Real Numbers – Grade X – WS -1
Name : ______________________________Grade:__________________
1. Find the highest number that is divisible by all the numbers 1 to 10 (both inclusive).
2. If the LCM of a and 18 is 36 and the HCF of a and 18 is 2 then find the value of a.
3. If two positive integers p and q can be expressed as p = ab2 and q = a 3b ; a, b being prime numbers,
then find LCM (p, q).
4. If p and q are positive integers such that p = ab2 and q = a2 b, where ‘a’ and ‘b’ are prime numbers,
then find the LCM ( p, q).
5. Find the value of ‘a’, if HCF (a, 18) = 2 and LCM (a, 18) = 36.
6. The HCF of two numbers is 9 and their LCM is 2016. If the one number is 54, then find the other
number.
7. Two numbers are in the ratio of 15:11. If their H.C.F. is 13, then find the numbers
8. Find the prime factorisation of 2120.
9. Show that the number 6 n never end with digit 0 for any natural number n.
10. Given that √3 is irrational, prove that 5 + 2√3 is irrational.
11. Find HCF and LCM of 625, 1125 and 2125 using fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
12. Find the largest number that divides 2053 and 967 and leaves a remainder of 5 and 7 respectively.
13. The HCF of two numbers is 29 and other two factors of their LCM are 16 and 19. Find the larger of
the two numbers.
14. 4 Bells toll together at 9.00 am. They toll after 7, 8, 11 and 12 seconds respectively. How many
times will they toll together again in the next 3 hours?
15. There are 576 boys and 448 girls in a school that are to be divided into equal sections of either boys
or girls alone. Find the total number of sections thus formed.
16. Two alarm clocks ring their alarms at regular intervals of 50 seconds and 48 seconds if they first
beep together at 12 noon, at what time will they beep again for the first time?
17. Three sets of physics, chemistry and mathematics books have to be stacked in such a way that all the
books are stored topic wise and the number of books in each stack is the same. The number of
physics books is 192, the number of chemistry books is 240 and the number of mathematics books is
168. Determine the number of stacks of physics, chemistry and mathematics books.
18. A forester wants to plant 66 apple trees, 88 banana trees and 110 mango trees in equal rows (in
terms of number of trees). Also he wants to make distinct rows of trees (i.e., only one type of trees in
one row). Find the number of minimum rows required.
19. In a seminar the number of participants in Mathematics, Physics and Biology are 336, 240 and 96.
Find the minimum number of rooms required if in each room same number of participants is to be
seated and all of them being in the same subject.
20. The length, breadth and height of a room are 8 m 25 cm, 6 m 75 cm and 4 m 50 cm respectively.
Determine the length of the longest rod which can measure the three dimensions of the room exactly.
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Polynomials – Grade X – WS -2
Name : ______________________________Grade:__________________
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1. If α, β are the zeroes of the polynomial P(x) = 4x2 + 3x +7, then find the value of 𝛼 + 𝛽
2. If one zero of the quadratic polynomial x2 + 3x + k is 2, then find the value of k.
3. If p and q are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = 2x2 – 7x + 3, find the value of p + q – pq.
4. If one zero of the quadratic polynomials: kx2 + 3x + k is 2, then find the value of k.
5. If one of the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial (k – 1)x2 + kx + 1 is –3, then find the value of k.
6. If zeroes of p(x) = 2x2– 7x + k are reciprocal of each other, then find the value of k.
7. If the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 + (a + 1) x + b are 2 and –3 then find a and b
8. Find the quadratic polynomial, the sum of whose zeroes is –5 & product is 6.
9. Find the value of m if polynomial p(x) = 4x2 – 6x – m is exactly divisible by x – 3.
10. Find a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are –9 and –1/9.
11. If one zero of the quadratic polynomial 2x2 + px + 4 is 2, find the other zero.
Also, find the value of p.
12. Find a quadratic polynomial whose one zero is 5 and product of zeroes is 30.
13. Find a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are 3 and –5.
14. Find a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are 5 + √2 and 5 – √2.
15. If the product of the zeroes of the polynomial ax2 – 6x – 6 is 4, then find the value of a. Also find the
sum of zeroes of the polynomial.
16. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 – 2x – 8 and verify the relationship between the
zeroes and the coefficients of the polynomial.
17. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 6x2 – 3 – 7x and verify the relationship between the
zeroes and the coefficients of the polynomial.
18. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 2x2 – x – 6 and verify the relationship between the
zeroes and the coefficients of the polynomial.
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19. Find the zeros of the polynomial 𝑥 2 + 6 𝑥 − 2 and verify the relation between the coefficients and
zeros of the polynomial.
20. If the sum of the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = (k2 – 14) x2 – 2x – 12 is 1, then find the value of k.
