Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
A rectangular plot 85 m long and 60 m broad is to be covered with grass leaving 5 m all around. Find the area to be laid with grass.
Advertisements
Solution
Length of the laid with grass = 85 - 5 - 5 = 75 m
Width of the laid with grass = 60 - 5 - 5 = 50 m
Hence, the area of the laid with grass is given by
A = 75 × 50
= 3750 sq.m
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
The diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is 24 m and the perpendiculars dropped on it from the remaining opposite vertices are 8 m and 13 m. Find the area of the field.

ABCD is a square with each side 12 cm. P is a point on BC such that area of ΔABP: area of trapezium APCD = 1: 5. Find the length of CP.
The area of a rectangular is 640 m2. Taking its length as x cm; find in terms of x, the width of the rectangle. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 104 m; find its dimensions.
Trapezium given below; find its area.
Calculate the area of quadrilateral ABCD in which AB = 32 cm, AD = 24 cm ∠A = 90° and BC = CD = 52 cm.
The perimeter of a rectangular field is `3/5`km. If the length of the field is twice its width; find the area of the rectangle in sq. meters.
The length and the breadth of a rectangle are 6 cm and 4 cm respectively. Find the height of a triangle whose base is 6 cm and the area is 3 times that of the rectangle.
Calculate the area of the figure given below:
Which is not drawn scale.

Find the value of k, if the area of a quadrilateral is 28 sq. units, whose vertices are (– 4, – 2), (– 3, k), (3, – 2) and (2, 3)
PQRS is a rectangle formed by joining the points P(– 1, – 1), Q(– 1, 4), R(5, 4) and S(5, – 1). A, B, C and D are the mid-points of PQ, QR, RS and SP respectively. Is the quadrilateral ABCD a square, a rectangle or a rhombus? Justify your answer.
