THE VELAMMAL INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

2024-2025
HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
HIGH SCHOOL COMPARTMENT
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS
WORKSHEET STD: X

1. STATISTICS
1.Write the empirical relationship among the three measures of central tendency median, mode &
mean.
2.If the mean of the following data is 15, find ‘p’.
X 5 10 15 20 25
Frequency 6 p 6 10 5
3.The following table gives the literacy rate (in %) in 40 cities. Find the mean literacy rate.
Literacy rate(in 45-55 55-65 65-75 75-85 85-95
%)
No. of cities 4 11 12 9 4

4.The mean of the following frequency distribution is 57.6 and the no. of observation is 50. Find
the missing frequencies of f1 and f2.
Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120
Frequency 7 f1 12 f2 8 5

5.If the mode of the following data is 45, find x and y given ∑ fi =50.
Class 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Frequency 4 8 x 12 10 4 y

6.Find the median for the following table which shows the daily wages drawn by 200 workers in
a factory.
Daily wages Less than Less than Less than Less than Less than
(in Rs) 100 200 300 400 500
No. of 40 82 154 184 200
workers
7.Find the median wages of workers from the following table.
Wages in (Rs) No. of workers
More than (or) equal to 150 0
More than (or) equal to 140 10
More than (or) equal to 130 29
More than (or) equal to 120 60
More than (or) equal to 110 104
More than (or) equal to 100 134
More than (or) equal to 90 151
More than (or) equal to 80 160

8.If the median of the distribution is 28.5. Find the values of x and y.
C.I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 Total
Frequency 5 x 20 15 y 5 60
9.Find mean, median & mode of the following:
 Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140
Frequency 6 8 10 12 6 5 3

10. The median of the following data is 525. Find the values of x and y, if the total frequency is
100.

Pocket money in ( Rs) Number of students

More than or equal to 20 90
More than or equal to 40 76

11. A life insurance agent found

the following data for distribution of ages of 100 policy holders. Calculate the median age, if
policies are given only to persons having age 18 years onwards but less than 60 years. And also
find the mode.

12(i).The frequency distribution of weekly pocket money received by a group of students is given
below: Find the median of the data. And also find the mode.
 More than or equal to 60 60
More than or equal to 80 55
More than or equal to 100 51
More than or equal to 120 49
More than or equal to 140 33
More than or equal to 160 12
More than or equal to 180 8
More than or equal to 200 4

(ii). Mode of the following frequency distribution is 65 and sum of all the frequencies is 70. Find
the missing frequencies x and y. And also find the median.

2.ARITHMETIC PROGRESSIONS
1.(i)Find the 31st term of an AP whose 11th term is 38 and the 16th term is 73.
(ii)If the 3rd and the 9th terms of an AP are 4 and – 8 respectively, which term of this AP is zero?
2.(i)The 17th term of an AP exceeds its 10th term by 7. Find the common difference.
(ii)Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
3.(i)Find the sum of the first 15 multiples of 8.
(ii).Find the sum of the odd numbers between 0 and 50.
4.(i)Find the number of all three digit natural numbers which are divisible by 9.
(ii) Solve the equation: 1+ 4+ 7+ 10+ ……+ x = 287.
5.(i). An A.P consists of 37 terms. The sum of the three middle most terms is 225 and the sum of
the last three terms is 429. Find the A.P.
(ii).The ratio of the sum of n terms of two A.P‘s is (7n+1) : (4n+27). Find the ratio of their mth
terms.
𝑛
6.(i)Prove that the sum of the first n terms of an AP is S = [ 2a+ (n-1)d]
2
(ii)The sum of n, 2n , 3n terms of an A.P are S1 , S2 , S3 respectively. Prove that S3=3 (S2- S1).
7. How many terms of the AP: 24, 21, 18, . . . must be taken so that their sum is 78?
8. (i)Find the 11th term from the last term of the AP : 10, 7, 4, . . ., – 62.
(ii)Find the sum of the first 40 positive integers divisible by 6.
9. If m times the mth term of an A.P is equal to n times its nth term, show that the (m+n)th term of
the A.P. is zero.
10.If Sn , the sum of first n terms of an AP is given by Sn = 3n2 – 4n , find the nth term and
common difference.
11. Manpreet Kaur is the national record holder for women in the shot-put discipline. Her throw
of 18.86m at the Asian Grand Prix in 2017 is the maximum distance for an Indian female
athlete. Keeping her as a role model, Sanjitha is determined to earn gold in Olympics one day.
Initially her throw reached 7.56m only. Being an athlete in school, she regularly practiced both
in the mornings and in the evenings and was able to improve the distance by 9cm every week.
During the special camp for 15 days, she started with 40 throws and every day kept increasing
the number of throws by 12 to achieve this remarkable progress.

(i) How many throws Sanjitha practiced on 11th day of the camp?
(ii) What would be Sanjitha’s throw distance at the end of 6 weeks?
(iii) How many throws did she do during the entire camp of 15 days ?
(OR)
(iv) How many throws did she do during the camp of 12 days ?

12.(i) Your younger sister wants to buy an electric car and plans to take loan from a bank for
electric car. She repays her total of Rs 3,21,600 by paying every month starting with the first
instalment of Rs 2000 and it increases the instalment by Rs 200 every month.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) The amount paid by her in 25th instalment?
(ii) Find the difference of the amount in 4th and 6th instalment paid by younger sister?
(iii) In how many instalment, she clears her total bank loan?
(OR)
Find the sum of the first seven instalments.

(ii).In a board game, the no. of sea shells in various cells forms an arithmetic progression. If the
number of sea shells in the 3rd and 11th cell together is 68 and number of shells in the 11th cell is
24 more than that of 3rd cell
 Based on the above information, answer the following questions.
(i)What is the difference between the number of sea shells in the 20th and 18th cells?
(ii) How many sea shells are there in the first cell?
(iii) How many total sea shells are there in first 15 cells?
(OR)
What is the sum of number of sea shells in the 8th and 9th cell?

3. TRIANGLES
1.State and prove Basic Proportionality theorem (or) Thales theorem. Using this theorem prove
that a line drawn through the mid-point of one side of a triangle parallel to another side bisects the
third side.
2.State and prove the converse of Basic proportionality theorem. prove that the line joining the
mid-points of any two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side
𝑃𝑆 𝑃𝑇
3.(i)In a ∆PQR, S and T are points on sides PQ and PR respectively such that =
𝑆𝑄 𝑇𝑅
and ⦟ PST = ⦟PRQ. Prove that PQR is an isosceles triangle.
𝐴𝑀 𝐴𝑁
(ii)In the given figure, if LM//CB and LN||CD. Prove that =
𝐴𝐵 𝐴𝐷
4.In the given figure, ABCD is a trapezium with AB||CD, E and F
are the pairs on non-parallel sides AD and BC respectively such that
𝐴𝐸 𝐵𝐹
EF||AB, Prove that = .
𝐸𝐷 𝐹𝐶

5.(i)In the given figure, DE||OQ and DF||OR. Show that EF||QR.

(ii)In the given figure A, B and C are points on OP, OQ and OR respectively such that AB || PQ
and AC || PR. Show that BC || QR.

6(i).In the figure, P and Q are points on the sides DE and DF respectively of the ∆DEF, such that
DP=3.9 cm, PE=3 cm, QD=3.6 cm, QF=2.4 cm. Is it truly say that PQ //EF?

(ii).In ∆ABC, D and E are points on AB and AC respectively, such that DE||BC and AD=x-2,
AE=x-1, BD=x+1 and CE=x+3. Find x.
7.In the figure given alongside, ABCD is a trapezium in which AB||DC. If EF||DC and EF and
𝐴𝐸 𝐵𝐹
AC intersect at Q. Show that =
𝐸𝐷 𝐹𝐶

8. In the given figure, if  ABE  ACD, show that  ADE ~  ABC

9. ABCD is a trapezium in which AB || DC and its diagonals intersect

𝐴𝑂 𝐶𝑂
each other at the point O. Show that = .
𝐵𝑂 𝐷𝑂

10.In the given figure, altitudes AD and CE of  ABC

intersect each other at the point P. Show that:
(i)  AEP ~ CDP (ii)  ABD ~ CBE

11.In the given figure, ABC and AMP are two right triangles, right angled at B and M
respectively. Prove that:
𝐶𝐴 𝐵𝐶
(i)  ABC  AMP (ii) = .
𝑃𝐴 𝑀𝑃

12. Read the case study-based questions carefully and answer the following: Jyoti was trying to
find the height of tower near her house. She is using the properties of similar triangles. The
height of Jyoti's house is 20 m. When Jyoti’s house casts a shadow of 10 m long on the ground,
at the same time, tower casts a shadow of 50 m long and Sonu's house casts a shadow of 20 m
long on the ground as shown below.
i)What is the height of the tower?
ii)What will be the length of shadow of tower when Jyoti’s house casts a shadow 15 m?
iii)What is the height of the Sonu’s house?

13. If tower casts a shadow of 40 m then what is the length shadow of Sonu’s house?