XTRA MATH CHALLENGE

2010-2011
15 – Seconds

1. The starting salary at Peterson Manufacturing is Php12 000.00, with raises of Php450.00
every 6 months. If you’ll apply in January, 2011, what will be your salary after 3 years?

Answer: [ S = a + nd = Php12, 000 + 6(450) = Php14, 700.00 ]

2. Mang Tibo, the gardener was asked to plant ornamentals around a 12 m by 8 m vegetable garden.
If the distance between ornamental plants is 4 m, how many plants are needed to enclose the garden?
Answer: [ 10 ]

3. How many positive integers not exceeding 100 are divisible by 3 or 5?

Answer: [ 100/3 + 100/5 – 100/15 = 33 + 20 – 6 = 47 ].

4. If the exterior angle adjacent to a base angle of an isosceles triangle is 105o, find the measure of its
vertex angle.
Answer: 30o

5. What is the range of the function y  2 x 2  x  1 ?

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Answer: [ y  ]
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6. The length of one side of a cube is (3x − 2) cm. What is its volume?
Answer: [(3x − 2)3 = (27x3 − 54x2 + 36x − 8)] cu cm.

7. If log b 2  a, log b 3  c, and log b 10  k , what is the value of log b 15 ?

Answer: [ c + k – a ]

8. In parallelogram ABCD, if measure of B exceeds measure of A by 50o, what is the

measure of B ?
Answer: m B = 115o

9. A wheel of radius 8 cm. made 7 complete revolutions. Find the distance traveled by a point on
the rim of the wheel in terms of  .
Answer: 112  cm

10. What is the line of symmetry of the quadratic function f ( x)  3 x 2  5 x  4 ?

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Answer: x 
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11. You’ve invested Php1500.00 to start a business selling painted t-shirts. You sell each
t-shirt for Php125.00. At least how many t-shirts must you sell to make a profit?
Answer: [ 13 t-shirts. - 12 t-shirts is the break-even point ]

12. Mary and Flor are making garlands. Mary makes 3 for every 5 that Flor makes. If together they
finish 176, how many garlands does each girl make?
Answer: Mary, 66 ; Flor, 110
30-seconds. Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0. Use  = 3.14.
1. A chord of a circle is 18 cm long. If its diameter is 30 cm, how far from the center of the
said circle is the chord?
Answer: [ 12 cm ]

2. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two numbers namely 250 and 850 are removed, what
is the arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers?
Answer: 42.3
3. The time t it takes you to hear thunder varies directly with your distance d from the lightning.
If you are 2 miles from where lightning strikes, you will hear thunder about 10 seconds after
you see the lightning. Write an equation for the relationship between time and distance and
with this relation about how far are you from lightning if you hear thunder 7 seconds after you
see lightning?
Answer: [ t = 5d ; 7 = 5d or d = 1.4 miles ]

4. Nicholas is a waiter at the Blue Dolphin Restaurant. He works a 6-day, 30-hour week. Nicholas
earns $4.95 an hour and averages $28 a day in tips. How much is his weekly earnings?
Answer : [ 30 x $4.95 + 6 x $28 = $148.50 + $168 = $ 316.50. ]

5. From a circular cartolina of radius 12 cm, the largest possible square is to be cut. What area of the
cartolina is wasted?
Answer: [ 452.16 – 288 = 164.16 sq cm ]

6. An item is now on sale for Php260.00 at 20% reduction. What is its original price?
Answer: [ Php325.00 ]

7. A mother is now three times as old as her daughter. In four years the mother will be four times as
old as the daughter was two years ago. How old are they now?
Answer: [ daughter, 12 yrs old; mother, 36 yrs old ]

8. How many 3-digit even numbers can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3 if no repetition of the
digits is allowed?
Answer: 10

9. For what values of x is 6 x 2  13 x  5 a real number?

1 5
Answer: x  or x  .
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10. Two chords AB and CD produced met at K. If KAD = 31o and AKC = 42o,
find the measure of KBC .
Answer: [ 107o ]
11. One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another pipe can fill the same tank in 4 hours. A drainpipe
can empty the full content of the tank in 20 hours. With all the three pipes open, how long will
it take to fill the tank?
Answer: [ 1/5 t + ¼ t – 1/20 t = 2.5 hours. ]
12. Find the solution set of the equation 3 x  3  x  4 .
log(2  5 )
Answer: [x = ]
log 3
* 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 ]

60 – seconds . Give linear equations in the form ax + by + c = 0.

1. A school has 12 good players of which 4 are girls. If two are chosen at random to represent
the school, what is the probability that both are boys?
Answer : [ 14/33 ]

2. The Great Pyramid of Egypt was built about 2580 B.C. At the time it was built, its height was
about 481 ft. Each edge of the square base was about 756 ft. long. What was the lateral area
of the pyrami?
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Answer: [ L.A.= (4 x756)(611 .756) = 924974.57 or 925,000 sq ft. ]
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3. A ball is dropped from a height of 36 m. Each time it strikes the ground it rebounds to a height of
two-thirds of the distance from which it fell. Find the total distance traveled by the ball before it
comes to rest.
Answer: [ S = 36 + 2(72) = 180 m. ]

4. How many codes of at least 3 letters can be formed from the word HAPPY ?
Answer : [ 3 l: 33, 4 l: 60, 5 l: 60 = 153 ]

5. How soon after 12:00 midnight will the hands of a clock form a right angle figure?
Answer: [ In 16 4/11 min ]
90 – seconds
6. The 8th term of an arithmetic progression is 26. If the 20 th term is 62, what is the 40th
term of the progression ?
[ 122 ]

* In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on brand preferences, 120 were found to prefer
brand x only, 200 persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer brand z only, 370 prefer either
brand x or y but nor z, 450 prefer brand y or z but not x, and 370 prefer either z or x but not y,
and none prefer all the three brands at a time. How many persons have no brand preference with
any of the three brands?
Answer: [ 1000 – ( 120 + 200 +150+50+100+100) = 280 ].

*Determine all three-digit numbers N having the property that N is divisible by 11, and N/11 is
equal to the sum of the squares of the digits of N.
Answers: [ 550 and 803 ]
4. 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

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

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

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

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.