ARYABHATT ACADEMY

CASE STUDY
Class 10 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 56

Question No. 1 to 4 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Rainbow is an arch of colours that is visible in the sky after rain or when water droplets are present in the atmosphere.
The colours of the rainbow are generally, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Each colour of the rainbow

makes a parabola. We know that any quadratic polynomial p(x) = ax2 + bx + c (a ≠ 0) represents a parabola on the
graph paper.

1. The graph of a rainbow y = f(x) is shown in the figure. Write the number of zeroes of the curve.
2. If the graph of a rainbow does not intersect the x-axis but intersects y-axis at one point, then how many zeroes will it
have?
3. If a rainbow is represented by the quadratic polynomial p(x) = x2 + (a + 1) x + b, whose zeroes are 2 and -3, find the
value of a and b.
4. The polynomial x2 - 2x - (7p + 3) represents a rainbow. If -4 is a zero of it, find the value of p.
Question No. 5 to 8 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
The below picture are few natural examples of parabolic shape which is represented by a quadratic polynomial. A
parabolic arch is an arch in the shape of a parabola. In structures, their curve represents an efficient method of load, and
so can be found in bridges and in architecture in a variety of forms.

5. In the standard form of quadratic polynomial, ax2 + bx + c, what are a, b and c?

6. If the roots of the quadratic polynomial are equal, what is the discriminant D?

7. If α and 1

α
are the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial are 2x2 - x + 8k, then find the value of k?
8. What is the relation between zeros and coefficient for a quadratic polynomial?
Question No. 9 to 12 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]

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An asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, and later extended in hatha
yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of pose or position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and
balancing poses. In the figure, one can observe that poses can be related to representation of quadratic polynomial.

9. Which type the shape of the poses shown in figure?

10. In the graph, how many zeroes are there for the polynomial?

11. Write two zeroes in the shown given graph?

12. How many zeroes are possible for a quadratic polynomial?

Question No. 13 to 16 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Two friends Govind and Pawan decided to go for a trekking. During summer vacation, they went to Panchmarhi. While
trekking they observed that the trekking path is in the shape of a parabola. The mathematical representation of the track
is shown in the graph.

13. What are the zeroes of the polynomial whose graph is given?
14. What will be the expression of the given polynomial p(x)?
15. What is the product of the zeroes of the polynomial which represents the parabola?

16. In the standard form of quadratic polynomial, ax2 + bx + c, whar are a, b, and c?
Question No. 17 to 20 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Basketball and soccer are played with a spherical ball. Even though an athlete dribbles the ball in both sports, a
basketball player uses his hands and a soccer player uses his feet. Usually, soccer is played outdoors on a large field and
basketball is played indoor on a court made out of wood. The projectile (path traced) of soccer ball and basketball are in

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the form of parabola representing quadratic polynomial.

17. Which type the shape of the path traced shown in given figure?
18. Why the graph of parabola opens upwards?
19. In the below graph, how many zeroes are there?

20. What is the condition for the graph of parabola to open downwards?
Question No. 21 to 24 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
In a pool at an aquarium, a dolphin jumps out of the water travelling at 20 cm per second. Its height above water level

after t seconds is given by h = 20t - 16t2.

21. Find zeroes of polynomial p(t) = 20t - 16t2.

22. Which of the following types of graph represents p(t)?

a) b)

c) d)

23. What would be the value of h at t = ? Interpret the result.

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24. How much distance has the dolphin covered before hitting the water level again?
Question No. 25 to 28 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Rachna and her husband Amit who is an architect by profession, visited France. They went to see Mont Blanc Tunnel
which is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under the Mont Blanc Mountain in the Alps, and has a parabolic

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cross-section. The mathematical representation of the tunnel is shown in the graph.

25. What will be the expression of the polynomial given in diagram?

26. What is the value of the polynomial, represented by the graph, when x = 4?

27. If the tunnel is represented by -x2 + 3x - 2. Then what is its zeroes?

28. What is sum of zeros and product of zeros for -x2 + 3x - 2?
Question No. 29 to 32 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
While designing the school year book, a teacher asked the student that the length and width of a particular photo is
increased by x units each to double the area of the photo. The original photo is 18 cm long and 12 cm wide.

29. Write an algebraic equation depicting the above information.

30. Write the corresponding quadratic equation in standard form.
31. What should be the new dimensions of the enlarged photo?

32. Can any rational value of x make the new area equal to 220 cm2?
Question No. 33 to 36 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
The tradition of pottery making in India is very old. In fact, it is older than Indus Valley Civilization. The shaping and
baking of clay articles has continued through the ages. The picture of a potter is shown below:
A potter makes a certain number of pottery articles in a day. It was observed on a particular day the cost of production
of each article(in ₹) was one more than twice the number of articles produced on that day. The total cost of production
on that day was ₹ 210.

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33. Taking number of articles produced on that day as x, form a quadratic equation in x.
34. Find the number of articles produced and the cost of each article.
35. Find the cost of production of 15 articles.
36. Find the number of articles made by Potter in a day if the total cost of production is ₹ 1575.
Question No. 37 to 40 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
The angry Arjun carried some arrows for fighting with Bheeshm. With the half of the arrows, he cut down the arrows
thrown by Bheeshm on him and with six other arrows, he killed the charioteer of Bheeshm. With one arrow each, he
knocked down respectively the chariot, flag and the bow of Bheeshma. Finally, with one more than four times the
square root of arrows, he laid Bheeshm unconscious on an arrow bed.

37. If Arjun had x arrows then by how many arrows he cut down arrows thrown by Bheeshm?
38. If Arjun had x arrows then by how many arrows he laid Bheeshm unconscious on arrow bed?
39. Find the total number of arrows Arjun had.
40. From a quadratic equation by the no of arrows used by Arjuna?
Question No. 41 to 44 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]

Michael throws a ball with a speed of 14 m/s which follows the curve = -5t2 + 14t + 3 where h represents height in
meters and time t in seconds.

41. Find the possible values of t when the ball touches the ground.
42. Find the maximum height attained by the ball.
43. What is the vertical component of velocity at hmax?

44. Find the position of ball at t = 18.

Question No. 45 to 46 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
In the picture given below, one can see a rectangular in-ground swimming pool installed by a family in their backyard.
There is a concrete sidewalk around the pool of width x m. The outside edges of the sidewalk measure 7 m and 12 m.

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The area of the pool is 36 sq. m.

45. Based on the information given above, form a quadratic equation in terms of x.
46. Find the outer dimension of the concreate sidewalk.
Question No. 47 to 48 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [4]
Shreya has a field with a flowerbed and grassland. The grassland is in the shape of rectangle while flowerbed is in the
shape of square. The length of the grassland is found to be 3 m more than twice the length of the flowerbed. Total area

of the whole land is 1260 m2.

47. If the length of the square is x m then find the total length of the field.
48. What will be the perimeter of the whole figure in terms of x?
Question No. 49 to 50 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [2]

Ramesh, a farmer, wishes to fence off his rectangular field of given area 1500 m2. The length of the field lies along a
straight river. A wire of length 110 m is required for the fencing assuming that along the river, no fencing is needed for
the field.

49. Write the perimeter and the area of the rectangular field in terms of x and y.
50. What are the dimensions of the rectangular field?
Question No. 51 to 52 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions: [2]
Social work aims at fulfilment of human needs. Social workers aim to open the doors of access and opportunity for
those who are in greatest need. Free education is a great social work. By doing so, we can remove illiteracy from our
society.

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Rohan, being a social worker, wants to donate his land to the Village Panchayat for opening of a school.

Rohan's land is in the form of a rectangel of dimension 500 m × 400 m. The Village Panchayat decides to leave the
area on all the four sides of the land for grass and flowers. If width of x m land is kept for grass and flowers on all the
four sides (as shown in Figure);

51. Find the lengths PQ and QR if area of grass and flowers region surrounding PQRS is 118400 m2.
52. Also, find the perimeter of the rectangle PQRS.

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