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Senior Quiz - 2017

1. 12 000 vehicles drive through a road toll plaza on one day. The ratio of
cars: trucks: motor cycles = 13: 8: 3. How many trucks drive through
the road toll plaza on that day?
Answer: 4 000.

2. State the following in order of size, smallest first.


√ 0.9, √3 0.9, 0.92 , 0.93
Answer: 0.93 , 0.92 , √ 0.9, √3 0.9.

3. Johan invested $ 600 for 3 years at 4% per year compound interest.


Calculate the final amount he had after 3 years.
Answer: K674.92.

4. Find the value of n if 2n=1024.


Answer: n = 10.

5. Paul and Sammy take part in a race. The probability that Paul wins the
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race in . The probability that Sammy wins the race is 26%.Who is
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more likely to win the race?
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Answer: Sammy, 26% ¿ (One attempt only).
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6. A circle has a radius of 50 cm. Calculate the area the circle in m 2 to 3


decimal places.
Answer: 0.785 m2.

7. State the solution of x 2> 4.


Answer: Either x >2∨x ←2.

8. Evaluate log 16 8.
3
Answer:
4

9. A woman has 4 skirts and 5 blouses. Assuming that each blouse can be
worn with each skirt, how many different skirt – blouse out fits does the
woman have?
Answer: 20.
10. The difference between two numbers is 8 and their product is 20.
Find the numbers.
Answer: x=10∧ y=2∨x=−2∧ y =−10 (a pair of the same sign).

11. Two towns are 115 km apart. Find the distance in centimeters
between the two towns on a map drawn to a scale of 1: 1, 250, 000.
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Answer: 9 cm.
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12. Daniel moves a distance of 2 km towards east and then walks


10 km towards south. Again he turns towards east and covers a
distance of 4 km. After that he turns towards north and covers a
distance of 18 km. Then how far is he from the starting point?
Answer: 10 km.

13. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 15 and their product is


80. Determine the three numbers.
Answer: 2, 5 and 8.

14. Find the value of the √ 7056


Answer: 84

15. What missing number makes the statement true in 44 ×32=64 ×


Answer: 22

16. If a, b, c are three terms of the sequence such that b 2=ac , what
type of sequence is it?
Answer: Geometric sequence (only attempt only).

17. What type of matrix can be called a diagonal matrix?


Answer: Square matrix. (One attempt)

18. Who was the first person to introduce coordinate geometry in


Mathematics?
Answer: Rene Descarter (One attempt)

19. In which quadrants does (−2 ,−3 ) lie?


Answer: 3rd (One attempt).
20. What is the next number in the sequence 3, 10, 101…?
Answer: 10202.

21. A dishonest shopkeeper has two false balances. One balance


weighs 10% more while buying the goods and the other weighs 10%
less while selling the goods. What is his gain percent by weighing?
Answer: 21%

22. If 2 x =4294967296 , find the value of x.


Answer: 32.

23. Solve for x if 3 √ x = 6.


Answer: 4

24. A boy started from his home. After walking 5 km towards east,
he turned to his right and walked for 8 km, then he again turned to his
right and walked for 10 km, in which direction was he from his house?
Answer: South west (one attempt only).

25. The area of a square is less than 200 cm2. The length in
centimeters of each side is a counting number. What is the greatest
perimeter that the square can have in cm?
Answer: 56 cm.

26. If 215=4 ×2n , what is the value of n?


Answer: 13

27. The fraction becomes triple by adding the same number to both
the numerator and the denominator. What is the number?
Answer: 8

28. There are 10 electric poles in a straight road 100 m apart. What
is the distance from the first pole to the last pole?
Answer: 900 m.

29. Sohan is 19th position when counted from the front and in the
36th position when counted from the end of the assembly line. What is
the total number of students in that assembly line?
Answer: 54
30. If the total surface area of a lid less, cube is 500 cm 2. What is its
volume?
Answer: 1000 cm3.

31. In a room, there are men and dogs. If there are 10 heads and 32
legs, what is the number of dogs?
Answer: 6

32. What is the product of double of the difference of 20 and 15 and


triple of the sum of 6 and 8?
Answer: 420

33. In a school, there are 440 boys and 660 girls, what percent is
boys of total students?
Answer: 44%
34. What is the angle in degrees between hour and minute hand
when it is quarter past 12?
Answer: 82.50.
35. In chance that A can solve a problem is 0.5 and B cannot solve
the problem is 0.4. If it is given to both, find the probability that the
problem will not be solved?
Answer: 0.2

36. A can eat twice as much laddus as B, and B can eat thrice laddus
as much as C can. If they eat 300 laddus together, how much do they
eat individually?
Answer: A = 180, B = 90, C = 30.

37. A room is twice as long as it is breadth. If its length diminished


by 2 m and breadth increased by 2 m, it becomes a square. Find the
area of the new room.
Answer: 30 m2

38. Mr. Gondwe is twice as old as George and 10 years older than
Hari and George is 10 years younger than Hari. 10 years from now, the
sum of their ages will be 120 years. How old are they now?
[Mr.Gondwe = 40, George = 20 and Hari = 30].
39. A circular wire of radius 7 cm is changed to a square and
another is made from another wire whose side is equal to the diagonal
of the first square. Find the area of the second square.
Answer: 242 cm2.

40. Two cubes each of volume 64 cm3 are joined end to end. Find the
total surface are of the resulting cuboid.
Answer: 160 cm2.

41. How many integers between 10 and 500 begin and end with 3?
Answer: 11 [i.e. 33, 303, 313, 323, 333, 343, 353, 363, 373, 383, 393,]

42. If A + B + C = 1800 and angle A is 900, what is the value of tan(B


+ C)?
Answer: Undefined.

43. January 1, 1992 was Wednesday, what day of the week was
January 1, 1993.
Answer: Thursday or Saturday.

44. How many litres of water can a cubical tank having length 5 m
hold?
Answer: 125, 000 litres.

45. If x% of x is 64, find the positive value of x.


Answer: 80

46. The area and circumference of a circle are x cm 2 and x m


respectively. What is the radius of the circle?
Answer: 4 cm

47. What is the average of 50 natural numbers?


Answer: 25.5

48. In a group of people if each person shakes hauls with everyone


else and they shake hands 66 times, how many are there?
Answer: 12.
49. The cost of vegetables increased by 25%. By what percentage
should the consumption of vegetables be reduced so that the
expenditure remains the same?
Answer: 25% ( One attempt only)

50. A man is in 20th position from the first and 30th position from the
last. How many men are there?
Answer: 49.

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