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Pre RMO (INDIA) - 2015: B A K X X X

The document contains a 20 question practice test for the Pre RMO exam in India. The questions cover a range of math topics including: geometry, algebra, number theory, and word problems. For each question, test takers are instructed to provide the answer in the provided blank space. They are also told that each question is worth 5 marks and that there are no penalties for incorrect answers.

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Pre RMO (INDIA) - 2015: B A K X X X

The document contains a 20 question practice test for the Pre RMO exam in India. The questions cover a range of math topics including: geometry, algebra, number theory, and word problems. For each question, test takers are instructed to provide the answer in the provided blank space. They are also told that each question is worth 5 marks and that there are no penalties for incorrect answers.

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Pre RMO QUESTIONS

Pre RMO(INDIA) – 2015


Instructions:
A. Questions 1 to 20 carry 5 marks each.
B. All questions are compulsory.
C. There are no negative marks.

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1. A man walks a certain distance and rides back in 3 hours; he could ride both ways in 2 hours.
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How many hours would it take him to walk both ways?
2. Positive integers a and b are such that a + b = a/b + b/a. What is the value of a 2  b 2 ?
3. The equations x 2  4 x  k  0 and x 2  kx  4  0 , where k is a real number, have exactly one
common root. What is the value of k?
4. Let P(x) be a non-zero polynomial with integer coefficients. If P(n) is divisible by n for each positive
integer n, what is the value of P(0)?
5. How many line segments have both their endpoints located at the vertices of a given cube?
6. 6. Let E(n) denote the sum of the even digits of n. For example, E(1243) = 2 + 4 = 6. What is the
value of E(1) + E(2) + E(3) +···+ E(100)?
7. How many two-digit positive integers N have the property that the sum of N and the number
obtained by reversing the order of the digits of N is a perfect square?
8. The figure below shows a broken piece of a circular plate made of glass. C is the midpoint of AB,
and D is the midpoint of arc AB. Given that AB = 24 cm and CD = 6 cm, what is the radius of the
plate in centimetres? (The figure is not drawn to scale.)

9. A 2×3 rectangle and a 3×4 rectangle are contained within a square without overlapping at any
interior point, and the sides of the square are parallel to the sides of the two given rectangles. What
is the smallest possible area of the square?
10. What is the greatest possible perimeter of a right-angled triangle with integer side lengths if one of
the sides has length 12?
11. In rectangle ABCD, AB = 8 and BC = 20. Let P be a point on AD such that BPC  90 0 . If
r1 , r2 , r3 are the radii of the incircles of triangles APB, BPC and CPD, what is the value of
r1  r2  r3 ?
12. Let a, b, and c be real numbers such that a−7b + 8c = 4 and 8a + 4b−c = 7. What is the value of
a2  b2  c2 ?
13. Let n be the largest integer that is the product of exactly 3 distinct prime numbers, x, y and 10x + y,
where x and y are digits. What is the sum of the digits of n?
14. At a party, each man danced with exactly four women and each woman danced with exactly three
men. Nine men attended the party. How many women attended the party?
15. If 3 x  2 y  985 and 3 x  2 y  473 , what is the value of xy?
16. In acute-angled triangle ABC, let D be the foot of the altitude from A, and E be the midpoint of BC.
Let F be the midpoint of AC. Suppose BAE  40 0 . If DAE  DFE , what is the magnitude of
ADF in degrees?
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Pre RMO QUESTIONS

17. A subset B of the set of first 100 positive integers has the property that no two elements of B sum to
125. What is the maximum possible number of elements in B?
a2 b2 c2
18. Let a, b and c be such that a + b + c = 0 and P  2  2  2 is defined. What
2a  bc 2b  ac 2c  ab
is the value of P?
19. The circle ω touches the circle Ω internally at P. The centre O of Ω is outside ω. Let XY be a
diameter of Ω which is also tangent to ω. Assume PY > PX. Let PY intersect ω at Z. If YZ = 2PZ,
what is the magnitude of PYX in degrees?
20. The digits of a positive integer n are four consecutive integers in decreasing order when read from
left to right. What is the sum of the possible remainders when n is divided by 37?

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