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Gujarat
girl is runner up in arithmetic contest
Monday December 06, 2010 10:11:02 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar: Payal
Merja, a Class 7 girl student from Gujarat, has won the runner up
trophy at a mental arithmetic competition in Malaysia, it was
announced Monday.
Payal, 11, a student of Bavis Gram Vidyalaya in Vallabh Vidyanagar
in central Gujarat, was among 5,000 students in the age group of 4
to 12 from 42 countries who took part in the contest.
"Gujarat is proud that little Payal has won laurels in the
Higher-A Category. She solved 161 sums in eight minutes, losing
first rank by just one mark," an official statement said.
The winner was a boy from Saudi Arabia.
Payal can solve around 200 sums in eight minutes without a
calculator or any electronic device, the statement said.
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