# Dec 2017 (CML)

I will post seven new problems every weekend.  If you like you can try to finish the first 6 problems in 30 minutes, just like in a typical CML test.  The 7th problem is a bonus. The idea is that you work on your own during the week and I will post answers the following Saturday.  For those of you who practiced with me last year, the process is similar.

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I hope you are having fun during your week off from school.  Happy holidays to all!

Week of Dec 24 – Jan 30

Dec 24: Willy can ride his bike 5 miles in 20 minutes.  His is traveling at ___ m.p.h.

Dec 25: One whole Christmas candle can be made from 5 candle stubs (the part left after a candle burns down). Mr. Santa had 25 candles and each candle burns down to a stub in one night. From those 25 candles he can burn one candle a night for ___ nights.  (Remember he can make a new candle from 5 stubs.)

Dec 26: Joe left his house in the morning with some money. He spent one half of his money on lunch, one third on a snack and one tenth on a magazine. When he got home he had 60 cents left. How much money did Joe spend on lunch?

Answer: $4.50 (1/2 + 1/3 + 1/10 = 28/30; 60 cents correspond to 2/30; total amount =$9)

Dec 27: Andy took a full bag of sand and poured 2/3 of it into the sand box. Bob poured 1/2 of what was left between the brick and patio. Charles took the remaining 1 pound for his fish tank. Originally, the bag of sand weighed ___ pounds?

Dec 28: A, B, C and D are distinct integers from 1, 2, 3, and 4. What is the difference between largest possible product of AB x CD and least possible product?  (If A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, ABxCD means 12×34.)

Answer:   41*32 – 13*24 = 1000

Dec 29: A number was added to 23. The same number was added to 47. The sum of these two new numbers is 109. What number was added to 23?

Dec 30: There are 8 people in a ping-pong tournament. Each person must play every other person exactly 2 times. How many games will there be in the tournament?

Answer: 8*7*2 / 2 = 56

Dec 17:  If Marlon the mailman had sunny weather on exactly 21 of the 30 days last month, on what percent of days was the weather not sunny?

Dec 18: Last month I spent $24 on magnets that cost 60¢ each, and this month I spent$24 on magnets that cost $1.20 each. The average cost per magnet was ___. Answer:$0.8 = 48/(24/0.6 + 24/1.2)

Dec 19: On a number line, __ is the same distance from 2.25 as it is from 7.75.

Dec 20: In a garage, the ratio of red cars to black cars is 7:5, and the ratio of black cars to white cars is 3:2. The minimum number of cars in the garage is ___.

Dec 21:  The sum of 6 consecutive integers, the largest of which is 30, is equal to the sum of 10 consecutive integers, the largest of which is ___.

Answer: 21 (6 consecutive integers: 25-30, sum=165; 10 consecutive integers: 12-21)

Dec 22: I wrote a list of consecutive positive integers beginning with 1. I then removed all multiples of 4, and I had 2345 integers left. What was the largest integer on my list after the numbers were removed?

Dec 23:   If a radius of a circle whose area is 36π equals the width of a rectangle, and the diameter of the circle is half the length of the rectangle, then the perimeter of the rectangle is ___.

Dec 10: How much larger is 1/3 of 27 than 1/6 of 12?

Dec 11: If 1/4 is greater than m/16 where m is a whole number, what is the largest possible value of m?

Dec 12: If $4\times A>20$ and $5 \times A<35$, then $A$ represents what number?

Dec 13: The car that Mrs. A drives gets 36 miles to a gallon of gas. The tank hold 16 gallons. If the tank is 1/4 full, how many miles can she drive?

Dec 14: The tank of a tractor holds 45 gallons of gas. The tractor requires 6 gallons of gas to plow 5 acres.  How many acres can the tractor plow with a full tank?

Dec 15: When Rachel writes a composition she always writes 8 words in a line. The 1300th word in the composition will be the __th word in the __th line.

Dec 16: The special at the bagel shop is “buy 1 dozen and get 3 bagels for free”. Bagels cost $4.50 per dozen. How much does a customer pay to get 45 bagels? Answer:$13.5

Week of Dec 3 – Dec 9.

Dec 3: Jack divides a number by 10 and has a remainder of 3.  If Jack first multiplies the number by 3 and then divides by 10, what is the remainder now?

Dec 4: The scale of a map shows that 1.5 inches = 30 miles. A park on the map is shown by a rectangle of  3in x 6in. The park has an actual area of __ square miles.

Dec 5: The scale on a map reads 1 inch = 40 miles. Two cities 300 miles apart are ___ inches apart on the map.

Dec 6: A house plan uses the scale 1/8 in = 1 foot. In the plan, the living room is 2 inches long. If the scale is changed to 1/2 in = 1 foot, what would be the length of the living room in the new house plan?

Dec 9: The original price of a coat is $500. Store A first reduced the price by 25% and then another 25% off the reduced price. Store B took off 50% off the original price of the coat. Mrs. X bought the coat from shop A; Mrs. Y bought it from shop B. Who paid more and by how much? Answer: Mrs. X by$31.25