Maths (EM)

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PREPARATORY EXAMINATION - 2024

Period : 3.00 Hrs. Subject : Maths Marks : 80
UK
Q.I. Four Choices are given for each of incomplete statement questions. Choose the correct answer
and write the complete answer along with its letter of Alphabet: 8x1=8
1. For any positive integers a and b, HCF a, b   LCM a, b  is
A) a  b B) a b C) a  b D) a  b
2. 10th term of an A.P 5, 9, 13 ............... is
A) 36 B) 31 C) 41 D) 21
3. In ABC , DE || BC , DE  5cm, BC  8cm and AD  3.5cm , then the length of AB is.
A) 5.6 cm B) 4.8 cm C) 5.2 cm D) 6.4 cm
4. If 2 is one of the zeroes of a polynomial P  x   x 2  x  k , the value of 'K' is.
A) 2 B) -2 C) -6 D) 6
5. The empirical relationship between the three measures of central tendency is.
A) 2 median=3 mode +2 mean B) 3 median=2 mode + mean
C) 3 median= mode +2 mean D) None of the above
6. The formula used to find the curved surface area of a cone of radius (r), height (h) and slant height
(l) is.
A)  rl B) 2  r  l 
C) 2  r r  h  D)  r 2 h / 3
7. The maximum number of tangents that can be drawn to a circle from an external point is.
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
2 sin 600
8. The value of is.
1  tan 2 600
A) sin 600 B) sin 300 C) cos 600 D) cos 450
Q.II. Answer the following. 8x1=8
9. What is the Area of a circle, whose perimeter is 44cm.
10. What is the p/q form of 43.123456789 ?
11. If 1  2  3  ........n terms  28, then find 'n' ?
12. Write the quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are 2 and -3.
13. State Phthagoras theorem.
14. The angle of elevation of a ladder leaning against a wall is 450 and the foot of the ladder is 10m
away from the wall, find the length of the ladder ?
15. sin   7 / 25, cos   24 / 25 , find the value of sin 2   cos2 
16. Find the roots of the quadratic equation x 2  7 x  12  0
Q.III. Answer the following . 8x2=16
17. Prove that 5 is an irrational number..
18. Solve for x and y :
2x  3 y  9
3x  4 y  5
19. Find the roots of the quadratic equation 9 x 2  3 x  20  0 by formula method.
20. A child has a die whose six faces show the letters are given below :
A B C D E A. The die is thrown once, what is the probability of getting.
a) A b) D
21. Find the distance between the point A 3, 4 and B 6,  3 .
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22. E is a point on the side D produced of a parallelogram ABCD and BE
intersects CD at F, show that ABE ~ CFB .
-OR-
5 cm
AO BO 1
In the given figure   and AB  5cm .
OC OD 2
Find the value of DC.
23. Draw a circle of radius 3cm. Construct a pair of tangents to it from a point 5cm away from the circle.
sin 
24. Prove that  cos ec  cot 
1  cos 
-OR-
sin   2 sin 3 
Prove that  tan 
2 cos3   cos 
Q.IV. Answer the following questions: 9x3=27
25. The sum of digits of a two-digit number is 7. If the digits are reversed and the resulting number is
decreased by2, twice the original number is obtained. Find the original number ?
-OR-
10 years hence, the age of x will be 2 times that age of y . 10 years ago, the age of x was 6 times that
of age of y . What are their present ages ?
26. If two zeroes of the polynomial P  x   x 4  6 x 3  26 x 2  138 x  35 are 2  3 and 2  3 , find other
zeroes.
27. The diagonal of rectangular field is 60 mts more than the shorter side. If the longer side is 30 mts
more than the shorter side, find the sides of the field.
-OR-
A boat takes 5 hours to go 300 km downstream. It takes the same time to go 150 km upstream
calculate.
a. the speed of the boat in still water.
b. the speed of the stream.
28. Show that the points A 2  2  B  2 , 1 and C 5, 2 are the vertices of a right-angled triangle ABC.
-OR-
Find the values of 'k' so that the area of the triangle with vertices 1,  1 4, 2k  and  k ,  5 is
24sq. units.
29. Prove that the tangents drawn from an external point are equal.
30. If a chord of circle of radius 10 cm subtend and angle of 600 at the center of the circle. Find the area
of the corresponding segment of the circle. ( Take   3.14, 3  1.7 )
-OR-
Find the area of the shaded region where ABCD is a square of side 10cms and
semicircle are drawn with each side of square as diameter.
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31. Find the mean of the following frequency distribution.
Classes 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100
Frequency 15 18 21 29 17
32. The following table gives the production yield per hectare of paddy of 100 farms of a village.
Yield (kg/hect) 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80
No. of farms 2 8 12 24 38 16
Change the distribution to a more than type and draw its ogive.
33. Construct a triangle of sides 4cm, 5cm and 6cm and then a triangle similar to it whose sides are 2/3 of
the corresponding side of it.
Q.V. Answer the following : 4x4=16
34. Solve the pair of equations graphically.
2 x  y  8 and
x  y 1
35. If the sum of first 7 term of an A.P is 49 and that of 17 terms is 289. Find the sum of first 'n' terms ?
-OR-
The sum of the third and seventh terms of an A.P is 6 and their product is 8. Find the sum of first
sixteen terms of the A.P.
36. The angle of elevation of the top of a cliff as seen from the top and bottom of a building are 450 and
600 respectively. If the height of the building is 24cm. Find the height of the cliff ?
37. State and Prove basic Proportionality Theorem.
Q.VI. Answer the following : 1x5=5
38. A frustum of a cone has its radii of 15cm and 7cm with height of 6cm is completely filled with water.
Find the volume of water and curved surface area of frustum. ( Take   3.14 )
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