2025 STATE COMPETITION
Countdown Round Problems 1−80
This booklet contains problems to be used in the
Countdown Round.
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1. _____________
(cm3) The dimensions of a ROXBOX are 8 cm by 5 cm by 9 cm. The new and improved
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SUPERROXBOX is 25% longer, 20% wider and 33 % deeper than the original
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ROXBOX. What is the volume of the SUPERROXBOX, in cubic centimeters?
2. _____________ A standard, fair six-sided die is rolled. What is the probability that the number
rolled is not a prime number? Express your answer as a common fraction.
3. _____________ The number 2025, which is equal to 34 × 52, has the property that the product of
its distinct prime factors is also the number of factors it has. What is the least
positive integer with at least two distinct prime factors with this property?
(values)
4. _____________ A triangle has two sides of lengths 8 and 13. How many possible integer values
are there for the length of the third side?
5. _____________ The product of an integer x and 6 is 10 greater than the sum of x and 25. What is
the value of x?
(sets)
6. _____________ A music quiz offers 8 different songs for analysis. Jordan must select exactly
5 out of those 8 songs to analyze. How many different sets of songs can Jordan
choose, if order of the song analysis does not matter?
7. _____________ For what integer value of r does the equation x 2 + rx + 6 = 0 have x = 2 and
x = 3 as solutions?
8. _____________ If x + y = 25 and y + z = 60, what is the absolute difference between x and z?
× 1 2 3 4 5
9. _____________ What is the median of the 25 products after Ethan correctly fills in the
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5 × 5 multiplication table shown? 3
4
5
10. _____________
(points) The average of Melanie’s 19 classmates’ scores on an exam was 58 points.
Melanie’s score was then included in the average, which raised the average by
2 points. How many points did Melanie score?
11. _____________ Riley divides the number x by 24 and gets 15 as her answer. Gavin multiplies
the same number x by 20. What answer should he get?
12. _____________
(integers) How many four-digit odd integers with four distinct digits can be formed using
the digits 2, 3, 4, 7 and 9?
13. _____________
(cm) A right triangle with integer side lengths has an area of 30 cm2 and a perimeter
of 30 cm. How many centimeters long is the hypotenuse?
14. _____________ If (x + 1)2 = 6x, what is the value of (x − 2)2?
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15. _____________
(integers) How many positive integers less than or equal to 70 have at least three distinct
prime factors?
16. _____________ What is the sum of the elements in row 4 of Pascal’s triangle if the topmost row,
consisting of a single 1, is defined as row 0?
(zags)
17. _____________ The planet of Zigzag has two currencies: zigs and zags. If 3 zigs are equivalent
in value to 5.4 zags, how many zags are equivalent in value to 25 zigs?
18. _____________
(cm2) A piece of wire is bent into the shape of a regular hexagon with area 1 cm2. The
same piece of wire is then re-bent into the shape of an equilateral triangle. What
is the area of this triangle, in square centimeters? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
19. _____________ What is the units digit in the product of the first 27 prime numbers?
(years old)
20. _____________ Two years ago, Spot was four times as old as Rover was. Next year, Fido will
be four times as old as Rover will be. If the sum of the ages of Fido, Rover and
Spot is 24 years, how many years old is Rover?
(rows)
21. _____________ Lyle has 120 toy soldiers, which he wants to arrange in a rectangular formation
with no more than 20 soldiers in any row or column. What is the sum of all
possible numbers of rows which Lyle’s formation can have?
22. _____________
(degrees) The degree measures of the interior angles of a hexagon form an arithmetic
progression. What is the median of these angle measures, in degrees?
23. ($)
_____________ Chelsea can complete a portrait of a dog in 3 hours and 20 minutes. If she
charges $150 for each portrait, how many dollars is she earning per hour?
24. _____________
(in2) What is the area, in square inches, of an isosceles right triangle with perimeter
2 + 2 inches? Express your answer as a common fraction.
25. _____________ The Fibonacci sequence starts with the following pattern of numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3,
5, 8, 13, 21, ..., where each number after the first two is the sum of the previous
two. What is the 11th number in this sequence?
26. _____________
(integers) How many positive integers x satisfy the inequality (x + 2)(x − 8) < 0?
27. _____________
(points) In Mr. Thompson’s science class, the test scores for 25 students varied between
65 and 94 points. What is the range of these scores?
(triangles)
28. _____________ How many non-congruent equilateral triangles with integer side length have
area less than or equal to 100 3?
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29. _____________ An arithmetic sequence has 17 terms. If the first and last terms are 17 and 49
respectively, what is the common difference between consecutive terms in this
sequence?
1 1 1
30. _____________ What is the value of 2 × 2 × 2 ? Express your answer as a
common fraction. 3 5 7
31. _____________ What is the probability that a randomly chosen positive integer divisor of 8! is a
perfect square? Express your answer as a common fraction.
32. _____________ If x and y are real numbers for which 2x − y = 3 and x + 2y = 4, what is the value
of x + y?
A B
33. _____________
(inches) In parallelogram ABCD, the distance between sides AB 25 in
and CD is 20 inches, and the distance between sides AD
and BC is 25 inches. If parallelogram ABCD has area 20 in
700 in2, what is the length of its longer side, in inches? D
C
3
34. _____________ What is the value of 5 ? Express your answer as a common fraction.
4+
6
35. _____________
(divisors) How many positive integer divisors does 432 have?
(shrimp)
36. _____________ During their annual shrimp eating contest, Mason ate 25 more shrimp than
Steve, and Jeff ate 37 less shrimp than Steve. If only Mason, Steve and Jeff
compete in the contest, what is the absolute difference between the average
number of shrimp eaten per contestant and the number of shrimp that Steve ate?
37. _____________ If a + 600 = a , what is the value of a?
38. _____________
(inches) A 16-foot long board is cut into two pieces with lengths in the ratio of 7:5. How
many inches long is the longer piece?
39. _____________ Five standard, fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the expected value of the
sum of the values shown on the top faces of the dice? Express your answer as a
common fraction.
40. _____________ If x and y are real numbers satisfying (x + 1)(x + 2) = y + 1 and (x − 1)(x − 2) =
y − 1, what is the value of y? Express your answer as a common fraction.
41. _____________
(feet) A smoot is a unit of distance equal to exactly 5 feet 7 inches. If a skyscraper is
144 smoots tall, how many feet tall is it?
42. _____________
(students) At lunch, 60% of students chose to eat pizza, while 20% picked nachos. If
144 students selected pizza, and no student chose more than one meal, how
many students chose nachos?
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43. _____________ The product of two positive integers is 10 more than their sum. The difference
between the two integers is 10. What is the value of their sum?
(cm3)
44. _____________ A right rectangular prism has length 24 cm, width 8 cm and height 6 cm. What
is the volume of the rectangular prism, in cubic centimeters?
(factors)
45. _____________ How many positive integer factors does 20253 have?
46. _____________
(seconds) A kilobyte is 1 thousand bytes, and a gigabyte is 1 billion bytes. A computer can
transfer files at a constant rate of 150 kilobytes every 0.004 seconds. How many
seconds will it take to transfer 24 gigabytes of files?
47. _____________ The arithmetic mean of x, 25, 30 and 43 is 35. What is the value of x?
(degrees)
48. _____________ What is the interior angle sum, in degrees, of a convex octagon?
49. _____________ What is the greatest positive integer that is a divisor of all numbers of the form
n2 − n, where n is a positive integer?
50. _____________ What is the least possible value of a perfect square whose digits sum to 13?
51. _____________ If x, y and z are positive integers for which x + y + z = 20 and x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = 222,
what is the value of x y + x z + y z?
3 in
52. _____________
(inches) A rhombus has side length 3 inches and one diagonal of length
4 inches. How many inches long is its other diagonal? Express
your answer in simplest radical form.
53. ($)
_____________ Kevin is covering a floor with carpet that costs $3.50 per square foot. How much
will it cost to purchase enough carpet to completely cover a rectangular room
that measures 20 feet by 40 feet?
54. _____________ A bag contains 3 red marbles and 4 blue marbles. Three marbles are drawn from
the bag at random and without replacement. What is the probability that the
marbles drawn will alternate in color, either a red-blue-red sequence or a blue-
red-blue sequence? Express your answer as a common fraction.
(integers)
55. _____________ The number 2025 is the square of a positive integer with units digit 5. How
many positive integers less than or equal to 202,500 have this property?
56. _____________ Five friends competed for the greatest step count in a day. Alicia’s step count
was lower than Connie’s and higher than Darren’s. Bryce had the second lowest
step count. Jack’s step count was lower than Bryce’s. Who had the third highest
step count?
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57. _____________ Valeria makes a list of all the positive integers n that produce only integer
solutions to the quadratic equation x 2 + 20 x + n = 0. What is the absolute
difference between the greatest and least values on Valeria’s list?
1
58. _____________
(digits) The terminating decimal expansion of = 0.0625 has four digits to the right
16
of the decimal point. How many digits are to the right of the decimal point in the
1
terminating decimal expansion of ?
1024
59. _____________
(in2) When the side lengths of a regular pentagon are all tripled, its area, in square
inches, is the sum of 30 in2 and triple the original area. What is the area of the
original pentagon, in square inches?
60. _____________ If the point (x, y) = (2, 1) lies on the graph of y = (x − 1)2 + (x + 1) + b, what is
the value of b?
61. _____________
(triangular A triangular number is a positive integer of the form 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + n, where n
numbers) is a positive integer. How many triangular numbers less than or equal to 100 are
multiples of 6?
(%)
62. _____________ Jean-Francois spins a spinner with eight equal sections labeled 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,
13 and 21. What is the probability that the spinner stops on a prime number?
Express your answer as a percent.
63. _____________
(minutes) Larry can make 7 pizzas in 9 minutes. Harry can make 7 pizzas in 12 minutes.
Mary can make 4 pizzas in 6 minutes. Working together, how many minutes will
it take the three friends to make 730 pizzas?
64. _____________
(leaps) A grasshopper chases a flea that starts 30 feet ahead of the grasshopper. For
every 12-inch leap of the flea, the grasshopper makes a 30-inch leap at the same
time. How many leaps will the grasshopper have to make to catch up to the flea?
18 cm
65. _____________
(cm) How many centimeters is the perimeter of an isosceles
trapezoid with base lengths of 18 cm and 36 cm and a 12 cm
height of 12 cm?
36 cm
66. _____________
(integers) For how many integers x is 25 − 5 − x ≥ 0?
2
67. _____________ What is the value of 52 − 62 − 72 + 82?
68. _____________
(%) Three standard fair six-sided dice are rolled. The product of the three numbers
rolled is odd. What is the probability that the sum of the three numbers rolled is
odd? Express your answer as a percent.
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69. _____________ If the polynomial x 2 + p x + q has the two roots x = −4 and x = 6, what is the
value of p + q?
70. _____________
(postcards) Daisy and her two friends all started collecting postcards this year. They each
have a different number of postcards, and the average number of postcards in
their collections is 14. Daisy has the smallest collection. What is the greatest
number of postcards that can be in Daisy’s collection?
(cm2)
71. _____________ Three of the vertices of a cube can be joined to form an equilateral triangle with
area 4 3 cm2. What is the surface area of the cube, in square centimeters?
72. _____________
(calories) A Crispy Crunch Bar has 400 calories and is divided into 15 smaller squares. If
Jacque eats 3 squares on Tuesday, how many calories did he consume from the
bar that day?
73. _____________ Jon and Tim each flip a fair coin four times. What is the probability that Jon
obtained the same number of heads as Tim? Express your answer as a common
fraction.
74. _____________ What is the value of (1 + 2 + 3)2 − (12 + 22 + 32)?
75. _____________
(cm) Triangle ABC, with integer side lengths, has two sides of lengths 33 cm and
42 cm. What is the smallest possible perimeter of triangle ABC, in centimeters?
76. _____________ If x + y = 4 and x − y = −2, what is the value of x ?
77. _____________
(unit Estrella is building a model staircase with 1 cm unit cubes. To make a staircase
cubes)
that has 2 steps and is 8 cm wide, she uses 24 unit cubes. How many unit cubes
will she use to make a staircase that has 7 steps and is 8 cm wide, if each step is
1 cm high and 1 cm deep?
78. _____________
(integers) How many positive integers x satisfy the inequality −22 < x (10 − x) < 22?
79. _____________ Two standard fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the
absolute difference of the two numbers rolled is less than 3? Express your
answer as a common fraction.
80. _____________
(yards) What is the perimeter, in yards, of a group of ten square tables,
each of side length 1 yard, that are arranged in the shape of this T,
as shown?
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