7th & 8th NMTC Time : 02 hr
Instructions:
1. Diagrams are only visual guides; they are not drawn to scale.
2. For each correct response you get one mark.
3. For each incorrect response you loss half mark.
Objective Type
1. Factorise:
16(a + b)2 - 40(a + b)(a - b) + 25(a - b)2
(A) (9a - b)2 (B) (9b + a)2 (C) (9b - a)2 (D) (9a + b)2
2. A principal wished to arrange his students, who were 1943 in number, in the form of a
square and found that there were 7 students left over. How many students were there in
each row?
(A) 32 (B) 36 (C) 44 (D) 40
3. The population of England is 5.11 × 107 and that of Northern Ireland is 1.82 × 106. What
is the difference between the populations, in standard form?
(A) 4.192 × 106 (B) 4.928 × 107
(C) 5.923 × 107 (D) 6.723 × 107
2 2 1 2
4. Simplify (𝑥 + 3
) − (𝑥 + ) .
𝑥 𝑥3
4 2 3 2
(A) + (B) +
𝑥6 𝑥2 𝑥6 𝑥2
3 3 3 2
(C) + (D) +
𝑥6 𝑥2 𝑥5 𝑥2
5. The square of the number '74' when added to the square of the number 'x' gives 9320 as
the result. What is the value of 'x'?
(A) 58 (B) 62 (C) 64 (D) 68
6. Which of the following options represents the area of the pentagonal park as shown in
the figure?
(A) 800m2 (B) 700m2
(C) 600m2 (D) 500m2
7. Consider the following statements and mark the correct option accordingly.
Statement I: The unit digit of the square of a natural number is the unit digit of the square
of the digit at the ones place of the given natural number.
Statement II: The square of a number n is equal to the sum of first n odd natural
numbers.
(A) Only statement II is true.
(B) Both statement are false.
(C) Both statements are true.
(D) Only statement I is true.
8. In a school camp, there is sufficient food for 110 students for 24 days. If 50 students
leave the camp, how long would the food last?
(A) 19 days (B) 28 days (C) 35 days (D) 44 days
9. Rajan has just enough money to buy 24 pairs of jeans worth Rs. 700 each. How many
pairs of jeans can he buy with the same amount if he gets a discount of Rs. 100 on each
pair?
(A) 28 (B) 30 (C) 31 (D) 32
10. Find the value of B.
(A) 0 (B) 8 (C) 6 (D) 5
11. The ratio of the marks of four students is 2:3:5:6, such that the sum of their squares is
10,656. Find the marks of the four students, respectively.
(A) 6, 9, 15 and 36 (B) 12, 18, 30 and 36
(C) 24, 36, 60 and 72 (D) 48, 72, 120 and 144.
12. lf 6x + 6x-1 = 42, then 2x-1 equals
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
1 1 1 1
13. If : = : , then what is the value of x?
4 𝑥 𝑥 64
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 26
14. ABCD is a square. A straight line CPQ cuts BD at P and BA is produced at Q.
If∠𝐶𝑃𝐷 = 80𝑜 , 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 ∠𝐶𝑄𝐴 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜
(A) 35o (B) 55o (C) 45o (D) 10o
15. There is a rhombus PQRS in which the altitude from S to side PQ bisects PQ. Then,
∠𝑄𝑃𝑆 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ∠𝑃𝑄𝑅 respectively are
(A) 45° and 90° (B) 40° and 100°
(C) 50° and 100° (D) 60° and 120°
16. Of the classes A and B in a school, 12% of the total students are in class A and the rest
in class B. The difference between the number of students in classes A and B is 152.
Find the total number of students in both the classes.
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 300 (D) 400
17. The average height of 30 boys out of a class of 50 is 160 cm. If the average height of
the remaining boys is 165 cm, the average height of the whole class (in cm) is
(A) 161 (B) 162 (C) 163 (D) 164
18. Directions: In the following question, a number series is given with one term missing.
Choose the correct alternative that will continue the same pattern in the given series.
2, 7, 24, 77, _
(A) 238 (B) 138 (C) 338 (D) 438
19. Tickets numbered from 1 to 25 are mixed up together and a ticket is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a prime number?
2 7 9 11
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5 25 25 25
20. The graph of the linear equation 9x + 2y + 18 = 0 is a line which meets the x-axis at the
point
(A) (-2, 0) (B) (2, 0) (C) (0, 9) (D) (0, -9)
Fill in the blanks.
21. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a
queen of club or king of heart is____________
22. If the sum of squares of abscissa and ordinate is 2 and product is 1, then the value of
abscissa is___________
23. An origami artist made a ball with a very thin paper. How many dimensions will the
ball have? ________________
24. The median of set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest 4 observations
of the set is increased by 2, then the median of the new set_________
25. In the given figure, area of the isosceles triangle = √320 cm², length (BD) of the triangle
= 8 cm. Find the measures of the other sides of the isosceles triangle._________
26. What is the mode of the following data, if the students are standing according to the
marks they scored in the class?
51, 58, 56, 96, 85, 75, 87, 23, 25, 56, 57, 66, 69, 85, 45, 96, 52, 43, 85, 99, 92, 47, 59
and 66._____________
27. The given data shows the runs scored by Rahul Dravid in the first ten one day matches
of his career.
The range of the data is ___________.
28. A farmer is trying to create a fence around his field, which is in the shape of a rhombus.
He uses 320 m of the fencing wire. If the length of the diagonal of the field is 100 m,
then what will be its area? ________________
29. In the given circle, O is the centre and AB = CD. What is the measure of ∠𝐴𝑂𝐵?______
(𝑝+𝑞) (𝑞+𝑟) (𝑟+𝑝) (1−𝑚)(1−𝑛)(1−𝑜)
30. If m = (𝑝−𝑞) , 𝑛 = (𝑞−𝑟)
,𝑜 = (𝑟−𝑝)
, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑓 (1+𝑚)(1+𝑛)(1+𝑜)
𝑖𝑠 ________.
