KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN

MODEL PAPER 19
MATHEMATICS
CLASS -X
2024-2025
Duration:3hours Max.Marks:80
General Instructions:
(i)All questions are compulsory.
(ii)There are 38 questions with 5-sections A,B,C,D and E.
(iii)Section A contains questions from 1-18 MCQ’s and 19-20 Assertion Reason based
questions each carry 1mark.
(iv)Section B contains questions from 21-25 VSA type each carry 2marks.
(v)Section C contains questions from 26-31 SA type each carry 3 marks.
(vi)Section D contains from 32-35 LA type each carry 5 marks.
(vii)Section E contains from 36-38 CASE BASED questions each carry 4 marks.
SECTION-A
(1mark x 20 questions = 20 marks)
1. What is the exponent of 3 in the prime factorization of 864?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 0
2. The graph of the polynomial y = ax2 + bx + c is shown in the figure.Then what will be
the value of b2 – 4ac? X’ Y X
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) Not possible (D)-1
Y’
3. The pair of equations x = 7, x = -7 has--- solutions.
(A)Unique (B) No (C) Infinitely many (D) Two
4. What is the value of ‘k’ for which the quadratic equation x2 – kx + 9 = 0 has equal
Roots.
(A)6 (B) -6 (C) ±6 (D) ± 36
5. Area of the Quadrant of the circle with circumference 22cm is--.
(a) 77/8 (b) 77/4 (c) 7/2 (d) 7/4
6. Perimeter of the protractor is 72cm, then the area of the protractor is--?
(A)1936cm2 (B) 14cm (C) 308cm (D) 308cm2
7. The value of 5 cosec2ɵ-5 cot2ɵ is:
 (A) 3 (B)4 (C)5 (D)6

8. If tan A = 1/√3 then sin 2A=

(A)1/2 (B)√3/2 (C)√3 (D)1/3

9. From a point P, the length of the tangent drawn to a circle is 12cm and the distance
of P from the center of the circle is 13cm.Then,what is the radius of the circle?
(A) 25 (B)5 (C)169 (D)144

10. Which term of the AP: 27,24,21….. is zero(0).

(A) 0 (B) 9 (C) -10 (D)10
11. Write the lower limit of the model class in the following distribution.
Class 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
Frequency 9 12 5 16 8
(A)20 (B)30 (C)40 (D)50
12. Volume of the cone whose radius and height are of 1 unit equal to
(A)1/3 (B)π/3 (C) π (D)None
13. The value of the expression (sec2ɵ-1)(1-cosec2ɵ)
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) -1 (D) 1/2

14. If in the figure AB∥CD, then Triangle ABE similar to ___ triangle?

(A) ∆CDE (B) ∆DEC (C) ∆DCE (D) ∆ECD

15. Slant height of the cone whose radius is 3 cm and height is 4 cm
(A)16cm (B)5cm (C)25cm (D)9cm
16. ∆ABC is a right angled at A, the value of tan B * tan C is
(A)0 (B)1 (C)-1 (D)None of these
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17. If P (3 , 4) is a mid point of the line segment Q(-6,5) and R(-2,3) then the value of the
‘a ‘ is?
(A)-4 (B)-12 (C)12 (D)-6
18. If P is a point on Y-axis, whose ordinate is 3 and Q is a point (-5,2) then the distance
PQ is?
(A)√26 (B) √24 (C)5 (D) √65

The following questions consists of two statements-Assertion (A) and Reasoning(R). Answer
these questions selecting the appropriate option given below.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation for A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation for A.
(C) A is false but R is true.
(D) A is true but R is false.
19. Assertion: probability of occurring 53 Sundays in a year is 1/7.
Reason : Probability of an event may be negative.
20. Assertion If P(E)=0.35,then probability of not E is 0.65.
Reason: For any event E,0 ≤P(E)≤1.

SECTION-B

21. Three bells rings at intervel of 9,12 and 15 minutes respectively .If they start ringing
together ,after what time will they ring again together?

OR

Prove that √3 is an irrational number.

22. A cottage industry produces a certain number of pottery articles in a day. It was
observed on a particular day that the cost of production of each article was 3 more
than twice the number of articles produced on that day, If the total cost of
production on that day was ruppes 90, then from a equation to find the number of
articles produced and the cost of each article.
23. Find the zeros of the following polynomial 6x2-3-7x and verify the relation between
the zeroes and the coefficients.
24. A game consists of tossing a one rupee coin 3 times and noting its out come each
time.Hari wins if all the tosses give the same result,i.e,three heads or three tails and
loses otherwise .Calculate probability that Hari will lose the game.
25. Find the sum of the first 15 multiples of 8.

SECTION -C

26. A horse is tied to a peg at one corner of a square shaped grass field of side 15 m by
means of 5 m long rope. Find

(i) The area of that part of the field in which the horse can graze.
(ii) Find the increase in grazing area if the length of the rope increased to 10m.

27. If a quadrilateral ABCD is drawn to circumscribing a circle. Prove that AB + CD = AD +

BC.
28. Evaluate: 5cos2 600 + 4 sec2 300 -tan2450
_________________________

Sin2300+ sin2600.

OR
 1 1
If sin (A-B) = 2; cos (A+B) =2;where 0<A+B≤900,A>B;find ∟A and ∟B.

29.Draw the graph of the equation x-y+1=0 and 3x+2y-12=0. Determine the coordinates
of the vertices of the triangle formed by these lines and the x-axis.

30. Determine if the points (1,5),(2,3) and (-2,-11) are collinear.

31. How many two digit numbers are divisible by 3.

SECTION-D

(5- Marks X 4 Questions)

32. A solid Iron pole consists of a cylinder of height 220cm and base diameter
24cm,which is surmounted by another cylinder of height 60cm and radius 8cm.Find
the mass of the pole,given that 1cm3 of iron has approximatly 8gm mass.(use π
=3.14)

33. In a circle of radius 21cm,an arc subtends an angle of 600 at the centre.Find

(i)the length of the arc

(ii)area of the sector formed by the arc

(iii) the areas of the segment formed by the corresponding chord.(use π=22/7)

𝑠𝑖𝑛∅−𝑐𝑜𝑠∅+1 1
34. 𝑠𝑖𝑛∅+𝑐𝑜𝑠∅−1 = 𝑠𝑒𝑐∅−𝑡𝑎𝑛∅ prove using Identities.

35. A straight highway leads to the foot of a tower. A man standing at the top of the
tower observes a car at an angle of depresion of 300 , which is approaching the foot
of the tower with a uniform speed. 6 seconds later, the angle of depresion of the car
is found to be 600. Find the time taken by the car to reach the foot of the tower
fromm this point.

OR

The angle of elevation of an aero plane from a point on the ground is 600.After a
flight of 15 seconds, the angle of elevation changes to 300.If the aero plane is flying at a
constant height of 1500√3meters, find the speed of the aero plane.

SECTION-E
 (4 marks x 3 questions)

36. It is common that government revise travel fares from time to time based on various
factors such as inflation (a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value
of money )on different type of vehicals like auto rickshaws, taxis, radiocab etc.The
auto charges in a city comprise of a fixed charge together with the charge for the

distance covered.

Study the following situation and answer the question.

Name of the city Distance travelled Amount

City A 10 75
15 110

City B 8 91
14 145

Situation 1:In city A for a journey of 10 km,the charge paid is 75 and for a journey
of 15km, the charges paid is 110.

Situation 2: In acity B, for a journy of 8km,m the charges paid is 91 and for a
jouney of 14km,the charge pai is 145.

(i) If the fixed charges of auto rickshaw be x and the running charges be y
per km,find the pair of equations representing the situation?
(ii) A person travels a distance of 50km.How much amount he has to pay?
Refer Situation 2:

(iii) What will a person have to pay for travelling a distance of 30km.

37. A and B represents points on the bank of the river on opposite sides,so that AB is the
width of the river.P is a point on the bridge.
 (i). What should be the length of AP,if the height of the bridge is 15m?(ɵ=300 )
(ii). Degree measure of angle APB?
(iii).What should be the width of the river,if the height of bridge is 15m?

38. If parallel lines cut off congrent segments on one transversal,then they cut off
congruent segments on any transversal”.Gragh given belowshows similar triangles
used to depict fuel economy standars for automobiles.Above theorems can be used
to divide a given segment into any number of segment into any number of congrent
parts.

Read the above passage and answer the following questions:

(i). To find the height of a tree,a group of girl guide devised the following method.A girl
walks towars the tree along its shadow untill the shadow of the top of her head coincides
with the shadow of the top of the tree. If the girl is 150cm tall,her distance to the foot of
the tree is 15m,and the length of her shadow is 3m,how tall is the tree?

(ii). Determine the vertical height of the

playground slide shown in the figure.

(iii). In the following figure find the distance

AB across the pond using the similar triangles
Shown.