Numbers - Common Sense

SOURCE:COMPETITION
Number of Problems: 9. : (Book)

 

 

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Members of the Rockham Soccer League buy socks and T-shirts. Socks cost $4 per pair and each T-shirt costs $5 more than a pair of socks. Each member needs one pair of socks and a shirt for home games and another pair of socks and a shirt for away games. If the total cost is $2366, how many members are in the League?

mathrm{(A)  } 77qquad mathrm{(B)  } 91qquad mathrm{(C)  } 143qquad mathrm{(D)  } 182qquad mathrm{(E)  } 286

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You and five friends need to raise 1500 dollars in donations for a charity, dividing the fundraising equally. How many dollars will each of you need to raise?

mathrm{(A)  } 250qquad mathrm{(B)  } 300 qquad mathrm{(C)  } 1500 qquad mathrm{(D)  } 7500 qquad mathrm{(E)  } ...

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As shown below, convex pentagon ABCDE has sides AB=3, BC=4, CD=6, DE=3, and EA=7. The pentagon is originally positioned in the plane with vertex A at the origin and vertex B on the positive x-axis. The pentagon is then rolled clockwise to the right along the x-axis. Which side will touch the point x=2009 on the x-axis?

unitsize(3mm);defaultpen(linewidth(.8pt)+fontsize(8pt));dotfactor=4;pair A=(0,0), Ep=7*dir(105), B=3*dir(0);pair D=Ep+B;pair ...

	ext{(A) } overline{AB}qquad	ext{(B) } overline{BC}qquad	ext{(C) } overline{CD}qquad	ext{(D) } overline{DE}qquad...

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