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2019 Math Challenge • Grade 7

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......... Instruction: Write your answer on the space before each item. Give all fractions and ratios in lowest terms and
all expressions in expanded form. If there is more than one answer, write all of them...................................
 
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1. The reciprocal of is + 1 . What is the value of x?
20 x
2. If 1/2 of x is 4, and 1/3 of y is 3, and 1/6 of z is 1, what is the value (x/3 ) (y/6 ) (z/2 )?
2a − 3b
3. If a ∗ b = , express 6 ∗ 3 in simplest form.
4b + 3a
4. Twelve 1 by 1 squares form a rectangle, as shown in figure 1. What is the total area of the shaded
regions?

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..........................Figure 1 ......................................................................... Figure 2
5. In figure 2, find x.
32 + 32
6. Simplify:
3−2
+ 3−2
r
b+2
7. Given that a = , express b in terms of a and c.
c
y 3y − x 1
8. Solve for : =
x 4y + 5x 2
√
9. If x = 20.19/201.9, what is the value of x?
p
10. Find the value of 20192 + 4039.
√
11. Evaluate 55 + 55 + 55 + 55 + 55 .
√ √
12. Simplify: 1.21 − 0.01
13. The length of the three sides of a triangle are 7, x + 4 and 2x + 1. The perimeter of the triangle is 36.
What is the length of the longest side of the triangle?
14. How much greater than 5 − 7x is 3x + 2?
15. Find the value(s) of x satisfying the equation 5x + 53−x = 30.
16. Evaluate 20202 − 20192 + 20182 − 20172 .
1 5 1 1
17. By how much does of exceeds of ?
3 2 2 3
x+1 x+1 1
18. In the expression each x is replaced by . Evaluate for x = in the resulting expression.
x−1 x−1 2
x2 − 3x + 2 x2 − 5x + 4
19. Simplify: 2
÷ 2
x − 5x + 6 x − 7x + 12
20. In a group of cows and chickens, the number of legs is 14 more than twice the number of heads. Determine
the number of cows.
√
q p
21. What is the value of the expression 8 2 4?

22. What is quotient if 3x3 y − xy 3 + 3x2 y 4 − 6 is divided by x + y 3 ?

23. If x + y = 4 and xy = −12, what is the value of x2 + 5xy + y 2 ?
1·2·3·4·5·6·7
24. Simplify:
1+2+3+4+5+6+7

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25. If the vertex of a function f (x) is at (1, 1) , where is the vertex of the function f (x − 2) + 1?
x3 − y 3
26. If x 6= y and = 8, what is x2 + 2xy + y 2 ?
x−y
27. If x = 1 and y = 2, find the value of (x + y) −1 x−1 + y −1 .

2n+2 − 2n + 3
28. Simplify to an integer:
2n + 1
1 1
29. If p and q are the roots of x2 − 6x + 2 = 0, find the value of + .
p q
30. Find the sum of three consecutive odd integers if three times the largest is seven times the smallest.
31. What is the least integer n such that 1 + 2 + 3 + · · · + n > 2019?

ax + 2y = 4
32. For what value of a will the system be parallel?
2x + 3y = 9
33. The following set of data is arranged from lowest to highest: 2, 3, 3, 4, a, b, 6, 6, 9, 12. What are the
values of a and b that will make the median equal to 5 and mode equal to 6?
34. Peter’s age 13 years ago was 1/3 of his age 7 years hence. How old is Peter?
35. Add the following and express in meters: 9 mm + 1 cm + 0.002 km
36. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than the layer above and the top contains just one log.
If there are 105 logs in the pile, how many layers are there?
37. A jet airplane travels 2.15 miles in 15 seconds. What is its speed in miles per hour?
38. How many perfect squares lie between 120 and 300?
√ √
39. Which is greater 3 2 or 3?
40. What will be the percentage increase in the area of a square when each of the its sides is increased by
10%?
41. A school district offers baseball and football. The result of a survey of 300 students showed 100 students
play baseball only, 70 students play football only and 80 students do not participate in either sport. What
is the probability that a person selected at random from this survey plays both baseball and football?
42. Find ∠CDE in figure 3.
43. Given the parallelogram ABCD in figure 4, what is the measure of ∠BCD?

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......................Figure 3 ....................................................................... Figure 4
44. Let A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} and B = {3, 4, 5}. If B 0 represent the complement of B, find B ∩ B 0 .
45. Suppose A = {2, 4, 6} , B = {2, 3, 5, 8}, and C = {7, 8, 9}. Find A ∩ (B ∪ C).
46. If A = {2, 4, 6} and B = {a, b}, what is n (A × B)?
47. Using item 46, what is B × B?
48. The product of two integers is −40. If the same two integers are added together, the sum is −3. What
is the smaller of the two integers?
For items 49 and 50, refer to the frequency table below, which represents the time in
minutes spent daily in reading story books of 20 students.

Class Interval Frequency

3−7 3
08 − 12 6
13 − 15 4
16 − 20 7

49. Calculate the mean of the given data.

50. Using the given data, solve for the variance.

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