MMC 2016 Grade 9 Divisions 1

Easy
E1 The area of a square is 4x 2 − 12x + 9 square inches. What is its perimeter? [(8x − 12) inches]
E2 Find the maximum value of f (x) = 6x − x 2 . [9]
3
E3 If the first two terms of a geometric sequence are 12 and −3, find its fifth term. [− ]
64
E4 If y varies inversely as x and y is 8 when x is 3, find y when x is 4. [6]
E5 Each of the exterior angles of a regular polygon has measure 30○ . If each of the sides of this polygon has
length 11 cm, what is its perimeter? [132 cm]
11π √
E6 Find sec (− ). [− 2]
4
√ √ √ √ √
E7 Find and simplify the difference when 40 is reduced by ( 10 + 20). [ 10 − 2 5]
E8 Find the solution to the inequality x 2 − 10x + 30 ≥ 0 in interval notation. [(−∞, ∞)]
√ 9
E9 A circle is inscribed in a square with diagonal 3 2 cm. Find the area of the circle. [ π cm2 ]
4
E10 Let the roots of x 2 − 13x + 15 be r and s. What is the value of (r + s)2 ? [169]
5 5
EX If sin θ = and θ is in Quadrant II, what is tan θ? [− ]
13 12
Average
A1 Two similar triangles have areas 81 cm2 and 256 cm2 , respectively. Find the perimeter of the smaller
triangle if the larger triangle has a perimeter of 128 cm. [72 cm]
A2 If z varies directly as x and inversely as the square of y, by what percentage is z increased if x is increased
by 44% and y is decreased by 20%? [125%]
A3 The sum of eight consecutive odd numbers is 224. What is the smallest of these numbers? [21]
√
A4 The area of a right triangle is 9 meters2 . If the sum of the lengths of its legs is 5 3 meters, find
√ the length
of its hypotenuse. [ 39 meters]
A5 Andrea took a test with 50 items. Each correct answer merits 3 points and each incorrect answer de-
merits 1 point. She answered all questions and received a score of 90. How many questions did she
answer correctly? [35]
√6
108 1
AX When √ √ is written in the form 2a 3b , then what will be the sum of a and b? [ ]
3 3
2 54 18
Difficult
D1 A square is inscribed in a circle with radius 2 cm. Then a smaller circle is inscribed in the square, after
which a smaller square is inscribed in this smaller circle. If this process is continued indefinitely, find
the total area of all the squares produced in this manner. [16 cm2 ]
D2 Three circles are externally tangent to each other. If their centers form a triangle with sides 8, 11, and
13, find the sum of their circumferences. [32π units]
D3 What is the measure of ∠C in the figure? [45○ ]
 MMC 2016 Grade 9 Divisions 2

95○
A
110○
60○
D

E
20 30
D4 Solve: + =1 [40, −10]
x x + 20
D5 If the radius of the bigger circle is 6 cm, what is the length of B? [6π units]

3 7
DX If cos A = − and sin B = , A is in Quadrant III and B is in Quadrant II, what is the exact value of
5 25
4
cos(A + B)? [ ]
5
Tiebreaker
TB1 If r and s are the roots of x 2 + 7x + 11 = 0, find r 2 + 4rs + s 2 . [71]
TB2 Find x so that (x − 2), (x + 3), and (x + 7) are consecutive terms of a geometric sequence. [−23]
TB3 ABCD is a rectangle with AB = 12 cm and BC = 9. If MN PQ is a rectangle similar to ABCD with
AB ∶ MN = 2 ∶ 3, find the area of MN PQ. [243 cm2 ]
Do-or-Die
1
DoD A man drove 220 km in 3 hours. Part of the trip was at 60 km/h and the rest at 65 km/h. How far
2
did he drive at the slower rate? [90 km]