PRMO

SAMPLE PAPER-6
Time : 3 Hrs. M.M. : 30
General Instruction:
1. All the answers are single digit or double digit.
2. Each question carries 1 mark.
3. No negative marking.

1. What is the smallest positive integer k such that k(3 3 + 43 + 53) = an for some positive integers a and n,
with n > 1?

n 99
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2. Let Sn = 
k 0 k 1  k
. What is the value of S
n 1  Sn 1
?
n

3. It is given that the equation x2 + ax + 20 = 0 has integer roots. What is the sum of all possible values of a?

4. Three points X, Y, Z are on a straight line such that XY = 10 and XZ = 3. What is the product of all
possible values of YZ?

5. There are n – 1 red balls, n green balls and n + 1 blue balls in a bag. The number of ways of choosing
two balls from the bag that have different colours is 299. What is the value of n?

6. Let S(M) denote the sum of the digits of a positive integer M written in base 10. Let N be the smallest
positive integer such that S(N) = 2013. What is the value of S(5N + 2013)?

7. Let Akbar and Birbal together have n marbles, where n > 0.

Akbar says to Birbal, "If I give you some marbles then you will have twice as many marbles as I will
have." Birbal says to Akbar, "If I give you some marbles then you will have thrice as many marbles as I
will have."
What is the minimum possible value of n for which the above statements are true?

8. Let AD and BC be the parallel sides of a trapezium ABCD. Let P and Q be the midpoints of the
diagonals AC and BD. If AD= 16 and BC = 20, what is the length of PQ?

9. In a triangle ABC, let H, I and O be the orthocentre, incentre and circumcentre, respectively. If the
points B, H, I, C lie on a circle, what is the magnitude of one-fourth of BOC in degrees?

10. For natural numbers x and y, let (x, y) denote the greatest common divisor of x and y. How many pairs
of natural numbers x and y with x  y satisfy the equation xy = x + y + (x, y)?

11. Three real numbers x, y, z are such that x2 + 6y = –17, y2 + 4z = 1 and z2 + 2x = 2. What is the value of
x2 + y2 + z2?

12. Let ABC be an equilateral triangle. Let P and S be points on AB and AC, respectively, and let Q and R
be points on BC such that PQRS is a rectangle. If PQ = 3 PS and the area of PQRS is 28 3 , what is
the length of PC?
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13. To each element of the set S = {1, 2, ....., 1000} a colour is assigned. Suppose that for any two elements
a, b of S, if 15 divides a + b then they are both assigned the same colour. What is the maximum
possible number of distinct colours used?

14. Let m be the smallest odd positive integer for which 1 + 2 + ….. + m is a square of an integer and let n
be the smallest even positive integer for which 1 + 2 + …. + n is a square of an integer. What is the
value of m + n?

15. Let A1, B1, C1, D1 be the midpoints of the sides of a convex quadrilateral ABCD and let A2, B2, C2, D2
be the midpoints of the sides of the quadrilateral A1B1C1D1. If A2B2C2D2 is a rectangle with sides 4 and
6. If the sum of the lengths of the diagonals of ABCD is a ab , where a and b are co-prime, then find
a + b?

16. Let f (x) = x3 – 3x + b and g(x) = x2 + bx – 3, where b is a real number. What is the sum of all possible
values of b for which the equations f (x) = 0 and g(x) = 0 have a common root?

17. Let S be a circle with centre O. A chord AB, not a diameter, divides S into two regions R1 and R2 such
that O belongs to R2. Let S1 be a circle with centre in R 1, touching AB at X and S internally. Let S2 be a
circle with centre in R2, touching AB at Y, the circle S internally and passing through the centre of S.
The point X lies on the diameter passing through the centre of S2 and YXO = 30°. If the radius of S 2
is 100 then what is the radius of S1?

18. What is the maximum possible value of k for which 2013 can be written as a sum of k consecutive
positive integers?

19. In a triangle ABC with BCA = 90°, the perpendicular bisector of AB intersects segments AB and AC
at X and Y, respectively. If the ratio of the area of quadrilateral BXYC to the area of triangle ABC is
13 : 18 and BC = 12 then what is the length of AC?

20. If the sum (in base 10) of all the natural numbers less than 64 which have exactly three ones in their
n
base 2 representation is given by n, then find ?
70

21. A natural number k is such that k2 < 2014 < (k + 1) 2. What is the largest prime factor of k?

22. The first term of a sequence is 2014. Each succeeding term is the sum of the cubes of the digits of the
previous term. What is the sum of the digits in the 2014th term of the sequence?

23. Let ABCD be a convex quadrilateral with perpendicular diagonals. If AB = 20, BC = 70 and CD = 90,
then what is the value of DA?

24. In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second side, and the length of
the third side is 17. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the triangle?

25. If real numbers a, b, c, d, e satisfy

a + 1 = b + 2 = c + 3 = d + 4 = e + 5 = a + b + c + d + e + 3,
what is the value of a2 + b2 + c2 + d2 + e2?

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26. What is the smallest possible natural number n for which the equation x2 – nx + 2014 = 0 has integer
roots?
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27. If x = 4, what is the value of ?
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28. Let S be a set of real numbers with mean M. If the means of the sets S{15} and S{15, 1} are M + 2
and M + 1, respectively, then how many elements does S have?

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29. Natural numbers k, l, p and q are such that if a and b are roots of x2 – kx + l = 0 then a + and b +
b a
are the roots of x2 – px + q = 0. What is the sum of all possible values of q?

30. In a triangle ABC, X and Y are points on the segments AB and AC, respectively, such that AX : XB = 1 : 2
and AY : Y C = 2 : 1. If the area of triangle AXY is 10 then what is the area of triangle ABC?

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