APEX ACADEMY

ICSE
PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION 2024-25
MATHEMATICS
Maximum marks : 80
Time allowed – Three hours

Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for only reading the paper.
They must not start writing during this time.

Section A is compulsory. Answer any four questions from Section B

Sketch maps and diagram should be drawn whenever they serve to illustrate your answer.
The intended marks for questions or part of questions are given in brackets []

Section- A (40 marks)

[Attempt all the questions from this section]
Question 1. Choose the correct option: , -

i) The selling price of a shirt excluding GST is ₹ 800. If the rate of GST is 12% then the total price
of the shirt is:
(a) ₹ 704 (b) ₹ 960 (c) ₹ 896 (d) ₹ 848
ii) Naresh deposited ₹400 per month for 15 months in Federal bank’s recurring deposit account. If the
bank pays interest at a rate of 10% per annum, then the interest earned by Naresh during this period
is:
(a) ₹350 (b) ₹250 (c) ₹400 (d) ₹300
iii) How much should a man invest in ₹ 50 shares selling at ₹ 60 to obtain an income of ₹ 450, if
the rate of dividend declared is 10%? Also, his yield percent, to the nearest whole number is:
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 5 (d) 5
iv) The solution set for the linear inequation – – – is:
(a)* – + (b) {0, 1, 2, 3} (c){– 1, 0, 1, 2, 3} (d){– 1, 0, 1, 2}
v) Assertion : has repeated roots.
Reason : The quadratic equation have repeated roots if discriminant 𝐷 .
(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of
assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of
assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.
vi) Point P (a, b) is reflected in the x-axis to P' (4, -3). The values of a and b are
(a) a = 4, b = 3 (b) a = - 4, b = -3 (c) a = 4, b = -3 (d)a = - 4, b = 3
vii) Which of the following cannot be determined graphically?
(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d)None of these
viii) The centroid of a △ ABC is G(6,7). If the coordinates of the vertices A, B and C
are (a, 5), (7,9)and (5,7) respectively. The value of a is:
(a) 9 (b) 6 (c) 3 (d) 7
ix) The point A(p, q) is invariant about x = p under reflection. The coordinates of it's image A′ is:
(a) A′(p, −q) (b) A′(−p, q) (c) A′(p, q) (d) A′(−p, −q)
x) Which of the following is/are an Arithmetic Progression (A.P.)?
(A) 1,4,9,16, … … …. (B) √3, 2√3, 3√3, 4√3, … … … (C) 8,6,4,2, … … … (D) 2,4,8,16
(a) only A (b) only B (c)only B. and C (d) all

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 xi) If(x-p) is a factor of 2x3–x2+px – 2, the value of p is
(a) 1 (b) 1,1,1 (c) -1 (d) -1 , -1 , -1
xii) If a matrix P is of the order 1× 2 and matrix Q is of order 2× 1, then the matrix QP will contain:
(a) 1 element. (b) 2 elements. (c) 4 elements (d)QP multiplication is not possible.
xiii) The slope of the line x–1 =0 is:
(a) 1 (b) ½ (c) 0 (d) Not defined.
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xiv) If the curved surface area of a cylinder is 44 m and the volume is 22 m . The height of the
cylinder is: (Take 𝜋=22/7)
(a)1 m (b)3.5 m (c)7 m (d)22 m
xv) The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 eggs is 0.035.Then the number of bad eggs in
the lot is
(a) 7 (b) 14 (c)21 (d) 28
Question 2 [4+4+4]

(a) A vessel in shape of an inverted cone is surmounted by a cylinder has a common radius of 7 cm. It
was filled with liquid till it covered one third the height of the cylinder. If the height of each part is
9 cm and the vessel is turned upside down. Find the volume of the liquid and to what height will it
reach in the cylindrical part.

(b) Mohan has a recurring deposit account in a bank for 2 years

at 6% per annum simple interest. If the gets ₹1200 as interest at the time of maturity, then find
(i) The monthly installment.
(ii) The amount of maturity.
(c) Prove that :
Question 3 [4+4+5]
(a) A man invests ₹3960 in shares of a company which pays 15%
dividend at a time when a ₹25 share costs ₹33. Find :
(i) The number of shares he bought.
(ii) The annual income from his shares.
(iii) The rate of interest which he gets on his investment.
(b) In the given figure AB is a tangent to the circle at Q. with centre 0.
..
If and Find:
i) QPR ii) PQA iii) RQB

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 (c) Water Tower : A water tower is a building that is used to hold and give out water. It is almost
always built on a high place. It works because a pump gives water to the tower, and gravity makes
the saved water go out to the places that need water. Those places are connected to the tower by
pipes. A water tower is good when there is no power because it uses gravity to send out the water.
A water tower is located 60 meter from a building (see the figure). From a window in the
building, an observer notes that the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is and that the
angle of depression to the bottom of the tower is .
(i) How tall is the tower?
(ii) How high is the window?

Section –B ( 40 Marks)
[Attempt any four questions from this section]
Question 4 [3+3+4]
(a) If ( ) is a factor of the polynomial .
(i) Find the value of ‘ a’.
(ii) Also fatorise the polynomial
(b) Equation of line L1 is y = -2.
(i) Write the slope of line L2 if L2 is the
bisector of X ′ OY.
(ii) Write the coordinates of point M.
(iii) Find the equation of line L2

(c) In the given figure, EF is parallel to BC, AE = 3cm, EB = 1.8cm.

Find:

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 (i) AF: FC
(ii) Ar (∆ 𝐴EF) 𝐴r (∆ 𝐴𝐵𝐶)
(iii) Ar (∆𝐴EF) 𝐴r (𝑇𝑟 𝑝 𝑧𝑖𝑢𝑚 EF𝐶𝐵)
Question 5 [3+3+4]
(a) Calculate the mean of the following distribution by using step
deviation method :
Class- interval 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
frequency 8 5 12 35 24 16
(b) Trading House A sells a TV set to Retailer B in Maharashtra for Rs 60,000. Retailer B sells the TV
to Mr Gonsalves at a profit of Rs 8,000. Mr Gonsalves uses the TV for his personal use in his
Bungalow. If all the transactions are under GST system at the rate of 12%, find:
(i) Total SGST paid by Retailer B
(ii) Total amount paid by Mr Gonsalves
(iii) Total tax paid by Trading House A
(c) In the figure given below, O is the centre of the circle. PQ ∥ SR,
SQP = 260. Find :
(i) SPQ
(ii) SRQ
(iii) STR

Question 6 [3+3+4]
(a) The 5th , 8th and 11th terms of a G.P. are p, q and s, respectively. Show that = ps.
(b) A cylindrical glass container of diameter 16cm has water to a height 10cm. A metal cone of radius
4cm and height 5cm is immersed in it completely. Calculate the height by which water will rise in
the glass container.
(c) The marks obtained (out of 100) by 400 students in an examination are given below:
Marks No. of Students Marks No. of Students
0-10 10 50-60 76
10-20 20 60-70 80
20-30 22 70-80 58
30-40 40 80-90 28
40-50 54 90-100 12
Using the graph paper, draw an ogive to estimate:
(i) the median
(ii) the number of students who obtained more than 80% marks in the examination
(iii) the number of students who did not pass, if the pass percentage was 35.

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Question 7 [3+3+4]
√ √
(a) Solve for x :
√ √

(b) If 𝐴 [ ] 𝐵 [ ] 𝐶 [ ] , then prove that A(B-C)=AB-AC

(c) A bag contains 100 identical tokens, on which numbers 1 to 100 are marked. A token is drawn at
random. What is the probability that the number on the token is:
(i) an even number (ii) an odd number and prime (iii) a multiple of 3 (iv) multiple of 3 and 5
Question 8 [3+3+4]

(a) If q is the mean proportional between p and r show that : pqr (p + q + r)3 = (pq + qr + pr)3
(b) In the figure, l and m are two parallel tangents to a circle with centre O,
touching the circle at A and B respectively. Another tangent at C
intersects the line I at D and m at E. Prove that DOE = 90°.

(c) If sec θ + tan θ = p, prove that sin θ =

Question 9 [3+3+4]

(a) Solve the quadratic equation : – ,

using quadratic formula. Write the answer upto two
significant figures.
(b) Construct an isosceles triangle ABC such that AB = 6 cm, BC = AC = 4 cm. Bisect C internally
and mark a point P on this bisector such that CP = 5 cm. Find the points Q and R which are 5 cm
from P and also 5 cm from the line AB
(c) The figure above shows three straight lines L1 , L2 and L3 .
i) Find an equation of the straight line L1 ,
given that it passes through the points
A(7,3) and B(9,9) . L2 is perpendicular to L1
and passes through A .
ii) Find an equation of L2 .
L3 meets L1 at the point B and L2 at the point C .
The equation of L3 is .
iii)Determine the coordinates of C .
iv) Show that the triangle ABC is isosceles.

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Question 10 [3+3+4]
(a) Solve the following inequation, write down the solution set and represent it on the real number
line: –
(b) The co-ordinate of the rectangle PQRS having its vertices P (-4, 5), Q (-1, 5), R (-1, -2), S (-4, -2).
Draw the image of the figure when reflected in y-axis.
(c) A plane left 40 minutes late due to bad weather and in order to reach the destination, 1600 km
away in time, it had to increase its speed by 400 km/hr from its usual speed. Find the usual speed
of the plane.
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