CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)

Previous Year Paper (2023-24)

Class 9 (Set - A)
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 Practical Mathematics (Each Question is 1 Mark)
1. From a group of 3 men and 2 women, 5. The sum of n terms of an AP is a n (n -
two people are selected at random. 1). The sum of the squares of these
Find the probability that at least one terms is equal to:
woman is selected:
a. a2n2 (n - 1)2
1 7 b. [a2 n (n - 1) (2n - 1)]/6
a. b.
5 10
2 5 c. [2a2 n (n - 1) (2n - 1)]/3
c. d.
5 6 d. [2a2 n (n + 1) (2n + 1)]/3

2. Which of the following statements is 6. If p = 3x3 - 5x + 9, Q = 4x3 + 5x2 - 11

not true? and R = 5x3 + 4x2 - 3x + 7, then find the
value of (p - 2Q + R):
a. Between two integers, there exists
an infinite number of rational a. 2(3x2 + 4x - 19)
numbers b. -6x2 - 5x + 38
b. Between two rational numbers, c. -2(3x2 + 4x + 19)
there exists an infinite number of d. -2(3x2 + 4x - 19)
integers
c. Between two rational numbers, 7. If the roots of the quadratic equation
there exists an infinite number of x2 - 3x - 304 = 0 are α and β, then the
rational numbers quadratic equation with roots 3α and
d. Between two real numbers, there 3β is:
exists an infinite number of real
numbers a. x2 - 9x - 2736 = 0
b. x2 + 9x - 2736 = 0
3. Axioms are assumed: c. x2 - 9x + 2736 = 0
d. x2 + 9x + 2736 = 0
a. Universal truth in all branches of
mathematics 8. The dimensions of a cuboidal container
b. Theorems are 12 cm x 10 cm x 8 cm. How many
c. Definitions bottles of syrup can be poured into the
d. Universal truths specific to container if each bottle contains 20
geometry cm3 of syrup?

4. A, B and C are three sets of values of a. 46 b. 54

x: c. 48 d. 58
A: 2, 3, 7, 1, 3, 2, 3
B: 7, 5, 9, 12, 5, 3, 8 9. Seolina can complete a piece of work
C: 4, 4, 11, 7, 2, 3, 4 in 30 days. She worked for 6 days and
Which one of the following statements left. Speggy completed the remaining
is correct? work in 16 days. In how many days can
the entire work be completed if they
a. Mean of A = Mode of C work together?
b. Mean of C = Median of B
c. Median of B = Mode of A a. 8 b. 12
d. Mean, Median and Mode of A are c. 16 d. 20
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 10. A, B and C can complete a piece of a. 60° b. 30°
work in 25, 30 and 50 days, c. 90° d. 40°
respectively. They started the work
together but A and C left 2 days before 14. Look at the image given below. If
the completion of the work. In how AB||CF and CD||FE, then find the value
many days will the work be completed? of x:

a. 14 b. 12
c. 18 d. 10

11. In the following, CDEF is a cyclic

quadrilateral. CG and DH are the angle
bisectors of ∠C and ∠D respectively. If a. 105° b. 60°
∠E = 100⁰ and ∠F = 110⁰, then find c. 40o d. 75o
∠CPD:
15. In the given figure, AB||CD. PQ and QR
intersect AB and CD both at E, F, and
G, H respectively. Find the value of x:

a. 105⁰ b. 80o
c. 150⁰ d. 90⁰
a. 40° b. 20°
12. In the figure below ABCDE is a c. 100° d. 60°
pentagon with BE || CD and BC || DE.
BC is perpendicular to CD. If the 16. In the given figure, OB = BA = 14 cm
perimeter of ABCDE is 21 cm, then find and semicircles are drawn on OB, BA
the values of x and y respectively: and OA as diameters. Then, the
perimeter of the shaded area is:

a. 0, 5 b. 5, 0 a. 80 cm b. 176 cm
c. 3, 2 d. 2, 5 c. 264 cm d. 352 cm

13. Look at the image given below. If AOB 17. Which of the following options
is a straight line, then the value of x is: represents the ordinate of all points on
the x-axis?

a. 0 b. 1
c. 2 d. -1

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 18. A student wrote the equations of the cm2 and 60 cm2 respectively, then the
lines a and b drawn in the following volume of the box is:
graph as y = 1 and 2x + 3y = 6
respectively. Write the coordinates of a. 720 cm3 b. 864 cm3
the point of intersection of lines a and c. 7200 cm3 d. 5184 cm3
b. Also, find the area enclosed between
these lines and the Y-axis: 23. The common quantity that must be
added to each term of a2 : b2 to make it
equal to a : b is:

a. ab b. a + b
c. a - b d. a/b

24. Duke is learning about the famous

mathematician Euclid. According to
Euclid's definition, the ends of a line
are:
a. (3, 1) 3/4 sq. unit
b. (3/2, 1), 3/4 sq. unit a. Breadthless b. Points
c. (1, 3), 3/2 sq. units c. Lengthless d. Segments
d. (1, 1/3), 3/2 sq. units
25. A student walks from his house at
19. The line joining the centre of a circle to 2 1/2 km/hr and reaches his school late
the midpoint of a chord(except by 6 minutes. The next day, he
diameters) is always: increases his speed by 1 km/hr and
reaches 6 minutes before school time.
a. Parallel to the chord How far is the school from his house?
b. Perpendicular to the chord
5 7
c. Equal to the chord a. km b. 4
km
4
d. Tangent to the chord 9 11
c. km d. 4
km
4

20. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled

26. AB and CD are two parallel chords on
pack of 52 cards. The probability that
the opposite sides of the centre of the
the card drawn is a red ace is:
circle. If AB = 10 cm, CD = 24 cm and
1 1 the radius of the circle is 13 cm, the
a. 13
b. 26 distance between the chords is:
3 1
c. 52
d. 2

21. What least number must be subtracted

from 1294 so that the remainder when
divided by 9, 11, 13 will leave in each
case the same remainder 6?

a. 0 b. 1 a. 17 cm b. 15 cm
c. 2 d. 3 c. 16 cm d. 18 cm

22. If the areas of the three adjacent faces 27. Dora, Samuel, and Nike were standing
of a cuboidal box are 120 cm², 72 at the three ends. The points A(-3, 0),
B(1, - 3) and C(4, 1) are the vertices of:

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 a. An equilateral triangle Mike: Two equilateral triangles are
b. An isosceles right-angled triangle congruent when their sides are equal.
c. A scalene triangle
d. Right-angled triangle a. Luke b. Mike
c. Albert d. Goel
28. A boy has some candies. If he divides
it between himself and his two siblings, 32. Max began constructing a triangle
there are two candies that would using the measurements provided. Two
remain. But if he also included his sides of a triangle are 5 cm and 1.5 cm
parents, there would be no candies left. long. The length of the triangle's third
Given that the number of candies is a side cannot be:
two-digit number, how many values
can it assume? a. 3.6 cm b. 3.4 cm
c. 4.2 cm d. 4.5 cm
a. 5 b. 6
c. 7 d. 9 33. The area of triangle ABC is 15 cm sq. If
ΔABC and a parallelogram ABPD are
29. Angelina wants to solve the following: If on the same base and between the
a2 + b2 + c2 = 20 and a + b + c =0, find same parallel lines then what is the
ab + bc + ca. area of parallelogram ABPD?
Help her by choosing the correct
option. a. 20 cm2 b. 27 cm2
c. 30 cm2 d. 15 cm2
a. -10 b. 14
c. 10 d. -14 34. For Albertson, collecting coins is a
hobby. He has amassed a collection of
30. Dora drew a figure and concealed it in $25 worth of nickels and dimes. There
one hand. She challenged her friend are three times as many nickels as
Luke to figure out what she drew by dimes. How many nickel coins are
providing the following clue: The figure there?
obtained by joining the midpoints of
adjacent sides of a rectangle 8 cm and a. 200 b. 250
6 cm is: c. 300 d. 350

a. a rhombus of area 24 cm2 35. In the given figure, if OA = 5 cm, AB =

b. a rectangle of area 24 cm2 8 cm, and OD is perpendicular to AB,
c. a trapezium of area 24 cm2 then CD is equal to:
d. a square of area 25 cm2

31. Goel and his friends are speaking

about properties of triangles.
Goel: Two equilateral triangles are
congruent when their areas are
proportional.
Albert: Two equilateral triangles are a. 4 cm b. 3 cm
congruent when their sides are c. 2 cm d. 1 cm
proportional.
Luke: Two equilateral triangles are 36. A ground is shaped as a trapezium that
congruent when their angles are has parallel sides, 25 m and 10 m. The
proportional.

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 non-parallel sides are 14 m and 13 m. 39. A hemispherical balloon's radius
Determine the area of the field. rises from 6 cm to 12 cm as air is
pumped into it. The ratio of the
a. 169 m2 b. 189 m2 balloon's surface areas in the two
c. 196 m2 d. 198 m2
cases is:
37. In his spare time, Tom created a
a. 1:2 b. 1:3
triangular ludo board for his children to
c. 1:4 d. 1:5
enjoy. A triangular board has 6 cm, 8
cm and 10 cm edges. The cost of
40. There were 1640 members who
painting it at a rate of 9 cents per
attended a famous magic show. A study
cm2 is:
of 640 people, it was found that 512
people liked the magic show very much.
a. $2.00 b. $2.16
If a person is selected at random, the
c. $2.22 d. $2.45
probability that the person liked the
magic show is:
38. Mehek drew a quadrilateral with the
sides being 3 cm, 4 cm, 4 cm, and 5
a. 0.5 b. 0.6
cm, with one of the diagonals being 5
c. 0.7 d. 0.8
cm, as een in the image below. The
resulting quadrilateral's area is:
a. 15.17 cm2 b. 19.17 cm2
c. 20.17 cm2 d. 22.17 cm2

Achievers’ Section (Each Question is 2 Marks)

41. If the distance from the vertex to the a. 2r/(√2 + 1) b. r/√2
centroid of an equilateral triangle is 6 c. (√2 - 1) r d. √2 r
cm, then what is the area of the
triangle? 43. Sia and Ria measure the two angles of
a quadrilateral to be 36° and 72°,
a. 24 cm2 b. 27√3 cm2 respectively, and the other two angles
c. 12 cm2 d. 12√3 cm2 are in the ratio 3:4, so find the measure
of the other two angles.
42. In the adjoining figure, if the radius of a. 108o, 144o b. 118o, 124ol
each of the four outer circles is r, then c. 98o, 84o d. 88o, 44o
what is the radius of the inner circle?
44. If the radius of a cylinder is decreased
by 50% and the height is increased by
50% to form a new cylinder, then the
volume will be decreased by:

a. 0% b. 25%
c. 62.5% d. 75%

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 45. In a town, 35.4% of the people are not minimum number of cookies with the
literate, 27% have education up to man?
primary school, and 18.6% have
education up to middle school. The a. 13 b. 17
people with education up to high school c. 16 d. 15
are twice the number of people with
education up to pre-university. Of the 48. Mr. Anderson left 1/3 of his property to
remaining, 660 are graduates. If the his wife and 3/5 of the remainder to his
population of the town is 15,000, then daughter. He gave the rest to his son
what is the number of people with who received $6,400. How much was
education up to high school? his original property worth?

a. 3120 b. 1560 a. $16,000 b. $32,000

c. 1460 d. None of these c. $24,000 d. $1,600

46. Nike has marked four points on his plot 49. Andrea drew a △ABC on the
where a fence will be built, and he blackboard and asked her students, If
wants to know the shape of the the bisector of the angle A of a △ABC
plot.The points A(1, 2), B(5, 4), C(3, 8) is perpendicular to the base BC of the
and D(- 1, 6) taken in order are the triangle, then the triangle ABC is :
vertices of:
a. Acute angled b. Scalene
a. A rectangle b. A rhombus c. Isosceles d. Obtuse an
c. A square d. A kite
50. Louis is a farmer. A pile of wheat is in
47. A man had certain number of cookies the shape of a cone with a 48-metre
with him. At first, he wanted to divide it diameter and a 7-metre height. Find
amongst his three children. When the the area of the canvas needed if the
division was done, one cookie heap needs to be covered to keep it
remained. Just then, one of the cousins dry in the rain.
came. Now it was possible to divide the
same number of cookies equally a. 1775.2 m2 b. 1885.7 m2
between the four children. What is the c. 1895.3 m2 d. 1990.2 m2

Answer Key
1. b 2. b 3. a 4. d 5. c 6. d 7. a
8. c 9. b 10. b 11. a 12. b 13. d 14. d
15. b 16. a 17. a 18. b 19. b 20. b 21. b
22. a 23. a 24. b 25. b 26. a 27. b 28. b
29. a 30. a 31. b 32. b 33. c 34. c 35. c
36. c 37. b 38. a 39. c 40. d 41. b 42. c
43. a 44. c 45. c 46. c 47. c 48. c 49. c
50. b

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