quit Metropank-mtay-vepiad Math Challenge Regional Finals ~ Individual Written Competition - Grade 10 School: Part 1. Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Each correct answer earns 2 points. 1, What is the remainder when 32° ~ 102? is divided by « - V3? Name: Score: —_ ———— 2. The minimum value of f(2) = 2? + 5 +b is zero. What is b ? —————— 3. In how many ways can the letters of the word PROVIDED be permuted 0 that the vowels and the consonants are in alphabetical order from left to right? ———— + Tangle ABC has hypotenuse AC with midpoint M. If AB = 4.cm and BC = 43 em, find the distance between B and M. 5. How long is the shortest chord that can be drawn through a point 20 can frum the center ofa circle ‘whose radius is 29 cm long? 6 A box contains 2 blue, 2 yellow, 2 green, and 2 red bells. If two balls are picked randomly from the box, what is the probability that they have the same color? 7. t varieas directly as a and inversely as k, and T= 1 when a = 6 and k and k= 5. =9 find T when 8. Solve for 2 in the equation 2(z ~ I)(z + 2) = (2 +2)(2 + 3\(r +4). 9. The sum of two numbers in 10 and the difference of their squares is 20V8. What is the sum of their squares? ————— 10. Rectangle ABCD, with AB = 24 cm and BC = 18 em, is folded oo that the vertices A and C coincide. Find the length of the crease (ar fold). ———— 11. Among the children in a fnmily, each boy has as many sisters as brothers, but each gir! has only half as many sisters as brothers. Find the number of children in the family. ‘12. What is the center of the circle that passes through the points (3.1). (3.—3), and (0,~8) ? 13. Find the sum of all positive integers less than 45 that are not divisible by 3. 14. If f(2z — 1) = B29 ~ 122? + de, what is f(5) ? 15. Let AX and XB be two adjecent sides of a regular polygon. If CABX measures one-third of ZAXB, how many sides does the regular polygon have? Part IL, Write a complete and neat solution to each problem. Each correct solution earns 3 points 1. Find the value(s) of k so that the radius of the circle z? + y? ~ kz + 6y — 3 = 0 is equal to 4. 2. Ifthe nth, 2nth, and 3nth terms of a geometric sequence are x, y. and =, respectively, what is y? in terms of z and y? 3. In APQR, RP = RQ = 12cm. Let $ and T be points on sidex RP and RQ, respectively, such that RS = RT = 8 cin. Let X be the poiut of intersection of the segments PT and QS. If the area of quadrilateral RSXT is 8 cm?, what is the area of triangle PQR ? 4, Three positive mumbers whose sum is 24 form an arithmetic seyuence. If] is added to the first, 2to the second, and 8 to the third, the sums form a geometric sequence. What are the three original numbers? ab+atb+1 5. axb= what is 009 + 99899 ? Part TIT. Write a complete and neat solution to each problem. Each correct solution earns 5 points. 1. Suppose a,6,¢ form an arithmetic sequence. Prove that 6° +be+¢, 2 + en -+a?, and a? + ab +0? also form an arithmetic sequence. 2. If two of the zeros of P(x) = 23+ bx? + cx ~2 are ~} and $, what is P(6) ? 3. Let ABC be any triangle. Prove that cod eB oe wt +P a tb te Dobe material la a property of the Metrobank Foundation and the Mathematics Teachers Association of the Phillppines. ae f This materia! not for sla, secretion. nt ne dation, ON