CBSE_X CENTUM BOOK_2023-24 SUB: MATHEMATICS

Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

i) Form an A.P for the above given situation? 1

ii) Find the difference in number of candies placed in 7th and 3rd row. 1

iii) Find the total number of rows of candies. 2

OR
iv) If Aditya decides to make 15 rows, then how many total candies will be placed
by him with the same arrangement? 2
LEVEL – II
MCQ:
1. What would be the last term of an A.P with 20 terms whose 4th term is -46 and
third term is -70?
a) -338 b) 338 c) 142 d) -142
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2. If the first term of an AP is 2 and the common difference is , what would be
2
the 12th term of the AP?
 1  1
a) 2  11    b) 2  12   
 2  2
 1  1
c) 2  11    d) 2  12   
 2  2
3. Find the nth term of the AP shown below. __, __, -36, __, -44, ………. up to n.

a) 4n-32 b) -40+4n c) 24-4n d) -4n-24

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4. Jessie needs ₹1,70,000 for her College admissions in the starting of January

2021.Her mother helped her by creating a fund of ₹12,000 in the end of January

2019. Thereafter she has been collecting ₹5500 in the starting of each month for

Jessie’s college fund. How much money will be collected in the fund before

Jessie’s admissions?

a) ₹[12000 + 11(5500)] b) ₹[5500 + 11(12000)]

c) ₹[12000 + 23(5500)] d) ₹[5500 + 23(12000)]

5. Mr. Kapoor is collecting donations for building a new school building in a village.

His wife starts by donating ₹125000. His brother also contributes by donating

₹54000. Thereafter every person who contributes in the donation pays ₹5250

more than the previous donor. How much amount has Mr. Kapoor able to collect

after 23 donations?

a) ₹164250 b) ₹2400750

c) 2525750 d) ₹2570250

6. What is the sum of all the three-digit numbers divisible by 12?

 73  75
a)  108  996  b)   216  996  
 2   2 

 73  75
c)   216  996   d)  108  996 
 2   2 

7. In an AP, if d = -4, n = 7, an = 4, then a is equal to

a) 6 b) 7 c) 20 d) 28
8. In an AP, if a = 3.5, d = 0, n = 101, then an will be

a) 0 b) 3.5 c) 103.5 d) 104.5

9. The 11th term of the AP: -5, −5/2, 0, 5/2,…

a) -20 b) 20 c) -30 d) 30

10. If the 2nd term of an AP is 13 and the 5th term is 25, what is its 7th term?

a) 30 b) 33 c) 37 d) 38

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2-MARKS:
1. Find the number of numbers lying between 146 and 300 which are divisible by

both 3 and 5.

2. Find the middle most term of the A.P. -11, -7, -3,…..49.

3. Divide 32 into four parts which are in A.P. such that the product of extremes is

to the product of means is 7: 15.

4. Find the sum of first 30 terms of an A.P. whose second term is 2 and seventh

term is 22.

5. If for a given A.P, a  7, a13  35 find S13 .

6. If the sum of first terms of an AP is 2q  q 2 , find the common difference of the

A.P.

7. Which term of the A.P, 120, 116, 112,…… is first negative term?

8. Find the 20th term from the end of the A.P. 23, 18, 13……-253.

9. Find the number of natural numbers between 101 and 999 which are divisible

by both 2 and 5.

10. How many three digit numbers are such that when divided by 7, leave a

remainder 3 in each case?

11. The sum of three numbers in A.P. is −3 and their product is 8. Find the
numbers.
12. Justify whether it is true to say that the following are the nth terms of an AP,

i) 2 − 3 ii) 3 +5 iii) 1 + +

12. The nth term of an AP cannot be + 1. Justify your answer.

3-MARKS:

1. If in an A.P. the sum of first terms is and the sum of its first terms is ,

then prove that the sum of its first ( + ) terms is −( + )

2. Find the sum of all natural numbers from 100 to 200 which are divisible by 4.

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3. Find the sum of first 24 terms of the list of numbers whose term is given by

an  3  2n .

4. Find the sum of all numbers between 250 & 1000 which are exactly divisible by

3.

5. Find the sum of i) the first 1000 positive integers ii) the first n positive integers

th 1 th 1
6. If the term of an A.P. be and term be , then show that its ( )th
n m

term is 1.

7. The sum of 4th and 8th terms of an A.P. is 24 , and sum of 6th and 10th is 44 .

Find the first three terms of the A.P.

8. The 8th term of an A.P. is 20 and the 15th term is 12 more than the 11th term.

Find the A.P.

9. Determine k so that k2+ 4k + 8, 2k2 + 3k + 6, 3k2 + 4k + 4 are three consecutive

terms of an AP.

10. Determine the AP whose fifth term is 19 and the difference of the eighth term
from the thirteenth term is 20.
11. The sum of the first three terms of an AP is 33. If the product of the first and the

third term exceeds the second term by 29, find the AP.

12. Is 0 a term of the AP: 31, 28, 25, …? Justify your answer.

13. Determine k so that k + 4k + 8,2k + 3k + 6,3k + 4k + 4 are three consecutive

terms of an AP.

14. Find the sum of all the 11 terms of an AP whose middle most term is 30.

5-MARKS:
1. The sum of four consecutive numbers in A.P. is 32 and the ratio of the product
of the first and last terms to the product of two middle terms is 7: 15. Find the
numbers.
2. The sum of first 6 terms of an A.P. is 42. The ratio of its 10th term to 30th term
is 1: 3. Find the first and the 13th term of the A.P.

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3. Solve the equation: 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 + ⋯ + = 287.

4. Find the sum of 25 terms of an A.P. in which the third term is 7 and 7th term is

two more than thrice of its third term.

5. Find the sum of n terms of the A.P. , + , + 2 , … … … . + ( − 1)

6. The 8th term of an A.P. is half the second term and the 11th term exceeds one

third of its fourth term by 1. Find the 15th term.

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7. If , and terms of an A.P. are , , respectively, then show that

i) ( − ) + ( − ) + ( − ) = 0 ii) ( − ) + ( − ) + ( − ) = 0

8. If , , be the sum of , 2 , 3 terms respectively on an A.P. Prove that

S 3  3 S 2  S1  .

9. The sum of four consecutive numbers in an AP is 32 and the ratio of the product

of the first and the last terms to the product of two middle terms is 7: 15. Find

the numbers.

10. The sum of the first five terms of an AP and the sum of the first seven terms of

the same AP is 167. If the sum of the first ten terms of this is 235, find the

sum of its first twenty terms.

11. The eighth term of an is half its second term and the eleventh term exceeds

onè third of its fourth term by 1. Find the 15th term.

CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

CASE STUDY-1

A road roller (sometimes called a roller- compactor, or just roller) is a compactor

- type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete or asphalt in the
construction of roads and foundations. Similar rollers are used also at landfills
or in agriculture. Road rollers are frequently referred to as steamrollers,
regardless of their method of propulsion.

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RCB machine Pvt Ltd started making road roller 10 years ago. Company
increased its production uniformly by fixed number every year. The company
produces 800 roller in the 6th year and 1130 roller in the 9th year.
Based on the above information, answer the following questions:
i) What was the company's production in first year? 1

ii) What was the company's production in the 8th year? 1

iii) What roller the company's total production of the first 6 years? 2

OR

What was the increase in the company's production every year? 2

LEVEL – III

MCQ:
1. Mr. Singh buys a property every year for 12 years. Every year he buys X acres
more than the previous year. If in the 8th year he bought 45 acres of land and in
the 5th year he bought 30 acres of land, how many acres did he buy in the last
year?
a) [10 + 11(5)] Acres b) [10 + 12(5)] Acres

c) [5 + 11(10)] Acres d) [5 + 12(10)] Acres

2. The cylindrical bumps on top of Lego blocks are called studs.

Pragun has built a solid inverted Lego pyramid as shown below. The number of
studs in successive floors forms an arithmetic progression. Pragun figures out
that the sum of the number of studs used in the first p floors is given by

6 p 2
 2p  .

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