MMC Nationals 2018

Disclaimer: Answers unofficial. Also, some of the numbering might be wrong.

1 Grade Six

1.1 Individual Orals

E1 Paula bought a dress at 20% discount. If she paid ₧328 for it, how much is the dress originally? [₧410]
E2 One-fourth of a number is two-thirds of 15. What is the number? [40]
3 8 11
E3 Find the LCD of , , and . [60]
10 15 20
E4 In 4 years, Carlo will be twice as long as he was 4 years ago. How old is Carlo now? [12]
2 5
E5 Yesterday, it rained cm in the morning and cm in the afternoon. How much did it rain altogether?
3 12
13
[ cm]
12
E6 The number 0.15 is equivalent to a fraction with denominator 40. What is the numerator of this fraction?
[6]
E7 What is the sum of thirty percent of 18 and one-half of 13? [11.9]
E8 The perimeter of a square is 24 cm. If its sides are increased by 50%, what is the area of the new square?
[81 cm2 ]
E9 One hundred and eight jars can be packed into six identical boxes. Using the same packaging requirement,
how many boxes are needed to pack 144 jars? [8]
E10 Nicole can type a symbol (including space) on her cellphone at an average time of 0.4 second. How long
will she finish typing the phrase MATH CHALLENGE 2018? [8 seconds]
Average
2 3 1 4 1
A1 Compute ( − ) ÷ ( + ). [ ]
5 10 2 5 13
A2 The sum of two numbers is 35 and their difference is 9. What is the bigger number? [22]
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A3 A tank is two-thirds full of water. Twenty liters were taken from it, and the tank was then full. How
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much water should be poured into it to make it half full? [6 liters]
A4 On a long street, Paula walked for 45 minutes for 3 km/h. Then she ran for half an hour, and she found
out that she is now 6 km from the starting point. How fast did she run? [7.5 km/h]
A5 Bert can finish mowing the grass of a football field 4 hours, while Randy can finish it in 7 hours. What
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part of the field is not yet mowed after they worked together for 2.5 hours? [ ]
56
Difficult
D1 The hottest temperature recorded in Philippine history was 107.96 °F in Tuguegarao City on May 11, 1969.
What is this temperature in degrees Celsius? [42.2 °C]

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D2 During the start of school last year, there were 18 girls and 24 boys in Mrs. Garcia’s class. In the middle of
the year, six pupils transferred to another school, and the ratio of girls to boys became 4 ∶ 5. How many
boys transferred to another school? [4]
D3 What is the difference between the sum of all even counting numbers less than 201 and the sum of all
odd counting numbers less than 201? [100]
D4 A number is decreased by 30%, and the resulting number is then increased by 12.6. If the final number
is 21 less than the original number, what is the original number? [112]
D5 Today is March 25. Nico will celebrate his birthday 100 days from now. When is Nico’s birthday?
[July 2]

1.2 Team Orals

Easy
E1 A businessman buys sacks of rice at ₧1600 per sack, and sells them 120% up the price. How much is he
selling each sack of rice? [₧1920]
2 1 1
E2 When is added to a number, the result is 1 . What is the number? [ ]
3 6 2
E3 The sum of the first twenty counting numbers is 210. Find the sum of the next twenty counting numbers.
[610]
E4 The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If its perimeter is 24 cm, what is its area? [32 cm2 ]
E5 The least 3-digit number that is a multiple of 40 is 120 and the largest is 960. How many 3-digit multiples
of 40 are there? [22]
E6 A man jogs from his houses to his friend’s house at 4 km/h and back at 6 km/h. The entire journey takes
45 minutes. Find the distance between the man’s house and his friend’s. [1.8 km]
E7 The sum of four consecutive odd numbers is 96. What is the largest number? [27]
E8 Ken started playing basketball at 10:33 am, and stopped at 2:29 pm. How many minutes was he playing?
[236 minutes]
E9 On a map, 3 cm represents 25 km. How far apart are two cities if they are 6.6 cm apart on the map?
[55 km]
3
E10 When the fraction is expressed as a decimal, what is the first nonzero digit after the decimal point?
43
[6]
Average
A1 The fastest land animal is the cheetah. It can reach a speed of 120.7 km/h. What is this speed in meters
per minute? Round your answer to a whole number. [2012 m/min]
A2 A company finds 15 defective items in a box of 800 items. At this ratio, how many defective items can be
expected in a box of 2560 items? [48]
A3 If the sum of two numbers is 24 and their difference is 96, what is their product? [−2160]

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A4 A boy is 22 years younger than his father. In 2 years time, the sum of their ages will be 54. Find the present
ages of the father and the son? [Father: 36 years old, Son: 14 years old]
A5 Diana is solving a math problem. By mistake, she multiplied by 12 then divided by 8 instead of multiplying
by 8 and then dividing by 12. If she got 2 as an answer, what should have been the correct answer?
8
[ ]
9
Difficult
D1 A standard traffic light turns green then yellow then red, then green, yellow, red, and so on. What is the
2018th light? [yellow]
D2 If the length of each side of a cube is increased by x%, the volume is increased by 174.4%. What is x?
[40%]
D3 A farmer has chickens and goats. Altogether, the animals have 60 heads and 156 legs. How many of each
animal does he have? [18 goats, 42 chickens]
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D4 What fraction of all the 3-digit numbers are not divisible by 9? [ ]
9
D5 A 180-page book has the same number off photos on each page. If the number of photos were reduced
by 3 on each page, the number of pages would need to be increased by 30. How many photos are there
all in all? [3780]
Clincher
C1 If 73 is one more than twice a number, what is 50% of the number? [18]
1 1 1 1 1 29 1 2 3 4 5 71
C2 Given that + + + + = , what is + + + + ? [ ]
2 3 4 5 6 20 2 3 4 5 6 20
C3 Two tanks contain an equal amount of water. When a pipe is attached between them, 4000 liters of water
flows from one tank into the other, making the other tank contain six times more water than the first
tank. How many liters of water did each tank contain originally? [5600 liters]
Do or Die
DoD Find the whole numbers M, N, P, and Q for which M + N = 15, M × N = 36, P × Q = 84, and
Q = M + 18. [M = 3, N = 12, P = 4, Q = 21]

2 Grade 10

2.1 Individual Finals

Easy
1 4
E1 Find the value of − raised to − . [16]
32 5
3 2
E2 Factor completely: 4x + 9x − 4x − 9. [(4x + 9)(x + 1)(x − 1)]
√ √
E3 The legs of a right triangle have lengths 5 cm and 7 cm. How long (in cm) is the median to√
the hy-
potenuse? [ 3 cm]

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E4 Find the sum of the numerator and the denominator when the repeating decimal 0.212 121 . . . is written
as a fraction in lowest terms? [40]
E5 Let A and B be two distinct points on a circle. If major arc AB is 40○ more than minor arc AB, find the
measure of major arc AB. [200○ ]
E6 Set A has 4 elements and is a subset of B which has 2022 elements. How many sets S are possible if A is a
subset of S, and S is a subset of B? [22018 ]
E7 Find the measure in degrees of the smaller angle formed by the hands of a clock at 9:20. [160○ ]
E8 Find the 4th term of an arithmetic sequence whose first 3 terms are x + 3, 2018, and x + 13. [2028]
E9 An ant on the plane is traveling from (0, 0) to (5, 3) and in each move it can only go 1 unit up or 1 unit to
the right, at each time. How many distinct paths of 8 moves can the ant possibly take? [56]
E10 The sum of two numbers is 1 and their product is 2. Find the sum of their cubes. [−5]
Average
A1 The 3rd, 6th, and 10th terms of an arithmetic sequence form a geometric sequence. Find the common
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ratio. [1 or ]
3
A2 Find the number of positive integers less than 500 000 which contain the block 678, with the 3 digits
appearing consecutively and in this order. [1500]
4 4 2
A3 Solve for x in the equation x 2 + =9+ . [±3, ± ]
x 2 9 3
3
A4 Find the cosine of the smallest acute angle of the triangle whose sides have lengths 4, 5, and 6. [ ]
4
A5 How many ordered quadruples (a, b, c, d) of nonnegative integers are there such that a + b + c + d = 10?
[286]
Difficult
D1 Find the sum of two positive integers if their quotient, sum, and product are in the ratio 1 ∶ 6 ∶ 16.
[12]
D2 A polynomial has remainder 20 when divided by x − 18, and remainder 18 when divided by x − 20. Find
the remainder when divided by (x − 18)(x − 20). [−x + 38]
D3 Triangle ABC has sides AB = 6, BC = 9, and AC = 9. Point P is chosen on side BC such that AP = 6.
Find the ratio of BP to CP. [4 ∶ 5]
S2n
D4 Let S m denote the sum of the first m terms of an arithmetic series. If = 3 for some integer n, find
Sn
S5n 5
. [ ]
S3n 2
D5 A sequence a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . satisfies the property that a n+1 is the average of the first n terms if n ≥ 2. If
a1 = 1 and a2018 = 2018, find a = 2. [4035]

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2.2 Team Orals

Easy
E1 Find the reciprocal of the sum of the reciprocals of x−y and x+y. Write your answer as a single expression.
x 2 − y2
[ ]
2x
E2 A circle and a square have equal areas. The circle has circumference 2π. What is the length of the side √ of
the square. [ π]
E3 How many 5-letter strings can be made from the word MANGO if each string should start with a vowel.
[48]
E4 A circle is divided by 3 points into 3 non-overlapping arcs whose measures are in the ratio 5 ∶ 5 ∶ 2. Find
the smallest angle of the triangle formed by the 3 points. [30○ ]
E5 Two fair dice are rolled? What is the probability that the product of the resulting numbers is an odd
1
prime? [ ]
9
√
E6 What is the area of the circle which passes through the points (0, 0), (5, 0), and (0, 11)? [9π]
√
E7 Solve for x in the equation x 3 + 3x 2 + 3x = 100. [x = 3 101 − 1]
E8 A point is chosen on a number line so that the sum of its distances from the points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, is
as small as possible. What is the value of this sum? [7]
E9 Find the sum of the infinite geometric series with first term 1, if the 3rd term is 27 times the 6th term.
3
[ ]
2
√ √
E10 Solve for x in the equation x −6+ x + 6 = 6. [10]
Average
A1 Find the coordinates of the vertex of y = (x − 3)2 + (x − 2)2 + (x + 2)2 + (x + 3)2 . [(0, 26)]
A2 A geometric sequence has 1st term 64 while the 7th and 11th terms are in the ratio 2 ∶ 3. Find the 17th
term. [324]
A3 Find the remainder when 5x 4 + 3x 3 − 9x 2 + 32x − 4 is divided by x + 3. [143]
A4 An equilateral triangle and a regular hexagon have the same perimeters. What is the ratio of the area of
the triangle to the area of the hexagon? [2 ∶ 3]
A5 Let q and r be the quotient and remainder, respectively, when a positive integer n is divided by 1000. For
how many positive integers n having at most 5 digits is q + r divisible by 111? [900]
Difficult
D1 Inside square ABCD, a point is chosen so that it is equidistant from 3 points: the vertices A and B, and
the midpoint of side CD. If this common distance is 5 cm, how long (in cm) is a side of the square?
[8 cm]

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D2 In rectangle ABCD, AB = 3 and AD = 8. Points P and Q are chosen on AB and AD, respectively, such
that AP = AQ. Find the largest possible area of quadrilateral CPQD.* [19.5]
D3 A number is picked from the list of 5-digit positive integers whose digits have a sum of 43. Find the
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probability that this number has an even digit. [ ]
3
1 1
D4 Evaluate 2 + 2 when x = 1.8, y = 1.7, and z = 2.2. [−20]
x − x y − xz − yz z − zx − z y + x y
D5 In a right triangle, the medians drawn from the vertices of the acute angles have lengths 9 and 13. Find
√
the length of the hypotenuse. [10 2]
D6 In an arithmetic sequence a1 , a2 , a3 , . . ., suppose a5 + a9 + a13 = 5 and a5 + a6 + a7 + a8 + a9 + a10 = 9.
Find the index m such that a m = 11. [93]

* This question was scrapped.

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