Joe Mama Institute Of Mathematics

Joe Mama City, Joe Mama World, 696969

MATHEMATICS HALF YEARLY

Class 10 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80

General Instructions:

1. This Question paper contains - five sections A, B, C, D, and E.

2. Section A has 18 MCQs and 02 Assertion-Reason-based questions of 1 mark each.

3. Section B has 5 Very Short Answer (VSA)-type questions of 2 marks each.

4. Section C has 6 Short Answer (SA)-type questions of 3 marks each.

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5. Section D has 4 Long Answer (LA)-type questions of 5 marks each.

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6. Section E has 3 case-based integrated units of assessment (4 marks each) with sub-parts of 1, 1, and 2 marks each

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7. All questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice in 2 questions of 5 marks, 2 Qs of 3 marks, and 2
questions of 2 marks has been provided. An internal option has been provided in the 2-mark questions of Section E.

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1. Represent the situation in the form of the quadratic equation: [5]

A train travels a distance of 480 km at a uniform speed. If the speed had been 8 km/hr less, then it would have
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taken 3 hours more to cover the same distance. We need to find the speed of the train.
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2. The product of two consecutive positive integers is 306. Form the quadratic equation to find the integers. [2]
Represent the situation in the form of a quadratic equation.
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3. Check whether x2 + 3x + 1 = (x - 2)2 is a quadratic equation. [2]

4. Check the equation is quadratic equation or not: (x - 2) (x + 1) = (x - 1) (x + 3) [2]

5. Find the nature of the roots of the quadratic equation 2x2 - 6x + 3= 0. If the real roots exist, find it. [2]

6. Is it possible to design a rectangular mango grove whose length is twice its breadth and the area is 800 m2? If so, [2]
find its length and breadth.
7. In figure (i) and (ii), DE || BC. [2]
Find EC in (i) and AD in (ii)

8. In figure DE || AC and DF || AE. Prove that BF

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EC
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 9. E and F are points on the sides PQ and PR respectively of a △PQR. For PQ = 1.28 cm, PR = 2.56 cm, PE = 0.18 [2]
cm and PF = 0.36 cm, state whether EF || QR.
10. A straight highway leads to the foot of a tower. A man standing at the top of the tower observes a car at an angle [5]
of depression of 30°, which is approaching the foot of the tower with a uniform speed. Six seconds later, the
angle of depression of the car is found to be 60°. Find the further time taken by the car to reach the foot of the
tower from this point.
11. A 1.2 m tall girl spots a balloon moving with the wind in a horizontal line at a height of 88.2 m from the ground. [2]
The angle of elevation of the balloon from the eyes of the girl at any instant is 60°. After some time, the angle of
elevation reduces to 30°. Find the distance traveled by the balloon during the interval.

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As observed from the top of a 75 m high lighthouse from the sea-level, the angles of depression of two ships are [3]
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30o and 45o. If one ship is exactly behind the other on the same side of the lighthouse, find the distance between
two ships.
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13. From the top of a 7 m high building, the angle of elevation of the top of a cable tower is 60o and the angle of [2]

depression of its foot is 45o. Determine the height of the tower.

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14. A bag contains a red ball, a blue ball and a yellow ball, all the balls being of the same size. Kritika takes out a [2]
ball from the bag without looking into it. What is the probability that she takes out the
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i. yellow ball?
ii. red ball?
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iii. blue ball?

15. Savita and Hamida are friends. What is the probability that both will have [2]
i. different birthdays?
ii. the same birthday? (ignoring a leap year)
16. Fill in the blanks: [1]
Probability of an event E + Probability of the event not E = ________.
17. Fill in the blanks: [1]
The probability of an event that cannot happen is ________. Such an event is called ________.
18. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, [2]
6, 7, 8 (see figure) and these are equally likely outcomes. What is the probability that it will point at:

i. 8?
ii. an odd number?

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 iii. a number greater than 2?
iv. a number less than 9?
19. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting [2]
i. a prime number;
ii. a number lying between 2 and 6
iii. an odd number.
20. Gopi buys a fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at random from a tank [2]
containing 5 male fish and 8 female fish. What is the probability that the fish taken out is a male fish?

21. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn at random from the box, find the [2]
probability that it bears

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i. a two-digit number

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ii. a perfect square number
iii. a number divisible by 5.

22. i. Two dice, one blue and one grey, are thrown at the same time. Complete the following table: [3]
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Event: Sum on 2 dice 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Probability 1 5 1
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ii. A student argues that there are 11 possible outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Therefore, each of
them has a probability . Do you agree with this argument? Justify your answer.
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23. A lot consists of 144 ball pens of which 20 are defective and the others are good. Nuri will buy a pen if it is [2]
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good, but will not buy if it is defective. The shopkeeper draws one pen at random and gives it to her. What is the
probability that
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i. she will buy it?

ii. she will not buy it?
24. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that: [3]
i. 5 will not come up either time?
ii. 5 will come up at least once?
[Hint: Throwing a die twice and throwing two dice simultaneously are treated as the same experiment]
25. Is the given statement correct or not correct? [2]
If two coins are tossed simultaneously there are three possible outcomes- two heads, two tails or one of each.
Therefore, for each of these outcomes, the probability is .
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26. Find the area of the rhombus if its vertices are (3, 0), (4, 5), (-1, 4) and (-2, -1) taken in order. [2]
[Hint: Area of a rhombus = (product of its diagonals)]
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27. Find the coordinates of the points which divide the line segment joining A(-2, 2) and B(2, 8) into four equal [5]
parts.
28. If A and B are (-2, -2) and (2, -4) respectively, find the coordinates of P such that AP = AB and P lies on the [2]
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line segment AB.

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29. Find the coordinates of a point A, where AB is the diameter of a circle whose centre is (2, -3) and B is (1, 4). [2]
30. If (1, 2), (4, y), (x, 6) and (3, 5) are the vertices of a parallelogram taken in order, find x and y. [3]
31. The first and the last terms of an A.P are 17 and 350 respectively. If the common difference is 9, how many [3]
terms are there and what is their sum?
32. The first term of an AP is 5, the last term is 45 and the sum is 400. Find the number of terms and the common [3]
difference.
33. How many terms of the AP : 9, 17, 25, …. must be taken to give a sum of 636? [3]

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