STD 10 MATHS
IMPORTANT QUESTION
CHEPTER 13 SURFACE AREAS AND VOLUMES
1. A medicine capsule is in the shape of a cylinder with
two hemispheres stuck to each of its ends . The
length of the entire capsule is 14mm and the
diameter of the capsule is 5mm . Find its surface area.
2. A tent is in the shape of a cylinder surmounted by a
conical top . If the height and diameter of the
cylindrical part are 2.1m and 4m respectively , and the
slant height of the top is 2.8 m , find the area of the
canvas used for making the tent . Also , find the cost
of the canvas of the tent at the rate of ₹ 500 per m2 .
(note that the base of the tent will not be covered
with canvas .)
3. A wooden article was made by scooping out a
hemisphere from each end of a solid cylinder . If the
height of the cylinder is 10 cm , and its base is of
radius 3.5 cm , find the total surface area of the
article.
4. A juice seller was serving his customers using glasses.
The inner diameter of the cylindrical glass was 5 cm ,
but the bottom of the glass had a hemispherical
raised portion which reduced the capacity of the
glass. If the height of a glass was 10 cm , find the
apparent capacity of the glass and its actual capacity.
(use Π = 3.14 )
5. A vessel is in the form of an inverted cone . Its height
is 8 cm and the radius of its top , which is open , is 5
cm . It is filled with water up to the brim . When lead
shots , each of which is a sphere of radius 0.5 cm are
dropped into the vessel , one-forth of the water flows
out . Find the number of lead shots dropped in the
vessel.
6. A copper rod of diameter 1 cm and length 8 cm is
drawn into a wire of length 18 m of uniform
thickness. Find the thickness of the wire .
7. A hemispherical tank full of water is emptied by a
pipe at the wire is 3(4/7) litres per second . How
much time will it take to empty half the tank , if it is
3 m in diameter ? (take Π = 22/7)
8. A well of diameter 3 m is dug 14 m deep . The earth
taken out of it has been spread evenly all around it
in the shape of a circular ring of width 4 m to form
an embankment . Find the height of the embankment .
9. A container shaped like a right circular cylinder having
diameter 12 cm and height 15 cm is full of ice cream .
The ice cream is to be filled into cones of height 12
cm and diameter 6 cm , having a hemispherical shape
on the top . Find the number of such cones which can
be filled with ice cream .
10. A cylindrical bucket , 32 cm high and with radius
of base 18 cm , is filled with sand . This bucket is
emptied on the ground and a conical heap of sand is
formed . If the height of the conical heap is 24 cm ,
find the radius and slant height of the heap.
CHEPTER 3 PAIR OF LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO
VARIABLES
1. A fraction becomes 9/11 , if 2 is added to both the
numerator and the denominator . If , 3 is added to
both the numerator and the denominator it becomes
5/6. Find the fraction .
2. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9 . Also,
nine times this number is twice the number obtained
by reversing the order of the digits . Find the number .
3. A lending library has a fixed charge for the first three
days and an additional charge for each day thereafter .
Saritha paid ₹ 27 for a book kept for seven days , while
Susy paid ₹ 21 for the book she kept for five days .
Find the fixed charge and the charge for each extra
day .
4. Yash scored 40 marks in a test , getting 3 marks for
each right answer and losing 1 mark for each wrong
answer . Had 4 marks been awarded for each correct
answer and 2 marks been deducted for each incorrect
answer , then Yash would have scored 50 marks . How
many questions were there in the test ? (V.I.M.P.)
5. Places A and B are 100 km apart on a highway . One
car starts from A and another from B at the same
time . If the cars travel in the same direction at
different speeds , they meet in 5 hours . If they travel
towards each other , they meet in 1 hour . What are
the speeds of the two cars ? (V.I.M.P.)
6. The area of a rectangle gets reduced by 9 square units,
if its length is reduced by 5 units and breadth is
increased by 3 units . If we increase the length by 3
units and the breadth by 2 units , the area increases
by 67 square units . Find the dimensions of the
rectangle . ( V.I.M.P.)
7. A boat goes 30 km upstream and 44 km downstream
in 10 hours . In 13 hours , it can go 40 km upstream
and 55 km down stream . Determine the speed of the
stream and that of the boat in still water.( V.V.I.M.P.)
8. 2 women and 5 men can together finish an
embroidery work in 4 days , while 3 women and 6
men can finish it in 3 days . Find the time taken by 1
woman alone to finish the work , and also that taken
by 1 man alone . ( I.M.P. )
9. Roohi travels 300 km to her home partly by train and
partly by bus . she takes 4 hours if she travels 60 km
by train and the remaining by bus . If she travels 100
km by train and the remaining by bus , she takes 10
minutes longer . Find the speed of the train and the
bus separately .( I.M.P. )
CHEPTER 4 QUADRATIC EQUATIONS
1. A rectangular park is to be designed whose breadth is
3 m less than its length . Its area is to be 4 square
metres more than the area of a park that has already
been made in the shape of an isosceles triangle with
its base as the breadth of the rectangular park and of
altitude 12 m . Find its length and breadth .
2. The difference of squares of two numbers is 180 . The
squares of smaller numbers is 8 times the larger
number . Find the two numbers .
3. A train travels 360 km at a uniform speed . If the
speed had been 5 km/h more , it would have taken 1
hour less for the same journey . Find the speed of the
train .
4. Two water taps together can fill a tank in 9 (3/8
)hours . The tap of larger diameter takes 10 hours less
than the smallerone to fill the tank separately . Find the
time in which each tap can separately fill the tank .
5. An express train takes 1 hourr less than a passenger
train to travel 132 km between Mysore and Banglore
( without taking into consideration the time they stop
at intermidate stations ). If the average speed of the
express train is 11 km/h more than that of the
passenger train , find the average speed of the two
trains.
6. Sum of the areas of two squares is 468 m2 . If the
difference of their perimeter is 24 m , find the sides of
the two squares .
7. A pole has to be erected at a point on the boundary of
a circular park of diameter 13 metres in such a way
that the differences of its distances from two
diametrically opposite fixed gates A and B on the
boundary is 7 metres . Is it possible to do so ? If yes , at
what distances from the two gates should the pole be
erected ?
CHEPTER 11 CONSTRUCTIONS
1. Draw a line segment of length 7.6 cm and divide it in
the ratio 5 : 8 . Measure the two parts .
2. Construct a triangle of sides 4cm , 5 cm and 6 cm and
then a triangle similar to it whose sides are 2/3 of the
corresponding sides of the first triangle.
3. Construct an isosceles triangle whose base is 8 cm and
altitude 4 cm and then another triangle whose sides
are 1(1/2) times the corresponding sides of the
isosceles triangle .
4. Draw a triangle ABC with side BC = 7 cm , angle B = 45o ,
angle A = 105o. Then , construct a triangle whose sides
are 4/3 times the corresponding sides of ΔABC .
5. Draw a right triangle in which the sides (other than
hypotense ) are of lengths 4 cm and 3 cm . Then
construct another triangle whose sides are 5/3 times
the corresponding sides of the given triangle .
6. Draw a circle of radius 6 cm . From a point 10 cm away
from its centre , construct the pair of tangents to the
circle and measure their lengths .
7. Draw a circle of radius 3 cm . Take two points P and Q
on one of its extended diameter each at a distance of
7 cm from its centre . Draw tangents to the circle from
these two points P and Q .
8. Draw a pair of tangents to a circle of radius 5 cm
which are inclined to each other at an angle of 60o .
9. Let ABC be a right triangle in which AB = 6 cm, BC =8
cm and angle B = 90o . BD is the perpendicular from B
on AC . The circle through B , C , D is drawn . Construct
the tangents from A to this circle .
