Class – X session – 2020 – 21

Subject – Mathematics – Standard

Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
1. This question paper contains two parts A and B.
2. Both part A and B have internal choices.
Part – A ( section – I)
1. It consists two sections – I and II.
2. Section I has 16 questions of 1 mark each.
3. Section II has 4 questions on case study. Each case study has 5 case – based sub – parts.
An examinee is to attempt any 4 out of 5 sub – parts.
Part – B:
1. Question no 21 to 26 are of 2 mark each.
2. Question no 27 to 33 are of 3 marks each.
3. Question no 34 to 36 are of 5 marks each.
PART – A
1. Show that 12n cannot end with digit 0 or 5 for any natural number n.
2. Write the discriminant of the quadratic equation x2 + 4x + q = 0.
3. Does the pair of the linear equation have no solution? Justify your answer. 3x + y – 3 = 0,
2x + 3y – 2 = 0.
4. If PQ and PR are tangents to a circle with centre A. If angle QPA is 270, then find angle QAR.
5. Find the 10th term of AP: 10, 10.5, 11, 11.5, ………
6. Without actually performing the long division, check whether 64/455 will have the terminating
decimal expansion or non – terminating repeating decimal expansion.
7. If (x2+ y2) (a2 + b2) = (ax + by)2. Prove that x/a = y/b.
8. What is the distance between two parallel tangents of a circle of radius 4 cm?
9. If AT is a tangent to the circle with centre O, such that OT = 4 cm and angle OTA = 30 0, then find
the length of AT (in cm).
10. If CP and CQ are tangents to a circle with centre O. ARB is another tangent touching the
tangents CP at A, CQ at B and circle at R. If CP = 11 cm, and BC = 7 cm, then find the length of
BR.
11. A ladder is placed in such a way that its foot is at a distance of 5 m from a wall and its tip
reaches a window 12 m above the ground. Determine the length of the ladder.
12. Find the 21st term of the A.P: - 4.5, -3, - 1.5, ….....
13. Evaluate: sin2300 cos2 450 + 4tan2 300 + 0.5 sin2 900 – 2 cos2 900 + cos2 00.
14. Prove that : cos2A (1 + tan2A) = 1.
 15. If the lateral surface area of a cylinder is 94.2 cm2 and its height is 5 cm, then find radius of its
base.
16. For what value of k will k+9, 2k – 1 and 2k + 7 are consecutive terms of an A.P.
Part A ( section – II)
NOTE: Case study based questions are compulsory. Attempt any four sub parts of each
question. Each subpart carries 1 mark.
17. Vijay is trying to find the average height of a tower near his house. He is using the properties of
similar triangles. The height of Vijay’s house is 20m when Vijay’s house casts a shadow 10 m
long on the ground. At the same time, the tower casts a shadow 50m long on the ground. At
the same time, the house of Ajay casts 20m shadow on the ground.
I. What is the height of the tower?
(a) 20m (b) 50m (c) 100m (d) 200m
II. What will be the length of the shadow of the tower when Vijay’s house casts a shadow of 12m?
(a) 75m (b) 50m (c) 45m (d) 60m
III. What is the height of Ajay’s house?
(a) 30m (b) 40m (c) 50m (d) 20m
IV. When the tower cast shadow of 40m, same time what will the length of the shadow of Ajay’s
house?
(a) 16m (b) 32m (c) 20m (d) 8m
V. When the tower cast shadow of 40m, same time what will be the length of the shadow of
Vijay’s house?
(a) 15m (b) 32m (c) 16m (d) 8m
18. The Class X students of secondary school in Patna have been asked to prepare a running track
for their Annual Sports Day – 2020. The inside perimeter of a running track, is 340m. The length
of each straight portion is 60m, and the curved portions are semicircles. If the track is 7m wide,
answer the following.
I. The area of the track is?
(a) 1534 sq. m (b) 2534 sq. m (c) 1694 sq. m (d) 840 sq. m
II. The outer perimeter of the track is?
(a) 340m (b) 424m (c) 357m (d) 384m
III. If the perimeter of a circular field is 242m, then the area of the field is?
(a) 9317 sq. m (b) 18634 sq. m (c) 4658.5 sq. m (d) none of these
IV. If the radius of the wheel is 0.25 m. How many revolutions will it make in covering 11 km?
(a) 2800 (b) 4000 (c) 5500 (d) 7000
V. The perimeter of the quadrant of a circle is 25 cm. Find its area.
(a) 28.5 sq. m (b) 38.5 sq.cm (c) 78 sq. cm (d) 48 sq. cm
19. During the battle of Turks against the Rajputs of India, the Turk soldiers wore a costume with a
metallic shield – like knee pads, buckler (elbow shield), and cap to save themselves from
 injuries. Away from this, A juice seller was serving his customers using glasses. The inner
diameter of the cylindrical glass was 5 cm, but the bottom of the glass had a hemispherical
raised portion which reduced the capacity of the glass. If the height of the glass was 10 cm,
then answer the following.
I. The apparent capacity of the glass is?
(a) 196.25 cu. cm (b) 827.5 cu. cm (c) 1128.75 cu. cm (d) none of these
II. The actual capacity of the glass is?
(a) 32.71 cu. cm (b) 163.54 cu. cm (c) 300 cu. cm (d) 25.5 cu. cm
III. How many lead shots each 3mm in diameter can be made from a cuboid of dimensions 9cm,
11cm and 12cm?
(a) 90000 (b) 96000 (c) 84000 (d) none of these
IV. The number of solids spheres, each of diameter 6 cm, that can be made by melting a solid
metal cylinder of height 45 cm and diameter 4 cm, is?
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
V. A cylindrical pencil sharpened at one edge is the combination of
(a) A cylinder and a cone (b) a cylinder and hemisphere (c) two cylinders (d) none of these.
20. To conduct Sports Day activities, in your rectangular shaped school ground ABCD. Lines have
been drawn with chalk powder at a distance of 1 m each, along sides. 100 flower pots have
been placed at a distance of 1 m from each other along AD. Niharika runs ¼ th the distance AD
on the 2nd line and posts a green flag. Preet runs 1/5 th the distance AD on the eighth line and
posts a red flag. (consider A as the origin, AD as y-axis and AB as x-axis)
I. What is the coordinate for green flag?
(a) (2, 25) (b) (8, 20) (c) (5, 22.5) (d) none of these
II. What is the coordinate for red flag?
(a) (2, 25) (b) (8, 20) (c) (5, 22.5) (d) none of these
III. What is the distance between both the flags?
(a) √61 m (b) 9 m (c) √71 m (d) none of these
IV. If Rashmi has to post a blue flag exactly halfway between the line segment joining the two flags,
where should she post her flag?
(a) (2, 25) (b) (8, 20) (c) (5, 22.5) (d) none of these
V. What is distance of blue flag from X – axis?
(a) 5 m (b) 22.5 m (c)2 m (d) none of these
Part – B
21. The decimal expansion of the rational number 79/(23x54) will terminate after how many places
of decimal?
22. Find the third vertex of a triangle, if two of its vertices are at ( - 3, 1) and (0, - 2) and the
centroid is at the origin.
23. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial given as: x2 + 7x +10, and also verify the
relationship between the zeroes and the coefficients.
24. If sin (A+B) = sin A cos B + cos A sin B and cos (A-B) = cos A cos B + sin A sin B, find the values of
(i) sin 750 (ii) cos 150
25. A point P is 25 cm away from the centre of a circle and the length of tangent drawn from P to
the circle is 24 cm. Find the radius of the circle.
26. Find a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are 5 - 3√2 and 5 + 3√2.
27. Prove that √2 is an irrational number.
28. Solve : x2 + 5x – (a2 + a – 6) = 0
29. The numerator of the fraction is one less than its denominator. If three is added to each of the
numerator and denominator, the fraction is increased by 3/28. Find the fraction.
30. If P(2, 1), Q(4, 2), R(5, 4) and S(3, 3) are vertices of a quadrilateral, find the area of the
quadrilateral PQRS.
31. Prove that : sin8A – cos8A = (sin2A – cos2A) (1 – 2sin2A cos2A)
32. A chord of a circle of radius 12 cm subtends an angle of 1200 at the centre. Find the area of the
corresponding segment of the circle.
33. In an equilateral triangle ABC, D is a point on side BC such that BD = 1/3 BC.
Prove that 9 AD2 = 7 AB2.
34. Water is flowing through a cylindrical pipe of internal diameter 2 cm, into a cylindrical tank of
base radius 40 cm at the rate of 0.7 m/sec. By how much will the water rise in the tank in half
an hour?
OR
Water in a canal, 6 m wide and 1.5 m deep, is flowing with a speed of 10 km/h. How much area
will it irrigate in 30 minutes, if 8 cm of standing water is needed?
35. A motorboat covers a distance of 16 km upstream and 24 km downstream in 6 hours. In the
same time it covers a distance of 12 km upstream and 36 km downstream. Find the speed of
the boat in still water and that of the stream.
36. The angle of depression of the top and bottom of a building 50 m high as observed from the top
of a tower are 300 and 600 respectively. Find the height of the tower, and also the horizontal
distance between the building and the tower.
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