Thursday, October 30, 2025

Maths Question Paper

Attempt all the questions compulsorily:

1.     In a group of 150 people, 120 like to play volleyball, 85 like to play football and 25 like to play none of the games.

a.     If F and V denote the set of people who likes to play football and volleyball respectively, write the cardinality of    .                                            (1)

b.     Show the above information in Venn – diagram. (1)

c.     How many people like to play volleyball only.   (3)

d.     Prove that the percentage of people who like to play football only is 12.5 % of the people like to play volleyball only.                                              (1)

2.     In a group of students, 45 read Nepali, 40 read mathematics, and 35 read Science, 20 read Nepali and Mathematics, 10 read Mathematics and Science, 15 read Science and Nepali. 5 read all three subjects and 20 don’t read all three subjects.

a.     Find the number of students who read at least one subject.                                  (1)

b.     Find the total number of students.                                             (1)

c.     Find the number of students who read Mathematics and

Science only.                                                        (3)

d.     What is the total number of students if 10 people don’t read all three subjects?                                      (1)

3.     Krishna borrowed Rs 50,000 from Radha at the rate of 10 % p.a. At the end of 1 year.

a.     The annual compound amount on a sum P in T years at R % p. a. is CA respectively. Write down the relation between, P, T, R, and CA.                                  (1)

b.     How much semi – annual compound interest has to be paid?                                                               (1)

c.     Find the difference between semi – annual and quarterly compound interest.                                          (2)

d.     Which interest system is good for lending money? Give reason.                                                            (1)

4.     The population of a village is 20,000. The population increases by 2 % annually in the village.

a.     If the initial population is P, growth rate is R % per annum and population after T years is PT, then write the formula to find PT.                                                   (1)

b.     After how many years the population of the village will be 20,808?                                                          (2)

c.     If the population of the village increases at the rate of 3 % p.a., by what number will the population of the village be increased in 2 years?                               (2)

5.     The initial price of a machine was Rs 8,00,000. If the price of the machine in the first year increased by 10 % and then depreciated in the following years by 4 % and 5 % respectively.

a.     Which formula is used to calculate the price after increment?                                                    (1)

b.     Find the price of the machine at the end of first year.                                                                          (1)

c.     Find the price of the machine at the end of the second year.                                                                (1)

d.     If the machine was sold at the end of the third year, what is the profit or loss?                                                  (1)

6.    


3 m

Text Box: 2.5 mA temple resembles the combined solid made up of a prism and a square based pyramid.

a.     What is the formula to calculate the area of the

base of the temple?  (1)

b.     Find the volume of the pyramidal part.    (1)

c.     How much space in the air is occupied by the temple? (2)

7.     A carpenter made a wooden square – based pyramid having slant height 10 cm and vertical height 8 cm.

a.     How many faces are there in a square – based pyramid.                                                                      (1)

b.     Find the length of the base side.                        (1)

c.     Find the total surface area of the pyramid.         (2)

8.     There are 20 terms in an arithmetic series. If the sum of the first 3 terms of the arithmetic series is 42 and that of the first 5 terms is 80,

a.     Find the common difference of the series.          (2)

b.     Compute the first term of the series.                  (1)

c.     Calculate the 20th term of the series.                  (2)

9.     A metallic solid made up of cylinder and cone is shown in the figure. The radii of the base of the cone and cylinder is 7 cm each. The height of the cylinder is 40 cm and the height of the cone is 24 cm.

a.    

24 cm

Text Box: 40 cmIf the radius of the base and slant height of the cone are given, then write the formula to find the curved surface area of the cone. (1)

b.     Find the volume of the object.                               (2)

c.     Compare the volume of the cylindrical part and the volume of conical part.       (1)

10. The total height of a toy made up of cone and hemisphere is 42 cm. If the diameter of the toy is also 42 cm, then answer the following questions.

a.     Find the volume of the toy.                               (3)

b.     If the surface of the toy is colored at the rate of 50 paisa per cm2, find the total cost.                                  (2)

11. Answer the following questions:

a.     What value of y makes the expression  undefined?                                                                     (1)

b.     Simplify:  -  -      (3)

12. Answer the following questions:

a.     If ax + 1 = a1 + y, then write the relation between x and y.(1)

b.     Prove that the value of x obtained by solving                  4 X 3x + 1 – 9x = 27 also satisfy the equation            32x – 4 X 3x + 1 + 27 = 0.                    (3)

A           E             D

B                 C

13. Parallelograms EBCD and triangle ABC are on the same base BC and between the same parallels AD and BC.

a.     Write the relation between AEB and ADC with reason.    (1)

b.     Prove that the area of parallelograms EBCD is twice the area of ABC. (2)

14.

P

Q

R

S

In a cyclic quadrilateral PQRS,  P and  R are opposite angles.

a.   Write the relation between  P and  R.            (1)

b.   Find the value of x when  P = 2  and  R = 4  (1)

c.     Prove experimentally that

   Q +  S = 180°. (3)

15. The given data shows the marks obtained by students in an examination of mathematics out of 100 marks are given below.

 

Marks

0 – 20

20 – 40

40 – 60

60 – 80

80 - 100

No. of students

2

5

4

6

3

a.     Write the formula to find the third quartile of a continuous data.                                                  (1)

b.     Find the median.                                             (2)

c.     Find the modal class.                                       (1)

d.     If the marks obtained is converted to 50 full marks, then what will be the new average.                     (2)

16.  A box contains 5 white and 4 red balls of same shape and size.

a.     Define the multiplication law of probability.      (1)

b.     Two balls are drawn randomly one after another from the box without replacement. Show the probability of all the possible outcomes in a tree diagram.           (2)

c.     Find the probability of first ball white second ball red. (1)

d.     If two white balls are added in the box and two balls are drawn randomly without replacement, what will be the probability of getting the first ball white and second ball red?                                                              (1)

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