EXERCISE # 2

Q.1 The length of a room is 5.5 m and width is Q.10 The ratio between the length and the breadth
3.75 m. Find the cost of paving the floor by of a rectangular park is 3 : 2. If a man cycling
slabs at the rate of j 800 per sq. metre. along the boundary of the park at the speed of
12 km/hr completes one round in 8 minutes,
Q.2 The length of a rectangle is 18 cm and its then find the area of the park (in sq.).
breadth is 10 cm. When the length is
increased to 25 cm, what will be the breadth Q.11 The length of a rectangular hall is 5m more
of the rectangle if the area remains the same? than its breadth. The area of the hall is
750 m2. Find the length of the hall.
Q.3 A rectangular plot measuring 90 meters by
Q.12 The area of a rectangle is 460 square metres.
50 meters is to be enclosed by wire fencing. If
If the length is 15% more than the breadth,
the poles of the fence are kept 5 metres apart,
what is the breadth of the rectangular field?
how many poles will be needed?
Q.13 A rectangular field is to be fenced on three
Q.4 A length of a rectangular plot is 60% more
sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If
than its breadth. If the difference between the
the area of the field is 680 sq. feet. How many
length and the breadth of that rectangle is
feet of fencing will be required?
24 cm, what is the area of that rectangle?
Q.14 The ratio between the perimeter and the
Q.5 A rectangular parking space is marked out by breadth of a rectangular is 5 : 1. If the area of
painting three of its sides. If the length of the the rectangle is 216 sq. cm, what is the length
unpainted side is 9 feet, and the sum of the of the rectangle?
lengths of the painted sides is 37 feet, then
what is the area of the parking space in square Q.15 A Farmer wishes to start a 100 sq. m
rectangular vegetable garden. Since he has
feet?
only 30 m barbed wire, he fences three sides
Q.6 The difference between the length and of the garden letting his house compound
breadth of a rectangle is 23m. If its perimeter wall act as the fourth side fencing. Find the
is 206 m then find its area. dimension of the garden.

Q.7 The length of a rectangular plot is 20 metres Q.16 The sides of a rectangular field are in the ratio
more than its breadth. If the cost of fencing 3 : 4. If The area of the field is 7500 sq. m.
the plot @ j 26.50 per metre is j 5300, what Find the cost of fencing the field @ 25 paise
is the length of the plot in meters? per metre.

Q.17 A rectangle of certain dimensions is chopped

Q.8 The breadth of a rectangular field is 60% of
off from one corner of a larger rectangle as
its length. If the perimeter of the field is
shown. AB = 8 cm and BC = 4 cm. Find the
800 m., what is the area of the field?
perimeter of the figure ABCPQRA (in cm).
Q.9 The ratio between the length and the P C
perimeter of a rectangular plot is 1 : 3. What Q
4 cm

R
is the ratio between the length and breadth of
the plot ? A B
8 cm
Q.18 A large field of 700 hectares is divided into Q.28 The wheel of a motorcycle, 70 cm in
two parts. The difference of the areas of the diameter, makes 40 revolutions in every
two parts is on-fifth of the average of the two 10 seconds. What is the speed of the
areas. What is the area of the smaller part in motorcycle in km/hr?
hectares?
Q.29 Wheels of diameters 7 cm and 14 cm start
Q.19 A rectangular paper, when folded into two rolling simultaneously from X and Y, which
congruent parts had a perimeter of 34 cm for are 1980 cm apart, towards each other in
each part folded along one set of sides and the opposite directions. Both of them make the
same is 38 cm when folded along the other same number of revolutions per second. If
set of sides. What is the area of the paper? both of them meet after 10 seconds find the
speed of the smaller wheel.
Q.20 A rectangular plot is half as long again as it is
2 Q.30 A toothed wheel of diameter 50 cm is
broad and its area is hectares. Then find its
3 attached to a smaller wheel of diameter
length. 30 cm. How many revolutions will the
smaller wheel make when the larger one
Q.21 The areas of two circular fields are in the
makes 15 revolutions?
ratio 16 : 49. If the radius of the latter is 14 m,
then what is the radius of the former.

Q.22 If the ratio of areas of two circles is 4 : 9, then

find the ratio of their circumferences.

Q.23 The perimeter of a circle is equal to the

perimeter of a square. Then find the ratio of
their areas.

Q.24 The diameter of a wheel is 1.26 m. How far

will it travel in 500 revolutions?

Q.25 Find the number of revolutions a wheel of

diameter 40 cm makes in travelling a distance
of 176 m.

Q.26 The radius of a wheel is 0.25 m. Find the

number of revolutions it will make to travel a
distance of 11 km.

1
Q.27 The wheel of an engine, 7 meters in
2
circumference makes 7 revolutions in
9 seconds. Find the speed of the train in
km per hour.
 ANSWER KEY
EXERCISE # 2
1. j 16,500 2. 7.2 cm 3. 56 4. 2560 sq. cm 5. 126
2
6. 2520 m 7. none of these 8. 37500sq. m 9. 2 : 1 10. 153600
11. 30 m 12. None of these 13. 88 14. 18 cm 15. 20 m × 5 m
16. j 87.50 17. 24 18. 315 19. 140 cm 2
20. 100 m
21. 8 m 22. 2 : 3 23. 14 : 11 24. 1980 m 25. 140
26. 7000 27. 132 28. 31.68 29. 66 cm/sec 30. 25