Math Quiz

January 12, 2015 Engineering Lobby

Easy Round
For 15 seconds

Question 1

What is the product of the

least common multiple and
the greatest common factor
of 20 and 90?

1800

Question 2

From point A, Jake walked

40m south, 60m west, 10m
north, and 20m east to point
B.
What is the length of AB?

50 meters

Question 3

Finn draws a regular polygon

that has interior angles of
144 degrees.
What is the polygons name?

Decagon

Question 4

The cards in a standard deck

are shuffled thoroughly. Two
different cards are then
drawn, and order matters.
How many ways can this be
done?

2652

Question 5

A number is selected at
random from 1 through 100,
inclusive.
What is the probability that
the number is a perfect
square?

Question 6

What is the product of the

coordinates of the midpoint
of a line segment with
endpoints at (1,4) and (-3,6)?

Question 7

When Ferb divided four

positive integers by 11, the
remainders he got are 2, 4,
6, and 8, respectively.
When the sum of the four
integers is divided by 11,
what is the remainder?

Question 8

How many lines can be

formed from 9 non-collinear
points?

36

Question 9

The sum of two numbers is

22. Their difference is 4.
What is the greater of the
two numbers?

13

Question 10

A patient takes a pill every 8

hours until the whole bottle
of 30 pills is gone.
How long was it between the
time the first pill was taken
and the time the last pill was
taken?

232 hrs

Average Round
for 30 seconds

Question 1
There are 20 cars in my buildings
parking lot. All of the cars are red or
white.
12 of them are red,
15 of them are 4-door,
and 4 of them are 2-door and white.
How many of the cars are 4-door
and red?

11

Question 2
The gravitational force that Earth exerts on
an object is inversely proportional to the
square of the distance between the center
of the Earth and the object. When Tim is on
the surface of Earth, 4000 mi from the
center, the gravitational force is 600
Newtons.
What is the gravitational force (in Newtons)
that the Earth exerts on him when hes
standing on the moon, 240000 mi from the
center of the earth?

Question 3
If the sum of
AP, CP, and BP
is

where m and n
are integers,
what is m + n?

Question 4

If
, find .

Question 5

If
, is written as an integer in
standard form, what is the
sum of the integers digits?

451

Question 6

If
the system of equations

,
,
has a solution ( x , y ) when
x = 2, find a.

Question 7

Find
the units digit of n
given that

and m has a units digit of 7.

Question 8

How many factors does 144

have?

15

Question 9

Compute
.

Question 10
A rectangular prism
measures 10in x 20in
x 10in. What is the
length of the diagonal
connecting point A
and point B? Express
your answer in
simplest radical form.

Difficult Round
for 45 seconds

Question 1

The
expression can be
written as ,
and the expression written
as ,
where a, b, and c are
integers such that .

What is the value of ?

12

Question 2

If
,

what is the value of

?

144

Question 3

What is the smallest positive

integer x such that x + 5678
results in a palindrome?
(A palindrome is a number
that reads the same
forwards and backwards,
e.g. 121, 88, 90909)

97

Question 4

For
how many integers from
1 to 29 will result in a
repeating decimal?

20

Question 5

In
triangle DEF, we have E
= 90 and

What is ?

Question 6

We flip a fair coin 10 times.

What is the probability that
we get heads in at least 8 of
the 10 flips?

Question 7
Pia has only 5 and 25 centavo
coins in her piggy bank. Their
combined value is P9.15.
Their combined weight is one lb.
Ninety 5-cent coins weigh one lb.
Eighty 25-cent coins weigh one lb.
How many 5-cent coins does Pia
have in her piggy bank?

63

Question 8
Bottle A contains more soda than Bottle
B. Pour from Bottle A into Bottle B as
much soda as B already contains. Now
pour from B into A as much soda as A
now contains. Then pour from A into B
as much soda as B now contains. Each
bottle now contains 64 ounces.
How many more ounces of soda were in
Bottle A than Bottle B at the beginning?

63

Question 9
The number of cans in the layers of a
display in a supermarket form an
arithmetic sequence.
The bottom layer has 28 cans;
the next layer has 25 cans;
and so on until there is one can on
top of the display.
How many cans does the display
have?

145

Question 10

What
is the area of a
triangle bounded by the
lines:

32