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Class 10 / Mathematics / Holiday Assignment / Summer 2024

Chapter 1 – Real Numbers

2+ √ 3
1. Prove that 5 is an irrational number, given that √ 3 is an irrational number.

2. Prove that 2+5 √ 3 is an irrational number, given that √ 3 is an irrational number.

3. Find the largest number which on dividing 1251, 9377 and 15628 leaves remainders 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

4. Check whether 9n can end with the digit 0 for any positive integer n.

5. Three bells ring at an interval of 4, 7 and 14 minutes. All three bell rang at 6 am, when the three balls will the
ring together next?

6. Three sets of Science, History and Drawing books have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored
topic wise and the height of each stack is the same. The number of Science books is 192, the number of History
books is 480 and the number of Drawing books is 672. Assuming that the books are of the same thickness,
determine the number of stacks of Science, History and Drawing books.

7. Prove that √ 2 is an irrational number.

8. Find LCM and HCF of 96 and 160, using prime factorisation method.

9. Show that (12)n cannot end with digit 0 or 5 for any natural number n.

10. Find the largest number which divides 615 and 963 leaving 6 in each case.

Chapter 2 – Polynomials

1. Find a quadratic polynomial, the sum and product of whose zeroes are 0 and −√ 2 respectively.

2. Find the quadratic polynomial, sum of whose zeroes is 2 and product is –8.
Hence find the zeroes of the polynomial.

3. If 5 is a zero of polynomial p(x) = mx2 – 5(m – 2) – 5, then find the value of m.

4. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 6x2 – 3 – 7x and verify the relationship between the zeroes and the
coefficients.

5. Find the zeroes of the quadratic polynomial 3x2 – x – 4 and verify the relationship between the zeroes and the
coefficients.

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6. If one zero of the polynomial 2x2 – 5x – (2k + 1) is twice the other, find both the zeroes of the polynomial and
the value of k.

7. If α and β are zeroes of the polynomial p(x) = 3x2 – 6x + 4, find the value of
1 1
+
(i) α β (ii) (α + β)2 (iii) α2β + αβ2

8. If α and β are zeroes of the polynomial f(x) = x2 – 6x + k, such that α2 + β2 = 40. Find the value of k.

9. If zeroes α and β of a polynomial x2 – 7x + k are such that α – β = 1, then find the value of k.

10. If α and β are zeroes of the polynomial x2 – p(x + 1) + c such that (α + 1)(β + 1) = 0, then find the value of c.

Chapter 3 – Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables

1. Solve the following pair of linear equations graphically: x + 3y = 6 and 2x – 3y = 12.

Also, shade the region bounded by the line 2x – 3y = 12 and both the coordinate axes.

2. Solve the following pair of linear equations graphically: 2x + 3y = 12 and x – y – 1 = 0.

Shade the region between the two lines represented by the above equations and the x-axis.

3. Draw the graphs of the pair of linear equations: x + 2y = 5 and 2x – 3y = –4. Also find the points where the lines
meet the x-axis.

4. Solve graphically the pair of linear equations: 3x – 4y + 3 = 0 and 3x + 4y – 21 = 0. Find the coordinates of the
triangular region formed by these lines and x-axis. Also, calculate the area of this triangle.

5. Solve the following pair of linear equations graphically: 2x + 3y = 12 and x – y = 1. Find the area of the region
bounded by the two lines representing the above equations and y-axis.

6. Seven times a two digit number is equal to four times the number obtained by reversing the order of its digits.
If the difference of the digits is 3, determine the number.

7. Find the values of a and b for which the following system of linear equations has infinitely many solutions.
3x – (a + 1)y = 2b – 1 and 5x + (1 – 2a)y = 3b.

8. If a bag containing red and white balls, half the number of white balls is equal to one-third of the number of red
balls. Thrice the total number of balls exceeds seven times the number of white balls by 6. How many balls of each
colour does the bag contain?

9. A father’s age is three times the sum of the ages of his two children. After 5 years his age will be two times the
sum of their ages. Find the present age of the father.

10. Anuj had some chocolates, and he divided them into two lots A and B. He sold the first lot at the rate of ₹2 for
3 chocolates and the second lot at the rate of ₹1 per chocolate, and got a total of ₹400. If he had sold the first lot at
the rate of ₹1 per chocolate, and the second lot at the rate of ₹4 for 5 chocolates, his total collection would have
been ₹460. Find the total number of chocolates he had.

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 Chapter 6 – Triangles

1. State and prove the Basic Proportionality Theorem.

2. State and prove the Converse of Basic Proportionality Theorem.

Chapter 7 – Coordinate Geometry

1. If the distance of P(x, y) from A(6, 2) and B(–2, 6) are equal, prove that y = 2x.

2. Prove that the diagonals of a rectangle ABCD, with vertices A(2, –1), B(5, –1), C(5, 6) and D(2, 6) are equal and
bisects each other.

3. Find the point on y-axis which is equidistant from the points (5, –2) and (–3, 2).

4. If the point C(–1, 2) divides internally the line segment joining the points A(2, 5) and B(x, y) in the ratio 3:4,
find the value of x2 + y2.

2
AP= AB
5. Find the coordinates of a point P on the line segment joining A(1, 2) and B(6, 7) such that 5 .

6. Find the ratio in which the line segment joining the points A(3, –3) and B(–2, 7) is divided by x-axis. Also find
the coordinates of the point of division.

7. Find the ratio in which (11, 15) divides the line segment joining the points (15, 5) and (9, 20).

8. Find the ratio in which the point Q(–3, p) divides the line segment AB joining the points A(–5, –4) and B(–2, 3).
Also, find the value of p.

9. Find the ratio in which the line 2x + 3y – 5 = 0 divides the line segment joining the points (8, –9) and (2, 1).
Also find the coordinates of the points of division.

10. The line segment joining the points A(3, 2) and B(5, 1) is divided at the point P in the ratio 1:2 and P lies on the
line 3x – 18y + k = 0. Find the value of k.

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 Chapter 8 – Introduction to Trigonometry

2
2+
1. If 7sin2 θ + 3cos2 θ = 4, then prove that sec θ + cosec θ = √3 .
3tan 2 30∘ + tan 2 60 ∘ +cosec 30∘ −tan 45∘
2. Evaluate: cot 2 45∘ .

2 cos 2 60∘ +3 sec 2 30∘− 2tan 2 45∘

3. Evaluate the following: sin2 30∘ + cos2 45∘ .

4. Prove that: √ +
√
1+sinθ 1−sinθ
1−sinθ 1+sinθ
=2 sec θ .

cot 3 θ sin 3 θ tan 3 θ cos3 θ sec θ cosec θ −1

2
+ =
2 cosec θ+sec θ
5. Prove that: (cos θ+sin θ ) (cos θ+sin θ ) .

6. Prove that (sec A + tan A – 1)(sec A – tan A + 1) = 2 tan A.

7. If tan θ + sin θ = m and tan θ – sin θ = n, show that m2 – n2 = 4√ mn .

8. If q sin θ = p and p cos θ = q, then show that p6 + q6 = 0.

p 2−1
2
=sin θ .
. If sec θ + tan θ = p, show that p +1
9

10. Ifcos θ + sin θ =√2 cos θ , show thatcos θ − sin θ =√ 2 sin θ .

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