Cdse Maths
Cdse Maths
6. If the roots of the equation px2 + x + r = 0 are reciprocal to each other, then which one of the
following is correct ?
A) P = 2r B) p = r
C) 2p = r D) p = 4r
𝑏 𝑧 𝑐 𝑥 𝑎𝑏 +𝑥𝑦
8. If 𝑦 + 𝑐 = 1 and 𝑧 + 𝑎 = 1, then what is equal to?
𝑏𝑥
A) 1 B) 2
C) 0 D) -1
13. Which one of the following is a zero of the polynomial 3x3 + 4x2 - 7 ?
A) 0 B) 1
C) 2 D) -1
14. There are two numbers which are greater than 21 and their LCM and HCF are 3003 and 21 respectively.
What is the sum of these numbers ?
A) 504 B) 508
C) 514 D) 528
15. If 𝛼 and 𝛽 are the roots of the equation ax2 + bx + c = 0, theji what is the value of the expression (a + 1)
((3 + 1) ?
𝑎 +𝑏+𝑐 𝑏+𝑐−𝑎
A) B)
𝑎 𝑎
𝑎−𝑏+𝑐 𝑎 +𝑏−𝑐
C) D)
𝑎 𝑎
16. The remainder when 3x3 + kx2 + 5x - 6 is divided by (x + 1) is - 7. What is the value of k ?
A) -14 B) 14
C) -7 D) 7
17. If f(x) and g(x) are pol5m.omials of degree p and q respectively, then the degree of {f(x) ± g(x)} (if it
is non-zero) is
A) Greater than min (p, q) B) Greater than max (p, q)
C) Less than or equal to max (p, q) D) Equal to min (p, q)
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19. What is the value of 𝑐−𝑎 + 1+𝑥 𝑎 −𝑏 +𝑥 𝑐−𝑏 + 1+𝑥 𝑎 −𝑐 +𝑥 𝑏 −𝑐
1+𝑥 𝑏 −𝑎 +𝑥
Where x ≠ 0 ?
A) -1 B) 0
C) 1 D) 3
20. The sum of a number and its square is 20. Then the number is
A) -5 or 4 B) 2 or 3
C) -5 only D) 5 or -4 only
21. If the price of wheat rises by 25%, then by how much percent must a man reduce his consumption in
order to keep his budget the same as before ?
A) 15 % B) 20%
C) 25% D) 30%
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22. .25 of the students who registered did not appear for the examination, 20 of those who appeared passed.
If the number of registered students is 2000, the number who passed is
A) 1920 B) 1056
C) 1020 D) 864
25. A work when done by 10 women is completed in 12 days. The same work can be completed in 8 days
when done by 5 men. How many days will it take to complete when 6 women and 3 men are employed
to perform the same job ?
A) 12 B) 10
C) 8 D) 5
27. A train moving with a speed of 60 km per hour crosses an electric pole in 30 seconds. What is the length
of the train in metres ?
A) 300 B) 400
C) 500 D) 600
28. 120 is distributed among A, B and C so that A’s share is 20 more than B’s and 20 less than C’s. What
is B’s share ?
A) 10 B) 15
C) 20 D) 25
29. In the following table of inverse variation, what are the values of A, B and C respectively ?
M 15 -6 2 C
N -4 A B 60
30. A person borrowed ^ 5,000 at 5% rate of interest per annum and immediately lent it at 5-5%. After two
years he collected the amount and settled his loan. What is the amount gained by him in this transaction
?
A) 25 B) 50
C) 100 D) 200
31. At present the average of the ages of a father and a son is 25 years. After seven years the son will be 17
years old. What will be the age of the father after 10 years ?
A) 44 years B) 45 years
C) 50 years D) 52 years
32. If 5 tractors can plough 5 hectares of land in days, then what is the number of tractors required to plough
100 hectares in 50 days ?
A) 100 B) 20
C) 10 D) 5
34. Which one of the following decimal numbers is a rational number with denominator 37 ?
A) 0-459459459 . . . B) 0-459459459
C) 0-0459459459 . .. D) 0-00459459 . . .
35. The annual income of a person decreases by 64 if the annual rate of interest decreases from 4% to 3-
75%. What is his original annual income?
A) 24,000 B) 25,000
C) 25,600 D) 24,600
37. A gentleman left a sum of 39,000 to be distributed after his death among his widow, five sons and four
daughters. If each son receives 3 times as much as a daughter receives, and each daughter receives twice
as much as their mother receives, then what is the widow’s share ?
A) 1,000 B) 1,200
C) 1,500 D) None of the above.
38. Three numbers which are co-prime to each other, are such that the product of the first two is 286 and
that of the last two is 770. What is the sum of the three numbers ?
A) 85 B) 80
C) 75 D) 70
39. The age of a woman is a two-digit integer. On reversing this integer, the new integer is the age of her
husband who is elder to her. The difference between their ages is one-eleventh of their sum. What is the
different their ages ?
A) 8 years B) 9 years
C) 10 years D) 11 years
40. A passenger train and a goods train are running in the same direction on parallel railway tracks. If the
passenger train now takes three times as long to pass the goods train, as when they are running in
opposite directions, then what is the ratio of the speed of the passenger train to that of the goods train?
(Assume that the trains nm at uniform speeds)
A) 2 : 1 B) 2 : 3
C) 4 : 3 D) 1 : 1
42. An alloy A contains two elements, copper and tin in the ratio of 2 : 3, whereas an alloy B contains the
same elements in the ratio of 3 : 4. If 20 kg of alloy A, 28 kg of alloy B and some more pure copper are
mixed to form a third alloy C which now contains copper and tin in the ratio of 6 ; 7, then what is the
quantity of pure copper mixed in the alloy C ?
A) 3 kg B) 4 kg
C) 5 kg D) 7 kg
43. A quadratic polynomial ax^ + bx + c is such that when it is divided by x, (x - 1) and (x + 1),the
remainders are 3, 6 and 4 respectively. What is the value of (a + b) ?
A) 3 B) 2
C) 1 D) -1
44. If the average of 9 consecutive positive integers is 55, then what is the largest integer ?
A) 57 B) 58
C) 59 D) 60
45. The average of the ages of 15 students in a class is 19 years. When 5 new students are admitted to the
class, the average age of the class becomes 18-5 years. What is the average age of the 5 newly admitted
students
A) 17 B) 17.5
C) 18 D) 18.5
46. A man can row at a speed of x km/hr in still water. If in a stream which is flowing at a speed of y km/hr
it takes him z hours to row to a place and back, then what is the distance between the two places ?
A) z(x2-y2) B) z(x2-y2) C) (x2-y2) D) z(x2-y2)
2y 2x 2Zx x
47. A water tank has been fitted with two taps P and Q and a drain pipe R. Taps P and Q fill at the rate of 12
litres per minute and 10 litres per minute respectively.
Consider the following statements SI, S2 and S3 :
S1 : Pipe R drains out at the rate of 6 litres per minute.
S2 : If both the taps and the drain pipe are opened simultaneously, then the tank is filled 5 hours .
. 45 minutes
S3 : Pipe R drains out (fully) the filled tank in 15 hours 20 minutes.
To know what is the capacity of the tank, which one of the following is correct ?
A) S2 is only sufficient B) SI, S2 and S3 are necessary
C) Any two out of SI, S2 and S3 are sufficient D) None of the above
49. An article is sold at a profit of 32%. If the cost price is increased by 20% and the sale price
remains the same, then the profit percentage becomes
A) 10% B) 12%
C) 15% D) 20%
50. A, B, C, D and E start a partnership firm. Capital contributed by A is three times that contributed by D.
E contributes half of A’s contribution, B contributes one-third of E’s contribution and C contributes two-
third of A’s contribution. If the difference between the combined shares of A, D and E and the combined
shares of B and C in the total profit of the firm is 13,500, what is the combined share of B, C and E ?
(The shares are supposed to be proportional to the contributions)
A) 13,500 B) 18,000
C) 19,750 D) 20,250
What is the angle (approximately) subtended by the Social Services Sector at the centre of the circle ?
A) 45 o B) 46o
o
C)58 D)98o
52. The arithmetic mean of two numbers is 10 and their geometric mean is 8. What are the two numbers ?
A) 15,5 B) 12,8
C) 16,4 D)18,2
53. The arithmetic mean of 11 observations is 11.The arithmetic mean of the first 6 observ9.tions is 10-5
and the arithmetic mean of the last 6 observations is 11*5. What is the sixth observation ?
A) 10.0 B) 10.5
C) 11.0 D) 11.5
56. What angle does the hour hand, of a clock describe in 10 minutes of time ?
A) 1o B) 5o
o
C) 6 D) 10o
58. Each side of a square subtends an angle of 60°at the tip of a tower of height h metres standing at the
centre of the square. If I is the length of each side of the square, then what is h2 equal to ?
A) 2l2 B) l2 C) 3l2 D ) 2l2
2 2 3
3
59. From a height of h units, a man observes the angle of elevation as 𝛼 and angle of depression as 𝛽 of the
top and the bottom respectively of a tower of height H (> 4h). To what further height should he climb so
that the values of angle of elevation and angle of depression get interchanged for the top and bottom of
the tower ?
A) H - h units B) H - 2h units
C) H - 3h units D) H - 4h units
65. ABC is a triangle right angled at C with BC = a and AC = b. If p is the length of the perpendicular from
C on AB, then which one of the following is correct ?
A) a2 b2 = p2 (a2 + b2) B) a2 b2 = p2 (a2 - b2)
C) 2 a2 b2 = p2 (a2 + b2) D) a2 b2 = 2p2 (a2 + b2)
67. Two equal circular regions of greatest possible area are cut off from a given circular sheet of area A.
What is the remaining area of the sheet ?
A) A/2 B) A/3
C) 3A/5 D) 2A/5
68. If the ratio of the radius of the base of a right circular cone to its slant height is 1 : 3, what is the ratio of
the total surface area to the curved surface area ?
A) 5 : 3 B) 3 : 1
C) 4 : 1 D) 4 :3
69. A right circular cone is sliced into a smaller cone and a frustum of a cone by a plane perpendicular to its
axis. The volume of the smaller cone and the frustum of the cone are in the ratio 64 : 61. Then their
curved surface areas are in the ratio
A) 4 :1 B) 16 : 9
C) 64 : 61 D) 81 : 64
70. In a room whose floor is a square of side 10 m, an equilateral triangular table of side 2 m is placed. Four
book-shelves of size 4 m x l m x 9 m are also placed in the room. If half of the rest of the area in the
room is to be carpeted at the rate of Rs 100 per square metre, what is the cost of carpeting
(approximately) ?
A) 7,600 B) 5,635
C) 4,113 D) 3, 200
71. A region of area A bounded by a circle C is divided into n regions, each of area A/n, by drawing circles
of radii r1, r2, r3 …… rn-1 such that r1 < r2< r3 <…… rn-1 concentric with the circle C. If pm rm + 1 where
m = 1, 2, 3, ... (n - 2), then which one of the following is correct?
rm
A) p increases as m increases
B) p decreases as m increases
C) p remains constant as m increases
D) p increases for some values of m as m increases and then decreases thereafter
72. What is the volume of a cone of maximum volume cut out from a cube of edge 2a such that their bases
are on the same plane ?
A) πa3 B) πa3 C) 2 πa3 D) 3πa3
4 3 4
5
73. The radii of two circles are 4.5 cm and 3.5 cm respectively. The distance between the centres of the
circles is 10 cm. What is the length of the transverse common tangent ?
A) 4 cm B) 5 cm
C) 6 cm D) 7 cm
75. The length of a line segment AB is 2 cm. It is divided into two parts at a point C such that AC2 = AB X
CB. What is the length of CB ?
A) 3 5 B) 3 - 5 cm
C) 5 3 cm D) 5 - 1 cm
77. The curved surface area of a right circular cone is 1-76 m^ and its base diameter is 140 cm. What is the
height of the cone ?
A) 10 cm B) 10 2 cm
C) 20 2 cm D) 10 15 cm
82. If the length of a side of a square is increased by 8 cm, its area increases by 120 square cm. What is the
length of a side of the square ?
A) 2.5 cm B) 3.5 cm
C) 4.5 cm D) 5.5 cm
84. Walls (excluding their roofs and floors) of 5 identical rooms having length, breadth and height 6 m, 4 m
and 2-5 m respectively are to be painted. Paints are available only in cans of 1 L and one litre of paint
can be used for painting 20 square metres. What is the number of cans required for painting ?
A) 10 B) 12
C) 13 D) 14
85. A rectangular pathway having width 4-5 m and length 10 m will have to be tiled using square tiles of
side 50 cm. Each packet of such tiles contains 20 pieces and costs ^ 100. What will be the total cost of
tiles for the pathway ?
A) 1,200 B) 1,100 C) 1,000 D) 900
86. A cube of maximum volume (each corner touching the surface from inside) is cut from a sphere. What is
the ratio of the volume of the cube to that of the sphere ?
A) 3 : 4π B) 3 : 2π
C) 2 : 3 π D) 4 : 3π
87. If the ratio of the circumference of the base of a right circular cone of radius r to its height is 3 : 1, then
what is the area of the curved surface of the cone ?
2𝜋𝑟 2 4𝜋 2 +9
A) 3πr2 B)
3
𝜋𝑟 2 𝜋 2 +1 𝜋𝑟 2 4𝜋 2 +9
C) D)
3 3
88. A wire is in the form of a circle of radius 98 cm. A square is formed out of the wire. What is the length
of a side of the square ? (Use 71 = 22/7)
A) 146 cm B) 152 cm
C) 154 cm D) 156 cm
91. What is the area of the largest circular disc cut from a square of side 2 units ?
𝜋
A) π square unit B) 1 square unit
C) π2 square units D) 2 square units
92. The product of the lengths of the diagonals of a square is 50 square units. What is the length of a side of
the square ?
A) 5 2 units B) 5 units
C) 10 units D) 2 5 units
93. The surface area of a closed cylindrical box is 352 square cm. If its height is 10 cm, then what is its
diameter ? (Use π 22 )
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94. A square and an equilateral triangle have the same perimeter. If the diagonal of the square is 6 2cm,
then what is the area of the triangle ?
A) 12 2 cm2 B) 12 3 cm2
C) 16 2 cm2 D) 16 3 cm2
95. What is the area of the region bounded internally by a square of side of length ‘a’ and externally by a
circle passing through the four comers of the square ?
2
96. In the figure given below, XA and XB are two tangents to a circle. If < AXB = 50° and AC is parallel to
XB, then what is < ACB equal to ?
C
50o X
B
B
A) 70o B) 65o
C) 60o D) 55o
97. In the figure given below, p, q, r are parallel lines; I and m are two transversals.
l m
A D
p
B E
q
F
C r
98. In the equilateral triangle ABC given below, AD = DB and AE = EC. If I is the length of a side of the
triangle, then what is the area of the shaded region ?
D E
B C
A) 3 3 l2 B) 3 l2 C) 3 3 l2 D) ) 3 l2
16 16 32 32
O
Q
𝛼
S T
P
A) 𝛼 B) 2𝛼
C) 90o – 𝛼 D) 180o - 2𝛼
100. In the figure given below, two equal chords cut at point P. If AB = CD = 10 cm, OC = 13 cm (O is the
centre of the circle) and PB = 3 cm, then what is the length of OP ?
O
C
A P
D B
A) 5 cm B) 6 cm
C) 2 29 D) 2 37