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Question 1:

A real number M is squared to give the value N. What is the minimum value of \( (\mathrm{M}+\mathrm{N}) \)?

Question 2:

If \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \) are the roots of the equation \( x+a+b=\frac{a b x}{a b+a x+b x} \), then what is \(\alpha\beta+\alpha+\beta\) equal to ?

Question 3:

What is the minimum value of \( p \) for which \( \frac{1}{532900}+\frac{p^{2}}{266450}+\frac{p^{4}}{523900} \) is an integer?

Question 4:

What is the sum of all 3-digit numbers that give a remainder of 5 when they are divided by 50 ?

Question 5:

N is the smallest 5-digit number which when divided by \(2,2^2,2^3,2^4,\ldots,2^n\) leaves a remainder 1. What is the value of \(n\)?

Question 6:

If the average of \(64,69,72,75,x\) lies between 62 and 76 (excluding 62 and 76), then what is the number of possible integer values of \(x\)?

Question 7:

Let \( x, y, z \) be variables such that \(x+y+z=k\), where \(k\) is a constant. If \((x+z-y)\times(x-z+y)\) is proportional to yz, then \((y+z-x)\) is proportional to:

Question 8:

Let \( p \) be the remainder when \( 7^{84} \) is divided by 342 and \( q \) be the remainder when \( 7^{84} \) is divided by 344. What is \( (p - q) \) equal to?

Question 9:

Consider a 2-digit number N. Let P be the product of the digits of the number. If \(P\) is added to the square of the digit in the tens place of N, we get 84. If P is added to the square of the digit in the unit place of N, we get 60. What is the value of \(P+N\)?

Question 10:

A mixture of 100 L contains kerosene and turpentine oil in the ratio \( 3: 2 \). What is the minimum quantity of kerosene in litres (whole number) that should be mixed in the mixture so that the resulting mixture has \( 20 \% \) of kerosene?

Question 11:

A lamp is kept on a vertical pole. The height of the top of the lamp above the ground is \( \frac{5 \sqrt{3}}{2} \mathrm{~m} \). The perpendicular distances of the bottom of the pole from two adjacent walls meeting perpendicularly are 0.7 m and 2.4 m. What is the distance of the top of the lamp from the corner point of the walls on the ground?

Question 12:

C is the centre of a circle of radius \(20\) cm. \(AB\) is a chord of length \(32\) cm. \(E\) is a point on \(AB\) such that \(CE=13\) cm. What is \(AE\times EB\) equal to?

Question 13:

The inside of a bowl is part of a sphere. When water is put into the bowl to a depth d, the water surface becomes a circle of radius 2d. What is the radius of the sphere?

Question 14:

In a triangle \( \mathrm{ABC}, \mathrm{AB}=2 \mathrm{~cm}, \mathrm{BC}=4 \mathrm{~cm}\) and \( \mathrm{AC}=3 \mathrm{~cm} \). The bisector of angle A meets BC at D and the bisector of angle B meets AD at E. What is AE : ED equal to ?

Question 15:

In a triangle ABC, the bisector of angle A cuts BC at D. If \( \mathrm{AB}+\mathrm{AC}=10 \mathrm{~cm} \) and \( \mathrm{BD}:\mathrm{DC}=3:1 \), then what is the length of AC?

Question 16:

In a triangle \(\mathrm{ABC},\;\mathrm{AB}+\mathrm{BC}=7\cdot1\;\mathrm{cm},\;\mathrm{BC}+\mathrm{CA}=12\cdot1\;\mathrm{cm}\) and \(\mathrm{CA}+\mathrm{AB}=7\cdot2\;\mathrm{cm}\). What is the area of the triangle?

Question 17:

The adjacent sides of a parallelogram are 10 cm and 8 cm and the angle between them is \( 150^{\circ} \). What is the area of the parallelogram?

Question 18:

The measure of an angle formed by the bisectors of the angles A and C of the triangle ABC is \( 130^{\circ} \). What is the measure of the angle B?

Question 19:

What is \( \log_{10} 2000 + \log_{10} 400 + 4 \log_{10} 25 + 5 \log_{10} 20 \) equal to?

Question 20:

If \( \frac{\log_{10}\left(100001-4^{x}\right)}{5-x} = 1 \), then what is \( x \) equal to?

Question 21:

If \( 2 \sin^{4} \alpha+2 \cos^{4} \alpha-1=0 \), where \( 0 \leq \alpha<\pi/2 \) then what is \( \sin2\alpha+\cos2\alpha \) equal to?

Question 22:

Consider the following:
I. \(1-\sin^6 \alpha = \cos^2 \alpha\bigl(\cos^4 \alpha - 3\cos^2 \alpha + 3\bigr)\)
II. \(\cos^8 \alpha - \sin^8 \alpha = 2\sin^2 \alpha\bigl(1-\cos^4 \alpha + \sin^2 \alpha\cos^2 \alpha\bigr)\)
Which of the above is/are identities?

Question 23:

If \( p=\frac{1}{\operatorname{cosec} \theta+\cot \theta} \) and \( q=\operatorname{cosec} \theta \), then what is \( p^{2}-2 p q \) equal to?

Question 24:

A tower subtends an angle \(60^{\circ}\) at a point A on the same level as the foot of the tower. B is a point vertically above A and AB = h. The angle of depression of the foot of the tower, measured from B, is \(30^{\circ}\). What is the height of the tower?

Question 25:

What is \( \frac{\sin \theta}{1-\cot \theta} + \frac{\cos \theta}{1-\tan \theta} (\theta \neq \pi/4) \) equal to?