SAMPLE PAPER FOR CLASS 9TH AND 10TH

Instructions :

1. Total Time : 1.5 hrs

2. Section A has 10 Questions, Each question carries 2 Marks with –0.5 for wrong answer.
3. Section B has 10 Questions, Each question carries 3 Marks with –1 for wrong answer.
4. Zero marks will be awarded if the question is unattempted.
5. Each question has only one answer correct.

SECTION – A

1. If a b= for positive integers 𝑎 and 𝑏, then what is 5 10?

(A) (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) (E) 50

2. The difference between any two consecutive numbers in the list 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, 𝑒 is the same. If
𝑏 = 5.5 and 𝑒 = 10, what is the value of 𝑎?

(A) 4.0 (B) 4.5 (C) 5.0 (D) 5.5

(E) None of the above

3. What are the last two digits of 20172017?

(A) 77 (B) 81 (C) 93 (D) 37 (E) 57

4. In triangle ABC, 𝐴𝐶 = 4, 𝐵𝐶 = 5, and 1 < 𝐴𝐵 < 9. Let D, E and F be the midpoints of BC,
CA, and AB, respectively. If AD and BE intersect at G and point G is on CF, how long is
AB?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

(E) Not enough information

5. A city is divided into four regions. The city council has decided that a new city hall, a new
school, and a new movie theatre shall be built. The only condition is that the school and the
movie theatre must not be in the same region. How many ways these four buildings be built in
the city? (Ignore the time of construction)

(A) 4 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 48 (E) 64

6. Which one of the following numbers is equal to 47 × 24?

(A) 83 (B) 86 (C) 811 (D) 814 (E) 828

7. Which one of the following numbers is equal to ?

(A) 2016 (B) 4031 (C) 4033 (D) 2 × (20172 – 20162)

(E) 2016 × 2017

8. Let x, y and z be real numbers such that 3𝑥 + 𝑦 = 1, 3𝑦 + 𝑧 = , and 3𝑧 + 𝑥 = − . What is the
value of 𝑥 + 𝑦 + 𝑧?

(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) (E) 0

9. Six-digit number 47A94B is divisible by 72. Find the value of A − B.

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 0

10. The square in the figure has side length equal to 1. What is the radius of the small circle?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(E) None of the above

SECTION – B

11. A two-digit number formed by any 2 adjacent digits of a 2017-digit number is divisible by 17
or 23. If the last digit of the 2017-digit number is 1, find the first digit.

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 9

12. What is the number of shortest paths from A to B?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8

(E) None of the above

13. Which one of these numbers must be placed in the middle (3rd) if they are to be arranged in
increasing or decreasing order?

√ √
(A) (B) √ (C) (D) (E)
√ √

14. There are two regular hexagons in the picture. What is the ratio of the area of the larger one to
that of the smaller one?

(A) 2 : 1 (B) 3 : 1 (C) √ (D) 4 : 1

(E) None of the above

15. Students from Mrs. Hein’s class are standing in a circle. They are evenly spaced and
consecutively labelled using whole numbers starting from 1. The student in place number 3 is
standing directly across the student in place number 17. How many students are there in Ms.
Hein’s class?

(A) 28 (B) 29 (C) 30 (D) 31 (E) 32

16. Jessica is an avid reader. She bought a copy of the best seller Math is Beautiful. On the first
day, Jessica read of the pages plus 12 more, and on the second day she read of the
remaining pages plus 15 pages. On the third day, she read of the remaining pages plus 18
pages. She then realized that there were only 62 pages left to read, which she read the next
day. How many pages are in this book?

(A) 120 (B) 180 (C) 240 (D) 300 (E) 360

17. Reverse the digits of 1746 and we get 6471, the new number is larger than the original
number by 4725. How many four-digit numbers satisfy such condition?

(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 20 (D) 21

(E) None of the above

18. If a1 + a2 = 1, a2 + a3 = 2, a3 + a4 = 3, a4 + a5 = 4, … a50 + a51 = 50 and a51 + a1 = 51, then

what is the sum of a1, a2, a3, …., a51?

(A) 663 (B) 1326 (C) 1076 (D) 538 (E) 665

19. A game consists of black and white pieces. The number of black pieces is 5 more than 3 times
the white pieces. Seven white and 15 black pieces are removed each round. After several
rounds, there are 3 white and 56 black pieces left. How many pieces were there in the
beginning?

(A) 52 (B) 158 (C) 210 (D) 213 (E) 218

20. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are each placed in one of the boxes so that the multiplication
below is correct. The digit represented by “?” is ______.

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

ANSWERS
SECTION – A

1. (D) 2. (A) 3. (A) 4. (E) 5. (D) 6. (B)

7. (C) 8. (D) 9. (D) 10. (E)

SECTION – B

11. (A) 12. (C) 13. (D) 14. (B) 15. (A) 16. (C)

17. (E) 18. (A) 19. (D) 20. (B)