Problems

Postman Pete has a pedometer to count his steps. The pedometer records up to 99999 steps, then flips over to 00000 on the next step. Pete plans to determine his mileage for a year. On January 1 Pete sets the pedometer to 00000. During the year, the pedometer flips from 99999 to 00000 forty-four times. On December 31 …

The numbers from $1$ to $8$ are placed at the vertices of a cube in such a manner that the sum of the four numbers on each face is the same. What is this common sum?

In a certain land, all Arogs are Brafs, all Crups are Brafs, all Dramps are Arogs, and all Crups are Dramps. Which of the following statements is implied by these facts?

Leap Day, February $29$ , $2004$ , occurred on a Sunday. On what day of the week will Leap Day, February $29$ , $2020$ , occur?

The average (mean) of $20$ numbers is $30$ , and the average of $30$ other numbers is $20$ . What is the average of all $50$ numbers?

On a certain math exam, $10\%$ of the students got $70$ points, $25\%$ got $80$ points, $20\%$ got $85$ points, $15\%$ got $90$ points, and the rest got $95$ points. What is the difference between the mean and the median score on this exam?

A subset $B$ of the set of integers from $1$ to $100$ , inclusive, has the property that no two elements of $B$ sum to $125$ . What is the maximum possible number of elements in $B$ ?

Sally has five red cards numbered $1$ through $5$ and four blue cards numbered $3$ through $6$ . She stacks the cards so that the colors alternate and so that the number on each red card divides evenly into the number on each neighboring blue card. What is the sum of the numbers on the middle three cards?

A clock chimes once at $30$ minutes past each hour and chimes on the hour according to the hour. For example, at $1 \text{PM}$ there is one chime and at noon and midnight there are twelve chimes. Starting at $11:15 \text{AM}$ on $\text{February 26, 2003},$ on what date will the $2003^{\text{rd}}$ chime occur?

Jamal wants to save 30 files onto disks, each with 1.44 MB space. 3 of the files take up 0.8 MB, 12 of the files take up 0.7 MB, and the rest take up 0.4 MB. It is not possible to split a file onto 2 different disks. What is the smallest number of disks needed to store all 30 files?

The mean, median, unique mode, and range of a collection of eight integers are all equal to 8. The largest integer that can be an element of this collection is

Suppose July of year $N$ has five Mondays. Which of the following must occur five times in the August of year $N$ ? (Note: Both months have $31$ days.)

The median of the list $n, n + 3, n + 4, n + 5, n + 6, n + 8, n + 10, n + 12, n + 15$ is $10$ . What is the mean?

A telephone number has the form $\text{ABC-DEF-GHIJ}$ , where each letter represents a different digit. The digits in each part of the number are in decreasing order; that is, $A > B > C$ , $D > E > F$ , and $G > H > I > J$ . Furthermore, $D$ , $E$ , and $F$ are consecutive even digits; $G$ , $H$ , $I$ , and $J$ are …

The mean of three numbers is $10$ more than the least of the numbers and $15$ less than the greatest. The median of the three numbers is $5$ . What is their sum?

If all alligators are ferocious creatures and some creepy crawlers are alligators, which statement(s) must be true? $$\textrm{I. All alligators are creepy crawlers.}$$ $$\textrm{II. Some ferocious creatures are creepy crawlers.}$$ $$\textrm{III. Some alligators are not creepy crawlers.}$$

When the mean, median, and mode of the list $$10,2,5,2,4,2,x$$ are arranged in increasing order, they form a non-constant arithmetic progression. What is the sum of all possible real values of $x$ ?

In year $N$ , the $300^{\text{th}}$ day of the year is a Tuesday. In year $N+1$ , the $200^{\text{th}}$ day is also a Tuesday. On what day of the week did the $100$ th day of year $N-1$ occur?