Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1.
A postal clerk has an unlimited supply of 5-cent and 11-cent stamps. What is the largest amount, in
cents, that cannot be obtained using just these stamps?
2.
Sarah intended to multiply a two-digit number and a three-digit number, but she left out the
multiplication sign and simply placed the two-digit number to the left of the three-digit number,
thereby forming a five-digit number. This number is exactly nine times the product Sarah should
have obtained. What is the sum of the two-digit number and the three-digit number?
3.
The plane is tiled by congruent squares and congruent pentagons as indicated in the right-hand side
figure shown below. What percent of the plane that is enclosed by the pentagons?
4.
The artist Durer made an engraving between the 12th and 17th century of a
magic square containing numbers from 1 to 16. The horizontal, vertical and
diagonal rows all add up to 34. (Why?) Two horizontal adjacent boxes
contain the year (all 4 digits) in which the engraving was made. Some
numbers are shown in the figure below. Complete the square with the
numbers 3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and give the year in which the engraving
was made.
5.
Every day, Alex takes the train home from school. His train gets into the station at 3:00 P.M. Corey
drives out to pick Alex up, arriving at the station just as Alex does at 3:00 P.M. They drive to the
library immediately for group study. One particular day, Alex has early release at school and takes an
earlier train, arriving at the station instead at 2:00 P.M. Lacking a cell phone, he starts walking in the
direction to the library. Alex meets Corey along the way on Corey's way to the station. They drive to
the library immediately for group study, getting there 20 minutes earlier than usual. Assuming
constant rates of walking and driving, how long was Alex walking?