SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS MAX.

MARKS: 80
CLASS : X DURATION : 3 HRS
General Instruction:
1. This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.
2. Section A has 20 MCQs carrying 1 mark each.
3. Section B has 5 questions carrying 02 marks each.
4. Section C has 6 questions carrying 03 marks each.
5. Section D has 4 questions carrying 05 marks each.
6. Section E has 3 case based integrated units of assessment (04 marks each) with sub-parts of the
values of 1, 1 and 2 marks each respectively.
7. All Questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice in 2 Qs of 5 marks, 2 Qs of 3 marks and
2 Questions of 2 marks has been provided. An internal choice has been provided in the 2marks
questions of Section E
8. Draw neat figures wherever required. Take π =22/7 wherever required if not stated.
SECTION – A
Questions 1 to 20 carry 1 mark each.

1. A 1.6 m tall girl stands at distance of 3.2 m from a lamp post and casts shadow of 4.8 m on the
ground, then the height of the lamp post is
(a) 8 m (b) 4 m (c) 6 m (d) 8/3 m

2 sin A – 3cos A
2. If cosec A = 13/12, then the value of
4 sin A – 9 cos A
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 3

3. When 2120 is expressed as the product of its prime factors we get

(a) 2 × 5³ × 53 (b) 2³ × 5 × 53 (c) 5 × 7² × 31 (d) 5² × 7 × 33

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4. If sin 2A = tan² 45° where A is an acute angle, then the value of A is
2
(a) 60° (b) 45° (c) 30° (d) 15°

5. The ratio in which x-axis divides the join of (2, -3) and (5, 6) is:
(a) 1: 2 (b) 3 : 4 (c) 1: 3 (d) 1: 5

6. The solution of the following pair of equation is:

x – 3y = 2, 3x – y = 14
(a) x = 5, y = 1 (b) x = 2, y = 3 (c) x = 1, y = 2 (d) x = 1, y = 4

7. The runs scored by a batsman in 35 different matches are given below:

Runs Scored 0-15 15-30 30-45 45-60 60-75 75-90
Frequency 5 7 4 8 8 3
The lower limit of the median class is
(a) 15 (b) 30 (c) 45 (d) 60

8. If 3 sin θ – cos θ = 0 and 0° < θ < 90°, find the value of θ.

(a) 30° (b) 45° (c) 60° (d) 90°

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9. The ratio of outer and inner perimeters of circular path is 23:22. If the path is 5 m wide, the
diameter of the inner circle is
(a) 55 m (b) 110 m (c) 220 m (d) 230 m

10. If the quadratic equation x2 + 4x + k = 0 has real and equal roots, then
(a) k < 4 (b) k > 4 (c) k = 4 (d) k ≥ 4

11. If the mean of a frequency distribution is 8.1 and fi = 20, fixi = 132 + 5k, then k =
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6

12. ABCD is a trapezium with AD ∥ BC and AD = 4cm. If the diagonals AC and BD intersect each
other at O such that AO/OC = DO/OB =1/2, then BC =
(a) 6cm (b) 7cm (c) 8cm (d) 9cm
13. Volumes of two spheres are in the ratio 64:27. The ratio of their surface areas is
(a) 3:4 (b) 4:3 (c) 9:16 (d) 16:9

14. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is
(a) 7 (b) 14 (c) 21 (d) 28

15. If two tangents inclined at an angle of 60ᵒ are drawn to a circle of radius 3cm, then the length of
each tangent is equal to
3 3
(a) cm (b) 3 cm (c) 6 cm (d) 3 3
2
16. If p and q are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = 2x2 – 7x + 3, find the value of p + q – pq
is
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) None of these
17. The area of a quadrant of a circle, whose circumference is 22 cm, is
11 77 2 77 2 77
(a) cm2 (b) cm (c) cm (d) cm2
8 8 2 4
18. The LCM of smallest two-digit composite number and smallest composite number is:
(a) 12 (b) 4 (c) 20 (d) 44
Direction : In the question number 19 & 20 , A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a
statement of Reason(R) . Choose the correct option
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of
Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of
Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.

19. Assertion (A): If HCF ( 90, 144) = 18, then LCM (90, 144) = 720
Reason (R): HCF (a, b) x LCM (a, b) = a x b

20. Assertion (A): The point (0, 4) lies on y-axis.

Reason (R): The y co-ordinate of the point on x-axis is zero.

SECTION – B
Questions 21 to 25 carry 2 marks each.

21. In the given figure below, AD/AE=AC/BD and ∠1=∠2. Show that Δ BAE~ ΔCAD.

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22. Two concentric circles are of radii 5 cm and 3 cm. Find the length of the chord of the larger circle
which touches the smaller circle.

23. For what value of k will the following system of linear equations have no solution?
3x + y = 1; (2k – 1) x + (k – 1) y = 2k + 1

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24. If tan (A + B) = 3 and tan (A – B) = ; 0° < A+B ≤ 90°; A > B, find A and B.
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OR
If 7 sin2A + 3 cos2A = 4, then find tan A
25. Find the area of the sector of a circle with radius 4 cm and of angle 30°. Also, find the area of the
corresponding major sector. (Use π = 3.14)
OR
A horse is tied to a peg at one corner of a square shaped grass field of side 15 m by means of a 5 m
long rope. Find the area of that part of the field in which the horse can graze (use π = 3.14)

SECTION – C
Questions 26 to 31 carry 3 marks each.

26. Prove that √2 is an irrational number.

cos2 θ + sin θ = 1+ sinθ

2

27. Prove that: cos θ

1– tanθ 1– cotθ

28. If PQ is a tangent drawn from an external point P to a circle with centre O and QOR is a diameter
where length of QOR is 8 cm such that ∠POR = 120°, then find OP and PQ.
OR
In the figure XY and X'Y' are two parallel tangents to a circle with centre O and another tangent AB
with point of contact C interesting XY at A and X'Y' at B, what is the measure of ∠AOB.

29. Two dice are thrown at the same time. What is the probability that the sum of the two numbers
appearing on the top of the dice is (i) 7? (ii) 14? (iii) equal to 12?

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30. Solve the following linear equations:
152x – 378y = –74 and –378x + 152y = –604
OR
Yash scored 40 marks in a test, getting 3 marks for each right answer and losing 1 mark for each
wrong answer. Had 4 marks been awarded for each correct answer and 2 marks been deducted for
each incorrect answer, then Yash would have scored 50 marks. How many questions were there in
the test?

31. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 – 2x – 8 and verify the relationship between the
zeroes and the coefficients of the polynomial.

SECTION – D
Questions 32 to 35 carry 5 marks each.

32. A life insurance agent found the following data for distribution of ages of 100 policy holders.
Calculate the median age, if policies are given only to persons having age 18 years onwards but
less than 60 years.
Age (in years) Number of policy holders
Below 20 2
20 – 25 4
25 – 30 18
30 – 35 21
35 – 40 33
40 – 45 11
45 – 50 3
50 – 55 6
55 – 60 2

33. A motor boat whose speed is 15 km/hr in still water goes 30 km downstream and comes back in 4
hours 30 minutes. Find the speed of the stream.
OR
Rs.6500 were divided equally among a certain number of persons. Had there been 15 more persons,
each would have got Rs.30 less. Find the original number of persons.

34. State and prove Basic Proportional Theorem.

35. From a solid cylinder whose height is 2.4 cm and diameter 1.4 cm, a conical cavity of the same
height and same diameter is hollowed out. Find the total surface area of the remaining solid to the
nearest cm2.
OR
Rasheed got a playing top (lattu) as his birthday present, which surprisingly had no colour on it. He
wanted to colour it with his crayons. The top is shaped like a cone surmounted by a hemisphere.
The entire top is 5 cm in height and the diameter of the top is 3.5 cm. Find the area he has to
colour.

SECTION – E(Case Study Based Questions)

Questions 36 to 38 carry 4 marks each.

36. Case Study – 1

Ram is watching the top and bottom of a lighthouse from the top of the building. The angles of
elevation and depression of the top and bottom of a lighthouse from the top of a 60 m high building
are 30° and 60° respectively.

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 Find (i) the difference between the heights of the lighthouse and the building.
(ii) the distance between the lighthouse and the building.
OR
The ratio of the height of a light house and the length of its shadow on the ground is √3 : 1 What is
the angle of elevation?

37. Case Study – 2

In order to conduct sports day activities in your school, lines have been drawn with chalk powder at
a distance of 1 m each in a rectangular shaped ground ABCD. 100 flower pots have been placed at
the distance of 1 m from each other along AD, as shown in the following figure. Niharika runs
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( )th distance AD on the 2nd line and posts a green Flag. Preet runs ( ) th distance AD on the
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eighth line and posts are red flags. Taking A as the origin AB along x-axis and AD along y-axis,
answer the following questions:

(i) Find the coordinates of the green flag. (1)

(ii) Find the distance between the two flags. (1)
(iii) If Rashmi has to post a blue flag exactly halfway between the line segment joining the two
flags, where should she post her flag? (2)
OR

(iii) If Joy has to post a flag at one fourth distance from the green flag, in the line segment joining
the green and red flags, then where should he post his flag? (2)

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38. Case Study – 3
Saving money is a good habit and it should be inculcated in children from the beginning. A father
brought a piggy bank for his son Aditya. He puts one five-rupee coin of his savings in the piggy
bank on the first day. He increases his savings by one five-rupee coin daily.

(i) If the piggy bank can hold 190 coins of five rupees in all, find the number of days he can
contribute to put the five-rupee coins into it
(ii) Find the total money he saved.
OR
(ii) If 6 times the 6th term of an A.P., is equal to 9 times the 9th term, find its 15th term.

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