WINTER BREAK HOLIDAY HOME WORK
SUBJECT: MATHS
CLASS: IX B
1) As your PT 2 exams are commencing from 18th Jan 2025, revise syllabus for PT 2. Syllabus for PT 2 is
as follows:
a. Quadrilaterals
b. Heron’s Formula
c. Surface Areas and Volumes.
2) Take a print out of the following questions and do them in your maths notebooks under heading
“Competency Based Questions”:
a. The sides of a triangular field are 51m,37m & 20m. Find the number of flower beds that can
be prepared, if each bed is to occupy 9m2 of space.
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b. The base of a triangular field is 2 2 times its height, If the cost of turfing it at Rs.40 per 100 m2
is Rs.800. Find its base.
c. A triangular park in a city has dimensions 30m, 26m & 28m. A gardener has to plant grass
inside it at Rs. 1.50 per m2. Find the amount to be paid to the gardener.
d. The perimeter of a triangular field is 144m and the sides of the triangular field are in the ratio
3:4:5. Find the area of the triangular field.
e. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 32 cm. The ratio of the equal side to its base is 3: 2.
Find the area of the triangle.
f. A sphere of maximum volume is cut out from a solid hemisphere of radius 6 cm. Find the
volume of the cut-out sphere. (Take π=3.14)
g. A conical tent is to accommodate 11 persons. Each person requires 4 square metres of the
space on the ground and 20 cubic metres of air to breath, then find the height of the cone?
h. Find out the amount of water (in litres) displaced by a solid spherical ball of diameter 4.2cm
when completely immersed in water?
i. Using equal volume of clay, Anant made a right circular cone of height 48 cm and base radius
12 cm and Varsha made a sphere. Find the radius and curved surface area of the 128 sphere
Varsha made?
j. A heap of rice is in the form of a cone of base diameter 24 m and height 3.5 m. How much
canvas cloth is required to just cover the heap?
k. Rampal decided to donate canvas for 10 tents conical in shape with base diameter 14 m and
height 24 m to a centre for handicapped person’s welfare. If the cost of 2 m wide canvas is Rs.
40 per meter, find the amount of money Rampal spent for donation
l. . Mathematics teacher of a school took her 9th standard students to show Gol Gumbaz. It was a part of
their educational trip. The teacher had interest in history as well. She narrated the facts of Gol Gumbaz to
students. Gol Gumbaz is the tomb of king Muhammad Adil Shah, Adil Shah Dynasty. Construction of the
tomb, located in Vijayapura, Karnataka, India, was started in 1626 and completed in 1656. It reaches up to
51 meters in height while the giant dome has an external diameter of 44 meters, making it one of the
largest domes ever built. At each of the four corners of the cube is a dome shaped octagonal tower seven
stories high with a staircase inside.
i. What is the curved surface area of hemispherical dome?
ii. What is the circumference of the base of the dome?
iii. Find the cost of polishing hemispherical dome if the cost of polishing 1 m2 is Rs. 270?
m. DK Jain runs a company that makes ball bearings. The bearings are shipped in boxes that are
then loaded onto trucks. Each bearing has a diameter of 18 mm.
i. Each box can hold 3888π 𝑐𝑚3 of ball bearings. How many ball bearings can a box
hold?
ii. Each ball bearing has a mass of 4 gm. Determine the. mass of each box.
iii. The maximum mass a truck can carry is 11000 kg. What is the maximum number of
boxes that can be loaded into a truck?
n. Rahul is fond of sceneries. He has decorated his home with many beautiful sceneries in
various shapes. One of his friends visited his house and was impressed to see the triangular
sceneries there. The dimensions of each triangular frame are 40 cm, 50 cm and 50 cm.
i. What is the total length of frame of scenery?
ii. If the area of an equilateral triangle is 5√3cm2, find the length of each side of the
triangle.
iii. Find the area of the wall covered by two triangular scenery?
o. There is a slide in a park. One of its side walls has been painted in some colour with a
message “KEEPTHE PARK GREEN AND CLEAN”. The sides of the wall are 15 m, 11 m and 6 m
i. Write Herons formula to find the area of triangular region that is coloured.
ii. What does “s” in the formula stand for?
iii. Find the area of the triangular region.
3) Prepare a portfolio for internal assessment. A pdf is being shared for reference. Apart from pages
mentioned in pdf you have to add pages writing the gist of all chapters (or mind maps). Portfolio
should be made neat and clean. It should show your creative skills and cover should be proper
handmade or cardboard.
