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Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge

2019 National Finals - Team Oral Competition - Grade 10

15-second questions (2 points each)

Directions: All problems must be solved mentally. Anyone caught solving in any medium will have their
answer discouraged.

1. If 2a = 5, what is 4a+2 ?

Answer: 400

2. The legs of a right triangle are 6 and 12 cm long. What is the area of the circle that circumscribes
the triangle?

Answer: 45π cm2

3. Find the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola y = 2x2 + 4x − 3.

Answer: (−1, −5)

2
4. Let g1 + g2 + g3 + ... be an infinite geometric sequence whose ratio is 3. If g3 = 4, what is the sum
of the series?

Answer: 27

5. What is the radius of the circle with equation x2 + y 2 − 6y = 3?


√
Answer: 2 3 units

6. A line has slope -2 and passes through the point (1, 4). Find an equation of the line.

Answer: 2x + y = 6

7. In an arithmetic sequence, the sum of the first four terms is 20, while that of the first 7 terms is
47. What is the sixth term of the sequence?

Answer: 9

8. Given two parabolas, what are the possible number of points of intersection of these parabolas?

Answer: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and infinite

9. Jose, and his younger brother Pepe, can clean their house together in 3 hours. Working alone, Jose
can clean 49 of the house in 2 hours. How long will it take Pepe to clean the house alone?

Answer: 9 hours

10. What is the probability of getting exactly two heads in flipping a fair coin four times?

3
Answer: 8

11. List down all numbers x such that x2 + 4x2 + 9x2 = 9 + 36 + 81.

Answer: x = −3, 3

30-second questions (3 points each)

Directions: Scratch papers will be provided for this round. Contestants may begin solving as soon as
the question has been read.

1. The zeros of the third-degree polynomial P (x) are -2, 1, and 3. If P (−1) = 16, what is P (4)?

Answer: 36

2. In a standard deck of playing cards, a full house is a hand of five cards consisting of 3 cards of the
same rank and a pair of cards of the same rank. How many full houses are possible?

Answer: 3744

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3. Two vertical poles, one is 6 m high and the other 9 m, are erected 10 m away from each other. A
taut wire runs from the top of one pole to an anchor on the ground between the poles and then to the top
of the other pole. What is the least possible length of the wire?
√
Answer: 5 13 m

4. If 2, a, b, 8 are consecutive terms of a harmonic sequence, what is a + b?

20
Answer: 3

5. What is the least 5-digit number that is divisible by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?

Answer: 10080
n n+1
 
6. Solve for n in 11 2 =3 3 .

Answer: 10

1-minute questions (5 points each)

Directions: Slips of paper containing the questions will be given to the contestants. The slips can be
opened once the quizmaster starts to read the question.

1. The parabola y = −2x2 + 3x + c intersects the line y = c(1 − x) at exactly one point. Find the co-
ordinates of this point.

Answer: (0, −3)

2. How many three digit numbers, greater than 500, have at least two of their digits the same?

Answer: 139

3. Let a1 , a2 , ... be an arithmetic sequence. If ap = q and aq = p where p < q, what is apq ?

Answer: p + q − pq

4. The points (0, 2), (0, −4), and (3, 5) lie on a circle. Find the radius of this circle.
√
Answer: 3 5 units

5. Triangle ABC is isosceles with AB = BC = 12 cm. Side AC is extended to a point D such that
AC = CD. Let E be the midpoint of AB, and let DE intersect BC at F . Find CF .

Answer: 4 cm

6. A rectangular prism with length 12 cm, width 8 cm, and height 10 cm, was painted black and was
cut into cubes 2 cm in length, and were placed in a bag. If three cubes were randomly picked, what is the
probability that all cubes have three faces painted?

1
Answer: 5015

Clincher Questions

5
10.C.1. One number is three times another number, and their sum is 2. By how much does the larger
number exceed the smaller number?

5
Answer: 4

10.C.2. If 10x2 + 58x + 84 = A(x + 3)2 + B(x + 1) + C for all x, what is a + b + c?

Answer: 4

10.C.3. A rectangle is inscribed in a circle. If the ratio of the length to the width of the rectangle is
5:2, what is the ratio of the area of the rectangle to that of the circle?

Answer: 40 : 29π

Do-or-Die Question

D.O.D. If (1681 + 2401)(961 + 1369) = (1517 + a)2 + (1271 − 1813)2 , where a is a positive number, find a.

Answer: 1519

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