Gulf Indian High School, Dubai

PT 2 – QUESTION BANK

a. Real Numbers

1. Consider the numbers 4𝑛 , where n is a natural number. Check whether there is any value of n for
which 4𝑛 ends with the digit zero.

2. Show that 12n cannot end with the digit 0 or 5 for any natural number n

2. Find the HCF and LCM of 6, 72 and 120, using the prime factorization method.

3. Explain why 7 × 11 × 13 + 13 and 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 + 5 are composite numbers.

4. Given that HCF (306, 657) = 9, find LCM (306, 657).

5. Prove that 3 is irrational

6. Prove that 3+ 25 is irrational

7. Two tankers contain 850 litres and 680 litres of petrol respectively. Find the maximum capacity of a
container which can measure the petrol of either tanker in exact number of times. [170 litres]

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9. 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? [Ans: 2520 cm]

10. Three bells ring at intervals of 9, 12, 15 minutes respectively. If they start ringing together at a time,
after what time will they next ring together? [Ans:180 min]

11. A street shopkeeper prepares 396 Gulab jamuns and 342 Rasgulas. He packs them, in combination.
Each container consists of either Gulab jamuns or Rasgula but have equal number of pieces. Find
the number of pieces he should put in each box so that number of boxes are least [Ans:18]

12. In a seminar, the no. of participants in Hindi, English and Mathematics are 60, 84 and 108
respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required if in each room the some the same
number of participants are to be seated and all of the them being of the the same subject.
[Ans:21 ROOMS]

13. State fundamental theorem of Arithmetic. Is it possible that HCF and LCM of two numbers be 24
and 540 respectively. Justify your answer

14. If HCF of 144 and 180 is expressed in the form 13m – 3, find the value of m. [Ans:3]

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16. During a sale, color pencils were being sold in the pack of 24 each and crayons in the pack of 32
each. If you want full packs of both and the same number of pencils and crayons, how many packets
of each would you need to buy? [Ans:3 packets, 4 packets]

17. Find the largest number that divides 31 and 99 leaving remainder 5 and 8 respectively. [Ans:13]

18. The HCF of 65 and 117 is expressible in the form 65 m – 117. Find the value of m. Also find the
LCM of 65 and 117 using prime factorization method. [Ans:m = 2, LCM= 585]

19. Find the greatest number of six digits exactly divisible by 18, 24 and 36. [Ans:999936]

20. Aakriti decided to distribute milk in an orphanage on her birthday. The supplier brought two milk
containers which contain 398 l and 436 l of milk. The milk is to be transferred to another containers
so that 7 l and 11 l of milk is left in both the containers respectively. What will be the maximum
capacity of the drum? [Ans:17]

Polynomials

1. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial x2 + 7x + 10, and verify the relationship between the
zeroes and the coefficients.

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10. If the product of zeros of ax2 – 6x – 6 is 4, find the value of a. Hence find the sum of its zeros
[Ans: -3/2, -4]

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12. Find the value of k such that 3x2 + 2kx + x – k – 5 has the sum of zeros as half of their product.
[Ans: k=1]

13. If α and β are zeros of y2 + 5y + m, find the value of m such that (α + β)2 – αβ = 24 [Ans m=1]

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15. If one of the zeros of quadratic polynomial (K –1) x2 + kx + 1 is – 3 then find the value of K

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18. If one zero of the quadratic polynomial (k2 + k) x2 + 68x + 6k is reciprocal of the other, find k
[Ans: 5]

19. If α and β are the zeros of the polynomial x2 – 5x + m such that α – β = 1, find m [Ans: 6]

20. If the sum of squares of zeros of the polynomial x2 – 8x + k is 40, find the value of k [Ans: 12]

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[Ans: -145/12]

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24. If α and β are zeros of x2 – x – 2, find a polynomial whose zeros are (2α + 1) and
(2β + 1) [Ans: x2 – 4x – 5]

INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY

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3. If tan (3x – 15°) = 1 then find the value of x

4. In ∆OPQ right angled at P, OP = 7 cm , OQ – PQ = 1 cm. Determine the values of sin Q and cos Q.

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7. Prove that: sin θ (1 + tan θ) + cos θ (1 + cot θ) = sec θ + cosec θ

8. Evaluate sin 60° cos 30° + sin 30° cos 60°

9. Evaluate 2 tan2 45° + cos2 30° – sin2 60°

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12. If (1 + cos A) (1 – cos A) = 3/4 , find the value of tan A.

13. Prove that : (sin A + sec A)2 + (cos A + cosec A)2 = (1+ sec A cosecA)2

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16. If sinθ + cosθ = m and sec θ + cosecθ = n then prove that n(m2 – 1) = 2m
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19. Prove that:

20. 𝐶𝑜𝑡 2 𝜃
Prove that 1 + 1+𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐 𝜃 = 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐 𝜃

AREA RELATED TO CIRCLE

1. If the diameter of a semicircular protractor is 14 cm, then find its perimeter
2. Find the area of the circle ‘inscribed’ in a square of side a cm
3. Find the area of a sector of a circle whose radius is r and length of the arc is l
4. The radius of a wheel is 0.25 m. Find the number of revolutions it will make to travel
11 kms.
5. What is the diameter of a circle whose area is equal to the sum of the areas of two
circles of radii 24 cm and 7 cm?
6. A wire can be bent in the form of a circle of radius 35 cm. If it is bent in the form of a
square, then what will be its area?
7. If the difference between the circumference and radius of a circle is 37 cm, then find
the circumference of the circle.
8. The hour hand of a clock is 6 cm long. Find the area swept by it between 11:20 am and
11:55 am
9. Find the radius of semicircle if its perimeter is 18 cm
10. If the perimeter of a circle is equal to that of square, then find the ratio of their areas
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12. In the given fig, APB and CQD are semi circles of diameter 7 cm each, while ARC and
BSD are semicircles of diameter 14 cm each. Find the perimeter of the shaded region.

13. Circular footpath of width 2 m is constructed at the rate of RS, 20 per square meter,
around a circular park of radius 1500 m. Find the total cost of construction of the foot
path.
14. A piece of wire 11 cm long is bent into the form of an arc of a circle subtending an
angle of 45° at its center. Find the radius of the circle
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16. ABCD is a trapezium of area 24.5 cm in it AD //BC, ∠DAB = 900, AD = 10 cm, BC =

4 cm. If ABE is a quadrant of a circle, find the area of the shaded region.
17. Find the area of the shaded region.

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19. ABCDEF is a regular hexagon. With vertices A, B, C, D, E and F as the centres, circles
of same radius ‘r’ are drawn. Find the area of the shaded portion shown in the given
figure

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CIRCLES
1. In Fig., AB and CD are common tangents to two circles of unequal radii.
Prove that AB = CD.

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8. 9. In the below figure, quadrilateral ABCD is circumscribed, find the perimeter of

quadrilateral ABCD.

10. 11. In fig. ABC is a right triangle right angled at B such that BC = 6 cm and AB = 8 cm.
Find the radius of its incircle.

CO-Ordinate Geometry
1. The coordinate of the midpoint of the line joining the point (3p, 4) and (–2, 2q)
are (5, p). Find the value of p and q.
2. The consecutive vertices of a parallelogram ABCD are A(1, 2), B(1, 0) and C(4, 0).
Find the fourth vertex D.
3. Determine, whether each of the given points (–2, 1) (2, –2) and (5, 2) are the
vertices of right angle.
4. Find the point on x–axis which is equidistant from (–2, 5) and (2, 3).
5. Show that the points A(2, –2), B(14, 10), C(11, 13) and D(–1, 1) represent a
rectangle.
6. If two vertices of ABC are A(3, 2), B(–2, 1) and its Centroid G has the coordinates
(5/2, –1/3). Find the coordinates of the third vertex.
7. If P (2, –1) divides the join of A(–4, 8) and B(4, –4) in the ratio K:1, find k.
8. Find the ratio in which the point (11, 15) divides the line segment joining the
points (15, 5) and (9, 20).
9. Find the ratio in which the point P (m, 6) divides the line segment joining the
points A(–4, 3) and B(2, 8). Also find the value of m.
10. Show that the points (1,1, (-2, 7) and (3,-3) are collinear

11. Find the lengths of the median of the triangle whose vertices are (1, –1) (0, 4) and
(–5, 3).
12. Prove that the diagonals of a rectangle bisect each other and are equal.
13. Find the circum center of the triangle whose vertices are ( -2, -3), (-1, 0), (7, -6 )
14. If the distance of p(x, y) from A (5, 1) and B (–1, 5) is equal. Prove that 3x = 2y.

15. Determine the ratio in which 2x + 3y -30 = 0 divides the line segment joining A
(3,4) and B (7 ,8) and the point at which it divides.
16. If the mid points of the sides of a triangle are (1, 1), (2, -3 0 and (3, 4), find its
vertices.

17. The points A (0,3), B (-2, a) and C (-1, 4) are the vertices of a ABC right angled
at A. Find the value of a.
18. Find a point on the line through A (5, -4) and B (-3,2), that is, twice as far from
A as from B.
19. If the distance of A (x, y) from P (a +b, b-a) and Q (a-b, a +b) are equal. Prove
that bx = ay

Probability

1. Cards marked with numbers 13, 14, 15….60 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly.
One card is drawn at random form the box. Find the probability that the number on the
card is
(i) Divisible by 5 (ii) a number which is a perfect square. (iii) divisible by both
3 and 2 (iv) a prime (v) odd numbers
2. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting
(i) a prime number (ii) a number less than 6 (iii) getting a number 5 or 6
(iv) seven (v) an odd number (vi) number greater than 4
3. A card is drawn at random form a well shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is
(i) a spade or an ace (ii) a red king (iii) neither a king nor a queen
(iv) either a king or a queen (v) the ace of spades (vi) neither a heart nor a king
(vii) a black face card (viii) a red card (ix) a king or jack
(x) a king card (xi) face card (xii) black card
(xiii) neither a hear card nor a queen (xiv) jack (xv) the ’10’of red card
4. King, queen and jack of hearts are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards and then the
pack is well shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability of
getting a card of
(i) a black face card (ii) a queen (iii) not a king (iv) hearts (v) black card
5. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Write down all the possible outcomes. What is the
probability that the two numbers appearing on the top of the dice?
(i) are prime (ii) getting odd number on each die (iii) same number on both the dice
(Doublets) (iv) different numbers on both the dice (v) the sum of 8 (vi) sum less
than or equal to 12 (vii) 3 will not come up either time (viii) Product of the dice is 6
6. A bag contains 5 white, 7 red, 4 black and 2 blue balls. One ball is drawn at random from
the bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn is (i) white or blue (ii) not white
(iii) neither white nor black (iv) either black or blue (v) black?
7. Two unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
(i) no head (ii) exactly two heads (iii) at least one head (iv) at most one head
8. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
(i) three heads (ii) exactly 2 heads (iii) at least 2 heads (iv) no heads (v) less
than 2 heads (vi) exactly one head (vii) all tails (viii) at most 2 heads
9. From a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Black jacks, black kings and black aces are
removed. A card is then drawn at random from the remaining pack. Find the probability
of getting (i) a red card (ii) not a diamond card
10. A school has five houses A, B, C, D and E. A class has 23 students, 4 from house A, 3
from house B, 5 from house C and rest from house E. A singe student is selected at
 random to be the class monitor. Find the probability that the selected student is not from
A, B and C
11. The probability of getting bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0. 035.Then find the no. of bad eggs
in the lot.
12. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. Find the probability of getting a prize.
13. A dice has its six faces marked 0, 1,1 ,1,6, 6. Two such dice are thrown together and total
score is recorded (a) how many different scores are possible? (b)What is the probability
of getting a total of seven?
14. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball is
double that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.
15. A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that the letter
so chosen is after the letter u, in order.
16. A child’s game has 8 triangles of which 3 are blue and rest are red, and 10 squares of
which 6 are blue and rest are red. One piece is lost at random. If all the outcomes are
equally likely, then find the probability that it is a (i) triangle (ii) blue square (iii) red
triangle
17. The box contains 12 balls out of which x are black. If one ball is drawn at random form
the box, what is the probability that it will be a black ball?
If 6 more black balls are put in the box, the probability of drawing a black ball is now
double of what it was before. Find x.
18. Find the probability that a leap year selected at random, contains 53 Thursday.
19. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue. If a marble is drawn at
random from the jar, the probability that it is green is 2/3. Find the number of blue
marbles in the jar.
20. Ankita and Naima are two friends. They were both born in 1990. What is the probability
that they have (i) same birthday (ii) different birthday?
21. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red.
(i) If one ball is drawn at random from the bag, what is the probability that it is red ball.
(ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of drawing a red ball will be 9/8
times that of probability of red ball coming in part (i). Find x.
22. Find the probability that a non-leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays.
23. The probability of drawing a rotten egg from a lot of 400 is 7/200. find the number of
eggs in the lot.
 24. A game consists of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting its outcome each time.
Hanif wins if all the tosses give the same result, i.e., 3 heads or three tails and loses
otherwise. Calculate the probability that hanif will lose the game.
25. Out of the families having three children, a family is chosen random. Find the probability
that the family has
(i) Exactly one girl (ii) At least one girl (iii) At most one girl

Statistics
1. Find
1. Mean , Median and mode

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Find mean and mode also

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 APPLICATION OF TRIGONOMETRY

1. The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from a certain point on the ground is 300. If the
observer moves 20 m towards the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower increses by
150. Find the height of the tower

2. The angle of elevation of the top of a vertical tower from a point on the ground is 600. From
another point 10 m vertically above the first, its angle of elevation is 45 0. Find the height of the
tower.

3. The lower window of a house is at a height of 2 m above the ground and its upper window is 4m
vertically above the lower window. At certain instant the angles of elevation of a ballon from these
windows are observed to be 600 and 300 respectively. Find the height of the balloon above the
ground.

4. From a window, 60 m high above the ground of a house in a street, the angles of elevation and
depression of the top and the foot of another house on the opposite side of the street are 60 0 and
450 respectively. Find the height of the opposite house.

5. A man standing on the deck of a ship, 18 m above the water level observes that the angle of
elevation and depression of the top and the bottom of a cliff are 60 0 and 300 respectively. Find the
distance of the cliff from the ship and height of the cliff.

6. An aeroplane flying at a height of 1800 m observes angles of depressions of two points on the
opposite bank of the river to be 600 and 450 Find the width of the river.

7. The angle of elevation of cloud from a point 60 m above a lake is 30 0 and the angle of depression
of the reflection of the cloud in the lake is 600. Find the height of the cloud.

8. An aeroplane flying horizontally 1000 m above the ground is observed at an angle of elevation 60 0
from a point on the ground. After a flight of 10 seconds, the angle of elevation at the point of
observation changes to 300. Find the speed of the plane in m/s

9. A man on cliff observes a boat at an angle of depression of 300 which is approaching the shore to
the point immediately beneath the observer with a uniform speed. Six minutes later, the angle of
depression of the boat is found to be 600. Find the time taken by the boat to reach the shore.

10 A man on the top of a vertical tower observes a car moving at a uniform speed coming directly
towards it. If it takes 12 minutes for the angle of depression to change from 30 0 to 450. Find how
soon after this will the car reach the tower

11. The angle of elevation of a jet fighter from a point A on the ground is 600. After a flight of 15
seconds, the angle of elevation changes to 300. If the jet is flying at a speed of 720 km/hr. Find the
height at which it is flying.
12. A person standing on the bank of a river observes that the angle subtended by a tree on the
opposite bank is 600. When he retreats 20 m from the bank. He finds the angle to be 30 0. Find the
height of the tree and the breadth of the river.

13. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower from two points A and B which are 15 m apart on
the sam side of the tower on the level ground are 300 and 600 respectively. Find the height of the
tower and distance of point B from the base of the tower.

14. From a point on a ground the angle of elevations of the bottom and top of a water tank kept on the
top of the 30 m high building are 450 and 600 respectively. Find the height of the water tank.

15. An aeroplane when 300 m high passes vertically above another plane at an instant when the angle
of elevation of two aeroplanes from the same point on the ground are 60 0 and 450 respectively.
Find the vertical distance between the tw0 planes

16. From the top of a 7m high building, the angle of elevation of the top of a cable tower is 60 0 and the
angle of depression of the foot of the tower is 300. Find the height of the tower.

17. The angle of elevation of the top of a hill at the foot of the tower is 60 0 and the angle of elevation
of the top of the tower from the foot of the hill is 300. If the tower is 50m high, find the height of
the hill

18. A pole of height 5 m is fixed on the top of the tower. The angle of elevation of the top of the pole
as observed from a point A on the ground is 600 and the anlge of depression of the point A from
the top of the tower is 450. Find the height of the tower

19. The angle of elevation of the top of a 10 m high building from a point P on the ground is 30 0. A
flag is hoisted at the top of the building and the angle of elevation of the top of the flag staff from
P is 450. Find the length of the flag staff and the distance of the building from point P.

20. A boy is standing on ground and flying a kite with 150 m of string at an elevation of 30 0. Another
boy is standing on the roof of a 25 m high building and flying a kite at an elevation of 45 0. Find the
length of string required by the second boy so that the two kites just meet, if bot the boys are on
opposite side of the kites.

21. From a window, 15 metres high above the ground of a house in a street, the angle of elevation and
depression of the top and the foot of another house on the opposite side of the street are 30 0 and
450 respectively. Find the height of the opposite house.

22. There are two temples, one on each bank of river, just opposite to each other. One temple is 50 m
high. From the top of this temple, the angles of depression of the top and foot of the other temple
are 300 and 600 respectively. Find the width of the river and the height of the other temple
 23. The angle of elevation of a bird from a point on the ground is 600. After 50 seconds flight the angle
of elevation changes to 300. If the bird is flying at the heigth of 500√3 m. Find the speed of the
bird.

24. A boy standing on a horizontal plane, finds a bird flying at a distance of 100 m from him at an
elevation of 300. A girl, standing on the roof of 20 m high building, finds the angle of elevation of
the same bird to be 450. Both the boy and girl are on the opposite sides of the bird. Find the
distance of bird from the girl.

25. Fire in a building B is reported on telephone to two fire stations P and Q, 20 km apart from each
other on a straight road. P observes that the fire is at an angle of 60 0 to the road and Q observes
that it is at a angle of 450 to the road.

(i) which station should send its team and how much will this team have to travel?

QUADRATIC EQUATION

1. Had Abita scored 10 more marks in her mathematics test out of 30 marks, 9 times these marks would
have been the square of her actual marks. How many marks did she get in the test? [ ANS: x = 15]

2. A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 63 km and then travels a distance of 72 km at
an average speed of 6 km/h more than its original speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete the total
journey, what is its original average speed? [ANS: x = 42]

3. By the method of completion of squares show that the equation 4x2 +3x +5 = 0 has no real roots.

4. 𝑥+3 3𝑥−7
Solve a) 43 x2 + 5x - 23 = 0 b) = c)
𝑥+2 2𝑥−3

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9. If twice the area of a smaller square is subtracted from the area of a larger square, the result is 14 cm 2.
However, if twice the area of the larger square is added to three times the area of the smaller square,
the result is 203 cm2. Determine the sides of the two squares [ ANS: 5,64]
10. A farmer wishes to grow a 100 m2 rectangular vegetable garden. Since he has with him only 30 m
barbed wire, he fences three sides of the rectangular garden letting compound wall of his house act as
the fourth side-fence. Find the dimensions of his garden. [ANS: 10]

11. Solve a) 36x2 – 12 a x + (a2 – b2) = 0 b) 9𝑥 2 − 9 (𝑎 + 𝑏 )𝑥 + ( 2𝑎2 + 5𝑎𝑏 + 2𝑏2 ) = 0

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[ANS: 576]

13. At present Asha’s age (in years) is 2 more than the square of her daughter Nisha’s age. When Nisha
grows to her mother’s present age, Asha’s age would be one year less than 10 times the present age of
Nisha. Find the present ages of both Asha and Nisha

ANS: Nisha’s age is 5 years and Asha’s age is 27 years]

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