Math Contest, Fall 2003 BC EXAM 1.

Given a+
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= 3 for a = 0, nd all possible values of

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2. The area of a rectangle is 192 square feet. If the width is width of the rectangle in feet? 3. Simplify ((((72 )4 )0 )3 )5 .

of the length, what is the

4. A circle with diameter AC is shown below. AB forms the diameter of an upper semicircle and BC forms the diameter of a lower semi-circle. If BC=2(AB), nd the probability that a point chosen at random in the circle lies either in the region I or in region II.

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III II

5. In the gure below, DE and DF are perpendicular to AB and BC respectively. If AD = 15 cm, DE = 10 cm and DF = 12 cm, nd the perimeter of parallelogram ABCD in centimeters.
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6. ABCD is a rhombus with A = 30 . If the area of the rhombus is x cm perimeter of the rhombus is x cm, nd x in centimeters.

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7. When a number is divided by 5, the remainder is 2. What is the remainder when the number is multiplied by 8 and then divided by 5?

8. A box contains a total of 19 beads of four dierent colors. If 2 red beads are added, 3 blue beads removed, the number of green beads doubled and the number of yellow beads halved, the box would contain the same number of beads of each color. How many red beads were originally in the box? 9. In the gure below, QAB is a quarter circle of radius 7 and QA and QB form the diameters of intersecting semi-circles. Find the sum of the areas of region I and region III.
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10. Mrs. Smith used 90 red, 105 blue and 120 white owers to make bouquets (all owers were used!). Each bouquet had the same number of red, blue and white owers. What is the largest number of bouquets that she could have made? 11. Find the largest integer a for which (x a)(x 10) + 1 can be expressed in the form (x + b)(x + c) for integers b and c. 12. Let and be solutions of the quadratic equation x2 + bx + 3 = 0. Find all values of b such that 2 + 2 = 3. 13. Consider a linear function f (x) = mx + b. Let f (1) = 2 and f (3) = 5. What is the change in the value of the function if the change in x is 4?

14. Two distinct numbers are chosen at random from the collection {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. What is the probability that the smaller number divided by the larger number is a terminating decimal? Express your answer as a common fraction.

15. A four-digit number is chosen at random from all four-digit numbers. What is the probability that the number is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 5? Express your answer as a common fraction.

16. Three vertices of a parallelogram have coordinates (3, 1), (2, 5) and (4, 1). The remaining vertex lies in the third quadrant. Find the sum of the coordinates of the remaining vertex.

17. Three nested squares are shown in the gure below. Find the ratio of the area of the smallest square to the area of the largest square. Express your answer as a common fraction.
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18. The parabola y = x2 is translated along the x-axis so that it passes through the point (3, 2). Find the equation of the resulting curve, choosing the one furthest to the right should there be more than one such translate.

19. Kirby and Hasse drove their truck from College Station to Brenham for some ice cream. Their average speed to Brenham was 1.5 times their average speed on the return trip from Brenham to College Station. The average speed for their entire trip was 60 mph. What was their average speed on the return trip in miles per hour?