INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS OLYMPIAD 2016

Class-X

Question: 50 Time: 60 Minutes

There are 3 sections, 30 questions in Section-A, 10 questions in Section-B, 10 questions in Section-C

Section-A (Mathematics)

1. Which one of the following is not a quadratic equation?

(A) 3( x  1)2  x 2  x
(B) ( x 2  2 x )2  x 4  4 x3  3
(C) 3 x  x 2  x 2  2
2
(D)  3x  2   x 2  4 x2  6 x
(E) None of these

cos   sin 
2. If cos   sin   2 cos , then the value is
sin 
(A) 2 1

(B) 2

(C) 2 1

(D) 3
(E) None of these

3. Seven years ago Varun’s age was five times the square of Swati’s age. Three years hence Swati’s age
will be the two-fifth of Varun’s age. Find the sum of their present ages.
(A) 29 years
(B) 36 years
(C) 39 years
(D) 42 years
(E) None of these

4. ABC is an equilateral triangle as shown in the figure.

The coordinates of A are:


(A) 0, 10 3 
(B)  0, 6 3 

(C)  0, 8 3 

(D)  0, 12 3 

(E) None of these

5. For what values of  the equation given below is true? tan 4   tan 6  tan 3 sec 2

(A) 0 and 45

(B) 30 and 45
(C) 60 and 90
(D) 45 and 60
(E) None of these

6. A triangle with vertices (4,0), (-1,-1) and (3,5) is

(A) an isosceles right angled triangle
(B) an equilateral triangle
(C) an isosceles but not a right angled triangle
(D) a right angled triangle
(E) None of these

7. The line which is perpendicular to 5x + 2y – 3 = 0 is

(A) 2x – 5y + 8 = 0
(B) 3x –5y = 9
(C) 4x – 3y = 7
(D) 5x – 2y = 3
(E) None of these

8. A three digit number is to be formed by using the digits 2, 5, 6, 8 & 9 without repetition. The
probability that it is an even number is ________
1
(A)
5
2
(B)
5
3
(C)
5
4
(D)
5
(E) None of these

9. If m = x sin  . cos , n  x sin  .sin  and r  x cos  then m2  n 2  r 2  ___________.

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) x2
1
(D)
x2
(E) None of these

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10. If p and q are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial bx 2  cx  a, then the value of 3
 3 is
p q
3abc  c 3
(A)
ab 2
3abc  c 3
(B)
ab 2
3abc  c 2
(C)
a 2b
3abc  c 2
(D)
a 2b
(E) None of these

1995(19972  9)  1998
11. Find the value of:
2000(19962  22 )
(A) 1995
(B) 1992
(C) 1998
(D) 1996
(E) None of these

12. In the given figure, PQ is the chord of a circle and PT is the tangent at P such that QPT  55 , then
PRQ is

(A) 125
(B) 120
(C) 155
(D) less than 90
(E) None of these

5 5 5
13. If A  5   2  3   , then the value of B is ________
B B B
A
(A) 
A 5
A
(B)
A 5
A
(C)
A 5
 A
(D) 
A 5
(E) None of these

14. Average of n numbers is a. The first number is increased by 2, second one is increased by 4, the third
one is increased by 8 and so on. The average of the new number is
(A) a  2n1/n

(B) a  (2n  1)/n

(C) a  2(2n  1)/n

(D) a  2(2 n1  1)/n

(E) None of these

15. The upper quartile of the data

8, 15, 17, 9, 7, 5 is __________
(A) 9
(B) 10
(C) 12
(D) 15
(E) None of these

16. If the LCM & HCF of two numbers are 3003 and 21 respectively, then how many such numbers are
possible?
(A) 0
(B) 1
(C) 2
(D) 3
(E) None of these

17. If there are (2n - 1) terms in an A.P., then the ratio of the sum of its odd terms to its even terms is
___________
n 1
(A)
n
 n 1
(B)
n
n
(C)
n 1
n
(D)
n 1
(E) None of these

18. Which annual instalment will discharge a dept. of ₹ 1760 due in 5 years at 5% p.a. S.I.?
(A) ₹ 120
(B) ₹ 320
(C) ₹ 420
(D) ₹ 220
(E) None of these

2 2
19. Divide ₹ 600 among A, B and C such that ₹ 40 more than of A’s share, ₹ 20 more than of B’s
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9
share and ₹ 10 more than of C’s share may be equal. Final the share of A.
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(A) ₹ 170
(B) ₹ 150
(C) ₹ 280
(D) ₹ 320
(E) None of these

20. Four numbers are in arithmetic progression. The sum of first and the last term is 8 and the product of
both the middle terms is 15. The least number of the series is
(A) 4
(B) 3
(C) 2
(D) 1
(E) None of these

21. If the first, second and last the terms of an A.P, be a, b, 2a respectively, then its sum will be
 ab
(A)
ba
ab
(B)
2(b  a)
3ab
(C)
2(b  a)
3ab
(D)
4(b  a)
(E) None of these

22. If a 2  4b 2  12ab, then log(a + 2b) is

1
(A) log a  log b  log 2
2
a b
(B) log  log  log 2
2 2
1
(C) log a  log b  4 log 2
2
1
(D) log a  log b  4 log 2
2
(E) None of these

23. In the figure below, OA and OB are the tangents such that OA = 8 cm and AOB  60 Find the
length of AB.

(A) 4 cm
(B) 8 cm
(C) 3 cm
(D) 9 cm
(E) None of these
24.In UVW, P is the midpoint of UW, and M is the midpoint of VW. Also PV is parallel to MN and
NW = 4 cm, WM = 5 cm and MN = 3 cm. Find the length of the side UV.

(A) 20 cm
(B) 30 cm
(C) 10 cm
(D) 15 cm
(E) None of these

25. The angle of elevation of the top of a tree from a point A on the ground is 60. On walking 20 m away
from its base, to a point B, the angle of elevation changes to 30. Find the height of the tree.

(A) 10 3 m

(B) 20 3 m

(C) 30 3 m

(D) 40 3 m

(E) None of these

26. In  PQR, if QM  PR and RN  PQ intersect each other at point O, then find  QOR if the
measure of  P = 60.

(A) 160
(B)140
(C) 120
(D) 150
(E) None of these

27. In triangle PQR, if PV = PW, QU = QW and RV = RU and also angle V  55 and W  55
then find the measure of angle P in the figure shown below.

(A) 75
(B) 40
(C) 50
(D) 80
(E) None of these

28. A hollow cube of internal edge 22 cm is filled with spherical marbles of diameter 0.5 cm and it is
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assumed that space of the cube remains unfilled. The number of marbles that the cube can
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accommodate is
(A) 142296
(B) 142396
(C) 142496
(D) 142596
(E) None of these

29. Find the product of the two missing frequencies in the following distribution table, if it is given that
the mean of the distribution is 56.
 Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 Total
Frequency 16 f1 25 f2 12 10 90
(A) 153
(B) 162
(C) 176
(D) 180
(E) None of these

30. A tent is in shape of a cylinder surmounted by a conical top. If the height and diameter of the
cylindrical part are 4 m and 4.2 m respectively, and the height of conical part (top) is 2.8 m, then find the
cost of the canvas of tent at the rate of ₹ 500/m2 (base of the tent is not covered).
(A) ₹ 5500
(B) ₹ 21000
(C) ₹ 37950
(D) ₹ 44000
(E) None of these

31. Who is sitting on the immediate right of D?

(A) F
(B) E
(C) C
(D) Can’t be determined
(E) None of these

32. Who among the following members are sitting together?

(A) D and E
(B) A and E
(C) The members who are posted at Jammu and Jalandhar
(D) The members who are posted at Srinagar and Ladakh
(E) Can’t be determined

33. The person who is posted at Srinagar is not more intelligent than
(A) The person who is posted at Chandigarh
(B) The person who is posted at Surat
(C) The person who is posted at Jammu
(D) The person who is posted at Jalandhar
(E) Can’t be determined

34. Statement:
“Mail your grievance and confidential information to the commissioner of the police.” -Request of city
police to citizens.
Assumptions:
I. All categories of people, be it the poor or the senior citizens, might have grievances.
II. People have blind faith in the efficiency of flying squad of vigilance branch.
(A) Only assumption I is implicit
(B) Only assumption II is implicit
(C) Either I or II is implicit
(D) Neither I nor II is implicit
(E) Both I and II are implicit

35. Statement:
“Beware! Recycled coloured plastic bags contain harmful colour pigments, which on contact with food
particles, make food unfit for consumption, resulting in service food poison, allergies and in extreme
cases even death.” -A scientist.
Assumptions:
I. Non-biodegradable nature makes plastic bags an environmental hazard.
II. Use of plastic bags is harmful and has cascading effects on human life
(A) Only assumption I is implicit
(B) Only assumption II is implicit
(C) Either I or II is implicit
(D) Neither I or II is implicit
(E) Both I and II are implicit

36. The last Sunday of August fell on which date?

I. The first Sunday of that month fell on 5th.
II. The last day of that month was Friday.
(A) Statements I alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement II alone is not sufficient to
answer the question.
(B) Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement I alone is not sufficient to answer
the question.
(C) Statement either I or II is sufficient to answer the question.
(D) Both the statements I and II taken together are not sufficient to answer the questions.
(E) Both the statements I and II taken together are sufficient to answer the questions.

37. How many children are there between M and N?

I. M is fifteenth from the left in the row.
II. N is exactly in the middle and there are ten children towards his right.
(A) Statements I alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement II alone is not sufficient to
answer the question.
(B) Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement I alone is not sufficient to answer
the question.
(C) Both the statements I and II taken together are not sufficient to answer the question.
(D) Both the statements I and II taken together are not sufficient to answer the questions.
(E) Both the statements I and II taken together are sufficient to answer the questions.

38. The condition of the roads in the city has deteriorated considerably during the first two months of
monsoon and most of the roads have developed big pot holes. Which of the following can be a possible
effect of the above cause?
(A) The municipal corporation has repaired all the roads in the city before the onset of monsoon with
good quality material.
(B) A large number of people have developed spine related injuries after regularly commuting long
distances by road with the city.
(C) The municipal corporation has been careful in choosing the contractors for repairing roads in the past.
(D) People always complain about potholed roads during the monsoon months.
(E) None of these

39. Study the following information carefully and answer the given question:
In a certain code language,
“only in serial order” is written as “ve pu na to” “order in the state” is written as “li ve su pu” “the
logical idea only” is written as “su na ri jo” and “in idea or theory” is written as “zt jo bk pu” The code
‘li ri to ve’ may represent
(A) serial order theory only
(B) only idea state order
(C) serial logical serial order
(D) serial theory state the
(E) only the idea logical

40. In a given question, a number series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative
that will continue the same pattern and replace the question mark in the given series.
2, 9, 28, ?, 126, 217, 344.
(A) 82
(B) 70
(C) 65
(D) 46
(E) None of these

41. A float design is made on the floor in which ABCDEF is a regular hexagon. The arc
 BC,
AB,  CD, EF and FA are the semicircles with sides of the hexagon as diameter. In each side of the
hexagon is 3 cm, then find the area of the figure shown below.

27
(A)
4

  2 3 cm 2 
27
(B)
2

6 3  3 cm 2 
 
(C) 3  3 cm 2

(D)  6 
3  3 cm 2
(E) None of these

42. In the following figure BOD is the arc of a circle with centre C having radius 42 cm. ABCD is a
square and CEF is an isosceles right-angled triangle whose equal sides are 6 cm long. Find the area of
the shaded region.

(A) 202 cm2

(B) 707 cm2
(C) 1404 cm2
(D) 2121 cm2
(E) None of these

43 Mary finds that in the final year examination of mathematics, the question paper consists of section I,
II, and III respectively. The questions of section I carries 4 marks each which contains five questions and
section II and III carries 6 and 8 marks each which contains ten and five question each respectively. If she
scores 100% in section I and 80% in section II, then find the least number of questions required by Mary
to be solved correctly in the section in order to have an average of 99%.
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
(E) None of these

44. Match the columns

Column-Ist Column-IInd
a. A and B are two events such that 4
(p)
P(A) = 0.3 and P(A  B)  0.8. If 13
A and B are independent, then
P(B) is
b. A single card is chosen at random 2
(q)
from a standard deck of 52 playing 5
cards. What is the probability of
choosing a king or a club?
c. If A and B be two mutually 5
(r)
exclusive events is a sample space 7
2 1
such that P(A)  and P(B)  ,
5 2

then P A  B is 
d. A natural number is chosen at 1
(s)
random from amongst the first 2
300. What is the probability that
the number, so chosen is divisibly
by 3 or 5?

(A) a → p, b → q, c → r, d → s
(B) a → q, b → p, c → r, d → s
(C) a → r, b → p, c → s, d → q
(D) a → r, b → p, c → q, d → s
(E) None of these

45. In the next Asia cup of hockey tournament 12 teams are participating and are divided into two equal
groups P and Q respectively. If the team of each group will play match with each other and the top 3
teams from each group qualify for the super six slot. Then in the super six stage each will play each other
once again and top four team will be selected for the semi-final where again each team will play against
each other. The top two teams will qualify for the final and they will play in the best of three matches.
Find the number of matches to be played in the entire tournament if all of the three final matches will be
compulsory to be played.
(A) 51
(B) 52
(C) 53
(D) 54
(E) None of these

46. A boy is standing on the ground and flying a kite with 100 m of a string at an elevation of 30.
Another boy is standing on the roof of a 20 m high building and is flying his kite at an elevation of 45.
Both the boys are on the opposite sides of the both the kites. Find the length of the string (correct the two
places of decimal) that the second boy must have such that the two kites meet.
(A) 32.37 m
(B) 42.43 m
(C) 47.49 m
(D) 54.59 m
(E) None of these

47. From the figure given below, find the volume of the toy.

(A) 287.80 cm3

(B) 357.80 cm3
(C) 397.80 cm3
(D) 495.75 cm3
(E) None of these

48. The radii of the ends of a bucket 45 cm high, which is of the form am frustum of a cone are, 28 cm
 22 
and 7 cm. Determine the surface area.  Take   
 7 
949
(A) 11 cm 2
4
1
(B) 12127 cm 3
2
165 449  77
(C) cm 2
2
165 449  77
(D) cm 2
4
(E) None of these

49. In the figure as mentioned below, POQ and ROS are diameters of a circle with centre O and radius 14
 22 
cm. Find the area of the shaded region.  Use   
 7 
(A) 154 cm2
(B) 112 cm2
(C) 266 cm2
(D) 308 cm2
(E) None of these

50. On dividing a number by 9, the remainder is 8. The quotient so obtained when divided by 11, leaves
the remainder 9. Now the quotient so obtained when divided by 13, leaves the remainder 8. Find the
remainder when the given number is divided by 1287. Also find the remainder if the number and
subsequent quotients are divided by 13, 11 and 9 respectively.
(A) 6, 10
(B) 10, 6
(C) 13, 10
(D) 10, 13
(E) None of these

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