1. An total of $45,000 in prize money is to be divided unequally among the top three contestants. What is the value of the largest prize?   $9,000   0,000   2,000   5,000   $27,000   Hint Hint       2. What is the smallest of four consecutive odd integers whose sum is 968?   235   239   243   245   249   Hint       3. From 1999 to 2000, the computer sales increased by 40% and the printer sales decreased by 40%. The ratio of printer sales to computer sales in 2000 was how many times the ratio of printer sales to computer sales in 1999?   1   5/3   3/7   7/3   3/5   Hint       4. A small square region inside a larger square is shaded. The diagonal of the larger square is three times the diagonal of the small square in length. What fraction of the area of the larger square is not shaded ?   1/9   1/3   2/3   8/9   cannot be determined   Hint       5. The arithmetic mean (average) of five numbers is −5. If the sum of two of them is 50, what is the average of the other three?   25   10   0   −10   −25   Hint       6. The arithmetic mean (average) of 3, 5, 7 and y is 100. What is the value of y?   85   95   105   115   385   Hint       7. In the figure, each of the four white "petals" is formed by the intersection of two semicircles. Each of the four semicircles is drawn with its center at the midpoint of each side of the square. If the length of the side of the square is 2, what is the total area of the shaded region excluding the petals?   8 − 2π   4 − π   16 − 4π   1 − π/4   32 − 8π   Hint