1. Ramon wants to cut a rectangular board into square pieces (may not be identical pieces).

If the board is 18
inches by 30 inches, what is the least number of square pieces he can cut without wasting any of the board?
a) 4 b) 9 c) 15 d) 6
4 3
2. If 5 of the women and 4 of the men in a group speak english. There are 40% more men than women in the
group, what fraction of the group doesn’t speak English?
37 11 3 11
a) 48 b) 14 c) 5 d) 48
3. The ratio of the marbles with Jack and Dave was 5:3. Now, they each have 10 more marbles with them.
Which of the following cannot be the ratio of their marbles now?
a) 7:5 b) 7:4 c) 15:11 d) 15:13
4. Auto lot has a 2:1 ratio of blue cars to red cars and a 6:1 ratio of red cars to orange cars on the lot. What
could be the total number numbers of blue, red and orange cars on the lot?
a) 37 b) 39 c) 38 d) 40
5. Kabir's college is 12 miles from his hostel. He travels 6 miles from the college to basketball practice, and
then 4 miles to a computer class. If he is D miles from hostel, what is the range of possible values for D?
a) 10 ≤ 𝐷 ≤ 12 b) 2 ≤ 𝐷 ≤ 16 c) 10 ≤ 𝐷 ≤ 22 d) 2 ≤ 𝐷 ≤ 22
𝑥
6. The difference between maximum and minimum value of 𝑦 for which (𝑥 − 2) = 9 and (𝑦 − 3)2 = 25 ?
2

15 19 25 9
a) − b) c) d)
8 8 8 8
𝑎3 +𝑏3
7. If and are positive integers such that 𝑎 − 𝑏 = 12 and 𝐻𝐶𝐹 { , 𝑎𝑏} = 9.Then smallest possible value
𝑎+𝑏
of is?
a) 2 b) 1 c) 3 d) 4
8. A band has members who will all be marching during halftime. They need to march in rows with the
same number of students per row. If there must be between and students per row, in how many
possible row-lengths can the band be arranged?
a) 4 b) 8 c) 7 d) 5
⋰𝑛!
𝑛!⋰
9. The superfactorial is defined as 𝑛$ = 𝑛!𝑛! . What is the units digit of ?
a) 0 b) 4 c) 2 d) 6
10. If 𝑎 and 𝑏 are integers, such that 𝑎 ≥ 𝑏 When (a+b) and (2a+b) is divided by 10, leaves the remainder 2
and 1 respectively. Then what is the unit digit of 𝑎 − 𝑏?
a) 6 b) 4 c) 1 d) 0

11. How many different four-digit numbers can be formed by arranging the four digits in ?
a) 4 b) 6 c) 2 d) 8
12. A bag contains 4 red marbles, 5 white marbles and 6 green marbles. A man wants to take out 3 marbles from
the bag one after another without replacement. Which of the followings is the probability of getting at least
2 green marbles?
44 88 11 31
a) 91 b) 91 c) 91 d) 91
13. An ant is walking on the surface of a cuboid with edges of length 3, 4 and 5. It starts walking on a vertex, and
it wants to visit all the other seven vertices. It doesn’t need to return to its starting vertex. What is the length
of the shortest possible route that accomplishes this?
a) 24 b) 25 c) 26 d) 27
14. Three players play a game with coins. Each round the player (or one of the players) who has the largest
number of coins will put one coin in a vase and then he will give each of the other players one coin. The vase
is empty when the game starts and the three players possess respectively 13, 14 and 15 coins. The game
ends when one of the players has lost all his coins. How many coins will be in the vase when the game ends?
a) 36 b) 37 c) 38 d) 39
15. How many positive integers 𝑎 exist such that dividing 2216 by 𝑎 gives remainder 29?
a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 3
16. As 𝑛 ranges over the positive integers, what is the maximum possible value that the greatest common
divisor of 13𝑛 + 8 and 5𝑛 + 3 can take?
a) 3 b) 1 c) 5 d) 2
3 2
17. For what value of 𝑚 the sum of the roots of the equation 2𝑥 + 𝑚𝑥 − 10𝑥 + 24 = 0 is 3?
a) 3 b) 2 c) −2 d) −6
18. A girl has got five real numbers a < b < c < d < e. She takes the sum of each pair of numbers and writes down
the ten sums. The three smallest sums are 32, 36 and 37, while the two largest sums are 48 and 51. Which
of the followings is the value of e?
a) 25.5 b) 23.5 c) 27.5 d) 26.5
19. Pick two consecutive positive integers whose sum is less than 100. Square both of those integers and then
find the difference of the squares. Which of the following could be the difference?
a) 131 b) 103 c) 64 d) 79
20. A test consists of six questions worth successively 1 to 6 points. If your answer to a question is correct, the
number of points that question is worth will be added to your score. If your answer is incorrect, that number
of points will be deducted from your score. [eg. If you only answered questions 1, 3 and 4 correctly, your
score will be 1 −2 + 3 + 4−5−6 = −5. What is the possible score you can get for this test?
a) 19 b) 22 c) 20 d) 18
21. A mathematician wants to approximate the width of a lake. He places 5 markers near the lake and measures
the distances as shown [Fig. 1]. What is the width (in meters) of the lake from point P to point Q?
a) 150 b) 200 c) 250 d) 500
22. ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral [Fig. 2] in which AC and BD are the diagonals. If AB = 4.5cm, BC = 3.6cm, CD
= 6.4cm and AD = 5cm, what is the value of 𝐴𝐶 × 𝐵𝐷 ?
a) 46.8 b) 64.8 c) 68.4 d) 48.6
1
23. In quadrilateral ABCD, AD//BC and CD = 2 𝐴𝐵 as [Fig. 3]. The measurement of angle B in degrees is?
a) 120 b) 135 c) 150 d) 90
24. In ∆ 𝐴𝐵𝐶 [Fig. 4] if AD = BD = CD and ∡𝐴𝐵𝐷 = 30°, which of the followings is the ratio of the length of sides
AB, BC, and CA?
a) 1: 2: 3 b) √3: 2: 1 c) 1: 2: √3 d) 1: √3: 2

Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4

25. One hundred students participate in a mathematical Olympiad. There are three problems. Problem 1 was
solved by 90 participants. Problem 2 was solved by 80 participants and problem 3 has been solved by 75
participants. What is the minimal number of participants that solved all the problems?
a) 35 b) 45 c) 65 d) 55
26. A farmer has a stack of hay to feed his horse, cow, and goat. With it, he can feed his cow and horse for 12
months, or his cow and goat for 15 months, or his horse and goat for 20 months. For how many months can
he feed all three of his animals?
5 1
a) 7 6 b) 9 c) 10 d) 23 2
27. The area ( in sq. unit) of region bounded by the lines 𝑦 = 4𝑥 − 6, 𝑦 = 2𝑥 − 12 and the y.axis is?
a) 27 b) 40 c) 36 d) 72
28. A point (𝑥, 𝑦) is randomly picked from inside the rectangle with vertices (0,0), (4,0), (4,1), and (0,1). What
is the probability that 𝑥 < 𝑦?
a) 1/4 b) 1/6 c) 1/16 d) 1/8
29. How many zero’s are there at the end of 31! ?
a) 7 b) 6 c) 3 d) 8
2
30. A parabola with equation 𝑦 = 𝑥 + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐 passes through the points (−1, −11) and (3,17). What is c?
a) -2 b) 4 c) -7 d) 5
31. In triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶, medians 𝐴𝐷 and 𝐶𝐸 intersect at 𝑃, 𝑃𝐸 = 1.5, 𝑃𝐷 = 2, and 𝐷𝐸 = 2.5. What is the area
of 𝐴𝐸𝐷𝐶?
a) 13.5 b) 14 c) 15 d) 12.5
3 2 3 2
32. Evaluate ⌈2⌉ + ⌈(2) ⌉ . Where ⌈𝑥⌉ represents the ceiling function of x.
a) 4 b) 11 c) 8 d) 7
33. In how many ways can 8 people be seated around a square table with 2 people on a side? (Two
configurations are considered equivalent if one is a rotation of another).
a) 10080 b) 5040 c) 28 d) 20160
34. 100 people were surveyed and asked the question: “Is fuchsia kinda pink, or purply?'' Of them, 60 believe
that fuchsia is “kinda pink'' and 27 believe it is both “kinda pink,'' and also “purply.'' Another 17 think that
fuchsia is neither “kinda pink'' nor ``purply.''How many of those 100 people believe that fuchsia is “purply''?
a) 23 b) 33 c) 27 d) 50
35. A palindrome is a number that reads the same forwards and backwards. The sum of a particular set of three
consecutive positive integers is a three-digit palindrome. If the sum is less than 220, what is the greatest
possible value for the largest of the three integers in the set?
a) 67 b) 123 c) 121 d) 58
36. A book with 50 pages numbered 1 through 50 has its pages renumbered in reverse, from 50 to 1. For how
many pages do both sets of page numbers share the same one’s digit?
a) 10 b) 11 c) 12 d) 0
37. What is the smallest positive integer with exactly 20 positive divisors?
a) 1536 b) 432 c) 2240 d) 2520
38. What is the least positive integer n such that 80325 divides 𝑛!?
a) 19 b) 23 c) 13 d) 17
39. Christine must buy at least 45 fluid ounces of milk at the store. The store only sells milk in 200 milliliter
bottles. If there are 33.8 fluid ounces in 1 liter, then what is the smallest number of bottles that Christine
could buy?
a) 7 b) 12 c) 9 d) 5
40. The sum of the proper divisors of 18 is 21. What is the sum of the proper divisors of 198?
a) 269 b) 270 c) 468 d) 467
 2𝑥 2 +𝑥+5
41. Find the smallest integer value of such that the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 +4𝑥+𝑐 has a domain of all real numbers.
a) 6 b) 4 c) 5 d) 3
42. A 6-sided die is weighted so that the probability of any number being rolled is proportional to the value of
the roll. (So, for example, the probability of a 2 being rolled is twice that of a 1 being rolled.) What is the
probability of rolling a 1?
a) 1/3 b) 1/6 c) 1/21 d) 1/18
43. What is the greatest common factor (HCF) of 20! and 200000?
a) 200000 b) 80000 c) 100000 d) 40000
44. An ice cream shop offers 6 kinds of ice cream. What is the greatest number of two scoop sundaes that can
be made such that each sundae contains two types of ice cream, and no two sundaes are the same
combination?
a) 120 b) 15 c) 36 d) 24
45. A book is said to have n leaves if it is composed of n pieces of paper. On the other hand, the number of pages
is twice the number of leaves because each side of a piece of paper is defined as a page. If the number of
pages in a book is 3 more than a multiple of 7, and the number of leaves is greater than 100, then what is
the smallest possible number of leaves?
a) 104 b) 103 c) 203 d) 110
46. The base 5 number 34𝑥15 is divisible by 31. What is the value of 𝑥?
a) 6 b) 7 c) 2 d) 4
47. There are three circles and four straight lines. What is the maximum number of intersection points for these
figures?
a) 18 b) 24 c) 36 d) 21
48. In the figure given [Below Fig. 5], P and Q are the centers of two tangent circles with radii 18cm and 8cm
respectively. If AB is the common tangent to both circles, what is the length of AB in cm?
a) 24 b) 30 c) 36 d) 26
49. In the adjoining diagram, ABCDEF is a regular hexagon and BDF is a triangle [Below Fig. 6]. If the area of the
regular hexagon is 1 sq.cm., what is the area of the a kite BCDF in sq. cm ?
2 √3 5 3
𝑎) b) c) d)
3 2 6 4

50. Two 4x4 squares intersect at right angles, bisecting their intersecting sides, as shown [Below Fig. 7]. The
circle's diameter is the segment between the two points of intersection. What is the area of the shaded
region created by removing the circle from the squares?
a) 28 − 4π b) 18 − π c) 28 − 2π d) 18 − 4π

Fig . 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7