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PART 1
THERE SHALL BE NO SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR PART 1
The following references are only indicative of the sort of resources that could be
consulted for Part1. They are not the full or complete list of resources on the life
of Ramanujan:
▪ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Srinivasa-
Ramanujan
▪ http://www-history.mcs.st-
and.ac.uk/Biographies/Ramanujan.html
▪ https://www.famousscientists.org/srinivasa-ramanujan/
▪ https://www.imsc.res.in/~rao/ramanujan.html
▪ http://www.nbtindia.gov.in/books_detail__9__national-
biography__27__srinivasa-ramanujan.nbt
▪ The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius
Ramanujan. Author: Robert Kanigel. Rupa & Co.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS OF PART 2
JUNIOR LEVEL
STD.’s VI-VII
The sample questions can be answered after carefully reading the text
provided below. Rough sheets shall be provided for calculations.
A perfect square n is a number that is the square of another counting number say
m so that n= 𝑚2 = 𝑚 𝑋 𝑚. Examples include 9 = 32 = 3 x 3 and 16 = 42 = 4 x 4
A twin prime pair is a pair of two prime numbers p and q such that p + 2 = q.
2. If n denotes the number of primes between 1 and 100 and m denotes the
number of primes greater than 100 and less than 200 then
a. n is less than m
b. n = m
c. n is greater than m
d. n divides m
e. none of the above
3. Every number that has 23 as its last two digits is a prime number
a. True
b. False
9. Which one of the following is the minimum value of the sum of the two
integers whose product is 48?
a. 12
b. 14
c. 16
d. 19
10. A 3-digit number 4a5 is added to another 3-digit number 675 to give a 4-
digit number 11b0, which is divisible by 3. Then a+b is:
a. 14
b. 15
c. 16
d. 17
SAMPLE QUESTIONS OF PART 2
SENIOR LEVEL
STD.’s VIII-IX
The sample questions can be answered after carefully reading the text
provided below. Rough sheets shall be provided for calculations.
It is known that prime numbers are the building blocks of number theory. Every
counting number greater than 1 is uniquely expressible as a product of prime
numbers i.e. if m is a counting or natural number greater than 1 then m can be
factorized as a product of prime numbers, i.e. 𝑚 = 𝑝1 𝑝2 … 𝑝𝑛 where each 𝑝𝑖 is a
prime number.
Note: some of the prime numbers may be present more than once in the above
factorization, i.e. some of the prime numbers may be repeated in the factorization.
It is also known that the number of prime numbers is infinite. The proof is very
straightforward and can be found in any elementary school level text book that
deals with numbers.
An integer is any one of the infinite collection of numbers (0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3,…)
1. Let A be the number of prime numbers between 1 and 100, B the number
of prime numbers between 100 and 200. Then:
a. A < B
b. A > B
c. A = B
d. A is a prime number
e. None of the above
2. If n is a prime number then at least one of the following numbers shall also
be a prime number: n + 10, n + 12, n + 14, n + 16.
a. True
b. False
7. Find the total number of prime factors in the product {(9)13 X 54 X (55)8}
a. 73
b. 67
c. 70
d. 63
8. Four digits of the number 39867254 are omitted so that the result is as
large as possible. The largest omitted digit is:
a. 5
b. 8
c. 7
d. 9
9. What is the unit digit in the product (234 X 543 X 786 X 345)?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
10. 1ab8 is 4-digit number divisible by 24. If the number formed from the two
digits ab is a multiple of 9. Then a+b = ?:
a. 9
b. 8
c. 12
d. 14