# Sept 2018 (AMC8-MC)

I will post seven new problems every weekend, one for each day of the week. 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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Week of Sept 23 – Sept 29: All to do with exponents. How many of the following can you do in your head?

Sept 23: Express $2^5 \cdot 8^3 \cdot 16^2$ as a power of 4.

Answer: $4^{11}$

Sept 24: Express $2^2 \cdot 4^2 \cdot 8^2 \cdot 16^2 \cdot ... \cdot 1024^2$ as a power of 2.

Answer: $2^{110}$

Sept 25: Express $3^{16}$ as a power of $1\over 9$.

Answer: ${1\over 9}^{-8}$

Sept 26: When the expression $8^{10} \cdot 5^{22}$ is multiplied out, how many digits does the number have?

Answer: $2^8\cdot 10^{22} = 256\cdot 10^{22}$ has 25 digits

Sept 27: What is the sum of the digits of the number $2^{2018} \cdot 5^{2020} \cdot 3$?

Answer: $10^{2018}\cdot 75$. The sum of digits is 12.

Sept 28: What is the positive integer $N$ for which $22^2 \cdot 55^2 = 10^2\cdot N^2$?

Answer: $N = 121$

Sept 29: What is the value of $n$ such that $n\cdot 3^4 \cdot 2^5 = 6^6$?

Week of Sept 16 – Sept 22: Can you do the following calculations in your head?

Sept 16: What is the product of $38 \cdot 42$?

Answer: $(40-2)\cdot (40+2) = 40^2-2^2 = 1596$

Sept 17: What is the sum of the first 40 positive integers?

Answer: $41\cdot 20 = 820$

Sept 18: What is the value of 123,123 divided by 1001?

Sept 19: What is the sum (-100) + (-99) + (-98) + … + 97 + 98?

Answer: $-20 \cdot 20 = -400$