Sample Question Paper - 31

Mathematics-Standard (041)
Class- X, Session: 2021-22
TERM II
Time Allowed : 2 hours Maximum Marks : 40

General Instructions :
1. The question paper consists of 14 questions divided into 3 sections A, B, C.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A comprises of 6 questions of 2 marks each. Internal choice has been provided in two questions.
4. Section B comprises of 4 questions of 3 marks each. Internal choice has been provided in one question.
5. Section C comprises of 4 questions of 4 marks each. An internal choice has been provided in one question.
It contains two case study based questions.

SECTION - A
1. Two numbers differ by 3 and their product is 504. Find the numbers.
OR

For what values of n, the equation 2x2 – nx + n = 0 has coincident roots?

2. Draw a line segment of length 8 cm and divide it internally in the ratio 4 : 5.

3. The height of a pillar is 8 m. What is the length of its shadow, when sun’s altitude is 30°?

4. Find the mean of the following distribution :

Class 0-6 6-12 12-18 18-24 24-30
Frequency 7 5 10 12 2

5. A tower stands vertically on the ground. From a point on the ground which is 25 m away from the foot of
the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is found to be 45°. Find the height (in meters) of the
tower.

OR

The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from a point on the ground, which is 30 m away from the foot
of the tower is 45°. Find the height of the tower (in metres).

6. Find the mode of the following data :

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Frequency 7 14 13 12 20 11 15 8

SECTION - B
7. A heap of rice is in the form of a cone of base diameter 24 m and height 3.5 m. Find the volume of the rice.
How much canvas cloth is required to just cover the heap?
8. An electrician has to repair an electric fault on a pole of height 7 m. He needs to reach a point 2.2 m below
the top of the pole to undertake the repair work. What should be the length of the ladder that he should use
which, when inclined at an angle of 60° to the horizontal, would enable him to reach the required position?
Also, how far from the foot of the pole should he place the foot of the ladder?

OR

A man standing on the deck of a ship, which is 10 m above water level, observes the angle of elevation of the
top of a hill as 60° and angle of depression of the base of the hill as 30°. Find the horizontal distance of the
hill from the ship and height of the hill.

9. A metallic cylinder has radius 3 cm and height 5 cm. To reduce its weight, a conical hole is drilled in the
3 8
cylinder. The conical hole has a radius of cm and its depth is cm. Calculate the ratio of the volume of
2 9
metal left in the cylinder to the volume of metal taken out in conical shape.

10. In the given figure, from an external point P, two tangents PT and PS are drawn to a circle with centre O and
radius r. If OP = 2r, show that ∠OTS = ∠OST = 30°.
T

Q
O P

SECTION - C
11. Two pipes running together can fill a tank in 12 mins. If one pipe takes 10 mins less than twice the other to
fill the tank. Find the time in which each pipe would fill the tank.
OR
Prove that the equation x2(a2 + b2) + 2x(ac + bd) + (c2 + d2) = 0 has no real roots, if ad ≠ bc.

12. Kanika was given her pocket money on Jan 1st, 2008. She puts ` 1 on Day 1, ` 2 on Day 2, ` 3 on Day 3, and
continued doing so till the end of the month, from this money into her piggy bank. She also spent ` 204 of
her pocket money, and found that at the end of the month she still had ` 100 with her. How much was her
pocket money for the month?

Case Study - 1
13. Following are questions of section-A in assessment test on circle that Eswar attend last month in school.
He scored full marks in this section. Answer the questions and check your score if 2 marks is allotted to
each question.
 (i) If two tangents AB and CD drawn to a circle with centre O at P and Q respectively, are parallel to each
other, then show that PQ is a diameter of a circle.
(ii) In the given figure, is PQ a tangent to both the circles?

P T Q

Case Study - 2
14. An inspector in an enforcement squad of electricity department visit to a locality of 100 families and record
their monthly consumption of electricity, on the basis of family members, electronic items in the house and
wastage of electricity, which is summarise in the following table.
Monthly Consumption (in kwh) 0- 100- 200- 300- 400- 500- 600- 700- 800- 900-
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Number of families 2 5 x 12 17 20 y 9 7 4

Based on the above information, answer the following questions.

(i) If the median of the above data is 545, then find the value of x.
(ii) Find the average monthly consumption of a family of this locality approximately.
 Solution

MATHEMATICS STANDARD 041

Class 10 - Mathematics

1. Let one number be x. 4.

\ Other number be x + 3. Class Class Frequency fi xi
According to question, x(x + 3) = 504 marks (xi) (fi)
⇒ x2 + 3x – 504 = 0 ⇒ x2 + 24x – 21x – 504 = 0 0-6 3 7 21
⇒ x(x + 24) – 21 (x + 24) = 0 ⇒ (x + 24) (x – 21) = 0 6-12 9 5 45
⇒ x + 24 = 0 or x – 21 = 0 ⇒ x = –24 or x = 21 12-18 15 10 150
18-24 21 12 252
When x = –24, numbers are –24 and –24 + 3 = –21
24-30 27 2 54
When x = 21, numbers are 21 and 21 + 3 = 24. Sfi = 36 Sfixi = 522
OR
\ Mean =
∑ fi xi = 522 = 14.5
We have, 2x2 – nx + n = 0
∑ fi 36
Here, a = 2, b = –n and c = n.
5. Let AB be the tower and C be A
\ D = b2 – 4ac = (–n)2 – 4(2)(n) = n2 – 8n = n(n – 8) the point on the ground 25 m away
Now, the given equation has coincident roots i.e., from the foot of the tower such that
equal roots, so D = 0 ⇒ n(n – 8) = 0 ⇒ n = 0 or n = 8 ∠ACB = 45°.
45°
2. Steps of construction : Now, In right DABC, C 25 m B
Step-I : Draw a line segment AB = 8 cm. AB AB
tan 45° = ⇒ 1= ⇒ AB = 25 m
Step-II : Taking point A, draw a ray AX below the line BC 25
segment AB making an acute angle ∠BAX. Thus, the height of the tower is 25 m.
Step-III : Mark 9 points A1, A2, ...... , A9 on AX such
OR
that AA1 = A1A2 = A2A3 and so on.
Let AB be the tower
Step-IV : Join A9B.
and P be the point on the
Step-V : Now, draw a parallel line, from point ground.
A4(A4B′ || A9B) which intersect AB at B′. AB
In DABP, = tan 45°
Thus, AB is divided internally in the ratio 4 : 5. BP
8 cm AB
⇒ = 1 ⇒ AB = 30 m
A B′ B 30
A1 6. From the given data, we observe that, highest
A2
A3 frequency is 20, which lies in the class-interval
A4
A5
40-50. Here, l = 40, f1 = 20, f0 = 12, f2 = 11, h = 10.
A6
A7  f1 − f0 
A8 \ Mode = l +  ×h
A9  2 f1 − f0 − f2 
X  20 − 12 
= 40 +  × 10
3. Let AB be the pillar of height 8 m and BC be the  40 − 12 − 11
length of its shadow. 80
A = 40 + = 40 + 4.7 = 44.7
In right DABC, 17
7. Given that a heap of rice is in the form of a cone.
AB 1 8 8m
tan30° = ⇒ = Height of a heap of rice (h) = 3.5 m
BC 3 BC 30°
and diameter of a heap of rice = 24 m
B C

⇒ BC = 8 3 m \ Radius of a heap of rice (r) = 12 m

 1 
Thus, length of the shadow of the pillar is 8 3 m. ∵Radius = 2 × diameter 
 
 1 9. Radius of cylinder, r1 = 3 cm
So, volume of rice = π r 2h
3 Height of cylinder, h1 = 5 cm
1 22 \ Volume of cylinder
= × × 12 × 12 × 3.5 = 528 m3
3 7 = pr12h1 = p(3)2 × 5
Now, canvas cloth required to just cover heap of rice =
= 45p cm3
Surface area of a heap of rice = prl 3
22 22 Radius of cone,r2 = cm;
= × r × r 2 + h2 = × 12 × (12)2 + (3.5)2 2
7 7 8
12 × 22 12 × 22 Height of cone,h2 = cm
= × 144 + 12.25 = × 156.25 9
7 7 Volume of cone = Volume of metal taken out
12 × 22
= × 12.5 = 471.42 m2 1
7 = πr22h2
3
Hence, 471.42 m2 canvas cloth is required to just cover 2
the heap. 1  3 8 2
= π   × = π cm3 ...(i)
3 2  9 3
8. Let AB be the pole of height 7 m.
Let at point C, the electrician has to B Volume of metal left in the cylinder = Volume of
2.2 m cylinder – Volume of cone
do the repair work and CD be the C
ladder of length x m. Let AD = y m 7m 2 133π
= 45π − π =
xm

Here, AC = AB – CB 3 3
= 7 – 2.2 = 4.8 m 133π
60°
Volume of metal left in cylinder
In right DADC, tan 60° =
AC D ym A
∴ = 3
Volume of metal taken out 2
AD π
3
4⋅8 4 ⋅ 8 4. 8 × 3 133
⇒ 3= ⇒ y= = = 1.6 × 1.732 = 2.77 = = 133 : 2
y 3 3 2
CD 2 x 9. 6 10. In DOTP, OT = r, OP = 2r [Given]
and cosec 60° = ⇒ = ⇒x= ∠OTP = 90°[Radius is perpendicular to tangent at the
AC 3 4. 8 3
point of contact] T
9 .6 × 3
⇒ x= = 3.2 × 1.732 = 5.54 Let ∠TPO = q
3 Q q
OT r 1 O P
\ Length of ladder is 5.54 m and distance between ∴ sinθ = = =
OP 2r 2
foot of pole and foot of ladder is 2.77 m.
⇒ q = 30° S
OR \ In DTOP, ∠TOP = 60°
Let AB be the hill and C be the position of man on the  [By angle sum property]
deck of a ship which is 10 m above water level. ∠TOP = ∠SOP  [As D’s are congruent]
Then, CD = BE = 10 m ⇒ ∠SOP = 60° \ ∠TOS= 120°
CE In DOTS,
In right DBEC, = cot 30° OT = OS (Radii of same circle)
BE
\ ∠OST = ∠OTS
⇒ CE = BE . cot 30° A Now, ∠OTS + ∠OST + ∠SOT = 180°
⇒ CE = 10 × 3 = 17.32 m ⇒ 2∠OST + 120° = 180°
AE \ ∠OTS = ∠OST = 30°
In right DAEC, = tan 60° 60° Hence Proved.
CE C E
30°
11. Let one pipe fill the tank in x mins, then the other
⇒ AE = CE . 3 10 m
pipe fill the tank in (2x – 10) mins.
D B
⇒ AE = 10 × 3 × 3 = 30 m According to question,
\ Height of the hill, AB = AE + EB = (30 + 10)m = 40 m 1 1 1 2 x − 10 + x 1
+ = ⇒ =
Distance of hill from the ship = CE = 17.32 m x 2 x − 10 12 x(2 x − 10) 12
⇒ (3x – 10) 12 = x(2x – 10) ⇒ 36x – 120 = 2x2 – 10x 13. (i) A P B

⇒ 2x2 – 46x + 120 = 0 ⇒ x2 – 23x + 60 = 0

Here, a = 1, b = –23 and c = 60 O

\ b2 – 4ac = (–23)2 – 4(1)(60) = 529 – 240 = 289 > 0

C Q D
−b ± b2 − 4ac −(−23) ± 289 23 ± 17 Two tangents of a circle are parallel only when they are
\ x= = =
2a 2(1) 2 drawn at ends of a diameter.
So, PQ is the diameter of the circle.
23 + 17 23 − 17 40 6
⇒ x= or x = ⇒ x= or x = (ii) Here, the two circles have a common point of
2 2 2 2
contact T and PQ is the tangent at T. So, PQ is the
⇒ x = 20 or x = 3
tangent to both the circles.
If x = 3, then 2x – 10 = 2(3) – 10 = –4, which is not
14. We have the following table :
possible. \ x = 20
Class Frequency Cumulative
Thus, one pipe fill the tank in 20 mins and other pipe
interval frequency
fill the tank in 2(20) – 10 = 30 mins.
0-100 2 2
OR 100-200 5 7
We have, x2(a2 + b2) + 2x (ac + bd) + (c2 + d2) = 0 200-300 x 7+x
Comparing the given equation with Ax2 + Bx + C = 0, 300-400 12 19 + x
we have, A = a2 + b2, B = 2(ac + bd), C = c2 + d2 400-500 17 36 + x
\ D = B2 – 4AC = [2(ac + bd)]2 – 4(a2 + b2)(c2 + d2) 500-600 20 56 + x
= 4(a2c2 + b2d2 + 2acbd) –4(a2c2 + a2d2 + b2c2 + b2d2) 600-700 y 56 + x + y
= 4[2acbd – a2d2 – b2c2] = –4[a2d2 + b2c2– 2(ad)(bc)] 700-800 9 65 + x + y
= –4(ad – bc)2 < 0 if ad ≠ bc 800-900 7 72 + x + y
Thus, given equation has no real roots if ad ≠ bc. 900-1000 4 76 + x + y
12. Let her pocket money be ` x. Total 76 + x + y
Now, she puts ` 1 on day 1, ` 2 on day 2, ` 3 on day 3 N 100
(i) Here, = = 50
and so on till the end of the month, from this money 2 2
into her piggy bank. i.e., 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 31, Also, median = 545  [Given]
which forms an A.P. in which number of terms are 31 \ Median class is 500-600.
and first term, a = 1, common difference, d = 2 – 1 = 1
 N / 2 − c. f . 
\ Sum of first 31 terms i.e., Now, median = l +   × h
 f
31  n   50 − (36 + x ) 
S31 = [2 × 1 + (31 − 1) × 1] ∵ Sn = [2a + (n − 1)d] ⇒ 545 = 500 +   × 100
2  2   20
31 31 × 32 ⇒ 9 = 50 – 36 – x ⇒ x = 5
= (2 + 30) = = 31 × 16 = 496 (ii) Since, x + y = 24
2 2
⇒ y = 24 – 5 = 19
So, Kanika takes ` 496 till the end of the month from
Required average consumption
this money.
50 × 2 + 150 × 5 + 250 × 5 + 350 × 12 + 450 × 17
Also, she spent ` 204 of her pocket money and found
+ 550 × 20 + 650 × 19 + 750 × 9 + 850 × 7 + 950 × 4
that at the end of the month she still has ` 100 with her. =
Now, according to the question, (x – 496) – 204 = 100 100
53800
⇒ x – 700 = 100 \ x = ` 800 = = 538 kwh
Hence, ` 800 was her pocket money for the month. 100