SUCCESS PLUS ACADEMY

Growing Deep Roots, Achieving Great Heights

SAMPLE PAPER - I
Time: 3 Hr.

Max. Marks: 90

General Instructions:
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) The question paper consists of 34 questions divided into four sections A, B, C, D.
(iii) Section A contains 6questions of 1 mark each, Section B contains 8 questions of 2
marks each, Section C contains 12 questions of 3 marks each, and Section D contains 8
questions of 4 marks each.
(iv) Use of calculator is not permitted.
SECTION A
(Question numbers 1 to 6 carry 1 mark each)
Q. 1. For what value of

will the points ( , -1), (2 , 1) and (4 , 5) lie on a line?

Q. 2. A wire is looped in the form of a circle of radius 28 cm. It is re-bent into a square form.
Determine the length of the side of the square.
Q. 3. If

term of an A.P. is

and

term is

, then prove that its

term is

unity.
Q. 4. Find the value of m for which the quadratic equation
has equal roots.
Q. 5. How many terms of the A.P. -6, -

, -5 . are needed to give the sum -25?

Q. 6. Is it true that the distance travelled by a circular wheel of diameter d cm in one

revolution is 2 d cm? Why?
SECTION B
(Question numbers 7 to 14 carry 2 marks each)
Q. 7. Two tangents TP and TQ are drawn to a circle with centre O from an external point T.
Prove that PTQ = 2 OPQ.

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Q. 8. If the difference of the roots of the quadratic equation

prove that
.
Q. 9. What value of
perfect square?

will make the expression

is 1, then

Q. 10. A cubical block of side 7 cm is surmounted by a hemisphere. What is the greatest

diameter the hemisphere can have? Find the surface area of the solid.
Q. 11. If first term of an A.P. is a, second term is b and last term is c, then prove that sum of
progression is

Q. 12. Find the point on the

axis which is equidistant from (2 , -5) and (-2 , 9).

Q. 13. In a single throw of two dice, determine probability of getting a total of 7.

Q. 14. Prove that the line segment joining points of contact of two parallel tangents of a
circle passes through the centre of the circle.
SECTION C
(Question numbers 15 to 26 carry 3 marks each)
Q. 15. A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 63 km and then travels a
distance of 72 km at an average speed of 6 km/h more than its original speed. If it takes 3
hours to complete the total journey, what is its original average speed?
Q. 16. If

term of an A.P. is

and

term is

, then prove that sum of

terms is

.
Q. 17. Determine the ratio in which the line 2x + y 4 = 0 divides the line segment joining
the points A (2, 2) and B (3, 7).
Q. 18. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and other are blue .If a marble is drawn
from at random from the jar, the probability that is green is 2/3 . Find the number of blue
marbles in the jar.
Q. 19. If D (

), E (

,F

are the midpoints of sides of ABC, find the

area of the ABC.

Q. 20. A canal is 300 cm wide and 120 cm deep. The water in the canal is flowing with a
speed of 20 km/h. How much area will it irrigate in 20 minutes if 8 cm of standing water is
desired?
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Q. 21. A circle touches the side BC of triangle ABC at P and touches AB and AC produced
at Q and R respectively. Prove that AQ = (Perimeter of triangle ABC).
Q. 22. From the top of a 7 m high building, the angle of elevation of the top of a cable tower
is 60 and the angle of depression of its foot is 45. Determine the height of the tower.
Q. 23. In a pentagon, interior angle are in A.P., whose common difference is 15 o , then find
the angles.
Q. 24. A brooch is made with silver wire in the form of a circle with diameter 35 mm. The
wire is also used in making 5 diameters which divide the circle into 10 equal sectors. Find:
(i) the total length of the silver wire required.
(ii) the area of each sector of the brooch.
Q. 25. From the top of a tower h m high, the angles of depression of two objects, which are
in line with the foot of the tower are and ( > ). Find the distance between the two
objects.
Q. 26. A hemispherical tank full of water is emptied by a pipe at the rate of
litres per
second. How much time will it take to empty half the tank, if it is 3m in diameter?
SECTION D
(Question numbers 27 to 34 carry 4 marks each)
Q. 27. In Fig. 10.13, XY and XY are two parallel tangents to a circle with centre O and
another tangent AB with point of contact C intersecting XY at A and XY at B. Prove
that AOB = 90.

Q. 28. At present Ashas age (in years) is 2 more than the square of her daughter Nishas
age. When Nisha grows to her mothers present age, Ashas age would be one year less than
10 times the present age of Nisha. Find the present ages of both Asha and Nisha.
Q. 29. Draw a parallelogram ABCD in which BC = 5 cm, AB = 3 cm and ABC = 60,
divide it into triangles BCD and ABD by the diagonal BD. Construct the triangle BD' C'
similar to BDC with scale factor 4/3. Draw the line segment D'A' parallel to DA where A'
lies on extended side BA. Is A'BC'D' a parallelogram?

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Q. 30. 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 1/16 cm, find the length of the wire.
Q. 31. In Fig., 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 region.

OR
Find the area of shaded region in given figure.

Q. 32. 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
with a uniform speed. Six seconds later, the angle of depression of the car is found to be 60.
Find the time taken by the car to reach the foot of the tower from this point.
Q. 33. The radii of the bases of two right circular solids cones of same height are r1 and r2
respectively. The cones are melted and recast into a solid sphere of radius R. Show that
height of the each cone is given by

Q. 34. ABCD is a parallelogram with vertices A (x1, y1), B (x2, y2) and C (x3, y3). Find the
coordinates of the fourth vertex D in terms of x1, x2, x3, y1, y2 and y3.

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SUCCESS PLUS ACADEMY

Growing Deep Roots, Achieving Great Heights

SAMPLE PAPER - 2
Time: 3 Hr.

Max. Marks: 90

General Instructions:
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) The question paper consists of 34 questions divided into four sections A, B, C, D.
(iii) Section A contains 6questions of 1 mark each, Section B contains 8 questions of 2
marks each, Section C contains 12 questions of 3 marks each, and Section D contains 8
questions of 4 marks each.
(iv) Use of calculator is not permitted.
SECTION A
(Question numbers 1 to 6 carry 1 mark each)
Q. 1. Which term of the AP : 121, 117, 113, . . ., is its first negative term?
Q. 2. If the sum of the circumferences of two circles with radii R1 and R2 is equal to the
circumference of a circle of radius R, then
(A) R1 + R2 = R
(B) R1 + R2 > R
(C) R1 + R2 < R
(D) Nothing definite can be said about the
relation among R1, R2 and R.
Q. 3. Find the sum of first

natural numbers.

Q. 4. A copper rod of diameter 1 cm and length 8 cm is drawn into a wire of length 18 m of

uniform thickness. Find the thickness of the wire.
Q. 5. Find the probability that a leap year, selected random, will contain 53 Mondays.
Q. 6.Find the discriminant of the quadratic equation
the nature of its roots. Find them, if they are real.

and hence find

SECTION B
(Question numbers 7 to 14 carry 2 marks each)
Q. 7. If sides of a right angle triangle are in A.P., then find the ratios of lengths of its sides.

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Q. 8. If the roots of the quadratic equation

prove that
.

are

and

, then

Q. 9. A spherical balloon of radius r subtends an angle at the eye of an observer. If the

angle of elevation of its centre is , find the height of the centre of the balloon.
Q. 10. Find the ratio in which the y-axis divides the line segment joining the points (5, 6)
and (1, 4). Also find the point of intersection.
Q. 11. A farmer connects a pipe of internal diameter 20 cm from a canal into a cylindrical
tank in her field, which is 10 m in diameter and 2 m deep. If water flows through the pipe at
the rate of 3 km/h, in how much time will the tank be filled?
Q. 12. The sum of the third and the seventh terms of an AP is 6 and their product is 8. Find
the sum of first sixteen terms of the AP.
Q. 13. If AB is a chord of a circle with centre O, AOC is a diameter and AT is the tangent at
A as shown in Fig. Prove that BAT = ACB

Q. 14. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue
ball is doubles that of a red ball, determine the number of blue balls in the bag.
SECTION C
(Question numbers 15 to 26 carry 3 marks each)
Q. 15. If roots of the equation
are equal, then prove that

Q. 16. If in an A.P., the sum of m terms is n and the sum of n terms is m then prove that the
sum of (m+n) terms is -(m+n).
Q. 17. Draw an isosceles triangle ABC in which AB = AC = 6 cm and BC = 5 cm. Construct
a triangle PQR similar to ABC in which PQ = 8 cm. Also justify the construction.
Q. 18. A building is in the form of a cylinder surmounted by a hemispherical dome. The
base diameter of the dome is equal to 2/3 of the total height of the building. Find the height
of the building, if it contains
m3 of air.
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Q. 19. Area of a sector of a circle of radius 36 cm is 54 cm2. Find the length of the
corresponding arc of the sector.
Q. 20. Find the coordinates of a point A, where AB is the diameter of a circle whose centre
is (2, 3) and B is (1, 4).
Q. 21. The angle of elevation of a cloud from a point h metres above the surface of a lake is
and the angle of depression of its reflection in the lake is . Prove that the height of the
cloud above the lake is

Q. 22. Let ABC be a right triangle in which AB = 6 cm, BC = 8 cm and B = 90. BD is the
perpendicular from B on AC. The circle through B, C, D is drawn. Construct the tangents
from A to this circle.
Q. 23. Prove that in two concentric circles, the chord of the larger circle, which touches the
smaller circle, is bisected at the point of contact.
Q. 24. The cost of fencing a circular field at the rate of Rs. 24 per 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.
Q. 25. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that
(i) 5 will not come up either time?
(ii) 5 will come up at least once?
(iii) 5 will come up at both dice?
Q. 26. If PAB is secant of a circle intersecting the circle at A and B and PT is a tangent at T,
then show that PA . PB = PT2.
SECTION D
(Question numbers 27 to 34 carry 4 marks each)
Q. 27. Calculate the area of the designed region in Fig. common between the two quadrants
of circles of radius 8 cm each.

Q. 28. A right triangle, whose sides are 3 cm and 4 cm (other than hypotenuse) is made to
revolve about its hypotenuse. Find the volume and surface area of the double cone so
formed.
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Q. 29. A spiral is made up of successive semicircles, with centres alternately at A and B,

starting with centre at A, of radii 0.5 cm, 1.0 cm, 1.5 cm, 2.0 cm, .as shown in Fig.
What is the total length of such a spiral made up of thirteen consecutive semicircles?

Q. 30. The lower window of a house is at a height of 2 m above the ground and its upper
window is 4 m vertically above the lower window. At certain instant the angles of elevation
of a balloon from these windows are observed to be 60 O and 30O, respectively. Find the
height of the balloon above the ground.
Q. 31. Swati can row her boat at a speed of 5 km/hr in still water. If it takes her 1 hour more
to row the boat 5.25 km upstream than to return downstream, find the speed of the stream.
Q. 32. If the points A (1, 2), B (2, 3) C (a, 2) and D ( 4, 3) form a parallelogram, find the
value of a and height of the parallelogram taking AB as base.
Q. 33. A is a point at a distance 13 cm from the centre O of a circle of radius 5 cm. AP and
AQ are the tangents to the circle at P and Q. If a tangent BC is drawn at a point R lying on
the minor arc PQ to intersect AP at B and AQ at C, find the perimeter of the ABC.
Q. 34. In Fig., ABCD is a trapezium with AB || DC, AB = 18 cm, DC = 32 cm and distance
between AB and DC = 14 cm. If arcs of equal radii 7 cm with centres A, B, C and D have
been drawn, then find the area of the shaded region of the figure.

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