Exam Practice Questions

1. On GT road, three consecutive traffic lights change after 36, 42 and 72 sec. If the lights are first
switched off on 9:00 am, then at what time will they change simultaneously? [CBSE 2012]
2. For what value of 𝑛, 2𝑛 × 5𝑛 ends with 5?
3. If ‘𝑝’ is a prime number then what is the L.C.M of 𝑝, 𝑝 2 , 𝑝 3 ?
4. “The product of three consecutive positive integers is divisible by 6”. True or False. Justify.
5. Can the number 6𝑛 , where 𝑛 being a natural number, ends with the digit 5? Give reason. [NCERT
Exemplar]
6. If the H.C.F of 210 and 55 is expressible in the form of 210 × 5 + 55𝑦, find ‘𝑦’.
7. The product of a non-zero rational and an irrational number is always?
8. Prove that one of every three consecutive positive integers are divisible by 3.
9. It is given that √2 is irrational, prove that (5 + 3√2) is an irrational number. [CBSE 2018]
10. Check whether 15𝑛 can end with digit zero for any natural number 𝑛. [CBSE 2012, 11]
11. Prove that 2 + √5 is an irrational number. [CBSE 2014]
12. Prove that if 𝑥 and 𝑦 are both odd positive integers, then 𝑥² + 𝑦² Is even but not divisible by 4.
13. Prove that 𝑛²– 𝑛 is divisible by 2 for every positive integer ‘𝑛’.
14. Find the H.C.F of 65 and 117 and express it in the form 65𝑚 + 117𝑛.
15. Find the largest positive integer that will divide 398, 436 and 542 leaving remainders 7, 11 and
15 respectively.
16. Find the greatest number of six digits exactly divisible by 24, 15 and 36.
17. Find the least number that is divisible by all numbers from 1 to 5 (both inclusive)
18. A forester wants to plant 66 mango trees, 88 orange trees and 110 apple trees in equal rows (in
terms of number of trees). Also, he wants to make distinct rows of trees (i.e. only one type of
trees in one row). Find the number of minimum rows.
19. The ratio of two numbers 15:11 and their HCF is 13. Find the numbers.
20. The sum of two numbers is 528 and their HCF is 33, then find the number of pairs satisfying the
above condition.
21. A class teacher says to the three students Sanjeev, Anjali and Paras for making greeting cards.
Each person take time 15, 20, 25 minutes respectively for making these cards.
i. If all of them making card together, then after what time they will prepare a new card
together?
ii. Suppose if all of they start working at same time, in how much time they work together?
22. The numbers 525 and 3000 are both divisible by 3, 5, 15, 25 and 75. What is the HCF of 525 and
3000? Justify your answer. [NCERT Exemplar]
23. Ravi and Shikha drive around a circular sports field. Ravi takes 16 min to complete one round,
while Shikha completes the round in 20 min. If both start at the same point, at the same time
and go in the same direction, then after how much time will they meet at the starting point?
[CBSE 2012]
24. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min respectively.
After how many minutes they will toll together?
25. Two brands of chocolates are available in packs of 24 and 15 respectively. If I need to buy an
equal number of chocolates of both kinds, what is the least number of boxes of each kind I
would need to buy?

Class X (CBSE) Worksheet 7

By Shubham Nikam