SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR PRE-RMO

01. A drawer contains 5 brown socks and 4 blue socks well mixed. A man reaches the drawer and pulls out 2 socks
at random. The probability that they match.............

02. Given x 1 a a 2 .... and y 1 b b 2 ..... where a and b are proper fractions 1 ab a 2 b 2 .......
equals to ..................

03. If x is the sum of the following 3000 numbers: 2, 22, 222,......, 222....222
, then the last four digits (thousands,
3000 digits

hundreds tens, units) of x are................

04. The number of digits in the smallest number, which when multiplies by 7 yields all nines, is................

05. In the given figure, AOB is a diameter of the circls with centre O. CD is the perpendicular bisector of OA. The
angles x, y, z , w is/are equal to 30 .................

xyz
w
A B
P O

06. Two concentric circles with centre C have radii r1 and r2 such that r2 r1 0 . CA and CAB are the common
lined radii of the circles. If tangent at A is drawn to meet the bigger circle in the point D. Then the length BD is
given by .....................

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7 x2 2
07. The coefficient of x in the expansion of is ...............
2 x

08. In this diagram AB and AC are the equal sides of an isosceles triangle ABC, in which is inscribed equilateral
triangle DEF. Designate angle BFD by a, angle ADE by b, and angle FEC by c. Then a =.................

E
b
D c

a
B C
F

09. Given right triangle ABC with legs BC 3, AC 4 . The length of the shorter angle trisector from C to the
hypotenuse is..................

10. For a 4 it is known that the value of the fraction

a 2 x a 2 1 is independent of x. The other value of a for
ax 2a 18
which this is the case, belong to the interval..............

11. The number of values of n for which 1! 2! 3! ..... n! is the square of a natural number equals to ..........

12. You are given a sequence of 58 terms; each term has the form P+n where P stands for the product 2, 3, 5,......61
of all prime numbers less then or equal to 61, and n takes, successively, the values 2, 3, 4,...59. Let N be the
number of primes appearing in this sequence. Then N is..............

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13. In triangle ABC, AL bisects angles A and CM bisects angle C. Points L and M are on BC and AB, respectively.
AM CL
The sides of triangle ABC are a, b and c. Then k where k is ...........
MB LB

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14. The length of a tangent, drawn from a point A to a circle, is of the radius r. The (shortest) distance from A
3
to the circle is ............

15. In triangle ABC, BD is a median. CF intersects BD at E so that BE ED . Point F is on AB. Then, if BF 5 , BA

equals...........

16. Given the polynomial a 0 x n a1x n 1 .... a n 1x a n , where n is a positive integer or zero, and a 0 is a positive
integer. The remaining as are integers or zero. Set h n a 0 a1 a 2 ..... a n . The number of polynomials
with h 3 is .............

17. If p is the perimeter of an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle, the area of the circle is ...............

18. The sides of a triangle are 25, 39 and 40. The diameter of the circumscribed circle is ............

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19. For the infinite series 1 ...... let S be the (limiting) sum. Then S equals to ........
2 4 8 16 32 64 128

20. The area of a circle inscribed in a regular hexagon is 100 . The area of the hexagon is ............

1 1
21. If xy b and 2
2 a ,then x y 2 equals to...........
x y

22. The sides of a triangle are 30, 70 and 80 units. If an altitude is dropped upon the side of length 80, the larger
segment cut off on this side is ..............

n
23. Given a n 1,a1 3 , and the general relation a 2n a n 1a n 1 1 for n 1 . Then a 3 equals to...............

24. In a circle with centre O chord AB=chord AC. Chord AD cuts BC in E. If AC 12 and AE 8, then AD
equals to.............

25. In this diagram a scheme is indicated for associating all the points of segment AB with those of segment A B ,
and reciprocally. To describe this association scheme analytically let x be the distance from a point P and AB to
D and let y be the distance from the associated point P of AB to D . Then for any pair of associated points,
if x a, x y equals to............

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 D A P B
0 1 2 3 4 5

D B A
0 1 2 P 3 4 5

26. The sides of a right triangle are a and b and the hypotenuse is c. A perpendicular from the vertex divides c into
segments r and s, adjacent respectively to a and b. If b 1 : 3 , then the ration of r to s is .................

27. AB is the hypotenuse of a right triangle ABC. Median AD 7 and median BE 4 . The length of AB is........

n
28. In the expansion of a b there are n 1 dissimilar terms. The number of dissimilar terms in the expansion of
10
a b c is ...............

29. A regular octagon is to be formed by cutting equal isosceles right triangles from the corners of a square. If the
square has sides of one unit, the leg of each of the triangles has length.............

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30. Two men set out at the same time to walk towards each other from M and N, 72 km apart. The first man walks
1
at the rate of 4 km/hr. The second men walks 2 km the first hour, 2 km the second hour, 3 km the third hour, and
2
so on in arithmetic progression. Then the men will meet in ..........hours

31. In circle O, the midpoint of radius OX is Q; at Q, AB XY . The semi-circle with AB as diameter intersects XY
in M. Line AM intersects circle O in C, and line BM intersects circle O in D. Line AD is drawn. Then, if the
radius of circle O is r, AD in terms of r is ................

B
C

O
X Y
Q
D
A

32. If the sum 1 2 3 .... K is a perfect square N 2 and if N is less than 100, then the possible values for K is
/are............

3p 25
33. If p is a positive integer, then can be a positive integer, if and only if p is ..............
2p 5

34. A 6cm and 18 cm diameter pole are placed as in the figure and bound together with wire. The length of the
shortest wire that will go around them is................

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6 cm

35. In the figure PA is tangent to semicircle SAR; PB is tangent to semicircle RBT, SRT is a straight line; the arcs
are indicated in the figure. Angle APB is measured in terms of a and b is...............

A M
x b-x B
c a
S T
O R O
a+c-x
x b+d
N

36. In the diagram if points A, B, C are points of tangency, then x equals to..........

X
3/8 cm
A B
cm
600

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37. The radius of the first circle is 1 cm, that of the second cm, that of the third cm and so on indefinitely. The
2 4
sum of the area of the circles is ..................

38. In the figure, it is given that angle C 90 , AD DB, DE AB, AB 20 , and AC 12 . The area of
quadrilateral ADEC is ................

A B
D

39. In triangle ABC AY to the bisector angle ABC and AX to the bisector of angle ACB. If AB= 9cm ,
AC=7cm and BC= 4cm. then the length of XY is .............

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40. In r is in radious of traingle ABC and ha, hb and hc are the three altitudes then in terms of ha,hb and hc is .......
r