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Section-A (Mathematics)

1. When 325 is added to 5A8, the result is 8B3, which 8. The four vertices of the quadrilateral (in order) are
is divisible by 3. What is the largest possible value given as A (– 5, 7) B (– 4, – 5), C (– 1, – 6), and D
of A? (4, 5). The area of the quadrilateral is _________.
A. 1 B. 8 A. 65 sq unit
C. 4 D. 5 B. 72 sq unit
C. 84 sq unit
2. The ratio of sum to the LCM of two numbers is
17 : 72 and HCF of the numbers is 8, then what will D. 92 sq unit
be the value of the smaller number?
9. The quadratic equation α z 2 + β z + γ = 0 is such
A. 32 B. 24 that one of its roots is equal to the mth power of the
C. 64 D. 72 1 1

3. The Arithmetic Mean of two numbers a and b is 5 other, then the va lue of  αγm  m+1 +  αm γ  m+1
more than its Geometric Mean and 9.8 more than its is __________.
a+b
Harmonic Mean. Find the value of . A. β B. αβγ
5
A. 50 B. 40 C. 2β D. –β
C. 60 D. 80 10. If three vertices (in order) of a parallelogram are
4. The trees of a row of a garden are numbered (p + q, p – q), (2p + q, 2p – q) and (p – q, p + q),
consecutively from 1 to 54. There is a number p then its fourth vertex is ________.
such that the sum of the numbers of trees preceding A. (q, – q) B. (2q, – 2q)
the tree numbered p is 36 more than to the sum of
the numbers of the trees following it, then the C. (– q, q) D. (p, – p)
number p is:
11. Find the radius of the incircle of the equilateral
A. 37 B. 35 triangle whose each side is 8 cm.
C. 39 D. 40
2 3
5. Which of the following is a non terminating decimal? A. cm B. 4 3 cm
3
7344 5284 4 3
A. B. C. cm D. 2 3 cm
384 316 3
119 1221
C. D. 12. A quadrilateral PQRS circumscribes a circle with
1904 352
centre O. If PQ = 10 cm, RS = 8 cm a nd
x y PS = 12 cm, then find the length of RQ.
6. What should be added to – to get 1?
x–y x+y A. 4 cm B. 6 cm
C. 7 cm D. 8 cm
– 2x 2
A. 0 B.
x2 – y2 13. A square KLMN is inscribed in an equilateral triangle
PQR. If diagonal of the square is 14 2 cm, then by
– 2y2 –1
C. D. how much square cm, the area of the PQR is more
x2 – y2 x – y2
2
than that of the square?
7. A mother said to her son, ‘The sum of our present
ages is double of my age 12 years ago; and sixteen A. B. 343 3
81 3
years hence the difference in our ages will be thrice 3
of your age 12 years ago.’ Find her son’s age after
4 years. 358 3
C. 162 3 D.
3
A. 28 years B. 32 years
C. 24 years D. 20 years

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14. Four congruent circular plates of maximum size are A. 3 B. 4
placed in a square cardboard sheet of area 1024 cm2 , 5 5
such that each circular plates touches the other two 3
C. D. 4
plates and each side of the square sheet is tangent
to two circular plates. Find the area of the square 4 3
sheet not covered by the circular plates. 19. If cosec θ – sin θ = l and sec θ – cos θ = m, then the
Take π = 3.14 value of (l2 m2 ) × (l2 + m2 + 3) is ________.
A. 220.16 cm2 B. 218.24 cm2 A. –1 B. 0
C. 224.16 cm2 D. 228.24 cm2 C. 1 D. 2
15. In the figure shown below, PQR is a triangle right 20. From a point on the ground, the angle of elevation
angled at P. Semicircles are drawn on PQ, PR and of an aeroplane flying at an altitude of 900 m changes
QR as diameters. Find the area of the shaded portion. from 60° to 30° in 12 seconds. Find the speed of
 22  aeroplane in km/hour.
 Take π = 7 
  A. B.
160 3 180 3

C. 200 3 D. 50 3

21. If two dice are thrown together, then find the

probability that the sum of the numbers on the dice
is less than 8.

A. 11 B. 5
18 12
A. 197 cm2 B. 294 cm2 7 1
C. D.
C. 187 cm2 D. 374 cm2 12 2
a 22. Average of 6 distinct natural numbers is 57. If the
16. If sin 19° = , then find the value of sec 19° –
b average of the three largest numbers is found to be
sin 71°. 65, then find the difference of the highest and the
lowest possible median of these numbers.
a2 b2
A. B. A. 15 B. 13
b b –a 2 2 a b2 – a 2 C. 6.5 D. 24

ab a 2b2 23. A life insurance company has the following policy

C. D.
2
b –a 2 2
b –a 2 holders in the different age groups. Find the mean
deviation of the age from the median age of the policy
1 π holders for the data given below:
17. If tan θ = and 0° < θ  , then find the value
15 2 Age No. of Policy Holders
2 2
of cosec θ – sec θ . 0 – 10 5
cosec 2θ + sec 2 θ
10 – 20 8
3 7
A. B. 20 – 30 15
4 8
4 30 – 40 16
C. 8 D.
7 3 40 – 50 6

18. If θ is an acute angle and 2 sin θ + 15 cos2 θ = 7, A. 9.56 B. 9.20

tan θ C. 9.40 D. 19.60
then find the value of .
secθ

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 The number of ma rbles that the cube ca n
24. On a page of telephone directory having 250
accommodate is _________.
telephone numbers, the frequency of the unit digits
of those number are given below:  22 
 Take π = 7 
 
Digit Frequency A 142296 B 20328
0 18 C 142492 D 20356

1 22 27. A hollow garden roller 63 cm wide with girth of

440 cm is made of iron 4 cm thick. Find the volume
2 32 of iron used in making garden roller.
 22 
3 28  Take π = 7 
 
4 40 A. 215622 cm3 B. 107712 cm3
5 30 C. 117521 cm3 D. 190278 cm3

6 30 28. An iron spherical ball has been melted and recast

into smaller balls of equal size. If the radius of each
7 22 1
of the smaller balls is of the radius of the original
8 18 8
ball, find the ratio of surface area of all the smaller
9 10 balls combined together to that of the original ball.
A. 3:4 B. 8:1
A telephone number is selected from the page at
C. 4:1 D. 2:1
random. What is the probability that its unit digit is a
prime number? 29. Two identical circles intersect so that their centres,
A. 0.160 B. 0.128 and the points at which they intersect, form a square
C. 0.840 D. 0.448 of side 6 cm. Find the ratio of the area of the portion
which is common to two circles to the area of the
25. Find the product of the two missing frequencies in  22 
the following distribution table, if it is given that the remaining portion.  Take π =
 7 
mean of the distribution is 56.
A. 1:6 B. 1:8
Class Frequency
C. 1 : 10 D. 1:9
0 – 20 16
30. Two semicircles of radius 12 cm and 9 cm with
20 – 40 f1 centres O and Q are touching each other as shown
below:
40 – 60 25

60 – 80 f2

80 – 100 12

100 – 120 10

Total 90

A. 153 B. 162 If OP  AS and RQ  SC, then find the area of the

C. 176 D. 180 shaded portion.
26. A hollow cube of internal edge 22 cm is filled with A. 882 – 225π B. 1764 – 375π
spherical marbles of diameter 0.5 cm and it is 2 4
1 1314 – 225π 1764 – 275π
assumed that space of the cube remains unfilled. C. D.
8 4
4

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 Section-B (Reasoning and Aptitude)
Now in each of the following questions assuming the
31. Six persons M, N, O, P, Q and R are sitting in two
given statements to be true, find which of the two
rows, three in each and are facing each other. Q is
conclusions I and II given below them is/are definitely
not at the end of any row. P is second to the left of
true?
R. O is the neighbour of Q and is sitting diagonally
opposite to P. N is the neighbour of R. On the basis
of the information who is facing N? 35. Statements: B @ N, N © T, T $ K
Conclusions: I. T @ B II. T $ B
A. M B. R
C. Q D. P A. Only conclusion I is true.
B. Only conclusion II is true.
32. A, B, C, D, E, F and G are the members of a family C. Either conclusion I or II is true.
consisting of four adults and three children, two of
whom (F and G) are girls. A and D are brothers and D. Neither conclusion I nor II is true.
A is a lawyer. E is a professor married to one of the 36. Statements: H © T, T % M, M δ F
brothers and has two children. B is married to D
and G is their child. C is: Conclusions: I. F $ T II. H δ M

A. G’s brother B. F’s father A. Only conclusion I is true.

C. E’s daughter D. A’s son B. Only conclusion II is true.
C. Either conclusion I or II is true.
33. Find the number of triangles in the figure given below: D. Neither conclusion I nor II is true.

37. Statements: R $ J, J δ F, F%H

Conclusions: I. H δ J II. R $ F
A. Only conclusion I is true.
B. Only conclusion II is true.
C. Either conclusion I or II is true.
D. Neither conclusion I nor II is true.

Direction for Q. 38 to 40: In each of the questions given

A. 20 B. 22 below which one of the four answer figures should come
C. 23 D. None of these after the problem figures, if the sequence were continued?

34. What number should replace the question mark (?)

38.
in the pattern given below:

A.

A. 9 B. 12
C. 16 D. 18
B.
Direction for Q. 35 to 37: In the following questions,
the symbols ©, @, $, % and  are used with the following
meaning as illustrated below:
‘P © Q’ means ‘P is either greater than or equal to Q’. C.
‘P % Q’ means ‘P is either smaller than or equal to Q’.
‘P @ Q’ means ‘P is neither smaller than nor greater
than Q’.
‘P $ Q’ means ‘P is smaller than Q’. D.
‘P  Q’ means ‘P is greater than Q’.

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39. 40.

A. B. A. B.

C. D. C. D.

Section-C (Scholar's Zone)

Direction for Q. 41 and 42: Consider the pattern given 44. The integers 1 to 98 are written on a blackboard.
below: The following operation is then repeated 97 times:
In each repetition, any two numbers say p and q,
currently on the blackboard are erased and a new
number p + q – 2 is written.
What will be the number left on the board at the end?
A. 4487 B. 4485
C. 4655 D. 4657

45. A quadratic function f(x) attains a maximum of 72

Based on the a bove pa ttern a nswer the following at x = – 3. The value of the function at x = 0 is 36.
questions: What is the value of f(x) at x = – 8?
A. – 160 B. – 256
41. What will be the sum of the first 99 terms of the
given pattern? C. – 16 D. – 28

A. 327424 B. 324642 46. A regular hexagonal shape is made by using equal

C. 328350 D. 326480 size of coins such that each side has equal number
of coins adjacent to each other. For example, a
42. Find the sum of the numbers in the 10 th row of the regular hexagon whose each side has three coins is
above pattern. shown below.
A. 25585
B. 28721
C. 17306
D. None of these
2 1
43. If x = 5 + 53 + 53 , then find the value of x 3 – 15x2
+ 60x. Similarly, find the total number of coins required to
make a figure of regular hexagon having 57 coins along
A. 75 B. 80 each side of the hexagon.
C. 85 D. 90
A. 9690 B. 9577
C. 9464 D. None of these

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47. A city has a park shaped as a right angled triangle. 4
 
The length of the longest side of this triangular park 49. If   a + b + c   a + b + c   = 125  and (a + b)
 
is 68 m. The Mayor of the city wants to construct (b + c) (c + a) = – 96 then find the value of
three paths from the corner point opposite to the a3 + b 3 + c3 .
longest side such that these three paths divide the
longest side in to four equal segments. Determine A. 400 B. 4111
the numerical value of the sum of the squares of the C. 413 D. 419
lengths of these three paths. [Assuming that these
three paths have no width.] 50. If a = 23 + 4 33 and b = 23 – 4 33 , then find
A. 4400 B. 4046
a 3 – b3
C. 4476 D. 4366 the value of .
a +b
48. For natural numbers a, b, c and d the roots of the
equations x 2 – ax + b = 0 and x 2 – cx + d = 0, are A.
47 33
B.
42 33
6 5
 1 1
(p, q) and  p + , q +  respectively. Find the sum
 q p 43 33 46 33
C. D.
of all the possible values of d. 6 3
A. 16 B. 10
C. 8 D. 4

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