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Municipal Math Competition-Team Competition

Easy Round
1. The 5th term of an arithmetic sequence is 15 and the first term is 3, what is the sum of the first 10 terms?
Answer: 165
2. Let

f ( x )=ax bx +6 x4

, find f(1)

Answer: a-b+2
3.

What are the real number solutions to the equation

x + 4 x32=0

Answer: {-8,4}
4. How many number(s) of common tangent(s) that can be drawn for two externally tangent circle?
Answer: 3
5. What is the equation of a circle whose center is at (1,-3) and radius of 5?
Answer:
6.

(x1)2+( y +3)2=25

What is the slope of the line connecting the intersection of

Answer:

3 x+2 y=5x 2+ y 2=8 ?

3
2

7. A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of getting 3 tails up?

Answer:
8.

1
8

What is the value of m for

Answer:

x 2+ 4 x +m> 18?

m>22

x
y
z
2
9. How many ordered triples, (x,y,z) are solutions to the equation ( 225) =0 ?
2
( 216) +
( 24)2 +

Answer: 8
10. In how many ways can 4 persons be seated in a round table with 4 seats?
Answer: 6
Average Round

1
( x +h)
).
1
x ,
x

x+ h ,
1.

Give the slope of the line that passes through the two points

Answer:
2.

5.

1
10

What is the distance between P(6,-2,-3) and Q (5,1,-4)?

Answer:

4.

1
x (xh)

Two balls are picked randomly at a time from a jar containing 5 balls that are numbered 2, 3,6, 9 and 10,
What is the probability that the selected balls are both prime numbered balls?
Answer:

3.

( )

When

11
999

x +k is divided by x+1, the remainder is 2. Find the value of k.

Answer: k=3
Near the end of the dinner party, everyone shakes hand with everyone else. Lola Nidora Sabaybunot, a
socialite arrives late and shake hands only with those people she knows, If a total of a hundred handshakes
were made, how many people sis Lola Nidora knew at the party?

Answer: 9

100-91=9

Difficult Round
1. Two wheels have diameter of 12 cm and 18 cm respectively. Both wheels roll along parallel straight lines at
the same linear speed until the larger wheel has revolve 72 times. At this point, how many times has the
smaller wheel revolve?
Answer:108 revolution
2.

The equation

x 2+ ax+ b =0, has roots c and d. The equation x 2+ cx+ d=0 , has roots a and b. Give all

the possible values of the sum a+b+c+d.

Answer: -2 and 0
3. The sum of the three numbers in geometric sequence is 52. If 8 is added to the middle term, the other two are
left unchanged, the sequence become arithmetic. What are the original three numbers?
Answer: 4,12,36
4.

What is the remainder of 1 1 1! +2 2 !+3 3! ++2000 2000!

when divided by 4002?

Answer: 4001
5.

The quadratic polynomial has the following properties

P(10)=10. What is value of

P ( x ) 0 for all real number x P(6) =0, and

P ( 26 ) + P(6)
?
2

Answer: 170

Clincher
1. If

x 2+ x=3 , what is

x 4 +2 x3 +2 x 2+ x ?

Answer: 12
2.

One zero of the polynomial equation

x 36 x 2+11 x6 is 1. Find the other zeros.

Answer: 2 and 3
3. A certain chord of a circle is 12 inches and is the perpendicular bisector of a radius of the circle. Determine
the area of the circle in terms of
Answer: 27