FACULTY RECRUITMENT TEST

CATEGORY-D
Formal School Education/ VIII

MATHEMATICS
PAPER A
Time: 1 Hour

Maximum Marks: 40

Name:.................................................................................

Marks:

Subject:...........................................

Instructions

Attempt all questions.

PAPER-A has only one part. Each question carries two marks.

Calculators and log tables are not permitted.

1.

Find c if gcd of f (x) = x + cx x + 2c and g (x) = x + cx 2 is a linear polynomial.

2.

Solve the equation : x 10x + 26x 10x + 1 = 0.

3.

If a + b + c = 1, a + b + c = 9 and a + b + c = 1, find

4.

Determine all real numbers satisfying the inequality

5.

45 games were played at a chess tournament with each contestant playing one against each of
others. How many participants are there?

6.

The radius of the incircle of a triangle is 24 cm. The segments into which one side is divided by the
point of contact are 36 cm and 48 cm. Find the lengths of the other two sides of the triangle.

7.

In a triangle ABC, the incircle touches the sides BC, CA and AB respectively at D, E, F. If the radius of
the incircle is 4 units. If BD, CE and AF are consecutive integers. Find the sides of the triangle.

8.

Water is flowing at the rate of 5 km/hr through a pipe of diameter 14 cm into a rectangular tank which
is 50 m long an 44 m wide. Determine the time in which the level of the water in the tank will rise by
7 cm.

9.

The elevation of a tower at a station A due north of it is and at a station B due west of A is B. If AB =
d, then find the height of the tower.

10.

If a cos b sin = c, then find the value of a sin + b cos .

1 1 1
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a b c

1
log 2x 1 log x a 1 .
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11.

If x sin + y cos = sin cos and x sin = y cos , then find the value of x + y .

12.

A person on tour has Rs. 360 for his expenses. If he extends his tour for 4 days, he has to cut down
his daily expenses by Rs. 3. Find the original duration of the tour.

13.

Solve x 3 x 4

34

33 2

14.

Students of a class are made to stand in rows. If one student is extra in a row, there would be 2 rows
less. If one student is less in a row there would be 3 rows more. Find the number of students in the
class.

15.

If the polynomial f (x) = x 6x + 16x 25x + 10 is divided by another polynomial x 2x + k, the

remainder comes out to be x + a, find k + a.

16.

If d is the HCF of 56 and 72, find x and y satisfying d = 56x + 72y.

17.

ABCD is a parallelogram, in which P and Q are the middle points of BC and CD respectively. Then
area of triangle APQ = x area of parallelogram ABCD. What will be x.

18.

Two circles of unit radius touch each other and each of them touches internally a circle of radius two.
Find the radius of the circle which touches all the three circles.

19.

If a = 1 + log102 log105,
b = 2 log103
c = log10m log105,
then find m, if a + b = 2c.

20.

A man sells an article at 5% above its cost price. If he had bought it at 5% less than what he paid for it
and sold it at Rs. 2 less, he would have gained 10%. Find the cost price of the article.

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