THE ASSOCIATION OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF INDIA

Screening Test – Bhaskara Contest

NMTC at JUNIOR LEVEL – IX & X Standards
Saturday, 27th August, 2016

Note:

1. Fill in the response sheet with your Name, Class and the institution through which you
appear in the specified places.

2. Diagrams are only visual aids; they are NOT drawn to scale.

3. You are free to do rough work on separate sheets.

4. Duration of the test: 2 pm to 4 pm – 2 hours.

PART – A
Note

• Only one of the choices A, B, C, D is correct for each question. Shade the alphabet of
your choice in the response sheet. If you have any doubt in the method of answering, seek
the guidance of the supervisor.
1
• For each correct response you get 1 mark. For each incorrect response you lose
2
mark.

1. The sum of the values x, y that satisfy the equations

(x + y)2y−x = 1, (x + y)x−y = 2

simultaneously is
3 5 7
A. 2 B. C. D.
2 2 2
2. If
 ( 2 − 16)− 12 (a − 4)− 12
) 
a 4 p
3 −3
(a a+4
2− − (a − 4) (a − 4) − 3 = 2016
4 a (a + 4)− 2 a−4

the value of a is
4 3 4
A. B. C. D. none of these
1007 2016 2017
3. ABCD is a square inscribed in a circle of radius 1 unit. The tangent to the circle at C
meets AB produced at P . The length of P D is
√ √
A. 2 B. 3 C. 13 D. 10
 4. Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle with radius 1 unit. AC is the diameter of
2
the circle and BD = AB . The diagonals cut at P . If P C = then the length of CD
5
is equal to
2 2 1 3
A. B. C. D.
3 7 8 4
23n2 + 18n + 4
5. The number of natural numbers n for which the expression is also a
n
natural number is
A. 3 B. 2 C. 1 D. 0

6. The cost price of 16 oranges is equal to the selling price of 12 oranges. Then there is a
A. 40% profit B. 20% loss C. 33 13 % profit D. 23 31 % profit

7. The number of positive integer pairs (a, b) such that ab − 24 = 2b is

A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 9

8. A = (2 + 1)(22 + 1)(24 + 1) · · · (22016 + 1) . The value of (A + 1)1/2016 is

A. 4 B. 2016 C. 24032 D. 2

9. The sum of two numbers a, b where a < b is 1215 and their H.C.F is 81. The number of
pairs of such pairs (a, b) is
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

10. The first Republic Day of India was celebrated on 26th January 1950. What was the day
of the week on that date?
A. Tuesday B. Wednesday C. Thursday D. Friday

11. The 12 numbers a1 , a2 , . . . , a12 are in arithmetical progression. The sum of all these
numbers is 354. Let P = a2 + a4 + · · · + a12 and Q = a1 + a3 + · · · + a11 . If the ratio
P : Q is 32 : 27 , the common ratio of the progression is
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

12. A shopkeeper marks the prices of his goods at 20% higher than the original price. There
is an increase in demand of the goods, and he further increases the price by 20%. The
total profit % is
A. 40 B. 38 C. 42 D. 44

13. A circle passes through the vertices A and D and touches the side BC of a square. The
side of the square is 2 cm. The radius of the circle (in cm) is
5 4 5
A. B. C. 1 D.
4 5 2
14. There are four balls – one green, one red, one blue and one yellow and there are four boxes
– one green, one red, one blue and one yellow. A child playing with the balls decides to
put the balls in the boxes, one ball in each box. The number of ways in which the child
can put the balls in the boxes such that no ball is in a box of its own color is
A. 12 B. 9 C. 24 D. 6

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 15. The 5 × 5 array of dots represents trees in an orchard. If you were standing at the central
spot marked C , you would not be able to see 8 of the 24 trees (shown as X ). If you
were standing at the center of a 9 × 9 array of trees, how many of the 80 trees would be
hidden?
A. 40 B. 32 C. 36 D. 44

PART – B
Note

• Write the correct answer in the space provided in the response sheet.
1
• For each correct response you get 1 mark. For each incorrect response you lose
4
mark.

16. a and b are positive integers such that a2 + 2b = b2 + 2a + 5 . The value of b is ———

17. After full simplification, the value of the product

s  s 
 r ! r r
√ √  √  √ 
q q q q
2+ 3 2 + 2 + 3  2 + 2 + 2 + 3  2 − 2 + 2 + 3

is ———

18. ABCD is a rectangle with AD = 1

and AB = 2 . DF EB is also a
rectangle. The area of DF EB is
———

19. The two digit number whose units digit exceeds the tens digit by 2 and such that the
product of the number and the sum of its digits is 144 is ———
p
20. If x = where p, q are integers having no common divisors other than 1, satisfies
q
√ √
r
3 x
q q
x+ x− x− x= √
2 x+ x
then x is ———

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21. AE and BF are medians drawn to the legs of a right angled triangle ABC . The
AE 2 + BF 2
numerical value of is ———
AB 2
22. AB is a chord of a circle with center O . AB is produced to C such that BC = OA .
∠AOE
CO is produced to E . The value of is ———
∠ACE
23. The number of two digit numbers that are less than the sum of the squares of their digits
by 11 and exceed twice the product of their digits by 5 is ———

24. AB is a diameter of circle and CD is a parallel chord. P is any point in AB . The

P C 2 + P D2
numerical value of is ———
P A2 + P B 2
25. In the sequence 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, . . . the 2016th term is 2n . Then n =
———

26. Each root of the equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 is decreased by 1. The quadratic equation
with these roots is x2 + 4x + 1 = 0 . The numerical value of b + c is ———
n+2 1
27. The number of integers n such that > is ———
n2 + 1 2
28. P1 and P2 are two regular polygons. The number of sides of P1 and P2 respectively are
in the ratio 3 : 2 and the respective interior angles are in the ratio 10 : 9 . Then the sum
of the number of sides of P1 and P2 is ———

29. In triangle ABC , F and E are the mid points of AB and AC respectively. P is any
Area of ∆ABC
point on the side BC . The ratio is ———
Area of ∆F P E
30. x, y, z are distinct real numbers such that
1 1 1
x+ =y+ =z+
y z x

The value of x2 y 2 z 2 is ———

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