MATHEMATICS CLASS - 10

CLASS : 10
Areas Related To Circle

Jaya drew this rangoli design during a competition.

Circles C1, C2, C3 and C4 have common centre P.

The radius of circle C1 is 6 cm.
The table given below shows the radii of circles in terms of the radius of circle C1.

1. The area enclosed between circle C1 and C2 and circle C3 and C4 have been painted. what are of the
figure has been painted?

(a) 85  cm 2 (b) 108  cm 2 (c) 324  cm 2 (d) 846  cm 2

2. Jaya wants to outline the boundaries of ircles C2 and C3 with ribbon. One roll of the ribbon is 20 cm
 2 
long. how many rolls of ribbon jaya need?  Use   
 27 
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 12 (d) 116
3. Jaya says, “Since the radius of circle C4 is 3.5 times of the radius of circle C1, the area occupied by
circle C4 is 3.5 times the area occupied by circle C1.”Is Jaya correct? Give reason.

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A ferris wheel is a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger cars attached to the rim. The
passenger cars are installed at equal distance from each other. Neeraj takes a picture of a Ferris
wheel.

He then makes a drawing of the picture and labels some points to make some calculations as under

Point X and Y show the position of two consecutive passenger cars. The centre of the wheel is la-
belled O. The radius of the wheel is 16 m.
4. What is the measure of angle XOY?
5. Each sector of the Ferris wheel is to be decorated wiht lights of different colours. What is the area
decorated by each light?

(a) 2.66  m 2 (b) 21.33  m 2 (c) 25.6  m 2 (d) 3072  m 2

6. What number should the area of sector OYAX be multiplied with to get the area of sector OYPX?
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 12
Given below is the diagram of a trapezium enclosed by a circle of radius 3 cm.

The length of BC is 4 cm.

7. What is the length of RP?

(a) 5cm (b) 5cm (c) 13 cm (d) 13 mc

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8. The distance between AD and BC is 3.5 cm.
Length of AD is 5.5 cm and length of BC is 4 cm.

 2 
What is the area of the circle outside the trapezium?  Use  = 
 27 

In the figure given below, XPY is a semi-circle whose diameter XY = 18 cm and its centre is R.
9. What is are of shaded region?

 27  162  2  27   108   2  108   2

(a)   cm (b)   81  cm 2 (c)   cm (d)   cm
 4   4   4   2 
Given below is a geometrical shape.

10. C is the centre of the circle with radius BC = 21 cm.

ABC is an isosceles right triangle.
Calculate the area of the triangle outside the circular region? (Use p=3.14)

Arithmetic Progressions
Stadium seating surrounds the centre pitch. Each row in the seating is positioned at a slightly
higher level than the one in front of it. A safe seating-standing section of a stadium is shown in
the figure below.

There are 20 rows in the section. Each row in the section is 700 mm in height, excluding the seat
and has one more seat than the previous row, starting from the second row. The first row has 4
seats.
1. Sidharth is seating in the centre seat of Row 12 in the section. How many seats are on his left?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 24
2. What is the seating capacity of the section?
(a) 80 (b) 210 (c) 270 (d) 840

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Sam is standing in Row 15 and Ronit is standing in Row 1.

3. How much higher is Sam’s row than Ronit’s?

4. The height of the section is measured from the foot of the first row to the last row. What is the height
of the section?

A chair is available in two models – with arms and without arms. A person bought 20 chairs of
each model. After use, he stacked the chairs in a storeroom. The height of the storeroom is 1.55
m. The dimensions of the chair and how they are stacked is shown in the figure below.

The dimensions of the seat (in cm) is 50×40×5.

5. What is the height of the stack shown in the figure?
(a) 30 cm (b) 76 cm (c) 100 cm (d) 110 cm
6. What is the maximum number of chairs with arms that can be stacked in the storeroom?
(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 10
7. What is the maximum number of chairs without arms that can be stacked in the storeroom?
8. What is the minimum number of columns (stacks) in which all chairs can be stacked in the store-
room?
9. What can be the dimension of the storeroom (in m)?
(a) 0.3×1.5×1.55 (b) 0.4×1.75×1.55 (c) 0.5×0.4×1.55 (d) 1 × 2.75×1.55
10. What cannot be the difference between four consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression?
2 2 2
(a) 0, 0, 0 (b) -2, -2, -2 (c) 2, 3, 4 (d) , ,
7 7 7

Circles
1. Anu says, ‘A circle of radius 10 cm can have 100 tangents.’ Is Anu correct? Give a reason to justify
your answer.
Here is a circle with centre O.

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2. Manu wants to draw a tangent RS to the circle. What is the number of points at which the line RS
will meet the circle?
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
Given below is the diagram of a pair of pulleys.

C1 and C2 are two pulleys attached with a belt.

P1 and P2 are points of contact, where the belt meets C1.S1 and S2 are points of contact, where
belt meets C2.
O and Q are the centres of C1 and C2, respectively.
3. Identify the common tangents to the two circles (pulleys)?
Ankit joins the centre of the two pulleys and observes line segments P1S1 and P2S2 when extended
meet at a point X.

4. What is the length of OX when the diameter of C1 is 30 cm, diameter of C2 is 10 cm and length of 0Q
is 100 cm?
(a) 33.3 cm (b) 133.3 cm (c) 150 cm (d) 250 cm
5. Which line segment is equal to the length f P1S1?
(a) 0Q (b) QX (c) Xs2 (d) P2S2
Given below is the diagram of a pair of pulleys.

The length of AC is 12 cm.

6. What is the perimeter of the triangle ABO?
(a) 27 cm (b) 29 cm (c) 30 cm (d) 34 cm

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7. In the given figure, CAB = 20°.
What is the measure of AOC?
The figure shown below represents a circle with centre O and diameter 12 cm.

In triangle DBA, DBC = BCD and A = 50°.

8. What is the measure of DCA ?
(a) 500 (b) 850 (c) 1000 (d) 1300
9. Dhruv said that, “The quadrilateral DBAC is a cyclic quadrilateral.” Is Dhruv correct? Give a reason
to support your answer.
10. In triangle BAC, the length of side CA = 2.5 times OB. What is the length of side BA?

Constructions
1. Jeenal wants to divide a line segment internally in the ratio p:q. What is the least number of equal
parts of the line segment Jeenal needs to make to divide the line in the required ratio?
(a) p (b) q (c) p - q (d) p + q
Here is Jeenal’s process to divide a line segment PQ externally in the ratio 4:5.
Step 1: Draw the line segment PQ of the given length.
Step 2: Draw any ray PY.
Step 3: On the ray PY, mark nine arcs of equal length (label the points of intersection A1, A2, A3, A4
and so on up to A9).
Step 4: Join the point A4 to the end point Q of the line segment.
2. What must be jeenal’s next step?
(a) Draw a line parallel to A4Q from A 1 (b) Draw a line parallel to A4Q from A 5

(c) Draw a line parallel to A4Q from A 8 (d) Draw a line parallel to A4Q from A 9
3. Arush wants to use a protractor to draw a line parallel to A4Q. He measures PA4Q as 80°. What is
the measure of the angle that Arush must draw to get a line parallel to A4Q?
Sarah wants to cut a straw in the ratio 2:3.
She places the straw on her notebook and marks different points on it as shown in the picture.

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4. Along which point should she cut the straw to get the desired ratio?
(a) Q (b) R (c) S (d) T
Pawan wants to draw a triangle AB’C’ similar to triangle ABC where length of AB’ = ¾ AB.
She does the following
Step 1 – Draw triangle ABC.
Step 2 – Find the point that divides AC internally in the ratio 3:1.
Step 3 – Find the point that divides BC internally in the ratio 3:1.
Step 4 – Join the two points so found.
5. In which step did Pawan make a mistake?
(a) Step 1 (b) Step 2 (c) Step 3 (d) Step 4
6. Meera constrtucts a trianlge ABC right angled at B whose base and perpendicular are of lengths 6 cm
Then, she constructed a similar triangle A’B’C’ whose sides are 2/3 times the corresponding sides of
the given triangle.
Which of the following shows the measure of all three angles of triablge A’B’C’?
(a) BA'C=22.50 , A'B'C'  135 0 and A'C'B'  22.50

(b)  BA 'C=45 0 ,  A 'B 'C '  90 0 and  A 'C 'B '  45 0

(c)  BA 'C=60 0 ,  A 'B 'C '  60 0 and  A 'C 'B '  60 0

(d) BA'C=67.5 0 , A 'B'C '  45 0 and A'C'B'  67.50

Priyanka finds this piece of a circular discin her grandma’s trunk.

She wants to ind the diameter of the disc.

7. What could Priyanka do to find the diameter of the disk?
A. Find the centre of the inner circle by drawing the diameter and finding its mid-point.
B. Find the greatest distance between any two points on the boundary of the broken disc found.
C. Find the point P where rotation of the disc about the point P by 360° gets the disc in the same
position.
D. Draw the perpendicular bisectors of two non-parallel chords to get the centre point and calculate
the diameter.
Abhilasha wants to find the radius of a circle. She places a setsquare on the circle as shown
below.

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8. Based on the position of the setsquare and the readings shown on the setsquare, what is the diameter
of the circle?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 7
Here is a circle with centre O.

9. She says, “The radius of the circle is 3 cm.”

Explain with reasons why Shrishti is correct.
Pooja does the construction of tangents to a circle from a point outside it as shown below.
Step 1 – Given a circle and a point outside it.

Step 2 – Draw a line from the centre of the circle O to the given point P.

Step 3 – Construct a perpendicular bisector of OP.

Label intersection of OP and the perpendicular bisector as M.

Step 4 – With M as centre and OM as radius, mark an arc across the
circle at two points J and K.

Step 5 - Find the tangents from the point P to the circle by joining JP and KP.
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found using an alternate way. Draw intersecting arcs on one side of
OP using the same radius and on the other side of OP with another
radius as shown below and join the points of intersection.

10 . Explain why Rajat is correct.

Coordinate Geometry
Ronit is the captain of his school football team. He has decided to use a 4-4-2-1 formation in the next
match. The igure below shows the positions of the players in a 4-4-2-1 formation on a coordinate
grid.

One square box represents 1 square unit.

1. Which of the following coordinates represents the position of the goalkeeper?
(a) (9, -9) (b) (0,9) (c) (-9, 0) (d) (0, -9)
2. What is the distance between the two centre forward positions in Ronit’s plan?

(a) 3 units (b) 6 units (c) 5 2 units (d) 16 units

3. Mention two positions which are not equidistant from any axis.
4. Which two positions are on the line 2.5y – x –11 = 0?

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5. What is the area (in square units) of the football ield enclosed by the lines joining the two centre back
positions and the goalkeeper’s position?
(a) 0 square units (b) 10.5 square units (c) 24 square units (d) 110.25 square units
6. A ball hit from the left full back position travels uninterrupted to the right centre forward position.
What can be the minimum distance travelled by the ball?
(a) 22 units (b) 178 units (c) 5 10 units (d) 250 units
7. What is the area of the middle circle?
8. A ball hit from the left centre midielder position touches the point (2, 11).Does the ball enter the goal
post? Justify your answer.
9. What are the coordinates of the point on the y-axis which is equidistant from the left centre forward
and the right centre midielder positions?
(a) (0, 0) (b) (0, 2) (c) (0, 4) (d) (0, 8)
10. What is the measure of the penalty area for one team?

(a) 10 m 2 (b) 17 m 2 (c) 25 m 2 (d) 29.25 m 2

Introduction to Trigonometry
In the given figure, ABC, ADE, and AQP are three right triangles.

1. The value of sin A is the greatest for triangle PQA. Do you agree? Justify your answer.
2. ABC is an isosceles right triangle, right-angled at B. What is the value of 2 sin A × cos A?
1 3
(a) (b) 1 (c) (d) 2
2 2
3. Which one of the following statements is true about trigonometric ratios in a right triangle?
(a) The values of cot and tan vary from 0 to 1.
(b) The values of sin and cos vary from 0 to 1
(c) The values of cos and sec vary from 0 to 1.
(d) The values of sin and cosec vary from 0 to 1.

A moving camera at the top of a 4 m high building captures the images of a walking man at five
different positions. The ive positions are shown in the figure below.

4. Describe the change in the value of sin A.

5. Which of the following is not true for position 5?
(a) AB = 0 (b) BC = AC (c) BC = 1 (d) CA = AB

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6. In the isosceles triangle ABC, BD is the altitude and ABC = 120° . What is the value of cos C?
In the igure given below, PQRS is a quadrilateral. PR is perpendicular to QR and PS.

7. What is the value of tan Q?

3 1 4
(a) (b) (c) 1 (d)
5 2 3
8. What is the length of RS?
16
(a) 8 units (b) 10 units (c) 8 2 units (d) 3 units
3

9. What is the value of sec  1  sin   sec  tan  ?

ABC is an isosceles triangle, with AB = BC. A semicircle of the area equal to that of the triangle
is combined with it.

10. What is the value of tan x?

1 1
(a) 1 (b)  (c)  (d) 
4 2

Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables

Tickets for a play can be booked online as well as purchased from the theatre. A 10% discount is
available on online ticket purchase. Simran likes to watch plays. She purchased the ticket online for
a play. The ticket and food cost her Rs 600. The cost of food was one-third the cost of the ticket.
1. Represent the relation between the cost of the ticket and the cost of food for Simran algebraically.
Also represent the relation between the cost of the ticket and the cost of food for Simran and money
spent algebraically.
2. Simran purchased the ticket for a musical play from the theatre. How much can she spend on food in
Rs 600?
3. A group of friends went to watch a play. Some of them purchased tickets online and some bought
them at the theatre. If two more had purchased online tickets the total ticket price would be Rs 100 Is
this true for any group greater than 2? Why?
4. In the theatre canteen, two packets of popcorn and a mango drink cost Rs 330. One packet of pop-
corn and two mango drinks cost Rs 300. What is the cost of the packet of popcorn?
(a) 100 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 200

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Large cargo ships ferry cargo between ports. They take months to ferry them from one port to an-
other. The distance in the sea is calculated in nautical miles (nm). The map shows the eastbound
(grey) and westbound (black) cargo lines of a shipment company.

The distance between port 6 and port 7 is approximately 20 000 nm and a ship takes 95 days to travel
between the ports in either direction.
The distance-time graph drawn by Pooja shows the journey of eastbound and westbound ships.

5. What do the two axes in the graph show?

6. According to Pooja’s graph, what is the approximate distance travelled by the eastbound ship dur-
ing these 95 days?
7. Anish looks at the graph and claims that an eastbound ship route meets the westbound route at
13000 nm. Is he correct? Give reasons.
8. The eastbound and westbound journeys are of di?erent length in 95 days. What can be the possible
reason for it?

Given below is a pair of linear equations. 4x + y = 8

4x - 2y = 16
9. Is the given pair of equations consistent? Justify your answer.
10. Does x = 3 and y = -4 satisies the pair of linear equations? Justify your answer.

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Probability
Nishant and Kapil are playing a game of darts.
They use this dart board.

Here are the rules of the game:

When your dart is placed in any circular region, you get the points mentioned in that region.
If your dart strikes outside the circles you get zero points.
During the game all the darts of both Nishant and Kapil fall in the circular region.
The radius of the innermost circle is 7 cm and the width of all other circular regions is 7 cm.
1. Nishant throws the irst dart.
What is the probability of Nishant getting a score of 100 in the irst throw?
2. Kapil threw a dart which hits the board.
What is the probability of the dart hitting the outermost circular region on the board?
1 4 7 9
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 5 16 16
3. In the irst three throws Nishant gets 75 points in two throws and 100 points in the third throw. What
is the probability of Nishant getting a 75 in the next throw?
1 2 3 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 3 4 16
4. Kapil gets 25 points each, in the irst and second throws. How many possibilities are there for the total
points Kapil can have after four throws?
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 10 (d) 16
This is a paper cup.

Jaya tossed this cup.

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When the cup lands on the table, it can land in three possible positions, as shown below.

To calculate the probability of falling in each position, Jaya tosses the cup 60 times.
She records her observations in the table below.

5. Jays tosses the cup one more time.

What would be the probability of the cup falling in the upright position?
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 11 12 60
Vani does an experiment to see if Jaya is correct in declaring the probability of the cup falling in the
upright position.
She tosses a cup many times and plots a graph of her observations as shown below.

6. Based on the graph and Vani’s observations what should be the probability of the cup falling in the
upright position if Jaya were to toss the cup again?
In a classroom, a rectangular board is fitted on a wall. The length of the board is 2m and the width of
the board is 1m.
Anuj draws this triangle on the board.

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7. Anuj throws a bunch of chalks randomly at the board with all the chalks striking the board. What
proportion of the chalks are expected to fall in the triangular region?
8. What is the probability of a chunk of chalk not hitting the board?
1 1
(a) 0 (b) (c) (d) 1
2 3
Ross observed the food a few puppies preferred to eat. The table given below shows the number of
puppies and their preferred food during day time.

9. A puppy was chosen at random from the group that Ross observed. What is the probability that the
chosen puppy prefers to have pet food during the day?
10. Sixty percent of the time, puppies prefers to have the same food at night, which they had eaten
during the day.
A puppy ate eggs during the day.
What is the probability that the puppy will not eat eggs at night as well?

Quadratic Equations
Digital images consist of pixels. A pixel can be considered as the smallest unit on a display screen in
a mobile or a computer. The number of pixels, their size and colours depend on the display screen
and its graphic card. Display screens are rectangular in shape and their size is deined as the length of
the diagonal.

Amit is designing a web page for a display on a screen whose size is 1000 pixels.
The width of the screen is 800 pixels.

1. Which of the following equation can be used to calculate the height (h) of the screen?
(a) h 2 + 200 × 1800 = 0 (b) h 2 - 200 × 1800 = 0

(c) h 2 - 200 = 0 (d) h 2 - 1800 = 0

2. The size of a screen display can be measured in inches also.
Is it possible to have a screen of size 13 inches where the width is 7 inches more than height? Give an
example to justify.

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3. The size of a screen is an important factor in designing a web page. The page can be opened on
different screen sizes but during the initial designing stage, one screen area is considered as the safe
area. The content in the safe area can be viewed without horizontal and vertical scrolling of the web
page.The safe area of a web page is 40 pixels less than the width and 190 pixels less than the height
of the display screen. Which of the following expression represents the safe area for the screen whose
screen height is 200 pixels less than the screen width (w)?
(a) w 2 - 50w + 400 (b) w 2 - 350w + 30400

(c) w 2 - 430w + 15600 (d) w 2 - 200w + 7600

4. Which of the following is not a method of solving a quadratic equation?
(a) Factorisation (b) Completing the square
(c) Using quadratic formula (d) Identifying the nature of the root

Given below is the conversation between Gayatri and a mason.

Gayatri: ‘Here are some 90 cm × 90 cm tiles. I want to use these in looring of our courtyard.’
Mason: ‘If I use all of these tiles, there will be four more columns than rows.’
Gayatri: ‘I want to make a square loor.’
Mason: ‘Either some tiles will be left unused or 35 additional tiles are required.’
Gayatri: ‘I do not think 35 additional tiles are required to make a square courtyard.’
Mason: ‘Okay, that is possible, but you still have to buy some more.’
5. How many tiles did Gayatri have?
6. What is the minimum number of tiles she has to purchase to make a square courtyard?
7. For the minimum number of tiles purchased, what can be the side length (in m) of the square court-
yard?
2
Under a relief scheme, Rs. n was distributed among ‘n’ number of people. The irst beneiciary
1
received Re. 1 plus of the remaining amount. The second beneiciary received Rs. 2 plus
n+1
1 1
1 of the remaining amount. The third beneiciary received Rs. 3 plus 1 of the remaining
n+1 n+1
amount. The distribution is done in the same pattern for all the beneiciaries.
8. Which of the following expression represents money received by the irst beneiciary?

1 2 1 1 1
(a) 1  n  1 (b) 1   n2 (c) 1 n (d) 1   n 2  1
n n  
n+1  
n+1
9. Who do you think will get the maximum amount?
10. Is the distribution of the relief fund fair? Justify your answer.

Some Applications Of Trigonometry

At a toll plaza, an electronic toll collection system has been installed. FASTag can be used to pay the
fare. The tag can be pasted on the windscreen of a car. At the toll plaza a tag scanner is placed at a
height of 6 m from the ground. The scanner reads the information on the tag of the vehicle and
debits the desired toll amount from a linked bank account.

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For the tag scanner to function properly the speed of a car needs to be less than 30 km per hour. A car
with a tag installed at a height of 1.5 m from the ground enters the scanner zone.
1. The scanner gets activated when the car’s tag is at a distance of 5 m from it. Give one trigonometric
ratio for the angle between the horizontal and the line between the car tag and the scanner?
2. The scanner reads the complete information on the car’s tag while the angle between chip and
scanner changes from 30° to 60° due to car movement. What is the distance moved by the car?

(a) 3m (b) 3 3 m (c) 4.5 m (d) 4.5 3 m

3. A vehicle with a tag pasted at a height of 2 m from the ground stops in the scanner zone. The scanner
reads the data at an angle of 45°.
What is the distance between the tag and the scanner?

(a) 2 m (b) 4 m (c) 4 2 m (d) 8m

At the toll plaza, a trafic monitoring camera is also installed at a height of 6.2 m. It takes pictures of
moving vehicles at regular intervals.
The diagram below shows the position of the camera and a car moving away from it after paying the
toll in four instances. The speed of the car is 5 m/s.

4. The angle made by the camera to the car in instance 1 is 30° and changes to 60°in instance 4. What
is the distance moved by the car? ( 3 = 1.73)
5. Seaweed is found under an 80 m deep sealoor. To reach it a diver makes a 45° dive from a boat. What
is the distance travelled by the diver to reach the sealoor?

(a) 80 m (b) 80.2 m (c) 80 2 m (d) 80 3 m

6. By the time the diver collected seaweed, the boat shifted 20 m on the opposite side. The diver now has
to rise at an angle of 60° to reach the boat.
What is the distance the diver travels to reach the boat?
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7. What is the distance of the second person from the player?
(a) 10 m (b) 12 m (c) 13.5 m (d) 14.5 m
8. A 9 m high street-light pole is broken during a storm. The top end of the pole touches the ground at
30°. At what height did the pole break?
(a) 3 m (b) 3.75 m (c) 4.5 m (d) 9 m
A triangle is drawn inside a square of side length 6 cm as shown in figure given below.

9. What is the area of the shaded region?

In the figure given below, PQU is a right triangle with PQU = 90°.
ST is parallel to RQ, PS = RQ and ST = RU. Calculate the length of SR.

10. What is the length of SR?

Statistics
Arti owns a manufacturing company. She hires 5 supervisors and 20 operators for a 6-month
project. The table given below shows their salary breakup.

1. The mean salary of the supervisors for the irst two months is Rs 19,000.
The salary of three supervisors are Rs 18,000, Rs 18,500 and Rs 20,000 respectively.
What could be the salary of other two supervisors?
2. Arti agrees to pay the maximum decided amount as salary to the operators.
What would be the total amount (in Rs) that Arti will have to pay the operators for the first two
months?
(a) Rs 10,000 (b) Rs 200,000 (c) Rs 300,000 (d) Rs 500, 000

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A table in a restaurant is in the shape of a hemisphere.

3. What is the median salary of the operators after two months?

(a) Rs 14, 000 (b) Rs 14, 250 (c) Rs 14, 500 (d) Rs 15, 000
4. What is the salary received by most of the operators?
A table in a restaurant is in the shape of a hemisphere.

5. What is the mean claim amount in dollars?

6. How many claim requests of up to $3500 did the company receive?
(a) 1067 (b) 1255 (c) 1865 (d) 2730
7. What is the modal range of the claim amount in dollars?
The data given below shows the number of people of different age groups visiting a restaurant in a
day.

8. How many people of the age group 40-50 years have visited the restaurant?
(a) 22 (b) 32 (c) 54 (d) 174
9. What is the median age group of the people who visited the restaurant?

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Surface Area And Volume

An open water tank walls are of thickness 10 cm.

1. What is the outer surface area of its wall?

2. Which of the following gives the capacity (in litre) of the tank?
(a) 1.8 × 1.4 × 1.6 (b) 1.9 × 1.5 × 1.7 (c) 2 × 1.6 × 1.8 (d) 2.1 × 1.7 × 1.9
A lid was built to cover the top of the tank.

3. The thickness of the lid is 3 cm. What is the total surface area (in m2) of the lid?
(a) 3.412 (b) 6.4 (c) 6.62 (d) 19.576
4. The lid is made of cement. What is the volume of the cement used?
5. The inner surfaces of the tank is covered with square tiles.
The side length of a tile is 10 cm.
How many tiles would be required?
(a) 1296 (b) 1548 (c) 1800 (d) 4032
6. Water is supplied to a village through a water tanker.
The water tanker is cylindrical in shape with diameter 110 cm and height 118 cm. A total of 30,000
litres of water is supplied through the tanker.
How many times was the water tanker used? (The tanker was always used at full capacity.)
(Use  = 3.14 and 1m³ = 1000 litres)

This is the picture of a glass lask used in chemistry lab.

The radius of the upper rim is 3 cm and the radius of the base of the lask is 9 cm.
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7. What is the surface area of the lask?
(a) 429  cm² (b) 531 cm² (c) 558  cm² (d) 582  cm²
8. For an experiment, water is filled up to the slant height of the lask. What volume (in cm3) of the
lask is illed with water?

(a) 63 (b) 125 43  (c) 192 70  (d)  192 

70  63 

A table in a restaurant is in the shape of a hemisphere.

9. What is the surface area of the table top?

(a) 0.49  cm² (b) 0.98  cm² (c) 1.47  cm² (d) 5.88  cm²
10. The table is made of wood.
What is the volume of the wood used?

(a) 0.343  cm 3 (b) 0.229  cm 3 (c) 0.457  cm 3 (d) 0.829  cm 3

Triangles
Some concrete water towers have been built to supply water to the localities nearby. They are
usually mounted with a cylindrical tank. A water tower for a locality is 40 m high.

1. The water tower cast a shadow of 25 m. At the same time, a tree near it casts a shadow of 5 m. What
is the height of the tree?
(a) 3.12 m (b) 8 m (c) 20 m (d) 25 m
2. A scale model of the water tower of 100 cm height is created. The height of its pillars is 75 cm each.
What is the height of a pillar (in m) in the actual water tower?
(a) 7.5 (b) 25 (c) 30 (d) 53.4
3. Dharmendra made a scale model of a water tower for another locality. The radius of the reservoir in
the model is 6 cm and its volume is 216 cm3. The radius of the actual water reservoir is 2.5 m. What
is its volume?
Three villages X, Y and Z are situated at the three ends of a triangular region bounded by three
roads. The lengths of the roads connecting X to Y, Y to Z and Z to X are in the ratio 5:3:4. The total
lengths of the three roads are 180 km.
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Biju and Shanti work on the technical speciications of the new road construction.
Each of them makes a scale drawing of the region using different scale factors.
4. Which types of triangles are included in their scale drawings, similar or congruent? Why
5. The proposed road will meet the road between Y and Z in the middle. How far is the village Y (in km)
from the meeting point of the roads?
6. In all the three scale drawings, the actual length of the new road is provided. Would the road length
be the same in their maps? Justify your answer.
A dollhouse with a triangular roof is shown below. The front and back triangles are equilateral
triangles with side lengths 45 cm each. Panels parallel to the loor of the dollhouse are used to
make the attic. The sides DE and GF of the panels divide the sides AB and AC into three equal
parts.

7. Which criteria of similar triangles do not apply to triangles AGF and ADE?
(a) AAA (b) SSS (c) SAS (d) RHS
8. The area of triangle ABC is 692 cm 2 .
What is the area of the plank AGF?
9. What is the height (in cm) of the attic?
10. Two overlapping right triangles are shown below.What is the value of ‘x’?

(a) 4 cm (b) 5 3 cm (c) 10 cm (d) 37.5 cm

Real Numbers
1. What is the number of groups?
2. What is the number of stamps in Adya’s and Sumit’s groups?
3. A number is multiplied by 5. Then, 40 is subtracted from the product. The result obtained is then
multiplied by 2 and 50 subtracted from the product so obtained. The answer is a two-digit number.
What is the largest integer that can be used to get a two-digit number as the answer?

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Richa is an artiicial jewellery seller. She buys them from a dealer at a price based on the pres-
ence or bsence of stones as shown in the table below.

4. For every ring with stones, two rings without stones are purchased by Richa’s customers. Richa buys
rings accordingly from the dealer for Rs 10 000. How many rings does she buy?
5. In her next visit to the dealer, Richa finds that dealer has increased the price of rings with stones by
Rs 10. Richa still wants to spend Rs 10 000 on rings. What is the reduction in the number of rings she
buys?
(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 40 (d) 50
6. The dealer increases the price of one type of earrings. Richa buys earrings (with stones and without
sones) in the ratio of 5 : 9 before the price hike. Afther the price hike, she buys earrings in the ratio of
8:13 with the same amount of money. Does she buy more earrings with stones than earrings without
sones after the price hike? Give reasons.
7. Richa purchases 37 pairs of bangles with stones and 33 pairs of bangles without stones. She divides
them into two sets. Set 1 contains 40 pairs of bangles, and set 2 contains 30 pairs of bangles. What is
the difference between the number of bangle pairs with stones in set 1 and the number of bangle
pairs without stones in set 2?
(a) 4 (b) 7 (c) 10 (d) 30
8. Despite the price hike by the dealer, Richa increases the number of jewellery with stones she
purchases for her customers. What could be the reason for her decision?

Kartik is a salesman of mobile phones. His yearly traget is to sella fixed number of mobile
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phones in a year. He planned to meet of his yearly target by selling the phones during a festive
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month. He could only meet of his target for the festive month. He now has to meet the remain-
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ing target for the month and sell 425 more mobile phones to meet his yearly target.

9. Approximately what percentage of the yearly target was met during the festive month?
10. How many units of the mobile phones did Kartik have to sell to meet his yearly target?

Polynomials
Amit designs a lower vase using a graph of polynomial equations. Equation of the curve l is given in
the graph.

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1. Sara looks at the graphical model and makes an observation, “The zero of the polynomial is at the
origin.” Is she correct? If not, what are the coordinates of the zero of the polynomial
2. The curve m is a mirror image of p(y) on the y axis. Which polynomial represents curve m?
(a) p(y) =- 0.25y³ - 0.1y² + 0.3y-1 (b) p(y) = - 0.25y³ - 0.1y² - 0.3y - 1

(c) p(y) = 0.25y³ + 0.1y² - 0.3y+1 (d) p(y) = 0.25y³ + 0.1y² - 0.3y

3. Sara changes the coeficient of y³ in the polynomials for the curves l and m. How does it affect the
shape of the lowerpot?
4. Amit wants to decrease the minimum opening of the lower pot. Which term of the polynomials for
the curves l and m should he change?

Ajit uses a cardboard sheet of 30 cm × 40 cm to design a box. He marks four squares of equal size
with side length x cm to draw the net of the open box.

5. Ajit folds the net to make an open box. What will be the volume of the open box?

6. Ajit decides that the height of the box should be lesser than its length and width. What are the
possible range of values of x?

A graph of a cubic polynomial is plotted on a graph paper.

7. What is the sum of the roots of the polynomial?

8. The graph of a polynomial shows it is extended on both sides. What does it indicate about the values
of the y coordinate?
9. A quadratic polynomial has integral roots. The sum of its roots is 7. Which of the following cannot be
the constant term of the polynomial?
(a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 14

3 2 3
10. A polynomial is given by p  x   x  2x  x
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