Prof.

Mani Srinivasan Math Foundation – II (10th grade) Final Exam, 2015/10/26

Instructions:
 This is a take home test. I trust that my students will be honest. And parents will oversee them.
 If you have done your HWs, you can solve this paper fully in the allotted time. Else, pray!!
 Total score = 100 marks. Time limit = 120 minutes.
 To set you expectations, 70 is a very good score to achieve, provided you are honest with your time.

9 marks
1. The longest chord in a circle with center O has a length 10cm. Chord AB is at a distance of 4cm
from the center. Chord CD measures 8cm and is parallel to chord AB
a. Find the length of chord AB
b. Find how far chord CD is from the center.
c. What special name does quadrilateral ABCD have?
d. Find all possible areas of quadrilateral ABCD.
e. What is the longest perimeter possible for quadrilateral ABCD?

15 marks
2. A Diwali party was attended by N couples, each with one child. Every child wished every other
child – “Happy Diwali”. Every adult wished every other adult – “Happy Diwali” except his/her
own spouse, of course.
a. If a total of 1200 “Happy Diwali” were uttered, how many people were at the party?
b. In addition if all the men shook hands with each other once, how many handshakes
were there.
c. If each woman brought exactly M dishes, and the total number of dishes was a perfect
cube, what is the smallest M possible?
d. The children stood in the shape of a regular polygon. What was each internal angle of
the polygon and how many diagonals did it have?

12 marks
3. Country Xanado is in the shape of a square. Travelling in a fast train at 60m/s it takes 4 hrs to
travel from one corner to the diagonally opposite corner. It has 4 states A, B, C, D. A is a square
at the center of Zanado. B is the shape of a uniform-width pathway around A. C is the shape of a
uniform-width pathway around B. Likewise D around C. All the four states have the same area.
a. Find the width of the pathway B.
b. Find the perimeter of the state C.
c. Find the area of the state D.
d. Each state can adopt a color from the colors of a rainbow as it’s state’s official color. No
two states can have the same color. How many color permutations are possible?
e. If states can have the same color how many permutations are possible?
f. If states having adjoining boundaries cannot have the same color, then how many
permutations are possible?

8 marks
4. The quadratic function x2 + (k-2)x - (2k-3) is positive for all values of x
a. Express this as a constraint in terms of it’s discriminant. (This will be an equality or
inequality in terms of k)
b. Solve the equality or inequality in k, and find the values of k possible.
10 marks
5. Modi, Aravind, and Sonia left to school at 10am (from their respective homes) and they all
reached school within an hour. When Modi arrived he saw the minute and hour hand of the
school clock made 90 degrees. When Sonia arrived she made a similar observation. When
Aravind arrived the hour and minute hand were pointing exactly away from each other. Modi
arrived before Aravind. And no two people arrived at the same time. Find all of their arrival
times at school precisely.

8 marks
6. When logY is plotted against logX, we get a straight line with a slope 3 and an intercept of -2 in
the vertical axis
a. Find an expression for Y in terms of X.
b. At what point(s) will X and Y have the same value?

10 marks
7. Bank A offers 8% per annum interest compounded semi-annually. Bank B offers a rate r% per
annum interest compounded monthly. X and Y deposit an equal sum in banks A and B
respectively. At the end of one year Y has 2% more money than X. Find r.

10 marks
8. A sphere is cut into two equal hemispheres. The total surface area of the resulting hemispheres
is 100 sqcm.
a. Find the volume of the original sphere
b. If the sphere were melted and recast to a cube what would the length of its largest
diagonal be?
c. What fraction of the cube’s surface area is the original sphere’s surface area?
d. If the cube is sliced into thin symmetrical sheets, how many sheets must it be cut into so
that the total surface area of the thin sheets is 10 times the cube’s.

10 marks
9. If log2 = 0.30, and log3 = 0.47 then
a. which has more digits – 23000 or 32000
b. find log5 using log2.
c. Write 540 as product of powers of prime numbers
d. estimate the number of digits in 540540

8 marks
10. Consider a 3-dimensional space, i.e. not merely an X and Y axis but also a Z axis.
a. What is the locus (path/region traced) of the point P which moves such that it’s distance
from the Z axis is 4cm. Just give the name of the shape.
b. Further, if point P cannot be more than 5cm from the XY plane, then what is the surface
area of the object traced by P.