Little

flower school
Gorakhpur

Class 10 - Mathematics

Maths

Maximum Marks: 80 Time Allowed: 3 hours

General Instructions:

1.All questions are compulsory

2.This paper consist of 30 questions and have four sections A,B,C,D.

3.Section A consist 6 question of 1 mark each.

4.Section B consist of 6 question of 2 mark each.

5.Section C consist of 10 question of 3 mark rach.

6.Section D consist of 8 question of 4 mark each.

Section A

1. Express the given number as product of its prime factors: 7429 1

2. Explain why ( 3 × 5 × 7) + 7 is a composite number ? 1

3. Show that there is no value of n for which ends in 5. 1

4. State whether the given rational number will have a terminating decimal 1

expansion or a nonterminating repeating decimal expansion.

5. The graph of y = p(x) is given in figure below, for some polynomial p(x). Find the 1

number of zeroes of p(x).

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 6. Find all the zeroes of f(x) = x2 - 2x. 1

Section B

7. Apply division algorithm to find the quotient q (x) and remainder r (x) on dividing 2

f (x) by g (x), where

8. Find the value of 'a' , if is a factor of the polynomial . 2

9. The graph of y = p(x) is given in figure below, for some polynomial p(x). Find the 2

number of zeroes of p(x).

10. Find the zeroes of the given quadratic polynomials and verify the 2

relationship between the zeroes and the coefficients.

11. In a school there are two sections - section A and section B of class X. There are 32 2

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 students in section A and 36 students in section B. Determine the minimum

number of books required for their class library so that they can be distributed

equally among students of section A or section B.

12. Express the HCF of 468 and 222 as 468x + 222y where x, y are integers in two 2

different ways.

Section C

13. Use Euclid's division algorithm to find the HCF of 441, 567 and 693. 3

14. Show that the square of any positive integer cannot be of the form 3m + 2, where m 3

is a natural number.

15. Wrtie the HCF and LCM of smallest odd composite number and the smallest odd 3

prime number. If an odd number p divides q2, then will it divide q3 also? Explain.

16. Use Euclid Division Lemma to show that cube of any positive integer is either of the 3

form 9m, (9m + 1) or (9m + 8).

17. Show that the square of any positive integer cannot be of the form 6m + 2 or 6m + 5 3

for any integer m.

18. Find the zeroes of the given quadratic polynomial and verify the relationship 3

between the zeroes and their coefficients. x2 - 121

19. Find a quadratic polynomial of the given number as the sum and product of its 3

zeroes respectively. 0,

20. Find a cubic polynomial with the sum, sum of the product of its zeroes taken two at 3

a time, and product of its zeroes as 2, –7, –14, respectively.

21. Find the zeroes of the given quadratic polynomials and verify the relationship 3

between the zeroes and the coefficients. x2 - 2x - 8

22. If one zero of the polynomial is seven times the other, then 3

find the zeroes and the value of k.

Section D

23. For any positive integer n, prove that n3 - n is divisible by 6. 4

24. Use Euclid's Division Lemma to show that the cube of any positive integer is of the 4

form 9m, 9m + 1, or 9m + 8 for some integer m.

25. If and are zeroes of the polynomial ( 2 + )x2 + 61x + 6 . Find the values of 4

and .

26. If the HCF of 657 and 963 is expressible in the form of , find x. 4
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26. If the HCF of 657 and 963 is expressible in the form of , find x. 4

27. If two zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = x4 - 6x3 - 26x2 + 138x - 35 are 2 ± . Find the 4

other zeroes.

28. A village of the North-East India is suffering from flood. A group of students decide 4

to help them with food items, clothes etc, So the student collects some amount of

rupees, which is represented by .

i. If the number of students is represented by , find the values of a and b.

ii. What values have been depicted by the group of students?

29. Obtain all other zeroes of the polynomial 4x4 + x3- 72x2- 18x, if two of its zeroes are 4

3 and-3 .

30. Given that the zeroes of the cubic polynomial are of the 4

form for some real numbers a and b where a is the number of

people who believes in Yoga and b is the number of people who believes in Gym,

find the values of a and b as well as the zeroes of the given polynomial.

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