THE FIRST PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION 2023-24

Class X(ICSE)
MATHEMATICS

Time: Two and half hours Maximum marks: 80

Instructions:
Answers to this paper mst be writen on the onswer seriptprovided separately.
You will NoT be allowed to write during thefirst 15 minutes. This time is to be spent in
reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.
Atempt all questions from Section A and any four questions from Section B.
on the same
All working, including rough work, must be clearly shown and must be done
sheet as the rest of the answer. Omission of essential working will result in loss of marks.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [1.
Mathematical tables and graph papers shall be provided to you.

SECTION A |40 marks]

Atempt all questions from this Section.
Question
1

Choose the correct answers to the questions from the given options. [15)

(Do not copy the questions, write the correct answers only.)

sec0 -1 , then
-

0 tan' 0 X + Y
is
() IfX= and Y = - cosee' 0 cos'0
cot' 0 sin'o|
equal to:

(C) (a)

() Iff() is a polynomial and a is a real number, then (r +a) is a factor of

f)
only when:
=0 =0
(a) f(a) (b) fEa)
(c) fla) = a (d) fea=-a
(ii) A consumer purchases an article for 4956 inchusive of GST. If the marked
price ofthe article is 4200, then what is the rate of GST?

(a) 6% (b) 8%
12% (d) 189%
()

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(iv) In the given figure, AB is a chord of a circle with centre O and AT is a tangent
-
to the circle at A. If LAOB 100, then what is the measure of ZBAT?

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(a) 40° (b) 50°

(c) 90° (d) 100°

() The non-negative real root of the quadratic equation 3: -5x-2=0 is:

1
(a) (b)
2

(c) 2 (d) 3

(vi) A school has three houses, namely, Gandhi House, Tagore House
and Nehru
House. The class X of this school has an on roll of 45 students. The
table given
below shows the number of students of class X in these three houses.

House Gandhi Tagore Nehru

Number of students 13 17

One student of class X is selected at random to be the class monitor. What

is the
probability that the selected student is from either Gandhi House or Nehru
House?
17 28
(a) (b)
45 45

() 3 32
(d)
45

(vii) Kushal, Samar and Aman invested in three different

companies A, B andC
respectively, the details of which are as follows:
Company A: 12% 100 shares at 120
Company B: 8% 100 shares at 160
Company C: 15% 100 shares at 75
Who made the most profitable investment?
(a) Kushal
(b) Samar
(c) Aman
(d) Both Kushal and Samar

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(V) Sam participates in a training camp organised in his school where he is trained to
climb a rope. The trainer, Mr Paul demonstrates climbing a 30 m long rope,
which is tightly stretched and tied from the top ofa vertical pole AB to point C
on the ground as shown in the following figure.
A

30m

30
is 30° as shown in the
If the angle formed by the rope with the ground level
figure, what is the height of the pole AB?
(b) 15V3 m
(a) 15 m
(c) 30 m (d) 60 m

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(ix) Anshu has been selected by her school to design logo
in the following figure. The logo
for students. The logo designed by her is given
ABC such that the circle touches
comprises a circle inscribed in scalene triangle
a
the centre of the circle is
the sides AB, BC, CÁ at points D, E, F respectively and
equidistant from all the three sides of AABC.

can be used for the centre of the

Which of the following geometrical terms
circle in the above logo?
(b) Circumcentre
of
AABC
(a) Centroid of AABC
(c) Incentre of AABC (d) Orthocentre of AABC

(x) In the given figure APQR, MN| PQ and N is a point on QR such that
of

ON: NR=1:2. What is the ratio ofarea of APR to area of AMNR?

(a) 3:1 (b) 3:2

(c) 9:1 (a) 9:4

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(xi) The given figure shows APOQ with vertices P(- 4, 0), O(0, 0) and Q(0, -4).
the threce vertices
What are the coordinates of the point which is equidistant from
of APOQ?

X P(-4, 0)

ao, -4)
Y

(a) (-2,0) (b) (0,-2)

(c) (-2,-2) () -4,-4)

(xii) If two solid hemispheres of the same base radius r are joined together along their
bases, then what is the curved surface area of this new solid?
(b) 4
(a) 3ru
8
(c) 6 (d)

(xiii) Mode of a statistical data is the variate which has:

(a) maximum frequency (b) minimum frequency
(c) mean frequency (d) middle most frequency

(xiv) For an invariant point under reflection in a line:

() the point lies on the same line.
(ii) the point is its own image.
Which of the following options is valid?
(a) only (i) (b) only (i)
(c) both (i) and (ii) (d) neither () nor (ii)

(xv) For the first n natural numbers: 1, 2, 3, ....n

n(n+1)
Assertion (A): The sum of first n natural numbers is
2
Reason (R): The first n natural numbers form an Arithmetic Progression (A.P.),
hence their sum is calculated by using the formula of sum of first n
terms ofan A.P.
(a) A is true but R is false.
(b) A is false but R is true.
(c) Both A and R are true.
(d) Both A and R are false.

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Question 2

() Prove the following identity: [4)

tan' A + cotA +2 = sec-A COsec'A

() Mr Saxena opened a recurring deposit account in a bank. He deposited 400 per

month for 3 years. At the time of maturity, he received 16065. Find: [4]

(a) the total interest earned by Mr Saxena.

(b) the rate of interest per annum.

(i) In thegiven figure, ABCD is a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle with centre O and
CD is produced to E.

95D

50°

= [4]
If ZADE=95° and ZABO 50, find:
(a) ZABC (b) 2OBC

(c) ZAOC (d) Z0AC

3
Question
Sm +2n 3
If
use properties of proportion to find: [4]
5m-2n
m+n
(a) m:n (b)
m-n
your answer
(ii) Solve the following equation by using quadratic formula and give
4
correct to three significant figures:
Sx(r+2) =3

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 (üi) Study the ogive given below and answer the questions that follow:

HE(S0,
STUDENTS>
60 60
4o 55

50
431

40

OF
NUMBER

20,15

10
H10;5)

10 20 30 40 50
MARKS

From the ogive, determine:

[5)
(a) total number of students
(b) median marks
(c) lower quartile marks
(d) upper quartile marks
(e) inter quartile range.

SECTION B (40 mnarks]

Attempt any four questions from this Section.
Question 4
(i) Solve the following inequation, write
the solution set and represent it on the
number line.
[3]
where x eR.

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 (i) and A=8A + M, where Il is an identity matrix of order 2, find

the value ofk. [3)

(ii) A group of 77 persons went on a camping trip to Satpura Tiger Rescrve, A conicalm
tent was constructed to accommodate 77 persons such that each person had 120
of air to breathe. If the radius of the tent was 21 m, find the height of the tent. Also,

find the curved surface area of the tent. (Take n= 4)

Question 5
The following table shows the marks obtained by 50 students ín a class test.
0
Marks 0-10 10- 20 20-30 30-40 40- 50
Number of students 7 12 13 10 8

Calculate the mean marks using step-deviation method. (3]

A shopkeeper buys a washing machine from wholesaler for 30000. He marks

a
(i)
the price of thewashing machine 10% above his cost price and sells it to a
consumer at a discount of5% on the marked price. If the sales are intra-state and
the rate of GST is 12%, find: [3)

(a) the marked price of the washing machine.

(b) consumer's cost price of the washing machine inclusive of tax (under GST).

a of
land ABCD has the
(ii) Ona map drawn to a scale of rectangular plot
:
1
50000,
following dimensions:
AB =6 cm and BC= 8 cm.

Find: [4]
(a) the actual length of the diagonal AC of the plot in km.
(b) the actual area of the plot in sq. km.

Question 6
() The fourth, sixth and last terms ofa geometric progression are 40, 160 and 2560
respectively. If the common ratio is positive, find: [31

(a) the first term

(b) the common ratio
(c) the number of ternms in the geometric progression.

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 the given figure, ABC is a triangle with AB 10
cm, cm and AC6cm
(i) In BC8
(not drawn to scale), Three circles are drawn touching cach other with the vertices
A, B and Cas their centres, Find the radii of the three circles.

(ii) In the given figure, AB is a straight line intersecting x-axis at A and y-axis at B.
The line AB passes through point P(-3,4).

(-3,4)P

=
IfOA OB and ZOAB 0, find: [4)
(a) the inclination (0) of the line AB
(b) the slope of the line AB
(c) the equation of the line AB
() the equation ofa line passing through P and perpendicular to the line AB.

Question
() Saurabh buys 50 shares of face value 100 available at 132.

(a) What is his investment?

(b) If the ividend is 7.5% p.a., what will be his annual income?
(c) If he wants to increase his annual income by 150, how many extra shares
should he buy? [31

() Use ruler and compasses only for this question.

(a) Construct a triangle PQR in which QR=5 cm, PQ =6 cm and PQR= 120°
(b) In the same diagram, constructa circle circumscribing the triangle PQR.
() Hence, construct a cyclic quadrilateral PQRS such that S is equidistant from
Q and R. (3)

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() Use factor theoremto factorise
the following polynomial
completely

Question 8
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(0 Each of the letters of the word "BOUMDARIES"
is written on klentical
put in a bag. The cards are cards and
well-shuffled and then a card
the probability that the letter on is drawn at random. Find
the card is:
(a) a consonant.
(b) one of the letters the word
of "LUCKNOW
(c) none ofthe letters of the word
"INDIA'.

(i) The vertices ofa triangle are A(l,3), B(4, b) and C(a, 1), IfG(4, 3) is the centroid
of the triangle ABC, find the values ofa
and b.

(iii) Use ruler and compasses only for this question.

must be clearly shown.
All construction lines and arcs

(a) Construct a AABC in which BC 6.5 cm, LABC= 60° and AB5 cm
() Construct the locus of points at a distance of3.5 em from A
(c) Construct the locus ofpoints equidistant from AC and BC.
Mark tyo points X and Y which are at a distance of3.5 cm from A and also
() equidistant
from AC and BC. Measure XY.

Question 9
() Prove that: 31
1+ sin A coS A
+ 2sec A
cosA l+sin A

(i) Usea graph paper for this question.

The following distribution gives the heights of 60 students ofa school:

Height (in cm) Number of students

8
121- 130

131- 140 14

141-150 20

151- 160 12

161- 170 6

Draw a histogram for the given distribution and hence estimate the modal
height. [31

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(ii) A trader buys x articles for a total cost of 600.
(a) Write down the cost of one article in terms ofx.

Irthe cost per article was 5 more, thc number of articles that can be bought
for 600 would be four less.
Write down an equation inx for the above situation and solve it to find
x.
(4)
()

Question 10
() The given figure shows a drone on the top of a vertical tower AB at a height of
80 m. The angle of elevation of the drone at point A from a point C on the ground
is 45°, The drone flies away horizontally from point A to point D in 2 seconds and
remains at a constant height. After the flight of2 seconds, the angle of elevation of
the drone from the point of observationC changes to 30° as shown in the figure.
Assuming that the drone was flying at a uniform speed, find the speed of the drone
(in m/s) when it flies from point A to point D. Give your answer correct to two
decimal places. [S]

Tower Height
80 m 80 m

Ground level

(i1) Use a graph paper for this question.

The triangle OAB is reflected in the origin O to triangle OA'B', where A' and B'
have coordinates (- 3, -4) and (0,-5) respectively.
(a) Plot AOAB and its image A0A'B' on the graph.

(b) Write the coordinates of A and B.

(c) Assign a special name to the quadrilateral ABA'B'.

(d) Write the coordinates of A", where A" is the reflection of A in the origin
followed by reflection in the y-axis. Also, plot A" on the graph.

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