Pawar Public School, Nanded City, Pune

Term I Examination (2021-2022)

Subject: Mathematics
Std: IX (Subject code: 041) Maximum Marks: 40
Date: 21/10/2021 Time Allotted: 90 mins
General Instructions:
1. The Question Paper contains three parts A, B and C.
2. Section A consists of 20 Questions of 1 Mark each. Attempt any 16 questions.
3. Section B consists of 20 Questions of 1 Mark each. Attempt any 16 questions.
4. Section C consists of 10 Questions of 1 Mark each based on two Case Studies. Attempt
any 8 questions.
5. There is no negative marking.

SECTION A
Section A consists of 20 questions of 1 mark each. Any 16 questions are to be attempted.
1. Which of the following is an irrational number?
24
(a) √25 (b) √ (c) √100 (d) √12
6

2. In between two rational numbers there is/are

(a) exactly one rational number (b) exactly two rational numbers
(c) infinitely many rational numbers (d) only irrational numbers

3. The number 1.10100100010000... is

(a) a natural number (b) a whole number (c) a rational number (d) an irrational number

4. √12 × √15 is equal to

(a) 6√5 (b) 5√6 (c) 10√5 (d) √25
2 1
5. On simplifying 2 3 × 2 5 , we get
15 13 2 2
(a) 2 13 (b) 2 15 (c) 2 15 (d) 4 15
6. The point of intersection of horizontal and vertical lines determining the position of a point
in a cartesian plane is called:
(a) origin (b) x-axis (c) y-axis (d) quadrant
7. If the coordinates of a point are (–3, – 4), then it lies in:
(a) first quadrant (b) second quadrant (c) third quadrant (d) fourth quadrant

8. Signs of the abscissa and ordinate of a point in the second quadrant are respectively
(a) +, + (b) +, – (c) –, + (d) –, –

9. The graph of the equation x = 3 is

(a) a straight line parallel to the x-axis (b) a straight line parallel to the y-axis
(c) a straight line passing through the origin (d) a point

10. If ∆ ABC ≅ ∆ PQR, then which of the following is not true?

(a) AC = PR (b) BC = PQ (c) QR = BC (d) AB = PQ

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11. In the figure below, which of the following form pair of corresponding angles

(a) ∠p and ∠q (b) ∠p and ∠x (c) ∠p and ∠z (d) ∠p and ∠w

12. If one angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the other two angles, then the triangle is
(a) a right triangle (b) an isosceles triangle
(c) an equilateral triangle (d) an obtuse triangle

13. In figure, find the value of y.

(a) 28° (b) 40° (c) 140° (d) 56°

14. In the given figure, if ∠ AOC = 50° then (∠AOD + ∠COB) is equal to:

(a) 100o (b) 130o (c) 140o (d) 260o

15. In ∆ABC, BC = AB and ∠B = 80°. Then ∠A is equal to:

(a) 80o (b) 40o (c) 50o (d) 100o

16. In triangles ABC and DEF, AB = FD and ∠A = ∠D. The two triangles will be congruent
by SAS axiom if:
(a) BC = EF (b) AC = DE (c) AC = EF (d) BC = DE

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17. In the given figure, AD is the median then ∠BAD is

(a) 35° (b) 70° (c) 110° (d) 55°

18. What is the area of an equilateral triangle with side 2 cm?

(a) √6 cm2 (b) √3 cm2 (c) √8 cm2 (d) 4 cm2

19. The sides of a triangle are 15 cm, 17 cm and 8 cm. What is its area?
(a) 20cm2 (b) 40cm2 (c) 60cm2 (d) 80cm2

20. In class intervals 20 – 30, 30 – 40, the observation 30 is included in

(a) 20 – 30 (b) 30 – 40 (c) both intervals (d) None of the intervals

SECTION B
Section B consists of 20 questions of 1 mark each. Any 16 questions are to be attempted.

̅̅̅̅ in the form of 𝑝, where p and q are integers and q ≠ 0, is

21. The number 23.43
𝑞
2320 2343 2343 2320
(a) (b) (c) (d)
99 100 999 199

3+ √7
22. If = 𝑎 + b√7, then
3−√7
(a) a = 5, b = 3 (b) a = 8, b = 3 (c) a = -5, b = 3 (d) a = 8, b = -3
−4
243 5
23. The value of ( 32 ) is
3 2 81 16
(a) (b) 3 (c) 16 (d) 81
2

24. If 8𝑥+1 = 64, what is the value of 32𝑥+1?

(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 9 (d) 27

25. The area of the triangle formed by points A(2, 0), B(6, 0) and C(4, 6) is
(a) 24 sq. units (b) 12 sq. units (c) 10 sq. units (d) 16 sq. units

26. If (3, 2) is the solution 3x – ky = 5, then k =

(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 12

27. An exterior angle of a triangle is 105° and its two interior opposite angles are equal. Each
of these equal angles is
1 1 1
(a) 372° (b) 522° (c) 722° (d) 75°

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28. In following figure, the point identified by the coordinates (-5, 3) is

(a) T (b) R (c) L (d) S

29. In Figure AB || CD, the value of x is

(a) 35° (b) 40° (c) 60° (d) 75°

30. Which of the following pairs are parallel?

(a) AB and CD (b) AB and PQ (c) EF and CD (d) EF and PQ

31. The sides of a triangular sign board are 15 cm, 36 cm and 39 cm. Find the cost of painting
its one of the faces at the rate of Rs. 1.50 per cm2.
(a) Rs. 405 (b) Rs. 135 (c) Rs. 270 (d) Rs. 540

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32. Find the value of x, y and z if y : z = 2 : 3 and AB || CD.

(a) 40°, 40°, 40° (b) 56°, 70°, 62° (c) 40°, 56°, 84° (d) 32°, 50°, 50°

33. In the figure, determine the value of ∠COF.

(a) 45° (b) 150° (c) 60° (d) 180°

34. In the following figure, AOB is a line. Find the value of x.

(a) 45° (b) 40° (c) 60° (d) 35°

35. Identify the rule by which the following triangles are congruent.

(a) RHS (b) SSS (c) SAS (d) ASA

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36. An umbrella is made by stitching 8 triangular pieces of cloth of two different colours (see
figure), each piece measuring 60 cm, 60 cm and 20 cm. How much cloth of each colour
is required for the umbrella?

(a) 50√35 cm2 (b) 25√65 cm2 (c) 50√45 cm2 (d) 25√55 cm2

37. The sides of a quadrilateral, taken in order are 5 m, 12 m, 14 m and 15 m respectively.

The angle contained by the first two sides is a right angle. Find its area.
(a) 100 m2 (b) 340 m2 (c) 114 m2 (d) 270 m2

38. An isosceles triangle has perimeter 36 cm and each of the equal side is 13 cm. Find the
area of the triangle.
(a) 9√15 cm2 (b) 30√2 cm2 (c) 50 cm2 (d) 60 cm2

39. In the given figure, ABC is an isosceles triangle whose side AC is produced to E.
Through C, CD is drawn parallel to BA. The value of x is

(a) 52° (b) 76° (c) 156° (d) 104°

40. A grouped frequency table with class intervals of equal sizes using 250 – 270 as one of
the class intervals is constructed for the following data:

268, 220, 368, 258, 242, 310, 272, 342, 310, 290, 300, 320, 319, 304, 402, 318, 406, 292,
354, 278, 210, 240, 330, 316, 406, 215, 258, 236.
The frequency of the class 370 – 390 is:

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 5

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 SECTION C

Case study-based questions: Section C consists of 10 questions of 1 mark each.

Any 8 questions are to be attempted.
Q41 - Q45 are based on Case Study -1

Case Study -1

Anu wants to hire a taxi to go to a party. The taxi charges Rs. 15 for the first kilometer and
Rs. 8 each for every subsequent kilometer. Take the distance as x km and y as the amount
paid.

41. Write an equation to represent the above situation.

(a) 7x + 8 = y
(b) 8x + 7 = y
(c) 7y + x = 15
(d) x + 15y = 8
42. How much money would she have to pay for going 10 km?
(a) Rs. 87
(b) Rs. 78
(c) Rs. 57
(d) Rs. 75
43. How much distance would the taxi cover in Rs. 79?
(a) 10 km
(b) 7 km
(c) 9 km
(d) 12 km
44. Which of the following is a solution of the above equation?
(a) (−1, 15)
(b) (1, 15)
(c) (2, 32)
(d) (−2, 32)

45. A linear equation in two variables has

(a) exactly one solution
(b) exactly two solutions
(c) infinitely many solutions
(d) no solution

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 Q46 - Q50 are based on Case Study -2

Case Study -2
A Mathematics teacher asked students of Class IX to collect Mathematics marks of a test
conducted in the class, for which maximum marks were 60. The student who collected the
data observed that the lowest marks scored were 6 and the highest marks scored were 59.
The teacher prepared a continuous grouped frequency distribution table with equal class
intervals and asked students to collaboratively represent the data as a histogram.
The histogram drawn by the students is as shown below:

21
19

10

2
1

Read the histogram and answer the following questions:

46. What is the class size?
(a) 10
(b) 15
(c) 5
(d) 60

47. What is the total number of students according to the histogram?

(a) 50
(b) 60
(c) 65
(d) 70
48. How many students scored 50% and above marks?
(a) 19
(b) 20
(c) 27
(d) 37

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49. How many students scored less than 50% marks?
(a) 33
(b) 26
(c) 27
(d) 12
50. What is the range of the collected marks?
(a) 60
(b) 59
(c) 53
(d) 65

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