Math IIB1/IIB2/III/IIIAB Placement Test Winter 2013 November 17, 2012

Please check & correct your grade and the school name on the Admit Card. Make sure that you are taking the test indicated on the Admit Card. Indicate any schedule preferences on the Admit Card. The placement test will be posted on the web as Week #1 homework on November 28th. Math IIIAB students requesting advancement to Math IIIB must also take the Math IIIB test as a second test. You must score at least 15 (50%) to take the Math IIIB test. Please staple the placement test along with your answers and the Admit Card. 1. 2. If you first multiply a number x by 4 and then subtract 12, you get twice as much as you get when you first subtract 12 from x and then multiply by 4. What is x? In the figure, line segment BD bisects ABC, AB = 7, BC = 12 and AC = 16. Find AD.

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Consider the arrangement AAABBBCC. In how many ways can the eight letters be rearranged so that each position in the rearrangement is occupied by a type of letter which is different from the type of letter which occupied that position in the given arrangement? Statistics for road use in a certain county show that in the past year, there were 32 accidents per 100,000 miles driven on rural roads and 18 accidents per 100,000 miles driven on city roads. Combined statistics for both rural and city roads show that there were 24 accidents per 100,000 miles driven. Let x be the total number of accidents on rural roads and y be the total number of accidents on city roads. Determine the value of x/y. Express your answer in the form p/q where p and q are positive integers having no common divisor other than 1. How many pairs of positive integers (a, b) with a + b 1000 satisfy (a2 + b-2)/( a-2 + b2) = 121? Find the coordinates of the point on the circle (x + 1)2 + (y 5)2 = 10 that is closest to the line y = 3x + 20. If 4 balls are randomly drawn without replacement from a box containing 5 red balls, 4 blue balls, 4 green balls and 2 yellow balls, what is the probability that for each color, the selection contains no more than 2 balls of that color? Define a0 = 2, a1 = 8 and an = an-1/an-2 for n 2. Find a2003.

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In the isosceles trapezoid ABCD, BC and AD are parallel. If AD = 20, BC = 10 and AC = 25, find CD.

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Seven congruent rectangles form a larger rectangle ABCD. If the area of rectangle ABCD is 756 square units, what is the perimeter of ABCD?

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Find the degree measure of the acute angle which satisfies the equation cos(81) + cos(39) = cos() . Suppose that C1 and C2 are concentric circles, with C1 being the larger circle. The length of a chord of C1 which is tangent to C2 is 28 cm. What is the area of the region which lies between C1 and C2? Suppose that S is a set of 5 distinct positive integers such that when any 4 of the integers are added together, the possible sums are 169, 153, 182, 193 and 127. What is the largest integer in S? Suppose i = (-1). Define a sequence of complex numbers by z1 = 0 and zn +1 = (zn)2 + i for n 1. Find z2003. If

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(log 2 ) x log3 2 = 81 , find x 3

Find the sum of the real solutions to the equation 4x + 8/4x = 6. In the rectangle with vertices (0, 0), (24, 0), (24, 32) and (0, 32), form a triangle by connecting the midpoints of the sides containing (24, 32). Then inscribe a circle in the triangle as indicated in the sketch. Find the coordinates of the center of this circle.

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Recall that for a positive integer n, n! = n (n 1) (n 2) 3 2 1. Find the number of zeros at the end of 2003!. On a test, the average score of those who passed was 75, the average score of those who failed was 35 and the average score of the entire class was 60. What fraction of the class passed? Express your answer as a rational number in lowest terms. Find the sum of all of the real zeros of the function f (x) = 2cos(2x) + 1 in the interval 0 x 100. In ABC, line segments DE and FG are parallel to AB and the three regions CED, DEGF and FGBA have equal areas. Find the value of CD/FA.

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The sum of all of the zeros of a cubic polynomial p (x) = x3 + ax2 + bx + c with c 0 is equal to twice the product of all of its zeros. The sum of the squares of all of the zeros of p(x) is equal to three times the product of all of its zeros. If p(1) = 1, find c. Find the minimum value of xy/(x2 + y2) if 2/5 x 1/2 and 1/3 y 3/8. A circle is inscribed in ABC where AB = 4, BC = 5 and AC = 3. Let t be the length of the line segment joining the points where the circle is tangent to sides BC and AC. Find t2 .

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Suppose ABC is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 10 cm. If the perimeter of the triangle is 31 cm, determine the value of sin(A) + sin(B) + sin(C). In ABC, the respective coordinates of A and B are (0, 0) and (15, 20). It is known that C has integer coordinates. What is the minimum positive area of ABC? An obtuse isosceles triangle ABC with equal angles at B and C is inscribed in a circle. Tangents are drawn through B and C which intersect at a point D. Suppose that 3 ABC = BDC. If x is the radian measure of BAC, determine the value of x.

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If a and b are decimal digits (not necessarily distinct), let n(a, b) = aba + bab. For example, n(5, 8) = 585 + 858 = 1443. Find n(a, b), where the sum is computed over all ordered pairs of decimal digits a and b . If x is a real number, let [x] be the largest integer less than or equal to x. Define f(x) = [x]x. What is the largest possible two digit integer value of f(x)? A circle C1 is inscribed in an equilateral triangle with side length 1 unit. Construct a circle C2 that is tangent to C1 and two sides of the triangle. Then construct a circle C3 that is tangent to C2 and two sides of the triangle. Continue constructing such circles indefinitely. Find the sum of the areas of this infinite sequence of circles.

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