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The second round of the Major League Baseball play-offs is “best out of 5,” meaning that two teams will play each other until one team wins three games. How many different ways could this play-off...

Gretchen is going to make a witch’s hat for Halloween. Her pattern consists of a right circular cone without a base attached to a circle with a hole cut out of the middle, as shown below. The hole is...

Temi’s analog clock, shown here, has an hour hand of length 9 in and a minute hand of length 15 in. When Temi’s clock strikes 3 o’clock, what is the length of the segment drawn from the end of the...

Kaleb has a bag containing red, black and white LEGO® bricks. If he has 12 more red bricks than white bricks and 15 fewer white bricks than black bricks, what is the positive difference between the...

The Zappone family has a table that can seat eight people comfortably, which is perfect, since there will be eight people sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner. The rectangular table can seat three...

While there were many problems written and solved for MATHCOUNTS in 2021, below is a selection of some of the best of the year! 2020-2021 School Handbook, #113 A fair coin is flipped 5 times. What is...

In honor of Engineers Week, we’re posting a throwback to a sampling of previous years’ Future Engineers Problems of the Day. Join us next week for all new engineering-themed Problems of the Day for...

In June, MATHCOUNTS joined the Data Science 4 Every­one Commitment Campaign to build capacity for K-12 data science ed­ucation. As part of this commitment, MATHCOUNTS will create and share additional...

Did you know that May 20th is the official birthday of “blue jeans”? It was on May 20, 1873 that Levi Strauss and David Jacobs received patent number 139,121 from the US Patent and Trademark Office...