CHAPTERWISE

PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS

MATHEMATICS 2023 & 2024 RAGHUBIR BAL MANDIR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL,
RAM GHAT ROAD, ALIGARH

CHAPTER REAL NUMBERS | Unit 1: NUMBER SYSTEMS | Marks: 06

SYLLABUS:
UNIT l: NUMBER SYSTEMS | REAL NUMBER
Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic - statements after reviewing work done earlier and after illustrating
and motivating through examples, Proofs of irrationality of √2, √3, √5 .

(SECTION – A) [1 Mark]
Q.1 HCF (132, 77) is
(a) 11 (b) 77 (c) 22 (d) 44

Q.2 The HCF of smallest 2 - digit number and the smallest composite number is:
(a) 2 (b)20 (c) 40 (d) 4

Q.3 Assertion (A): √2(5 − √2) is an irrational number.

Reason (R): Product of two irrational numbers is always irrational.

Q.4 If 1080 = 2𝑥 × 3𝑦 × 5, then (𝑥 − 𝑦) is equal to:

(a) 6 (b) −1 (c) 1 (d) 0

Q.5 HCF × LCM for the numbers 40 and 30 is:

(a) 12 (b) 120 (c) 1200 (d) 40

Q.6 Prime factorisation of 424 is:

(a) 2 × 53 × 4 (b) 2 × 53 × 2 (c) 23 × 53 (d) 24 × 53

Q.7 If x is a whole number, then 8𝑥 ends with an even digit, except for which value of x?
(a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 0

Q.8 If two positive integers p and q can be expressed as 𝑝 = 18𝑎2 𝑏 4 and 𝑞 = 20𝑎3 𝑏 2 , where a and b
are prime numbers, then LCM (p, q) is:
(a) 2𝑎2 𝑏 2 (b) 180𝑎2 𝑏 2 (c) 12𝑎2 𝑏 2 (d) 180𝑎3 𝑏 4

Q.9 If the HCF (2520, 6600) = 40 and LCM (2520, 6600) = 252 x k, then the value of k is
(a) 1650 (b) 1600 (c) 165 (d) 1625

Q.10 𝑎 = 22 × 3𝑥 , 𝑏 = 22 × 3 × 5, 𝑐 = 22 × 3 × 7 and LCM (a, b, c) = 3780, then x is equal to

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 0

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Q.11 A pair of irrational numbers whose product is a rational number is:
(a) (√16, √4) (b) (√5, √2) (c) (√3, √27) (d) (√36, √2)

Q.12 The HCF of two numbers 65 and 104 is 13. If LCM of 65 and 104 is 40x, then the value of x is:
(a) 5 (b) 13 (c) 40 (d) 8

Q.13 The greatest number which divides 281 and 1249, leaving remainder 5 and 7 respectively, is :
(a) 23 (b) 276 (c) 138 (d) 69

Q.14 The LCM of three numbers 28, 44, 132 is :

(a) 258 (b) 231 (c) 462 (d) 924

Q.15 If the product of two co-prime numbers is 553, then their HCF is :
(a) 1 (b) 553 (c) 7 (d) 79

Q.16 If HCF (72, 120) = 24, then LCM (72, 120) is

(a) 72 (b) 120 (c) 360 (d) 9640

Q.17 The prime factorization of the number 2304 is

(a) 28 × 32 (b) 27 × 33 (c) 28 × 31 (d) 27 × 32

Q.18 If n is a natural number, then 8𝑛 cannot end with digit

(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 6

Q.19 The prime factorisation of natural number 288 is

(a) 24 × 33 (b) 24 × 32 (c) 25 × 32 (d) 25 × 31

Q.20 If the HCF of 360 and 64 is 8, then their LCM is :

(a) 2480 (b) 2780 (c) 512 (d) 2880

Q.21 (HCF x LCM) for the numbers 70 and 40 is:

(a) 10 (b) 280 (c) 2800 (d) 70

Q.22 The number (5 − 3√5 + √5) is :

(a) an integer (b) a rational number (c) an irrational number (d) whole number

Q.23 LCM of (23 × 3 × 5) and (24 × 5 × 7) is :

(a) 40 (b) 560 (c) 1680 (d) 1120

Q.24 Assertion (A): The perimeter of triangle ABC is a rational number.

Reason (R): The sum of the squares of two rational numbers is always rational.

Q.25 If 'p' and 'q' are natural numbers and 'p' is the multiple of 'q', then what is the HCF of 'p' and 'q' ?
(a) pq (b) p (c) q (d) p + q

Q.26 The ratio of HCF to LCM of the least composite number and the least prime number is :
(a) 1:2 (b) 2:1 (c) 1:1 (d) 1:3

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Q.27 Assertion (A): The number 5𝑛 cannot end with the digit 0, where n is a natural number.
Reason (R): Prime factorisation of 5 has only two factors, 1 and 5.

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Q.28 If 𝑝2 = 50 , then p is a/an
(a) an integer (b) a rational number (c) an irrational number (d) whole number

(SECTION – B) [2 Marks]

Q.1 Prove that 6 − 4√5 is an irrational number, given that √5 is an irrational number.
Q.2 Show that 11 × 19 × 23 + 3 × 11 is not a prime number.
Q.3 Find the HCF of 84 and 144 by prime factorisation method.
Q.4 Prove that −7 − 2√3 is an irrational number, given that √3 is an irrational number.
Q.5 Explain why (7 × 11 × 13 + 2 × 11) is not a prime number.
Q.6 Given that HCF (306, 1314) = 18, find LCM of (306, 1314).
Q.7 Prove that 5 − 2√3 is an irrational number, given that √3 is an irrational number
Q.8 Show that the number 5 × 11 × 17 + 3 × 11 is a composite number.
Q.9 Can the number (15)𝑛 , n being a natural number, end with the digit 0? Give reasons.
Q.10 Three bells toll at intervals of 9, 12 and 15 minutes respectively. If they start tolling together, after
what time will they next toll together?
Q.11 Find the LCM and HCF of 92 and 510, using prime factorisation.
Q.12 Find the HCF of the numbers 540 and 630, using prime factorization method.
Q.13 Show that (15)𝑛 cannot end with the digit 0 for any natural number 'n'.
Q.14 Find LCM of 576 and 512 by prime factorization.
Q.15 Find the greatest number which divides 85 and 72 leaving remainders 1 and 2 respectively.
Q.16 Prove that 2 + √3 is an irrational number, given that √3 is an irrational number
Q.17 Two numbers are in the ratio 2 : 3 and their LCM is 180. What is the HCF of these numbers?
Q.18 Using prime factorisation, find HCF and LCM of 96 and 120.

(SECTION – C) [3 Marks]
Q.1 Two alarm clocks ring their alarms at regular intervals of 20 minutes and 25 minutes respectively. If
they first beep together at 12 noon, at what time will they beep again together next time?

Q.2 Prove that 7 − 3√5 is an irrational number, given that √5 is an irrational number.
Q.3 Find LCM and HCF of two numbers 336 and 54, using prime-factorisation method.

Q.4 Prove that 2 + 5√3 is an irrational number, if it is given that √3 is an irrational number.

Q.5 Prove that 6 + 3√2 is an irrational number, given that √2 is an irrational number.
Q.6 In a teachers' workshop, the number of teachers teaching French, Hindi and English are 48, 80 and
144 respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required if in each room the same number of
teachers are seated and all of them are of the same subject.
2−√3
Q.7 Prove that is an irrational number, given that √3 is an irrational number
5

Q.8 Prove that √3 is an irrational number.

Q.9 Prove that (√2 + √3) 2 is an irrational number, given that √6 is an irrational number.
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Q.10 Prove that 3 − 2√5 is an irrational number, given that √5 is an irrational number.

Q.11 Prove that 3 + 7√2 is an irrational number, given that √2 is an irrational number.

Q.12 Prove that 4 + 2√3 is an irrational number, if it is given that √3 is an irrational number.

Q.13 Prove that 7 − 2√3 is an irrational number, given that √3 is an irrational number.

Q.14 Prove that √5 is an irrational number.

Q.15 Find by prime factorisation the LCM of the numbers 18180 and 7575. Also, find the HCF of the two
numbers.
Q.16 Three bells ring at intervals of 6, 12 and 18 minutes. If all the three bells rang at 6 a.m., when will
they ring together again?

Q.17 Prove that √3 is an irrational number.

Q.18 The traffic lights at three different road crossings change after every 48 seconds, 72 seconds and 108
seconds respectively. If they change simultaneously at 7 a.m., at what time will they change together
next ?
(SECTION – E) [4 Marks]

Q.1 Teaching Mathematics through activities is a powerful approach that enhances students'
understanding and engagement. Keeping this in mind, Ms. Mukta planned a prime number game for
class 5 students. She announces the number 2 in her class and asked the first student to multiply it
by a prime number and then pass it to second student. Second student also multiplied it by a prime
number and passed it to third student. In this way by multiplying to a prime number, the last student
got 173250.
Now, Mukta asked some questions as given below to the students:
(i) What is the least prime number used by students ?
(ii) (a) How many students are in the class ?
OR
(b) What is the highest prime number used by students ?
(iii) Which prime number has been used maximum times ?

Q.2 Khushi wants to organize her birthday party. Being health conscious, she decided to serve only fruits
in her birthday party. She bought 36 apples and 60 bananas and decided to distribute fruits equally
among all.
Based on the above information, answer the following questions :
(i) How many guests Khushi can invite at the most?
(ii) How many apples and bananas will each guest get?
(iii) (a) If Khushi decides to add 42 mangoes, how many guests Khushi can invite at the most?
OR
(b) If the cost of 1 dozen of bananas is Rs. 60, the cost of 1 apple is Rs. 15 and cost of 1 mango
is Rs. 20, find the total amount spent on 60 bananas, 36 apples and 42 mangoes.

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