HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT

School: ___________________

SECOND YEAR MATH OLYMPIAD April 7, 2001 Team No.____
2
 Algebraic Sense


1).Find X:

4 X2 - 11 = 473

Answer:___________

2).Tickets for a school play cost $3 each for students and $8 each for parents. Six families, consisting of 22 people, paid a total of $101 to see the play. How many students were in the group?

Answer: ___________

3). If 7 is X percent of 70, what is 20% of X?

Answer:____________

4). The area of this rectangle is 192 square inches. What is the length of the longer side?

Answer:____________

5).A Girl Scout troop sold boxes of cookies. On the first day, 1/4 of all the boxes were sold. On the second day, 1/3 of the remaining boxes were sold. It took them another week to sell the remaining 120 boxes of cookies. How many boxes of cookies did the Girl Scouts start with?

Answer:___________