XTRA MATH CHALLENGE

2009-2010
15 – SECONDS

1. Mr. Santos borrowed Php 30,000.00 last December 5, 2008, and paid it back with 5% rate of
interest on December 5, 2009. How much did he pay?
Answer : Php 31, 500.00

2. What is the domain of the function y  log( x 2  4 x  5) ?

Answer: x <5 or x>−1

3. The length of one side of a cube is (2x+3) cm. What is its total surface area?
Answer: 6(2x+3)2 = (24x2+72x+54) sq cm.

4. You are asked to cut a 20-cm long stick into 10 equal lengths. How long will it take you if each
cut takes 3 seconds?
Answer: 27 seconds

5. If the exterior angle adjacent to a base angle of an isosceles triangle is 115o, find the vertex angle.
Answer: 50o

6. A wheel of diameter 8 cm. makes 5 revolutions. Find the distance traveled by a point on the rim of
the wheel in terms of  .
Answer: 40  cm

7. What is the line of symmetry of the quadratic function f ( x )  2 x 2  3 x  1 ?

3
Answer: x 
4
8. The faces of a big cube are painted. Then, the cube is cut into 125 unit cubes. How many of the unit
cubes have two painted faces each?
Answer: 36

9. What should be the value of a so that the lines y  6 x  3 and 2 y  ax  6  0 coincide?

Answer: a = −12.

10. How many numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3 if no repetition of the digits is allowed?
Answer: 15

11. A piece of cartolina is 54 cm by 45 cm. What is the least number of squares into which it can be
cut without any material being wasted?
Answer: 30

12. An item is marked Php 340.00. If bought at 15% discount , how much will be saved by a customer?
Answer: Php 51.00

13. If a line intersects the circle x 2  y 2  16 at (x, −2) in the 4th quadrant, what is the value of x?
Answer: 2 3 .
14. On a Quiz Show, each question is worth four times as much as the previous question. The fourth
question is worth Php1,600.00. How much was the first question worth?
Answer: Php25.00

15. A chord of a circle is 24 cm long. If it is 9 cm from the center, how long is the diameter of the
circle?
Answer: 15 cm.

30-seconds. Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0.

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1. Robert said, “I have twice as many sisters as brothers”. His sister Tina said, “ of my brothers and
5
sisters are boys.” How many children are there in the family?
Answer: 16

2. Aling Auring bought 12 dozen oranges at Php 45.00 per dozen. She found 18 bad oranges, and she
sold the rest of them at 6 oranges for Php25.00. Did she gain or lose? by how much?
Answer: Aling Auring lost by Php15.00

3. For what values of x is 4 x 2  4 x  15 a real number?

5 3
Answer: x  or x  .
2 2

4. Find the value of k so that 3 is a zero of the function f(x) = 5 x 3  15 x 2  kx  21 .

Answer: −7

5. A side of a rhombus is 15 cm. If one angle measures 60o, find the measures of the lengths of the
diagonals.
Answers: 15 cm. and 15 3 cm

6. If P ( ) lies on the line joining the origin and the point (−3, −4), what is cos  ?
Answer: - 3/5

7. A and B have coordinates −16 and 10 respectively. What is the coordinate of x if it is 4 units
farther from A as from B on the number line?
Answer: 5

8. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. If the digits are reversed, the number is increased
by 18. What is the number?
Answer: 68

9. How many degrees is the smaller angle between the hands of a clock at 7:15 AM?
Answer: 127.5o

10. Four mathematics contestants and three judges in a math contest are posing for a pictorial. In how
many ways can a photographer arrange them if the judges are to stand next to each other?
Answer: 5!3! or 720 ways
60 – seconds . Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0.
1. Solve for x: 6 2 x 5  27 x (2 x 10 )
Answer: 5

2. Find the inverse of the function f ( x)  x 2  3x  2 .

3 4x  1
Answer: f 1 ( x ) 
2

3. Find the equation of the locus of a point which moves so that it is always equidistant from points
A(4, - 1 ) and B( - 3, 5).
Answer: 14x – 12y + 17 = 0.

4. Mang Juan wants to enclose his rectangular garden. One side of his garden is against a wall. For
the other sides he has 300 meters of fencing materials available. Give the dimensions of the largest
possible area that he can enclose and what is the area of the enclosed garden?
Answer: w = 75 m, l = 150 m , A = 11,250 sq m.

5. For what values of x is the polynomial function P( x)  x 3  x 2  x  1, below the x- axis?

Answer: x  1

6. Two opposite sides of a square were increased by 6 cm. The other two opposite sides were
decreased by 6 cm. By how much was the area changed?
Answer: It decreased by 36 sq cm.

7. Using the digits 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 what two-digit number and three-digit number can be formed
whose product is the smallest?
Answer: 25 and 367

8. Php1,200 is to be divided among 4 sisters so that each gets 100 pesos more than her next younger
sister. How much will the youngest sister get?
Answer: Php 150.00