be a triangle where M is the midpoint of AC, and CN is the angle bisector of ∠ACB with N on AB. Let X be the intersection of the median BM and the bisector CN. In addition △BXN is equilateral with AC=2. What is BX2?
Let G be the set of polynomials of the form
P(z)=zn+cn−1zn−1+⋯+c2z2+c1z+50,
where c1,c2,⋯,cn−1 are integers and P(z) has distinct roots of the form a+ib with a and b integers. How many polynomials are in G?