March Regional

Algebra II Individual Test Solutions

1. D
Set up a system. 5Z + 3F + 2S = 6.75, 3Z + 4F + 10S = 14.50, and 10Z + 11F = 13.25.
Solving you get S = 1.00, so 10 swiss rolls costs 10.00.
2. A
Create a venn diagram. You will find that 12 percent buy only zebra cakes, 42 percent buy
only swiss rolls and 10 percent buy only fudge rounds. Thus, only 5 percent buy all 3.

4. C

(5C2)(x2 )(23 ) = 80x2 .

10000 = 100 and (100)(2) = 200.

5. A

(5)(1337) = 6685.

6. D

(10)(60)(1337) = 802200.

3. C

7. A
If I ride 2013 miles that means I put a total of 4026 miles on all my tires, but there are 3 of
them so you divide by 3 and get 1342 miles.
4x + 3
.
x1

8. B

Switch all the xs and ys. Then solve for y. So, f 1 (x) =

9. A

It turns out that there is only one term, because you can combine the xs.

8/3 8/3
1
1
3
8/7 8/7 8/7
1
1
1
7
+
= 1. So
+ = . and
+
+
= 1 so
+ +
= . Subtracting
V
A
V
A
8
A
V
H
A V
H
8
1
1
the two equations gives
= so H = 2. So Hanisha can do the job in 120 minutes by herself.
H
4

10. B

11. D

The factors are 1, 7, 191, and 1337. Summing those gives 1536.

12. C

Solving the system gives the ordered pair (1, 2) and 1 + 2 = 3.

13. E
A + B = C. Rearranging gives A + B C = 0. Thus, in step 5 when you divide by A + B C
you are really dividing by 0 which is not legal.
14. A

2
3
1
2
3
1
1
1
1
+
+
. . .. So 9x = + +
. . .. Thus, 8x = + +
+ ... =
9
81
729
1
9
81
1
9
81
= 9/8. Hence, x = 9/64.

Lets say x =

1
1 1/9

3
2
15. C
The equation to determine
each term

in this series can be expressed as f (x) = ax +bx +cx+d

Since each term has a 2 then, d = 2. Plug in 1 into f (x) and you get 7 = a + b + c. Plugging
in 2 yields 66 = 8a + 4b + 2c. Plugging
system gives the
in 3 yields 243 = 27a + 9b + 3c. Solving this
3
2
equation f (x) = 11x 7x + 3x 2 Thus, plugging in 10 for x yields 10330 2.

16. B
The number of subsets from a given set is given by 2n , where n is the number of items in the
set. So, we have 21 consonants, which means if we use only consonants we have 221 subsets. But, if
we use one of the 5 vowels we have (5)(221 ) subsets. Thus, the total number of subsets that can be
created is (6)(221 ) which will give a units digit of 2.
17. B

2
, where x is from 2 to
1
. Thus, rewriting the sequence

Looking at the series you realize that the terms are generated from

x2

1
1
10. Notice how the term generator can be simplified to

x+1 x1

 


 

1 1
1 1
1
1
1
1
we have

,...,

. Summing it all together, you realize that

3 1
4 2
10 8
11 9
1 1
1
1
72
everything cancels out except for +
+ . Summing those together, you get .
1 2 10 11
55

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March Regional

Algebra II Individual Test Solutions

18. D
If you expand (x a)(x b)(x c)(x d) and (x 1/a)(x 1/b)(x 1/c)(x 1/d) you will
see that the coefficients of the latter expansion are just the reverse of the coefficients of the first
expansion, with the opposite signs. Thus, the answer for this would be 4x4 2x3 + 4x 5.
19. E
All the listed scores are attainable except for 113, but 109 is also unattainable which is smaller
than 113.
1 4 99
99
The probability that no one gets into MIT is ( )( )(
). Simplifying gives
. Thus,
2 5 100
250
99
151
1
=
.
250
250

20. A

21. E

Evaluating the determinant gives 60.

1
1
1
1
1
1
+
+
=
+
+
. Expanding this using
x+y
x+z
y+z
1z
1y
1x
xy + xz + yz 2(x + y + z) + 3
xy + xz + yz + 1
LCD gives
=
= 1. Therefore, xyz = 1.
xy + xz + yz (x + y + z) xyz + 1
xy + xz + yz xyz

22. A

Since x + y + z = 1,

23. B
The 2 equations will intersect when y = x, so substitute y in for x and you get x = x2 + 7x + 9.
Re arranging the quadratic and solving gives (x + 3)2 = 0, so x = 3, thus y = 3. The x + y = 6.
24. D
Lets say Eli adds x L of water. So (10)(0.5) + (x)(0) = (x + 10)(0.1). Solve for x and you get
that x = 40.
25. D
To find how many ways you can rearrange objects without them being in the same place you
use n!(1/(2!) 1/(3!) + 1/(4!) 1/(5!) . . . + (1)n (1/(n!))). Thus if you plug in 8 for n, you get 14833.
26. B
The number of ways in which people can sit around a table can be given by (n 1)!. Since 2
of the people must sit by each other we will count them as one person for now. So there are a total
of 5 people, so (5 1)! = 24. But since the 2 people that must sit next to each other can swap seats
we must multiply by 2, which gives 48.
27. A
Since you want the number to be 1 less than a factor of 7, 5, and 4 you can just multiply
those 3 numbers and subtract 1. You ignore 2, because the 4 already accounts for it. Thus, you get
(7)(5)(4) 1 = 139.
28. C
Take advantage of the symmetry and divide by x2 to obtain x2 2x+1 x2 + x12 = 0. Substitute

a = x + x1 , and note that a2 2 = x2 + x12 . Then we have a2 2a 1 = 0, so a = 1 2. Setting

x + 1/x = 1 2 gives an imaginary solution, soonly a = 1 + 2 will give real rootsfor x. Thus,
the real solutions are the two roots of x + x1 = 1 + 2. Multiplying by x gives x2 (1 + 2)x + 1 = 0,

so the sum of the real roots is 1 + 2.

29. D
x = 6 + x. Square both sides and you get x2 x 6 = 0. So x = 3, 2. Since you cannot
have a negative value, x has to be 3.
30. E
If the middle term is 50, that means the sum of the first and the last is 100, the sum of the 2nd
term and the 2nd to last term is 100... etc. So, the sum of this series will be (100)(50) + 50 = 5050.

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