CBSE Board

Class X Mathematics (Standard)

Sample Paper - 1

Term 2 – 2021 - 22

Time: 2 hours Total Marks: 40

General Instructions:

1. The question paper consists of 14 questions divided into 3 sections A, B, C.

2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Section A comprises of 6 questions of 2 marks each. Internal choice has been
provided in two questions.
4. Section B comprises of 4 questions of 3 marks each. Internal choice has been
provided in one question.
5. Section C comprises of 4 questions of 4 marks each. An internal choice has been
provided in one question. It contains two case study based questions.

Section A

Q1 – Q6 are of 2 mark each.

1. Which term of the AP 3, 8, 13, 18, … is 78?

OR
Find the 20 term from the last term of the AP 3, 8, 13, ……, 253
th

2. Find the roots of the following quadratic equation x2  3x  10  0 by factorisation

3. The length of a tangent from a point A at distance 5 cm from the centre of the
circle is 4 cm. Find the radius of the circle.

4. Two cubes each of volume 64 cm3 are joined end to end. Find the surface area of
the resulting cuboids.

5. A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their environment

awareness programme, in which they collected the following data regarding the
number of plants in 20 houses in a locality. Find the mean number of plants per
house.

Number of
0–2 2–4 4–6 6–8 8 – 10 10 – 12 12 – 14
plants

Number of
1 2 1 5 6 2 3
houses
6. Find two numbers whose sum is 27 and product is 182.

OR

Find two consecutive positive integers, sum of whose squares is 365.

Section B

Q6 – Q10 are of 3 mark each.

7. The following data gives the information on the observed lifetimes (in hours) of
225 electrical components:

Lifetimes 0– 20 – 40 – 60 – 80 – 100 100 – 120

(in hours) 20 40 60 80

Frequency 10 35 52 61 38 29

Determine the modal lifetimes of the components.

8. 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.

9. Find the following tables gives the distribution of the life time of 400 neon lamps:

Life time (in hours) Number of lamps

1500 – 2000 14

2000 – 2500 56

2500 – 3000 60

3000 – 3500 86

3500 – 4000 74

4000 – 4500 62

4500 – 5000 48

Find the median life time of a lamp.

10. A contractor plans to install two slides for the children to play in a park. For the
children below the age of 5 years, she prefers to have a slide whose top is at a
height of 1.5 m, and is inclined at an angle of 30 to the ground, whereas for the
elder children she wants to have a steep side at a height of 3 m, and inclined at
an angle of 60 to the ground. What should be the length of the slide in each
case?

OR
 A 1.5 m tall boy is standing at some distance from a 30 m tall building. The angle
of elevation from his eyes to the top of the building increases from 30° to 60° as
he walks towards the building. Find the distance he walked towards the building.

Section C

Q11 – Q14 are of 4 mark each.

11. A solid iron pole consists of a cylinder of height 220 cm and base diameter 24 cm,
which is surmounted by another cylinder of height 60 cm and radius 8 cm. Find
the mass of the pole, given that 1 cm3 of iron has approximately 8g mass. (Use
 = 3.14)

12. In the given figure XY and X’Y’ are two parallel tangents to a circle with centre O
and another tangent AB with point of contact C intersecting XY and A and X’Y’ at
B. Prove that  AOB=90  .

OR

Prove that the angle between the two tangents drawn from an external point to
a circle is supplementary to the angle subtended by the line-segment joining the
points of contact at the centre.

13. Sanjana took her students of class X to an educational trip where they saw Red
Fort. She told them about the history of Red Fort where she narrated that Red
Fort or Lal Qila is a historic fort located in Old Delhi, India that served as the main
residence of the Mughal Emperors. Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned
construction of the Red Fort on 12 May 1638, when he decided to shift his capital
from Agra to Delhi. She also included that the Red Fort is about 18–33 m (59 –
108 ft) high.
 Then answer the following questions.

i) Draw a labelled figure on the basis of the given information and find the angle
of elevation if the maximum height of Red fort is considered and the students
are standing at a distance of 33m away from the Monument.
ii) Draw a labelled figure and find the height of the tower if it casts a shadow of
30 m and the rays of the Sun is inclined at 30o.

14. Nirvana’s father starts a new footwear shop. To display the foot wears, he puts 3
pairs of sandals in 1st row and increases the number of pairs in subsequent rows
by 2. Now based on the given information, answer the following questions.

i) Form an A.P representing the number of pairs of shoes and hence find the
minimum number of rows required to store 120 pairs.
ii) If he is able to sell all the footwear accept for rows 14th and 7th. Then, find
the total number of pairs available in the shop.
 Solution

Section A
1.

3, 8, 13, 18, …
For this AP,
a=3
d = a2 – a1 = 8 – 3 = 5
Let nth term of this AP be 78.
an = a + (n – 1) d
78 = 3 + (n – 1) 5
75 = (n – 1) 5
(n – 1) = 15
n = 16
Hence, 16th term of this AP is 78.

OR

3, 8, 13,….. …, 253
Common difference for this AP is 5.
Therefore, this AP can be written in reverse order as
253, 248, 243, …, 13, 8, 5
For this AP,
a = 253
d = 248 – 253 = –5
n = 20
a20 = a + (20 – 1) d
a20 = 253 + (19) (–5)
a20 = 253 – 95
a = 158
Therefore, 20th term from the last term is 158.
2.
x2  3x  10
 x2  5x  2x  10
 x  x  5  2  x  5
  x  5  x  2 

3.

AB is a tangent drawn to the circle, with centre O, from point A.

OA = 5cm and AB = 4 cm
Since, radius is perpendicular at the point of contact, OB  AB.
Applying Pythagoras theorem in  ABO,
AB2 + BO2 = OA2
42 + BO2 = 52
BO2 = 9
BO = 3
Hence, the radius of the circle is 3 cm.

4.
Given that
Volume of cubes = 64 cm3
(Edge) 3 = 64
Edge = 4

If cubes are joined end to end, dimensions of resulting cuboid will be 4 cm, 4
cm, 8 cm.
  surface area and cuboids  2(lb  bh  lh)
 2(4  4  4  8  4  8)
 2(16  32  32)
 2(16  64)
 2  80  160 cm2

5.
Let us find class marks (xi) for each interval by using the relation.
upper class limit  lower class limit
Class mark (xi) =
2
Now we may compute xi and fixi as following
Number of Number of xi fix i
plants houses
(fi)
0–2 1 1 1×1=1
2–4 2 3 2×3=6
4–6 1 5 1×5=5
6–8 5 7 5 × 7 = 35
8 – 10 6 9 6 × 9 = 54
10 – 12 2 11 2 ×11 = 22
12 – 14 3 13 3 × 13 = 39
Total 20 162

From the table we may observe that

 fi  20

 fxi i  162

Mean x 
 fx i i

f i

162
  8.1
20
So, mean number of plants per house is 8.1.

6.
Let the first number be x and the second number is 27 – x.
Therefore, their product = x (27 – x)
It is given that the product of these numbers is 182.
 Therefore, x 27  x   182
 x2  27x  182  0
 x2  13x  14x  182  0
 x  x  13  14  x  13  0
  x  13 x  14   0
Either x - 13 = 0 or x – 14 = 0
i.e., x = 13 or x = 14
Therefore, the numbers are 13 and 14.

OR

Let the consecutive positive integers be x and x + 1

Given that x2   x  1  365
2

 x2  x2  1  2x  365
 2x2  2x  364  0
 x2  x  182  0
 x2  14x  13x  182  0
 x  x  14   13  x  14   0
  x  14  x  13  0
Either x + 14 = 0 or x – 13 = 0, i.e., x = –14 or x = 13
Since the integers are positive, x can only be 13.
 x + 1 = 13 + 1 = 14
Therefore, two consecutive positive integers will be 13 and 14.

Section B

7.
From the data given as above we may observe that maximum class frequency
is 61 belonging to class interval 60 – 80.
So, modal class = 60 – 80
Lower class limit (l) of modal class = 60
Frequency (f1) of modal class = 61
Frequency (f0) of class preceding the modal class = 52
Frequency (f2) of class succeeding the modal class = 38
Class size (h) = 20
  f1  f0 
Mode  l   h
 2f1  f0  f2 
 61  52 
 2  61  52  38   
 60   20
 

 9 
 60    20 
 122  90 
 9  20 
 60   
 32 
90
 60   60  5.625
16
 65.625
So, modal lifetime of electrical components is 65.625 hours.

8.

Let two concentric circles be centered at point O. Let PQ be the chord of the
larger circle which touches the smaller circle at point A. So, PQ is tangent to
smaller circle.
Since, OA is radius of circle, OA  PQ
Applying Pythagoras theorem in  OAP,
OA2 + AP2 = OP2
32 + AP2 = 52
AP2 = 16
AP = 4 cm
In  OPQ, as OA  PQ, AP = AQ
(Perpendicular from center of circle bisects the chord)
 PQ = 2AP = 2 × 4 cm = 8 cm
So, length of chord of larger circle is 8cm.

9.
We can find cumulative frequencies with their respective class intervals as
below -
 Life time Number of Cumulative
lamps (fi) frequency
1500 – 2000 14 14
2000 – 2500 56 14 + 56 = 70
2500 – 3000 60 70 + 60 = 130
3000 – 3500 86 130 + 86 = 216
3500 – 4000 74 216 + 74 = 290
4000 – 4500 62 290 + 62 = 352
4500 – 5000 48 352 + 48 = 400
Total (n) 400
Now we may observe that cumulative frequency just greater than
n 400 
 i.e.  200  is 216 belonging to class interval 3000 – 3500.
2 2 
Median class = 3000 – 3500
Lower limit (l) of median class = 3000
Frequency (f) of median class = 86
Cumulative frequency (cf) of class preceding median class = 130
Class size (h) = 500
n 
 2  cf 
Median  l   h
 f 
 
 200  130 
 3000     500
 86 
70  500
 3000 
86
= 3406.976
So, median life time of lamps is 3406.98 hours.

10.
In the two figures, AC and PR are the slides for younger and elder children
respectively

In ABC,
AB
 sin30
AC
1.5 1

AC 2
AC  3 m

In PQR,
PQ
 sin60
PR
3 3

PR 2
6
PR  2 3 m
3
Thus, the lengths of the two slides were 3 m and 2 3 m .

OR

Let the initial position of the boy be S. He walks towards building and reached
at point T.
In the figure, PQ is the building of height 30 m.
AS = BT = RQ = 1.5 m
PR = PQ – RQ = 30 m – 1.5 m = 28.5
In PAR,
 PR
 tan30
AR
28.5 1

AR 3
AR  28.5 3
In PRB,
PR
 tan60
BR
28.5
 3
BR
28.5
BR   9.5 3
3
ST = AB  AR  BR  28.5 3  9.5 3  19 3
Thus, the distance which the boy walked towards the building is 19 3 m.

Section C

11.

From the figure we have

Height (h1) of larger cylinder = 220cm
24
Radius (r1) of larger cylinder = = 12cm
2
Height (h2) of smaller cylinder = 60cm
Radius (r2) of larger cylinder = 8cm
 Total volume of pole  volume of larger cylinder +volume of smaller cylinder
= r12h1  r22h2
  12   220    8   60
2 2

  144  220  64  60

 35520  3.14  1,11,532.8 cm3
Mass of 1 cm3 iron = 8gm
Mass of 111532.8 cm3 iron = 111532.8 × 8 = 892262.4 gm = 892.262 kg.

12.

Join OC.
In  OPA and  OCA,
OP = OC (Radius of the same circle)
AP = AC (tangents from point A)
AO = AO (common)
 OPA   OCA (SSS congruence rule)
  POA =  COA … (1)
Similarly  OQB   OCB
  QOB =  COB … (2)
Since POQ is a diameter of circle we can say it is a straight line.
So,  POA +  COA +  COB +  QOB = 180º
Now from equations (1) and (2),
2  COA + 2  COB = 180º
(  COA +  COB) = 90º
 AOB = 90 

OR
 Let us consider a circle centered at point O. Let P be an external point from
which two tangents PA and PB are drawn to circle which are touching circle at
point A and B respectively.
AB is the line segment, joining point of contacts A and B together such that it
subtends
 AOB at center O of circle.
As the radius is perpendicular to the tangent at the point of contact,  OAP =
90.
Similarly,  OBP = 90 
In quadrilateral OAPB,
 OAP +  APB +  PBO +  BOA = 360
90º +  APB + 90 +  BOA = 360
 APB +  BOA = 180
Hence, the angle between the two tangents drawn from an external point to a
circle is supplementary to the angle subtended by the line-segment joining the
points of contact at the centre.

13.
i)

Let AB represents Red Fort with height 33m and BC be the distance.
Let θ be the angle of elevation.
Using trigonometry, we have
AB 33
tan    1
BC 33
   45

ii)
 Let AB be the height and BC be the shadow casted by AB.
 = 30o
AB
tan30o 
BC
1 AB
 
3 BC
1 AB
 
3 30
 AB  10 3 m

14.
i) AP is 2,5,7,9,11,13,….
The number of pairs put in the rows form an A.P. with first term 3 and
common difference 2.
Total number of pairs = 120
n
120  2a  n  1 d
2
 n  6  n  1 2   240
 n n  2   120
 n2  2n  120  0
 n  12  n  10   0
As the number of rows can’t be negative.
Therefore, the number of rows is 10.

ii) nth term of AP is an = a +(n-1)d

14th row = a + 13d = 3 + 26 = 29
7th row = a + 6d = 3 + 12 = 15
Total number of pairs available = 29 + 15 = 44