2010 Academic Challenge

MATHEMATICS TEST - STATE FINALS

This Test Consists of 40 Questions

Mathematics Test Production Team

Kevin Boyer, Illinois State University – Author/Team Leader
Linda Wiggins, Illinois State University – Author
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Mary Weaver, WYSE – Coordinator of Test Production

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1. In a small town, there are two main roads. One road, called Newton, runs north and south
right through the center of town while the other road, called Fig, runs east and west
through the center of town. Where the two roads intersect is the place called Cross
Roads. Because this small community has shown rapid growth, it has become necessary
to build two new roads to help the flow of traffic and increase accessibility to Cross Roads.
Plans have been drawn to start a new road, called Apple, one mile north of Cross Roads
(intersection) which will head 45 ° east of north and another road, called Crisp, to start two
miles east of Cross Roads and will head north. These two new roads will intersect at a
place called Harmony. From Harmony, which route will be quickest to get to Cross Roads
and how many miles is this route?

Harmony

Apple

Cross
R d

Fig

a) Apple to Newton; 3.83 miles

b) Apple to Newton; 4 miles
c) Newton to Apple; 3.83 miles
d) Crisp to Fig; 5 miles
e) Crisp to Fig; 4 miles

2. A truncated icosahedron is a semi-regular polyhedron that has regular pentagons and

regular hexagons as faces. This shape is used as the model for soccer balls using black
pentagons and white hexagons. How many faces does this polyhedron have?

a) 20 b) 32 c) 36 d) 48 e) 60

2x 3 - 8x
3. Given the rational function R(x) = , find all oblique asymptotes.
x2 - 4

a) x=2
b) x=2,x=-2
c) y = 2x
d) y=4
e) none of the above
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4. Determine the first derivative of the function =

R( x ) A Bx + C

A
a) =
R '( x ) 1
2
A Bx + C =
b) R '( x ) 1
2
AB Bx + C c) R '( x ) =
Bx + C
A AB
d) R '( x ) = e) R '( x ) =
2 Bx + C 2 Bx + C

5. No matter what soda product you choose, it has been found that 1,100 people are willing
to buy the 24 pack of 12 ounce cans for $4.00 each while only 500 people are willing to
buy the same pack for $6.00.The suppliers of these soda products are only willing to
distribute 200 of these 24 packs at the price of $4.00 each but will distribute 500 of them
at a selling price of $7.00 each. For these soda companies to make a maximum profit,
how many 24 packs of soda should they distribute and what revenue will they make?

a) 425 packs; $1925

b) 425 packs; $2656.25
c) 575 packs; $3000
d) 575 packs; $4456.25
e) 650 packs; $3575

6. Ellipse A and ellipse B are both centered around the origin and have their major axes on
the x-axis. Ellipse A has an area of 135π square units and an eccentricity of 0.8. Ellipse
B has an area of 20π square units and an eccentricity of 0.6. Determine the shortest
distance between these two ellipses. Round your answer to the nearest unit.

a) 1 unit b) 2 units c) 3 units d) 4 units e) 5 units

7. If u = < 1, -2, 3 > , v = < -3, 4, 2 >, and w = < 1, 2, 1 > are vectors in 3 space, which
vectors make an acute angle?

a) u and v
b) v and w
c) u and w
d) any two vectors
e) none of the above

Ax
8. Determine the inverse of the function f ( x ) = .
Bx + C

A−B Bx + C Ax − C
a) f −1( x ) = b) f −1( x ) = c) f −1( x ) =
Cx Ax Bx
Cx Cx
d) f −1( x ) = e) f −1( x ) =
Bx − A A − BX

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3
16a 2 − 48a + 36
9. The factor necessary to rationalize the numerator of the fraction is the
3
2a5
cube root of

a) 4a – 36a2 + 6
b) 2a – 3
c) 4a – 6
d) (2a-3)2
e) 4a – 36a2

10. What is the surface area of a cylinder that has a height of 10 inches and a diameter of 10
inches?

a) 150π in 2 b) 200π in 2 c) 250π in 2 d) 400π in 2 e) 1000π in 2

11. Using the equation of the ellipse 9 x 2 − 90 x + 25 y 2 − 150 y + 225 =

0 , find the area of the
rhombus formed by connecting the foci points and endpoints of the minor axis with line
segments.

a) 9 units 2 b) 12 units 2 c) 15 units 2 d) 24 units 2 e) 30 units 2

12. Solve 2e 2 ix = 1 + 4i cos x sin x , 0 ≤ x ≤ π

π π 2π
a) x = 0 b) x = c) x = d) x = e) x = π
6 3 3

13. In the diagram below, C is the center of the circle, EC = EA. What other angles are
congruent to angle CAE?

C
E

a) Only angle ACE

b) Only angle EDC
c) Only angle ECD
d) Angles ACE and CDE
e) Angles ACE and DCE

14. Determine the number of distinct arrangements of all of the letters of the word
MISSISSIPPI. One possible rearrangement would be “PSIMIISSPSI”.

a) 34650 b) 69300 c) 1247400 d) 6652800 e) 39916800

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15. Find the value of y in the diagram below. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a
degree.

36°

(6x - 12)° y° (8x / 5)°

a) 36.3o b) 56.0 o c) 54.5 o d) 104.3 o e) 126.5 o

16. Chris won a decent sized amount of money. He put 10% of this money on taxes. He spent
40% of the after-tax money on a car. Finally, he spent 30% of the remaining money on a
vacation. After all of this, he had $831.60 left, which he put in savings. How much was
the original amount of winnings? Round your answer to the nearest cent.

a) $1,039.50
b) $1,664.86
c) $2,200.00
d) $4,158.00
e) $69,300.00

17. For a company, passwords consist of 5 letters followed by a 2-digit number. If repetitions
are not allowed, how many different passwords are possible?

a) 710,424,000
b) 962,391,456
c) 568,339,200
d) 855,459,072
e) 1,188,137,600

18. Suppose we start with the graph of the function f ( x )= 4 − x 2 , −2 ≤ x ≤ 2 , and we create
a solid object by spinning this graph around the x-axis. Determine the volume of this
object. Round your answer to the nearest cubic unit.

a) 34 units 3 b) 107 units 3 c) 114 units 3 d) 336 units 3 e) 357 units 3

19 Reduce the expression cosxsin(x – y) – sinxcos(x – y) to a single term.

a) – siny
b) – cosy
c) sin(x – y)
d) cos(x – y)
e) cos(x + y)

20. The half-life of substance A is 30 days. If we have a sample of substance A, how long
would it take for 90% of it to decay? Round your answer to the nearest day.

a) 54 days b) 75 days c) 96 days d) 100 days e) 197 days

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21. A study was conducted with 200 elementary school students. Data was collected to
determine the quality of Reeses Pieces and Peanut Butter M&M’s. The information has
been recorded in the chart below.

Poor Good
Peanut Butter M&M 18 102
Reeses Pieces 12 68

Let A be the event that the Candy is Peanut Butter M&M’s. Let B be the event that the
candy is poor. Determine if the events A and B are independent or dependent, and
provide a brief reason.

a) Independent; the occurrence of one event does not affect the other.
b) Dependent; the occurrence of one event affects the other
c) Independent; the occurrence of one event affects the other
d) Dependent; the occurrence of one event does not affect the other
e) Independent; the occurrence of both events happening alone are different

22. Suppose we start with two containers of paint, one container that is 1 part blue to 4 parts
white, and one container that is 2 parts blue to 5 parts white. Using paint from these two
containers, we want to end up with 10 gallons of paint that is 1 part blue to 3 parts white.
Determine how much of each type of paint we need to achieve this result. Round your
answers to the nearest tenth of a gallon.

a) 3.3 gallons of the 1:4 and 6.7 gallons of the 2:5

b) 4.0 gallons of the 1:4 and 6.0 gallons of the 2:5
c) 4.2 gallons of the 1:4 and 5.8 gallons of the 2:5
d) 4.4 gallons of the 1:4 and 5.6 gallons of the 2:5
e) 5.0 gallons of the 1:4 and 5.0 gallons of the 2:5

23. Using the given information in the triangle below, find the measure of angle BAC. Diagram
is not drawn to scale. Round to the nearest hundredth of a degree.

50"
22"

A 43" B

a) 59.32 ° b) 95.06 ° c) 63.90 ° d) 45.06 ° e) 33.69 °

24. A person riding in a car sees a windmill off to her left. She has to turn her head 32
degrees to the left to see the windmill. Fifteen minutes later, she has to look 142 degrees
to the left to see the windmill (note that this means they have “passed by” the windmill).
She also notices the car is traveling 65 miles per hour. If we assume the road is straight,
what was the closest the car got to the windmill as it drove by? Round your answer to the
nearest tenth of a mile.

a) 5.6 miles b) 6.5 miles c) 7.2 miles d) 8.1 miles e) 9.0 miles

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e 2 x +1
25. Let f ( x ) = . Find the inverse function g ( x ) .
2

1 (ln 2 + ln x ) 1
a) g=
( x ) 2ln x − =
b) g ( x ) −
2 2 2
1
c) g ( x ) = ln1 + ln x − d) g ( x ) = ln1 + ln x − 1
2
e) g=( x ) ln 2 x − 1

26. Determine the measure of each vertex angle of a regular 15-sided polygon.

a) 12 ° b) 24 ° c) 150 ° d) 156 ° e) 168 °

27. Suppose the ordered pair ( Ax , Ay ) of a magnetic field A has polar coordinates of
 k sin θ k cos θ 
− r , r  . Find the equivalent rectangular coordinate for Ax.
 

kx −kx −ky −ky ky

a) b) c) d) e)
x2 + y 2 x + y2
2
x + y2
2
x2 + y 2 x2 + y 2

28. If a person has taken steroids, a particular test will correctly detect the steroids 98% of the
time. If a person has not taken steroids, the test will mistakenly detect steroids 4% of the
time. It is estimated in a group of athletes that 10% of them take steroids. If a person
takes the test and the test detects steroids, what is the probability that the person did not
actually take steroids? Round your answer to the nearest percent.

a) 4% b) 7% c) 10% d) 14% e) 27%

29. Jonathan Switcher, from the movie Mannequin, latches onto a department store sign when
it falls many feet below the top of the store building. He holds onto the sign that is
dangling from a cable, for dear life. He swings back and forth like a pendulum waiting for
the sign to come to a stop. If his first swing is 50 feet long, and each swing after that is
80% as long as the preceding swing, how far does Jonathan travel when he comes to a
complete stop?

a) 62.5 ft. b) 122 ft. c) 138.38 ft. d) 250 ft. e) 300 ft.

30. Don can bike at 22 mph, and Tracy jogs at 4 mph. At noon, Don starts at the south end of
a five mile stretch of road and heads north. When Don reaches the north end, he turns
around and heads back south. At 12:20 PM, Tracy starts jogging from the south end and
heads north as well. At what time do Don and Tracy meet? Round your answer to the
nearest minute.

a) 12:26 PM b) 12:30 PM c) 12:37 PM d) 12:43 PM e) 12:46 PM

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31. A given line goes through (6, -2) and has a slope of − 32 . Which one of the following
parametric equations would correctly model a line that is perpendicular to the given line
and also passes through (6, -2)?

3 3
a) x = t + 1; y =
− t + 13 b) x = t ; =
y t −2
2 2
3 3
c) x = t ; y = t + 2 d) =
x t +6; =y t −2
2 2
3
e) x = t + 4 ; =
y t −5
2

32. π . Please round your answer to two decimal places.

Solve 6cos−1(2 x + 1) =

a) x = −0.58 b) x = −0.42 c) x = −0.25 d) x = −0.07 e) x = 0.01

33. A farmer has Guernsey and Holstein milk producing cows. It is known that when the
Guernsey cows produce milk for 3 days and the Holstein cows produce milk for 2 days ,
the total milk production is 1450 gallons. With the Guernsey cows producing milk for 4
days and the Holstein producing milk for 5 days, a total of 2400 gallons of milk are
produced. Using a system of equations to solve, which set up below is the appropriate
solution for the system?

 G   3 2   1450   G   2 3   1450 
a)   =    b)   =   
 H   4 5   2400   H   5 4   2400 
 5 −2   −4 3 
G   7 7   1450  G   7 7   1450 
c)   =    d)   =   
 H   −4 3   2400   H   5 −2   2400 
   
 7 7   7 7 
 −4 5 
G   7 7   1450 
e)   =   
 H   3 −2   2400 
 
 7 7 

3 − x −1
34. Determine the range of the function f ( x ) = .
2− 2− x

a) f ( x ) ≥ 1 b) f ( x ) ≥ 2 c) f ( x ) ≥ 3 d) 1 ≤ f ( x ) ≤ 2 e) 1 ≤ f ( x ) ≤ 3

−x − 3
35. Express in partial fraction form.
x − 3x + 2
2

4 3 4 5 4 3
a) − b) − c) +
x −1 x − 2 x −1 x − 2 x −1 x − 2
4 5 6 1
d) + e) +
x −1 x − 2 x −1 x − 2

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36. A sphere is placed snugly inside a cube so that it touches all six sides. This cube is
placed inside a larger sphere so that all eight of its vertices touch the inside of the sphere.
What is the ratio of the volume of the larger sphere to the smaller sphere? All answers are
in x:1 format, with x rounded to one decimal place.

a) 2.1:1 b) 2.8:1 c) 3.1:1 d) 4.0:1 e) 5.2:1

π 
37. Given f ( x ) = x 2 sin x and F ( 0 ) = −3 , find F  
2

π2 π2
a) π − 4 b) 2π + 3 c) π − 5 d) − −2 e) +2
2 4

38. Ten years ago, Amy was three times as old as Ted. Ted is currently five years older than
Bill. In three years, Amy will be twice as old as Bill. How old is Ted currently? Round
your answer to the nearest whole year.

a) 8 years b) 13 years c) 16 years d) 19 years e) No solution

1
39. If − ≤ h ≤ 0 , then the best approximation for 16 − h is
4

h h h h h
a) 4 − b) 4 + c) d) − e) 4 −
8 8 8 8 16

40. Four married couples recently went to the fair to ride the carnival rides. The last names of
the couples are Armstrong, Brady, Collins, and Danforth. The mens’ names are Allen, Bill,
Charlie, and David. The womens’ names are Alicia, Brenda, Cherise, and Denita. The
rides were the ferris wheel, the tilt-o-whirl, the bumper cars, and the spinning teacups.

I. Each ride was liked by one man and one woman, but each husband liked a different
ride than his wife.
II. Everyone’s first name begins with a different letter than either their last name or their
spouse’s first name.
III. Brenda Armstrong and Allen Danforth both liked the ferris wheel.
IV. Bill’s wife and Charlie both liked the tilt-o-whirl.
V. Alicia’s husband and Cherise both liked the bumper cars.
VI. The two people who liked the spinning teacups had first names that begin with the
same letter.

What are the Bradys’ first names?

a) Charlie and Alicia

b) Charlie and Denita
c) David and Alicia
d) David and Cherise
e) Not enough information given to determine

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