DPP – VII QUADRATIC EQUATIONS
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1. If x and x = - 3 are the roots of the equation ax2 + 7x + b = 0, find the value of a and b.
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2. Solve the quadratic equation 9x2 – 9(a + b)x + 2a2 + 5ab + 2b2 = 0.
3 Solve for x : 9x+2 – 6 × 3x+1 + 1 = 0.
4. Solve for x : 2x4 + x3 – 6x2 + x + 2 = 0.
5. For what value of k, (4 - k)x2 + (2k + 4)x + (8k + 1) is a perfect square.
6. The length of a hall is 5m more than its breadth. If the area of the floor of the hall is 84m2, what are the length
and the breadth of the hall?
7. Swati can row her boat at a speed of 5km/h in still water. If it takes her 1 hour more to row the boat 5.25km
upstream than to return downstream, find the speed of the stream.
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8. If x = - 2 and x are solutions of the equation 5x2 + kx + = 0. Find the value of k and
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9. Find the discriminant of the quadratic equation 3 3x2 10 x 3 0
10. A man is five times as old as his son and the sum of the squares of their ages is 2106. Find their ages.
x 1 x 2 x 5 x 6
11. Solve the quadratic equation : .
x 2 x 3 x 6 x 7
12. Solve for x : 3x+2 + 3-x = 10.
13. If one root of 5x2 + 13x + k = 0 is reciprocal of the other then k = 0
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14. The sum of the reciprocals of the roots of the equation, x 1 0 , is
2010 x
15. The roots of the equation x2 – x – 3 = 0 are:
16. If one of the roots of the quadratic equation having rational coefficients is 2 3 then find the quadratic
equation
17. The sum of ages of a father and son is 45 years. Five years ago, the product of their ages was 4 times the age of
the father at that time. The present age of the father is:
18. The roots of equation x2 + px + q = 0 are 1 and 2. The roots of the equation qx2 – px + 1 = 0 must be :
1 1 1 1
(A) 1, (B) ,1 (C) ,1 (D) 1,
2 2 2 2
19. An aeroplane left 30 minutes later then its scheduled time and in order to reach its destination 1500km away in
time, it has to increase its speed by 250km/h from its usual speed. Determine its usual speed.
(A) 700 km/h (B) 750 km/h (C) 770 km/h (D) 800 km/h
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20. Two water taps together can fill a tank in 9 hrs. The tap of larger diameter takes 10 hours less that the smaller
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one to fill the tank separately. Find the time in which each tap can separately fill the tank.
(A) 25, 15hr (B) 15, 5 hr (C) 35, 25 hr (D) 10, 20hr
21. One of the two students, while solving a quadratic equation in x, copied the constant term incorrectly and got the
roots 3 and 2. The other copied the constant term and coefficient of x 2 correctly as – 6 and 1 respectively. The
correct roots are :
(A) 3, - 2 (B) -3, 2 (C) - 6, - 2 (D) 6, - 2
22. Fin the quadratic equation whose roots are half of the reciprocal of the roots of the equation ax 2 + bx+ c = 0.
(A) 4ax2 + 2bx + c = 0 (B) 4cx2 + 2bx + a = 0 (C) 2cx2 + bx + a = 0 (D) 2ax2 + bx + c = 0
23. 6 6 6 6 .......... ?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D)
x 1 x 5
24. The value of x in the equation is :
x 1 2x 5
(A) -1 (B) -5 (C) 1 (D) 5
25. If the roots of the equation x2 + x + = 0 are 1 and 2, then one of the roots of the equation x2 + x + = 0 is :
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) -2 (D) 2
26. A bus takes 5 hours more than a train to cover the distance of 900 km for Vardha to Pune. If speed of the train is
15 mk/h more than that of the bus, then what is the speed of bus per hour?
(A) 60 km (B) 75 km (C) 55 km (D) 45 km
27. Graph drawn from the equation y = x2 – 3x – 4 will be :
(A) Circle (B) Parabola (C) Straight line (D) Hyperbola
28. Sum of the roots of the equation 4x – 3(2x+3) + 128 = 0, is :
(A) 0 (B) 7 (C) 5 (D) 8
29. If and are the roots of the quadratic equation x2 – 12x + 35 = 0, then find the value of 2 :
74 148 12 34
(A) (B) (C) (D)
35 35 35 35
30. The sum of squares of the two consecutive natural numbers is 421, the numbers are :
(A) 14, 15 (B) 21, 22 (C) 9, 10 (D) 17, 18
Answer Key
2a b a 2b 1
1. a = 3, b = - 6 2. x , 3. x = -2 and -2 4. x 2,
3 3 2
5. K = 0 or K = 3 6. Length = 12m, Breadth = 7m 7. 2 km/h 8. K = 9, = -2
9. 64 10. Age of son = 9 year, age of father = 45 year 11. (A)
12. (A) 13. (B) 14. B 15. (C) 16. (C)
17. (C) 18. (A) 19. (B) 20. (A) 21. (D)
22. (B) 23. (A) 24. (D) 25. (A) 26. (D)
27. (B) 28. (B) 29. (B) 30. (A)
