< ee S BAe hyd Lohr ee yaa DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL GHAZIABAD HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION (2019-20) CLASS X SUBJECT - MATHEMATICS ‘Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80 General Instructions: (i) All questions are compulsory. i) The question paper consists of 40 questions divided into four sections A, B, C and D. (iii)Section A contains 20 questions of 1 mark each. Section B contains 6 questions of 2 marks each. Section C contains 8 questions of 3 marks each. Section D contains 6 questions of 4 marks each. (iv) There is no overall choice, (iv) Use of calculators is not permitted. SECTION A The graph of the polynomial p(x) intersects the x-axis three times in distinct points, then which of the following could be an expression for p(x) = (A4~ 4x-P +3 (B) 3 14r+4 (©) 10xt 4 () 10x 14x Ee Which of the following is not a solution of the pair of equations 3x —2y= 4 and 6x—4y= 8? (A)x=2,ya1 B)r4y=4 Or6y=7 @O)x5,y=3 The value of k for which 3 is a root of the equation kx*—7x+ 3 = 0, is : (A)-2 @)2 ©3 @)3 ‘The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot (Ay7 (By 14 21 (D) 28 ‘The distance between the points (0, 5) and (-5, 0) is (ays (B) v2 (C25 @)10 Sec*0 if 6 = 30° is equal to: a 1 2 + As ®); OF OF To divide a line segment AB in the ratio 4:7, a ray AX is drawn first such that 2BAX is an acute angle and then points X:, X2, X3, ... are located at equal distances on the ray AX and the point B is joined to (A) Xe ® Xn (©) X10 (D) Xo The height of a tower is 10m. Find length of its shadow when sun’s altitude is 45° (@) 10m )20m (©) 30m (D)40 m\UqG «The perimeter ofthe shaded figure is \oe If the radii of two cylinders are in the ratio 4:3 then find the ratio of their volumes if heights are same. Q11“ Inthe given figure, a circle touches all the four sides of a quadrilateral ABCD whose sides are AB = 6em, BC = 7em and CD = 4em. Find AD. 4cm cc D 7em A B 6cm ‘A-bag contains 3 red balls, 5-white balls and 7 black balls. What is the probability that a ball drawn from the bag at random will be neither red nor black? 3 The sum and the product of the zeroes of a quadratic polynomial are ~ Fand> respectively, then the find the polynomial. a For what value of k the two simultaneous equations x + y= 2 and x — ky = 1 will have no solution LetS For what value of a the equation x°-4x + a=0 has real and equal roots. ALG Find the distance ofthe point (ae0s®, asnd) from the origi. QU Inthe figure, AD =4 em, BD =3 cm and CB = 12cm find cot A 4 om em BQi8_In the given figure, two circles with centres A and B touch each other externally at k. Find the length of PQ (in em) Iftwo cubes of 19cm edge each are joined end to end, then find the surface area of the resulting cuboid or 26° ‘The length of a wire which is tied as a boundary of semi-circular park is 72m. Find the radius of the semi-circular park. SECTION B of Ifa, are the zeroes of polynomial jx) =x? — px —c, then find the value of (@+1)@+1). i Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting (a) One head (b) At least 2 heads ot ‘The sum of two numbers is 18 and their product is $6, Find the numbers. ‘Two tangents making an angle of 120° with each other, are drawn to a circle of radius 6 cm, then ~*~ Find the length of each tangent. eos Find the value of tan 45° geometrically Two tangents PA and PB are drawn to the cirele with centre O such that 2 APB=120°. Prove » that OP = 2AP SECTIO! or Find zeroes of the polynomial 5t? + 12t + 7 by factorisation method and verify the relation between zeroes and coefficients of the polynomial. A boat goes 16 km upstream and 24 km downstream in 6 hrs. Also it covers 12 km upstream and 36 km downstream in the same time. Find the speed of the boat upstream and downstream. Cee ‘Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers appearing on the dice is (7? (ii) a prime number? (iti) 17 If A(1, 2), BG, »), C(x, 6) and D(3, 5) are the vertices of parallelogram ABCD then © find xand y.ot 18 {ca rectangular park in a residential society, with AD= 9m. On one side, atin flower bed CEB is to be made such that ZBEC= 60°. Find the perimeter of the flower E B “| Vv D i zs Construct a circle with radius 6 cm: Construct two tangents PA and PB to the circle if the point P is at a distance of 10 cm from the centte of the circle. \Q3 Inthe given figure, wo circular flower beds have been shown on two sides of square lawn ABCD of side 56 m. If the centre of each circular flower bed is the point of intersection O of the diagonals of the square lawn, find the sum of the areas of the lawn and the flower beds A B ral 56m oN < 966 Trains and eight of cone are Sem and 2em. How many balls of 1 cm diameter can be moulded out of the cone? SECTION D § Draw the graph for the following equations : y—x=1; x+y=3 Solve for x and y using this graph. Shade the region bounded by the two lines and the x- axis. \Q36 Acar covers a distance of 90 km at a uniform speed. Had the speed been 15 knViar more, car would have taken 30 minutes less for the journey. Find the original speed of the car. & The angle of elevation of the top of a tower at a point on the ground is 45°. After going 40 m towards the foot of the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of tower changes to 60" . Find the height of the tower. (Use V3 =1.73) Construct an isosceles triangle whose base is 6 cm and altitude is 4 cm. Then construct another triangle whose sides are > times the corresponding sides of the first triangle. ox es The internal and external radii of a hollow spherical shell are 3 cm and 5 cm respectively. If it is melted to form a solid cylinder of height 102 cm, find the diameter of the cylinder. If7 sin’ 0 +3 cos? @=4, find the value of sec @ + cosec @ g 4