Santosh International School

Summer Holiday Homework

Class –X Session (2024-25)
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Subject:- English
NOTE: · All the questions to be done on an A-4 size sheet.
Attempt all the questions and do them neatly. Make a beautiful file cover.
Q1. Poster Making:
Make a poster portraying your thoughts and point of view on:
“Love for freedom is the natural instinct of every living being.”
You may read Leslie Norris’s A Tiger in the Zoo for your reference.
Q2. Travel Brochure
Research about places to visit in Sikkim and prepare a Travel Brochure of any one
place describing the location, ways to reach there, weather, best time to visit, hotels,
the flora and fauna, food, suggested activities, culture etc.
· It should be handwritten. There should be 4-5 pages, where you may draw or paste
some pictures associated with that place. Draw borders around the pictures if they
are pasted. Give details about the same.
· There should be interesting and catchy HEADINGS above each detailed
paragraph.
· Each picture in the brochure should have a CAPTION (i.e. a Photo caption, also
known as cutline, a line of text used to explain and elaborate a photograph.)
Q.3. You have just read two of the poems of Robert Frost. Make a detailed project
on this
American poet highlighting the following topics –
a. Biography
b. Work
c. Awards and recognition
d. Legacy and Cultural Influence
 विषय - ह द
िं ी
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नोट - गह
ृ कार्य पथ
ृ क नोटबुक करना अननवार्य हैं।
1-रचना के आधार पर वाक्र् के ककतने भेद होते हैं? सभी भेदो की पररभाषा उदाहरण सहहत
लिखिए।
2-वाच्र् के ककतने भेद होते हैं? सभी भेदो की पररभाषा उदाहरण सहहत लिखिए।
3-‘आत्मकथ्र्’ कववता को ध्र्ानपूवयक पढ़कर 25 अनतिघु उत्तरीर् प्रश्न लिखिए।
4-‘ििनवी अंदाज’ पाठ को ध्र्ानपूवक
य पढ़कर 25
अनतिघु उत्तरीर् प्रश्न लिखिए।
5-आपका नाम अनालमका /अलमत है। आपने अपना िराब िैपटॉप ठीक होने के लिए हदर्ा था
िेककन एक सप्ताह बीत जाने पर भी वापस नहीं लमिा। उसे जल्दी प्राप्त करने के लिए कंपनी
के मैनेजर को िगभग 80 शब्दों में ईमेि लिखिए।

SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Select any one topic, given below, and make a project file.
Sustainable development Or Consumer Rights Or Social issues
2. Make at least 10-20 very short questions and answers from the chapters
taught in the class. Note – Do in your fair notebook
3. Locate the states and their capitals in the political map of India in an informative
and creative manner.

Subject - Science

PHYSICS

1)Draw all ray diagrams of Concave and Convex mirror on A4 size sheets. Write
the position,size and nature of image formed in each case.
2)Draw all ray diagrams of Concave and Convex lens on A4 size sheets. Write
the position,size and nature of Image formed in each case.
3)Write three practical applications of each of the following:
a)Concave mirror
b)Convex mirror
c)Concave lens
d)Convex lens
e)Plane mirror

CHEMISTRY
Instructions: Do your written work in separate notebook.
1. Prepare a detailed report on Types of Chemical reactions (5 each).
2. List the various reactions that are observed in daily life and write them. Also
tell the type of reaction.
3. Write the observation of all activities of Ch. Chemical Reactions and
Equations given in NCERT book.

BIOLOGY
1)Draw the well labelled diagram of the following on A4 size sheets.
Human digestive system
Human respiratory system
Explain the function of each parts of both the system as per the context of your
syllabus.
2)Diagrammatically explain the opening and closing of stomata.
3)Write the observations and draw the diagrams on A4 size sheets of all the
activities of Ch. Life Processes given in NCERT book.
 Subject:- Maths
1. A sweet seller has 420 kaju burfis and 130 badam burfis she wants to stack them in such a way
that each stack has the same number, and they take up the least area of the tray. What is the number
of burfis that can be placed in each stack for this purpose?
2. Find the largest number which divides 245 and 1029 leaving remainder 5 in each case.

3. Find the largest number which divides 2053 and 967 and leaves a remainder of 5 and 7 respectively.

4. Two tankers contain 850 litres and 680 litres of kerosene oil respectively. Find the maximum
capacity of a container which can measure the kerosene oil of both the tankers when used an exact
number of times.
5. In a morning walk, three persons step off together. Their steps measure 80 cm, 85 cm and 90 cm
respectively. What is the minimum distance each should walk so that all can cover the same
distance in complete steps?
6. Find the least number which when divided by 12, 16, 24 and 36 leaves a remainder 7 in each case.
7. The length, breadth and height of a room are 825 cm, 675 cm and 450 cm respectively. Find the
longest tape which can measure the three dimensions of the room exactly.
8. Determine the smallest 3-digit number which is exactly divisible by 6, 8 and 12.
9. Determine the greatest 3-digit number exactly divisible by 8, 10 and 12.
10. 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
simultaneously again?
11. Three tankers contain 403 litres, 434 litres and 465 litres of diesel respectively. Find the maximum
capacity of a container that can measure the diesel of the three containers exact number of times.
12. Find the least number which when divided by 6, 15 and 18 leave remainder 5 in each case.
13. Find the smallest 4-digit number which is divisible by 18, 24 and 32.
14. Renu purchases two bags of fertiliser of weights 75 kg and 69 kg. Find the maximum value of
weight which can measure the weight of the fertiliser exact number of times.

15. In a seminar, the number, the number of participants in Hindi, English and Mathematics are 60, 84
and 108, respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required if in each room the same
number of participants are to be seated and all of them being in the same subject.

16. 144 cartons of Coke cans and 90 cartons of Pepsi cans are to be stacked in a canteen. If each stack
is of the same height and is to contain cartons of the same drink, what would be the greatest number
of cartons each stack would have?

17. A merchant has 120 litres of oil of one kind, 180 litres of another kind and 240 litres of third kind.
He wants to sell the oil by filling the three kinds of oil in tins of equal capacity. What would be
the greatest capacity of such a tin?

18. Express each of the following positive integers as the product of its prime factors: (i) 3825 (ii)
5005 (iii) 7429

19. Express each of the following positive integers as the product of its prime factors: (i) 140 (ii) 156
(iii) 234

20. There is circular path around a sports field. Priya takes 18 minutes to drive one round of the field,
while Ravish takes 12 minutes for the same. Suppose they both start at the same point and at the
same time and go in the same direction. After how many minutes will they meet again at the
starting point?

21. In a morning walk, three persons step off together and their steps measure 80 cm, 85 cm and 90
cm, respectively. What is the minimum distance each should walk so that each can cover the same
distance in complete steps?

22. A circular field has a circumference of 360 km. Three cyclists start together and can cycle 48, 60
and 72 km a day, round the field. When will they meet again?

23. If d is the HCF of 30, 72, find the value of x & y satisfying d = 30x + 72y.

24. Given that HCF (306, 657) = 9, find the LCM(306, 657).

25. Why the number 4n, where n is a natural number, cannot end with 0?

26. Why is 5 x 7 x 11 + 7 is a composite number?

27. Explain why 7 x 11 + 13 + 13 and 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 + 5 are composite numbers.

28. In a school there are two sections – section A and section B of class X. There are 32 students in
section A and 36 students in section B. Determine the minimum number of books required for their
class library so that they can be distributed equally among students of section A or section B.
29. Determine the number nearest 110000 but greater than 100000 which is exactly divisible by each
of 8, 15 and 21.

30. Three sets of English, Hindi and Mathematics books have to be stacked in such a way that all the
books are stored topic wise and the height of each stack is the same. The number of English books
is 96, the number of Hindi books is 240 and the number of Mathematics books is 336. Assuming
that the books are of the same thickness, determine the number of stacks of English, Hindi and
Mathematics books.

Chapter -2
1. If p(x) = 3x – 2x + 6x – 5, find p(2).
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2. Draw the graph of the polynomial f(x) = x2 – 2x – 8.

3. Draw the graph of the polynomial f(x) = 3 – 2x – x2 .

4. Draw the graph of the polynomial f(x) = –3x2 + 2x – 1.

5. Draw the graph of the polynomial f(x) = x2 – 6x + 9 .

6. Find the zeroes of the following polynomials by factorisation method and verify the relations
between the zeroes and the coefficients of the polynomials:
(i) 4x2 – 3x – 1
(ii) 3x2 + 4x – 4
(iii) 5t2 + 12t + 7
(iv) t3 – 2t2 – 15t
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(v) 2x2 + x +
2 4
(vi) 4x + 5 2 x – 3
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PAIR OF LINEAR EQUATIONS IN TWO VARIABLES

1. Sum of two numbers is 50 and their difference is 10, then the numbers are
(a) 30 and 20 (b) 24 and 14 (c) 12 and 2 (d) none of these

2. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 12. The number obtained by interchanging its digit
exceeds the given number by 18, then the number is
(a) 72 (b) 75 (c) 57 (d) none of these

3. The sum of a two-digit number and the number obtained by interchanging its digit is 99. If the
digits differ by 3, then the number is
(a) 36 (b) 33 (c) 66 (d) none of these

4. Seven times a two-digit number is equal to four times the number obtained by reversing the order
of its digit. If the difference between the digits is 3, then the number is
(a) 36 (b) 33 (c) 66 (d) none of these

5. A two-digit number is 4 more than 6 times the sum of its digits. If 18 is subtracted from the
number, the digits are reversed, then the number is
(a) 36 (b) 46 (c) 64 (d) none of these
6. The sum of two numbers is 1000 and the difference between their squares is 25600, then the
numbers are
(a) 616 and 384 (b) 628 and 372 (c) 564 and 436 (d) none of these

7. Five years ago, A was thrice as old as B and ten years later A shall be twice as old as B, then the
present age of A is
(a) 20 (b) 50 (c) 30 (d) none of these

8. The sum of thrice the first and the second is 142 and four times the first exceeds the second by
138, then the numbers are
(a) 40 and 20 (b) 40 and 22 (c) 12 and 22 (d) none of these

9. The sum of twice the first and thrice the second is 92 and four times the first exceeds seven times
the second by 2, then the numbers are
(a) 25 and 20 (b) 25 and 14 (c) 14 and 22 (d) none of these

10. The difference between two numbers is 14 and the difference between their squares is 448, then
the numbers are
(a) 25 and 9 (b) 22 and 9 (c) 23 and 9 (d) none of these
Solve for x and y:

1. 11x + 15y + 23 = 0; 7x – 2y – 20 = 0.
2. 2x + y = 7; 4x – 3y + 1 = 0.
3. 23x – 29 y = 98; 29x – 23y = 110.
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4. 2x + 5y = ; 3x – 2y = .
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5. 4x – 3y = 8; 6x – y = .
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6. 2x - y = 3; 5x = 2y + 7.
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7. 2x – 3y = 13; 7x – 2y = 20.

8. 3x – 5y – 19 = 0; –7x + 3y + 1 = 0.

9. 2x – 3y + 8 = 0; x – 4y + 7 = 0.

10. x + y = 5xy;3x + 2 y = 13xy; x  0, y  0.

11. 152x − 378 y = −74; −378x +152 y = −604 .

12. 47x + 31y = 63;31x + 47 y = 15 .

13. 71x + 37y = 253; 37x + 71y = 287.

14. 37x + 43y = 123; 43x + 37y = 117.

15. 217x + 131y = 913; 131x + 217y = 827.

16. 41x – 17y = 99; 17x – 41y = 75.

17. Find the value of k, so that the following system of equations has no solution:
3x – y – 5 = 0; 6x – 2y – k = 0.
18. Find the value of k, so that the following system of equations has a non-zero solution:
3x + 5y = 0; kx + 10y = 0.

Find the value of k, so that the following system of equations has no solution:
19. 3x + y = 1; (2k −1)x + (k −1) y = (2k −1).
20. 3x + y = 1; (2k −1)x + (k −1) y = (2k +1).
21. x − 2 y = 3; 3x + ky = 1.
22. x + 2 y = 5; 3x + ky +15 = 0.
23. kx + 2 y = 5; 3x − 4 y = 10.
24. x + 2 y = 3; 5x + ky + 7 = 0.
25. 8x + 5 y = 9; kx +10 y = 15.
Word problems
1. The sum of two numbers is 137 and their difference is 43. Find the numbers.

2. The sum of thrice the first and the second is 142 and four times the first exceeds the second by
138, then find the numbers.

3. Sum of two numbers is 50 and their difference is 10, then find the numbers.

4. The sum of twice the first and thrice the second is 92 and four times the first exceeds seven times
the second by 2, then find the numbers.

5. The sum of two numbers is 1000 and the difference between their squares is 25600, then find the
numbers.

6. The difference between two numbers is 14 and the difference between their squares is 448, then
find the numbers.
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7. The sum of two natural numbers is 8 and the sum of their reciprocals is . Find the number
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TWO-DIGIT PROBLEMS

1. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 12. The number obtained by interchanging the two
digits exceeds the given number by 18. Find the number.

2. Seven times a two-digit number is equal to four times the number obtained by reversing the order
of its digit. If the difference between the digits is 3, then find the number.

3. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. Also, nine times this number is twice the
number obtained by reversing the order of the digits. Find the number.

4. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. If 27 is added to it, the digits of the numbers get
reversed. Find the number.

5. The sum of a two-digit number and the number obtained by reversing the digits is 66. If the
digits of the number differ by 2, find the number. How many such numbers are there?

6. A two-digit number is 4 more than 6 times the sum of its digit. If 18 is subtracted from the
number, the digits are reversed. Find the number.