MTAP IV- Elimination Round

Direction: Express all answer in lowest term.

Time: 1hour
A. Easy (1point each)
1. Evaluate:
2. What is the numerical coefficient of
in the expansion of
?
3. What is the greatest integer function of 4.9?
4. The length of a rectangle is 5 more than twice the width. If the perimeter is 58cm. What is the area of the
rectangle?
5. What is the remainder if x302 2x11 + 3x2 + 1 is divided by x 1?
6. If 5x+2 + 5x+1 + 5x = 3875, find x.
7. Four times what number will give the same result as 18 times 22.
8. If x2+y2 = 9 and xy = 5, what is (x+y)2?
108 27 12
9. Simplify:
10. The mean of 7 consecutive odd numbers is 133. What is the smallest of them?
12 50
11. Simplify:
12. If a, 5a, 6a+9 are in arithmetic progression, find the 3 terms
13. What is cos(19/3)?
14. The 4th term of a geometric sequence is 6 and the 9th term is 1458. Find the common ratio.
15. Find the sum of 4 + 8 + 12 + 100
16. What is the value of 4-3/2?
17. Write 53x/4 = y in logarithmic form.
18. What is the equation of the line passing through (-3, -5) and is parallel to the x-axis?
19. If kx + 3y = 1 is parallel to 4x y = 8, what is k?
20. If y = 2x2 8x + 3 is written in the form y = a(x+h)2 + k, what is k?

B. Difficult (2points)
1. Simplify:
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

If
. What is the value of
Factor completely:
.
How many squares are there in a standard chessboard?
Find 6 consecutive odd integers whose sum is 12?
Find a quadratic equation with integral coefficients if one root of quadratic equation is
2 x 3 x 2 2 0
7. Solve for x:
.
8. Change 2.227272727. into fraction form.
9. What is the largest number of diagonals can be drawn in 12-sided polygon?

10. What is the domain of y =

2 x 2 5 x 12

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Answer Key:
Easy:
1. 133
2. 56
3. 4
4. 168 cm squared
5. 3
6. 3
7. 99
8. 19
9. Sqrt of 3
10. 127
6
11. [10
]
12. [3, 15, 27]
13.
14. 3
15. 1300
16. 1/8
17. [log5y = 3x/4]
18. [ y = -5 or y + 5 = 0 ]
19. -12
20. -5
Difficult:
(1+21)/2
47
(x^2 + 4x +8)(x^2 -4x + 8)
204
[ -3, -1, 1, 3, 5, 7 ]
x^2 6x + 7
[ 3, 11 ]
49/22
54
10. [x -3/2 or x 4]
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