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FIRST TERMINAL EVALUATION - 2019

Class - X
MATHEMATICS
Time Allowed : 2 hours 30 minutes Max. Score : 80

1 – 4 : Answer any 3 questions. Each question carries 2 marks. (3  2 = 6 )


1. Consider the arithmetic sequence 13,23,33,…….
a) What is the common difference ?
b) What is the first 3 digit term of this sequence ?
1 2 3
2. a) Write the first integer term of the arithmetic sequence , , ,……
7 7 7
b) What is the sum of first 7 terms of this sequence?

3. The letters of the word MALAYALAM are written on pieces of paper and put in a box. A
child is asked to pick a slip from the box.
a) What is the probability of getting ‘A’ ?
b) What is the probability of getting ‘ not A’ ?
4. In the figure, O is the centre of the circle and
ACB = 400. Find the measures of
a) AOB
b) ADB
5 – 10 : Answer any 5 questions. Each question carries 3 marks. (5  3 = 15 )
5. If x is a natural number,
a) What number is to be added to x2 + 6x to get a perfect square ?
b) If x2 + ax + 16 is a perfect square, find the value of a.
c) If x2 + ax + b is a perfect square, prove that a2 = 4b.
6. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is 5n + 4.
a) What is the first term?
b) What is the difference of 10th and 20th terms?
c) Can the difference of any two terms of this sequence be 368? Justify.
7. In the figure AB is the diameter of the circle.
P, Q and R are in arithmetic sequence.
One of them is 500.
a) Find P, Q and R.
b) Justify your answer.

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8. In the figure, chords AB and CD meet at P outside
the circle. If PB = 4 cm, AB = 5 cm, PD = 3 cm
find CD.

9. In the figure the shaded triangle is drawn by joining the


mid points of the sides of the larger triangle.
What is the probability of a dot on the larger triangle
to be within the shaded triangle ?
10. a) What is the remainder on dividing the terms of the arithmetic sequence
100,107,114,…. by 7 ?
b) Write the sequence of all 3 digit numbers which leave a remainder of 3 on
division by 7. Which is the last term of this sequence ?
11 – 19 : Answer any 7 questions.Each question carries 4 marks. (7  4 = 28 )
11. Draw a circle of radius 3.5 cm. Construct a triangle having two angles 50o and 70o whose
vertices lie on this circle.
12. a) Write the sequence of odd numbers greater than 1.
b) What is the algebraic form of this sequence ?
3 5 7
c) What is the algebraic form of the arithmetic sequence , , ……?
6 6 6
d) Prove that this sequence does not contain any natural number.

13. a) Prove that any exterior angle of a cyclic quadrilateral is


equal to the interior angle at the opposite vertex.
b) In the figure, AB is the diameter of the semicircle.
PQ = 4 cm, PB = 2 cm. Find the radius of the circle.
7
14. The sum of a number and three times its reciprocal is .
2
a) Consider the number as x, construct an equation for the above data
b) Find the equation.
15. There are 30 scouts and 20 guides in a school. In another school there are 20 scouts and
guides. From each school, one student among them is to be selected for participation in
a seminar.
a) What is the total number of possible selections?
b) What is the probability of both being Scouts?
c) What is the probability of both being Guides?
d) What is the probability of one Scout and one Guide ?

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16. There are 20 terms in an arithmetic sequence.
Sum of the first and last terms is 88.
a) What is the sum of the 2nd and 19th terms?
b) If the 10th term is 42, what is the 11th term?
c) What is the common difference of this sequence?
d) What is the first term?
17. Draw a square of area 10 cm2.
18. a) Prove that the arithmetic sequence 3,7,11,…. does not contain any perfect squares.
b) What is the difference between the sum of first 25 even numbers and the sum of first
25 odd numbers ?
19. The perimeter of a rectangle is 42 cm and its area is 20 cm2.
a) What is the sum of its length and breadth?
b) Find the length and breadth..
20 – 26 : Answer any 5 questions. Each question carries 5 marks. (5  5 = 25 )
20. Draw a rectangle with length 6 cm and breadth 3 cm. Draw another rectangle with
equal area and one side 8 cm long.
21. Consider the numbers from 100 to 400 that leaves a remainder of 1 on division by 7.
a) Write the sequence of such numbers.
b) How many such numbers are there ?
c) Find the sum of such numbers.
22. Two mutually perpendicular chords AB and
CD of a circle meet at E inside the circle.
EA = 8 cm, EB = 3 cm ED = 4 cm.
a) Find the length AC.
b) Prove that the minor arc BD and AC
together forms a semicircle.

23. The sum of first 9 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 45 and the sum of first 18 terms is
171.
a) What is the sum of its 10th to 18th terms?
b) What is its 5th term?
c) Find its 14th term.
d) Find the sum of its 5th to 14th terms.

24. The terms of an arithmetic sequence with common difference 4 are natural numbers.
a) If x is a term in this sequence , what is the next term?
4
b) If the sum of reciprocals of two consecutive terms is , find those terms.
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25. In the figure PQ is the diameter of the the circle with centre O.Also, PQ is parallel to SR.
Find the measures of the following angles and write the reason.
a)  QSR = ………. ( ……………………………… )
b)  PRQ = ………. ( ……………………………… )
c)  PQS = ………. ( ……………………………… )
d)  PSR = ………. ( ……………………………… )
e)  PQR = ………. ( ……………………………… )

26. A rope of length 40 m is cut into two pieces and two squares are made on the floor with
them. The sum of the areas enclosed is 58 m2.
a) If the length of one piece is taken as x, what is the length of the other piece?
b) What are the lengths of the sides of the squares?
c) Write the given facts about area as a second degree equation.
d) What is the length of each piece?
27. Read the following, understand the mathematical concept in it and answer the
following questions that follows. Each question carries 1 score. (6  1 = 6)
For polygons, line joining the non adjascend vertices are called diagonals.

Quadrilaterals have 4 sides and (1+2+3) – 4 = 2 diagonals


Pentagons have 5 sides and (1+2+3+4) – 5 = 5 diagonals
a) What is the number of diagonals for an hexagon?
b) How many diagonals can be drawn for a polygon of 10 sided from one vertex?
c) What is the number of diagonals of a polygon with 16 sides?
d) Write the numbers of possible diagonals of polygons : quadrilateral, pentagon,
hexagon, .... as a sequence.
e) Write the algebraic relation between the number of sides and number of diagonals
f) 20 sided polygon has 170 diagonals, what is the number diagonals for a polygon
have 21 sides ?

Prepared by BAIJU KONNAKKAL, NIBRAS Secondary School, Moonniyur

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