Baba Shaheed Singh Public Sr. Sec.

School, Balian
Paper- Maths
Class - 10th
M.M. 50 Time :1Hr:30Min.

1. Part – A
Attempt All Questions. Each Question Carries one mark.
1. The probability of getting exactly one head in tossing a pair of coins is? .
1 1
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 2
2. The probability of getting a spade card from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards
1 1 12 3
(a) 13 (b) 4 (c) 13 (d) 4

3. Given that LCM (91,82 ) = 182 ,then HCF (91,26) is ?

(a)13 (b) 26 (c) 7 (d) 9
4. How many prime factors are there in prime factorization of 5005 ?
(a) 2 (b)4 (c) 6 (d)7
11
5. The decimal expansion of the rational number 200 will terminate after
(a) One decimal place (b) two decimal places (c) three decimal places
(d) more than 3 decimal places
6. Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency :
(a) mean (b) median (c)range (d) mode
7. The Classmark of a class interval is
1
(a) Lower limit + upper limit (b) 2 (lower limit + upper limit) (c)upper limit –
1
lower limit (d) 4 (lower limit + upper limit)
8. The length of tangents drawn from an external point to the circle.
(a) Are equal (b) are not equal (c) sometimes are equal (d) are not defined
9. Number of tangents drawn at a point of the circle is /are
(a) one (b) two (c) none (d) infinite
10. The distance between two parallel tangents of a circle of radius 4 cm is
(a) 2 cm (b) 4 cm (c)6 cm (d) 8cm ( 10×1=10)
 Part – B
Attempt All Questions Each Question Carries two marks.
1. A bag contains 4 red balls and 6 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the
bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn is
(a) Red ? (b) not red ?
2. Using Euclid’s division Algorithm find HCF of 455 and 42
3. The length of a tangent from a point A at distance 5 cm from the centre of the
circle is 4 cm. Find the radius of the circle. (3×2=6)
Part – C
Attempt All Questions Each Question Carries three marks.
1. Find the LCM and HCF of the following pair of integers
455 ,78
2. A die is thrown once . Find the probability of getting.
(a) A prime number (b) a number lying between 2 and 6 (3) odd number
3. Find the mean of the following data
C.I 10-30 30-50 50-70 70-90 90-110
15 18 25 10 2
Frequency

4. Prove that the lengths of tangents drawn from an external point to a circle are
equal.
5. Find the mode of the following data
C.I 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100
Frequency 6 8 10 12 6

6. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that

(a)5 will not come up either time ? (b)5 will come up at least once ?( 6 × 3 = 18 )
Part – D
Attempt All Questions Each Question Carries four marks.

1. Find the median of the following data.

C.I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
5 10 18 30 20 12 5
 Frequency
2. Prove that √ 5 is irrational.
3. Without actually performing the long division state whether the following
Rational number will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non
terminating repeating decimal expansion if terminate after how many
decimal points will it terminate
19 127
(a) 250 (b) 910
4. The following distribution gives the daily income of 50 workers of a
factory
Daily 100-120 120-140 140-160 160-180 180-200
Income(In
Rs)
Number of 12 14 8 6 10
workers
Convert the distribution above to less than type commulative frequency
distribution and draw its ogive. ( 4 × 4 = 16 )