Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 30

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read the instructions carefully

A: General:
1. Immediately fill in the particulars on this page of the Test Booklet with Blue/Black Ball point
pen.
2. Use Black Ball Point Pen only for writing particulars on Answer Sheet. Use of pencil is
strictly prohibited.
3. Blank papers, clipboards, log tables, slide rules, calculators, cellular phones, pagers and
electronic gadgets in any form are not allowed.
4. The answer sheet, a machine-gradable Objective Response Sheet (ORS) is provided separately.
5. Do not Tamper/mutilate the ORS or this booklet.
6. No additional sheets will be provided for rough work.
7. On completion of this test, the candidate must hand over the Answer Sheet to the Invigilator
on duty in the Room/Hall. However, the candidates are allowed to take away this Test
Booklet with them.

B: Questions paper format & Marking Schema:

1. The question paper consists of 30 questions of Mathematics.
2. Answers will be whole numbers from 0 to 99, where students must fill OMR corresponding to
correct answer.
3. If your answer is 9 then you will have to fill in as 09.
4. For each question you will be awarded 1 marks if you darken the bubble corresponding to the
correct answer ONLY and zero (0) marks if no bubbles are darkened. There is no negative
Marking.

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3. Triangle ABC is isosceles with A C = B C and C = 120

0
. Points D and E are chosen on segment AB so that
A D = D E = E B . Find  C D E (in degress)

1
4. The geometric progression  a n  has first term a1 = 1536 and common ratio − . What is the value of n for which
2
the product of the first n terms is maximum?

2 3 4

be the coefficient of x in expansion of ( 3 ) . Find

n
3 3 3
5. Let an − x + + + ......
a2 a3 a4

6. Each digit of a four digit number is one of 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Every two adjacent digits are different. The first and the
last digits are also different. Moreover, the first digit is not greater than any other digit. How many such four digit
numbers are there?

9 cot C
7. In triangle ABC, if 9B C
2
+ 9C A
2
− 19AB
2
= 0 , what is the value of ?
cot A + cot C

8. If all positive integers relatively prime to 1 0 5 (including 1 ) are arranged in ascending order, then in this
arrangement the kth term is 1 7 8 . Find k.

2
9. What is the number of real roots of the equation, ( lo g x ) −  lo g x  − 2 = 0 ;   denotes floor function?

10. Two non-intersecting circles, not lying inside each other, are drawn in a plane. Two lines pass through a point P
which lies outside each circle. The first line intersects the first circle at A and A I and the second circle at B and
I I I
B ; here A and B are closer to P than A and B and P lies on segment AB. Analogously, the second line
intersects the first circle at C and C and the second circle at D and D I . If A, B, C, D are concyclic then find
I

I I
PA . PB . PA . PB
I I
PC . PD . PC . PD

11. How many subsets  a, b, c  of  − 3, − 2, − 1, 0, 1, 2, 3  are there such that ax + by + c = 0 makes an acute angle
with positive x axis.

12. ber of pairs of positive integers x, y with x  y such that g c d ( x, y ) = 5 ! and c m ( x, y ) = 5 0 ! Find a.

13.
d 1  d 2  d 3  ...  d 1 2 . It is known that the divisor dd
4
−1
is equal to the product ( d 1 + d2 + d4 ) d8 . Find d4 .

14. In an acute angled triangle ABC, point H is the intersection point of altitude CE to AB and altitude BD to AC. A
circle with DE as its diameter intersects AB and AC at points F and G. FG and AH intersect at point K. If B C = 2 5 ,
B D = 2 0 , B E = 7 and A K = p , find  1 0 p  .

15. A new sequence is obtained from the sequences of positive integers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 .... , be deleting all
th
perfect squares. Find the sum of the digits of 2018 term of this new sequences.

16. Find the least value of the expression ( x + y)(y + z) , given that x, y, z are positive numbers satisfying the
equation xyz ( x + y + z ) = 6 7 6 .

+ 2 ( m + 5 ) x + (1 0 0 m + 9 ) = 0
2
17. Find the value of the smallest positive integer m such that the equation x has only
integer solutions.

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