CBSE Class 12 Maths Sample Paper

Set 1

Time: 3 hours Total Marks: 100

1. All questions are compulsory.

2. The question paper consist of 29 questions divided into four sections A, B, C and D. Section A
comprises of 4 questions of one mark each, section B comprises of 8 questions of two marks each,
section C comprises of 11 questions of four marks each and section D comprises of 6 questions of six
marks each.

3. Use of calculators is not permitted.

SECTION – A

1. Find the inverse of 𝑔: 𝑅 → 𝑅, 𝑔(𝑥) = 4𝑒 2𝑥 + 3 and the domain of the 𝑔−1 (𝑥)

2. What should be the value of n for which the points (2, -3), (3, 1) and (5, n) are collinear?

3. If X is a set of the factors of 30, 𝑎, 𝑏 ∈ 𝑋 and 𝑓(𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐) = (𝑎 + 𝑏) ∗ (𝑏 ′ + 𝑐) where

(i) a + b is defined such that a + b = LCM(a,b)

What is the value of f(2,5,15)?

4. A parallelogram is constructed on 3𝑎⃗ + 𝑏⃗⃗ and 𝑎⃗ − 4𝑏⃗⃗ where 𝑎⃗ = 6 and 𝑏⃗⃗ = 8 and 𝑎⃗ and 𝑏⃗⃗ are
anti-parallel. What is the length of the longer diagonal?

(OR)

If 𝑎 = 𝑖̂ + 𝑗̂ + 𝑘̂ , 𝑏 = 𝑖̂ − 𝑗̂ + 2𝑘̂ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐 = 𝑥𝑖̂ + (𝑥 − 2)𝑗̂ − 𝑘̂ , and if the vector lies in the plane of
vectors a and b , then what is the value of x?

SECTION – B
3 7
5. Express the matrix 𝐴 = [ ] as sum of two matrices such that one is symmetric and the other is
1 4
skew symmetric.

(OR)
 1 −2 3 6
Given that 𝑋 = [ ] and 𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 + 7 , find the value of 𝑔(𝑋) + [ ]
4 5 −12 −9

1−𝑠𝑖𝑛3 𝛼
3𝑐𝑜𝑠2 𝛼
, 𝑖𝑓 𝛼 < 𝜋/2
6. If f(α) = 𝑖, 𝑖𝑓 𝛼 = 𝜋/2 so that f(α) is continuous at α=π/2, then what are the values of i
1−sin 𝛼
𝑗( ) , 𝑖𝑓 𝛼 > 𝜋/2
{ (𝜋−2𝛼)2
and j?

𝑑𝑣 𝑣+𝑒𝑣+⋯
7. What is the value of 𝑑𝑢
𝑖𝑓 𝑢 = 𝑒 𝑣+𝑒 ?

8. Peter starts from his office at 8 PM to his home walking through a garden at a uniform velocity of
6 km/hr. While he walks away from a 6-metre-high garden lamp post, he finds his shadow’s length
increasing at a rate of ‘𝑢’ km/hr? If Peter’s height is 2 m, then what is the value of u?

9. Show that the relation R in the set of integers, defined as

𝑅 = {(𝑚, 𝑛): 𝑚, 𝑛 ∈ 𝑍 𝑎𝑛𝑑 5 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 (𝑚 − 𝑛)} is an equivalence relation

10. There is an auditorium filled with students of the school. A coordinator is collecting on a random
basis the list of students who is born in a leap year. If he aims to achieve the probability of getting at
least one such student more than 0.5. What should be the minimum number of students to be
surveyed to achieve this level of probability?

(OR)

On his way to home from office, almost every evening Jack has to face traffic chaos at a particular
traffic signal located at Junction A. The signal would be red 20% of the time Jack approaches it during
the evening commute. Assuming that each evening would represent an independent trial, over five
evenings, determine the probability that the signal appears red on exactly one day.

11. What type of quadrilateral will be formed by the points if their respective position vectors are
𝑖̂ + 𝑗̂ + 𝑘̂ , 2𝑖 ̂ − 2𝑘̂ , 𝑘̂ − 𝑗̂?
̂ + 3𝑗̂, 3 𝑖̂ + 5𝑗

(OR)
A right circular cylinder has a radius of 5 cm and a height of 16 cm. In each of these dimensions there
may be error by ±0.2 cm. What is the relative percentage error in the volume of the cone?

12. Determine the maximum value of 𝑍 = 3𝑥 + 2𝑦 subject to the given constraints:

(i) 𝑥 + 2𝑦 ≤ 10
(ii) 3𝑥 + 𝑦 ≤ 15
(iii) Both x and y are whole numbers.

SECTION-C

13. Find the direction ratio of the line passing through the origin if the angle between this line x-2y -
z + 3 = 0 is 60° .

𝑙2 (𝑘 − 𝑙)2 (𝑘 − 𝑙)2
14. If 2k=l + m + n and X=[(𝑘 − 𝑚)2 𝑚2 (𝑘 − 𝑚)2 ], what is the value of the determinant
(𝑘 − 𝑛)2 (𝑘 − 𝑛)2 𝑛2
of X?

15. The dollar cost of producing ‘m’ cameras is given by the function 𝑃(𝑚) = 300 + 0.25𝑚 −
𝑚 3
0.5 ( ) . Which of the following is the estimate of the cost of the 2001st camera?
1000

(OR)

The coordinates of point Y is (i, j, k) which is the image of point X(-6,2,3) in the plane 3x-4y+5z-9=0.
What is the value of i + j + k?

1
𝜋 𝑥
16. Let (𝑥) = {[tan ( 4 + 𝑥)] , 𝑖𝑓 𝑥 ≠ 0 . What should be the value of k such that 𝑓(𝑥) is
𝑘 , 𝑖𝑓 𝑥 = 0
continuous at x=0?

(OR)
𝜋 𝑦
A curve passes through the point (1, 3 ). Let the slope of the curve at each point (x, y) be 𝑥 +
𝑦
sec (𝑥 ) , 𝑥 > 0. Determine the equation of the curve.
 𝑥 3𝑧
17. 𝑦 = 2 − 2 and 𝑦 = 2 − 2
are the equation of lines forming a tetrahedron which is bounded by
four different planes. The four planes include the three coordinate planes (XY plane, YZ plane and ZX
plane) and the plane 2x + 4y + 6z = 8. What is the distance of the given plane from the origin?

18. The curve 𝑦 = 4𝑎𝑥 3 + 6𝑏𝑥 2 + 8𝑐𝑥 + 10 touches the x-axis at a point S(-2,0) and cuts the y-axis
at a point R where its gradient is 24. Find the values of a, b and c.

19. What is the approximate value of the probability of getting not more than 4 successes if getting a
doublet when a pair of dice is thrown which is regarded as success given that the pair of dice is
thrown six times?

20. There are two cardboard boxes. Each of them has six tiles numbered as 1, 1, 2, 3, 3 and 4. Find
the variance of the distribution of the expected values of getting a total of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 when
one picks two tiles at a single event and this event repeats for thirty six times assuming the picked
tiles are replaced on every repetition.

21. Jill is a student who always guesses answers for any objective type exam he attends. He has sat
down to attend a test containing 25 objective type questions. Each question has four options from
which Jill has to choose one option as his answer. What is the probability that Jill could have ticked
the right options for more than 20 questions would be approximately?

22. If v be an implicit function of u defined 𝑢2𝑢 − 2𝑢𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑣 − 1 = 0. What is the value of v’(1)?

23. What are the steps involved in the Corner Point Method?

(OR)

1
1
What is the value of the integral∫ (1 + 𝑎 − 𝑎) 𝑒 𝑎+𝑎 𝑑𝑎?

SECTION-D
x−3 y−4 ( z−1) x+1 y−7 z−5
24. Find the equation of a plane containing the lines 4
= 1
= 1
and 12
= 6
= 3
and this
plane is parallel to plane x - 4y + 4z + 9 = 0

(OR)

A line segment joins the points P(15,-12, 17) and Q(0,3,6). What is the length of its projection
(component) on the plane 13𝑥 − 9𝑦 + 16𝑧 − 69 = 0?
 𝑥2 𝑦2
25. Determine the area of the largest parallelogram that could be inscribed in an ellipse + = 1.
25 49
Given that the inscribed parallelogram has equal diagonals bisecting each other at angle other
than 90° .

26. Pooja has Rs 10 lakhs to invest in a stock mutual fund, a bond mutual fund and a money market
fund for which the expected annual returns are 10%,7% and 5% respectively. In order to obtain an
overall annual return of 8%, a financial planner advises Pooja to invest as much in stocks as in bonds
and the money market combined. How much should Pooja invest in stock fund?

𝜋
𝑐𝑜𝑠3𝛼+1
27. Evaluate ∫02 𝑑𝛼
2𝑐𝑜𝑠𝛼−1

(OR)

In the first week of March 2010, ABC, a television manufacturing company sent out three shipments.
The first shipment order was for 4 LED TVs, 6 Smart TVs and 10 Flat Screen TVs and this order
contained a bill for 114,000 Euros. The second shipment order was 8 LED TVs, 3 Smart TVs and 5 Flat
Screen TVs and this order contained a bill for 72,000 Euros. The third shipment order which
contained a bill for 81,000 Euros was for 2 LED TVs, 9 Smart TVs and 5 Flat Screen TVs. What had ABC
charged for Smart TVs?

𝜋 𝑢 tan 𝑢
28. What is the value of the integral ∫0 ?
sec 𝑢+tan 𝑢

(OR)

7
A line 𝑥 = is drawn such that it cuts off the circle 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 49. Find the area of the larger part
√2
that has been cut off?

𝜋 𝜋 1 𝜋 𝛼
29. If 𝛼 lies in the interval (− 2 , 2 ), then show that tan−1 (𝑠𝑒𝑐𝛼(1+sin 𝛼)) = 4 − 2

(OR)

What is the maximum value of (cos−1 𝛼)2 + (sin−1 𝛼)2 ?