BAF Shaheen College Dhaka
Practice Half Yearly Exam 2020 Class: IX (English Version) Subject: General Mathematics
(Instruction: Answer 02 sets from Part-A, 02 sets from Part-B, 02 sets from Part-C and 01 set from Part-D) Creative Part
Time: 02 Hours 30 minutes Marks: 70 Part A (Algebra)
1. 2 and √2 are two numbers.
a) Define rational numbers with an example.
b) Is √2 a rational number? Explain the reason behind your answer.
c) Write two rational and two irrational numbers between 2 and √2 ?
2 4 4 2. 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥2+ 4𝑥 + 3
𝐴 = {𝑥𝜖 𝑵 ∶ 𝑥 𝑜𝑑𝑑 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 < 6}
𝐵 = {𝑥𝜖 𝑵 ∶ 𝑥 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 21}
𝐶 = {𝑥𝜖 𝑵 ∶ 𝑥 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 7 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑥 < 35}
a) Find the value of 𝑓(0) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓(−1)
b) If the number of elements in A is n then show that P(A) has 2𝑛 number of elements.
c) Show that 𝐴 × (𝐵 ∩ 𝐶) = (𝐴 × 𝐵) ∩ (𝐴 × 𝐶).
2 4 4 3. If 𝑥 = √5 + √6
a) Find the value of 𝑥1.
b) What is the value of 𝑥6𝑥−13 . c) Prove that, 𝑥6−𝑥16 = 1932√30 .
2 4 4 Part- B (Trigonometry and Mensuration)
4. Sin A=3/4
a) Draw the diagram of the triangle which satisfies the stem.
b) Find the value of Cos A and Tan A c) Prove that, 𝐶𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐 𝐴 Sin 𝐴 +𝐶𝑜𝑠 𝐴𝑆𝑒𝑐 𝐴 = 1
2 4 4 5. Using the trigonometric equation-
a) Find the value of sec2𝜃 − tan2𝜃 . b) Show that, √1−𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃√1+𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃(𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃 + 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃) = 1.
c) If 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃 + 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃 =52, then show that, 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝜃 − 𝑡𝑎𝑛𝜃 =25.
2 4 4 6. The hypotenuse of a right angle triangle is 13m. The height of the triangle is 125 times of the base.
a) Present the given information in a diagram.
b) What is the area of that triangle?
c) If a triangle has sides a=5m, b=4m and perimeter of 12m draw the triangle and find the area of this triangle.
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Part- C (Geometry)
7. The base of a triangle a= 5cm, adjacent acute angle ∠𝑥 = 40° and the difference of the other two sides is b=2cm.
a) Present the given information in figure.
b) Construct the triangle with your description of construction.
c) Draw a right angled triangle whose one of the right angle adjacent sides is ‘a’ and the difference of the hypotenuse and other side is ‘b’. Give necessary description of construction.
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8. The base adjacent two angles are 60° and 45° and the perimeter is 12 cm.
a) Draw a 135° angle with help of compass and scale.
b) According to stem construct a triangle with proper description.
c) Construct an equilateral triangle whose perimeter is equal to the perimeter of the given triangle. Give proper description of construction.
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9. In ∆𝑃𝑄𝑅, 𝑃𝑂 ⊥ 𝑄𝑅 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑄 = 𝑃𝑅 = 5𝑐𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑂𝑄 = 4𝑐𝑚
a) Find the length of PO.
b) Prove that, OQ=12QR.
c) Prove that, PQ + PR > 2PO.
2 4 4 Part- D (Statistics)
10. The marks obtained by 30 students in annual exam are given-
78, 68, 61, 99, 69, 80, 83, 75, 62, 65,
77, 85, 75, 82, 98, 95, 85, 77, 80, 87,
81, 85, 90, 85. 75, 77, 81, 78, 92, 68.
a) Define arithmetic mean and mode.
b) Create a Frequency distribution table considering 5 as a class interval.
c) Draw a frequency polygon from the above data.
2 4 4 11. The frequency table of marks in Chemistry if given-
Class interval 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100
Frequency 8 12 20 25 30 15 10
a) Find the lower limit of the mod class of the data.
b) Find median of the data.
c) Draw frequency polygon of the data.
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