2004 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge

Mathematics 2

Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: __________

School: ________________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours
Solve each item on scratch paper and write the answer on the blank.
5 5 𝑥
______________1. If x > 5, which is the largest? a. b. c.
𝑥 𝑥−1 5

______________2. Simplify: 9x – ( 2y – 3x ) – { y – ( 2y – x ) } – { 2y + ( 4x -3y ) }

3𝑥−2𝑦 2𝑥−𝑦
______________3. Perform the indicated operations: + .
5𝑥−3 3−5𝑥

______________4. Expand (2x – 3y)2.

______________5. The coordinate of A is -7 and that of B is 21. If M is the midpoint of AB,
how long is AM?
______________6. A, B, and C are collinear with B between A and C. If the coordinate of B
is -2, that of C is 6 and AB = 2BC, what is the coordinate of A?
______________7. Factor completely: 81x4 – 16y8.
2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥−14 2𝑥 2 − 𝑥−10
______________8. Simplify: 𝑥 .
2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥−5 2𝑥 2 − 5𝑥−7

______________9. Find two numbers with a product of 60 and a sum of 19.

______________10. Expand: (3x2 – 2y2)3.
2
______________11. Find the value of 273 .
______________12. Find the value of (2-1 + 3-1)2.
______________13. Write (3x-6)(9x2) in simplest form.
______________14. A square has a perimeter of (12x + 28) cm. Find its area.
______________15. Express the product of two consecutive odd integers as a polynomial.
______________16. If the coordinates of the midpoint of the segment joining A(-3, 1) and
B(x, y) are M(2, 4), find B(x, y).
______________17. Find the least common multiple of: (2x2 + x – 6) and (2x2 – 5x + 3).
[Give answer in factored form].
______________18. Find the solution (x, y) in 5x – 4y = 19 and 7x + 3y = 18.
______________19. What is the remainder when 2x3 – 5x + 10 is divided by x – 2?
______________20. For what real values of x is -4 < 3x – 2 < 14
𝑎𝑡 2
______________21. If s = vt - , solve for a in terms of s, v and t.
2
2 3
______________22. Solve for x: = .
𝑥+1 2𝑥−2
4 1 2 3
______________23. Solve for x and y − = 17 𝑎𝑛𝑑 + = 19.
𝑥 𝑦 𝑥 𝑦

______________24. What kind of system is x + y = 3 and 2x = 6 – 3y?

______________25. Three times a number decreased by 15 is at least 23 and at most 56.
What is the biggest integral value that the number can have?
______________26. If n is an integer, find the solution set of -5 < 2n – 1< 5.
5𝑛+2 3
______________27. For what value of n will reduce to .
7𝑛+1 4

______________28. Solve for x: 3x2 + 13x – 10 = 0.

______________29. Find the positive roots of 2x2 – 5x – 8 = 0.
3
______________30. Find an equation with integral coefficients such that the roots are
2
2
and .
5
4𝑥 2 − 9𝑦 2
______________31. Simplify: .
10𝑥 3 + 15𝑥 2 𝑦

𝑎2 − 9𝑦 2 𝑥2 − 𝑦2
______________32. Multiply and simplify: × .
3𝑥−3𝑦 𝑎2 − 6𝑎+9
𝑎𝑏+𝑎𝑐 𝑏 𝑏
______________33. Perform the indicated operations: × ÷ .
𝑎𝑏−𝑎𝑐 𝑏+𝑐 𝑏−𝑐

______________34. Factor completely: xy3 + 2y2 – xy – 2.

______________35. If a – 2 is one factor of a3 – 8, what is the other?
______________36. If 28(32) is written as the difference of two squares, a2 – b2, what is a2?
______________37. If y varies directly as x and y =2 when x = 3, what is the equation of
variation?
______________38. If y varies jointly as x2 and y, and z = 24 when x = 2 and y = 3, find
z when x = 4 and y = 2.
1
______________39. If y varies inversely as x and y = 12 when x = 6, find x if y = .
2

______________40. Simplify: √18 - √8 + √50.

______________41. Multiply and simplify: (2√5 + 3√2)(2√5 − 3√2).
3√7+2√2
______________42. Rationalize the denominator: .
2√7− 3√2

______________43. Solve for x: √11 − 𝑥 − √𝑥 + 6 = −3.

3
______________44. Divide: √𝑎𝑏2 𝑏𝑦 √𝑎2 𝑏.
______________45. If the roots of 2x2 + 7x – 5 = 0 are r and s, find an equation with
integral coefficients whose roots are equal to 3r and 3s.
______________46. The sum of the numerator and denominator of a certain fraction
9
is 104. The value of the fraction reduces to . Find the fraction.
17

______________47. Twenty four men are engaged to do a piece of work in 38 days. After
ten days, 8 men stop work. In how many days can the rest finish the
work?
______________48. For what value of k will the roots of x2 + 5x + k = 0 be real?
______________49. If 2x – y 1 and 4y = 8x + c, for what value(s) of c will the system
be dependent?
______________50. If z varies directly as the square of x and inversely as y, what is
the effect on z of doubling x and tripling y ?
 2005 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2

Name: ____________________________________________________________ Score: __________

School: ____________________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Solve each item on scratch paper and write the answer on the blank.

_____________1. Solve for x: 4(3x – 5) + 3 = 3(3x – 2).

_____________2. For what values of x is 9 – 3(x – 2) < 2(x – 5)?
_____________3. A shirt marked ₱220 was sold for ₱187. What was the percent of discount?
_____________4. Express y – (x2 – 5x) + x(x – 9) = 3 in the form y = mx + b.
_____________5. For what value of b will 3x – 4y = 5 and 12y + bx = 2 inconsistent?
_____________6. If 2y – 4x < 5 and x = 2, what is y?
______________7. If y > x, which of the points A(3, 2), B(-5, 0) and C(0, -2) is in the solution set?
_____________8. Simplify: 4(2x – 5y + 7) – 2{2x – [3y – x] + 7y.
_____________9. Solve for x and y: 2x + 3y = 6 and 3x – 10y = 15.
_____________10. A man is 25 years older than his son. If the sum of their ages is at most 59,
write an inequality relating their ages.
_____________11. In # 10, what is the maximum possible age of the son?
______________12. The ratio of two numbers is 3:5. If 5 is added to both, the resulting ratio is 2:3.
Find the larger of the two numbers.
_____________13. Multiply: (2x – 3y)(4x2 + 6xy + 9y2).
_____________14. Factor: 3y2 – xy – 4x2.
_____________15. Factor completely: 16x4 – 81y8.
_____________16. For what value of k is 4x2 – 12x + k a perfect square?
_____________17. What are the roots of 3x2 – 5x – 2 = 0?
_____________18. A car travels 20 km/h faster than a truck. The car covers 360 km in 3 hours
less time than the truck. Find the speed of the truck.
_____________19. What is the discriminant of 2x2 – 5x – 7 = 0?
_____________20. What is the product of the roots of 2x2 – 9x + 5 = 0?
1
______________21. Find an equation with integral coefficients whose roots are 2 and -3.
2(𝑥−3)+4𝑥−9
______________22. Simplify: .
5−2𝑥

_____________23. What is the least common multiple of 3x2 – 8x – 3 and 3x2 – 5x – 2?

(Give the answer in factors)
2𝑥 2 −𝑥−3 𝑥 2 −2𝑥+1
______________24. Multiply by 3𝑥 2 −𝑥−2.
𝑥 2 −1

______________25. If y varies directly as x and y = 30 when x = 8, find the equation of variation.

𝑥 2 −𝑦 2 𝑥+𝑦
______________26. Divide ÷ .
𝑥+2𝑦 2𝑥+4𝑦
7𝑥−5
______________27. What value of x is/are not permissible in ?
𝑥 2 +8𝑥+15
2𝑎2 +5𝑏2 𝑎−2𝑏 𝑎−2𝑏
______________28. Perform the indicated operations: 𝑎2 +𝑎𝑏−2𝑏2 + − .
𝑎+2𝑏 𝑎−𝑏
______________29. It takes 16 hours for 2 men to resurface a gym floor. At the same rate, how

long would it take 8 people?

______________30. Find the value of (2-2 + 3-2)-2.

______________31. Write 3.506 x 10-5 in standard decimal notation.

_____________32. Divide (4a2)-3 (5b-2)2 by (3a-3)2 and give the answer with positive exponents.

256(103) −1
______________33. Use properties of exponents to evaluate: [ ] .
25(29 )

3 125
______________34. Simplify: √343.

______________35. Simplify: 4√18 - 6√50 + 3√72.

2
5√2+ √3
______________36. Multiply: [ ] .
2

3
______________37. Multiply: √8𝑥 (√4𝑥 2 )

2
______________38. Rationalize the denominator and simplify: 2√3 .
+ √5

______________39. Solve for x: √2𝑥 − 4 = 𝑥 − 2.

______________40. Find the negative root of 2x2 – 5x – 5 = 0.

______________41. W varies jointly as x and y and inversely as z. If W = 112 when x = 4 and

y = 8 and z = 0.2, find w when x = 8, y = 10 and z = 4.

______________42. What is the 6th term of the sequence (-1)n2n?

______________43. If 5 arithmetic means are inserted between 7 and 25, what is the middle

mean to be inserted?

______________44. Find the sum of the integers between 2 and 100 which are divisible by 3.

3 2
______________45. Find the sum of the infinite geometric series with a1 = 2, r = − 3.

______________46. Find the area of the region bounded by the two axes and the line y = 7 – 2x.

1 1 1 1
______________47. Simplify: 𝑥+2 − divided by − .
𝑥+3 𝑥+3 𝑥+4

1
______________48. Solve for x: x – 4𝑥 2 + 3 = 0.

______________49. A rectangular garden is to be fenced along three sides with 70 meters of

fencing material. Find the dimensions of the garden if the area is to

be 600 m2.

______________50. A man drove 220 km in 3 ½ hours. Part of the trip was at 60 km/h and the

rest at 65 km/h. Find the time spent at the slower rate.

 2006 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2

Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________

School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Solve each item and write the answer on the blank before the number. Write equations as
ax + by + c = 0.

___________1. Write in symbols: “ 5 more than twice the sum of thrice a and twice b.”
3𝑥 2 𝑦
____________2. If x = -3, y = 2 and z = -3/5, evaluate .
𝑧2

___________3. What must be added to 4x3 – 3x2 + 6 to obtain 5x3 + 5x2 + 6x – 10?
___________4. Simplify: 2x – {2x – [2(x –y) – y] – 3x}
2 3
____________5. Solve for x: 𝑥+1 = 2𝑥−1.

___________6. Divide 2x3 – 7x2y + 10xy2 – 8y3 by x – 2y.

___________7. Solve for x and y: 4x + 2y = 5 and 5x – 3y = -2.
3𝑥 𝑦 1 5𝑥 1 2
____________8. Solve for x and y: + = and + = 3.
5 2 10 3 𝑦

____________9. Use parenthesis to express the product of 3 consecutive odd numbers if

the largest is (2n + 1).
𝑎𝑡 2
_____________10. If s = vt - , solve for a in terms of s, v, and t.
2

_____________11. If y = 3x – 7 and {x: -3 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 7} find the range of y.

____________12. What is the slope of the line 3x – 5y = 7?
____________13. Write an equation of the line with slope equal to -2/3 and passing through
(-3, 5).
_____________14. What value of b will make 2x – 3y = 5 and 9y + bx = 4 parallel?
_____________15. The coordinate of A is -7 and that of B is 21. If M is the midpoint of AB,
how long is AM?
_____________16. X is a point between A(-5, -2) and B(5, 13) such that AX:XB = 2:3.
Find the coordinates of X.
_____________17. If m men can do a job in d days, how long will it take (m + r) men?
_____________18. For what value of m is 4x2 – 6x + m divisible by x – 3?
_____________19. If n is an integer, find the solution set of -5 < 2n – 1 < 5.
_____________20. Write 345,800,000 in scientific notation.
_____________21. Write 3.05 x 10-5 in decimal notation.
_____________22. Find the value of 402(398).
3√2
______________23. Rationalize the denominator: .
√3−√2

______________24. For what values of x will √3𝑥 − 7 be a real number?

______________25. Expand and simplify: (2√3 − √5)2.
_____________26. Multiply: (3x – 2)(4x + 7).
_______________27. Simplify: 3√3 (√75 - 2√12 + √48).
______________28. Factor completely: 2x3 – 28x2 + 98x.
______________29. Factor completely: 4x2 + 9y2 – 16z4 – 12xy.
3 3
_______________30. Multiply and simplify: (√2𝑎2 𝑏)( √𝑎𝑏)(√4𝑎2 𝑏 2 ).
______________31. What are the roots of 6x2 – 7x – 20?
______________32. Solve for the positive root of 2x2 – 3x – 7 = 0.
_______________33. Solve for x: √𝑥 2 + 5𝑥 = x + 2.
_______________34. Find the square of 5 - √𝑦 − 25.
𝑥−4 4𝑥+8
_______________35. Multiply 2𝑥+4 x 𝑥 2 −16.
2 𝑥+3 2𝑥+1
_______________36. Add: 𝑥+2 + + .
𝑥 2 −4 𝑥−2
𝑦 2 −2𝑦−15 12−4𝑦
_______________37. Divide: ÷ .
𝑦 2 −9 𝑦 2 −6𝑦+9
2 2 4 2 2 4
_______________38. Multiply: (𝑏 3 + 𝑐 3 ) (𝑏 3 − 𝑏 3 𝑐 3 + 𝑐 3 ).
3
_______________39. Simplify: (9𝑦 −6 )− 2 .
______________40. If y varies inversely as x, and the point (3, 2) is on its graph, what is the
equation of the variation?
______________41. If z varies jointly as x2 and y and z = 24 when x = 2 and y = 3, find z when
x = 3 and y = 5.
______________42. Find a quadratic equation with integral coefficients whose roots are the
squares of the roots of 2x2 – 3x – 5 = 0.
______________43. If a1 = 2, a2 = 3 and an = (an-2)2 + an-1, find a5.
_______________44. If 5 arithmetic means are inserted between 7 and 70, what is the third mean
to be inserted.
_______________45. Six years ago, Mark was four times as old as Flor. In 4 years, he will be
twice as old as Flor. How old is Mark now?
________________46. A man accepts a position at ₱ 9,000.00 a month with the understanding that
he will receive an increase of 10% a year computed on the previous year’s
salary. Form an equation that will compute how much he will receive
a month after 10 years of service?
_______________47. The difference between a positive number and its reciprocal is 7/12.
Find the number.
_______________48. Find the sum of all multiples of 9 between 100 and 300.
_______________49. What is the nth term of 50, 46, 42, 38, 34, ….
________________50. A number of 2 digits is equal to 6 times the sum of the digits. The number
formed by reversing the digits exceeds 4 times the sum of the digits by 9.
Find the number.
 2009 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2

Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________

School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Solve each item and write the answer on the blank before the number.
____________________ 1. What is a sentence like x – 3 > 5 called?
____________________ 2. What is the set of values that will make a sentence like x – 3 >
called?
____________________ 3. What is the domain of the function y = x + 3?
𝑥−3
____________________ 4. What is the domain of y = 𝑥 2 −4 ?
____________________ 5. What is the range of y = x2 + 2 on {2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 10}?
____________________ 6. In which quadrant(s) is the graph of y + 2x = 0?
____________________ 7. Represent the ‘product of twice x divided by 5 is at most 15’.
____________________ 8. If f(x) = 3x2 – 2x + 5, what is f(1)?
____________________ 9. What is the y-intercept of 3y + 2x – 6 = 0?
____________________ 10. What is the slope of the line through A(1, 2) and B(-2, 4)?
____________________ 11. Which of A(5, -3), B(-5, 2), C(5, 6) is collinear with (3, 4) and (1, 2)?
____________________ 12. Find the equation of the line with an x-intercept of 2 and passing
through (-2, -3).
____________________ 13. Find the point of intersection of the lines 2x – y + 1 = 0 and 3x – 4y
+ 6 = 0.
____________________ 14. Which of the following have graphs that are parallel? a) 2x – y + 5 =
0; b) 4x – 3y + 10 = 0; c) 6x – 3y – 8 = 0; d) 6x + 3y – 16 = 0.
____________________ 15. For what value of k will 3x – 5y – 10 = 0 and 6y – 10y + k = 0 be
dependent?
____________________ 16. What value of k will make 5x + 2y + 6 = 0 and 15x + ky – 10 = 0
parallel?
____________________ 17. Solve for x and y: x + y – 1 = 0; x – y – 3 = 0.
____________________ 18. Solve for x: 2x > x + 3.
____________________ 19. Simplify: (2x2y3)(x4y)2.
(3𝑎2 𝑏 2 )(4𝑎3 𝑏 5 )
____________________ 20. Simplify: 𝑎4 𝑏 2
(𝑥 2 +4𝑥+4)(2𝑥 2 −5𝑥−3)
____________________ 21. Simplify: .
(𝑥+2)(𝑥−3)
____________________ 22. Simplify and give the answer with positive exponents.
(3𝑥 2 +11𝑥−4)−1 (3𝑥 2 −10𝑥+3)
.
𝑥−3
____________________ 23. Write in scientific notation 312,000,000
____________________ 24. Write in standard form: 4.23 x 10-2.
2 1
____________________ 25. Simplify: ( √𝑥𝑦 2 )(𝑥 3 𝑦 2 ).
3

2𝑥+1 𝑥−7
____________________ 26. Solve for x : 3𝑥−2 = .
2𝑥−8
____________________ 27. Factor: 12xy – 15y + 28x – 35.
____________________ 28. Divide 2x3 + 3x2 – 1 by x + 1.
____________________ 29. Factor: 27a3 – 8
____________________ 30. What is the least common multiple of x2 + 2x – 3 and 2x2 + 5x – 3?
5𝑥−2𝑦 1
____________________ 31. Subtract: 4𝑥 2 +𝑥𝑦−3𝑦 2 − .
4𝑥−3𝑦
____________________ 32. What is the domain of y = √3𝑥 − 2?
____________________ 33. What is the range of y = √5𝑥 − 3?
____________________ 34. If 𝑎𝑛 = 2𝑛−1 , what is 𝑎7 ?
____________________ 35. How many terms are in the sequence 6, 8, 10, . . . 134?
____________________ 36. If x + 1, 2x + 2 and 5x + 2 form a geometric sequence, find x.
____________________ 37. What is the vertex of the quadratic function y = 2x2 – 6x + 3?
____________________ 38. A man 170 cm tall has a shadow of 60 cm at the same time that a
building cast a shadow of 22 m. How high is the building?
____________________ 39. Solving for x: √11 − 𝑥 − √𝑥 + 6 = 3.
____________________ 40. If z varies directly as x and inversely as y2 and z = 10 when x = 6
and y = 2, what is z when x = 10 and y = 4?
____________________ 41. A motorist drove 240 km. If he had gone 20 km/h faster, he could
have made his trip in one hour less time. How fast did he drive?
2√7+ √3
____________________ 42. Rationalize: 3√7−5√3.
____________________ 43. How many liters of a 80% acid solution must be added to 20 liters of
an acid of 30% solution to make a 50 liters of a 40% solution?
____________________ 44. Find an equation with integral coefficients whose roots are 3/4 and -
2/5.
____________________ 45. Nancy invested ₱100,000.00 in time deposits in a bank. Part of the
money was invested at 5% annual interest and the rest at 4%. If the
total annual interest was ₱4,600.00, how much was invested at 5%?
____________________ 46. There are 12 coins in a box. Some of the coins are ₱1 coins and the
others are ₱5 coins. If the total value of the coins in ₱28, how many ₱5
coins are there?
____________________ 47. If 4 is added to the numerator and denominator of a certain
fraction, the result reduces to 2/3. If 3 is subtracted from the numerator
and denominator, the result reduces to 5/11. Find the fraction.
____________________ 48. If y varies inversely as the square root of x and y = 6 when x = 4,
find x when y = 9.
____________________ 49. The perimeter and area of a rectangular garden are 22 m and 30 m2
respectively. Find the length and width of the garden.
____________________ 50. A wire of length 100 cm is cut into two parts and each part is bent
to form a square. If the sum of the areas of the two squares is 425, find
the length of a side of the bigger square.

*2009 pg. 2

2011 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge

Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours
Solve each item and write the answer in the blank before the number. Give equations in ax + by
+ c = 0.
____________________ 1. A __________ is the pairing between two elements of two sets
according to some rule.
____________________ 2. The set of all first elements of the ordered pairs is called __________
of a relation.
____________________ 3. A __________ is a relation in which no two distinct ordered pairs have
the same first elements.
____________________ 4. What is the range of the following set of ordered pairs: {(1, -2), (3, 0),
(5, 1), (7, 3)}?
𝑥+2
____________________ 5. The domain of the function f(x) is {0, -3, -6}. If 3−𝑥, what is the range?
____________________ 6. What is the slope of the line passing through the points (-3, 2) and (2,
-4)?
2+𝑥
____________________ 7. Solve for x: = 2𝑥 − 1.
3
____________________ 8. The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 24. What is the
biggest of the three numbers?
𝑥+2 10−2𝑥
____________________ 9. Find the value of x from the equation = .
2 3
____________________ 10. What is the equation of a line parallel to the y-axis and passing
through (-3, 2)?
____________________ 11. Write the equation of the line parallel to 2x – 3y + 10 = 0 and
passing through the point (1, 2).
____________________ 12. If x = -5, what is y in the equation 3x + 5y = 10?
____________________ 13. Two cars started from the same point travelling in opposite
direction. One travelled at half the speed of the other. After 5 hours
they were 600 km apart. What is the speed of the faster car?
____________________ 14. What is the value of k so that the line x + (3k – 2)y + 10 = 0 is
parallel to the line x + 5y + 2 = 0?.
____________________ 15. Solve the equations 2x + 3y + 2 = 0 and x + 4y + 6 = 0.
____________________ 16. Five years hence, a boy’s age will be four times the square of his age
nine years ago. How old is the boy?
____________________ 17. Gail sold 7 adult tickets and 3 student tickets for a school play and
collected ₱1025. Lyn sold 3 adult tickets and 7 student tickets and
collected ₱725. How much was an adult ticket cost?
____________________ 18. The length of a rectangle is 5 cm less than twice the width. If the
perimeter is greater than 36 cm but less than 50 cm, what is the
longest possible length of the rectangle?
____________________ 19. A man invested ₱ 100,000. Part of it is invested at 10% and the rest
at 8%. If the total income is ₱ 8,800, how much did he invest at 10%?
____________________ 20. The difference between two numbers is 5. Twice the smaller
number less 10 equals the larger. What is the larger number?
____________________ 21. The diameter of a certain molecule is 0.00052 mm. Write the
diameter in scientific notation.
1
____________________ 22. Evaluate 273 .
2
____________________ 23. Evaluate 643 .
____________________ 24. Evaluate (2-1 + 4-1)-1.
1 1 1
____________________ 25. What is the sum of 2 2, 3 4, and 2 5 ?
2− 𝑥 2
____________________ 26. What is the domain of f(x) = (𝑥−1)(2−3𝑥)?
____________________ 27. Expand: 3x2 (x2 – 2x + 1).
____________________ 28. What is the product of (a2 + b)(a – b)?
____________________ 29. Expand: (x + 2)(x2 – 4x – 1)
____________________ 30. Factor (9x2 – 6) in the real numbers.
____________________ 31. Factor completely: (2x – 4y)2 – (x + 2y)2.
𝑥+2
____________________ 32. Simplify: 2𝑥 2 +3𝑥−2
6
____________________ 33. Rationalize the denominator of .
√5− √3
2𝑥 4𝑥
____________________ 34. Add 𝑥+3 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 2 −9.
2 1
1− + 2
____________________ 35. Simplify: 𝑥 𝑥
1 .
𝑥−
𝑥

____________________ 36. How many litres of 40% acid solution must be added to 100 litres of
a 25% solution to obtain a 30% solution?
____________________ 37. Find the range of the function 2x2 + y – 4 = 0.
____________________ 38. Solve the equation: x2 + x – 6 = 0.
1 1
____________________ 39. The roots of a quadratic equation are 2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 3. What is the equation?
____________________ 40. The roots of a quadratic equation are 2 ± √2. What is the equation?
____________________ 41. The length of a rectangle is 4 less than twice the width. If the area
is 240 cm2, what is the length?
____________________ 42. Solve the inequality: x2 + x – 12 > 0.
____________________ 43. A spring elongates directly to the force it is subjected. If a 20 cm
long spring elongates 5 cm with a 10 kg load, how long will the spring
be if the load is 20 kg?
____________________ 44. The illumination a surface receives from a light source varies
inversely with the square of the distance. A table lamp is 3 ft from a
certain work area. How far is another work area of it receives only 1/3
as much illumination as the first work area?
1 1
____________________ 45. Given the arithmetic progression {2 , 2, 3 2 , … }, what is the 6th term?
____________________ 46. Insert two geometric means between 2 and 6.75.
1 1
____________________ 47. Find the sum of geometric series 1, 3 , 9 , . ..
____________________ 48. Solve the radical equation x + 1 = √2𝑥 + 5.
____________________ 49. Solve the radical equation √2𝑥 + 3 = 1 + √𝑥 + 1.
____________________ 50. A vendor bought watermelon at ₱150 each and pineapples at ₱35
each. If he bought 90 pieces of fruits and paid a total of ₱7750, how
many of pineapples did he buy?

*2011 pg. 2
2012 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Solve each item on a scratch paper and write the answer in the blank before the number. Give
equations in ax + by + c = 0.
____________________ 1. Factor x2 + 2x – 63
____________________ 2. Find the product of (3xy – 2)(3xy + 2)
____________________ 3. Find the product of (x – 2)(x2 + 2x + 4)
____________________ 4. Find the product of (2x + 1)(3x2 – 4x + 5)
____________________ 5. What is the discriminant of 2x2 + 3x – 5 = 0?
____________________ 6. What are the roots of 2x2 + 3x – 5 = 0?
____________________ 7. What is the sum of the roots of 4x2 – 9x + 8 = 0?
____________________ 8. What kind of roots do 3x2 – 8x + 6 = 0 have?
____________________ 9. For what value(s) of k will 2x2 + kx + 4 = 0 have real roots?
____________________ 10. For what value(s) of k will 2x2 – 10x + (k – 5) = 0 have two unequal
non-real roots?
____________________ 11. Find the bigger of two consecutive positive integers such that the
sum of their squares is 613.
____________________ 12. Solve for the roots of x4 – 13x2 + 36 = 0.
____________________ 13. Find an equation of the line that passes through the points (1, 6)
and (2, 4).
____________________ 14. Solve for x and y: 2x + 3y = 9 and 4x – 6y = 6.
𝑥 2 −2𝑥−15
____________________ 15. Simplify: 2𝑥 2 +20𝑥+42.
𝑎2 − 𝑏 2 𝑎−𝑏
____________________ 16. Divide: ÷ .
𝑎+𝑏 𝑎2
____________________ 17. Find the LCD of x2 + 7x + 12 and x2 + 5x + 6.
𝑥−3 𝑥+5
____________________ 18. Add: 𝑥 2 +7𝑥+12 + .
𝑥 2 +5𝑥+6
4𝑡−3 𝑡−8
____________________ 19. Subtract: 2𝑡 2 +𝑡−15 − .
2𝑡 2 +7𝑡+3
1 5
____________________ 20. Solve for x: 3𝑥+2 = 𝑥−2.
____________________ 21. The larger of two numbers is twice the smaller number. The sum of
their reciprocals is 1. Find the larger number.
____________________ 22. Kris can paint a room with a brush in 8 hours. Gay can paint it
with a roller in 2 hours. How long will it take the two to paint the room
together?
____________________ 23. Write an equation for the following relation using k as the constant
of variation. ‘The work W done on a body varies directly with the net
force F acting on it.
____________________ 24. Find the equation of variation: y varies directly as x and y = 0.6
when x = 0.4.
____________________ 25. s varies inversely as a. If s = 3 when a = 9, find s when a = 4.
____________________ 26. a varies jointly with b and the square of c. If a = 72 when b = 9 and
c = 2, find b when a = 36 and c = 3.
____________________ 27. If y varies inversely as x2 and y is decreased by 75%, what happens
to x?
____________________ 28. Simplify: (5a2b)(3a-3b4)
(𝑎2 + 𝑏−2 )
____________________ 29. Simplify: .
(𝑎−2 + 𝑏2 )
2
2−3
____________________ 30. Evaluate: (3−3 ) .
____________________ 31. Solve for x: 5x – 3 = 625
____________________ 32. Solve for x: 7x – 2 – 72 = 294
____________________ 33. Express in scientific notation: 58,000,000.
(0.05 𝑥 1600)
____________________ 34. Simplify: .
0.0004
____________________ 35. The speed of the light is approximately 300 000 000 m/sec. How
long will it take light to travel 90 000 000 000 m?
1
____________________ 36. Simplify: 6254 .
____________________ 37. Simplify: √−32𝑥 2 𝑦 4 .
3

√𝑎+ √𝑏
____________________ 38. Rationalize the denominator: .
√𝑎− √𝑏
____________________ 39. Multiply: (2√𝑥 + √𝑦)(2√𝑥 − √𝑦)
____________________ 40. Solve for x: 3(√𝑥 − 4) = √4𝑥 + 9.
____________________ 41. Three times the square root of 2 equals the square root of the sum
of a number and 10. Find the number.
____________________ 42. For what positive value of x is x + 2 the reciprocal of x – 2?
𝑛+2
____________________ 43. What is the 7th term of the sequence whose nth term is an = 𝑛+1?
____________________ 44. If 5 arithmetic terms are inserted between 5 and 23, what is the
third term to be inserted?
____________________ 45. The sum of the arithmetic series is 192 with a last term of 27 and a
common difference of 2. Find the number of terms.
____________________ 46. If the second term is 1/2 and the seventh term of a geometric
progression is 1/64, find the 10th term.
____________________ 47. A rubber ball rebounds 3/5 of the height from which it falls. If it is
initially dropped from a height of 30 ft., what total vertical distance
does it travel before coming to rest?
____________________ 48. How many integral powers of 2 are there between 2 and 2000?
____________________ 49. Pete has 120 m of fencing materials. What is the maximum area of
a rectangular garden that he can fence?
____________________ 50. Two routes between two towns differ by 24 kilometres. One
motorist travelled the longer route at 65 km/h and another motorist
travelled the shorter route at 52 km/h. If they made the trip in exactly
the same time, what is the length of the longer route?

*2012 pg. 2
2013 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Give all fractions in lowest terms and
all expressions in expanded form
____________________ 1. Simplify: (a – b)2(a + b)2 + 2a2b2
____________________ 2. The difference between the squares of two consecutive positive
integers is 2013. What is the larger integer?
____________________ 3. When written in decimal representation, how many digits does 4 11 x
520 have?
𝑎2 +𝑎𝑏 𝑎2 −𝑎𝑏
____________________ 4. Simplify (a2 – b2) ÷ ÷ 𝑏2 −𝑎𝑏.
𝑏 2 +𝑎𝑏
____________________ 5. Solve for x in the equation x(3x + 2) = 8.
1
125𝑥 4 𝑦 3 3
____________________ 6. Simplify: (27𝑥 −2 𝑦 6 ) .
____________________ 7. Solve for x in the equation x4 – 5x2 + 4 = 0.
2 1 1
____________________ 8. Simplify: 𝑥 2 −1 + − .
𝑥+1 𝑥−1
____________________ 9. The roots of the quadratic equation x2 – 7x + c differ by 1. Find c.
𝑥+8 4
____________________ 10. What should be added to 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 ?
𝑥 3 −4𝑥 𝑥 2 −2𝑥
____________________ 11. If a cube has a volume of 54cm3, what is the total surface area?
1
𝑥2−
____________________ 12. Simplify: 𝑥
1 .
𝑥+1+
𝑥
3
____________________ 13. Solve for x in the equation √4 √𝑥 = 2.
4

1
____________________ 14. Find the value of the expression (𝑥 2 + 10𝑥 + 25)2 – (𝑥 2 − 10𝑥 +
1
25)2 when x = -2.
____________________ 15. Solve for x in the equation 3 + √𝑥 = √3𝑥 − 11.
____________________ 16. The sequence {an} is defined by a1 = 3 and an + 1 = (-1)nan + 7 for n ≥
1. What is a5?
4(52𝑛+1 )−10(52𝑛−1 )
____________________ 17. Simplify: .
2(52𝑛 )

____________________ 18. In the arithmetic sequence 10 + 10√3, 11 + 9√3, 12 + 8√3, . . .,

what term has no √3?
____________________ 19. If x + y = 12 and xy = 50, what is x2 + y2?
____________________ 20. Factor a2 + b2 + 2ab + ac + bc.
____________________ 21. What is the sum of the first ten terms of the geometric sequence 4,
8, 16, ….?
____________________ 22. If the product of two consecutive odd integers is 783, what is the
sum of their squares?
1 1 1 1 1
____________________ 23. Simplify (1 - 2) (1 - 3)(1 - 4)(1 - 5) . . . . (1 - 2013).
____________________ 24. For what value(s) of k does the equation (k – 1)x2 + (k – 1)x + 4 = 0
have equal roots.
____________________ 25. One number is 54 more than the other. If twice the larger number
is divided by the smaller number, the quotient is 6 and the remainder
is 16, what is the sum of the numbers?
5 3 5𝑦𝑧−4𝑥𝑧+3𝑥𝑦
____________________ 26. What should be subtracted from 𝑥 + to get ?
𝑧 𝑥𝑦𝑧
____________________ 27. If 3x + 1 = 4, what is 32x – 1?
____________________ 28. A storage battery discharges at a rate which is proportional to the
storage. If the charge is reduced by 25% of its original value at the end
of 3 days, how long will it take to reduce the charge to 10% of its
original charge?
____________________ 29. If r and s are the roots of the equation 2x2 – 3x + 4 = 0, what is 4r2
+ 7rs + 4s2?
____________________ 30. The value C varies directly with x and the square of y inversely
with the cube of z. If each of x, y and z are to be increased by 50%,
what would be the effect on the value of C?
____________________ 31. The sum of the reciprocals of the roots of the equation 3x2 + 7x + k
is -7/3, what is k?
____________________ 32. A long wire is cut into three smaller pieces in the ratio 7:3:2. If the
shortest piece is 16 cm, what is the area of the largest rectangle that
can be created using the longest piece?
____________________ 33. Find the value of x in the equation 2013 2013 – 20132012 =
2012•2013x.
____________________ 34. Find the largest integer n such that 1 + 2 + 3 + …. + n < 500.

____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
2
35. A boat takes as much time to travel downstream as to return. If
3
the rate of the river’s current is 8 kph, what is the rate of the boat in
still water?
36. If 8.073 = 525.557943, what is 0.8073
37. Find the value(s) of x so that x, 2x + 7 and 10x – 7 will form a
geometric sequence.
38. If 1010 + 1010 + ….. + 1010 = 10x, what is x?
10 terms

____________________ 39. In ∆ABC , let D be a point on side BC such that AB = AC = BD. If

____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
BAD = 790, what is BAC?
40. Let {an} be an arithmetic sequence. If a4 = 27 and a9 = 67, what is
a1?
4
41. What is the fourth root of 44 ?
42. The operation is defined by a b = a2 – b2. What is (2013
2013)
(2012 2011?
43. Triangle ABC is isosceles with AB = AC. Let D be the foot of the
altitude from A on BC, and let E be the point on side AC such that DE
bisects ADC. If DEC = 670, what is BAC?
44. Let a1, a2, a3, . . . be a non-constant arithmetic sequence. If a1, a4,
and a8 form a geometric sequence, what is the common ratio of this
geometric sequence?
45. What is the greatest integer less than or equal to (2 + √3)2?
46. If x + y = 3 and x2 + y2 = 6, what is x3 + y3 + x2y + xy2 – 2x – 2y?
1
47. If x2 – 3x + 1 = 0, find the value of x3 + 𝑥 3 .
1 1 1 1
48. Simplify: 1+ + + + ...+ .
√2 √2+√3 √3+√4 √8+√9
5+𝑥 𝑥−1 3
49. Solve for x: √𝑥−1 = √5+𝑥 + 2.
2𝑥 2 −4𝑥+8
50. If x = 1 + √3, find the value of 3𝑥 2 −6𝑥+10.

*2013 pg. 2
2014 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Give all fractions in lowest terms, all
expressions in expanded form, and leave answers in terms of 𝜋 if appropriate.
____________________ 1. Simplify: 1 – 2 + 3 – 4 + … + 49 – 50 + 49 – 48 + 47 – 46 + . . . + 1.
1 1
____________________ 2. Simplify: (2 − 1) - (3 − 1).
____________________ 3. In the proportion x : 12 = 18 : x2, what is x?
3
____________________ 4. Between what two consecutive integers does √− 100 lie?
____________________ 5. What is the area of a rectangle whose sides are twice as long as the sides of a
smaller rectangle whose area is 17 cm2?
1 1
____________________ 6. What is the median of the following numbers: -3.1, -33, 3.1, 32, - 𝜋, and 3.25?
____________________ 7. Let U = {1, 2, 3, . . . , 12} be the universal set, and A = {10, 11, 12}, B={1, 3, 5, 7,
9, 11}, and C = {4, 5, . . . , 11}. What is A ∩ 𝐵 ∩ 𝐶?
____________________ 8. With the same sets given in Item 7, what is Ac ∩ Bc?
____________________ 9. With the same sets, given in Item 7, how many elements does (A∪Bc) ∩ Cc?
____________________ 10. With the same sets given in Item 7, how many elements does (A x B) x C have?
____________________ 11. If x = 2 and y = -3, find the value of xy2 + x2y.
____________________ 12. Simplify: (x+1)(2x-3) – x(4 – x).
____________________ 13. Perform the indicated operations: (2x + 1)(2x4 – x3 + 8x – 8) ÷ (2x2 – 3x – 2).
____________________ 14. Simplify: (x + 2)(2x – 1) + 2x(2 – x) – 2(4x + 1).
____________________ 15. Twelve less than three times a number is 3x, what is the number?
____________________ 16. Simplify: 20142 – 20132.
____________________ 17. The legs of a right triangle are (3x – 2)cm and 2xcm long. If x = 3, how long is
the hypotenuse?
____________________ 18. The sum of two numbers is 6x + 9y. If one number is twice the other, what is
their product?
____________________ 19. Chris walked x km at a constant rate of y m/hr. How many minutes did he
walk?
____________________ 20. If the length of a rectangle is (2x + 4) cm and its area is (2x2 – 8)cm2, how
much longer is its length than its width?
____________________ 21. Solve for x in the equation (2x – 1) + 2(2x – 1) + 3(2x – 1) + 4(2x – 1) + 5(2x – 1)
= 75.
____________________ 22. What is the largest integral value of x if ‘=’ in item 21 is replaced by ‘<’?
____________________ 23. Solve for x in the equation |3 − 2𝑥| = 3.
____________________ 24. Solve for x in the inequality |3 − 2𝑥| > 2.
____________________ 25. In 2005, Cora was three times as old as her son Jason. Four years back then,
she was four times as old as Jason. In what year was Jason born?
____________________ 26. If the sum of two consecutive angles of a regular polygon is 3120, how many
sides does it have?
____________________ 27. The area of a trapezoid is 52cm2. If its bases are 8cm apart, find the sum of
their lengths.
____________________ 28. The base angles of an isosceles triangles are (50 – x)0 and (30x – 12)0. What is
the vertex angle?
____________________ 29. What is the area of the circle inscribed inside an equilateral triangle whose
area is 4√3 cm2?
____________________ 30. Factor x2 + x3 – y2 – xy2.
(𝑥−1)(𝑥+2)(2𝑥+3)+𝑥+6
____________________ 31. Simplify the expression 𝑥2
.
____________________ 32. If 5x + 2y = 4 and -4 < x ≤ 4, find the range of values of y.
____________________ 33. Solve the system: 2x + y = 1 and 2y = x + 7.
____________________ 34. The sum of two numbers is 88. If one number is divided by the other, the
quotient and the remainder are 5 and 10 respectively. What is the product of
the numbers?
____________________ 35. Marlu starts walking along a road at 3 km/hr. Two hours later, from where
Marlu started, Lulu starts in the same direction at 4.5 km/hr. How far from
the starting point will Lulu overtake Marlu?
____________________ 36. Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from both its numerator and
1
denominator, it is equivalent to 4, but if 4 is added to both of them, it is
1
equivalent to 2.
____________________ 37. In how many ways can ₱500 be made up of both ₱5 coins and ₱20 bills?
____________________ 38. What is the area of the region of solutions of the system: x + y ≤ 1, y + 2 ≥
2𝑥, and x ≥ 0?
1
____________________ 39. Let f be a linear function such that f(2) = 17 and f(− 3) = 3. What is f(1)?
____________________ 40. Solve for x in the equation |1 − 𝑥| = 2𝑥 − 3.
____________________ 41. What is the largest number of acute angles that a convex hexagon can have?
____________________ 42. For how many three-element sets of positive integers is it true that their
product is 2013?
____________________ 43. Solve for x in the inequality 2 < |3 − 2𝑥| ≤3.
(2012)(2014)(4029)+2019
____________________ 44. Simplify: 20132
.
____________________ 45. The sum of the lengths of all edges of a rectangular box is 140 dm, and the
distance from one corner of the box to the farthest corner is 21 cm. What is
the total surface area of the box?
 1
____________________ 46. If 2x2 + 2 = 7x, what is x2 + 𝑥 2?
____________________ 47. The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 11cm, 15cm, and kcm, where k is an
integer. For how many values of k is the triangle acute?
𝑥 3 +6𝑥 2 +13𝑥+10
____________________ 48. If x = √5 − 2, find the value of 𝑥 3 +6𝑥 2 +9𝑥+2
.
____________________ 49. A list of five positive integers has mean 12 and range 18. The mode and
median are both 8. How many different values are possible for the second
largest element of the list?
____________________ 50. Albert Einstein was born on 14March 1879. Which day of the week was he
born?

*2014 pg. 2
2015 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Give all fractions in lowest terms, all
expressions in expanded form, and all equations of lines in the form y = mx + b.
3 1
____________________ 1. Find the average of the numbers -1, 2, and 2.
2 1
____________________ 2. How much larger is than ?
3 6
____________________ 3. If one ream contains 500 sheets of paper and a sheet of paper is 0.3 mm thick,
how thick is one ream in meters.
3
____________________ 4. What is the second largest numbers among the numbers √2, , √3, 1.4, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 1.6?
2
____________________ 5. If an inch is about 2.54 cm, what is 1 cm to the nearest hundredth of an inch?
____________________ 6. If U = {1, a, 2, b, 3, c, 4, d} and A = {1, 2, c, d}, what is Ac?
____________________ 7. Using the same sets in Item 6 and B = {1, 2, 3, 4}, how many subsets does A ∩
Bc?
____________________ 8. If |𝑃| = 10, |𝑄| = 12, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 |𝑃 ∪ 𝑄| = 15, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 |𝑃 ∩ 𝑄|?
____________________ 9. If |𝑀 ∩ 𝑁| = 24 𝑎𝑛𝑑 |𝑀 ∪ 𝑁| = 26, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 |𝑀| + |𝑁|?
____________________ 10. There were 59 participants during the recent math camp. Among them, 37
liked doing projects, 30 liked solving problems, and 13 liked both. How many of
the participants did not like at least one of these activities
____________________ 11. If x = 4 and y = -3, what is x2y + xy2?
____________________ 12. Simplify: x(1 + y) – 2y(x – 2) + xy.
𝑎𝑏√𝑎𝑏
____________________ 13. If a and b are positive constants, simplify 3 4 .
√𝑎 4 √𝑏3
____________________ 14. What is the quotient when 6x4 + x3 + 4x2 + x + 2 is divided by 3x2 – x + 1?
____________________ 15. In item 14, what is the remainder?
____________________ 16. If A + B = x – 2y, what is A2 + 2AB + B2 + 4xy?
____________________ 17. If x + y = 7 and xy = 5, what is x3 + y3?
____________________ 18. If the length, width, and height of an open-top rectangular box are (x + 3) cm,
x cm, and (x – 3) cm, what is its surface area?
____________________ 19. A man walked x km for 2.5 hrs, then jogged (2x + 3) km for 3.5 hrs, and finally
walked again (5x – 3) km for 4 hrs. If his average speed for the entire exercise was
4 kph, what is x?
____________________ 20. Simplify: (a – 3)(a + 3)(a2 + 3a + 9)(a2 – 3a + 9).
____________________ 21. When P(x) is divided by x2 + 2, the quotient and remainder are both x. What is
P(-1)?
____________________ 22. If two more than twice p is four less than twice q, express q in terms of p.
____________________ 23. If x is nonnegative and 3x – 4 ≤ x, what is the least value of x?
____________________ 24. In item 23, what is the maximum value?
____________________ 25. Solve for x in the equation x + 2(x + 1) + 3(x + 1) + . . . + 10(x + 1) = 110.
____________________ 26. Solve for x in the equation |2𝑥 − 3| = 5.
____________________ 27. If ∠B is the complement of ∠A, and the supplement of ∠A = 1380, what is ∠B -
∠A?
____________________ 28. If the diagonals of a rectangle ABCD meet at E and ∠AEB = 1400, what is
∠EBC?
____________________ 29. If two exterior angles of a triangle measures 800 and 1300, what is its smallest
interior angle?
____________________ 30. In a grouped data, if 100 – 200 forms one class, what is the class interval of
the data?
____________________ 31. Factor completely: a2c2 + b2d2 – a2d2 – b2c2.
𝑥 3 −4𝑥
____________________ 32. Simplify: .
𝑥 3 − 𝑥 2 −6𝑥
1 1 1
____________________ 33. Perform the indicated operations: 𝑥 − 𝑥+1 − 𝑥−1.
2𝑥 2 −2𝑥−4 𝑥 2 −𝑥−6 4𝑥+8
____________________ 34. Perform the indicated operations: ∙
𝑥 2 −5𝑥+6 𝑥 2 +4𝑥+3
÷ 3𝑥+9.
1
____________________ 35. Simplify: 1 - 𝑥 .
1−
1−𝑥
1 𝑥−1
____________________ 36. Solve for x in the equation x + 𝑥−2 = 𝑥−2.
____________________ 37. The points (0, 0), (2, 3), and (4, 0) form a triangle. What is its perimeter?
____________________ 38. Find the equation of the perpendicular bisector of the segment joining the
points (-3, 2) and (5, 2).
____________________ 39. A man agrees to invest part of his 1-million peso inheritance at an annual
interest rate of 5%, while the rest at 6% interest. If at the end of the year, he
needs a total interest of ₱56,200.00, how much should he invest at 5%?
____________________ 40. If 2x + 5y = 10 and x = 3y + 1, what is 11x + 11y?
____________________ 41. If f(2x) = 2 – 3x, what is f(10)?
____________________ 42. What is the equation of the line that is parallel to 2x + 5y + 6 = 0 and passes
through (1, 1)?
____________________ 43. What is the domain of the function f(x) = √𝑥 − 1 − 2?
____________________ 44. Find the range of the function in item 43.
____________________ 45. If ∆ABC ≅ ∆DEF, AB = 2x – 2 cm, and DE = 5y + 3 cm, what is x when y = 10?
____________________ 46. Let ABC be an isosceles right triangle with AC as its hypotenuse, and let D
and E be midpoints on AB and AC, respectively such that DE∥BC. If AB = BC = x
and DE = y, what is the area of the trapezoid DECB in terms of x and y?
____________________ 47. If |𝑥| + 𝑥 + 𝑦 = 8 and x + |𝑦| − 𝑦 = 14, what is x + y?
1−𝑎−𝑏
____________________ 48. If 90a = 2 and 90b = 5, what is 45 2−2𝑎 ?
____________________ 49. Let ABCD be a square. Three parallel lines l1, l2, and l3 pass through A, B, and
C, respectively. The distance between l1 and l2 is 4 cm, and the distance between l2
and l3 is 5 cm. Find the area of the square.
____________________ 50. At least how many numbers should be selected from the set {1, 5, 9, 13, . . . ,
125} to be assured that two of the numbers selected have a sum of 146?
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2016 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Give all fractions in lowest terms, and all
expressions in expanded form.
____________________ 1. Simplify (a – b)2(a + b)2 + 2a2b2.
1
125𝑥 4 𝑦 3 3
____________________ 2. Simplify ( −2 6 ) .
27𝑥 𝑦
____________________ 3. Solve for x in the equation x4 – 5x2 + 4 = 0.
____________________ 4. In the arithmetic sequence 10 + 10√3, 11 + 9√3, 12 + 8√3, …, what term
has no√3?
____________________ 5. If x + y = 12 and xy = 50, what is x2 + y2?
____________________ 6. What is the sum of the first ten terms of the geometric sequence 4, 8, 16,
…?
____________________ 7. If the product of two consecutive odd integers is 783, what is the sum of
their squares?
____________________ 8. If r and s are the roots of the equation 2x2 – 3x + 4 = 0, what is 4r2 + 7rs +
4s2?
____________________ 9. A long wire is cut into three smaller pieces in the ratio of 7:3:2. If the
shortest piece is 16cm, what is the area of the largest rectangle that can be
created using the longest piece?
2
____________________ 10. A boat takes 3
as much time to travel downstream as to its return. If the
rate of the river’s current is 8 kph, what is the rate of the boat in still water?
____________________ 11. How many prime numbers between 40 and 240 ends with 4?
____________________ 12. Simplify: x(1 – 6x) – (1 – 2x)(3x – 2).
____________________ 13. What is the last digit of 72016?
____________________ 14. If a = 3 and b = 7, what is 4a3b + 6a2b2 + 4ab3?
____________________ 15. What is the median of the numbers a + 1, a + 3, a – 2, a + 5 and a – 4?
____________________ 16. A rectangle is formed by putting two squares side by side. If each square
has perimeter 28 cm, what is the perimeter of the rectangle?
____________________ 17. Solve for x: 4(1 – 3x) – 2x(1 – 3x) + 5(1 – 3x) + 3x(1 – 3x) = 0.
____________________ 18. A jacket was worth ₱1,200. Hoping to gain more profit, the shop owner
increased its price by 10%, but was later forced to reduce it by 15% since there
were no takers. What was the final price of the jacket?
____________________ 19. Let {an} be an arithmetic sequence. If a4 = 27 and a9 = 67, what is a1?
____________________ 20. Triangle ABC is isosceles with AB = AC. Let D be the foot of the altitude
from A on BC, and let E be the point on side AC such that DE bisects ∠ADC.
If ∠DEC = 670, what is ∠BAC?
2
____________________ 21. What is the greatest integer less than or equal to (2 + √3) ?
____________________ 22. Each week, a pet owner buys m kilograms of bananas for its monkeys. If
each monkey eats n kilograms of bananas each day, how many monkeys does
the pet owner have? Express your answer in terms of m and n.
____________________ 23. If 8.073 = 525.557943, what is 0.8073?
____________________ 24. Solve for x: 3 < |1 + 2𝑥|.
1 1 1 1 1
____________________ 25. What is the value of 3 + 15 + 35 + 63 + 99?
____________________ 26. Liza ran 200 meters in only 45 seconds. What is Lisa’s speed in kilometres
per hour?
1
____________________ 27. Suppose f(x) is a linear function such that f(− 2) = -7 and f(1) = -3. What is
f(-3)?
____________________ 28. Ana has four cardboard squares, each of which has side of length 6 cm.
She declares to form a trapezoid by putting three squares side-by-side, cutting
one square along a diagonal, discarding one-half and putting the other half at
one end of the three squares, what is the area of the trapezoid?
____________________ 29. What is the perimeter of the trapezoid in #28?
____________________ 30. The number 9,979 is a four digit number the sum of whose digits is equal
to 34. How many such numbers exist?
____________________ 31. If 1010 + 1010 + . . . + 1010, what is x?
10 terms
7
____________________ 32. If the sum of the reciprocals of the roots of the equation 3x2 + 7x + k is − 3,
what is k?
2𝑥 2 −4𝑥+8
____________________ 33. If x = 1 + √3, find the value of 3𝑥 2 −6𝑥+10.
____________________ 34. The sum of the angles of a regular polygon is 21600. How many sides does
it have?
____________________ 35. An iron cube of side 16 cm is melted down and is used to make eight
smaller iron cubes of the same size. What is the length of the sides of the
smaller iron cubes?
____________________ 36. The sum of two numbers is 20. If one of the numbers is three times the
other, what is their product?
____________________ 37. Determine how many ordered pair (x, y) satisfy the system: x2 + y2 = 25; x
– y = 5.
____________________ 38. A 400 ml flask containing a 40% alcohol mixture and a 600 ml flask
containing a 60% alcohol mixture are put together in a single large flask. How
many percent alcohol is the resulting mixture?
____________________ 39. For what values of k will the equation y = k2 + kx + k cross the x-axis
twice?
____________________ 40. A certain farmer only raises chickens and pigs. Altogether, the animals
have 57 heads and 158 legs. How many chickens does he have?
____________________ 41. Solve for x: |𝑥 − 4| = |2𝑥 + 1|.
____________________ 42. The sum of 100 numbers is 34,287. The teacher writes all the numbers on
the board and proceeds as follows: he adds 1 to the first number, 2 to the
second, 3 to the third, and so on, and adds 100 to the last. What is the sum of
the new set of numbers?
6𝑎−2 9𝑎 2
____________________ 43. Express the answer in lowest terms: 9𝑎
∙ 24𝑎−8
.
____________________ 44. The sum of the roots of the quadratic function x2 – 4x + 3 is 4. If all the
coefficients of the quadratic are increased by 2, what is the sum of the roots of
the new function?
1 6
____________________ 45. What is the constant term in the expansion of (2𝑥 2 + 2𝑥) ?
____________________ 46. Suppose that a is positive number such that the roots of x2 – ax + 1 = 0
differ by 1. What is the value of 1?
____________________
____________________
____________________
____________________
47. Two positive integers are relatively prime if they have no common factor
other than 1. How many two digit numbers are relatively prime with 24?
48. A motorist travelled a distance of 180 km. If he had driven 30 km/h faster,
he could have travelled the same distance in 1 hour less time. How fast did he
drive?
49. Solve for x in the inequality: 5 < |1 − 2𝑥| ≤ 7.
50. Joe draws a line on the board and marks 5 points on that line. He then
marks two points on the board that lie on the same side of the line, obtaining
a total of seven points. How many different triangles can be drawn using the
seven points as vertices?

*2016 pg 2
2017 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Mathematics 2
Name: ______________________________________________________ Score: __________
School: ______________________________________________________ Time: 2 hours

Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Give all fractions in lowest terms and all
expressions in expanded form.
____________________ 1. What is the sum of the reciprocals of all the positive divisors of 8?
____________________ 2. Factor completely: 27x5y5 + 12x3y7.
____________________ 3. Expand and simplify: (x + y)2 – (x – y)2 + (x + y)(x – y)
____________________ 4. If 6x2 + kx – 8 = 2(3x + 1)(x – 4), what is the value of k?
𝑥 2𝑦2 4
____________________ 5. Factor completely: − .
16 25
____________________ 6. What is the area of a square whose perimeter is 8x – 36?
____________________ 7. Factor completely: 2x2 + 10x – 48.
____________________ 8. What is the product of three consecutive odd integers if the middle integer
is x? ____________________ 9. Factor completely: 12x3y3 + 8x2y4 + 32xy5.
3𝑥 −2 𝑦 −4
____________________ 10. Write the fraction in lowest terms and without negative exponents: .
(2𝑥)−3 𝑦
(0.006)(500000)
____________________ 11. Simplify using scientific notation: 1600(0.000003)
.
____________________ 12. Expand (2 – 0.5y)3.
1
1+ 1
1+
____________________ 13. Simplify: 1 .
𝑥
1+
𝑥+1
____________________ 14. The length, width, and height of a box are in the ratio 5:4:7. If the
perimeter of the base is 54cm, find the volume of the box.
____________________ 15. Solve for x: 3(73 – 2x) = √63.
____________________ 16. The difference between the squares of two consecutive positive multiples
of 5 is 1225. What is the sum of the two multiples of 5?
____________________ 17. The ratio of an angle to its complement is 5:13. Find the measure of its
complement.
____________________ 18. Solve for x: (0.25)2x – 1 = (0.125)2 – x.
____________________ 19. If f(x) = x(4 – x), for which values of x is f(x) equal to x?
____________________ 20. The midpoint of the segment joining the points A(-5, 8) and B(x, y) is P(3, -
1). What are the coordinates of B?
____________________ 21. Factor completely: 16x4 – y8.
____________________ 22. How many digits does (1000)2017 have been expanded?
____________________ 23. Give an equation in slope-intercept form of the line passing through the
origin and perpendicular to x + 2y = 5.
2𝑥 2 −1 2𝑥 2
____________________ 24. Perform the indicated operation and simplify: 2𝑥−1
− 1−2𝑥.
____________________ 25. If you want to determine the favourite subject of your class, which
measure of central tendency should you use?
2𝑥−3 4 8
____________________ 26. Perform the indicated operations and simplify: ∙ ÷ .
6𝑥 6𝑥−9 𝑥
____________________ 27. What is the difference between the mean and the median of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 15?
____________________ 28. The surface area of a cube is 50% more than its volume. Find the total
length of the edges of the cube.
____________________ 29. What is the slope of the line with y-intercept 6 and x-intercept -4?
____________________ 30. If the standard deviation of a set of 20 numbers is 0, what is its range?
____________________ 31. A date is randomly chosen from the month of February 2017. What is the
probability that the date chosen is a prime number greater than 10?
____________________ 32. Solve for x: (x – 3) + 2(x – 3) + 3(x – 3) + . . . + 200(x – 3) = 180900.
____________________ 33. Donna’s age is 1/5 her grandfather’s age. In 35 years, the grandfather will
be 100 years old. In how many years’ time will Donna be 1/3 as old as her grandfather?
____________________ 34. Find the greatest possible perimeter of an isosceles triangle with 10 cm
and 8 cm.
____________________ 35. If line l passes through the origin and the point P(-3, 8), what is the
equation of l in slope-intercept form?
____________________ 36. In ∆ACE, ∠A = 420 and ∠C = 880. Arrange the sides from the shortest to
the longest.
____________________ 37. If Liza is half as old as Paul and Paul will be x years old in five years,
what is Liza’s age 10 years ago?
____________________ 38. If two dice are rolled, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers
showing is 7 or 11?
____________________ 39. For what values of a and b will the system be inconsistent: 3x – 2y = a; bx
+ y = 4.
____________________ 40. Mark and Mary left home together and drove to their mother’s house
which was 84 km away. Mary drove at 60 kph and Mark drove 20 kph faster than Mary. After travelling
2/7 of the journey, Mark stopped and waited for Mary. How long did Mark wait?
____________________ 41. Solve for x and y: (12)3x + 2 = (18)2y – 1.
1
____________________ 42. James and John can finish a job together in 5 7. If James can finish the job
in 3 hours less time than John, how long will each one finish the job alone?
____________________ 43. The number of girls in a school is 160 more than 1/3 of the total enrolment
in the school. The number of boys is 280 more than 1/7 of the total enrolment in the school. How many
pupils in the school are girls?
____________________ 44. The graph of two linear functions f(x) = ax + b and g(x) = bx – a are
perpendicular. ____________________ 45. If the sum of two numbers is 7 and their
product is 8, what is the sum of their cubes?
____________________ 46. The mean of 6 numbers is 28 while the mean of another set of 10 numbers
is 36. What is the mean of all the numbers combined?
9𝑥 2 −36
____________________ 47. Find all integers x such that is an integer.
3𝑥 3 −6𝑥 2− 12𝑥+24
____________________ 48. In parallelogram ABCD, ∠A = (8x – 5)0 and ∠C = (61 – 3x)0. Find the
measures of ∠B and ∠D.
____________________ 49. In parallelogram ABCD, AB = 8, BC = 12, CD = 16 and DA = 21. Find the
range of possible lengths of diagonal AC.
1 1
____________________ 50. If a, b, and c are positive numbers such that a + b + c = 10 and 𝑎+𝑏
+ 𝑏+𝑐 +
1 4 𝑐 𝑎 𝑏
= , what is the value of + + ?
𝑐+𝑎 5 𝑎+𝑏 𝑏+𝑐 𝑐+𝑎

*2017 pg. 2