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1. Explain any encryption- decryption technique. Use it to encrypt and decrypt INDIA IS MY COUNTRY. 2. Make a grid of natural numbers from 400-500. Find all the prime numbers in the grid. Identify all pairs of twin primes in the grid that you have made. Can all the prime numbers identified by you in the grid be represented as 6n-1 or 6n+1, where n is a natural number? Justify your answer. 3. Let p be any prime number and a&b be any two natural numbers. Justify what all possible values a and b take to satisfy I. II. III. IV. V. =1 = p2 =5 =1

where ab means a multiplied by b. 4. Categorize following into Primary and Secondary data sources: (i) Official Websites (ii) Magazines (iii) Newspaper (iv) Journals (v) Telephone (vi) Interview (vii) Questionnaire (viii) Survey (ix) Official Reports (x) Internet 5. Justify your choice of mean, mode or median in the following cases: I. A shopkeeper needs to stock his shop with different brands of chocolates. He does a survey in his locality about the preferences of people and needs to decide the brand for which he should place maximum order. II. Suppose an N.G.O. wants traffic light to be put up at a crossing. They collect data of number of cars passing the crossing on each day and needs to convince the appropriate authority.

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6. (a) Discuss some situations where Gamblers fallacy is encountered. (b) Discuss the validity of the statements: Tomorrow it will either rain or not rain. Therefore the probability of it remaining tomorrow is half. 7. Suppose you are an umbrella seller and want to put up a stall in New Year Fair (Mela). You would like to sell three type of umbrellas: Type I: Plain black for elderly people Type II: Delicate and light colored for ladies Type III: Different shapes and bright prints for children and teen ages How will you decide on the percentage of each type of umbrella, you would like to put up at the stall? 8. Prepare a small questionnaire to get information about the mode of transport used by the students of your class. 9. (a) Answer the questions given below on the basis of the following graph. (5 marks)

45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0

40 33 20 16 15 Birth Rate 30

(a)What does the above graph represent? (b)Name the country with the maximum and minimum birth rate. (c)Which two countries has nearly the same birth rates. (d)Find the mode of the above graph. (e)Find the average birth rate.

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9. (b) Answer the following questions on basis of the following graph:(5marks)

70 number of students 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 marks 8 12 22 35 40 60 52 40

(a)State the type of distribution represented by the above chart and prepare it. (b)How many students are under consideration in the above chart? (c)How many students scored marks between 50-60?Determine the class size. (d)What type of class intervals are shown in the above chart? (e) find the mid-value of the class interval 70-80. 10. Construct a problem of your own in the data form and represent that data in a Pi-Chart, Can you make Bar-Chart for same. 11. Discuss the information that you gather from the following figure.
Miscellaneous, 5% Clothing, 8%

Education, 14%

Food, 56% House Rent, 17%

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12. Given below is a news-item reported in the newspaper, Hindustan Times, dated 20 September, 2013.

Based on the information provided in the news item, the following questions could be asked: Part A. Answer any 5: (1 mark each) I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. Name the two kinds of graphs that are used to represent data. What kind of sources might have been used to collect the given data? What is the length of the period for which the data has been collected? Which among the given years reported the highest and lowest number of dengue cases? During which period of the year, dengue infection is at the peak? Can you see any significant trend in the reported dengue cases? What can you infer from the given data if the infection continues to decline at the same rate since 2012 to 2013? 4

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Part B. Answer any One ( 5 marks) Seema, a health worker working in an urban slum in Delhi does not find the given report very reliable as she feels that only one out of 10 dengue cases are reported to the hospital. She feels that many people living in Delhi slum do not go to hospital for treatment and hence such cases are not registered in the hospital records. VIII. Based on Seemas observation, what can you say is the probability that a potential dengue case would be reported? What would be the correct number of potential dengue cases this year, if you were to believe Seemas observation? Explain your results.

OR IX. If you were asked to collect data on the same problem, how would you plan your methodology to get the most reliable estimation of potential dengue cases? Discuss in detail specifically focusing on sample, sources of data, questionnaire and methods of representation?

13. What are the first time voters really concerned about? Based on a national representative sample of 5,014 randomly selected respondents across 28 states in the age bracket of 18 22 years, who will vote for the first time in 2014, this was reported in a newspaper. Following were the findings in percentages:

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Answer any One of the questions: (10 marks) (i). Write a brief report that brings out the information that is tabulated in the above table. Are there any other relevant issues that the youth of today is concerned about? OR (ii). What questions would you like to pose so that the numerical data given in the table can be analysed? Prepare a questionnaire that would bring out the relevant data needed for the study. Indicate the close questions and open ended questions that you are using in your questionnaire. 14. The Indian army has hidden the numbers of soldiers (in hundreds) that are posted at various stations in the maze below. In this maze, the correct path to find the number of soldiers at each station is to be determined by the prime numbers. This series will reveal the path to the end (from the first row to the last row). Moves can be made up, down, left and right, but not diagonally. Find the number of soldiers at each station. Write down the steps that you have used to reach your solutions.