UNC Charlotte Super Competition Comprehensive Test March 6, 2017

1. Suppose f, g and h are polynomials of degrees 7, 8 and 9 respectively. Let d be the degree of the
quotient ( f ◦ g) · h ÷ ( f + g + h), where ◦ means composition. Which of the following statements
is true?

(A) d ≤ 40 (B) 40 < d ≤ 50 (C) 50 < d ≤ 60 (D) 60 < d ≤ 70 (E) d > 70

2. A ball of radius 1 is rolling on the floor Q : −3 ≤ x ≤ 3, −3 ≤ y ≤ 3 of a square room, getting

reflected elastically off its walls. Otherwise, it moves straight. Initially, it touches the Eastern wall
of the room at the point (3, 0), then moves in the North-West direction and hits the Northern wall
at the point (0, 3), then gets reflected and moves South-West, etc. Let L be the distance the ball
travels before returning to the initial position. Which of the following statements is correct?

(A) 11 < L ≤ 12 (B) 12 < L ≤ 14 (C) 14 < L ≤ 15 (D) 15 < L ≤ 16 (E) 16 < L ≤ 18

3. There are exactly 2 positive values of r for which the system of equations



 x 2 + y2 = 9,


(x − 8) + (y − 6) = r2
2 2

has a unique solution (x, y). Let us denote these values of r by r1 and r2 , and put s = r1 + r2 . Which
of the following statements is true?

(A) s ≤ 10 (B) 10 < s ≤ 17 (C) 17 < s ≤ 21 (D) 21 < s ≤ 26 (E) s > 26

4. What is the area of the region determined by |x − 1| + |y − 1| ≤ 2?

√ √
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 4 2 (D) 8 (E) 8 2

5. Six points are distributed around a circle. In how many ways can you build two disjoint (i.e,
non-intersecting) triangles using the six points as vertices?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4

6. The top of a rectangular box has area 40 square inches, the front has area 48 square inches, and
the side has area 30 square inches. How high is the box?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

7. The lower two vertices of a square lie on the x-axis and the upper two vertices of the square lie on
the parabola y = 15 − x2 . What is the area of the square?
√
(A) 9 (B) 10 2 (C) 16 (D) 25 (E) 36

8. A math class has between 15 and 40 students. Exactly 25% of the class knows how to play
poker. On a certain Wednesday, 3 students were absent (because they were participating in a math
contest). On that day, exactly 20% of the students attending the class knew how to play poker.
How many students attending the class on that day knew how to play poker?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

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9. Pansies have five petals and lilacs have four petals. A bouquet has twenty flowers with a total of
92 petals. How many pansies does the bouquet have?

(A) 3 ≤ P ≤ 7 (B) 8 ≤ P ≤ 10 (C) 11 ≤ P ≤ 14 (D) 15 ≤ P ≤ 17 (E) P ≥ 18

10. A dictionary contains pages numbered 1 through 852. How many times does the number 8 appear
as a digit in this numbering?

(A) 85 (B) 146 (C) 165 (D) 217 (E) 218

11. Two married couples have purchased theater tickets and are seated in a row consisting of just four
seats. If they take their seats in a completely random order, what is the probability that Jim and
Paula (husband and wife) sit in the two seats on the far left?
1 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
12 24 4 2 6

12. Inside a large circle of radius 10 are four small circles and one medium size circle as in the diagram
below. The four small circles all have the same radius and each is tangent to the large circle and
to two other small circles. The center of the medium circle is the same as the center of the large
circle and the medium circle passes through the center of each small circle. What is the radius of
the medium circle?
( √ )
(A) 10 2 − 2
√
(B) 5 2
√
(C) 3 5
(√ )
(D) 10 3 − 1
( √ )
in caterpillar population in the UNC(E) 2 2 + botanical
Charlotte 2 gardens,
pulation size (the carrying capacity), and x = N/M is the relative
s have observed that if the population one spring has relative size
population has relative size 4x(1 − x). There is at most one value
y that if the relative size one spring is x0 , then the relative size for
as well. Which of the following statements is true?

≤ 3/5 (C) 3/5 < x0 ≤ 7/8 (D) 7/8 < x0 < 1 (E) no such x0 exists

e integers with a < b < c such that 1/a + 1/b + 1/c = 1. What is

11 (E) no such integers exist

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15. One of the roots of the quadratic equation x2 − 9x + a = 0 is twice the other root. Which of the
following statements is true?

(A) a ≤ 5 (B) 15 < a ≤ 10 (C) 10 < a ≤ 15 (D) 15 < a ≤ 20 (E) a > 20

16. In the quadratic equation x2 − 7x + a = 0 the sum of the squares of the roots equals 39. Find a.

(A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6 (D) 5 (E) 4

17. The sides of a right triangle form an arithmetic sequence, while their sum equals 48. Find the area
of the triangle.

(A) 24 (B) 96 (C) 48 (D) 54 (E) 84

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18. The ratio of the legs in a right triangle equals 3/2, while the length of the hypotenuse is 52. Find
the area of the triangle.

(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 169

19. Fresh cucumbers are 90% water. It is known that in a week after they are picked the amount of
water reduces to 80%. How much will 20 pounds of such cucumbers weigh after a week?

(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 18

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20. For how many pairs of digits (a, b) does 0.aaaaa . . . = 0.bbbbb . . .?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5