QUESTION BANK

CLASS 10
BBPS NISHATPPURA
 MATHEMATICS CLASS X TERM 1
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The least number which is a perfect square and is divisible by each of 16, 20 and 24 is

(a) 240 (b) 1600 (c) 2400 (d) 3600

2. When 2256 is divided by 17 the remainder would be

(a) 1 (b) 16 (c) 14 (d) None of these

3. Assertion : 13/3125 is a terminating decimal fraction.

Reason : If q = 2m X 5n where m n, are non-negative integers, p/q is a terminating decimal fraction.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

4. When the marbles in a bag are divided evenly between two friends, there is one marble left over.
When the same marbles are divided evenly among three friends, there is one marble left over. When
the marbles are divided evenly among five friends, there is one marble left over. What are the possible
number of marbles in the bag?

(a) 31, 41, 21

(b) 21, 31, 26

(c) 31, 61, 121

(d) 20, 30, 50.

5. A patient admitted to the Jaipur Golden hospital was prescribed a pain medication to be given every 4
hr and an antibiotic to be given every 5 hr. Bandages applied to the patient’s external injuries needed
changing every 12 hr. The nurse changed the bandages and gave the patient both medications at 6:00
A.M. Monday morning. How many hours will pass before the patient is given both medications and has
his bandages changed at the same time? And at what time?

(a) 60 hours, Wednesday at 8 PM (b) 60 hours , Wednesday at 6 PM

(c) 24 hours, Tuesday at 6 AM (d) 12 hours, Monday at 6 PM.

CASE STUDY BASED QUESTION

Direction For Question : (6 - 10) The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency
Situations Fund was created on 28 March 2020, following the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The fund will
be used for combating, and containment and relief efforts against the coronavirus outbreak and similar
pandemic like situations in the future. The allotment officer is trying to come up with a method to
calculate fair division of funds across various affected families so that the fund amount and amount
received per family can be easily adjusted based on daily revised numbers. The total fund allotted for a
village is x3 + 20x2 + 6x + 9. The officer has divided the fund equally among families of the village and
each family receives an amount of x2 + 2x + 2. After distribution, some amount is left.

6. How many families are there in the village?

(a) x + 4 (b) x - 3 (c) x - 4 (d) x + 3

7. If an amount of Rs. 1911 is left after distribution, what is value of x ?

(a) 190 (b) 290 (c) 191 (d) 291

8. How much amount does each family receive?

(a) 24490 (b) 34860 (c) 22540 (d) 36865

9. What is the amount of fund allocated?

(a) Rs. 72,72,759 (b) Rs.75,72,681 (c) Rs. 71,90,586 (d) Rs. 82,74,888

10. How many families are there in the village?

(a) 191 (b) 98 (c) 187 (d) 195

11. Which of the following pair of equations represent a railway track?

(a) 5x + 2y = 11 and 5x – 2y = 7 (b) 5x + 2y = 11 and 2x + 5y = 10

(c) 5x + 2y = 11 and 2.5x + y = 5.5 (d) 5x + 2y = 11 and 5x + 2y = 22.

12. If 55x + 67y = 311 and 67x + 55y = 299, then which of the following statements is correct?

(a) x + y = -1, x – y = 5, x = 2, y = 3 (b) x + y = 5, x – y = -1, x = 2, y = 3

(c) x + y = 5, x – y = -1, x = 3, y = 2 (d) x + y = -1, x – y = 5, x = 3, y = 2

13. Which of the following statements are true for the graph of a line represented by the equation y = x?

(i) line passes through origin (ii) line lies in second and fourth quadrants.

(iii) line lies in first and third quadrants. (iv) line lies only in first quadrant.

(v) line does not pass through (a, a).

(a) I,iii,v (b) I, iii iv (c) ii, iii, iv (d) I, iii.

Direction For Question : (14 -18) Mr.Patidar is owner of Kanha Fun City, an amusement and water park
in Bhopal. The ticket charge for the park is Rs 150 for children and Rs 400 for adult. Generally he does
not go to park and it is managed by team of staff. One day Mr Patidar decided to random check the park
and went there. When he checked the cash counter, he found that 480 tickets were sold and Rs 134500
was collected.

14. Let the number of children visited be x and the number of adults visited be y . Which of the following
is the correct system of equations that model the problem ?

(a) x + y = 480 and 3x + 8y = 2690 (b) x + 2y = 480 and 3x + 4y = 2690

(c) x + y = 480 and 3x + 4y = 2690 (d) x + 2y = 480 and 3x + 8y = 2690

15. How many children visited the park ?

(a) 250 (b) (b) 500 (c) 230 (d) 460

16. How many adults visited the park?

(a) 250 (b) 500 (c) 230 (d) 460

17. How much amount collected if 300 children and 350 adults visited the park?

(a)Rs. 225400 (b)Rs. 154000 (c)Rs. 112500 (d)Rs. 185000

18. One day total visited children and adults together is 750 and the total amount collected is Rs
212500. What are the number of children and adults visited the park ?

(a) (700, 800) (b) (350, 400) (c) (800, 700) (d) (400, 350)

19. The present age of the father is twice the sum of the ages of his 2 children. After 20 years, his age
will be equal to the sum of the ages of his children. What will be the age of the father after 20 years?

(a) 20 years (b) 40 years (c) 30 years (d) 60 years

20. The x coordinate of the point which lies on the line represented by 5x – y = 7 and whose ordinate is
13 is……

(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 7

21. The equation of a line parallel to X axis at a distance of 6 units from origin and lying in second and
fourth quadrant is

(a) x = 6 (b) x = -6 (c) y = 6 (d) y = -6

22. If the system of equations (2p – 1)x + 3y = 5 and 3x + (q – 1)y = 2 has infinitely many solutions then

(a) p = 17/4, q = 11/5 (b) p = -17/4, q = -11/5 (c) p = 4/17, q = 5/11 (d) p = -4/17, q = -5/11

23. Ratio of perimeters of two similar triangles is equal to the ratio of their corresponding

(a) sides (b) altitudes (c) medians (d) all of the above.

24. X and Y are points on sides AB and BC of triangle ABC such that XY ∥ AC and XY divides triangle into
AX
two parts such that area of trapezium ACYX is double of area of triangle BXY, then =¿
AB

1 1 √2−1 √3−1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
√3 √2 √2 √3
25. In an equilateral triangle ABC, AD ⊥ BC , thenwhich of the following is true

(a) 3AB2 = 2AD2 (b) 3AB2 = 4AD2 (c) 4AB2 = 3AD2 (d) 2AB2 = 3AD2

26. Assertion : In ∆ ABC , AB = 24 cm, BC = 10 cm and AC = 26 cm, then ∆ ABC is a right angle triangle.
Reason : If in two triangles, their corresponding angles are equal, then the triangles are similar.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true. A

27. In the given figure,∠ B=90 0, D and E trisect BC. Then 3AC2 + 5AD2

(a) 2AE2 (b) 4AE2 (c) 6AE2 (d) 8AE2

B D E C

28. A tower of height 60 m casts a shadow 40 m long on the ground. The length of shadow of a needle of
height 12 cm (at the same time) will be….
(a) 8 m (b) 8 cm (c) 6 m (d) 6 cm

29. The point P on x -axis equidistant from the points A(- 1, 0) and B(5, 0) is

(a) (2,0) (b) (0,2) (c) (3, 0) (d) (-3,5)

30. The point equidistant from all three vertices of a triangle is called ________ of triangle.

(a) incentre (b) circumcentre (c) centroid (d) orthocenter.

31. The ratio in which the point (2, y ) divides the join of (- 4, 3 ) and (6, 3), hence the value of y is

(a) 2 :3 y = 3 (b) 3 : 2 y = 4 (c) 3 : 2 y = 3 (d) 3 : 2 y = 2

32. A circle is drawn with centre at C(2, -4). The point P(5, -8) lies on the circle. The point which lie in the
exterior of the circle is

(a) (-1, -4) (b) (1, -3) (c) (2, 0) (d) (9, 4)

33. The points (a, b + c), (b, c + a) and (c, a + b)

(a) form an isosceles triangle (b) do not form a triangle

(c) form a scalene triangle (d) form an equilateral triangle

34. The point P which divides the line segment joining the points A(2, -5) and B(5, 2) in the ratio 2 : 3
internally lies in the

(a) I quadrant (b) II quadrant (c) III quadrant (d) IV quadrant

35. If the centroid of a triangle is at origin whose vertices are (a, b), (b, c) and (c, a), then the value of

3(a + b + c) is

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

36. Assertion (A) The point (0,4) lies on X axis and (4,0) lies on Y axis.

Reason (R) If abscissa is 0, the point lies on Y axis and if ordinate is 0 the point lies on X axis.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

37. If sinθ+ cosθ=√ 2cosθ thenthe value of tanθ is

(a) √ 2−1 (b) √ 2+1 (c) −√ 2 (d) √ 2

38. Assertion (A) The value of cossecθ is ½.

Reason (R) The value of sinθ is always less or equal to 1.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

39. Assertion : The value of sinθ=4 /3 is not possible.

Reason : Hypotenuse is the largest side in any right angled triangle.

(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

40. Which of the following statements are not true?

(i) The value of cossecθ∧secθ does not lie between−1∧1.

(ii) The value of θ for which sinθ=cosθ is 90

(iii) The value of sinθdecreases as θ increases from 0 to 90.

(a) only (i) (b) (ii) and (iii) (c) (i) and (iii) (d) (i), (ii) and (iii)

41. If the area of a semi-circular field is 15400 sq m, then perimeter of the field is

(a) 160√ 2 m (b) 260√ 2 m (c) 360√ 2 m (d) 460√ 2 m

(Direction for question 42 and 43.)

Four horses are tied at the corners of a field in the shape of a trapezium ABCD, in which AB is parallel to
CD and AB = 18 m and CD = 32 m and the perpendicular distance between AB and CD is 14 m. If the
length of rope for each horse is 7 m.

42. The area grazed by horses is _____________.

(a) 77 sq m (b) 154 sq m (c) 350 sq m (d) 196 sq m

43. The area ungrazed by the horses is _________.

(a) 350 sq m (b) 154 sq m (c) 196 sq m (d) 273 sq m

44. A letter is chosen at random from the letters of the word ASSASSINATION, then the probability that
6
the letter chosen is a vowel is in the form of , then x is equal to
2 x +1

(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8

45. If the the circumference of a circle is equal to the circumferences of circles whose radii are 11 cm, 13
cm, 15 cm, 17 cm, 19 cm, and 21 cm. The diameter of first circle is ________________.

(a) 96 cm (b) 48 cm (c) 192 cm (d) none of these

46. What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays?

1 2 1 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7 7 53 53

47. All face cards are removed from a pack of cards. Now a card is drawn at random from the well
shuffled deck of remaining cards. The probability of getting a queen is

(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 12/52 (d) 4/52

Direction For Question : (48-49) A box contains cards numbered 11 to 123. A card is drawn at random
from the box.

48. What is the probability that the number of the drawn card is a perfect square number ?

105 8 105 8
(a) (b) (c) (d)
112 113 113 112

49. What is the probability that the number of the drawn card is a multiple of 7?

91 16 105 16
(a) (b) (c) (d)
113 112 113 113

50 Which of the following statements are true for probability of any event?

(i) The probability always lies between 0 and 1.

(ii) The sum of probabilities of elementary events of a random experiment is always less than 1.

(iii) The probability of sure event is 1 and the probability of impossible event is 0.

(iv) P(E) + P( complement of E) = 1

(a) all of the above (b) (ii) and (iii) (c) (i), (iii) and (iv) (d) (iii) and (iv)
ANSWER KEY
1 D 2 A 3 A 4 C 5 B
6 A 7 C 8 D 9 C 10 D
11 D 12 B 13 D 14 A 15 C
16 A 17 D 18 B 19 B 20 A
21 D 22 A 23 D 24 D 25 B
26 B 27 D 28 B 29 A 30 B
31 C 32 D 33 B 34 D 35 A
36 D 37 A 38 D 39 B 40 A
41 C 42 B 43 C 44 B 45 C
46 B 47 B 48 B 49 D 50 D