2006 Grade 6 MTAP Regional Finals Questions with Answers

1.) 17 more than the sum of 33 and 19 is equal to what number?

Answer: 69

2.) If 3.05 x 76.9 = 234.545, what is 30.5 x 0.769?

Answer: 23.4545

3.) What digit(s) placed in the blank in 377_4 will make it divisible by 12?

Answer: 0, 6

4.) What is the sum of the largest prime less than 100 and the smallest prime greater
than 100?

Answer: 198
5.) If ¾ of the area of a rectangle is 84 cm2, what is the whole area?

Answer: 112 sq.cm.

6.) If 6 men can finish a job in 8 days, how long will 4 men finish the same job if they
work at the same rate?

Answer: 12 days

7.) Rita can put her pictures 4, 5 or 6 to a page in her album, with 2 pictures left over in
each case. What is the smallest number of pictures for this to happen?

Answer: 62

8.) A 15 cm by 10 cm picture was enlarged so that its dimensions increased by 20%.

What is the area of the enlarged picture?

Answer: 216 cm^2

9.) The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 9o more than a base angle. What is the
vertex angle?

Answer: 66 degrees
10.) What is the largest 5-digit number which rounds to 27,000 to the nearest thousand?

Answer: 27, 499

11.) The perimeter of a square is 186 cm. How long is one side?

Answer: 46.5 cm

30-second questions – 3 points each

1.) Five consecutive whole numbers have a sum of 225. What is the largest number?

Answer: 47

2.) A piece of plastic sheet is 4 m by 3.2 m. What is the smallest number of equal squares
into which it can be cut?
Answer: 20 (note: this question has a problem because it did not specify the unit of the
small square)

3.) How many ribbons, each 17/8dm long can be cut from a roll 3 m long?
Answer: 16

4.) What is the smallest number by which you can multiply 2520 to make it a perfect
square?

Answer: 70

5.) Find the product of the prime numbers immediately before and after 30.

Answer: 899

6.) Two numbers are in the ratio 5:8. If the difference is 36, what is the larger of the two
numbers?

Answer: 96

1-minute questions – 5 points each

1.) One cube has an edge of 9 cm. A second cube has an edge2/3that of the first cube.
What is the ratio of the volume of the first cube to that of the second cube?

Answer: 27:8
2.) A bunch of new 50-peso bills are consecutively numbered A23486 to A23500. What
is the total peso value of the bills?

Answer: P 750

3.) A train travels 60 km in ¾ hour. If it maintains the same average speed, how far will
it travel in 2 ½ hours?

Answer: 200 km

4.) Nine small squares are put together to form a bigger square. If the perimeter of the
big square is 192 cm, what is the area of each small square?
Answer: 256 cm^2

5.) Today, March 10, is Friday. What day is it 100 days from today?

Answer: Sunday

6.) A piece of rope 75 m long is cut into three pieces in the ratio 4:5:6. How long is the
longest piece?

Answer: 30 m

Clincher questions

1.) What is the 20th odd counting number?

Answer: 39

2.) To what exponent should 2 be raised to give a value of 512?

Answer: 9

3.) How many multiples of 12 are there between 200 and 290?

Answer: 8

Do-Or-Die questions
1.) How many digits are printed by a printer that prints all the whole numbers from
1 to 728 inclusive?
Answer: 2076
2015 Grade 6 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals
1.) If N 15 + 10 – 2 × 5 = N× 3, what is N?
Answer: 5

2.) The clock reads 4 o’clock. What is the degree measure of the angle formed by the
hands of the clock?
Answer: 120 degrees

3.) The length, width, and height of a rectangular box, respectively are 5 cm, 8 cm, and
11 cm. What is its surface area?
Answer: 366 cm^2

4.) . Express y in exponential form.

Answer: y = 3^2
5.) Lita’s money was 5/4 Zeny’s money. When Jane gave Zeny Php 9.00, Lita’s money
became equal to the total money that Zeny then had. How much was Lita’s money?
Answer: Php 45.00
6.) A cube with a volume of 64 cubic cm is divided into 8 congruent cubes. What is the
length of a side of a smaller cube?
Answer: 2

7.) A dress costing Php 350.00 was on sale at 10% off. Not sold, it was again made on
sale at another 10% off. What was the total percent of discount?
Answer: 19%

8.) Jane used 2/5 of her savings to buy a gift for her mother. She used 1/3 of her
remaining savings to buy a gift for her sister. What fraction of her savings was left?
Answer: 2/5

9.) The length of a rectangle is 2 more than twice its width. If its perimeter is 22 cm,
what is its length?
Answer: 8cm

10.) Two-thirds of the length of a stick is 5 ½ popsicle sticks long. If a popsicle stick is 7
cm, how long is the stick?
Answer: 57.75

11.) Julia had 60 paperback books. She gave 2/3 of the books for the Book Lovers Club.
How many did Julia keep?
Answer: 20

30-second question (3 points each)

21.) Jane has Php 48.00 and Ria has Php 64.00. They decided to contribute money to
buy flowers costing Php 80.00 for their mother. If Jane contributes 2/3 of her money,
what fraction of her money will Ria contribute?
Answer: 3/4

2.) Lyn tried to sell a blouse with a 10% profit. Not sold, she decided to sell it with a
certain discount. If it is sold, she will still have a 4.5% profit. How many percent is the
discount?
Answer: 5%

3.)A new rectangle was formed when the perimeter of an original rectangle with width 3
cm was doubled. If the area of the new rectangle is 60 cm^2, what is the length of the
original rectangle?
Answer: 5 cm

4.) Shown below are the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th … terms of a sequence a, b, c, 38, 47, 56,
65 … What is the sum a + b + c of the first three terms of the sequence?
Answer: 60

5.) The surface area of a rectangular box is 592 cm^2. The edges of two faces are 10 cm
and 8 cm. What is the other dimension?
Answer: 12 cm

6.) The average of 4 numbers is 67.5. When one number was removed, the average
became 65. What number was removed?
Answer: 75

1-minute question (5 points each)

1.) Mario glues together 72 cubes with 2 cm edges to form a solid rectangular brick. If
the perimeter of the base is 28 cm, find the height of the brick in centimeters.
Answer: 12 NOTE: the solid is 6 cm by 8 cm by 12 cm

2.) Observe the sequence: 10, 13, 16, 19 … What is the 30th term in the sequence?
Answer: 97

3.) Shown below are the 4th, 5th, and 6th … terms of a sequence. a, b, c, 38, 47, 56 …
What is the sum a + b + c of the first three terms of the sequence?
Answer: 60

4.) The average of four numbers was 55. When one number was added to these
numbers, the new average became 60. What number was added?
Answer: 80

5.) In a Grade 6 class, each pupil either likes Mathematics or Science or both subjects.
There are 26 pupils like Mathematics and 30 pupils who like Science. If 14 pupils like
both Mathematics and Science, how many students are there in the class?
Answer: 42
6.) A cube with a volume of 64 cubic cm is divided by 8 cubes of the same dimensions,
what is the length of a side of a smaller cube?
Answer: 2

Clincher Question
1.) ½ of 3/6 of 5/10 of 7/14 of a number is equal to 8^2. What is the exponent of the
number when it is expressed into its prime factorization?
Answer: 10

2.) What is the greatest number of possible points of intersection of a circle and
pentagon?
Answer: 10

3.) The distance from Ormoc City to Tacloban City is 110 km. If Joy left Ormoc at 5:00
am and reached Tacloban at 7:30, what was Joy’s average speed for the journey?
Answer: 44 km per hour

Do or Die Question
What whole numbers will make the sentence 21 – x > 17 true?
Answer: 0, 1, 2, 3

2015 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers

1.) 3/5% is how many tenths?
Answer: .06

2.) The sum of two numbers is 75. The smaller number is one-fourth the bigger. What is
the smaller number?
Answer: 15

3.) What number is midway between 2/3 and ¾?

Answer: 17/24

4.) What is the largest whole number that should be placed in the blank to make this
statement true? 65÷ _____ < 23
Answer: 3

5.) Annie, Jen, Sam and Gie want to divide a certain number of candies in the
corresponding ratio 1:2:4:7. What is the ratio of the number of Jen’s candies to the
number of Sam’s candies?
Answer: 1:2
6.) A rectangular tile is 1 cm by 4 cm. What is the least number of rectangular tiles that
can be placed side by side to form a square with an area of 16 cm^2.
Answer: 4
7.) In a basket factory, Ian finished 5 baskets in 2 hours while Joy finished 10 baskets in
3 hours. If they work at the same rate, how many baskets can they finish together in 12
hours?
Answer: 10

8.) A basket weighs 3 red balls. The same basket weighs 5 white balls. If 10 white balls
weigh 2.4 kg, what is the weight of a red ball in grams?
Answer: 400

9.) An orange juice drink for one person is made of 120 ml of water and 40 ml of orange
concentrate. How many ml of water and orange concentrate are needed for 3 persons?
Answer: 360 ml of water, 120 ml of orange concentrate

10.) Eight dozen eggs Php 504.00. How much is the cost of 45 eggs?
Answer: Php 236.25

11.) A rectangular container contains 15 times the number of apples than a box that
holds 6 apples. How many apples can be placed in the container?
Answer: 90

12.) When Aida, Julie, and Mara stepped on a weighing scale together, it read 138 kg.
Aida stepped off and the scale read 97 kg. Mara stepped off and scale read 48 kg. What
was Aida’s weight?
Answer: 41 kg

13.) A customer bought ballpens that cost Php 7.50 each. He paid a total of Php 472.50.
How many ballpens did he buy?
Answer: 63

14.) An athlete jumped 9 m and 90 cm in a long jump competition. His height is 165 cm.
How many times his height did he jump?
Answer: 6 times

15.) When Luis rounded the number 85__39 to thousands, he got 85, 000. What is the
largest digit that can be put in the blank?
Answer: 4

16.) Mary baked brownies on weekends. On Saturday, when she counted the brownies,
there were 17 left. How many brownies did she bake?
Answer: Incomplete given
17.) Luz has 100, 20 and 50 peso bills. If she has 24 Php 100.00 bills and 54 Php 50.00
bills, how many Php 20.00 bills does she have if her total money is Php 6, 540.00?
Answer: 72

18.) Mrs. Reyes brought 6 flags of different colors to use in a class activity. She added
them to the flags that were already in the classroom. She borrowed 5 more flags, but 2 of
these were not used. In the end, 12 flags were used in the activity. How many flags were
already in the classroom?
Answer: 3

19.) When Jose rode on a bus, he noticed some people sitting. At the next bus stop, 5
people got on and 2 people got off. Two stops later, 7 people got on 15 people got off the
bus at the terminal station. How many people were in the bus when Jose got on the bus?
Answer: 4

20.) Roy, Mario, and Cris went camping. Roy spent Php 300.00 for food and Cris spent
Php 570.00. However, Mario did not have any money so they decided to divide the total
amount they spent among the 3 of them. How much should Mario pay?
Answer: Php 290.00

21.) Allen and Joy spent the same amount of money which was less than Php 150.00 for
the toys they bought. Allen bought toys worth Php 15.00 each while Joy bought toys
costing Php 20.00 each. What could be the largest amount that each spent for the toys?
Answer: Php 120.00

22.) A small delivery container can contain 50 boxes of chocolate or 65 boxes of assorted
candies. If the container already has 30 boxes of chocolate, how many more boxes of
assorted candies can be placed in the delivery container?
Answer: 39

23.) The area of the square below is 16 cm^2. What is the area of the shaded region?
Answer: 10 cm^2

24.) A rectangular field court has a perimeter of 232 meters. The length of the field is 32
meters greater than the width. What is the width of the basketball court?
Answer: 42 cm
25.) The price of a dress originally costing Php 300.00 increased by 150 %. How much
was the new price?
Answer: Php 750.00

26.) The figure below is formed by squares with a side is 2 cm each. What is the
perimeter of the figure if there are 10 such squares?

Answer: 62 cm (the perimeter does not include the overlapping sides)

27.) The average of one set of 4 number is 35. The average of another set of numbers is
20. The average of the numbers in the two sets is 30. How many numbers are in the
other set?
Answer: 2

28.) What is the 50th number in the pattern 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 …?

Answer: 105

29.) Alvin and James spent the same amount of money that was less than Php 150.00
for the toys they bought. Alvin bought toys worth Php 15.00 each while James bought
toys costing Php 20.00 each. How many toys did Alvin buy if both spent the largest
amount with the money they had?
Answer: 8

30.) What is the highest exponent in the prime factorization of 315?

Answer: 2

31.) What is the largest prime number in the prime factorization of 1, 617?
Answer: 539

32.) if 50% of a number is 500, what is 25% of the number?

Answer: 250

33.) Which fraction is the largest? 15/75, 9/72, 11/66, 13/39

Answer: 13/39

34.) The sum of 6 consecutive odd numbers is 132. What is the sum of all the tens digits
of these numbers?
Answer: 10
35.) When a two-digit number is divided by 9, the remainder is 4. When it is divided by
6, the remainder is also 4. What is the smallest possible value of the number?
Answer: 58

36.) The areas of a parallelogram and a triangle are the same. They have the same base.
What is the ratio of the height of a triangle to the height of the parallelogram?
Answer: 2:1
37.) How many two-digit numbers having 3 as ones digit are prime numbers?
Answer: 6

38.) A container is 4/5 full of water. After taking out 8 liters, it became 2/3 full. How
many liters of water have to be added to make it full?
Answer: 20

39.) Time in the Philippines is one hour ahead of the time in Japan. Luz who is in
Manila called up her friend who is in Japan at 12:55 am on 25 December 2014. What day
and time was it in Japan?
Answer: 11:55 PM on 24 December 2014

40.) Using only the number 2, how many times will you use it as a factor to get the
smallest three digit number as a product?
Answer: 7

41.) Luz made a decoration for the town fiesta. She made an equilateral triangular wire
frame and tied ribbons on the frame 2 dm apart. If there were 18 ribbons in all, what
was the perimeter of the frame?
Answer: 36 dm

42.) A kilogram of clay can make 3 small pots with 200 g of clay as left over. How many
pots can be made with 4 kg of clay?
Answer: 15

43.) The quotient when 0.36 is divided by a number is 5. What is the divisor?
Answer: .072

44.) If 2 * 4 = 10, and 3 * 5 = 13, what is 4 * 7?

Answer: 18

45.) In her rose garden, Mary has half as many white roses as red roses, 4 times as many
red ones as pink ones. There are 36 roses that are either yellow or pink. Twenty are
yellow. How many roses are there in Mary’s garden?
Answer: 132
46.) If , what is ?
Answer: 6/5

47.) Squares with side 2 cm each are placed side by side as shown. What is the ratio of
the area of the shaded parallelogram to the area of the unshaded triangles?
Answer: 1:1

48.) If 1 * 2 = 5, 3 * 5 = 13, and 2 * 7 = 16, what is 6 * 8?

Answer: 22

49.) How many 3-digit numbers have the product of their digits equal to 12?
Answer:15

50.) Luz and Raya talked for one hour and 21 minutes on the phone. They ended talking
at 1:06 a.m. What time did they start talking with each other?
Answer: 11:45 PM

Grade 6 MTAP Reviewer Set 8

1.) Two hundred teachers attended a mathematics conference. The ratio of male to
female is 2:3. How many male teachers attended the conference?
2.) Mang Ambo bought a box of cookies at Php80 and sold it Php100. What percent is
the is profit?

3.) The sum of two consecutive numbers is 87. What are the numbers?

4.) Twice a number added to 13 is equal to 27. What is the number?

5.) What is one half of one fourth of 64?

6.) The perimeter of a rectangle is 26cm. Its width is 5cm. What is its length?

7.) What is the value of in ?

8.) Maia is twice as old as Naia. In three years, the sum of their ages will be 21. How old
are both of them?
9.) Which of the following fractions is the largest
8/11, 9/12, 10/15?

10.) What is 4 ½ divided by ¾?

Answers
1.) 80 male teachers
2.) 25%
3.) 43 and 44
4.) 7
5.) 8
6.) 8 cm.
7.) 48
8.) Maia is 10, Naia is 5.
9.) 9/12
10.) 6

2015 Grade 10 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

15-second question (2 points each)
1.) What is the y-intercept of 2x + 3y = 5?
Answer: 5/3
2.) How many degrees is of a revolution?
Answer: 432°

3.) What is the vertex of the parabola with equation ?

Answer: (-1, 2)

4.) Find the value of

Answer: 2/3

5.) What’s the exact value of sin (29π/4)?

Answer:

6.) Find the value of so that is divisible by .

Answer: -1/2
7.) What is the domain of ?
Answer: (0, 1)

8.) If the sequence 1, 2/3, x is harmonic, find the value of x.

Answer: 1/2
9.) What is the x-intercept of f(x) = log(x-1)
Answer: 2
10.) The system 2x + 2y = 1 and 3x + 3y = a has infinitely many solutions for which
value of a?
Answer: 3/2
11.) What is the range of ?
Answer: (-∞, 1/7)

30-second question (3 points each)

1.) Find the area of the triangle in the first quadrant bounded by the line x/3 + y/4 = 1.
Answer: 6
2.) Find the value of a if the line ax + 2y = 1 is perpendicular to 3x – 6y = 7.
Answer: 4
3.) Find the value of so that the domain and range of are identical sets.
Answer: 3

4.) If sec θ = -13/5 and sin θ < 0, find the value of tan θ.
Answer: 12/5

5.) Assuming that and are the roots of , what is ?

Answer: -20/9

6.) Find the solutions of .

Answer: 16, 1/2

1-minute question (5 points each)

1.) How many multiples of 3 are there between 5 and 200?
Answer: 65

2.) Given that tan θ = -2, find the value of sin 2θ.
Answer: -4/5

3.) Solve:
Answer: 1/2

4.) Find the perimeter of the region in Quadrant I that is bounded by the
circle and the line .
Answer: √2+ π/2

5.) Find the remainder when is divided by

?
Answer: 49
6.) Find the real roots of given that is one root.
Answer: -1, 3
Clincher Question
1.) If secθ = 5, find the value of cos(π – θ).
Answer: -1/5

2.) What is the inverse of f(x) = (2x + 3)/(5x-1)?

Answer: y = (x + 3)/(5x – 2)

3.) x is directly proportional to y and inversely proportional to the square of z. What

happens to x if y and z are both doubled?
Answer: halved or divided by 2

Do or Die Question
What is the next term in the arithmetic sequence x + 1, 2x – 3, x + 5?

Answer: 13

2015 Grade 9 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

15-second question (2 points each)
1.) Determine all positive number x that satisfy .
Answer: x = 2

2.) What is the fourth power of ?

Answer:

3.) Simplify
Answer:

4.) If a ♠ b = , what is the value of (3 ♠ 4) ♠ 12?

Answer: 13

5.) Suppose that x, y and z are positive integers such that xy = 6, xz = 10 and yz = 15.
What is the value of xyz?
Answer: 30
6.) The yearly changes in population of a certain town for two consecutive years are 20%
increase on the first year and 20% decrease on the second year. What is the net change
in percent over the two year period?
Answer: 4% decrease

7.) What is the slope of the line parallel to 2x + 5y + 2 = 0.

Answer: -2/5
8.) The area of a triangle is 100 sq. cm. What will be its area if its altitude is increased by
10% and its base is decreased by 10%?
Answer: 99 sq. cm.

9.) The sum of two numbers is 2015. If 9 is added to each of the numbers and then each
of the resulting numbers is doubled, what is the sum of the final two numbers?
Answer: 4066

10.) A square and a triangle have the same perimeter. If the square has area 144 sq. cm.,
what is the area of the triangle?
Answer: sq cm.

11.) Let r and s be the solutions of . What is the value of ?

Answer: 5

30-second question (3 points each)

1.) If , find the sum of all numbers y that satisfies .
Answer: 1/2

2.) A man walks 1 km east then 1 km northwest. How far is he from his starting point?
Answer: 2-√2 km
3.) Four men working for four days can paint 4 cars. How many cars can 6 men working
for 6 days paint?
Answer: 9 cars

4.) The longer base of a trapezoid measures 10 cm and the line segment joining the
midpoint of the
diagonals measures 3 cm. What is the length of the shorter base?
Answer: 4 cm

5.) What is the least possible value of ?

Answer: 6, -1/4

6.) The point D is the midpoint of the side BC of equilateral triangle ABC and E is the
midpoint of AD. How long is BE if a side of ∆ABC measures 8 cm?
Answer: 2√7 cm

1-minute question (5 points each)

1.) If the roots of are twice those , what is the value of
n?
Answer: 8
2.) The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 10, 17 and 21 cm. How long is the altitude of
the triangle to longest side?
Answer:

3.) Triangle ABC is isosceles. If ∠A = 50°, what are the possible measures of ∠B?
Answer: 50°, 80°

4.) The medians AD and BE of ∆ABC are perpendicular. Find the length of AB if BC = 3
cm and AC = 4 cm.
Answer: √5 cm

5.) The product of three consecutive positive integers is 16 times their sum. What is the
sum of the three numbers?
Answer: 21

6.) Point E is on the side AC of ∆ABC and points D and F are chosen on the side AB such
that DE || BC and EF || CD. Find the length of BD if AF = FD = 3 cm.
Answer: 6 cm

Clincher Question
1.) In ∆ABC, ∠C = 30°. If D is the foot of the altitude from A to BC and E is the midpoint
of AC, find the measure of ∠EDC.
Answer: 30°

2.) One candle will burn completely at a uniform rate in 4 hours while another in 3
hours. At what time should the two candles be simultaneously lighted so that one will be
half the length of the other at 6:00 PM?
Answer: 3:36 PM

3.) Points P and Q are drawn on the sides BC and AC of triangle ABC such that ∠AQB
and ∠APB measures 110° and 80° respectively. If point R is chosen inside ∆ABC such
that AR and BR bisects ∠CAP and ∠CAQ respectively, what is the measure if ∠ARB?
Answer: 95°

Do or Die Question
Point E is the midpoint of the side BC of ∆ABC and F is the midpoint of AE. The line
thru BF intersects AC at D. Find the area of ∆AFD if the area of the triangle is 48 cm^2.

Answer: 4 cm^2

Grade 9 MTAP 2015 Elimination Questions with Solutions –

Part 1
.) Simplify
Solution
.

Rationalizing the denominator,

Answer:

2.) Evaluate
Solution

Answer: 4

3.) Simplify .
Solution
.

Answer: 5/12
4.) Simplify
Answer: I am not sure if I am on the right track because the simplified form is more
complex than the given. I will post the solution once I verified the answer.
5.) If , and are real numbers such that and , what is the value of ?
Solution

So, and .
 , so

, so

Therefore,

= = = .

Answer:
6.) If , and , what is ?
Solution
, so
, so

Since , .

Therefore,

Answer:
7.) If , what is ?

Answer:

8.) If and , for all real numbers , for what real numbers a
does ?
Solution

So,

Answer: -1
9.) Solve for in .
Solution
Squaring both sides of the equation,

Squaring both sides,

.

Answer: 36
10.) Solve for in the equation .

Solution
Multiplying both sides of the equation by

Answer: 2

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Grade 9 MTAP 2015 Elimination Questions with Solutions –

Part 2
Although reasonable care has been given to make the solution accurate as possible, the
solver is also human. Please comment below if you see any errors.
11.) If , solve for in .
Solution
Multiplying both sides by , we obtain

Squaring both sides of the equation, we get

.
Factoring, we have

So, or .

But from the given above, , so the only solution is

Answer: 9/4

12.) Evaluate .
Solution

Let

or

Answer: or
13.) Find two positive consecutive integers whose product is 506.
Solution
Let is equal to the smaller number and be the larger number.

or .

Answer: 22 and 23
14.) If and if , find the larger root of .
Solution
From the given, , so .

Simplifying, we get the two roots and .