ARYABHATA MATHEMATICIAN OF THE YEAR

NUMERICAL ABILITY TEST 2017

NAME:-_______________________________ Reg. No:- ______________________ GRADE - X

NO. OF QUESTIONS : 60 TOTAL MARKS : 60 TIME : 60 MINUTES

( SECTION A)
1. If + means ÷,÷ means - , - means x and x means + , then 48+16÷4-2x 8 = ?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 12 (D) -28
2. Complete A ,Z,B,Y,C,_______
(A) D (B) E (C) X (D) U
3. Pointing to a photograph, a woman says, “ This man’s son’s sister is my mother-in-law” . How is the
woman’s husband related to the man in photograph ?
(A) Son (B) Nephew (C) Grandson (D) Son-in-law
4. IF yellow means red, white means green, red means orange, blue means white and green means blue,
then what is the colour of a plant leaf?
(A) Green (B) White (C) Blue (D) Yellow
5. Aparna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the smell
pieces is 20 gms in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original
cake?
(A) 120 gms (B) 140 gms (C) 240 gms (D) 280 gms
6. Vikram is taller than Rajan but shorter than Annie. Jamal is taller than Annie. Sita is taller than Vikram.
Rajan is shorter than Sita. Who is the shortest of all in the group ?
(A) Sita (B) Rajan (C) Vikram (D) Cannot be determined
7. If Rahul finds that he is 12 from the right in a line of boys and 4th from the left, how many boys should
th

be added to the line such that there are 28 boys in the line?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 20
8. In a row of girls, If Madhu who is tenth from the left and Veena who is nineth from the right interchange
their place, Madhu becomes fifteenth from the left. How many girls are there in a row ?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) None of these
9. 11 , 13 , 17 ,19,23, 25, (____)
(A) 25 (B) 27 (C)30 (D) None of these
10. 2,5,11, 23, 47, ____
(A) 49 (B) 52 (C) 95 (D) 84

(SECTION-B)

11. The product of a non-zero rational and an irrational number is

(A) always irrational (B) always rational (C) rational or irrational (D) one
12. The least number that is divisible by all the numbers from 1 to 10 (both inclusive) is
(A) 10 (B) 100 (C) 504 (D) 2520
13. If the HCF of 65 and 117 is expressible in the form 65m – 117, then the value of m is
(A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D) 3
14. N2 – 1 is divisible by 8, if n is
(A) an integer (B) a natural number (C) an odd integer (D) an even integer
15. The number of polynomials having zeroes as –2 and 5 is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) more than 3
16. The zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 + kx + k, k ≠ 0,
(A) cannot both be positive (B) cannot both be negative (C) are always unequal (D) are always equal
17. If the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 + (a + 1) x + b are 2 and –3, then
(A) a = –7, b = –1 (B) a = 5, b = –1 (C) a = 2, b = – 6 (D) a = 0, b = – 6
18. If a pair of linear equations is consistent, then the lines will be
(A) parallel (B) always coincident (C) intersecting or coincident (D) always intersecting
19. The value of c for which the pair of equations cx – y = 2 and 6x – 2y = 3 will have infinitely many
solutions is
(A) 3 (B) – 3 (C) –12 (D) no value
20. An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to
(A) 0.0001 (B) 0.001 (C) 0.01 (D) 0.1
𝟓
21. If 2 is a root of the equation x2+ kx – 𝟒 = 0 , then the value of k is
𝟏 𝟏
(A) 2 (B) – 2 (C) 𝟒 (D) 𝟐
22. Values of k for which the quadratic equation 2x 2– kx + k = 0 has equal roots is
(A) 0 only (B) 4 (C) 8 only (D) 0, 8
2 2 2
23. (x + 1) – x = 0 has
(A) four real roots (B) two real roots (C) no real roots (D) one real root.
24. The 21st term of the AP whose first two terms are –3 and 4 is
(A) 17 (B) 137 (C) 143 (D) –143
25. Two APs have the same common difference. The first term of one of these is –1 and that of the other is
– 8. Then the difference between their 4th terms is
(A) –1 (B) – 8 (C) 7 (D) –9
26. The 4th term from the end of the AP: –11, –8, –5, ..., 49 is
(A) 37 (B) 40 (C) 43 (D) 58
27. The famous mathematician associated with finding the sum of the first 100 natural numbers is
(A) Pythagoras (B) Newton (C) Gauss (D) Euclid
28. The sum of first 16 terms of the AP: 10, 6, 2,... is
(A) –320 (B) 320 (C) –352 (D) –400
29. The lengths of the diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 12 cm. Then, the length of the side of the
rhombus is
(A) 9 cm (B) 10 cm (C) 8 cm (D) 20 cm
30. In triangles ABC and DEF, ∠B = ∠E, ∠F = ∠C and AB = 3 DE. Then, the two triangles are
(A) congruent but not similar (B) similar but not congruent (C) neither congruent nor similar
(D)congruent as well as similar
𝒂𝒓 (𝑨 𝑩𝑪 ) 𝟗
31. If ∆ABC ~ ∆ QRP, 𝒂𝒓 ( 𝑷𝑸𝑹 ) = 𝟒, AB = 18 cm and BC = 15 cm, then PR is equal to
A) 10 cm (B) 12 cm (C) 20 cm (D) 8 cm
32. The distance of the point P (–6, 8) from the origin is
(A) 8 (B) 27 (C) 10 (D) 6
33. The perimeter of a triangle with vertices (0, 4), (0, 0) and (3, 0) is
(A) 5 (B) 12 (C) 11 (D) 13
34. The point which lies on the perpendicular bisector of the line segment joining the points A (–2, –5) and
B (2, 5) is
(A) (0, 0) (B) (0, 2) (C) (2, 0) (D) (–2, 0)
35. If the distance between the points (4, p) and (1, 0) is 5, then the value of p is
(A) 4 only (B) ± 4 (C) – 4 only (D) 0
36. The value of (sin30° + cos30°) – (sin60° + cos60°) is
(A) – 1 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D) 2
37. The value of (tan1° tan2° tan3° ... tan89°) is
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) None of these
38. If cos 9a = sin a and 9a < 90° , then the value of tan5a is
𝟏
(A) (B) √𝟑 (C) 1 (D) 0
√𝟑
39. If sina – cosa = 0, then the value of (sin4+ Cos4a) is
𝟑 𝟏 𝟏
(A) 1 (B) 𝟒 (C) 𝟐 (D) 𝟒
40. If angle between two radii of a circle is 130º, the angle between the tangents at the ends of the radii is
(A) 90º (B) 50º (C) 70º (D) 40º
41. From a point P which is at a distance of 13 cm from the centre O of a circle of radius 5 cm, the pair of
tangents PQ and PR to the circle are drawn. Then the area of the quadrilateral PQOR is
(A) 60 cm2 (B) 65 cm2 (C) 30 cm2 (D) 32.5 cm2
.42. If the circumference of a circle and the perimeter of a square are equal, then

(A) Area of the circle = Area of the square (B) Area of the circle > Area of the square
(C) Area of the circle < Area of the square (D) Nothing definite can be said about the relation between
the areas of the circle and square.
43. A card is selected at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability of its being a
face card is
𝟏 𝟒 𝟑
(A)𝟏𝟑 (B) 𝟏𝟑 (C) 𝟏𝟑 (D) None of these
44. The area of the circle that can be inscribed in a square of side 6 cm is
(A) 36 ᴫcm2 (B) 18 ᴫcm2 (C) 12 ᴫcm2 (D) 9 ᴫcm2
45. An event is very likely to happen. Its probability is closest to
(A) 0.0001 (B) 0.001 (C) 0.01 (D) 0.1

(SECTION – C)

46. A surahi is the combination of

(A) a sphere and a cylinder (B) a hemisphere and a cylinder (C) two hemispheres (D) a cylinder and a
cone.
47. A shuttle cock used for playing badminton has the shape of the combination of
(A) a cylinder and a sphere (B) a cylinder and a hemisphere (C) a sphere and a cone
(D) frustum of a cone and a hemisphere
48. During conversion of a solid from one shape to another, the volume of the new shape will
(A) increase (B) decrease (C) remain unaltered (D) be doubled
49. Construction of a cumulative frequency table is useful in determining the
(A) mean (B) median (C) mode (D) all the above three measures
50. If the perimeter of a circle is equal to that of a square, then the ratio of their areas is
(A) 22 : 7 (B) 14 : 11 (C) 7 : 22 (D) 11: 14
51. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that card is not an ace of hearts. The number of
outcomes favourable to E is
(A) 4 (B) 13 (C) 48 (D) 51
52. A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are
sold, how many tickets has she bought?
(A) 4800 (B) 4.8 (C) 480 (D) 0.48
53. While computing mean of grouped data, we assume that the frequencies are
(A) evenly distributed over all the classes (B) centred at the classmarks of the classes
(C) centred at the upper limits of the classes (D) centred at the lower limits of the classes
54. Aruna has only Re 1 and Rs 2 coins with her. If the total number of coins that she has is 50 and the
amount of money with her is Rs 75, then the number of Re 1 and Rs 2 coins are, respectively
(A) 35 and 15 (B) 35 and 20 (C) 15 and 35 (D) 25 and 25
55. If the radii of two concentric circles are 5cm and 3cm respectively, then the length of the chord larger
circle which touches the smaller circle is
(A) 12cm (B) 6 cm (C) 10 cm (D) 8 cm

(SECTION - D)

56. If a marble of radius 2.1 cm is put into a cylindrical cup full of water of radius 5cm and height 6 cm, then
how much water flows out of the cylindrical cup?
(A) 38.8 cm3 (B) 55.4 cm3 (C) 19.4 cm3 (D) 471.4 cm3
57. Had Aliya scored 10 marks more in her mathematics test out of 30 marks, 9 times these marks would
have been the square of her actual marks. How many marks did she get in the test?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 17 (D) 18
58. If the numbers n – 2, 4n – 1 and 5n + 2 are in AP, find the value of n.
(A) 2 (B) -2 (C) -1 (D) 1
59. How long will a boy take a walk at 3km/hr once around a circular park of radius 210m.
(A) 26minutes 14 secs (B) 26 minutes 24secs (C) 26 minutes 20 secs (D) 26minutes 22 secs
60. The height and base of a cone, each is increased by 50%. What is the ratio between the volume of the
given cone and volume of the new cone?
(A) 8 : 36 (B) 9: 27 (C) 8: 27 (D) 9: 36