ASSIGNMENT 1

1. If a = 5 + 2 root 6 and b=1/a then what will be the value of a^2+b^2?

2. Express the HCF of 468 and 222 as 468x + 222y where x and y are integers.
3. Use Euclid’s division lemma to show that the cube of any positive integer is of the form 9m, 9m + 1
or 9m + 8.
4. Represent following numbers on number line
a. Root 53
b. Root 7.6
5. Discuss decimal representation of rational numbers.
6. What is the difference between sequence and progression?
7. If m times the m th term of A.P. is equal to n times nth term then show that the (m+n) th term of
A.P. is zero.
8. A contract on construction job specifies a penalty for delay of completion beyond a certain date as
follows: Rs 200 for the first day, Rs 250 for the second day, Rs 300 for the third day, etc., the penalty
for each succeeding day being Rs 50 more than for the preceding day. How much money will the
contractor have to pay as penalty, if he has delayed the work by 30 days?
9. A ladder has rungs 25cm apart. The rungs decrease uniformly in length from 45cm at bottom to
25cm at top. If top and bottom rungs are 2 ½ m apart , what is the length of wood required for the
rungs?
10. 200 logs are stacked in the following manner: 20 logs in the bottom row, 19 in the next row, 18 in
the row next to it and so on (see Fig. 5.5). In how many rows are the 200 logs placed and how many
logs are in the top row?
11. Find three consecutive whole numbers whose sum is more than 45 and less than 54
12. Roohi travels 300 km to her home partly by train and partly by bus. It takes 4 hours if she travels 60
km by train and the remaining by bus. If she travels 100 km by train and the remaining by bus, she
takes 10 minutes longer. Find the speed of the train and the bus separately.
13. Yash scored 40 marks in a test, getting 3 marks for each right answer and losing 1 mark for each
wrong answer. Had 4 marks been awarded for each correct answer and 2 marks been deducted for
each incorrect answer, then Yash would have scored 50 marks. How many questions were there in
the test?
14. The taxi fare in a city is as follows: For the first kilometre, the fare is Rs 8 and for the subsequent
distance it is Rs 5 per km. Taking the distance covered as x km and total fare as Rs y, write a linear
equation for this information, and draw its graph.
15. Give the geometric representations of 2x + 9 = 0 as an equation
(i) in one variable
(ii) (ii) in two variables
16. Factorise x^3-23x^2+142x-120
17. Obtain all other zeros of 3x^4+6x^3-2x^2-10x-5 if two of its zeros are root(5/3) and –root (5/3)
18. Find zeros of a polynomial x^3-3x-2 and verify the relation between the coefficient and zeros of the
polynomial.
19. Find a cubic polynomial with the sum, sum of the product of its zeroes taken two at a time, and the
product of its zeroes as 2, –7, –14 respectively.
20. If the polynomial x^4-6x^3+16x^2-25x+10 10 is divided by another polynomial x^2-2x+k, the
remainder comes out to be x + a, find k and a.
21. A cottage industry produces a certain number of pottery articles in a day. It was observed on a
particular day that the cost of production of each article (in rupees) was 3 times more than twice
 the number of articles produced on that day. If the total cost of production on that day was Rs 90,
find the number of articles produced and the cost of each article.
22. Two water taps together can fill a tank in 9 3/8 hours. The tap of larger diameter takes 10 hours
less than the smaller one to fill the tank separately. Find the time in which each tap can separately
fill the tank.
23. Is the following situation possible? If so, determine their present ages. The sum of the ages of two
friends is 20 years. Four years ago, the product of their ages in years was 48.
24. Find the solution of the equation 3x^2-5x+2=0 using the completing square method.
25. In the centre of a rectangular lawn of dimensions 50 m × 40 m, a rectangular pond has to be
constructed so that the area of the grass surrounding the pond would be 1184 m2. Find the length
and breadth of the pond.

26. Find the centre of a circle passing through the points (6, –6), (3, –7) and (3, 3).
27. Prove that the angle bisectors of the angles formed by producing opposite sides of a cyclic
quadrilateral (provided they are not parallel) intersect at right angles.
28. If a triangle and a convex quadrilateral are drawn on the same base and no part of the quadrilateral
is outside the triangle, show that the perimeter of the triangle is greater than the perimeter of the
quadrilateral
29. Prove that any four vertices of a regular pentagon are concyclic
30. In a triangle, find the ratio of the distance between a vertex and the orthocentre and the distance
of the circumcenter from the side opposite the initial selected vertex.
31. The diagonals AC and BD of a cyclic quadrilateral ABCD intersect at P. Let O be the circumcenter of
∆APB and H be the orthocenter of ∆CPD. Show that the points H, P, O are collinear.

32. The median of a trapezoid cuts the trapezoid into two regions whose areas are in the ratio 1: 2.
Compute the ratio of the smaller base of the trapezoid to the larger base.
33. In the figure CD, AE and BF are one-third of their respective sides. It is given that AN2 : N2N1 : N1D =
3 : 3 : 1 and similarly for the lines BE and CF. Show that the area of triangleN 1N2N3 is 1/7 of Area of
triangle ABC.
34. In the given Fig., ∆ABC is equilateral, P and S are mid-points of arcs AB and AC. Prove that PQ = QR
= RS.

35. In the given figure below find a/b.

36. What is the radius of the circle from the given figure

37. The radius of the blue circle is 4 cm and the radius of the green circle is 2 cm.The line is tangent to
all three circles and three circles touch each other.( they are pairwise tangent) What is the radius of
white circle?
38. Solve for x.

39. In the given figure, two circles with centres O and O′ touch externally at a point A. A line through A
is drawn to intersect these circles in B and C. Prove that the tangents at B and C are parallel.

40. Let ABCD be a cyclic quadrilateral. Show that the in-centres of the triangles ABC, BCD, CDA and DAB
form a rectangle.
41. The bisector of the exterior angle ∠A of △ABC intersects side BC produced at D. Prove that AB / AC
= BD / DC.
42. Through the midpoint M of the side CD of a parallelogram ABCD, the line BM is drawn intersecting
AC at L and AD produced at E. Prove EL=2BL.
43. Two parallel sides of a trapezium are 60 cm and 77 cm and other sides are 25 cm and 26cm. Find
the area of the trapezium.
44. Prove that if two sides and a median bisecting the third side of a triangle are respectively
proportional to the corresponding sides and the median of another triangle, then two triangles are
similar
45. Find the area of a regular hexagon without using trigonometry.
46. The side BC of a triangle ABC is bisected at D; O is any point in AD. BO and CO produced meet AC
and AB in E and F respectively and AD is produced to X so that D is the mid-point of OX. Prove that
AO:AX=AF:AB and show that FE||BC.
47. Prove that the line joining the mid-points of the diagonals of a trapezium is parallel to the parallel
sides of the trapezium
48. In the figure below, the rectangle at the corner measures 10cm x 20cm. The corner A of the
rectangle is also a point on the circumference of the circle. What is the radius of the circle in cm?

49. A rigid square plate ABCD of unit side rotates in its own plane about the middle-point of CD until
the new position of A coincides with the old position of B. How far is the new position of B from the
old position of A?
50. A trapezium ABCD in which AB || CD is inscribed in a circle with centre O. Suppose the diagonals AC
and BD of the trapezium intersect at M and OM = 2. If ∠AMB = 60°, then what is the difference
between the lengths of the parallel sides?
51. A Navy captain going away from a lighthouse at the speed of 4(√3 – 1) m/s. He observes that it takes
him 1 minute to change the angle of elevation of the top of the lighthouse from 60° to 45°. What is
the height (in metres) of the lighthouse?
52. An aeroplane when flying at a height of 8000 m from the ground passes vertically above another
aero plane at an instant, when the angles of elevation of the two aeroplanes from the same point
on the ground are 60° and 45° respectively. Find the vertical distance between the aeroplanes at
that instant (in km).
53. Prove:

54. Show that

55. A field is in the shape of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 25 m and 10 m. The non-parallel sides
are 14 m and 13 m. find the area of the field.
56. ABCD is a rectangle formed by the points A(–1, –1), B(– 1, 4), C(5, 4) and D(5, – 1). P, Q, R and S are
the mid-points of AB, BC, CD and DA respectively. Is the quadrilateral PQRS a square? a rectangle?
or a rhombus? Justify your answer.
57. Find the area of a rhombus if its vertices are (3, 0), (4, 5), (– 1, 4) and (– 2, – 1) taken in order.
58. Find the ratio in which the line segment joining A(1, – 5) and B(– 4, 5) is divided by the x-axis. Also
find the coordinates of the point of division.
59. A median of a triangle divides it into two triangles of equal areas. Verify this result for ☞ ABC whose
vertices are A(4, – 6), B(3, –2) and C(5, 2).
60. How would you rewrite Euclid’s fifth postulate so that it would be easier to understand?
61. If point C is called a midpoint of line segment AB, Prove that every line segment has one and only
one midpoint.

62. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 32 cm. The ratio of the equal side to its base is 3: 2. Find
the area of the triangle.
63. PQ and RS are two mirrors placed parallel to each other. An incident ray AB strikes the mirror PQ at
B, the reflected ray moves along the path BC and strikes the mirror RS at C and again reflects back
along CD. Prove that AB || CD.

64. In figure ∠X = 62°, ∠XYZ = 54°. If YO and ZO are the bisectors of ∠XYZ and ∠XZY respectively of Δ
XYZ, find ∠OZY and ∠YOZ.

65. In the figure, lines AB and CD intersect at O. If ∠AOC + ∠BOE = 70° and ∠BOD = 40°, find ∠BOE and
reflex ∠COE.

66. If A, B and C are interior angles of a triangle ABC, then show that
sin [(B + C)/2] = cos A/2.
67. Two poles of equal heights are standing opposite each other on either side of the road, which is 80
m wide. From a point between them on the road, the angles of elevation of the top of the poles are
60° and 30°, respectively. Find the height of the poles and the distances of the point from the poles.
68. Draw a ∆PQR such that PQ = 5 cm, ∠P = 120° and PR = 6 cm. Construct another triangle whose sides
are 3/4 times the corresponding sides of ∆PQR.
69. Construct a tangent to a circle of radius 4 cm from a point on the concentric circle of radius 6 cm
70. A coin of diameter 1 unit is thrown on an infinitely large chessboard with squares of side 2 units. If
the coin is thrown, what is the probability that the coin encloses on of the tiles fully?
71. Two concentric spheres A and B, have radii r cm and 2r cm respectively. A cone is inscribed in the
latter so as to circumscribe the former. What is the curved surface area of the cone?
72. Find the value of x: 4^x+6^x=9^x.
73. A container opened from the top and made up of a metal sheet is in the form of a frustum of a cone
of height 16 cm with radii of its lower and upper ends as 8 cm and 20 cm respectively. Find the cost
of the milk which can completely fill the container at the rate of Rs 20 per litre. Also find the cost of
the metal sheet used to make the container, if it costs Rs 8 per 100 cm2. (Take pie = 3.14)
74. A right circular cone is cut by two planes parallel to the base and trisecting the altitude. What is the
ratio of the volumes of the three parts; top, middle and bottom respectively?
75. In a sphere of radius 2 cm, a cone of height 3 cm is inscribed. What is the ratio of volumes of the
cone and sphere?

76. There are two identical cubes. Out of one cube, a sphere of maximum volume (VS) is cut off. Out of
the second cube, a cone of maximum volume (VC) is cut such that its base lies on one of the faces
of the cube. Find the relation between Vc and Vs.

77. Find the number of solution pairs for 1/m + 1/n =1/10.

78. A closed right circular cone contains water upto a height h/2 above the base, where h is the height
of the cone. To what height does the water rise if the cone is inverted?

79. What is the probability of getting 53 Sundays or 53 Tuesdays or 53 Thursdays in a non–leap year ?

80. A can hit a target three times in five shots, B two times in five shots and C three times in four
shots.They fire a volley. What is the probability that two shots hit the target ?
81. A sphere of radius r is cut by a plane at a distance of h from its center, thereby breaking this sphere
into two different pieces. The cumulative surface area of these two pieces is 25% more than that of
the sphere. Find h.
82. Cylindrical cans of cricket balls are to be packed in a box. Each can has a radius of 7 cm and height
of 30 cm. Dimension of the box is l = 76 cm, b = 46 cm, h = 45 cm. What is the maximum number of
cans that can fit in the box?
83. A solid toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a right circular cone. Height of the cone is
2 cm and the diameter of the cone is 4 cm. If a right circular cylinder circumscribes the solid, find
how much more space it will cover.
84. A speaks the truth in 75% and B in 80% of the cases. In what percent of the cases are they likely to
contradict each other in narrating the same incident ?
85. Out of a pack of 52 cards one is lost; from the remainder of the pack, two cards are drawn and are
found to be spades. Find the chance that the missing card is a spade
86. In a shirt factory, processes A, B and C respectively manufacture 25%, 35% and 40% of the total
shirts. Of their respective productions, 5%, 4% and 2% of the shirts are defective. A shirt is selected
at random from the production of a particular day. If it is found to be defective, what is the
probability that it is manufactured by the process C ?
87. Ankit has a right circular cylinder which he inserted completely into a right circular cone of height
20 cm. The vertical angle of the cone is 60º and the diameter of the cylinder is 10√3 cm. What is the
volume of the cone?
88. Find the probability that a two digit number formed by the digit 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 is divisible by 4.
89. Data regarding heights of students of Class X of Model School, Dehradun is given below. Calculate
the average height of students of the class

90. The following table gives the literacy rate (in %) in 40 cities. Find the mean literacy rate:

91. A spherical shaped sweet is placed inside a cube of side 5 cm such that the sweet just fits the cube.
A fly is sitting on one of the vertices of the cube. What is the shortest distance the fly must travel to
reach the sweet?
92. A double cone is formed by a complete revolution of the triangle ABC about the side AB. The sides
BC = 6.5 cm,CA = 2 cm and the perpendicular from C on AB = 1.6 cm. What is the volume of a double
cone?
93. If m = 2 root 3 + 2 root 2, Find [m + (1/m)]^2
94. A takes 6 days less than B to finish a piece of work. If both A and B together can finish the work in 4 days,
find the time taken by B to finish the work.
95. In the following figure, ABCD is Rhombus and DEFC is a square. If ∠ABC = 56 ° ; find

a. ∠DAE
b. ∠FEA
c. ∠EAC
d. ∠AEC
96. Construct a triangle ABC in which BC= 7cm, ∠B= 80 degree, AB + AC =13cm. After that draw cyclic
quadrilateral ABCD in such a way that point D is equidistant from B and C.
97. 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 radius of each of the depressions is 0.5 cm and
the depth is 1.4 cm. Find the total surface area of the entire wooden stand
98. 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?
99. A random survey of the number of children of various age groups playing in the park was found as follows:

Number of
Age (in years)
children
1-2 5
2-5 3
5-7 6
7-10 10
10-12 9
12-15 8
15-17 5
Draw histogram to represent the data.

100. Parallelogram ABCD and rectangle ABEF are on the same base AB and have equal areas. Show that
the perimeter of the parallelogram is greater than that of the rectangle.