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Practice Questions Triangles Class X

This document contains 22 practice questions on triangles and related geometry topics for Class X mathematics. The questions cover properties of similar and congruent triangles, ratios of lengths in triangles, properties of angles and sides, theorems involving parallel lines intersecting sides of triangles, and word problems involving triangles, trapeziums, shadows, and heights.

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Practice Questions Triangles Class X

This document contains 22 practice questions on triangles and related geometry topics for Class X mathematics. The questions cover properties of similar and congruent triangles, ratios of lengths in triangles, properties of angles and sides, theorems involving parallel lines intersecting sides of triangles, and word problems involving triangles, trapeziums, shadows, and heights.

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PRACTICE QUESTIONS (TRIANGLES)

CLASS: X : MATHEMATICS
AD 3
1. In ∆ABC, DE||BC and  if EA = 6.6cm, then find AC
DB 1
2. In the figure of ABC, DE || AB. If AD = 2x, DC = x + 3 , BE = 2x − 1 and CE = x, then
find the value of ‘x’

3. If ∆ABC and ∆DEF are similar triangles such that ∠A=470 and ∠E=830, then find ∠C
4. ABCD is a trapezium with AD ∥ BC and AD = 4cm. If the diagonals AC and BD intersect
each other at O such that AO/OC = DO/OB =1/2, then find BC.
5. In ∆ABC and ∆PQR, we have AB= 4.5 cm BC = 5 cm, CA= 6√2 cm, PQ = 10 cm, QR=9
cm, PR =12√2 cm. If  A =75° and  B= 55°, then find  P.
6. ∆ABC is such that AB = 3 cm, BC = 2 cm, CA = 2.5 cm. If ∆ABC-∆DEF and EF=4cm, then
find the perimeter of ∆DEF.
7. In ABC, DE || AB, If CD = 3 cm, EC = 4 cm, BE = 6 cm, then find DA.
8. A girl walks 200m towards East and then 150m towards North. Find the distance of
the girl from the starting point.
9. In the ∆ABC, DE || BC. If AE = 2 cm, AD = 3 cm and BD = 4.5 cm, then find CE.
10. In the given below left figure, find the value of x in terms of a, b and c.

QR QT
11. In the above right sided figure,  and ∠1 = ∠2, Show that ∆PQS ∼ ∆TQR.
QS PR
KP 4
12. In the below left figure, PQ is parallel to MN. If = and KN = 20.4 cm. Find KQ.
PM 13

13. In the above right sided figure, if ST || QR. Find PS.

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14. ΔABC~ΔPQR. If AM and PN are altitudes of ΔABC and ΔPQR respectively and AB2: PQ2
= 4: 9, then find the ratio AM: PN.
15. In the below left figure, two chords AB and CD intersect each other at the point P.

Prove that (i) ΔAPC ~ ΔDPB (ii) AP. PB = CP. DP


16. If in the given above right sided figure, AB || DE and BD || EF, then prove that DC2 =
CF x AC
17. A girl of height 90 cm is walking away from the base of a lamp-post at a speed of 1.2
m/s. If the lamp is 3.6 m above the ground, find the length of her shadow after 4
seconds.
18. A vertical pole of length 6 m casts a shadow 4 m long on the ground and at the same
time a tower casts a shadow 28 m long. Find the height of the tower.
19. ABCD is a trapezium in which AB || CD and its diagonals intersect each other at the
OA OB
point O. Using a similarity criterion of two triangles, show that 
OC OD
AB AN
20. Prove that  if LM II CB and LNII CD as shown in the figure.
MB ND

21. If a line intersects sides AB and AC of a ∆ ABC at D and E respectively and is parallel to
BC, prove that AD/AB = AE /AC

22. Prove that if a line is drawn parallel to one side of a triangle intersecting the other
two sides in distinct points, then the other two sides are divided in the same ratio.
Using the above theorem prove that a line through the point of intersection of the
diagonals and parallel to the base of the trapezium divides the non parallel sides in
the same ratio.

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