MTAP REVIEWER

ORAL COMPETITIONS

1st Year, 2nd Year and Third Year

15 – second Questions

1. Write in symbols: Divide the sum of the squares of x and y by twice x minus thrice y.
[ (x2 + y2)/(2x – 3y) ]

2. What is the relationship between the two acute angles of a right triangle?
[ complementary ]

3. If x = 2 and y = 3, what is the value of 3x2y? [ 36 ]

4. If 3/5 of a number is 18/25, what is the number? [ 6/5 ]

5. By how much does 2/3 of 48 exceed 2/5 of 25? [ 22 ]

6. If a and b are integers such that – 9 < a < 8 and – 8 < b < 7, what is the minimum
value of ab? [ - 64 ]

7. The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 123, what is the largest of the three?
[ 43 ]

8. If 12 men can build a wall in 6 days, in how many days will 8 men build the same
wall at the same rate? [ 9 ]

9. What positive integral value of x satisfy 4x – 5 < 7? [ 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ]

10. If apples cost 3 for P20 and oranges cost 3 for P25, how much will a dozen apples
and a dozen oranges cost? [ P180 ]

11. If 5x + 7 = 7 = 2x + 28, what is x? [ x = 7 ]

12. Find two numbers whose sum is 53 and whose difference is 15. [ 19, 34 ]

13. For what values of x is  5x + 4 = 14? [ 2, - 18/5 ]

14. If a3 – ab + 2a2 = 1, what is b when a = - 1? [0]

15. The sum of three consecutive even integers is 78. What is the third number?[ 28 ]

16. If 1/4 + 1/x = 1/3, what is x? [ 12 ]

17. Two numbers are in the ratio 3:7 and their difference is 48. What is the bigger?

18. What will you add to – 36 to get 58? [ 94 ]

19. What is 10x2 + 25x5y3 divided by 5x2y3? [ 2y + 5x3 ]

20. In a class of 54, one-sixth come to school by car, 1/3 come by school bus and the
rest walk. How many walk to school? [ 27 ]

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21. If ab = a3 and a  0. Express b2 + b in terms of a. [ a4 + a 2 ]

22. If one fruit juice can serve 8 people, how many cans of juice will you buy for 92
people? [ 12 ]

23. John is 2 years more than twice as old as Pete. If the sum of their ages is 56 years,
how old is Pete? [ 18 years old ]

24. If y =  2x – 7 - 5, what are the coordinates of the vertex of the graph?

25. What is 70% of 840? [ 588 ]

26. In a right triangle, one acute angle is 18 0 more than the other. What is the other
acute angle? [ 540 ]

26. Write in symbols: Multiply the difference of the squares of x and y by thrice x and
divide the product by twice y. [ 3x(x2 – y2) / 2y ]

27. If x = - 2 and y = 2/3, what is the value of 3x3y2? [ - 32/3 ]

28. What is the largest integral value of x that satisfies 2x – 3 < 12? [6]

29. If a, b are integers such that – 12 < a < 8 and – 10 < b < 11, what is the minimum
value of ab? [ - 132 ]

30. The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 141. What is the largest of the three?
[ 49 ]

31. Find m so that the graphs of 3x + my = 8 and x – 3y = 5 have no intersection?

32. What positive integral values of x satisfy 3x – 7 < 9? [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]

33. One edge of a cube is (x + 2) cm. What is the total surface area? [ 6(x+2) cm2 ]

34. If 1/4 + 1/x = 7/12, what is x? [x=3]

35. If a * b = ab + ba, what is 2 * 5? [ 57 ]

36. Mother prepared 3 boxes of cookies. Each box contained 6 more than a dozen
cookies. How many cookies did she prepare? [ 54 ]

37. What is the smallest number by which 75 can be multiplied to make a perfect cube?
[ 45 ]

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30 – seconds Questions

1. If in 3 exams Joe got 90, 87 and 80, how low could his 4 th test be and yet his
average will still be 85? [ 83 ]

2. A 14 – meter pipe is cut into pieces such that the middle piece is twice as long as the
shortest piece and the longest piece is twice the middle piece. How long is the
longest piece? [ 8 m ]

3. One bag of rice weighs the same 2 bags of salt or 3 bags of sugar. How many bags
of rice are needed to balance 7 bags of salt and 10 bags of sugar? [ 6 5/6 bags ]

4. What is the value of 3(-1)2n + 1 + 10(-1)4n if n is an integer? [ 7 ]

5. A whole number is divisible by 6 greater than 170 but less than 210. What is the
largest number that will satisfy both conditions? [ 204 ]

6. If x is an integer, what positive values of x will satisfy 4x + 5 < 27? [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

7. To form a cross shaped like that of a red cross, 5 equal squares of side 7 cm are put
together without overlap. What is the perimeter of the cross? [ 84 cm ]

8. Find 3 consecutive integers such that 4 times the first decreased by the second
equals 12 more than twice the third? [ 22, 24, 26 ]

9. A jeep driver filled his tank with 32 L of diesoline. If he uses 3 2/5 L for each round
trip on his route, how many round trips can he make before refilling? [ 9 ]

10. A piece of cloth was 3 m long and 1.4 m wide. On washing, it shrank by 10%. What
was the area of the washed cloth? [ 3.402 m2 ]

11. Two angles of a triangle are equal. Find the third angle if it is 2/3 of the sum of the
equal angles? [ 720 ]

12. Josie is 10 years older than Ana. In 4 years, Josie will be twice as old as Ana will be
then. How old is Josie today? [ 16 years old ]
13. By how much is 60% of 250 greater than 30% of 450? [ 15 ]

14. A flagpole casts a shadow of 18 feet when 6 feet tall casts a shadow of 4.5 feet.
How high is the flagpole? [ 24 feet ]

15. For what values of x is  3x – 5 + 2 = 9. [ 4, - 2/3 ]

16. If 3 times a number is increased by 5, the result is the same as when 77 is

17. Solve for x: [ x = 4/3 ]

18. On the highway, Carlito was able to count 26 posts in one minute. If the posts are
50 meters apart, what is the speed of the car in km/h? [ 75 km/h ]

19. What is the equation of the line parallel to 2x + 3y – 5 = 0 and passing through
(-2, 5)? [ 2x + 3y – 11 = 0 ]

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20. A book is 25 cm by 15 cm by 3 cm. How many books can be packed into a box
5.2 dm by 3.2 dm by 3 dm, internal dimensions? [ 40 ]

21. From a sheet of cardboard 1 dm square, a rectangular piece 8 cm by 5 cm is

22. Write 211 x 58 in full. [ 800, 000, 000 ]

23. A whole number divisible by 9 is greater than 210 but less than 250. What is the
largest number that will satisfy both conditions? [ 243 ]

24. If (x – 2a) + a > x/2 + 3a, find x. [ x > 8a ]

25. How many integers are there between – 21/5 and 17/4? [9]

26. The sum of two numbers is 37. What is the maximum product that they can have?
[ 342 ]

27. The ratio of the width to the length of a rectangular field is 2:3. If the area is
384 cm2, find the length. [ 24 m ]

28. Solve for x: (2x – 1)/3 – 3 < (3x + 2)/4 [ x > - 46 ]

29. What is the equation of the line whose x and y intercepts are – 2/3 and 5
respectively? [ 15x – 2y + 10 = 0 ]

30. What is the remainder when 2x4 – 5x3 + 7x2 + 3x - 6 is divided by x2 + 1?

31. The perimeter of a rectangle is 78 m. If the width is 7 m less than the length, find
the length. [ 23 m ]

1 – minute Questions

1. If a number is not an integer it lies between two consecutive integers. Example,

2. If x2 + y2 = 9 and xy = 4, what is (x – y)2 ? [1]

3. A ladder 13 m long leans against the wall so that its foot is 5 m away from the wall.
If the foot slides 2 m away from the wall, by how much will the top slide down the
wall? [ (12 – 2 )m]

4. If v = u + at and s = (u + v)t/2, express s in terms of a, u and t.