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1. i 15 i 31 i16 i15 i 3 =?

a. 1 b. i c. 1- 2i d. i e. NOTA

2. Mr. Lu has $2.73 in pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars. If he has an equal
number of coins of each kind, then the total number of coins Mr. Lu has is?

a. 3 b. 5 c. 10 d. 15 e. NOTA

3. One leg of an isosceles right triangle is lengthened by 8 feet and the other leg is shortened by 8
feet to make a new right triangle. If the hypotenuse of the new triangle is 2 2 feet longer than
the hypotenuse of the original triangle, what is the length of the legs (in feet) of the original
triangle?

a. 7 b. 15 c. 23 d. 30 e. NOTA

4. Mr. Lu drives D miles to Buchholz at x mph (note: x > 10 mph). On his way home, he drives
the same route at (x 10) mph. Find his average driving speed in mph for the round trip?
D D x 2 10 x 2 x 2 10 x
a. b. c. d. e. NOTA
x5 2 x 10 x5 x 10

5. Find the greatest integer k for which 32k 910 ?

a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7 e. NOTA
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6. Find the area defined by the intersection of the solutions of the two inequalities:
x2 8x y 2 0
x y 4
a. 32 4 b. 4 c. 12 d. 32 12 e. NOTA

7. Find "m" given that the area bounded by the x-axis and the lines x=1, x=4, and y=mx+4 is 7.

2
a. -2 b. -1.5 c. d. -0.5 e. NOTA
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8. The measure of two angles are in the ratio 2:5. The measure of the larger angle is 36 more than
one third the difference of the two angles. What is the sum of all possible measures of the
angles?

a. More information needed b. 63 c. 75 d. 105 e. NOTA

x3 x 2 x 1
9. How many asymptotes does the graph of g(x) have, if g x 3 ?
x 2 x2 x 2
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. NOTA

10. Given that x 2 x 2 7 , what is the smallest possible value of x 3 x 3 ?

a. -20 b. -18 c. 18 d. 20 e. NOTA
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11. The set L is the set whose elements are ... 3, 2, 1, 0,1, 2,3... . Of the following 5
operations applied to any pair of elements: (1) addition, (2) subtraction, (3) multiplication, (4)
division, and (5) finding the arithmetic mean, under which operations is set L closed?

a. 1,2,3 b. 1,3,5 c. 1,2,3,4 d. 1,2,3,5 e. NOTA

12. Write the equation of the set of points equidistant from the line y = 5 and the point (5, 0).

x2 x2
a. y x5 b. y x 2 10 x 50 c. y 10 x 2 10 x d.y x e. NOTA
10 10

13. The size of the Buchholz Math Team is decaying rapidly and can be described by the
function: A Pe rt . It is known that in 4 years the team will be half what it is now. What is the
rate constant, r?

a. 3ln(0.5) b. 0.25ln2 c. 0.25ln(0.66) d. 0.25ln(0.5) e. NOTA

y
1
y
1

1
14. Simplify: 2 x 2 x
2 2

x y 1
a. 1 b. c. d. e. NOTA
y x xy

15. The line segment joining the midpoints of the diagonals of a trapezoid has length 3. If the
longer base is 97, what is the length of the shorter base?

a. 89 b. 90 c. 91 d. 93 e. NOTA
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16. The equation x 3 has
x 3 x 3

a. no solutions. b. one integral solution.

c. infinitely many solutions. d. two equal solutions e. NOTA

17. The medians to the legs of an isosceles triangle intersect each other at right angles. If the base
of the triangle is 2 , what is the area of the triangle?

a. 1.5 b. 2 c. 2.5 d. 3.0 e. NOTA

18. For a given value of k the product of the roots of x 2 3kx 2k 2 1 0 is 7. The roots are?

a. imaginary b. irrational c. rational but not integral d. integral e. NOTA

2 x y 5
19. Find the equation of the line that passes through the intersection of
x 2 y 0

and is perpendicular to 2x 3y = 5.

3 2 1 3 3
a. y x5 b. y x c. y x4 d. y x2 e. NOTA
2 3 3 2 2

20. Together Wiggie and Lu can complete a math marathon in 12 days. Wiggie works 4 times as
fast as Lu. How many days would it take Wiggie if he worked alone?

a. 2.4 b. 9.6 c. 15 d. 60 e. NOTA

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21. Let L be the sum of the interior angles of a polygon U for which each interior angles measure
is 7.5 times the exterior angle at the same vertex. Then L is?

a. 2660 and U is regular b. 2660 and U is not regular

c. 2700 and U is regular d. 2700 and U may or may not be regular e. NOTA

22. If g x 4 x then g(x+1)-g(x)=?

a. g(x) b. 2g(x) c. 3g(x) d. 4g(x) e. NOTA

23. Triangle ZLU is isosceles with base ZU. Points W and F are respectively on LU and ZL and
such that ZU=ZW=WF=FL. The number of degrees in angle L=?

5 1
a. 25 b. 26 c. 30 d. 40 e. NOTA
7 3

24. The base of a rectangular solid is a square with an area of 25. If the diagonal of the solid is
3 11 , then its height is?

3 22
a. 2 11 b. 7 c. d. 74 e. NOTA
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25. If i is a root of 5 x 4 3x3 ax 2 bx 7 0 and a and b are both real then a+b=?

a. -5 b. -1 c. 1 d. 5 e. NOTA
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26. The product of the solutions to the equation x log x 10 is?

a. -1 b. 0.1 c. 1 d. 10 e. NOTA

1 1 1 1
27. 1 2 1 2 ... 1 2 1 2 =?
2 3 9 10

2
a. 0.5 b. 0.55 c. d. 0.7 e. NOTA
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28. The number of positive integers L for which the equation Lx 12 = 3L has an integer
solution for x is

a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 e. NOTA

0 1
1 0 1 4
Y
29. x 64 2
32 5 : If x does not equal zero, then what is Y?
16 16 x 16

a. 1 b. 14 c. 19 d. 29 e. NOTA

30. The number of digits in the number 212 58 is?

a. 10 b. 11 c. 12 d. 20 e. NOTA