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Class 10 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 45 minutes Maximum Marks: 285

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1. The angry Arjun carried some arrows for fighting with Bheeshm. With half the arrows, he cut down the arrows [3]
thrown by Bheeshm on him and with six other arrows he killed the rath driver of Bheeshm. With one arrow

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each, he knocked down respectively the rath, flag and the bow of Bheeshm. Finally, with one more than four
times the square root of arrrows he laid Bheeshm unconscious on an arrow bed. Find the total number of arrows
Arjun had.

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2. Ashu is x years old while his mother Mrs Veena is x2 years old. Five years hence Mrs Veena will be three times [3]

old as Ashu. Find their present ages.

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3. A piece of cloth costs ₹ 35. If the piece were 4 m longer and each metre costs ₹ one less, the cost would remain [3]
unchanged. How long is the piece?
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4. A bookseller buys a number of books for ₹ 1760. If he had bought 4 more books for the same amount, each book [3]
would have cost ₹ 22 less. How many books did he buy?
5. A party of tourists booked a room in a hotel for Rs.1200. Three of the members failed to pay, as a result, others [3]
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had to pay Rs. 20 more (each). How many tourists were there in the party?
6. A man is 3 1

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times as old as his son. If the sum of the squares of their ages is 1325, find the ages of the father [3]
and the son.
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7. The age of a man is twice the square of the age of his son. Eight years hence, the age of the man will be 4 years [3]
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more than three times the age of his son. Find their present ages.
8. If Zeba were younger by 5 years than what she really is, then the square of her age (in years) would have been [3]
11 more than 5 times her actual age. What is her age now?
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9. An aeroplane left 50 minutes later than its scheduled time, and in order to reach the destination, 1250 km away, [3]
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in time, it had to increase its speed by 250 km/hr from its usual speed. Find its usual speed.
10. Nine times the side of one square exceeds a perimeter of a second square by one metre and six times the area of [3]
the second square exceeds twenty-nine times the area of the first by one square metre, Find the side of each
square.
11. A takes 10 days less than the time taken by B to finish a piece of work. If both A and B together can finish the [3]
work in 12 days, find the time taken by B to finish the work.
12. One-fourth of a herd of camels was seen in the forest. Twice the square root of the herd had gone to mountains [3]
and the remaining 15 camels were seen on the bank of a river. Find the total number of camels.
13. The product of Ramu's age (in years) five years ago with his age (in years) 9 years later is 15. Find Ramu's [3]
present age.
14. At present Asha's age (in years) is 2 more than the square of her daughter Nisha's age. When Nisha grows to her [3]
mother's present age, Asha's age would be one year less than 10 times the present age of Nisha. Find the present
ages of both Asha and Nisha.

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15. The perimeter of right-angled triangle is five times the length of its shortest side. The numerical value of the area [3]
of the triangle is 15 times the numerical value of the length of the shortest side. Find the lengths of the three
sides of the triangle.
16. If the list price of a toy is reduced by ₹ 2, a person can buy 2 toys more for ₹ 360. Find the original price of the [3]
toy.
17. The product of Shikha's age five years ago and her age 8 years later is 30, her age at both times being given in [3]
years. Find her present age.
18. Two trains leave a railway station at the same time. The first train travels due west and the second train due [3]
north. The first train travels 5 km/hr faster than the second train. If after two hours, they are 50 km apart, find the
average speed of each train.

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19. A plane left 30 minutes later than the schedule time and in order to reach its destination 1500 km away in time it [3]
has to increase its speed by 250 km/hr from its usual speed. Find its usual speed.

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20. A man bought a certain number of toys for Rs.180, he kept one for his own use and sold the rest for one rupee [3]
each more than he gave for them, besides getting his own toy for nothing he made a profit of Rs.10. Find the
number of toys.

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21. Out of a group of swans, times the square root of the total number of swans are playing on the shore of a tank. [3]
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Remaining two are playing, with amorous fight, in the water. What is the total number of swans?

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22. A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 54 km and then travels a distance of 63 km at an [3]
average speed of 6 km/hr more than the first speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete the total journey, what is its
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first speed?
23. To fill a swimming pool two pipes are used. If the pipe of larger diameter used for 4 hours and the pipe of [3]
smaller diameter for 9 hours, only half of the pool can be filled. Find how long it would take for each pipe to fill
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the pool separately, if the pipe of smaller diameter takes 10 hours more than the pipe of larger diameter to fill the
pool.
24. Some students planned a picnic. The budget for food was ₹ 480. But eight of these failed to go and thus the cost [3]
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of food for each member increased by ₹ 10. How many students went to picnic?
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25. If twice the area of a smaller square is subtracted from the area of a larger square, the result is 14 cm2. However, [3]

if twice the area of the larger square is added to three times the area of the smaller square, the result is 203 cm2.
Determine the sides of the square.
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26. A shopkeeper buys a number of books for ₹ 80. If he had bought 4 more books for the same amount, each book [3]
would have cost ₹1 less. How many books did he buy?
27. An aeroplane takes 1 hour less for a journey of 1200 km if its speed is increased by 100 km/hr from its usual [3]
speed. Find its usual speed.
28. The speed of a boat in still water is 8 km/hr. It can go 15 km upstream and 22 km downstream in 5 hours. Find [3]
the speed of the stream.
29. If two pipes function simultaneously, a reservoir will be filled in 12 hours. One pipe fills the reservoir 10 hours [3]
faster than the other. How many hours will the second pipe take to fill the reservoir?
30. The distance between Mumbai and Pune is 192 km. Travelling by the Deccan Queen, it takes 48 minutes less [3]
than another train. Calculate the speed of the Deccan Queen if the speeds of the two trains differ by 20 km/hr.
31. A girl is twice as old as her sister. Four years hence, the product of their ages (in years) will be 160. Find their [3]
present ages.
32. A bus travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 75 km and then travels a distance of 90 km at an [3]

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 average speed of 10 km/hr more than the first speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete the total journey, find its
original speed.
33. Vikram wishes to fit three rods together in the shape of a right triangle. The hypotenuse is to be 2 cm longer than [3]
the base and 4 cm longer than the altitude. What should be the lengths of the rods?
34. A peacock is sitting on the top of a pillar, which is 9 m high from a point 27 m away from the bottom of the [3]
pillar, a snake is coming to its hole at the base of the pillar. Seeing the snake, the peacock pounces on it. If their
speeds are equal, at what distance from the whole is the snake caught?
35. Seven years ago Varun's age was five times the square of Swati's age. Three years hence Swati's age will be two [3]
fifth of Varun's age. Find present ages of Varun and Swati.
36. A speed of a boat in still water is 11 km/hour. It can go 12 km upstream and return downstream to the original [3]

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point in 2 hours 45 minutes. Find the speed of the stream.
37. A train travels 180 km at a uniform speed. If the speed had been 9 km/hr more, it would have taken 1 hour less [3]

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for the same journey. Find the speed of the train.
38. Two years ago, a man's age was three times the square of his son's age. In three years time, his age will be four [3]
times his son's age. Find their present ages.

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39. At t minutes past 2 pm the time needed by the minutes hand of a clock to show 3 pm was found to be 3 minutes [3]
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less than t
minutes. Find t.

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40. A passenger train takes one hour less for a journey of 150 km if its speed is increased by 5 km/hr from its usual [3]
speed. Find the usual speed of the train.
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41. Had Aarush scored 8 more marks in a Mathematics test, out of 35 marks, 7 times these marks would have been 4 [3]
less than square of his actual marks. How many marks did he get in the test?
42. A dealer sells an article for ₹ 75 and gains as much per cent as the cost price of the article. Find the cost price of [3]
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the article.
43. A plane left 40 minutes late due to bad weather and in order to reach its destination, 1600 km away in time, it [3]
had to increase its speed by 400 km/hr from its usual speed. Find the usual speed of the plane.
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44. A farmer wishes to grow a 100 m2 rectangular vegetable garden. Since he has with him only 30 m barbed wire, [3]
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he fences three sides of the rectangular garden letting compound wall of his house act as the fourth side-fence.
Find the dimensions of his garden.
45. Some students planned a picnic. The total budget for hiring a bus was ₹ 1440. Later on, eight of these refused to [3]
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go and instead paid their total share of money towards the fee of one economically weaker student of their class,
and thus, the cost for each member who went for picnic, increased by ₹ 30.
i. How many students attended the picnic?
ii. How much money in total was paid towards the fee? Which value is reflected in this question?
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46. A person on tour has ₹ 4200 for his expenses. If he extends his tour for 3 days, he has to cut down his daily [5]
expenses by ₹ 70. Find the original duration of the tour.
47. A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 54 km and then travels a distance of 63 km at an [5]
average speed of 6 km/h more than the first speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete the total journey, what was its
first average speed?

48. The area of a rectangular plot is 528 m2. The length of the plot (in metres) is one more than twice the breadth. [5]
Find the length and breadth of the plot. Also, find the cost of levelling the plot at the rate of ₹ 80 per square
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49. The sum of reciprocals of Roohi's age (in years) 3 years ago and 5 years hence from now is 1

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Find her present [5]
age.
50. Amisha bought a number of books for ₹ 1,800. If she had bought 10 more books for the same amount, each book [5]
would have cost her ₹ 30 less. How many books did she buy originally?
51. A train takes 2 hours less for a journey of 300 km if its speed is increased by 5 km/hr from its usual speed. Find [5]
the usual speed of the train.
52. The difference of squares of two numbers is 204. The square of the smaller number is 4 less than 10 times the [5]
larger number. Find the two numbers.
53. ₹ 9000 were divided equally among a certain number of persons. Had there been 20 more persons, each would [5]
have got ₹ 160 less. Find the original number of persons.

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54. A girl is twice as old as her sister. Four years hence, the product of their ages (in years) will be 160. Find their [5]
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55. A shopkeeper buys a number of books for Rs.1200. If he had bought 10 more books for the same amount, each [5]
book would have cost him Rs.20 less. Find how many books did he buy?
56. The product of Tanay's age (in years) five years ago and his age ten years later is 16. Determine Tanay's present [5]

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age.
57. In a flight of 600 km, the speed of the aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. The average speed of the [5]

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trip was decreased by 200 km/hr and thus the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. Find the average speed of
the aircraft originally.
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58. Swati can row her boat at a speed of 5 km/hr in still water. If it takes her 1 hour more to row the boat 5.25 km [5]
upstream than to return downstream, find the speed of the stream.
59. Two pipes running together can fill a tank in 11 1
minutes. If one pipe takes 5 minutes more than the other to fill [5]
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the tank, find the time in which each pipe would fill the tank separately.
60. In the centre of a rectangular lawn of dimensions 50 m × 40 m, a rectangular pond has to be constructed so that [5]

the area of the grass surrounding the pond would be 1184 m2. Find the length and breadth of the pond
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61. A journey of 192 km from a town A to town B takes 2 hours more by an ordinary passenger train than a super [5]
fast train. If the speed of the faster train is 16 km/h more, find the speed of the faster and the passenger train.
62. The sum of the ages of a father and his son is 45 years. Five years ago, the product of their ages (in years) was [5]
124. Determine their present age.
63. The hypotenuse (in cm) of a right angled triangle is 6 cm more than twice the length of the shortest side. If the [5]
length of third side is 6 cm less than thrice the length of shortest side, then find the dimensions of the triangle.
64. A train travels a distance of 90 km at a constant speed. Had the speed been 15 km/h more, it would have taken [5]
30 minutes less for the journey. Find the original speed of the train.
65. A motor boat whose speed is 18 km/h in still water takes 1 hour more to go 24 km upstream, than to return to the [5]
same point. Find the speed of the stream and total time of the journey.
66. If the price of a book is reduced by ₹5, a person can buy 5 more books for ₹ 300. Find the original list price of [5]
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67. A truck covers a distance of 150 km at a certain average speed and then covers another 200 km at an average [5]
speed which is 20 km per hour more than the first speed. If the truck covers the total distance in 5 hours, then
find the first speed of the truck.
68. A dealer sells a toy for ₹ 24 and gains as much per cent as the cost price of the toy. Then find the cost price of [5]
the toy.38319
69. A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 360 km. It would have taken 48 minutes less to travel [5]
the same distance if its speed was 5 km/hour more. Find the original speed of the train.
70. Sum of the areas of two squares is 452 m2. If the difference of their perimeters is 8 m, find the sides of the two [5]

squares.
71. A cottage industry produces a certain number of pottery articles in a day. It was observed on a particular day that [5]

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cost of production of each article (in rupees) was 3 more than twice the number of articles produced on that day.

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If, the total cost of production on that day was ₹ 90, find the number of articles produced and the cost of each
article.
72. If the price of a book is reduced by ₹ 5, a person can buy 4 more books for ₹ 600. Find the original price of the [5]
book.

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73. A cottage industry produces a certain number of toys in a day. The cost of production of each toy (in rupees) was [5]

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found to be 55 minus the number of toys produced in a day. On a particular day, the total cost of production was
₹ 750. We would like to find out the number of toys produced on that day. Represent the situations
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mathematically (quadratic equation).
74. The sum of the ages of a father and his son is 45 years. Five years ago, the product of their ages was four times [5]
the father’s age at that time. Find their present ages.
75. At t minutes past 2 p.m, the time needed by the minute hand of a clock to show 3 p.m. was found to be 3 minutes [5]
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less than t

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