DKC3 2006 WORD PROBLEMS

(5 PTS EACH)

1. CRYPTARITHM
Replace each letter of the cryptarithm by a numeral so that the resulting mathematical expression is
true.
S E V E N
+ S E V E N
+ S I X
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T W E N T Y

2. COUNTING FINGERS
A mathematician walks in on his daughter counting on her fingers. He has no problem with this, but
finds it odd that after counting to five (thumb to pinky), she doubles back and counts her ring finger as
six, middle as seven and index as eight, etc. “I want to see what finger 1972 lands on,” the young girl
replies. The father chuckles, does some quick arithmetic and tell the girl the finger on which she will
land. What finger will she finish on?

3. NUMBER PUZZLE
The digits 1 – 8 are to be placed in the eight circles shown in the figure below. There is one condition
that must be kept and that is that no two digits that are next to each other in serial order may go in
circles that are directly connected by a line. Example: 5 is in the top circle, neither 4 or 6 could be
placed in any of the circles that form the horizontal row beneath it.

4. BEGGERS
A charitable lady met a poor man to whom she gave one cent more than half of what she had in her
purse. The poor fellow, who was a member of the United Mendicants' Association, managed, while
tendering his thanks, to chalk the organization's sign of "a good thing" on her clothing. As a result, she
met many objects of charity as she proceeded on her journey. To the second applicant she gave 2
cents more than half of what she had left. To the third beggar she gave three cents more than half of
the remainder. She now had one penny left. How much money did she start out with?

5. BIRTHDAY
If you have a room with 10 people in it, what is the probability that two (or more) people share the
same birthday? (Assume that no one is born on leap day) Give your answer to the nearest tenth of a
percent.
6. BUTTON COLLECTION
Elizabeth's mother has an antique button collection. She has seven triangular shaped buttons. She has
six solid yellow buttons and three solid blue buttons. She also has six buttons which are square shaped.
Her most expensive button is blue/yellow and it is not triangular or square shaped. Of the triangular
buttons, two are solid yellow and one is solid blue. Of the square buttons, two are solid blue and three
are solid yellow. Besides her most expensive button, she only has another non-triangular/non-square
button in her collection and it is yellow. Can you determine how many buttons are in her collection?

7. CENSUS
A Census-taker stopped at a lady's house and wanted to find out how many children she had. The lady,
a math teacher, wanted to see if the Census-taker still knew his math.
Census-taker to lady: How many children do you have?
Lady: Three.
Census-taker: How old are they?
Lady: the product of their ages is 36.
Census-taker: Well, that's just not enough information.
Lady: The sum of their ages is our house number.
Census-taker looks at the house number thinking this would give it away, but says: Still not enough
information!
Lady: My oldest child plays the piano.
Census-taker: AHA! I know now. Thank you!

What were the ages of the children?

8. JOKER
Four playing cards, one of each suit (hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades), and one each of Jack,
Queen, King and Ace are laid out in a row.

• The Heart is not next to the Club.

• No card is next to its immediate senior in rank.
• The colors of the suits alternate.
• The King and Queen are at the ends of the row.
• The Jack of Diamonds is not in the row.

What are the four cards and what is their order?

9. NUMBER PATTERN
Complete the next line in the pattern

3
13
1113
3113
132113
1113122113
311311222113

10. BIRD POTION

Harry Potter has asked his friend Hermione for a potion to turn them and their friend Ron into birds.
(They don’t have their brooms, so they need to make the trip to Hogsmeade as birds.) Hogsmeade is 9
miles away and a dose of Hermione's potion lasts 50 minutes. They only have enough potion for one
dose each. If they can go 24 miles an hour as birds, and they start at 4:30 p.m., can they get to
Hogsmeade and back to Hogwarts again before the potion runs out at 5:20 p.m.? If so, how much time
will they be able to spend in Hogsmeade?
11. COMPUTER CLASSES
This semester, Rose Canyon Community College is offering its students Microsoft Applications and four
other computer courses. Each class is offered a different day Monday-Friday, and each is taught by a
different computer professional. From the data below, can you schedule the computer classes: which
course is given each day and the full name (one last name is Chapman) of the class instructor?

• Cheryl and Ellison both work full-time for Sundown Software and teach at the college part-
time.
• Brenda's class is later in the week than Bezos', but earlier in the week than the Systems
Engineering offering.
• The C++ Programming course is offered Thursday.
• Mark's class isn't on Monday.
• Terry, Siebel, and the C++ Programming instructor all hold Ph. D.s in computer science.
• Gates teaches the day before Cheryl, who teaches the day before Terry.
• Brenda's course isn't the Introduction to the Internet offering.
• Gates, who isn't John, teaches a class held earlier in the week than Beginning Java.

Computer Classes

Systems Engineering
C++ Programming

MS Applications
Intro to Internet
Beginning Java
Chapman
Brenda

Ellison
Cheryl

Siebel
Bezos

Gates
Mark

Terry
John

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Beginning Java
C++ Programming
Intro to Internet
MS Applications
Systems Engineering
Bezos
Chapman
Ellison
Gates
Siebel

12. POTATOES
Potatoes are made up of 99% water and 1% "potato matter" by mass. Jack bought 100 pounds of
potatoes and left them outside in the sun for a while. When he returned, he discovered that the
potatoes had dehydrated and were now only made up of 98% water. How much did the potatoes now
weigh?
13. GLOVES
A woman has at least 2 pairs of black gloves, 2 pairs of white gloves, and 2 pairs of red gloves in a
drawer. The gloves will fit either hand; they are not right or left-handed and each pair is identical. If they
are removed from the drawer 1 at a time without looking at the colors, how many must she remove to
be certain she has a matching pair for herself and her daughter?

14. RECTANGLE
In the figure below, the rectangle at the corner measures 7 cm x 14 cm. What is the radius of the circle
in cm?

15. GRANDPA
“My grandson is as many days old as my son is weeks old, and my grandson is as many months old as I
am years old. My grandson, my son and I together are 140 years old. Can you tell me my age in
years?”

16. BRIDGE
A group of four students wish to cross a bridge without side rails in the middle of the jungle very late at
night. They have one lantern to share. No one may take a step without holding the lantern (it's dark at
night with no moon). No more than two people may be on the bridge at one time, not even for a
moment. When two students walk together, they must move at the rate of the slowest person. What is
the shortest time it would take for all of them to get across? Use the following information to solve the
problem:
• The first student, Joe, can cross the bridge alone in 5 minutes.
• The second student, Torey, can cross the bridge alone in 10 minutes.
• The third student, Sarah, can cross the bridge alone in 20 minutes.
• The fourth student, Mike, can cross the bridge alone in 25 minutes.

17. RIDDLER AND BATMAN

The Riddler has left a clue for Batman to follow at the scene of each crime. These are the clues that
Batman has found:

• There is a 1 in the thousands place.

• The digit in the tens place is 9 times the digit in the thousands place.
• Multiply the digit in the thousands place by 2.
• The digit in the ones place is a hand without a thumb.
• The digit in the hundreds is 2 less than the number in the tens.

Solve the riddle to find the number and help Batman stop the Riddler.

18. SPIDERMAN’S VACATION

The weather during Spiderman's vacation was very strange. It rained on 15 different days, but it never
rained for a whole day. Rainy mornings were followed by clear afternoons. Rainy afternoons were
preceded by clear mornings. There were 12 clear mornings and 13 clear afternoons in all. How long
was the vacation?

19. JUMPING JACKS

The record for the greatest number of consecutive jumping jacks is 14500 in 5 hours and 35 minutes.
If Joe does 55 jumping jacks per minute, how long will it take Joe to tie the record? Write answer in
hours and minutes.
20. PEANUTS
Joe gives Nick and Tom as many peanuts as each already has. Then Nick gives Joe and Tom as many
peanuts as each of them then has. Finally, Tom gives Nick and Joe as many peanuts as each has. If at
the end each has sixteen peanuts, how many peanuts did each have at the beginning?

21. GUESS THE NUMBER

• The number is not an odd number.
• It has exactly four factors.
• If you reverse the digits, a prime number is formed.
• The sum of the digits is a two digit prime number.
• The number is less than the square root of 104.
• One of the digits is a square number.

What number are we thinking of?

22. FARMER BOB

Farmer Bob is harvesting his soybeans (2400 acres worth). His combine burns 70 gallons of fuel per
day and he can harvest 160 acres in that time. Farmer Bob fuels his combine with B20 fuel (20%
biodiesel and 80% petroleum diesel). One bushel of soybeans is needed to produce 1.4 gallons of
biodiesel. Assuming his average yield is 30 bushels per acre, how many acres worth of last years
soybean crop were required in the production of the B20 to fuel Farmer Bob’s combine this year?

23. LETTER CUBES

A different letter of the alphabet is on each face of each of the 4 cubes so that 24 of the 26 letters of
the alphabet, including B, occur. Words are formed by rearranging and turning the cubes so that the
top letters spell a common 4-letter word. The 13 words below have been made using today's cubes.
Can you recover the 6 letters on each?

CLIP WARD MARE MOCK FURL CONE DISH

CLOG VICE FAZE QUIP STEW TONY

24. SOCCER HOUSES

Along one side of a street there are five houses. These houses are occupied by Ronaldo, Pele, David,
Ronaldinho, and Zinedine. The bird house in Ronaldinho’s yard is a different color than Ronaldo’s
house. The addresses of the houses are 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 World Cup Avenue. The
white house is neither the first nor the last house on the street. When Zinedine looks out of the
windows on each side of his house he cannot see a house of a primary color. The colors of the five
houses are brown, red, white, purple and blue. Ronaldinho, who lives in the white house, can not see
Pele’s house. The red house is to the right of the blue house. The brown house has steel siding while
the purple house is made of brick. Zinedine painted his house the same color as his team’s nickname,
“Les Bleus”. The purple house is to the left of the brown house. David’s house is across the street from
an orange house. Pele’s house is red. Ronaldinho does not live next to Zinedine. List the color of each
house in the order they are located on the street.
25. GRID
Using logic, fill in the appropriate squares in the grid. The numbers at the beginning of each row and
column tell you how many consecutive black squares are in that row or column. For example, 3,5,2
tells you there will be three groups containing, in order, 3, 5 and 2 consecutive black squares. There will
be at least 1 empty square between each group.

4 1 3 2 4 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 4 1 1
1 1 3 1 3 1 4 1 1 2
4 1 4
333

113111

311311

113

11122
111111

1311

1111