MMC National Finals Team Category 4th

Year
15-second questions
1. Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle. If A = 78 and B = 98, what is D?
[85]
2. The value of a certain ancient artifact appreciates 10% every year. Two years ago, its value
was set at P500000. How much is the artifact now?
[P605000]
2

3. Find the real roots of the equation ( 2 x +1 ) =(2 x +1) ?

1
, 0]
2

4. In triangle ABC with AB = AC, if B = ( 3 x+10 )

and C = ( 5 x30 ) , what is A?

[40]
5. If x is 10% of y, and y is 40% of z, then z is how many percent of x?
[2500%]
6. In a class of 40 students, 20 have brothers, 15 have sisters, and 5 have both brothers and
sisters. How many students in the class are single child in the family?
[10]
7. In the graph of y=x ( x+2 )

, for what values of x is the graph situated above the x-axis?

[x > 0]
8. A demographer predicts that the population of a country t years from now can be modeled by
4

the function P (t )=10 t +8000000 . Using this model, after how many years will the current
population double?
9. If

log 4 5
[

= a, what is

[30]

log 8 5

in terms of a?

2a
]
3

10.What is the remainder when

32 x 4 x 2 is divided by 2 x 1 ?

7
[ ]
4
30-second questions
1. In a circle centered at (1, -1), one endpoint of a diameter lies at (4, 2). Find the coordinates of
the other endpoint of this diameter?
[(-2, 4)]
2. Factor completely the expression

4 x 4 + 2 x 3 +2 x 2 + x

over the set of real numbers.

x ( 2 x+1 )( 2 x 2 +1) ]
3. The first three terms of an arithmetic sequence are 2 y4 ,
the fifth term of the sequence?
[30]

y +6 , and

5 y+ 1 . What is

4. If

sinx

=16

cosx

, what is

sec x ?

[17]

5. 5 points are on the coordinate plane, no three of which are collinear. How many polygons can
be drawn with these points as vertices?
[16]
1-minute questions
1. Let f be a quadratic function such that f(-1) = 0, and f(0) = f(1) = -8. What is f(3)?
[16]
2. Find the number of permutations of letters of the word CHALLENGE.
[90720]
3. Find all x between 0 degrees and 90 degrees such that

2 sin2 x +cos x=sin x +sin 2 x .

[30, 45]
4. Three vertices of a parallelogram are (0, 0), (4, 0), and (1, 3). Find the coordinates of the
fourth vertex so that the resulting parallelogram has the largest possible perimeter.
[(3, -3)]
5. If

x+ y=4
[(2, 2, 3)]

and

xy +6 z=z 2+13 , find the values of x, y, and z.