MATH COUNT 2015

FINAL ROUND (TEAM CATEGORY)

EASY

1. Today is March 7, 2015 which is a Saturday. What day of the week will it be 32015 days
from now?
Answer: Thursday
2. If x = 3, what is the average 2𝑥 2 − 11𝑥, 12𝑥 𝑎𝑛𝑑 2𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 2 ?
Answer: 19
3. A function f satisfies f(x) + f(x+3) = 2x + 5 for all x. If f(8) + f(2) = 12, what is the value of
f(2015)?
Answer: 2016
4. If 𝑒 𝑥 + 𝑒 −𝑥 = 3, what is the value of 𝑒 3𝑥 + 𝑒 −3𝑥 ?
Answer: 18
5. If AB = 7x – 2, BC = 2x + 8 and B is the midpoint of segment AC. What is the length of AC?
Answer: 24 units
6. What is the greatest number of points of intersection that can occur when 2 different circles
and 2 different lines are drawn on the same piece of paper?
Answer: 11
7. What is the range of the parabola y = 2x – 7𝑥 2 ?
𝟏
Answer: y≤
𝟕
8. How many positive integers less than 60 have their reciprocal a terminating decimal?
Answer: 12
9. A circle of radius 3cm is inscribed in a regular hexagon. Find the area of the hexagon.
Answer: 18√𝟑 square cm.
2
10. If 256𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑥 = √2. What is the value of 𝑡𝑎𝑛2 𝑥 ?
Answer: 15
11. What is the third term of the expansion (x + 𝑦 2 )8 ?
Answer: 28𝑥 6 𝑦 4
12. If 20a + 8b = 60, what is the value of 0.5a + 0.2b?
Answer: 1.5 or 3/2

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AVERAGE

1. Find the least positive integer with exactly 10 positive integral factors.
Answer: 48
2. Solve for all values of x in the interval [0,360°] in the equation: 2 𝑐𝑜𝑠 2 𝑥 = 1 + sinx
Answer: 30°, 150°, 270°
3. If 𝑥 2 + 6𝑥 = 6, Evaluate 𝑥 3 + 7𝑥 + 2011.
Answer: 2017
4. Tangent PT and secant PAB are drawn to a circle from an external point P. The tangent is
14 cm long, and the ratio of the lengths of the internal segment AB to the external segment
P A is 3:1. Find PB.
Answer: 28 cm.
5. Let ABCD be a square of side length 16cm. A circle of radius r is drawn through points C
and D and is tangent to side AB. Find the value of r.
Answer: 10cm.
𝑥2 𝑦2
6. Find the volume generated by revolving an ellipse + = 1 about the line x = 3.
9 4
Answer: 36𝛑2 cubic units
7. Find the area of the largest rectangle that has its base on the x-axis and its other 2 vertices
above the x-axis and lying in the parabola y = 12 - 𝑥 2 .
Answer: 32 square units.
8. For what value/s of a will (a+2) 𝑥 2 + (2a+3) x + a – 1 = 0 have real roots?
−𝟏𝟕
Answer: a ≥
𝟖
(𝑥−2015)(𝑦−2016) 1
9. If
(𝑥−2015)2 + (𝑦−2016) 2 = - , what is the value of x + y?
2
Answer: 4031
10. Find the value of a and b if the roots of 𝑥 2 - ax + b = 0 are the cubes of the roots of 𝑥 2 + x +
2 = 0.
Answer: a = 5 and b = 8.
20−𝑛
11. For how many integers n is an integer?
14−𝑛
Answer: 8
12. How many positive integers x have the property that 14 is the remainder when 2014 is
divided by x?
Answer: 14

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DIFFICULT
𝜋
1. Evaluate the integral ∫
0
6 𝑐𝑜𝑠 8 3𝑥 dx
𝟑𝟓𝝅
Answer:
𝟕𝟔𝟖
2. A palindrome is a number that reads the same forward and backward. The largest 4-digit
palindrome in base 3 can be expressed as a 3-digit palindrome in another base x where
x>2. What is the value of x?
Answer: 6
3. If log 2 𝑥 and log 2 𝑦 are distinct positive integers and log 𝑥 2 + log 𝑦 2 = 0.5, what is the
value of xy?
Answer: 512
4. If 2 cards from a standard deck are selected randomly, what is the probability that either 2
kings or at least 1 ace occurs?
𝟐
Answer:
𝟏𝟑
5. Points D, E and F lie along the perimeter of triangle ABC such that AD, BE and CF intersect
at point G. AF = 3, BF = BD = CD = 2 and AE = 5. Find the value of BG/EG.
𝟓
Answer:
𝟑
6. The polynomial P(x) = 𝑥 4 + m𝑥 3 + 𝑛𝑥 2 - 24x +144 has exactly 2 distinct integer roots and
no other roots, real or complex. Find m – n.
Answer: 25
7. What are the last two digits of 5672015 ?
Answer: 43
8. What is the largest value of x such that 𝑥 3 + 100 is divisible by x + 10?
Answer: 890
9. How many positive integers less than 1000 do not have 7 as any digit?
Answer: 728
1
10. If sinx – cosx = , what is the value of 𝑠𝑖𝑛3 𝑥 + 𝑐𝑜𝑠 3 𝑥?
3
𝟓√𝟏𝟕
Answer:
𝟐𝟕
11. What is the remainder when 7100 is divided by 13?
Answer: 24 cm.
12. What is the sum of all the positive even factors of 504?
Answer: 1456

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MATH COUNT 2015

FINAL ROUND (INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY)

EASY

1. What is the remainder when 22015 is divided by 21?

Answer: 11
2. What is the vertex of the parabola y = -𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 − 4?
𝟑 𝟕
Answer: ( , − )
𝟐 𝟒
3. If p and q are the roots of the equation 𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 + 5 = 0, what is the value of 𝑝2 +
𝑝𝑞 + 𝑞2 ?
Answer: 4
4. What is the sum of the first 35 positive odd numbers?
Answer: 1225
5. The inclination of line x is 60 degrees. What is the slope of the line perpendicular to x?
√𝟑
Answer: - -
𝟑
6. What is the domain of y = ln (2x - 𝑥 2 )
Answer: 0 < x < 2 or (0, 2)
7. Two integers are such that their difference is 16 and whose product is as small as
possible. Find the greater of these two integers.
Answer: 8
8. The chicken and pigs in Farmer McCoy’s barn have a total of 45 heads and 124 legs.
How many chickens are in the barn?
Answer: 28
9. What is the sum of the numbers that each one of them is 2015 more than its reciprocal?
Answer: 2015
𝜋 1+cos 2𝑥+2𝑠𝑖𝑛2 𝑥
10. If x = , Evaluate the value of
6 2
Answer: 1
11. The mean of a set of 6 numbers is 30. The number 155 is removed from the set. By
how much the mean is reduced?
Answer: 25
12. If 10a + 4b = 80, what is the value of 0.5a + 0.2b?
Answer: 4

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AVERAGE

1. Isaiah has 12 marbles of different colors, including one red, one green and one blue
marble. In how many ways can he choose 4 marbles if exactly one of the chosen
marbles is red, green or blue?
Answer: 252 ways
2. What is the remainder when 𝑦 4 − 2𝑦 3 + 𝑦 2 is divided by 𝑦 2 + 1?
Answer: 2y
3. Find the sum of all positive proper fractions whose denominators are less than or equal
to 16. Do not discard equivalent fractions.
Answer: 60
4. How many square units are in the area defined by the set of points (x, y) in the first
quadrant which satisfies 14 ≤ x + y ≤ 24?
Answer: 190 square units.
5. The Houses on Euclid Street are numbered consecutively from 1 to 888. How many
digits are needed to form all the house numbers?
Answer: 2556
6. All edges of a cube are expanding at a rate of 2.5 cm per second. How fast is the
volume changing if each edge measures 8 cm?
Answer: 480 cubic cm per second
7. A grocer stocks apples in the shape of a square pyramid. The bottom layer is a 20 X 20
square, the top layer is one apple and the nth layer is an n X n square. How many
apples does she have in the pyramid?
Answer: 2870 apples
7 8
8. What fraction in the interval <x< has the smallest denominator?
10 11
𝟓
Answer:
𝟕
9. A 4-digit number is created by using each of the digits 3, 4, 5 and 8 exactly once. What
is the probability that the number is divisible by 4?
𝟏
Answer:
𝟔
1
10. Find the rate of change of the function u = x sin y where x = and y = tan−1 𝑡
𝑡
−𝒕
Answer: 𝟑
(𝟏+𝒕𝟐 )𝟐
tan 20° tan 80°
11. Find the value of .
tan 40°
Answer: √𝟑
12. What is the largest value of n so that 𝑛40000 < 550000 ?
Answer: 7
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DIFFICULT

1. Given a 3 X 7 rectangular array of dots, how many triangles can be formed whose
vertices are dots in the array?
Answer: 1200
2. A merchant has determined if the selling price of a peach is 14 cents, he will sell
200 peaches a day. He also determined that for each cent the price is increased, he
will sell 10 fewer peaches each day. At what price in cents, should he sell each
peach in order to maximize his daily income from peaches?
Answer: 17
3. Alyssa has 2 watches, one of which loses 6 seconds every 24 hours and the other
gains 1 second per hour. She sets both of them to the correct time at 7:00 pm. How
many hours will pass before the positive difference in the time shown is 4 hours?
Answer: 11520 hours
4. Find the volume generated when the area bounded by y = 2x, y = x and x + y = 6 is
revolved about the y – axis.
Answer: 10π cubic units.
5. Find the equation of the locus of a point which moves so that the sum of its distance
from the point (2, 1) and (8, 1) is 10. Express your answer in general form.
Answer: 16𝒙𝟐 + 𝟐𝟓𝒚𝟐 − 𝟏𝟔𝟎𝒙 − 𝟓𝟎𝒚 + 𝟐𝟓 = 𝟎
6. A point X is chosen inside square ABCD. What is the probability that angle AXB is
an acute angle?
𝟖−𝝅
Answer:
𝟖
sin 40°+cos 10°
7. Calculate the exact value of (cos 40°+sin 10°)6
Answer: 27
8. A mathematics test has 6 questions worth 8 points each, 6 questions worth 7 points
each, and 5 questions worth 2 points each. None of these questions will be given
partial credit. How many scores between 0 and 100 are impossible to score?
Answer: 6
9. A circle is inscribed in rhombus whose diagonals are 30 cm and 40 cm. What is the
value of the radius of the circle?
Answer: 12 cm
10. James rolls a fair six-sided die each morning. If James rolls a composite number,
he eats sweetened cereal. If he rolls a prime number, he eats unsweetened cereal.
If he rolls a 1, then he rolls again. In a non-leap year, what is the expected value of
the difference between the number of days James eats unsweetened cereal and
the number of days he eats sweetened cereal?
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 Answer: 73.
11. How many zeroes does 10! end in, when written in base 11?
Answer: 0
12. Let N be the product of all odd primes less than 16. What is the remainder when N
is divided by 16?
Answer: 7

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