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1. A bakery owner turns on his doughnut machine at 8:30am. At 11:10am the machine has completed
one third of the day's job. At what time will the doughnut machine complete the job?
(A) 1:50 PM (B) 3:00 PM (C) 3:30 PM (D) 4:30 PM (E) 5:50 PM

2. A square is drawn inside a rectangle. The ratio of the width of the rectangle to a side of the square is
2:1. The ratio of the rectangle's length to its width is 2:1. What percent of the rectangle's area is inside
the square?
(A) 12:5 (B) 25 (C) 50 (D) 75 (E) 87:5

3. For the positive integer n, let <n> denote the sum of all the positive divisors of n with the exception of
n itself. For example, <4> = 1 + 2 = 3 and <12> = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16. What is <<<6>>>?
(A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 24 (D) 32 (E) 36

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4. Suppose that of 10 bananas are worth as much as 8 oranges. How many oranges are worth as
3
1
much as of 5 bananas?
2
5 7
(A) 2 (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) 4
2 2

8 12 16 4n  4 2008
5. Which of the following is equal to the product     ?
4 8 12 4n 2004
(A) 251 (B) 502 (C) 1004 (D) 2008 (E) 4016

6. A triathlete competes in a triathlon in which the swimming, biking, and running segments are all of
the same length. The triathlete swims at a rate of 3 kilometers per hour, bikes at a rate of 20
kilometers per hour, and runs at a rate of 10 kilometers per hour. Which of the following is closest to
the triathlete's average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire race?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

 32008 2   32006 2
7. The fraction simplifies to which of the following?
 32007 2   32005 2
9 9
(A) 1 (B) (C) 3 (D) (E) 9
4 2

8. Heather compares the price of a new computer at two different stores. Store A offers 15% of the
sticker price followed by a $90 rebate, and store B offers 25% off the same sticker price with no rebate.
Heather saves $15 by buying the computer at store A instead of store B. What is the sticker price of
the computer, in dollars?
(A) 750 (B) 900 (C) 1000 (D) 1050 (E) 1500

2x x
9. Suppose that  is an integer. Which of the following statements must be true about x ?
3 6
(A) it is negative
(B) it is even, but not necessarily a multiple of 3
(C) it is a multiple of 3, but not necessarily even
(D) it is a multiple of 6, but not necessarily a multiple of 12
(E) it is a multiple of 12

10. Each of the sides of a square S1 with area 16 is bisected, and a smaller square S2 is constructed using
the bisection points as vertices. The same process is carried out on S2 to construct an even smaller
square S3. What is the area of S3?
1
(A) (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
2

11. While Steve and LeRoy are fishing 1 mile from shore, their boat springs a leak, and water comes in at
a constant rate of 10 gallons per minute. The boat will sink if it takes in more than 30 gallons of water.
Steve starts rowing toward the shore at a constant rate of 4 miles per hour while LeRoy bails water out
of the boat. What is the slowest rate, in gallons per minute, at which LeRoy can bail if they are to
reach the shore without sinking?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

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12. In a collection of red, blue, and green marbles, there are 25% more red marbles than blue marbles,
and there are 60% more green marbles than red marbles. Suppose that there are r red marbles. What
is the total number of marbles in the collection?
(A) 2:85r (B) 3r (C) 3:4r (D) 3:85r (E) 4:25r

13. Doug can paint a room in 5 hours. Dave can paint the same room in 7 hours. Doug and Dave paint
the room together and take a one-hour break for lunch. Let t be the total time, in hours, required for
them to complete the job working together, including lunch. Which of the following equations is
satisfied by t ?
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
(A)    t  1 1 (B)    t  1 1 (C)    t 1 (D)    t 1 1 (E)  5  7  t 1
5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7

14. Older television screens have an aspect ratio of 4:3. That is, the ratio of the width to the height is 4:3.
The aspect ratio of many movies is not 4:3, so they are sometimes shown on a television screen by -
“letterboxing” - darkening strips of equal height at the top and bottom of the screen, as shown.
Suppose a movie has an aspect ratio of 2:1 and is shown on an older television screen with a 27-inch
diagonal. What is the height, in inches, of each darkened strip?

(A) 2 (B) 2.25 (C) 2.5 (D) 2.7 (E) 3

15. Yesterday Han drove 1 hour longer than Ian at an average speed 5 miles per hour faster than Ian. Jan
drove 2 hours longer than Ian at an average speed 10 miles per hour faster than Ian. Han drove 70
miles more than Ian. How many more miles did Jan drive than Ian?
(A) 120 (B) 130 (C) 140 (D) 150 (E) 160

16. Points A and B lie on a circle centered at O, and AOB = 60o. A second circle is internally tangent to
the first and tangent to both OA and OB . What is the ratio of the area of the smaller circle to that of
the larger circle?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
16 9 8 6 4

17. An equilateral triangle has side length 6. What is the area of the region containing all points that are
outside the triangle and not more than 3 units from a point of the triangle?
2 3  3  9  3 1 
2 2
(A) 36  24 3 (B) 54  9 (C) 54  18 3  6 (D) (E)

18. A right triangle has perimeter 32 and area 20. What is the length of its hypotenuse?
57 59 61 63 65
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 4 4 4 4

19. Rectangle PQRS lies in a plane with PQ = RS = 2 and QR = SP = 6. The rectangle is rotated 90o
clockwise about R, then rotated 90± clockwise about the point that S moved to after the first rotation.
What is the length of the path traveled by point P ?
(A) 2 3  5  (B) 6 (C) 3  10   (D)  3  2 5  (E) 2 10

20. Trapezoid ABCD has bases AB and CD and diagonals intersecting at K. Suppose that AB = 9, DC = 12,
and the area of AKD is 24. What is the area of trapezoid ABCD?
(A) 92 (B) 94 (C) 96 (D) 98 (E) 100

21. A cube with side length 1 is sliced by a plane that passes through two
diagonally opposite vertices A and C and the midpoints B and D of
two opposite edges not containing A or C, as shown. What is the area
of quadrilateral ABCD?
6 5
(A) (B) (C) 2
2 4
3
(D) (E) 3
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22. Jacob uses the following procedure to write down a sequence of numbers. First he chooses the first
term to be 6. To generate each succeeding term, he flips a fair coin. If it comes up heads, he doubles
the previous term and subtracts 1. If it comes up tails, he takes half of the previous term and
subtracts 1. What is the probability that the fourth term in Jacob's sequence is an integer?
1 1 1 5 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 3 2 8 4

23. Two subsets of the set S = {a; b; c; d; e} are to be chosen so that their union is S and their intersection
contains exactly two elements. In how many ways can this be done, assuming that the order in which
the subsets are chosen does not matter?
(A) 20 (B) 40 (C) 60 (D) 160 (E) 320

24. Let k = 20082 + 22008. What is the units digit of k2 + 2k ?

25. A round table has radius 4. Six rectangular place mats are placed on
the table. Each place mat has width 1 and length x as shown. They are
positioned so that each mat has two corners on the edge of the table,
these two corners being end points of the same side of length x. Further,
the mats are positioned so that the inner corners each touch an inner
corner of an adjacent mat. What is x ?
3 7 3
(A) 2 5  3 (B) 3 (C)
2
52 3
(D) 2 3 (E)
2

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