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1) A polyhedron has 20 faces and 12 vertices. Find the edges of the polyhedron.
2) Draw a prism with its base as a regular hexagon with one of its face facing you. Now draw the top view, front
view and side view of this solid.
3) Draw the net of a regular tetrahedron with side 6 cm.
4) The side of a square board is 50 cm. A student has to draw its image in her notebook. If the drawing of the
square board in the notebook has a perimeter of 40 cm, then by which scale the figure has been drawn?
5)Four horses are tethered with equal ropes at 4 corners of a square field of side 70 metres so that they just can
reach one another. Find the area left ungrazed by the horses.
6) There is a circular pond and a footpath runs along its boundary. A person walks around it, exactly once keeping
close to the edge. If his step is 66 cm long and he takes exactly 400 steps to go around the pond, find the diameter
of the pond.
7) Find the length of the largest pole that can be placed in a room of dimensions 12 m × 4 m × 3 m.
8) The thickness of a hollow metallic cylinder is 2 cm. It is 70 cm long with outer radius of 14 cm. Find the volume
of the metal used in making the cylinder, assuming that it is open at both the ends. Also find its weight if the metal
weighs 8 g per cm^3.
9) How many cubes each side 0.5 cm are required to build a cube of volume 8 cm3 ?
10) A rectangular sheet of dimensions 25 cm × 7 cm is rotated about its longer side. Find the volume and the
whole surface area of the solid thus generated.
11) How many bricks of size 22 cm × 10 cm × 7 cm are required to construct a wall 11m long, 3.5 m high and 40 cm
thick, if the cement and sand used in the construction occupy (1/10)th part of the wall?
12) The ratio between the curved surface area and the total surface area of a right circular cylinder is 1:2. Find the
ratio between the height and radius of the cylinder.
13) The area of a trapezium with equal non-parallel sides is 168 m2. If the lengths of the parallel sides are 36 m
and 20 m, find the length of the non-parallel sides.
14) If 5^(3x–1) ÷ 25 = 125, find the value of x.
15) Find x so that (2/9)^3 * (2/9)^(-6) = (2/9)^(2x-1)
16) About 230 billion litres of water flows through a river each day. How many litres of water flows through that
river in a week? How many litres of water flows through the river in an year?
17) At the end of the 20th century, the world population was approximately 6.1 × 109 people. Express this
population in usual form. How would you say this number in words?
18) Explain the Standard form of a number with example
19) The cells of a bacteria double itself every hour. How many cells will there be after 8 hours, if initially we start
with 1 cell. Express the answer in powers.
20) By what number should (-3/2)^(-3) be divided so that the quotient may be (4/27)^(-2)
21) Predict the ones digit in the following:
a) 4^12 b) 9^20 c) 3^17 d) 5^100
22) Consider a quantity of a radioactive substance. The fraction of this quantity that remains after t half-lives can
be found by using the expression 3^(–t) .
a) What fraction of substance remains after 7 half-lives?
b) After how many half-lives will the fraction be 1/243 of the original?
23) Is 9000 a perfect cube?
24) By which smallest number should 42592 be divided so that the quotient is a perfect cube?
25) Show that 46656 is a perfect cube.
26) By which smallest number should 704 be divided to obtain a perfect cube?
27) Find the cube root of 9197.
28) Show that 384 is not a perfect cube.
29) By which smallest number should 648 be multiplied so that the product is a perfect cube?
30) Find the number whose cube is 27000.
31) a shopkeeper purchased 200 bulbs for Rs.10 each. However 5 bulbs were fused and had to be thrown away.
The remaining were sold at Rs 12 each. Find the gain or loss per cent.
32) A second hand Tv is for Rs 2500. And then Rs 500 was spent on its repair and sold for Rs 3300. Find profit/loss
percent.
33) What amount has to paid to on a loan of Rs 12000 for 1½ years at 10% per annum compounded half yearly.
34) The population of a city was Rs20,000 in 1997. It increased at the rate of 5% per annum. Find the population
of city at the end of the year 2000.
35) A fan is marked at Rs 15600 and it is available for Rs 12480. Find the discount given and discount percent
36) convert ¾ as a percentage.
37) What should be the current price of the box which was Rs 25000 last year and it increased by 20% this year
38) Find the population of a city after 2 years, which is at present 20 lakh, if the rate of increase is 5%p.a.
39) Find the value of: x^2 – 1/5 at x= -1.
40) What is the value of x^2 + y^2 – 10 at x = 0 and y = 0?
41) Simplify (a + b + c)(a + b - c).
42) Using identities evaluate: 8.56 * 11.60.
43) Using identities evaluate: (99)^2
44) Simplify x(2x – 1) + 5 and find its value at x = -2.
45) Evaluate the value of (95)^2 using identities.
46) simplify (x2- y2)2 + 4x^2y^2
47)Area of a rhombus is 96 sq.cm. One of the diagonals is 12cm, find the length of its side ?
48)Write the additive inverse of ⅔
49) 6 pipes are required to fill a rank in 1 hour 20 minutes. How long will it take if only 5 pipes of the same type are
used?
50)There are 100 students in a hostel. Food provision for them is for 20 days. How long will these provisions last, if
25 more students join the group?
51) If 15 workers can build a wall in 48 hours. How many workers will be required to do the same work in 30
hours?
52) The principal sanctioned a certain amount to the librarian to purchase some Mathematics books for the school
library. She could buy 80 books costing Rs 90 each from the local bookseller. There she approached the publisher
who offered her a 20% discount, Find the number of copies of Mathematics books which she could buy from the
publisher for the sanctioned money.
53) A machine fills 540 bottles in six hours. How many bottles will it fill in five hours?
54)In a PG House, the food provision for 20 persons is for 10 days. How long would the food provision last if there
were 5 more persons in that PG house?
55) Write any 5 rational numbers between −5/6 and 7/8

56) Convert the following statements into equations.

(a) 5 added to a number is 9.

(b) 3 subtracted from a number is equal to 12.

(c) 5 times a number decreased by 2 is 4.

(d) 2 times the sum of the number x and 7 is 13.

57) The cost of a pencil is 25 cents more than the cost of a eraser. If the cost of 8 pencils and 10 erasers is $12.80,
find the cost of each.

58) Use the adjoining figure, find a + b + c + d?

59) Area of a rhombus is 96 sq.cm. One of the diagonals is 12cm, find the length of its side ?

60) In the given figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. Find x, y and z.

61) What is set? What are different forms of representing it?

62) Draw a line segment AB = 5.5 cm. Mark a point P, such that PA = 6 cm and PB = 4.8 cm. From the point P, draw
a perpendicular to AB. (w.r.t. Icse constructions chapter)

63)Construct an angle ABC = 90°. Locate a point P which is 2.5 cm from AB and 3.2 cm from BC. (w.r.t. Icse
constructions chapter)
64) Construct a quadrilateral ABCD in which ; ∠A = 120°, ∠B = 60°, AB = 4 cm, BC = 4.5 cm and CD = 5 cm. (w.r.t.
Icse constructions chapter)

65) Write the following sets in Roster form :

66) State whether each of the following sets is a finite set or an infinite set:
(i) The set of multiples of 8.
(ii) The set of integers less than 10.
(iii) The set of whole numbers less than 12.
(iv) {x : x = 3n – 2, n ∈ W, n ≤ 8}

67) Find the proper subsets of {x : x2 – 9x – 10 = 0}

68)

65) Find the value of x if 8x=352 -272

66) Construct a quadrilateral PQRS, given that QR = 4.5 cm, PS = 5.5 cm, RS = 5 cm and the diagonal PR = 5.5 cm
and diagonal SQ = 7 cm.
67) Construct a quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = 4 cm, BC = 3.5 cm, CD = 5 cm, AD = 5.5 cm and ∠B = 75°
68) Construct a rhombus ABCD in which AB = 5.8 cm and AC = 7.5 cm.
69) Construct a rectangle whose diagonal is 5 cm and the angle between the diagonal is 50°.
70) Construct a rhombus PAIR, given that PA = 6 cm and angle ∠A = 110°.
71) Draw a rhombus with 5.2 cm and 6.4 cm long diagonals.
72) Construct a quadrilateral PQRS where PQ = 3.6 cm, QR = 5.5 cm, RS = 5 cm ∠B = 125° and ∠C= 80°
73) In the class interval 5-10, find the
(i) lower limit
(ii) upper limit
(iii) class mark
(iv) class size
74) A group of 20 students recorded their heights (in cm). The data received were as given below. What is the
range?
150, 120, 112, 160, 155, 151, 158, 142, 148, 149, 161, 165, 140, 157, 156, 146, 148, 153, 138, 135
75) In the given pie chart, which colour is most popular? Which colour is the least popular?
76) A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number greater than 4.
77) A class consists of 21 boys and 9 girls. A student is to be selected for social work. Find the probability that
(i) a girl is selected
(ii) a boy is selected
78) Construct a frequency table for the following marks obtained by 50 students using equal Intervals taking 16-24
(24 not included) as one of the class-intervals.
52, 16, 18, 20, 42, 48, 39, 38, 54, 58, 47, 37, 25, 16, 42, 49, 36, 35, 53, 21, 30, 43, 56, 34, 33, 17, 22, 24, 37, 41, 40,
50, 54, 56, 54, 36, 38, 42, 44, 56, 17, 18, 22, 24, 17, 48, 58, 23, 29, 58
79) What is the probability of getting a marble which is not red from a bag containing 3 black, 8 yellow, 2 red and 5
white marbles?
80) From a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards, a card is selected at random. Find the probability of getting
(i) a black card
(ii) a black king
(iii) an ace
(iv) a card of diamond
81) Which of the following 24^2, 49^2, 77^2, 131^2 or 189^2 end with digit 1?
82) Find the value of each of the following without calculating squares.
(i) 272 – 262
(ii) 1182 – 1172
83) Write down the following as sum of odd numbers.
(i) 72
(ii) 92
84) Express the following as the sum of two consecutive integers.
(i) 152
(ii) 192
85) Which of the following triplets are Pythagorean?
(i) (14, 48, 50)
(ii) (18, 79, 82)
86) Find the square root of the following using prime factorisation
(i) 441
(ii) 2025
87) Find the least square number which is divisible by each of the number 4, 8 and 12.
88) What is the least number that must be subtracted from 3793 so as to get a perfect square? Also, find the
square root of the number so obtained.
89) Simplify: √900 + √0.09 + √0.000009
90) A ladder 10 m long rests against a vertical wall. If the foot of the ladder is 6 m away from the wall and the
ladder just reaches the top of the wall, how high is the wall?
91) write the following in set builder form A={1,4,9,16,25…}
92) write an example of finite and infinite set in set builder form
93) write the subsets of {1,2,3}
94) if A = {2,4,6,8} and B = {6,8,10,12} find A U B
95) In the previous question find A intersection B
96) Give example of an empty set.
97) Let A and B be sets If A ∩ X =B ∩ X= φ and A U X = B UX for some set X, Prove that A=B
98) Using properties of sets show that for any two sets A and B ( A U B) ∩ (A ∩ B’) = A
99) In a group of 800 people 450 can speak Hindi and 450 can speak English. How many can speak both Hindi and
English?
100) In a class of 55 students the number of students studying different subjects are 23 in maths and 24 in physics,
19 in chemistry, 12 in maths and physics, 9 in maths and chemistry, 7 in physics and chemistry and 4 in all the
three subjects. The number of students who have taken exactly one subjects is