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Grade 8

SAMPLE
QUESTIONS
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About the Sample Questions

This "Sample Questions" test is not to check the rote learning of concepts and application of
simple procedures. This test would require the student to first understand the question
properly and then they need to think and try out different possibilities to solve the question.
The method is not important but the mindset to take on the challenge is. This test might cover
much more than what the school syllabus/curriculum gives an exposure to. Please note that
some problems would require more than one topic/concept to be applied as Math is not
about just calculations but it is about well reasoned application of concepts and operations in
a systematic and logical way. The focus here is on understanding, applying and problem
solving and relating Math with the world around us and how we use it daily for small
decisions.
The test has been designed keeping in mind the need of:
Concepts: Depth of Concept Understanding
Application: Ability to apply the concepts to solve Math or Logical problems
Logical, Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills
Problem Solving Mindset – Ownership, Rigour and Perseverance
Problem Solving skills – Systematic, Making a smaller problem to understand patterns
Taking up the challenge of unfamiliar and non-routine Qs.
Applying Common Sense and Heuristics
Understand Daily Life Situations in form of word problems where Math is applied
Understand Quantitive relationships
Visualize the situation and connect it with Mathematical procedures.
Ideal Duration: 90 Minutes (However, students should try to solve the questions even if it
takes longer. You should try to solve all the questions even if it takes more time.)
Instructions
1. Students should give the test in one sitting so make sure they have 90 minutes once they
start
2. Parents should not help or prompt however since these kids are small, parents can help
them explain the questions to them however the temptation should be curbed to give out
any hints on how to think or solve the problem.
3. Calculators should NOT be used.
4. Students can keep a rough notebook/blank sheets for doing their working.
5. One should refer to the answer key only at the end of the test.
6. Solutions will also be made available for these sample questions later on the website.

These sample questions are just indicative of the kind of questions you may expect in
GJMAT & GJMOC, however, the problems might be easier or even more complex.

All the Best, Enjoy the Test

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ANSWER
Q1. I am thinking of a fraction A/B. The sum of its numerator
and denominator is 41. When I add 39 to its denominator,
the fraction becomes 1 / 4.

Find the minimum product of A and B

Q2. A total of 170 students are in a hall. 3 / 5 of the boys and 3 / ANSWER
7 of the girls wore spectacles. The number of boys who do not
wear spectacles is equal to the number of girls who do not
wear spectacles.

How many girls are there in the hall?

Q3. A group of boys were picking apples. They each picked 3

apples. Then three other boys joined them. They wanted to
share the picked apples equally among all the boys present,
ANSWER
but found out that this was not possible. However, one of the
boys picked one more apple. Now everyone could have exactly
two apples.

How many boys were there in the original group?

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Q4. Maya cut off 2 / 5 of a piece of string. Later, she cut off
another 14 m. The ratio of the length of string remaining to
the total length cut off is 1 : 3.

What is the length of the remaining string?

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Q5. Govind and Meena have the same number of candies. If

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Govind gives Meena half of all his candies, and then Meena
gives Govind half of all the candies she has at the moment,
Govind would have 12 more candies than Meena.

How many candies do Govind and Meena have altogether?

Q6. Lambu and Chotu are friends. Every January 1st they get
measured and they write down the date, Lambu‘s height,
Chotu’s height, their total height, and their height difference
(the amount by which Lambu is taller than Chotu). From
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January 1st, 2020, to January 1st, 2021, Lambu grew 5%, Chotu
grew 2%, their total height increased by 4%, and their height
difference increased by X%.

Compute the value of X.

Q7. A Fruit drink is made from 25% pure fruit juice and the rest
is water. A barrel contained some amount of this fruit drink,
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but then by mistake, 60 litres of water was added to the barrel.

How many litres of pure fruit juice must be added to the

barrel to correct the mistake, so the barrel would again
contain fruit drink with 25% pure fruit juice?

Q8. A factorial number is the product of all whole numbers

from one through some whole number. For example, 720 is a
factorial number because 720 = 1 x2x3x4x5x6. Now let's say
that a positive whole integer K is "interesting" if some factorial
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number ends in exactly K zeroes, and "boring" if no such
factorial number exists. So the number 1 is interesting since the
factorial number 720 ends in exactly one zero.

Find the sum of the six smallest boring numbers.

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Q9. A teacher asked her students to find a 2-digit whole number ANSWER
which has as many as possible different positive factors. Jack
realized that there was more than one such number, and listed
each of them once.

Find the sum of all of Jack’s numbers.

Q10. All possible diagonals drawn from the two adjacent vertices
A and B of a regular hectogon divide the hectogon’s interior into
ANSWER
a number of non-overlapping shapes – triangles and
quadrilaterals (without any part of a line inside them).

How many of these shapes are triangles? (A hectogon is a

polygon with 100 sides.)

Q11. A regular polygon has 54 possible diagonals. The ratio of ANSWER

each external angle to each internal angle is A:B .

Find the least possible value of A + B

Q12. If you roll three regular (Normal) six faced dice, then the ANSWER
probability of getting a sum of 10 is A/B?

Find the least value of A+B.

Q13. There are 4 different fiction novels and 5 different ANSWER

encyclopaedias kept on a book shelf.

In how many ways you can arrange them if all of the same
kinds need to be together?
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Q14. How many 4 digit numbers are there whose sum of digits ANSWER
is 7?

ANSWER
Q15. The squares of two consecutive positive integers differ by
67.

What is the smaller of the two integers?

Q16. Pihu can’t quite read the board in her math class. She
writes down the equation she reads on the board as 2x - 7 = 23.
She correctly solves the equation she wrote down, but is
surprised to hear the teacher say the answer is 5 less than the
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answer Pihu found. When Pihu asks the teacher to check her
work, the teacher says that Pihu copied the coefficient of x
incorrectly (but copied everything else correctly).

What should the coefficient of x have been?

Q17. For a set of ten numbers, removing the largest number

decreases the average by 1. Removing the smallest number ANSWER
increases the average by 2.

What is the positive difference between the largest and the

smallest of these ten numbers?
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Q18. A 1000-digit number N has 6 in its unit (ones) place. If you

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pick any two consecutive digits from N, the 2-digit no. picked up
is either divisible by 17 or 23.

What is the first (extreme left one with highest place value)
digit of N?

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Q19. 63 of 1x1 squares are combined to form a big rectangle
with smallest possible perimeter.

In this resulting rectangle, how many more rectangles are

there than squares in this large rectangular figure?

Q20. A pathway of 10*3 dimension has to be filled with 1*3 tiles. ANSWER

In how many ways can you fill it?

Q21. A 7*7 square is made of 49 1*1 squares.The large square ANSWER

has one * in each of all the four corner small squares.

How many rectangles in the large square do not include

even a single * in them?
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Q22. A tourist starts from Town A on Monday morning and he

can go to one of the nearby towns B, C, D, E. Subsequently, every
day in the morning he goes from one town to another town out
of these 5 towns. He reaches the next town on the same day by
afternoon. It's not necessary to go to each town and he can also
revisit the same town on an another day.

If he lands up in Town C on Thursday afternoon and comes

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back to Town A on Sunday afternoon, how many different
possible routes (assume one route from one particular town
to any other particular town) are there for the 7 days?
(Assume that he reaches from one town to another on the
same day in a few hours).

ANSWER
Q23. Determine the number of ordered pairs (a, b) if the 5-digit
number 2a3b4 is divisible by 12.

Q24. There is a number which is divisible by 6 when it is added

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by 1; it is divisible by 8 when it is added by 3; it is divisible by 10
when it is added by 5. The sum of the three quotients when the
number is divided by 6, 8 and 10 respectively is 282.

What is the number?

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Q25. At least how many numbers you need to pick up between 1
and 50 (including both 1 and 50) at random to ensure that you
get two numbers whose product is divisible by 6?
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Rough Worksheet

You can check the answer key document for the correct answers.

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