R.J.

L PUBLIC SCHOOL MANDNAKA

Class- X Subject- Mathematics

Time Allowed: 3 Hrs. Maximum Marks : 80

General Instructions:

1. This Question Paper has 5 Sections A-E.

2. Section A has 20 MCQs carrying 1 mark each

3. Section B has 5 questions carrying 02 marks each.

4. Section C has 6 questions carrying 03 marks each.

5. Section D has 4 questions carrying 05 marks each.

6. Section E has 3 case based integrated units of assessment (04 marks each and do any 4 out of 5)

7. All Questions are compulsory.

8. Draw neat figures wherever required. Take π =22/7 wherever required if not stated.

SECTION A

Section B consists of 20 questions of 1 marks each.

1. If the height of a vertical pole is √ 3 times the length of its shadow on the ground, then the angle of elevation
of the sun at that time is :

(a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 45 (d) 90

2. At some point of time in the day, the length of the shadow of a tower is equal to its height. Then the sun's
altitude at that time is:

(a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 45 (d) 90

3. From the top of a building 60 m high, the angles of depression of the top and bottom of a tower are observed
to be 30° and 60°. The height of the tower is:

(a) 40 m (b) 45 m (c) 50 m (d) 55 m

4. Two circles touch each other externally at P. AB is a common tangent to the circles, touching them at A and B.
The value of angle APB is:

(a) 30 (b) 60 (c) 45 (d) 90

5. From a point P which is at a distance of 13 cm from the centre O of a circle of radius 5 cm, the pair of tangents
PQ and PR to the circle are drawn. Then the area of the quadrilateral PQOR is:

(a) 60 c m2 (b) 65 c m2 (c) 30 c m2 (d) 32.5 c m2

6. If the difference between the circumference and the radius of a circle is 37 cm, then using π =22/7 the radius
of the circle (in cm) is:

(a) 154 (b) 44 (c) 14 (d) 7

7. A wheel makes 1000 revolutions in covering a distance of 88 km. Find the radius of the wheel:

(a) 11 m (b) 14 m (c) 12 m (d) 10 m

8. If the radius of a circle is increased by 75%, then its circumference will increase by:

(a) 25% (b) 50% (c) 75% (d) 100%

9. If the radius of the base of a right-circular cylinder is halved keeping the height same then the ratio of the
volume of the cylinder thus obtained to the volume of the original cylinder is:

(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 1 : 4 (d) 4 : 1

10. A toy is in the form of a cone mounted on a hemisphere of common base radius 7 cm. If the total height of
the toy is 31 cm, then the height of the cone is ( in cm) :

(a) 31 (b) 38 (c) 7 (d) 24

11. Volumes of two spheres are in the ratio 125: 216. The ratio of their surface areas is:

(a) 5 : 6 (b) 25 : 36 (c) 1 : 2 (d) 5 : 2

12. A right circular cylinder of radius r cm and height h cm (h> 2r) just encloses a sphere of diameter equals to:

(a) r cm (b) 2r cm (c) 3r cm (d) 4r cm

13. If the value of mean and mode are 30 and 15, respectively, then median will be:

(a) 25 (b) 24 (c) 23.5 (d) 26

14. The median of set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest 4 observations of the set is
increased by 2, then the median of the new set

(a) is increased by 2 (b) is decreased by 2

(c) is two times of the original number (d) Remains the same as that of the original set.

15. What is the Median of the following data sample? 3, 7, 4, 8, 9, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15

a) 7.5 b) 9 c) 8.5 d) 10

16. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is:

(a) 7 (b) 14 (c) 21 (d) 28

17. In a family of 3 children, the probability of having atleast one boy is:

(a) 7/8 (b) 1/8 (c) 5/8 (d) ¾

18. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that card is not an ace of hearts. The number of
outcomes favourable to E is:

(a) 4 (b) 13 (c) 48 (d) 51

19. Assertion (A) : The two tangents are drown to a circle from an external point, than they subtend equal
angles at the centre.

Reason (R) : A parallelogram circumscribing a circle is a rhombus.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of assertion (A).

(C) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

20. Assertion (A): Total surface area of the cylinder having radius of the base 14 cm and height 30 cm is 3872
cm².

Reason (R): If r be the radius and h be the height of the cylinder, then total surface area = (2πrh + 2πr²)

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).

(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of assertion (A).

(C) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

SECTION B

Section B consists of 5 questions of 2 marks each.

21. A piggy bank contains hundred 50 p coins, fifty Rs 1 coins, twenty Rs 2 coins and ten Rs 5 coins. If it is
equally likely that one of the coins will fall out when the bank is turned upside down, what is the probability
that the coin (i) Will be a 50 p coin? (ii) Will not be a Rs.5 coin?

22. A chord of a circle of radius 12 cm subtends an angle of 120° at the centre. Find the area of the
corresponding segment of the circle.

OR

To warn ships for underwater rocks, a lighthouse spreads a red coloured light over a sector of angle 80° to a
distance of 16.5 km. Find the area of the sea over which the ships warned.

23. 2 cubes each of volume 64 cm³ are joined end to end. Find the surface area of the resulting cuboids.

24. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting

(i) a prime number;

(ii) a number lying between 2 and 6;

25. Prove that the tangents drawn at the ends of a diameter of a circle are parallel.

SECTION C

Section C consists of 6 questions of 3 marks each.

26. A statue, 1.6 m tall, stands on the top of a pedestal. From a point on the ground, the angle of elevation of
the top of the statue is 60° and from the same point the angle of elevation of the top of the pedestal is 45°. Find
the height of the pedestal.

27. Prove that the parallelogram circumscribing a circle is a rhombus.

28. A well of diameter 3 m is dug 14 m deep. The earth taken out of it has been spread evenly all around it in the
shape of a circular ring of width 4 m to form an embankment. Find the height of the embankment.

29. The following distribution shows the daily pocket allowance of children of a locality.
The mean pocket allowance is Rs 18. Find the missing frequency f.
Daily pocket allowance 11 – 13 13 – 15 15 - 17 17 – 19 19 - 21 21 – 23 23 - 25
Number of children 7 6 9 13 f 5 4

30. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of the numbers 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and these are equally likely outcomes. What is the probability that it will point at

(i) 8? (ii) a number greater than 2? (iii) a number less than 9?

31. Two concentric circles are of radii 5 cm and 3 cm. Find the length of the chord of the larger circle which
touches the smaller circle.

OR

Prove that the angle between the two tangents drawn from an external point to a circle is supplementary to the
angle subtended by the line-segment joining the points of contact at the centre.

SECTION D

Section D consists of 4 questions of 5 marks eac h.

32. A straight highway leads to the foot of a tower. A man standing at the top of the tower observes a car at an
angle of depression of 30°, which is approaching the foot of the tower with a uniform speed. Six seconds later,
the angle of depression of the car is found to be 60°. Find the time taken by the car to reach the foot of the
tower from this point.

OR

From a point P on the ground the angle of elevation of the top of a 10 m tall building is 30°. A flag is hoisted at
the top of the building and the angle of elevation of the top of the flagstaff from P is 45°. Find the length of the
flagstaff and the distance of the building from the point P. (You may take √ 3 = 1.732)

33. A copper wire, 3 mm in diameter, is wound about a cylinder whose length is 12 cm, and diameter 10 cm, so
as to cover the curved surface of the cylinder. Find the length and mass of the wire, assuming the density of
copper to be 8.88 g per cm 3.

34. The median of the following data is 525. Find the values of x and y, if the total frequency is 100.
Class interval Frequency
0 – 100 2
100 - 200 5
200 - 300 x
300 – 400 12
400 - 500 17
500 – 600 20
600 - 700 y
700 – 800 9
800 – 900 7
900 – 1000 4

35.

OR

SECTION E

Case study based questions are compulsory.

36.

37.
38.