Assignment
Grade: X
Subject: Mathematics
Chapter: 01
Topic: Real Numbers
1 Mark Questions
Q1. The LCM of two numbers is 180 and their product is 10800. Find their HCF.
Q2. The HCF of two numbers is 82 and their LCM is 366. Find their product.
Q3. Find the LCM of 670 and 450.
Q4. For any integer a and 3, there exists unique integers q and r such that a = 3q + r. Find the possible values
of r.
Q5. Decompose 32760 into prime factors.
Q6. Write the HCF of smallest composite number and smallest prime number.
Q7. Write the LCM of smallest composite number and smallest prime number.
315
Q8. Without actually performing long division, state whether will have terminating decimal expansion
16
or non-terminating repeating decimal expansion.
427
Q9. Without actually performing long division, state whether will have terminating decimal expansion
625
or non-terminating repeating decimal expansion.
619
Q10. Without actually performing long division, state whether will have terminating decimal expansion
325
or non-terminating repeating decimal expansion.
2Marks Questions
Q11. Using Euclid's Division Algorithm, find the HCF of 2436 and 172
Q12. Using Euclid's Division Algorithm, find the HCF of 2000 and 150
Q13. Find the largest positive integer that will divide 1518 and 782 leaving remainders 10 and 2
respectively.
Q14. Prove that 2 + √ 3 is an irrational number given that √ 3 is an irrational number.
Q15. Find pairs of natural numbers whose LCM is 78 and HCF is 13.
Q16. There are 576 boys and 448 girls in a school that are to be divided into equal sections of either boys or
girls alone. Find the total number of sections thus formed.
Q17. Two alarm clocks ring their alarms at regular intervals of 50 seconds and 48 seconds. If they first beep
together at 12 noon at what time will they beep again for the first time?
43
Q18. The decimal expansion of the rational number 4 3 will terminate after how many places?
2 .5
51
Q19. Write whether the rational number will have terminating decimal expansion or non-terminating
1500
repeating decimal expansion.
3Marks Questions:
1
Q20. Prove that is an irrational number.
√5
Q21. Prove that 1 + √ 2 is an irrational number.
Q22. Two tankers contain 936 litres and 450 litres of petrol respectively. Find the maximum capacity of the
container which can measure the petrol of either tanker in exact number of litres.
Q23. In a seminar, the number of participants in German, English and French are 319, 198 and 220
respectively. Find the numbers of rooms required to house them if in each room, the same number of
participants are to be accommodated and all of them must belong to the same language.
Q24. Three people go for a morning walk together. Their steps measure 70 cm, 84 cm and 112 cm
respectively. What is the minimum distance travelled when their steps will exactly match after starting the
walk assuming that their walking speed is same?
Q25. Find the HCF and LCM of 288, 360 and 384 by prime factorisation method.
Q26. Find the largest number which divides 615 and 963 leaving a remainder 6 in each case.
Q27. What will be the least possible number of planks if three pieces of timber 42m, 49m and 63m long
have to be divided into planks of the same length?
4 Marks Questions
Q28. Three sets of physics, chemistry and mathematics books have to be stacked in such a way that all the
books are stored topic wise and the number of books in each stack is the same. The number of physics books
is 192, the number of chemistry books is 240 and the number of mathematics books is 168. Determine the
number of stacks of physics, chemistry and mathematics books.
Q29. There is a circular path around a sports field. Sonia takes 32 minutes to drive one round of the field,
while Ravi takes 24 minutes for the same. Suppose they both start at the same point and at the same time,
and go in the same direction. After how many minutes will the meet again at the starting point?
Q30. The HCF of 2472, 1284 and a third number is 12. If their LCM is 23 ×32 ×5 ×103 ×107 . Then find the
third number.
