Problems

Andy's lawn has twice as much area as Beth's lawn and three times as much area as Carlos' lawn. Carlos' lawn mower cuts half as fast as Beth's mower and one third as fast as Andy's mower. If they all start to mow their lawns at the same time, who will finish first?

Let $\{a_k\}$ be a sequence of integers such that $a_1=1$ and $a_{m+n}=a_m+a_n+mn,$ for all positive integers $m$ and $n.$ Then $a_{12}$ is

When $15$ is appended to a list of integers, the mean is increased by $2$ . When $1$ is appended to the enlarged list, the mean of the enlarged list is decreased by $1$ . How many integers were in the original list?

A number $x$ is $2$ more than the product of its reciprocal and its additive inverse. In which interval does the number lie?

The sum of two numbers is $S$ . Suppose $3$ is added to each number and then each of the resulting numbers is doubled. What is the sum of the final two numbers?

The state income tax where Kristin lives is charged at the rate of $p\%$ of the first $\$28000$ of annual income plus $(p + 2)\%$ of any amount above $\$28000$ . Kristin noticed that the state income tax she paid amounted to $(p + 0.25)\%$ of her annual income. What was her annual income?

If $x$ , $y$ , and $z$ are positive with $xy = 24$ , $xz = 48$ , and $yz = 72$ , then $x + y + z$ is

Consider the dark square in an array of unit squares, part of which is shown. The first ring of squares around this center square contains $8$ unit squares. The second ring contains $16$ unit squares. If we continue this process, the number of unit squares in the $100^\text{th}$ ring is

In the magic square shown, the sums of the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal are the same. Five of these numbers are represented by $v$ , $w$ , $x$ , $y$ , and $z$ . Find $y + z$ .

$2000(2000^{2000}) = x$ Find x.

Each day, Jenny ate $20\%$ of the jellybeans that were in her jar at the beginning of that day. At the end of the second day, $32$ remained. How many jellybeans were in the jar originally?

Chandra pays an on-line service provider a fixed monthly fee plus an hourly charge for connect time. Her December bill was $\$12.48$ , but in January her bill was $\$17.54$ because she used twice as much connect time as in December. What is the fixed monthly fee?

At Olympic High School, $\frac{2}{5}$ of the freshmen and $\frac{4}{5}$ of the sophomores took the AMC-10. Given that the number of freshmen and sophomore contestants was the same, which of the following must be true?

If $|x - 2| = p$ , where $x < 2$ , then $x - p =$

Figures $0$ , $1$ , $2$ , and $3$ consist of $1$ , $5$ , $13$ , and $25$ nonoverlapping unit squares, respectively. If the pattern were continued, how many nonoverlapping unit squares would there be in figure 100?

Two non-zero real numbers, $a$ and $b,$ satisfy $ab = a - b$ . Which of the following is a possible value of $\frac {a}{b} + \frac {b}{a} - ab$ ?

Let $A$ , $M$ , and $C$ be nonnegative integers such that $A+M+C=10$ . What is the maximum value of $A\cdot M\cdot C+A\cdot M+M\cdot C+C\cdot A$ ?

One morning each member of Angela's family drank an 8-ounce mixture of coffee with milk. The amounts of coffee and milk varied from cup to cup, but were never zero. Angela drank a quarter of the total amount of milk and a sixth of the total amount of coffee. How many people are in the family?

Let $f$ be a function for which $f\left(\dfrac{x}{3}\right) = x^2 + x + 1$ . Find the sum of all values of $z$ for which $f(3z) = 7$ . \[