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The city of Atlantis was crafted by the God of the seas, Poseidon. It was made of alternating concentric circular rings of land (shaded) and water (not shaded) as represe...
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​​​​​Four identical cylindrical chalk-sticks, each of radius $r=0.5 \mathrm{~cm}$ and length $l=10 \mathrm{~cm}$, are bound tightly together using a duct tape as shown in...
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​​​Two identical sheets $\text{A}$ and $\text{B}$, of dimensions $24 \mathrm{~cm} \times 16 \mathrm{~cm}$, can be folded into half using two distinct operations, $\text{F...
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​​​​​Consider the Earth to be a perfect sphere of radius $\text{R}$. Then the surface area of the region, enclosed by the $60^{\circ} \mathrm{N}$ latitude circle, that co...
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Let $\mathrm{B}$ denote the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, and $\mathrm{Q}$ a square of side length $2$. Let $\mathrm{K}$ be the set of all vectors $z$ such that for some...
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You are allotted a rectangular room of a fixed height. You have decided to paint the three walls and put wallpaper on the fourth one. Walls can be painted at a cost of Rs...
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Given a fixed perimeter of $1,$ among the following shapes, which one has the largest area?SquareA regular pentagonA regular hexagonA regular septagonA regular octagon
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The maximum area of a parallelogram inscribed in the ellipse (i.e. all the vertices of the parallelogram are on the ellipse) $x^{2}+4 y^{2}=1$ is:$2$$4$$1$$5$$3$
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An ant does a random walk in a two dimensional plane starting at the origin at time $0.$ At every integer time greater than $0,$ it moves one centimeter away from its ear...
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Consider a unit Euclidean ball in $4$ dimensions, and let $V_{n}$ be its volume and $S_{n}$ its surface area. Then $S_{n} / V_{n}$ is equal to:$1$$4$$5$$2$$3$
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For all values of $r>0$, the area of the set of all points outside the unit square whose Euclidean distance to the unit square is less than $r$ is:$=\pi r^{2}+4 r$$<4 \pi...
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Let $K$ be a cube of side $1$ in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, with its centre at the origin, and its sides parallel to the co-ordinate axes. For $t \geq 0$, let $K_{t}$ be the set o...
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A trapezium has vertices marked as $\text{P, Q, R}$ and $\text{S}$ (in that order anticlockwise). The side $\text{PQ}$ is parallel to side $\text{SR}.$Further, it is give...
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​​Corners are cut from an equilateral triangle to produce a regular convex hexagon as shown in the figure above.The ratio of the area of the regular convex hexagon to the...
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A circle with centre $\text{O}$ is shown in the figure. A rectangle $\text{PQRS}$ of maximum possible area is inscribed in the circle. If the radius of the circle is $a$,...
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Find the area bounded by the lines $3x+2y=14$, $2x-3y=5$ in the first quadrant.$14.95$$15.25$$15.70$$20.35$
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A straight line is fit to a data set $(\text{ln }x,y).$ This line intercepts the abscissa at $\text{ln } x =0.1$ and has a slope of $-0.02$. What is the value of $y$ at $...
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A wire of length $340$ mm is to be cut into two parts. One of the parts is to be made into a square and the other into a rectangle where sides are in the ratio of $1:2$. ...
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From a circular sheet of paper of radius $30$ cm, a sector of $10\%$ area is removed. If the remaining part is used to make a conical surface, then the ratio of the radiu...
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A $1.5$ m tall person is standing at a distance of $3$ m from a lamp post. The light from the lamp at the top of the post casts her shadow. The length of the shadow is tw...
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