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1. Which of the following is the same as

2 − 4 + 6 − 8 + 10 − 12 + 14
?
3 − 6 + 9 − 12 + 15 − 18 + 21

2 2 14
(A) −1 (B) − (C) (D) 1 (E)
3 3 3

2. Al gets the disease algebritis and must take one green pill and one pink pill each
day for two weeks. A green pill costs $1 more than a pink pill, and Al’s pills
cost a total of $546 for the two weeks. How much does one green pill cost?

(A) $7 (B) $14 (C) $19 (D) $20 (E) $39

3. Rose fills each of the rectangular regions of her rectangular flower bed with a
different type of flower. The lengths, in feet, of the rectangular regions in her
flower bed are as shown in the figure. She plants one flower per square foot in
each region. Asters cost $1 each, begonias $1.50 each, cannas $2 each, dahlias
$2.50 each, and Easter lilies $3 each. What is the least possible cost, in dollars,
for her garden?
4 7

3
5

3
1
6 5

(A) 108 (B) 115 (C) 132 (D) 144 (E) 156

4. Moe uses a mower to cut his rectangular 90-foot by 150-foot lawn. The swath
he cuts is 28 inches wide, but he overlaps each cut by 4 inches to make sure that
no grass is missed. He walks at the rate of 5000 feet per hour while pushing
the mower. Which of the following is closest to the number of hours it will take
Moe to mow his lawn?

(A) 0.75 (B) 0.8 (C) 1.35 (D) 1.5 (E) 3

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5. Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their
diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal length to the height in a standard tele-
vision screen is 4 : 3. The horizontal length of a “27-inch” television screen is
closest, in inches, to which of the following?

Height
al
gon
a
Di

Length

(A) 20 (B) 20.5 (C) 21 (D) 21.5 (E) 22

6. The second and fourth terms of a geometric sequence are 2 and 6. Which of the
following is a possible first term?
√ √
√ 2 3 3 √
(A) − 3 (B) − (C) − (D) 3 (E) 3
3 3

7. Penniless Pete’s piggy bank has no pennies in it, but it has 100 coins, all nickels,
dimes, and quarters, whose total value is $8.35. It does not necessarily contain
coins of all three types. What is the difference between the largest and smallest
number of dimes that could be in the bank?

(A) 0 (B) 13 (C) 37 (D) 64 (E) 83

8. Let ♣(x) denote the sum of the digits of the positive integer x. For example,
♣(8) = 8 and ♣(123) = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. For how many two-digit values of x
is ♣(♣(x)) = 3?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 9 (E) 10

9. Let f be a linear function for which f (6) − f (2) = 12. What is f (12) − f (2)?

(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 36

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10. Several figures can be made by attaching two equilateral triangles to the regular
pentagon ABCDE in two of the five positions shown. How many non-congruent
figures can be constructed in this way?

C E

B A

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

11. Cassandra sets her watch to the correct time at noon. At the actual time of
1:00 PM, she notices that her watch reads 12:57 and 36 seconds. Assuming that
her watch loses time at a constant rate, what will be the actual time when her
watch first reads 10:00 PM?

(A) 10:22 PM and 24 seconds (B) 10:24 PM (C) 10:25 PM

(D) 10:27 PM (E) 10:30 PM

12. What is the largest integer that is a divisor of

(n + 1)(n + 3)(n + 5)(n + 7)(n + 9)

for all positive even integers n?

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 11 (D) 15 (E) 165

13. An ice cream cone consists of a sphere of vanilla ice cream and a right circular
cone that has the same diameter as the sphere. If the ice cream melts, it will
exactly fill the cone. Assume that the melted ice cream occupies 75% of the
volume of the frozen ice cream. What is the ratio of the cone’s height to its
radius?

(A) 2 : 1 (B) 3 : 1 (C) 4 : 1 (D) 16 : 3 (E) 6 : 1

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14. In rectangle ABCD, AB = 5 and BC = 3. Points F and G are on CD so

that DF = 1 and GC = 2. Lines AF and BG intersect at E. Find the area of
4AEB.
E

D 1 2 C
F G

3 3

A 5 B

21 25
(A) 10 (B) (C) 12 (D) (E) 15
2 2

15. A regular octagon ABCDEF GH has an area of one square unit. What is the
area of the rectangle ABEF ?
A B

H C

D
G

F E
√ √ √
2 2 √ 1 1+ 2
(A) 1 − (B) (C) 2−1 (D) (E)
2 4 2 4
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16. Three semicircles of radius 1 are constructed on diameter AB of a semicircle of

radius 2. The centers of the small semicircles divide AB into four line segments
of equal length, as shown. What is the area of the shaded region that lies within
the large semicircle but outside the smaller semicircles?

1 2 1
√ √
√ √ π+ 2 π+ 3
(A) π − 3 (B) π − 2 (C) (D)
2 2
√
7 3
(E) π −
6 2

17. If log(xy 3 ) = 1 and log(x2 y) = 1, what is log(xy)?

1 1 3
(A) − (B) 0 (C) (D) (E) 1
2 2 5

18. Let x and y be positive integers such that 7x5 = 11y 13 . The minimum possible
value of x has a prime factorization ac bd . What is a + b + c + d?

(A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 33 (E) 34

19. Let S be the set of permutations of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for which the first
term is not 1. A permutation is chosen randomly from S. The probability that
the second term is 2, in lowest terms, is a/b. What is a + b?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 11 (D) 16 (E) 19

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20. Part of the graph of f (x) = ax3 + bx2 + cx + d is shown. What is b?

(0, 2)

( 1, 0) (1, 0)

(A) −4 (B) −2 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) 4

21. An object moves 8 cm in a straight line from A to B, turns at an angle α,

measured in radians and chosen at random from the interval (0, π), and moves
5 cm in a straight line to C. What is the probability that AC < 7?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 5 4 3 2

22. Let ABCD be a rhombus with AC = 16 and BD = 30. Let N be a point on

AB, and let P and Q be the feet of the perpendiculars from N to AC and BD,
respectively. Which of the following is closest to the minimum possible value of
P Q?
A N B

P Q

D C

(A) 6.5 (B) 6.75 (C) 7 (D) 7.25 (E) 7.5

23. The number of x-intercepts on the graph of y = sin(1/x) in the interval

(0.0001, 0.001) is closest to

(A) 2900 (B) 3000 (C) 3100 (D) 3200 (E) 3300
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24. Positive integers a, b, and c are chosen so that a < b < c, and the system of
equations

2x + y = 2003 and y = |x − a| + |x − b| + |x − c|

has exactly one solution. What is the minimum value of c?

(A) 668 (B) 669 (C) 1002 (D) 2003 (E) 2004

25. Three points are chosen randomly and independently on a circle. What is the
probability that all three pairwise distances between the points are less than the
radius of the circle?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
36 24 18 12 9