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Sample Paper 2013

Class IX
Subject Mathematics

SECTION I

Note :- This section is compulsory. Answer all the questions from this section.

Question 1.

(a) Insert a rational number between 2/9 and 3/8 and arrange them in ascending order.

(b) Find the square root of 5 correct to three significant figure.

(c) Convert 4/5 into percentage.

(d) Find a single discount equivalent to three successive discounts of 20%, 10% and 5%.

Question 2.

(a)If x + 1/x = 3, find the value of x2 + 1/x2.

(b) Factorize : x2 + 5x + 6.

(c) The area of a square plot is 2025m2. Find the length of its side and the length of its diagonal.
[2]

(d) Find the length of the longest rod that can be placed in a room measuring 12cm 9m 8m.

Question 3.

(a) If the height of an equilateral is 8 cm, calculate its area.

(c) In the figure given below, ABC is a right angled triangle, right angle at B and tan A = 3/4. If AC
= 15 cm, find the length of AB and BC.

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Fig.

Question 4. [3]

(a) Calculate the area of a triangle whose sides are 13 cm, 5 cm and 12 cm.

SECTION II

Answer ANY FOUR questions from this section.

Question 5.

(a) Prove that 3 is an irrational number. Hence show that 3 + 2 is an irrational number. [2]

(b) A candidate who gets 20% marks in an examination fails by 30 marks, but another candidate,
who gets 32% marks, gets 42 more marks than the minimum pass marks. Find the pass
percentage of marks. [3]

(d) If a2 + b2 + c2 = 125 and ab + bc + ca = 50, find a + b + c. [2]

Question 6.

(a) Factorize : a6 b6. [3]

(b) The following figure shows a square ABCD and an equilateral triangle DCE.

D C

A A B
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Prove that:-
i) angle ADE = angle BCE = 1500 (ii) ADE BCE (iii) AE = BE [4]
(c) Find the mean , median and mode for the data:- [3]

25, 16, 26, 16, 32, 31, 19, 28, 35

Question- 7

(a) Calculate the area of quadrilateral ABCD in which, LA = 90, AB = 32 cm, AD = 24 cm and
BC = CD = 25 cm. [3]
(b) The scale of a map is 1:200000. A plot of land of area 20 km 2 is to be represented on the
map. Find
(i) The number of kilometers on the ground which is represented by 1 cm on the
map.
(ii) The area in km2 that can be represented by 1 cm2 .
(iii) The area of the map that represents the plot of the land. [4]

Question- 8
(a) The dimensions of a rectangle are 20cm X 16cm. outside this rectangle four triangles
with largest areas are attached. Out of these four triangle ,two are isosceles right angled
triangles attached to each of the longer sides and the other two are equilateral triangle
attached to shorter sides of the given rectangle. Find the perimeter and the area of the
resulting figure. [ 4]

(c) In the adjoining figure RS=QT and QS = RT. Prove that PQ=PR [ 3]

R Q

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Question - 9

(a) The adjoining figure shows the cross-section of a concrete wall to be constructed. it is
1.9m wide at the bottom, 90cm wide at the top and 5cm high. If its length is 20m, find
i) the cross sectional area ii) the volume of the concrete in the wall. [ 4]

90cm

5cm

1.9m

(b) The cost of papering the four walls of a room 12m long at Rs 6.50per sq. m is Rs 1638
and the cost of matting the floor at Rs 3.50 per sq m is Rs 378. Find the height of the
room. [3]

Question 10.

(a) The parallel sides AB and DC of a trapezium ABCD are 51 cm and 30 cm respectively. The
sides AD and BC are 20 cm and 13 cm respectively. Find the distance between parallel sides and
the area of the trapezium. [4]

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