All India Open Mathematics Scholarship Examination

Std. III Mega Final September 2009 Page 1

since 1996 Total Questions : 15 Time : 45 minutes

Q. 1. An areoplane started flying at 7:45 a.m. and landed after 10 hours 21 minutes. What
was the time when it landed ?
(1) 5:56 p.m. (:2) 6:10 p.m. (3) 6:06 p.m. (4) 5:36 p.m.

Q. 2. A few boys are playing with their dogs in the backyard. The total number of legs when
counted is 30. From given alternatives which cannot be the number of boys and dogs
playing in the backyard ?
(1) 5 boys & 5 dogs (2) 3 boys & 6 dogs (3) 7 boys & 4 dogs (4) 4 boys & 6 dogs

Q. 3. The digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 are each used once to form the smallest possible five digit even
number. The digit in the tens place of that five digit number is ?
(1) 9 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 1

Q. 4. A mango can be exchanged for three apples. An apple can be exchanged for 2 bananas.
A banana can be exchanged for 3 strawberries. In this way how many strawberries will
be required to get 2 mangoes?
(1) 18 (2) 9 (3) 36 (4) 24

Q. 5. In a class there are 60 students. Their roll numbers begin from 1 and end at 60. The class
teacher says “ All students having their roll numbers divisible by 6, 8 or 12 will go to
the play ground and the remaining will go to library. How many students will go to the
library ?
(1) 22 (2) 45 (3) 38 (4) 43
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Q. 6. Point S is shown on the number line.  
Which fraction best represents the 0 1 1
point S on the number line ? 2
(1) 3 (2) 1 (3) 1 (4) 3
2 4 3 4

Q. 7 A teacher writes the following number sentence on the board, 15  3 =

Which of the following is another way to write the above number sentence ?
(1) 15  =3 (2) 15 X =3 (3) 3  = 15 (4) 3 X = 15

Q. 8. Three brothers Prasad, Shivam and Vishal have Rs. 520 in all. Mother takes Rs.90 from
Prasad and Rs. 45 from Shivam and gives Rs. 5 to Vishal, now all the three have equal
amount. What amount did Shivam have before his mother took Rs. 45 from him?
(1) Rs.175 (2) Rs.225 (3) Rs.150 (4) Rs.140

Q. 9. A bucket can hold 8 litres of water and a jug can hold 400 ml. of water. To fill the bucket
by this jug, how many jugs of water will have to be poured into the bucket ?
(1) 25 (2) 200 (3) 20 (4) 250
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Q. 10. A student is asked to write all even numbers between 1 to 100. And you are asked to
count the number of times the digit 7 is used. What would be your answer ?
(1) 19 (2) 5 (3) 20 (4) 0

Q. 11. Buses leave Pune terminal for Bombay every 37 minutes starting 6:00 a.m. You arrive at
Pune terminal at 8:30 a.m. What time will the next bus leave ?
(1) 8:37 a.m. (2) 9:07 a.m. (3) 9:05 a.m. (4) 9:09 a.m.

Q. 12. Sakshi goes to a shop to buy pencils. One pencil costs 75 paise. Sakshi buys 12 pencils,
and gives the shopkeeper a Rs.10 note. Which of the following could be the change the
shopkeeper returns to her?

(1) 25 p 25 p 25 p 25 p 25 p (2) 50 p 25 p 5p

(3) 25 p 25 p 10 p 5p (4) 5p 10 p 10 p 25 p 50 p

Q. 13. When you add three 3 digit numbers, what could be the maximum carry over ?
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 1

Q. 14. Observe the first two scales and find out how many triangles would balance the third
scale?
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   
 
 
1. 2.
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 
3.

 
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(1)  (2)  (3)  (4)
  

Q. 15. The number in each block is the sum of the numbers in the two blocks below it .
After you complete writing the numbers in each block
T What number will be in the top (T) block ?
(1) 32 (2) 48
(3) 20 (4) 24
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