ABACUS International Math Challenge

for

7th and 8th graders

September, 2000

 

C.193. Draw the biggest square inside and the smallest square outside of a circle. What is the ratio of the areas of these two squares?

 

C.194. Find all those fractions whose denominator is less than 20, and the value of the fraction is between 23/113 and 28/113.

 

C.195. How many such 3-digit numbers are there where the sum of the digits is 15, and the number is divisible by 15?

 

C.196. What is the smallest multiple of 36 that contains only the digits 5 and 0 in its form in base 10?

 

C.197. In a math test you have to solve 30 problems. You get 5 points for every correct answer, zero points for an incorrect answer, and you get 1 point for every unanswered problem. How many different total points can you possibly get on this test?

 

C.198. Three people, Mr. Black, Mr. Gray, and Mr. White met on the street.

"Did you notice that we all wear black, gray, and white, but nobody wears the color of his name?"- asked Mr. Black.

"That is really true!" - said the man in white.

Can you tell the color of each man's dress?

 

C.199. You roll three dice. The product of the three numbers is 24. What could the sum of these three numbers be?

 

C.200. How many such 5-digit numbers are there containing only the digits 1, 2, and 3, but every one of these?

 

Please, send your solutions to:

tdiveki@gcschool.org

 

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