1) In a survey of 400 people of a community, it was found that the ratio of the people having motorcycle

license only and car license only was 5:3, Among them, one-fourth of the people had license of vehicles
but 60 did not have any license.
a. Show the above information in a Venn-diagram.
b. From the above information, how many people had license of each vehicle?
c. Find the number of people who had license of motorcycle.
2) A and B are the subsets of Universal set U such that n(u) = 100, n(A-B) = 32 + x, n(B-A) = 5x, n(AB)=x
and 𝑛(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = y.
a. Show the above information in a Venn-diagram.
b. If n(A) = n(B), find the value of n(AB).
c. Find the value of 𝑛(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵).
d. By what percent n(AB) is more or less than 𝑛(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵)? Find.
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3) A person deposited Rs. 5,00,000 to a commercial bank for 2 years to get the half yearly compound interest
at the rate of 10% per annum. 5% tax on the interest will be levied. But right after a year, the bank has
changed the policy and decided to accomplish the interest quarterly at the same rate of interest.
a. Find the interest of the first year by deducting the tax.
b. What would be the interest of the second year after deducting the tax?
c. What is the difference between the interest of the 1st year and 2nd year after deducting the tax? Find
d. After deducting the tax, by what percentage the interest of the 1 st year differs from the interest of the
2nd year?
4) Divide Rs. 21,000 in two parts in such a way that the compound amount of the first part at the rate of 10%
p.a. for 3 years is equal to the compound amount for 2 years. What sums are there in the first part and the
second part? Find it.
5) According to the yearly compound interest, the compound interests of a sum for 1 years and 2 years are
respectively Rs. 450 and Rs. 945, find the rate of interest and the sum.
6) A district had 3,75,000 population before 3 years. If 1480 migrated to the village at the end of 2 years and
2,750 died due to natural disaster and yearly population growth rate is 2%, then find the number of present
populations of the district.
7) At the beginning of 2075 B.S., the population of a metropolitan city was 5,00,000. At the end of 2077
B.S., the population of the city was 6,65,500.
a. What was the population growth rate?
b. If the population increases in the same way, what will be the population of the city at the end of 2079?
8) The price of a finance company listed in Nepal share market is falling down its price by 10% in 2 years.
Your neighbor having the shares of the finance company sold his shares for Rs. 28,350. How many shares
were sold by the company before 2 years at the rate of Rs. 100 per share?
9) The price of the share of a hydropower company is reducing by 10% p.a. If Sashi sells all his shares now
and has the present value Rs. 7,10,775 then
a. What was the price of his shares before 2 years?
b. He purchased the shares at the rate of Rs. 100 per share in IPO, how many shares did he buy before 2
years?
10) In a certain rate of yearly depreciation, the price of an article will be Rs. 5,41,500 and Rs. 5,14,425 in 2
and 3 years respectively. Then
a. What is the rate of depreciation?
b. What was the initial price of the article? Find it.
11) Ram exchanged some Nepali rupees with American dollars at the exchange rate of 1$ = Rs. 110. After 5
days, Nepali currency devalued against American dollars by 10% and he made a profit of Rs. 33,000 by
exchanging the same dollars into Nepali currency again.
a. What is meant by exchanging rate of currency?
b. How much Nepalese rupees are equal to 1 American dollar (1$) after devaluation of the Nepali
currency?
c. Find how much Nepali rupees did Ram exchange with American dollars at first?
d. How much profit or loss would be there for him, if the Nepali rupees had revalued by 10% instead
of devaluation of 10%?
12) The price of a piece of land in Kathmandu was fixed at Rs. 60,00,000 at the end of 2020 A.D. The price
increased by 10% as the consequence of increasing buying pressure at beginning of 2021. But the price
of land decreased by 4% due to the economic crisis at the end of 2022 A.D.
𝑅 𝑇
a. What does 𝑃 (1 + 100) − 𝑃 as per usual notation indicate?
b. What will be the price of the land at the end of 2022 A.D.?
c. How much loss will be there to the person if the price decreased by 5% instead of decreasing by
4% in 2022 A.D.?
13) The product of the digits of a two-digit number is 18. If 27 is added to the number, the place of digits is
reversed. What is the number? Find it.
14) Five times the sum of the digit of a two-digit number is 9 less the number formed by reversing its digits.
If four times the value of the digit at ones place is equal to half of the place value of the digit at tens place.
Find the number.
15) A two-digit number is three times the product of digits and four times the sum of digits. Find the number.
[Ans: 24]
16) Bhawani was 25 years old when her daughter was born. Now, the product of their ages is 600. Find their
present ages. [Ans: 40 years, 15 years]
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17) The numerator of a fraction is 5 less than its denominator. If 1 is added to each, its value becomes . Find
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the original fraction.
18) The sum of present ages of a father and his son is 40 years. If they both live on till son becomes as old as
the father is now, the sum of their ages will be 96 years. Find their present ages. [Ans: 34 years, 6 years]
19) The sum of present ages of a father and his son is 80 years. When the father age was equal to the present
age of the son, the sum of their ages was 40 years. Find their present ages. [Ans: 50 years, 30 years]
20) When the age of Rita was equal to the present age of Shova; she was thrice as old as Shova was. If the
sum of their ages is 40 years, find their ages. [Ans: 25 years, 15 years]
21) A year hence, a father will be 5 times as old as his son. Two years ago, he was three times as old as his
son would be four hence. Find their present ages. [Ans: 29 years, 5 years]
22) Rs. 120 is equally distributed among certain number of students. If there were 3 students more, each would
have received Rs 2 less. Find the number of students. [Ans: 12]
23) Some students of grade 10 organized a picnic of Rs. 42,000 budgets. They decided to collect equal money
for picnic. But, 5 students were absent in the picnic day, so each student should collect Rs. 700 more.
Based on this context, solve the problem given below.
a. How many students attended the picnic?
b. How much did each participation have to pay? Find it.
24) In a city, the taxi charges consist of two types of charges: a fixed together with the charges for the distance
covered. If a person travels 10 km, he pays Rs 180 and for travelling 12 km, he pays Rs 210. Find the
fixed charges and the rate of charge per km. [Ans: Fixed-Rs.30, Rate-Rs.15 per km]
25) A lending library has a fixed charge for the first four days and an additional charge for each day thereafter.
Dorje paid Rs 50 for a book kept for 9 days, while Kajal paid Rs 35 for the book she kept for 6 days. Find
the fixed charge and the charge for each extra day. [Ans: Fixed-Rs.25, Extra day-Rs.5]
26) When Gopal gives Rs 10 from his money to Laxmi her money becomes double than that of remaining
money of Gopal. When Laxmi gives Rs 10 to Gopal, his money is still Rs 10 less than the remaining
money of Laxmi. Find their original sum of money. [Ans: Rs. 60 and Rs. 90]
27) Janak started his bicycle journey from Kohalpur to Dhangadi at 6:00 a.m. with an average speed of 20
km/hr. Two hours later Ganesh also started his journey from Kohalpur to Dhangadi with an average speed
of 30 km/hr. At what time would they meet each other if both of their maintain non-stop journey.
[Ans: 12:00 noon]
28) Two buses were coming from two different places situated just in the opposite direction. The average
speed of one bus is 5 km/hr more than that of another one and they had started their journey in the same
time. If the distance, between the places is 500 km and they meet after 4 hours, find their speed.
[Ans: 65 km/hr, 60 km/hr]
29) When the length of a rectangular field is reduced by 5 m and breadth is increased by 3 m, its area gets
reduced by 9 m2. If the length is increased by 3 m and breadth by 2 m the area increases by 67 m 2. Find
the length and breadth of the field. [Ans: l =17m, b = 9m]
30) A piece of cloth costs Rs. 800. If another piece was 5 m longer than previous piece of cloth and rate of
cost of cloth per meter was Rs. 8 less than previous one, the cost of the piece would have remained
unchanged. How long is the previous piece and what is the rate of cost of the previous cloth? [Ans: 20m,
Rs.40 per meter]
31) Mrs. Magar bought a certain kilogram of vegetables for Rs 120 last week. This week, the rate of cost of
vegetable decreases by Rs 20 per kg and she can buy 1 kg more vegetables for the same amount of money.
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By what percentage is the rate of cost of vegetables decreased? [Ans:3 %]
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32) In the given figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. X is any point within it. Prove that the sum of area of
△XCD and △XAB is equal to half of the area of ABCD. D C

A B
33) In the adjoining parallelogram ABCD, A is joined to any point E on BC. AE and DC produced to meet at
F. Prove that area of △BEF = area of △CDE. A
D

E
B C

F
34) In the adjoining parallelogram ABCD, PQ//AB and RS//BC. Prove that area of ROPA = Area of
QCSO. P
A D

O
R S

B C
Q
35) In △PQR, A and B are the mid-point of the sides PQ and PR respectively. D and C are two points of QR
1
such that AD//BC. Prove that ABCD = 2 △ 𝑃𝑄𝑅
P

A B

Q R
D C
36) Construct a quadrilateral ABCD having AB = 5.2 cm, BC = 5 cm, CD = 4.2 cm, AD = 4 cm and ABC
= 60o. Construct △ADE whose area is equal to the quadrilateral ABCD.
37) Construct a triangle PQR in which PQ = 5.2 cm, QR = 6 cm and Q = 60o. Construct another triangle
SPQ which is equal to the △PBR and side PS = 8.5 cm.
38) Construct a triangle ABC in which a = 5.8 cm, b= 3.5 cm and c = 4.7 cm. Construct a parallelogram with
a side 6.5 cm and equal in area to the triangle.
39) Construct a △PSA whose area is equal to the area of parallelogram.
40) Find the size of unknown angle ‘x’ in the following figures.
i. ii.
D
x C

30o O
B
A O 110o R
P
x
Q
41) A natural number is chosen at random from the first 30 natural numbers. What is the probability that the
number chosen is either multiple of 3 or a multiple of 4? Also find the probability that the number
chosen is both multiple of 3 and 4?
42) If a card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards and at the same time a marble is drawn at random
for a bag containing 2 red marbles and 3 blue marbles. Find the probability of getting a blue marble and
a king.
43) A bag contains 5 black, 7 blue and 4 yellow balls. A ball is drawn at random and it is replaced, then
another ball is drawn. Find the probability that:
a. The 1st is blue and the 2nd is black
b. Both of them are yellow
c. Both of them are of the same color
d. The 1st is black and the 2nd is yellow
e. Both of them are not black
44) A can solve 90% of the problems given in the exercise of probability and B can solve 70%. What is the
probability that at least one of them will solve a problem selected at random from the exercise?
45) From a well-shuffled pack of 52 playing cards, a card is drawn randomly.
a. Find the probability of getting the king or queen? Is it mutually or non-mutually exclusive
events?
b. Find the probability of getting the face or black card? Is it mutually or non-mutually exclusive
events?
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46) Solve: 7𝑥 + 7𝑥 = 56; 5.4𝑥+1 − 16𝑥 = 64; 4𝑥 + 4−𝑥 = 16 16; 51−𝑥 + 5𝑥−1 = 5

47) Solve: 23𝑥−5 𝑎 𝑥−2 = 2𝑥−2 𝑎1−𝑥 ; 53) If 𝑥 = 𝑎𝑝 . 𝑏𝑞+1, 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑞 . 𝑏𝑟+𝑝 and
𝑧 = 𝑎𝑟 . 𝑏𝑝+𝑞 , prove that 𝑥 𝑞−𝑟 𝑦 𝑟−𝑝 𝑧 𝑝−𝑞 = 1
1 1 1
48) If 𝑥 𝑝 = 𝑦 𝑞 = 𝑧 𝑟 and 𝑥𝑦𝑧 = 1, prove that p + q + r = 0.
54) Solve by completing the square.
𝑎 𝑏 i. 𝑥 2 + 7𝑥 + 12 = 0
49) If 𝑥 𝑎 . 𝑥 𝑏 = (𝑥 𝑎 )𝑏 , prove that 𝑏 + 𝑎 = 𝑎𝑏 − 2 ii. 2𝑥 2 − 7𝑥 + 6 = 0
2 −2
50) If 𝑥 2 + 2 = 23 + 2 3 , show that 2𝑥(𝑥 2 + 3) = 3 55) Simplify:
1 2 3
+ −
𝑝2 + 7𝑝 + 12 𝑝2 + 5𝑝 + 6 𝑝2 + 6𝑝 + 8
1 1 1 1 32
51) Simplify: 𝑥−5 − 𝑥−3 + 𝑥+5 + 𝑥+3 [Ans: (𝑥 2 −9)(𝑥 2−25)]

𝑏 2𝑎𝑏 𝑎 4𝑎2 𝑏 8𝑎7 𝑏