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COUNTING OF FIGURES
Max. Marks : 20 No. of Qs. 20 Time : 15 min. Date : ........./......../................

1. How many triangles are there in the given diagram? 5. How many triangles are there in the given figure?

(a) 18 (b) 17
(c) 16 (d) 15
2. How many triangles are there in the following figure?
(a) 29 (b) 38
(c) 40 (d) 35
6. How many squares are there in the given figure?

(a) 29 (b) 27
(c) 23 (d) 30
3. How many triangles are there in the given figure?
A B
(a) 10 (b) 11
(c) 12 (d) 14
7. How many squares are there in a given figure?
C D
(a) 16 (b) 14
(c) 8 (d) 12
4. How many rectangles are there in the given diagram?

(a) 4 (b) 7 (a) 12 (b) 13

(c) 9 (d) 18 (c) 10 (d) 11

RESPONSE 1. a b c d 2. a b c d 3. a b c d 4. a b c d 5. a b c d
GRID 6. a b c d 7. a b c d 8. a b c d 9. a b c d

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8. How many triangles are there in the figure ABCDEF? 13. What is the number of triangles in figure?

A B

F C

E D
(a) 24 (b) 26
(c) 28 (d) 30 (a) 16 (b) 28
9. How many cubes are unseen in the figure? (c) 32 (d) 38
14. The following diagram shows 10 match-sticks forming three
squares. What is the minimum number of matches that must
be removed to make two squares?

(a) 3 (b) 2
(c) 1 (d) 4
15. What is the number of triangles in figure ?
(a) 5 (b) 6
(c) 10 (d) 15
10. How many parallelograms are there in the figure ?

(a) 24 (b) 32
(a) 14 (b) 15 (c) 48 (d) 52
(c) 16 (d) 18 16. What is the number of triangles in figure ?
11. How many cubes are there in the following figure?

(a) 26 (b) 41
(c) 36 (d) 40
(a) 6 (b ) 10 17. Find the total number of squares formed in figure ?
(c) 12 (d) 8
1 2 3 4
12. What is the number of squares in figure?
5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20
(a) 12 (b) 13
(a) 22 (b) 18
(c) 15 (d) 17
(c) 20 (d) 30

10. a b c d 11. a b c d 12. a b c d 13. a b c d 14. a b c d

RESPONSE
15. a b c d 16. a b c d 17. a b c d 18. a b c d 19. a b c d
GRID
20. a b c d

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18. What is the number of triangles in figure ? 20. What is the number of triangles in figure ?
1

2 3 4 5 6
7 8
9 13
(a) 32 (b) 36 10 12
11
(c) 40 (d) 56
14 15 16
19. What is the number of parallelogram in figure ?
(a) 32 (b) 39
A
(c) 46 (d) 60

B C
(a) 27 (b) 33
(c) 34 (d) 42

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HINTS & SOLUTIONS

BDFH; BDMK; KMFH;
1. (b) B C ADFI; ADMJ; JMFI
ABHI; BCGH and CDFG are squares
We know that every square is a rectangle . But its reverse is
H not always true.
G
A D 5. (c)
A B C

F E P Q
D
The triangles are: R S
DABF: DAGB : DAGF : DBFC;
DBCE : DCEF : DBFE : DHBC;
DHCE : DHEF : DHBF : DBGH; O N M G F E
DFGH : DHCD : DHDE : DAFH; T
DABH ; L H

2. (b) A
K I
J
D E
The simplest triangles are:
G DPNO; DPNM; DMPQ;
F H DMQR; DAQP; DAQR;
DBRA; DBRC; DSRC;
I J K L DSCD; DSGR; DSGD;
DDFG; DDFE; DTLM;
DTJK; DTLK; DTIH;
The triangles composed of two components are:
B M N O C
DPON; DPMA; DAPR;
The triangles are: DRAM; DRAC; DRGC;
DABC; DADE; DAFH; DAIL; DDGC; DDGE; DMPR;
DDFG; DDIK; DDBO; DGDE; DGRD; DDGE; DTMK;
DEGH; DEJL; DEMC; DFIJ; DTKI; DTIG
DFBN; DJFG; DGJK; DKGH; The triangles composed of four components are:
DHKL; DHNC; DNFH; DGMO; DAMO; DAMC; DCAG;
DIBM; DMIJ; DJMN; DNJK; DCGE; DMKI; DGIK;
DKNO; DOKL; DLOC; Other triangles are :DSPI; DDQK
3. (a) A E B Total number of triangles
18 + 14 + 6 + 2 = 40
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6. (d) A B
H F

C D
P
C G D
The triangles are: Q
E F
DAIH; DAIE; DEIB; DBFI; O
DIHC; DIGC; DIGD; DDFI;
DIAB; DIBD; DICD; DIAC;
DBAC; DACD; DBDC; DBDA; R S G H
N
4. (d) A B C D

K L
J M E M L K J I

The squares are:

I H G F ABCP; PCQO; CDEQ;
The rectangles are: OQRN; QESR; EFGS;
ABKJ; JKHI; BCLK; NRLM; RSKL; SGJK;
KLGH; CDML; LMFG; GHIJ; PDSN; OEKM;
ACGI; ACLJ; JLGI; QFJL; NQSL

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13. (d) Each small square is bisected by its diagonals to give
7. (a) A B 4 triangles of half the size of the square and 4 triangles of 1/
4th the size of the square.
Thus there are 8 × 4 = 32 triangles in the four squares.
H P Then there are six triangles as shown in the adjoining figure.
I Total no. of triangles = 32 + 6 = 38
L Q M 14. (b) A minimum of 2 matchsticks have to be removed from the
arrangement to get two squares.
E T U V W
D C

O R N
K S J

15. (c) Name the squares as square 1, 2, 3, 4 5 beginning with the

F G largest.
The space between square 1 and 2 is subdivided into 4
Squares are:
triangles.
ABCD, DEFG, HIJK, LMNO, The space between square 2 and 3 has 12 triangles as below.
HPDT, TDSK, PIWD, DWJS, From each vertex of square no. 2, there are two small triangles
LQDU, UDRO, QMVD, DVNR. and one large triangle consisting of these two triangles.
8. (c) Thus from four vertices, there are 12 triangles.
A B
Each diagonal of square no. 2 divides it into two triangles,
G
I J making 4 triangles in this manner, each half the size of the
F C square.
H The two diagonals together sub- divide the square into four
E D triangles, each 1/4th the size of the square .
The triangles are: Thus there are 20 triangles in square no.
DFAE; DFAI; DFIE; DCBD; 2 Pattern of square no. 1 and 2 is repeated in no. 3 and 4
DCBJ; DCJD; DAIJ; DBJI; respectively.
DBJA; DAIB; DIED; DJDE; There are no triangles in square no.
DJDI; DIEJ; DGAB; DGAI; Hence, total no. of triangles = 4 + 20 + 4 + 20 = 48
DGJI; DGJB; DHJI; DHDE; 16. (b) Each square is bisected by one diagonal giving
DHEI; DHJD; DAJF; DEFJ; 10 × 2 = 20 triangles.
DBCI; DCDI; DIBD; DJEA; As shown in question 8 above. First second and third
9. (a) Altogether there are 15 cubes. 10 cubes are seen in the figure. vertical strips have 3 + 2 + 1 triangles.
So, five cubes are unseen in the figure. This is repeated in horizontal strips. There are two squares
10. (c) We can label the figure as shown. of size 2 × 2 which are bisected by two diagonals giving rise
A B C D to 2 × 4 = 8 triangles.
Finally, there is a triangles consisting of 9 small triangles.
Hence, total no. of triangles = 20 + 2 × 6 + 2 × 4 + 1 = 41
F G 17. (c) Largest size square formed in this diagram is of size
E H
3 × 3.
No. of 3 × 3 squares = 2 = 1 × 2 (from points 1, 5)
I J K L No . of 2 × 2 squares = 6 = 2 × 3 (from points 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10)
The simplest parallelogram are ABFE, BCGF, CDHG, EFJI,
FGKJ and GHLK. These are 6 in number. 1 2 3 4
The parallelograms composed of two components each, are
ACGE, BDHF, EGKI, FHLJ, ABJI, BCKJ and CDLK. Thus, 5 6 7 8
there are 7 such parallelograms. The parallelogram composed
of four components each are ACKI and BDLJ i.e. 2 in number. 10 12
9 11
There is only one parallelogram composed of six components,
namely, ADLI. Thus, there are 6 + 7 + 2 + 1 = 16
13 14 15 16
parallelograms in the figure.
11. (b) There are 10 cubes.
18 19 20
12. (d) We have three squares with vertical and horizontal sides. 17
Each such square has 12 + 22 = 5 squares in it. Thus there are
15 such squares. No. of 1 × 1 squares = 12 = 3 × 4
In addition, we have two obliquely placed squares. Hence , total = 1 × 2 + 2 × 3 + 3 × 4
Hence total no. of squares = 17 = 3 × 4 + 2 × 3 + 1 × 2 = 20

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18. (d) With vertex no. 1 we have four triangles on one side of the
A
diagonal and four triangles on the other side.

1 2

5 6

8 7

B C
4 3
Hence total no. of parallelograms = [2 (10 + 10) – 1] + 3
= 42
Thus from four vertices. We have in all 4 × 8 = 32 triangles. 20. (d) Within the triangle with vertices 1, 2, 6, there are
4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10 triangles. In the triangle with vertices
Next consider square (5 – 6 – 7 – 8).
1, 2, 14 there are 6 triangles.
There are four triangles from each vertex. In the triangle with vertices 1, 14, 15 there are 8 triangles.
Thus we have another 4 × 4 = 16 triangles. 1
Lastly, we have oblique triangles with vertex 9 such as
(9 – 6 – 7), (9 – 2 – 3) and so on.
There are 8 such triangles.
Hence, total no. of triangles = 32 + 16 + 8 = 56 3 4 5 6
2
1 7 8
(5) (6) (7) (8)
9 13
(1) 10 12
11
(2) 14 15 16
This pattern is repeated for triangle 1, 6, 16 and for triangle 1,
(3) 15, 16.
In the triangle with vertices 1, 6, 14 there are 3 triangles and
(4)
the pattern is repeated for the triangle with vertices 1, 2, 16.
In the parallelogram, there are 4 triangles each half the size, 4
3 triangles of quarter size and 6 triangles each made up of two
19. (d) There are 3 trips parallel to AB and 3 strips parallel to AC. small triangles.
There are 6 horizontal parallelograms in the first. 3 in the Finally, there two triangles with vertices 1, 10, 12 and 1, 14,
second and 1 in the third strip parallel to AB. Kite shaped 16 respectively
parallelograms in these strips are 6 + 3 + 1 = 10.
Hence total no. of triangles.
The pattern is repeated for strips parallel to AC except that
top-most kite is common to both type of strips. = 10 + 2 (6 + 8) + 2 × 3 + (4 + 4 + 6) + 2 = 60
There are 3 parallelograms each made up of 4 small
parallelograms (horizontal and kite shaped.)

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