Preparations for the FIS Competition (Math Category) Questions: 1.

The operation is defined by x y = 4x 3y + xy for all real numbers x and y. For how many real numbers y does 3 y = 12? 2. What is the probability that a randomly chosen divisor of 2025 is divisible by 5? 3. Three mutually tangent spheres of radius 1 rest on a horizontal plane. A sphere of radius 2 rests on the top of them. What is the distance from the plane to the top of the larger sphere? 4. On the show You can win $1000, you are given the lines y = 13x 1 and y = 10x + b. If you choose b so that the intersection of the two lines has y-coordinate equal to 1000, then you win. What value of b should you choose? 5. With one game remaining in the season, the baseball team had won 1/10 of their games. They won their last game, and thereby ended up winning 1/9 of their games for the season. How many games did they play in the season? 6. A function has the property that f(xy) = f(x) + f(y) for any two numbers x and y. If f(10) = 6 and f(20) = 10, compute the value of f(25). 7. A kind farmer puts on a plate consisting of 2011 kernels of corn. On that first day, one bird flies in and eats one kernel. On the second day, two birds fly in and eat one kernel each. On the third day, three birds eat one kernel each, and so on. On some fateful day, there are not enough kernels left for each bird. On that day, how many kernels are on the plate? 8. An equilateral triangle ABC has area 1. Erect an (exterior) square on each side of ABC. The six vertices of these three squares that do not coincide with a vertex of ABC form a convex hexagon. What is the area of this hexagon? 9. Andrew and Jordan play until one of them wins 5 games. The winner is the one that will win 5 games. The probability that Andrew will win each game is 2 3 and the probability that Jordan will win each game is 1 3 . What is the probability that the overall winner is determined in exactly 7 games? 10. Find the thirteenth digit from right to left of 50! 11. Find the area of the region in the xy plane {( x , y ) 2 : x y x y 2}. 12. A glass box 7 in by 12 in by 18 in, closed on all sides, is partly filled with colored water. When the box is placed on one of its 7 by 12 sides, the water level is 15 in above the table. What will be boxs water level above the table be when it is placed on one of its 7 by 8 sides? 13. A circle of radius 2 cm is inscribed in an equilateral triangle, which is inscribed in another circle. What is the diameter of the larger circle?

14. It takes Amanda 2 hours and 3 minutes to paint the walls in her room. She asked her roommate to help her. It would only take them 41 minutes working together to paint their room. If Amanda gets ill on painting day, how long will it take her roommate to paint the entire room by herself? 15. The cross-section of a river bed is a parabola 40 meters wide with a maximum depth of 4 meters. Ships traveling down the river need to use river markers so as not to run ashore when passing one another. At what distance from the bank would you put the markers in order to mark where the depth is 3 meters?