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unit exercise questions
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Unit Exercise - 1
1. If the ordered pairs (x 2 − 3x , y 2 + 4y ) and (-2, 5) are equal, then find x and y.

2. The Cartesian product A×A has 9 elements among which (–1, 0) and (0, 1) are found.
Find the set A and the remaining elements of A×A.
 x − 1 x ≥ 1
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3. Given that f (x ) =   . Find
 4 x < 1
 
(i) f (0) (ii) f (3) (iii) f (a + 1) in terms of a.(Given that a ³ 0 )

4. Let A = {9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17} and let f : A ® N be defined by f (n ) = the highest
prime factor of n Î A . Write f as a set of ordered pairs and find the range of f.

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5. Find the domain of the function f (x ) = 1 + 1 − 1 − x 2

6. If f (x ) = x 2 , g(x ) = 3x and h(x ) = x − 2 . Prove that ( f  g )  h = f  (g  h ) .

7. A = {1, 2} and B = {1, 2, 3, 4} , C = {5, 6} and D = {5, 6, 7, 8} . Verify whether A×C is a

subset of B×D?
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8. If f (x ) = , x ≠ 1 show that f (f (x )) = − , provided x ¹ 0 .
x +1 x
x −2
9. The function f and g are defined by f (x ) = 6x + 8; g(x ) =
3
1
(i) Calculate the value of gg  
 2 

(ii) Write an expression for gf (x ) in its simplest form.

10. Write the domain of the following real functions

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2x + 1 −5
(i) f (x ) = (ii) p(x ) = 2 (iii) g(x ) = x − 2 (iv) h(x ) = x + 6
x −9 4x + 1
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Unit Exercise - 2
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1. Prove that n 2 - n divisible by 2 for every positive integer n.

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2. A milk man has 175 litres of cow’s milk and 105 litres of buffalow’s milk. He wishes
to sell the milk by filling the two types of milk in cans of equal capacity. Calculate
the following (i) Capacity of a can (ii) Number of cans of cow’s milk (iii) Number
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of cans of buffalow’s milk.

3. When the positive integers a, b and c are divided by 13 the respective remainders are
9, 7 and 10. Find the remainder when a + 2b + 3c is divided by 13.
4. Show that 107 is of the form 4q + 3 for any integer q.
5. If (m + 1)th term of an A.P. is twice the (n + 1)th term, then prove that (3m+1)th term
is twice the (m + n + 1)th term.
6. Find the 12th term from the last term of the A. P -2, -4, -6,... - 100 .
7. Two A.P’s have the same common difference. The first term of one A.P is 2 and that
of the other is 7. Show that the difference between their 10th terms is the same as the
difference between their 21st terms, which is the same as the difference between any
two corresponding terms.
8. A man saved ₹16500 in ten years. In each year after the first he saved ₹100 more than
he did in the preceding year. How much did he save in the first year?
9. Find the G.P. in which the 2nd term is 6 and the 6th term is 9 6 .
10. The value of a motor cycle depreciates at the rate of 15% per year. What will be the
value of the motor cycle 3 year hence, which is now purchased for ₹ 45,000?

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Unit Exercise - 3
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1. Solve (x + y − 5) = y − z = 2x − 11 = 9 − (x + 2z )
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2. One hundred and fifty students are admitted to a school. They are distrbuted over
three sections A, B and C. If 6 students are shifted from section A to section C, the
sections will have equal number of students. If 4 times of students of C exceeds the
number of students of section A by the number of students in section B, find the
number of students in the three sections.

3. In a three-digit number, when the tens and the hundreds digit are interchanged the
new number is 54 more than three times the original number. If 198 is added to the
number, the digits are reversed. The tens digit exceeds the hundreds digit by twice as
that of the tens digit exceeds the unit digit. Find the original number.
4. Find the least common multiple of xy(k 2 + 1) + k (x 2 + y 2 ) and xy(k 2 − 1) + k (x 2 − y 2 )

5. Find the GCD of the following by division algorithm

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2x 4 + 13x 3 + 27x 2 + 23x + 7 , x 3 + 3x 2 + 3x + 1 , x 2 + 2x + 1
6. Reduce the given Rational expressions to its lowest form
x 3a − 8 10x 3 − 25x 2 + 4x − 10
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(i)
x 2a + 2x a + 4
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(ii)
74 −4 − 10x 2
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+
p q + r  q 2 + r 2 − p 2 
7. Simplify × 1 + 
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1 1  2qr 
−
p q +r
8. Arul, Ravi and Ram working together can clean a store in 6 hours. Working alone,
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Ravi takes twice as long to clean the store as Arul does. Ram needs three times as
long as Arul does. How long would it take each if they are working alone?
9. Find the square root of 289x 4 − 612x 3 + 970x 2 − 684x + 361 .

10. Solve y + 1 + 2y − 5 = 3

11. A boat takes 1.6 hours longer to go 36 kms up a river than to return. If the speed of
the water current is 4 km per hr, what is the speed of the boat in still water?
12. Is it possible to design a rectangular park of perimeter 320 m and area 4800 m 2 ? If so
find its length and breadth.
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13. At t minutes past 2 pm, the time needed to 3 pm is 3 minutes less than . Find t.
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14. The number of seats in a row is equal to the total number of rows in a hall. The total
number of seats in the hall will increase by 375 if the number of rows is doubled and
the number of seats in each row is reduced by 5. Find the number of rows in the hall
at the beginning.

15. If a and b are the zeroes of the polynomial f (x ) = x 2 − 2x + 3, find the polynomial
a −1 b −1
whose roots are (i) a + 2, b + 2 (ii) , .
a +1 b +1
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16. If –4 is a root of the equation x 2 + px − 4 = 0 and the equation x 2 + px + q = 0 has

equal roots, find the values of p and q.
17. Two formers Sudhakar and Siddhardhan cultivates three varieties of grains namely
rice, wheat and ragi. If the sale (in `) of three varieties of grains by both the formers
in the month of April is given by the matrix.
April sale in `
rice wheat ragi
500 1000 1500 Sudhakar
A =  
2500 1500 500  Siddhardhan
and the May month sale (in `) is exactly twice as that of the April month sale for each
variety.
(i) What is the average sales of the months April and May.
(ii) if the sales continues to increase in the same way in the successive months, what
will be sales in the month of August?

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 cos q sin q   x − cos q 
18. If cos q   × sin q 
cos q
 = I , find x.
− sin q cos q   x  2
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p 0  q  2 −2
19. Given A = 

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, B = 
1

 , C = 
0 
 2
2 2  and BA = C . Find the value of p and q.
 
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3 0 6 3 3 6

      find the matrix D, such that CD–AB = 0
20. A= , B =  , C = 
1 1
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4 5 8 5

Unit Exercise - 4
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1. In the figure, if BD ^ AC and CE ^ AB , prove that C

D
CA CE
(i) DAEC  DADB (ii) = F
AB DB

A B E B
2. In the given figure AB  CD  EF .
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m
If AB = 6 cm, CD = x cm, EF = 4 cm, BD = 5 cm F
6cm

D
and DE = y cm. Find x and y.
4cm

y
x
3. O is any point inside a triangle ABC. The bisector of ÐAOB , A C E
ÐBOC and ÐCOA meet the sides AB, BC and CA in point D,
E and F respectively. Show that AD × BE ×CF = DB ×EC ×FA A

4. In the figure, ABC is a triangle in which AB = AC . Points D and E D

E
are points on the side AB and AC respectively such that AD = AE
. Show that the points B, C, E and D lie on a same circle. C
B
5. Two trains leave a railway station at the same time. The first train travels due west

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and the second train due north. The first train travels at a speed of 20 km/hr and the
second train travels at 30 km/hr. After 2 hours, what is the distance between them?
6. D is the mid point of side BC and AE ^ BC . If BC = a , AC = b , AB = c , ED = x ,
AD = p and AE = h , prove that
a2 a2 a2
(i) b = p + ax +
2 2
(ii) c 2 = p 2 − ax + (iii) b 2 + c 2 = 2p 2 +
4 4 2
7. A man whose eye-level is 2 m above the ground wishes to find the height of a tree.
He places a mirror horizontally on the ground 20 m from the tree and finds that if he
stands at a point C which is 4 m from the mirror B, he can see the reflection of the
top of the tree. How height is the tree?
8. An emu which is 8 ft tall is standing at the foot of a pillar which is 30 ft high. It walks
away from the pillar. The shadow of the emu falls beyond emu. What is the relation
between the length of the shadow and the distance from the emu to the pillar?
9. Two circles intersect at A and B. From a point P on one of the circles lines PAC and
PBD are drawn intersecting the second circle at C and D. Prove that CD is parallel
to the tangent at P.
10. Let ABC be a triangle and D,E,F are points on the respective sides AB, BC, AC (or

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their extensions). Let AD : DB = 5 : 3 , BE : EC = 3 : 2 and AC = 21 . Find the
length of the line segment CF.
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Unit Exercise - 5
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1. PQRS is a rectangle formed by joining the points P(-1, -1) , Q(-1, 4) , R(5, 4) and
S(5,-1) . A, B, C and D are the mid-points of PQ, QR, RS and SP respectively. Is
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the quadrilateral ABCD a square, a rectangle or a rhombus? Justify your answer.

2. The area of a triangle is 5. Two of its vertices are (2,1) and (3, –2). The third vertex
is (x, y) where y = x + 3 . Find the coordinates of the third vertex.
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3. Find the area of a triangle formed by the lines 3x + y − 2 = 0 , 5x + 2y − 3 = 0 ,

2x − y − 3 = 0
4. If vertices of quadrilateral are at A(-5, 7) , B(-4, k) , C(-1, -6) and D(4, 5) and its area
is 72 [Link]. Find the value of k.
5. Without using distance formula, show that points (-2, -1) , (4, 0) , (3, 3) and (-3, 2)
are the vertices of a parallelogram.
6. Find the equations of the lines, whose sum and product of intercepts are 1 and –6
respectively.
7. The owner of a milk store finds that, he can sell 980 litres of milk each week at
₹14/litre and 1220 litres of milk each week at ₹16/litre. Assuming a linear relationship
between selling price and demand, how many litres could he sell weekly at ₹17/litre?
8. Find the image of the point (3,8) with respect to the line x + 3y = 7 assuming the
line to be a plane mirror.
9. Find the equation of a line passing through the point of intersection of the lines
4x + 7y − 3 = 0 and 2x − 3y + 1 = 0 that has equal intercepts on the axes.
10. A person standing at a junction (crossing) of two straight paths represented by the
equations 2x − 3y + 4 = 0 and 3x + 4y − 5 = 0 seek to reach the path whose equation
is 6x − 7y + 8 = 0 in the least time. Find the equation of the path that he should follow.
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Unit Exercise - 6
 sec A − 1   sin A − 1  2
1. Prove that (i) cot2 A 
  + sec2 A   = 0 (ii) tan q − 1 = 1 − 2 cos2 q
1 + sin A  
1 + sec A  tan2 q + 1
2
 1 + sin q − cos q  1 − cos q
2. Prove that   =
1 + sin q + cos q  1 + cos q
3. If x sin q + y cos q = sin q cos q and x sin q = y cos q , then prove that x 2 + y 2 = 1 .
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4. If a cos q − b sin q = c , then prove that (a sin q + b cos q) = ± a 2 + b 2 − c 2 .

5. A bird is sitting on the top of a 80 m high tree. From a point on the ground, the angle
of elevation of the bird is 45° . The bird flies away horizontally in such away that it
remained at a constant height from the ground. After 2 seconds, the angle of elevation
of the bird from the same point is 30° . Determine the speed at which the bird flies.
( 3 = 1.732)

6. An aeroplane is flying parallel to the Earth’s surface at a speed of 175 m/sec and at a

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height of 600 m. The angle of elevation of the aeroplane from a point on the Earth’s
surface is 37° at a given point. After what period of time does the angle of elevation
increase to 53° ? (tan 53° = 1.3270, tan 37° = 0.7536)
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7. A bird is flying from A towards B at an angle of 35° , a point 30 km away from A. At
B it changes its course of flight and heads towards C on a bearing of 48° and distance
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32 km away.
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(i) How far is B to the North of A? (ii) How far is B to the West of A?
(iii) How far is C to the North of B? (iv) How far is C to the East of B?
(sin 55° = 0.8192, cos 55° = 0.5736, sin 42° = 0.6691, cos 42° = 0.7431)
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8. Two ships are sailing in the sea on either side of the lighthouse. The angles of
depression of two ships as observed from the top of the lighthouse are 60° and 45°
 3 + 1
  metres, find the height
respectively. If the distance between the ships is 200  
 3 
of the lighthouse.

9. A building and a statue are in opposite side of a street from each other 35 m apart.
From a point on the roof of building the angle of elevation of the top of statue is 24° and
the angle of depression of base of the statue is 34° . Find the height of the statue.
(tan 24° = 0.4452, tan 34° = 0.6745)

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Unit Exercise - 7
1. The barrel of a fountain-pen cylindrical in shape, is 7 cm long and 5 mm in diameter.
A full barrel of ink in the pen will be used for writing 330 words on an average. How
many words can be written using a bottle of ink containing one fifth of a litre?
2. A hemi-spherical tank of radius 1.75 m is full of water. It is connected with a pipe
which empties the tank at the rate of 7 litre per second. How much time will it take
to empty the tank completely?
3. Find the maximum volume of a cone that can be carved out of a solid hemisphere of
radius r units.
4. An oil funnel of tin sheet consists of a cylindrical portion 10 cm long attached to a
frustum of a cone. If the total height is 22 cm, the diameter of the cylindrical portion
be 8cm and the diameter of the top of the funnel be 18 cm, then find the area of the
tin sheet required to make the funnel.

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5. Find the number of coins, 1.5 cm in diameter and 2 mm thick, to be melted to form
a right circular cylinder of height 10 cm and diameter 4.5 cm.
6. A hollow metallic cylinder whose external radius is 4.3 cm and internal radius is 1.1
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cm and whole length is 4 cm is melted and recast into a solid cylinder of 12 cm long.
Find the diameter of solid cylinder.
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7. The slant height of a frustum of a cone is 4 m and the perimeter of circular ends are
18 m and 16 m. Find the cost of painting its curved surface area at `100 per sq. m.
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8. A hemi-spherical hollow bowl has material of volume cubic cm. Its external
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diameter is 14 cm. Find its thickness.
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9. The volume of a cone is 1005 cu. cm. The area of its base is 201 sq. cm. Find the
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10. A metallic sheet in the form of a sector of a circle of radius 21 cm has central angle
of 216°. The sector is made into a cone by bringing the bounding radii together. Find
the volume of the cone formed.

Unit Exercise - 8

1. The mean of the following frequency distribution is 62.8 and the sum of all frequencies
is 50. Compute the missing frequencies f1 and f2 .
Class Interval 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120
Frequency 5 f1 10 f2 7 8
2. The diameter of circles (in mm) drawn in a design are given below.
Diameters 33-36 37-40 41-44 45-48 49-52
Number of circles 15 17 21 22 25

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Calculate the standard deviation.

3. The frequency distribution is given below.
x k 2k 3k 4k 5k 6k
f 2 1 1 1 1 1
In the table, k is a positive integer, has a varience of 160. Determine the value of k.
4. The standard deviation of some temperature data in degree celsius (oC) is 5. If the
data were converted into degree Farenheit (oF) then what is the variance?
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5. If for distribution ∑ (x − 5) = 3, ∑ (x − 5) = 43, and total number of items is 18.
find the mean and standard deviation.
6. Prices of peanut packets in various places of two cities are given below. In which city,
prices were more stable?
Prices in city A 20 22 19 23 16
Prices in city B 10 20 18 12 15

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7. If the range and coefficient of range of the data are 20 and 0.2 respectively, then find
the largest and smallest values of the data.

8. If two dice are rolled, then find the probability of getting the product of face value 6
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or the difference of face values 5.
9. In a two children family, find the probability that there is at least one girl in a family.
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10. A bag contains 5 white and some black balls. If the probability of drawing a black ball
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from the bag is twice the probability of drawing a white ball then find the number
of black balls.
11. The probability that a student will pass the final examination in both English
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and Tamil is 0.5 and the probability of passing neither is 0.1. If the probability of
passing the English examination is 0.75, what is the probability of passing the Tamil
examination?
12. The King, Queen and Jack of the suit spade are removed from a deck of 52 cards. One
card is selected from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting (i) a diamond
(ii) a queen (iii) a spade (iv) a heart card clearing the number 5.