2018 MTAP Grade 10

Questions
1.) The average of a number and is . Find the number.

2.) Find if of is $latex 2.763%4 of .

3.) Simplify:

4.) If , find the integer closest to .

5.) Find the largest positive integer such that

6.) How many integers between 60 and 600(inclusive) are divisible by 2 or by 3?

7.) How many positive factors does the product of 3 different prime numbers have?

8.) A triangle has area 30 sq cm, and two sides are 5 cm and 12 cm long. How long is the third side?
9.) If 𝐴 = {all prime numbers between 1 and 100}, 𝐵 = {2,4,6,…,98,100}, and 𝐶 = {3,6,9, … , 96, 99},
how many elements does (𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) ∩ 𝐶 have?

10.) Find the perimeter of a regular hexagon inscribed inside a circle whose area is sq cm.

11.) Sets and are subsets of a set having elements. If set has elements, at least how
many elements should set have to guarantee that and are not disjoint?

12.) If the 2nd and 5th terms of an arithmetic sequence are and , respectively, Find the 101st
term.

13) Find the sum of the first 71 terms of the arithmetic sequence above.

14.) Find such that , , and are consecutive terms of a geometric sequence.

15.) Three numbers form an arithmetic sequence with common difference . If the first is doubled,
the second is unchanged, and the third is increased by , a geometric sequence will be formed. Find
the first number of the geometric sequence.
16.) The sum of an infinite geometric series have sum 14. If their squares have sum , find the sum
of their cubes.
17.) A sequence has first two terms and . For every 𝑛 ≥ 3, is the sum of all the
preceding terms of the sequence. Find

18.) Let and be the roots of . Find $latex

19.) If , find .

20.) Find the remainder when is divided by .

21.) Find the constant term of the quotient when is divided

by .

22.) Find the constant if is a factor of .

23.) Find the largest real root of .

24.0 If is a 3rd degree polynomial, , and , find .

25.) The midpoint o f and is ; the midpoint of and is ; the midpoint

of and is . Find the coordinates of , the midpoint of and .

26.) Find the radius of the circle with equation .

27.) Give the equation (in center-radius form) of the circle having as a diameter the segment with
endpoints and .
28.) The center of a circle is on the x-axis. If the circle passes through and , find the
coordinates of its center.
29.) If is an angle in a triangle and , find .
30.) In , , , and . Find

31.) In , , , and . Find .

32.) In a circle, chord is bisected by chord at . If and , find .

33.) Pentagon is inscribed in a circle, , and .
If , find .

34.) Rectangle is inscribed in a circle, and $𝐶𝐷 = 2$. A point 𝑃 is chosen on

arc . Find .

35.)A line through a point outside a circle is tangent to the circle at . Another line
through intersects the circle at points (closer to ) and . If and , find .

36.) In a circle, chords and intersect at . If

arc and , find .

37.) Find the area (in sq units) of the region between two concentric circles if a chord of the larger
circle which is tangent to the smaller circle has length 7.

38.) A triangle having sides , , and units, is inscribed in a circle. Find the circumference of
the circle.

39.) In the figure, quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle. Lines and intersect at ,

while lines and intersect at . If and , find .

40.) How many books (all different) are there if there are 5040 ways of arranging them in a shelf ?

41.) Lila and Dolf each counted the number of three-digit positive integers that can be formed using
the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Lila assumed a digit can be repeated, while Dolf assumed no digit can be
repeated. If they counted correctly, what is the difference between their answers?

42.) In how many ways can a photographer arrange 7 students for a club picture if Ana, Carol and
Iris must always be together, but Rey and Ruel should not be beside each other.
For problems 43 and 44: A committee is to be formed from 7 City 𝐴 residents and 9 City 𝐵 residents.
43.) How many 6-member committees with 3 members from each city can be formed?

44.) How many 5-member committees with more City𝐴 than City𝐵 members can be formed?

For problems 45 and 46: The numbers 1, 2, … , 25 are written on slips of paper which are placed in a
box.
45.) If two slips are picked at the same time from the box, find the probability that one number is a
multiple of 7 and the other is a multiple of 8.

46.) If three slips are picked at the same time from the box, find the probability that the sum of the
numbers is odd.

47.) Two fair dice are rolled. Find the probability that one die is 2 while the other is a prime number.

48.) In a class of Grade 10 students, the probability that a random chosen student lies dogs is 0.72,
that a student likes cats is 0.54, and that a student likes neither is 0.11. Find the probability that a
student likes both dogs and cats.

49.) In a company, the men who do not wear glasses are thrice as many as the men who do, while the
women who do not wear glasses are ten more than the women who do. The probability that an
employee wears glasses is 3/10 . If a selected employee wears glasses, the probability that the
employee is a woman is 2/3 . How many are the employees of the company?

50.)The number of ways of selecting 6 objects from 𝑛 distinct objects is the same as the number of
ways of selecting and arranging 3 objects from 𝑛 distinct objects. Find 𝑛.
asy
1.) What is the next term in the arithmetic sequence whose first two terms are −18 and then 19?
2.) Express as a single logarithm with base .

3.) What should be the value of if the point where attains its maximum, is
also a zero of ?

4.) What is the reciprocal of in simplest terms?

5.) If , what is ?
6.) What is the smallest positive integer n which satisfies ?

7.) Find such that the circle intersects the parabola in exactly three
points.

8.) Find the value of in assuming

9.) The cube of a number equals . What is the product of and the square of ?

10.) Find the smallest positive value of such that .

11.) Which real number is not attained by the function ?

Average

1.) Find the domain of

2.) Find the 12th term of the harmonic sequence 3/2, 3/7, 4, …

3.) What is the numerical value of ?

4.) An isosceles right triangle, with area sq. cm, has a hypotenuse which also measures cm.
Find .

5.) A linear function is such that . What is ?

6.) If , what is ?

Difficult
1.) The numerical value of is in between which consecutive integers?

2.) Evaluate the sum .

3.) The roots of are prime numbers. Find .

4.) Solve for in the equation

5.) How many positive integers n are there such that 1n and n/3 are three-digit integers?

6.) For n ≥ 2, the nth term of the sequence equals the sum of all the terms before it. If the eight therm
is 320, what the first term of the sequence?

Clincher Questions
1.) Solve for x: .

2.) For which real x can we sum the geometric series x, −1, 1/x, …to infinity?

3.) If , , are the prime factors of 2015, find

Do or Die Question
1.) Find all possible values of so that the sequence , , becomes geometric.

Answers
Easy
1.) 56
2.) )
3.) -1
4.)
5.) 1/4
6.) 12
7.) -4
8.) 45°
9.)
10.)
11.)
Average
1.) (0, 8) ∪ (8, inf)
2.) 1/19
3.) -1/6
4.) 4
5.) 360
6.) or equivalent
Difficult
1.) 6 and 7
2.)
3.) 13
4.) -1, -1/9
5.) 67
6.) 5
Clincher
1.)
2.) x > 1 or x < −1
3.) 2
Do or Die
1.) -10, 3