2015 Grade 8 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

Below are the 2015 Grade 8 MTAP Math Challenge Division Oral Competition questions
with answers.

15-second question (2 points each)

1.) What is the slope of the line that passes through the points (-1, 0) and (1, -6)?
Answer: -3

2.) Which one is the largest, 3.2, 10/3, π?

Answer: 10/3

3.) A furniture shop offers a 15% discount in all its terms, and a sala set was marked Php
14, 000. What was the selling price of the sala set?
Answer: Php 11, 900

4.) Solve for x in the equation |1 – x| = 8.

Answer: 9, -7

5.) If , what is ?
Answer: 4

6.) Factor completely the algebraic expression .

Answer:

7.) Find the least integer that satisfies the inequality .

Answer: 0

8.) Given an angle A, what is the supplement of the complement of A?

Answer: 90° + A

9.) The operation is defined as . What is ?

Answer: -6
10.) What is the quotient when is divided by ?

Answer:

11.) Ana can paint their bedroom in 4 hours, while her older sister, Carla, can paint it in
3 hours. If they work together, what part of the bedroom can they paint in half an hour?
Answer: 7/24
30-second question (3 points each)
1.) A man started walking at a constant rate of 50 meters per minute. After 30 minutes,
from the same point where the first man started, another man started jogging at a
constant rate of 120 meters per minute. After 20 minutes more, who is ahead? By how
many meters?
Answer: First man, by 100 meters.

2.) How far from the origin is the point midway between the points (1, 2) and (-3, 6)?
Answer: √17 units

3.) When is divided by , what is the remainder?

Answer:

4.) Find the equation of the line, in slope-intercept form, that passes through the points
(-1, 0) and (1, -6).
Answer: y = -3x – 3
5.) Triangle ABC has sides 13, 13, and 10 cm long. What is the area of the triangle?
Answer: 60 sq. cm.

6.) Find all integers x that satisfy the inequality

Answer: -6, -5, -4, 6, 7, 8

1-minute question (5 points each)

1.) Find the point of intersection of the lines and .

Answer: (-1; 4)
2.) Simplify: .
Answer: 0

3.) What is the area of the region described by the inequalities x ≥ 0, y ≤ 2x, and 2y + 6
≥7x?
Answer: 3 square units

4.) Find the domain of the function

Answer: {x| – 3/2 ≤ x < 0 or x > 0}

5.) State the inverse of the statement “If P(x) ≥ 0 for all x ∈ R, then x < 0 for some x ∈
R.”
Answer: If P(x) < 0 for some x ∈ R, then x ≥ 0 for all x ∈ R.
6.) The sides of a right triangle are x, x + y, and x + 2y, where x and y are positive
numbers. What is the ratio of y to x? Answer: 1:3
Clincher Question
1.) What is the sum of the x- and y-intercepts of line 5x + 2y = 10?
Answer: 7

2.) In ∆ABC, half of ∠A is 30° less than ∠B, and ∠C is twice the complement of ∠A. What
kind of triangle is ∆ABC?
Answer: Equilateral or equiangular.

3.) In tossing a pair of dice and a pair of coins simultaneously, what is the probability of
getting a sum of 6, a tail, and a head?
Answer: 5/72

Do or Die Question
In the equations 3x +p = 2y and 4x = 3y+p+2, where x > y, what is the least possible

integral value of ?
Answer: 2