The document provides information about the Mathematics Olympiad of Nepal (MOON) National Mathematical Pre-Olympiad 2019/20, including a sample question set with 50 questions to be completed within 100 minutes. It also provides links for more details about MOON, the International Mathematical Olympiad, and their Facebook page.
The document provides information about the Mathematics Olympiad of Nepal (MOON) National Mathematical Pre-Olympiad 2019/20, including a sample question set with 50 questions to be completed within 100 minutes. It also provides links for more details about MOON, the International Mathematical Olympiad, and their Facebook page.
The document provides information about the Mathematics Olympiad of Nepal (MOON) National Mathematical Pre-Olympiad 2019/20, including a sample question set with 50 questions to be completed within 100 minutes. It also provides links for more details about MOON, the International Mathematical Olympiad, and their Facebook page.
The document provides information about the Mathematics Olympiad of Nepal (MOON) National Mathematical Pre-Olympiad 2019/20, including a sample question set with 50 questions to be completed within 100 minutes. It also provides links for more details about MOON, the International Mathematical Olympiad, and their Facebook page.
1. The difference between the set of non-negative real numbers and the set of positive real numbers is: A. an infinite set B. a null set C. a singleton set D. none 2. In a group of 200 people, the number of Democrats is 50 less than 4 times the number of Republicans. If one fifth of the members in the group is neither Republican nor Democrat, how many of the legislators are Republicans? A. 42 B. 50 C. 71 D. 150 3. If n is an odd integer, which of the following is an even integer? A. n3 B. 2/n C. 2n+3 D. n(n+3) 4. If x and y are perfect squares, which of the following is not necessarily a perfect square? A. x2 B. x+y C. xy D. yx 5. If p and q are positive integers, how many integers are larger than pq and smaller than p(p+2)? A. 2p- 1 C. 2p + 1 B. 2p D. None 6. Suppose p is even and q is odd. Then which of the following cannot be an integer? I. (p+q)/p II. pq/3 III. q/p2 A. II only B. III only C. I and II only D. I and III only 1 7. If n is an integer, what is the least value of n such that < 0.01? 3𝑛 A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 8. The expression 4(xy)3+(x3-y3)2 is equal to: A. (x3-y3)2 B. (x3+y3)2 C. (x3+y3) D. (x3-y3) 9. The rectangle below is made up of 12 congruent (same size) squares. Find the perimeter of the rectangle if the area of the rectangle is equal to 432 square cm. A. 84 cm B. 144 cm C. 42 cm D. 168 cm 10. The sum of the roots of the equation x2+x-6=0 is: A. 1 B. -1 C. 2 D. 3 11. If x>y>0, which of the following is true? 𝑥+1 𝑥+1 𝑥 𝑥+1 I. >1 II. = III. <1 𝑦+1 𝑦+1 𝑦 𝑦+1 A. I only B. II only C. III only D. I and II only 𝑥 6 𝑥 2 +𝑦 2 12. If = , what is the value of: ? 𝑦 5 𝑥 2 −𝑦 2 51 71 A. 11 C. 11
61 81 B. D. 11 11 13. A man divides Rs. 8,600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive? A. Rs. 800 B. Rs. 1000 C. Rs. 300 D. Rs. 900 𝑎+𝑏 14. If a2+b2=117 and ab=54, what is the value of: ? 𝑎−𝑏 A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20 15. ABC is a right triangle with the size of angle ACB equal to 74 degrees. The lengths of the sides AM, MQ and QP are all equal. Find the measure of angle QPB. A. 148 degrees B. 168 degrees C. 74 degrees D. 130 degrees
16. The ages of two persons differ by 16
years. If 6 years ago, the elder one was 3 times as old as the younger one, find their present ages. A. 14, 30 B. 10, 26 C. 24, 40 D. 1, 17 17. Which of the following is not a polynomial? 𝑥 A. +7 2 B. 3x+5 2 C. +7 𝑥 D. x2+√7 18. What is the x intercept of the line 2x+y=7? A. 1 B. 2 C. 2/7 D. 7/2 19. The solution of the equations 2x+5y=9 and x-y=1 is: A. (1, 1) B. (1, 2) C. (2, 1) D. (0, 2) 20. If a circular stadium has a circumference of 88m, what is the shortest distance (in m) needed for a man to come to the center from the circumference? A. 7 B. 14 C. 28 D. 88 21. What is the equation of a straight line which makes the intercepts of 2 and -3 on the x and y axes respectively? A. 3x-2y=6 B. 2x-3y=6 C. x-y=6 D. 3x+2y=6 22. Which of the following triplets of length (in cm) of lines form a triangle? A. 1, 2, 3 B. 1, 2, 4 C. 3, 3, 5 D. 5, 5, 10 23. A number when divided by 342 gives a remainder 47. When the same number is divided by 19, what would be the remainder? A. 2 B. 4 C. 9 D. 3 24. If the product of two integers is odd, then sum of those two integers must be: A. odd B. even C. prime D. a perfect square 25. What could be the maximum value of Q in the equation 5P9+3R7+2Q8=1114? A. 2 B. 9 C. 5 D. 7 26. What is the number of terms in the sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, …, 1024? A. 5 B. 10 C. 19 D. 25 27. If u represents the sum of the integers from 1 through 20 and v represents the sum of the integers from 21 through 40, what is the value of v–u? A. 20 B. 200 C. 40 D. 400 28. Find the circumference of a circular disk whose area is 100 pi square centimeters. A. 20 pi B. 200 pi C. 2√50 pi D. 40 pi 29. A man spends 2/5 of his salary on house rent, 3/10 of his salary on food and 1/8 of his salary on conveyance. If he has Rs. 1400 left with him, find his expenditure (in Rs.) on food and conveyance. A. 2400 & 2000 B. 2400 & 1000 C. 1000 & 2400 D. none 30. If 4% of (p+q) is 8 and p is a positive integer, what is the greatest possible value of q? A. 196 B. 197 C. 199 D. 200 31. The sum of the squares of three consecutive odd numbers is 2531, find the numbers. A. 31, 33, 35 B. 27, 29, 31 C. 19, 21, 23 D. 23, 25, 27 32. A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 4:3. If 5 litres of water is added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 4:5. Find the quantity (in litres) of alcohol in the given mixture. A. 20 C. 10 B. 15 D. 5 33. If 15 men working 9 hours a day, can reap a field in 16 days, in how many days will 18 men reap the field, working 8 hours a day? A. 12 B. 16 C. 13 D. 15 34. Find the area (in cm2) of a rhombus one side of which measures 20 cm and one diagonal 24 cm. A. 348 B. 300 C. 258 D. 384 35. A car travels from A to B at a speed of 40 mph then returns, using the same road, from B to A at a speed of 60 mph. What is the average speed for the round trip? A. 50 mph B. 48 mph C. 45 mph D. 53 mph 36. An observer 1.5 m tall is 28.5 m away from a tower. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower from her eye level is 450, what is the height (in m) of the tower? A. 30 B. 35 C. 26 D. 34 37. The vertices of the inscribed (inside) square bisect the sides of the second (outside) square. Find the ratio of the area of the outside square to the area of the inscribed square. A. 3:2 B. 2:1 C. 4:3 D. 3:1 38. What is the co-ordinates of the centroid of a triangle ABC whose vertices are A (1, 2), B (0, 6) and C (3, 3)? A. (4/3, 11/3) B. (4/3, 5) C. (0, 3) D. (2, 11/3) 39. The average of 8 numbers is A and one of the numbers is 14. If 14 is replaced with 28, then what is the new average in terms of A? 7 1 A. 𝐴 + B. 𝐴 + C. 𝐴 + 2 D. 2A + 1 4 2 40. If the cost of electricity increases by 30%, by what percent one should reduce his expenditure in order that the expense on electricity remains the same? A. 23.07 B. 25.5 C. 28 D. 33.33 41. If the price of petrol increases by 25% and Rajesh intends to spend only 15% more on petrol, by what percent should he reduce the quantity of petrol that he buys? A. 5 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10 42. Three Englishmen and three Frenchmen work for the same company. Each of them knows a secret not known to others. They need to exchange these secrets over person-to-person phone calls so that eventually each person will know all six secrets. None of the Frenchmen knows English and only one Englishman knows French. What is the minimum number of phone calls needed for the above purpose? A. 5 B. 10 C. 9 D. 15 7𝑠𝑖𝑛𝐴−3𝑐𝑜𝑠𝐴 43. If sinA:cosA=4:7, what is the value of ? 7𝑠𝑖𝑛𝐴+2𝑐𝑜𝑠𝐴 A. 3/7 B. 1/6 C. 4/7 D. 7/4 44. A train crosses a platform 100 metres long in 60 seconds at a speed of 45 km per hour. The time taken by the train to cross an electric pole is: A. 8 seconds B. 1 minute C. 52 seconds D. 20 seconds 45. If p and q both are prime numbers, which of the following cannot be the difference of p and q? A. 1 B. 23 C. 3 D. 9 46. Five boys went to see the CIRCUS. Four of them had Rs. 5 each and the fifth boy had Rs. 1 more than the entrance ticket price. If with the whole amount (which the 5 boys had), the boys were able to just buy the entrance ticket for all the 5, cost of the entrance ticket per person was: A. Rs. 4.25 B. Rs. 5 C. Rs. 5.2 D. Rs. 5.25
47. If y is 25% less than x, then x is what percent more than y?
A. 25% B. 33.33% C. 16.5% D. 22.22%
48. The smallest number which, when subtracted from the difference of the squares of 29 and 22 that gives a perfect square is: A. 99 B. 33 C. 13 D. 21 49. It takes 6 technicians a total of 10 hours to build a new server from direct computer with each working at the same rate. If six technicians start to build the server at 11:00 am, and one technician per hour is added beginning at 5:00 pm, in what time will the server be completed? A. 8:00 pm B. 6:40 pm C. 7:00 pm D. 7:20 pm 50. Two cars start towards each other from points 200 miles apart. One car travels at 40 miles per hour and the other travel at 35 miles per hour. How far apart will the two cars be after four hours of continuous travelling? A. 20 B. 40 C. 75 D. 100
