Practice Quiz 1.

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Hosted by Engr. Jeffrey Robles
April 19, 2017

1. Determine the minimum value of if

Answer

Solution 1:

Minimum value is at .

Solution 2:

Using Cauchy- Schwarz inequality:

2. How many committees consist of 2 girls and 3 boys can be formed from a group of 5
girls and 10 boys if a particular couple (boy and girl) refuse to be on the same
committee?

Answer

Solution 1:

There are three scenarios to be considered: (1) only the boy is part of the committee, (2) only the girl is
part of the committee, (3) neither of them is part of the committee. Applying the fundamental counting
principle, these translate to the following number of events:

Solution 2:

The complement of the event that they are not together is the event that they are together. Thus,

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3. Determine the value of if and are coprime integers and

Answer

Solution:

Note that the integrand is even, i.e. . Thus

By Wallis Formula

4. Determine the value of if

Answer .
Solution:

Case i: is in Q1

Case ii: is in Q2

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5. Determine the sum of all 4-digit permutations of .
Answer
Solution:
By the counting principle, each digit can be placed in the same place value times. It follows that each digit
can be placed in the units, tens, hundreds, and thousands place times. The sum of all permutations
therefore is

6. How many positive perfect squares less than one million are divisible by ?
Answer
It is a fact that . Multiples of alone are not necessarily perfect squares. Take as an example.
All perfect squares which are divisible by must be of the form where is a positive
integer.

Since we restrict to be a positive integer, then there are perfect squares less than which
are divisible by .

7. A base-10 three-digit number "N" is selected at random. What is the probability that the
base-9 representation and the base-11?
Answer
Solution:
By the fundamental counting principle and with the assumption that is not counted as a three-digit
number, there are three digit numbers in base .

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 Smallest three-digit number Largest three-digit number
Base 9
Base 10
Base 11
*Note that to convert a number from base to base , (base 10)

Thus, the only three-digit numbers in base 10 which are also three-digit numbers in base 9 and 11 are the
elements of the intersection of the sets and .

The latter set has elements. Therefore, the probability required is .

8. The smallest distance between the origin and a point on the graph of can
be expressed as . Find .

Answer
Solution:

Minimum value of is at .

9. There are two pairs of real numbers that satisfy the equation .
Given that the solutions are in the form where and are positive
integers and the expression is completely satisfied, what is the value of ?

Answer
Solution:

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10. A square is drawn such that one of its sides coincides with the line , and so that
the endpoints of this side lie on the parabola . What is the area of the
square?
Answer
Solution:
The length of one side of the square is equal to the distance between the points of intersection of the line
and the parabola.

The points of intersection are and , and the distance between them is

. Therefore the area of the square is square units.

Reference:
Problems 6-10 are lifted from www.artofproblemsolving.com. All solutions were written by the host of the
quiz.

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