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Fourth Year Elimination Stage
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Instruction: Write your answer on the space provided before each item.
1. An item was already discounted by 10% but had to be discounted by another 10%
to make the price even more attractive to customers. Overall, by how many percent
was the item discounted?
2. If the numbers x ~ 4, 4 ~ x and x form an arithmetic Progression, what is x?
3. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 15 and 25. If the third side is also a whole
number, what is its shortest possible length?
4. Find the equation of a line that passes through (5, 4) and is parallel to 3x + y = 1.
5. What is the area of a triangle with sides 10, 10 and 12?
6. What is the domain of f(x) = /X#4
7. What is the inverse function of f(x) = 3* +3?
8. A dormitory's 24 rooms can accommodate either one or two boarders. If at the
moment there are 39 boarders and there are no empty rooms, how many rooms are
occupied by only one boarder?
9. One liter of 10% alcohol is mixed with 3 liters of 30% alcohol. What is the
percentage of alcohol in the resulting mixture?
10, The graph of f(x) = (a ~ 1)°x2 + (a - 1)x + a = 1 isa parabola that opens upwards for
which value/'s of a?
11. The point Q is twice as far from (-2, ~8) as it is from (13, 5). If it lies on the segment
joining the two, what are the coordinates of Q?
12. Two7 x7 squares overlap, forming a7 x 11 rectangle. What is the area of the region
in which the two squares overlap?
13. What is the area of the circumeircle of a triangle whose sides are of length 6, 8 and
10?
14. The parailel sides of a trapezoid are of length 3 and 6 cm. If the third side measures
5 cm and the last side is perpendicular to the first two, what is the area of the
trapezoid?
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15. If 57 =25?, find x
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16. What is the remainder when (2x + 1) (2x + 3) (2x +5) + 7 is divided by 2x-1?
17. If there‘are seven points on a plane and no three of them are collinear, how many
lines do the points determine?
18. The diagonals of a rhombus measure 10 cm and 24 cm. What is the perimeter of the
thombus?
19, Triangle ABC is right-angled at C with AB = 48 and AC = 64. The perpendicular
bisector of BC meets AC at E. What is the length of AE?
20. A 3” by 4” picture is proportionally enlarged so that the area of the new picture is
12 times the area of the original. What is the length of the shorter side of the
enlarged picture?
21. A square whose side measures 1 cm is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the
region inside the circle but outside the square?
22. Write as a single logarithm: 3 log» a~ (logy b+ Hog. c).
23. What is the remainder when 2014” is divided by 9?
24. How many four-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 4 to 9 if the first digit
has to be 8, one of the digits is 9 and no digit can appear more than once?
25. What is1-2+3~-44+5-6+.., + 2013-2014?2.
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Solve the inequality: 3°"? 51.
‘Two non-congruent circles have centers at C, and Cp. Diameter AB of circle C,
and diameter CD of circle C2 are perpendicular to'CyC . If C,C, = 10, what is
the area of the quadrilateral determined by A, B, C and D?
Find the area of a triangle whose vertices have coordinates (2, 3), (~4, 2) and (10, 1).
._ A jar contains only red and green balls. Ten red balls are added and the green balls
now constitute 20% of the total. In addition, ten green balls are added, making the
percentage of green balls equal to 40% of the total. How many balls were originally
in the jar? E
If p + q = 22, what is the smallest value of p? + q??
In the figure below, APAD Js similar to which triangle?
In the figure above, PA = 4, AC = 5 and PD = 20
(not drawn to scale). What is BD? P
. Interestingly, itis true that (3!)(5!)(7!) is equal to n!, What is n?
. For how many positive integers n is 7n + 1 divisible by 3n + 5?
. If you randomly choose two different numbers from 1 to 10, what is the probability
that one number is one more than the other?
. A class of 30 students took two quizzes, Sixteen passed the first quiz and 20 passed
the second, If four students failed both quizzes, how many passed both?
What is the radius of the circle whose equation is x2 + y? ~ 4x + 8y - 16 =0.
. LE (25%) = (22)(7%), what is x?
Suppose x, y and z are nonzero real numbers such that x + y + 7 =0.
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Whats the value of 4+34 7424342
Ifx and y are positive real numbers satisfying x + y |x2-x+3].
Find all positive integers (x, y) that satisfy x* = y2+97,2015 Metrobank-MTAP-DepED Math Challenge
Division Orals - Fourth Year
15-Second Questions [2 points each]
1. Whatis the y-intercept of 2x + 3y = 5?
How many degrees is 1} of a revolution?
3. Whatis the vertex of the parabola with equation y =x? + 2x +3?
4. Find the value of log /, 92
5. What's the exact value of sin(29x/4)?
6. Find the value of a so that 8x? + 1 is divisible by x ~ a.
7. Whatis the domain of In(x ~ x*)?
8. If the sequence 1, 3, xis harmonic, find the value of x.
9. Whatis the x-intercept of f(x) = log(x ~ 1)?
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10. The system {2 ay = has infinitely many solutions for which valucof a?
11. Whats the range of y = 2x 7x2?
30-Second Questions [3 points each]
1. Find the area of the triangle in the first quadrant bounded by the line
Find the value of a if the line ax + 2y = 1 is perpendicular to 3x ~ 6y =
Find the value of a so that the domain and range of f(x) = 941 are identical sets,
If sec 0 = ~13/5 and sin @ <0, find the value of tan 0.
Assuming that p and q are the roots of 3x? ~ 2x +4 = 0, what is p? + 2?
Find the solutions of (log, x)?~ log,,x*=4.
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1-Minute Questions [5 points each]
1. How many multiples of 3 are there between 5 and 2002
2. Given that tan @ = ~2, find the value of sin 26.
3. Solve: 4" = 2.
4. Find the perimeter of the region in Quadrant I that is bounded by the circle x? + y?= 1 and
the line x+y =1
5. Find the remainder when y = 1 + 3x? + 5x5 + ++ ++ 11x!! + 13x! is divided by x - 1?
6. Find the real roots of xt ~ 2x! + x? ~ 8x - 12 = 0 given that 2) is one root.
Clincher Questions
C1. If sec @=5, find the value of cos(x ~ 6).
C2. What is the inverse of f(x) = 2X43?
C3. xis directly proportional to y and inversely proportional to the square of z, What happens
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Do-or-Die Question
What is the next term in the arithmetic sequence x + 1, 2x 3, x +5?
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