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Class X Elementary Math: Chapter 1: Real Numbers. (Part A).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. State Euclid’s Division Lemma. Illustrate with the help of 3 examples.

2. State The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic.
3. Write the first 10 Prime Numbers and the first 10 Composite Numbers.
4. Make prime factors of the following numbers:
(a) 4320; (b) 784; (c) 31250; (d) 245880; (e) 8496; (f) 168432.
5. Define the HCF and LCM of two positive integers. Illustrate with the help of 2
examples.
6. Explain why the following are Composite Numbers:
(a) 2×3×5×7×8 + 3×4×7; (b) 3×5×7×11×17 + 10×11×13.
7. Find the greatest number of 6 digits exactly divisible by 24, 15 and 36.
8. Find the least number that is divisible by all the numbers from 1 to 10.
9. If terminating, write down the decimal expansions of the following rational
numbers (without long division):
164 340 1458 147 114 117 441
(a ) ; (b) ; (c ) ; (d ) ; ( e) ;( f ) ;(g) 2 .
160 51000 1500 500 9500 780 2 × 52 × 7 2
10. What property must q exhibit for a rational number p/q to have (a) a terminating
decimal expansion, (b) a non-terminating but repeating decimal expansion?
11. What is the HCF and LCM of any two prime numbers x and y?
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CLASS: X MATHEMATICS: CHAPTER No. 1: REAL NUMBERS. (Part B).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. Use Euclid’s Division Algorithm to find the HCF of the following pairs of
numbers: (a) 8104, 4196 (b) 6096, 5256 (c) 690, 1350
(d) 742, 882 (e) 420, 1155 (f) 894, 984.
[Answers: 4; 24; 30; 14; 105; 6].
2. Find the HCF and LCM of the following pairs of numbers using Prime
3. Factorization Method: (a) 336, 288 (b) 1330, 588 (c) 432, 576 (d) 648,
864. [Answers: (a) 48, 2016; (b) 14, 55860; (c) 144, 1728; (d) 16, 2592].
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CLASS: X MATHEMATICS: CHAPTER No. 1: REAL NUMBERS. (Part C).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. HCF of two numbers is 145 and their LCM is 2175. If one number is 725,
find the other. [Ans: 435].
2. In a seminar, the number of participants in Hindi, English and Mathematics
are 60, 84 and 108 respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms
required if in each room the same number of participants is to be seated and
all of them being in the same subject. [Ans: 21].
3. Three sets of English, Hindi and Mathematics books have to be stacked in
such a way that all the books are stored subject wise and the height of each
stack is the same. The number of English books is 96, that of Hindi books is
240 and the number of Mathematics books is 336. Assuming that all the
books are of the same thickness, determine the number of stacks of English,
Hindi and Mathematics books. [Ans: 2, 5 and 7 respectively].
4. The HCF and LCM of two numbers x and y are 66 and 15708, respectively.
If x = 924, find y. [Ans: 1122].
5. Find the HCF and LCM of 96, 108 and 144. [Ans: 12, 864].
6. Find the HCF and LCM of x = 330 and y = 126 and verify the relationship:
x × y = HCF(x, y) × LCM(x, y). [Ans: 6, 6930; LHS = RHS = 41580].
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CLASS: X MATHEMATICS: CHAPTER No. 1: REAL NUMBERS. (Part D).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. Find the greatest number which divides 285 and 1245 leaving the same
remainder 5 in each case. [Ans: 40].
2. The length, breadth and height of a room are 8m 25cm, 6m 75cm and 4m
50cm, resp. Find the longest rod which can measure the three dimensions of
the room exactly. [Ans: 75cm].
3. Find the largest number that will divide 398, 436 and 542 leaving
remainders 7, 11 and 15 respectively. [Ans: 17].
4. A rectangular courtyard is 18m 72cm long and 13m 20cm broad. It is to be
paved with square tiles of the same size. Find the least possible number of
such square tiles required. [Ans: 4290].
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CLASS: X MATHEMATICS: CHAPTER No. 1: REAL NUMBERS. (Part E).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. Prove that 5 is an irrational number.

2. Prove that the following numbers are irrational:

4−3 2 5 3+2
(a) ; (b) .
5 4

3. Prove that (a) 5 + 3 ; (b) 3 − 2 are irrational numbers.

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4. The decimal expansion of the rational number 25000 will terminate after
how many places of decimal? [Ans: 5].
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CLASS: X MATHEMATICS: CHAPTER No. 1: REAL NUMBERS. (Part F).

Assignment No.: Date:

1. Show that the square of any positive integer cannot be of the form 5m + 2 or
5m + 3 for any integer m.
2. If n is an odd integer, then show that n2 – 1 is divisible by 8.
3. Use Euclid’s division algorithm to find the HCF of 441, 567 and 693. [Ans:
63].
4. Show that the square of any odd integer is of the form 4q +1, for some
integer q.
5. The numbers 525 and 3000 are both divisible only by 3, 5, 15, 25 and 75.
What is the HCF (525, 3000)? [Ans: 75].
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