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St. Cecilia's Public School

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Pre Board Examination

Class -X (2024-25)
Subject: Mathematics (Set-B)
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Date_ui_· / -20 25 •
Roll no}
Time: 3hrs
Question paper consists of 5 sections A,B,C,D and E

Section A has 20 MCQ of 1 marks each.

Section B has 5 questions of 2 marks each.

Section C has 6 questions of 3 marks each.

Section D has 4 questions of 5 marks each.

Section E has 3 case study based questions.

/ Section-A

/ Given that HCF (306,657) = 9 then LCM is

a) 657 b) 22338 c} 201042 d} none

2. The area of a quadrant of a circle whose circumference is 22cm is

a) 49cm 2 b) 77/2cm 2 121cm2 77/8cm 2

3. Find the value which K cannot take for the given system to have a unique
solution x+2y=3 and ky+Sx+7=0

.a) 10 b)-14/3 c) any real number d) any real number except 10

4. If the zeros of polynomial px2+qx+2=0 are reciprocal of each other, then

a) p=c b) p=2 c) p=2,-2 d) p= -2

5. The first term of an AP is 5 and the last term is 45. If the sum of all the terms is
400, the number of terms is
 a) 20 b) 88 c) 10 d)16
6. The distance of the point (-3,4) from the orig
in is __ units.
a) 25 b) 1 c) 7 d) 5
7. ,he prob abili ty that the draw n card from
a pack of 52 cards is neit her an ace
nor a spade is

a) 9/13 b) 32/5 2 c) 10/1 3 d} 19/2 6

8. In 6 ABC, DE 11 AB. If CD=3 cm, EC= 4
cm, BE= 6 cm then DA= _ _cm.
a) 7.5 b) 3 c) 4.5 d) 6
9. In 6 ABC right angled at c of tan A =1 then the value of 2 sin A cos A =
a) O b) 1 c) 2 d)-1
10. Given that sin A= cos B =1/2 the valu e
of A +Bis
a) 0° b) 90 °c) 60° d)no ne
11. The tang ents draw n at the end poin ts
of a diam eter of circl e are
a) Perp endi cula r b) para llel c) equa l
d) infin ite
12. If 4 side s of a-qu adri later al are tang
ents to a circl e then
a) AC + AD = BC + CD
b) AB + BC = CD + AD

c) AB + CD = AD + BC

d)N one

13. If the surfa ce areas of 2 spheres are in ratio

16:9 then the volu mes are in ratio
a) 27/6 4 b) 64/2 7 c) 4/3 d} 3/4
14. If tan A= v3, the valu e of sec 2 A+ cose 2
c A is
a) 16/3 b) 3/16 c) ½ d}no ne
15. If the sum of squares of zeros of poly nom
ial x2-:8x + k is 40, the valu e of k is
a)24 b)12 c) 6 d)22

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16
• If th e mean and the median of a data are 12 and 15 respectively then the
mode is

a) 13.S b) 21 c) 6 d) 14
17• 1f P (1,2) Q (4,6) R(5,7) and S(m, n) are the vertices of a parallelogram th en
the value of m and n are

a) 2.4 b) 3,4 c) 3,5 d) 2,3

18• If for a data mean: median =9:8 then median: mode is

a) 8: 9 b) 4: 3 c) 7: 6 d) 5: 4

Q no. 19 and 20 consists of a statement of assertion A and reasoning Rchoose

correct option as follows

a) Both A and Rare true and Ris the correct explanation of A

b) Both A and Rare true but Ris not the correct explanation of A
c) A is true Ris false

d) A is false Ris true

19. A: 2 is a prime number.

R: The square of an irrational number is always a prime number.
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20. A: If the circumference of 2 circles is in the ratio 2:3 then ratio of their .afR¥.; is
4:9
2
R: Circumference of a circle is 2m and its area is nr
Section- B

21. a) Prove that v3 is an irrational no.

Or

b) The LCM of 2 numbers is 9 times their HCF. The sum of LCM and HCF is 500.
Find the HCF of the numbers.

22. Check whether the points (-2,3), (8,3) and ( 6,7) are the vertices of a right
triangle
 23. Find the ratio in which y-axis divides the l!ne segment joinjng the points ( 6,-4)
and (-2,- 7) also find the point of intersection
4 4
24. If sin A- cos A= Ofind the value of sin A + cos A

Or

•\f tan {A+ B) =1 and tan (A - B) = 1/v3, find A and B

25. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards find the probability that it is

a) King or queen b) face card.

Section - C

26. 105 donkeys, 140 cows and 175 goats have to be taken across a rive·r. There is
only one boat which will make many trips. The boatman insist that he will take
the same number of animals every time and they have to be of same kind. If he
takes the largest possible no of animals at a tlme find the total no of trips
requeste d for this purpose.

27. Find the zeroes of the polynomi al v3x - 11x + 6'13 and verify the relations hip
2

between the zeros and coefficien ts of polynomi al.

28. Two taps running together can fill a tank in 40/13 hrs. If one tap takes 3 hrs
more than the other to fill the tank alone then how much time will each tap take
to fill the tank alone.

29. a) In the given figure AO/OC =OB/OD = 1/2 and AB= 5 cm find DC

0
111ii....- - - - - - - - - - -....-c

Or

b) Ankit having height 160 cm is going away from the lamp post at a speed of
2m/sec. If the lamp post is 3.2 m above-the ground find the length of his shadow
atte\" S seconds.
 30. Prove that sinA +~ _
t+cosA sinA -2cosecA

31. a) The perimeter of a protractor is 108 cm. Find its area

Or
b) With vertices A,8 and C of /J. ABC as centers, arcs are drawn with radii 14 cm
and the three portions of triangle so formed are removed. Find the total area
removed.

Section - D

32. Find mean median and mode for the following data.

II 40 -- so so
marks 0-- 10 10 - 20 20-30 30 -- 40 --60
Student 4 6 7 12 3 6
Or

The median of the following data is 50. Find x and y if sum of all frequencies is 90.

Marks 20- 30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60- 70

I Students X 15 25 20 y I

33. Angle of elevation of an airplane from point A on the ground is 60°. After a
flight of 10 seconds on the same height, the angle of elevation from point A
become 30°. If the airplane is flying at constant speed of 720 km/hr find the
constant height at which the airplane is flying.

34. Prove that the length of tangents drawn from an external point to a circle are
equal. In the given figure AB and CD are common tangents to the two circles with
centers P and Q. Prove that AB = CD

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35. An arithmetic progression 5,12,19, ........ has 50 terms find its last term. Hence
find the sum of last 15 terms.

36. The Discus throw is an event in which an athlete attempts to throw a discus
the athlete spins anticlockwise around one and a half times through a circle and
then releases the throw .• When released the discus travels along tangent to the
circular spin orbit. In the given figure AB is one such tangent to a circle of radius
75 cm, 0 is the center of circle and LABO 30° PQ is parallel to OA

Based on the above informa tion find

a) The length of AB

b) Length ofOB

c) Length of AP

or

c) Length of PQ

37. In an amusement park the ticket charges are Rs150 per child and 250 per
adult. One day the cashier of the park found that 300 tickets were sold and an
amount of Rs55000 was collected. Based on the above information answer the
following

a) Taking the number of children who visited the park as X and number of adults
as Y represent the situation algebraically.
b) How many children visited the park?
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How many adults visited the park?

c) Find the collection ~f 250 children and 100 adults visited the park in a da\/

38. DK Jain runs a company that.makes ball bearings. The bearing are shipped in
boxes that are then loaded onto trucks. Each bearing has a diamet.er o-f 1..8 mm

a) Each box can hold 3888rccm 3 of ball bearings. How many ba\\ bearings can a box
hold.

b) Each ball bearing has a mass of 4g. Determine the mass of each box.

c) The maximum mass a truck can carry is 11000 kg. What is the maximum
number of boxes that can be loaded into a truck.

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