01. The pattern on the right is a segment of a long necklace. The pattern is repeated in the necklace.

If the
necklace is 154 beads long, how many pattern segments will the
necklace have?
02. What is the Nth term in the sequence: 29, 34, 39, 44, 49, .
03. Two friends leave school at the same time. Sachin is heading north and Biswajit is heading due east. One
hour later, they are 10 kilometers apart. If Sachin had travelled 8 kilometers from the school, how many
kilometers had Biswajit travelled?
04. Your teacher has a total of 49 chalks. When a chalk reduces to 1/7 of its original size, it gets too small for
her to hold for writing and hence she keeps it aside. But your teacher hates wasting things and so, when
she realizes that she has enough of these small pieces to join and make another chalk of the same size,
she joins them and uses the new chalkstick. If she uses one chalk each day, how many days would the 49
chalks last?
05. Suppose 6 monkeys take 6 minutes to eat 6 bananas. How many minutes would it take 2 monkeys to eat
2 bananas?
06. Last vacation, my cousin came over to stay at my home. We made the most of her stay at my place... and I
even earned a few chocolates. Every day, we would play a game of chess. Whoever lost the game owed a
chocolate to the other. After the last game we played (that was the day she was to leave), we counted the
number of games each of us had won and lost. Wow! I had won more than her. So, she handed me 11
chocolates... though she herself was the winner in 12 games. How many days did my cousin spend at my
place?
07. The distance between Station Atena and Station Barcena is 78 miles. A train starts from Atena towards
Barcena. A bird starts at the same time from Barcena straight towards the moving train. On reaching the
train, it instantaneously turns back and returns to Barcena. The bird makes these journeys from Barcena
to the train and back to Barcena continuously till the train reaches Barcena. The bird finally returns to
Barcena and rests. Calculate the total distance in miles the bird travels in the following two cases:
a) The bird flies at 70 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 60 miles per hour
b) The bird flies at 60 miles per hour and the speed of the train is 70 miles per hour
08. A snake slides through a long cylindrical hole in the ground at 5 centimeters per second. The hole is 5.45
meters in length. The snake takes 16 seconds to enter the hole. What is the length in centimeters of the
snake? How many seconds does the snake take to exit the hole after entering it?
09. A rich merchant had collected many gold coins. He did not want anybody to know about them. One day,
his wife asked, "How many gold coins do we have?"
After pausing a moment, he replied, "Well! If I divide the coins into two unequal numbers, then 63 times
the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two
numbers." How many gold coins do they have?
10. If I run up 7 steps of an escalator then I reach the top in 40 seconds. If I run up 14 steps then it takes me
only 22.5 seconds to reach the top. How much time would it take me if I dont run up the escalator at all?

11. If you were to construct a 5 5 checkered square (i.e., a 5 5 chess board), how many rectangles would
there be in total? You need to include squares too because a square is a special kind of rectangle.
12. A creeper plant is climbing up and around a cylindrical tree trunk in a helical manner. The tree trunk has a
height of 375 inches and a circumference of 40 inches. If the creeper covers a vertical distance of 75
inches in one complete twist around the tree trunk, what is the total length of the creeper?
13. The 8" pizza sells for 499 at my favourite pizza store. The store claims they have a great deal on the
large 12" pizza, which is specially priced at 898. What is the per cent discount the store is offering?
14. My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in
years. My grandson, my son and I together are 160 years. Can you tell me my age in years?
15. Divide 526 (in whole increments) into a number of bags so that I can ask for any amount between 1
and 526, and you can give me the proper amount by giving me a certain number of these bags without
opening them. What is the minimum number of bags you will require?
16. In the figure on the right, the rectangle in the corner measures 4 cm x 8 cm. what is the
radius of the circle in cm?
17. There is a pole in a lake. One-half of the pole is in the ground, another one-third of it is covered by water,
and 11 ft is out of the water. What is the total length of the pole in ft?
18. A cylinder 48 cm high has a circumference of 16 cm. A string makes exactly 4 complete turns round the
cylinder while its two ends touch the cylinder's top and bottom. How long is the string in cm?
19. The rectangle ABCD is partitioned into seven congruent rectangles as shown in
the figure on the right. If the area of the ABCD is 84 cm2, what is the
perimeter of one of the smaller s in cms?
20. Two circles A and B, overlap each other as shown in the figure. The area of the
common part is 2/5th of the area of circle A and 5/8th of the area of circle B. What is
the ratio of the radius of circle A to that of circle B?
1

21. Let m be the average of numbers x, y and z. Find the average of numbers, (3 ), (3 ), (3
), where b is a non-zero number.
22. When the base of a triangle increases by 20% and the height to the base decreases by 10%, what will
happen to the area of the triangle?

23. Find the area bounded by = + 1 and the x-axis between x = 3 and x = 7
24. Given a list of numbers: 18, 5, 17, 12, k, 5, 9, 20. If the mean of this list is 12 then what is the median?
25. Seven individual socks are drawn at random without replacement from a basket containing seven
different pairs of socks. If the first six socks drawn are all different from one another, what is the
probability that the next sock drawn at random from the basket is also different from the rest?

26. Which of the following numbers is smallest when p < -1 and 0 < q < 1?
1

A)

B)

C) |p|

D) - p

27. Evaluate: 12 22 + 32 42 + .. 9982 + 9992

28. If it was two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it was an hour later. What
time is it now?
29. There is a clock (which has two hands) in my classroom. After Mathematics class, I checked the time. The
clock in the classroom indicated that is was 5:36 pm. If the hour hand moves continuously between 5 and
6, find the measure of the acute angle between two hands.
30. An urn contains 3 red and 5 black balls. Tom first withdraws a ball from the urn and Mary withdraws a ball
from the urn without replacement. They keep withdrawing a ball alternately until a red ball is selected.
Find the probability that Tom selects the red ball.
31. Tom read a book in 3 days. On the first day he read 1/5 of the book and 12 pages more. The next day he
read 3/10 of what remained and 20 pages more. On the third day he read 3/4 of what remained and 30
pages more. How many pages were there in the book?
32. Sumin rolls three distinct dice and gets a, b, and c. Find the probability of 2a + b + c = 10.
33. Find the number of the ordered pairs (a, b) such that the four-digit number, 2a6b, is a multiple of 6.
34. Two points P and Q lie on a sphere with a radius of 10. The length of the line segment joining P and Q is
10. What is the shortest distance between the segment P Q and the center of the sphere?
35. The population in town A declined at a constant rate from 20,000 in the year 1990 to 19,120 in the year
1998. The population in town B increased at a constant rate from 12,000 in the year 1994 to 12,640 in the
year 1998. If the rates of change of the population in the two towns remain the same, in approximately
what year will the populations in the two towns be equal?
36. Suppose that a flight from Mumbai to Dubai takes 5 hours, while a flight from Dubai to Mumbai takes 3
hours. The difference in time is due to a wind blowing from west to east. How long, in minutes, would it
take to fly between the two cities if there were no wind?
37. The width of a rectangle is 35% of the length. The perimeter of the rectangle is 108 cm. Find the width of
the rectangle.
38. A water tank had some water, and 3 gallons of water was added to the tank each day starting from March
1st. If there are 110 gallons of water in the tank at the end of April 5th, how many gallons were in the
tank before March 1st?
39. Let f(x) + f(1 x) = 6 for all x. Find f( 1 100 ) + f( 2 100 ) + + f( 99 100 ).
5

40. If 13 = 39 =

+
156

,
104

what is the value of p?

41. Simplify the following expression: (-2)4 + 16 - |-5|

42. In the figure on the right, line l is parallel to line m. what is the number of
degrees in angle x?

43. If 8a 6b = 24, what is the value of 3 4 ?

44. If = 12 = 20, + ?
45. A straight line passes through the three points (3, 4), (5, 1) and (1, y). What is the value of y?
46. What is the area of the largest square contained in a unit circle?
47. When the figure shown on the right is folded along the dotted lines to produce a cube, what
letter is opposite of the face marked F?
48. How much greater, in square inches, is the area of a circle of radius 10 inches than the area
of a circle of diameter 10 inches?
49. Of the five apples in a bag, three are green apples and two are red apples. If two are chosen randomly
from the bag, what is the probability that both are green apples?
50. The sum of two numbers x and y is 104, and the value of the fraction x/y is 0.3. What is the value of y x?
51. A square and an equilateral triangle have equal perimeters. The area of the triangle is 2 3 square inches.
What is the number of inches in the length of the diagonal of the square?
52. How many zeros terminate the number which is the product of all the integers from 1 to 100?
53. Exactly four actors try out for four roles in a play. If each actor can perform only one role and each actor is
capable of performing any of the four roles on offer, how many different assignments of actors are
possible?
54. The diagram on the right shows a regular hexagon inside an equilateral triangle. The area
of the larger triangle is 60 cm2. What is the area of the hexagon?
55. The sum of three numbers is 2009. The sum of the first two numbers is 1004 and the average of the last
two is 502.5. What is the product of all the three numbers?
56. The shorter sides of a right-angled isosceles triangle are 10 cms long. The triangle is then folded in half
along its line of symmetry to form a smaller triangle. How much longer is the perimeter of the larger
triangle than that of the smaller?
57. Damodar runs on a treadmill for thirty minutes. To keep his mind active as well as his legs, he works out
what fraction of the total time has passed at each half minute and minute from the start. How many of
1

the results of his calculations can be expressed in the form , where n is an integer greater than 1?

58. The figure on the right shows a curve made out of 7 semi-circular arcs, the radius of each of
which is 1 cm, 2 cm, 4 cm or 8 cm. What is the length of the curve?
59. A book has 89 pages, but the page numbers are printed incorrectly. Every third page number has been
omitted, so that the pages are numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, .and so on. What is the number on the last
printed page?
60. Garima piles up fourteen bricks into the shape as shown in the figure on the right. Each
brick is a cube of side 10 cm and, from the second layer upwards, sits exactly on top of
the brick below. Including the base, what is the surface area of Garimas construction?
61. Last year, Mr. Hapuskar grew twice the number of bananas as the number of mangoes grown by Mr.
Kelaram. This year Mr. Kelarams mangoes were double the number of bananas grown by Mr. Hapuskar.
Over the two years, Mr. Hapuskar grew 49,000 bananas which were 7,600 less than the number of fruits
grown by Mr. Kelaram. How many bananas did Mr. Hapuskar grow last year?
62. ABCD is a square (ref: figure on the right). The point E is outside the square so that CDE is
an equilateral triangle. Find the angle BED.
63. Taufiq left a petrol pump and travelled towards Pune at a steady speed of 60 kmph.
Tapesh left the same petrol pump 10 minutes after Taufiq and travelled in the same
direction at a steady speed, overtaking Taufiq after a further 1 hour 40 minutes. At what speed did
Tapesh travel?
64. The diagram on the right shows a polygon ABCDEFG, in which FG = 6 units and GA
= AB = BC = CD = DE = EF. Also, BDFG is a square. The area of the whole polygon is
exactly twice the area of BDFG. Find the length of the perimeter of the polygon.
65. I want to choose a list of n different numbers from the first 20 positive integers so that no two of my
numbers differ by 5. What is the largest value of n for which this is possible? How many different lists are
there with this many numbers?
66. There are seven bars in the box shown on the right. They are 3 cm x 1 cm in size. The
box is of size 5 cm x 5 cm. Is it possible to slide the bars in the box so there will be
room for one more bar? At least how many bars (which are in the box currently)
must be moved in that case?
67. In a quadrilateral ABCD, we have AD = BC, DAC = 50, DCA = 65,
ACB = 70(see fig. on the right). Find the value of ABC.
68. There are 50 bricks of white, blue and red colour in the box. The
number of white bricks is eleven times the number of blue ones. There
are fewer red ones than white ones, but more red ones than blue ones. How many fewer red bricks are
there than white ones?
69. What is the smallest number of straight lines needed to divide the plane into exactly 5 regions?

70. Sheetal has wound some rope around a piece of wood. She rotates the wood in
the direction of the arrow as shown in the figure on the right. Which of the
following four pictures shows what is she likely to see after the rotation?

71. The picture on the right, shows a rectangle ABCD while the shape PQRS is a
square. The shaded area is half of the area of rectangle ABCD. What is the length
of PX?
72. If 1 = + 2 = 3 = + 4 = 5, then which of the numbers a, b, c, d, e is the largest
73. On each of 18 cards, exactly one number is written, either 4 or 5. The sum of all the numbers on the cards
is divisible by 17. On how many cards is the number 4 written?
74. In the figure on the right, there are nine regions inside the circles. Put all the
numbers from 1 to 9 exactly one in each region so that the sum of the numbers
inside each circle is 11.
75. The logo shown in the figure on the right is made entirely from semi-circular acs of radii 2
cm, 4 cm or 6 cm. What fraction of the logo is shaded?
76. A paper strip was folded three times in half and then completely unfolded so that you can still see the 7
folds going up or down. Which of the following views from the side cannot be obtained in this way?

77. The natural numbers from 1 to 10 are written on the blackboard. The students in the class play the
following game: a student deletes 2 of the numbers and instead of them writes on the blackboard their
sum decreased by 1; after that another student deletes 2 of the numbers and instead of them writes on
the blackboard their sum decreased by 1; and so on. The game continues until only one number remains
on the blackboard. That number is:
A) Less than 11
B) 11
C) 9
D) greater than 46
78. A Kangaroo has a large collection of small cubes 1 1 1. Each cube is a single colour. Kangaroo wants to
use 27 small cubes to make a 3 3 3 cube so that any two cubes with at least one common vertex are of
different colours. At least how many colours have to be used?

79. On parallel lines L1 and L2, 6 points were drawn such that 4 of these points are on L1 and the remaining on
L2. What is the total number of triangles whose vertices are the given points?
80. At least how many little squares we have to shade in the picture on the right so that it
has an axis of symmetry?
81. x is a negative integer. Which of the following is the largest number?
A) -2x
B) 2x
C) 6x + 2
D) x -2
82. In the picture on the right, there are six identical circles. The circles touch the sides of
a large rectangle and each other as well. The vertices of the small rectangle lie in the
centres of four circles. The circumference of the small rectangle is 60 cm. what is the
circumference of the large rectangle?
83. A survey found that 2/3rd of all customers buy product A and 1/3rd buy product B. After a publicity
campaign for product B, a new survey showed that of the customers who preferred product A are now
buying product B. So now we have,
a) 1/4 of the customers buy product A, 3/4 buy product B
b) 7/12 of the customers buy product A, 5/12 buy product B
c) 1/2 of the customers buy product A, 1/2 buy product B
d) 1/3 of the customers buy product A, 2/3 buy product B
84. In order to obtain the number 88, we must raise 44 to the power?
85. ABC and CDE are equal equilateral triangles as shown in the figure on the
right. If ACD = 80, what is ABD?
86. By drawing 9 line segments (5 horizontal and 4 vertical) as shown in the figure on the right,
Amit has made a table of 12 cells. If he had used 6 horizontal and 3 vertical lines, he would
have got 10 cells only. How many cells can you get maximally if you draw at most 15 lines?
87. A broken calculator does not display the digit 0. For example, if we type in the number 3030, only the
number 33 is displayed, with no spaces. Kunal typed a 6-digit number into that calculator, but only 2007
appeared on the display. How many numbers could have Kunal typed?
88. The segments OA, OB, OC and OD are drawn from the centre O of the square KLMN
to its sides so that AOB = 90 and COD = 90 (as shown in the figure on the
right). If the side of the square equals 2 units, what is the area of the shaded part?
89. The first digit of a 4-digit number is equal to the number of zeros in this number,
the second digit is equal to the number of 1s in the digits of the number, the third digit is equal to the
number of 2s in the digits of the number and the fourth digit is equal to the number of 3s in the digits
of the number. How many such numbers exist?
90. A positive integer number n has 2 divisors, while n+1 has 3 divisors. How many divisors does n+2 have?

91. A cube has all of its corners cut off as shown. How many edges does the resulting shape
have?

92. The French mathematician August de Morgan claimed that he was x years old in the year
of x2. He is known to have died in 1899. When was he born?
93. The 3x3 table contains natural numbers (see picture on the right). Narmada and Sarvani
crossed out four numbers each so that the sum of the numbers crossed out by Narmada is
three times as great as the sum of the numbers crossed out by Sarvani. The number which
remained in the table after the crossing is?
94. We decide to visit by ferry-boat four islands A, B, C & D starting from the mainland. B can be reached only
from A or from the mainland. A & C are connected to each other and with the mainland. D is connected
only with A. What are the minimum number of ferry runs that we need, if we want to visit all the islands?
95. A cube is wrapped with paper. The paper on one of the cube faces is cut along its diagonals (see
the fig. on the right). If the paper is now unwrapped, which of the following shapes of the
unwrapped paper are impossible?

96. Points A, B, C and D are marked on the straight line in some order. It is known that AB = 13, BC = 11, CD =
14 and DA = 12. What is the distance between the farthest two points?
97. Four tangent congruent circles of radius 6 cm are inscribed in a rectangle.
If P is a vertex and Q and R are points of tangency, what is the area of
triangle PQR?
98. Seven cards lie in a box in a Tibetan monastery. Numbers from 1 to 7 are written on these cards (exactly
one number per card). The first wise monk takes, at random, 3 cards from the box and a second wise
monk takes 2 cards (2 cards are left in the box). Then the first wise monk tells the second wise monk that
he knew that the sum of the numbers of the second wise monk is even. What is the sum of the numbers
on the first wise monk?
99. In an isosceles triangle ABC, the bisector CD of angle C is equal to the base BC. Then the angle CDA is
equal to?
100. A wooden cube 11 x 11 x 11 is obtained by sticking together 113 unit cubes. What is the largest number
of unit cubes visible from a same point of view (i.e. from a single direction)?
101. In the equality KAN GAR = OO any letter stands for some digit (different letters for different digits,
equal letters for equal digits). Find the largest possible value of the number KAN?

102. A boy always speaks the truth on Thursdays and Fridays, always lies on Tuesdays and randomly tells the
truth or lies on other days of the week. On seven consecutive days he was asked what his name was, and
on the first six days he gave the following answers in order: Akbar, Ali, Akbar, Ali, Farooq, Ali. What did he
answer on the seventh day?
103. Four identical die are arranged in a row (as shown in the fig. on the right).
The die are not standard (i.e. the opposite faces of the die do not
necessarily add up to 7). Find the total sum of the points in all 6 touching faces in the figure.
104. Some straight lines are drawn on the plane so that all angles 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and
90 are among the angles between these lines. Determine the smallest possible number of these straight
lines.
105. On my first spelling test, I score one mark out of five. If I now work very hard and get full marks on every
test, how many more tests should I take for my average to be four out of five correct answers?
106. The picture on the right shows the ground plan of a room. The adjacent walls are
perpendicular to each other. Letters a and b represent the dimensions (lengths) of the
room. What is the area of the room?
107. A watchman works 4 days a week and has rest on the fifth day. He had been rested
on Sunday and began working on Monday. After how many days will his rest fall on
Sunday?
108. For a natural number N, by its length we mean the number of factors in the representation of N as a
product of its prime factors. For example, the length of the number 90 (i.e. when N = 90) is 4 because 90 =
2 x 3 x 3 x 5. How many odd numbers less than 100 have length of 3?
109. A cube with the side of 5 units consists of black and white unit cubes, so that any two
adjacent (by faces) unit cubes have different colour, the corner cubes being black. How
many white unit cubes are there?
110. A caterpillar starts from his home at 9:00 AM and moves in a straight path on ground turning after each
hour at 90 to the left or to the right. In the first hour he moved 1m, in the second hour 2m and so on. At
what minimum distance from his home would the caterpillar be at 4:00 p.m. in
the afternoon?
111. The figure on the right shows an equilateral triangle and a regular pentagon.
What, in degrees, is the size of the angle marked x?
112. The average of 10 positive integers is 10. How much can be the biggest one
among the 10 numbers at most?
113. Two rectangles ABCD and DBEF are shown in the figure. What is the area of
the rectangle DBEF?
114. A group of friends is planning a trip. If each of them would make a
contribution of Rs. 1400 for the expected travel expenses, they would be Rs.

400 short. But if each of them would make a contribution of Rs. 1600, they would have Rs.600 more than
they need. How much should each of the friends contribute so that they collect exactly the amount
needed for the trip?
115. In the diagram on the right, the five circles have the same radii and touch as shown.
The small square joins the centres of the four outer circles. The ratio of the area of the
shaded part of all five circles to the area of the unshaded parts of all five circles is?
116. Given

1111
101

= 11. What is the value of

3333
101

6666
303

117. A bag contains balls of five different colours. Two are red, three are blue, ten are white, four are green
and three are black. Balls are taken from the bag without looking, and not returned. What is the smallest
number of balls that should be taken from the bag to be sure that two balls of the same colour have been
taken?
118. Pinkesh lights a candle every ten minutes. Each candle burns for 40 minutes and then goes out. How
many candles are alight 55 minutes after Pinkesh lit the first candle?
119. Mahesh and Laxmi stand on opposite sides of a circular chowk. They then start to run clockwise round
the chowk. Maheshs speed is 9/8th of Laxmis speed. How many circuits has Laxmi completed when
Mahesh catches up with her for the first time?
120. The positive integers , y and z satisfy = 14, = 10 = 35.
What is the value of + + ?
121. In the diagram on the right, = 55, = 40, = 35. What is the value of ?
122. Vasu wrote down several consecutive integers. Which of the following could not be the percentage of
odd numbers among them?
A) 40
B) 45
C) 48
D) 50
E) 60
123. The edges of the rectangle ABCD are parallel to the co-ordinate axes as
shown in the figure on the right. ABCD lies below the x-axis and to the right
of the y-axis. The co-ordinates of the four points A, B, C and D are all
integers. For each of these points we calculate the value of y co-ordinate x
co-ordinate. Which of the four points will give the smallest value?
124. All 4-digit positive integers with the same four digits as in the number 2015 are written on the
blackboard in an increasing order. What is the largest difference between two neighbouring numbers on
the blackboard?
125. Aman, Bindu, Charu, Dinakar and Ethiaraj were born on 20/02/2001, 12/03/2000, 20/03/2001,
12/04/2000 and 23/04/2001 (day/month/year). Aman and Ethiaraj were born in the same month. Also,
Bindu and Charu were born in the same month. Aman and Charu were born on the same day of the
different months. Also, Dinakar and Ethiaraj were also born on the same day of different months. Which
of these children is the youngest?

126. Armaan has made a building of cubes standing on a 4 x 4 grid. The figure on the right
shows the number of cubes standing on each cell. When Armaan looks from the back,
what does he see?

127.
128. Prakash chooses a 5-digit positive integer and deletes one of its digits to make a 4-digit number. The
sum of this 4-digit number and the original 5-digit number is 52713. What is the sum of the digits of the
original 5-digit number?
129. Four cars enter a roundabout at the same time, each one from a different
direction as shown in the figure on the right. Each of the cars exits the
roundabout without making a full circle and no two cars leave the roundabout in
the same direction, how many different ways are there for the cars to leave the
roundabout?
130. A sequence starts 1, -1, -1, 1, -1. After the fifth term, every term is equal to the product of the two
preceding terms. For example, the sixth term is equal to the product of the product of the fourth term
and the fifth term. What is the sum of the first 2015 terms?
131. Each of the four vertices and six edges of a tetrahedron is marked with one of
the ten numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 (number 10 is omitted). Each
number is used exactly once. For any two vertices of the tetrahedron, the sum of
two numbers at these vertices is equal to the number on the edge connecting
these two vertices. The edge PQ is marked with the number 9. Which number is
used to mark edge RS?

132. The star in the picture on the right is formed from 12 identical small equilateral triangles.
The perimeter of the star is 36 cm. What is the perimeter of the dark hexagon?
133. What part of the outer square is shaded? (ref: figure on the right)
134. On the island of sacchas and jhoothas 25 people are standing in a queue. Everyone,
except the first person in the queue, said that the person in front of him is a liar and the first man said
that all people standing behind him are liars. How many jhoothas are there in the queue? [Sacchas never
lie and jhoothas always lie]
135. The figure on the right shows a solid formed with 6 triangular faces. At each vertex
there is a number. For each face we consider the sum of the 3 numbers at the vertices
of that face. If all the sums are the same and two of the numbers are 1 and 5 as shown,
what is the sum of all the five numbers?
136. In the equality

....
...

= . . different letters stand for different digits while equal letters stand

for equal digits. How many different values can the product T.H.R.E.E have?

137. The figure on the right shows a regular enneagon (9-sided polygon). What is
the size of the marked angle at X?
138. The first three patterns are shown below. Not including the square hole,
how many unit squares are needed to build the 10th pattern in this sequence?

139. Starting at point P, we move along the edges, starting in the direction of the arrow.
At the end of the edge we have to choose: going to the right or to the left. At the end
of the second edge we have to choose again. If we decide to choose alternating right and left after how
many edges do we return to point P for the first time?
140. How many ten digit numbers composed only of digits 1, 2 or 3 exist, in which any two neighbouring
digits differ by 1?
141. If y is an integer which of the following must be an odd integer?
A) 52y3 + 3

B) 3y

C) y3 + 3

D) 3y + 52