Practice Sheet - 1 Number System NMTC (Primary)

1. How many two-digit numbers are divisible by both 4 and 6 but not by 8?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 4

2. When a number is divided by 17, the remainder is 7. What will be the remainder when the
square of the number is divided by 17?
(a) 111 (b) 13 (c) 14 (d) 15

3. For natural numbers P and Q , if 42  P 14 = Q  21 , find the smallest value of P + Q .

(a) 19 (b) 29 (c) 33 (d) 47

4. How many three-digit even numbers can be formed using the digits 1,3,5,7,8 without
repetition?
(a) 12 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 20

5. Paul has four times as much money as Quincy. Quincy has three times as much as Rachel.
Rachel has twice as much as Sam. Paul has how many times the money of Sam?
(a) 16 (b) 18 (c) 20 (d) 24

6. Four friends have different amounts of money, all being prime numbers less than 60. What
is the maximum possible sum of their money?
(a) 196 (b) 202 (c) 205 (d) 211

7. The tens digit in the product 99999  99999 is:

(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 8

8. If three months ago was March, what will be the month 27 months from now?
(a) June (b) July (c) August (d) September

9. Rajesh has a rectangular garden measuring 216 cm 144 cm . He wants to divide it into the
largest possible square plots. What will be the side length of each square plot?
(a) 18 cm (b) 24 cm (c) 36 cm (d) 48 cm

10. A six-digit number 24a16b is divisible by 88. What is the value of a + b ?

(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 13 (d) 15
Practice Sheet - 1 Number System NMTC (Primary)
11. The sum of the present ages of three brothers is 96 years. How many years ago was the
sum of their ages 72 years?
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 14

12. The sum of all natural numbers less than 60 which are not divisible by 4 is:
(a) 875 (b) 1350 (c) 1415 (d) 1510

13. John counts backward from 150 in steps of 11. Which number will not appear in his
countdown?
(a) 72 (b) 84 (c) 88 (d) 95

14. A number was mistakenly multiplied by 5 instead of being divided by 5. The result was
504 more than the correct answer. What was the original number?
(a) 100 (b) 105 (c) 150 (d) 175

15. 4ab5 is a four-digit number divisible by 55 where a, b are unknown digits. Then b – a is:
(a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 0

Answer key
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
d d b a d b a d c c
11 12 13 14 15
a b a b a
Practice Sheet - 2 Number System NMTC (Primary)

1. How many positive integers less than 200 can be written as the sum of 11 consecutive
positive integers?
(a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 13 (d) 14

2. A number with 2009 digits is multiplied by 54, resulting in a product who’s last two digits
are 68. If the same number is multiplied by 46, what will be the last two digits of the
product?
(a) 0, 9 (b) 8, 6
(c) 3, 2 (d) Cannot be determined

3. The number of 3-digit number which end in 7 and are divisible by 11 is

(a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8

4. The number of prime numbers less than 200 whose sum of digits is 5 is:
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

5. The sum of the reciprocals of all the divisors of 28 is:

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1.5 (d) 2.5

6. Let a, b, c be distinct prime numbers from the first five odd prime numbers. Define n = abc.
What is the largest and smallest possible value of n?
(a) 105, 385 (b) 105, 1001 (c) 231, 385 (d) 385, 1001

7. What is the first digit of the smallest number whose sum of the digits is 500?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5

8. In a six-digit number 5 digit are prime numbers. The sum of all the digits is 24. The 2nd, 3rd
and 5th digits are identical and the others are distinct digits. The number is divisible by 4.
The last digit of the number is
(a) 2 or 4 (b) 4 or 6 (c) 4 or 6 or 8 (d) 2 or 6 or 8

9. A number leaves a remainder of 89 when divided by 986. What will be the remainder when
the square of same number is divided by 29?
(a) 4 (b) 7 (c) 11 (d) 13
Practice Sheet - 2 Number System NMTC (Primary)

10. Consider the fractions:

1 2 3 9 10
, , ,, ,
10 9 8 2 1
The number of irreducible fractions in this set is:
(a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 4

11. The natural numbers are written as following some pattern: 2, 6, 12, 20, ….. The tenth
number in this sequence is:
(a) 110 (b) 105 (c) 115 (d) 120

12. a and b are two primes of the form p and p + 1, and M = aa + bb; N = ab + ba then
(a) Both M and N are composite
(b) M is prime, N is composite
(c) M is composite, N is prime
(d) Both M and N are prime

13. The product of two distinct numbers is 23·34·55 . Then, the sum of the two numbers is not
divisible by:
(a) 15 (b) 30 (c) 45 (d) 60

14. If all the divisors of 256 are arranged in ascending order, what is the seventh divisor?
(a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 64 (d) 128

15. The number of distinct ordered pairs (x, y) such that both x and y are two-digit perfect
square number and their sum is also a perfect square is:
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

Answer key
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
c c d b a b d d a a
11 12 13 14 15
a d d c a
Practice Sheet - 3 Number System NMTC (Primary)

1. When a number N is divided by 20,000, the quotient is 2, and the remainder is 3022. What
are the quotient and remainder when N is divided by 3022?
(a) 11, 750 (b) 12, 714 (c) 14, 714 (d) 14, 750

2. The sum of all four-digit numbers that can be formed using the digits of 4312 exactly once
is:
(a) 66760 (b) 77660 (c) 76660 (d) 66660

3. Let a, b be natural numbers such that a 2 − b 2 is a prime number. If both a, b are less than
15, how many such pairs exist?
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9

4. The number of three-digit numbers that are divisible by 3 but not by 9 is:
(a) 110 (b) 140 (c) 180 (d) 200

5. Find the smallest number which leaves a remainder of 5 when divided by 36, 48, and 60.
(a) 620 (b) 675 (c) 725 (d) 765

6. Using the digits 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9, how many two-digit numbers with different digits are odd?
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 13 (d) 15

7. A is the sum of all even three-digit numbers in which all digits are equal. B is the sum of
B
all odd three-digit numbers in which all the digits are equal. Find .
A
7 6 5 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5 5 4 2

8. 36 mango trees, 48 apple trees, and 60 cherry trees must be arranged in rows such that each
row contains only one variety and the same number of trees. What is the minimum number
of rows?
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 15

9. If n (n+1) (n+2) (n+3) = 405405, then the number of possible values of n satisfying the
given equation is:
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
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10. The first and third digits of a five-digit number d7a531 are the same. If the number is
divisible by 9 then what is the value of d?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

11. A three-digit number abc can be expressed as 100a +10b + c , where each digit is multiplied
by its respective place value. If a = b = c , which of the following numbers must be a factor
of abc , where a > 0 ?
(a) 23 (b) 37 (c) 43 (d) 47

12. Find out which of the following has the smallest digit in the unit place:
(a) 299 (b) 388 (c) 577 (d) 766

13. If a book's pages are numbered from 1, how many digits are used to number all pages if
the book contains 2317 pages?
(a) 8214 (b) 8257 (c) 8161 (d) 8192

14. (i) Which of the following numbers is the smallest?

(a) 2700 (b) 3500 (c) 4400 (d) 6200

(ii) What is the last digit of 91034 ?

(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 7 (d) 9

15. How many digits are there when 530 811 is expanded?
(a) 29 (b) 30 (c) 31 (d) 32

Answer key
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
c d c d c b c b a a
11 12 13 14 15
b b c (i) d c
(ii) a
Practice Sheet - 4 Number System NMTC (Primary)

1. If p, q, r are three consecutive odd numbers in increasing order such that the value of 3
times the p is 3 less than 2 times r. Find the value of r
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9

2. A security code consists of three digits that can be only 0,1,2. The sum of the three digits
must be 3. How many such codes can be formed?
(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 10
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3. ↓ What is the largest of these numbers?

The sum of ten consecutive whole numbers is 110.
(a) 16 (b) 17 (c) 20 (d) 22

4. The adjacent number pyramid is formed by filling up each unshaded square with the sum
of the two numbers connected to it from the raw below. (Thus 5 is obtained by adding 3
and 2). The top number obtained at the end is 45. The value of X is

(a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 17 (d) 12

5. A five-digit number 3X7Y2 is divisible by 11. The number of ordered pairs ( X , Y )

satisfying this condition is:
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 9

6. How many times does the digit 7 appear when listing numbers from 1 to 150?
(a) 19 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 25

7. In the multiplication below, X represents a single digit:

7X
X2
6396
(a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 3
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8. How many times should 2007 be subtracted from 113005 to get a remainder of 613?
(a) 55 (b) 56 (c) 57 (d) 58

9. Four baskets contain unequal number of flowers. If 3,7,5 and 9 flowers are removed from
each basket respectively, the remaining number of flowers in all baskets becomes the same.
How many flowers were originally in the fourth basket if initially total number of flowers
was 160.
(a) 35 (b) 38 (c) 41 (d) 43

10. A student is ranked 11th from the top and 42nd from the bottom in a class. How many
students are there in total?
(a) 52 (b) 53 (c) 54 (d) 55

11. Five numbers, 4,6,7,8,10, and 24, when multiplied give 46080. One of these numbers is
not required in multiplication. Identify it.
(a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 24

12. The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 3006. What is the smaller of the two numbers?
(a) 1501 (b) 1503 (c) 1505 (d) 1507

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13. If 3 ( 230 + x ) = 492a04 , then a + x is
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16

14. The numbers 50,37,42,28,17,45,55,23,32,49 are arranged in pairs such that the sum of each
pair is the same. Which number is paired with 28?
(a) 50 (b) 47 (c) 45 (d) 55

15. A standard six-faced die is rolled twice, and the sum of the numbers on top is calculated.
How many distinct sums can be obtained?
(a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 12

16. A is the smallest three – digit number which leaves a remainder 2 when divided by 17. B
is the smallest three -digit number which leaves a remainder 7 when divided by 12. Then
A + B is
(a) 205 (b) 312 (c) 215 (d) 207
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17. Which fraction is between and ?
5 6
1 1 9 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 20 50 7

18. How many whole numbers below 120 satisfy all these conditions?
1. When divided by 5, remainder is 3.
2. When divided by 7, remainder is 4.
3. When divided by 9, remainder is 0.
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

19. The number of three-digit numbers abc such that a × b × c = 15 is

(a) 2 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 9

20. A person moves 6 km east, then 8 km south, 3 km west, and 4 km north. What is their final
displacement from the starting point?
(a) 4 km (b) 5 km (c) 6 km (d) 7 km

Answer key
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
d c a b c d a b d a
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
a a c b c d c b b b