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Chapter -12:- Herons Formula

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CBSE MATHS - IX

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Stage I
Q.1) The base of a triangle is 12cm and height is 8cm .Its area is
Q.2) Find the area of an equilateral triangle whose each side is a.
Q.3) Prove that the length of the altitude of an equilateral triangle of side a is
Q.4) Find the area of an equilateral triangle whose each side is 30m ?

Q.5) The area of an equilateral triangle is 1443 cm2. Find its perimeter.
Q.6) Find the area of an isosceles triangle whose each of equal side is a and the other side is ;b;.
Q.7) Find the area of the triangle whose sides are 13cm, 14cm and 15cm.
Q.8) Find the area of a triangle whose sides are 122m , 22m and 120m respectively.
Q.9) Find the area of triangle two sides of which are 18cm and 10cm and perimeter is 42cm.
Q.10) An isosceles triangle has perimeter 30cm and each of equal side is 12cm .Area of triangle is
Q.11) The lengths of the sides of a triangle are 5 cm, 12 cm and 13 cm. Find the length of perpendicular from the
opposite vertex to the side whose length is 13 cm.
Q.12) The length of sides of a right angled triangle forming the right angle are 5x cm and (3x 1) cm. If the area of
the triangle is 60 cm2, find its all sides.
Q.13) Find the perimeter of an isosceles right angled triangle having area 200 cm2.
Q.14) The sides of a triangular field are 120m, 160m & 200m. Find the cost of ploughing it at the cost of 25 paise per
square m.
Q.15) Find the area of a triangular field, the lengths of whose sides are 275 m, 660 m and 715 m. What is the cost of
cultivating the field at the rate of Rs. 200 per hectare?
Q.16) One side of a right triangle is 8 cm and the difference between other two sides is 4 cm. Find its area ?
Q.17) Two sides of a triangle are 8cm and 11cm and its perimeter is 32cm.The third side is ?
Q.18) Find area of equilateral triangle of side 4a using Herons formula. Using this formula find area of an equilateral
triangle whose perimeter is 540cm.
Q.19) The difference between the sides containing a right angle in a right angled triangle is 14cm. The area of a
triangle is 120cm2. Calculate the perimeter of the triangle.
Q.20) An isosceles triangle has perimeter 44 cm and each of the equal sides is 14cm. Find the area of the triangle.
Q.21) The sides of a triangular plot are in the ratio of 3 : 5 : 7 and its perimeter is 900 m. Find its area.
Q.22) The sides of triangle are in the ratio of 12 : 17 : 25 and its perimeter is 540 cm. Find its area.
Q.23) The sides of a triangular plot are in the ratio 3:5:7 and its perimeter is 300m . The sides of a triangle are
Q.24) Find the percent increase in the area of an equilateral triangle if its each of the side is doubled.
Q.25) If each side of a scalene triangle is tripled then prove that ratio of their area will be 1:9
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Stage II
Q.26) Find the area of a quadrilateral ABCD whose sides are 9 m, 40 m, 28 m and 15 m respectively and the angle
between the first two sides is a right angle.
Q.27) The sides of a quadrilateral are 5cm, 12cm, 15cm and 20cm. The angle between first two sides is 90 Find the
area of quadrilateral.
Q.28) What will be the area of quadrilateral ABCD if AB =3cm, BC = 4cm, CD = 4cm, DA=5cm and AC = 5cm ?
Q.29) The perimeter of a rhombus is 240cm and one of its diagonals is 80cm. Find its area using Herons formula.
Q.30) The diagonals of a rhombus are 15 and 36 cm long. Find its perimeter.
Q.31) The diagonals of a rhombus are 24cm and 10cm. Find its perimeter and area.
Q.32) A rectangle has twice the area of square. The length of rectangle is 12 cm longer and the width is 8cm longer
than the sides of the square. Find the area of the square.
Q.33) A field is in the shape of trapezium whose parallel sides are 25m and 10m. The non-parallel sides are 14m and
13m. Find its area.
Q.34) Find the area of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 34cm, 20cm and the other sides are 13cm and 15cm
Q.35) The adjacent sides of a parallelogram are 125 mm and 62.5 mm. If one altitude of parallelogram is 0.025m, find
the other altitude in cm.
Q.36) The area of a parallelogram is 392m2.If its altitude is twice the corresponding base, determine the base and
height. 11. The adjacent sides of a parallelogram are 36cm and 27cm in length .If the distance between the
shorter sides is 12cm, find the distance between the longer sides.
Q.37) A rectangular lawn, 75m by 60m, has two roads , each 4m wide, running through the middle of the lawn, one
parallel to length and other parallel to breadth. Find the cost of gravelling the roads at Rs 5.50 per m2
Q.38) A triangle and a parallelogram have the same base and the same area. If the sides of the triangle are 26cm, 28cm
and 30cm, and parallelogram stands on the base 28cm, find the height of the parallelogram.
Q.39) A field is in the shape of a trapezium whose parallel sides are 35 m and 15 m. The non-parallel sides are 16 m
and 18 m. Find the area of the field.
Q.40) Savitri had to make a model of a cylindrical kaleidoscope for her science project. She wanted to use chart paper
to make the curved surface of the kaleidoscope. What would be the area of chart paper required by her, if she
wanted to make a kaleidoscope of length 25 cm with a 3.5 cm radius?
Q.41) Kiran has a piece of land which is in the shape of rhombus. She decided to donate her land equally to an
orphanage and an old age home.If the perimeter of land is 400m & one of the diagonal is 160m
i) How much area will each get ii)What are the values exhibited by Kiran through this donation ?
Q.42) A cyclic quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle whose both diagonal are 10cm each & breadth is 6cm. Find
area of the rectangle & verify this area using Bramahaguptas formula to find area of cyclic quadrilateral?

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