List of practice Questions

The diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is 24 m and the perpendiculars dropped on it from the remaining opposite vertices are 8 m and 13 m. Find the area of the field.
diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is 24 m
“You’ll soon stop being smart.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) Why does the speaker say it?
(iii) What according to the speaker will stop Gerrard from being smart?
“I said it with bullets.”
(i) Who says this?
(ii) What does it mean?
(iii) Is it the truth? What is the speaker’s reason for saying this?
Find the least number which must be added to each of the following numbers so as to get a perfect square. Also find the square root of the perfect square so obtained. 
  1. 525 
  2.  1750 
  3.  252 
  4.  1825
  5.  6412
What does Mandela mean when he says he is “simply the sum of all those African patriots” who had gone before him?
Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children 'spilling out of their homes'?
Length of the fence of a trapezium shaped field ABCD is 120 m. If BC = 48 m, CD = 17 m and AD = 40 m, find the area of this field. Side AB is perpendicular to the parallel sides AD and BC.
Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree
(i) bee-loud glade
(ii) evenings full of the linnet’s wings
(iii) lake water lapping with low sounds What pictures do these words create in your mind?
What do you understand about the author’s literary inclinations from the account?
In a right triangle ABC, \(∠ B\) = 90°. 
  1. If AB = 6 cm, BC = 8 cm, find AC 
  2.  If AC = 13 cm, BC = 5 cm, find AB
How does the author describe the incongruity of an English poet addressing the audience at Gemini Studios ?
Science wasn’t the only thing that appealed to the dashing young man with the walrus moustache. (interested, challenged, worried)
A gardener has \(1000\) plants. He wants to plant these in such a way that the number of rows and the number of columns remain same. Find the minimum number of plants he needs more for this.
Five years later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in an uproar. (in a state of commotion, full of criticism, in a desperate state)
Notice the sentences in the text which are in ‘direct speech’. Why does the author use quotations in his narration?
The newspapers proclaimed his work as “a scientific revolution.” (declared, praised, showed)
Einstein was constantly at odds with people at the university. (on bad terms, in disagreement, unhappy)
The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.
Top surface of a trapezium
These are \(500\) children in a school. For a P.T. drill they have to stand in such a manner that the number of rows is equal to number of columns. How many children would be left out in this arrangement?
Discuss :
The qualities of a good leader.
How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?
Who does Lencho think has taken the rest of the money? What is the irony in the situation? (Remember that the irony of a situation is an unexpected aspect of it. An ironic situation is strange or amusing because it is the opposite of what is expected.)
Write a note on economic importance of algae and gymnosperms.
Which of the following numbers are not perfect cubes: 
  1. 216 
  2. 128 
  3.  1000 
  4.  100 
  5.  46656
Mention the ploidy of the following: protonemal cell of a moss; primary endosperm nucleus in dicot, leaf cell of a moss; prothallus cell of a ferm; gemma cell in Marchantia; meristem cell of monocot, ovum of a liverwort, and zygote of a fern.