PRMO

SAMPLE PAPER-1
Time : 3 Hrs. M.M. : 30
General Instruction:
1. All the answers are single digit or double digit.
2. Each question carries 1 mark.
3. No negative marking.
ALGEBRA
1. Given that the equation :
1 1 2
2
+ 2 – 2 = 0 has roots  and . Find the value of  + .
x  10x  29 x  10x  45 x  10x  69
1 m
2. It m, n are relatively prime positive integers such that 
i, j 0
i
2 .3 j
 , then the value of (4m + 5n) is
n
i  j odd

equal to.
3 4 2017 1 1
3. If + …..+ =  , then sum of all digits of n is equal to.
1 2  3 2  3  4 2015  2016  2017 2 n
( n = n!)
4. Given that the curves y = x2 + 15x + 32 and x = y2 + 49y + 593 meet at one point (x0, y0). Find the
absolute value of (x0 + y0).
1 2 7 1
5. Suppose a, b and c are non-zero real numbers such that bc + = ca + = ab + = .
a b c a bc
3
m
If (a+b+c) = – where m, n are relatively prime positive integers, then (m2n) has the value equal to.
n
1 1
6. Given the sequence an = 2 –
2 4 1
, n  1 then
8

a1  a 2  .....  a119 is equal to. 
n  n 
4
7. Given that the equation x3 – 75x + a = 0 has three integral roots ,  and  (where aI), then (|| + || + ||)
is equal to.
8. The number of values of k for which the expression (2x2 – (k+1)x + 4).(x2 – kx + (k+1)) is a perfect
square of a quadratic polynomial.
3
a  3 b 1
9. The real root of the equation 8x3 – 3x2 – 3x – 1 = 0 can be written in the form where
c
a, b, c are positive integers, then (a + b + c) has the value equal to.
10. Suppose p(x) is a quadratic polynomial with integer coefficients satisfying the identity
p(p(x)) – p2(x) = x2 + x + 2016  xR. Find (p(2) – p(1)).
11. Find the number of ordered pairs (x, y) of integers which satisfies the following system of equations
xx+y = y12
yy+x = x3.
n n
k 1 T
12. Given Sn = 
k 1 (2 n  2 k  1)(2 n  k  1)

and Tn =
k 1 k
, then n is equal to.
Sn
13. If p(x) be a polynomial of the lowest degree with integer coefficients such that one of its roots is
( 2  3 3 ) then |p(1)| is equal to.
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14. The roots of the equation x5 – 40x4 + px3 + Qx2 + Rx + S = 0 are in geometric progression. The sum of
their reciprocals is 10. Find the value of |S|.
15. Men, women and children, number 100 in all were distributed Rs. 1000. Each man got Rs. 50, each
women Rs. 10 and each child got Rs. 0.50. How many children were there?
16. Find the number of ordered pairs (m, n) of integers satisfying 2mn – 5m + n = 55.
17. a, b, c, d are positive integers such that a5 = b4, c3 = d2 and c – a = 19. Find (d – 4b).
18. A, B, C are finite sets. A has twice as many elements as B. B has more elements than C. The number of
subsets of B is 15 more than that of C. If the number by which the number of subsets of A exceeds the
n
number of subsets of B is n, then has the value equal to.
10
19. Let x, y, z be non-zero real numbers. Define
| x y | | x z | |yz|
E= + + , then number of all integers which lies in the range of E is equal to.
|x|| y| |x||z| | y||z|
20. Find the minimum value of
 1  1  1 1 
log x1  x 2    log x 2  x 3    ........  log x20  x1   over all x1 , x 2 ,.....x 20   ,1  .
 4  4  4 4 
21. Let m be the largest real solution to the equation
3 5 17 19
    x 2  11x  4. These are positive integers a, b, c such that m  a  b  c .
x  3 x  5 x  17 x  19
Find (c – 2a – 2b).
22. Let p(x) be a quadratic polynomial with real coefficient satisfying
x 2  2x  2  p  x   2x 2  4x  3  x  R and suppose p(11) = 181. Find p(6).

23. Let f(x) is a polynomial of degree four satisfying f(15) = 7 and f(6) = f (8) = f (7) = f (9) = 11, then
f(1) – f(2) + f(3) – f(4) +………+ f(13) – f(14) + f(15) is equal to.
24. Find sum of all values of x satisfying the equation
x /2 x/2 x4

 x 2  5x  6  x 2  5x  4    x 2  5x  6  x 2  5x  4  2 4

x y 1
25. Given x, y, z , t R satisfying the system 3x  3y  3z  3t  24, log z x  log z t  y and 4 2
 2 4
 .
x y x y xy
Find (x + 2y + 3z + 4t).
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26. Given x, y  0, z  R. Define f  x, y, z  

 x  y 
x y
 .
 x sin 2
z  y cos z  x cos z  y sin z 
2 2 2
y x

Find minimum value of f(x, y, z).

27. Given that real numbers  and  satisfy 3 – 32 + 5 – 17 = 0 and 3 – 32 + 5 + 11 = 0 respectively.
Find the value of ( + ).
28. Given x1, x2, x3, ……….x100 are positive real numbers satisfying the system of fractional equations
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1 1 1 1 1 1
x1   4, x 2   1, x 3   4, x 4   1,..........x 99   4 and x100   1.Then   x 2r 1  x 2r  is
x2 x3 x4 x5 x100 x1 r 1

equal to
29. If all the roots of x4 – 8x3 + 24x2 + bx + c = 0 are positive reals, find |b|.
n. a 2n 1
30. A sequence ai is defined as : a1 = 1, a2 = 2018 and a n  for n  2. What is the least K such
a n 1  n.a n  2
that ak < ak–1.

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