1) A 70 foot pole stands vertically in a horizontal plane supported by three 490 foot wires, all

attached to the top of the pole. Pulled and anchored to three equally spaced points in the plane.
How many feet apart are any two of those anchor points?

2) When Aasha and Usha stand on a weighing scale together the reading shows 151 kgs, when
Usha and Isha stand together the real reading is 132kgs and when Isha and Aasha stand
together the reading is 115kgs .what is the weight of Usha in kgs?

3) 100 books are distributed to 30 people so that each receives at least one book. the least number
of people that would receive the same number of book is?

4) In the figure shown, each , side of the outer square is divided into four equal segments as
shown. The shaded square in the middle has area 18 square units. What is the area of the outer
square in sq. units?

5) Six bags of marbles contain 18, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 34 marbles, respectively. All the marbles in
one of the bags are chipped. The other 5 bags contain no chipped marbles. Ria takes three of
the bags and Ruhi takes two of the others. only the bag of chipped marbles remains. If Ria gets
twice as many marbles as Ruhi how many chipped marbles are there?

6) Brinda and shanthi run in opposite direction on a circular track starting at diametrically opposite
points .They first meet after Brindha has run 100 meters .They next meet after shanthi has run
150 meters past their first meeting point. Each girl runs at a constant speed .What is the length
of the track in meters?

7) All nonempty subsets S of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}. How many do not contain the number |S|, Where
|S| denotes the number of the elements in S? For example, {3, 4} is one such subset, since it
does not contain the number 2.
8) All the digits 2,4,7,8 and 9 are placed in the grid, one in each cell, to form two three-digit
numbers that are squares. Which digit is placed in the Centre of the grid?
9) In the sequence 2001, 2002, 2003, ….., each term after the third is found by subtracting the
previous term from the sum of the two terms that precede that term. For example, the fourth
term is 2001 + 2002 -2003 = 2000. What is the 2018th term in this sequence?

10) Asha is taking a group of eight children of different ages (all of whom have celebrated a
birthday) on a picnic. During the trip, the oldest child, who is 9, spots a license plate with a 4-
digit number in which each of two digits appears two times. “Look, Miss” she exclaims. “That
number is evenly divisible by the age of each of us kids!” That’s right,” replies Asha , “ and the
last two digits just happen to be my age,” Which integer from 1 to 9 is not the age of one of the
children?
11) Ria is playing with a calculator. She enters an integer, and takes its square root. Then she
respects the process with the integer part of the answer. After the third repetition, the integer
part equate 1 for the first time. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest
number Ria could have started with?

12) Latha is going to build a tower by stacking lego-like bricks atop one another. The tower is to be
20 units tall. Latha has some bricks that are 2 units tall, and other bricks that are 5 units tall. In
how many different ways can she build the tower?

13) A cryptographic code is designed as follows. The message to lower case (all capital letters are
replaced by the corresponding small letters – thus “ A” is replaced by “a”). The first time letter
appears in the message, it is replaced by the letter that is 1 place to its right in the alphabet
(assuming that the letter “a” is one place to the right of the letter “z”). The second time this
same letter appears in the given message, it is replaced by the letter that is 1 + 2 places to the
right, the third time it is replaced by the letter that is 1 + 2 + 3 places to the right, and so on, for
example, with this code the word “banana” become s”cbodqg” what letter will replace the last
“s” in the message “Lee’s sis is a Mississippi miss, Chriss!”?

14) The first term of a sequence is 2005. Each succeeding term is the sum of the cubes of the digits
of the previous term. What is the 2018th term of the sequence?

15) N=999,999,999,999,999,999. How many 9s are there in the decimal expansion of N ^2?

16) Let a(1)= 2 and for n>=1, a(n+1) = (a(n)-1) / (a(n)+1). The value of a(100) is

17) The product 8 × 888……8, where the second factor has n digits, is an integer whose digits have a
sum of 1000. What is n?

18) It is possible to pair up all the numbers from 1 to 70 so that the positive difference of the
numbers in each pair is always the same. For example, one such pairing up is (1,2), (3,4),
 (5,6),….(69,70). Here the common on difference is 1. What is the sum of all such common
differences.

19) a, b, c are positive numbers such that a + b + ab= 8, b + c +bc=15 and c +a +ca = 35

What is the value of a + b + c +abc?

20) In the figure shown, a triangle is divided into nine stripes of equal height each parallel to the
same side of the triangle. The shaped stripes have a total area of 135 square units. What is the
area of the triangle in square units?

21) In how many ways can we give change for Rs.100 using 1 rupee and 2 rupee coins? For example
for 5 Rs, we can give in three ways : (1,1,1,1,1) (1,1,1,2) (1,2,2).
22) What is the number of positive integers that divide 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × 7 × 8 × 9 × 10
without leaving a remainder?
23) What is the number of positive integers less than or equal to 2017 that have at least one pair of
adjacent digits that are both even (for example 24,564 are two examples of such numbers while
1276 does not satisfy the required property).
24) The set A (0) is (1, 2, 3, 4). For n > 0, A (n+1) contains all possible sums that can be obtained by
adding two different numbers from A(n). What is the number of integers in A (10).

25) In this question x^y stands for x raised to the power y .for example 2^3=8 and 4^1.5=8

Find the number of positive integers N>=2000 which can be expressed as N=2^m+2^n where m,
n are integers (for example, 33=2^0+2^5).

26) The greatest common divisor of two numbers A and B is 22. The least common multiple of A and
B is 2002, if A has fewer divisors than B, what is A + B?

27) For a positive integer N. Let P(N) be the product of the digits of N. For Example, P(123) = 6. The
value of P(101) + P (102)+…..P(201) + P(202) is
28) We have two cubes. The sum of the volume of the two cubes is 25. The sum of a side length of
one cube and a side length of the other is 4. What is the sum of the total surface areas of the
two cubes?
29) Usha has three boxes with ten balls in each. She plays a game where the goal is to end up with
as few balls as possible in the boxes. The boxes are each marked with a separate number 4,7,
 and 10. It is allowed to remove n balls from the box marked with the number N, put three of
them aside and put the rest in another box. What is the least possible number of balls the boxes
together can contain in the end?
30) In the surprise test, there were 8 questions. Every student guessed the answer and it was found
that each answered exactly 4 questions correctly. However no two students answered the same
set of questions correctly. What is the maximum number of students in the class?
31) A regular polygon with 12 sides (dodecagon) is inscribed in a square of area 24 square units as
shown in the figure where four of the vertices are mid points of the sides of the square . The
area of the dodecagon in square units is.