Area

1. A rectangular farm has to be fenced on one long side, one short side and the diagonal. If the cost of

fencing is Rs 100 per m, the area of the farm is 1200 sq. m and the short side is 30 m long, how much

would the job cost? Aggarwal 17

2. A rectangular field is to be fenced on three sides leaving a side of 20 feet uncovered. If the area of the

field is 680 sq. ft, how many feet of fencing will be required? Aggarwal 23

3. The length of a rectangular blackboard is 8 m more than its breadth. If its length is increased by 7 m and
its breadth is decreased by 4 m, its area remains unchanged. The length and breadth of the rectangular
blackboard is? Aggarwal 47
4. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 50% and breadth is decreased by 25%, what is the percentage
change in its area? Agg 54
5. The length of a rectangle is increased by 60%. By what percent would the width have to be decreased so
as to maintain the same area? Agg 58
6. A lawn is in the shape of a rectangle of 80 m length and 50 m width. Outside the lawn there is a footpath

of uniform 1 m width bordering the lawn. The area of the footpath is? Agg 65

7. What will be the cost of gardening 1 metre broad boundary around a rectangular plot having perimeter

of 340 metres at the rate of Rs 10 per square metre? Agg 67

8. A rectangular lawn 80 m by 60 m has two roads each 10 m wide running in the middle of it, one parallel

to the length and the other parallel to the breadth. Find the cost of gravelling them at Rs.30 per sq m?

Agg 72

9. The area of a rectangle is thrice that of a square. If the length of the rectangle is 40 cm and its breadth is

3/2 times that of the side of the square, then the side of the square is? Agg 104

10. A park square in shape has a 3 metre wide road inside it running along its sides. The area occupied by

the road is 1764 square metres. What is the perimeter along the outer edge of the road? Agg 108

11. The areas of a square and a rectangle are equal. The length of the rectangle is greater than the length of

any side of the square by 5 cm and the breadth is less by 3 cm. Find the perimeter of the rectangle? Agg

140
12. The cost of papering the four walls of a room is Rs 475. Each one of the length, breadth and height of

another room is double that of this room. The cost of papering the walls of this new room is? Agg 150

13. The hypotenuse of a right angle isosceles triangle is 5 cm. The area of the triangle is? Agg 180

14. If the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 41 cm and the area of the triangle is 180 sq. cm, then the

difference between the lengths of the legs of the triangle must be? Agg 184

15. A cow is tethered in the middle of a field with a 14 feet long rope. If the cow grazes 100 sq. ft per day

then approximately what time will be taken by the cow to graze the whole field? Agg 247

16. Two small circular parks of diameters 16 m and 12 m are to be replaced by a bigger circular park. What

would be the radius of the new park if the new park occupies the same space as the two small parks?

Agg 259

17. A square lawn with side 100 m long has a circular flower bed in the centre. If the area of the lawn,

excluding the flower bed, is 8614 sq. m, the radius of the circular flower bed is? Agg 271

18. The diameter of the driving wheel of a bus is 140 cm. How many revolutions per minute must the wheel

make in order to keep a speed of 66 km per hour? Agg 283

19. The sides of a triangle are consecutive integers. The perimeter of the triangle is 120 cm. Find the length

of the greatest side? Agg 171

20. If the perimeter of a right angled isosceles triangle is (4√2 +4) cm, the length of the hypotenuse is? Agg

186

21. The altitude of an equilateral triangle of side 2√3 cm is? Agg 192

22. A field in the form of a parallelogram has one side 150 metres and its distance from the opposite side

is 80 metres. The cost of watering the field at the rate of 50 paisa per square metre is? Agg 215

23. If the area of the trapezium whose parallel sides are 6 cm and 10 cm is 32 sq cm, then the distance

between the parallel sides is? Agg 234

24. A toothed wheel of diameter 50 cm is attached to a smaller wheel of diameter 30 cm. How many

revolutions will the smaller wheel make when the larger one makes 15 revolutions? Agg 288
25. The circumference of the back-sided wheel of a vehicle is 1 m greater than that of front side wheel. To

travel 600 m, the front wheel rotates 30 times more than the back wheel. The circumference of the front

wheel is? Agg 294

26. A circular road runs around a circular garden. If the difference between the circumference of the outer

circle and the inner circle is 44 m, the width of the road is? Agg 301

27. A square is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 4 cm. the area of the portion between the circle and the

square is? Agg 339

28. A circle is circumscribed around a square as shown in the figure. The area of one of the four shaded

portions is equal to 4/7. The radius of the circle is? Agg 342

29. A triangle with sides 13 cm 14 cm and 15 cm is inscribed in a circle. The radius of the circle is? Agg

359

30. If the radius of a circle is increased to 3 times, then how many times will its circumference be increased?

Agg 373

31. Area of a rectangle is 150 metre square. When the breadth of the same rectangle is increased by 2 meter

and the length decreased by 5 metre the area of the rectangle decreases by 30 metre square. What is the

perimeter of the square whose side are equal to the length of the rectangle? Agg 396

32. The circumference of a circle is 10% more than the perimeter of a square. If the difference between the

area of the circle and that of the square is 216 sq. cm, how much does the diagonal of the square

measure? (in cm)? Agg 410

33. The area of a rhombus with side 13 cm and one diagonal 10 cm will be? Agg 413

34. A piece of wire when bent to form a circle will have a radius of 84 cm. If the wire is bent to form a

square, the length of a side of the square is? Agg 414

35. The ratio between the length and the breadth of a rectangular park is 3:2. If a man cycling along the boundary of

the park at the speed of 12 km/hr completes one round in 8 minutes, then the area of the park (in sq m) is?

Aggarwal 20 City Bank MTO 2017

37. A took 15 seconds to cross a rectangular field diagonally walking at the rate of 52 m/min and B took the same
time to cross the same field along its sides walking at the rate of 68 m/min. The area of the field is? Aggarwal 43

38. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and its breadth is decreased by 10%, the change in its area will be?
Aggarwal 52 Combined Bank

39. A garden is 24 m long and 14 m wide. There is a path 1 m wide outside the garden along its sides. If the path is to
be constructed with square marble tiles 20 cm × 20 cm, the number of tiles required to cover the path is?
Aggarwal 76

40. The cost of cultivating a square field at the rate of tk.685 per hectare is Tk 6165. The cost of putting a fence
around it at the rate of Tk. 48.75 per metre would be? Aggarwal 84

41. Total area of 64 small squares of a chessboard is 400 sq cm. There is 3 cm wide border around the chess board.
What is the length of the side of the chessboard? Aggarwal 89

42. The ratio of the area of a square to that of the square drawn on its diagonal is? Aggarwal 121

43. A rectangular plank √2 metre wide is placed symmetrically on the diagonal of a square of side 8 metres as shown
in the figure. The area of the plank is? Aggarwal 143

44. The dimensions of a room are 12.5 metres by 9 metres by 7 metres. There are 2 doors and 4 windows in the room,
each door measure 2.5 metres by 1.2 metres and each window 1.5 metres by 1 metre. Find the cost of painting the
walls at tk.3.50 per square metre? Aggarwal 148

45. ABCD is a rectangle and ABE is a triangle whose vertex E lies on CD. If AB = 5 cm and the area of the triangle is
10 sq cm, then the perimeter of the rectangle is? Aggarwal 159

46. What is the area of the given figure? Aggarwal 161

47. From a point within an equilateral triangle, perpendiculars drawn to the three sides are 6 cm, 7 cm and 8 cm
respectively. The length of the side of the triangle is? Aggarwal 195

48. An equilateral triangle is described on the diagonal of a square. What is the ratio of the area of the triangle to that
of the square? Aggarwal 199

49. A triangle and a parallelogram are constructed on the same base such that their areas are equal. If the altitude of
the parallelogram is 100 m, then the altitude of the triangle is? Aggarwal 221

50. The area of a field in the shape of a trapezium measures 1440 m2. The perpendicular distance between its parallel
sides is 24 m. If the ratio of the parallel sides is 5:3, the length of the longer parallel side is? Aggarwal 237

51. A circular pond has area equal to 616 m2. A circular stage is made at the centre of the pond whose radius is equal
to half the radius of the pond. What is the area where water is present? Aggarwal 263

52. The diameter of a cycle wheel is 70 cm. A cyclist takes 30 hours to reach a destination at the speed of 22 km/hr.
How many revolutions will the wheel make during this journey? Aggarwal 286

53. In a circle of radius 7 cm, an arc subtends an angle of 108° at the centre. The area of the sector is? Aggarwal 326
54. A horse is tied at the corner of a rectangular field whose length is 20 m and width is 16 m, with a rope whose
length is 14 m. Find the area which the horse can graze 330

55. Area of the segment of a circle is? Aggarwal 331

56. If the circumference of a circle is 100 units, then what will be the length of the arc described by an angle of 20
degrees? Aggarwal 333

57. The circumradius of an equilateral triangle is 8 cm. The inradius of the triangle? Aggarwal 348

58. A circle is inscribed in a square. An equilateral triangle of side 4√3 cm is inscribed in that circle. The length of the
diagonal of the square is? Aggarwal 353

59. In the given figure, ABC is an equilateral triangle which is inscribed inside a circle and whose radius is r. Which
of the following is the area of the triangle? Aggarwal 354

60. The sides of a triangle are 6 cm, 11 cm and 15 cm. The radius of its incircle is? Aggarwal 357

61. The perimeter of a triangle is 30 cm and the circumference of its incircle is 88 cm. The area of the triangle is?
Aggarwal 360

62. The area of the largest triangle that can be inscribed in a semi-circle of radius r is? Aggarwal 364

 A cow is tethered at point A by a rope. Neither the rope nor the cow is allowed to enter the triangle ABC.
<BAC= 30• AB=AC=10 m. Answer the Questions 29 and 30

63. What is the area that can be grazed by the cow if the length of the rope is 8 m? Aggarwal 385

64. What is the area that can be grazed by the cow if the length of the rope is 12 m? Aggarwal 386

65. Two identical circles intersect so that their centres, and the points at which they intersect, from a square of side 1
cm. The area (in sq cm) of the portion that is common to the circle is? Aggarwal 387

66. A skating champion moves along the circumference of a circle of radius 28 m in 44 sec. How many seconds will
it take her to move along the perimeter of a hexagon of side 48 m? Aggarwal 389

67. Two equal circles are drawn in square in such a way that a side of the square forms diameter of each circle. If the
remaining area of the square is 42 cm2, how much will the diameter of the circle measures? Aggarwal 393

68. A hall 50 m long and 45 m broad is to be paved with square tiles. Find the largest tile as well as its number in the
given options so that the tiles exactly fit in the hall? Aggarwal 415

69. The length of a rectangle is 18 cm and its breadth is 10 cm. When the length is increased to 25 cm, what will be
the breadth of the rectangle if the area remains the same? Aggarwal 4 PKB EO 2014

70. The length of a rectangular plot is 60% more than its breadth. If the difference between the length and the breadth
of that rectangle is 24 cm, what is the area of that rectangle? Aggarwal 6 Pubali SO 2014

71. The area of a rectangle is 460 square metres. If the length is 15 % more than the breadth, what is the breadth of
the rectangular field? Aggarwal 21 MTB MTO 2015

72. An artist has completed one-fourth of a rectangular oil painting. When he will paint another 100 square
centimeters of the painting, he would complete three-quarters of the painting. If the height of the oil painting is 10
cm, determine the length (in cm) of the oil painting. Aggarwal 30
73. A courtyard 25 m long and 16 m broad is to be paved with bricks of dimensions 20 cm by 10 cm. The total
number of bricks required is? Aggarwal 31

74. The cost of carpeting a room is tk.120. If the width had been 4 metres less, the cost of the carpet would have been
Tk. 20 less. The width of the room is? Aggarwal 46

75. A towel, when bleached, was found to have lost 20% of its length and 10% of its breadth. The percentage of
decrease in area is? Aggarwal 55 Janata EO 2017

76. The length and breadth of the floor of the room are 20 feet and 10 feet respectively. Square tiles of 2 feet length of
different colours are to be laid on the floor. Black tiles are laid in the first row on all sides. If white tiles are laid in
the one-third of the remaining and blue tiles in the rest, how many blue tiles will be there? Aggarwal 95

77. A man walked diagonally across a square lot. Approximately, what was the percent saved by not walking along
the edges? Aggarwal 109 IBA Admission

78. Of the two square fields, the area of one is 1 hectare while the other one is broader by 1%. The difference in their
areas is? Aggarwal 126

79. If each side of a square is increased by 10 %, its area will be increased by? Aggarwal 127 Exim TAO

80. The base of a triangle is 15 cm and height is 12 cm. The height of another triangle of double the area having the
base 20 cm is? Aggarwal 154

81. The sides of a triangle are 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm. The area (in cm2) of the triangle formed by joining the mid-
points of the sides of this triangle is? 174

82. The ratio of the height of a room to its semi perimeter is 2:5. It costs tk 260 to paper the walls of the room with
paper 50 cm wide at tk 2 per metre allowing an area of 15 sq. m for doors and windows. The height of the room
is? Aggarwal 151

83. The perimeters of a square and a regular hexagon are equal. The ratio of the area of the hexagon to the area of the
square is? Aggarwal 416

84. In the given figure, ABCD is a rectangle with AD= 4 units and AE =EB. EF is perpendicular to DB and is half of
DF. If the area of the triangle DEF is 5 sq units, then what is the area of ABCD? Aggarwal 210

Practice
85. Find the ratio of areas of the incircle and circumcircle of a square? Ex 56

86. In an isosceles triangle, the measure of each of the equal sides is 10 cm and the angle between them is 45°. The
area of the triangle is? Aggarwal 189 BKB Cash 2018

87. A rectangular plot measuring 90 metres by 50 metres is to be enclosed by wire fencing. If the poles of the fence
are kept 5 metres apart, how many poles will be needed? Aggarwal 5

88. A rectangular park 60 m long and 40 m wide has two concrete crossroads running in the middle of the park and
rest of the park has been used as a lawn. If the area of the lawn is 2109 sq. m, then what is width of the road?
Aggarwal 74

89. A rectangular room can be partitioned into two equal square rooms by a partition 7 metre long. What is the area of
the rectangular room in square metres? Aggarwal 100
 90. A rectangle becomes a square when its length is reduced by 10 units and its breadth is increased by 5 units. But by
this process the area of the rectangle is reduced by 210 sq. units. The area of the rectangle (a) is square units is?
Aggarwal 137

91. The ratio of the areas of a square of side 6 cm and an equilateral triangle of side 6 cm is? Aggarwal 158

92. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is equal to 14 cm and the lateral side is to the base in the ratio 5:4. The area
of the triangle is? Aggarwal 169

93. The base and altitude of a right - angled triangle are 12 cm and 5 cm respectively. The perpendicular distance of
its hypotenuse from the opposite vertex is? Aggarwal 183

94. A rectangle and a parallelogram are drawn between the same parallel lines on a common base of 10 cm. If the
perimeter of the rectangle is 36 cm, then the area of the parallelogram is? Aggarwal 217

95. The radius of the wheel of a vehicle is 70 cm. The wheel makes 10 revolutions in 5 seconds. The speed of the
vehicle is? Aggarwal 285

96. A vertical rod of height 33 metres is bent to from a semi circular shape so that the top touches the ground. The
distance between the top head and the base on the ground is? Aggarwal 310

97. A square of area 40 sq. cm is inscribed in a circle as shown in the figure. The area in sq. cm of the semi circle is?
Aggarwal 322

98. The area of the rectangle circumscribed by a circle is 32 sq. cm and the length of one side of the rectangle is 8 cm.
The length of the diameter of the circle is? Aggarwal 337

99. The base of an isosceles is 14 cm and its perimeter is 36 cm. Find its area. Aggarwal 407

100. The three sides of a triangular field are 20 metres, 21 metres and 29 metres long respectively. The area of
the field is? Aggarwal 168 31 BCS

Answer: 85.1:2 86.25√2 87. 56 88.3 89.98 90.2924 91.4: √3 92.2√21 93.60/13

94.80 95.31.68 96.21 97.25 𝜋 98.4√5 99. 42√2 100.210