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SundarSTEM
Admission Test for Class – 9
Year 2024 Phase-1
(Part-I)
Duration: 75 Minutes

This paper contains 20 multiple choice questions.

Encircle the correct option.
Total marks for Part-I are 100. Marks of each question are 5.
Attempt all the questions.

Please note that there will be 5 marks for correct answer, 1 mark for each
unattempt multiple choice answer and 0 for wrong answer.
Part-I has 12 pages including this one.
Please fill the below details before proceeding to test.
Test ID: _______________ Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy): _______________
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Invigilator’s signature:_____________________________________________
Instructions:

 All answers should be exact. Never use approximations. For example:

o DO NOT approximate √𝟐 = 𝟏. 𝟒𝟏𝟒𝟐. Just leave it as √𝟐 in the formula.
𝟐𝟐
o DO NOT approximate 𝝅 ≈ 𝒐𝒓 𝝅 ≈ 𝟑. 𝟏𝟒. Just leave it as 𝝅.
𝟕
 Simplify your answers.
 Calculator is not allowed in the test. If a student is making long, time-consuming calculations, he is probably
on the wrong track.
 The working of candidate will be used in assessment of his problem solving approach.
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1.
If the arithmetic mean of four distinct positive integers is equal to 10, what
is the largest possible value of any of these integers?

A. 27 B. 34 C. 42 D. 54 E. 64

2.
A bus stop is served by three bus lines A, B, and C, which leave the stop in
intervals of 12, 10, and 8 minutes, respectively. When Qasim walked past
the stop, he noticed that the three buses of the three lines had left the stop
simultaneously. After how many minutes from that point will that happen
again for the first time?

A. 105 B. 100 C. 108 D. 60 E. 120

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3.
A square and a regular pentagon are as in the picture below. Find the angle
𝛼 in degree.

A. 27 B. 33 C. 42 D. 54 E. 65
4.
The rhombus flower grows according to the following pattern: In the
middle there is a square blossom with two diagonals of length 1. In the first
step the horizontal diagonal is doubled creating a new quadrilateral. In the
next step the vertical diagonal is doubled and again a new quadrilateral
blossom is generated. This procedure is continued until there is a flower
with five quadrilateral blossoms. Find the perimeter of the outer (i.e. the
fifth) blossom.

A. 𝟐√𝟐 B. 𝟒√𝟐 C. 8√𝟐 D. 𝟏𝟔√𝟐 E. 𝟑𝟐√𝟐

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5.
When is multiplied by the product is closest to which
of the following?

A. 210 B. 240 C. 2100 D. 2400 E. 24000

6.
A cylinder of height 18 cm and circumference 8 cm has a string tightly
wound around it three times, starting at the bottom of the cylinder and
ending at the top in the point precisely above the starting point. What is
the length of the string in cm?

A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25 E. 30
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7.
Consider a semi-circle with center 𝐶 and diameter 𝐴𝐵. A point 𝑃 on
𝐴𝐵 satisfies the following. A laser beam leaves 𝑃 in a direction
perpendicular to 𝐴𝐵, bounces off the semicircle at points 𝐷 and 𝐸 following
the rule of reflection, that is, ∠𝑃 𝐷𝐶 = ∠𝐸𝐷𝐶 and ∠DEC = ∠BEC, and
then it hits the point B. Determine ∠DCP in degrees.

A. 36 B. 45 C. 42 D. 54 E. 27
8.
Ahmad has a box of five divergently flavored chocolate bars: Orange,
banana, chili, grape, and apple. He does not think chili sounds good, so he
wants to get it over with, and eat it as one of the first two bars. Orange
sounds good, so he wants to save it and eat it as one of the last two. In how
many different orders could he eat the five bars, satisfying these
requirements?

A. 4 B. 8 C. 18 D. 24 E. 30
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9.
The SundarSTEM School is attended by 160 pupils in total, divided into 80
pairs of twins. One week the school had outdor activities three days in a
row. Each day each pupil could choose either to go for a hike or to play
football, but twins always had to choose differently. Exactly 20 pupils
played football all three days. How many pupils played football exactly two
of the three days?

A. 10 B. 20 C. 30 D. 50 E. 60
10.
Sets and , shown in the Venn diagram, have the same number of
elements. Their union has elements and their intersection has
elements. Find the number of elements in .

A. 503 B. 1006 C. 1504 D. 1507 E. 1510

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11.
Find the units digit of 52024 + 62024 + 92024 :

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 E. 5

12.
One night, a 6-feet tall person is standing 20 feet from a 30 feet high light.
How long is the person’s shadow?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 E. 7

13.
1 1
Suppose that 𝑥, 𝑦 are real numbers such that 𝑥 − = 𝑦 + . What is the
𝑥 𝑦
value of
1 1
𝑥2 + − 𝑦 2
− ?
𝑥2 𝑦2

A. – 4 B. 0 C. 2 D. 4 E. – 2
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14.
The sides of a triangle have lengths 13, 𝑥, and 2𝑥. Here 𝑥 is an integer.
How many possibilities are there for 𝑥?

𝑨. 𝟐 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8 E. 12

15.
How many three-digit numbers, with each digit unequal to zero, are there
such that the three digits add up to 7?

A. 4 B. 7 C. 10 D. 15 E. 21
16.
On a sheet of paper the numbers 1 to 6 are written as in the figure on the
right. The sheet is folded over the dotted lines. This creates a stack of 6
layers, where each layer has a number (that can be written on either side of
that layer). If number 1 is on the top layer, then which number can not be
on the bottom layer?

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 E. 7
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17.

How many digits are in the product ?

A. 210 B. 240 C. 2100 D. 2400 E 24000

18.

Squares ABCD and DEFG with integer – length of sides b and a respectively as
shown in the figure above. If the area of the region bounded by AB, BC, CG, GF, FE
and EA is 28, what is the area of square ABCD?

A. 28 B. 41 C. 54 D. 43 E. 64
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19.
Five distinct positive integers are in a sequence ordered from small to large.
The middle number is 20. The difference between the smallest two
numbers equals the difference between the largest two numbers. The
fourth number is four times as large as the first number, and the 5th
number is twice as large as the second number. When you add all five
numbers, what is the outcome?

A. 84 B. 90 C. 104 D. 110 E. 130

20.
A baker baked a big square cake. He wants to cut the cake. He cuts the cake
only lengthwise or widthwise, all the way from one edge to the opposite
edge. At least how many cuts does the baker need in order to cut the cake
into exactly 180 pieces?

A. 25 B. 26 C. 27 D. 28 E. 29
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