Practice Assignment on

HERON’S FORMULA AND STATISTICS

Class – IX
Subject: Mathematics
SECTION – A
(Each question carries 1 mark)
1. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 60 m. The area is
(a) 10√3 m2 (b) 15√3 m2 (c) 20√3 m2 (d) 100√3 m2

2. The sides of a triangle are 56 cm, 60 cm and 52 cm long. Then the area of the triangle is
(a) 1322 cm2 (b) 1311 cm2 (c) 1344 cm2 (d) 1392 cm2

3. The area of an equilateral triangle with side 2√3 cm is

(a) 5.196 cm2 (b) 0.866 cm2 (c) 3.496 cm2 (d) 1.732 cm2

4. The area of a triangle with given two sides 18 cm and 10 cm, respectively and a perimeter equal to
42 cm is:
(a) 20√11 cm2 (b) 19√11 cm2 (c) 22√11 cm2 (d) 21√11 cm2

5. The sides of a triangle are in the ratio 12: 17: 25 and its perimeter is 540 cm. The area is:
(a) 1000 sq.cm (b) 5000 sq.cm (c) 9000 sq.cm (d) 8000 sq.cm

6. The equal sides of the isosceles triangle are 12 cm, and the perimeter is 30 cm. The area of this
triangle is:
(a) 9√15 sq.cm (b) 6√15 sq.cm (c) 3√15 sq.cm (d) √15 sq.cm

7. The base of a right triangle is 8 cm and the hypotenuse is 10 cm. Its area will be
(a) 24 cm2 (b) 40 cm2 (c) 48 cm2 (d) 80 cm2

8. The edges of a triangular board are 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm. The cost of painting it at the rate of 9
paise per cm2 is
(a) Rs 2.00 (b) Rs 2.16 (c) Rs 2.48 (d) Rs 3.00

9. An isosceles right triangle has an area of 8 cm2. The length of its hypotenuse is
(a) √32 cm (b) √16 cm (c) √48 cm (d) √24 cm
10. A grouped frequency distribution table with classes of equal size using 63 – 72 (72 included) as one
of the class is constructed for the following data :
30, 32, 45, 54, 74, 78, 108, 112, 66, 76, 88, 40, 14, 20, 15,
35, 44, 66, 75, 84, 95, 96, 102, 110, 88, 74, 112, 14, 34, 44
The number of classes in the distribution will be
(a) 9 (b) 10 (c) 11 (d) 12

11. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 120 m. The area is

(a) 100√3 m2 (b) 150√3 m2 (c) 200√3 m2 (d) 400√3 m2

12. The class mark of a frequency distribution are given as follows : 15, 25, 35, 45……. The class
interval corresponding to the class mark 35 is
(a) 30 – 40 (b) 20 – 40 (c) 20 – 30 (d) 31 – 39

13. Let m be the mid point and l be the upper class limit of a class in a continuous frequency
distribution. The lowest class limit of the class is
(a) 2m + l (b) 2m – l (c) ml (d) m 3l

14. A raw data is given as follows :

25, 18, 20, 22, 16, 6, 17, 15, 12, 30, 32, 10, 19, 8, 11, 20
The Range of the above data is
(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 26

15. The perimeter of a right triangle is 60 cm and its hypotenuse is 26 cm. The other two sides of the
triangle are:

(a) 26 cm, 8 cm (b) 25 cm, 9 cm (c) 24 cm, 10 cm (d) 20 cm, 14 cm

16. The length of the sides of ABC are consecutive integer. If ABC has the perimeter as an equilateral
triangle with a side of length 9 cm, then the length of the shortest side of ABC is
(a) 4 cm (b) 6 cm (c) 8 cm (d) 10 cm

17. The base and hypotenuse of a right triangle are 7 cm and 25 cm respectively. Then the area of the
triangle is :

(a) 168 cm2 (b) 84 cm2 (c) 87.5 cm2 (d) 300 cm2

18. A gardener has to put a double fence all around a triangular path with sides 120m, 80m and 60m. In
the middle of each side there is a gate of width 10m. Find the length of the wire needed for the fence.
 (a) 520 m (b) 490 m (c) 460 m (d) None of these

Questions Number 19 and 20 are Assertion and Reason based questions carrying 1 mark each. Two
statements are given, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Select the
correct answer to these questions from codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below.
a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of the
Assertion (A).
b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of the
Assertion (A).
c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.
d) Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true.

19. Assertion:Area of triangle   s  s  a  s  b  s  c 

abc
Reason: s 
2
20. Assertion:If the class mark of a class interval 10 and the upper class limit is 20, then the
lower class limit is 0
𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕+𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕
Reason:Class mark = 𝟐

SECTION B
The Section comprises of Very Short Answer Type questions (VSA) of 2 marks each

21. Using Heron’s Formula, find the area of an equilateral triangle of side ‘a’ units.
22. Find the area of a triangle whose base is 25 cm long and the corresponding height is 10.8 cm.
23. a) If the area of an isosceles triangle is 8cm 2 , what is the perimeter of the triangle?
OR
b) Find the area of an isosceles triangle having a base 2 cm and the length of one of the equal sides 4
cm.

24. In the given figure, there is a histogram

depicting daily wages of workers in a
factory. Construct a frequency
distribution table.
25. The width of each of five continuous classes in a frequency distribution is 5 and the lower
class limit of the lowest class is 10. What is the upper class limit of the highest class?
OR
The class marks of a distribution are 26, 31, 41, 36, 46, 51, 56, 61, 66, 71. Find the true
class limits.

SECTION – C

This Section comprises of Short Answer Type Questions (SA) of 3 marks each
26. The difference between the sides at right angles in a right-angled triangle is 14 cm. the area of the
triangle is 120 cm2. Calculate the perimeter of the triangle.

27. A triangular park has sides 120 m, 80 m and 50 m. A gardener has to put a fence all around
it and also plant grass inside. How much area does he need to plant? Find the cost of fencing
it with barbed wire at the rate of Rs. 20 per metre, leaving a space of 3 m wide for a gate on
one side.

28. a) If every side of a triangle is doubled then by what percentage is the area of the triangle increased?

OR
b) The sides of a triangle are 35 cm, 54 cm and 61 cm, respectively. The length of its longest
altitude

29. In a morning walk, I had 20 rounds of a park. During this period I came across person A, person B,
person C and person D, 11 times, 7 times, 10 times and 5 times respectively. Represent this data
graphically.

OR

Represent the following data using Bar – graph

Heads Expenditure ( in Rs.)

Food 4000
Education 2500
Clothing 1000
House Rent 3500
Others 2500
Savings 1500
30. Draw a Histogram for the following marks obtained ( out of 100 marks) by a class of 80 students.
Marks Number of students
10 – 20 18
20 – 30 10
30 – 40 15
40 – 50 7
50 – 60 4

31. The difference between the semi-perimeter and the sides of a ABC are 8cm, 7cm and 5cm
respectively. Find the area of the triangle.

SECTION – D

This section comprises of Long Answer Type questions (LSA) of 5 marks each

32. Find the area of the triangle having perimeter p is 32cm, side c is 11cm and difference d of other
two sides a and b is 5cm.

33. a) In a scalene triangle, one side exceeds the other two sides by 4 cm and 5 cm
respectively. If the perimeter of the triangle is 36 cm, find the area of the triangle.

OR
b) Find the length of the third side of the scalene triangle of area 9000 m2, if the length of
the other two sides are 170 m and 250 m.

34. Following table shows a frequency distribution for the speed of cars passing through at a particular
spot on a high way.
Class
30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80 80 – 90 90 – 100
Interval
Frequency 3 6 25 65 50 28 14
Represent the data with the help of a Histogram and a frequency polygon

OR

Represent the following data with the help of a frequency polygon without constructing a Histogram
:
Class
25 – 29 30 – 34 35 – 39 40 – 44 45 – 49 50 – 54
Interval
Frequency 5 15 23 20 10 7

35. Represent the following data with a Histogram

Class
10 – 15 15 – 20 20 – 25 25 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 60 60 – 80
Interval
Frequency 7 9 8 5 12 12 8
 SECTION – E

36. While selling clothes for making flags, a shopkeeper claims to sell each piece of cloth in the shape
of an equilateral triangle of each side 10 cm while actually he was selling the same in the shape of
an isosceles triangle with sides 10 cm, 10 cm and 8 cm.

Answer to the following questions based on the above information.

i) What is the semi-perimeter of an isosceles triangular flag?
ii) a) Find the area of an isosceles triangular flag.
OR
b)Find the area of an equilateral triangular flag.
iii) How much cloth was he saving in selling each flag?
(Use √3 ≈ 1.73 𝑎𝑛𝑑 √21 ≈ 4.56

37. An Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardised tests or subsets
designed to assess human intelligence. IQ scores are used for educational placement, assessment of
intellectual ability. The level of intelligence is not only the result of genetics and environment but
also internal and external factors. There should be efforts to realize the importance of promoting the
student’s intelligence in order to reach the students’ full potential. One survey has been done in a
primary school among the group of 50 students where the IQ level of class III students were taken
and data was collected as shown in the table. On the basis of this data, answer the following
questions.
Number of
IQ Level
Students
63.5 – 73.5 2
73.5 – 83.5 3
83.5 – 93.5 7
93.5 – 103.5 13
103.5 – 113.5 16
113.5 – 123.5 1
123.5 – 133.5 4
133.5 – 143.5 2
143.5 – 153.5 3
153.5 – 163.5 1
 (i) What is the Range of IQ level ?
(ii) (a) How many students have IQ level more than 103.5 ?
OR
(b) How many students have IQ level less than 123.5 ?
(iii) What is the graphical representation of the above data ?

38. To beautify parks in a city, the city municipal corporation Decided to make a triangular flower bed
in the parks as shown in the figure. The dimensions of the flower beds are 75 m × 80 m × 85 m.
Based on this information answer the following questions.

(i) Find the length of the parallel wires to be used to fence a flower bed.
(ii) (a) Find the area of one flower bed.
OR
(b) Find the area of an isosceles triangle whose base is a and two equal sides as b.
(iii) If each flower bed is an equilateral triangle of side 60 m, find its area