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Solve the following problems.

1. How many sets of antonyms are there in the proverb ‘United we stand, divided we fall’?

2. Out of 15 students, nine are girls. What percentage of the students are boys?

3. How many months in a year have 30 days?

4. A book is to pages as a library is to

(a) books (b) librarian

(c) exams (d) study

5. In a class of 20 students, the number of girls exceeds the number of boys by 2. How many boys

are there in the class?

6. A hockey league consists of six teams, with a total of 102 players. Each team must have at least

15 players, but no team can have 20 or more players. What is the largest possible number of
players in a team?

7. There are three mothers and three daughters in a group of people. Each mother has a daughter

in the group. What would be the smallest possible number of people in the group?

8. How many leap years were there between 1901 and 2000?

9. If you multiply the largest two-digit number by the smallest two-digit number and add 100,
what would be the resulting number?

10. What is the smallest two-digit number that is four-times the sum of its digits?

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