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Solved Exercises from Xavier Pinto's Workbook Treasure Trove Volume-II: Short Stories, ICSE Class 9 & Class 10. Download PDF Now!

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T he PDF contains Xavier Pinto's Workbook answers to all 10 Stories 1. Chief Seattle’s Speech – Chief Seattle 2. Old Man at the Bridge – Ernest Hemingway 3. A Horse and Two Goats – R K Narayan 4. Hearts and Hands – O Henry 5. A Face in the Dark – Ruskin Bond 6. An Angel in Disguise – Timothy Shay Arthur 7. The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Andersen 8. The Blue Bead – Norah Burke 9. My Greatest Olympic Prize – Jesse Owens 10. All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury Sample Answer from "The Blue Bead" Question (v): The author says, “Now nothing could pierce the inch-thick armoured hide”. What does she mean by the sentence given above? Why does she say so? Answer (v):  Over the years, the crocodile had grown, from a baby crocodile vulnerable to birds of prey and carnivorous fishes, into a juggernaut so ferocious and formidable that nothing could pierce his inch-thick armoured hide. The author is suggesting that the crocodile is invincible as he is covered with thick armour-li...
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What is Pronic Number? And More…

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In Section B of ICSE 2018 Computer Application paper, a Question of 15 marks was asked. Students were expected to write a Java program to check whether an input number was a Pronic number or not. The actual question appeared in the following form: Section B, Question 5: Write a program to input a number and check and print whether it is a Pronic number or not. (Pronic number is the number which is the product of two consecutive integers) Examples: 12=3×4,  20=4×5,  42=6×7 Before getting into programming, let us first develop our understanding of Pronic numbers. Pronic numbers are also called oblong numbers, heteromecic numbers, or rectangular numbers. Examples of first few pronic numbers are:  0, 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, 56, 72, 90, 110, 132, 156.  Consider number 12 from examples given in the question above. Factors of number 12 are: 1,2,3,4,6,12 (total six numbers). Out of 6 numbers let us pick a  unique pair  of numbers which when multiplied together give 1...
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