MATOSHRI SCIENCE ACADEMY
Class 10 - Mathematics
Topic: Real Numbers
Total Marks: 30
Q1. Multiple Choice Questions (1 mark each)
1) HCF of 65 and 117 is: a) 1 b) 13 c) 5 d) 7
2) The decimal expansion of 13/2 is: a) Terminating b) Non-terminating repeating c)
Non-terminating non-repeating d) None of these
3) If p is a prime greater than 2, then p² – 1 is divisible by: a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 24
4) The decimal expansion of 23/2■·5³ will terminate after: a) 2 places b) 3 places c) 4
places d) 5 places
5) The product of three consecutive positive integers is divisible by: a) 6 b) 9 c) 12 d) 3
Q2. Answer the following (2 marks each)
1) Express 405 in terms of its prime factors.
2) Find the HCF of 96 and 404 by Euclid’s algorithm.
3) Write whether 129/2■·5² has terminating decimal expansion or not.
4) Write the prime factorization of 980.
Q3. Solve the following (3 marks each)
1) Without actually performing the long division, find whether 987/10500 will have a
terminating or non-terminating repeating decimal expansion.
2) Find the LCM and HCF of 6 and 20 by the prime factorization method.
3) Show that 5 is an irrational number.
Q4. Long Answer Questions (4 marks each)
1) Prove that √3 is an irrational number.
2) A sweet seller has 420 gulab jamuns and 130 ladoos. He wants to pack them in boxes
such that each box has the same number of sweets and no sweet is left. Find the
maximum number of sweets in each box.
Marks Distribution:
Section Marks
Q1. MCQ (5 questions) 5
Q2. Short Answer (4 questions) 8
Q3. Medium Answer (3 questions) 9
Q4. Long Answer (2 questions) 8
Total 30