CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)

Previous Year Paper (2023-24)

Class 8 (Set - A)
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 Practical Mathematics (Each Question is 1 Mark)

1. Plotting the following points, check 6. A car is moving at an average speed of

which are not forming linear graph. 31/9 km/h. How much distance will it
cover in 5 1/7 hours?
a. L(4, 2), M(4, 3), N(4, 6), O(4, 7)
b. U(2, 5), V(2, 3), W(2, 6), X(2, 7) a. 16 km b. 18 km
c. A(1, 1), B(2, 2), C(3, 3), D(4, 4) c. 14 km d. 20 km
d. R(1, 1), S(2, 4), T(3, 2), U(4, 1)
7. Jase had $56. He spent $x on transport
2. A shopkeeper has a certain number of and $2y on lunch. He used the
eggs of which 5% are found to be remaining amount to buy three similar
broken. He sells 93% of the remainder books. Find the cost of each book.
and still has 266 eggs left. How many
eggs did he originally have? a. $(56 - x + 2y)
b. $(56 - x - 2y)
a. 3800 b. 4000 c. $(56 - x + 2y)/3
c. 4200 d. 4800 d. $(56 - x - 2y)/3

3. Due to an increase of 15% in the price 8. If P = m2 - n2, Q = n + m, R = 2m + 2n

of milk, a family reduces its + m2, then find the value of P + 2Q - R:
consumption of milk by 15%. What was
the effect on the expenditure of that a. m2 b. -m2
family on account of milk? c. -n2 d. n2

a. 2.50% decrease 9. Simplify the following:

b. 2.25% decrease (ya/yb)4 x (yb/yc)3 x (yc/ya)2:
c. 3% decrease
d. 3.5% decrease a. 0 b. y
c. 1 d. y(2a - b - c)
4. A (8 x 6 x 4) cm3 metallic cuboid is
melted. The minimum volume of molten 10. Find the value of the following:
metal which should be added to mould 3n x 32n + 1/9n x 3n - 1
it into a cube whose edge is 'x' where
'x' is an integer, is: a. 8 b. 1
c. 32n d. 9
a. 20 cm3 b. 21 cm3
c. 23 cm3 d. 24 cm3 11. The opposite pairs of sides of a square
are increased by 40% and 30%
5. A variate takes 13 values which are respectively. The area of the resulting
arranged in ascending order of their rectangle exceeds the area of the
magnitudes. It is found that 5th, 7th square by?
and 8th observations are 4, 6 and 9
respectively. What is the median of the a. 42% b. 62%
distribution? c. 72% d. 82%

a. 4 b. 6 12. A square and an equilateral triangle

c. 9 d. 19 have the same perimeter. If the

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 diagonal of the square is 12√2 cm, then BL at A.
the area of the triangle is: Step V: Draw angles ∠LBC = 60° and
∠TCB = 125° respectively.
a. 24√3 cm2 b. 24√2 cm2
c. 64√3 cm2 d. 32√3 cm2 a. V, II, IV, I, III b. II, V, IV, I, III
c. II, IV, V, I, II d. II, IV, I, V, III
13. A number is divided by three and
multiplied by the square of a second 17. Five years ago, the ratio of the age of
number. The product is then divided by Oliver to that of Mini was 5: 3. Nikki is 5
three. Write the algebraic term for the years younger than Oliver. Nikki is five
given statements using p as the first years older than Mini. What is Nikki's
number and q as the second number: present age?

a. 9pq2 b. pq2/9 a. 35 years b. 25 years

c. pq2/3 d. 3pq2 c. 20 years d. 10 years

14. Out of the total 390 students studying 18. B is eighteen years younger than A.
in a college of Arts and Science, boys The ratio of B's age six years hence to
and girls are in the ratio of 7: 6 C's present age is 3: 2. If at present A's
respectively and the number of age is twice the age of C, then what
students studying Arts and Science are was B's age four years ago?
in the ratio of 3: 7 respectively. The
boys and girls studying Arts are in the a. 24 years b. 28 years
ratio of 4: 5 respectively. c. 26 years d. 20 years
What is the ratio between the girls
studying Arts and Science 19. 18 years ago, a father was three times
respectively? as old as his son. Now the father is
only twice as old as his son. What is
a. 13: 23 b. 26: 79 the sum of the present ages of the son
c. 8: 13 d. 23: 36 and the father?

15. If a6 - 729b6 = (pa2 + Qb2) (Ra4 + a. 54 b. 105

Sa2b2 + Tb4), then what will be the c. 72 d. 108
value of P + Q + R - S + T?
20. In the given figure l || m. Find the
a. 60 b. 74 measure of θ:
c. 55 d. 65

16. Arrange the following steps in correct

order to construct a quadrilateral
ABCD, in which AB = 5 cm, BC = 4.3
cm, CD = 4.5 cm, ∠B = 60° and ∠C =
125°.
Step I: With C as the centre and radius
4.56 cm, draw an arc intersecting CT at
D. a. 100o b. 80o
Step II: Draw BC = 4.3 cm. c. 70o d. 160o
Step III: Join A to D.
Step IV: With B as the centre and a
radius of 5 cm, draw an arc intersecting

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 21. In the given figure, PQ || RS. Find the 25. Which of the following cannot be true
values of x and y respectively: for any polyhedron?

a. Faces = 4, Vertices = 4, Edges = 6

b. Faces = 8, Vertices = 6, Edges =
12
c. Faces = 5, Vertices = 1, Edges = 8
d. Faces = 20, Vertices = 12, Edges =
30

a. 85⁰, 85⁰ b. 95⁰, 75⁰ 26. Each member in a political party

c. 85⁰, 95⁰ d. 95⁰, 95⁰ contributed twice as much dollars as
the total number of members and the
22. The figure shows a solid. Which of the total collection was $3,042. Find the
following is a net of the solid? number of members present in the
party:

a. 2 b. 32
c. 40 d. 39

27. Find the roots of the following equation:

a. b. x2 - 8x + 15 = 0

a. 2, 3 b. 3, 5
c. 8, 15 d. 6, 5

c. d. 28. If Sia had purchased 11 articles for $10

and sold all the articles at the rate of
$11 for 10, the profit per cent would
have been:
23. Read at the following statements.
Which of the following is not true? a. 10% b. 11%
c. 21% d. 100%
a. A square number is never negative
b. A square number never ends in 2, 29. A batsman has a certain average of
3, 7, or 8 runs for 16 innings. In the 17th inning,
c. The number of zeros at the end of a he makes a score of 85 runs, thereby
perfect square is always even increasing the average by 3. What is
d. The square of an even number is the average of 17 innings?
odd
a. 38 b. 37
24. A trader allows a trade discount of 20% c. 36 d. 35
and a cash discount of 6 1/4 % on the
marked price of the goods and gets a 30. Which of the following options is equal
net gain of 20% on the cost. By how to the equation of the y-axis?
much above the cost should the goods
be marked for sale? a. x = 0 b. y = 0
c. x = a d. y = a
a. 40% b. 50%
c. 60% d. 70%

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 31. In parallelogram ABCD, ∠A = 3 times 36. The area of a trapezium is 34 cm2 and
∠B. if AB = 5x − 7 and CD = 3x + 1; the length of one of the parallel sides is
find the length of CD. 10 cm and its height is 4 cm Find the
length of the other parallel side.
a. 18 units b. 16 units
c. 13 units d. 12 units a. 9 cm b. 8 cm
c. 7 cm d. 6 cm
32. The sum of the interior angles of a
polygon is three times the sum of its 37. Lucy and Adam are colleagues if Lucy
exterior angles. Determine the number can complete a task in 15 days and
of sides of the polygon. Adam in 20 days. If they work on it
together for four days, the fraction of
a. 3 b. 6 the work that remains is:
c. 9 d. 8
a. 1/15 b. 5/15
33. Renston has set up 30 circular plates, c. 8/15 d. 11/15
each with a radius of 14 cm and a
thickness of 3 cm, which are stacked 38. Angel bought a carpet from the
one on top of the other to make a shopping mall. The area of a
cylindrical solid as part of a competition rectangular carpet is 66 square ft, and
being hosted at the Avengers Club the length of the carpet is 5 ft longer
House. Calculate the total surface than the width. What is the width of the
area. carpet?

a. 9112 cm2 b. 9512 cm2 a. 6 ft b. 8 ft

c. 9125 cm2 d. 9152 cm2 c. 10 ft d. 12 ft

34. Louisan is a builder, and his crew was 39. Anna came up with a number and
given a contract to erect a house. They asked her father to guess it by giving
bought some cement blocks, which him the following clue: Assume that
each had the following dimensions: 30 four times the square of a number
cm long, 23 cm wide, and 1 cm high. equals 20 times that number. What
Calculate one cement block's volume in was Anna's number?
cm3.
a. 3 b. 4
a. 600 cm3 b. 690 cm3 c. 5 d. 7
c. 609 cm3 d. 700 cm3
40. How many numbers can be formed
35. Andrea drew a special quadrilateral using digits 0, 1, 2,..., 9 which is more
with a diagonal length of 6 cm and than or equal to 6000 and less than
perpendicular lengths from the vertices 7000 and is divisible by 5, whereas any
of 3 cm and 4 cm. Determine the area number can be repeated as many
of the special quadrilateral. times?

a. 21 cm² b. 18 cm² a. 100 b. 109

c. 15 cm² d. 12 cm² c. 112 d. 115

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 Achievers’ Section (Each Question is 2 Marks)
41. A water tank is 2/5th full. Pipe A can fill Find the values of the following angles:
the tank in 10 minutes and pipe B can (i) ∠QPS, (ii) ∠PQD and (iii) ∠MQN
empty it in 6 minutes. If both the pipes
are open, how long will it take to empty a. (i) 45°, (ii) 98°, (iii) 105°
or fill the tank completely? b. (i) 36°, (ii) 42°, (iii) 121°
c. (i) 75°, (ii) 46°, (iii) 121°
a. 6 minutes to empty d. (i) 70°, (ii) 43°, (iii) 105°
b. 6 minutes to fill
c. 9 minutes to empty 45. Robertson runs a new business. He
d. 9 minutes to fill used to manufacture carton boxes in a
cuboid shape. Calculate the volume of
42. A person made 165 telephone calls in a cuboidal box if x = 2 by measuring
the month of May in a year. It was the volume of a cuboidal box with the
Friday on 1st May of the year. The dimensions 5x, 3x2, 7x4.
average of telephone calls made on
Sundays of the month was 7. What a. 13404 cubic units.
was the average of the telephone calls b. 13440 cubic units.
per day on the rest days of the month? c. 14340 cubic units.
d. 13430 cubic units.
a. 165/31 b. 5
c. 7 d. 145/27 46. A worker was paid $1,700 during a
period of 30 days. During this period he
43. The ratio of sides of a triangle is 3: 4: 5 was absent for 4 days and was fined
and the area of the triangle is 72 $15 per day for the absence. He was
square units. Then the area of an paid the full salary only for 18 days as
equilateral triangle whose perimeter is he came late on the other days. Those
the same as that of the previous who came late were given only half the
triangle is: salary for that day. Find the total salary
paid per month to a worker who came
a. 32√3 square unit on time every day and was never
b. 48√3 square unit absent:
c. 24√3 square unit
d. 64√3 square unit a. $2400 b. $3000
c. $2700 d. $2250
44. In the figure below, ABCD is a
rectangle, PQRS is a parallelogram 47. Sam is a rice trader; he combines 26
and TUVR is a rhombus. DQM is a kg of rice at $20 per kg with 30 kg of
straight line. rice of a different variety at $36 per kg
and sells the resulting mixture at $30
per kg. His profit margin is:

a. 15% b. 10%
c. 9% d. 5%

48. Ben intended to construct a movie

theatre with measurements of 100, 50,
and 18 metres. If each person needs

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 150m3 of air, how many people can sit a. 200 b. 400
in the hall? c. 800 d. 1000

a. 600 b. 700 50. Which of the following statements are

c. 800 d. 900 correct?
i. Factorisation is a method of writing
49. If the total amount spent on sports numbers as the product of their
during the year was $2000, the amount factors or divisors.
spent on Cricket and Hockey together ii. The expression abc + xyc is
was: equivalent to ab + xy.
iii. n3 - n is not divisible by 3.

a. i and ii b. ii and iii

c. i and iii d. i only

Answer Key
1. d 2. b 3. b 4. d 5. b 6. a 7. d
8. c 9. d 10. c 11. d 12. c 13. b 14. a
15. d 16. b 17. b 18. c 19. d 20. b 21. d
22. d 23. d 24. c 25. c 26. d 27. b 28. c
29. b 30. a 31. c 32. d 33. d 34. b 35. a
36. c 37. c 38. a 39. c 40. c 41. a 42. b
43. b 44. c 45. b 46. a 47. d 48. a 49. c
50. d

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