Answer these questions and check it. The answers are listed below the questions.  Look at the scoring system provided at the bottom of the page to look at where you stand at!

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QUESTIONS

 1) If a flower covers half of the pond in five days by its growth, how many days would it take to cover the full pond with the fact that it grows double its size everyday?

2) A glass full of water weighs 1 kg and half-full weighs 3/4 kg. What is the weight of the glass?

3) If the difference between the five times and nine times of a number is 24, what is the number?

4) If a one mile train travelling at a speed of 1 mph , passes through a tunnel exactly 1 mile long, how long would it take for the whole train to pass out of the whole tunnel?

5) How many times do the hands of a clock show right angles during a day?

6) True of False:

 If you drop a stone from a height of 16 feet, it will reach the ground in one second and if it is dropped from 64 feet  it will reach the ground in 4 seconds.

7) Page 17 of a newspaper is missing and the back page number is 28. What other pages are also missing?

8) A watch reads 9:15 a.m. If one hand points East, in what direction would the hour hand point?

9) If four men start from a point and cover 16 miles in four hours how many kilometers will one man cover?

10) Bob will be 4 times as old in 30 years as he is now . How old is Bob?

11) If 4 clothes hung together are dried up in 4 hours, in how many hours can 12 clothes hung together be dried up? 

12) A group havin 2 fathers and 2 sons went for hunting. They killed 3 birds and each recieved a bird as his share. How?

13) Insert the missing number:

        10 + 14 / ? = 8

        899 + 85 / ? = ?

14) Insert the mathematical signs between the numbers in the following equations:

        (a)  3 _ 4 _ 6 = 18

        (b)  16_ 5_ 3 = 18

        (c)  25 _ 5 _ 3 = 18

15) Insert the missing number:

        112 (190) 17

        268 (  ?  ) 107

16) Insert the missing number:

        4    6    3   8

        5    5    6   5

        1    6     ?   10

17)  Fill in the next two numbers in the sequence:

         5  , 10 ,  17 ,  26,  37 ,  __ ,  __

18)  Spongebob starts climbing his pineapple home for no particular reason everyday at 5:00 am. The house is only 11 feet  high. Every minute he ascends one foot but descends 6 inches. At what time will he reach the top?

19)  X takes 20 minutes to walk from the hospital to the Railway Station and Y takes the same time to walk the same distance . How long would it take if they both walk together?

20) The clocks are set correctly at 10:00 p.m. on Friday. The first clock gains two minutes every hour and gains twice as the second. What time will the second clock register when the correct time is 2:00 p.m. on the following Monday?

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ANSWERS

1) 6 days

2) 1/2 kg

3) 6

4) 2 hours

5) 8 times

6) false; a falling stone accelerates its velocity

7) pages 11,12,and 18

8) West

9) 4 miles

10 ) 10 years old

11) 4 hours

12) There were only 3 people: a grandfather, a father, and a son, and thus they could recieve the share equally.

13) 328

14) (a) 3 x 4 + 6      (b) 16 + 5 - 3   (c) 25/5+3

15) 322 ( twice the difference between the numbers outside the parentheses gives the number in the parentheses )

16) 4 (the sum of each of the rows equal 21)

17) 50, 65 ( pattern: adding every odd number, beginning from 5, to previous number)

18) 5: 21 a.m.

19) 20 minutes

20) 3:16 p.m.

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 SCORING SYSTEM

  Total percentage correct

    o%  - 4%            -    Friends with chimpanzees

    5%  - 24%          -    Drool Face

    25%  - 49%       -    Better than a drool face

    50% - 74%        -   Smart, but don't consider joining MIT

    75% - 84%        -   Go to Stanford!

    85%  -  94%      -   Smart as Einstein

    95%  -    99%    -   So close, yet so far ( not really ) ; go and  join Math Olympiads also!

    100%                  -   You are a gifted person with a brain more powerful than a supercomputer! Good Work!