CBSE Board
Class X Mathematics
Time: 1½ hours Total Marks: 40
General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Section A comprises of 10 questions carrying 1 mark each.
3. Section B comprises of 5 questions carrying 2 marks each.
4. Section C comprises of 5 questions carrying 4 marks each.
Section A
(Questions 1 to 10 carry 1 mark each)
1. Find the perimeter of a square field whose one side is 45 m.
2. The volume of a rectangle box (or cuboid) =
3. Convert 12 hours to minutes =
4. Convert 2 hour 15 minutes to seconds
5. Find the perimeter of the rectangle whose length 5 cm And Breadth 15 cm
6. Convert 5 days to hours
7.
8. Section B
(Questions 11 to 15 carry 2 marks each)
9. Form a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are 3 + √2 and 3 – √2.
10. Calculate the area of the major segment of a circle if the area of its minor
segment is 62 sq. units and the radius is 7 units. Use π= 22/7.
11. If sin α =
√3 , cos β = √3 thentanα . tanβ ?
2 2
12. Find the area of the triangle whose sides are 42 cm, 34 cm and 20 cm.
Also, find the height corresponding to the longest side.
13. From a point on the ground, which is 30m away from a foot of a vertical tower, the angle of
elevation of the top of the tower is found to be 60 ° . The height of the tower in metres.
Section C
(Questions 16 to 20 carry 4 marks each)
14. What must be subtracted from the polynomial f(x) = x4 + 2x3 – 13x2 – 12x
+ 21 so that the resulting polynomial is exactly divisible by x 2 – 4x + 3?
15. Prove that: ( cosec ∅ −sin ∅ ) ( sec ∅ −cos ∅ ) ( tan ∅ +cot ∅ )=1
16. The perimeter of a right triangle is 40 cm and its hypotenuse measures
17 cm. Find the area of the triangle.
17. If the area of a circle is equal to sum of the areas of two circles of diameters 10 cm and
24 cm, calculate the diameter of the larger circle (in cm).
4 sinA +5 cosA
18. If 2tanA=3, Then find the value of is ?
6 sinA +2 cosA