CHAPTER 1-REAL NUMBERS

LEVEL-1
1. Using Euclid’s division algorithm, find the HCF of:
(i) 210 and 55 (ii) 117 and 65 (iii) 240 and 1024 (iv)
391 and 425 (v) 1288 and 575 (vi) 155 and 1385 (vii) 300, 540, 890
2. A merchant has 105 liters of oil of one kind, 140 liters of second kind and 175 liters of
third kind. He wants to sell the oil by filling the three kinds of oil in tins of equal capacity.
What should be the greatest capacity of such tin?
3. Show that one and only one out of n, n  2 or n  4 is divisible by 3, where n is any
positive integer.
4. Express each of the following integers as the product of its prime factors:

(i) 60 (ii) 1386 (iii) 6435 (iv) 2184 (v) 8085 (vi) 14850

5. Find LCM and HCF of the following pairs of integers and verify that LCM  HCF =
Product of integers: (i) 63 and 168 (ii) 144 and 160 (iii) 510 and 92 (iv)
252 and 488
6. Find LCM and HCF of the following pairs of integers by applying prime factorization
method:
(i) 12, 15 and 21 (ii) 15, 24 and 36 (iii) 225, 336 and 360 (iv) 240, 1024 and
1536
7. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are 145 and 2175 respectively. If one of these numbers
is 725, find the other number.
8. The product of two numbers is 20736 and their HCF is 54. Find their LCM.
9. The LCM of two numbers is 192 and their product is 3072. Find their HCF.
10. Show that the following numbers are irrational:

(i) 5 (ii) 2  3 (iii) 4  5 (iv) 3 5 (v)

2 3
1
(vi) 2  3 5 (vii) 3  5 2 (viii)
2
11. Without actually performing the long division, state whether the following rational
number will have terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal
expansion:
 13 57 19 108 113 517
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)
121 128 45 250 175 2000
12. Write down the decimal expansions of the following rational numbers by writing their
denominators in the form 2m  5n where m, n are non-negative integers.

5 17 13 123 7014 17
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)
8 125 80 625 400 2000
43
13. The decimal expansion of the number , will terminate after how many places of
24.53
decimals?

ANSWERS
1. (i) 5 (ii) 13 (iii) 16 (iv) 17 (v) 23 (vi) 5
(vii) 10
2. 35 4. (i) 22  3 5 (ii) 2  32  7 11 (iii) 32  51113 (iv) 23  3 7 13

(v) 3 5 72 11 (vi) 2  33  52 11 5. (i) 504, 21 (ii) 1440, 16 (iii) 23460, 2 (iv)
30744, 4
6. (i) 420, 3 (ii) 360, 3 (iii) 25200, 3 (iv) 15260, 16 7.435 8.384
9. 16
11. (i), (iii), (v) have non-terminating repeating and (ii), (iv) , (vi) have terminating decimal
expansion
12. (i) 0.625 (ii) 0.136 (iii) 0.1625 (iv) 0.1968 (v) 17.535 (vi) 0.0085
13. Four Places

MCQ:
Q1. The largest number which divides 70 and 125, leaving remainders 5 and 8, respectively is
a) 13 b) 65 c) 875 d) 1750

Q2. The LCM of two numbers is 1200. Which of the following cannot be their HCF?
a) 600 b) 500 c) 400 d)200
Q3. The number of decimal places after which the decimal expansion of the rational number
23
will terminate , is
2 5
2

a) 1 b)2 c)3 d) 4

Q4. If two positive integers a and b are expressible in the form a= pq 2 and b= p 3q ; p,q are
prime numbers, then LCM(a,b) is
a) pq b) p 3q 3 c) p 3q 2 d) p 2 q 2

Q5. If the LCM of a and 18 is 36 , and the HCF(a,18)=2, then a is equal to

a) 2 b)3 c) 4 d) 1

Answers
1)A 2) B 3)B 4)c 5) c
1. If every positive even integer is of the form 2q, then every positive odd integer is of the
form _________________, where q is some integer.
2. If p is a prime number and it divides a2, then it also divides ________________, where a is
a positive integer.
3. If a=bq+r, least value of r is _________.
4. Numbers having non terminating , non repeating decimal expansion are known as
_____________.
5. An algorithm which is used to find HCF of two positive numbers is __________________.

Previous years board questions:

Q1. Show that square of any positive integer is of the form 3m or 3m+1 for some integer m.
( 2008)
Q2.Define HCF of two positive integers and find the HCF of the following pairs of numbers:
(i) 100 and 190 (ii) 105 and 120 (2009)

Q3. Show that 2  3 is an irrational number. (2008)

Q4. Show that 3  2 is an irrational number. (2009)

Q5. . Show that 4  5 2 is an irrational number. (2010)

Q6. Show that 5  2 3 is an irrational number. (2009)

Q7. Show that 2 3  1 is an irrational number. (2010)

Q8. Show that 2  3 5 is an irrational number. (2010)

441
Q9. Has the rational number a terminating or a non-terminating decimal
2  57  7 2
2

representation? (2010)

2 45  3 20
Q10. Write whether on simplification gives a rational or an irrational number.
2 5
(2010)
p
Q11. Write the condition to be satisfied by q so that a rational number has a terminating
q
decimal expansion. (2008)