EE MATH OLYMPICS

Elimination of RMW Quizzers

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09.12.2018
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 EASY
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 Question 1: 5sec
▪ A prime number has _______number
of divisors.

Answer: Two
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 Question 2: 5sec
▪ What is the LCM of 5 and 7?

Answer: 35
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 Question 3: 5sec
▪ The Roman numeral MCM is equivalent
to _______.

Answer: 1900
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 Question 4: 15sec
▪ If 16 is 4 more than 4x, find 5x-1.

Answer: 14
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 Question 5: 20sec
▪ Ten less than four times a certain
number is 14. Determine the number.

Answer: 6
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 Question 6: 20sec
▪ If log of 27 base x + log of 3 base x
equals 2, find the value of x.

Answer: 9
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 Question 7: 20sec
▪ A coin is tossed three times. What is
the probability of getting either 3 heads
or 3 tails?

Answer: ¼ or 0.25
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 Question 8: 20sec
▪ The sum of the squares of two
consecutive positive integers is 265.
Find the bigger number.

Answer: 12
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 Question 9: 20sec
▪ The sum of two numbers if 30. Five
times the smaller exceeds twice the
larger by 17. Find the larger number.

Answer: 19
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 Question 10: 30sec
▪ What value must be added to 9x2-30x
in order to complete the square?

Answer: 25
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 AVERAGE
ROUND
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 Question 1: 30sec
▪ What is the area in sq. cm of the circle
circumscribed about an equilateral
triangle with a side of 10cm long?

Answer: 104.7 cm2

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 Question 1: 30sec
▪ There are 13 teams in a tournament.
Each team is to play with each other
only once. What is the number of days
they can all play without playing more
than one game in any day?

Answer: 13
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 Question 3: 45sec
▪ A wealthy person donated funds for students
scholarship. The fund will grant P5,000 for each
of the first 5 years, P8,000 for the next 5 years
and P10,000 for each year thereafter. The
scholarship will start after the fund is established.
If the fund earns, 8% interest, what is the amount
of the donation?

Answer: P 99, 601. 71

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 Question 4: 60sec
▪ A sculptor wants to cast a bronze
statute from an alloy that is 60%
copper. He has 30 kilos of a 40% alloy.
How much 80% copper alloy should he
mix it with to obtain 60% copper alloy?

Answer: 30 kgs
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 Question 5: 60sec
▪ A ball is thrown vertically upward from
the ground and a student is gazing out
of the window sees it moving upward
pass him at 5 m/sec. The window is
10m above the ground. How high does
the ball go above the ground?

Answer: 11.30 m
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 DIFFICULT
ROUND
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 Question 1: 60sec
▪ Divide 3x4 – 7x3 + 5x +1 by x-2. What is
the remainder?

Answer: 3
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 Question 2: 90sec
▪ Given a parabola (y-2)2 = -8(x-1). What
is the equation of its directrix?

Answer: x = 3
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 Question 3: 90sec
▪ In a circle of diameter of 10m, a regular
five-pointed star touches its
circumference is inscribed. What is the
area of that part not covered by the
star?

Answer: 50.5 m2
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 Question 4: 90sec
▪ A tank can be filled in 12 minutes by
two pipes running simultaneously. By
the larger pipe it can be filled in 10 min
less time than the smaller. Find the
time required by the larger pipe to fill it.

Answer: 20 min
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 Question 5: 90sec
▪ What is the frustum of a cone whose
upper base is 15cm in diameter and the
lower base 10 cm in diameter with an
altitude of 25 cm?

Answer: 3, 108.87 m3
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TIE BREAKER
 Question 1: 90sec
▪ A service station checks a car’s radiator and
finds it contains only 30% antifreeze. If the
radiator holds 10 quarts and is full, how much
must be drained off and replaced with pure
antifreeze in order to bring it up to a required
50% antifreeze.

Answer: 2 6/7 quarts

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 Question 2: 90sec
▪ A man and a boy can do in 15 days a
piece of work which would be done by
7 men and 9 boys in 2 days. How long
would it take one man to do it alone?

Answer: 20 days
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 Question 3: 90sec
▪ The roots of the quadratic equation Ax2
+ Bx + C are ¼ and 7/2. Determine the
value of B.

Answer: 26
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 Question 4: 90sec

▪ How many integers between 20

and 30 are prime numbers?

Answer: 2
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 Question 5: 90sec
▪ Simplify: bm/n

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