STD 10 Maths Total Marks : 59
Chapter 1 Practice Questions
Section B
* Given section consists of questions of 2 marks each. [16]
1. Find the HCF of the following pairs of integers and express it as a linear
combination of them.
1288 and 575
2. Define HCF of two positive integers and find the HCF of the following pairs of
numbers:
240 and 6552
3. Find the LCM and HCF of the following pairs of integers and verify that LCM ×
HCF = Product of the integers:
510 and 92
4. Complete the missing entries in the following factor tree.
5. Check whether 6n can end with the digit 0 for any natural number n.
6. Three pieces of timber 42m, 49m and 63m long have to be divided into planks of
the same length. What is the greatest possible length of each plank?
7. Find the greatest possible length which can be used to measure exactly the
length 7m, 3m 85cm and 12m 95cm.
8. Show that n
8 cannot end with the digit zero for any natural number n .
Section C
* Given section consists of questions of 3 marks each. [18]
1. 15 pastries and 12 biscuit packets have been donated for a school fete. These
are to be packed in several smaller identical boxes with the same number of
pastries and biscuit packets in each. How many biscuit packets and how many
pastries will each box contain?
2. A merchant has 120 litres of oil of one kind, 180 litres of another kind and 240
litres of third kind. He wants to sell the oil by filling the three kinds of oil in tins
of equal capacity. What should be the greatest capacity of such a tin?
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3. 144 cartons of Coke Cans and 90 cartons of Pepsi Cans are to be stacked in a
Canteen. If each stack is of the same height and is to contain cartons of the
same drink, what would be the greatest number of cartons each stack would
have?
4. The length, breadth and height of a room are 8m 25cm, 6m 75cm and 4m 50cm,
respectively. Determine the longest rod which can measure the three
dimensions of the room exactly.
5. During a sale, colour pencils were being sold in packs of 24 each and crayons in
packs of 32 each. If you want full packs of both and the same number of pencils
and crayons, how many of each would you need to buy?
6. Three sets of English, Mathematics and Science books containing 336, 240 and
96 books respectively have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are
stored subject wise and the higher of each stack is the same. How many stacks
will be there?
Section D
* Given section consists of questions of 5 marks each. [25]
1. Explain why 3 × 5 × 7 + 7 is a composite number.
2. 105 goats, 140 donkeys and 175 cows have to be taken across a river. There is
only one boat which will have to make many trips in order to do so. The lazy
boatman has his own conditions for transporting them. He insists that he will
take the same number of animals in every trip and they have to be of the same
kind. He will naturally like to take the largest possible number each time. Can
you tell how many animals went in each trip?
3. In a seminar, the number of participants in Hindi, English and mathematics are
60, 84 and 108 respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required, if in
each room, the same number of participants are to be seated and all of them
being in the same subject.
4. Three measuring rods are 64cm, 80cm and 96cm in length. Find the least length
of cloth that can be measured an exact number of times, using any of the rods.
5. The traffic lights at three different road crossing change after every 48 secons,
72 seconds and 108 seconds respectively. If they all change simultaneously at 8
a.m. then at what time will they again change simultaneously?
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