MMC 2016

Regional Level, Category B

February 19, 2016

Disclaimer: inexact wording, may not be 100% accurate. I can vouch wording for grade 6 is pretty accurate.
If you have any corrections or additions, please contact me at cjquines@yahoo.com, or through my Facebook
account, Carl Joshua Quines. It is hoped that an official copy will be released in the near future, but MMC did not
release a copy of the regional questions last year, so. . .
Grade 6.
E1. The sum of three consecutive whole numbers is 99. The largest number in the sum is 34. What is the smallest
number is this sum?
[32]
E2. Twenty poles are placed in a straight line. The distance between any two consecutive poles is 3 m. What is
the distance between the first and the tenth pole?
[27 m]
E3. Two circles have a common center. The radius of the larger circle is 7 cm and the radius of the smaller circle
is 3 cm. What is the area between them? Give your answer in terms of .
[40 sq. cm]
E4. In the number 500500 how many times greater is the value of the leftmost 5 than the value of the rightmost 5?
[1000]
E5. What is the value of (1 2016) + (2 2016) + (3 2016) + (4 2016)?

[20160]

E6. When a certain number is divided by 8, the quotient is 4 and the remainder is 2. What is the number? [34]
E7. How many prime numbers are factors of 30?

[3]

E8. On a sheet of paper, a line is drawn through the center of a square drawn on the paper. How many times
does this line intersect the sides of the square?
[2]
E9. In what month does the one hundredth day of the year occur?
E10. What number should be on the blank? 1 2 3 4 5 6 = 2 12 .
A1. How many of the integers from 2 to 999 are squares of whole numbers?

[April]
[30]
[30]

A2. My dog was 120 m from home and my cat was 70 m from home. I called them and they both ran directly
toward me. If my dog ran twice as fast as my cat, how far from home was my cat when my dog reached
home?
[10 m]
A3. What is the fewest number of squares each with a perimeter of 4 cm that will completely cover a square with
a side of 4 cm?
[16]
A4. If 10% of 10% of a certain number is 2, what is the number?

[200]

A5. Rick multiplied his age by 2, added 20, divided by 2, and then subtracted his age. What number did Rick
finally get?
[10]

D1. A circle and a square intersect so that two sides of the square are radii of the circle. If a side of the square is
3 cm, what is the area of the region inside the square but outside the circle?
[9 9
4 sq. cm]
D2. Lloyd was born 6 14 years after Alex. The sum of their ages is 66 11
12 years. How old is Alex?

7
[36 12
years]

D3. On a shelf, 38 of the books are geometry, 13 of the remaining books are algebra, and the rest are statistics. If
there are ten statistics books, find the total number of books on the shelf.
[24]
D4. A ferris wheel can accommodate 60 people in 20 minutes. How many people can ride the ferris wheel in 4
hours?
[720 people]
D5. If the month of July has 5 Tuesdays, and three of them fall on even-numbered days, what is the date of the
third Tuesday in July?
[July 16]
C1. A whole number is greater than 20 and less than 2000. What is the smallest possible value of the sum of all
its digits?
[1]
C2. In a list of 200 numbers, each number after the first number is 4 more than the number that comes before it.
What is the difference between the first and the last number of this list?
[796]
C3. The base of a triangular prism is a right triangle with legs 3 cm and 4 cm, respectively. If the height of the
prism is 5 cm, what is its total surface area?
[72 sq. cm]
DoD. Rica owns 3 houses and makes money by renting them out. She charges 3 times as much per month for the
second house than the first. The monthly rent for the third house is 18000 pesos less than the sum of the
monthly rents for the first two houses. The first house was vacant for five months, but otherwise rents were
received every month from the tenants of the three houses. Rica had a total rent receipt of 603,000 pesos for
the year. How much per month was the rent of the third house?
[18000 pesos]
Grade 10.1
E1. The first term and common ratio of a geometric sequence is 2016 and
term?

1
2

respectively. What is the fourth

[252]

E2. The area of the circle circumscribing a right triangle is 45 sq. cm. Find the hypotenuse of the triangle.

[6 5 cm]
E3. What is the vertex of the parabola y = (x + 4)(2 x)?

[(1, 9)]
15
[ 32
]

E4. Find the remainder when x5 x is divided by 2x + 1.

E5. In a circle, 2 internal chords divide each other into 2 segments. One segment of a chord is 3 cm and 8 cm.
While the other segment of the second chord is 2 cm longer than the other. Find the length of the second
chord.
[10 cm]

E6. If x and y are positive numbers such that x2 + y 2 = 8 and xy = 2, find x + y.

[2 3]
E7. A circle passes through (0, 0), (6, 0) and (0, 5). What is the center of the circle?
E8. What is the largest value of x that satisfies the inequality 3x2 + x3 0?
E9. The graph of the function f (x) = a(x + 1)3 passes through the point (1, 4). What is f (3)?
E10. Simplify (102 98) (105 95).
A1. The geometric mean and harmonic mean of two numbers are 6 and

Hindi ako bitter. Bitter na bitter ako. De joke, congrats sa Philippine Science HS.

[(3, 52 )]
[0]
[32]
[21]

72
13 .

What is the sum of the two numbers?

[13]

A2. Two sides of a triangle are 8 cm and 10 cm, and the angle between them is 60 . Find the perimeter
of the
triangle.
[18 + 2 21 cm]
A3. If one root of 2x3 + 3x2 = 5x + k is 1, find the other roots.
A4. Two opposite vertices of a square lie at (0, 4) and (7, 3). Find the other vertices.

A5. Solve for x in the equation 3 + x = 3x 11

[ 23 and 2]
[(3, 0), (4, 7)]
[25]

D1. A tank contains 150 L of mango puree and 50 L of water. Then 40 L of the mixture is removed and is
replaced by 40 L of water. What is the percentage of mango puree in the final mixture?
[60%]
D2. Find the point on the x-axis equidistant to the points (8, 1) and (0, 5).

[( 52 , 0)]

D3. A third-degree polynomial satisfies P (0) = 3 and P (1) = 4. When P (x) is divided by x2 + x + 1 the
remainder is 2x 1. In the same division, what is the quotient?
[3x 2]
D4. In how many ways can 3 distinct numbers be chosen from the set {1, 2, 3, . . . , 10} such that the sum of the
numbers is odd?
[60]
D5. Find the sum of all 3-digit odd positive integers.

[247500]