Half Yearly Test 2023 Aarambh 2024 Time Allowed : 3 Hours

Total Marks = 80
Date : 23/09/2023
Applied Mathematics
1. This question paper contains five sections A, B, C, D and E. Each section is compulsory.
2. Section - A carries 20 marks weightage, Section - B carries 10 marks weightage, Section - C carries 18 marks
weightage, Section - D carries 20 marks weightage and Section - E carries 3 case-based with total weightage of
12 marks.
3. Section A comprises of 20 MCQs of 1 mark each.
4. Section B comprises of 5 VSA (Very Short Answer) type questions of 2 marks each.
5. Section C comprises of 6 SA (Short Answer) type of questions of 3 marks each.
6. Section D comprises of 4 LA ( Long Answer) type of questions of 5 marks each.
7. Section E has 3 case studies.

Section - A
9 1 7. Write A = {1, 4, 9, 16, 25} in set builder form.
1. If log x   = – , then x is equal
 16  2 (1) A = {x : x is a prime number}
3 3 (2) A = {x : x is the cube of a natural number}
(1) – (2) (3) A = {x : x is the square of a natural number}
4 4
81 256 (4) A = {x : x is an even natural number}
(3) (4)
256 81
8. If A, B and C are any three sets, then A × (B  C)
2. The value of log 2 16 is: is equal to
1 (1) (A × B)  (A × C)
(1) (2) 4 (2) (A  B) × (A  C)
8
(3) 8 (4) 16 (3) None of these
(4) (A × B)  (A × C)
3. The binary equivalent of the decimal number 10 is
_________ 9. If n(A) = 3 and n(B) = 6 and A  B, then the
(1) 0010 (2) 10 number of elements in A  B is equal to
(3) 1010 (4) 010 (1) 9 (2) 3
(3) 6 (4) 0
4. A train 120 m long is running at 108 km/h. How
long will it take to cross a lamp post? 10. If R = {(2, 1), (4, 3),(4, 5),} then range of the
function is?
(1) 4 (2) 6
(1) Range R = {2, 4}
(3) 8 (4) 10 (2) Range R = {1, 3, 5}
(3) Range R = {2, 3, 4, 5}
(4) Range R = {1, 3, 5}
5. When the time is 6:32, then what is the angle b/w
the hour hand & the minute hand of a clock?
11. If P X Q is an empty set then which of the following
(1) 2° (2) 4°
is a null set?
(3) 8° (4) 12° (1) Only P (2) Only Q
(3) Either P or Q (4) Both P and Q

12. If (a, b) = (x, y) then _______.

6. How many times do the hands of a clock coincide (1) a = x
in a day? (2) a = y
(1) 20 (2) 21 (3) a = y and b = x
(4) a = x and b = y
(3) 22 (4) 24
13. If set P has 4 elements and set Q has 5 elements Section - B
then find the number of elements in P X Q
(1) 9 (2) 45 21. Find the mean of the first 10 even natural numbers.
(3) 20 (4) 54
22. Write the following intervals in set builder form :
14. The common difference of the sequence 9, 5, –1, – [3, 0] and [6, 12]
5 is _____.
(1) 4 (2) –4
(3) 3 (4) 5 23. If A = {5, 6}, B = {4, 5, 6}, C = {5, 6, 7}, show that
A × A = (B × B)  (C × C).
1 b 1
15. If 2 c ,2 ac ,2 a are in GP, then which one of the 24. A geometric progression’s third term is 4. The
following is correct? result of multiplying the first five terms is
(1) a, b, c are in AP
(2) a, b, c are in GP
(3) a, b, c are in HP 25. How many committee of five persons with a
(4) ab, bc, ca are in AP chairperson can be selected form 12 persons?
Section - C
16. Find the number of rectangles and squares in an 8 26. Solve for x if log (x – 1) + log (x + 1) = log 2 1
by 8 chess board respectively.
(1) 296, 204 (2) 1092, 204 27. A 5m wide cloth is used to make a conical tent of
base diameter 14m and height 24m. Find the cost
(3) 204, 1092 (4) 204, 1296
of cloth used at the rate of Rs.25 per metre.

17. There are 20 points in a plane, how many triangles 28. Let X = {1,2,3,4,5,6}. If n represent any member
can be formed by these points if 5 are colinear? of
(1) 1130 (2) 550 X, express the following as sets:
(3) 1129 (4) 1140 (i) n  x but 2n  x
18. In how many ways can we select 6 people out of (ii) n + 5 = 8
10, of which a particular person is not included? (iii) n is greater than 4
(1) 10C3 (2) 9C5
(3) 9C6 (4) 9C4
29. If 7 times the 7th term of an AP is equal to 11 times
its 11th term, show that the 18th term of the AP is
19. What is the domain of a function? zero.
(1) The maximal set of numbers for which a 30. In a playground, 3 sisters and 8 other girls are
function is define playing together. In a particular game, how many
way can all the girls be seated in a circular order so
(2) The maximal set of numbers which a function that the three sisters are not seated together?
can take values
(3) It is a set of natural for which a function is 31. Which of the following relations are functions?
defined Give reasons and also find the domain and range of
the function.
(4) None of the mentioned. (i) f = (1,3) , (1,5) , ( 2,3) , ( 2,5 )
(ii) g = ( 2,1) , ( 5,1) , (8,1) , (11,1)
20. What is domain of function f ( x ) = x1/ 2 ?

(1) ( 2,  )
(2) ( – ,1)
(3) 0, )
(4) None of the mentioned
 Section – D 37. Five students Ajay, Shyam, Yojana, Rahul and
32. The area of the cube’s face is 10 cm2 , then the total Akansha are sitting in a playground in a line
surface area of the cube is _________.
33. In a group of students, 225 students know French,
100 know Spanish and 45 know both. Each student
known either French or Spanish. How many
students are there in the group?

34. Check whether the relation R on R (set of real

numbers) defined by R = {(a, b) : a  b3} is
reflexive, symmetric or transitive.

35. Between 1 and 31, m numbers have been

Based on the above information, answer the
introduced in such a way that the resulting
sequence is an A.P. with a 7: (m – 1) ratio of 5 : 9. following questions.
Calculate the value of m. (i) Total number of ways of sitting arrangement of five
students is
Section – E
36. A company produces 500 computers in the third (1) 120 (2) 60
year and 600 computers in the seventh year. (3) 24 (4) None of these
Assuming that the production increases uniformly
by a constant number every year. (ii) Total number of arrangement of sitting, if Ajay and
Based on the above information, answer the Yojana sit together is
following questions. (1) 60 (2) 48
(i) The value of the fixed number by which production
is increasing every year is (3) 72 (4) 120
(1) 25 (2) 20
(iii) Total number of arrangement ‘Yojana and Rahul
(3) 10 (4) 30
sitting at extreme position’ is
(ii) The product in first year is (1) 24 (2) 36
(1) 400
(3) 48 (4) 12
(2) 250
(3) 450 (iv) Total number of arrangement, if shyam is sitting in
(4) 300 the middle is

(iii) The total production in 10 years is (1) 24 (2) 12

(1) 5625 (2) 5265 (3) 6 (4) 36
(3) 2655 (4) 6525

(iv) The number of computers produced in 21st year is

(1) 650
(2) 700
(3) 850
(4) 950
 (iv) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and
38. A class teacher Mamta Sharma of class XI write
three sets A, B and C are such that A = {1, 3, 5, 7, C to be intersecting?
9} = B = {2, 4, 6, 8} and C = {2, 3, 5, 7, 11} (1) AC =  (2) AC  
Answer the following questions which are based on
above sets. (3) AC =  (4) AC  
(i) Find A  B
(1) {3, 5, 7} (2) 
(3) {1, 5, 7} (4) {2, 5, 7}

(ii) Find A  C
(1) {3, 5, 7} (2) 
(3) {1, 5,7} (4) {3, 4, 7}

(iii) Which of the following is correct for two sets A and

B to be disjoint?
(1) A B =  (2) A B  
(3) A B =  (4) A B  

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