PAPER 80

1. in a class there are less than 500 students . when
it is divided by 3 it gives a whole number. similarly
when it is divided by 4,5 or 7 gives a whole number.
find the no. of students in the class.

ans: 420

2. Uncle reuben and aunt cynthia came to town to shop reuben bought a suit and hat for $15

cynthia paid as much as for her hat as reuben did for his suit then she spent the rest of their

money for a new dress on the way home cynthia called reuben's attention to the fact that his hat

cost $1 more than her dress then she added if we had divided our hat money differently so that

we bought different hats mine costing 1 and 1/2 time cost if yours then we each would have spent

the same amount of money in that case said uncle reuben "how much would my hat have cost"

Ans : Uncles hat costs $6.4 (total money was $29)


3.. four family names are given and their frends name are given but not in order.( u hav to find

which frend belongs to which family) Each frend prepares salad using 3 different fruits . they are

given apple, cherry, grape, banana., no two frens uses the same combination.

Various conditions are given and 4 ques asked.
Which fruit did mandy didn't use?
Who is flures friend?
Name the fruits common btwn Erica and stacy?
This is slightly tough.(8 marks)
Clue: ( fill the familys name in the order given in ques ppr and respective frends name this is wht I

got, im sure) .
Family name frends name
jo Mandy
flure Robin
Erica
Stacy
(the other two familys name I don't remember)

4.Find the 5 digit number which has
2 digits are odd numbers
Digit 1 is one less than digit 3.
Digit 3 is the highest
There are no duplicates
Digit 2 is the lowest
Digit 4 is between digit 1 and digit 2 and digit 5 is half of digit 4

Ans: 71842
5.here is a simple mathematical puzzle set by Longfellow in his own flowery, poetical language.

If 1/5th of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, 1/3rd flew to the slandbara, 3 times the

difference of these two numbers flew to an arbour, ad one bee continued to fly about, attracted on

each side by the fragrant ketaki and malati, what was the total number of bees?

Ans: 15

6.in a race 5 people took part...Samantha beat jack..louise was not the last,jack lost to

jim...denise lost to louise and...in that order(don't rem the ques.but was easy to analyze) who

won?

ans: Samantha

7.there was a ques on some murder case.there were 6 people and 6 professions.amongst them

one was the murderer,one victim,one judge,one hangman,one policeman,and one witness.the

witness didn't see the event but heard some altercations followed by bullet shot.(conditions were

given like,..)
a.mark knew the victim and the murderer
b.the judge asked clark to give his account of shooting
c.xxx was the last one to see fhillip alive.
d.the policeman picked up graham from the place of murder
(there were two more conditions)it was easy to solve.
Find who was the…..
a.murderer
b.victim
c.judge
d.witness

8. (don't remember the exact question)a man while sorting files picks up file number one,misses

one, picks up file no. 2,mises two files,and so on...after that he found that he picked up 5% of the

files. How many files were there?

Ans:39

9.a man planting trees....that double every day.it took 50 days to COMPLETELY PLANT ALL

THE TREEES.how many days it took 2 plant half the no. of trees??..
ans-49