X Previous Year Questions CBSE Chapterwise

CHAPTER-WISE
CHAPTER-WISE PREVIOUS YEARS' QUESTIONS
MATHEMATICS

MATHEMATICS
Chapter - 1 : Real Numbers
1. Comp
Complet
lete
e the miss
missing
ing entr
entries
ies in
in the foll
follow
owin
ing
g 7. Find
Find the
the HCF
HCF of 126
1260
0 and
and 7344
7344 usin
using
g Eucli
Euclid's
d's
factor tree: [2008] ...[1M] algorithm. [2019] ...[2M]
8. Show that
Show that ever
every
y posit
positive
ive odd int
intege
egerr is of the
the
󰀲 (4q + 1) or (4q
form (4q (4 q + 3), where q is some
󰀳 integer. [2019] ...[2M]
9. Use Euc
Euclid
lid's
's Divi
Divisio
sion
n Lemma
Lemma to show
show tha
thatt the
the
󰀷
square of any positive integer is either of the
3m or (3m
form 3m (3m + 1) for some integer m.
2. Find the
Find the (HC
(HCF
F × LCM)
LCM) for
for the
the num
numbe
bers
rs 100
100 and
and
190. [2009] ...[1M] [2008] ...[3M]
󰀴󰀴󰀱 10. Pr
Prov
ove
e th
that
at 󰀳  󰀲 is an irrational number.
3. Has
Has the
the ra
rati
tion
onal
al nu
numb
mber
er 󰀵 󰀷 󰀲
a terminating
󰀲 󰀵 󰀷
[2009] ...[3M]
or a non-terminating decimal representation?
[2010] ...[1M] 11. Prov

Prove
e th
that
at 󰀲  󰀳 󰀵 is an irrational number.
4. What is the HC
What HCFF of sma
smalle
llest
st prim
prime
e numb
number
er and
and [2010] ...[3M]
the smallest composite number? [2018] ...[1M]
12. Find HCF and
and LCM
LCM of 404
404 and
and 96 and verify
verify that
that
5. Find
Find a rat
ratio
iona
nall nu
numb
mber
er be
betwe
tween
en 󰀲 and 󰀳󰀮 HCF × LCM = Product of the two given
numbers. [2018] ...[3M]
[2019] ...[1M]
13. Pr
Prov
ove
e th
that
at 󰀲 is an irrational number.
6. Given that 󰀲 is irrational, prove that 󰀵  󰀳 󰀲 
is an irrational number. [2018] ...[2M] [2019] ...[3M]
Chapter - 2 : Polynomials
1. x + a) is a factor of 2 x 2 + 2ax + 5 x + 10,

If ( x 5. F in
in d alal l tth
he z ze
e ro
ro es
es o f t hehe p ol
ol y no
no mi
mi al
al
3 2
x + 3 x – 2 x –
– 6, if two of its zeroes are  󰀲
find a. [2008] ...[1M]
and 󰀲󰀮 [2009] ...[2M]
2. If 1 is a zer
zero
o of
of the
the pol
polyn
ynomiall p
omia x ) = ax 2 – 3
p(( x 6. If two
two zer
zeroe
oes
s of tthe
he po
poly
lyno
nomi
mial x 3 – 4 x 2 – 3 x +
al x + 12
(a – 1) x
x –
– 1, then find the value of a.[2009]...[1M] are 󰀳 and  󰀳󰀬 then find its third zero.
[2010] ...[2M]
3. If ,  are the zeroes of a polynomial, such that
 +  = 6 and  = 4, then write the 7. Find
Find all
all zer
zeroe
oes
s of the
the pol
polyn
ynomiall (2 x 4 – 9 x 3 +
omia
polynomial. [2010] ...[1M] 5 x 2 + 3 x –

– 1) if two of its zeroes are 󰀲  󰀳 
and 󰀲  
󰀳 󰀮 [2018] ...[3M]
4. F in
in d al l
al th e
th ze ro
ze ro s of
of t h e p ol
ol yn
yn om
om ia
ia l
8. Find
Fin d the
the vavalue
lue of k suc such
h that
that the
the pol
polyno
ynomia
miall
4 3 2
x + x – 34 x – 4 x + 120, if two of its zeros x 2 – (k + 6) x
x +
+ 2(2 k – 1) has sum of its zeros
2(2k
are 2 and –2. [2008] ...[2M] equal to half of their product. [2019] ...[3M]
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34 Mathematics Chapter-wise Previous Years' Questions (Class-10)
Chapter - 3 : Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables
1. Find the num

Find number
ber of
of soluti
solutions
ons of
of the foll
followi
owing
ng pair
pair 7. The sum of nume
numerat
rator
or and
and den
denomi
ominat
nator
or of
of a
of linear equations : fraction is 3 less than twice the denominator.
x +
+ 2y –
– 8 = 0 If each of the numerator and denominator is
2 x +
+ 4y = = 16 [2009] ...[1M] decreased by 1, the fraction becomes 󰀱 󰀮 Find
2. Find
Fi nd ththe
e vavalu e of k for
lue for which the following pair 󰀲
of linear equations have infinitely many solutions the fraction. [2010] ...[3M]
2 x + 3y
3 y = (k –
= 7; (k – 1) x
x + (k
( k + 2)y
2) y = 3k
3 k .
8. S ol
ol ve
ve t he
he f o llll ow
ow in
in g pa
pa ir
ir o f e qu
qu at
at i on
on s
[2010] ...[2M]
󰀴 󰀶
 󰀳 󰁹  󰀸󰀬  󰀴 󰁹  󰀵󰀮 [2010] ...[3M]
3. In figure, ABCD
ABCD is
is a rectangle. Find the values 󰁸 󰁸
x and
of x
of and y . [2018] ...[2M]
9. A fathe
father's
r's age is thre
three
e times
times the sum of the
the
󰁄 󰁸 󰀫 󰁹 󰁃
ages of his two children. After 5 years his age
will be two times the sum of their ages. Find the
󰀱󰀴 󰁣󰁭 󰁸 󲀓 󰁹
present age of the father. [2019] ...[3M]
󰁁 󰀳󰀰 󰁣󰁭 󰁂 󰀱
10. A fract
fractio
ion
n becom
becomes
es when 2 is subtracted
4. Find c if the system of equations 󰀳
cx + 3y + (3 – c ) = 0; 12 x + cy – c = 0 has from the numerator and it becomes 󰀱 when 1
infinitely many solutions? [2019] ...[2M] 󰀲
is subtracted from the denominator. Find the
5. R ep
ep rese
rese nt
nt th e fo
fo llll ow
ow i ng
ng p ai
ai r o f eq
eq ua
ua tio
tio ns
ns
graphically and write the coordinate of points fraction. [2019] ...[3M]
where the lines intersect y -axis.
-axis. 11. A peacoc
peacock
k is sitting
sitting on the
the top of
of a pillar
pillar,, which
which
x +
+ 3y =
= 6 is 9 m high. From a point 27 in away from the
2 x – 3 y =
– 3y = 12 [2008] ...[3M] bottom of the pillar, a snake is coming to its
6. Solve for x and
and y hole at the base of the pillar. Seeing the snake
󰁡󰁸 󰁢󰁹 the peacock pounces on it. If their speeds are

  󰁡󰁢 equal, at what distance from the hole is the
󰁢 󰁡
ax –
– by =
= 2ab [2009] ...[3M] snake caught ? [2008] ...[6M]
Chapter - 4 : Quadratic Equations
1. Show that x =

= –3 is a solution x 2 + 6 x
solution of x x +
+ 9 = 0. 4. If 1 is
is a ro
root
ot of th
the
e equ
equat
ations ay 2 + ay +
ions + 3 = 0 and
2
[2008] ...[1M] y + y +
+ b = 0, then ab
ab equals
equals [2012]...[1M]
2. Find
Find the dis
discri
crimin
minan
antt of the
the qu
quadr
adrati
atic
c equati
equation
on 󰀷
󰀲
(A) 3 (B) 
󰀳 󰀳 󰁸  󰀱󰀰 󰁸  󰀳  󰀰󰀮 [2009] ...[1M] 󰀲
(C) 6 (D) –3
3. The roo
The roott of
of the
the eq
equa
uati
tion x 2 – 3 x – m (m + 3)
on x
= 0, where m is a constant, are [2011] ...[1M] 5. If th
the
e qu
quad
adra
rati
tic
c eq
equa
uati on 󰁰󰁸 󰀲  󰀲 󰀵󰁰󰁸  󰀱󰀵  󰀰
tion
(A) m, m + 3
(A) has two equal roots, then find the value of p
p..
[2015] ...[1M]
(B) –m, m + 3
6. If x = 3 is one root of the quadratic equation
(C)) m, – (m + 3)
(C x 2 – 2kx –
– 6 = 0, then find the value of k .
(D) –m, –(m
–( m + 3) [2018] ...[1M]

Chapter-wise Previous Years' Questions (Class-10) Mathematics 35

7. Forr wh
Fo what va valulue of k , the roots of the equation
es of forr x
23. Solve fo
x 2 + 4 x + k =
= 0 are real? [2019] ...[1M]
󰀱 󰀱 󰀲
  󰀬 󰁸  󰀱󰀬 󰀲󰀬 󰀳
8. Find th
Fin the va
value o off k for which the roots of the  󰁸  󰀱  󰁸  󰀲   󰁸  󰀲   󰁸  󰀳 󰀳
2
equation 3 x – 10 x + k = 0 are reciprocal of
each other. [2019] ...[1M] [2016] ...[3M]
9. F in
in d th
th e va of m so that the quadratic
va l u e of ad  bc
24. I f ad bc ,, then prove that the equation
2 2 2 2 2
equation mx ( x
x – 7) + 49 = 0 has two equal (a + b ) x
x + 2(ac + bd ) x
2(ac x + (c + d ) = 0 has
roots. [2011] ...[2M] no real roots. [2017] ...[3M]
10. Find
Find the
the valu e(s)) of k so that the quadratic
value(s 25.. A plane
25 plane left 30
30 minutes
minutes late
late than its schedul
scheduled
ed
equation 3 x 2 – 2kx +
+ 12 = 0 has equal roots. time and in order to reach the destination
1500 km away in time, it had to increase its
[2012] ...[2M] speed by 100 km/h from the usual speed. Find
11. Solve
Solv e the followin
following g quadratic
quadratic e
equati
quation
on for its usual speed. [2018] ...[3M]
x : 󰀴 󰀳 󰁸 󰀲  󰀵 󰁸  󰀲 󰀳  󰀰󰀮
x : 󰀰󰀮 [2013] ...[2M] 26.. Sum of
26 of the area
areas
s of two
two squares 400 cm2. If
squares is 400 I f
12.. Solve
12 Solve thethe quadr
quadratic
atic equation 2 x 2 + ax –
equation – a2 = 0 the difference of their perimeters is 16 cm, find
x .
for x
for [2014] ...[2M] the sides of the two squares. [2013] ...[4M]
13. Solve the followi

following
ng quadra
quadratic
tic equati
equation for x
on for x :: 27.. Sol
27 Solve
ve the fol
follow
lowing
ing for x :
for x
:
4 x 2 + 4bx –
– (a2 – b2) = 0 [2015] ...[2M] 󰀱 󰀱 󰀱 󰀱
   [2013] ...[4M]
2 󰀲󰁡  󰁢  󰀲󰁸 󰀲󰁡 󰁢 󰀲󰁸
14.. If –5 is a root
14 root of
of the quad
quadrat
ratic
ic equation 2 x
equation px
+ px
+
– 15 = 0 and the quadratic equation p x 2 + x ) +
p(( x 28.. The differ
28 difference
ence of two natu
natural
ral numbe
numbers
rs is 5 and
and
k =
= 0 has equal roots, find the
the value of of k .
󰀱
the difference of their reciprocals is 󰀮 Find the
[2016] ...[2M] 󰀱󰀰
15.. Find
15 Find th
the
e val
value
ue of p,, for which one root of the
of p numbers. [2014] ...[4M]
equation px 2 – 14 x +
quadratic equation px + 8 = 0 is 6 times 29. Find
Find the
the va
valu
lues
es of of k for which the quadratic
the other. [2017] ...[2M] (k +
equation (k x 2 + (k +
+ 4) x + 1) x
x +
+ 1 = 0 has equal
16.. The sum
16 sum of two num
number
bers
s is 8. Deter
Determin
mine
e the roots. Also, find the roots. [2014] ...[4M]
󰀸 30.. The diagon
30 diagonal
al of a rectang
rectangular
ular field
field is 16
16 metres
metres
numbers if the sum of their reciprocals is 󰀮
󰀱󰀵 more than the shorter side. If the longer side is 14
[2009] ...[3M] metres more than the shorter side, then find the
lengths of the sides of the field. [2015]...[4M]
17. Find the
the root
roots
s of the
the following
following quadr
quadratic
atic
󰀲
equatio
equation
n : 󰁸  󰀳 󰀵 󰁸  󰀱󰀰  󰀰󰀮 [2011] ...[3M] 31.. A train
31 train travels
travels at
at a certain
certain avera
averagege speed
speed for a
distance of 54 km and then travels a distance of
18. Sol
olve
ve fo : 4 x 2 – 4ax +
forr x : + (a2 – b2) = 0.
63 km at an average speed of 6 km/h more than
[2012] ...[3M] the first speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete
the total journey, what is its first speed?
󰀲
19. So
Solv
lve
e fo
for 󰁸 󰀺 󰀳󰁸 󰀲 󰀶 󰁸  󰀲 󰀰
󰀰󰀮󰀮 [2012] ...[3M]
[2015] ...[4M]
20.. For
20 For what
what val
value
ue(s(s)) of k , the roots of the quadratic
( k + 4)
equation (k x 2 + ( k + 1)
4) x x + 1 = 0 are
1) x 32. So
Solv
lve forr x :
e fo :
equal? [2013] ...[3M]
󰀱 󰀲 󰀴
  󰀻 󰁸  󰀱󰀬  󰀲󰀬  󰀴
󰁸 󰀱 󰁸 󰀲 󰁸 󰀴
󰀴 󰀵 󰀳
21. Sol
Solve
ve the equ
equati
ation
on 󰀳  󰀻 󰁸  󰀰󰀬  ,
󰁸 󰀲󰁸  󰀳 󰀲 [2016] ...[4M]
x .
for x
for [2014] ...[3M] 33.. A motor-bo
33 motor-boat
at whose
whose speed
speed is 24
24 km/h inin still
still
of x :
22. Solve of water takes 1 hour more to go 32 km upstream
than to return downstream to the same spot.
󰀳 󰁸 󰀲 󰀲 󰀲 󰁸  󰀲 󰀳  󰀰 [2015] ...[3M] Find the speed of the stream. [2016] ...[4M]


of x :
34. Solve of : 40.. Sol
40 Solve
ve the foll
followi
owing
ng equat
equation for x :
ion for
9 x 2 – 9(a + b) x
9(a x +
+ (2 a2 + 5ab
(2a + 2b2) = 0
ab +
󰀱 󰀳 󰀵 󰀱
  󰀬 󰁸   󰀱󰀬 󰀬󰀴
󰁸 󰀱 󰀵󰁸  󰀱 󰁸 󰀴 󰀵 [2009] ...[6M]
[2017] ...[4M] 41.. If (–5)

41 (–5) is a root
root of the
the quadrat
quadratic
ic equation 2 x 2 +
equation
px – 15 = 0 and the quadratic equation p x 2 +
p(( x
󰀱 x ) + k =
= 0 has equal roots, then find the values
35. Tw
Two
o taps
taps running
running togethe
togetherr can fill
fill a tank
tank in 󰀳
󰀱󰀳 p and
of p
of and k . [2009] ...[6M]
hours. If one tap takes 3 hours more than the
42. Three
Three consecuti
consecutive
ve positive
positive intege
integers
rs are such
such that
other to fill the tank, then how much time will
the sum of the square of the first and the
each tap take to fill the tank? [2017] ...[4M]
product of the other two is 46, find the integers.
36.. A motor-boa
36 motor-boatt whose
whose speed
speed is
is 18 km/hr in still
still [2010] ...[6M]
water take 1 hr more to go 24 km upstream
43. The differen
difference
ce of squar
squares
es of two
two numbers
numbers is 88.
88.
than to return downstream to the same spot.
If the larger number is 5 less than twice the
Find the speed of the stream. [2018] ...[4M]
smaller number, then find the two numbers.
37.. A train
37 train travels
travels at
at a certain
certain avera
average
ge speed
speed for a [2010] ...[6M]
distance of 63 km and then travels a distance of 44. A train
train travels
travels 180
180 km at
at a uniform
uniform speed
speed.. If the
72 km at an average speed of 6 km/hr more speed had been 9 km/hour more, it would have
than its original speed. It takes 3 hours to taken 1 hour less for the same journey. Find the
complete total journey, what is the original speed of the train. [2011] ...[6M]
average speed? [2018] ...[4M]
45.. Find the root
45 roots
s of
of the
the equa
equation
tion
󰀷
38.. Tw
38 Two
o water
water taps
taps together
together can
can fill
fill a tank in
in 󰀱 󰀱 󰀱 󰀳
󰀸
  󰀱󰀬 󰁸  󰀬 󰀵󰀮 [2011] ...[6M]
󰀲 󰁸  󰀳 󰁸 󰀵 󰀲
hours. The tap with longer diameter takes 2
46.. A shopk
46 shopkeep
eeper
er buys
buys book
books
s of the ` 80. If he had
hours less than the tap with smaller one to fill
bought 4 more books for the same amount,
the tank separately. Find the time in which each
each book would have cost ` 1 less. Find the
tap can fill the tank separately. [2019] ...[4M]
number of books he bought. [2012] ...[6M]
39. The differ
difference
ence of
of two numbe
numbers
rs is 4.
4. If the 47.. The sum
47 sum of two
two numbers
numbers is
is 9 and
and the sum
sum of
󰀴 󰀱
difference of their reciprocals is 󰀬 find the two their reciprocals is 󰀮 Find the numbers.
󰀲󰀱 󰀲
numbers. [2008] ...[6M] [2012] ...[6M]
Chapter - 5 : Arithmetic Progressions
1. The fir
The first
st term of an AP is p
term p and its common 5. The sum of fir
first
st 20
20 odd
odd natu
natural
ral nu
numb
mber
er is
is
difference is q. Find its 10th term. [2008] ...[1M]
[2012] ...[1M]
󰀴
2. If 󰀬 a, 2 are three consecutive terms of an AP, (A) 100
󰀵
then find the value of a. [2009] ...[1M] (B) 210
2
3. If th
the
e su
sum rstt p
m of fifirs p terms
terms of an AP, is ap + bp
bp,,
(C) 400
find its common difference. [2010] ...[1M]
(D) 420
4. If the
the comm
commonon diff
differe
erenc
nce
e of an AP is 3,
3, then
then
a20 – a15 is [2011] ...[1M] 6. The
The comm
common
on di
diff
ffer
eren
ence
ce of AP
(A) 5 󰀱 󰀱  󰀶󰁱 󰀱  󰀱󰀲󰁱
󰀬 󰀬 󰀬 󰀮󰀮󰀮 is [2013] ...[1M]
(B) 3 󰀳󰁱 󰀳󰁱 󰀳󰁱
(C) 15 (A) q
(A) (B) –q
(D) 20 (C) –2 (D) 2


th
7. The fir
first
st three
three ter
terms
ms of
of an AP resp
respect
ective
ively
ly are
are 22.. For
22 For wha
whatt value of n are the n terms of two AP's
value
3y – 3y +
– 1, 3y 5y +
+ 5 and 5y + 1. The y equals
equals 63, 65, 67, ... and 3, 10, 17, ... equal?
[2014] ...[1M] [2008] ...[3M]
(A) –3 (B) 4 23. If m times the mth term of an AP is equal to n
(C) 5 (D) 2 times its nth term, find the (m
(m + n)th term of the
AP..
AP [2008] ...[3M]
8. F or
or wh
wh a t va of k will k + 9, 2k
va l u e of 2 k – 1 and
2k +
+ 7 are the consecutive terms of an AP? 24.. In an AP
24 AP,, the firs is 8, nth term is 33 and
firstt term is
sum to first n terms is 123. Find n and d , the
[2016] ...[1M]
common difference. [2008] ...[3M]
9. What is the
What the com
common
mon dif
differ
feren
ence
ce of
of an AP in
25. The sumsum of first
first six terms
terms of anan arithme
arithmetic
tic
which a21 – a7 = 84? [2017] ...[1M] th
progression is 42. The ratio of its 10 term to its
10. In an AP
AP,, if the
the common
common diffe
differenc
rence (d ) = – 4, and
e (d 30th term is 1 : 3. Calculate the first and the
the seventh term (a ( a7) is 4, then find the first thirteenth term of the AP.? [2009] ...[3M]
term. [2018] ...[1M]
26.. In an AP
26 AP,, the sum
sum of first
first ten terms
terms is –150
–150 and
and
11. How many
many two
two digit
digit numb
numbers
ers are divi
divisible
sible the sum of its next ten terms is –550. Find the
by 3? [2019] ...[1M] AP [2010] ...[3M]
12.. Which
12 Which term of
of the AP 3, 15,
15, 27, 39,
39, ... will
will be 27.. Find an AP
27 AP whose
whose fourth
fourth term
term is 9 and
and the sum
st
120 more than its 21 term? [2009, 2019]...[2M] of its sixth term and thirteenth term is 40.
13.. In an AP
13 AP,, the first
first term is 2, the last term
term is 29 [2011] ...[3M]
and sum of the terms is 155. Find the common
difference of the AP [2010] ...[2M] 28. The 16th term of an AP is 1 more than twice its
8th term. If the 12th term of the AP is 47, then
14.. Find how
14 how many
many two-digi
two-digitt numbers
numbers are
are divisibl
divisible
e
find its nth term. [2012] ...[3M]
by 6. [2011] ...[2M]
15.. Find the
15 the sum of all
all three
three digit
digit natural
natural number
numbers,
s, 29.. The
29 The sum
sum of fi
firs 3 n2 + 4n.
rstt n terms of an AP is 3n
Find the 25th term of this AP. [2013] ...[3M]
which are multiples of 7. [2012] ...[2M]
OR 󰀱
30.. If the
30 the seven
seventh
th term
term of an
an AP
AP is and its ninth
󰀹
How many three-digit natural numbers are
󰀱
divisible by 7? [2013] ...[2M] term is 󰀬 find its 63 rd term. [2014] ...[3M]
󰀷
16. The first
first and
and the last
last term
term of an
an AP
AP are 5 and 45 31. The 14th term of an AP is twice its 8 th term. If
respectively. If the sum of all its terms is 400, find its 6th term is –8, then find the sum of its first
its common difference. [2014, 2017] ...[2M] 20 terms. [2015] ...[3M]
17. In an
an AP if S 5 + S 7 = 167 and S 10 = 235, then
AP, if
32.. If the
32 the ratio
ratio of the
the sum firstt n terms of two AP's
sum of firs
find the AP, where S n denotes the sum of its first
(7n + 1) : (4n
is (7n (4 n + 27), find the ratio of their
n terms. [2015] ...[2M]
mth terms. [2016] ...[3M]
18. The 4th term of an AP is zero. Prove that the 25th
OR
term of the AP is three times its 11 th term.
[2016] ...[2M]
If the ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two
(7n + 1) : (4n
AP's is (7n (4n + 27), then find the ratio
19. Which term of
of the progression
progression 20, of their 9th terms. [2017] ...[4M]
󰀱 󰀱 󰀳
󰀱󰀹 󰀬 󰀱 󰀸 󰀬 󰀱 󰀷 󰀬 󰀮 󰀮󰀮󰀮󰀮󰀮󰀮 is the first negative term? 33. The first
first and the
the last terms of an A.P
A.P.. are 8 and
󰀴 󰀲 󰀴
350 respectively. If its common difference is 9,
[2017] ...[2M]
how many terms are there and what is their
20.. Fin
20 Find
d the sum
sum of firs
firstt 8 multip
multiples
les of
of 3. [2018]...[2M] sum? [2011] ...[4M]
21. If S , the sum of first n terms of an AP is given

n
34.. How many
34 many multip
multiples
les of 4 lie
lie betwee
betweenn 10 and
and
by S = 3n2 – 4n, find the nth term. [2019]...[2M]
n
250? Also find their sum. [2011] ...[4M]


35. Sum of of the first
first 20 term
terms
s of an AP is
is –240
–240 and its
its 39.. The houses
39 houses in a row number
numbereded consecu
consecutively
tively
th
first term is 7. Find its 24 term. [2012] ...[4M] from 1 to 49. Show that there exists a value of
X such that sum of numbers of houses
36.. Find the
36 the number
number of terms
terms of the
the AP –12
–12,, –9,
preceding the house numbered X is equal to
–6, ... 12. If 1 is added to each term of this AP,
following X .
sum of the numbers of houses following X
then find the sum of terms of the AP thus
obtained. [2013] ...[4M] [2016] ...[4M]
37.. In an AP of 50
37 50 terms,
terms, the sum
sum of first
first 10 terms
terms 40.. The sum
40 sum of four
four consecu
consecutive
tive numbe
numbersrs in an
an AP
AP
is 32 and the ratio of the product of the first and
is 210 and the sum of its last 15 terms is 2565.
the last term to the product of two middle terms
Find the AP. [2014] ...[4M]
is 7 : 15. Find the numbers. [2018] ...[4M]
38. Fin
Find th 60th term of the AP 8, 10, 12 ..........,
the 60 41.. If the sum
41 sum of first
first four
four terms
terms of an
an AP
AP is 40
40 and
if it has a total of 60 terms and hence find the that of first 14 terms is 280. Find the sum of its
sum of its last 10 terms. [2015] ...[4M] first n terms. [2019] ...[4M]
Chapter - 6 : Triangles
1. The len
length
gths
s of the
the diag
diagona
onals
ls of
of a rhomb
rhombus
us are
are 󰁁󰁂 󰀱
30 cm and 40 cm. Find the side of the 6. Gi ve n  ABC ~ PQR , if  󰀬 then find
󰁐󰁑 󰀳
rhombus. [2008] ...[1M]
󰁡󰁲󰀨  󰁁󰁂󰁃 󰀩
󰀮 [2018] ...[1M]
2. In figure, PQ || BC and AP : PB
PB = 1 : 2. Find 󰁡󰁲󰀨 󰁐󰁑󰁒 󰀩
󰁡󰁲󰀨  󰁁󰁐󰁑 󰀩 󰀮 [2008] ...[1M] 7. In fifigure, DE || BC , AD
AD =
= 1 cm and BD
BD =
= 2 cm
cm..
󰁡󰁲󰀨  󰁁󰁂󰁃 󰀩 What is the ratio of the ar(  AB C ) to the
󰁁 ar( ADE )?
ar( [2019] ...[1M]
󰁁
󰁐 󰁑
󰁄 󰁅
󰁂 󰁃
3. In LMN , L = 50° and N = 60°. If LMN ~
󰁂 󰁃
PQR , then find Q. [2009] ...[1M] 8. E is a point on the side AD produced of
4. fi g u r e , S and T are points on the
I n b e l o w fi ABCD and
parallelogram ABCD
parallelogram and BE intersects
intersects CD
CD at
at F .
sides PQ PQ and PR respectively of PQR , such Show that  ABE ~ CFB
CFB.. [2008] ...[2M]
that PT = 2 cm, TR = 4 cm and ST is is parallel 9. In figure,  ABD
ABD is
is a right triangle, right-angled at
to QR . Find the ratio of the areas of PST and and AC  BD
A and AC
A and that AB2 = BC .BD
BD.. Prove that AB BD..
PQR . [2010] ...[1M] [2009] ...[2M]
󰁐
󰁄
󰁓 󰁔 󰁃
󰁑 󰁒
5. I n below fi e,  AHK is similar to  ABC . If
figur e, 󰁁 󰁂
AK =
AK = 10 cm, BC = = 3.5 cm and HK = = 7 cm, find 10. In fi
fig
g ure AD  BC . Prove that AB 2 + CD 2
ure,, AD
AC. [2010] ...[1M] = BD2 + AC 2. [2008] ...[3M]
󰁈 󰁃
󰁁
󰁃 󰁋 󰁄
󰁂 󰁂 󰁁

󰀱 17. If P and Q are the points on side CA

CA and CB
11. In fi
figure,, AD
gure AD  BC and BD
BD = CD.
CD. Prove that
󰀳 respectively of  ABC , right angled at C , prove
2CA2 = 2 AB2 + BC 2 [2009] ...[3M]
AQ2 + BP 2) = ( AB
that ( AQ AB2 + PQ2) [2019] ...[3M]
󰁁
18.. In an eq
18 equi
uilat
lateral  ABC , D is a point on side BC
eral
󰀱
9( AD ) 2
such that BD = B C . Prove that 9( AD
󰀳
2
= 7( AB)
AB) . [2018] ...[4M]
󰁂 󰁃
󰁄
12. I n fi
fi gu re , M is mid-point of side CD of a
gu re 󰁁
parallelogram ABCD ABCD.. The line BM is drawn
intersecting AC at L and AD
AD produced at E .
Prove that EL EL =
= 2BL
BL.. [2009] ...[3M]
󰁄 󰁂 󰁄 󰁃
󰁁 󰁅
󰁍
19.. Prov
19 Prove
e that, in
in a right
right triangle
triangle,, the square
square of the
the
󰁌 hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares
󰁂 󰁃 of the other two sides. [2018, 2019] ...[4M]
13. In bel
below
ow fig
figure, ABC is a right triangle, right
ure, 20. If a line
line is drawn
drawn parall
parallel
el to one
one side
side of a
angled at C , and D is the midpoint of BC . Prove triangle to intersect the other two sides in
that AB2 = 4 AD2 – 3 AC 2.
that AB [2010] ...[3M]
distinct points, prove that the other two sides
󰁁 are divided in the same ratio.
Using the above, prove the following :
In figure, AB
AB | | DE and BC | | EF . Prove that
AC | | DF
DF.. [2008] ...[6M]
󰁂 󰁃
󰁄
󰁄
14.. Prove that the
14 the area of
of an equilate
equilateral
ral triangl
triangle
e
󰁁
described on one side of the square is equal to
half the area of the equilateral triangle described 󰁂 󰁅
on one of its diagonal. [2018] ...[3M] 󰁏
15.. If the area

15 area of two simila
similarr triangles
triangles are
are equal,
equal, 󰁃
prove that they are congruent. [2018] ...[3M] 󰁆
16. In fi
figure,,  ACB
gure ACB = CD  AB,
= 90° and CD AB, prove that
CD2 = BDBD × × AD
AD.. [2019] ...[3M]
21.. Prov
21 Prove
e that the ratio
ratio of the areas
areas of
of two simil
similar
ar
󰁃 triangles is equal to the square of the ratio of
their corresponding sides.
Using the above, prove the following :
If the areas of two similar triangles are equal,

then prove that the triangles are congruent.
󰁁 󰁄 󰁂 [2010] ...[6M]

Chapter - 7 : Coordinate Geometry
1. If P (2,
(2, p
p)) is the mid-point of the line segment 8. the points A
If th A(( x
x , 2), B(–3, –4) and C (7,
(7, –5) are
joining
joining the point s A
points A(6,
(6, –5) and B(–2, 11), find the of x is
collinear, then the value of x is [2014] ...[1M]
of p..
value of p [2010] ...[1M] (A) –63 (B) 63
2. f A
A(1,
(1, 2),ofBa(4,parallelogram
Ivertices 3) and C (6,
(6, ABCD
6) are ,the
findthree
the (C) 60 (D) –60
9. Find
Find th
the
e dis
dista
tanc
nce
e of
of a po intt P ( x
poin x , y ) from the
coordinates of the fourth vertex D. [2010] ...[1M]
origin. [2018] ...[1M]
󰁐 
 󰁡 󰀬 󰀴  is the midpoint of the line-segment 10.. Find the coord
10 coordinat
inates
es of pointt A
of a poin A,, where AB
AB is
3. If 
󰀲  diameter of a circle whose centre is (2, –3) and
joining the points
joining A(–6,
points A(–6, 5) and B(–2, 3), then the
B is the point (1, 4). [2019] ...[1M]
value of a is [2011] ...[1M]
11. Find
Find th
the
e val ue of k if the points (k
value ( k , 3), (6, –2)
(A) –8 (B) 3
and (–3, 4) are collinear. [2008] ...[2M]
(C) –4 (D) 4
12.. If th
12 the
e poi
points A
nts A(4,
(4, 3) and B( x
x , 5) are on the circle
4. If A
A and B are the points (–6, 7) and (–1, –5) with the centre O(2, 3), find the value of x
of x .
respectively, then the distance 2 AB
AB is
is equal to
[2009] ...[2M]
[2011] ...[1M] 13. Find
Find the
the value of y for which the distance
value
(A) 13 (B) 26 points A(3,
between the points A (3, –1) and B(11, y ) is 10
(C) 169 (D) 238 units. [2011] ...[2M]
14. If a po
poinintt A
A(0,
(0, 2) is equidistant from the points
5. The coo
The coord
rdin
inat
ates
es of th
the
e point P dividing
point dividing the line
B(3, p)) and C ( p,
(3, p p, 5) then find the value of p
of p..
segment joining the points A A(1,
(1, 3) and B(4, 6)
in the ratio 2 : 1 are [2012] ...[1M] [2012] ...[2M]
(A) (2
(2, 4) (B) (3
(3, 5) 15. The
The popoin
ints A(4,
ts A (4, 7), B( p,
p, 3) and C (7,
(7, 3) are the
vertices of a right triangle, right-angled at B, find
(C) (4
(4, 2) (D) (5
(5, 3)
the values of P . [2015] ...[2M]
6. If the
the coord
coordina
inates
tes of the
the one
one end
end of a di
diame
ameter
ter
16.. Find
16 Find the rel relati
ation
on betw
betwee
eenn x and y if
if the points
of a circle are (2, 3) and the coordinates of its
A(( x
A x , y ),
), B(–5, 7) and C (–4,
(–4, 5) are collinear .
centre are (–2, 5), then the coordinates of the
other end of the diameter are [2012] ...[1M] [2015] ...[2M]
(A) (–6, 7) (B) (6, –7) 17. Let P and Q be the points of trisection of the
line segment joining the points A A(2,
(2, –2), and
(C) (6
( 6, 7) (D) (–
( –6, –7) B(–7, 4) such that P is nearer to A
A.. Find the
7. In bel
below
ow fig
figure
ure,, the
the area
area of the
the tria
triang
ngle ABC (in
le ABC (in coordinates of P and
and Q. [2016] ...[2M]
sq. units) is [2013] ...[1M] 18. Prove
Prove that the
the points
points (3,
(3, 0), (6,
(6, 4) and
and (–1,
(–1, 3) are
󰁹 the vertices of a right angled isosceles triangle.
󰀵 [2016] ...[2M]
󰀴 19.. A line
19 line int
inters
ersect
ects the y -axis
s the -axis and x -axis
-axis at the
󰁁󰀨󰀱󰀬
󰁁󰀨󰀱󰀬 󰀳󰀩
󰀳 points P and Q respectively. If (2, –5) is the
󰀲 mid-point of PQPQ,, then find the coordinates of
󰀱 P and
and Q. [2017] ...[2M]
󰁂 󰁃
󰁸  󰁸
󲀓󰀳 󲀓󰀲 󲀓󰀱 󰀱 󰀲 󰀳 󰀴 󰀵 20. If the
the dis
distances of P ( x
tances x , y ) from A
A(5,
(5, 1) and
󲀓󰀱
B(–1, 5) are equal, then prove that 3 x = 2 y .
= 2y
󲀓󰀲
[2017] ...[2M]
󰁹 
21.. Find
21 Find the
the ratio
ratio in which P (4,
which (4, m) divides the line
(A) 15 (B) 10 points A(2,
segment joining the points A (2, 3) and B(6, –3).
(C) 7.5 (D) 2.5 Hence find m. [2018] ...[2M]


22.. Find the
22 the ratio
ratio in whic
which
h the segme
segmentnt joining
joining the 34.. Find
34 Find the
the ratio
ratio in whic
which the y -axis
h the -axis divides the line
points (1, –3) and (4, 5) is divided by x -axis?
-axis? segment joining the points (–4, –6) and (10, 12).
on x -axis.
Also find the coordinates of this point on x -axis. Also, find the coordinates of the point of division.
[2019] ...[2M] [2013] ...[3M]

23. If P divides of A(–2,
divides the joining of A (–2, –2) and B(2
(2,, –4
–4)) 35. Show that the
the points
points (–2,
(–2, 3),
3), (8, 3)
3) and (6, 7) are
󰁁󰁐 󰀳
such that 󰁁󰁂
 󰀷 󰀬 find the coordinates of P . the vertices of a right triangle. [2013] ...[3M]
36. If th
the
e poi
point A(0,
nt A(0, 2) is equidistant from the points
[2008] ...[3M]
B(3, p)) and C ( p,
(3, p p, 5), find P , also find the length
24.. The mid-po
24 mid-points
ints of the sides
sides of a trian
triangle
gle are
are AB..
of AB
of [2014] ...[3M]
(3, 4), (4, 6) and (5, 7). Find the coordinates of
37. If th
th e po
po in ts A
in ts A(–2,
(–2, 1), B ( a, b ) and C (4,
( 4, –1)
the vertices of the triangle. [2008] ...[3M]
are collinear and a – b = 1, find the values of
25. Find the ratio
ratio in which pointt (2, y ) divides the
which the poin a and b. [2014] ...[3M]
line segment joining the points A A(–2,
(–2, 2) and
B(3, 7). Also find the value of y . [2009] ...[3M] 38.. If the
38 the coord
coordina
inates
tes of poin
points A and
ts A and B are (–2, –2)
and (2, –4) respectively, find the coordinates of P
26.. Find the area of the
26 the quadri
quadrilater
lateral ABCD whose
al ABCD whose
󰀳
vertices are A
A(–4,
(–4, –2), B(–3, –6), C (3,
(3, –2) and such that AP  AB
AB,, where P lies on the line
D(2, 3) [2009] ...[3M] 󰀷
AB..
segment AB
segment [2015] ...[3M]
27. Point P divides the line segment joining the
󰁁󰁐 󰀱 39. If th
thee poi nt P( x
point x , y ) is equidistant from the points
A(2,
points A
points (2, 1) and B(5, –8) such that  󰀮
A((a + b, b – a) and B(a – b, a + b). Prove that
A
󰁁󰁂 󰀳
If P lies on the line 2 x – y + k = 0, find the bx =
= ay . [2016] ...[3M]
value of k . [2010] ...[3M]
28. If R ( x
x , y ) is a point on the line segment joining 40.. In what
40 what rati
ratio
o does
does the pointt 
the poin
 󰀲󰀴 󰀬 
󰁹  divide the
the points P (a, b) and Q(b, a), then prove that  󰀱󰀱 
x + y = a + b. [2010] ...[3M] line segment joining the points P (2, (2, –2) and
Q(3, 7)? Also find the value of y . [2017] ...[3M]
29. Point P ( x
x , 4) lies on the line segment joining the
A(–5,
points A
points (–5, 8) and B(4, –10). Find the ratio in 41. If A
A(–2,
(–2, 1), B(a, 0), C (4,
(4, b) and D(1, 2) are the
which point P divides segment AB.. Also
divides the line segment AB parallelogram ABCD
vertices of a parallelogram ABC D, find the values
of x .
find the value of x [2011] ...[3M] of a and b. Hence find the lengths of its sides.
30.. Find the area

30 area of
of quadri
quadrilateral ABCD
lateral ABCD,, whose [2018] ...[3M]
vertices are A
A(–3,
(–3, –1), B(–2, –4), C (4,
(4, –1) and
D(3
(3,, 4)
4).. [2011] ...[3M] 42. If A
A(–5,
(–5, 7), B(–4, –5), C (–1,
(–1, –6) and D(4, 5) are
the vertices of quadrilateral, find the area of the
31.. Find the
31 the area of
of the triangl
triangle
e formed
formed by joinin
joining
g quadrilateral ABCD..
quadrilateral ABCD [2018] ...[3M]
the midpoints of the sides of the triangle whose
are A(2,
vertices are A (2, 1), B(4, 3) and C (2,
(2, 5). 43. Find
Find th
the pointt on y -axis
e poin -axis which is equidistant
from the points (5, –2) and (–3, 2). [2019]...[3M]
[2011] ...[3M]
44.. The line segm
44 segment
ent joini
joining
ng the
the points A(2,
points A (2, 1) and
32. A point P divides the line segment joining the
B(5, –8) is trisected at the points P and and Q such
points A
A(3,
(3, –5) and B (–4, 8) such that
that P is
is nearer to A
A.. If P also lies on the line
󰁁󰁐 󰁋 given by 2 x –
– y +
+ k =
= 0, find the value of k .
 󰀮 If P lies on the line x + y = 0, then
󰁐󰁂 󰀱
find the value of K . [2012] ...[3M] [2019] ...[3M]
33.. If the verti

33 vertices
ces of trian
triangle
gle are
are (1, –3), (4, p)) and
(4, p 45.. If the
45 the area
area of tria
triangl
ngles ABC formed
es ABC formed by A
A(( x
x , y ),
),
(–9, 7) and its area is 15 sq. sq. units, find the B(1, 2) and C (2,(2, 1) is 6 square units, then prove
of p..
value(s) of p [2012] ...[3M] x +
that x
that + y =
= 15. [2013] ...[4M]


46.. Find the ratio in which
46 pointt P ( x
which the poin x , 2) divides 󰁁󰀨󰀴󰀬 󰀶󰀩
points A(12,
the line segment joining the points A (12, 5) and
B(4, –3). Also find the value of x
of x . [2014] ...[4M]
47. Find
Find thethe va
values of k so that the area of the
lues
triangle with vertices (1, –1), (–4, 2 k ) and
󰁄 󰁅
k , –5) is 24 sq. units.
(–k
(– [2015] ...[4M]
48. In figur
figure,
e, the
the verti ces of  ABC are A
vertices A(4,
(4, 6),
B(1, 5) and
and C (7,
(7, 2). A line-segment DE is is drawn
to intersect the sides AB
AB and
and AC at D and E
󰁂󰀨󰀱󰀬 󰀵󰀩 󰁃 󰀨󰀷󰀬
󰀨󰀷󰀬 󰀲󰀩
󰁁󰁄 󰁁󰁅 󰀱
respectively such that   󰀮 Calculate
󰁁󰁂 󰁁󰁃 󰀳 49. If the
the poi
points A
nts A((k + 1, 2k
2k ),
), B(3 k , 2k + 3) and
(3k
the area of  ADE and compare it with area of C (5k
(5k – 1, 5k
5k ) are collinear, then find the value
 ABC . [2016] ...[4M] of k . [2017] ...[4M]
Chapter - 8 : Introduction to Trigonometry
󰀵 11. Without
Without using
using trigonom
trigonometri
etric
c tables,
tables, find the
the value
value
1. If tan A  󰀬 find the value of (sin A
A
+ cos A
A)
)

󰀱󰀲
of the following expression
sec A
A.. [2008] ...[1M]
󰁳󰁥󰁣󰀨󰀹󰀰  󰀩󰀮 󰁣󰁯
󰁣󰁯󰁳󰁥󰁣   󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰀨󰀹󰀰  󰀩 󰁣󰁯
󰁣󰁯󰁴 
2
2. If sec (1 + sin )(1 – sin ) = k , then find the  󰁣󰁯󰁳󰀲 󰀲󰀵
󰀲󰀵  󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰀲 󰀶
󰀶󰀵󰀵
value of k . [2009] ...[1M]
󰀷  󰁴󰁡󰁮󰀶󰀳
󰀳󰁴󰁡󰁮󰀲󰀷
󰀳󰁴󰁡󰁮󰀲 󰁴󰁡󰁮󰀶󰀳
󰀳 [2010] ...[2M]
3. If 3 x = cosec and
= cosec  cot , find the value of
󰁸
12.. Fin
12 Find
d the
the valu
value
e of cos
cosec
ec 30° geometrically.
 󰀲 󰀱 
󰀳  󰁸  󰀮 [2010] ...[1M]
󰀲  [2010] ...[2M]
 󰁸 
4. What
What is th
the
e val
value
ue of (cos267° – sin223°)?
(cos 13.. Prov
13 Provee that cott A
that : (1 + co A

+ tan A
A)(sin
)(sin A
A – cos A
A))
= sin A
A

tan A –
A

– cot A
A

cos A.
A

. [2008] ...[3M]
[2018] ...[1M]
14.. Without
14 Without using
using trigono
trigonometr
metric
ic tables,
tables, evaluate
evaluate the
the
5. Find A
A if
if tan 2 A
A =
= cot( A –
A – 24°) [2019] ...[1M] following :
6. Find
Find th
the
e va
valu
lue
e of
of (sin233° + sin257°) [2019] ...[1M]
(sin 󰀲
 󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰀵󰀸    󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰀳󰀸 󰁣󰁯󰁳󰁥󰁣 󰀵󰀲 󰀵󰀲 
 󰀳 
 󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰀳󰀲
󰀳󰀲   󰁴󰁡󰁮󰀱󰀵 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰀶󰀰 󰀷󰀵 
󰀶󰀰 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰀷󰀵
7. If s ec 4 A
A = cosec( A
A – 20°), where 4 A
A is an
[2008] ...[3M]
of A..
acute angle, find the value of A [2008] ...[2M]
15. Ev
Eval
alu
uat
ate
e:
󰀱
8. In a  ABC , right-angled at C , if tan A
A  󰀬 find 󰀲 󰀲 󰀲 󰀵
󰀳 󰁣󰁯󰁳󰁥󰁣 󰀵󰀸 
󰀵󰀸 󰁣󰁯󰁴 󰀵 󰀸 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰀳󰀲
󰀳󰀲 󲀓 󰀱󰀳
󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰀱󰀳
the value of sin A
A cos
cos B + cos A
A sin
sinBB. 󰀳 󰀳 󰀳
tan37° tan45° tan53° tan77° [2009] ...[3M

...[3M]]
[2008] ...[2M]
16.. Pr
16 Prov
ove
e the
the fo
foll
llow
owin
ing
g:
󰀱󰀵
9. If 󰁣󰁯󰁴   󰀬 then evaluate 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰁁 󰁣󰁯󰁴 󰁁
󰀸   󰀱 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰁁  󰁣󰁯󰁴 󰁁 .
󰁴󰁡
󰀱  󰁣󰁯
󰁣󰁯󰁴 󰁁 󰀱  󰁴󰁴󰁡
󰁡󰁮 󰁁
[2010] ...[3M]
󰀨 󰀲  󰀲 󰁳󰁩
󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰀩 󰀨󰀨󰀱
󰀱  󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰀩
󰀮 [2009] ...[2M]
󰀨󰀱  󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰀩 󰀨󰀨󰀲
󰀲  󰀲 󰁣󰁯󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰀩 17.. Pr
17 Prov
ove
e the
the fo
foll
llow
owin
ing
g:
󰀱
10.. Fin
10 Find
d the
the va
value
lue of ta
tan
n 60°, geometrically. 󰀨󰁣󰁯󰁳󰁥󰁣 󰁁  󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰁁󰀩󰀨󰁳󰁥󰁣 󰁁  󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰁁󰀩  󰀮
󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰁁  󰁣󰁯󰁴 󰁁
[2009] ...[2M] [2010] ...[3M]

 󰀴 󰁳󰁩󰁮   󰁣󰁯󰁳   󰀱  21.. Prove

21 Prove that
that : (1 + cotA – cos
cosecA
ecA)) (1 + tanA
tanA +
18. If 4 tan = 3, evaluate   secA) = 2. [2019] ...[3M]
 󰀴 󰁳󰁩󰁮   󰁣󰁯󰁳   󰀱 
[2018] ...[3M] 󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰁁  󰀲 󰁳󰁩
󰀳
󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰁁
22. Pr
Prov
ove
e th
that 󰀳
 󰁴󰁡󰁮 󰁁 [2018] ...[4M]
tan2 A
19. If ta A =
= cot ( A –
A – 18°), where 2 A
A is
is an angle, 󰀲 󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰁁  󰁣󰁯󰁳 󰁁
of A..
find the value of A [2018] ...[3M] 󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰁁  󰁣
󰁣󰁯󰁯󰁳 󰁁  󰀱 󰀱
23. Pr
Prov
ove
e tha
thatt 
2 2 󰁳󰁩󰁮 󰁁  󰁣󰁯󰁳󰁁  󰀱 󰁳󰁥󰁣 󰁁  󰁴󰁴󰁡
󰁡󰁮 󰁁
20.. Prov
20 Prove
= 7 +e tan
ttha
hat2t: +(s
(sin
in
2 
cot +. cosec
cosec) + (cos
(cos  + ...[3M]
[2019] sec)
sec [2019] ...[4M]
Chapter - 9 : Some Applications of Trigonometry
1. A tower
tower stan
stands
ds ver
vertica
tically
lly on the gro
ground
und.. From
From a 6. A ladd
ladder
er lea
leanin
ning
g agai
against
nst a wall
wall mak
makes
es an ang
angle
le
point on the ground
ground which is 25 m away from the of 60º with the horizontal. If the foot of the
foot of the tower, the angle of elevation of the top ladder is 2.5 m away from the wall, find the
of the tower is found to be 45°. Then the height length of the ladder. [2016] ...[1M]
(in meters) of the tower is [2011] ...[1M]
7. If a to
towe
werr 30 m hig
high,
h, cas
casts
ts a sh
shad
adow
ow 󰀱󰀰 󰀳 m
(A) 󰀲󰀵 󰀲 (B) 󰀲󰀵 󰀳
long on the ground, then what is the angle of
(C) 25 (D) 12.5
elevation of the sun? [2017] ...[1M]
2. The len
length
gth of sha
shadow
dow of a tow
tower
er on
on the
the plan
plane
e
ground is 󰀳 times the height of the tower. The 8. From the
From the top
top of a ver
vertic
tical
al towe
tower,
r, the ang
angles
les of
depression of two cars, in the same straight line
angle of elevation of Sun is [2012] ...[1M] with the base of the tower, at an instant are
(A) 45° (B) 30° found to be 45°
45° and 60°. If the cars are 100 m
(C) 60° (D) 90° in apart and are on the same side of the tower,
3. The ang
angle
le of
of depres
depressio
sion
n of a car,
car, stan
standin
ding
g on the find the height of the tower. ( 󰀳 = 1.73)
ground, from the top of a 75 m high tower, is [2011] ...[3M]
30°. The distance of the car from the base of the
tower (in metre) is [2013] ...[1M] 9. A kite
kite is
is flyi
flying
ng at
at a heig
height
ht of
of 45 m abo
above
ve the
the
ground. The string attached to the kite is
(A) 󰀲󰀵 󰀳 (B) 󰀵󰀰 󰀳
temporarily tied to a point on the ground. The
(C)) 󰀷󰀵
(C 󰀳 (D) 150 inclination of the string with the ground is 60°.
4. A ladde
ladderr makes
makes an angl
angle
e of
of 60º
60º wi
with
th the
the gro
ground
und Find the length of the string assuming that there
when placed against a wall. If the foot of the is no slack in the string. [2012] ...[3M]
ladder is 2 m away from the wall, then the length 10.. The horizo
10 horizonta
ntall distance
distance betwee
betweenn two poles
poles is
(in meters) is [2014] ...[1M]
15 m. The angle of depression
depression of the top of first
󰀴 pole as seen from the top of second pole is 30°.
(A) (B) 󰀴 󰀳
󰀳 If the height of the second pole is 24 m, find the
height of the first pole. [Use 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳󰀲 ]
(C)) 󰀲
(C 󰀲 (D) 4
5. In the
the fo
foll
llow
owin
ing
g figu
figure towerr AB
re,, a towe AB is
is 20 m high [2013] ...[3M]
and BC , its shadow on the ground is 󰀲󰀰 󰀳 m 11. Two

Two ships
ships are there
there in the sea
sea on either
either side
side
long. Find the Sun's altitude. [2015] ...[1M] of a light house in such a way that the ships
󰁁 and the light house are in the same straight line.
The angles of depression of two ships as
observed from the top of the light house are
60º and 45º. If the height of the light house is
200 m, find the distance between the two ships.
 󰁕󰁳󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳  [2014] ...[3M]
󰁃 󰁂

12.. The angle

12 angle of
of elevation
elevation of an aerop
aeroplane
lane from 19.. An aeropl
19 aeroplane
ane is
is flying
flying at a height
height of
of 300 m
point A on the ground
ground is 60º. After flight of 15 above the ground. Flying at this height, the
angles of depression from the aeroplane of two
seconds, the angle of elevation changes to 30º.
points on both banks of a river in opposite
If the aeroplane is flying at a constant height of
directions are 45° and 30° respectively. Find the
󰀱󰀵
󰀱󰀵󰀰󰀰
󰀰󰀰 󰀳 m, find the speed of the plane in
width of the river. 󰁕󰁳󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳󰀲
km/hr. [2015] ...[3M]
[2017] ...[4M]
13.. A man stand
13 standing
ing on
on the deck
deck of a ship,
ship, which
which is
10 m above water level, observes the angle of 20.. As observe
20 observed d from the top
top of a 100
100 m high
high light
light
house from the sea-level, the angles of
elevation of the top of a hill as 60º and the angle
depression of two ships are 30° and 45°. If one
of depression of the base of the hill as 30º. Find
ship is exactly being the other on the same side
the distance of the hill from the ship and the of the light house, find the distance between the
height of the hill. [2016] ...[3M] two ships. 󰁕󰁳󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳󰀲 [2018] ...[4M]
14.. On a straigh
14 straightt line pass
passing
ing throug
through
h the foot
foot of a 21. A man in a boat rowin
rowing
g away
away from
from a light
light house
house
tower, two points C and D are at distances of 100 m high takes 2 minutes to change the angle
4 m and 16 m from the foot respectively. If the of elevation of the top of the light house from
angles of elevation from C and D of the top of 60° to 30°. Find the speed of the boat in metres
the tower are complementary, then find the height per minute. 󰁕󰁳󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳󰀲
 [2019] ...[4M]
of the tower. [2017] ...[3M]
22.. The angle
22 angle ofof elevation
elevation of an aerop
aeroplane
lane from a
15. Two poles of equal
equal heights
heights are standing
standing opposit
opposite
e point A
A on the ground is 60°. After a flight of
to each other on either side of the roads, which 30 seconds, the angle of elevation changes to
30°. If the plane is flying at a constant height of
is 80 m wide. From a point
point between them
them on
the road, the angles of elevation of the top of the 󰀳󰀶󰀰
󰀳󰀶󰀰󰀰 󰀳󰁭 , then find the speed (in km/hour) of
poles are 60º and 30º respectively. Find the the plane. [2008] ...[6M]
height of the poles and the distances of the
23.. An aeropla
23 aeroplane
ne when
when flying
flying at a heigh
heightt 3125
3125 m
point from the poles. [2013] ...[4M] from the ground passes vertically below another
plane at that instant when the angles of elevation
16. The angles
angles of elevation
elevation and depress
depression
ion of
of the top
of the two planes from the same point on the
and the bottom of a tower from the top of a
ground are 30° and 60° respectively. Find the
building,
building, 60 m high, are 30° and 60° respective
respectively
ly.. distance between the two planes at that instant.
Find the difference between the heights of the
[2009] ...[6M]
building and the tower and the distance between
them. [2014] ...[4M] 24.. From the
24 the top of a 7 m high
high build
building,
ing, the
the angle
angle
of elevation of the top of a tower is 60° and the
17. At a pointt A
poin A,, 20 metres above the level of water angle of depression of the foot of the tower is
in a lake, the angle of elevation of a cloud is 45°. Find the height of the tower. [2010] ...[6M]
30º. The angle of depression of the reflection of
25.. The angle
25 angle of elevation
elevation of the top of a vertical
vertical
the cloud in the lake, at A
A is 60º. Find the
tower from a point on the ground is 60°. From
from A..
distance of the cloud from A [2015] ...[4M] another point 10 m vertically above the first, its
angle of elevation is 30°. Find the height of the
18.. The angl
18 angle
e of eleva
elevation the top Q of a vertical
tion of the
tower. [2011] ...[6M]
tower PQ
PQ from
from a point X on the ground is 60º.
From a point Y , 40 m vertically above X , the 26. The angle
angle of elevation
elevation of the top of
of a hill
hill from
from the
angle of elevation of the top Q of tower is 45º. foot of a tower is 60° and the angle of
depression from the top of the tower to the foot
Find the height of the tower PQ
PQ and
and the distance
of the hill is 30°. If the tower is 50 m high, find
PX . 󰁕󰁳󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳  [2016] ...[4M] the height of the hill. [2012] ...[6M]

Chapter - 10 : Circles
1. In figure,  ABC is
is circumscribing a circle. Find 5. In b e lo
lo w fi gu
gu re,
re, a ci rcl
rcl e w i thth ce tre O is
ce n tre
the length of BC . [2009, 2012] ...[1M] inscribed in a quadrilateral ABCD
ABCD such that, it
󰁁 touches the sides BC , AB AB,, AD
AD and
and CD
CD at at point
P , Q, R and
and S respectively. If AB
If AB =
= 29 cm, AD
󰀴 󰁣󰁭
= 23 cm, B = 90° and DS = 5 cm, then the
radius of the circle (in cm) is [2013] ...[1M]
󰁑 󰀱󰀱 󰁣󰁭
󰁒
󰁁
󰀳 󰁣󰁭
󰁒
󰁄
󰁂 󰁃
󰁐
2. If figure, O is the centre of a circle, PQ
PQ is
is a chord 󰁏 󰁲
󰁓 󰁑
and PT is is the tangent at P . If POQ
POQ =
= 70°, then 󰁲
TPQ
TPQ is
is equal to [2011] ...[1M]
󰁃 󰁂
󰁐
󰁐
(A) 11 (B) 18
󰁔
(C) 6 (D) 15
󰁏
6. In below fi gure, PA
fig PA and PB
PB are two tangents
󰁑 drawn from an external point P to to a circle with
centre C and
and radius 4 cm. If PA  PBPB,, then the
(A) 55° (B) 70° length of each tangent is [2013] ...[1M]
(C) 45° (D) 35°
3. In figure, AB
AB and
and AC are
are tangents to the circle
󰁁
with center O such that BAC = 40°. Then
BOC is
is equal to [2011] ...[1M]
󰁃
󰁂 󰁐
󰁁 󰀴󰀰° 󰁏 󰁂
󰁃 (A) 3 cm (B) 4 cm
(A) 40° (B) 50° (C) 5 cm (D) 6 cm
(C) 140° (D) 160°
7. In figure, QR is
is a common tangent to the given
4. In fig
figur
ure,
e, a cir
circl
cle
e touc
touchehess the
the side of EDF
side DF of
circles, touching externally at the point T . The
at H and touches ED ED and EF produced at K
tangent at T meets QR at P . If PT = 3.8 cm,
and M respectively. If EK = 9 cm, then the
then the length of QR (in
(in cm) is [2014] ...[1M]
perimeter of EDF (in
(in cm) is [2012] ...[1M]
󰁅 󰁑
󰁐 󰁒
󰁈 󰁔
󰁄 󰁆
󰁋 󰁍
(A) 3.8 (B) 7.6

(A) 18 (B) 13.5
(C) 12 (D) 9 (C) 5.7 (D) 1.9


8. In figure, PQ
PQ and PR two tangents to a circle 14.. Tan
14 angegents PA and PB
nts PB are
are drawn from an external
with centre O. If QPR = = 46°, QOR equals:
equals: point P to two concentric circle with centre O
[2014] ...[1M] and radii 8 cm and 5 cm respectively, as shown
if AP = 15 cm, then find the length of
in figure, if AP
󰁑 BP . [2012] ...[2M]
󰁁
󰁏 󰀴󰀶󰂺 󰁐
󰁐
󰁏
󰁒
󰁂
(A) 67° (B) 134°
15. In figure,
figure, an isosc
isosceles
eles trian gle AB
triangle ABC
C , with
(C) 44° (D) 46°
AB =
AB = AC , circumscribes a circle. Prove that the
9. In the
the fol
follo
lowi
wing
ng fi
figure,, PQ
gure PQ is
is a chord of a circle point of contact P bisects
bisects the base BC .
with centre O and PT is a tangent. If QPT =
[2012] ...[2M]
60°, find PRQ [2015] ...[1M]
󰁁
󰁑
󰁏
󰁒
󰁒 󰁑
󰁐 󰁔
10.. In th
10 the
e fi
figure,, PQ
gure PQ is
is a tangent at a point C to a
circle with centre O. If AB
AB is a diameter and 󰁂 󰁃
󰁐
CAB
CAB = = 30º, find PCA
PCA.. [2016] ...[1M]
16.. In fig
16 figure
ure,, the
the cho
chord AB of
rd AB of the larger of the two
󰁐
concentric circles, with centre O, touches the
󰁃 smaller circle at C . Prove that AC
that AC =
= CB
CB..
󰁑 [2012] ...[2M]
󰁁 󰁂
󰁏
󰁏
11. If the angle
angle betwee
between
n two tange
tangents
nts drawn
drawn from
from an
external point P to a circle of radius a and 󰁁 󰁂
󰁃
centre of O, is 60°, then find the length of OP .
[2017] ...[1M] 17.. In below
17 below figure,
figure, a circle
circle is inscribe
inscribed d in triangl
triangle
e
12.. If all the
12 the sides
sides of a parallel
parallelogr
ogram
am touch
touch a circle,
circle, ABC touches sides AB,, BC and AC
touches its sides AB and AC at
at points
show that the parallelogram is a rhombus. D, E and F respectively. If AB
AB = 12 cm, BC =
8 cm and AC = = 10 cm, then find the length of
[2008, 2010, 2012] ...[3M], [2013, 2014] ...[2M]
AD,, BE and
AD and CF . [2013] ...[2M]
13.. In figure,
13 figure, a circl
circle
e touches
touches all
all the four sides
sides of a
ABCD whose
quadrilateral ABCD
quadrilateral are AB =
whose sides are AB = 6 cm, 󰁃
BC = 9 cm and CD CD = 8cm, find the length of
side AD..
side AD [2011] ...[2M]
󰁄 󰁃
󰁆 󰁅
󰁁 󰁁 󰁂
󰁂 󰁄


18.. Prove that the
18 the line
line segment
segment joinin
joining
g the point
point of
of 23.. In figur
23 figure,
e, from
from an exte
externa point P , two tangents
rnall point
contact of two parallel tangents of a circle PT and PS are drawn to a circle with centre O
passes through its centre. [2014] ...[2M] and radius r . If OP = 2r , show that OTS =
OST = = 30º [2016] ...[2M]
19.. If from
19 from an ext
extern
ernal
al point P of
point of a circle with centre
O, two tangents PQPQ and PR are drawn such 󰁔
that QPR = 2PQ =
= 120º, prove that 2PQ = PO
PO..
[2014] ...[2M] 󰁑
󰁏 󰁐
20.. In the foll
20 followi
owing
ng figure
figure,, two tange nts RQ
tangents RQ and
and RP
are drawn from an external point R to to the circle
with centre O, if PRQ
PRQ = = 120º, then prove that 󰁓
OR =
= PR +
+ RQ
RQ.. [2015] ...[2M]
24. Prove that the
the tangents
tangents drawn at the end points
points
of a chord of a circle make equal angles with
the chord. [2017] ...[2M]
󰁐
25. A circle
circle touches
touches all
all the four
four sides
sides of a quadr
quadrilat
ilateral
eral
󰁏
󰁒 ABCD
ABC D. Prove that AB
that AB + + CD
CD = = BC +
+ DA.
[2017] ...[2M]
󰁑
26. In given
given figu
figure,
re, a tria
triangle PQR is drawn to
ngle
circumscribe a circle of radius 6 cm such that
21. In fi
figure,, a  ABC is drawn to circumscribe a
gure the segments QT and TR into which QR is
circle of radius 3 cm, such that the segments divided by the point of contact T , are of lengths
BD and
BD and DC are
are respectively of lengths 6 cm and 12 cm and 9 cm respectively. If the area of
9 cm. If the area of  ABC is 54 cm2, then find PQR = = 189 cm2, then find the lengths of sides
sides AB and
the lengths of sides AB AC . [2015] ...[2M]
and AC PQ and
PQ and PR . [2011] ...[3M]
󰁐
󰁁
󰀳 󰁣󰁭 󰁏
󰁂 󰀶 󰁣󰁭 󰁄 󰀹 󰁣󰁭 󰁃
󰁑 󰁔 󰁒
22. In figure
figure,, a quadri
quadrilaterall ABCD
latera ABCD is drawn to 27.. Prove
27 Prove that opposi
opposite
te sides
sides of a quadrila
quadrilateral
teral
circumscribe a circle, with centre O, in such a circumscribing a circle subtend supplementary
way that the sides AB
AB,, BC , CD
CD and DA
DA touch angles at the centre of the circle. [2012] ...[3M]
the circle at the points P , Q , R and S
that AB +
respectively. Prove that AB + CD
CD = = BC +
+ DA
DA.. 28. In Fi
Figu re,, PQ
gure PQ is a chord of length 8 cm of a
circle of radius 5 cm and centre O. The tangents
[2012[4], 2016] ...[2M] at P and
and Q intersect at point T . Find the length
of TP . [2019] ...[3M]
󰁄 󰁒 󰁃
󰁐
󰁓 󰁑
󰀵
󰁏
󰀸 󰁏
󰁔
󰁁 󰁐 󰁂 󰁑


29.. Prove
29 Prove that the
the tangent
tangent at any
any point
point of a circle
circle is 34.. In the
34 the gi
give
ven
n figu
figure and X Y  are two parallel
re,, XY and X
perpendicular to the radius through the point of tangents to a circle with centre O and another
contact. [2011, 2012, 2013] ...[4M] tangent AB with point of contact C , is
30. In fi
figure,, I and
gure and m are two parallel tangents to a intersecting XY
intersecting A and X Y  at B. Prove that
XY at A
circle with centre O, touching the circle at A
at A and
and  AOB
AOB = = 90°. [2017] ...[4M]
B respectively. Another tangent at C intersects
intersects 󰁘 󰁙
󰁐 󰁁
the = 90º
line
line
DOE = I at D and m at E . [2013]
Prove...[4M]
that
󰁁 󰁄
󰁬 󰁏
󰁏
󰁑 󰁂
󰁃 󰁘  󰁙 
35. Prove
Prove that the
the lengths
lengths of
of tangents
tangents drawn
drawn from
from an
󰁭 external point to a circle are equal. Using the
󰁂 󰁅
31. Prove that the

the length
length of the
the tangents
tangents draw
drawn
n from above, prove
prove the following
following :
an external point to a circle are equal. ABC is which AB =
is an isosceles triangle in which AB = AC ,
[2014, 2015, 2016, 2017] ...[4M] circumscribed about a circle, as shown in figure,
Prove that the base is bisected by the point of
32.. Prove
32 Prove that the
the tangent
tangent drawn
drawn at at the midpoin
midpointt of
contact. [2008] ...[6M]
an arc of a circle is parallel to the chord joining
the end points of the arc. [2015] ...[4M] 󰁁
33.. In figure,
33 figure, two
two equal
equal circl
circles,
es, with
with centre
centres s O and
O, touch each other at X
at X . OO
OO produced meets
the circle with centre O at A.. AC is
at A is tangent to
the circle with centre O, at the point C . OD is 󰁒 󰁑
󰁄󰁏 
to AC . Find the value of
perpendicular to AC .
󰁃󰁏
[2016] ...[4M] 󰁂 󰁃
󰁐
󰁃 36.. Prove
36 Prove that the
the lengths
lengths of the
the tangents
tangents drawn
drawn
from an external point to a circle are equal.
󰁄
Using the above theorem prove that:
󰁁
󰁏 󰁘 󰁏
quadrilaterall ABCD
If quadrilatera ABCD is
is circumscribing a circle,
AB +
then AB
then + CD
CD =
= AD
AD +
+ BC . [2009] ...[6M]
Chapter - 11 : Constructions
1. Draw a li
Draw line
ne-s
-seg
egme
ment AB of
nt AB of length 7 cm. Using 3. Draw a right
Draw right ttria
riang
ngle
le in
in which
which sid
sides
es (oth
(other
er than
than
ruler and compasses, find a point P on AB
on AB such
such hypotenuse) are of length 8 cm and 6 cm. The
󰀳
󰁁󰁐 󰀳 construct another triangle whose sides are
that  . [2011] ...[2M] 󰀴
󰁁󰁂 󰀵 times the corresponding sides of the first
triangle. [2009] ...[3M]
2. Draw a righ
Draw rightt triang
triangle
le in
in which
which the sid
sides
es cont
contain
aining
ing 4. Cons
Co nstr
truc
uctt a tr
tria
iang
ngle ABC in which BC = 8 cm,
le ABC
the right angle are 5 cm and 4 cm. Construct a B = 45° and C = 30°. Construct another
triangle similar to  ABC such
such that its sides are
󰀵
similar triangle whose sides are times the 󰀳
󰀳 of the corresponding sides of  ABC .
󰀴
sides of the given triangle. [2008] ...[3M] [2010] ...[3M]


5. Draw a pair
Draw pair of tange
tangents
nts to a cir
circle
cle of rad
radius
ius 3 10. C on
on st uc t a  AB C in which AB = 6 cm,
st r uc
cm, which are inclined to each other at an angle  A
A = 30º and  B = 60º, construct another
of 60°. [2011] ...[3M]  AB
ABC  similar to  ABC with AB = 8 cm.
with base AB
6. Draw a righ
Draw rightt triang
triangle
le in
in which
which the sid
sides
es (othe
(other
r [2015] ...[4M]
than hypotenuse) are of lengths 4 cm and 3 cm.
Then construct another triangle whose sides are 11. Draw
Draw a circle
circle of
of radius
radius 4 cm. Draw
Draw two
two tange
tangents
nts
to the circle inclined at an angle of 60° to each
󰀳 times the corresponding sides of the given other. [2016] ...[4M]
󰀵
triangle. [2011] ...[3M] 12.. Const
12 Construc
ructt a tri
trian
angle ABC with
gle ABC with side BC =
= 7 cm,
7. D r aw a tr i a ng l e ABC with side BC = 6 cm, B = 45°,  A A = = 105°. Then construct another
 C = 30° and  A A = 105°. Then construct 󰀳
triangle whose sides are times the
󰀲 󰀴
another triangle whose sides are times the corresponding sides of the  ABC . [2017]...[4M]
󰀳
corresponding sides of  ABC . [2012] ...[3M] 13.. Draw
13 Draw a tri
trian
angle ABC with BC = 6 cm, AB
gle AB = 5
8. Construct
Construct a tange
tangent
nt of
of a circ
circle
le of
of radiu
radius
s 4 cmcm cm and  ABC = = 60°. Then construct a triangle
from a point on the concentric circle of radius 󰀳
6 cm. [2013] ...[3M] whose sides are of the corresponding sides
󰀴
9. Draw a ri
Draw righ
ghtt tri
trian
angle ABC in
gle which AB =
in which AB = 6 cm, of the  ABC . [2018] ...[4M]
BC = 8 cm and  B = 90º. Draw BD
BC 14. C on
on stst ru ct a  AB C in which CA = 6 cm,
ru ct
perpendicular from B on AC and draw a circle AB = 5 cm and
AB and BAC = 45°. Then construct a
passing through the points B , C an d D . 󰀳
Construct tangents from A
A to
to this circle. triangle whose sides are of the corresponding
󰀵
[2014] ...[3M] sides of  ABC . [2019] ...[4M]
Chapter - 12 : Areas Related to Circles
1. If the
the diam
diamete
eterr of a semi
semicir
circul
cular
ar prot
protrac
ractor
tor is
is 5. Find the peri
perimete
meterr of
of the
the shad
shaded
ed regi
region
on in figu
figure,
re,
14 cm, then find its perimeter. [2009] ...[1M] ABCD
if ABC
if D is a square of side 14 cm and APB
APB and
and
are semicircles.  󰁕󰁳󰁥  

󰀲󰀲 
2. The per
perime
imeter
ter (in
(in cm)
cm) of
of a squar
square
e circu
circumsc
mscrib
ribing
ing CPD are
CPD  [2011]...[2M]
a circle of radius a cm, is [2011] ...[1M]  󰀷 
󰁄 󰁃
(A) 8a (B) 4a
(C) 2a (D) 16a 󰁐
3. If the
the area
area of a cir
circle
cle is equa
equall to sum of thethe
areas of two circles of diameters 10 cm and
24 cm, then the diameter of the larger circle 󰁁 󰁂
(in cm) is [2012] ...[1M] 6. In figure, OABC is a square of side 7 cm. If
OAPC is a quadrant of a circle with centre O,
(A) 34 (B) 26
then find the area of the shaded region.
(C) 17 (D) 14  󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲 
  [2012] ...[2M]
4. If the
the diffe
differen
rence
ce betw
between
een the circ
circumf
umfere
erence
nce and  󰀷 
the radius of a circle is 37 cm, then using 󰁃 󰁂
󰀲󰀲
 󰀬 the circumference of the circle is
󰀷 󰁐
(in
(in cm
cm)) [2013] ...[1M]
(A) 154 (B) 44
(C) 14 (D) 7 󰁏 󰁁


7. Two circul
Two circular
ar piec
pieces
es of
of equal
equal rad
radiiii and
and maxi
maximum
mum 12.. A chord
12 chord of a circle
circle of radiu
radius
s 14 cm subten
subtends
ds an
area, touching each other are cut out from a angle of 120° at the centre. Find the area of the
rectangular card board of dimensions 14 cm × corresponding minor segment of the circle.
7 cm. Find the area of the remaining card board.
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲
󰁡󰁮󰁤 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳 
 [2011] ...[3M]
 󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲   󰀷 
  [2013] ...[2M]
 󰀷 
13.. In fi
13 figure,, PQ
gure PQ and AB are
and AB are respectively the arcs of
8. I n f ig
ig ur
ur e,
e, a s qu ar e OABC is inscribed in a
qu ar two concentric circles of radii 7 cm and 3.5 cm
quadrant OPBQ OPBQ of
of a circle. If OA
OA =
= 20 cm, find
and centre O. If POQ
POQ =
= 30°, then find the area
the area of the shaded region (Use  = 3.14).
of the shaded region.  󰁕󰁳󰁥  
󰀲󰀲 
[2014] ...[2M]  [2012]...[3M]
 󰀷 
󰁑
󰁐
󰁁
󰁃 󰁂
󰁏 󰀳󰀰°
󰁂
󰁑
󰁏 󰁁 󰁐
14.. In a circle
14 circle of
of radius
radius 21 cm,
cm, an arc
arc subtend
subtends
s an
9. In figure, ABC is
is a quadrant of a circle of radius angle of 60° at the centre. Find (i) the length of
14 cm and a semicircle is drawn with BC as the arc (ii) area of the sector formed by the arc.
diameter. Find the area of the shaded region.
 󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲 
[2013] ...[3M]
 
[2008] ...[3M]  󰀷 
15.. In be
15 belo
low
w fig
figur
ure, AB and
e, AB and CD
CD are
are two diameters of
󰁂 a circle with centre O, which are perpendicular
to each other. OBOB is
is the diameter of the smaller
circle. If OA
OA =
= 7 cm, find the area of the shaded

region.  󰁕󰁳󰁥  
󰀲󰀲 
󰁁 󰁃  [2013] ...[3M]
 󰀷 
10.. The area
10 area of
of an equila
equilatera
terall triangle is 󰀴󰀹 󰀳 cm2.
triangle 󰁃
Taking each angular point as centre, circles are

drawn with radius equal to half the length of the
side of the triangle. Find the area of triangle not 󰁏
󰁂 󰁁
included in the circle.  󰁔󰁡󰁫󰁥 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳 
[2009] ...[3M]
11. In below
below figure,
figure, the
the boundar
boundary y of shaded
shaded region
region 󰁄
consists of four semicircular arcs, two smallest
16. I n fi
fi gu re , PS R , RTQ and PAQ are three
gu re
being equal. If diameter of the largest is 14 cm
semicircles of diameters 10 cm, 3 cm and 7 cm
and that of the smallest is 3.5 cm, calculate the
respectively. Find the perimeter of the shaded
area of the shaded region. 󰁕󰁳󰁥  
󰀲󰀲 
region. [Use  = 3.14] [2014] ...[3M]
  󰀷 
󰁓
[2010] ...[3M]
󰁁
󰁑 󰁒
󰁐
󰀳 󰁣󰁭
󰀷 󰁣󰁭
󰁔


17.. If a circle
17 circle is inscribe
inscribed
d in an equila
equilateral
teral trian
triangle
gle
ABC of
of side 12 cm. Find the radius of inscribed
circle and the area of the shaded region.
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀳󰀮󰀱󰀴 󰁡󰁮󰁤 󰀳  󰀱󰀮󰀷󰀳  [2014]...[3M]

 
󰀳 󰁣󰁭 󰀳 󰁣󰁭 󰀳 󰁣󰁭
󰁁
22.. In the given figur

22 figure,
e, two concen
concentric
tric circle
circles
s with
centre O have radii 21 cm and 42 cm. If
󰁏  AOB
AOB =
= 60°, find the area of the shaded region.
 󰀲󰀲 
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀷
 [2017] ...[3M]
󰁂 󰁃
󰁃 󰀱
18.. Find the
18 the area
area of the
the minor
minor segmen
segmentt of a circle
circle
of radius 14 cm, when its central angle is 60º. 󰁃 󰀲
Also find the area of the corresponding major 󰁏
 󰀲󰀲 
segment. 󰁕󰁳󰁥    [2015] ...[3M] 󰁃
󰀶󰀰󰂺
󰁄
 󰀷
19. In fig
figure, O is the centre of a circle such that
ure,
AB = 13 cm and AC = 12 cm. BC is
diameter AB
diameter 󰁁 󰁂
join ed. Find the area of the shad ed regi on. 23.. Find the
23 the area
area of the
the shaded
shaded region
region in figure,
figure,
(Take  = 3.14) [2016] ...[3M] where arcs drawn with centres A A,, B, C and D
intersect in pairs at midpoints P , Q, R and
and S of
of
󰁁
sides AB,, BC , CD
the sides AB CD and
and DA
DA respectively
respectively of a
square of side 12 cm. [Use  = 3.14]
󰁏
[2018] ...[3M]
󰁁 󰁐 󰁂
󰁂 󰁃
20.. In figure,
20 figure, find
find the area of
of the shade
shadedd region,
region,
enclosed between two concentric circles of radii
󰁓 󰁑
7 cm and 14 cm where  AO C = 40°.
 󰀲󰀲 
󰁕󰁳󰁥    [2016] ...[3M]
 󰀷 
󰁄 󰁒 󰁃
24.. Find the

24 the area
area of the
the shaded
shaded region
region in
in given
given
re 4, ifif ABCD
figure
figu ABCD is
is a rectangle with sides 8 cm
and 6 cm and O is the centre of circle.
󰁏
(Take  = 3.14)
[2019] ...[3M]
󰀴󰀰󰂺
󰁂 󰁄
󰁁 󰁃 󰁄 󰁃
󰀸
󰀶
󰁏
21.. Three
21 Three semicirc
semicircles
les each
each of diamete
diameterr 3 cm, a
circle of diameter 4.5 cm and a semicircle of 󰁁 󰁂
radius 4.5ofcm
the area theare drawnregion.
shaded in the given figure.
[2017] Find
...[3M]


25.. Find the
25 the area
area of the shad
shaded
ed region
region in figur
figure,
e, if 󰁂
AC = 24 cm, BC = 10 cm and O is the centre

of the circle. [Use  = 3.14] [2010] ...[4M]
󰁐
󰁁

󰁏 󰁲 󰁁
28. In the giv

given
en fig ure,, ABCD
figure ABCD is a rectangle of
dimensions 21 cm × 14 cm. A semicircle is
󰁂 󰁃
drawn with BC as diameter. Find the area and
the perimeter of the shaded region in the figure.
26.. In the
26 the follo
followi
wing
ng figure,, PQRS is
figure is square lawn with [2017] ...[4M]
side PQ
PQ = 42 metres. Two circular flower beds 󰁁 󰀲󰀱 󰁣󰁭 󰁂
are there on the sides PS and QR with with centre
at O, the intersections of its diagonals. Find the
total area of the two flower beds (shaded parts). 󰀱󰀴 󰁣󰁭
[2015] ...[4M]
󰁓 󰁒 󰁄 󰁃
29.. In below
29 below figure,
figure, three
three circle
circles
s each of radius
radius 3.5
3.5
󰁏
cm are drawn in such a way each of them
touches the other two. Find the area enclosed
between these three circles (shaded region).
󰁐 󰁑
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲 
[2011] ...[6M]
27.. In figu
27 figure,
re, is show
shownn a sec tor OAP of
sector of a circle with  󰀷 
centre O, containing .. AB
AB is
is perpendicular to
the radius OAOA and meets OP produced at B.
Prove that the perimeter of shaded region is
  
󰁲
 󰁴󰁡󰁮   󰁳󰁥󰁣   󰀱󰀸󰀰  󰀱 . [2016] ...[4M]
Chapter - 13 : Surface Areas and Volumes
1. The surf
The surfac
ace
e area
area of
of a sph
spher
ere
e is 61
6166 cm2. Find (A) 4.2 (B) 2.1
its radius. [2008] ...[1M]
(C) 8.4 (D) 1.05
2. The sla
slant
nt hei
height
ght of a fru
frustu
stum
m of a cone
cone is 4 cm
and the perimeters (circumferences) of its 4. If the
the radi
radiusus of
of the
the base
base of
of a righ
rightt circu
circula
lar
r
circular ends are 18 cm and 6 cm. Find the cylinder is halved, keeping the height same, then
curved surface area of the frustum. the ratio of the volume of the cylinder thus
󰀲󰀲
obtained to the volume of original cylinder is
(Use   ) [2010]...[1M],, 2017...[3M]
[2010]...[1M]
󰀷 [2012] ...[1M]
3. The rad
radius
ius (in cm) of
of the lar
larges
gestt right
right circu
circular
lar
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 2 : 1
cone that
4.2 cm is can be cut out from a cube
[2011]of...[1M]
edge
(C) 1 : 4 (D) 4 : 1

5. The num
number
ber of solid
solid sph
sphere
eres,
s, each
each of
of diame
diameter
ter 13.. A wooden
13 wooden toytoy was made
made by scoop
scooping
ing out
out a
6 cm that can be made by melting a solid metal hemisphere of same radius from each end of a
cylinder of height 45 cm and diameter 4 cm is solid cylinder. If the height of the cylinder is
10 cm, and its base is of radius 3.5 cm, find
[2014] ...[1M]
 󰀲󰀲 
the volume of wood in the toy. 󰁕󰁳󰁥   
(A) 3 (B) 5  󰀷
(C) 4 (D) 6 [2013] ...[3M]

14. A farmer
14. farmer connects
connects a pipe
pipe of internal
internal diame
diameter
ter
6. Two cucube
bes
s eac
each
h of
of vol
volum
umee 27 cm3 are joined
27 cm 20 cm from a canal into cylindrical tank which
end to end to form a solid. Find the surface area is 10 m in diameter and 2 m deep. If the water
of the resulting cuboid. [2011] ...[2M] flows through the pipe at the rate of 4 km per
hour, in how much time will the tank be filled
7. A cone
cone of heig
height
ht 20
20 cm and rad
radiu
ius
s of bas
base
e 5 cm
completely? [2014] ...[3M]
is made up of modelling clay. A child reshapes
it in the form of a sphere. Find the diameter of 15.. A solid
15 solid metallic
metallic right
right circul
circular
ar cone
cone 20 cm high
high
the sphere. [2011] ...[2M] and whose vertical angle is 60°, is cut into two
parts at the middle of its height by a plane
󰀱 parallel to its base. If the frustum so obtained be
8. The
The vo
volu
lume
me of a hem
hemis
isph
pher
ere
e is 󰀲󰀴󰀲󰀵 cm3. Find
󰀲 󰀱
 󰀲󰀲  drawn into a wire of diameter cm, find the
󰀱󰀲
its curved surface area. 󰁕󰁳󰁥   
 󰀷  length of the wire. [2014] ...[3M]
[2012] ...[2M] 16. Due to sudde

suddenn floods,
floods, some
some welfare
welfare associa
association
tions
s
jointly
joint ly reque sted the gover
government
nment to get 100
9. An ope
open
n metal
metal bu
bucke
ckett is in
in the
the shap
shape
e of a tents fixed immediately and offered to contribute
frustum of a cone of height 21 cm with radii of 50% of the cost. If the lower part of each tent
its lower and upper ends as 10 cm and 20 cm is of the form of a cylinder of diameter 4.2 m
respectively. Find the cost of milk which can and height 4 m with the conical upper part of
completely fill the bucket at ` 30 per litre. same diameter but height 2.8 m, and the canvas
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲  to be used costs ` 100 per sq. m, find the
[2011] ...[3M]
 󰀷  amount, the association will have to pay. What
values are shown by these association?
10.. From a soli
10 solid
d cylinde
cylinderr of height
height 7 cm and
and base
base
 󰀲󰀲 
diameter 12 cm, a conical cavity of same height 󰁕󰁳󰁥    [2015] ...[3M]
󰀷
and same base diameter is hollowed out. Find
the total surface area of the remaining solid. 17. A hemisphe
hemispherical
rical bowl of internal
internal diam
diameter
eter 36
36 cm
contains liquid. This liquid is filled into 72
 󰀲󰀲 
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀷  [2012] ...[3M] cylindrical bottles of diameter 6 cm. Find the
height of each bottle, if 10% liquid is wasted in
11. A cylindrica
cylindricall bucket,
bucket, 32 cm high
high and
and with radius this transfer. [2015] ...[3M]
of base 18 cm, is filled with sand. This bucket
18.. A cubical
18 cubical block
block of
of side 10
10 cm is surmou
surmounted
nted by
is emptied on the ground and a conical heap of a hemisphere. What is the largest diameter that
sand is formed. If the height of the conical heap the hemisphere can have? Find the cost of
is 24 cm, then find the radius and slant height painting the total surface area of the solid so
of the heap. [2012] ...[3M] formed, at the rate of ` 5 per sq. cm.
[Use  = 3.14] [2015] ...[3M]
12.. A vessel
12 vessel is in
in the form of
of hemispheri
hemispherical
cal bowl
bowl
surmounted by a hollow cylinder of same 19.. 504 cones
19 cones,, each of
of diameter
diameter 3.5
3.5 cm and
and height
height
diameter. The diameter of the hemispherical bowl 3 cm, are melted and recast into a metallic
is 14 cm and the total height of the vessel is sphere, find the diameter of the sphere and
13 cm. Find the total surface area of the vessel.  󰀲󰀲 
hence find its surface area. 󰁕󰁳󰁥   
 󰀲󰀲   󰀷
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀷  [2013] ...[3M] [2015] ...[3M]

20.. In figure,
20 figure, a tent
tent is in the
the shape
shape of a cylin
cylinder
der 25.. A wooden
25 wooden articl
article
e was made
made byby scooping
scooping out a
surmounted by a conical top of same diameter. hemisphere from each end of a solid cylinder, as
If the height and diameter of cylindrical part are shown in figure. If the height of the cylinder is 10
2.1 m and 3 m respectively and the slant height cm and its base is of radius 3.5 cm. Find the
of conical part is 2.8 m, find the cost of canvas total surface area of the article. [2018] ...[3M]
needed to make the tent if the canvas is
available at the rate of ` 500/sq. metre.

 󰀲󰀲 
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀷
 [2016] ...[3M]
󰀲󰀮󰀸 󰁭
26.. A heap
26 heap of rice
rice is in
in the form
form of a cone
cone of
of base
diameter 24 m and height 3.5 m. Find the
󰀲󰀮󰀱 󰁭
volume of the rice. How much canvas cloth is
required to just cover the heap? [2018] ...[3M]
27.. Water
27 Water in a cana
canal,
l, 6 m wide
wide and
and 1.5
1.5 m deep,
deep, is
󰀳󰁭
flowing with a speed of 10 km/hour. How much
area will it irrigate in 30 minutes; if 8 cm
standing water is needed? [2019] ...[3M]
21.. A conical
21 conical vesse
vessel,
l, with
with base
base radius
radius 5 cm
cm and
height 24 cm, is full of water. This water is 28.. Figure
28 Figure shows
shows a decorat
decorative
ive block
block which
which is made
made
emptied into a cylindrical vessel of base radius of two solids – a cube and a hemisphere. The
10 cm. Find the height to which the water will base of the block is a cube with edge 5 cm
and the hemisphere, fixed on the top, has a
 󰀲󰀲 
diameter of 4.2 cm. Find the total 2 surface area
rise in the cylindrical vessel.  󰁕󰁳󰁥   
 󰀷 
of the block.  󰁔󰁡󰁫󰁥  
󰀲󰀲 
[2016] ...[3M] [2009] ...[4M]

 󰀷 
22. A sphere
sphere of diame
diameter
ter 12 cm,
cm, is dropp
droppeded in a right
right
circular cylindrical vessel, partly filled with water.
If the sphere is completely submerged in water,
the water level in the cylindrical vessel rises by
󰀵
󰀳 cm. Find the diameter of the cylindrical
󰀹
vessel. [2016] ...[3M]
23.. In a canal
23 canal,, 5.4 m wide and 1.8
1.8 m deep,
deep, wate
water
r
is flowing with a speed of 25 km/hr. How much
area can it irrigate in 40 minutes, if 10 cm of 29.. Water is flowing
29 flowing through
through a cylindrical
cylindrical pipe, of
standing water is required for irrigation? internal diameter 2 cm, into a cylindrical tank of
base radius 40 cm, at the rate of 0.4 m/s.
[2017] ...[3M] Determine the rise in level of water in the tank
in half an hour. [2013] ...[4M]
24.. The dim
24 dimensi
ensions
ons of a soli
solid
d iron cubo
cuboid
id are 4.4 m
× 2.6 m × 1.0 m. It is melted and recast into a 30.. A bucket
30 bucket open
open at
at the ttop,
op, and
and made
made up of a
hollow cylindrical pipe of 30 cm inner radius and metal sheet is in the form of a frustum of a
thickness 5 cm. Find the length of the pipe. cone. The depth of the bucket is 24 cm and the
[2017] ...[3M] diameters of its10upper

are 30 cm and and lower circular
cm respectively. Find theends
cost


of metal sheet used in it at the rate of ` 10 per 35.. In a rainwat
35 rainwaterer harvesti
harvesting
ng system,
system, the rainw
rainwater
ater
100 cm2. [Use  = 3.14] [2013] ...[4M] from a roof of 22 m × 20 m drains into a
cylindrical tank having diameter of base 2 m and
height 3.5 m. If the tank is full, find the rainfall
󰀱󰀵 󰁣󰁭
in cm. [2017] ...[4M]
36. The diamete

diameters
rs of the lower
lower and upper ends of a
bucket in the form of a frustum of a cone are
󰀲󰀴 󰁣󰁭 10 cm and 30 cm respectively. If its height is
24 cm, find
find : [2018] ...[4M]
(i))
(i The area
area of the
the metal
metal sheet
sheet used to make
make
the bucket.
󰀵 󰁣󰁭
(ii)
(ii) Why we shoul
should d avoid
avoid the bucket
bucket made
made by
ordinary plastic? [Use  = 3.14]
31. Sushant
Sushant has
has a vessel
vessel,, of the
the form of an inve
inverted
rted
cone, open at the top, of height 11 cm and 37.. A bucket
37 bucket open
open at the top
top is in
in the form of of a
radius of top as 2.5 cm and is full of water. frustum of a cone with a capacity of 12308.8
Metallic spherical balls each of diameter 0.5 cm cm3. The radii of the top and bottom of circular
󰀲 ends of the bucket are 20 cm and 12 cm
are put in the vessel due to which th of the
󰀵 respectively. Find the height of the bucket and
water in the vessel flows out. Find how many also the area of the metal sheet used in making
balls were put in the vessel. Sushant made the it. (Use  = 3.14) [2019] ...[4M]
arrangement so that the water that flows out
irrigates the flower beds. What value has been 38.. If the radii
38 radii of the circu
circular
lar ends
ends of a coni
conical
cal
shown by Sushant? [2014] ...[4M] bucket, which is 16 cm high, are 20 cm and 8
cm, find the capacity and total surface area of
32.. From a solid cylin
32 cylinder
der of heigh
heightt 2.8 cm and
diameter 4.2 cm a conical cavity of the same 
the bucket. 󰁕󰁳󰁥  
󰀲󰀲 
[2008] ...[6M]
 󰀷 
height and same diameter is hollowed out. Find
the total surface area of the remaining solid.
39.. A juice
39 juice seller
seller serves
serves his custo
customers
mers using
using a
[Take  = 22/7] [2014] ...[4M]
glass as shown in figure. The inner diameter of
33.. From each
33 each end
end of a solid
solid metal
metal cylinder
cylinder,, metal
metal the cylindrical glass is 5 cm, but the bottom of
was scooped out in hemispherical form of same the glass has a hemispherical portion raised
diameter. The height of the cylinder is 10 cm which reduces the capacity of the glass. If the
and its base is of radius 4.2 cm. The rest of the height of the glass is 10 cm, find the apparent
cylinder is melted and converted into a capacity of the glass and its actual capacity.
cylindrical wire of 1.4 cm thickness. Find the (Use  = 3.14) [2009] ...[6M]
length of the wire. 󰁕󰁳󰁥  

󰀲󰀲 
 󰀷  [2015] ...[4M]
34.. Due to heavy

34 heavy flood
floods
s in a state,
state, thousan
thousands
ds were
were
rendered homeless. 50 schools collectively
offered to the state government to provide place
and the canvas for 1500 tents to be fixed by
the governments and decided to share the whole
expenditure equally. The lower part of each tent
is cylindrical of base radius 2.8 cm and height 40. A cylindric
cylindrical
al vessel
vessel with
with interna
internall diameter
diameter 10 cm
3.5 m, with conical upper part of same base and height 10.5 cm is full of water. A solid cone
radius but of height 2.1 m. If the canvas used to of base diameter 7 cm and height 6 cm is
make the tents costs ` 120 per sq. m, find the completely immersed in water.
water. Find the volume
volume of
amount shared by each school to set up the (i) Water disp
displace
laced
d out of the
the cylindri
cylindrical
cal vesse
vessel.
l.
tents. What value is generated by the above
(ii)
(ii) Water left
left in the
the cylindri
cylindrical
cal vessel.
vessel.
󰀲󰀲
problem?  󰁕󰁳󰁥    [2016] ...[4M]
 󰀷 [2009] ...[6M]


41.. A milk
41 milk containe
containerr is made
made of meta
metall sheet
sheet in the
the 43. Water
Water is flowing
flowing at the
the rate of 1515 km/hour
km/hour
shape of frustum of a cone whose volume is through a pipe of diameter 14 cm into a
󰀳 cuboidal pond which is 50 m long and 44 m
󰀱󰀰󰀴󰀵󰀹 cm3. The radii of its lower and upper wide. In what time will the level of water in the
󰀷
circular ends are 8 cm and 20 cm respectively. pond rise by 21 cm? [2011] ...[6M]
Find the cost of metal sheet used in making the 44.. A bucket
44 bucket is in the
the form
form of a frustu
frustum
m of a cone
container at the rate of ` 1.40 per square
and it can hold 28.49 litres of water. If the radii
 󰀲󰀲  of its circular ends are 28 cm and 21 cm, find
centimeter. 󰁕󰁳󰁥    [2010] ...[6M]
 󰀷   󰀲󰀲 
the height of the bucket. 󰁕󰁳󰁥   
42. A toy is
is in the
the form of a hemisp
hemisphere
here surm
surmounte
ounted
d  󰀷
by a right circular cone of the same base radius [2012] ...[6M]
as that of the hemisphere. If the radius of base
45.. A solid
45 solid is in
in the shape
shape of a cone
cone standin
standing
g on a
󰀲
of the cone is 21 cm and its volume is of the hemisphere with both their radii being equal to
󰀳
7 cm and the height of the cone is equal to its
volume of the hemisphere, calculate the height
diameter. Find the volume of the solid.
of the cone and the surface area of the toy.
󰁕󰁳󰁥   󰀲󰀲 
[2010] ...[6M]   [2012] ...[6M]
󰀷
Chapter - 14 : Statistics
1. Find the
Find the clas
class
s marks
marks of cla
classe
sses
s 10 – 25
25 and
and 4. The mea
meann of the
the follo
followin
wing
g distr
distribu
ibutio
tion
n is 18.
18. Find
Find
35 – 55. [2008] ...[1M] the frequency f of
of the class 19 – 21.[2018]...[4M]
2. The tab
table
le bel
below
ow sho
shown
wn the sal
salari
aries
es of
of 280
280
perso
persons
ns : [2018] ...[3M]
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳 󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣󰁹
󰀱󰀱 󲀓 󰀱󰀳 󰀳
󰁓󰁡󰁬󰁡󰁲󰁹 󰀨󰁉󰁮 󰁴󰁨󰁯󰁵󰁳󰁡󰁮󰁤󰀩

󰁴󰁨󰁯󰁵󰁳󰁡󰁮󰁤󰀩 󰁎󰁯󰀮 󰁯󰁦 󰁐󰁥󰁲󰁳󰁯󰁮 󰀱󰀳 󲀓 󰀱󰀵 󰀶
󰀵 󲀓 󰀱󰀰 󰀴󰀹 󰀱󰀵 󲀓 󰀱󰀷 󰀹
󰀱󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀵 󰀱󰀳󰀳 󰀱󰀷 󲀓 󰀱󰀹 󰀱󰀳
󰀱󰀵 󲀓 󰀲󰀰 󰀶󰀳 󰀱󰀹 󲀓 󰀲󰀱 󰁦
󰀲󰀰 󲀓 󰀲󰀵 󰀱󰀵 󰀲󰀱 󲀓 󰀲󰀳 󰀵
󰀲󰀵 󲀓 󰀳󰀰 󰀶 󰀲󰀳 󲀓 󰀲󰀵 󰀴
󰀳󰀰 󲀓 󰀳󰀵 󰀷
󰀳󰀵 󲀓 󰀴󰀰 󰀴
󰀴󰀰 󲀓 󰀴󰀵 󰀲 5. The fol
follow
lowing
ing dis
distrib
tributio
ution
n gives
gives the dai
daily
ly inco
income
me
󰀴󰀵 󲀓 󰀵󰀰 󰀱
of 50 workers
workers of a factory
factory : [2018] ...[4M]
Calculate the median salary of the data.

3. Fin
Fin d th
the
e mo
mo de
de of
of the
the fol
fol lo
lo wi
wi ng
ng fre
fre qu
qu en
en cy
cy 󰁄󰁡󰁩󰁬󰁹 󰁎󰁵󰁭󰁢󰁥󰁲
distribution. [2019] ...[3M] 󰁩󰁮󰁣󰁯󰁭󰁥 󰀨󰁉󰁮󰀩 󰁯󰁦 󰁷󰁯󰁲󰁫󰁥󰁲󰁳
󰀱󰀰󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀲󰀰 󰀱󰀲
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳 󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣󰁹
󰀱󰀲󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀴󰀰 󰀱󰀴
󰀰 󰀭 󰀱󰀰 󰀸
󰀱󰀴󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀶󰀰 󰀸
󰀱󰀰 󰀭 󰀲󰀰 󰀱󰀰 󰀱󰀶󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀸󰀰 󰀶
󰀲󰀰 󰀭 󰀳󰀰 󰀱󰀰 󰀱󰀸󰀰 󲀓 󰀲󰀰󰀰 󰀱󰀰
󰀳󰀰 󰀭 󰀴󰀰 󰀱󰀶
󰀴󰀰 󰀭 󰀵󰀰 󰀱󰀲
Convert the distribution above to a less than type
󰀵󰀰 󰀭 󰀶󰀰 󰀶 cumulative frequency distribution and draw its
󰀶󰀰 󰀭 󰀷󰀰 󰀷 ogive.


6. If th
th e me di
di a n o f th
th e fo llll o wi
wi n g freq
freq u en
en cy 9. During
During the
the medi
medical
cal che
check-
ck-up
up of
of 35 stud
studen
entsts of
distribution is 32.5. Find the values of f 1 and f 2. a class their weights were recorded as follows:
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳 󰀰󰀭󰀱󰀰 󰀱󰀰󰀭󰀲
󰀱󰀰󰀭󰀲󰀰
󰀰 󰀲󰀰󰀭󰀳󰀰 󰀳󰀰󰀭󰀴󰀰 󰀴󰀰󰀭󰀵
󰀴󰀰󰀭󰀵󰀰
󰀰 󰀵󰀰󰀭󰀶󰀰 󰀶󰀰󰀭󰀷󰀰
󰀶󰀰󰀭󰀷󰀰 󰁔󰁯󰁴󰁡󰁬
󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣󰁹 󰁦 󰀱 󰀵 󰀹 󰀱󰀲 󰁦 󰀲 󰀳 󰀲 󰀴󰀰
[2019] ...[4M] 󰁗󰁥󰁩󰁧󰁨󰁴󰀨󰁩󰁮

󰁥󰁩󰁧󰁨󰁴󰀨󰁩󰁮 󰁫󰁧󰀩 󰁎󰁵󰁭
󰁎󰁵󰁭󰁢󰁥󰁲
󰁢󰁥󰁲 󰁯󰁦 󰁳󰁴󰁵󰁤
󰁳󰁴󰁵󰁤󰁥󰁮󰁴
󰁥󰁮󰁴󰁳
󰁳
7. The ma
marks
rks obt
obtain
ained
ed by
by 100
100 stude
students
nts of a clas
class
s 󰀳󰀸  󰀴󰀰 󰀳
in an examination are given below.
󰀴󰀰  󰀴󰀲 󰀲
󰁍󰁡󰁲󰁫󰁳 󰀴󰀲  󰀴󰀴 󰀴
󰀰󲀓󰀵 󰀲 󰀴󰀴  󰀴󰀶 󰀵
󰀵 󲀓 󰀱󰀰 󰀵 󰀴󰀶  󰀴󰀸 󰀱󰀴
󰀱󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀵 󰀶 󰀴󰀸  󰀵󰀰 󰀴
󰀱󰀵 󲀓 󰀲󰀰 󰀸 󰀵󰀰  󰀵󰀲 󰀳
󰀲󰀰 󲀓 󰀲󰀵 󰀱󰀰
󰀲󰀵 󲀓 󰀳󰀰 󰀲󰀵
󰀳󰀰 󲀓 󰀳󰀵 󰀲󰀰
Draw a less than type and a more than type
󰀳󰀵 󲀓 󰀴󰀰 󰀱󰀸
ogive from the given data. Hence obtain the
󰀴󰀰 󲀓 󰀴󰀵 󰀴
median weight from the graph. [2009] ...[6M]
󰀴󰀵 󲀓 󰀵󰀰 󰀲
10. Find the
the mean,
mean, mode
mode and median
median of the
Draw ‘a(ogive).
curves‘a less than’
Hencetype
findcumulative frequency
median.[2019] ...[4M] following frequency distribution: [2010] ...[6M]
8. Find mean,
Find mean, med
median
ian an
and
d mode
mode o
off the fol
follo
lowin
wing
g
data: [2008] ...[6M]
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳 󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣󰁹
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳󰁥󰁳
󰁃󰁬󰁡󰁳󰁳󰁥󰁳 󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱
󰁆󰁲󰁥󰁱󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣
󰁵󰁥󰁮󰁣󰁹
󰁹
󰀰 󲀓 󰀱󰀰 󰀴
󰀰  󰀲󰀰 󰀶
󰀱󰀰 󲀓 󰀲󰀰 󰀴
󰀲󰀰  󰀴󰀰 󰀸
󰀲󰀰 󲀓 󰀳󰀰 󰀷
󰀴󰀰  󰀶󰀰 󰀱󰀰
󰀳󰀰 󲀓 󰀴󰀰 󰀱󰀰
󰀶󰀰  󰀸󰀰 󰀱󰀲
󰀴󰀰 󲀓 󰀵󰀰 󰀱󰀲
󰀸󰀰  󰀱󰀰󰀰 󰀶
󰀵󰀰 󲀓 󰀶󰀰 󰀸
󰀱󰀰󰀰  󰀱󰀲󰀰 󰀵 󰀶󰀰 󲀓 󰀷󰀰 󰀵
󰀱󰀲󰀰  󰀱󰀴󰀰 󰀳
Chapter - 15 : Probability
1. A die
die is thr
thrown
own onc
once.
e. Find
Find the pro
probab
babili
ility
ty of
of 4. A card
card is
is draw
drawnn from
from a well
well-sh
-shuff
uffle
led
d deck
deck of
of 52
playing cards. The probability that the card will
getting a number less than 3. [2008] ...[1M]
not be an ace is [2011] ...[1M]
2. Two coins
coins are
are tosse
tossed
d simult
simultane
aneou
ously
sly.. Find
Find the 󰀱
(A)
probability of getting exactly one head. 󰀱󰀳
󰀱
[2009] ...[1M] (B)
󰀴
󰀱󰀲
3. A card
card is
is drawn
drawn at ran
random
dom fro
from
m a well
well shu
shuffl
ffled
ed (C)
(C)
󰀱󰀳
pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of
getting a red face card. [2010] ...[1M] (D))
(D 󰀳
󰀴


5. Two dice
Two dice are
are throw
thrown
n togeth
together
er.. The
The proba
probabil
bility
ity of 12. The probabi
probability
lity of selecti
selecting
ng a rotten
rotten apple
apple
getting the same number on both dice is randomly from a heap of 900 apples is 0·18.
[2012] ...[1M] What is the number of rotten apples in the
heap? [2017] ...[1M]
󰀱 󰀱
(A) (B) 13. A ticket
ticket is drawn
drawn at
at random
random from
from a bag
bag
󰀲 󰀳
containing tickets numbered from 1 to 40. Find
󰀱 󰀱
(C
(C)) 󰀶
(D
(D)) 󰀱󰀲
the probability that the selected ticket has a
number which is a multiple of 5. [2011] ...[2M]
OR
14.. A number
14 number is sele
selected
cted at
at random
random from
from first
first 50
A pair of dice is thrown once. Find the natural numbers. Find the probability that it is a
probability of getting the same number on each multiple of 3 and 4. [2012] ...[2M]
dice. [2008] ...[2M]
15.. A card
15 card is drawn
drawn at
at random
random from
from a well
well shuffle
shuffled
d
6. The pro
probab
babili
ility
ty of get
gettin
ting
g an e
even
ven num
number
ber,, when
when pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability
a die is thrown once, is [2013] ...[1M]
that the drawn card is neither a king nor a
󰀱 󰀱 queen. [2013] ...[2M]
(A) (B)
󰀲 󰀳 16. Rahim
Rahim tosses
tosses two differen
differentt coins simult
simultaneo
aneously
usly..
󰀱 󰀵 Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
(C))
(C (D
(D))
󰀶 󰀶
[2014] ...[2M]
7. A box
box conta
contain
ins
s 90 disc
discs,
s, num
number
bered
ed from
from 1 to 90.
90.
17.. Two
17 Two differen
differentt dice are
are tossed
tossed together
together.. Find the
If one disc isthat
probability drawn at random
it bears from the box,less
a prime-number the probability.
than 23, is [2013] ...[1M] (i))
(i Of ge
getti
tting
ng do
doub
uble
lett
󰀷 󰀱󰀰 (ii)
(ii) Of getting
getting a sum
sum 10, of the
the numb
numbers
ers on the
the
(A) (B)
󰀹󰀰 󰀹󰀰 two dice. [2018] ...[2M]
󰀴 󰀹 18.. An intege
18 integerr is chosen
chosen at rando
randomm between
between 1 and
and
(C
(C)) (D
(D))
󰀴󰀵 󰀸󰀹 100. Find the probability that it is
8. If two
two diffe
differen
rentt dice
dice are
are rolled
rolled tog
togeth
ether
er,, the (i) Di
Divi
visi
sibl
ble
e by 8
probability of getting an even number on both
[2014] ...[1M] (ii)
(ii) No
Nott divis
divisibl
ible
e by 8 [2018] ...[2M]
dice,
dic e, is :
19.. A game
19 game consists
consists ofof tossing
tossing a coin 3 times
times and
󰀱 󰀱
(A) (B) noting the outcome each time. If getting the
󰀳󰀶 󰀲
same result in all the tosses is a success, find
󰀱 󰀱 the probability of losing the game. [2019]...[2M]
(C
(C)) (D
(D))
󰀶 󰀴 20.. A die is thrown
20 thrown once.
once. Find
Find the proba
probability
bility of
9. A n umb
umbee r is
is se
sell ecte
ected
d a t ra
ra nd
nd om
om fro
fro m thth e
getting a number which (i) is a prime number (ii)
numbers 1 to 30. The probability that it is a
lies between 2 and 6. [2019] ...[2M]
prime number. [2014] ...[1M]
21. Two
Two dice are thrown
thrown simult
simultaneo
aneously
usly.. What is the
the
󰀲 󰀱
(A) (B) probability that
󰀳 󰀶
(i))
(i 5 will
will not
not come
come up on either
either of them?
them?
󰀱 󰀱󰀱
(C
(C)) (D
(D))
󰀳 󰀳󰀰 (ii)
(ii) 5 will
will come
come up on
on at least
least one?
one?
10. Two
10. Two different
different dice
dice are tossed
tossed togethe
together.
r. Find
Find the (iii)
(iii) 5 will come
come up at both dice?
dice? [2009] ...[3M]
probability that the product of the two numbers
22.. Cards
22 Cards bearing
bearing numbe
numbers rs 1, 3, 5,
5, ..., 35 are
are kept
kept
on the top of the dice is 6. [2015] ...[1M]
in a bag. A card is drawn at random from the
11. A card is drawn
drawn at rando
random
m from a well
well shuffled
shuffled bag. Find the probability of getting a card bearing
pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of
getting neither a red card nor a queen. (i))
(i A prime
prime nu
numbe
mberr less
less than
than 15
15
[2016] ...[1M] (ii)

(ii) A number
number divis
divisibl
ible and 5. [2010]...[3M]
e by 3 and


23. Two dice are
are rolled
rolled once.
once. Find
Find the probabi
probability
lity of
of (i))
(i Extr
Extrem
emel
ely
y pati
patien
entt
getting such numbers on the two dice, whose
(ii)
(ii) Extremely
Extremely kind or
or honest.
honest. Which ofof the
product is 12. [2011] ...[3M]
above values you prefer more? [2013]...[4M]
24.. A box
24 box contains
contains 80 discs
discs which are number
numbered ed
30.. A bag cont
30 contains
ains cards numb
numbersers from
from 1 to
to 49.
from 1 to 80. If one disc is drawn at random
A card is drawn from the bag at random, after
from the box, find the probability that it bears a
mixing the cards thoroughly. Find the probability
perfect square number
number.. [2011] ...[3M] that the number on the drawn card is
25.. A card is drawn
25 drawn from
from a well
well shuffl
shuffled
ed deck
deck of 52
52
cards. Find the probability of getting (i) a king of [2014] ...[4M]
red colour (ii) a face card (iii) the queen of (A)) An odd
(A odd numb
number
er
diamond. [2012] ...[3M]
(B)) A multi
(B multipl
ple
e of 5
26. The probabi
probability
lity of
of selecting
selecting a red ball at random
random
from a jar that contains only red, blue and (C)) A perfec
(C perfectt square
square
󰀱 (D)) An even
(D even prime
prime numb
number
er
orange balls is 󰀮 The probability of selecting
󰀴
󰀱
31.. A card is drawn
31 drawn at
at random
random from
from a well-sh
well-shuffle
uffled
d
a blue ball at random from the same jar is 󰀮 deck of playing cards. Find the probability that
󰀳
If the jar contains 10 orange balls, find the total the card drawn is [2015] ...[4M]
number of balls in the jar. [2015] ...[3M] (i))
(i A card
card of
of spad
spade
e or an ace.
ace.
27.. Thre
27 Three
e differen
differentt coins are
are tossed
tossed togethe
together.
r. Find
Find (ii)
(ii) A bla
black
ck kin
king.
g.
the probability of getting [2016] ...[3M]
(iii)
(iii) Neit
Neither
her a jack
jack nor
nor a king
(i))
(i Exac
Exactl
tly
y two
two he
head
ads
s
(ii)
(ii) At lea
least
st two
two head
heads
s (iv)
v) Eith
Either
er a king
king or a queen.
queen.
(iii)
(iii) At least
least two
two tails.
tails. number x is
32. A nu is selected at random from the 1, 2,
3 and 4. Another number y is selected at
28.. A bag contai
28 contains
ns 15 white
white and
and some black
black balls
balls..
random from the numbers 1, 4, 9 and 16. Find
If the probability of drawing a black ball from the
of x and
the probability the product of x and y is
is less than
bag is thrice that of drawing a white ball, find the
16. [2016] ...[4M]
number of black balls in the bag. [2017] ...[3M]
33.. Two
33 Two different
different dice
dice are thrown
thrown togethe
together.
r. Find
Find the
29.. A group
29 group consists
consists of
of 12 person
persons,
s, of which
which 3 are
are
probability that the numbers obtained have
extremely patient, other 6 are extremely honest
and rest are extremely kind. A person from the [2017] ...[4M]
group is selected at random. Assuming that
(i) Eve
Even sum
sum,, and
and
each person is equally likely to be selected, find
the probability of selecting a person who is (ii)
(ii) Ev
Even
en pr
prod
oduc
uctt
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