GG International School, Pune

PreBoard I
Session: 2023-24

Name- Subject- Mathematics

Class- X Time- 3 hrs

Date-08/01/24 MM- 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)
7. All Questions are compulsory.

Section A

1. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 9 and 360 respectively. If the number is
45, then the other number is
a) 18 b) 36 c) 54 d) 72

2. If the sum of the zeroes of the polynomial 𝑝(𝑥 ) = (𝑝2 − 23)𝑥 2 − 2𝑥 − 12 is 1

then 𝑝 takes the value
a) √23 b)-23 c) ±2 d)±5
3. A pair of linear equations which has unique solution 𝑥 = 2, 𝑦 = −3 is
a) 𝑥 + 𝑦 = −1; 2𝑥 − 3𝑦 = −5
b) 2𝑥 + 5𝑦 = −11; 4𝑥 + 10𝑦 = −22
c) 2𝑥 − 3𝑦 = 1; 3𝑥 + 2𝑦 = 0
d) 𝑥 − 4𝑦 − 14 = 0; 5𝑥 − 𝑦 − 13 = 0
4. The positive value of 𝑘 for which the equation 𝑥 2 + 𝑘𝑥 + 64 = 0, 𝑥 2 − 8𝑥 +
𝑘 = 0 will both have real roots is
a) 4 b) 8 c) 12 d) 16

5. The roots of the quadratic equation 𝑥 2 + 5𝑥 + 5 = 0 are

−5±√5 5±√5 −3±√5 3±√5
a) b) c) d)
2 2 2 2

6. Find the sum of the n terms of the Arithmetic Progression √2 , √8 , √18 , √32
,........
𝑛(𝑛+1) 𝑛(𝑛+1)
a) b) 2𝑛(𝑛 + 1) c) d) 1
2 √2

7. Point P divides the line segment joining 𝑅 (−1,3)𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆(9,8) in the ratio𝑘: 1. If
P lies on the line 𝑥 − 𝑦 + 2 = 0 then find the value of 𝑘.
2 1 1 1
a) b) c) d)
3 2 3 4

8. Show below is a rectangle PQRS, ∠𝑈𝑇𝑄 is a right angle. Which of these is true
about ∆𝑈𝑆𝑇 and ∆𝑇𝑅𝑄 ?

a) The perimeter are in the ratio 16: 81

b) The ratio of ∠𝑆𝑈𝑇: ∠𝑅𝑇𝑄 𝑖𝑠 4: 9
c) The ratio of 𝑈𝑆: 𝑇𝑅 𝑖𝑠 4: 9
d) The ratio of 𝑈𝑆: 𝑄𝑅 𝑖𝑠 4: 9

9. In figure, PQ is a chord of a circle with centre O and PT is a tangent. If ∠QPT=60∘,,

find ∠PRQ.
 a) 120° b) 150° c) 240° d) 200°

10. If a,b,c are the sides of a right triangle where c is the hypotenuse, then the
radius of the circle which touches the sides of the triangle is
𝑎+𝑏+𝑐 𝑎−𝑏+𝑐 𝑏−𝑎+𝑐 𝑎+𝑏−𝑐
a) 𝑟 = b) 𝑟 = c) 𝑟 = d) 𝑟 =
2 2 2 2

1 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐 2 𝜃−sec2 𝜃
11. If tan 𝜃 = √3 , then find the value of
𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐 2 𝜃+ sec2 𝜃
1 1 1
a) −1 b) c) d) −
√3 2 2

12. The angle of depression of a car standing on the ground, from the top of a 75m
high tower, is 30°. The distance of the car from the base of the tower (in m) is
a) 25√3 b) 50√3 c) 75√3 d) 150

13. If cos 𝐴 + cos 2 𝐴 = 1, then find the value of sin2 𝐴 + sin4 𝐴

a) -1 b) 0 c) 1 d) 2

14. In the given figure, a semicircle is drawn with O as the centre and AB as the
diameter. Semicircles are drawn with AO and OB as diameters. If AB=28m,
22
then find the perimeter of the shaded region. (𝜋 = )
7

a) 44m b) 88m c) 22m d) 80m

15. Anishka melted 11 chocolate cubes in a cylindrical cup. If the length of the
side of each cube is 𝑘 𝑐𝑚 and the radius of the cup is 𝑟 𝑐𝑚, which of these
22
represents the height of the melted chocolate in the cup. (𝜋 = )
7
7𝑘 3 7𝑘 3 7𝑘 2 7𝑘 2
a) 𝑐𝑚 b) 𝑐𝑚 c) 𝑐𝑚 d) 𝑐𝑚
4𝑟 2𝑟 2 4𝑟 2𝑟 2

16. The upper limit of the modal class from the given distribution is
Height Below Below`145 Below Below Below Below
(in cm) 140 150 155 160 165
No. of 4 11 29 40 46 51
girls

a) 155 b) 160 c) 155 d) 150

17. Find the number of zeroes of 𝑝(𝑥 ) in the graph given below

a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3

18. Two cards of hearts and four cards of spades are missing from a apck of 52
cards. A card is drawn at random from the remaining pack. What is the
probability of getting a black card?
 22 22 24 24
a) b) c) d)
52 46 52 56

Direction: In questions 19 and 20 statement Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of

Reason (R). Choose the correct statement.
a) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
b) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is not the correct explanation of
Assertion.
c) Assertion is true but Reason is false
d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.

19. Statement: Total surface area of the top is the sum of the curved surface area of
the hemisphere and the curved surface area of the cone.
Reason: Top is obtained by joining the plane surfaces of a hemisphere and cone

20. Statement: The two tangents are drawn to a circle from an external point, then
they subtend equal angles at the centre
Reason: A parallelogram circumscribing a circle is a rhombus.

Section B

21. A, B and C starts at the same time in the same direction to run around a circular
stadium. A completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198
Seconds, all staring at the same point. After what time will they meet again at
the starting point?

22. If 𝛼 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝛽 are zeroes of the polynomial 𝑝(𝑥 ) = 3𝑥 2 + 6𝑥 + 2, then form a

𝛼2 𝛽2
quadratic equations whose zeroes are – and – .
𝛽 𝛼
23. Find the coordinates of the point equidistant from the three given points A(5,1),
B(-3,-7) and C(7,-1).

24. Find the value of 𝑥 ∶ √3𝑡𝑎𝑛2𝑥 = 𝑠𝑖𝑛45°𝑐𝑜𝑠45° + 𝑐𝑜𝑠60°

25. Two triangles ΔABC and ΔDBC are on the same base BC and on the same side
of BC in which ∠A=∠D=90. If CA and BD meet each other at E, then show
that AE×EC=BE×ED.

Section C
3√2
26. Show that is irrational number.
5
27. ′𝐴′ takes 6 days less than the time taken by ′𝐵 ′ to finish a piece of work. If both
′𝐴′ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ′𝐵 ′ work together they can finish it in 4days. Find the time taken by ′𝐴′
and ′𝐵 ′ to finish the work individually?
28. 𝐴 (3,2) and 𝐵(−2,1) are two vertices of a triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 whose centroid G has
5 1
the coordinates ( , − ) . Find the coordinates of the third vertex C.
3 3
29. In the given figure, if PQRS is a parallelogram and 𝐴𝐵 ∥ 𝑃𝑆 then prove that
𝑂𝐶 ∥ 𝑆𝑅.

𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃−𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃+1 1
30. Prove that : =
𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃+𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃−1 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃−𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃
31. A box contains 100 red cards, 200 yellow cards and 50 blue cards, if a card is
drawn at rabdom from the box then find the probability of getting
a) A blue card
b) Not a yellow card
c) Neither yellow nor a blue card

Section D
32. Rajiv walks and cycles at uniform speeds. When he walks for 2hrs and cycles
for 1 hr, distance travelled is 24km. When he walks for 1hr and cycles for 2hrs
distance travelled is 39km. Find his speed of walking and cycling. If he walked
and cycled for equal time in 3hrs. How much distance does he cover?

33. A triangle ABC is drawn to circumscribe a circle of radius 4cm such that the
segments BD and DC into which BC is divided by the point of contact D into
lengths 8 cm and 6 cm respectively. Find the sides AB and AC.

34. Find the difference between the areas of two segments of a circle formed by a
chord of length 5cm subtending an angle 90° at the centre.

35. If the median of the following distribution is 27. Find the value of x and y. Also
find the mean and mode of the data.
Class 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 Total
Frequency 5 x 20 14 y 8 68
 Section E

36. Shown below is house of cards, a structure created by stacking playing cards on
top of each other in the shape of a pyramid. Each small triangle is made using 3
cards and each layer has 1 less triangle that the triangle below it. Ankit and his
friends made a house of cards

a) Ankit and his friends want to use 3 cards in the top layer and 18 in the bottom
layer. Form an AP showing the number of cards in each layer starting from the
top layer.
b) Ankit is planning to make a pyramid with the top and the bottom layer
containing 15 and 138 cards respectively. How many layers such a pyramid
will have?
c) If they have total of 360 cards find the total number of layers that Ankit and his
friends can make using the card they have, if they want to have 1 triangle at the
top.

37. A drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot and is controlled by a

remotecontrol device. Its various applications include policing, surveillance,
photography, precision agriculture, forest fire monitoring, river monitoring and
so on. David used an advanced drone with high resolution camera during an
expedition in a forest region which could fly upto 100 m height above the
ground level. He observed two stations due south of a leaning tower which leans
towards the north are at distance 𝑎 and 𝑏 from its foot. 𝛼, 𝛽 are the elevations
of the top of the tower from these stations, horizontal
 a) Draw a figure to represent the given situation
b) Prove that the inclination 𝜃 of the tower to the horizontal is given by
𝑏𝑐𝑜𝑡𝛼−𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑡𝛽
𝑐𝑜𝑡𝜃 =
𝑏−𝑎

38. Arpana is studying in X standard. While helping in the kitchen, she saw rolling
pin made of steel and empty from inner side, with two small hemispherical ends
as shown in the figure
Use the above figure to answer the qns that follow :

a) Find the curved surface area of two identical cylindrical parts, if the
diameter is 2.5cm and length if each part is 5cm
b) Find the volume of big cylindrical part. Also find the volume of two
hemispherical ends having diameter 2.5cm