Mathematics Assignment Class X
Mathematics Assignment Class X
1. Find the largest number that will divide 398, 436 and 542 leaving remainders 7, 11, and 15
respectively.
2. HCF and LCM of two numbers is 9 and 459 respectively. If one of the numbers is 27, find the
other number.
3. Can two numbers have 15 as their HCF and 175 as their LCM? Give reasons.
4. Prove that 3 + 2√3 is an irrational number.
5. In a school, there are two Sections A and B of class X. There are 48 students in Section A and 60
students in Section B. Determine the least number of books required for the library of the school
so that the books can be distributed equally among all students of each Section.
6. There are 104 students in class X and 96 students in class IX in a school. In a house examination,
the students are to be evenly seated in parallel rows such that no two adjacent rows are of the
same class. (2013)
(a) Find the maximum number of parallel rows of each class for the seating arrangement.
(b) Also, find the number of students of class IX and also of class X in a row.
(c) What is the objective of the school administration behind such an arrangement?
7. Amita, Sneha, and Raghav start preparing cards for all persons of an old age home. In order to
complete one card, they take 10, 16 and 20 minutes respectively. If all of them started together,
after what time will they start preparing a new card together?
8. There is a circular path around a sports field. Priya takes 18 minutes to drive one round of the
field. Harish takes 12 minutes. Suppose they both start at the same point and at the same time
and go in the same direction. After how many minutes will they meet ?
(a) 36 minutes
(b) 18 minutes
(c) 6 minutes
9. Three farmers have 490 kg, 588 kg and 882 kg of wheat respectively. Find the maximum capacity
of a bag so that the wheat can be packed in exact number of bags.
(a) 98 kg
(b) 290 kg
(c) 200 kg
(d) 350 kg
10. If two positive integers A and B can be ex-pressed as A = xy³ and B = x⁴y²z; x, y being prime
numbers, the LCM (A, B) is
(a) xy²
(b) x4y²z
(c) x4y3
(d) x4y3z
11. The largest number which divides 60 and 75, leaving remainders 8 and 10 respectively, is
(a) 260
(b) 75
(c) 65
(d) 13
12. The product of two consecutive natural numbers is always:
(a) prime number
(b) even number
(c) odd number
(d) even or odd
13. If HCF (16, y) = 8 and LCM (16, y) = 48, then the value of y is
(a) 24
(b) 16
(c) 8
(d) 48
14. If the sum of zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 3x2 – kx + 6 is 3, then find the value of k
15. If the sum of the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = (k2 – 14) x2 – 2x – 12 is 1, then find the value of
k.
16. If α and β are the zeroes of a polynomial such that α + β = -6 and αβ = 5, then find the
polynomial.
17. Find the condition that zeroes of polynomial p(x) = ax2 + bx + c are reciprocal of each other.
18. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial √3 x2 – 8x + 4√3. Verify the relationship between
zeros and coefficient
19. Find a quadratic polynomial, the sum and product of whose zeroes are 0 and −3/5 respectively.
Hence find the zeroes.
20. If α and β are the zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 2x2 + 5x + k, satisfying the relation, α2 + β2 + αβ
= 21/4 then find the value of k.
21. Find a quadratic polynomial whose zeroes are
22.
36.
37. The lengths of 50 leaves of a plant are measured correct to the nearest millimetre and the data
obtained is represented in the following table
40. Find the mean, mode and median of the following frequency distribution: