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SECTION A : 25 QUESTIONS (+4, 0)

In this section, only one option is correct and correct answer will fetch +4 marks, NO
answer or wrong answer will fetch zero marks.

1. Given that xyz  2015 , and x, y and z are positive integers, how many possible triples (x, y, z) are
there?
(A) 5 (B) 15 (C) 27 (D) 2015

2. In the figure below, the ratio of the trapezium ABCD to the area of the triangle DEF to the area of
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parallelogram GHJK is 4 : 2 : 3. Given that of the area of  DEF is shaded, find the ratio of the
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area of the shaded region to the total area of the unshaded regions of the figure.

(A) 2 : 11 (B) 2 : 17 (C) 2 : 21 (D) 2 : 27

3. How many four-digit numbers of the from X56Y are divisible by 24?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6

4. Johnny has 35 toys. He divides them into 5 piles to that each pile has a different number of toys. Find
the smallest possible number of toys in the biggest pile.
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10

5. Suppose 3 distinct numbers are chosen from 1, 2, ……, 3n with their sum equal to 3n. What is the
largest possible product of those 3 numbers?
(A) n3  n (B) n3  n (C) n3  7n  6 (D) n3  7n  6

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6. You walk a spiraling maze on the Cartesian plane as follows: starting at (0, 0) and the first five stops
are at A (1, 0), B (1, 1), C (0, 1), D (–1, 1) and E (–1, 0). Your ninth stop is at the point (2, –1) and so
on (seet he diagrma below). What is the x-coordinate of the point which out would arrive at on your
2005-th stop?

(A) (3, 22) (B) (3, –22) (C) (–3, 22) (D) None

Suppose that a, b, c are distinct numbers such that  b  a   4  b  c  c  a   0 , then the value of
2
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bc
is
ca
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) –1 (D) Can’t be determined uniquely

8. Let m  n be two real numbers such that m2  n  2 and n2  m  2 .

Find the value of 4mn  m3  n3 .
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) –1 (D) None

9. How many pairs of integers (x, y) satisfy the equaiton x  y  200600 ?

(A) 10 (B) 11
(C) 1 (D) No integral pair possible

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10. In the following figure, AB is the diameter of a circle with centre at O. It is given that AB  4 cm,
BC  3 cm, ABD  DBE . Suppose the area of the quadrilateral ABCD is x cm2 and the area of
x
DCE is y cm2. Find the value of the ratio .
y

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 5

11. ABCD is a rectangle. Through C a variable line is drawn so as to cut AB at X and DA produced at Y.
Then BX  DY is
(A) twice the area of the rectangle ABCD.
(B) equal to the area of the rectangle ABCD.
(C) a variable quantity which lies between the area of rectangle ABCD and twice the area of the
rectangle ABCD.
(D) always a constant less than the area of rectangle ABCD.

12. The number of positive integral values of (x, y) which satisfy the equations 3 x  3 y  4, x  y  28
simultaneously is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 0 (D) 3

13. The number of real solutions of the equaiton x  x2  x3  1  1 is

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 0

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14. Nine numbers are written in ascending order. The middle number is the average of the nine numbers.
The average of the five largest numbers is 68 and the average of the five smallest numbers is 44. The
sum of all numbers is
(A) 560 (B) 504 (C) 112 (D) 122

15. In the figure, PQ  42 cm . QR is the tangent to the semicircle at Q . If the differneece of the area of
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regions A, B is 357, then the base QR of the right triangle PQR is (in cm). Take   .
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(A) 42 (B) 48 (C) 52 (D) 50

16. Observe the angles 1, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and  6 in the square grid shown in figure below. The measure
of  1   2  3   4  5  6  is

(A) 180 (B) 270 (C) 360 (D) 225

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17. A, B and C run for a race on a straight road of x meters. A beats B by 30 meters B beats C by 20 meters,
A beats C by 48 meters. Then x (in meters) is
(A) 150 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 500

a a b b 2 b ab
18. When a = 2015 and b = 2016, the value of   is
 
a  b a  b a b a b

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C)  20152 (D) 2016

19. The probability that a given positive integer lying between 1 and 100 (both inclusive) is NOT divisibel
by 2, 3 or 5 is _____.
(A) 0.26 (B) 0.45 (C) 0.35 (D) 0.22

20. AB and AC are tangents at B and C to a circle. D is the mid point of the minor arc BC. For the triangle
ABC, D is

(A) orthocenter (B) circumcenter (C) incenter (D) centroid

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21. A carpenter wishes to cut a wooden 3  3  3 cube into twenty seven 111 cubes. He can do this
easily by making 6 cuts thorugh the cube, keeping the pieces together in the cube shape as shown:

What is the minimum number of cuts needed if he is allowed to rearrange the pieces after each cut?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6

22. Find the value of

1 2  3   2  4  6    3  6  9   ....   335  670 1005 .
1 3  6    2  6 12    3  9 18  ....   335 1005  2010 
1 2 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 3 6 2

bcd acd abd abc

23. If a, b, c and d are real numbers such that     r , find the
a b c d
value of r.
(A) 1 (B) –1 (C) 3 or 1 (D) 3 or –1

24. Suppose N1, N2 , ....... N2011 are positive integers. Let

X   N1  N 2  ....  N 2010  N 2  N3  ....  N 2011  ,
Y   N1  N 2  ....  N 2011  N 2  N3  ....  N 2010  .
Which one of the following relationships always holds?
(A) X  Y (B) X  Y (C) X  Y (D) X  N1  Y  N2011

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25. The following annulus is cut into 14 regions. Each region is painted with one colour. What is the
minimum number of colours needed to paint the annulus so that any no two adjacenet regions share
the same colours?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6

26. Among the four statements on integers below,

“If a  b then a2  b2 ”; “ a 2  0 is always true”;
“  a  0 is always true”; “If ac2  bc2 then a  b ”,
How many of them are correct?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

27. In a school, all 300 secondary 3 students study either Geography, Biology or both Geography and
Biology. If 80% study Geography and 50% study Biology, how many students study both Geography
and biology?
(A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 80 (D) 90

28. How many triangles can you find in the followign figure?

(A) 7 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 16

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29. Let x, y and z be non-negative numbers. Suppose x  y  10 and y  z  8 . Let S  x  z .

What is the sum of the maximum and the minimum value of S ?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 24

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30. If p  & q , then identify the correct statement
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(A) p  q (B) p  q (C) p  q (D) None

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