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1. What is the value of + + + ... + ?

1 2 +2 1 2 3 +3 2 4 3 +3 4 99 100 + 100 99

2. A cow is tethered at one corner of a 4 m × 4m hut with a 6 m long rope. What is the area of the
space that the cow can access?

3. There are three types of food material that are available: ice cream, sandwiches and burgers. No
person ate all the three food materials. 12 people ate ice-cream, 16 people ate sandwiches and
8 people ate burgers. All the persons who ate ice-cream ate sandwiches. What is the number of
persons who ate ice-cream as well as burgers?

4. A 30% increase in the price of sugar reduces the quantity of sugar bought for Rs. 390 by 30 kg.
What is the original quantity of sugar bought originally?

 10 8 6 3 
5. Given that  2 + = 15 and − = 10  .
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
 x + y x −y x +y x −y 
What is the approximate value of x?

6. A(x, y) = x + y
S(x, y) = x – y
M(x, y) = xy
x
D(x, y) =
y
a = 2, b = 3, c = 7
What is the value of M ( S(A(a, b), S(b, c)), A(M(b, c), A(a, c))) ?

7. Two pages are torn out from a book. The sum of the page numbers remaining in the book is 9717.
What are the numbers of the two pages that are torn?

8. Three sports played named: A, B and C are played by the students.

The number of students:
(1) who play only A = 10
(2) who play only B = 16
(3) who play only C = 23
(4) who play A and B but not C = 6
(5) Who play B and C but not A = 7
(6) at least A = 30
(7) atmost B = 43

What is the least number of persons who play A and C but not B.

9. The amount of coal consumed by a train varies directly as the square of its speed. The amount of
coal consumed when the speed is 50 km/hr is 290 kg/hr. The price of coal is Rs. 1.90/kg. What
could be the speed at which the coal consumption is minimum.
10. What is the remainder when (667)5 – 699 is divided by 5?

11. M

R R

P Q

Two circles having radius ‘R’ units. The measure of ∠ PMQ = 9 0° . What is the area of the region
that is common to both the circles.

12. If the internal bisectors of the two adjacent angles of a parallelogram are equal in length, then the
parallelogram becomes
(a) Square (b) Rectangle (c) Rhombus (d) Trapezium

13. P, Q, R and S are points chosen on the sides AB, BC, CD and DA of the square ABCD. The
lengths of PQ, QR, RS and SP is a, b, c, and d respectively. Which of the following condition
necessarily holds true?
Options: Four relations in terms of a, b, c and d were given.

A
14.

C B

ABC is a equilateral triangle of side ‘a’ units. What is the area of the circle?

60°
15. A

The earth is in the form of a sphere. A person moves along the equator starting from point A and
then retuns back to A. This distance travelled by him is denoted by ‘X’ The latitude of point P is
60°.
The distance covered along the globe starting from point P and coming back to point P is ‘Y’.
What is the ratio of X and Y?
16. For positive integer values of ‘n’, n3 – n is
(a) always divisible by 6
(b) never divisible by 6
(c) always divisible by 12
(d) never divisible by 12.

17. A ant is at the point (0, –1). It starts moving towards the right along the path y = x2 – 1. What is the
co-ordinate of the point when the ant is closest to the point (1, 0)?

18. A restaurant is in the form of right-angled triangle with equal sides being 10 m each. There are
tables in the restaurant which can occupy 2 or 4 or 6 persons.
A table that can occupy 2 persons utilises 2 m × 4 m of the space. Similarly the tables that can
occupy 4 persons and 6 persons utilises 4 m × 4 m and 6 m × 6 m of the space. Maximum
number of persons that can be present in the restaurant at one instant of time.

19. A milkman requires 7litres of pure milk. It has a cow but it cannot provide him al the milk. He
decides to buy equal quantities of milk from two persons. The ratio of the milk and water in the
milk provided by the two persons is 1 : 3 and 1 : 7 respectively. he bought equal quantities of milk
from these two persons.
What can be the maximum quantity of milk that can be bought from these two persons so that the
overall percentage of water in the total milk is not more than 10%?

20. One question on functions.