MOCK TEST PAPER

SA II

CLASS 10

Time : 3 hrs. Full Marks : 100

General Instructions :

All questions are compulsory.

The question paper consists of 31 questions divided into four
sections A, B, C and D.
Section A contains 4 questions of 1 mark each. Section B contains 6
questions of 2 marks each. Section C contains 10 questions of 3
marks each and Section D contains 11 questions of 4 marks each.
Use of calculators is not permitted.

SECTION A

1. If a square is inscribed in a circle, what is the ratio of the areas of the circle and
the square ?

2. P PQ is a tangent at a point C to

C a circle with centre O. If AB is a

CAB 30 0
A B Q Diameter and , find
O
PCA.

3. A letter is chosen at random from the letters of English alphabets. Then find the
probability of

choosing a letter of the word LUCKNOW.

4. The angle of elevation of the top of a tower from a point on the ground, which is
30 m. away

from the foot of the tower is 450. Find the height of the tower ( in metres).

SECTION B
5. What is the perimeter of a triangle with vertices A ( 0, 4), O ( 0, 0) and B ( 3,
0) ?

6. The fourth term of an AP is 0. Prove that the 25 th term of the AP is three times its
11th term.

7. Find the number of all three digit natural numbers which are divisible by 9.
D R C
8. A quadrilateral ABCD is drawn to

S .O Q circumscribe a circle, with centre

O,

in such a way that the sides AB,

BC, CD A P B

and DA touch the circle at the

points

P, Q, R and S respectively. Prove

that

AB + CD = BC + DA.

9. Find the value of m so that the quadratic equation mx ( x 7 ) + 49 = 0 has two

equal roots.

10. The radius of the wheels of a bus is 70 cm. How many revolutions per minute
must a wheel make

in order to move at a speed of 66 km. per hour ?

SECTION C

11. Find the area of the

shaded of the shaded

region in the figure, if PQ = 24cm.,

R
PR = 7cm. and O is the
.O centre of the circle.

P Q Given
PQO 20 0

.
12. The radii of the circular ends of a bucket of height 15cm., 14cm. and r cm. ( r <
14cm.) . If the

volume of bucket is 5390 cm.3, then find the value of r.

13. Find the ratio in which the line x + 3y 14 = 0 divides the line segment joining
the points

A ( 2 , 4) and B ( 3 , 7).

14. The area of an equilateral triangle is 493 cm.2 Taking each vertex as centre,
circles are described

with radius equal to half the length of the side of the triangle. Find the area of
the part of the

22
Take 3 1.73,
7
Triangle not included in the circles. .

15. If the ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two A.P.s is ( 7n + 1) : ( 4n + 27),
find the ratio of their

mth terms.

2x 1 x3
2 3 5
x3 2x 1
16. Solve the quadratic equation : , given that
1
x 3, x
2
.

17. A vessel is in the form of a hollow hemisphere mounted by a hollow cylinder.

The diameter of the

hemisphere is 4 cm. and the total height of the vessel is 13 cm. Find the inner
surface area of the

vessel.

18. A conical vessel of radius 6 cm. and height 8 cm. is completely filled with water.
A sphere is lowered

into the water and its size is such that when it touches the sides, it is just
immersed. What fraction
 of water overflows ?

19. 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 a certain instant, the angles of elevation
of a balloon from

these windows are observed to be 60 0 and 300 respectively. Find the height of
the balloon above

the ground.

20. One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards, each of the 52 cards being equally
likely to be drawn.

Find the probability that the card drawn is :

(i) red and a king

(ii) 2 of spade

(iii) 10 of black suit.0.

SECTION D

21. Five containers like a right circular cylinder having diameter 12 cm. and height
15 cm. are full of ice

cream. This ice-cream is to be filled into cones of height 12 cm. and diameter 6
cm., having a

hemispherical shape on the top and is to be distributed to the children in an

orphanage. Find the

number of such cones which can be filled with ice cream. What values does a
person doing such

acts possess ?

22. Prove that the lengths of tangents drawn from an external point to a circle are
equal.

23. Construct a triangle with sides 5 cm., 4 cm. and 6 cm. Then construct another
triangle whose sides
 3
2
are times the corresponding sides of the first triangle.
C
24. A circle
is inscribed in triangle

ABC having sides AB = 8

F E
cm.,

BC = 8 cm. and AC = 10 cm.

as

A shown in the figure. Find AD,

D B
BE and CF.

2x 1 3x 9
0
x 3 2 x 3 x 3 2 x 3
25. Solve for x : .

26. The angles of depression of the top and bottom of a building 50 metres high as
observed from

the top of a tower are 300 and 600 respectively. Find the height of the tower
and also the

horizontal distances between the building and the tower.

27. 200 logs are stacked in the following manner : 20 logs in the bottom row, 19 in
the next row,

18 in the row next to it and so on. In how many rows are the 200 logs placed
and how many

logs are in the top row ?

28. A median of a triangle divides it into two triangles of equal area. Verify it for
ABC
whose

Vertices are A ( 2, - 3 ), B ( 5, 1) and C ( 0, 4).

29. A game of
chance consists of spinning
8 1
 An arrow which comes to rest
pointing 2
7

3 At one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,

6
5, 6, 7, 8
5 4
And these are equally likely
outcomes.

What is the probability that it will

point at

(i) 8 (ii) an odd number

(iii) a number greater than 2 (iv) a number less than

9?

30. In the given

A
figure O is the centre of the

circle with AC = 24 cm., AB = 7 cm.

and
O C
BOD 90 0
B . Find the area of the
shaded

region.

31. A car takes 2 hours less for a journey of 300km., if its speed is increased by 5
km./h from its usual

speed. Find the usual speed of the car.