SET-A

SHORT PORTION TEST – 1

SET - A
Class:-X Mathematics (Code-041) Time: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 80
General Instructions:
1. This Question paper contains - five sections A, B, C, D and E. Each section is compulsory. However, there
are internal choices in some questions.
2. Section A has 18 MCQ’s and 02 Assertion-Reason based questions of 1 mark each.
3. Section B has 5 Very Short Answer (VSA)-type questions of 2 marks each.
4. Section C has 6 Short Answer (SA)-type questions of 3 marks each.
5. Section D has 4 Long Answer (LA)-type questions of 5 marks each.
6. Section E has 3 source based/case based/passage based/integrated units of assessment of 4 marks each with
sub-parts.
Section –A
(Multiple Choice Questions)
Each question carries 1 mark
1.From the data 1,4,7,9,16,21,25 if all the even numbers are removed,then the probability of getting at random a
prime number from the remaining is __________________________
2 1 4 4
a) b) c) d)
5 15 15 15
2.After an examination,a teacher wants to know the marks obtained by maximum number of students in her
class.She requires to calculate________________________of marks.
a) median b) mode c) mean d) range
3.If the mean and the median of a data are 12 and 13 respectively,then its mode is _________
a) 13.5 b) 21 c) 6 d) 14
4.The upper limit of the modal class of the given distribution is ___________________
Height(in Below 140 Below 145 Below 150 Below 155 Below 160 Below 165
cm)
No.of girls 4 11 29 40 46 51
a) 165 b) 160 c) 155 d) 150
5.A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08.If 6000 tickets are
sold,how many tickets has she bought?
a) 40 b) 240 c) 480 d) 750
6.What is the probability that a number selected randomly from the number 1,2,3,…..,15 is a multiple of 4 ?
4 6 3 5
a) b) c) d)
15 15 15 15
7.A bag contains 100 cards numbered 1 to 100.A card is drawn at random from the bag.What is the probability
that the number on the card is a perfect cube ?
1 3 1 7
a) b) c) d)
20 20 25 100
8.The curved surface area of a cone having 24 cm and radius 7 cm is_______________________
a) 528 cm2 b) 1056 cm2 c) 550 cm2 d) 500 cm2
9.The ratio of total surface area of a solid hemisphere to the square of its radius is __________________
a) 2 π :1 b) 4 π :1 c) 3 π :1 d) 1 :4 π
10.A solid spherical ball fits exactly inside the cubical box of side 2a.The volume of the ball is ________
16 3 1 3 32 3 4 3
a) πa b) π a c) πa d) πa
3 6 3 3
11.What is the total surface area of a solid hemisphere of diameter ‘d’?
1 2 3 2
a) 3π d 2 b¿2π d
2
c) π d d) πd
2 4
12.The radius of a sphere(in cm) whose volume is 12 π cm2,is ______________________
 2 1
a) 3 cm b) 3√ 3 cm c) 3 3 cm d) 3 3 cm

13.The volume of a right circular cone whose area of the base is 156 cm2 and the vertical height is 8 cm,is__
a) 2496 cm2 b) 1248 cm3 c) 1664 cm3 d) 416 cm3
14.Two identical solid cubes of side ‘a’ are joined end to end.The total surface area of the resulting cuboid is
a) 6 a 2 b) 10 a 2 c) 5 a 2 d) 4 a 2
15.A bag contains 5 pink, 8 blue and 7 yellow balls.One ball is drawn at random from the bag.What is the
probability of getting neither a blue nor a pink ball ?
1 2 7 13
a) b) c) d)
4 5 20 20
16.If the mean of five observations x,x + 2, x + 4 and x + 8 is 11,then the value of x is ____________
a) 4 b) 7 c) 11 d) 6
17.Consider the data :
Class 65 - 85 85 – 105 105 - 125 125 -145 145 -165 165 - 185 185 - 205
Frequency 4 5 13 20 14 7 4
The difference of the upper limit of the median class and the lower limit of the modal class is ____
a) 0 b) 19 c) 20 d) 38
18.Two fair coins are tossd.What is the probability of getting at the most one head?
1 3 1 3
a) b) c) d)
4 4 2 8
Questions number 19 and 20 are ASSERTION-REASON BASED QUESTIONS :
In the following questions, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Choose the
correct answer out of the following choices.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true.
19.Assertion (A) : If the volumes of two spheres are in the ratio 27 : 8.Then their surface areas are in the
ratio 3 : 2
4 3
Reason (R) : Volume of the sphere = π r and its surface area = 4 π r 2
3
2
20.Assertion (A) : The probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays is .
7
5
Reason (R) : The probability that a non -nleap year has 53 Sundays is .
7

SECTION-B
This section comprises very short answer (VSA) type questions of 2 marks each.
20.A bag contains 4 red,3 blue and 2 yellow balls.One ball is drawn at random from the bag.Find the
probability that drawn ball is (i) red (ii) yellow .
21.(a) Two cubes have their volumes in the ratio 8 : 27.Find the ratio of their surface areas.
(OR)
(b) If the total surface area of a solid hemisphere is 462 cm2,find its volume.
23.If a fair coin is tossed twice,find the probability of getting ‘atmost one head’.
24.(a)If ∑ f i = 15, ∑ f i x i = 3p + 36 and mean of the distribution is 3,then find the value of p.
(OR)
b) Find the mean of the following distribution :

Class 3–5 5–7 7–9 9 – 11 11 – 13

Frequency 5 10 10 7 8
25.Three cubes each of volume 216 cm3 are joined end to end to form a cuboid.Find the total surface area of the
resulting cuboid.

SECTION-C
This section comprises short answer (SA) type questions of 3 marks each
26.a)If the mean of the following frequency distribution is 62.8 then find the missing frequency x.
Class 0 -20 20 - 40 40 - 60 60 - 80 80 - 100 100 - 120
Frequency 5 8 x 12 7 8
(OR)

b)Compute the mode for the following frequency distribution:

Size of 0-4 4-8 8 -12 12 - 16 16 -20 20 - 24 24 - 28

items
(in cm)
Frequency 5 7 9 17 12 10 6
27.One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting
(i) a king of red colour (ii) a face card (iii) a red face card
(iv) the jack of hearts (v) a spade (vi) the queen of diamonds
28.a) A wooden article was made by scooping out a hemisphere from each end of a solid cylinder, as shown
in figure. If the height of the cylinder is 10 cm, and its base is of radius 3.5 cm, find the total surface area
of the article.

(OR)
b)A pen stand made of wood is in the shape of a cuboid with four conical depressions to hold pens.The
dimensions of the cuboid are 15 cm by 10 cm by 3.5 cm.The diameter of each of the depressions is 1 cm and
the depth is 1.4 cm.Find the volume of wood in the entire stand.
29. A vessel is in the form of an inverted cone. Its height is 8 cm and the radius of its top, which is open, is 5 cm.
It is filled with water up to the brim. When lead shots, each of which is a sphere of radius 0.5 cm, are
dropped into the vessel, one-fourth of the water flows out. Find the number of lead shots dropped in the vessel.
30.One card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards.Find the probability that the card drawn is
(i) a king (ii) a red eight (iii) a spade (iv) a red card (v) the six of the clubs and (vi) a face card.
31.Calculate the arithmetic mean of the following frequency distribution,using the step-deviation method :

Class Interval Frequency

0 – 50 17
50 – 100 35
100 – 150 43
150 – 200 40
200 – 250 21
250 – 300 24

SECTION - D
This section comprises Long answer (LA) type questions of 5 marks each
32.Three unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously.Find the probability of getting
(i) exactly 2 heads (ii) at least 2 heads (iii) at most 2 heads (iv) exactly 1 head (v) at most 1 head
33.a) A toy is in the form of a cone of radius 3.5 cm mounted on a hemisphere of the same radius. The
total height of the toy is 15.5 cm. Find the total surface area of the toy.
(OR)
b) A gulab jamun contains sugar syrup up to about 30% of its volume. Find approximately how much
syrup would be found in 45 gulab jamuns, each shaped like a cylinder with two hemispherical ends
with length 5 cm and diameter 2.8 cm.
34.Red queens and black jacks are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards.A card is drawn at random from
the remaining cards,after reshuffling them.Find the probabilitythat the drawn card is (i) a king (ii) of red colour
(iii) a face card (iv) a queen (v) of black colour.
35.a)If the mean of the following frequency distribution is 62.8 then find the missing frequency x.
 Class 0 – 20 20 – 40 40 – 60 60 – 80 80 – 100 100 – 120
Frequency 5 8 x 12 7 8

(OR)
b)The mode of the following series is 36.Find missing frequency in it.

Class 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70
Frequency 8 10 x 16 12 6 7
SECTION -E
This question comprises 3 case - study based questions of 4 marks each
Case study – 1
36.In a club men are playing the card game. A men named ramesh draw a card from a well suffered deck of
cards.
(i) Find the probability of getting a king of red colour.
(ii) Find the probability of a face card.
(iii)(a)Find the probability of getting of jack of hearts.
(OR)
(b)Find the probability of getting spade card.
Case study -2
37. COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of
coronavirus disease caused by the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
among humans.
The following tables shows the age distribution of case admitted during a day in two different hospitals.

TABLE FOR HOSPITAL – 1

Age (in 8 – 18 18 – 28 28 – 38 38 – 48 48 – 58 58 – 68
years)
No.of cases 8 12 24 26 16 7

TABLE FOR HOSPITAL – 2

Age (in 8 – 18 18 – 28 28 – 38 38 – 48 48 – 58 58 – 68
years)
No.of cases 10 18 8 48 28 14

Based on the above tables,solve the following questions :

Refer to Table – 1:
(i) What is the difference of lower limit of median class and lower limit of modal class?
(ii) What is the mean of the given data ?
Refer to Table – 2:
(iii)(a) What is the mode of the given data?
(OR)
(b) What is the median of the given data?

Case study -3
38. To make the learning process more interesting creative and innovative Shavya's class teacher brings clay in
the classroom, to teach the topic. Surface Areas and Volumes. With clay, she forms a cylinder of radius 4 cm
and height
18 cm . Then, she moulds the cylinder into a sphere and ask some question to students.
(i) What is the radius of the sphere ?
(ii)What is the volume of the sphere?
(iii) (a)Find the ratio of the volume of sphere to the volume of cylinder.
(OR)
(b)What is the total surface area of the cylinder ?