Playing with numbers

Introduction:

"Playing with Numbers" is a branch of mathematics that involves various interesting and
fun mathematical games and puzzles.
It encourages students to explore number patterns, divisibility rules, and relationships
between numbers.
Number Patterns:

Number patterns are sequences of numbers that follow a certain rule or pattern.
An example of a simple pattern is counting by twos: 2, 4, 6, 8, ...
Patterns can be used to predict future numbers in the sequence.
Divisibility Rules:

Divisibility rules are guidelines to determine whether a number can be evenly divided by
another number without leaving a remainder.
Some common divisibility rules include:
A number is divisible by 2 if it's even (ends in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8).
A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.
A number is divisible by 5 if the number ends in 0 or 5.
A number is divisible by 10 if number ends in 0.
A number is divisible by 9 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 9.
These rules help in simplifying calculations and finding factors and multiples.

Types of Numbers:

Even number:
A number which is exactly divisible by 2 is called even numbers.
Examples: 0,12,34,74,56 etc

Odd number:
A number which is not exactly divisible by 2 is called odd number.
Examples:1,13,15,27 etc`
Prime Numbers:

A prime number is a positive integer greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other
than 1 and itself.
Examples of prime numbers include 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13.
Composite Numbers: A composite number is a positive integer greater than 1 that has
divisors other than 1 and itself.
Examples of composite numbers include 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10.

Factors and Multiples:

Factors of a number are the numbers that can divide it without leaving a remainder.
For example, the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12.
Multiples of a number are obtained by multiplying it by whole numbers.
For example, the multiples of 3 are 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and so on.

Common Multiples and Least Common Multiple (LCM):

Common multiples are multiples shared by two or more numbers.

For example, the common multiples of 3 and 4 are 12, 24, 36, and so on.
The least common multiple (LCM) is the smallest common multiple of two or more
numbers.
For example, the LCM of 3 and 4 is 12.
HCF (Highest Common Factor) or GCD (Greatest Common Divisor):

HCF is the largest number that can exactly divide two or more numbers.
For example, the HCF of 12 and 18 is 6.
HCF helps in simplifying fractions and finding common factors.

Prime Factorization
The method of representing number as a product of its factors
is called prime factorization.
For example: 36 can be written as 2×2×3×3, 2 and 3 are prime numbers.
 Level1

1). What are numbers called that have more than two factors?
A) Prime numbers
B) Odd numbers
C) Composite numbers
D) Co-prime numbers
Answer:C

2). Which statement is true about prime numbers?

A) They have more than two factors
B) They have exactly two factors
C) They are always odd
D) They are always even
Answer: B

3) What is the L.C.M of two co-prime numbers?

A) The sum of the numbers
B) The difference of the numbers
C) Their product
D) The average of the numbers
Answer:C

4)Twin primes differ by:

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Answer:B

5)What is the H.C.F. of two coprime numbers?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3
Answer:B
6)How can you determine if a number is even according to the units digit?
A) Units digit is 1
B) Units digit is 2
C) Units digit is 5
D) Units digit is 9
Answer:B

7) What do you get when two factors are multiplied?

A)Sum
B)Product
C)Quotient
D)Difference
Answer:B

8)Every number is a factor of:

A)Another number
B)Itself
C)Only prime numbers
D)Odd numbers
Answer:B

9) How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 50?

A)12
B)14
C)15
D)16
Answer:C

10)Which of the following numbers is a perfect number?

A)4
B)12
C)8
D)6
Answer:D
11)Which of the following are not twin-primes?
A)3,5
B)5,7
C)11,13
D)17,23
Answer:D

12)Which of the following are co-primes?

A)8, 10
B)9, 10
C)6, 8
D)15,18
Answer:B

13)Which of the following is a prime number?

A)263
B)361
C)323
D)324
Answer:A

14)The total number of even prime numbers is

A)0
B)1
C)2
D)unlimited
Answer:B

15)which of the following numbers is divisible by 3

A)27326
B)42356
C)73545
D)45326
Answer:C
16)Find the LCM of 36 and 72
A)36
B)72
C)108
D)2
Answer:B

17)What is the HCF of 120 and 144

A)38
B)24
C)120
D)144
Answer:B

Level-2

1)For the number 901,351, if the sum of the digits in odd positions is 15 and the sum of
the digits in even positions is 4 what can be concluded about the divisibility of the
number by 11?

A)The number is divisible by 2

B)The number is divisible by 3
C)The number is divisible by 5
D)The number is divisible by 11
Answer:D

2. Which of the following pairs represents two prime numbers between 50 and 60?
A)47, 52
B)53, 59
C)50, 56
D)48, 60
Answer:B
3.) What is the successor of every even number?
A)Even
B)Odd
C)Prime
D)Composite
Answer:B

4).What is the sum of the numbers 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30?
A)50
B)75
C)90
D)120
Answer:C

5).Calculate the H.C.F of 36, 48, and 120.

A)6
B)12
C)24
D)36
Answer:B

6)A is the 5th prime number. B is the 7th prime number. What is B - A?
A)6
B)8
C)12
D)2

Answer:A
7)What is the smallest number which when divided by 20, 25, 35 and 40 leaves a
remainder of 14, 19, 29 and 34 respectively?
A) 1394
B) 1404
C) 1664
D) 1406

Answer:A

8)What is the product of 14311 and 13?

A)185,543
B)186,043
C)185,861
D)186,011
Answer:B

9)The lowest common multiple of 8,16 and p is 48. What is the possible value of p?
A)64
B)24
C)2
D)32

Answer:B

10)which of the following numbers is divisible by 8

A) 87653234
B) 78956042
C) 64298602
D) 98741032
Answer:C
11)What is the L.C.M. of X and Y if X is the first odd prime number and Y is the only
even prime number?
A)6
B)2
C)8
D)12
Answer:A

12)Which of the following products is an odd number?

A)even × odd × even
B)odd × odd × even
C)even × even × even
D)odd × odd × odd
Answer:D

13)Find a number which is a multiple of all the numbers from 1 to 10?

A) 5040
B) 1260
C) 720
D) 1440
Answer:A

14)The answers of four students A, B, C and D for prime factorisation of 24 are given.
Whose answer is wrong?
A)2×2×2×3
B)8 × 3
C)3 × 2 × 2 × 2
D)2 × 3 × 2 × 2
Answer:B

15)The L.C.M of two numbers is 3718. Which of the following numbers CANNOT
possibly be the H.C.F of these numbers?
A)13
B)26
C)104
D)143
Answer:C
 Level-3
1)What least value should be given to * so that the number 653*47 is divisible by 11?
A)9
B)6
C)7
D)1
Answer:D

2)The smallest number which when divided by 20, 25, 35 and 40 leaves a remainder of
14, 19, 29 and 34 respectively, is
A)1394
B)1404
C)1664
D)1406
Answer:A

3)The HCF of two numbers is 28 and their LCM is 336. If one number is 112, then the
other number is
A)64
B)84
C)34
D)92
Answer:B

4)The two numbers nearest to 10000 which are exactly divisible by each of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and 7, are
A)9660, 10080
B)9320, 10080
C)9660, 10060
D)10340, 10080
Answer:A
5)The least number which when decreased by 9 is exactly divisible by 12, 16, 24 and 48
is
A)16
B)48
C)57
D)39
Answer:C

6)Find the greatest number which will divide the greatest 3-digit number and the
greatest 4-digit number exactly.
A)9
B)8
C)7
D)3
Answer:A

7)There are 153 apples and 119 oranges. These fruits are to be arranged in heaps
containing the same number of fruits. Then the greatest number of fruits possible in
each heap is
A)15
B)23
C)17
D)20
Answer:C

8)Three boys steps off together from the same spot. Their steps measure 63 cm, 70 cm
and 77 cm, respectively. What is the minimum distance each should cover so that all
can cover distanced complete steps?
A)6930cm
B)6000cm
C)7000cm
D)6520cm
Answer:A
9)The length, breadth and height of a room are 403 cm, 434 cm and 465 cm
respectively. Find the longest tape which can measure the three dimensions of the room
exactly.
A)31cm
B)30cm
C)25cm
D)35cm
Answer:A

10)Find the value of a + b + c, if 373a is divisible by 9, 473b is divisible by 11 and 371c

is divisible by 6.
A)7
B)6
C)0
D)9
Answer:D

11)67, 61, p, q, r, s, 41 is an arrangement of prime numbers in decreasing order. Among

the following, which is the number 53?
A)p
B)r
C)q
D)s
Answer:C

12)Which of the following is the least perfect square which is divisible by 3,4,5,6 and 8?
A)900
B)2500
C)1200
D)3600
Answer:D
13)Given that (p + 3) is the highest common factor of 81 and 108, find the value of p.
A)6
B)9
C)12
D)24
Answer:D

14)What is the possible value of the product of P and Q, given that their H.C.F is 12 and
L.C.M is 120?
A)1200
B)120
C)1440
D)144

Answer:C

Level-4

Numeric Type Questions

1)Determine if the number 4,729 is divisible by 3.

Answer:No, the sum of the digits is not divisible by 3

2)Check whether the number 8,654 is divisible by 6.

Answer:Yes it is divisible by 6

3)A two digit number is 27 more than its reversed number. What is the difference
between its digits?
Answer:3

4)What is the smallest three-digit number that is divisible by 7, 9, and 11?

Answer:231
5)Determine the factors of 36.

Answer:1,2,3,4,6,9,12,18,36

6)If a is a multiple of 5, and b is a multiple of 7, what is the LCM of a and b?

Answer:LCM(5,7)=35

7)Find the HCF of 36 and 48.

Answer:HCF(36,48)=12

8)Find the sum of the first 10 prime numbers.

Answer:129

9)Find the least common multiple (LCM) of 12, 18, and 24.

Answer :LCM(12,18,24)=72

10)If n is a prime number greater than 20 but less than 30, find the value of n.

Answer:23,29
 Statement Type Questions

1)What is the number's remainder when divided by 5?

Statement 1: The number is 23.

Statement 2: The number is a multiple of 4.
A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient.
B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient.
C) Both statements together are sufficient.
D) Neither statement is sufficient

Answer:A

2)Is the number even?

Statement 1: The number is divisible by 2.

Statement 2: The number is greater than 10.

A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient.

B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient.
C) Both statements together are sufficient.
D) Neither statement is sufficient.
Answer:A

3)Statement: A number is divisible by 5 if and only if it ends in 0 or 5.

Statement-1: The number is a multiple of 10.
Statement-2: The sum of its digits is divisible by 9.

A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient.

B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient.
C) Both statements together are sufficient.
D) Neither statement is sufficient.
Answer:A
4)Statement: The prime factorization of 36 is 2 × 2 × 3 × 3.
Statement 1: The number 36 is a multiple of 9.
Statement 2: The number 36 is divisible by 5.

A) Statement 1 alone is sufficient.

B) Statement 2 alone is sufficient.
C) Both statements together are sufficient.
D) Neither statement alone is sufficient

Answer: A

Comprehension Type Questions

1)Raj is a young mathematician who loves playing with numbers. One day, he decided
to find a number that is divisible by both 5 and 8. He began by listing the multiples of 5
and 8. After much thinking, he found a number that met his criteria.

1)What is the number Raj found that is divisible by both 5 and 8?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 40
D) 80
Answer:C
2)A school is organizing a math competition for 6th-grade students. In the final round,
the students are given a set of numbers and are asked to find a number that is a
multiple of 9 and 15. As the competition progresses, some students are having trouble
figuring out the solution.

1)What is the number that a student should look for in the given set to win the
competition?

A) 35
B) 45
C) 135
D) 315
Answer:C

Match the column

Column I Column II
(1) 49 (p) Multiple of 3
(2) 25 (q) Multiple of 4
(3) 16 (r) Multiple of 7
(4) 39 (s) Multiple of 5

A)1-S 2-p 3-r 4-q

B)1-r 2-s 3- q 4-p
C)1-s 2-r 3-p 4-q
D)1-p 2-q 3-r 4-s

Answer:B