FELIZARDO C.

LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Math Competition – School Level
EASY ( 1 point each)

______________ 1. Find the next number in the sequence 1,3 8, 16, ___.
______________ 2. What is the least common multiple of 168 and 420.
______________ 3. What is larger 11/13 or 13 / 16?
______________ 4. What is the sum of ¼ + 2 /7 + ½ ?
______________ 5. What is the product of 7 3/5 and 3 ¾?
______________ 6. Find the value of x in 4x – 3 = 4x + 18.
______________ 7. What is the value of 2 x 82 −4 x 3+1?
______________ 8. If x = 2 and y = 3 What is the value of 3 x 3 y ?
______________ 9. If 3/5 of a number is 81, what is the number?
______________ 10. The sum of 3 consecutive even integers is 192. What is the largest of the three?

AVERAGE ( 2 points each)

2 2
______________ 1. Simplify: ( 2 x 3 y 2 z 4 ) divided by ( 3 x y 5 z 8 )
______________ 2. Three times a number, less 7 is 32. What is twice the number?
______________ 3. Solve for x and y : 8 x−9 y =26 ,3 x + y=1
______________ 4. If in 3 exams Joe got 90, 84 and 88, how low can his 4 th tesr be and yet his average will
still be 85?
______________ 5. Write an equation of the line through ( -2, 3) and ( 1, 4)

DIFFICULT (3 points each)

______________ 1. A salesman receives a basic salary of Php 10, 000 and a commission of 5 % on all sales.
Find his total sales in a month when he earned Php 25, 000?
______________ 2. A building casts a 7.7 m shadow at the same time that a 4 m pole casts a shadow 0f 2.2
m. How high is the building?
______________ 3. What is the sum of the prime numbers between 60 and 80 ?
______________ 4. In a triangle, one angle is twice the second, and the third angle is 20 ° less than the
second. What is the measure of largest angle?
______________ 5. A two digit number is 4 times the sum of its digits. If the digits are reversed, the number
will increase by 27. Find the number.
CONTESTANT NO : ____________

Math Competition – School Level

Grade 8
EASY ( 1 point each)
________________ 1. Three times a number increased by ten is equal to twenty less than six times the
number. Find the number
________________ 2. The difference in the measure of two supplementary angles is 102 °. Find the two
angles.
________________ 3. The average of three odd successive numbers is equal to 219. What is the largest of
the three number?
________________ 4. Simplify the following algebraic expression: 3 ( x+ 7 ) +2 (−x+ 4 ) +5 x
________________ 5. A car traveled 281 miles in 4 hours 41 minutes. What was the average speed of the
car in miles per hour?
________________ 6. The length of a rectangle is four times its width. If the area is 100 m2 what is the
length of the rectangle?
________________ 7. A six sided die rolled once. What is the probability that the number rolled is an even
number greater than 2?
________________ 8. Point A has the coordinates (2,2). What are the coordinates of its image point if it is
translated 2 units up and 5 units to the left and reflected in the x- axis?
________________ 9. Pump A can fill a tank of water in 5 hours. Pump B can fill the same tank in 8 hours.
How long does it take the two pumps working together to fill the tank?(round your answer to the nearest
min)
________________ 10. Which two angles are not supplementary?
A. 30 °∧155 ° B.5 °∧175 ° C. 89 °∧91 ° D. 23 °∧177 °

CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 8
AVERAGE ( 2 points each)

_______________1. The three-digit number 2A4 is added to 329 and gives 5B3. If 5B3 is divisible by 3,
what is the largest possible value of A?
1 1 1
_______________2. The degree measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio : : . What is the
3 4 6
measure of the largest angle?
_______________ 3. The sum of a positive even integer number and the next third even integer is equal to
150. Find the number
_______________ 4. In a group of 120 people, 90 have an age of more than 30 years and others have an age
less than 20 years. If a person is selected at random from this group, what is the probability the person’s age
is less than 20?
_______________ 5. A jar is filled with pennies and nickels in the ratio of 5 to 3 (pennies to nickels) There
are 30 nickels in the jar, how many coins are there?
CONTESTANT NO : ____________
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 8
DIFFICULT (3 points each)
_______________ 1. The rectangle below is made up of 12 congruent (same size) squares. Find the
perimeter of the rectangle if the area of the rectangle is equal to 432 square cm.

_______________ 2. A rectangular garden in Mrs. Dorothy’s house has a length of 100 meters and width of
50 meters. A square swimming pool is to be constructed inside the garden. Find the length of one side of the
swimming pool if the remaining area (not occupied by the pool) is equal to one half the area of the
rectangular garden.
_______________ 3. Mike is thinking of three positive numbers. The second number is the square of the
first number and the third number is 990 greater than the first number. The sum of the three numbers is
2013. Find the second number.
_______________ 4. A father is now 50 years old while his son is 14 years old. How many years ago was
the father five times as old as his son?
_______________ 5. In basketball, a shot can either be worth two points or three points. If the Ateneo Blue
Eagles scored 77 points and made exactly 33 shots, how many two-point shots did they make?

CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Math Competition – School Level
Grade 9
EASY ( 1 point each)
______________ 1. Simplify : √ 8 x5 y 6 z13
______________ 2. Solve for x. √ x=8
______________ 3. Identify: The vertical line through the vertex that divides the parabola into two equal
parts.
______________ 4. Find the equation of the variation where a varies jointly as b and c, and a = 36 when b =
3 and c = 4
0 −2 −1 0
4 5 6 100 1
______________ 5. Simplify: −1
2
______________ 6. Perform : 2 √ 3+ 4 √ 3−5 √3
______________ 7. Find the length of an edge of the given cube. SA = 72m2
______________ 8. In 45 °−45 °−90 ° triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is 6, what is the measure of the
other leg?
______________ 9. Given: r = 30 cm, q = 60 cm, what is m∟R?
______________ 10. This is a solution of an equation derived from original equation
however, it is not a solution of the original equation.
CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level

AVERAGE ( 2 points each)

______________ 1. Simplify:
√
______________ 2. Simplify √6 4
−64
3

x6

______________ 3. Simplify 20√ 32 m15 n5

______________ 4. Solve for x √3 x+ 2=3
______________ 5. A map is drawn to the scale of 1 cm : 150 m. If the distance between towns A and B
measures 8.5 cm on the map, determine the approximate distance between these towns.

CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 9
DIFFICULT (3 points each)

______________ 1. What are the dimensions of the largest rectangular field that can be enclosed with 100 m
of wire?
______________ 2. −3 √ x+2=x−16 S O
______________ 3. Find SO = ________ TF = _________
ST = _________ OF = _______ T F

______________ 4. Rewrite f ( x )=x 2−4 x−10∈the form f ( x )=a ( x −h )2 +k

______________ 5. Find the zeros of the quadratic function f ( x )=x 2 + x−12 using the quadratic formula.

CONTESTANT NO : ____________
 FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 10
EASY ( 1 point each)

______________ 1. Give the common ratio in the arithmetic sequence 243, 81, 27, 9…
______________ 2. The leading coefficient of the polynomial 5 x 10+ 4 x 12+ 4 x 6+ x 4−x is ____
______________ 3. What is the quotient when x 2−25 is divided by x – 5?
______________ 4. What is the remainder when 5 x 100 +5 is divided by x – 1?
______________ 5. What should n be if f ( x )=x n defines a polynomial?
______________ 6. In the set of scores: 14, 17, 10, 22, 19, 24, 8, 12 and 19, the median score is ____.
______________ 7. How many positive real roots does x 4 −x3 −11 x 2 +9 x+18 have?
______________ 8. Five points on a circle separate the circle into five congruent arcs. What is the degree
measure of each arc?
3 3
______________ 9. What is the 5th term of the geometric sequence , , 15 , …?
20 2
r
______________ 10. If r =2 x 3 +4 x2 −x−6∧s=x−2. What is ?
s

CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 10

AVERAGE ( 2 points each)

______________ 1. Find the value of x if the geometric mean of 2x and 19x – 2 is 7x – 2.

______________ 2. One of the roots of polynomial equation 2 x3 + 9 x 2−33 x +14=0 is2. Find the other
roots.
______________ 3. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word PASS.
______________ 4. Out of seven consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels
can be formed?
______________ 5. Factor 8 x 3−729 completely.
CONTESTANT NO : ____________

FELIZARDO C. LIPANA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

S.Y. 2017-2018
Math Competition – School Level
Grade 10
DIFFICULT (3 points each)

______________ 1. Factor (x + y + z)3−x 3 − y 3−z 3

______________ 2. At School X, the probability that a student takes Statistics and Geometry is 0.36. The
probability that a student takes Statistics is 0.63. What is the probability that a student takes Geometry given
that the student is taking Statistics?
______________ 3. If there are 23 terms in the expansion of ( a−2 )3 k−5 , the value of k is _____.
______________ 4. From a 52 cards, a 5 card hand is dealt. How many distinct hands can be formed if there
are at most 2 queens?
______________ 5. Carl’s basketball shooting records indicate that the probability that he will score in a
two-point shoot is 30%, a three-point shoot, 45%, and neither, 25%. What is the probability that he will
score either in a two-point or in a three-point shoot?