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This document contains 9 math problems for 9th standard students along with hints and solutions for each problem. It also recommends 4 books on pre-college mathematics. The problems cover a range of topics including number theory, geometry, and combinatorics. The hints break down the problems into logical steps to arrive at the solutions. The document aims to provide challenging practice problems and guidance to help students improve their mathematical thinking and problem solving abilities.

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ISI Exam Sample Paper

This document contains 9 math problems for 9th standard students along with hints and solutions for each problem. It also recommends 4 books on pre-college mathematics. The problems cover a range of topics including number theory, geometry, and combinatorics. The hints break down the problems into logical steps to arrive at the solutions. The document aims to provide challenging practice problems and guidance to help students improve their mathematical thinking and problem solving abilities.

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Model question for 9th standard

MTRP organisers

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the
point is to discover themGalileo.
1. A 10-digit number has one 1, two 2s, three 3s and four 4s as its digits
in some order. Prove that it can never be a perfect square.
2. Sourav tore out some pages from a book. The number of the first page
he tore out was 183 and it is known that the number of the last page
he tore out is written with the same digits in some order. How many
pages did Sourav tear out?
3. Show that if a1 +
natural numbers.

1
b

1
c

1
d

= 1, then all of a, b, c, d cannot be odd

4. There is a set of 100 statements. Here the first statement states that
exactly 1 of the statements in this set is false, the second statement
states that exactly 2 of the statements in this set are false, and so on.
Thus the 100th statement states that all the statements in the set are
false. Prove that only 1 statement is true among these and find this
true statement.
5. Show that the number n4 + 4n is composite for all integers n 2.
6. Let ABC be a triangle in which AB = AC and let I be its in-centre.
Supose BC = AB + AI. Find 6 BAC
7. P = p1 p2 ...pn where p1 , p2 , ..., pn are the first n primes i.e. p1 = 2, p2 =
3... Then show that P + 1 can never be a perfect square.
8. In a competition , six teams A, B, C, D, E, F play each other in the
prliminary round called round robin tournament. Each game ends either in a win or loss. The winner is awarded two points while the loser
1

is awarded zero points. After the round robin tournament, the three
teams with the highest scores move to the final round. based on the
following information, find the score of each team at the end of the
tournament.
(a) In the game between E and F , team E won.
(b) After each team had played four games, team A had six points,
team B had 8 points and team C had 4 points. The remaining
matches yet to be played were
i. between A and D;
ii. between B and E; and
iii. between C and F .
(c) The teams D ,E and F had won their games against A, B and C
respectively.
(d) Teams A, B and D had moved to the final round of the tournament.
9. abcd is such a four digit integer such that 4 abcd = dcba. Find abcd.
If you dont know where you are going, any road will lead you
thereLewis Carroll

Hints and Solutions


1. Consider sum of the digits in the number. See it is divisible by 3 not
by 9. This is not possible for a perfect square.
2. The last page torn out should be even as the alternate pages of a book
are odd and even with the odd numbered pages being on the right side.
So the last page Sourav tore out would have an even number with the
digits 1,3 and 8 and should also be greater than 183. The only number
satisfying this is 318. So Sourav tore out some pages starting from 183
and ending in 318. So he tore out 318 183 + 1 = 136 pages.
3. If the given equation holds then we see that
bcd + cda + dab + abc = abcd
So if a, b, c and d are all odd numbers then all the products (i.e bcd, cda
etc. . . ) on the left side are odd and the product abcd on the right side
is also odd. But on the left side there are 4 such products and thus the
sum on the left side is even. But the one on the right side is odd. Now
an even number cannot be equal to an odd number and so we can say
that all of the numbers a, b, c, and d cannot be odd.
Note that the problem has a trivial generalisation. Sum of reciprocals
of an even number of odd natural numbers can never be equal to 1
4. At first we will show that more than one statement cannot be correct
simultaneously. This is easy to see since any two persons among the
100 contradict each other in their statements. Now there arises two
possibilities:
(a) All statements are false
(b) exactly 1 statement is true
We can reject (a) as the 100th person says so (so 100th person must be
correct). Hence only one statement is correct. Let the ith statement be
correct. ith statement says exactly i statements are incorrect and we
know 1 statement is correct. So i + 1 = 100. Hence i = 99. Thus the
99th is true.
5. If n is even then we see that the number n4 + 4n is even and hence
composite.

If n is odd then let n = 2m 1. Then


n4 + 4n = (n2 )2 + (2n )2 + 2 n2 2n 2 n2 2n = (n2 + 2n )2 2n+1 n2
Now, 2n+1 n2 = 22m n2 = (2m n)2 . So, n4 + 4n = (n2 + 2n )2 (2m n)2 ,
which can be factorised as (n2 + 2n + 2m n) (n2 + 2n 2m n). Hence the
number n4 + 4n is always composite.
6. Produce BA to D such that AD=AI. From the given condition we have
that BD = BC. An easy angle chasing gives that AICD is a cyclic
quadilateral. Since AI = AD, 6 ICA = 6 ACD
Hence, 6 BCD = 3C
. Sum of the angles in triangle BCD = C +
2
3C

= 4C = 180 and Hence , 6 A = 90 .


2

3C
2

7. We will prove this argument by contradiction. Let us assume P + 1 be


perfect square. Now P = p1 p2 ...pn where p1 = 2. Hence P is even, so
P + 1 is odd. Let P + 1 = m2 for some m. Clearly m is odd. Now
P = (m + 1)(m 1). Since both m + 1 and m 1 have 2 as a factor
so P must have 4 as a factor i.e p2 p3 . . . pn is even. But 2 is the only
prime. Hence contradiction.
8. This is probably one of the easiest problems and we believe you will
not face any difficulty doing this one.
9. In our problem we have 4 abcd = dcba. . Since 4 times abcd is again
a 4 digit number, so abcd is less than 2500. So a is either 2 or 1. But a
cannot be 1 since then dcba will not be divisible by 4. So, a = 2. Now
d can be 8 or 9. But if d is 9 then a must be 6. So d = 8. Now trivially,
4c + 3 has last digit b. Let 4c + 3 = b + 10k, where k is the carry-over
value to the 3rd place of abcd. A little logic (left to the reader) shows
that 4b + k = c.
Hence
16b + 4k + 3 = b + 10k = 15b + 3 = 6k = 5b + 1 = 2k

(1)

k can either be 0,1,2 or 3. Since b is an integer, k = 3. Hence b = 1


and c = 7.
So the number is 2178.

Recommended Books
1. V. Krishnamurthy, K.N. Ranganathan, B.J. Venkatachala and
C.R. Pranesachar, Challenges and Thrills of Pre-College Mathematics, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1991.
2. I.F. Sharygin, Problems in Plane Geometry, MIR Publishers, Moscow,
1979.
3. M.R. Modak, S.A. Katre, V.V. Acharya, V.M. Sholapurkar,
An Excursion in Mathematics, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune,
1997.
4. Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, Ilia Itenberg, Mathematical Circles, University Press (India) Private Limited 1998.

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