Let f be a polynomial such that f (x2+ 1) =x4+ 4x2. Determine f (x2- 1).

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What is the value of sin1/cos89? 1

Given a square ABCD with side 1, all squares are drawn that share at least two vertices with ABCD. What is the area of the region obtained by stretching a rubber band around the squares? 7

The sum of five consecutive integers is equal to the sum of the next three consecutive integers. What is the greatest of these eight numbers? 11 Thomas was born on his mothers 20thbirthday, and so they share birthdays. How many times will Thomass age be a divisor of his mothers age if they both live long lives? 6 Consider a sphere of radius 3 with centre at the origin of a Cartesian co-ordinate system. How many points on the surface of this sphere have integer co-ordinates? 30 What is the measure of the acute angles of a rhombus, if its side is the geometrical mean of the diagonals? 30 For how many real numbers a does the quadratic x2 +ax+2007=0 have two integer roots? 6
On a party, five friends are going to give each other gifts in such a way that everybody gives one gift and receives one gift (of course, no one should receive their own gift). In how many ways is this possible? 44

The increasing sequence 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, ... includes all the powers of 3 and all the numbers that can be written as the sum of different powers of 3. What is the 100th element of the sequence? 981
Ann, Belinda and Charles are throwing a die. Ann wins if she throws a 1, 2, or 3; Belinda wins if she throws a 4 or 5; Charles wins if he throws a 6. The die rotates from Ann to Belinda to Charles to Ann, etc. , until one player wins. Calculate the probability that Charles wins? 1/13

In a list of five numbers, the first number is 2 and the last number is 12. The product of the first three numbers is 30, the product of the three in the middle is 90 and the product of the last three numbers is 360. Which number is in the centre of the list. 5

Each morning, five polite policewomen Anna, Bea, Clara, Dana and Ella walk to the police station in a line in exactly this order. On the way to the changing room on the far end of the building there are 8 doors. Each door is held open by the first policewoman in the line,who walks at the line after the others have passed. Who opens the last door? Clara

The maximum value of the integer n, for which n200< 5300, is equal to. 11 What is the size of one of the angles in a regular 5-pointed star? 36 degrees
Ioana picks out two numbers a and b from the set {1, 2, 3, ..., 26}. The product ab is equal to the sum of the remaining 24 numbers. What is the value of |ab|? 6

After an algebra lesson, the following was left on the blackboard: the graph of the function y=x2and 2012 lines parallel to the line y=x, each of which intersects the parabola in two points. What is the sum of the xcoordinates of the points of intersection of the lines and the parabola? 2012

Find all real numbers x such that (3 + 4x) (13 4x) = 2. 3

How many four-digit numbers have precisely three different digits, such as 2005? 3888

Find all positive integers (whole numbers) n such that 27n + 37 is divisible by 3n + 1. 1,2 and 9 I paved my patio (which is rectangular, with side lengths that are whole numbers of metres)with 1m 1m square slabs. I use brown slabs for the outside edges (including the corners),and cream for the inside stones. If I use the same number of brown slabs as cream, how big is my patio? 12m5m or
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What is the largest palindromic six-digit number that is exactly divisible by 6? 897798

How many zeros does 1000000! have at the end? 249998

What is the positive integer N such that writing N, N2 and N3 uses each of the digits 0, 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 exactly once? None If A through Fare the vertices of a regular hexagon listed in clockwise order, consider the triangle ACE. What is the ratio of the area of the triangle to the area of the hexagon? 1:2 A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. What is the probability that we obtain a total of two tails before we obtain a total of three heads? 11/16
The average of N real numbers is N. The arithmetic mean of a subset of M of the given numbers is M, where M< N. What is the arithmetic mean of the remaining NM numbers? N+M
With probability 1/2, each of the vertices of a cube is painted either red or black, and the colors are assigned independently. What is the probability that each pair of adjacent vertices will have different colors? 1/128

What four-digit integer n has the property that the value of 9nis the four-digit integer obtained by writing the digits of n in reverse order? 1079 The sequence 4, 8, 13, 17, 22 . . . consists of the positive integers (in order) with the property that the sum of their digits is divisible by 4 What is the 2009th term in the sequence? 8039 The sum of the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence is 40, and the sum of the first ten terms of the sequence is 155. What is the sum of the first fifteen terms of the sequence? 345

If 3 sinx+ 4 cosx= 5, then tanx is? 3/4

If a,b, and c are the roots of the equation x3- 3x+ 7 = 0, compute the numerical value of (a+ 1)(b+ 1)(c+ 1). -9 The base three representation of x is 12112211122211112222. Find the first digit (on the left) of the base nine representation of x. 5 . box contains 2 pennies, 4 nickels, and 6 dimes. Six coins are drawn without re-placement, A with each coin having equal probability of being chosen. What is the probability that the value of the coins drawn is at least 50 cents. 127/924 The edges of a regular tetrahedron with vertices A,B,C, and each have length one. Find the smallest possible distance between a pair of points Pand Q, where P is on the edge A, BandQ is on the edge CD. Square root of two over 2
A circle with an area a is contained in the interior of a larger circle with an area a+b.If the radius of the larger circle is 3, and if a; b; a+b is an arithmetic sequence, then the radius of the smaller circle is? 3
Equilateral triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle. A second circle is tangent internally to the circumcircle at T and tangent to sidesAB and AC at points PandQ. Determine the length of the segment PQ if BC=12? 8

How many times does the prime factor 7 appear in the prime factorization of 1001 x 1002 x 1003 .2009x2010? 169
A road construction unit is made up of a certain number of workers and a certain amount of equipment. Three units have paved 20 mi of a road in 10 days. How many additional units are needed if the remaining 50 mi of the road must be paved in 15 days? 2

In what base is 221 a factor of 1215? 9

Find the last two digits of (17) 107 ? 73

A drawer contains 2 black socks, 3 brown socks and 4 blue socks. If two socks are selected at random, what is the probability that they are the same color? 5/18

Find all values of x for which | 3 x + 2 | <| x 4 |? -3<x<0.5

Sue always leaves a 17.5% tip when she dines out andshe calculates her tip basedon the total bill including tax. Last time she went out, she noticed that there was anextra sandwich on her bill and that the total was exactly $20. She paid $20 and told the server to take the sandwich off the bill and keep the change. If sales tax is 6.75%, how much (to the nearest penny) did the sandwich cost before tax? 2.79

Suppose that a, b and c are the roots off(x) =x34x25x.Compute (a+1) (b+1) (c+1). 0
Jeffs Algebra I test average will be a 88 if he gets a 72 on the next exam and a 91 if he gets a 90 on the next exam. If all exams are weighted the same, how many exams has Jeff taken so far? 5