INTSO EDUCATION

MATHEMATICS TALENT SEARCH OLYMPIAD(MTSO) 2015 - 2016

STAGE - 2 TIME : 60 min.
CLASS : VII Max. Marks : 50
Instructions:
= Fill the OMR sheet completely and carefully.
= Each question carries one mark and has only one correct answer. ¼ (one fourth) marks will be
deducted for indicating incorrect response of each question.
= The question paper contains 50 questions to be answered in 60 minutes.

1. (– 1) + (– 1) + (– 1) + (– 1) + ...... 200 times = [ ]

1) 1 2) – 1 3) 200 4) – 200
2. What should be divided by 6 to get – 18 [ ]
1) – 3 2) 3 3) – 108 4) 108

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3. 50 Suman studies for 5 hours daily. She devotes 2 hours of her time for science and
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mathematics. How much time does she devote for other subjects [ ]
13 13 11
1) 4 hours 2) 2 hours 3) 2 hours 4) 2 hours
14 15 12
4. A transport company’s vans each carry a maximum load of 13 tones. 26 sealed boxes each
weighing 5 tones have to be transported to a factory. The number of van loads needed to do this is
1) 9 2) 10 3) 12 4) 13 [ ]

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5. A sugar bag contains 30 kg of sugar. After consuming of it. How much sugar is left in the bag.
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1) 20 kg 2) 15 kg 3) 12 kg 4) 10 kg [ ]

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6. The product of two numbers is 20 . If one of the numbers is 6 . The second number is
7 3
3 2 3 3
1) 3 2) 3 3) 3 4) 2 [ ]
28 27 7 7

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7. A wire of length 12 M is cut into 10 pieces of equal length. The length of each piece is
2
5 5 3
1) M 2) M 3) 5M 4) M [ ]
4 2 4
8. Number of two digit numbers divide 109 with a remainder of 4 [ ]
1) 2 2) 4 3) 3 4) 5
9. ∠A is an obtuse angle, the measure of ∠A and twice its supplementary differ by 30º, the ∠A
can be [ ]
A) 150º B) 110º C) 140º 4) 120º

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10. Two complementory angles are in the ratio 3 : 2. The larger angle measure is [ ]
1) 36º 2) 90º 3) 54º 4) 60º
11. AOB is a straight line and 4x = 5y. The value of x is [ ]
1) 100º
2) 105º C
xº
yº
3) 110º O
A B
4) 115º
12. In figure AB || CD || EF, ∠ABG = 110º , ∠GCD = 100º and ∠BGC = x º the value of x is
1) 35º B C D [ ]
A 110º xº 100º
2) 50º
3) 30º E G F
4) 40º
13. If AB || CD. Then the value of x is [ ]
2xº
1) 122
E A B
2) 238 95º
37º
3) 58
C F D
4) 119

14. If PR is a straight line and PQS : SQR = 7 : 5 the measure of PQS is [ ]

1) 75º 2) 105º 3) 85º 4) 135º
15. In the adjascent figure BA and BC are produced to meet CD and AD produced in E and F. Then
AED + CFD is [ ]
B
A 50º
1) 80º
90º
E D C
2) 50º
3) 40º F
4) 160º
16. One of the acute angles of a right angled triangle is 58º the other acute angle is [ ]
1) 52º 2) 42º 3) 32º 4) 58º
17. In figure the measures of some of the angles are indicated the value of x is [ ]
1) 150º Q
C
xº
2) 110º
3) 70º
40º yº 70º P
4) 90º A B
18. The hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is 13 cm. One of the remaining two sides is of length 5
cm the length of the other side is [ ]
1) 12 cm 2) 18 cm 3) 8 cm 4) 7 cm

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19. A ladder 15m long reaches a window which is 9m above the ground of one side of a street .
Keeping its foot at the same point the ladder is turned to other side of the street to reach a window
12m high the width of the street. [ ]
1) 12m 2) 9m 3) 21m 4) 20m
20. A man goes 10m due east and 24m due north. The distance of man from the starting point is
1) 24m 2) 34m 3) 26m 4) 22m [ ]
21. In figure the value of X is [ ]
A
1) 20º
2) 30º 3xº
3) 40º 120º 5xº
4) 25º P B C Q
22. In figure a = b = c name the angle which is congruent to AOC [ ]
1) AOB
D
2) BOC C
c B
b
3) COD O a A
4) BOD
23. In figure AB = AC and ∠ACD = 120º then ∠A = [ ]
1) 120º A
2) 60º
3) 50º 120º
4) 70º B C
24. The number of lines of symmetry of a rectangle has? [ ]
1) 3 2) 2 3) 4 4) 6
25. Two poles of heights 6m and 11m stand vertically on a plane ground. If the distance between their
feet is 12m the distance between their tops is [ ]
1) 13 m 2) 14m 3) 15m 4) 12.8m
26. In ΔABC ∠ACB = 120º and ∠CAB = 40º AC is extended to P such that AP = AC + 2CB. The
measure of ∠ABP is [ ]
1) 60º 2) 120º 3) 110º 4) 100º
27. The remainder when the number (2 × 3 × 4 × 2007 × 2008 × 2009) – 2008 is divided by 2009
is [ ]
1) 0 2) 2008 3) 1 4) 2007
28. ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = AC = 2008 cm. ADC is drawn as an equilateral triangle on
AC outside ΔABC , AD is parallel to BC. The bisector of D meets AB in E (say). Then BE is
equal to [ ]
1) 1004 cm 2) 2008 cm 3) 0 4) 502 cm
29. A triangular pyramid shown in figure has how many edges [ ]
1) 6
2) 4
3) 5
4) 3

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30. Number of curved edges of a cylinder has [ ]
1) 0 2) 2 3) 1 4) 3
31. The area in square meters of the parallelogram whose base is 5 cm and altitude 4.2 cm is
1) 21 cm2 2) 22 cm2 3) 11 cm2 4) 10.5 cm2 [ ]
32. The area of an isosceles right triangle if one of the equal sides is 20cm long [ ]
1) 250 cm2 2) 200 cm2 3) 400 cm2 4) 300 cm2
33. ABCD and PQRC are squares such that AD = 22 cm and PC = y cm. The area of the shaded
region is 403 cm2. The value of y is [ ]
1) 3 A B
2) 6 22cm Q P
3) 9 ycm
4) 10 D R C
34. Each side of an equilateral triangle is 8 cm, its area is [ ]
1) 16 3 cm2 2) 32 3 cm2 3) 24 3 cm2 4) 8 3 cm2
35. A wire is in the form of a square of side 18 m. It is bent in the form of a rectangle whose length and
breadth are in the ratio 3 : 1. The area of the rectangle is [ ]
1) 81 m2 2) 243 m2 3) 144 m2 4) 324m2
36. The ratio of the radius of two circles is 2 : 5. The ratio of their circumfrences is [ ]
1) 4 : 5 2) 6 : 15 3) 2 : 5 4) 1 : 4
37. The diameter of a wheel of a cycle is 70cm. It moves along a road. The distance covered by car 24
complete revolutions is [ ]
1) 52.80m 2) 50.60m 3) 52m 4) 53m
38. PQRS is a diameters of a circle of radius 6cm. The lengths PQ, QR and RS are equal. Semicircles
are drawn on PQ and QS as diameters as shown in figure. The area of the shaded region is
a) 27.71 cm2 [ ]
b) 37.71 cm2
P S
c) 47.71 cm2 Q R
d) 35.71 cm2
39. The ratio of the area and circunterence of a circle of diameter d is [ ]
d d
1) d 2) 3) 4) 2d
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40. The ages in years of 10 teachers in a school are 32, 41, 28, 54, 35, 26, 23, 33, 38, 40. The mean
age of teachers is [ ]
1) 25 2) 35 3) 32 4) 33
41. The mean of 5 observations x, x + 2, x + 4, x + 6, x + 8 is 11. The mean of first 3 observations is
1) 7 2) 6 3) 9 4) 5 [ ]
42. The median of the observations 11, 12, 14, 18, x + 2, x + 4, 30, 32, 35, 41 arranged in
ascending order is 24. Then the value of x is [ ]
1) 20 2) 22 3) 21 4) 23
43. If a : b = 5 : 6 and b : c = 3 : 4 then a : b : c is [ ]
1) 5 : 6 : 8 2) 5 : 3 : 2 3) 6 : 5 : 4 4) 3 : 4 : 5

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44. of 29% of y = 29. The value of Y is [ ]
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1) 290 2) 58 3) 120 4) 100
45. A train of length 240m crosses a platform in 20 seconds. The speed of the train is 72 km/h. The
length of the platform is [ ]
1) 150m 2) 160m 3) 140m 4) 155m
46. Speed of a boat in still water is 10 km/h and the speed of the stream is 5 km/h, the total time taken
to travel a distance of 20m upstream and 30 km down stream [ ]
1) 5 hours 2) 4 hours 3) 7 hours 4) 6 hours
47. The present ages of Pavan and Kalyan are in the ratio of 4 : 5. The product of their ages numerically
is equal to 980, the difference between their ages is [ ]
1) 9 2) 6 3) 5 4) 7
48. A trader marked his articles 20% above cost price. The lost price per article isRs. 250, it he allows
10% discount on the marked price, then profit percentage is [ ]
1) 7% 2) 6% 3) 5% 4) 8%
49. Two pipes A and B can fill a tank is 4h and 8h respectively both the pipes are opened
simultaneously and pipe B is closed after one hour the time taken by A to fill the remaining part of
the tank [ ]
3 3 3 3
1) 2 h 2) 4 h 3) 3 h 4) 3 h
8 8 7 8

15 x + 16 y 7
50. If = then x : y is [ ]
25 x + 4 y 6
1) 1 : 2 2) 3 : 5 3) 4 : 5 4) 4 : 3

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