MMC 2015 Fourth Year

____________ 1 An item was already discounted by 10% but had to be discounted by another 10 % to make
the price even more attractive to customers. Overall, by how many percent was the item
discounted?
____________ 2 If the numbers x 4, 4 x and x form an arithmetic progression, what is x?
____________ 3 Two sides of a triangle have lengths 15 and 25. If the third side is also a whole number,
what is its shortest possible length?
____________ 4 Find the equation of a line that passes through (5, 4) and is parallel to 3 x + y = 1.
____________ 5 What is the area of a triangle with sides 10, 10 and 12?
r
x+1
____________ 6 What is the domain of f ( x) = ?
x2
____________ 7 What is the inverse function of f ( x) = 3 x + 3?
____________ 8 A dormitorys 24 rooms can accommodate either one or two boarders. If at the moment
there are 39 boarders and there are no empty rooms, how many rooms are occupied by
only one boarder?
____________ 9 One liter of 10% alcohol is mixed with 3 liters of 30% alcohol. What is the percentage of
alcohol in the resulting mixture?
____________ 10 The graph of f ( x) = (a 1)2 x2 + (a 1) x + a 1 is a parabola that opens upwards for which
value/s of a?
____________ 11 The point Q is twice as far from (2, 8) as it is from (13, 5). If it lies on the segment
joining the two, what are the coordinates of Q ?
____________ 12 Two 7 7 squares overlap, forming a 7 11 rectangle. What is the area of the region in
which the two squares overlap?
____________ 13 What is the area of the circumcircle of a triangle whose sides are of length 6, 8 and 10?
____________ 14 The parallel sides of a trapezoid are of length 3 and 6 cm. If the third side measures 5 cm
and the last side is perpendicular to the first two, what is the area of the trapezoid?
53x+3
____________ 15 If 1 + x
= 252 , find x.
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____________ 16 What is the remainder when (2 x + 1)(2 x + 3)(2 x + 5) = 7 is divided by 2 x 1?
____________ 17 If there are seven points on a plane and no three of them are collinear, how many lines do
the points determine?
____________ 18 The diagonals of a rhombus measure 10 cm and 24 cm. What is the perimeter of the
rhombus?
____________ 19 Triangle ABC is right-angled at C with AB = 48 and AC = 64. The perpendicular bisector
of BC meets AC at E . What is the length of AE ?
____________ 20 A 3 by 4 picture is proportionally enlarged so that the area of the new picture is 12 times
the area of the original. What is the length of the shorter side of the enlarged picture?
____________ 21 A square whose side measures 1 cm is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the region
inside the circle but outside the square?
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____________ 22 Write as a single logarithm: 3 log2 a 4 log2 b + log2 c
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____________ 23 What is the remainder when 20142013 is divided by 9?
____________ 24 How many four-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 4 to 9 if the first digit has to
be 8, one of the digits is 9 and no digit can appear more than once?
____________ 25 What is 1 2 + 3 4 + 5 6 + + 2013 2014?
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____________ 26 Solve the inequality 32x +3x2
> 1.
____________ 27 Two non-congruent circles have centers at C 1 and C 2 . Diameter AB of circle C 1 and
diameter CD of circle C 2 are perpendicular to C 1 C 2 . If C 1 C 2 = 10, what is the area of the
quadrilateral determined by A , B, C and D ?
____________ 28 Find the area of a triangle whose vertices have coordinates (2, 3), (4, 2) and (10, 1).

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____________ 29 A jar contains only red and green balls. Ten red balls are added and the green balls now
constitute 20% of the total. In addition, ten green balls are added, making the percentage
of green balls equal to 40% of the total. How many balls were originally in the jar?
____________ 30 if p + q = 22, what is the smallest value of p2 + q2 ?
____________ 31 In the figure below, 4P AD is similar to which triangle?

P B D

____________ 32 In the figure above, P A = 4, AC = 5 and PD = 20 (not drawn to scale). What is BD ?

____________ 33 Interestingly, it is true that (3!)(5!)(7!) is equal to n!. What is n?
____________ 34 For how many positive integers n is 7 n + 1 divisible by 3 n + 5?
____________ 35 If you randomly choose two different numbers from 1 to 10, what is the probability that
one number is one more than the other?
____________ 36 A class of 30 students took two quizzes. Sixteen passed the first quiz and 20 passed the
second. If four students failed both quizzes, how many passed both?
____________ 37 What is the radius of the circle whose equation is x2 + y2 4 x + 8 y 16 = 0?
____________ 38 If (4 x ) (5 x ) = (2 x ) (7 x ), what is x?
____________ 39 Suppose x, y and z are nonzero real numbers such that x + y + z = 0. What is the value of
x x y y z z
+ + + + + ?
y z z x x y
____________ 40 If x and y are positive real numbers satisfying x + y x y, what is the smallest value of
x + y?
p p p p
____________ 41 Simplify 23 + 408 23 408.
____________ 42 In how many ways can you write 7 as the sum of 1s and 2s?
____________ 43 How many solutions does the equation log x (4 x 3) = 2 have? Here, it is understood that
the logarithm function is defined only for positive real numbers.
____________ 44 Rectangle ABCD is subdivided into four smaller rectangles by two lines, one parallel to
AB and the other parallel to AD . If the areas of three smaller rectangles are 1, 3 and 5
square units, what are the possible values for the area of rectangle ABCD ?
____________ 45 Let x = 2120 , y = 380 and z = 1030 . What is the smallest number among the three?
____________ 46 What is the minimum value of | x| + | x 1| + | x + 2|?
____________ 47 Determine all real numbers x that satisfy x2 x 3 > x2 x + 3.

____________ 48 How many real numbers satisfy x6 + | x| = 7?

____________ 49 Find all positive integers ( x, y) that satisfy x4 = y2 + 97.
1 2 3 11
____________ 50 Simplify + + ++ .
2! 3! 4! 12!