11th Regional Student Conference

2015 RMW QUESTIONS

September 18, 2015

1. Simplify: tan(1°)×tan(2°)×tan(3°)×…×tan(87°)×tan(88°)×tan(89°).
2. Suppose a drawer contains 8 red pairs of socks, 6 green pairs, and 4 blue pairs,
scrambled. How many socks must be drawn out, all at once (in the dark), to be
certain of getting a matching pair?
3. A man has 2 dozen bottles. In the first bottle, he put 1 grain; in the second, he put 2
grains; in the third, 4 grains; and so on up to the last bottle. How many grains in all
are there?
4. In how many ways can the word “bazooka” be arranged so that the two o’s must
not be together?
5. An airplane is approaching point A along a straight line and at a constant altitude
h. At 10:00 AM, the angle of elevation of the airplane is 20° and at 10:01 it is 60°.
What is the altitude h of the airplane if the speed of the airplane is constant and
equal to 600 miles/hour? (Round answer to two decimal places.)
6. When the top T of a mountain is viewed from point A, 2000 m from ground, the
angle of depression of a is equal to 15° and when it is viewed from point B on the
ground the angle of elevation b is 10°. If points A and B are on the same vertical
line, find the height h of the mountain. (Round answer to one decimal place.)
7. He is the Scottish mathematician and theological writer who devised logarithm, a
method of facilitating computations. He began working on logarithms as early as
1594, gradually elaborating his computational system whereby roots, products,
and quotients could be quickly determined from tables showing powers of a fixed
number used as a base.
8. What is the ones digit when 6 + 6666 is expanded?
.
..
xx

9. Solve for x: x xx
2
10. How many real numbers satisfy the equation x  2 ?
2 x

11. There are three garage that have the following signs:
First Garage: “The Lamborghini is inside.”
Second Garage: “The Lamborghini is not inside.”
Third Garage: “The Lamborghini is not in 1.”
On what garage is the Lamborghini located?
12. Solve for x: x  4 x  8 x  8  0 .
3 2

13. The angle of elevation of a hot air balloon, climbing vertically, changes from 25
degrees at 10:00 AM to 60 degrees at 10:02 AM. The point of observation of the
angle of elevation is situated 300 meters away from the take off point. What is the
upward speed, assumed constant, of the balloon? Give the answer in meters per
second and round to two decimal places.
14. In a group of five friends, the sums of the ages of each group of four of them are
124, 128, 130, 136, and 142. What is the age of the youngest?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
15. What is of of of of of of of of of 1000?
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
ANSWER KEY:

1. 1
2. 4
3.16777215
4. 900
5. 4.61 miles
6. 793.77 m
7. John Napier
8. 2
9. √2
10. 3
11. Second Garage
12. -2, -1 + i√3 and -1 - i√3
13. 3.16 m/s
14. 23
15. 100