Herons Formula: Class 9

Level 1
Area of a Triangle
1. Herons Formula is used to find out the area of
a. Equilateral Triangles
b. Isosceles triangles
c. Scalene Triangles
d. All of these
2. What would be the area of a triangle with sides measuring 6 cm, 8 cm and 10 cm?
a. 24 cm
2

b. 48 cm
2

c. 36 cm
2

d. 32 cm
2

3. What would be the area of an equilateral triangle with side ?
a.

b.

c.

d.

4. What would be the cost of mowing a triangular field whose side lengths are 25 m, 24 m and 7 m
at the rate of Rs 14 per square meter?
a. Rs 1070
b. Rs 1176
c. Rs 1286
d. Rs 1346
5. What would be the area of a triangle with side lengths 11 cm, 6 cm and 15 cm?
a. 33 cm
2

b. cm
2

c. 20 cm
2

d. cm
2

6. What would be the area of the triangle whose sides are 18 cm and 10 cm and the perimeter is
42 cm?
a. 72.45 cm
2

b. 69.65 cm
2

c. 58.95 cm
2

d. 81.80 cm
2

7. A triangular field has a perimeter of 360 m. if two sides of the triangular field measure 100 m
each, what would be its area?
a. 480 m
2

b. 540 m
2

c. 240 m
2

d. 960 m
2

Area of Quadrilaterals
1. ABCD is a quadrilateral in which AB = 7 cm, BC = 9 cm, CD = 11 cm and AD= 5 cm. if the diagonal
AC = 10 cm, what would be the area of the quadrilateral?
a. cm
2

b. cm
2

c. cm
2

d. cm
2

2. In a quadrilateral ABCD, AB= 6 cm, BC = 8 cm, AD = CD = 7 cm. what would be the area of the
quadrilateral if angle ABC is a right angle?
a. ( ) cm
2

b. ( ) cm
2

c. cm
2

d. cm
2

3. What would be the area of a rhombus with side 100 cm and diagonal 160 cm?
a. 4800 cm
2

b. 9600 cm
2

c. 7200 cm
2

d. 14400 cm
2

4. The adjacent sides of a parallelogram measure 10 cm and 8 cm. If its diagonal measures 16 cm,
what would be its area?
a. cm
2

b. cm
2

c. cm
2

d. cm
2

5. What would be the height of a parallelogram with base 24 cm and area equal to that of a
triangle with sides 12 cm, 24 cm and 20 cm?
a.

cm
b.

cm
c.

cm
d.

cm

Answers
Area of a Triangle
1. d
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. d
6. b
7. a
Area of Quadrilaterals
1. c
2. b
3. b
4. b
5. d