them is noted.

Find the probability of getting each sum from 2

Important Questions & Answers For Class to 9 separately.

10 Maths Chapter 15 Probability Q.5: A coin is tossed two times. Find the probability of getting
Q. 1: Two dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability at most one head.
of getting
Q.6: An integer is chosen between 0 and 100. What is the
(i) the same number on both dice. probability that it is

(ii) different numbers on both dice. (i) divisible by 7?

Q. 2: A bag contains a red ball, a blue ball and a yellow ball, all (ii) not divisible by 7?
the balls being of the same size. Kritika takes out a ball from the
Q. 7: If P(E) = 0.05, what is the probability of ‘not E’?
bag without looking into it. What is the probability that she
takes out the Q. 8: 12 defective pens are accidentally mixed with 132 good
ones. It is not possible to just look at a pen and tell whether or
(i) yellow ball?
not it is defective. One pen is taken out at random from this lot.
(ii) red ball? Determine the probability that the pen is taken out is a good
one.
(iii) blue ball?
Q. 9: A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that
Q.3: One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards.
Calculate the probability that the card will (i) 5 will not come up either time? (ii) 5 will come up at least
once?
(i) be an ace,
[Hint: Throwing a die twice and throwing two dice simultaneously are treated
as the same experiment]
(ii) not be an ace.
Q.10: A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a
Q.4: Two dice are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, number less than 3?
respectively. They are thrown, and the sum of the numbers on
Q.11: If the probability of winning a game is 0.07, what is the
probability of losing it?
 (i) a prime number on each dice?
Q.12: The probability of selecting a blue marble at random from
(ii) a total of 9 or 11?
a jar that contains only blue, black and green marbles is 1/5.
Q.1: A canal is 300 cm wide and 120 cm deep. The water in the
The probability of selecting a black marble at random from the
canal is flowing at a speed of 20 km/h. How much area will it
same jar is 1/4. If the jar contains 11 green marbles, find the
irrigate in 20 minutes if 8 cm of standing water is desired?
total number of marbles in the jar.
Q.2: Two cones have their heights in the ratio 1 : 3 and radii in
Q.13: The probability of selecting a rotten apple randomly from
the ratio 3 : 1. What is the ratio of their volumes?
a heap of 900 apples is 0.18. What is the number of rotten
apples in the heap? Q.3: A cubical ice-cream brick of edge 22 cm is to be distributed
among some children by filling ice-cream cones of radius 2 cm
Q.14: A bag contains 15 white and some black balls. If the
and height 7 cm up to its brim. How many children will get the
probability of drawing a black ball from the bag is thrice that of
ice cream cones?
drawing a white ball, find the number of black balls in the bag.
Q.4: Three cubes of a metal whose edges are in the ratio 3:4:5
Practice Questions for Class 10 Maths Chapter 15 are melted and converted into a single cube whose diagonal is
Probability 12√3 cm. Find the edges of the three cubes.

1. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of Q.5: Find the number of solid spheres each of diameter 6 cm
drawing a blue ball is double that of a red ball, find the number of blue
balls in the bag. that can be made by melting a solid metal cylinder of height 45
2. A card is drawn from an ordinary pack and a gambler bets that it is a cm and diameter 4 cm.
spade or an ace. What are the odds against his winning this bet?
3. A bag contains 12 balls out of which x are white. (i) If one ball is drawn
at random, what is the probability that it will be a white ball? (ii) If 6 Long Answer Type Questions
more white balls are put in the bag, the probability of drawing a white
ball will be double that in case (i). Find x. Q.1: Rasheed got a playing top (lattu) as his birthday present,
4. Five male and three female candidates are available for selection as a which surprisingly had no colour on it. He wanted to colour it
manager in a company. Find the probability that a male candidate is
selected.
with his crayons. The top is shaped like a cone surmounted by
5. A box contains cards numbered 6 to 50. A card is drawn at random a hemisphere. The entire top is 5 cm in height, and the diameter
from the box. Calculate the probability that the drawn card has a of the top is 3.5 cm. Find the area he has to colour. (Take π =
number that is a perfect square.
22/7)
6. In a single throw of a pair of different dice, what is the probability of
getting
 m2. (Note that the base of the tent will not be covered with
canvas.)

Q. 2: Mayank made a bird-bath for his garden in the shape of a

cylinder with a hemispherical depression at one end, as shown
in the figure. The height of the cylinder is 1.45 m, and its radius
is 30 cm. Find the total surface area of the bird-bath. (Take π = Q. 5: A solid toy is in the form of a hemisphere surmounted by a
22/7) right circular cone. The height of the cone is 2 cm, and the
diameter of the base is 4 cm. Determine the volume of the toy. If
a right circular cylinder circumscribes the toy, find the
difference between the volumes of the cylinder and the toy.
(Take π = 3.14)

Solution:

Q.3: 2 cubes each of volume 64 cm3 are joined end to end. Find
the surface area of the resulting cuboid.

Q. 6: A spherical glass vessel has a cylindrical neck 8 cm long,

2 cm in diameter; the diameter of the spherical part is 8.5 cm.
Q. 4: A tent is in the shape of a cylinder surmounted by a By measuring the amount of water it holds, a child finds its
conical top. If the height and diameter of the cylindrical part are volume to be 345 cm3. Check whether she is correct, taking the
2.1 m and 4 m respectively, and the slant height of the top is 2.8 above as the inside measurements, and π = 3.14.
m, find the area of the canvas used for making the tent. Also,
find the cost of the canvas of the tent at the rate of Rs. 500 per Solution:
 base is 6 cm. Find the area of the metallic sheet used to make
the bucket, where we do not take into account the handle of the
bucket. Also, find the volume of water the bucket can hold.
(Take π = 22/7)

Practice Questions for Class 10 Maths Chapter 13

Q. 7: A cone of height 24 cm and radius of base 6 cm is made Surface Areas and Volumes
up of modelling clay. A child reshapes it in the form of a sphere. 1. How many shots each having a diameter of 3 cm can be made from a
Find the radius of the sphere. cuboidal lead solid of dimensions 9cm × 11cm × 12cm?
2. Two solid cones A and B are placed in a cylindrical tube, as shown in
Q. 8: Selvi’s house has an overhead tank in the shape of a the figure. The ratio of their capacities is 2:1. Find the heights and
capacities of cones. Also, find the volume of the remaining portion of
cylinder. This is filled by pumping water from a sump (an the cylinder.
underground tank) which is in the shape of a cuboid. The sump
has dimensions 1.57 m × 1.44 m × 95cm. The overhead tank has
a radius of 60 cm and a height of 95 cm. Find the height of the
water left in the sump after the overhead tank has been
completely filled with water from the sump which had been full. 3. Marbles of diameter 1.4 cm are dropped into a cylindrical beaker of
diameter 7 cm containing some water. Find the number of marbles that
Compare the capacity of the tank with that of the sump. (Use π should be dropped into the beaker so that the water level rises by 5.6
= 3.14) cm.
4. How many cubic centimetres of iron is required to construct an open
box whose external dimensions are 36 cm, 25 cm and 16.5 cm
Q. 9: Metallic spheres of radii 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm, provided the thickness of the iron is 1.5 cm. If one cubic cm of iron
respectively, are melted to form a single solid sphere. Find the weighs 7.5 g, find the weight of the box.
radius of the resulting sphere. 5. A metallic right circular cone 20 cm high and whose vertical angle is
60° is cut into two parts at the middle of its height by a plane parallel to
its base. If the frustum so obtained be drawn into a wire of diameter
Q. 10: An open metal bucket is in the shape of a frustum of a 1/16 cm, find the length of the wire.
cone, mounted on a hollow cylindrical base made of the same 6. A solid right circular cone of height 120 cm and radius 60 cm is placed
metallic sheet as shown in the figure. The diameters of the two in a right circular cylinder full of water of height 180 cm such that it
touches the bottom. Find the volume of water left in the cylinder, if the
circular ends of the bucket are 45 cm and 25 cm, the total radius of the cylinder is equal to the radius of the cone.
vertical height of the bucket is 40 cm and that of the cylindrical 7. A pen stand made of wood is in the shape of a cuboid with four conical
depressions and a cubical depression to hold the pens and pins,
 respectively. The dimension of the cuboid is 10 cm, 5 cm and 4 cm.
Radius = r = 4 cm, θ=30°
The radius of each of the conical depressions is 0.5 cm, and the depth
is 2.1 cm. The edge of the cubical depression is 3 cm. Find the volume Area of sector = [𝜃/360]×𝜋𝑟2
of the wood in the entire stand.
7. Calculate the perimeter of an equilateral triangle if it inscribes
8. From a solid cube of side 7 cm, a conical cavity of height 7 cm and
radius 3 cm is hollowed out. Find the volume of the remaining solid. a circle whose area is 154 cm2
9. A solid right circular cone is cut into two parts at the middle of its height
by a plane parallel to its base. Find the ratio of the volume of the Long Answer Type Questions
smaller cone to the whole cone.
10. The sum of the radius of base and height of a solid right circular Q.1: The cost of fencing a circular field at the rate of Rs. 24 per
cylinder is 37 cm. If the total surface area of the solid cylinder is 1628
sq. cm, find the volume of the cylinder. metre is Rs. 5280. The field is to be ploughed at the rate of Rs.
0.50 per m2. Find the cost of ploughing the field (Take π = 22/7).
1. If the radius of a circle is 4.2 cm, compute its area and
circumference. Q.2: The wheels of a car are of diameter 80 cm each. How many
complete revolutions does each wheel make in 10 minutes
2. What is the area of a circle whose circumference is 44 cm?
when the car is travelling at a speed of 66 km per hour?
3. Calculate the area of a sector of angle 60°. Given, the circle
Q.3: Find the area of the sector of a circle with a radius of 4 cm
has a radius of 6 cm.
and of angle 30°. Also, find the area of the corresponding major
4. A chord subtends an angle of 90°at the centre of a circle sector (Use π = 3.14)
whose radius is 20 cm. Compute the area of the corresponding
major segment of the circle.

5. A square is inscribed in a circle. Calculate the ratio of the

area of the circle and the square.

6. Find the area of the sector of a circle with a radius of 4cm and
of angle 30°. Also, find the area of the corresponding major Q.4: Find the area of the segment AYB shown in the figure, if
sector. the radius of the circle is 21 cm and ∠ AOB = 120°. (Use π =
22/7).
Solution:
 Q.6: A round table cover has six equal designs as shown in the
figure. If the radius of the cover is 28 cm, find the cost of
making the designs at the rate of Rs. 0.35 per cm2. (Use 3 = 1.7)

Solution:

Q.5: Find the area of the shaded design in the given figure,
where ABCD is a square of 10 cm and semicircles are drawn
with each side of the square as diameter. (Use π = 3.14).

Q.7: In the figure, AB and CD are two diameters of a circle (with

centre O) perpendicular to each other and OD is the diameter of
the smaller circle. If OA = 7 cm, find the area of the shaded
region (pink and yellow regions together).

Solution:
 6. The length of the minute hand of a clock is 14 cm. Find the area swept
Q.8: In the figure, O is the centre of a circle such that diameter
by the minute hand in 5 minutes.
AB = 13 cm and AC = 12 cm. BC is joined. Find the area of the 7. A pipe of wire 22 cm long is bent into the form of an arc of a circle
shaded region. (take π = 3.14) subtending an angle of 60° at its centre. Find the radius of the circle.
[use π = 22/7]
8. Find the area of the shaded region in the figure, where arcs are drawn
with centres A, B, C and D intersect in pairs at midpoints P, Q, R and S
of the sides AB, BC, CD and DA respectively of a square ABCD of side

12 cm. [use π = 3.14]

9. Three semicircles each of diameter 3 cm, a circle of diameter 4.5 cm

Practice Questions For Class 10 Maths Chapter 12 and a semicircle of radius 4.5 cm are drawn in the given figure. Find
Areas Related to Circles the area of the shaded region.

1. A calf is tied with a rope of length 6 m at the corner of a square grassy

lawn of side 20 m. If the length of the rope is increased by 5.5m, find
the increase in the area of the grassy lawn in which the calf can graze.
2. Find the radius of a circle whose circumference is equal to the sum of
the circumferences of two circles of radii 15 cm and 18 cm.
3. In the given figure, ABC is a quadrant of a circle of radius 14 cm and a
semicircle is drawn with BC as diameter. Find the area of the shaded 10. In the figure, a square OABC is inscribed in a quadrant OPBQ. If OA =
(in yellow colour) region. 15 cm, find the area of the shaded region. (use π = 3.14)

4. Find the area of the minor segment of a circle of radius 14 cm, when
the angle of the corresponding sector is 60°.
5. If the difference between the circumference and the radius of a circle is Q.1: The shadow of a tower standing on level ground is found to
37 cm, then using π = 22/7, calculate the circumference (in cm) of the be 40 m longer when the Sun’s altitude is 30° than when it is
circle.
60°. Find the height of the tower.
Solution: Q. 4: An observer 1.5 metres tall is 20.5 metres away from a
tower 22 metres high. Determine the angle of elevation of the
top of the tower from the eye of the observer.

Q. 2: A tree breaks due to a storm and the broken part bends so

that the top of the tree touches the ground making an angle of
30° with it. The distance between the foot of the tree to the point
where the top touches the ground is 8 m. Find the height of the
Q. 5: The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from two
tree.
points distant s and t from its foot are complementary. Prove
. that the height of the tower is √st.

Q. 3: Two poles of equal heights are standing opposite each

other on either side of the road, which is 80 m wide. From a
point between them on the road, the angles of elevation of the
top of the poles are 60° and 30°, respectively. Find the height of
the poles and the distances of the point from the poles.

In triangle ABC,

tan θ = AC/BC = h/s ………..(i)

In triangle APC,

tan (90° – θ) = AC/PC = h/t

cot θ = h/t ………..(ii)

Q.6: The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from a certain
point is 30°. If the observer moves 20 metres towards the tower,
the angle of elevation of the top increases by 15°. Find the
height of the tower.

Practice Questions For Class 10 Maths Chapter 9

Some Applications of Trigonometry
1. The angle of elevation of the top of a hill at the foot of a tower is 60°
and the angle of elevation of the top of the tower from the foot of the
hill is 30°. If the tower is 50 m high, what is the height of the
Q.7: A circus artist is climbing a 20 m long rope, which is tightly
hill? [Answer: 150 m]
stretched and tied from the top of a vertical pole to the ground. 2. A bridge across the river makes an angle of 45° with the river bank. If
Find the height of the pole, if the angle made by the rope with the length of the bridge across the river is 150 m, what is the width of
the river? [Answer: 75√2 m]
the ground level is 30°.
3. There is a small island in the middle of a 100 m wide river and a tall
tree stands on the island. P and Q are the points directly opposite to
each other on the two banks, and in a line with the tree. If the angles of
elevation of the top of the tree from P and Q are 30° and 45°
respectively, find the height of the tree. [Answer: 36.6.m]
4. From a point 20m away from the foot of a tower, the angle of elevation
of the top of the tower is 30°. Find the height of the tower. [Answer:
11.56 m]
5. A flagstaff stands at the top of a 5m high tower. From a point on the
ground, the angle of elevation of the top of the flagstaff is 60° and from
the same point, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 45°.
Q.8: From the top of a 7 m high building, the angle of elevation Find the height of the flagstaff. [Answer: 3.65 m]
of the top of a cable tower is 6. A tower subtends an angle α at a point A in the place of its base and
the angle of depression of the foot of the tower at a point b ft. just
above A is β. Prove that the height of the tower is b tan α cot β.
60° and the angle of depression of its foot is 45°. Determine the
7. A vertical tower stands on a horizontal plane and is surmounted by a
height of the tower. flagstaff of height 7m. From a point on the plane, the angle of elevation
of the bottom of the flagstaff is 30° and that of the top of the flagstaff is
45°. Find the height of the tower. [Answer: 9.55m]
 8. The angle of elevation of a cloud from a point h metres above the
Suppose a triangle ABC, right-angled at C.
surface of a lake is θ and the angle of depression of its reflection in the
lake is φ. Prove that the height of the cloud above the lake is h[(tan φ +
tan θ)/ (tan φ – tan θ)].
9. The angles of depression of the top and the bottom of an 8 m tall
building from the top of a multi-storeyed building are 30° and 45°,
respectively. Find the height of the multi-storeyed building and the
distance between the two buildings. [Answer: 4(3 + √3) m]
10. A straight highway leads to the foot of a tower. A man standing at the
top of the tower observes a car at an angle of depression of 30°, which
is approaching the foot of the tower at a uniform speed. Six seconds
later, the angle of depression of the car is found to be 60°. Find the
Question 4: If 3 cot A = 4, check whether (1 – tan2A)/(1 + tan2A) =
time taken by the car to reach the foot of the tower from this cos2 A – sin2 A or not.
point. [Answer: 3 sec]

Question. 1 : In ∆ ABC, right-angled at B, AB = 24 cm, BC = 7 Solution:

cm.
Let us consider a triangle ABC, right-angled at B.

Question 5: In triangle PQR, right-angled at Q, PR + QR = 25 cm

Determine: and PQ = 5 cm. Determine the values of sin P, cos P and tan P.
(i) sin A, cos A
(ii) sin C, cos C

Question 2: If Sin A = 3/4, Calculate cos A and tan A.

Question.3: If ∠A and ∠B are acute angles such that cos A = cos

Question 6: Evaluate 2 tan2 45° + cos2 30° – sin2 60°.
B, then show that ∠ A = ∠ B.
Solution: Since we know,
Solution:
Question 7: If tan (A + B) =√3 and tan (A – B) =1/√3, 0° < A + B ≤ Introduction to Trigonometry Class 10 Questions for
90°; A > B, find A and B. Practice
Question 8: Show that : Solve the following class 10 Maths trigonometry problems:

(i) tan 48° tan 23° tan 42° tan 67° = 1 1. If sec θ + tan θ = 7, the compute the value of sec θ – tan θ
2. If tan θ + cot θ = 5, then find the value of tan2θ + cot2θ.
(ii) cos 38° cos 52° – sin 38° sin 52° = 0 3. What will happen if the value of the cosine function increases from 0°
to 90°?
Question 9: If tan 2A = cot (A – 18°), where 2A is an acute angle, 4. Given that cosec θ = 4/3. Find all other values of trigonometric ratios.
find the value of A. 5. Find the value of sin 45 °- Cos 45°.
6. If 4 tan θ = 3, evaluate (4 sin θ – cos θ + 1)/(4 sin θ + cos θ + 1).
Question 10: If A, B and C are interior angles of a triangle ABC, 7. Prove that [tan θ/(1 – cot θ)] + [cot θ/(1 – tan θ)] = 1 + sec θ cosec θ
8. Prove that: sin θ/(cot θ + cosec θ) = 2 + [sin θ/ (cot θ – cosec θ]
then show that sin [(B + C)/2] = cos A/2.
9. In a right triangle ABC, right-angled at B, if tan A = 1, then verify that 2
sin A cos A = 1.
Question 11: Prove the identities:
10. If ∠B and ∠Q are acute angles such that sin B = sin Q, then prove that
∠B = ∠Q.
(i) √[1 + sinA/1 – sinA] = sec A + tan A
Q.1: How many tangents can be drawn from the external point to a
(ii) (1 + tan A/1 + cot A) = (1 – tan A/1 – cot A) = tan A
2 2 2 2
circle?
Solution:
Answer: Two tangents can be drawn from the external point to a circle.

Question 12: If sin θ + cos θ = √3, then prove that tan θ + cot θ = Q.2: Given: A triangle OAB which is an isosceles triangle and AB is
1. tangent to the circle with centre O. Find the measure of ∠OAB.

Question 13: Express cot 85° + cos 75° in terms of trigonometric Answer: The measure of ∠OAB in the given isosceles triangle OAB will be
ratios of angles between 0° and 45°. 45 degrees.

Question 14: What is the value of (cos267° – sin223°)? Q.3: What should be the angle between the two tangents which are
drawn at the end of two radii and are inclined at an angle of 45
Question 15: Prove that (sin A – 2 sin A)/(2 cos A – cos A) = tan
3 3
degrees?
A.
Answer: The angle between them shall be 135 degrees. First, draw a circle and connect two points A and B such that AB becomes
the diameter of the circle. Now, draw two tangents PQ and RS at points A
Q.4: Given a right triangle PQR which is right-angled at Q. QR = 12 and B respectively.
cm, PQ = 5 cm. The radius of the circle which is inscribed in triangle
PQR will be? Q. 3: A quadrilateral ABCD is drawn to circumscribe a circle as shown
in the figure. Prove that AB + CD = AD + BC
Answer: The radius of the circle will be 2 cm.

Q.5: Define Tangent and Secant.

Answer: A tangent is a line which meets the circle only at one point.

A secant is a line which meets the circle at two points while intersecting it.
These two points are always distinct. Q. 4: Two concentric circles are of radii 5 cm and 3 cm. Find the length
of the chord of the larger circle which touches the smaller circle.
Q.6: What is a circle?
Solution:
Answer: If we collect all the points given on a plane and are at a constant
distance, we will get a circle. The constant distance is the radius and the
fixed point will be the centre of the circle.

Long Answer Type Questions

Q.1: From a point Q, the length of the tangent to a circle is 24 cm and Q. 5: Let s denote the semi-perimeter of a triangle ABC in which BC =
the distance of Q from the centre is 25 cm. Find the radius of the circle. a, CA = b, AB = c. If a circle touches the sides BC, CA, AB at D, E, F,
respectively, prove that BD = s – b.
Q. 2: Prove that the tangents drawn at the ends of a diameter of a circle
are parallel.

Solution: To Prove: BD = s – b

Proof:
Q.6: In the figure, two tangents TP and TQ are drawn to a circle with Q.9: In the figure, two tangents RQ and RP are drawn from an
centre O from an external point T, prove that ∠PTQ = 2OPQ. external point R to the circle with centre O. If ∠PRQ = 120°, then prove
that OR = PR + RQ.

Solution:

Q.7: Prove that the lengths of tangents drawn from an external point to Q.10: Prove that the tangent drawn at the mid-point of an arc of a
a circle are equal. circle is parallel to the chord joining the endpoints of the arc.

Practice Questions For Class 10 Maths Chapter 10

Circles
Q.8: In the figure, from an external point P, two tangents PT and PS
are drawn to a circle with centre O and radius r. If OP = 2r, show that 1. How many tangents can a circle have?
∠OTS = ∠OST = 30°. 2. Prove that the parallelogram circumscribing a circle is a rhombus.
3. In a right triangle ABC in which ∠B = 90°, a circle is drawn with
AB as diameter intersecting the hypotenuse AC and P. Prove that
the tangent to the circle at P bisects BC.
4. If an isosceles triangle ABC, in which AB = AC = 6 cm, is inscribed
in a circle of radius 9 cm, find the area of the triangle.
5. In the figure, PQ and RS are two parallel tangents to a circle with
centre O and another tangent AB with point of contact C intersecting
PQ at A and RS at B. Prove that ∠AOB = 90°.
6. If the angle between two tangents drawn from an external point P to
a circle of radius a and centre O are 60°, then find the length of OP.
7. In the figure, PQ is a tangent at a point C to a circle with centre O. If
AB is a diameter and ∠CAB = 30°, find ∠PCA.

8. In the figure, PQ is a chord of a circle with centre O and PT is a

tangent. If ∠QPT = 60°, ∠PRQ.

9. Prove that the line segment joining the point of contact of two
parallel tangents of a circle passes through its centre.
10. If from an external point P of a circle with centre O, two tangents
PQ and PR are drawn such that ∠QPR = 120°, prove that 2PQ = PO.