Real Number (Class 10th Assignment)
Real Number (Class 10th Assignment)
Ques 1 Find the smallest number which when increased by 17 is exactly divisible by both
520 and 468.
Ques 2 Find the smallest number which leaves remainders 8 and 12 when divided by 28
and 32 respectively.
Ques 3 What is the smallest number that, when divided by 35, 56 and 91 leaves remainders
of 7 in each case?
Ques 5 Find the greatest number of 6 digits exactly divisible by 24, 15 and 36.
Ques 6 Determine the number nearest to 110000 but greater than 100000 which is exactly
divisible by each of 8, 15 and 21.
Ques 7 Find the least number that is divisible by all the numbers between 1 and 10 (both
inclusive).
Ques 8 A circular field has a circumference of 360 km. Three cyclists start together and can
cycle 48, 60 and 72 km a day, round the field. When will they meet again?
Ques 9 In a morning walk three persons step off together, their steps measure 80 cm, 85 cm
and 90 cm respectively. What is the minimum distance each should walk so that he can
cover the distance in complete steps?
Ques 10 A rational number in its decimal expansion is 327.7081. What can you say about
the prime factors of q, when this number is expressed in the form p/q ? Give reasons.
Ques 11 Find the smallest pair of 4-digit numbers such that the difference between them is
303 and their HCF is 101. Show your steps.
Ques 12 Once a sports goods retailer organised a compaign “Run to remember” to spread
awareness about benefits of walking. In that Soham and Baani participated. There was a
circular path around a sports field. Soham took 12 minutes to drive one round of the field,
while Baani took 18 minutes for the same. Suppose they started at the same point and at
the same time and went in the same direction. After how many minutes have they met
again at the starting point?
Ques 13 On a morning walk, three people step off together and their steps measure 40 cm,
42 cm and 45 cm respectively. What is the minimum distance each should walk, so that
each can cover the same distance in complete steps?
Ques 14 Aakriti decided to distribute milk in an orphanage on her birthday. The supplier
brought two milk containers which contain 398l and 436l of milk. The milk is to be
transferred to another containers so that 7l and 11l of milk is left in both the containers
respectively. What will be the maximum capacity of the drum?
Ques 15 A street shopkeeper prepares 396 gulab jamuns and 342 rasgullas. He packs them,
in combination. Each container consists of either gulab jamuns or rasgullas but have equal
number of pieces. Find the number of pieces he should put in each box so that number of
boxes are least.
Ques 17 Rakesh is preparing dinner plates. He has 12 pieces of chicken and 16 rotis. If he
wants to make all the plates identical without any food left over, what is the greatest
number of plates Rakesh can prepare?
Ques 18 A merchant has 120 litres and 180 litres of two kinds of oil. He wants to sell oil by
filling two kinds of oil in tins of equal volumes. What is the greatest volume of such a tin?
Ques 19 Use Euclid divison lemma to show that the square of any positive integer cannot
be of the form 5 m + 2 or 5 m + 3 for some integer m.
Ques 20 Prove that one of every three consecutive positive integers is divisible by 3.
Ques 21 A fruit vendor has 990 apples and 945 uranges. He packs them into baskets. Each
basket contains only one of the two fruits but in cqual number. Find the number of fruits to
be put in cach basket in order to have minimum number of baskets.
Ques 22 If HCF of 144 and 180 is expressed in the form 13m – 6. Find the value of m.
Ques 23 The length, breadth and height of a room are 8 m 50 cm, 6 m 25 cm and 4 m 75
cm respectively. Find the length of the longest rod that can measure the dimensions of the
room exactly.
Ques 24 3 bells ring at an interval of 4, 7 and 14 minutes. All three bells rang at 6 am,
when the three bells will be ring together next?
Ques 25 Show that 6n can never end with digit 0 for any natural number n.
Ques 26 a and b are two positive integers such that the least prime factor of a is 3 and the
least prime factor of b is 5. Then calculate the least prime factor of (a + b)
Ques 27 On a morning walk three persons steps off together and their steps measure 40
cm, 42 cm and 45 cm respectively. What is the minimum distance each should walk so that
each can cover the same distance in complete steps ?