XTRA MATH CHALLENGE

2011 – 2012
15 – SECONDS

1. Mr. Villanueva deposited Php 50,000.00 last December 7, 2010. If the bank offered 5%
simple interest per annum on the condition that no withdrawal should be made within
that time interval, how much money has he in the bank after a year?
[ Answer : Php 52, 500.00 ]

2. The ages of the mother and her son are 45 and 5 years, respectively. After how many
years will the age of the mother be three times the age of her son?
[ Answer: 45 + x = 3 (5+x) = 15 years ]

3. What is the remainder if the polynomial expression x 5  2 x 4  x 3  x  3 is divided by x+1?

[Answer: − 4 + 4 = 0]

4. One side of a cube is of length (2x − 3) cm. What is its total surface area?
[Answer: 6(2x − 3)2 = (24x2 − 72x + 54) sq cm.]

5. Write the expression 2 log x + 3 log y – 5 log z in single logarithmic form.

x2 y3
[Answer: log ]
z5
6. A class of 40 students took examinations in Algebra and Trigonometry. If 30 students passed
Algebra, 36 passed Trigonometry, and 2 failed in both subjects. How many students passed
the two subjects?
[Answer: 30  x  x  36  x  40  2 : x = 28]

7. What is the domain of the function y  log( x 2  4 x  5) ?

[Answer: x <5 or x>−1]

8. You are asked to cut a 20-cm long stick into 10 equal lengths. How long will it take you if
each cut takes 3 seconds?
[Answer: 27 seconds]

9. If the exterior angle adjacent to a base angle of an isosceles triangle is 115 o, find the vertex
angle
[Answer: 50o]
10. A wheel of diameter 8 cm. makes 5 revolutions. Find the distance traveled by a point on the
rim of the wheel in terms of  .
[Answer: 40  cm]
11. What is the line of symmetry of the quadratic function f ( x)  2 x 2  3 x  1 ?
3
[Answer: x  ]
4

12. The faces of a big cube are painted. Then, the cube is cut into 125 unit cubes. How many of the
unit cubes have two painted faces each?
[Answer: 36]

13. What should be the value of a so that the lines y  6 x  3 and 2 y  ax  6  0 coincide?
[Answer: a = −12.]

14. How many numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3 if no repetition of the digits is allowed?
[Answer: 15]

15. A piece of cartolina is 54 cm by 45 cm. What is the least number of squares into which it
can be cut without any material being wasted?
[Answer: 30]

16. An item is marked Php 340.00. If bought at 15% discount , how much will be saved by a
customer?
[Answer: Php 51.00]

17. If a line intersects the circle x 2  y 2  16 at (x, −2) in the 4th quadrant, what is the value of x?
[Answer: 2 3 .]

18. On a Quiz Show, each question is worth four times as much as the previous question. The
 fourth question is worth Php1,600.00. How much was the first question worth?
[Answer: Php25.00]

19. A chord of a circle is 24 cm long. If it is 9 cm from the center, how long is the diameter of the
circle?
[Answer: 15 cm.]

30-seconds. Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0.

1. One side of a rectangle, inscribes in a circle of diameter 17 cm. a 8 cm. What is the length of the
other side?
[Answer: x  17 2  8 2 = 15 cm.]

2. What is the Eqution of the line passing through the point ( 2 – 1 ), and perpendicular of the line
through the point?
[Answer: 3 x  y  7  0 or y  3 x  7 ]

3. For what values of x is 4 x 2  4 x  15 a real number?

5 3
[Answer: x  or x  .]
2 2
4. In one day (24 hours ), how many times will the hour-hand and minute-hand of a continuously
driven clock be together?

[Answer: In 12 hours. The minute-hand and hour-hand are together for eleven times.
There for in one day they will be together for 22 times.]

5. A and B have coordinates −16 and 10 respectively. What is the coordinate of x if it is 4

units farther from A as from B on the number line?
[Answer: 5]

6. If P ( ) lies on the line joining the origin and the point (−3, −4), what is cos  ?
[Answer: - 3/5]

7. From the pier 6 meters above water the angle of elevation of the top of a tower 2 kilometers away
is 30. What is the height of the tower above sea level?
2000 3
[Answer: + 6 m]
3

8. A 100-kilometer salt solution originally 4% by weight. Sal in water is boiled to reduce water
content until the concentration is 5%by weight salt. How much water is evaporated?

[Answer: In Salt: 4 %(100)-0 = %5(100-x) or In Water: 96%(100) – 100%(x) = 95%(100-x)

400 = 500 – 5x; x = 20 kg 1920 - 20 x = 1900-19x; x = 20 kg

9. How many degrees is the smaller angle between the hands of a clock at 7:15 AM?
[Answer: 127.5o]

10. Four mathematics contestants and three judges in a math contest are posing for a
pictorial. In how many ways can a photographer arrange them if the judges are to stand next to
each other?
[Answer: 5!3! or 720 ways]

60 – seconds . Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0.

1. Solve for x: 6 2 x  5  27 x (2 x 10 )
[Answer: 5]
2. Find the inverse of the function f ( x)  x 2  3x  2 .
3 4x  1
[Answer: f 1 ( x)  ]
2

3. Find the equation of the locus of a point which moves so that it is always equidistant from points
A(4, - 1 ) and B( - 3, 5).
[Answer: 14x – 12y + 17 = 0.]

4. Mang Juan wants to enclose his rectangular garden. One side of his garden is against a
wall. For the other sides he has 300 meters of fencing materials available. Give the
dimensions of the largest possible area that he can enclose and what is the area of the
enclosed garden?
[Answer: w = 75 m, l = 150 m, A = 11,250 sq m.]

5. For what values of x is the polynomial function P ( x)  x 3  x 2  x  1, below the x- axis?

[Answer: x  1 ]

6. Two opposite sides of a square were increased by 6 cm. The other two opposite sides were
decreased by 6 cm. By how much was the area changed?
[Answer: It decreased by 36 sq cm.]

7. Using the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 what two-digit number and three-digit number can be formed
whose product is the smallest?
[Answer: 25 and 367]

8. Php1,200 is to be divided among 4 sisters so that each gets 100 pesos more than her next
younger sister. How much will the youngest sister get?
[Answer: Php 150.00]

3. Aling Auring bought 12 dozen oranges at Php 45.00 per dozen. She found 18 bad
oranges, and she sold the rest of them at 6 oranges for Php25.00. Did she gain or lose?
by how much?
[Answer: Aling Auring lost by Php15.00]

4. Find the value of k so that 3 is a zero of the function f(x) = 5 x 3  15 x 2  kx  21 .

[Answer: −7]
5. A side of a rhombus is 15 cm. If one angle measures 60 o, find the measures of the lengths
of the diagonals.
[Answers: 15 cm. and 15 3 cm]

8. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. If the digits are reversed, the number is
increased by 18. What is the number?
[Answer: 68]