MMC National Finals Individual Category

4th Year
15-second questions
1. What is the sum of all multiples of 4 between 10 and 30?
[100]
2. Let ABC be an acute triangle inscribed in a circle with center O. If AOC = 114, what is
ABC? [57]
3. In rolling a pair of dice, what is the probability of getting a sum of 5?

1
[ ]
9
4. If 5 arithmetic means are inserted between -15 and 9, what is the largest of such means?
[5]
5. Factor completely the expression

2 x 3 +5 x 2+3 x .

[x ( x+1 ) ( 2 x+3 )]
6. If

9 x =10 , what is

272 x ?

[1000]
7. Solve for x in the inequality

2 x +52 5 x1 <0 .

5 1
,
2 5 ]
8. The first tem of a geometric sequence is 32, and its common ratio is 2. What is the 5 th term?
[3]
9. If

x2

is a factor of

2 x + x + kx6 , what is k?

[-3]
10.A snail crawls 16 meters on the first hour, 12 meters on the second hour, and every
succeeding hour, it crawls only the distance it crawled the previous hour. Can it reach a
total of 60 meters from where it started after a finite number of hour?
[Yes]
30-second questions
1. In an investment that promises a rate of 10% compounded annually, how much are you going
to invest now in order to receive P 544,000 in 2 years?
[P450000]

y=x 24 x+ 1 and 0 < x , 5, what is the corresponding values of y?

2. If

[ 3 y <6 ]
3. If

g ( x ) =4 x2

and

f ( g ( x ) )=46 x , what is f(4)?

[-5]

4. In a circle, the chords PQ and RS intersect at X. if PX = 4, QX = 5, and RX = SX + 2, what is

RS?

[ 2 21 ]

5. A committee of 4 is to be formed from a group of 5 men and 3 women. In how many ways can
this be done if the committee must have at least 1 woman?
[65]

1-minute questions
1. What is the constant term in the expansion of

3 10
2

(x +x )

[210]

2. The first and last terms of a geometric sequence are 6 and 486, respectively. If the sum of all
terms is 726, find the common ratio.
[3]
3. A building has a flagpole on top of it. On the ground, 90 m from the base of the building, the
angle of elevation of the top of the building is 30, and that of the top of the flagpole is 45.
How high is the flagpole?
4. When

3 x3 + 9 x 228 x +10

[ 9030 3 m ]
is divided by a polynomial D(x), the quotient and the remainder

are both (x + 5). What is D(x)?

2

[ 3 x 6 x+1 ]
5. Solve for x in the equation

2, 3 2

log 2 x2 + log x 2=5 .