Hands-on math!

Washington State Math Olympiad
Hints and Solutions
2016 Grade 8 Number Sense

Problem
1) Rewrite 0.72 as a fraction.


2) A doctor makes a box-and-whisker plot to show the number of patients she sees each day. Identify upper and lower quartiles.

3) How many numbers between 100 and 1,000 have exactly 3 factors?

Problem
4) How many dots would there be in the 20th step of the sequence below?
5) What is the one's digit of 3 to the power of 99?