CBSE Class 10

Mathematics Board Exam 2018

Important Questions
1 Mark Questions:

1. If the sum of first m terms of an AP is 2m2 + 3m, then what is its second term?

2. Three sides of a triangle are a, 3a and 3 a. Find the measurement of angle opposite to the
largest side.

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3. If  and  are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial find the value of    .
 

4. Find the value of ‘k’ so that the zeros of the quadratic polynomial 3x2 – kx + 14 are in the ratio
7: 6.

5. 4 tables and 3 chairs, together, cost Rs 2,250 and 3 tables and 4 chairs cost Rs 1950. Find the
cost of 2 chairs and 1 table.

6. Find the value of tan210o − cot280o.

7. What is the common difference of an A.P. in which a24 − a17 = −28?

8. The probability of selecting a rotten apple randomly from a heap of 900 apples is 0.18. What
is the number of rotten apples in the heap?

9. Diagonals of a quadrilateral ABCD bisect each other. If  A = 55o, then what is the value of
B.

10. In the following figure, if O is the centre of circle then find the value of BAC.

11. If the ratio of the height of a cone and a cylinder is 1:3 and both have same radius of base
then find the ratio of their volumes.
12. A 3 m tall man is standing at a distance of 40 m from a building. If the angle of elevation
from the eye to the top of the building is 60⁰, then find the height of the building.

13. How many spherical chocolate balls of diameter 8 inches can be made from a chocolate cube
of side 24 inches?

14. Find the length of the tangent from a point M which is at a distance of 17 cm from the centre
O of the circle of radius 8 cm.

15. If 3 times the 4th term of an AP is equal to 9 times its 10th term, then show that its 23rd term
is zero.

2 Marks Questions:

1. Determine whether the following system of linear equation has a unique solution, no solution
or infinitely many solution.
4x − 5y = 3
8x − 10y = 6

2. Find mode of the given distribution:

Family size 1-3 3-5 5-7 7-9 9-11
No. of families 7 8 2 2 1

3. Find the value of p, for which one root of the quadratic equation px2 – 14x + 8 = 0 is 6 times
the other.
4. In the figure, ABCD is a square of side 42 cm. Find the area of the shaded region.

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5. Which term of the progression 20,19 ,18 ,17 ,... is the first negative term?
4 2 4

6. If the distances of P(x, y) from A(5, 1) and B(–1, 5) are equal, then prove that 3x = 2y.
7. If the bisectors of adjacent angles P and Q of a parallelogram PQRS intersect at a point O,
then find POQ.

8. A circle touches all the four sides of a quadrilateral ABCD. Prove that AB + CD = BC + DA.

9. How many three digit numbers are divisible by both 3 and 4?

10. Water flows through a circular pipe, whose internal diameter is 2 cm, at the rate of 0.7 m per
second into a cylindrical tank, the radius of whose base is 40 cm. By how much will the level of
water in the cylindrical tank use in half an hour?

11. Find the value of x in the following figure where O is the centre of circle.

12. In figure, BOA is a diameter of the circle and the tangent at a point P meets BA extended at
T. If ∠PBO = 35°, then find ∠PAT.

13. A paper is in the form of a rectangle ABCD with AB = 18 cm and BC = 14 cm. A semi-
circular portion with BC as diameter is cut off. Find the area of the remaining paper.

14. For what value of x and y the points (3, 5), (x, 8), (10, y) and (12, 15) are the vertices of a
parallelogram.

15. Following table shows the data collected for the month of birth of 50 students in a class.

Month of birth Number of students

January 5
February 3
March 0
April 7
May 7
 June 0
July 1
August 5
September 8
October 6
November 4
December 4

Find the probability that a student was not born in odd months.

3 Marks Questions:

1. Prove that 3  2 is an irrational number.

2. Use Euclid’s division lemma to show that the square of any positive integer is either of the
form 3p or 3p+ 1, where p is an integer.

3. If α and  are the zeroes of the polynomial 2x − 5x + k and α −  = −1. Find the value of k.

4. Consider the numbers of the form 6, where n is a natural number. Check whether there is any
value of n for which 6n is divisible by 9.

5. If the areas of two similar triangles are equal, Prove that they are congruent.

6. PQR is a right angels triangle right angled at P. M is a point on QR such that PM  QR. Show
that2 PM = QM.MR

7. In the given fig. AB and CD are common tangents to two circles of unequal radii. Prove that
AB = CD.

8. Prove that:

secθ  1 secθ  1
  2cos ecθ
secθ  1 secθ  1

9. If ad ≠ bc, then prove that the equation (a2 + b2)x2 + 2 (ac + bd)x + (c2 + d2) = 0 has no real
roots.
10. A well with inner diameter 3.5 m is dug 14 m deep. If it’s whole inside surface area is to be
plastered at the rate of Rs. 50 per m2 then find the total cost of plastering.

11. If the first, second, and the last terms of an AP are m, n, and 2m respectively, show that their
2mn
sum is .
2 n  m

12. On a straight line passing through the foot of a tower, two points C and D are at distances of
4 m and 16 m from the foot respectively. If the angles of elevation from C and D of the top of the
tower are complementary, then find the height of the tower.

13. In the given figure, two concentric circles with centre O have radii 21 cm and 42 cm. If
22
∠AOB = 60°, find the area of the shaded region. [Use   ]
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14. The following distribution gives the daily income of 50 workers of a factory:

Daily income (in Rs) No. of workers

100-120 12

120-140 14

140-160 8

160-180 6

180-200 10
Convert the above distribution into a less than type cumulative frequency distribution and draw
its ogive.

15. In a class of 50 students blood groups of all students were detected to be as follows:
 Blood group A B AB O

Number of students 20 13 12 5

If a student is selected at random from the entire class then find the probability that the selected
student
(i) has blood group AB
(ii) has blood group other than A and AB
(iii) does not have blood group O

4 Marks Questions:

1. Solve graphically the following system of equations:

x + 2y = 5
2x − 3y = −4

2. 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 for each
incorrect answer, then Yash would have scored 40 marks. How many questions were there in the
test?

3. Solve for x:

1 3 5 1
  , x  1,  , 4
x  1 5x  1 x  4 5

4. Prove that if a line is drawn parallel to one side of a triangle to intersect the other two side in
distinct points, then the other two sides are divided in the same ratio.

5. In the given figure, OA.OB = OC.OD. Show that  =C and B =  D

6. If tan + sin = m and tan − sin =n. Show that m2  n 2  4 mn.

7. If AD and PM are medians of triangles ABC and PQR, respectively where  ABC PQR,
 AB AD
Prove that =
PQ PM

8. If the ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two A.Ps is (7n + 1):(4n + 27), then find the ratio
of their 9th terms.

9. Prove that the sum of either pair of opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral is 180o. Using this
result find the value of each angle in the cyclic quadrilateral shown below.

10. Construct a triangle ABC with side BC = 7 cm, ∠B = 45°, ∠A = 105°. Then construct
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another triangle whose sides are times the corresponding sides of the ∆ABC.
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11. From the eye of a man, the angles of depression of a stone and a brick on the opposite side of
the man on a ground are α and β. If the height of the man is h meters and the line joining the
stone and the brick passes through the foot of the man, then show that the distance between the
h  tan   tan  
stone and the brick is .
tan  tan 

p2  1
12. If sec + tan  = p, show that 2  sin θ.
p 1

13. A triangle ABC circumscribing a circle of radius 4 cm, meets the circle at points D, E and F.
If the point D divides BC into two segments of length 8 cm and 6 cm as shown in the following
diagram, then find the area of triangle ABC.
14. A box contains 5 green buttons and some yellow buttons. If the probability of drawing a
yellow button is double that of a green button, find the number of yellow buttons in the box.

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15. A bag contains a number of balls out of which th are black in colour, along with are
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red, 7 times the square root of the total number are blue balls and the rest of 56 balls were white.
Find the total number of balls there in the bag.