REVISION
1. A bag contains 28 marbles which are coloured either red, white, blue or green. There are
4 more red marbles than white ones, 3 more white marbles than blue ones-and 2 more blue
marbles than green ones. Find the number of white marbles.
2. What is the number of digits in the number 46 × 58
3. Find the value of
10002 × (2522 + 2482 ) × (2524 + 2484 )
2528 − 2488
4. In Fig. 1, the ratio of the area of the quarter circle to that of the inscribed rectangle is 50𝜋
: 21. If the radius of the quarter circle is 5 cm, find the perimeter of the rectangle in cm.
5. Find the positive integer n such that 60000 < n < 180000 and the unit digit of n³ is 3.
6. In a league competition which consists of 11 teams, each team plays against every other
team twice. Each match between two teams always results in a winner, and the winning
team in each match will be given an amount of $200 as prize-money. What is the total
amount of prize-money, in dollars, given out in the whole competition?
7. Find the value of 12 − 22 + 32 − 42 + ⋯ + 20232 − 20242
8. Find the total number of positive integers such that 324000 is divisible by 𝑥 and 𝑥 is
divisible by 20.
9. Find the value of 2024 x 20232023-2023 × 20242023.
10. Find the total number of triangles such that the lengths (in cm) of all three sides of each
triangle are positive integers and the length of the longest side of each triangle is 15 cm.
12. Suppose a, b are two numbers such that a² + b²+8a-14b+65= 0. Find the value of a² + ab +
b².
13. A, B, C, D are four points on a circle, and the line segments BA and CD are extended to
meet at the point E. Suppose ∠E = 42°, and the arcs AB, BC and CD all have equal lengths.
Find the measure of ∠BAC + ∠ACD in degrees.
14. It is given that a, b are two positive numbers satisfying √𝑎(√𝑎 + √𝑏) = 3√𝑏(√𝑎 + 5√𝑏).
Find the value of
3𝑎 + 2√𝑎𝑏 + 2𝑏
𝑎 + √𝑎𝑏 − 𝑏
15. The age of a man in the year 1957 was the same as the sum of the digits of the year in
which he was born. Find his age in the year 2024.
16. Let x and y be two positive integers such that 𝑥 − 𝑦 = 75 and the least common
multiple of x and y is 360. Find the value of 𝑥 + 𝑦.
17. 372 identical cubes are placed together to form a rectangular solid. Find the total
number of different rectangular solids which can be formed in this way.
18. What is the smallest positive integer n such that √4𝑛 − 1 − √4𝑛 − 3 < 0.02
19. 24. The sequence (𝑎1 , 𝑎2 , 𝑎3 , … ) is defined by 𝑎1 = 2, and 𝑎𝑛+1 = 𝑎2 + 2𝑛 for n = 1,2,3,…
Find the value of 𝑎100 .
20. Let m and n be two integers such that 8m +9n = mn+6. Find the largest possible value of
m.
21. Find the largest value of x which satisfies the equation
(4𝑥 − 5)2 + (4𝑥 − 5)(𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 2) + (𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 2)2 = (𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 − 7)2
22. Find the total number of positive four-digit integers between 1000 and 9999 such that z
is increased by 2088 when the digits of a are reversed. [As an example, the integer 1234 is
changed to 4321 after reversing the digits.]
23. Let a, b, c be positive integers such that ab + bc = 518 and ab - ac = 360.
Find the largest possible value of the product abc.
24. Suppose a, b, c, d are four positive integers such that 𝑎3 = 𝑏2 , 𝑐 3 = 𝑑 2 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐 − 𝑎 = 73
Find the value of a + c.