2006 National Finals

Level 1
Lightning Round

North South Foundation Math Bee

Question 1
Find 3 7 + 5 11 + 8 (-7)

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Question 2
In a town, 1500 families have cars and 2000 families have bicycles. 500 of these families have both these vehicles. How many families are there in the town?

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Question 3
Milk costs $4.28 per gallon and a dozen of eggs cost half as much the milk. I bought a gallon of milk and a dozen of eggs and gave $20 bill to the cashier. What is the change I will get (in dollars and cents)?

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Question 4
Write down the following numbers in order of magnitude. What is the middle number? 1, -101, -11, 111, -110, 0, 100

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Question 5
You have a two digit number. You create another two digit number by switching the digits. Then you add them together. You get 99. How many possibilities are there for selecting the first number?

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Question 6
In a class there are 12 girls and 8 boys. All boys got A in math all girls got A in science. The total number A grades in math is 10 and the total number A grades in science is 15. How many girls got A in math?

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Question 7
What kind of a triangle is this ?

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Question 8
On February 1, 2004 I started putting money in my piggy bank. I put in a nickel everyday till February 15, and a dime everyday from February 16 till the end of the month. How much money (in dollars and cents) did I put in the entire month?

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Question 9
You have a pie. It was cut into 8 pieces and split among three people. Person 1 ate half of the pie. The rest of the pieces were shared equally between Person 2 and Person 3. How many pieces did person 3 eat?

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Question 10
Temperature increases steadily in April by three degrees a day. Once the temperature reaches 60 degrees, the temperature increases by two degrees a day until the temperature reaches 80 degrees. On April 1st the temperature is 48 degrees. What is the temperature (in degrees) on April 13th ?

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Question 11
A regular hexagon was cut into triangles with equal areas. If the area of the hexagon was 96 square meters, what is the area (in square meters) of two triangles?

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Question 12
What is the sum of four scores and a gross? (Note: score =20, gross = 12 dozens)

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Question 13
Five points are marked on a paper. How many maximum numbers of straight lines can be drawn connecting these points?

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Question 14
In a bushel of 100 coconuts, all of them are of equal weight except one. If all the weights are integers (in lb), what is the minimum weight (in lbs) the bushel can be?

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Question 15
In a class, there are 10 students. If each person shakes all the other students hands, and no two students shake hands twice, how many handshakes are possible?

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Question 16
In the month of June, Sita could see a rainbow once in every three days. She saw a rainbow on June 1. What fraction of the days in June she did not see any rainbow?

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Question 17
Calculate the following: (3-2) + (2-3) + (4-5) + (5-4) + (6-7) + (7-6) + (8-9) + (9-8)

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Question 18
In New Jersey, you have to pay $6 sales tax for every $100 purchase except for clothes, which is tax free. I bought $250 worth merchandise, out of which $100 was for clothes. What was my total bill (in dollars)?

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Question 19
A camera costs $350. The store gives a discount of $5 for every $100 dollar purchase. No fractional discount is given for purchases less than $100. What is the final price of the camera, in dollars?

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Question 20
A car gives mileages of 20 miles per gallon for city driving and 30 miles per gallon for highway driving. Raj drives 100 miles a day of which 90 miles are on highway. Gas costing $3.00 per gallon, what is his gas expense daily?

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