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Rocket City Math League


Mercury Test

2011-2012 Round 3

Answers must be written inside the adjacent answer boxes. All answers must be written in exact, reduced, simplified, and rationalized form. No calculators, books, or other aides may be used.

1. Saboff teaches elementary school, and buys supplies for his students. If he buys 23 pencils for $0.43 each, how much money does he spend on pencils? (1 point) 2. Tran is thinking of a number. He tells Cran that his number is an integer, and six added to two times his number is equal to 8 times the square of his number. What is Trans number ? (1 point) 3. Amadeus is playing a game with his friends. Each of his friends wants to find the number of ways they can arrange the letters in their names. In how many distinct ways can Amadeus arrange the letters in his name? (1 point) 4. Vladimir has locked himself out of his hovercraft. His hovercraft has a lock that is unlocked only when the right code is put in. The code can be any integer. He has forgotten the integer, but he remembers that it is the smallest integer solution of 2 y 11 y 5 . What is Vladimirs code to unlock his hovercraft? (1 point)

5. Tazap is playing a game with his friend, Zeerp. He tells Zeerp that he is thinking of two numbers whose sum is 18 and product is 4. He then asks Zeerp what the sum of the reciprocals of his numbers are. Help Zeerp by finding the sum of the reciprocals. (2 points) 6. Aliens learn algebra, much the same as humans do. Braln, an alien in high school, must pass algebra to graduate. x y 8 In order to pass algebra, he needs to find xy given the set of true equations . What is the value x 2 y 2 48 of xy ? (2 points)

7. Praz lives in a galaxy with 230 planets. On vacation, he wants to visit 15 of them, but he realizes he only has enough time to visit 5 planets. If the order in which he visits planets doesnt matter , how many ways can he choose 5 of the 15 planets to visit? (2 points) 8. Aliens of the species Dlevar calculate in all bases except base ten. Dlevick, a Dlevan alien, wants to solve the following problem with multiple bases: A6B12 ___ 8 6 AB16 . What number, in base 8, will make the equation true? (3 points)

9. Zippys graphing calculator has malfunctioned. Instead of giving him the coordinates of x-intercept of an equation he inputs, the calculator gives him the x-intercept of its inverse. The test Zippy is taking asks him to find the coordinates of the x-intercept of the equation 2 x y 11 . If he uses his malfunctioning calculator for this job, what answer will he receive? (3 points) 10. Jewl is trying to find the roots of a cubic in the form f ( x) ax3 bx 2 cx d . He knows that the graph of the equation passes through the points (-3, 0), (-1, 0), (0, -18), and (2, -60). For what positive value(s) of x does

f ( x) 0 ?

(4 points)

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