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1. There is a garden square in shape with its sides measuring 17 m. A cow aged 3 years old is tied to
one of the corners of this square garden with a rope of 14 m. In this garden grass is available in
plenty and the cow wanted to graze as much as possible. What is the area of this garden which the
cow can graze comfortably?
a)123 sq. m b) 154 sq. m c) 194 sq.m d) 204 sq.m.

2. Consider a square of diagonal length d. Let Another square be formed with d as its side. Find the
ratio of the area of the bigger square to that of the smaller square.
a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 16

3. x+2, x+4, x+3 are lengths of the sides of a scalene triangle and 2x, 4x are the lengths of the sides of
a rectangle. If the rectangle and the triangle have equal perimeter then the value of x is __:
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

4. If a solid piece of lead get with constructing 98cm x 66cm x 45cm is melted into a cylinder of
height 105 cm then the radius of the cylinder is:
a) 37.7cm b) 22.6cm c) 32.5cm d) 29.7cm

5. If a Cone and a sphere have equal volumes and equal radius of 6 cm, then what is the height of the
Cone and the diameter of the Sphere?
a) 12cm, 24cm b) 24cm, 6cm c) 24cm, 12cm d) 6cm, 24cm

6. The half of the volume of water in a rectangular base tank is 2.52 cubic meters. Find the depth of
the tank if the area of the base of the tank is 5600 square cm.
a)9m b)3m c)5m d)6.5m

7. A toothed wheel of diameter 50cm is attached to a smaller wheel of diameter 30cm. How many
revolutions will the smaller wheel make when the larger one makes 15 revolutions?
a. 18 b. 20 c. 25 d. 30

8. A rectangle has twice the area of a square. The length of the rectangle is 14 cm greater than that
side of the square whereas breadth is equal to side of the square. Find the perimeter of the
square?
(a) 42 cm (b) 14 cm (c) 56 cm (d) 28 cm

9. A tree of height 36m is on one edge of a road broke at a certain height. It fell in such a way that
the top of the tree touches the other edge of the road. If the breadth of the road is 12m, then
what is the height at which the tree broke?
a. 16 b. 24 c. 12 d. 18

10. How many tiles of 20 cm length and 10 cm width are required to pave the floor of a room 8 m long
and 5 m wide ?
 a. 2100 b. 1500 c. 2500 d. 2000

11. A solid metallic spherical ball of radius 7 cm is melted down and recast into small cones. If the
diameter of the base of the cone is 14 cm and the height is 2 cm, find the number of such cones
can be made ?
a. 14 b. 28 c. 7 d. 12

12. A square field has an area of 50625 sq. m. Find the cost of fencing around it at Rs. 15 per metre.
a. Rs. 12500 b. Rs. 17500 c. Rs. 13500 d. Rs. 16250

13. Cost of fencing a circular plot at the rate of Rs. 12 per metre is Rs. 2,640. What will be the cost of
carpeting the floor of the plot at the rate of Rs. 85 per square metre ?
a. Rs. 3,25,250 b. Rs. 3,22,350 c. Rs. 3,27,250 d. Rs. 3,25,750

14. Two cubes have their volumes in the ratio 8:27. Find the ratio of their surface areas.
a. 2:3 b. 4:9 c. 16:81 d. 8:9

15. Find the length of the longest stick that can be placed in a room of 12 m long, 9 m broad and 8 m
high.
a. 21 m b. 29 m c. 20 m d. 17 m

16. A rectangular field of 60-metre length and 40 metres wide is to be surrounded by a road 5 metre
wide. If the cost of making 1 square metre road is Rs. 500, what would be the cost of entire road ?
a. Rs. 6,25,000 b. Rs. 5,55,000 c. Rs. 5,50,000 d. Rs. 5,67,500

For Self Practice:

17. The circumference of a circle is 100 cm. Find the side of the square inscribed in the circle.
Ans: ( Root 2)*(50/)

18. If the height and base of the triangle are increased by 30%, then the area of the triangle :
Ans: 69%

19. Let a be the side of an equilateral triangle and A be its area. Then find the relationship between A
and A1 where A1 is the area of another equilateral triangle with side 2a.
Ans: 1:4

20. The ratio between the perimeter and the breadth of a rectangle is 5 : 1. If the area of the rectangle
is 216 sq. cm, what is the length of the rectangle?
Ans: 18 cm