Sample Question Paper - 23

Mathematics-Standard (041)
Class- X, Session: 2021-22
TERM II

Time Allowed : 2 hours Maximum Marks : 40

General Instructions :
1. The question paper consists of 14 questions divided into 3 sections A, B, C.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A comprises of 6 questions of 2 marks each. Internal choice has been provided in two questions.
4. Section B comprises of 4 questions of 3 marks each. Internal choice has been provided in one question.
5. Section C comprises of 4 questions of 4 marks each. An internal choice has been provided in one question.
It contains two case study based questions.

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SECTION - A
1. Find the roots of the quadratic equation : x 2 − 3 5x + 10 = 0

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The mean of the given distribution is 18. Find the frequency f of the class 19-21.
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Class Frequency
11 - 13 3
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13 - 15 6
15 - 17 9
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17 - 19 13
19 - 21 f
21 - 23 5
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23 - 25 4
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3. The 17th term of an A.P. is 5 more than twice its 8th term. If the 11th term of the A.P. is 43, then find its
nth term.
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4. In the given fig., PA and PB are tangents to be drawn from an external point P. CD is a third tangent
touching the circle at Q. If PB = 10 cm, and CQ = 2 cm, what is the length of PC ?

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2 cm
P Q
10
cm
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What is the distance between two parallel tangents to a circle of the radius 4 cm ?

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5. The total surface area of a cube is 32 m2 . Find the volume of cube.
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The side of solid metallic cube is 50 cm. The cube is melted and recast into 8000 equal solid cubical dice.
Determine the side of the dice.

6. In a village, number of members in 50 families are given in the following frequency distribution :
Number of members 1-3 3-5 5-7 7-9 9-11 11-13 13-15 15-17 17-19
Number of families 2 8 6 10 5 5 7 4 3
Find the mean of the above data.

SECTION - B
7. In which of the following situations, do the lists of numbers involved form an A.P.? Give reasons for your
answers.
(i) The fee charged every month by a school from Classes I to XII, when the monthly fee for Class I is
250, and it increases by 50 for the next higher class.
(ii) The number of bacteria in a certain food item after each second, when they double in every second.

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If the mth term of an A.P. is 1/n and nth term is 1/m, then show that its (mn)th term is 1.

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8. A man in a boat rowing away from a light house 100 m high takes 2 minutes to change the angle of elevation of
the top of the light house from 60° to 30°. Find the speed of the boat in metres per minute. [Use 3 = 1.732]
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9. Draw a circle of radius 4 cm. Draw two tangents to the circle inclined at an angle of 60° to each other.

10. If x = –2 is a root of the equation 3x2 + 7x + p = 0, find the values of k so that the roots of the equation
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x2 + k (4x + k –1) + p = 0 are equal.

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SECTION - C
11. A lead pencil consists of a cylinder of wood with a solid cylinder of graphite filled into it. The diameter of
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the pencil is 7 mm, the diameter of the graphite is 1 mm and the length of the pencil is 10 cm. Calculate
the weight of the whole pencil, if the specific density of the wood is 0.7 gm/cm3 and that of graphite is
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2.1 gm/cm3.
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Water flows at the rate of 10 metre per minute from a cylindrical pipe 5 mm in diameter. How long will it
take to fill up a conical vessel whose diameter at the base is 40 cm and depth 24 cm?

12. A boy standing on a horizontal plane finds a bird flying at a distance of 100 m from him at an elevation
of 30°. A girl standing on the roof of a 20 m high building, finds the elevation of the same bird to be 45°.
The boy and the girl are on the opposite sides of the bird. Find the distance of the bird from the girl.
(Given 2 = 1.414)

Case Study - 1
13. An agency has decided to install customised playground equipments at various colony parks. For that they
decided to study the age-group of children playing in a park of the particular colony. The classification of
children according to their ages, playing in a park is shown in the following table.
 Age group of children (in years) 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14 14-16
Number of children 43 58 70 42 27

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) Find the frequency of the class succeeding the modal class.
(ii) Find the mode of the ages of children playing in the park?

Case Study - 2

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14. In a maths class, the teacher draws two circles that touch each other externally at point K with centres A and
B and radii 5 cm and 4 cm respectively as shown in the figure.

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P X K
5 cm A 4 cm B Y Q
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Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

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(i) Find the value of PK.

(ii) Find the value of QY.
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Class 10 - Mathematics

Similarly, CA = CQ and DB = DQ
1. Given, x 2 − 3 5x + 10 = 0
Using quadratic formula, \ PA = PB = 10 cm
PA = PC + CA
3 5 ± (− 3 5 )2 − 4(1)(10) 3 5± 5 ⇒ PA = PC + CQ
x= =
2(1) 2 ⇒ PC = PA – CQ = 10 – 2 = 8 cm
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4 5 2 5
⇒ x= or x = We know that two tangents are P
2 2
parallel if and only if tangents 4 cm
⇒ x = 2 5 or x = 5 are drawn at the end point of O
diameter. 4 cm
2. We have the following table :
So PQ is a diameter of circle. Q
Class Class mark Frequency fi xi
PQ = 2(radius of circle)
interval (xi) (fi)
= 2 × 4 = 8 cm
11-13 12 3 36
Hence distance between two parallel tangents is 8 cm.

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13-15 14 6 84

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5. Let the side of the cube be x m.
15-17 16 9 144
∴ Total surface area = 6x2 m2
17-19 18 13 234
2 98
19-21
21-23
20
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f
5
20 × f
110 or
⇒ 6 x 2 = 32 ⇒ 6 x 2 =
3
98 1 49
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23-25 24 4 96 ⇒ x = × = ⇒ x = m.
3 6 9 3
N = Sfi Sfixi = 704 + 20f ∴ Volume of the cube = x3m3
= 40 + f
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 7 343 3 19
Σf x 704 + 20 f =   m3 = m = 12 m3 .
Mean, x = i i ⇒ 18 =  3 27 27
N 40 + f
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⇒ 18(40 + f) = 704 + 20f OR

⇒ 720 + 18f = 704 + 20f  he side of the given metallic cube = 50 cm
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⇒ 20f – 18f = 720 – 704 ⇒ 2f = 16 ⇒ f = 8. Then the volume of the melted metal = (50)3 cm3
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\ The frequency of class 19-21 is 8.           = 125000 cm3

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3. Let a be the first term and d be the common Let x cm be the side of a cubical dice.
difference of the given A.P. Then volume of 8000 dice = 8000 × (x3) cm3
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According to the question, a17 = 2a8 + 5 We have, the volume of 8000 cubical dice = The volume
⇒ a + 16d = 2[a + 7d] + 5 of the given solid metallic cube
⇒ a + 16d = 2a + 14d + 5 ⇒ a = 2d – 5 ...(i) ⇒ 8000 (x)3 = 125000
Also, a11 = 43 ⇒ a + 10d = 43 125  5 
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⇒ (2d – 5) + 10d = 43 [Using (i)] ⇒ x3 = =     ⇒ x = = 2.5
8  2 2
⇒ 12d = 48 ⇒ d = 4 Hence, side of the dice = 2.5 cm
\ a = 2d – 5 = 2(4) – 5 = 8 – 5 = 3
Thus, nth term of the A.P., an = a + (n − 1)d 6. The frequency distribution table from the given
= 3 + (n − 1) 4 = 3 + 4n − 4 = 4n − 1 data can be drawn as :
4. Given : PB = 10 cm, Number of (xi) (fi) f i xi
A
CQ = 2 cm C members
Since PA and PB are tangents 1-3 2 2 4
P 2 cm Q
to be drawn from an external 3-5 4 8 32
point P. D 5-7 6 6 36
B 7-9 8 10 80
\ PA = PB
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⇒ 3= ⇒ x=
11-13 12 5 60 x 3
13-15 14 7 98 Now, after two minutes, new distance be y m and angle
15-17 16 4 64 is 30°.
17-19 18 3 54 In DABD,
Sfi = 50 Sfixi = 478 AB 100
tan30° = =
\ Mean =
∑ fi xi = 478 = 9.56 BD y
∑ fi 50 ⇒
1 100
= ⇒ y = 100 3
7. (i) The fee charged (in ) every month by a school 3 y
from classes I to XII is 250, (250 + 50), (250 + 2 × 50), \ Distance travelled in 2 minutes = y – x
(250 + 3 × 50),... i.e., 250, 300, 350, 400, ... 100 300 − 100
= 100 3 − =
which forms an A.P., with common difference, d = 50 3 3
(ii) Let the number of bacteria in a certain food = x 200 200
Since, they double in every second = = = 115.47 m
\ x, 2x, 2(2x), 2[2(2x)], ... 3 1.732
i.e., x, 2x, 4x, 8x, ... Distance
Speed of boat =
Here, a1 = x, a2 = 2x, a3 = 4x and a4 = 8x Time

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a3 – a2 = 4x – 2x = 2x, a4 – a3 = 8x – 4x = 4x = = 57.74 metres/minute
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Since, the difference between two successive terms is
9. Steps of construction :
not same. So, the list of numbers does not form an A.P.
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Step-I : Draw a circle with centre O and radius 4 cm.
Step-II : Draw any diameter AOB.
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Let a be the first term and d be the common difference Step-III : Take a point P on the circle such that
of the given A.P. ∠AOP = 60°.
rth term of A.P., ar = a + (r – 1)d Step-IV : Draw PQ ^ OP and BE ^ OB. Let PQ and BE
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am = a + (m − 1)d = ...(i)
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and an = a + (n − 1)d = ...(ii) Q
m 4 cm
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Subtracting (ii) from (i), we get O

R
m−n 1 60°
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(m − n)d = ⇒ d= E
mn mn A
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Putting d = in (i), we get
mn 10. Q x = –2 is a root of the equation 3x2 + 7x + p = 0
1 1 1 1 1 1
a + (m − 1) = ⇒ a+ − = ⇒a= \ 3(–2)2 + 7(–2) + p = 0
mn n n mn n mn ⇒ 12 – 14 + p = 0 ⇒ p = 2
1 1 We have, x2 + k(4x + k – 1) + p = 0
∴ amn = a + (mn − 1)d = + (mn − 1)
mn mn ⇒ x2 + 4kx + k2 – k + 2 = 0 (Q p = 2)
1 + mn − 1
= =1 Q Roots are equal. \ D = 0
mn
⇒ (4k)2 – 4(1)(k2 – k + 2) = 0
8. Let AB = 100 m be the height A
⇒ 16k2 – 4k2 + 4k – 8 = 0  ⇒ 12k2 + 4k – 8 = 0
of the light house. ⇒ 3k2 + k – 2 = 0  ⇒ (k + 1)(3k – 2) = 0
Let the initial distance be x m 2
100 m

and angle is 60°. ⇒ k + 1 = 0 or 3k – 2 = 0 ⇒ k = −1 or k =

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In DABC, 60° 11. We have,
30°
AB 100 B
1
tan60° = = x C D
Diameter of the graphite cylinder = 1 mm = cm
BC x y
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∴ Radius = cm 2
20 22  1  1 22
×   × 1000 x = × × 20 × 20 × 24
Length of the graphite cylinder = 10 cm 7  4 3 7
Volume of the graphite cylinder 20 × 20 × 24 × 16 256 1
⇒ x= ⇒ x= = 51 minutes
 22 1 1  3 × 1000 5 5
=  × × × 10 cm3
 7 20 20  = 51 minutes 12 secs
Weight of graphite = Volume × Specific density Hence, the conical vessel is filled in 51 minutes 12 secs.
12. Let P be the position P
 22 1 1 
=  × × × 10 × 2.1 gm of bird, B and G be the
 7 20 20 
position of the boy and the L 45° G

0m
 22 1 1 21 Girl respectively.

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=  × × × 10 ×  gm = 0.165 gm 20 m 20 m
 7 20 20 10  GN be the building at 30°
7 which the girl is standing. B M N
Diameter of pencil = 7mm = cm In DPMB,
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7 PM 1
∴ Radius of pencil = cm and = sin30° ⇒ PM = 100 × = 50 m
20 BP 2
length of pencil = 10 cm Now, PL = PM – LM = 50 – 20 = 30 m
PL

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22 7 7 In DPLG, = sin 45°
∴ Volume of pencil = × × × 10 cm3

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7 20 20 PG
Volume of wood 30 1
⇒ = ⇒ PG = 30 2 = 30 × 1.414 = 42.42 m
 22 7 7 22 1 1  PG 2
=  × × × 10 − × × × 10 cm3
 7 20 20 7 20 20 
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Hence, the bird is flying at a distance of 42.42 m from
the girl.
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22 1 1 11 1
= × × × 10 (7 × 7 − 1)cm3 = × × 48 cm3 13. (i) Since, the highest frequency is 70, therefore
7 20 20 7 20
the maximum number of children are of the
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∴ Weight of wood =  × × 48 × 0.7 gm age-group 10-12.

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Since, the modal class is 10-12.
 11 1 7 \ Lower limit of modal class = 10
=  × × 48 ×  gm = 2.64 gm
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 7 20 10  Here, f0 = 58, f1 = 70 and f2 = 42

Total weight = (2.64 + 0.165)gm = 2.805 gm. Thus, the frequency of the class succeeding the modal
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OR class is 42.
We have,  f1 − f0 
(ii) Mode = l +  ×h
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r = Radius of the base of the conical vessel = 20 cm  2 f1 − f0 − f2 

h = Height of the conical vessel = 24 cm
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 70 − 58 
∴ Volume of the conical vessel = 10 +  ×2
 140 − 58 − 42 
1 1 22
= πr 2h = × × 20 × 20 × 24 cm3 ...(i) 12 24
3 3 7 = 10 + × 2 = 10 + = 10.6 years
40 40
Suppose the conical vessel is filled in x minutes.
14. Here, AS = 5 cm, BT = 4 cm [ Radii of circles]
Then, length of the water column
 = (10 × x) m = 1000x cm (i) Since, radius at point of contact is perpendicular
Clearly, water column forms a cylinder of length to tangent.
5 5 1 \ By Pythagoras theorem, we have
1000 x cm, and radius = mm = cm = cm 2 2 2 2
2 20 4 PA = PS + AS = 12 + 5 = 169 = 13 cm
∴ Volume of the water that flows in x minutes (ii) Again by Pythagoras theorem, we have
 22 2
 BQ = TQ 2 + BT 2 = 32 + 42 = 25 = 5 cm
=  ×  1  × 1000 x  cm3 ...(ii)
7  4   and QY = BQ – BY = 5 – 4 = 1 cm