Sample Questions: For preliminary round

Prajit Adhikari
December 22, 2019

1. What is the average of first 105 natural numbers?

Ans: 53
2. What is the number of 4 digit numbers divisible by 9?
Ans: 1000
3. What is the remainder when 4 divides 339 + 586 ?
Ans: 0
4. What do we call the composite numbers that satisfy Fermat’s Last theo-
rem?
Ans: Carmichael numbers
5. Find the number of non-negative integer solutions to a + b + c + d + e + f =
15.
Ans: 20


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6. What is the remainder when 28 is divided by 15?

Ans: 1
7. Is the cardinality of natural number set equal to that of rational number
set?
Ans: Yes
8. What is the value of ii ?(where i is the imaginary number)
π
Ans: e 2
9. What is the first square other than 0, 1 in Fibonacci series?
Ans: 144
10. What is the area of Hexagon with side length s = 6?
Ans: 93.53 sq. units
11. What does the sum of degree of each vertices of an undirected graph results
in?
2× number of edges
12. What is the degree of loop in a graph?
Ans: 2

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13. What is the path called which visits each vertex exactly once from starting
point to terminal point?
Ans: Hamitonian Path
14. If dangerous fires are rare (3%) but smoke is fairly common (20%) due
to barbecues, and 90% of dangerous fires make smoke then what is the
probability of dangerous fire when smoke?
Ans: 13.5%
15. The point of intersection of radical axis of three intersecting circles is
known as:
Ans: Miquel point

Some subjective problems:

1. Show that if a and b are positive integers, then
 n  n
1 1
a+ + b+
2 2

is an integer for only finitely many positive integers n.

2. Solve the functional equation

f (xf (x) + f (y)) = y + f (x)2 , x, y ∈ R

3. Prove that among any ten points located on a circle with diameter 5, there
exist at least two at a distance less than 2 from each other.
4. Triangle ABC has BC = 20. The incircle of the√triangle evenly trisects
the median AD. If the area of the triangle is m n where m and n are
integers and n is not divisible by the square of a prime, find m + n.