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Two hundred thousand times two hundred thousand equals | Two hundred thousand times two hundred thousand equals | ||
− | <math>\text{(A)}\ \text{four hundred thousand} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \text{four million} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \text{forty thousand} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \text{four hundred million} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \text{forty billion}</math> | + | <math>\text{(A)}\ \text{four hundred thousand} \qquad |
+ | \text{(B)}\ \text{four million} \qquad | ||
+ | \text{(C)}\ \text{forty thousand} \qquad \\ | ||
+ | \text{(D)}\ \text{four hundred million} \qquad | ||
+ | \text{(E)}\ \text{forty billion}</math> | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:37, 19 February 2020
1991 AJHSME (Answer Key) Printable versions: • AoPS Resources • PDF | ||
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Contents
- 1 Problem 1
- 2 Problem 2
- 3 Problem 3
- 4 Problem 4
- 5 Problem 5
- 6 Problem 6
- 7 Problem 7
- 8 Problem 8
- 9 Problem 9
- 10 Problem 10
- 11 Problem 11
- 12 Problem 12
- 13 Problem 13
- 14 Problem 14
- 15 Problem 15
- 16 Problem 16
- 17 Problem 17
- 18 Problem 18
- 19 Problem 19
- 20 Problem 20
- 21 Problem 21
- 22 Problem 22
- 23 Problem 23
- 24 Problem 24
- 25 Problem 25
- 26 See also
Problem 1
Problem 2
Problem 3
Two hundred thousand times two hundred thousand equals
Problem 4
If , then
Problem 5
A "domino" is made up of two small squares:
Which of the "checkerboards" illustrated below CANNOT be covered exactly and completely by a whole number of non-overlapping dominoes?
Problem 6
Which number in the array below is both the largest in its column and the smallest in its row? (Columns go up and down, rows go right and left.)
Problem 7
The value of is closest to
Problem 8
What is the largest quotient that can be formed using two numbers chosen from the set ?
Problem 9
How many whole numbers from through
are divisible by either
or
or both?
Problem 10
The area in square units of the region enclosed by parallelogram is
Problem 11
There are several sets of three different numbers whose sum is which can be chosen from
. How many of these sets contain a
?
Problem 12
If , then
Problem 13
How many zeros are at the end of the product
Problem 14
Several students are competing in a series of three races. A student earns points for winning a race,
points for finishing second and
point for finishing third. There are no ties. What is the smallest number of points that a student must earn in the three races to be guaranteed of earning more points than any other student?
Problem 15
All six sides of a rectangular solid were rectangles. A one-foot cube was cut out of the rectangular solid as shown. The total number of square feet in the surface of the new solid is how many more or less than that of the original solid?
Problem 16
The squares on a piece of paper are numbered as shown in the diagram. While lying on a table, the paper is folded in half four times in the following sequence:
(1) fold the top half over the bottom half
(2) fold the bottom half over the top half
(3) fold the right half over the left half
(4) fold the left half over the right half.
Which numbered square is on top after step ?
Problem 17
An auditorium with rows of seats has
seats in the first row. Each successive row has one more seat than the previous row. If students taking an exam are permitted to sit in any row, but not next to another student in that row, then the maximum number of students that can be seated for an exam is
Problem 18
The vertical axis indicates the number of employees, but the scale was accidentally omitted from this graph. What percent of the employees at the Gauss company have worked there for years or more?
Problem 19
The average (arithmetic mean) of different positive whole numbers is
. The largest possible value of any of these numbers is
Problem 20
In the addition problem, each digit has been replaced by a letter. If different letters represent different digits then
Problem 21
For every rise in temperature, the volume of a certain gas expands by
cubic centimeters. If the volume of the gas is
cubic centimeters when the temperature is
, what was the volume of the gas in cubic centimeters when the temperature was
?
Problem 22
Each spinner is divided into equal parts. The results obtained from spinning the two spinners are multiplied. What is the probability that this product is an even number?
Problem 23
The Pythagoras High School band has female and
male members. The Pythagoras High School orchestra has
female and
male members. There are
females who are members in both band and orchestra. Altogether, there are
students who are in either band or orchestra or both. The number of males in the band who are NOT in the orchestra is
Problem 24
A cube of edge cm is cut into
smaller cubes, not all the same size. If the edge of each of the smaller cubes is a whole number of centimeters, then
Problem 25
An equilateral triangle is originally painted black. Each time the triangle is changed, the middle fourth of each black triangle turns white. After five changes, what fractional part of the original area of the black triangle remains black?
See also
1991 AJHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by 1990 AJHSME |
Followed by 1992 AJHSME | |
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All AJHSME/AMC 8 Problems and Solutions |
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