TRIFOCUS CLASSES
AMB PRACTICE SHEET
Class 10 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 2 hours Maximum Marks: 48
1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
A seminar is being conducted by an Educational Organisation, where the participants will be educators of
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different subjects. The number of participants in Hindi, English and Mathematics are 60, 84 and 108
respectively.
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(a)
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What is the maximum number of participants that can be accommodated in each room if there are multiple
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rooms, and in each room, the same number of participants are to be seated, and all of them are in the same
subject?
(b) What is the minimum number of rooms required during the event?
(c) Show that the product of two numbers 60 and 84 is equal to the product of their HCF and LCM.
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(d) What is the LCM of two numbers if their product is 1080 and their HCF is 30?
2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Two friends Govind and Pawan decided to go for a trekking. During summer vacation, they went to Panchmarhi.
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While trekking they observed that the trekking path is in the shape of a parabola. The mathematical
representation of the track is shown in the graph.
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(a) What are the zeroes of the polynomial whose graph is given?
(b) What will be the expression of the given polynomial p(x)?
(c) What is the product of the zeroes of the polynomial which represents the parabola?
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(d) In the standard form of quadratic polynomial, ax2 + bx + c, whar are a, b, and c?
3. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Observe the figures given below carefully and answer the questions:
Figure A
Figure B
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Figure C
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(a) Name the figure(s) where in two figures are similar.
(b) Name the figure(s) wherein the figures are congruent.
(c) Prove that congruent triangles are also similar but not the converse.
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(d) What more is least needed for two similar triangles to be congruent?
4. The exponent of 3 in the prime factorization of 864 is: [1]
a) 2 b) 3
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c) 4 d) 8
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5. 2.35 is [1]
a) an integer b) a rational number
c) an irrational number d) a natural number
6. HCF of (23 × 32 × 5), (22 × 33 × 52) and (24 × 3 × 53 × 7) is [1]
a) 60 b) 48
c) 30 d) 105
7. (HCF × LCM) for the numbers 70 and 40 is: [1]
a) 280 b) 2800
c) 10 d) 70
8. The exponent of 2 in the prime factorisation of 144, is [1]
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a) 4 b) 2
c) 6 d) 1
9. Which of the following is not the graph of a quadratic polynomial? [1]
a) b)
c) d)
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10. Which of the following is a quadratic polynomial with zeroes 5
and 0? [1]
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a) 3x(x - 5) b) 5
x2
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c) x2 - 5 d) 3x(3x - 5)
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11. If one zero of the polynomial p(x) = (a2 + 9)x2 + 45x + 6a is reciprocal of the other, then the value of a is [1]
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a) 2 b) 3
c) 0 d) 1
12. The product of the two zeroes of the polynomial 3x2 - 7x - 27 is: [1]
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a) 27 b) 7
c) 9 d) -9
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13. If α, β are the zeros of the polynomial f(x) = ax2 + bx + c, then 1
+
1
=
[1]
2 2
α β
2 2
a) b +2ac
2
b) b −2ac
2
c c
2 2
c) b +2ac
d) b −2ac
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2 2
a a
14. The graphic representation of the equations x + 2y = 3 and 2x + 4y + 7 = 0 gives a pair of [1]
a) parallel lines b) perpendicular lines
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c) coincident lines d) intersecting lines
15. The value of k for which the equations 3x – y + 8 = 0 and 6x + ky = –16 represent coincident lines, is: [1]
a) 2 b) −
1
c) 1
2
d) -2
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16. The pair of linear equations
3x
+ = 7 and 9x + 10y = 14 is: [1]
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a) consistent b) inconsistent
c) consistent with many solutions d) consistent with one solution
17. The area of the triangle formed by the lines x = 3, y = 4 and x = y is [1]
a) 1 sq. unit b) 1/2 sq. unit
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c) 3sq. unit d) 2sq. unit
18. If a pair of linear equations has infinitely many solutions, then the lines representing them will be [1]
a) parallel b) intersecting or coincident
c) always intersecting d) always coincident
19. If the diagonals of a quadrilateral divide each other proportionally then it is a [1]
a) square b) rectangle
c) trapezium d) parallelogram
20. △ ABC is such that AB = 3 cm, BC = 2 cm and CA = 2.5 cm. If △DEF ∼ △ABC and EF = 4 cm, then [1]
perimeter of △DEF is
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a) 30 cm b) 15 cm
c) 22.5 cm d) 7.5 cm
21. Match the following. [1]
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Column - I Column - ll
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(a) In △ABC and △PQR = , ∠ A = ∠ P ⇒ △ABC ~ △PQR (i) AA similarity criterion
AB AC
PQ PR
(b) In △ABC and △PQR ∠ A = ∠ P, ∠ B = ∠ Q ⇒ △ABC ~ △PQR (ii) SAS similarity criterion
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(c) In △ABC and △PQR = = ABC ~ △PQR (iii) SSS similarity criterion
AB AC BC
⇒ △
PO PR PR
(d) In △ABC, DE || BC ⇒ = (iv) BPT
AD AE
BD EC
a) (a) - (iv), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), (d) - (iii) b) (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv)
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c) (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii) d) (a) - (i), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv)
22. In the given figure, AB || CD. If AB = 5 cm, CD = 2 cm and OB = 3 cm, then the length of OC is [1]
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a) cm b) cm
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c) 10
3
cm d) 15
2
cm
23. In triangles ABC and DEF, ∠ A = ∠ E = 40°, AB : ED = AC : EF and ∠ F = 65°, then ∠ B = [1]
a) 75o b) 85o
c) 35o d) 65o
24. Three bells ring at intervals of 6, 12 and 18 minutes. If all the three bells rang at 6 a.m., when will they ring [2]
together again?
25. There is a circular path around a sports field. Sonia takes 18 minutes to drive one round of the field, while Ravi [2]
takes 12 minutes for the same. Suppose they both start at the same point and at the same time, and go in the
same direction. After how many minutes will they meet again at the starting point?
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26. Find the zeroes of x2 - 7x + 12 and verify the relationship between the zeroes and their coefficients. [2]
27. Find the zeroes of quadratic polynomial 3x2 - x - 4 and verify the relationship between the zeroes and their [2]
coefficients.
28. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 13. The number obtained by interchanging the digits of the given [2]
number exceeds the number by 27. Find the number.
29. Solve graphically: 2x - 3y + 13 = 0; 3x - 2y + 12 = 0. [2]
30. E and F are points on the sides PQ and PR respectively of a △PQR. For PQ = 1.28 cm, PR = 2.56 cm, PE = 0.18 [2]
cm and PF = 0.36 cm, state whether EF || QR.
31. If a line intersects the sides AB and AC of a △ABC at D and E respectively and is parallel to BC, prove that [2]
AD
AB
=
AE
AC
(see figure).
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