| 1. | Which of the following is not a Pythagorean triplet? |
| a. | | 3, 4, 5 |
| b. | | 7, 24, 25 |
| c. | | 9, 41, 42 |
| d. | | 11, 60, 61
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| 2. | Which of the following is not a mathematical puzzle? |
| a. | | Tower of Hanoi |
| b. | | Tetris |
| c. | | Sudoku |
| d. | | Life
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| 3. | Which of the following classical mathematics problems have been solved? |
| a. | | The Reimann Hypothesis |
| b. | | The Hodge Conjecture |
| c. | | The Poincare Conjecture |
| d. | | Fermat's Last Theorem
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| 4. | What is the value of the golden ratio, which is made popular recently by the book The Da Vinci Code? |
| a. | | 1.414 |
| b. | | 1.618 |
| c. | | 1.723 |
| d. | | 3.142
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| 5. | What is a tesseract in geometry? |
| a. | | A regular tetrahedron with concave faces |
| b. | | A quarter of a sphere |
| c. | | A four-dimensional cube |
| d. | | A regular cylinder sliced in two halves diagonally
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| 6. | Which of the following is not a member of the Fibonacci series? |
| a. | | 34 |
| b. | | 233 |
| c. | | 377 |
| d. | | 625
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| 7. | If in a class of 40 students, 25 prefer Pepsi and 28 prefer Coke, then how many students enjoy both the drinks, given that 6 students don't drink any of them? |
| a. | | 12 |
| b. | | 15 |
| c. | | 19 |
| d. | | 3
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| 8. | What is 10% of 5% of 2% of 4000? |
| a. | | 0.4 |
| b. | | 0.8 |
| c. | | 1.2 |
| d. | | 1.6
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| 9. | No prime number can be a perfect square. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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| 10. | Which of the following is not a theorem or principle in combinatorics? |
| a. | | Pigeonhole Principle |
| b. | | Bijective Proof |
| c. | | Inclusion Exclusion Principle |
| d. | | Cauchy's Theorem
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| 11. | What is Smale's paradox? |
| a. | | No right angled triangle can be made with a side greater than its hypotenuse |
| b. | | No sphere can be turned inside out without a tear or a crease |
| c. | | No perfect square can be negative |
| d. | | Square root of an irrational number cannot be real
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| 12. | How many faces does a regular icosahedron have? |
| a. | | 12 |
| b. | | 20 |
| c. | | 36 |
| d. | | 60
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| 13. | The word "fraction" originates from the Latin word "fractus", which means |
| a. | | Decrease |
| b. | | linked |
| c. | | divided |
| d. | | broken
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| 14. | Which of the following is a format for multiplication |
| a. | | Swedish table |
| b. | | USA table |
| c. | | Arabian table |
| d. | | Croatian table
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