Rocket City Math League

Apollo Test Solutions

2011-2012 Round 3

1. 4(21/3)=28

28

2. This problem is asking you to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle with side lengths 4 and 12. According to the Pythagorean Theorem, A2+B2=C2, where A and B are the side lengths and C is the hypotenuse length. Therefore, 42+122=C2, and C=4 . 3. If the equation of a circle is in the form X2+Y2=R2, R is the radius. Therefore, the circle described in the problem has a radius of 8. Because the area of a circle is equal to R 2, the circle has an area of 64.

64

4. 7638=7(82)+6(8)+3=499

499

5. To calculate expected value, multiply each outcome with the probability of that outcome. Do this for every possibility, then sum together the resulting products. Therefore, your expected value for this game is 30/6+12/3=9. However, you pay $10 per turn, so your expected value per turn is -$1. 6. Let X=gallons of fuel with 10% oxygen. Therefore, 20-X=gallons of fuel with 5% oxygen. Because the total amount of oxygen in the completed fuel must equal the sum of the total oxygen in the two fuels mixed together, we arrive at 10%(X)+5%(20-X)=8%(20). 0.10X+0.05(20-X)=0.08(20), X=12. 12 gallons of the 10% oxygen fuel and 8 gallons of the 5% oxygen fuel are needed. 7. At t = 0, v(t) = 4. 42 * 4 = 168. So, v(x) = 168 (where x is the time at which the balloon pops). (6t+41)(t-4) = 0. Since we are only concerned with positive time, t = 4 is our answer. 8. det + =0 = . is . Because the graph is shifted up 16 +16, which also equals the number of square units in the area .

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9. The amplitude of units, the maximum value of the function is of the regular octagon, given by the equation .

Dividing both sides of the equation by gives , so (Note: Exclude negative solutions because our desired answer is a length, which can only be positive.) 10. The first summation can be broken down into two infinite geometric summations, one with first term 2 and common ratio 1/7 and the other with first term 1 and common ratio 4/7. Using the formula S = a/(1-r), where a is the first term and r is the common ratio, this first summation is 14/3. The second summation is the square root of the sum of the first eight positive integers. Since the sum of the first n positive integers is n(n+1)/2, this entire term (radical included) simplifies to 6. By factoring out a 3 and multiplying by , we seek In this sum, all

41/3

terms cancel out except 1 = 27. Multiply by 3 and take the square root of the square root of that product, and this entire term simplifies to 3. Thus, our answer is 14/3 + 6 + 3 = 41/3.
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