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Contents
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Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1

Integers

Chapter 2

Fractions and Decimals

Chapter 3

Data Handling

Chapter 4

Simple Equations

Chapter 5

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Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15

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Lines and Angles

The Triangle and its Properties

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Congruence of Triangles

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Comparing Quantities

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Rational Numbers

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Practical Geometry

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Perimeter and Area

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Algebraic Expressions

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Exponents and Powers

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Symmetry

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Visualising Solid Shapes

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Answers

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Brain-Teasers

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1.1 INTRODUCTION

We have learnt about whole numbers and integers in Class VI.

We know that integers form a bigger collection of numbers
which contains whole numbers and negative numbers. What
other differences do you find between whole numbers and
integers? In this chapter, we will study more about integers,
their properties and operations. First of all, we will review and
revise what we have done about integers in our previous class.

1.2 RECALL

We know how to represent integers on a number line. Some integers are marked on the
number line given below.

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Can you write these marked integers in ascending order? The ascending order of
these numbers is 5, 1, 3. Why did we choose 5 as the smallest number?
Some points are marked with integers on the following number line. Write these integers
in descending order.

The descending order of these integers is 14, 8, 3, ...

The above number line has only a few integers filled. Write appropriate numbers at
each dot.

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TRY THESE
1. A number line representing integers is given below
A

2.

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3 and 2 are marked by E and F respectively. Which integers are marked by B,

D, H, J, M and O?
Arrange 7, 5, 4, 0 and 4 in ascending order and then mark them on a number
line to check your answer.

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We have done addition and subtraction of integers in our previous class. Read the
following statements.
On a number line when we
(i) add a positive integer, we move to the right.
(ii) add a negative integer, we move to the left.
(iii) subtract a positive integer, we move to the left.
(iv) subtract a negative integer, we move to the right.
State whether the following statements are correct or incorrect. Correct those which
are wrong:
(i) When two positive integers are added we get a positive integer.
(ii) When two negative integers are added we get a positive integer.
(iii) When a positive integer and a negative integer are added, we always get a negative
integer.
(iv) Additive inverse of an integer 8 is ( 8) and additive inverse of ( 8) is 8.
(v) For subtraction, we add the additive inverse of the integer that is being subtracted,
to the other integer.
(vi) (10) + 3 = 10 3
(vii) 8 + (7) ( 4) = 8 + 7 4
Compare your answers with the answers given below:
(i) Correct. For example:
(a) 56 + 73 = 129
(b) 113 + 82 = 195 etc.
Construct five more examples in support of this statement.
(ii) Incorrect, since ( 6) + ( 7) = 13, which is not a positive integer. The correct
statement is: When two negative integers are added we get a negative integer.
For example,
(a) ( 56) + ( 73) = 129 (b) ( 113) + ( 82) = 195, etc.
Construct five more examples on your own to verify this statement.

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(iii) Incorrect, since 9 + 16 = 7, which is not a negative integer. The correct statement is :
When one positive and one negative integers are added, we take their difference
and place the sign of the bigger integer. The bigger integer is decided by ignoring the
signs of both the integers. For example:
(a) ( 56) + (73) = 17
(b) ( 113) + 82 = 31
(c) 16 + ( 23) = 7
(d) 125 + ( 101) = 24
Construct five more examples for verifying this statement.
(iv) Correct. Some other examples of additive inverse are as given below:
Integer
10
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Additive inverse
10
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Thus, the additive inverse of any integer a is a and additive inverse of ( a) is a.

(v) Correct. Subtraction is opposite of addition and therefore, we add the additive
inverse of the integer that is being subtracted, to the other integer. For example:
(a) 56 73 = 56 + additive inverse of 73 = 56 + (73) = 17
(b) 56 (73) = 56 + additive inverse of (73) = 56 + 73 = 129
(c) (79) 45 = (79) + ( 45) = 124
(d) (100) (172) = 100 + 172 = 72 etc.
Write atleast five such examples to verify this statement.
Thus, we find that for any two integers a and b,
a b = a + additive inverse of b = a + ( b)
and
a ( b) = a + additive inverse of ( b) = a + b
(vi) Incorrect, since
(10) + 3 = 7 and 10 3 = 7
therefore,
(10) + 3 10 3
(vii) Incorrect, since,
8 + (7) ( 4) = 8 + (7) + 4 = 1 + 4 = 5
and
8 + 7 4 = 15 4 = 11
However,
8 + (7) ( 4) = 8 7 + 4

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We have done various patterns with numbers in our previous class.
Can you find a pattern for each of the following? If yes, complete them:
(a) 7, 3, 1, 5, _____, _____, _____.
(b) 2, 4, 6, 8, _____, _____, _____.
(c) 15, 10, 5, 0, _____, _____, _____.
(d) 11, 8, 5, 2, _____, _____, _____.
Make some more such patterns and ask your friends to complete them.

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EXERCISE 1.1
1. Following number line shows the temperature in degree celsius (C) at different places
on a particular day.
Lahulspiti
10

Shimla

Srinagar
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Ooty
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10

Bangalore
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(a) Observe this number line and write the temperature of the places marked on it.

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(b) What is the temperature difference between the hottest and the coldest places
among the above?
(c) What is the temperature difference between Lahulspiti and Srinagar?

(d) Can we say temperature of Srinagar and Shimla taken together is less than the
temperature at Shimla? Is it also less than the temperature at Srinagar?

2. In a quiz, positive marks are given for correct answers and negative marks are given
for incorrect answers. If Jacks scores in five successive rounds were 25, 5, 10,
15 and 10, what was his total at the end?
3. At Srinagar temperature was 5C on Monday and then it dropped
by 2C on Tuesday. What was the temperature of Srinagar on Tuesday?
On Wednesday, it rose by 4C. What was the temperature on this
day?
4. A plane is flying at the height of 5000 m above the sea level. At a
particular point, it is exactly above a submarine floating 1200 m below
the sea level. What is the vertical distance between them?

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5. Mohan deposits Rs 2,000 in his bank account and withdraws Rs 1,642

from it, the next day. If withdrawal of amount from the account is
represented by a negative integer, then how will you represent the amount
deposited? Find the balance in Mohans account after the withdrawal.

6.

Rita goes 20 km towards east from a point A to the point B. From B,

she moves 30 km towards west along the same road. If the distance
towards east is represented by a positive integer then, how will you
represent the distance travelled towards west? By which integer will
you represent her final position from A?

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7. In a magic square each row, column and diagonal have the same sum. Check which
of the following is a magic square.
5

1 10

3 2

4 7

(i)

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(ii)

8. Verify a ( b) = a + b for the following values of a and b.

(i) a = 21, b = 18
(iii) a = 75, b = 84

(ii) a = 118, b = 125

(iv) a = 28, b = 11

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9. Use the sign of >, < or = in the box to make the statements true.
(a) ( 8) + ( 4)

(8) ( 4)

(b) ( 3) + 7 (19)

15 8 + ( 9)

(c) 23 41 + 11

23 41 11

(d) 39 + ( 24) (15)

36 + ( 52) ( 36)

(e) 231 + 79 + 51
399 + 159 + 81
10. A water tank has steps inside it. A monkey is sitting on the topmost step (i.e., the first
step). The water level is at the ninth step.
(i) He jumps 3 steps down and then jumps back 2 steps up.
In how many jumps will he reach the water level?
(ii) After drinking water, he wants to go back. For this, he
jumps 4 steps up and then jumps back 2 steps down
in every move. In how many jumps will he reach back
the top step?
(iii) If the number of steps moved down is represented by
negative integers and the number of steps moved up by
positive integers, represent his moves in part (i) and (ii)
by completing the following; (a) 3 + 2 ... = 8
(b) 4 2 + ... = 8. In (a) the sum ( 8) represents going
down by eight steps. So, what will the sum 8 in (b)
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1.3 PROPERTIES OF ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION OF INTEGERS

1.3.1 Closure under Addition
We have learnt that sum of two whole numbers is again a whole number. For example,
17 + 24 = 41 which is again a whole number. We know that, this property is known as the
closure property for addition of the whole numbers.

MATHEMATICS

Let us see whether this property is true for integers or not.

Following are some pairs of integers. Observe the following table and complete it.
Statement
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)

17 + 23 = 40
(10) + 3 = _____
( 75) + 18 = _____
19 + ( 25) = 6
27 + ( 27) = _____
( 20) + 0 = _____
( 35) + ( 10) = _____

Observation
Result is an integer
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Result is an integer
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What do you observe? Is the sum of two integers always an integer?

Did you find a pair of integers whose sum is not an integer?
Since addition of integers gives integers, we say integers are closed under addition.
In general, for any two integers a and b, a + b is an integer.

1.3.2 Closure under Subtraction

What happens when we subtract an integer from another integer? Can we say that their
difference is also an integer?
Observe the following table and complete it:
Statement

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Observation

(i) 7 9 = 2

Result is an integer

(ii) 17 ( 21) = _______

______________

(iii) ( 8) (14) = 6

Result is an integer

(iv) ( 21) ( 10) = _______

______________

(v) 32 (17) = _______

______________

(vi) ( 18) ( 18) = _______

______________

(vii) ( 29) 0 = _______

______________

What do you observe? Is there any pair of integers whose difference is not an integer?
Can we say integers are closed under subtraction? Yes, we can see that integers are
closed under subtraction.
Thus, if a and b are two integers then a b is also an intger. Do the whole numbers
satisfy this property?

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1.3.3 Commutative Property

We know that 3 + 5 = 5 + 3 = 8, that is, the whole numbers can be added in any order. In
other words, addition is commutative for whole numbers.
Can we say the same for integers also?
We have 5 + ( 6) = 1 and ( 6) + 5 = 1

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So, 5 + ( 6) = ( 6) + 5
Are the following equal?
(i) ( 8) + ( 9) and ( 9) + ( 8)
(ii)

( 23) + 32 and 32 + ( 23)

(iii)

( 45) + 0 and 0 + ( 45)

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Try this with five other pairs of integers. Do you find any pair of integers for which the
sums are different when the order is changed? Certainly not. Thus, we conclude that
addition is commutative for integers.
In general, for any two integers a and b, we can say
a+b=b+a

We know that subtraction is not commutative for whole numbers. Is it commutative

for integers?
Consider the integers 5 and (3).

Is 5 (3) the same as (3) 5? No, because 5 ( 3) = 5 + 3 = 8, and (3) 5

= 3 5 = 8.
Take atleast five different pairs of integers and check this.

We conclude that subtraction is not commutative for integers.

1.3.4 Associative Property

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Observe the following examples:

Consider the integers 3, 2 and 5.

Look at (5) + [(3) + (2)] and [(5) + (3)] + (2).

In the first sum (3) and (2) are grouped together and in the second (5) and (3)
are grouped together. We will check whether we get different results.

(5) + [(3) + (2)]

[(5) + (3)] + (2)

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In both the cases, we get 10.

i.e.,
(5) + [(3) + (2)] = [(5) + (2)] + (3)
Similarly consider 3 , 1 and 7.
( 3) + [1 + (7)] = 3 + __________ = __________
[(3) + 1] + (7) = 2 + __________ = __________

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Is (3) + [1 + (7)] same as [(3) + 1] + (7)?

Take five more such examples. You will not find any example for which the sums are
different. This shows that addition is associative for integers.
In general for any integers a, b and c, we can say
a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c

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1.3.5 Additive Identity

When we add zero to any whole number, we get the same whole number. Zero is an
additive identity for whole numbers. Is it an additive identity again for integers also?
Observe the following and fill in the blanks:
(i) ( 8) + 0 = 8
(ii) 0 + ( 8) = 8
(iii) (23) + 0 = _____
(iv) 0 + (37) = 37
(v) 0 + (59) = _____
(vi) 0 + _____ = 43
(vii) 61 + _____ = 61
(viii) _____ + 0 = _____
The above examples show that zero is an additive identity for integers.
You can verify it by adding zero to any other five integers.
In general, for any integer a
a+0=a=0+a

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(a) a negative integer

(b) zero

(c) an integer smaller than both the integers.

(e) an integer greater than both the integers.

(d) an integer smaller than only one of the integers.

2. Write a pair of integers whose difference gives

(a) a negative integer.
(c) an integer smaller than both the integers.
(e) an integer greater than both the integers.

(b) zero.
(d) an integer greater than only one of the integers.

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EXAMPLE 1 Write down a pair of integers whose

SOLUTION

(a) sum is 3

(b) difference is 5

(c) difference is 2

(d) sum is 0

(a) (1) + (2) = 3

or

(5) + 2 = 3

(b) (9) ( 4) = 5

or

(2) 3 = 5

(c) (7) (9) = 2

or

1 (1) = 2

(d) (10) + 10 = 0

or

5 + (5) = 0

Can you write more pairs in these examples?

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EXERCISE 1.2

1. Write down a pair of integers whose:

(a)

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(b)

difference is 10

(c) sum is 0

2. (a) Write a pair of negative integers whose difference gives 8.

(b) Write a negative integer and a positive integer whose sum is 5.

(c) Write a negative integer and a positive integer whose difference is 3.

3. In a quiz, team A scored 40, 10, 0 and team B scored 10, 0, 40 in three
successive rounds. Which team scored more? Can we say that we can add
integers in any order?
4. Fill in the blanks to make the following statements true:
(i) (5) + (............) = ( 8) + (............)
(ii) 53 + ............ = 53
(iii) 17 + ............ = 0

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(iv) [13 + ( 12)] + (............) = ............ + [(12) + (7)]

(v) ( 4) + [............ + (3)] = [............ + 15] + ............

1.4 MULTIPLICATION

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We can add and subtract integers. Let us now learn how to multiply integers.

1.4.1 Multiplication of a Positive and a Negative Integer

We know that multiplication of whole numbers is repeated addition. For example,
5 + 5 + 5 = 3 5 = 15
Can you represent addition of integers in the same way?

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TRY THESE

We have from the following number line, (5) + (5) + (5) = 15

Find:
4 ( 8),
8 (2),
3 (7),
10 (1)
using number line.

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15

10

But we can also write

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(5) + (5) + (5) = 3 (5)

Therefore,
Similarly

3 (5) = 15
( 4) + ( 4) + ( 4) + ( 4) + ( 4) = 5 ( 4) = 20

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(3) + (3) + (3) + (3) = __________ = __________

Also,

(7) + (7) + (7) = __________ = __________

Let us see how to find the product of a positive integer and a negative integer without
using number line.
Let us find 3 (5) in a different way. First find 3 5 and then put minus sign ()
before the product obtained. You get 15. That is we find (3 5) to get 15.
Similarly,

5 ( 4) = (54) = 20.

Find in a similar way,

4 ( 8) = _____ = _____ 3 ( 7) = _____ = _____

6 ( 5) = _____ = _____ 2 ( 9) = _____ = _____

Using this method we thus have,

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(i) 6 (19)
(ii) 12 (32)
(iii) 7 (22)

We have,

10 ( 43) = _____ (10 43) = 430

Till now we multiplied integers as (positive integer) (negative integer).

Let us now multiply them as (negative integer) (positive integer).
We first find 3 5.
To find this, observe the following pattern:
3 5 = 15
2 5 = 10 = 15 5
1 5 = 5 = 10 5
05=0=55

So,

1 5 = 0 5 = 5

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2 5 = 5 5 = 10
3 5 = 10 5 = 15
We already have

3 (5) = 15

So we get

(3) 5 = 15 = 3 (5)

Using such patterns, we also get (5) 4 = 20 = 5 ( 4)

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Using patterns, find ( 4) 8, (3) 7, ( 6) 5 and ( 2) 9

Check whether, ( 4) 8 = 4 ( 8), ( 3) 7 = 3 (7), ( 6) 5 = 6 ( 5)
and

( 2) 9 = 2 ( 9)

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Using this we get,

(33) 5 = 33 (5) = 165

We thus find that while multiplying a positive integer and a negative integer, we
multiply them as whole numbers and put a minus sign () before the product. We
thus get a negative integer.

TRY THESE
1. Find:

(a)
(c)

2. Check if (a)

15 (16)

(b)

21 (32)

( 42) 12

(d)

55 15

25 (21) = (25) 21

(b) (23) 20 = 23 (20)

Write five more such examples.

In general, for any two positive integers a and b we can say

a ( b) = ( a) b = (a b)

1.4.2 Multiplication of two Negative Integers

Can you find the product (3) (2)?

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3 4 = 12

3 3 = 9 = 12 (3)
3 2 = 6 = 9 (3)
3 1 = 3 = 6 (3)
3 0 = 0 = 3 (3)
3 1 = 0 (3) = 0 + 3 = 3
3 2 = 3 (3) = 3 + 3 = 6
Do you see any pattern? Observe how the products change.

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Based on this observation, complete the following:

3 3 = _____ 3 4 = _____
Now observe these products and fill in the blanks:
4 4 = 16

TRY THESE

4 3 = 12 = 16 + 4

(i) Starting from (5) 4, find (5) ( 6)

(ii) Starting from ( 6) 3, find ( 6) (7)

4 2 = _____ = 12 + 4
4 1 = _____

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4 (1) = _____

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4 (2) = _____
4 (3) = _____

From these patterns we observe that,

(3) (1) = 3 = 3 1
(3) (2) = 6 = 3 2

(3) (3) = 9 = 3 3

and
So,

( 4) (1) = 4 = 4 1

( 4) (2) = 4 2 = _____
( 4) (3) = _____ = _____

So observing these products we can say that the product of two negative integers is
a positive integer. We multiply the two negative integers as whole numbers and put
the positive sign before the product.
Thus, we have

(10) (12) = 120

Similarly

(15) ( 6) = 90

In general, for any two positive integers a and b,

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( a) ( b) = a b

Find: (31) (100), (25) (72), (83) (28)

Game 1
(i) Take a board marked from 104 to 104 as shown in the figure.
(ii) Take a bag containing two blue and two red dice. Number of dots on the blue dice
indicate positive integers and number of dots on the red dice indicate negative integers.
(iii) Every player will place his/her counter at zero.
(iv) Each player will take out two dice at a time from the bag and throw them.

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104
83
82
61
60
39
38
17
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5
6
27
28
49
50
71
72
93
94

103
84
81
62
59
40
37
18
15
4
7
26
29
48
51
70
73
92
95

102
85
80
63
58
41
36
19
14
3
8
25
30
47
52
69
74
91
96

101
86
79
64
57
42
35
20
13
2
9
24
31
46
53
68
75
90
97

100
87
78
65
56
43
34
21
12
1
10
23
32
45
54
67
76
89
98

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98
88
89
77
76
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67
55
54
44
45
33
32
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23
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10
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11 12
22 21
33 34
44 43
55 56
66 65
77 78
88 87
99 100

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75
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101

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102

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51
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59
62
81
84
103

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(v) After every throw, the player has to multiply the numbers marked on the dice.

(vi) If the product is a positive integer then the player will move his counter towards
104; if the product is a negative integer then the player will move his counter
towards 104.

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1.4.3 Product of three or more Negative Integers

Euler in his book Ankitung zur We observed that the product of two negative integers is a positive integer.
Algebra(1770), was one of What will be the product of three negative integers? Four negative integers?
the first mathematicians to Let us observe the following examples:
attempt to prove
(a) ( 4) (3) = 12
(1) (1) = 1
(b) ( 4) (3) (2) = [( 4) (3)] (2) = 12 (2) = 24

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(c) ( 4) (3) (2) (1) = [( 4) (3) (2)] (1) = (24) (1)

(d) (5) [(4) (3) (2) (1)] = (5) 24 = 120

From the above products we observe that
A Special Case
(a) the product of two negative integers
is a positive integer;
Consider the following statements and
(b) the product of three negative integers the resultant products:
is a negative integer.
(1) (1) = +1
(c) product of four negative integers is (1) (1) (1) = 1
a positive integer.
(1) (1) (1) (1) = +1
What is the product of five negative integers in
(1) (1) (1) (1) (1) = 1
(d)?
This means that if the integer
So what will be the product of six negative
(1)
is
multiplied even number of times,
integers?
We further see that in (a) and (c) above, the product is +1 and if the integer (1)
the number of negative integers that are is multiplied odd number of times, the
multiplied are even [two and four respectively] product is 1. You can check this by
and the product obtained in (a) and (c) are making pairs of (1) in the statement.
positive integers. The number of negative This is useful in working out products of
integers that are multiplied in (b) and (d) are integers.
odd and the products obtained in (b) and (d)
are negative integers.
We find that if the number of negative integers in a product is even, then the
product is a positive integer; if the number of negative integers in a product is odd,
then the product is a negative integer.
Justify it by taking five more examples of each kind.

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(ii) What will be the sign of the product if we multiply together:
(a) 8 negative integers and 3 positive integers?
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(c) (1), twelve times?

(d) (1), 2m times, m is a natural number?

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1.5.1 Closure under Multiplication

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Statement

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(20) (5) = 100

Product is an integer

(15) 17 = 255

Product is an integer

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(15) (23) = _____

(14) (13) = _____
12 (30) = _____

What do you observe? Can you find a pair of integers whose product is not an integer?
No. This gives us an idea that the product of two integers is again an integer. So we can
say that integers are closed under multiplication.
In general,
a b is an integer, for all integers a and b.
Find the product of five more pairs of integers and verify the above statement.

1.5.2 Commutativity of Multiplication

We know that multiplication is commutative for whole numbers. Can we say, multiplication
is also commutative for integers?
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3 ( 4) = 12

( 4) 3 = 12

(30) 12 = _____

12 (30) = _____

(15) (10) = 150

(10) (15) = 150

(35) (12) = _____

(12) (35) =

(17) 0 = _____
__________ = _____

(1) (15) =

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What are your observations? The above examples suggest multiplication is

commutative for integers. Write five more such examples and verify.
In general, for any two integers a and b,
ab=ba

1.5.3 Multiplication by Zero

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products of negative integers and zero. These are obtained from the patterns done earlier.
(3) 0 = 0
0 ( 4) = 0
5 0 = _____
0 ( 6) = _____
This shows that the product of a negative integer and zero is zero.
In general, for any integer a,
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We know that 1 is the multiplicative identity for whole numbers.

Check that 1 is the multiplicative identity for integers as well. Observe the following
products of integers with 1.
(3) 1 = 3
15=5
( 4) 1 = _____
1 8 = _____
1 (5) = _____
3 1 = _____
1 ( 6) = _____
7 1 = _____
This shows that 1 is the multiplicative identity for integers also.
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What happens when we multiply any integer with 1? Complete the following:
(3) (1) = 3
3 (1) = 3
0 is the additive identity whereas 1 is the
( 6) (1) = _____
multiplicative identity for integers. We get
(1) 13 = _____
additive inverse of an integer a when we multiply
(1) to a, i.e. a (1) = (1) a = a
(1) (25) = _____
18 (1) = _____
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1.5.5 Associativity for Multiplication

Consider 3, 2 and 5.
Look at [(3) (2)] 5 and (3) [(2) 5].
In the first case (3) and (2) are grouped together and in the second (2) and 5 are
grouped together.
We see that [(3) (2)] 5 = 6 5 = 30
and
(3) [(2) 5] = (3) (10) = 30
So, we get the same answer in both the cases.
Thus,
[(3) (2)] 5 = (3) [(2) 5]
Look at this and complete the products:
[(7) ( 6)] 4 = __________ 4 = __________
7 [( 6) 4] = 7 __________ = __________
Is [7 ( 6)] ( 4) = 7 [( 6) ( 4)]?
Does the grouping of integers affect the product of integers? No.
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Take any five values for a, b and c each and verify this property.
Thus, like whole numbers, the product of three integers does not depend upon
the grouping of integers and this is called the associative property for multiplication
of integers.

1.5.6 Distributive Property

We know
16 (10 + 2) = (16 10) + (16 2)
[Distributivity of multiplication over addition]
Let us check if this is true for integers also.
Observe the following:
(a) (2) (3 + 5) = 2 8 = 16
and
[(2) 3] + [(2) 5] = ( 6) + (10) = 16
So,
(2) (3 + 5) = [(2) 3] + [(2) 8]
(b) ( 4) [(2) + 7] = ( 4) 5 = 20
and
[( 4) (2)] + [( 4) 7] = 8 + (28) = 20
So,
( 4) [(2) + 7] = [( 4) (2)] + [( 4) 7]
(c) ( 8) [(2) + (1)] = ( 8) (3) = 24
and
[( 8) (2)] + [( 8) (1)] = 16 + 8 = 24
So,
( 8) [(2) + (1)] = [( 8) (2)] + [( 8) (1)]

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Can we say that the distributivity of multiplication over addition is true for integers
also? Yes.
In general, for any integers a, b and c,
a (b + c) = a b + a c
Take atleast five different values for each of a, b and c and verify the above Distributive
property.

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(i) Is 10 [(6 + (2)] = 10 6 + 10 (2)?
(ii) Is (15) [(7) + (1)] = (15) (7) + (15) (1)?

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Can we say 4 (3 8) = 4 3 4 8?
Let us check:
4 (3 8) = 4 (5) = 20
4 3 4 8 = 12 32 = 20
So, 4 (3 8) = 4 3 4 8.
Look at the following:
( 5) [( 4) ( 6)] = ( 5) 2 = 10
[( 5) ( 4)] [ ( 5) ( 6)] = 20 30 = 10
So, ( 5) [( 4) ( 6)] = [( 5) ( 4)] [ ( 5) ( 6)]
Check this for ( 9) [ 10 ( 3)] and [( 9) 10 ] [ ( 9) ( 3)]
You will find that these are also equal.
In general, for any three integers a, b and c,
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TRY THESE

(i) Is 10 (6 (2)] = 10 6 10 (2)?

(ii) Is (15) [(7) (1)] = (15) (7) (15) (1)?

1.5.7 Making Multiplication Easier

Consider the following:
(i) We can find (25) 37 4 as
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Or, we can do it this way,

(25) 37 4 = (25) 4 37 = [(25) 4] 37 = (100) 37 = 3700
Which is the easier way?
Obviously the second way is easier because multiplication of (25) and 4 gives
100 which is easier to multiply with 37. Note that the second way involves
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So, we find that the commutativity, associativity and distributivity of integers help to
make our calculations simpler. Let us further see how calculations can be made
easier using these properties.
(ii) Find 16 12

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16 12 = 16 (10 + 2) = 16 10 + 16 2 = 160 + 32 = 192

(iii) (23) 48 = (23) [50 2] = (23) 50 (23) 2 = (1150) ( 46)

= 1104
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(35) (98) = (35) [(100) + 2] = (35) (100) + (35) 2

= 3500 + (70) = 3430

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52 ( 8) + (52) 2

(52) 2 can also be written as 52 (2).

Therefore, 52 ( 8) + (52) 2 = 52 ( 8) + 52 (2)

= 52 [( 8) + (2)] = 52 [(10)] = 520

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Find (49) 18; (25) (31); 70 (19) + (1) 70 using distributive property.

EXAMPLE 2 Find each of the following products:

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(iii) (1) (5) ( 4) ( 6)

(ii) (20) (2) (5) 7

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(i) (18) (10) 9 = [(18) (10)] 9 = 180 9 = 1620

(ii) (20) (2) (5) 7 = 20 (2 5) 7 = [20 10] 7 = 1400
(iii) (1) (5) ( 4) ( 6) = [(1) (5)] [( 4) ( 6)] = 5 24 = 120

EXAMPLE 3 Verify (30) [13 + (3)] = [(30) 13] + [(30) (3)]

SOLUTION

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[(30) 13] + [(30) (3)] = 390 + 90 = 300

So, (30) [13 + (3)] = [(30) 13] + [(30) (3)]

EXAMPLE 4 In a class test containing 15 questions, 4 marks are given for every
correct answer and (2) marks are given for every incorrect answer.
(i) Gurpreet attempts all questions but only 9 of her answers are correct.
What is her total score? (ii) One of her friends gets only 5 answers
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(i) Marks given for one correct answer = 4

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Marks given for one incorrect answer = 2

So, marks given for 6 = (15 9) incorrect answers = (2) 6 = 12

Therefore, Gurpreets total score = 36 + ( 12) = 24

(ii) Marks given for one correct answer = 4

So, marks given for 5 correct answers = 4 5 = 20

Marks given for one incorrect answer = (2)

So, marks given for 10 (=15 5) incorrect answers = (2) 10 = 20

Therefore, her friends total score = 20 + ( 20) = 0

EXAMPLE 5 Suppose we represent the distance above the ground by a positive integer
and that below the ground by a negative integer, then answer the following:

(i) An elevator descends into a mine shaft at the rate of 5 metre per minute. What will
be its position after one hour?
(ii) If it begins to descend from 15 m above the ground, what will be its position after 45
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Since the elevator is going down, so the distance covered by it will be represented
by a negative integer.
Change in position of the elevator in one minute = 5 m
Position of the elevator after 60 minutes = (5) 60 = 300 m, i.e., 300 m below
ground level.

(ii) Change in position of the elevator in 45 minutes = (5) 45 = 225 m, i.e., 225 m
below ground level.
So, the final position of the elevator = 225 + 15 = 210 m, i.e., 210 m below
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EXERCISE 1.3
1. Find each of the following products:
(a)

3 (1)

(b)

(1) 225

(c)

(21) (30)

(d)

(316) (1)

(e) (15) 0 (18)

(f) (12) (11) (10)

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9 (3) ( 6)

(h)

(18) (5) ( 4)

(i)

(1) (2) (3) 4

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(3) (6) (2) (1)

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(21) [( 4) + ( 6)] = [(21) ( 4)] + [(21) ( 6)]

3. (i) For any integer a, what is (1) a equal to?

(ii) Determine the integer whose product with (1) is

(a) 22

(b) 37

(c) 0

4. Starting from (1) 5, write various products showing some pattern to show
(1) (1) = 1.
5. Find the product, using suitable properties:
(a) 26 ( 48) + ( 48) (36)

(b) 8 53 (125)

(c) 15 (25) ( 4) (10)

(d) ( 41) 102

(e) 625 (35) + ( 625) 65

(f) 7 (50 2)

(g) (17) (29)

(h) (57) (19) + 57

6. A certain freezing process requires that room temperature be lowered from 40C at
the rate of 5C every hour. What will be the room temperature 10 hours after the
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(i) Mohan gets four correct and six incorrect answers. What is his score?
(ii) Reshma gets five correct answers and five incorrect answers, what is her score?

(iii) Heena gets two correct and five incorrect answers out of seven questions she
attempts. What is her score?
8. A cement company earns a profit of Rs 8 per bag of white cement sold and a loss of
Rs 5 per bag of grey cement sold.
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(b)

What is the number of white cement bags it must sell to have neither profit
nor loss, if the number of grey bags sold is 6,400 bags.

9. Replace the blank with an integer to make it a true statement.

(a) (3) _____ = 27

(b) 5 _____ = 35

(c) _____ ( 8) = 56

(d) _____ (12) = 132

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We can say for each multiplication statement of whole numbers there are two
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Can you write multiplication statement and its corresponding divison statements
for integers?

Observe the following and complete it.

Multiplication Statement

2 ( 6) = (12)
( 4) 5 = (20)
( 8) (9) = 72

(3) (7) = _____

( 8) 4 = ____

5 ( 9) = _____

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(12) ( 6) = 2
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(20) (5) = ( 4)
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72 _____ = _____ ,
_____ (3) = ____ ,
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(12) 2 = ( 6)
(20) ( 4) = 5
72 _____ = _____
_____________
_____________
_____________
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(10) (5) =

From the above we observe that :

(12) 2 = ( 6)
(20) (5) = ( 4)

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Find:

(a) (100) 5
(b) (81) 9
(32) 4 = 8
(c) (75) 5
(d) (32) 2
( 45) 5 = 9
We observe that when we divide a negative integer by a positive integer, we divide
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We also observe that:

72 (8) = 9

and

72 (9) = 8

50 (10) = 5
50 (5) = 10

So we can say that when we divide a positive integer by a negative

integer, we first divide them as whole numbers and then put a minus
sign () before the quotient. That is, we get a negative integer.
In general, for any two positive integers a and b
where b 0

a ( b) = ( a) b

Can we say that

( 48) 8 = 48 ( 8)?
Let us check. We know that
( 48) 8 = 6
and 48 ( 8) = 6
So ( 48) 8 = 48 ( 8)
Check this for
(i) 90 ( 45) and (90) 45
(ii) (136) 4 and 136 ( 4)

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Find: (a) 125 (25)

(b) 80 (5)

(c) 64 (16)

Lastly, we observe that

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(12) ( 6) = 2; (20) ( 4) = 5; (32) ( 8) = 4; ( 45) (9) = 5

So, we can say that when we divide a negative integer by a negative integer, we first
divide them as whole numbers and then put a positive sign (+). That is, we get a positive
integer.
In general, for any two positive integers a and b
where b 0

( a) ( b) = a b

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Find:

(a) (36) ( 4)

1.7 PROPERTIES

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Statement

( 8) ( 4) = 2
( 4) ( 8) =

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Inference

Result is an integer

Statement

Inference

( 8) 3 =

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Result is not an integer 3 ( 8) =

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What do you observe? We observe that integers are not closed under division.
Justify it by taking five more examples of your own.

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You can see from the table that ( 8) ( 4) ( 4) ( 8).

Is ( 9) 3 the same as 3 ( 9)?
Is ( 30) ( 6) the same as ( 6) ( 30)?
Can we say that division is commutative for integers? No.
You can verify it by taking five more pairs of integers.

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Like whole numbers, any integer divided by zero is meaningless and zero divided by
an integer other than zero is equal to zero i.e., for any integer a, a 0 is not defined
but 0 a = 0 for a 0.

When we divide a whole number by 1 it gives the same whole number. Let us check
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( 8) 1 = ( 8)

(11) 1 = 11

(13) 1 = 13

(25) 1 = ____

(37) 1 = ____

( 48) 1 = ____

This shows that negative integer divided by 1 gives the same negative integer.
So, any integer divided by 1 gives the same integer.
In general, for any integer a,

a1=a

What happens when we divide any integer by (1)? Complete the following table
( 8) (1) = 8

11 (1) = 11

13 (1) = ____

(25) (1) = ____

(37) (1) = ____

48 (1) = ____

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[(16) 4] (2) is the same as
(16) [4 (2)]?

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Is

(i) 1 a = 1?
(ii) a (1) = a? for any integer a.
Take different values of a and check.

We know that

[(16) 4] (2) = ( 4) (2) = 2

and

(16) [4 (2)] = (16) (2) = 8

So

[(16) 4] (2) (16) [4 (2)]

Can you say that division is associative for integers? No.

Verify it by taking five more examples of your own.

EXAMPLE 6 In a test (+5) marks are given for every correct answer and (2) marks
are given for every incorrect answer. (i) Radhika answered all the questions
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answered all the questions and scored (12) marks though he got 4
correct answers. How many incorrect answers had they attempted?

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(i) Marks given for one correct answer = 5
So, marks given for 10 correct answers = 5 10 = 50

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Marks obtained for incorrect answers = 30 50 = 20
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(ii) Marks given for 4 correct answers = 5 4 = 20
Jays score = 12

Marks obtained for incorrect answers = 12 20 = 32

Marks given for one incorrect answer = (2)

Therefore number of incorrect answers = (32) (2) = 16

EXAMPLE 7 A shopkeeper earns a profit of Re 1 by selling one pen and incurs a loss
of 40 paise per pencil while selling pencils of her old stock.

(i) In a particular month she incurs a loss of Rs 5. In this period, she sold 45 pens. How
many pencils did she sell in this period?
(ii) In the next month she earns neither profit nor loss. If she sold 70 pens, how many
pencils did she sell?

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Total loss given = Rs 5, which we denote by Rs 5
Profit earned + Loss incurred = Total loss
Therefore, Loss incurred = Total Loss Profit earned
= Rs ( 5 45) = Rs (50) = 5000 paise

Loss incurred by selling one pencil = 40 paise which we write as 40 paise

So, number of pencils sold = (5000) ( 40) = 125 pencils.
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i.e., Profit earned = Loss incurred.

Now, profit earned by selling 70 pens = Rs 70
Hence, loss incurred by selling pencils = Rs 70 which we indicate by Rs 70 or
7,000 paise.
Total number of pencils sold = (7000) ( 40) = 175 pencils.

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1. Evaluate each of the following:
(a) (30) 10

(b) 50 (5)

(c)

(36) (9)

(d) ( 49) (49)

(e) 13 [(2) + 1]

(f )

0 (12)

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(h) [(36) 12] 3

(i) [( 6) + 5)] [(2) + 1]

2. Verify that a (b + c) (a b) + (a c) for each of the following values of a, b and c.

(a) a = 12, b = 4, c = 2

(b) a = (10), b = 1, c = 1

3. Fill in the blanks:

(a) 369 _____ = 369

(b) (75) _____ = 1

(c) (206) _____ = 1

(d) 87 _____ = 87

(e) _____ 1 = 87

(f) _____ 48 = 1

(g) 20 _____ = 2

(h) _____ (4) = 3

4. Write five pairs of integers (a, b) such that a b = 3. One such pair is (6, 2)
because 6 (2) = (3).
5. The temperature at 12 noon was 10C above zero. If it decreases at the rate of 2C
per hour until midnight, at what time would the temperature be 8C below zero?
What would be the temperature at mid-night?

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given for every incorrect answer and no marks for not attempting any question.
(i) Radhika scored 20 marks. If she has got 12 correct answers, how many questions
has she attempted incorrectly? (ii) Mohini scores 5 marks in this test, though she has
got 7 correct answers. How many questions has she attempted incorrectly?
(iii) Rakesh scores 18 marks by attempting 16 questions. How many questions has
he attempted correctly and how many has he attempted incorrectly?
7. An elevator descends into a mine shaft at the rate of 6 m/min. If the descent starts
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WE DISCUSSED?

1. Integers are a bigger collection of numbers which is formed by whole numbers and
their negatives. These were introduced in Class VI.
2. You have studied in the earlier class, about the representation of integers on the
number line and their addition and subtraction.

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(a) Integers are closed for addition and subtraction both. That is, a + b and
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a and b.
(c) Addition is associative for integers, i.e., (a + b) + c = a + (b + c) for all integers
a, b and c.
(d) Integer 0 is the identity under addition. That is, a + 0 = 0 + a = a for every
integer a.

4. We studied, how integers could be multiplied, and found that product of a positive
and a negative integer is a negative integer, whereas the product of two negative
integers is a positive integer. For example, 2 7 = 14 and 3 8 = 24.
5. Product of even number of negative integers is positive, whereas the product of odd
number of negative integers is negative.
6. Integers show some properties under multiplication.

(a) Integers are closed under multiplication. That is, a b is an integer for any two
integers a and b.

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a and b.

(c) The integer 1 is the identity under multiplication, i.e., 1 a = a 1 = a for any
integer a.
(d) Multiplication is associative for integers, i.e., (a b) c = a (b c) for any
three integers a, b and c.
7. Under addition and multiplication, integers show a property called distributive property. That is, a (b + c) = a b + a c for any three integers a, b and c.

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8. The properties of commutativity, associativity under addition and multiplication, and

the distributive property help us to make our calculations easier.
9. We also learnt how to divide integers. We found that,
(a) When a positive integer is divided by a negative integer, the quotient obtained is
a negative integer and vice-versa.

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(b) Division of a negative integer by another negative integer gives a positive integer
as quotient.
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(a) a 0 is not defined

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Fractions and
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You have learnt fractions and decimals in earlier classes. The study of fractions included
proper, improper and mixed fractions as well as their addition and subtraction. We also
studied comparison of fractions, equivalent fractions, representation of fractions on the
number line and ordering of fractions.
Our study of decimals included, their comparison, their representation on the number
line and their addition and subtraction.
We shall now learn multiplication and division of fractions as well as of decimals.

2.2 HOW WELL

HAVE

YOU LEARNT

ABOUT

FRACTIONS?

A proper fraction is a fraction that represents a part of a whole. Is

7
a proper fraction?
4

Which is bigger, the numerator or the denominator?

An improper fraction is a combination of whole and a proper fraction. Is

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improper fraction? Which is bigger here, the numerator or the denominator?

The improper fraction

3
7
can be written as 1 . This is a mixed fraction.
4
4

Can you write five examples each of proper, improper and mixed fractions?
3
.
5
3
One of the equivalent fractions of is
5
3 3 2 6
=
= . Find the other four.
5 5 2 10

EXAMPLE 1 Write five equivalent fractions of

SOLUTION

7
an
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2
7

EXAMPLE 2 Ramesh solved part of an exercise while Seema solved

4
of it. Who
5

solved lesser part?

SOLUTION

In order to find who solved lesser part of the exercise, let us compare

2
4
and .
7
5

Converting them to like fractions we have,

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2 10 4 28
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7 35 5 35

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35 35

2 4
< .
Thus,
7 5
Ramesh solved lesser part than Seema.

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EXAMPLE 3 Sameera purchased 3 kg apples and 4
2
total weight of fruits purchased by her?

SOLUTION

3
kg oranges. What is the
4

3
1
The total weight of the fruits = 3 + 4 kg
2
4

7 19
14 19
= + kg = + kg
2 4
4 4

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33
1
kg = 8 kg
4
4

2
4
3
5
for Science and Mathematics. How much time does she devote for
other subjects?

EXAMPLE 4 Suman studies for 5 hours daily. She devotes 2 hours of her time

SOLUTION

Total time of Sumans study = 5

17
2
h=
h
3
3

Time devoted by her for Science and Mathematics = 2

4 14
h
=
5
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17 14
Thus, time devoted by her for other subjects = h
3 5
17 5 14 3
85 42

=
h =
h
15
15
15
=

43
13
h= 2
h
15
15

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(i) 2

3
5

(ii) 4 +

7
8

(iii)

3 2
+
5 7

(iv)

9 4

11 15

7 2 3
2
1
1
5
+ +
(vi) 2 + 3
(vii) 8 3
10 5 2
3
2
2
8
2. Arrange the following in descending order:
(v)

2 2 8
1 3 7
, ,
, ,
(ii)
.
9 3 21
5 7 10
3. In a magic square, the sum of the numbers in each row, in each column and along
the diagonal is the same. Is this a magic square?

(i)

4
11
3
11
8
11

9
11
5
11
1
11

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2
11
7
11
6
11

(Along the first row

4 9 2 15
+ + = ).
11 11 11 11

1
2
4. A rectangular sheet of paper is 12 cm long and 10 cm wide.
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Find its perimeter.
5. Find the perimeters of (i) ABE (ii) the rectangle BCDE in this
figure. Whose perimeter is greater?
6. Salil wants to put a picture in a frame. The picture is 7
To fit in the frame the picture cannot be more than 7
the picture be trimmed?.

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cm
2

3
2 cm
4

3
cm wide.
5

3
cm wide. How much should
10

3
3 cm
5
7
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3
part of an apple and the remaining apple was eaten by her brother Somu.
5
How much part of the apple did Somu eat? Who had the larger share? By how
much?

7. Ritu ate

8. Michael finished colouring a picture in

picture in

7
hour. Vaibhav finished colouring the same
12

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hour. Who worked longer? By what fraction was it longer?
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FRACTIONS

You know how to find the area of a rectangle. It is equal to length breadth. If the length
and breadth of a rectangle are 7 cm and 4 cm respectively, then what will be its area? Its
area would be 7 4 = 28 cm2.
What will be the area of the rectangle if its length and breadth are 7

1
cm and
2

15
1
1
1 15 7
cm respectively? You will say it will be 7 3 =
cm2. The numbers
2
2
2
2
2 2

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are fractions. To calculate the area of the given rectangle, we need to know how to
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multiply fractions. We shall learn that now.

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2.3.1 Multiplication of a Fraction by a Whole Number

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part of
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a circle. How much will the two shaded parts represent together? They
Observe the pictures at the left (Fig 2.1). Each shaded part is

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1
1 1
+ = 2 .
4 4
4
Combining the two shaded parts, we get Fig 2.2 . What part of a circle does the
will represent

shaded part in Fig 2.2 represent? It represents

2
part of a circle .
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The shaded portions in Fig 2.1 taken together are the same as the shaded portion in
Fig 2.2, i.e., we get Fig 2.3.

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Fig 2.3

or

1
2
= .
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Can you now tell what this picture will represent? (Fig 2.4)

Fig 2.4

And this? (Fig 2.5)

Fig 2.5

1
Let us now find 3 .
2

We have

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We also have
So

1
1 1 1 3
= + + =
2
2 2 2 2

1 1 1 1 + 1 + 1 3 1 3
+ + =
=
=
2 2 2
2
2
2
3

1
3 1 3
=
=
2
2
2

Similarly

2
2 5
5 =
=?
3
3

Can you tell

2
=?
7

The fractions that we considered till now, i.e.,

3
=?
5

3
1 2 2
, , and were proper fractions.
2 3 7
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For improper fractions also we have,

2

5
2 5 10
=
=
3
3
3

8
7
4 = ?
=?
7
5
Thus, to multiply a whole number with a proper or an improper fraction, we
multiply the whole number with the numerator of the fraction, keeping the
denominator same.
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Try,

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Find: (a)

2
3
7

(b)

9
6
7

(c) 3

1
8

(d)

13
6
11

If the product is an improper fraction express it as a mixed fraction.

2.

Represent pictorially :

TRY THESE
Find: (i) 5 2

3
7

4
(ii) 1 6
9

2 4
=
5 5

To multiply a mixed fraction to a whole number, first convert the

mixed fraction to an improper fraction and then multiply.
Therefore,

3 2

5
19
57
1
= 3
=
=8 .
7
7
7
7

Similarly,

2 4

2
22
= 2
=?
5
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Fraction as an operator of

Observe these figures (Fig 2.6)

The two squares are exactly similar.
1
Each shaded portion represents of 1.
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So, both the shaded portions together will represent

1
of 2.
2

1
parts. It represents 1.
2
1
1
So, we say of 2 is 1. We can also get it as 2 = 1.
2
2

Combine the 2 shaded

Thus,

1
1
of 2 = 2 = 1
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Also, look at these similar squares (Fig 2.7).

Each shaded portion represents

1
of 1.
2

So, both the shaded portions represent

1
of 3.
2

Combine the 3 shaded parts.

It represents 1
So,

Fig 2.7

1
3
1
3
of 3 is . Also, 3 = .
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2
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of 3 = 3 = .
2
2
2
So we see that of represents multiplication.

Thus,

1
th of the number of marbles what
5
Farida has. How many marbles Reshma has? As, of indicates multiplication,
1
so, Reshma has 20 = 4 marbles.
5
Farida has 20 marbles. Reshma has

Similarly, we have

1
1
16
of 16 is 16 =
= 8.
2
2
2

TRY THESE

Can you tell, what is (i)

1
1
2
of 10?, (ii) of 16?, (iii) of 25?
2
4
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EXAMPLE 5 In a class of 40 students

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1
of the total number of studetns like to study
5

2
of the total number like to study mathematics and the remaining
5
students like to study Science.
(i) How many students like to study English?
(ii) How many students like to study Mathematics?
(iii) What fraction of the total number of students like to study Science?
English,

SOLUTION
(i) Of these

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1
3
i.e., .
2
2

Total number of students in the class = 40.

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of the total number of students like to study English.
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Thus, the number of students who like to study English =

1
1
of 40 = 40 = 8.
5
5

(ii) Try yourself.

(iii) The number of students who like English and Mathematics = 8 + 16 = 24. Thus, the
number of students who like Science = 40 24 = 16.
Thus, the required fraction is 16 .
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(i) 2

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5

(ii) 2

1
2

(iii) 3

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

2
3

(iv) 3

2. Some pictures (a) to (c) are given below. Tell which of them show:
1 3
(i) 3 =
5 5

1 2
(ii) 2 =
3 3

(iii) 3

3
1
=2
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(b)

(c)

3. Multiply and reduce to lowest form:

(i) 7
(vi)

3
5

5
6
2

(ii) 4

1
3

(vii) 11

4
7

(iii) 2

6
7

(viii) 20

(iv) 5
4
5

2
9

(ix) 13

1
3

(v)

2
4
3

(x) 15

3
5

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4. Shade:

(i)
(iii)

1
of the circles in box (a)
2

(ii)

3
of the squares in box (c).
5

(b)

5. Find:

1
(a)
of (i) 24 (ii) 46
2

(c)

2
(b)
of (i) 18
3

3
4
of (i) 16 (ii) 36
(d)
of
4
5
6. Multiply and express as a mixed fraction :
(c)

3 5

1
5

(d) 4 6

1
3

(b) 5 6

(e)

3
4

(c)

(i) 20

7 2

1
3 6
4

(f)

(ii) 27

(ii) 35

1
4

2
3 8
5

3
2
1
5
5
2
of (i) 2
(ii) 4
(b)
of (i) 3
(ii) 9
4
9
2
8
6
3
8. Vidya and Pratap went for a picnic. Their mother gave them a water bag that

7. Find (a)

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contained 5 litres of water. Vidya consumed

2
of the water. Pratap consumed the
5

remaining water.
(i) How much water did Vidya drink?

(ii) What fraction of the total quantity of water did Pratap drink?

2.3.2 Multiplication of a Fraction by a Fraction

Farida had a 9 cm long strip of ribbon. She cut this strip into four equal parts. How did she
do it? She folded the strip twice. What fraction of the total length will each part represent?
Each part will be

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folding the part once. What will one of the pieces represent? It will represent

1
9
of or
4
2

1
9
.
4
2

Let us now see how to find the product of two fractions like
To do this we first learn to find the products like

1 9
.
2 4

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2 3

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3

1
of the whole. Take one part of these three parts, and
3
shade it as shown in Fig 2.8.

the three parts represents

Fig 2.8

(b) How will you find

1
1
of this shaded part? Divide this one-third ( ) shaded part into
2
3

two equal parts. Each of these two parts represents

Fig 2.9

1
1
1 1
of i.e., (Fig 2.9).
2
3
2 3

Take out 1 part of these two and name it A. A represents

1 1
.
2 3

(c) What fraction is A of the whole? For this, divide each of the remaining

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parts also
3

in two equal parts. How many such equal parts do you have now?
There are six such equal parts. A is one of these parts.
So, A is

1
1
1
1
of the whole. Thus,

= .
6
2
3
6

1
of the whole? The whole was divided in 6 = 2 3
6
parts and 1 = 1 1 part was taken out of it.
How did we decide that A was

Thus,

11
1
1
1
=
=
23
2
3
6

or

11
1
1
=
23
2
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1 1
can be found in a similar way. Divide the whole into two equal
3 2
parts and then divide one of these parts in three equal parts. Take one of these parts. This
The value of

will represent 1 1 i.e., 1 .

3 2
6
1 1
1 1 1
Therefore

= =
as discussed earlier.
3 2
6 3 2
1
1 1 1 1
= =
2
3 3 2 6

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1 1
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and and check whether you get
3 4
4 3 2 5
5 2
1 1
1
1 1 1 1 1
= ;
=
3 4
4
3 2 5 5 2

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Fill in these boxes:
(i)

(iii)

1
1
1 1
=
=
2
7
2 7

(ii)

1 1

5 7

1
1

7
2

(iv)

1
1
=
7
5

1
part of a book in 1 hour. How much part of the book
3
1
will he read in 2 hours?
5
1
SOLUTION The part of the book read by Sushant in 1 hour = .
3
1
1 1
So, the part of the book read by him in 2 hours = 2
5
5 3
11 1 11 1 11
=
=
=
5 3
15
5 3
1 5
5
1
Let us now find . We know that
= 5.
2 3
3
3
1
5
1 5
1 1
So,
=
5 = 5 =
2 3
2 3
6
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5
1 5
1 5 1 5
5
=
. Thus, =
= .
6
23
2 3 2 3 6

Also,

This is also shown by the figures drawn below. Each of these five equal shapes
(Fig 2.10) are parts of five similar circles. Take one such shape. To obtain this shape
we first divide a circle in three equal parts. Further divide each of these three parts in
two equal parts. One part out of it is the shape we considered. What will it represent?
It will represent

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1 1
1 5
= . The total of such parts would be 5 = .
2
3 6
6 6

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Similarly

Find:

1 4
2 1

3 5
3 5

3
1

=
5
7

We can thus find

So, we find that we multiply two fractions as

3 1
3
=
.
5 7
35

2 7
2 7 14
2
7
=
as
=
.
3 5
3 5 15
3
5

Product of Numerators
.
Product of Denominators

Value of the Products

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Find:

8 4
;
3 7

3 2
.
4 3

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You have seen that the product of two whole numbers is bigger than each of
the two whole numbers. For example, 3 4 = 12 and 12 > 4, 12 > 3. What
happens to the value of the product when we multiply two fractions?
Let us first consider the product of two proper fractions.
We have,

2 4 8
=
3 5 15

8 2 8 4
< , <
15 3 15 5

Product is less than both the fractions

1 2

5 7

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3 9
21
=
5 8
40

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2 4
8
=
9 9
45

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You will find that when two proper fractions are multiplied, the product is less
than both the fractions. Or, we say the value of the product of two proper fractions
is smaller than each of the two fractions.
Check this by constructing five more examples.
Let us now multiply two improper fractions.
7 5 35
=
3 2 6

35 7 35 5
> , >
6 3 6 2

Product is greater than both the fractions

6 9 24
=
5 3 15

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9 7 63
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2 9 8

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We find that the product of two improper fractions is greater than each of the
two fractions.
Or, the value of the product of two improper fraction is more than each of the
two fractions.
Construct five more examples for yourself and verify the above statement.
Let us now multiply a proper and an improper fraction, say
2
7 14

=
.
3
5 15

We have

Here,

2
7
and .
3
5

14 7
14 2
< and
>
15 5
15 3

The product obtained is less than the improper fraction and greater than the proper fraction
involved in the multiplication.

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Check it for

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6 2 8
4
,
.
5 7 3
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EXERCISE 2.3

1. Find:
(i)

1
of
4

(a)

1
4

(b)

3
5

(c)

4
3

(ii)

1
of
7

(a)

2
9

(b)

6
5

(c)

3
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2. Multiply and reduce to lowest form (if possible) :

(i)

2
2
2
3
3

(ii)

2 7

7 9

(iii)

3 6

8 4

(iv)

1 15
11 3
4 12

(vi)
(vii)
3 8
2 10
5 7
3. For the fractions given below :
(a) Multiply and reduce the product to lowest form (if possible)

9 3

5 5

(v)

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(b) Tell whether the fraction obtained is proper or improper.

(c) If the fraction obtained is improper then convert it into a mixed fraction.

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5
5
4

2 4
(v) 3
5 7
4. Which is greater :

2 7
(ii) 6
5 9

(iii)

3 1
5
2 3

3
(vi) 2 3
5

4 3
(vii) 3
7 5

(iv)

5
3
2
6
7

2
3
3
5
1
6
2
3
of
or
of
(ii)
of
or
of
7
4
5
8
2
7
3
7
5. Saili plants 4 saplings, in a row, in her garden. The distance between two adjacent
(i)

saplings is

3
m. Find the distance between the first and the last sapling.
4

3
hours every day. She reads the entire book in 6 days.
4
How many hours in all were required by her to read the book?

6. Lipika reads a book for 1

7. A car runs 16 km using 1 litre of petrol. How much distance will it cover using 2

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3
4

litres of petrol.

2
10
= .
3
30
(ii) The simplest form of the number obtained in is _____.

8. (a) (i) Provide the number in the box

, such that

3
24
=
?
5
75
(ii) The simplest form of the number obtained in is _____.

(b) (i) Provide the number in the box

2.4 DIVISION

OF

, such that

FRACTIONS

John has a paper strip of length 6 cm. He cuts this strip in smaller strips of length 2 cm
each. You know that he would get 6 2 =3 strips.

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John cuts another strip of length 6 cm into smaller strips of length

many strips will he get now? He will get 6
A paper strip of length

3
cm each. How
2

3
strips.
2

15
3
cm can be cut into smaller strips of length cm each to give
2
2

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15 3

pieces.
2 2
So, we are required to divide a whole number by a fraction or a fraction by another
fraction. Let us see how to do that.

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2.4.1 Division of Whole Number by a Fraction

1
Let us find 1 .
2
We divide a whole into a number of equal parts such that each part is half of the whole.
1
1
The number of such half ( ) parts would be 1 . Observe the figure (Fig 2.11). How
2
2
many half parts do you see?
There are two half parts.
1
1
= 2.
2

So,

Similarly, 3
into

2
Also, 1 = 1 2 = 2.
1

2
1
Thus, 1 = 1
2
1

1
1
= number of parts obtained when each of the 3 whole, are divided
4
4

1
equal parts = 12 (From Fig 2.12)
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1
4
1
4

Observe also that, 3

1
4
1
4

1
4
1
4

1
4
1
4

1
4
1
4

1
4
1
4

Fig 2.12

1
4
4
= 3 4 = 12. Thus, 3 = 3 = 12.
1
4
1

Find in a similar way, 3

1
2
and 3 .
2
1

1
2

1
2

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Reciprocal of a fraction

2
can be obtained by interchanging the numerator and denominator of
1
1
1
1
3
or by inverting . Similarly, is obtained by inverting .
3
2
2
1
Let us first see about the inverting of such numbers.
Observe these products and fill in the blanks :
1
5 4
7 = 1

= --------7
4 5
1
2
9 = ----- ------- = 1
9
7
2 3
23
6
5
=
=
=1
------
=1
3 2
3 2
6
9
The number

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The non-zero numbers whose product with each other is 1, are called the
5 9
9 5
reciprocals of each other. So reciprocal of is and the reciprocal of is . What
9 5
5 9
1 2
is the receiprocal of ? ?
9 7
You will see that the reciprocal of

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3
is obtained by inverting it. You get .
3
2

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

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(i) Will the reciprocal of a proper fraction be again a proper fraction?

(ii) Will the reciprocal of an improper fraction be again an improper fraction?
Therefore, we can say that

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2
1
= 1 = 1 reciprocal of .
2
1
2

1
4
1
= 3
= 3 reciprocal of .
4
1
4

1
2

= ------ =

So, 2
5

----------------------.

3
3
4
= 2 reciprocal of = 2 .
4
4
3
2
= 5
9

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Thus, to divide a whole number by any fraction, multiply that whole number by
the reciprocal of that fraction.

TRY THESE
Find : (i) 7

2
5

(ii) 6

4
7

(iii) 2

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fraction into improper fraction and then solve it.
Thus, 4 2

2
12
= 4
= ?
5
5

Also, 5 3

1
10
=3
=?
3
3

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Find: (i) 6 5

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4

(ii) 7 2

3 3 3 1
3
1
3
3= = =
=
4 1 4 3 12 4
4
2 1
2
5
2
So,
7 =
= ?
What is 6 ,
8?
3
7
3
7
7
l While dividing mixed fractions by whole numbers, convert the mixed fractions into
improper fractions. That is,

Based on our earlier observations we have:

8
2
3
2
2 5 = 5 = ------ ; 4 3 = ------ = ------; 2 2 = ------ = -----5
5
3
3

2.4.3 Division of a Fraction by Another Fraction

We can now find

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1 5

3 6

Similarly,

1 5
.
3 6

1
5
1 5
2
reciprocal of = = .
3
6
3 6
5

8 2 8
2
= reciprocal of
=?
5 3 5
3

and,

1
3
= ?
2
4

TRY THESE
Find: (i)

3 1

5 2

1
3

(ii)

1 3

2 5

1 3
(iii) 2
2 5

1 9
(iv) 5
6 2

4
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EXERCISE 2.4
1. Find:
3
5
7
8
(ii) 14
(iii) 8
(iv) 4
4
6
3
3
1
4
(v) 3 2
(vi) 5 3
3
7
2. Find the reciprocal of each of the following fractions. Classify the reciprocals as
proper fractions, improper fractions and whole numbers.
3
5
9
6
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
7
8
7
5
12
1
1
(vi)
(vii)
(v)
7
8
11
3. Find:
7
4
6
1
2
5
7
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv) 4 3
3
9
13
3
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4. Find:
2 1

(i)
5 2
2 1
1
(vi)
5 2

3
(vi) 4 7
7

4 2
3 8
1 3

(iii)
(iv) 2
9 3
7 7
3 5
1 2
1 1
(vii) 3 1 (viii) 2 1
5 3
5 5
(ii)

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2.4 HOW WELL HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT DECIMAL NUMBERS

You have learnt about decimal numbers in the earlier classes. Let us briefly recall them
here. Look at the following table and fill up the blank spaces.
Hundreds

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Tens Ones Tenths Hundredths

Thousandths

1

10

100

1000

1
3
1
2
5
5
........
5

4
2
9
5
1
........
2
3

7
1
2
1
2
3
.......
0

(100)

(10)

(1)

2
6
0
........
2
........
6
0

5
3
2
9
4
3
1
4
.......
6
2 ........
.......
4
1
0

Number

253.147
..............
..............
514.251
236.512
724.503
614.326
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In the table, you wrote the decimal number, given its place-value expansion. You can
do the reverse, too. That is, given the number you can write its expanded form. For
1
example, 253.417 = 2 100 + 5 10 + 3 1 + 4 + 1
10

+7
100

.
1000

John has Rs 15.50 and Salma has Rs 15.75. Who has more money? To find this we
need to compare the decimal numbers 15.50 and 15.75. To do this, we first compare the
digits on the left of the decimal point, starting from the leftmost digit. Here both the digits 1
and 5, to the left of the decimal point, are same. So we compare the digits on the right of
the decimal point starting from the tenths place. We find that 5 < 7, so we say
15.50 < 15.75. Thus, Salma has more money than John.
If the digits at the tenths place are also same then compare the digits at the hundredths
place and so on.
Now compare quickly, 35.63 and 35.67; 20.1 and 20.01; 19.36 and 29.36.
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3
5
= Rs 0.03, 5g =
g
100
1000

= 0.005 kg, 7 cm = 0.07 m.

Write 75 paise = Rs ______,
250 g = _____ kg,
85 cm = _____m.
We also know how to add and subtract decimals. Thus, 21.36 + 37.35 is
+

21.36
37.35
58.71

29.35
04.56
24.79

What is the value of 0.19 + 2.3 ?

The difference 29.35 4.56 is

Tell the value of 39.87 21.98.

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1. Which is greater?
(i) 0.5 or 0.05
(iv) 1.37 or 1.49

EXERCISE 2.5

(ii) 0.7 or 0.5

(iii) 7 or 0.7

(v) 2.03 or 2.30

(vi) 0.8 or 0.88.

2. Express as rupees using decimals :

(i) 7 paise
(ii) 7 rupees 7 paise (iii) 77 rupees 77 paise
(iv) 50 paise

(v) 235 paise.

3. (i) Express 5 cm in metre and kilometre

(ii) Express 35 mm in cm, m and km

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4. Express in kg:
(i) 200 g

(ii) 3470 g

(iii) 4 kg 8 g

(iv) 2598 mg

5. Write the following decimal numbers in the expanded form:

(i) 20.03
(ii) 2.03
(iii) 200.03

(iv) 2.034

6. Write the place value of 2 in the following decimal numbers:

(i) 2.56
(ii) 21.37
(iii) 10.25
(iv) 9.42
(v) 63.352.
7. Dinesh went from place A to place B and from
there to place C. A is 7.5 km from B and B is
12.7 km from C. Ayub went from place A to place
D and from there to place C. D is 9.3 km from A
and C is 11.8 km from D. Who travelled more
and by how much?
8. Shyama bought 5 kg 300 g apples and 3 kg 250 g mangoes. Sarala bought 4 kg 800 g
oranges and 4 kg 150 g bananas. Who bought more fruits?
9. How much less is 28 km than 42.6 km?

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DECIMAL NUMBERS

Reshma purchased 1.5kg vegetable at the rate of Rs 8.50 per kg. How much money
should she pay? Certainly it would be Rs (8.50 1.50). Both 8.5 and 1.5 are decimal
numbers. So, we have come across a situation where we need to know how to multiply
two decimals. Let us now learn the multiplication of two decimal numbers.
First we find 0.1 0.1.
Now, 0.1 =

1
11
1 1
1

=
= 0.01.
. So, 0.1 0.1 =
=
10
10 10 10 10 100

Let us see its pictorial representation (Fig 2.13)

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The fraction

1
represents 1 part out of 10 equal parts.
10

The shaded part in the picture represents

1
.
10

We know that,
1 1
1
1

means
of
. So, divide this
10 10
10
10
1 th
part into 10 equal parts and take one. part
10
out of it.

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Thus, we have, (Fig 2.14).

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The dotted square is one part out of 10 of the

1 th
part. That is, it represents
10

1 1

or 0.1 0.1.
10 10

Can the dotted square be represented in some other way?

How many small squares do you find in Fig 2.14?
There are 100 small squares. So the dotted square represents one out of 100 or 0.01.
Hence, 0.1 0.1 = 0.01.
Note that 0.1 occurs two times in the product. In 0.1 there is one digit to the right of
the decimal point. In 0.01 there are two digits (i.e., 1 + 1) to the right of the decimal point.
Let us now find 0.2 0.3.
We have, 0.2 0.3 =

2 3

10 10

1 1
, let us divide the square into 10
10 10

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3
. Again
10
divide each of these three equal parts into 10 equal parts and

equal parts and take three parts out of it, to get

take two from each. We get

2 3
.
10 10

2 3

or 0.2 0.3. (Fig 2.15)

10 10
Since there are 6 dotted squares out of 100, so they also
reprsent 0.06.
The dotted squares represent

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Thus, 0.2 0.3 = 0.06.

Observe that 2 3 = 6 and the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in
0.06 is 2 (= 1 + 1).
Check whether this applies to 0.1 0.1 also.
Find 0.2 0.4 by applying these observations.
While finding 0.1 0.1 and 0.2 0.3, you might have noticed that first we
multiplied them as whole numbers ignoring the decimal point. In 0.1 0.1, we found
01 01 or 1 1. Similarly in 0.2 0.3 we found 02 03 or 2 3.

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towards left. We then put the decimal point there. The number of digits to be counted
is obtained by adding the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in the
decimal numbers that are being multiplied.

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Let us now find 1.2 2.5.

Multiply 12 and 25. We get 300. Both, in 1.2 and 2.5, there is 1 digit to the right
of the decimal point. So, count 1 + 1 = 2 digits from the rightmost digit (i.e., 0) in 300
and move towards left. We get 3.00 or 3.
Find in a similar way 1.5 1.6, 2.4 4.2.

While multiplying 2.5 and 1.25, you will first multiply 25 and 125. For placing the
decimal in the product obtained, you will count 1 + 2 = 3 (Why?) digits starting from
the rightmost digit. Thus, 2.5 1.25 = 3.225
Find 2.7 1.35.

TRY THESE

1. Find:
(i) 2.7 4
(ii) 1.8 1.2
(iii) 2.3 4.35
2. Arrange the products obtained in (1) in descending order.

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SOLUTION

All the sides of an equilateral triangle are equal.

So, length of each side = 3.5 cm

Thus, perimeter = 3 3.5 cm = 10.5 cm

EXAMPLE 8 The length of a rectangle is 7.1 cm and its breadth is 2.5 cm. What
is the area of the rectangle?

SOLUTION

Length of the rectangle = 7.1 cm

Breadth of the rectangle = 2.5 cm

Therefore, area of the rectangle = 7.1 2.5 cm2 = 17.75 cm2

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2.6.1 Multiplication of Decimal Numbers by 10, 100 and 1000

23
235
whereas 2.35 =
. Thus, she found that depending
10
100
on the position of the decimal point the decimal number can be converted to a fraction with
denominator 10 or 100. She wondered what would happen if a decimal number is multiplied
by 10 or 100 or 1000.
Let us see if we can find a pattern of multiplying numbers by 10 or 100 or 1000.
Have a look at the table given below and fill in the blanks:
Reshma observed that 2.3 =

1.76 10 =

176
10 = 17.6
100

1.76 100 =

176
100 = 176 or 176.0 2.35 100 = ___
100

1.76 1000 =

0.5 10 =

2.35 10 =___

12.356 10 =___

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176
1000 = 1760 or 2.35 1000 = ___ 12.356 1000 = ___
100
1760.0

5
100 = 5
10

0.5 100 = ___

0.5 1000 = ___

Observe the shift of the decimal point of the products in the table. Here the numbers
are multiplied by 10,100 and 1000. In 1.76 10 = 17.6, the digits are same i.e., 1, 7 and
6. Do you observe this in other products also? Observe 1.76 and 17.6. To which side has
the decimal point shifted, right or left? The decimal point has shifted to the right by one
place. Note that 10 has one zero over 1.
In 1.76100 = 176.0, observe 1.76 and 176.0. To which side and by how many
digits has the decimal point shifted? The decimal point has shifted to the right by two
places.
Note that 100 has two zeros over one.
Do you observe similar shifting of decimal point in other products also?
So we say, when a decimal number is multiplied by 10, 100 or 1000, the digits in
the product the are same as in the decimal number but the decimal
point in the product is shifted to the right by as , many of places as
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there are zeros over one.
Find: (i) 0.3 10
Based on these observations we can now say
(ii) 1.2 100
0.07 10 = 0.7, 0.07 100 = 7 and 0.07 1000 = 70.
(iii) 56.3 1000
Can you now tell 2.97 10 = ? 2.97 100 = ? 2.97 1000 = ?
Can you now help Reshma to find the total amount i.e., Rs 8.50 150, that she has
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EXERCISE 2.6
1. Find:
(i) 0.2 6
(ii) 8 4.6
(iii) 2.71 5
(iv) 20.1 4
(v) 0.05 7
(vi) 211.02 4
(vii) 2 0.86
2. Find the area of rectangle whose length is 5.7cm and breadth is 3 cm.
3. Find:
(i) 1.3 10
(ii) 36.8 10
(iii) 153.7 10
(iv) 168.07 10
(v) 31.1 100 (vi) 156.1 100 (vii) 3.62 100 (viii) 43.07 100
(ix) 0.5 10
(x) 0.08 10
(xi) 0.9 100
(xii) 0.03 1000
4. A two-wheeler covers a distance of 55.3 km in one litre of petrol. How much distance
will it cover in 10 litres of petrol?
5. Find:
(i) 2.5 0.3
(ii) 0.1 51.7
(iii) 0.2 316.8
(iv) 1.3 3.1
(v) 0.5 0.05
(vi) 11.2 0.15
(vii) 1.07 0.02
(viii) 10.05 1.05 (ix) 101.01 0.01
(x) 100.01 1.1

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DECIMAL NUMBERS

Savita was preparing a design to decorate her classroom. She needed a few coloured
strips of paper of length 1.9 cm each. She had a strip of coloured paper of length 9.5 cm.
How many pieces of the required length will she get out of this strip? She thought it would
9.5
cm. Is she correct?
1.9
Both 9.5 and 1.9 are decimal numbers. So we need to know the division of
decimal numbers too!
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2.7.1 Division by 10, 100 and 1000

Let us find the division of a decimal number by 10, 100 and 1000.
Consider 31.5 10.

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315 1
315

=
= 3.15
10 10 100

315 1
315

=
= 0.315
10 100 1000
Let us see if we can find a pattern for dividing numbers by 10, 100 or 1000. This may
help us in dividing numbers by 10, 100 or 1000 in a shorter way.
Similarly, 31.5 100 =

31.5 10 = 3.15
231.5 10 =___
1.5 10 =___
29.36 10 =___
31.5 100 = 0.315 231.5 10 =___
1.5 100 =___ 29.36 100 =___
31.5 1000 = 0.0315 231.5 1000 =___ 1.5 1000 =___ 29.36 1000 =___

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Take 31.5 10 = 31.5. In 31.5 and 3.15, the digits are

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same i.e., 3, 1, and 5 but the decimal point has shifted in the
Find: (i) 235.4 10
quotient. To which side and by how many digits? The decimal
point has shifted to the left by one place. Note that 10 has one
(ii) 235.4 100
zero over one.
(iii) 235.4 1000
Consider now 31.5 100 = 0.315. In 31.5 and 0.315 the
digits are same, but what about the decimal point in the quotient?
It has shifted to the left by two places. Note that 100 has two zeros over one.
So we can say that, while dividing a number by 10, 100 or 1000, the digits of the
number and the quotient are same but the decimal point in the quotient shifts to the
left by as many places as there are zeros over one. Using this observation let us now
quickly find:
2.38 10 = 0.238, 2.38 100 = 0.0238, 2.38 1000 = 0.00238

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2.7.2 Division of a Decimal Number by a Whole Number

Let us find

6.4
. Remember we also write it as 6.4 2.
2

So, 6.4 2 =

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64
64 1
as learnt in fractions..
2 =
10
10 2

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(i) 35.7 3 = ?;
(ii) 25.5 3 = ?

64 1 1 64 1 64
32
1
=
=
32 =
= 3.2
=
10 2 10 2 10 2
10
10
Or, let us first divide 64 by 2. We get 32. There is one digit to the right of the decimal
point in 6.4. Place the decimal in 32 such that there would be one digit to its
right. We get 3.2 again.
TRY THESE
To find 19.5 5, first find 195 5. We get 39. There is one digit to the
(i) 43.15 5 = ?;
right of the decimal point in 19.5. Place the decimal point in 39 such that there
would be one digit to its right. You will get 3.9.
(ii) 82.44 6 = ?
=

1296
1296 1
1 1296
1
4 =
=

324 = 3.24
=
100
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Or, divide 1296 by 4. You get 324. There are two digits to the right of the decimal in
12.96. Making similar placement of the decimal in 324, you will get 3.24.
Note that here and in the next section, we have considered only those
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divisions in which, ignoring the decimal, the number would be completely Find: (i) 15.5 5
divisible by another number to give remainder zero. Like, in 19.5 5, the
(ii) 126.35 7
number 195 when divided by 5, leaves remainder zero.
However, there are situations in which the number may not be completely
divisible by another number, i.e., we may not get remainder zero. For example, 195 7.
We deal with such situations in later classes.
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EXAMPLE 9 Find the average of 4.2, 3.8 and 7.6.

SOLUTION

The average of 4.2, 3.8 and 7.6 is

4.2 + 3.8 + 7.6 15.6

= 5.2.
=
3
3

2.7.3 Division of a Decimal Number by another Decimal

Number
Let us find

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25.5
i.e., 25.5 0.5.
0.5

We have 25.5 0.5 =

255 5
255 10

= 51.
=
10 10
10
5

Thus, 25.5 0.5 = 51

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25.5
, we find that there is one digit to the right of the
0.5
decimal in 0.5. This could be converted to whole number by dividing by 10. Accordingly
25.5 was also converted to a fraction by dividing by 10.
Or, we say the decimal point was shifted by one place to the right in 0.5 to make it 5.
So, there was a shift of one decimal point to the right in 25.5 also to make it 255.
What do you observe? For

Thus,

22.5 1.5 =

22.5
225
=
= 15
1.5
15

20.3
15.2
and
in a similar way.
0.7
0.8
Let us now find 20.55 1.5.

Find

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Find: (i)

7.75
42.8
5.6
(ii)
(iii)
0.25
0.02
1.4

We can write it is as 205.5 15, as discussed above. We get 13.7. Find

3.96 2.31
,
.
0.4 0.3

3372.5
33.725
. We can write it as
(How?) and we get the quotient
25
0.25
27
as 134.9. How will you find
? We know that 27 can be written as 27.0.
0.03
27
27.00 2700
=
=
So,
=?
0.03 0.03
3
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SOLUTION

polygon is 12.5cm. How many sides does the polygon have?

The perimeter of a regular polygon is the sum of the lengths of all its
equal sides = 12.5 cm.
12.5 125
Length of each side = 2.5 cm. Thus, the number of sides =
=
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EXAMPLE 11 A car covers a distance of 89.1 km in 2.2 hours. What is the average
distance covered by it in 1 hour?

SOLUTION

Distance covered by the car = 89.1 km.

Time required to cover this distance = 2.2 hours.
89.1 891
=
So distance covered by it in 1 hour =
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1. Find:
(i) 0.4 2

(ii) 0.35 5

(iii) 2.48 4

(iv) 65.4 6

(vi) 14.49 7

(vii) 3.96 4

(viii) 0.80 5

(ii) 52.5 10

(iii) 0.7 10

(iv) 33.1 10

(vi) 0.56 10

(vii) 3.97 10

(ii) 0.3 100

(iii) 0.78 100

(v) 23.6 100

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(i) 4.8 10

(v) 272.23 10
3. Find:
(i) 2.7 100

(iv) 432.6 100

4. Find:
(i) 7.9 1000
(ii) 26.3 1000
(iv) 128.9 1000 (v) 0.5 1000
5. Find:
(i) 7 3.5
(ii) 36 0.2

(iii) 3.25 0.5

(iv) 30.94 0.7

(v) 0.5 0.25 (vi) 7.75 0.25

(vii) 76.5 0.15

(viii) 37.8 1.4

(ix) 2.73 1.3

(iii) 38.53 1000

6. A vehicle covers a distance of 43.2 km in 2.4 litres of petrol. How much distance will
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1. We have learnt about fractions and decimals alongwith the operations of addition and
subtraction on them, in the earlier class.
2. We now study the operations of multiplication and division on fractions as well as on
decimals.
3. We have learnt how to multiply fractions. Two fractions are multiplied by multiplying
their numerators and denominators seperately and writing the product as
product of numerators
2 5 2 5 10
=
. For example, =
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product of denominators
3 7 3 7 21

4. A fraction acts as an operator of . For example,

1
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5. (a) The product of two proper fractions is less than each of the fractions that are
multiplied.
(b) The product of a proper and an improper fraction is less than the improper
fraction and greater than the proper fraction.
(c) The product of two imporper fractions is greater than the two fractions.
6. A reciprocal of a fraction is obtained by inverting it upside down.
7. We have seen how to divide two fractions.
(a) While dividing a whole number by a fraction, we multiply the whole number
with the reciprocal of that fraction.
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(b) While dividing a fraction by a whole number we multiply the fraction by the
reciprocal of the whole number.
For example,

2
2 1 2
7= =
3
3 7 21

(c) While dividing one fraction by another fraction, we multuiply the first fraction by
the reciprocal of the other. So,

2 5 2 7 14
= = .
3 7 3 5 15

8. We also learnt how to multiply two decimal numbers. While multiplying two decimal
numbers, first multiply them as whole numbers. Count the number of digits to the right
of the decimal point in both the decimal numbers. Add the number of digits counted.
Put the decimal point in the product by counting the digits from its rightmost place.
The count should be the sum obtained earlier.
For example, 0.5 0.7 = 0.35
9. To multiply a decimal number by 10, 100 or 1000, we move the decimal point in the
number to the right by as many places as there are zeros over 1.
Thus 0.53 10 = 5.3, 0.53 100 = 53,
0.53 1000 = 530
10. We have seen how to divide decimal numbers.
(a) To divide a decimal number by a whole number, we first divide them as whole
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Note that here we consider only those divisions in which the remainder is zero.
(b) To divide a decimal number by 10, 100 or 1000, shift the digits in the decimal
number to the left by as many places as there are zeros over 1, to get the
quotient.
So, 23.9 10 = 2.39,23.9 100 = 0 .239, 23.9 1000 = 0.0239
(c) While dividing two decimal numbers, first shift the decimal point to the right by
equal number of places in both, to convert the divisor to a whole number. Then
divide. Thus, 2.4 0.2 = 24 2 = 12.

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DATA HANDLING

Data
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In your previous classes, you have dealt with various types of data. You have learnt to
collect data, tabulate and put it in the form of bar graphs. The collection, recording and
presentation of data help us organise our experiences and draw inferences from them.
In this chapter, we will take one more step towards learning how to do this. You will
come across some more kinds of data and graphs. You have seen several kinds of data
through newspapers, magazines, television and other sources. You also know that all
data give us some sort of information. Let us look at some common forms of data that
you come across:
Table 3.1

Temperatures of cities
as on 20.6.2006
Max.
Ahmedabad

Table 3.2

Min.

Football
World Cup 2006
Ukraine beat Saudi Arabia by
Spain beat Tunisia by
Switzerland beat Togo by

38C

29C

37C

26C

28C

21C

36C

27C

Delhi

38C

28C

Jaipur

39C

29C

Jammu

41C

26C

Tuesday
Wednesday

Mumbai

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Thursday

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Data showing weekly absentees

in a class

Monday
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Friday
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What do these collections of data tell you?

For example you can say that the highest maximum temperature was in Jammu on
20.06.2006 (Table 3.1) or we can say that, on Wednesday, no child was absent.
(Table 3.3)
Can we organise and present these data in a different way, so that their analysis and
interpretation becomes better? We shall address such questions in this chapter.

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The data about the temperatures of cities (Table 3.1) can tell us many things, but it cannot
tell us the city which had the highest maximum temperature during the year. To find that, we
need to collect data regarding the highest maximum temperature reached in each of these
cities during the year. In that case, the temperature chart of one particular date of the year,
as given in Table 3.1 will not be sufficient.
This shows that a given collection of data may not give us a specific information related
to that data. For this we need to collect data keeping in mind that specific information. In
the above case the specific information needed by us, was about the highest maximum
temperature of the cities during the year, which we could not get from Table 3.1
Thus, before collecting data, we need to know what we would use it for.
Given below are a few situations.
You want to study the
Performance of your class in Mathematics.
Performance of India in football or in cricket.
Female literacy rate in a given area, or
Number of children below the age of five in the families around you..
What kind of data would you need in the above situations? Unless and until you collect
appropriate data, you cannot know the desired information. What is the appropriate data
for each?
Discuss with your friends and identify the data you would need for each.
Some of this data is easy to collect and some difficult.

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When we collect data, we have to record and organise it. Why do we need to
do that? Consider the following example.
Ms Neelam, class teacher wanted to find how children had performed
in English. She writes down the marks obtained by the students in the
following way:
23, 35, 48, 30, 25, 46, 13, 27, 32, 38
In this form, the data was not easy to understand. She also did not know whether her
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Neelams colleague helped her organise the data in the following way (Table 3.4).
Table 3.4

Roll No.

Names

Roll No.

Names

Ajay

Marks
Out of 50
23

Govind

Marks
Out of 50
46

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2

Armaan

35

Jay

13

Ashish

48

Kavita

27

Dipti

30

Manisha

32

Faizaan

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Neeraj

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wanted more. Deepika suggested another way to organise this data (Table 3.5).
Table 3.5

Roll No.

Names

3
6
10
2
9

Ashish
Govind
Neeraj
Armaan
Manisha

Marks
Out of 50
48
46
38
35
32

Roll No.

Names

4
8
5
1
7

Dipti
Kavita
Faizaan
Ajay
Jay

Marks
Out of 50
30
27
25
23
13

Now Neelam was able to see who had done the best and who needed help.
Many kinds of data we come across are put in tabular form. Our school rolls, progress
report, index in the note books, temperature record and many others are all in tabular
form. Can you think of a few more data that you come across in tabular form?
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Weigh (in kg) atleast 20 children (girls and boys) of your class. Organise the data, and
answer the following questions using this data.
(i) Who is the heaviest of all?
(ii) What is the most common weight?
(iii) What is the difference between your weight and that of your best friend?

3.4 REPRESENTATIVE VALUES

You might be aware of the term average and would have come across statements involving
the term average in your day-to-day life:
l Isha spends on an average of about 5 hours daily for her studies.

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l The average temperature at this time of the year is about 40 degree Celsius.
l The average age of pupils in my class is 12 years.
l The average attendance of students in a school during its final examination was
98 per cent.
Many more of such statements could be there. Think about the statements given above.
Do you think that the child in the first statement studies exactly for 5 hours daily?
Or, is the temperature of the given place during that particular time always 40 degrees?
Or, is the age of each pupil in that class 12 years? Obviously not.

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Then what do these statements tell you?

By average we understand that Isha, usually, studies for 5 hours. On some days,
she may study for less number of hours and on the other days she may study longer.
Similarly, the average temperature of 40 degree celsius, means that, very often,
the temperature at this time of the year is around 40 degree celsius. Sometimes, it may
be less than 40 degree celsius and at other times, it may be more than 40C.
Thus, we realise that average is a number that represents or shows the central tendency
of a group of observations or data. Since average lies between the highest and the lowest
value of the given data so, we say average is a measure of the central tendency of the group
of data. Different forms of data need different forms of representative or central value to
describe it. One of these representative values is the Arithmetic Mean. You will learn
about the other representative values in the later of the chapter.

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3.5 ARITHMETIC MEAN

The most common representative value of a group of data is the arithmetic mean or the
mean. To understand this in a better way, let us look at the following example:
Two vessels contain 20 litres and 60 litres of milk respectively. What is the amount that
each vessel would have, if both share the milk equally? When we ask this question we are
seeking the arithmetic mean.
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Number of vessels
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Thus, each vessels would have 40 litres of milk.
The average or Arithmetic mean (A.M.) or simply mean is defined as follows:

mean =

Sum of all observations

number of observations

Consider these examples.

EXAMPLE 1

Ashish studies for 4 hours, 5 hours and 3 hours respectively on three

consecutive days. How many hours does he study daily on an average?

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SOLUTION

The average study time of Ashish would be

Total number of study hours
4+5+3
=
hours = 4 hours per day
Number of days for which he studdied
3
Thus, we can say that Ashish studies for 4 hours daily on an average.

EXAMPLE 2 A batsman scored the following number of runs in six innings:

36, 35, 50, 46, 60, 55
Calculate the mean runs scored by him in an inning.

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Total runs = 36 + 35 + 50 + 46 + 60 + 55 = 282.

To find the mean, we find the sum of all the observations and divide it by the number of
observations.
282
Therefore, in this case, mean =
= 47. Thus, the mean runs scored in an inning are 47.
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How would you find the average of your study hours for the whole week?

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Consider the data in the above examples and think on the following:
l Is the mean bigger than each of the observations?
l Is it smaller than each observation?
Discuss with your friends. Frame one more example of this type and answer the
same questions.
You will find that the mean lies inbetween the greatest and the smallest observations.
In particular, the mean of two numbers will always lie between the two numbers.
5 + 11
= 8 , which lies between 5 and 11.
For example the mean of 5 and 11 is
2
Can you use this idea to show that between any two fractional numbers, you can find
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and , you have their average
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and so on.

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1. Find the mean of your sleeping hours during one week.
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3.5.1 Range
The difference between the highest and the lowest observation gives us an idea of the
spread of the observations. This can be found by subtracting the lowest observation from
the highest observation. We call the result the range of the observation. Look at the
following example:

EXAMPLE 3 The ages in years of 10 teachers of a school are:

32, 41, 28, 54, 35, 26, 23, 33, 38, 40
(i) What is the age of the oldest teacher and that of the youngest teacher?
(ii) What is the range of the ages of the teachers?
(iii) What is the mean age of these teachers?

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(i) Arranging the ages in ascending order, we get:

23, 26, 28, 32, 33, 35, 38, 40, 41, 54
We find that the age of the oldest teacher is 54 years and the age of the youngest
teacher is 23 years.
(ii) Range of the ages of the teachers = (54 23) years = 31 years
(iii) Mean age of the teachers
=

23 + 26 + 28 + 32 + 33 + 35 + 38 + 40 + 41 + 54
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350
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EXERCISE 3.1

1. Find the range of heights of any ten students of your class.

2. Organise the following marks in a class assessment, in a tabular form.

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(i) Which number is the highest?

(iii) What is the range of the data?

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4
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5
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2
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(ii) Which number is the lowest?

(iv) Find the arithmetic mean.

3. Find the mean of the first five whole numbers.

4. A cricketer scores the following runs in eight innings:
58, 76, 40, 35, 46, 45, 0, 100.
Find the mean score.

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5. Following table shows the points of each player scored in four games:
Player
A
B
C

Game
1
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0
8

Game
2
16
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11

Game
3
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6
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(i) Find the mean to determine As average number of points scored per game.

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points by 3 or by 4? Why?
(iii) B played in all the four games. How would you find the mean?
(iv) Who is the best performer?

6. The marks (out of 100) obtained by a group of students in a science test are 85, 76,
90, 85, 39, 48, 56, 95, 81 and 75. Find the:
(i) Highest and the lowest marks obtained by the students.
(ii) Range of the marks obtained.

(iii) Mean marks obtained by the group.

7. The enrolment in a school during six consecutive years was as follows:

1555, 1670, 1750, 2013, 2540, 2820
Find the mean enrolment of the school for this period.
8. The rainfall (in mm) in a city on 7 days of a certain week was recorded as follows:
Day
Mon
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Wed Thurs Fri

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Sat
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(i) Find the range of the rainfall in the above data.

(ii) Find the mean rainfall for the week.

(iii) On how many days was the rainfall less than the mean rainfall.
9. The heights of 10 girls were measured in cm and the results are as follows:
135, 150, 139, 128, 151, 132, 146, 149, 143, 141.
(i) What is the height of the tallest girl? (ii) What is the height of the shortest girl?
(iii) What is the range of the data?

(iv) What is the mean height of the girls?

(v) How many girls have heights more than the mean height.

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3.6 MODE
As we have said Mean is not the only measure of Central tendency or the only form of
representative value. For different requirements from a data other measures of Central
tendencies are used.
Look at the following example

To find out the weekly demand for different sizes of shirt, a shopkeeper kept records of sales
of sizes 90 cm, 95 cm, 100 cm, 105 cm, 110 cm.. Following is the record for a week:
Size (in inches)

90 cm

95 cm

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If he found the mean number of shirts sold, do you think that he would be able to
decide which shirt sizes to keep in stock?

105
Total number of shirts sold
=
= 21
5
Number of different sizes of shiirts
Should he obtain 21 shirts of each size? If he does so, will he be able to cater to the
needs of the customers?
The shopkeeper, on looking at the record, decides to procure shirts of sizes 95cm,
100cm, 105cm. He decided to postpone the procurement of the shirts of other sizes
because of their small number of buyers.

Mean of total shirts sold =

Look at another example

The owner of a readymade dress shop says, The most popular size of dress I sell is the
size 90cm.
Observe that here also, the owner is concerned about the number
of shirts of different sizes sold. She is however looking at the shirt size
that is sold the most. This is another representative value for the data.
The highest occuring event is the sale of size 90cm.This representative
value is called the mode of the data.
The mode of a set of observations is the observation that occurs
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SOLUTION

Arranging the numbers with same values together, we get

1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4
Mode of this data is 2 because it occurs more frequently than other observations.

3.6.1 Mode of Large Data

Putting the same observations together and counting them is not easy if the number of
observations is large. In such cases we tabulate the data. Tabulation can begin by putting
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Look at the following example:

EXAMPLE 5 Following are the margins of victory in the football

matches of a league.
1, 3, 2, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2,
6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1, 2
Find the mode of this data.

SOLUTION

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Find the mode of
(i) 2, 6, 5, 3, 0, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 5,
2, 4,
(ii) 2, 14, 16, 12, 14, 14, 16,
14, 10, 14, 18, 14

Let us put the data in a tabular form:

Margins of victory

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Looking at the table, we can quickly say that 2 is the mode since 2 has occured the
highest number of times. Thus, most of the matches have been won with a victory margin
of 2 goals.

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Can a set of numbers have more than one mode?

EXAMPLE 6 Find the mode of the numbers: 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8

SOLUTION

Here, 2 and 5 both occur three times. Therefore, they both are modes of
the data.

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1. Rec ord the age in years of all your classmates. Tabulate the data and find the mode.
2. Record the heights in centimetres of your classmates and find the mode.

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Find the mode of the following data:

12, 14, 12, 16, 15, 13, 14, 18, 19, 12, 14, 15, 16, 15, 16, 16, 15,
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2. Heights (in cm) of 25 children are given below:

168, 165, 163, 160, 163, 161, 162, 164, 163, 162, 164, 163, 160, 163, 16, 165,
163, 162, 163, 164, 163, 160, 165, 163, 162
What is the mode of their heights? What do we understand by Mode here?
Whereas mean gives us the average of all observations of the data, the mode gives that
observation which occurs most frequently in the data.

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(a) You have to decide upon the number of chapattis needed for 25 people called for a
feast.
(b) A shopkeeper selling shirts has decided to replenish her stock.
(c) We need to find the height of the door needed in our house.
(d) When going on a picnic, if only one fruit can be bought for everyone, which is the
fruit that we would get.

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Consider the first statement. Suppose the number of chapattis needed by each person
is 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5
The mode of the data is 2 chapattis. If we use mode as the representative value for this
data, then we need 50 chapattis only, 2 for each of the 25 persons. However the total
number would clearly be inadequate. Would mean be an appropriate representative value?
For the third statement the height of the door is related to the height of the persons
using that door. Suppose there are 5 children and 4 adults using the door and the height of
each of 5 children is around 135 cm. The mode for the heights is 135
cm. Should we get a door that is 144 cm high? Would all the adults be
able to go through that door? It is clear that mode is not the appropriate
representative value for this data. Would mean be an appropriate
representative value here?

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decide the doorheight?
Similarly analyse the rest of the statements and find the representative
value useful for that issue.

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Discuss with your friends and give
(a) Two situations where mean would be an appropriate representative value to
use, and
(b) Two situations where mode would be and appropriate representative value to use.

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3.7 MEDIAN
We have seen that in some situations, arithmetic mean is an appropriate measure of central
tendency whereas in some other situations, mode is the appropriate measure of central
tendency.
Let us now look at another example. Consider a group of 17 students with the following
heights (in cm): 106, 110, 123, 125, 117, 120, 112, 115, 110, 120, 115, 102, 115, 115,
109, 115, 101.
The games teacher wants to divide the class into two groups so that each group has
equal number of students, one group has students with height lesser than a particular height
and the other group has student with heights greater than the particular height. How would
she do that?
Let us see the various options she has:
(i) She can find the mean. The mean is

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So, if the teacher divides the students into two groups on the basis of this mean height,
such that one group has students of height less than the mean height and the other group
has students with height more than the mean height, then the groups would be of unequal
size. They would have 7 and 10 members respectively.
(ii) The second option for her is to find mode. The observation with highest frequency is
115 cm, which would be taken as mode.
There are 7 children below the mode and 10 children at the mode and above the
mode. Therefore, we cannot divide the group into equal parts.
Let us therefore think of an alternative representative value or measure of central
tendency. For doing this we again look at the given heights (in cm) of students arrange
them in ascending order. We have the following observations:
101, 102, 106, 109, 110, 110, 112, 115, 115, 115, 115, 115, 117, 120, 120, 123, 125
The middle value in this data is 115 because this value divides the students into two
equal groups of 8 students each. This value is called as Median. Median refers to the
value which lies in the middle of the data (when arranged in an
increasing or decreasing order) with half of the observations
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above it and the other half below it. The games teacher decides
Your friend found the median and the
to keep the middle student as a refree in the game.
mode of a given data. Describe and
Here, we consider only those cases where number of correct your friends error if any:
observations is odd.
35, 32, 35, 42, 38, 32, 34
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Note that in general, we may not get the same value for median and mode.
Thus we realise that mean, mode and median are the numbers that are the representative
values of a group of observations or data. They lie between the minimum and maximum
values of the data. They are also called the measures of the central tendency.

EXAMPLE 7 Find the median of the data: 24, 36, 46, 17, 18, 25, 35
SOLUTION

We arrange the data in ascending order, we get 17, 18, 24, 25, 35, 36, 46
Median is the middle observation. Therefore 25 is the median.

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1. The scores in mathematics test (out of 25) of 15 students is as follows:

19, 25, 23, 20, 9, 20, 15, 10, 5, 16, 25, 20, 24, 12, 20
Find the mode and median of this data. Are they same?
2. The runs scored in a cricket match by 11 players is as follows:
6, 15, 120, 50, 100, 80, 10, 15, 8, 10, 15
Find the mean, mode and median of this data. Are the three same?
3. The weights (in kg.) of 15 students of a class are:
38, 42, 35, 37, 45, 50, 32, 43, 43, 40, 36, 38, 43, 38, 47
(i) Find the mode and median of this data.
(ii) Is there more than one mode?
4. Find the mode and median of the data: 13, 16, 12, 14, 19, 12, 14, 13, 14
5. Tell whether the statement is true or false:
(i) The mode is always one of the numbers in a data.
(ii) The mean can be one of the numbers in a data.
(iii) The median is always one of the numbers in a data.
(iv) A data always has a mode.
(v) The data 6, 4, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13, 9 has mean 9.

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We have seen last year how information collected could be first arranged in a frequency
distribution table and then this information could be put as a visual representation in the
form of pictographs or bar graphs. You can look at the bar graphs and make deductions
about the data. You can also get information based on these bar graphs. For example, you
can say that the mode is the longest bar if the bar represents the frequency.

3.8.1 Choosing a Scale

We know that a bar graph is a representation of numbers using bars of uniform width and
the lengths of the bars depend upon the frequency and the scale you have chosen. For
example, in a bar graph where numbers in units are to be shown, the graph represents one
unit length for one observation and if it has to show numbers in tens or hundreds, one unit
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EXAMPLE 8 Two hundred students of 6th and 7th class were asked to name their favourite
colour so as to decide upon what should be the colour of their School
Building. The results are shown in the following table. Represent the given
data on a bar graph.

Number of Students

Red

Green

Blue

Yellow

Orange

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55

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(i) Which is the most preferred colour and which is the least preferred?
(ii) How many colours are there in all? What are
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SOLUTION Choose a suitable scale as follows:

50
40
30
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We then draw and label the graph as shown.

From the bar graph we conclude that

(i) Blue is the most preferred colour (Because the bar representing Blue is the tallest).

(ii) Green is the least preferred colour. (Because the bar representing Green is the
shortest).
(iii) There are five colours. They are Red, Green, Blue, Yellow and Orange. (These are
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Following data gives total marks (out of 600) obtained by six children of
a particular class. Represent the data on a bar graph.

Students

Ajay

Bali

Dipti

Faiyaz

Geetika

Hari

Marks Obtained

450

500

300

360

400

540

SOLUTION
(i) To choose an appropriate scale we make equal divisions taking increments of 100.
Thus 1 unit will represent 100 marks. (What would be the difficulty if we choose one
unit to represent 10 marks?)

Yellow

Blue

Green

Red

Students

Start the scale at 0. The greatest value in the data is

55, so end the scale at a value greater than 55,
such as 60. Use equal divisions along the axes, such
as increments of 10. You know that all the bars
would lie between 0 and 60. We choose the scale
such that the length between 0 and 60 is neither
too long nor too small. Here we take 1 unit for 10
students.

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(ii) Now represent the data on the bar graph.

Scale : 1 unit = 100 marks

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Drawing Double Bar Graph

Consider the following two collections data giving the average daily hours of sunshine in
two cities Aberdeen and Margate for all the twelve months of the year. These cities are
near the south pole and hence have only a few hourse of sunshine each day.
In Margate

Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Average
1
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3
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In Aberdeen
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By drawing individual bar graphs you could answer questions like

(i) In which month does each city has maximum sunlight? or
(ii) In which months does each city has minimum sunlight?
However, to answer questions like In a particular month, which city has more sunshine
hours, we need to compare the average hours of sunshine of both the cities. To do this we
will learn to draw what is called a double bar graph giving the information of both cities
side by side.
This bar graph (Fig 3.1) shows the average sunshine of both the cities.
For each month we have two bars, the heights of which give the average hours of
sunshine in each city. From this we can infer that except for the month of April, there is
always more sunshine in Margate than in Aberdeen. You could put together a similiar bar
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Scale : 1 unit = 1 hour of sunshine

Aberdeen

Fig 3.1

Let us look at another example more related to us.

EXAMPLE 10 A mathematics teacher wants to see, whether the new technique of teach-

ing she applied after quarterly test was effective or not. She takes the
scores of the 5 weakest children in the quarterly test (out of 25) and in
the half yearly test (out of 25):
Students
Ashish Arun Kavish Maya Rita
Quarterly
10
15
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20
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Half yearly
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SOLUTION

Since there seems to be a marked improvement in most of

the students, the teacher decides that she should continue to
use the new technique of teaching.
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1. The bar chart (Fig 3.2) shows the result of a survey to test water resistant watches
made by different companies.
Each of these companies claimed that their watches were water resistant. After a
test the above results were revealed.

Nov.

Oct.

Sept.

August

July

June

May

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(a) Can you work a fraction of the number of watches that

leaked to the number tested for each company?
(b) Could you tell on this basis which company has better
watches?
2. Sale of English and Hindi books in the years 1995, 1996,
1997 and 1998 are given below:
1995
English 350
Hindi
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(a) In which year was the difference in the sale of the two
language books least?.

Fig 3.2

(b) Can you say that the demand for English books rose
faster? Justify.

EXERCISE 3.3

1. Use the bar graph (Fig 3.3) to answer the following questions.
(a) Which is the most popular pet? (b) How many children have dog as a pet?
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Fig 3.4

2. Read the bar graph (Fig 3.4) and answer the questions that follow:
Number of books sold by a bookstore during five consecutive years.
(i) About how many books were sold in 1989? 1990? 1992?
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(iii) In which years were fewer than 250 books sold?

(iv) Can you explain how you would estimate the number of books sold in 1989?
3. Number of children in six different classes are given below. Represent the data on a
bar graph.
Class

Fifth

Sixth

Number of Children

135

120

Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth

95

100

90

80

(a) How would you choose a scale.

(b) Answer the following questions:
(i) Which class has the maximum number of children? And the minimum?
(ii) Find the ratio of students of class sixth to the students of class eight.
4. The performance of students in 1st Term and 2nd Term is given. Draw a double bar
graph choosing appropriate scale and answer the following:
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81

73

2nd Term (M.M. 100)

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65

95

85

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(i) In which subject, has the child improved his performance the most?
(ii) In which subject is the improvement the least?
(iii) Has the performance gone down in any subject?.
5. Consider this data collected from a survey of a colony.
Favourite Sport
Watching
Participating

Cricket Basket Ball

1240
620

470
320

Swimming

Hockey

Athletics

510
320

423
250

250
105

(i) Draw a double bar graph choosing an appropriate scale.

What do you infer from the bar graph?
(ii) Which sport is most popular?
(iii) Which is more preferred, watching or participating in sports?
6. Take the data giving the minimum and the maximum temperature of various cities
given in the beginning of this chapter (Table 3.1). Plot a double bar graph using the
data and answer the following:
(i) Which city has the largest difference in the minimum and maximum temperature
on the given date?
(ii) Which is the hottest city and which is the coldest city?
(iii) Name two cities where maximum temperature of one was less than the minimum
temperature of the other.
(iv) Name the city which has the least difference between its minimum and the
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3.9 CHANCE

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PROBABILITY

These words often come up in our daily life. We often say, there is no chance of it
raining today and also say things like it is quite probable that India will win the
World Cup. Let us try and understand these terms a bit more. Consider the statements;
(i) The Sun coming up from the West
(ii) An ant growing to 3 m height.
(iii) If you take a cube of larger volume its side will also be larger.
(iv) If you take a circle with larger area then its radius will also be larger.
(v) India winning the next test series.
If we look at the statements given above you would say that the Sun coming up from
the West is impossible, an ant growing to 3 m is also not possible. On the other hand if
the circle is of a larger area it is certain that it will have a larger radius. You can say the same
about the larger volume of the cube and the larger side. On the other hand India can win
the next test series or lose it. Both are possible.

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Think of
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If you toss a coin, can you always correctly predict what you will get? Try tossing
a coin and predicting the outcome each time. Write your observations in the
following table:
Toss number

Prediction

Outcome

Do this 10 times. Look at the observed outcomes. Can you see a pattern in
them? What do you get after each head? Is it that you get head all the time? Repeat the
observation for another 10 tosses and write the observations in the table.
You will find that the observations show no clear pattern. In the table below we give
you observations generated in 25 tosses by Sushila and Salma. Here H represents Head
and T represents Tail.
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H T T H T T T H T T H H H H H
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T T H T T T T T T T

What does this data tell you? Can you find a predictable pattern for head and tail?
Clearly there is no fixed pattern of occurrence of head and tail. When you throw the coin
each time the outcome of every throw can be either head or tail. It is a matter of chance
that in one particular throw you get either of these.
In the above data, count the number of heads and the number of tails. Throw the coin
some more times and keep recording what you obtain. Find out the total number of times
you get a head and the total number of times you get a tail.
You also might have played with a die. The die has six faces. When you throw a die, can
you predict the number that will be obtained? While playing Ludo or Snake and ladders
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Does the die always fall according to your wishes? Take a die and throw it 150
times and fill the data in the following table:
Number on Die

Tally Marks

Number of times it occured

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Make a tally mark each time you get the outcome, against the appropriate number.
For example in the first throw you get 5. Put a tally in front of 5. The next throw gives you
1. Make a tally for 1. Keep on putting tally marks for the appropriate number. Repeat
this exercise for 150 throws and find out the number of each outcome for 150 throws.
Make bar graph using the above data showing the number of times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
have occured in the data.

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1. Toss a coin 100 times and record the data. Find the number of times heads and tails
occur in it.
2. Aftaab threw a die 250 times and got the following table. Draw a bar graph for this data.
Number on the Die
1
2
3
4
5
6

Tally Marks

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We know that when a coin is thrown, it has two possible outcomes, Head or Tail and for
a die we have 6 possible outcomes. We also know from experience that for a coin, Head
or Tail is equally likely to be obtained. We say that the probability of getting Head or Tail
1
is equal and is for each.
2
For a die, possibility of getting either of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 is equal. That is for a die
there are 6 equally likely possible outcomes. We say each of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 has one1
sixth ( ) probability. We will learn about this in the later classes. But from what we have
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between 0 and 1. Those which have no chance of happening have probability 0 and
those that are bound to happen have probability 1.
Given any situation we need to understand the different possible outcomes
and study the possible chances for each outcome. It may be possible that the
outcomes may not have equal chance of occuring unlike the cases of the coin and
die. For example if a container has 5 red balls and 9 white balls and if a ball is
pulled out without seeing, the chances of getting a red ball are much more. Can
you see why? How many times are the chances of getting a red ball than getting
a white ball, probabilities for both being between 0 and 1.

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1. Tell whether the following is certain to happen, impossible, can happen but not certain.
(i) You are older today than yesterday.
(ii) A tossed coin will land heads up.
(iii) A die when tossed shall land up with 8 on top.
(iv) The next traffic light seen will be green. (v) Tomorrow will be a cloudy day.
2. There are 6 marbles in a box with numbers from 1 to 6 marked on each of them.
(i) What is the probability of drawing a marble with number 2?
(ii) What is the probability of drawing a marble with number 5?
3. A coin is flipped to decide which team starts the game. What is the probability that
your team will start?
4. A box contains pairs of socks of two colours (black and white). I have picked out a
white sock. I pick out one more with my eyes closed. What is the probability that it
will make a pair?

WHAT HAVE WE DISCUSSED?

1. The collection, recording and presentation of data help us organise our experiences
and draw inferences from them.
2. Before collecting data we need to know what we would use it for.
3. The data that is collected needs to be organised in a proper table, so that it becomes
easy to understand and interpret.
4. Average is a number that represents or shows the central tendency of a group of
observations or data.
5. Arithmetic mean is one of the representative values of data.
6. Mode is another form of central tendency or representative value. The mode of a set
of observations is the observation that occurs most often.
7. Median is also a form of representative value. It refers to the value which lies in the
middle of the data with half of the observations above it and the other half below it.
8. A bar graph is a representation of numbers using bars of uniform widths.
9. Double bar graphs help to compare two collections of data at a glance.
10. There are situations in our life, that are certain to happen, some that are impossible
and some that may or may not happen. The situation that may or may not happen has
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Equations
The teacher has said that she would be starting a new chapter in
mathematics and it is going to be simple equations. Appu, Sarita
and Ameena have revised what they learnt in algebra chapter in
Class VI. Have you? Appu, Sarita and Ameena are excited because
they have constructed a game which they call mind reader and they
want to present it to the whole class.
The teacher appreciates their enthusiasm and invites them to present their game. Ameena
begins; she asks Sara to think of a number, multiply it by 4 and add 5 to the product. Then,
she asks Sara to tell the result. She says it is 65. Ameena instantly declares that the number
Sara had thought of is 15. Sara nods. The whole class including Sara is surprised.
It is Appus turn now. He asks Balu to think of a number, multiply it by 10 and subtract
20 from the product. He then asks Balu what his result is? Balu says it is 50. Appu
immediately tells the number thought by Balu. It is 7, Balu confirms it.
Everybody wants to know how the mind reader presented by Appu, Sarita and
Ameena works. Can you see how it works? After studying this chapter and chapter 12,
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Let us take Ameenas example. Ameena asks Sara to think of a number. Ameena does not
know the number. For her, it could be anything 1, 2, 3, . . ., 11, . . . , 100, . . . . Let us
denote this unknown number by a letter, say x. You may use y or t or some other letter in
place of x. It does not matter which letter we use to denote the unknown number Sara has
thought of. When Sara multiplies the number by 4, she gets 4x. She then adds 5 to the
product, which gives 4x + 5. The value of (4x + 5) depends on the value of x. Thus
if x = 1, 4x + 5 = 4 1 + 5 = 9. This means that if Sara had 1 in her mind, her result would
have been 9. Similarly, if she thought of 5, then for x = 5, 4x + 5 = 4 5 + 5 = 25; Thus
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To find the number thought by Sara let us work backward from her answer 65. We
have to find x such that
4x + 5 = 65
(4.1)
Solution to the equation will give us the number which Sara held in her mind.
Let us similarly look at Appus example. Let us call the number Balu chose as y. Appu
asks Balu to multiply the number by 10 and subtract 20 from the product. That is, from y,
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The solution of this equation will give us the number Balu had thought of.

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Note, (4.1) and (4.2) are equations. Let us recall what we learnt about equations in Class
VI. An equation is a condition on a variable. In equation (4.1), the variable is x; in
equation (4.2), the variable is y.

The word variable means something that can vary, i.e. change. A variable takes on
different numerical values; its value is not fixed. Variables are denoted usually by
letters of the alphabet, such as x, y, z, l, m, n, p etc. From variables, we form
expressions. The expressions are formed by performing operations like addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division on the variables. From x, we formed the expression (4x + 5).
For this, first we multiplied x by 4 and then added 5 to the product. Similarly, from y, we
formed the expression (10y 20). For this, we multiplied y by 10 and then subtracted 20
from the product. All these are examples of expressions.
The value of an expression thus formed depends upon the chosen value of the variable.
As we have already seen, when x = 1, 4x + 5 = 9; when x = 5, 4x + 5 = 25. Similarly,
when
x = 15, 4 x + 5 = 415 + 5 = 65;
when
x = 0, 4 x + 5 = 4 0 + 5 = 5; and so on.
Equation (4.1) is a condition on the variable x. It states that the value of the expression
(4x + 5) is 65. The condition is satisfied when x = 15. It is the solution to the equation
4x + 5 = 65. When x = 5, 4x + 5 = 25 and not 65. Thus x = 5 is not a solution to the
equation. Similarly, x = 0 is not a solution to the equation. No other value of x other than
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The value of the expression (10y 20) depends on the value of y. Verify this by
giving five different values to y and finding for each y the value of (10 y 20). From
the different values of (10y 20) you obtain, do you see a solution to 10y 20 = 50?
If there is no solution, try giving more values to y and find whether the condition
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4.4 WHAT EQUATION

IS?

In an equation there is always an equality sign. The equality sign shows that the value of
the expression to the left of the sign (the left hand side or L.H.S.) is equal to
the value of the expression to the right of the sign (the right hand side or R.H.S.). In
Equation (4.1), the L.H.S. is (4x + 5) and the R.H.S. is 65. In equation (4.2), the L.H.S.
is (10y 20) and the R.H.S. is 50.
If there is some sign other than the equality sign between the L.H.S. and the R.H.S.,
it is not an equation. Thus, 4x + 5 > 65 is not an equation.
It says that, the value of (4x + 5) is greater than 65.
Similarly, 4x + 5 < 65 is not an equation. It says that the value of (4x + 5) is smaller
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In equations, we often find that the R.H.S. is just a number. In Equation (4.1), it is 65
and in Equation (4.2), it is 50. But this need not be always so. The R.H.S. of an equation
may be an expression containing the variable. For example, the equation
4x + 5 = 6x 25
has the expression (4x + 5) on the left and (6x 25) on the right of the equality sign.
In short, an equation is a condition on a variable. The condition is that two
expressions should have equal value. Note that at least one of the two expressions
must contain the variable.
We also note a simple and useful property of equations. The equation 4x +5 = 65 is
the same as 65 = 4x + 5. Similarly, the equation 6x 25 = 4x +5 is the same as
4x + 5 = 6x 25. An equation remains the same, when the expression on the left
and on the right are interchanged. This property is often useful in solving equations.

EXAMPLE 1 Write the following statements in the form of equations:

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

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(i) Three times x is 3x.

Sum of 3x and 11 is 3x + 11. The sum is 32.
The equation is 3x + 11 = 32.
(ii) Let us say the number is z; z multiplied by 6 is 6z.
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m
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4
m
7 ) is 3.
It is greater than 7 by 3. This means the difference (
4
m
7 = 3.
The equation is
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(iv) Take the number to be n. One third of n is .
3
n
The number plus 5 is + 5. It is 8.
3
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The equation is + 5 = 8.
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EXAMPLE 2 Convert the following equations in statement form:

(iii) One fourth of m is

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(iv)

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5

(i) Taking away 5 from x gives 9.

(ii) Five times a number p is 20.
(iii) Add 7 to three times n to get 1.
(iv) You get 6, when you subtract 2 from one fifth of a number m.
What is important to note is that for a given equation, not just one, but many statements
forms can be given. For example, for Equation (i) above, you can say:
Subtract 5 from x, you get 9.
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or
The number x is 5 more than 9.
Write at least one other form for or
The number x is greater by 5 than 9.
each Equation (ii), (iii) and (iv). or
The difference between x and 5 is 9, and so on.

EXAMPLE 3 Consider the following situation:

Rajus fathers age is 5 years more than three times Rajus age. Rajus father is 44 years
old. Set up an equation to find Rajus age.

SOLUTION

We do not know Rajus age. Let us take it to be y years. Three times

Rajus age is 3y years. Rajus fathers age is 5 years more than 3y; that
is, Rajus father is (3y + 5) years old. It is also given that Rajus father
is 44 years old.
Therefore,
3y + 5 = 44
(4.3)
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SOLUTION

large. A large box contains as many as 8 small boxes plus 4 loose mangoes. Set up an equation which gives the number of mangoes in each small
box. The number of mangoes in a large box is given to be 100.

Let a small box contain m mangoes. A large box contains 4 more than 8
times m, that is, 8m + 4 mangoes. But this is given to be 100. Thus
8m + 4 = 100
(4.4)
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EXERCISE 4.1
1. Complete the last column of the table.
S.
No.

Equation

Value

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)

x+3=0
x+3=0
x+3=0
x7=1
x7=1
5x = 25
5x = 25
5x = 25
m
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3
m
=2
3
m
=2
3

x=3
x=0
x=3
x=7
x=8
x=0
x=5
x=5

(ix)
(x)
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2. Check whether the value given in the brackets is a solution to the given equation or
not:
(a) n + 5 = 19 (n = 1) (b) 7n + 5 = 19 (n = 2) (c) 7n + 5 = 19 (n = 2)
(d) 4p 3 = 13 (p = 1) (e) 4p 3 = 13 (p = 4) (f) 4p 3 = 13 (p = 0)
3. Solve the following equations by trial and error method:
(i) 5p + 2 = 17
(ii) 3m 14 = 4
4. Write equations for the following statements:
(i) The sum of numbers x and 4 is 9.
(ii) The difference between y and 2 is 8.
(iii) Ten times a is 70.
(iv) The number b divided by 5 gives 6.
(v) Three fourth of t is 15.
(vi) Seven times m plus 7 gets you 77.
(vii) One fourth of a number minus 4 gives 4.
(viii) If you take away 6 from 6 times y, you get 60.
(ix) If you add 3 to one third of z, you get 30.
5. Write the following equations in statement forms:
m
(i) p + 4 = 15 (ii) m 7 = 3
(iii) 2m = 7
(iv)
=3
5
3m
p
(v)
=6
(vi) 3p + 4 = 25
(vii) 4p 2 = 18
(viii)
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6. Set up an equation in the following cases:

(i) Irfan says that he has 7 marbles more than five times the marbles Parmit has.
Irfan has 37 marbles. (Take m to be the number of Parmits marbles.)
(ii) Laxmis father is 49 years old. He is 4 years older than three times Laxmis age.
(Take Laxmis age to be y years.)
(iii) The teacher tells the class that the highest marks obtained by a student in her
class is twice the lowest marks plus 7. The highest score is 87. (Take the lowest
score to be l.)
(iv) In an isosceles triangle, the vertex angle is twice either base angle. (Let the base
angle be b in degrees. Remember that the sum of angles of a triangle is 180
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Consider
83=4+1
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Since there is an equality sign between the two sides, so, at present we call it a numerical
equation. You will study about its formal terminology in the later classes.
The equation (4.5) is true. Let us call it balanced, since both sides of the equation are
equal. (Each is equal to 5).
l Let us now add 2 to both sides; as a result
L.H.S. = 8 3 + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7,
R.H.S. = 4 + 1 + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7.
Again we have an equation that is balanced. We say that the balance is retained or
undisturbed.
Thus if we add the same number to both sides of a balance equation, the balance
is undisturbed.
l Let us now subtract 2 from both the sides; as a result,
L.H.S. = 8 3 2 = 5 2 = 3,
R.H.S. = 4 + 1 2 = 5 2 = 3.
Again, we get a balanced equation.
Thus if we subtract the same number from both sides of a balance equation, the
balance is undisturbed.
l Similarly, if we multiply or divide both sides of the equation by the same number,
the balance is undisturbed.
For example let us multiply both the sides of the equation by 3, we get
L.H.S. = 3 (8 3) = 3 5 = 15,
R.H.S. = 3 (4 + 1) = 3 5 = 15.
The balance is undisturbed.
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If we take any other numerical equation, we shall find the same conclusions.
Suppose, we do not observe these rules. Specificially, suppose we add different
numbers, to the two sides of a balanced equation. We shall find in this case that the balance
is disturbed. For example, let us take again Equation (4.5),
83=4+1
add 2 to the L.H.S. and 3 to the R.H.S. The new L.H.S. is 8 3 + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7 and the
new R.H.S. is 4 + 1 + 3 = 5 + 3 = 8. The balance is disturbed, because the new L.H.S.
and R.H.S. are not equal.
Thus if we fail to do the same mathematical operation on both sides of a balanced
equation, the balance is disturbed.
These conclusions are also valid for equations with variables as, in each
equation variable represents a number only.
Often an equation is said to be like a weighing balance. Doing a mathematical operation
on an equation is like adding weights to or removing weights from the pans of a weighing
balance.
A balanced equation is like a weighing balance with equal
weights on both its pans, in which case the arm of the balance is
exactly horizontal. If we add the same weights to both the pans,
the arm remains horizontal. Similarly, if we remove the same weights
from both the pans, the arm remains horizontal. On the other hand
if we add different weights to the pans or remove different weights
L.H.S.
R.H.S.
from them, the balance is tilted; that is, the arm of the balance A balanced equation is like a
does not remain horizontal.
weighing balance with equal weights
in the two pans.
We use this principle for solving an equation. Here, ofcourse,
the balance is imaginary and numbers can be used as weights that can be physically
balanced against each other. This is the real purpose in presenting the principle. Let us
take some examples.
l Consider the equation: x + 3 = 8
(4.6)
We shall subtract 3 from both sides of this equation.
The new L.H.S. is x + 3 3 = x
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Will it help? Why not?
It is because subtracting 3 reduces the L.H.S.
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Since this does not disturb the balance, we have

New L.H.S. = New R.H.S.
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To confirm whether we are right, we shall put x = 5 in the original equation. We get
L.H.S. = x + 3 = 5 + 3 = 8, which is equal to the R.H.S. as required.
By doing the right mathematical operation (i.e., subtracting 3) on both the sides of the
equation, we arrived at the solution of the equation.
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x 3 = 10
(4.7)
What should we do here? We should add 3 to both the sides, By doing so, we shall
retain the balance and also the L.H.S. will reduce to just x.
New L.H.S. = x 3 + 3 = x , New R.H.S. = 10 + 3 = 13
Therefore, x = 13, which is the required solution.
By putting x = 13 in the original equation (4.7) we confirm that
the solution is correct:
L.H.S. of original equation = x 3 = 13 3 = 10
This is equal to the R.H.S. as required.
l Similarly, let us look at the equations
5y = 35
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In the first case, we shall divide both the sides by 5. This will give us just y on L.H.S.

5y 5 y
35 5 7
=
=y
=
=7
,
New R.H.S. =
5
5
5
5
Therefore,
y=7
This is the required solution. We can substitute y = 7 in Eq. (4.8) and check that it is
satisfied.
In the second case, we shall multiply both sides by 2. This will give us just m on the
L.H.S.
m
2 = m. The new R.H.S. = 5 2 = 10.
The new L.H.S. =
2
Hence, m = 10 (It is the required solution. You can check whether the solution is correct).
One can see that in the above examples, the operation we need to perform depends
on the equation. Our attempt should be to get the variable in the equation separated.
Sometimes, for doing so we may have to carry out more than one mathematical operation.
Let us solve some more equations with this in mind.

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EXAMPLE 5 Solve: (a) 3n + 7 = 25

(b) 2p 1 = 23

(4.10)
(4.11)

SOLUTION
(a) We go stepwise to separate the variable n on the L.H.S. of the equation. The L.H.S.
is 3n + 7. We shall first subtract 7 from it so that we get 3n. From this, in the next
step we shall divide by 3 to get n. Remember we must do the same operation on
both sides of the equation. Therefore, subtracting 7 from both sides,
3n + 7 7 = 25 7
(Step 1)
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Now divide both sides by 3,

3n 18
=
3
3

(Step 2)

or
n = 6, which is the solution.
(b) What should we do here? First we shall add 1 to both the sides:
2p 1 + 1 = 23 + 1
or
2p = 24
Now divide both sides by 2, we get

2 p 24
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One good practice you should develop is to check the solution you have obtained.
Although we have not done this for (a) above, let us do it for this example.
Let us put the solution p = 12 back into the equation.
L.H.S. = 2p 1 = 2 12 1 = 24 1
= 23 = R.H.S.
The solution is thus checked for its correctness.
Why do you not check the solution of (a) also?
We are now in a position to go back to the mind-reading game presented by Appu,
Sarita, and Ameena and understand how they got their answers. For this purpose, let us
look at the equations (4.1) and (4.2) which correspond respectively to Ameenas and
Appus examples.
l First consider the equation 4x + 5 = 65.
(4.1)
Subtract 5 from both sides, 4x + 5 5 = 65 5.
i.e.
4x = 60
4 x 60
Divide both sides by 4; this will separate x. We get
=
4
4
or
x = 15, which is the solution. (Check, if it is correct.)
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(4.2)
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10 y
70
=
10
10

or
y = 7, which is the solution. (Check if it is correct.)
You will realise that exactly these were the answers given by Appu, Sarita and Ameena.
They had learnt to set-up equations and solve them. That is why they could construct their
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EXERCISE 4.2
1. Give first the step you will use to separate the variable and then solve the equation:
(a) x 1 = 0
(b) x + 1 = 0
(c) x 1 = 5
(d) x + 6 = 2
(e) y 4 = 7
(f) y 4 = 4
(g) y + 4 = 4
(h) y + 4 = 4
2. Give first the step you will use to separate the variable and then solve the equation:
b
p
=6
=4
(a) 3l = 42
(b)
(c)
(d) 4x = 25
2
7
z 5
a 7
=
=
(e) 8y = 36
(f)
(g)
(h) 20t = 10
3 4
5 15
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(b) 5m + 7 = 17

(c)

20 p
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3

(d)

3p
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10

p
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4

(d)

p
=5
3

4. Solve the following equations:

(a) 10p = 100

(b) 10p + 10 = 100 (c)

3p
=6
4
(i) 2q = 6

(f) 3s = 9

(g) 3s + 12 = 0

(h) 3s = 0

(j) 2q 6 = 0

(k) 2q + 6 = 0

(l) 2q + 6 = 12

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4.5 MORE EQUATIONS

Let us practise solving some more equations. While solving these equations, we shall learn
about transposing a number, i.e., moving it from one side to the other. We can transpose a
number instead of adding or subtracting it from both sides of the equation.

EXAMPLE 6 Solve:

12p 5 = 25

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12p 5 + 5 = 25 + 5
or
12p = 30
l Dividing both sides by 12,
12 p 30
5
=
or
p=
12 12
2

Check Putting p =

(4.12)

Note adding 5 to both sides

is the same as changing side
of ( 5).
12p 5 = 25
12p = 25 + 5
Changing side is called
transposing. While transposing a number, we change
its sign.

5
in the L.H.S. of equation 4.12,
2
5
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L.H.S. = 12
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As we have seen, while solving equations one commonly used operation is adding or
subtracting the same number on both sides of the equation. Transposing a number (i.e.
changing the side of the number) is the same as adding or subtracting the number
from both sides. In doing so, the sign of the number has to be changed. What applies to
numbers also applies to expressions. Let us take two more examples of transposing.
Adding or Subtracting
on both sides

Transposing

(i) 3p 10 = 5
(i) 3p 10 = 5
Add 10 to both sides
Transpose (10) from L.H.S. to R.H.S.
3p 10 + 10 = 5 + 10
(On transposing 10 becomes + 10).
or 3p = 15
3p = 5 + 10 or 3p = 15
(ii) 5x + 12 = 27
(ii) 5x + 12 = 27
Subtract 12 from both sides
Transposing + 12
(On transposing + 12 becomes 12)
5x + 12 12 = 27 12
5x = 27 12
or 5x = 15
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have to be solved before proceeding.

EXAMPLE 7 Solve

(a) 4 (m + 3) = 18

SOLUTION

(b) 2(x + 3) = 5

(a) 4(m + 3) = 18
Let us divide both the sides by 4. This will remove the brackets in the L.H.S. We get,
18
9
m+3=
m+3=
or
4
2
9
3 (transposing 3 to R.H.S.)
or m =
2
3
9 6 3
9
or m = (required solution) as 3 = =
2
2
2 2 2
3
3
3
Check L.H.S. = 4 + 3 = 4 + 4 3 = 2 3 + 4 3 [put m = ]
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(b) 2(x + 3) = 5
We divide both sides by ( 2), so as to remove the brackets in the L.H.S. We get,
5
5
x+3=
3
or
x=
(transposing 3 to R.H.S.)
2
2
5 6
11
i.e. x =
or
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Check

11
11 6
11 + 6
+ 3 = 2
+ = 2
L.H.S. = 2
2

2 2
2
5 2 5
= 5 = R.H.S. as required.
= 2 =
2
2

4.6 FROM SOLUTION

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EQUATION

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equation. He wonders why not follow the reverse path:
Equation

Solution

(normal path)

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Equation

(reverse path)

He follows the path given below:

Start with

x=5

Multiply both sides by 4,

4x = 20
Divide both sides by 4.
Start with the same step
x = 5 and make two different
Subtract 3 from both sides,
4x 3 = 17 Add 3 to both sides.
equations. Ask two of your
This has resulted in an equation. If we follow the reverse path with each
classmates to solve the
step, as shown on the right, we get the solution of the equation.
equations. Check whether
they get the solution x = 5. Hetal feels interested. She starts with the same first step and builds up another
equation.
x=5
Multiply both sides by 3
3x = 15
Add 4 to both sides
3x + 4 = 19
Start with y = 4 and make two different equations. Ask three of your friends to do the
same. Are their equations different from yours?
Is it not nice that not only can you solve an equation, but you can make
equations? Further, did you notice that given an equation, you get one solution;
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equation and put it into a statement form and that makes a puzzle. For example,
Think of a number; multiply it by 3 and add 4 to the product. Tell me the sum you get.
If the sum is 19, the equation Hetal got will give us the solution to the puzzle. In fact, we
know it is 5, because Hetal started with it.
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She turns to Appu, Ameena and Sarita to check whether they made
Try to make two number their puzzle this way. All three say, Yes!
puzzles, one with the solution We now know how to create number puzzles and many other similar
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EXERCISE 4.3
1. Solve the following equations.
(a) 2 y +
(e)

5 37
=
2 2

5
x = 10
2

(b) 5t + 28 = 10
(f)

5
25
x=
2
4

(c)

a
+3= 2
5

(g) 7 m +

3l 2
2b
5=3
=
(j)
2 3
3
2. Solve the following equations.
(a) 2(x + 4) = 12
(b) 3(n 5) = 21

(d)

19
= 13
2

q
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4

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(e) 4(2 x) = 9

(g) 4 + 5 (p 1) = 34

(f) 4(2 x) = 9

(h) 34 5(p 1) = 4

3. Solve the following equations.

(a) 4 = 5(p 2)
(b) 4 = 5(p 2)
(d) 10 = 4 + 3(t + 2)

(c) 3(n 5) = 21

(e) 28 = 4 + 3(t + 5)

(c) 16 = 5 (2 p)

(f) 0 = 16 + 4(m 6)

4. (a) Construct 3 equations starting with x = 2

(b) Construct 3 equations starting with x = 2

4.7 APPLICATIONS
SITUATIONS

OF

SIMPLE EQUATIONS

TO

PRACTICAL

We have already seen examples in which we have taken statements in everyday language
and converted them into simple equations. We also have learnt how to solve simple equations.
Thus we are ready to solve puzzles/problems from practical situations. The method is first
to form equations corresponding to such situations and then to solve those equations to
give the solution to the puzzles/problems. We begin with what we have already seen
(Example 1 (i) and (iii), Section 4.2)

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EXAMPLE 8 The sum of three times a number and 11 is 32. Find the number.
SOLUTION

l If the unknown number is taken to be x, then three times the number is 3x and the sum
of 3x and 11 is 32. That is, 3x + 11 = 32
This equation was obtained
l To solve this equation, we transpose 11 to R.H.S., so that
earlier in Section 4.2, Example 1.
3x = 32 11 or 3x = 21
Now, divide both sides by 3
21
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The required number is 7. (We may check it by taking 3 times 7 and adding 11 to it. It
gives 32 as required.)

EXAMPLE 9 Find a number, such that one fourth of the number is 3 more than 7.
SOLUTION
l Let us take the unknown number to be y; one fourth of y is

y
.
4

y
This number is more than 7 by 3.
4
y
Hence we get the equation for y as 7 = 3
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(i) When you multiply a

number by 6 and subtract
5 from the product, you
get 7. Can you tell what
the number is?
(ii) What is that number one
third of which added to 5
gives 8?

l To solve this equation, first transpose 7 to R.H.S. We get,

y
= 3 + 7 = 10.
4
We then multiply both sides of the equation by 4, to get

y
4 = 10 4
or
y = 40
(the required number)
4
Let us check the equation formed. Putting the value of y in the equation,

L.H.S. =

40
7 = 10 7 = 3 = R.H.S., as required.
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EXAMPLE 10 Rajus fathers age is 5 years more than three times Rajus age. Find
Rajus age, if his father is 44 years old.

SOLUTION

l If Raju's age is taken to be y years, his father's age is 3y + 5 and this is given to be 44.
Hence, the equation that gives Raju's age is
3y + 5 = 44

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Dividing both sides by 3, we get

3y = 44 5 = 39
y = 13

That is, Raju's age is 13 years. (You may check the answer.)

TRY THESE
There are two types of boxes containing mangoes. Each box of the larger type contains
4 more mangoes than the number of mangoes contained in 8 boxes of the smaller type.
Each larger box contains 100 mangoes. Find the number of mangoes contained in the
smaller box?

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EXERCISE 4.4
1. Set up equations and solve them to find the unknown numbers in the following cases:
(a) Add 4 to eight times a number; you get 60.
(b) One fifth of a number minus 4 gives 3.
(c) If I take three fourths of a number and count up 3 more, I get 21.

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(e) Munna subtracts thrice the number of notebooks he has from 50, he finds the
result to be 8.
(f) Ibenhal thinks of a number. If she adds 19 to it and divides the sum by 5, she
will get 8.

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(g) Anwar thinks of a number. If he takes away 7 from

5
of the number, the
2

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2. Solve the following:
(a) The teacher tells the class that the highest marks obtained by a student in her
class is twice the lowest marks plus 7. The highest score is 87. What is the
lowest score?
(b) In an isosceles triangle, the base angles are equal. The vertex angle is 40.
What are the base angles of the triangle? (Remember, the sum of three angles of
a triangle is 180).
(c) Smitas mother is 34 years old. Two years from now mothers age will be 4
times Smitas present age. What is Smitas present age?
(d) Sachin scored twice as many runs as Rahul. Together, their runs fell two short
of a double century. How many runs did each one score?
result is

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(i) Irfan says that he has 7 marbles more than five times the marbles Parmit has.
Irfan has 37 marbles. How many marbles does Parmit have?
(ii) Laxmi's father is 49 years old. He is 4 years older than three times Laxmi's age.
What is Laxmi's age?
(iii) Maya, Madhura and Mohsina are friends studying in the same class. In a class
test in geography, Maya got 16 out of 25. Madhura got 20. Their average score
was 19. How much did Mohsina score?
(iv) People of Sundargram planted a total of 102 trees in the village garden. Some of
the trees were fruit trees. The number of non-fruit trees were two more than
three times the number of fruit trees. What was the number of fruit trees planted?

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4. Solve the following riddle:

I am a number,
Tell my identity!
Take me seven times over
And add a fifty!
To reach a triple century
You still need forty!

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WHAT HAVE WE DISCUSSED?

1. An equation is a condition on a variable such that two expressions in the variable

should have equal value.
2. The value of the variable for which the equation is satisfied is called the solution of the
equation.
3. An equation remains the same if the L.H.S. and the R.H.S. are interchanged.
4. In case of the balanced equation, if we
(i) add the same number to both the sides, or (ii) subtract the same number from
both the sides, or (iii) multiply both sides by the same number, or (iv) divide both
sides by the same number, the balance remains undisturbed, i.e., the value of the
L.H.S. remains equal to the value of the R.H.S.
5. The above property gives a systematic method of solving an equation. We carry out
a series of identical mathematical operations on the two sides of the equation in such
a way that on one of the sides we get just the variable. The last step is the solution of
the equation.
6. Transposing means moving to the other side. Transposition of a number has the same
effect as adding same number to (or subtracting the same number from) both sides of
the equation. When you transpose a number from one side of the equation to the
other side, you change its sign. For example, transposing +3 from the L.H.S. to the
R.H.S. in equation x + 3 = 8 gives x = 8 3 (= 5). We can carry out the transposition
of an expression in the same way as the transposition of a number.
7. We have learnt how to construct simple algebraic expressions corresponding to
practical situations.
8. We also learnt how, using the technique of doing the same mathematical operation
(for example adding the same number) on both sides, we could build an equation
starting from its solution. Further, we also learnt that we could relate a given equation
to some appropriate practical situation and build a practical word problem/puzzle
from the equation.

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Lines and
Angles

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5.1 INTRODUCTION

You already know how to identify different lines, line segments and angles in a given
shape. Can you identify the different line segments and angles formed in the following
figures? (Fig 5.1)

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Fig 5.1

Can you also identify whether the angles made are acute or obtuse or right?
Recall that a line segment has two end points. If we extend the two end points in either
direction endlessly, we get a line. Thus, we can say that a line has no end points. On the other
hand, recall that a ray has one end point (namely its starting point). For example, look at the
figures given below:

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(i)

(iii)
Fig 5.2

Here, Fig 5.2 (i) shows a line segment, Fig 5.2 (ii) shows a line and Fig 5.2 (iii) is that
of a ray. A line segment PQ is generally denoted by the symbol PQ , a line AB is denoted by
JJJG
the symbol AB and the ray OP is denoted by OP . Give some examples of line segments and
rays from your daily life and discuss them with your friends.

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Again recall that an angle is formed when lines or line segments meet. In Fig 5.1,
observe the corners. These corners are formed when two lines or line segments intersect
at a point. For example, look at the figures given below:

(i)

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In Fig 5.3 (i) line segments AB and BC intersect at B to form angle ABC, and again
line segments BC and AC intersect at C to form angle ACB and so on. Whereas, in
Fig 5.3 (ii) lines PQ and RS intersect at O to form four angles POS,
SOQ, QOR and ROP. An angle ABC is represented by the symbol
TRY THESE
ABC. Thus, in Fig 5.3 (i), the three angles formed are ABC, BCA
List ten figures around you
and BAC, and in Fig 5.3 (ii), the four angles formed are POS, SOQ,
and identify the acute, obtuse
QOR and POR. You have already studied how to classify the angles
and right angles found in them.
as acute, obtuse or right angle.
Note: While referring to the measure of an angle ABC, we shall write mABC as simply
ABC. The context will make it clear, whether we are referring to the angle or its measure.

5.2 RELATED ANGLES

5.2.1 Complementary Angles

When the sum of the measures of two angles is 90, the angles are called complementary
angles.

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(ii)

Are these two angles complementary?

Yes

Fig 5.4

(iv)

Are these two angles complementary?

No

Whenever two angles are complementary, each angle is said to be the complement
of the other angle. In the above diagram (Fig 5.4), the 30 angle is the complement of the
60 angle and vice versa.

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THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

1. Can two acute angles be complement to each other?

2. Can two obtuse angles be complement to each other?
3. Can two right angles be complement to each other?

TRY THESE

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1. Which pairs of following angles are complementary? (Fig 5.5)

(i)

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(ii)

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(iv)

2. What is the measure of the complement of each of the following angles?

(i) 45
(ii) 65
(iii) 41
(iv) 54
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Let us now look at the following pairs of angles (Fig 5.6):

(i)

(ii)

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Do you notice that the sum of the measures of the angles in each of the above pairs
(Fig 5.6) comes out to be 180? Such pairs of angles are called supplementary angles.
When two angles are supplementary, each angle is said to be the supplement of the other.

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

1. Can two obtuse angles be supplementary?

2. Can two acute angles be supplementary?
3. Can two right angles be supplementary?

TRY THESE

1. Find the pairs of supplementary angles in Fig 5.7:

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(iii)

(ii)

Fig 5.7

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2. What will be the measure of the supplement of each one of the following angles?
(i) 100
(ii) 90
(iii) 55
(iv) 125
3. Among two supplementary angles the measure of the larger angle is 44o more than
the measure of the smaller. Find their measures.

5.2.3. Adjacent Angles

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Look at this steering wheel of a car. At the

centre of the wheel you find three angles
being formed, lying next to one another.

When you open a book it looks like the above

figure. In A and B, we find a pair of angles,
placed next to each other.

Fig 5.8

At both the vertices A and B, we find, a pair of angles are placed next to each other.
These angles are such that:
(i) they have a common vertex;
(ii) they have a common arm; and
(iii) the non-common arms are on either side of the common arm.
Such pairs of angles are called adjacent angles. Adjacent angles have a common
vertex and a common arm but no common interior points.

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1. Are the angles marked 1 and 2 adjacent? (Fig 5.9). If they are not adjacent,
say, why.

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(ii)

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(iv)

(v)

Fig 5.9

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(a) AOB and BOC
(b) BOD and BOC
Justify your answer.

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THINK, DISCUSS

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2.
3.
4.

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WRITE

Can two adjacent angles be supplementary?

Can two adjacent angles be complementary?
Can two obtuse angles be adjacent angles?
Can an acute angle be adjacent to an obtuse angle?

5.2.4 Linear Pair

A linear pair is a pair of adjacent angles whose non-common sides are opposite rays.

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(i)

Are 1, 2 a linear pair? No! (Why?)

Fig 5.11

(ii)

In Fig 5.11 (i) above, observe that the opposite rays (which are the non-common
sides of 1 and 2) form a line. Thus, 1 + 2 amounts to 180o.

The angles in a linear pair are supplementary.

Have you noticed models of a linear pair in your environment?
Note carefully that a pair of supplementary angles form a linear pair when
placed adjacent to each other. Do you find examples of linear pair in your daily life?

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Observe a vegetable chopping board (Fig 5.12).

A vegetable chopping board

The chopping blade makes a
linear pair of angles with the board.

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A pen stand
The pen makes a linear
pair of angles with the stand.

Fig 5.12

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Can you say that the chopping blade is making a linear pair of angles with the board?
Again, look at a pen stand (Fig 5.12). What do you observe?

THINK,

DISCUSS AND WRITE

1. Can two acute angles form a linear pair?

2. Can two obtuse angles form a linear pair?
3. Can two right angles form a linear pair?

TRY THESE

Check which of the following pairs of angles form a linear pair (Fig 5.13):

60

40

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(i)

(ii)

65

90

80

(iii)

Fig 5.13

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5.2.5 Vertically Opposite Angles

Next take two pencils and tie them with the help of a rubber band at the middle as shown
(Fig 5.14).
Look at the four angles formed 1, 2, 3 and 4.
1 is vertically opposite to 3.
and 2 is vertically opposite to 4.
We call 1 and 3, a pair of vertically opposite angles.
Fig 5.14
Can you name the other pair of vertically opposite angles?
Does 1 appear to be equal to 3? Does 2 appear to be equal to 4?
Before checking this, let us see some real life examples for vertically opposite angles
(Fig 5.15).

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DO THIS

Draw two lines l and m, intersecting at a point. You can now mark 1, 2, 3 and
4 as in the Fig (5.16).
Take a tracecopy of the figure on a transparent sheet.
Place the copy on the original such that 1 matches with its copy, 2 matches with
its copy, ... etc.
Fix a pin at the point of intersection. Rotate the copy by 180o. Do the lines coincide
again?

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Fig 5.16

You find that 1 and 3 have interchanged their positions and so have 2 and 4.
This has been done without disturbing the position of the lines.
Thus, 1 = 3 and 2 = 4.

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We conclude that when two lines intersect, the vertically opposite angles so
formed are equal.
Let us try to prove this using Geometrical Idea.
Let us consider two lines l and m. (Fig 5.17)
We can arrive at this result through logical reasoning as follows:
Let l and m be two lines, which intersect at O,
making angles 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Fig 5.17
We want to prove that 1 = 3 and 2 = 4
Now, 1 = 180 2 (Because 1, 2 form a linear pair, so, 1 + 2 = 180o) (i)
Similarly, 3 = 180 2 (Since 2, 3 form a linear pair, so, 2 + 3 = 180o) (ii)
Therfore, 1 = 3 [By (i) and (ii)]
Similarly, we can prove that 2 = 4, (Try it!)

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1. In the given figure, if

1 = 30, find 2 and 3.
2. Give an example for vertically opposite angles in
your surroundings.

EXAMPLE 1 In Fig (5.18) identify:

(i) Five pairs of adjacent angles.

(iii) Two pairs of vertically opposite angles.

SOLUTION

(ii) Three linear pairs.

(i) Five pairs of adjacent angles are (AOE, EOC), (EOC, COB),
(AOC, COB), (COB, BOD), (EOB, BOD)
(ii) Linear pairs are (AOE, EOB), (AOC, COB),
(COB, BOD)
(iii) Vertically opposite angles are: (COB, AOD), and (AOC, BOD)

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1. Find the complement of each of the following angles:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

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2. Find the supplement of each of the following angles:

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3. Identify which of the following pairs of angles are complementary and which are
supplementary.
(i) 65, 115
(ii) 63, 27
(iii) 112, 68

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(iv) 130, 50

(v) 45, 45

(vi) 80, 10

4. Find the angle which is equal to its complement.

5. Find the angle which is equal to its supplement.
6. In the given figure, 1 and 2 are supplementary
angles.
If 1 is decreased, what changes should take place
in 2 so that both the angles still remain
supplementary.
7. Can two angles be supplementary if both of them are:
(i) acute?
(ii) obtuse?
(iii) right?

8. An angle is greater than 45. Is its complementary angle greater than 45 or equal to
45 or less than 45?
9. In the adjoining figure:
(i) Is 1 adjacent to 2?
(ii) Is AOC adjacent to AOE?
(iii) Do COE and EOD form a linear pair?
(iv) Are BOD and DOA supplementary?
(v) Is 1 vertically opposite to 4?
(vi) What is the vertically opposite angle of 5?
10. Indicate which pairs of angles are:
(i) Vertically opposite angles.
(ii) Linear pairs.

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11. In the following figure, is 1 adjacent to 2? Give reasons.

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(ii)
13. Fill in the blanks:
(i) If two angles are complementary, then the sum of their measures is _______.
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)

If two angles are supplementary, then the sum of their measures is ______.
Two angles forming a linear pair are _______________.
If two adjacent angles are supplementary, they form a ___________.
If two lines intersect at a point, then the vertically opposite angles are always
_____________.
(vi) If two lines intersect at a point, and if one pair of vertically opposite angles are
acute angles, then the other pair of vertically opposite angles are __________.
14. In the adjoining figure, name the following pairs of angles.
(i) Obtuse vertically opposite angles
(ii) Adjacent complementary angles
(iii) Equal supplementary angles
(iv) Unequal supplementary angles
(v) Adjacent angles that do not form a linear pair

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OF

LINES

5.3.1 Intersecting Lines

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The blackboard on its stand, the letter Y made up of line segments and the grill-door of
a window (Fig 5.19), what do all these have in common? They are examples of intersecting
lines.
Two lines l and m intersect if they have a point in common. This common point O is
their point of intersection.

THINK,

DISCUSS AND WRITE

In Fig 5.20, AC and BE intersect at P.

AC and BC intersect at C, AC and EC intersect at C.
Try to find another ten pairs of intersecting line segments.
Should any two lines or line segments necessarily
intersect? Can you find two pairs of non-intersecting line
segments in the figure?
Can two lines intersect in more than one point? Think about it.

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TRY THESE

1. Find examples from your surroundings where lines intersect at right angles.
2. Find the measures of the angles made by the intersecting lines at the vertices of an
equilateral triangle.
3. Draw any rectangle and find the measures of angles at the four vertices made by the
intersecting lines.
4. If two lines intersect, do they always intersect at right angles?

5.3.2 Transversal

You might have seen a road crossing two or more roads or a railway line crossing several
other lines (Fig 5.21). These give an idea of a transversal.

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Fig 5.21

(ii)

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In the Fig 5.22, p is a transversal to the lines l and m.

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Fig 5.23

In Fig 5.23 the line p is not a transversal, although it cuts two

lines l and m. Can you say, why?

5.3.3. Angles made by a Transversal

In Fig 5.24, you see lines l and m cut by transversal p. The eight
angles marked 1 to 8 have their special names:

TRY THESE

1. Suppose two lines are given.

How many transversals can you
draw for these lines?
2. If a line is a transversal to three
lines, how many points of
intersections are there?
3. Try to identify a few transversals
in your surroundings.

Fig 5.24

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Exterior angles
Pairs of Corresponding angles

Pairs of Alternate interior angles

Pairs of Alternate exterior angles
Pairs of interior angles on the
same side of the transversal

3, 4, 5, 6
1, 2, 7, 8
1 and 5, 2 and 6,
3 and 7, 4 and 8
3 and 6, 4 and 5
1 and 8, 2 and 7
3 and 5, 4 and 6

Note: Corresponding angles (like 1 and 5 in Fig 5.25) include

(i) different vertices
(ii) are on the same side of the transversal and

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(iii) are in corresponding positions (above or below, left or right) relative to the
two lines.

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Alternate interior angles (like 3 and 6 in Fig 5.26)

(i) have different vertices
(ii) are on opposite sides of the transversal and
(iii) lie between the two lines.

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Name the pairs of angles in each figure:

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Do you remember what parallel lines are? They are lines on a plane that do not meet
anywhere. Can you identify parallel lines in the following figures? (Fig 5.27)

Fig 5.27

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DO THIS
Take a ruled sheet of paper. Draw (in thick colour) two parallel lines l and m.
Draw a transversal t to the lines l and m. Label 1 and 2 as shown [Fig 5.28(i)].
Place a tracing paper over the figure drawn. Trace the lines l, m and t.
Slide the tracing paper along t, until l coincides with m.
You find that 1 on the traced figure coincides with 2 of the original figure.
In fact, you can see all the following results by similar tracing and sliding activity.
(i) 1 = 2
(ii) 3 = 4
(iii) 5 = 6
(iv) 7 = 8

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(iv)

This activity illustrates the following fact:

If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, each pair of corresponding angles are
equal in measure.
We use this result to get another interesting result. Look at Fig 5.29.
When t cuts the parallel lines, l, m, we get, 3 = 7 (vertically opposite angles).
But 7 = 8 (corresponding angles). Therefore, 3 = 8

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You can similarly show that 1 = 6. Thus, we have

the following result :
If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, each
pair of alternate interior angles are equal.
This second result leads to another interesting
property. Again, from Fig 5.29.
3 + 1 = 180 (3 and 1 form a linear pair)
But 1 = 6 (A pair of alternate interior angles)
Therefore, we can say that 3 + 6 = 180.
Similarly, 1 + 8 = 180. Thus, we obtain the following result:

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If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, then each pair of interior angles on the same
side of the transversal are supplementary.
You can very easily remember these results if you can look for relevant shapes.
The F-shape stands for corresponding angles:

The Z - shape stands for alternate angles.

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Draw a pair of parallel lines and a transversal. Verify the above three statements by actually
measuring the angles.

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t is a transversal
x=?

Lines a || b;
c is a transversal
y=?

l1, l2 be two lines

t is a transversal
Is 1 = 2 ?

Lines l || m;
t is a transversal
z=?

Lines l || m;
t is a transversal
x=?

Lines l || m, p || q;
Find a, b, c, d

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5.4 CHECKING

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PARALLEL LINES

If two lines are parallel, then you know that a transversal gives rise to
pairs of equal corresponding angles, equal alternate interior angles
and interior angles on the same side of the transversal being
supplementary.
When two lines are given, is there any method to check if they are
parallel or not? You need this skill in many life-oriented situations.
A draftsman uses a carpenters square and a straight edge (ruler)
to draw these segments (Fig 5.30). He claims they are parallel. How?
Are you able to see that he has kept the corresponding angles to
be equal? (What is the transversal here?)
Thus, when a transversal cuts two lines, such that pairs of
corresponding angles are equal, then the lines have to be parallel.
Look at the letter Z(Fig 5.31). The horizontal segments here are
parallel, because the alternate angles are equal.
When a transversal cuts two lines, such that pairs of alternate
interior angles are equal, the lines have to be parallel.

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Draw a line l (Fig 5.32).

Draw a line m, perpendicular to l. Again draw a line p,
such that p is perpendicular to m.
Thus, p is perpendicular to a perpendicular to l.
You find p || l. How? This is because you draw p such
Fig 5.32
that 1 + 2 = 180o.
Thus, when a transversal cuts two lines, such that pairs of interior angles on the
same side of the transversal are supplementary, the lines have to be parallel.

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Is l || m ? Why?

EXERCISE 5.2

1. State the property that is used in each of the

following statements?
(i) If a || b, then 1 = 5.

(ii) If 4 = 6, then a || b.

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(iii) If 4 + 5 = 180, then a || b.

2. In the adjoining figure, identify

(i) the pairs of corresponding angles.

(ii) the pairs of alternate interior angles.

(iii) the pairs of interior angles on the same
side of the transversal.
(iv) the vertically opposite angles.

3. In the adjoining figure, p || q. Find the unknown

angles.

If l || m, what is x?

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4. Find the value of x in each of the following figures if l || m.

m
l

(i)
(ii)
5. In the given figure, the arms of two angles are parallel.
If ABC = 70, then find
(i) DGC
(ii) DEF
6. In the given figures below, decide whether l is parallel to m.

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(ii)

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(iii)

(iv)

WE DISCUSSED?

1. We recall that (i) A line-segment has two end points.

(ii) A ray has only one end point (its vertex); and
(iii) A line has no end points on either side.
2. An angle is formed when two lines (or rays or line-segments) meet.

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Two complementary angles
Two supplementary angles
Two adjacent angles
Linear pair

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Condition
Measures add up to 90
Measures add up to 180
Have a common vertex and a common
arm but no common interior.
Adjacent and supplementary

3. When two lines l and m meet, we say they intersect; the meeting point is called the
point of intersection.
When lines drawn on a sheet of paper do not meet, however far produced, we call
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4. (i) When two lines intersect (looking like the letter X) we have two pairs of opposite
angles. They are called vertically opposite angles. They are equal in measure.
(ii) A transversal is a line that intersects two or more lines at distinct points.
(iii) A transversal gives rise to several types of angles.
(iv) In the figure, we have
Types of Angles
Interior
Exterior
Corresponding

Angles Shown
3, 4, 5, 6
1, 2, 7, 8
1 and 5, 2 and 6,
3 and 7, 4 and 8
Alternate interior
3 and 6, 4 and 5
Alternate exterior
1 and 8, 2 and 7
Interior, on the same 3 and 5, 4 and 6
side of transversal

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relationships:
Each pair of corresponding angles are equal.
1 = 5, 3 = 7, 2 = 6, 4 = 8
Each pair of alternate interior angles are equal.
3 = 6, 4 = 5
Each pair of interior angles on the same side of transversal are supplementary.
3 + 5 = 180, 4 + 6 = 180

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its Properties
A triangle, you have seen, is a simple closed curve made of three line
segments. It has three vertices, three sides and three angles.
Here is ABC (Fig 6.1). It has

Fig 6.1
Sides:
AB , BC , CA
Angles:
BAC, ABC, BCA
Vertices:
A, B, C
The side opposite to the vertex A is BC. Can you name the angle opposite to the side AB?
You know how to classify triangles based on the (i) sides (ii) angles.
(i) Based on Sides: Scalene, Isosceles and Equilateral triangles.
(ii) Based on Angles: Acute-angled, Obtuse-angled and Right-angled triangles.
Make paper-cut models of the above triangular shapes. Compare your models with those
of your friends and discuss about them.

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1. Write the six elements (i.e., the 3 sides and the 3 angles) of ABC.
2. Write the:
(i) Side opposite to the vertex Q of PQR
(ii) Angle opposite to the side LM of LMN
(iii) Vertex opposite to the side RT of RST
3. Look at Fig 6.2 and classify each of the triangles according to its
(a) Sides
(b) Angles

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10
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8cm

7cm
M

6cm R
(ii)

7cm
(iii)

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Now, let us try to explore something more about triangles.

6.2 MEDIANS

OF A

TRIANGLE

Given a line segment, you know how to find its perpendicular bisector by paper folding.
Cut out a triangle ABC from a piece of paper (Fig 6.3). Consider any one of its sides, say,

BC . By paper-folding, locate the perpendicular bisector of BC . The folded crease meets

BC at D, its mid-point. Join AD .
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The line segment AD , joining the mid-point of BC to its opposite vertex A is called a
median of the triangle.
Consider the sides AB and CA and find two more medians of the triangle.
A median connects a vertex of a triangle to the mid-point of the opposite side.

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

1. How many medians can a triangle have?

2. Does a median lie wholly in the interior of the triangle? (If you think that this is not
true, draw a figure to show such a case).

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6.3 ALTITUDES

OF A

TRIANGLE

Make a triangular shaped cardboard ABC. Place it upright, on a

table. How tall is the triangle? The height is the distance from

vertex A (in the Fig 6.4) to the base BC .

From A to BC you can think of many line segments (see the
next Fig 6.5). Which among them will represent its height?
The height is given by the line segment that starts from A,

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comes straight down to BC , and is perpendicular to BC .

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This line segment AL is an altitude of the triangle.

An altitude has one end point at a vertex of the triangle
and the other on the line containing the opposite side. Through
each vertex, an altitude can be drawn.

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

Fig 6.5

WRITE

1. How many altitudes can a triangle have?

2. Draw rough sketches of altitudes from A to BC for the following triangles (Fig 6.6):
A
A

Acute-angled
(i)

Right-angled
(ii)

Obtuse-angled
(iii)

Fig 6.6

3. Will an altitude always lie in the interior of a triangle? If you think that this need not be
true, draw a rough sketch to show such a case.
4. Can you think of a triangle in which two altitudes of the triangle are two of its sides?
5. Can the altitude and median be same for a triangle?
(Hint: For Q.No. 4 and 5, investigate by drawing the altitudes for every type of triangle).

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Take several cut-outs of
(i) an equilateral triangle

(ii) an isosceles triangle and

(iii) a scalene triangle.

Find their altitudes and medians. Do you find anything special about them? Discuss it
with your friends.

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EXERCISE 6.1
1. In PQR, D is the mid-point of QR .

PM is _________________.
PD is _________________.

Is QM = MR?
Q
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2. Draw rough sketches for the following:
(a) In ABC, BE is a median.
(b) In PQR, PQ and PR are altitudes of the triangle.
(c) In XYZ, YL is an altitude in the exterior of the triangle.
3. Verify by drawing a diagram if the median and altitude of an isosceles triangle can be
same.

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6.4 EXTERIOR ANGLE

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TRIANGLE

AND ITS

PROPERTY

1. Draw a triangle ABC and produce one of its sides,

say BC as shown in Fig 6.7. Observe the angle
ACD formed at the point C. This angle lies in the
exterior of ABC. We call it an exterior angle
of the ABC formed at vertex C.
Clearly BCA is an adjacent angle to ACD. The
Fig 6.7
remaining two angles of the triangle namely A and B are
called the two interior opposite angles or the two remote
interior angles of ACD. Now cut out (or make trace copies of) A and B and
place them adjacent to each other as shown in Fig 6.8.
Do these two pieces together entirely cover ACD?
Can you say that
m ACD = m A + m B?
2. As done earlier, draw a triangle ABC and form an exterior angle ACD. Now take a
protractor and measure ACD, A
and B.
Find the sum A + B and compare
it with the measure of ACD. Do you
observe that ACD is equal (or nearly
equal, if there is an error in
measurement) to A + B?
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You may repeat the above two activities by drawing some more triangles along with
their exterior angles. Every time, you will find that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to
the sum of its two interior opposite angles.
A logical step-by-step argument can further confirm this fact.
An exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of its interior opposite
angles.
Given Consider ABC.
ACD is an exterior angle.
To Show: mACD = mA + mB
Fig 6.9

Steps

Reasons

(a) 1 = x

BA || CE and AC is a transversal.

Therefore, alternate angles should be equal.

(b) 2 = y

BA || CE and BD is a transversal.

Therefore, corresponding angles should be equal.

(c) 1 + 2 = x + y
(d) Now, x + y = m ACD
From Fig 6.9
Hence, 1 + 2 = ACD
The above relation between an exterior angle and its two interior opposite angles is
referred to as the Exterior Angle Property of a triangle.

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1. Exterior angles can be formed for a triangle in many ways. Three of them are shown
here (Fig 6.10)

Fig 6.10

There are three more ways of getting exterior angles. Try to produce those rough
sketches.
2. Are the exterior angles formed at each vertex of a triangle equal?
3. What can you say about the sum of an exterior angle of a triangle and its adjacent
interior angle?

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EXAMPLE 1 Find angle x in Fig 6.11.

SOLUTION
or
or

Sum of interior opposite angles = Exterior angle

50 + x = 110
x = 60

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Fig 6.11

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WRITE

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1. What can you say about each of the interior opposite angles, when the exterior angle is
(i) a right angle?
(ii) an obtuse angle?
(iii) an acute angle?

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2. Can the exterior angle of a triangle be a straight angle?

TRY THESE

Fig 6.12

1. An exterior angle of a triangle is of measure 70 and one of its interior opposite

angles is of measure 25. Find the measure of the other interior opposite
angle.
2. The two interior opposite angles of an exterior angle of a triangle are 60 and
80. Find the measure of the exterior angle.
3. Is something wrong in this diagram (Fig 6.12)? Comment.

EXERCISE 6.2

1. Find the value of the unknown exterior angle x in the following diagrams:

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2. Find the value of the unknown interior angle x in the following figures:

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6.5 ANGLE SUM PROPERTY

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TRIANGLE

There is a remarkable property connecting the three angles of a triangle. You are going to
see this through the following four activities.
1. Draw a triangle. Cut on the three angles. Rearrange them as shown in Fig 6.13 (i), (ii).
The three angles now constitute one angle. This angle is a straight angle and so has
measure 180.

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(ii)

Fig 6.13

Thus, the sum of the measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180.
2. The same fact you can observe in a different way also. Take three copies of any
triangle, say ABC (Fig 6.14).

Fig 6.14

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Arrange them as in Fig 6.15.

What do you observe about 1 + 2 + 3?
(Do you also see the exterior angle
property?)

Fig 6.15

3. Take a piece of paper and cut out a triangle, say, ABC (Fig 6.16).
Make the altitude AM by folding ABC such that it passes through A.
Fold now the three corners such that all the three vertices A, B and C touch at M.
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You find that all the three angles form together a straight angle. This again shows that
the sum of the measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180.
4. Draw any three triangles, say ABC, PQR and XYZ in your notebook.
Use your protractor and measure each of the angles of these triangles.
Tabulate your results
Name of
ABC
PQR
XYZ

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mA =
mP =
mX =

mB =
mQ =
mY =

mC =
mR =
mZ =

Sum of the Measures

of the three Angles

mA + mB + mC =
mP + mQ + mR =
mX + mY + mZ =

Allowing marginal errors in measurement, you will find that the last column always
gives 180 (or nearly 180).
When perfect precision is possible, this will also show that the sum of the measures of
the three angles of a triangle is 180.
You are now ready to give a formal justification of your assertion through logical
argument.
Statement The total measure of
the three angles of a
triangle is 180.
To justify this let us use the exterior
angle property of a triangle.
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1, 2, 3 are angles of ABC (Fig 6.17).

4 is the exterior angle when BC is extended to D.
Justification 1 + 2 = 4 (by exterior angle property)
1 + 2 + 3 = 4 + 3 (adding 3 to both the sides)
But 4 and 3 form a linear pair so it is 180. Therefore, 1 + 2 + 3 = 180.
Let us see how we can use this property in a number of ways.
Given

SOLUTION By angle sum property of a triangle,

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EXERCISE 6.3

1. Find the value of the unknown x in the following diagrams:

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2. Find the values of the unknowns x and y in the following diagrams:

47

52 R

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1. Two angles of a triangle are 30 and 80. Find the third angle.
2. One of the angles of a triangle is 80 and the other two angles are equal. Find the
measure of each of the equal angles.
3. The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 1:2:1. Find all the angles of the triangle.
Classify the triangle in two different ways.

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WRITE

1. Can you have a triangle with two right angles?

2. Can you have a triangle with two obtuse angles?

3. Can you have a triangle with two acute angles?

4. Can you have a triangle with all the three angles greater than 60?
5. Can you have a triangle with all the three angles equal to 60?

6. Can you have a triangle with all the three angles less than 60?

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A triangle in which all the three sides are of equal lengths is called an equilateral
triangle.

Take two copies of an equilateral triangle ABC (Fig 6.19). Keep one of them fixed.
Place the second triangle on it. It fits exactly into the first. Turn it round in any way and still
they fit with one another exactly. Are you
able to see that when the three sides of a
A
triangle have equal lengths then the three
angles are also of the same size?
We conclude that in an equilateral triangle:
(i) all sides have same length.
(ii) each angle has measure 60.

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A triangle in which two sides are of equal lengths is called an isosceles triangle.

Fig 6.20

From a piece of paper cut out an isosceles triangle XYZ, with XY=XZ (Fig 6.20).
Fold it such that Z lies on Y. The line XM through X is now the axis of symmetry (which
you will read in Chapter 14). You find that Y and Z fit on each other exactly. XY and
XZ are called equal sides; YZ is called the base; Y and Z are called base angles and
these are also equal.
Thus, in an isosceles triangle:
(i) two sides have same length.
(ii) base angles opposite to the equal sides are equal.

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2. Find angles x and y in each figure.

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TWO SIDES

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TRIANGLE

1. Mark three non-collinear spots A, B and C in your playground. Using lime powder
mark the paths AB, BC and AC.
Ask your friend to start from A and reach C, walking along one or

more of these paths. She can, for example, walk first along AB and then

along BC to reach C; or she can walk straight along AC . She will naturally

Fig 6.21

prefer the direct path AC. If she takes the other path ( AB and then BC ),
she will have to walk more. In other words,
AB + BC > AC
(i)
Similarly, if one were to start from B and go to A, he or she will not take the route
BC and CA but will prefer BA This is because
BC + CA > AB

By a similar argument, you find that

CA + AB > BC
(iii)
These observations suggest that the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a
triangle is greater than the third side.
2. Collect fifteen small sticks (or strips) of different lengths, say, 6 cm, 7 cm, 8 cm,
9 cm, ..., 20 cm.
Take any three of these sticks and try to form a triangle. Repeat this by choosing
different combinations of three sticks.
Suppose you first choose two sticks of length 6 cm and 12 cm. Your third stick has to
be of length more than 12 6 = 6 cm and less than 12 + 6 = 18 cm. Try this and find
out why it is so.
To form a triangle you will need any three sticks such that the sum of the lengths of
any two of them will always be greater than the length of the third stick.
This also suggests that the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater
than the third side.

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3. Draw any three triangles, say ABC, PQR and XYZ in your notebook
(Fig 6.22).
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(ii)
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Name of

Lengths of Sides

Is this True?

ABC

AB ___

AB BC < CA

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

BC ___

BC CA < AB

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

CA ___

CA AB < BC

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

PQR

PQ ___

PQ QR < RP

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

QR ___

QR RP < PQ

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

RP ___

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RP PQ < QR

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

XY ___

XY YZ < ZX

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

YZ ___

YZ ZX < XY
___ + ___ > ___

(Yes/No)

ZX ___

ZX XY < YZ

(Yes/No)

___ + ___ > ___

This also strengthens our earlier guess. Therefore, we conclude that sum of the lengths
of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the third side.
We also find that the difference between the length of any two sides of a triangle is
smaller than the length of the third side.

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EXAMPLE 3 Is there a triangle whose sides have lengths 10.2 cm, 5.8 cm and 4.5 cm?
SOLUTION

Suppose such a triangle is possible. Then the sum of the lengths of any two
sides would be greater than the length of the third side. Let us check this.
Is 4.5 + 5.8 > 10.2?
Yes
Is 5.8 + 10.2 > 4.5?
Yes
Is 10.2 + 4.5 > 5.8?
Yes
Therefore, the triangle is possible.

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SOLUTION We know that the sum of two sides of a triangle is always greater than

the third.
Therefore, one-third side has to be less than the sum of the two sides. The third side is
thus less than 8 + 6 = 14 cm.
The side cannot be less than the difference of the two sides. Thus the third side has to
be more than 8 6 = 2 cm.
The length of the third side could be any length greater than 2 and less than 14 cm.

EXERCISE 6.4

1. Is it possible to have a triangle with the following sides?

(i) 2 cm, 3 cm, 5 cm

(ii) 3 cm, 6 cm, 7 cm

(iii) 6 cm, 3 cm, 2 cm

2. Take any point O in the interior of a triangle PQR. Is

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(ii) OQ + OR > QR?

(iii) OR + OP > RP?

3. AM is a median of a triangle ABC.

Is AB + BC + CA > 2 AM?
(Consider the sides of triangles
ABM and AMC.)
4. ABCD is a quadrilateral.
Is AB + BC + CD + DA > AC + BD?
5. ABCD is quadrilateral. Is
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6. The lengths of two sides of a triangle are 12 cm and 15 cm. Between what two
measures should the length of the third side fall?

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WRITE

1. Is the sum of any two angles of a triangle always greater than the third angle?

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Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher of sixth century
B.C. is said to have found a very important and useful
property of right-angled triangles given in this section.
The property is hence named after him. In fact, this
property was known to people of many other
countries too. The Indian mathematician Baudhayan
has also given an equivalent form of this property.
We now try to explain the Pythagoras property.
In a right angled triangle, the sides have some
special names. The side opposite to the right angle
is called the hypotenuse; the other two sides are
known as the legs of the right-angled triangle.
In ABC (Fig 6.23), the right-angle is at B. So,

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AC is the hypotenuse. AB and BC are the legs of

ABC.
Make eight identical copies of right angled
triangle of any size you prefer. For example, you
make a right-angled triangle whose hypotenuse is a
units long and the legs are of lengths b units and c
units (Fig 6.24).
Fig 6.24
Draw two identical squares on a sheet with sides
of lengths b + c.
You are to place four triangles in one square and the remaining four triangles in the
other square, as shown in the following diagram (Fig 6.25).

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The squares are identical; the eight triangles inserted are also identical.
Hence the uncovered area of square A = Uncovered area of square B.
i.e., Area of inner square of square A = The total area of two uncovered squares in square B.
a2 = b2 + c2
This is Pythagoras property. It may be stated as follows:

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the square on the hypotenuse = sum of the squares on the legs.

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Pythagoras property is a very useful tool in mathematics. It is formally proved as a

theorem in later classes. You should be clear about its meaning.
It says that for any right-angled triangle, the area of the square on the hypotenuse is
equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the legs.
Draw a right triangle, preferably on
a square sheet, construct squares on
its sides, compute the area of these
squares and verify the theorem
practically (Fig 6.26).
If you have a right-angled triangle,
the Pythagoras property holds. If the
Pythagoras property holds for some
triangle, will the triangle be rightangled? (Such problems are known as
converse problems). We will try to
answer this. Now, we will show that,
if there is a triangle such that sum of
the squares on two of its sides is equal
Fig 6.26
to the square of the third side, it must
be a right-angled triangle.

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1. Have cut-outs of squares with sides 4 cm,

5 cm, 6 cm long. Arrange to get a triangular
shape by placing the corners of the squares
suitably as shown in the figure (Fig 6.27).
Trace out the triangle formed. Measure each
angle of the triangle. You find that there is no
right angle at all.
In fact, in this case each angle will be acute! Note
that 42 + 52 62, 52 + 62 42 and 62 + 42 52.

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2. Repeat the above activity with squares whose sides have lengths 4 cm, 5 cm and
7 cm. You get an obtuse angled triangle! Note that
42 + 52 72 etc.
This shows that Pythagoras property holds if and only if the triangle is right-angled.
Hence we get this fact:

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EXAMPLE 5 Determine whether the triangle whose lengths of sides are 3 cm, 4 cm,

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5 cm is a right-angled triangle.

SOLUTION
2

32 = 3 3 = 9; 42 = 4 4 = 16; 52 = 5 5 = 25
2

We find 3 + 4 = 5 .

Therefore, the triangle is right-angled.

Note: In any right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse happens to be the longest side. In this
example, the side with length 5 cm is the hypotenuse.

EXAMPLE 6 ABC is right-angled at C. If

AC = 5 cm and BC = 12 cm find
the length of AB.

SOLUTION

A rough figure will help us (Fig 6.28).

By Pythagoras property,

Fig 6.28

AB2 = AC2 + BC2

= 52 + 122 = 25 + 144 = 169 = 132

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AB2 = 132. So, AB = 13

or the length of AB is 13 cm.

Note: To identify perfect squares, you may use prime factorisation technique.

TRY THESE

Find the unknown length x in the following figures (Fig 6.29):

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24

37

12

37

x
(v)

(iv)

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1. PQR is a triangle right angled at P. If PQ = 10 cm

and PR = 24 cm, find QR.
2. ABC is a triangle right angled at C. If AB = 25 cm
and AC = 7 cm, find BC.

3. A 15 m long ladder reached a window 12 m high

from the ground on placing it against a wall at a
distance a. Find the distance of the foot of the
ladder from the wall.

4. Which of the following can be the sides of a right

triangle?
(i) 2.5 cm,6.5 cm, 6 cm.
(ii) 2 cm, 2 cm, 5 cm.

(iii) 1.5 cm, 2cm, 2.5 cm.

In the case of right-angled triangles, identify the

right angles.

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and its top touches the ground at a distance of
12 m from the base of the tree. Find the original
height of the tree.
6. Angles Q and R of a PQR are 25 and 65.
Write which of the following is true:
(i) PQ2 + QR2 = RP2
(ii) PQ2 + RP2 = QR2
(iii) RP2 + QR2 = PQ2

25

65

7. Find the perimeter of the rectangle whose length is 40 cm and a diagonal is 41 cm.
8. The diagonals of a rhombus measure 16 cm and 30 cm. Find its perimeter.

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THINK, DISCUSS
1.
2.
3.
4.

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WRITE

Which is the longest side in the triangle PQR right angled at P?

Which is the longest side in the triangle ABC right angled at B?
Which is the longest side of a right triangle?
The diagonal of a rectangle produce by itself the same area as produced by its
length and breadth This is Baudhayan Theorem. Compare it with the Pythagoras
property.

DO THIS

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Enrichment activity

There are many proofs for Pythagoras theorem, using dissection and rearrangement
procedure. Try to collect a few of them and draw charts explaining them.

WHAT

HAVE

WE DISCUSSED?

1. The six elements of a triangle are its three angles and the three sides.

2. The line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to the mid point of its opposite side is
called a median of the triangle. A triangle has 3 medians.
3. The perpendicular line segment from a vertex of a triangle to its opposite side is
called an altitude of the triangle. A triangle has 3 altitudes.
4. An exterior angle of a triangle is formed when a side of a triangle is produced. At
each vertex, you have two ways of forming an exterior angle.
5. A property of exterior angles:
The measure of any exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the measures of
its interior opposite angles.
6. The angle sum property of a triangle:
The total measure of the three angles of a triangle is 180.
7. A triangle is said to be equilateral if each one of its sides has the same length.
In an equilateral triangle, each angle has measure 60.
8. A triangle is said to be isosceles if atleast any two of its sides are of same length.
The non-equal side of an isosceles triangle is called its base; the base angles of an
isosceles triangle have equal measure.
9. Property of the lengths of sides of a triangle:
The sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the
third side.
The difference between the lengths of any two sides is smaller than the length of the
third side.

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This property is useful to know if it is possible to draw a triangle when the lengths of
the three sides are known.
10. In a right angled triangle, the side opposite to the right angle is called the hypotenuse
and the other two sides are called its legs.
11. Pythagoras Property:
In a right-angled triangle,
the square on the hypotenuse = the sum of the squares on its legs.
If a triangle is not right angled this property does not hold good. This property is
useful to decide whether a given triangle is right angled or not.

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CONGRUENCE OF TRIANGLES

Congruence of
Triangles

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7.1 INTRODUCTION

You are now ready to learn a very important geometrical idea, Congruence. In particular,
you will study a lot about congruence of triangles.
To understand what congruence is, we turn to some activities.

DO THIS

Take two stamps (Fig 7.1) of same denomination. Place one stamp over
the other. What do you observe?

Fig 7.1

One stamp covers the other completely and exactly. This means that the two stamps are
of the same shape and same size. Such objects are said to be congruent. The two stamps
used by you are congruent to one another. Congruent objects are exact copies of one
another.
Can you, now, say if the following objects are congruent or not?
1. Shaving blades of the same company [Fig 7.2 (i)].
2. Sheets of the same letter-pad [Fig 7.2 (ii)]. 3. Biscuits in the same packet [Fig 7.2 (iii)].
4. Toys made of the same mould. [Fig 7.2(iv)]

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Fig 7.2

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The relation of two objects being congruent is called congruence. For the present,
we will deal with plane figures only, although congruence is a general idea applicable to
three-dimensional shapes also. We will try to learn a precise meaning of the congruence
of plane figures already known.

7.2 CONGRUENCE

OF

PLANE FIGURES

Look at the two figures given here (Fig 7.3). Are they congruent?

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(ii)

Fig 7.3

You can use the method of superposition. Take a trace-copy of one of them and place
it over the other. If the figures cover each other completely, they are congruent. Alternatively,
you may cut out one of them and place it over the other. Beware! You are not allowed to
bend, twist or stretch the figure that is cut out (or traced out).
In Fig 7.3, if figure F1 is congruent to figure F2 , we write F1 F2.

7.3 CONGRUENCE AMONG LINE SEGMENTS

When are two line segments congruent? Observe the two pairs of line segments given
here (Fig 7.4).

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Fig 7.4

Use the trace-copy superposition method for the pair of line segments in [Fig 7.4(i)].

Copy CD and place it on AB . You find that CD covers AB , with C on A and D on B.

Hence, the line segments are congruent. We write AB CD .

Repeat this activity for the pair of line segments in [Fig 7.4(ii)]. What do you find?
They are not congruent. How do you know it? It is because the line segments do not
coincide when placed one over other.
You should have by now noticed that the pair of line segments in [Fig 7.4(i)] matched
with each other because they had same length; and this was not the case in [Fig 7.4(ii)].
If two line segments have the same (i.e., equal) length, they are congruent. Also,
if two line segments are congruent, they have the same length.

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In view of the above fact, when two line segments are congruent, we sometimes just
say that the line segments are equal; and we also write AB = CD. (What we actually mean
is AB CD ).

7.4 CONGRUENCE

OF

ANGLES

Look at the four angles given here (Fig 7.5).

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(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Fig 7.5

MakeJJJ
a trace-copy
JJJGof PQR. Try to superpose it on ABC. For this, first place Q
G
on B and QP along AB . Where does
fall? It falls on
.
JJJG
JJJJ
GG
JJJ
QR
ML
BA
MN
YX
YZ
BC

Thus, PQR matches exactly with ABC.

That is, ABC and PQR are congruent.

(Note that the measurement of these two congruent angles are same).
We write

ABC PQR

(i)

mABC = m PQR(In this case, measure is 40).

or

Now, you take a trace-copy of LMN. Try to superpose it on ABC. Place M on B

and
along
. Does
fall on
? No, in this case it does not happen. You find
that ABC and LMN do not cover each other exactly. So, they are not congruent.
(Note that, in this case, the measures of ABC and LMN are not equal).

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and
, respectively appear
[in Fig 7.5 (iv)] to be longer than
and
. You may, hence, think that ABC is
smaller than XYZ. But remember that the rays in the figure only indicate the direction
and not any length. On superposition, you will find that these two angles are also congruent.
We write
or

ABC XYZ

(ii)

mABC = mXYZ

In view of (i) and (ii), we may even write

ABC PQR XYZ
If two angles have the same measure, they are congruent. Also, if two angles are
congruent, their measures are same.

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As in the case of line segments, congruency of angles entirely depends on the equality
of their measures. So, to say that two angles are congruent, we sometimes just say that the
angles are equal; and we write
ABC = PQR (to mean ABC PQR).

7.5 CONGRUENCE

OF

TRIANGLES

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We saw that two line segments are congruent where one of them, is just a copy of the
other. Similarly, two angles are congruent if one of them is a copy of the other. We extend
this idea to triangles.
Two triangles are congruent if they are copies of each other and when superposed,
they cover each other exactly.

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(ii)

Fig 7.6

ABC and PQR have the same size and shape. They are congruent. So, we would
express this as
ABC PQR
This means that, when you place PQR on ABC, P falls on A, Q falls on B and R
falls on C, also
falls along AB , QR falls along BC and PR falls along AC . If, under
a given correspondence, two triangles are congruent, then their corresponding parts
(i.e., angles and sides) that match one another are equal. Thus, in these two congruent
triangles, we have:
Corresponding vertices : A and P, B and Q, C and R.

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: AB and PQ , BC and QR , AC and PR .

Corresponding angles : A and P, B and Q, C and R.
If you place PQR on ABC such that P falls on B, then, should the other vertices
also correspond suitably? It need not happen! Take trace, copies of the triangles and try
to find out.
This shows that while talking about congruence of triangles, not only the measures of
angles and lengths of sides matter, but also the matching of vertices. In the above case, the
correspondence is
A P, B Q,
CR
We may write this as
ABC PQR
Corresponding sides

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EXAMPLE 1 ABC and PQR are congruent under the correspondence:

ABC RQP
Write the parts of ABC that correspond to
(i) P

(ii) Q

(iii) RP

SOLUTION For better understanding of the correspondence, let us use a diagram (Fig 7.7).

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The correspondence is ABC RQP. This means

AR ;
So, (i) PQ CB

B Q; and C P.

(ii) Q B and (iii) RP AC

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

When two triangles, say ABC and PQR are given, there are, in all, six possible matchings
or correspondences. Two of them are
(i) ABC PQR
and
(ii) ABC QRP.
Find the other four correspondences by using two cutouts of triangles. Will all these
correspondences lead to congruence? Think about it.

EXERCISE 7.1

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1. Complete the following statements:

(a) Two line segments are congruent if ___________.

(b) Among two congruent angles, one has a measure of 70; the measure of the
other angle is ___________.
(c) When we write A = B, we actually mean ___________.
2. Give any two real-life examples for congruent shapes.
3. If ABC FED under the correspondence ABC FED, write all the
corresponding congruent parts of the triangles.
4. If DEF BCA, write the part(s) of BCA that correspond to
(i) E

(ii) EF

(iii) F

(iv) DF

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7.6 CRITERIA

FOR

CONGRUENCE

OF

TRIANGLES

We make use of triangular structures and patterns frequently in day-to-day life. So, it is
rewarding to find out when two triangular shapes will be congruent. If you have two triangles
drawn in your notebook and want to verify if they are congruent, you cannot everytime cut
out one of them and use method of superposition. Instead, if we can judge congruency in
terms of approrpriate measures, it would be quite useful. Let us try to do this.

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A Game

Appu and Tippu play a game. Appu has drawn a triangle ABC (Fig 7.8) and
has noted the length of each of its sides and measure of each of its angles.
Tippu has not seen it. Appu challenges Tippu if he can draw a copy of his
ABC based on bits of information that Appu would give. Tippu attempts to
draw a triangle congruent to ABC, using the information provided by Appu.
The game starts. Carefully observe their conversation and their games.

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SSS Game
Appu : One side of ABC is 5.5 cm.
Tippu : With this information, I can draw any number of triangles (Fig 7.9)
but they need not be copies of ABC. The triangle I draw may be
obtuse-angled or right-angled or acute-angled. For example, here are a few.

Fig 7.8
Triangle drawn by
Appu

5.5 cm

(Obtuse-angled)

5.5 cm
(Right-angled)

5.5 cm
(Acute-angled)

Fig 7.9

I have used some arbitrary lengths for other sides. This gives me many triangles with
length of base 5.5 cm.
So, giving only one side-length will not help me to produce a copy of ABC.
Appu : Okay. I will give you the length of one more side. Take two sides of ABC to be
of lengths 5.5 cm and 3.4 cm.
Tippu : Even this will not be sufficient for the purpose. I can draw several triangles
(Fig 7.10) with the given information which may not be copies of ABC. Here are a few
to support my argument:

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One cannot draw an exact copy of your triangle, if only the lengths of two sides
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Appu : Alright. Let me give the lengths of all the three sides. In ABC, I have AB = 5cm,
BC = 5.5 cm and AC = 3.4 cm.
Tippu : I think it should be possible. Let me try now.
First I draw a rough figure so that I can remember the lengths easily.
I draw BC with length 5.5 cm.
With B as centre, I draw an arc of radius 5 cm. The point A has to be somewhere on Fig 7.11
this arc. With C as centre, I draw an arc of radius 3.4 cm. The point A has to be on this arc
also.
So, A lies on both the arcs drawn. This means A is the point of intersection of the arcs.
I know now the positions of points A, B and C. Aha! I can join them and get ABC
(Fig 7.11).
Appu : Excellent. So, to draw a copy of a given ABC (i.e., to draw a triangle
congruent to ABC), we need the lengths of three sides. Shall we call this condition
as side-side-side criterion?
Tippu : Why not we call it SSS criterion, to be short?

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SSS Congruence criterion:

If under a given correspondence, the three sides of one triangle are equal to the three
corresponding sides of another triangle, then the triangles are congruent.

EXAMPLE 2 In triangles ABC and PQR, AB = 3.5 cm, BC = 7.1 cm,

AC = 5 cm, PQ = 7.1 cm, QR = 5 cm and PR = 3.5 cm.
Examine whether the two triangles are congruent or not.
If yes, write the congruence relation in symbolic form.
AB = PR (= 3.5 cm),

BC = PQ ( = 7.1 cm)

AC = QR (= 5 cm)

So, we have

ABC RPQ

cm

This shows that the three sides of one triangle are equal to the three sides
of the other triangle. So, by SSS congruence rule, the two triangles are
congruent. From the above three equality relations, it can be easily seen
that A R, B P and C Q.

3.5

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7.1 cm

cm

Here,

SOLUTION

R
Fig 7.12

Important note: The order of the letters in the names of congruent triangles displays the
corresponding relationships. Thus, when you write ABC RPQ, you would know
that A lies on R, B on P, C on Q, AB along RP , BC along PQ and AC along RQ .

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EXAMPLE 3 In Fig 7.13, AD = CD and AB = CB.

(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in ABD and CBD.
(ii) Is ABD CBD? Why or why not?
(iii) Does BD bisect ABC? Give reasons.

SOLUTION

Fig 7.13

(i) In ABD and CBD, the three pairs of equal parts are as given below:
AB = CB (Given)
AD = CD (Given)
and
BD = BD (Common in both)
(ii) From (i) above, ABD CBD (By SSS congruence rule)

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So, BD bisects ABC.

TRY THESE

1. In Fig 7.14, lengths of the sides of the triangles are indicated. By applying the SSS
congruence rule, state which pairs of triangles are congruent. In case of congruent
triangles, write the result in symbolic form:

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(iii)

Fig 7.14

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2. In Fig 7.15, AB = AC and D is the mid-point of BC .
(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in
ADB and ADC.
(ii) Is ADB ADC? Give reasons.
(iii) Is B = C? Why?
3. In Fig 7.16, AC = BD and AD = BC. Which B
D
of the following statements is meaningfully written? Fig 7.15
(i) ABC ABD
(ii) ABC BAD.

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ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = AC (Fig 7.17).

Take a trace-copy of ABC and also name it as ABC.
(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in ABC and ACB.
(ii) Is ABC ACB? Why or why not?
(iii) Is B = C ? Why or why not?
Appu and Tippu now turn to playing the game with a slight modification.

Fig 7.17

SAS Game
Appu : Let me now change the rules of the triangle-copying game.
Tippu : Right, go ahead.
Appu : You have already found that giving the length of only one side is useless.
Tippu : Of course, yes.
Appu : In that case, let me tell that in ABC, one side is 5.5 cm and one angle is 65.
Tippu : This again is not sufficient for the job. I can find many triangles satisfying your
information, but are not copies of ABC. For example, I have given here some of them
(Fig 7.18):

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Appu : So, what shall we do?

Tippu : More information is needed.
Appu : Then, let me modify my earlier statement. In ABC, the length of two sides are
5.5 cm and 3.4 cm, and the angle between these two sides is 65.
Tippu : This information should help me. Let me try. I draw first BC of length 5.5. cm
[Fig 7.19 (i)]. Now I make 65 at C [Fig 7.19 (ii)].

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5.5 cm
(i)

65

5.5 cm
(ii)

(iii)

Fig 7.19

Yes, I got it, A must be 3.4 cm away from C along this angular line through C.
I draw an arc of 3.4 cm with C as centre. It cuts the 65 line at A.
Now, I join AB and get ABC [Fig 7.19(iii)].
Appu : You have used side-angle-side, where the angle is included between the sides!
Tippu : Yes. How shall we name this criterion?
Appu : It is SAS criterion. Do you follow it?
Tippu : Yes, of course.
SAS Congruence criterion:
If under a correspondence, two sides and the angle included between them of a triangle
are equal to two corresponding sides and the angle included between them of another
triangle, then the triangles are congruent.

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EXAMPLE 4 Given below are measurements of some parts of two triangles. Examine
whether the two triangles are congruent or not, by using SAS congruence
rule. If the triangles are congruent, write them in symbolic form.

ABC
(a) AB = 7 cm, BC = 5 cm, B = 50

DEF
DE = 5 cm, EF = 7 cm, E = 50

(b) AB = 4.5 cm, AC = 4 cm, A = 60

DE = 4 cm, FD = 4.5 cm, D = 55

(c) BC = 6 cm, AC = 4 cm, B = 35

DF = 4 cm, EF = 6 cm, E = 35

(It will be always helpful to draw a rough figure, mark the measurements and then
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SOLUTION
(a) Here, AB = EF ( = 7 cm), BC = DE ( = 5 cm) and
included B = included E ( = 50). Also, A F B E and C D.
Therefore, ABC FED (By SAS congruence rule) (Fig 7.20)
A

cm

50

4.5

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50

C E

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Fig 7.21

(b) Here, AB = FD and AC = DE (Fig 7.21).

But included A included D. So, we cannot say that the triangles are
congruent.
(c) Here, BC = EF, AC = DF and B = E.
But B is not the included angle between the sides AC and BC.
Similarly, E is not the included angle between the sides EF and DF.
So, SAS congruence rule cannot be applied and we cannot conclude
that the two triangles are congruent.
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EXAMPLE 5 In Fig 7.23, AB = AC and AD is the bisector of BAC.

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(i) The three pairs of equal parts are as follows:

AB = AC (Given)
BAD = CAD (AD bisects BAC) and AD = AD (common)
(ii) Yes, ADB ADC (By SAS congruence rule)
(iii) B = C (Corresponding parts of congruent triangles)

35

4c

6 cm

m
F

Fig 7.22

(i) State three pairs of equal parts in triangles ADB and ADC.
(ii) Is ADB ADC? Give reasons.
(iii) Is B = C? Give reasons.

SOLUTION

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Fig 7.23

TRY THESE
1. Which angle is included between the sides DE and EF of DEF?
2. By applying SAS congruence rule, you want to establish that PQR FED. It is
given that PQ = FE and RP = DF. What additional information is needed to establish
the congruence?

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3. In Fig 7.24, measures of some parts of the triangles are indicated. By applying SAS
congruence rule, state the pairs of congruent triangles, if any, in each case. In case
of congruent triangles, write them in symbolic form.

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(iv)

4. In Fig 7.25, AB and CD bisect each other at O.

(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in two
triangles AOC and BOD.

(ii) Which of the following statements are true?

(a) AOC DOB
(b) AOC BOD

Fig 7.25

ASA Game
Can you draw Appus triangle, if you know
(i) only one of its angles?
(ii) only two of its angles?
(iii) two angles and any one side?
(iv) two angles and the side included between them?
Attempts to solve the above questions lead us to the following criterion:

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ASA Congruence criterion:

If under a correspondence, two angles and the included side of a triangle are equal to
two corresponding angles and the included side of another triangle, then the triangles
are congruent.

EXAMPLE 6 By applying ASA congruence rule, it is to be established that ABC QRP

and it is given that BC = RP. What additional information is needed to
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SOLUTION For ASA congruence rule, we need the two angles between which the
two sides BC and RP are included. So, the additional information is
as follows:
B = R
C = P

and

EXAMPLE 7 In Fig 7.26, can you use ASA congruence

rule and conclude that AOC BOD?

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SOLUTION In the two triangles AOC and BOD, C = D (each 70 )

AOC = BOD = 30 (vertically opposite angles)
A of AOC = 180 (70 + 30) = 80
(using angle sum property of a triangle)
Similarly,
B of BOD = 180 (70 + 30) = 80
Thus, we have
A = B, AC = BD and C = D
Now, side AC is between A and C and side BD is between B and D.
So, by ASA congruence rule, AOC BOD.
Also,
So,

Remark

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Given two angles of a triangle, you can always find the third angle of the triangle. So,
whenever, two angles and one side of one triangle are equal to the corresponding two
angles and one side of another triangle, you may convert it into two angles and the included
side form of congruence and then apply the ASA congruence rule.

TRY THESE

1. What is the side included between the angles M and N of MNP?

2. You want to establish DEF MNP, using the ASA congruence rule. You are
given that D = M and F = P. What information is needed to establish the
congruence? (Draw a rough figure and then try!)
3. In Fig 7.27, measures of some parts are indicated. By applying ASA congruence
rule, state which pairs of triangles are congruent. In case of congruence, write the
result in symoblic form.

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(iii)

Fig 7.27

45
30

45
30 B
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4. Given below are measurements of some parts of two triangles. Examine whether the
two triangles are congruent or not, by ASA congruence rule. In case of congruence,
write it in symbolic form.
DEF
PQR
(i) D = 60, F = 80, DF = 5 cm
Q = 60, R = 80, QR = 5 cm
(ii) D = 60, F = 80, DF = 6 cm
Q = 60, R = 80, QP = 6 cm
(iii) E = 80, F = 30, EF = 5 cm
P = 80, PQ = 5 cm, R = 30
5. In Fig 7.28, ray AZ bisects DAB as well as
DCB.
(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in
triangles BAC and DAC.
(ii) Is BAC DAC? Give reasons.
(iii) Is AB = AD? Justify your answer.
(iv) Is CD = CB? Give reasons.

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7.7 CONGRUENCE AMONG RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLES

Congruence in the case of two right triangles deserves special attention. In such triangles,
obviously, the right angles are equal. So, the congruence criterion becomes easy.
Can you draw ABC (shown in Fig 7.29) with B = 90, if
(i) only BC is known?
(ii) only C is known?
(iii) A and C are known?
(iv) AB and BC are known?
(v) AC and one of AB or BC are known?
Try these with rough sketches. You will find that (iv) and (v) help you to draw the
triangle. But case (iv) is simply the SAS condition. Case (v) is something new. This leads to
the following criterion:

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RHS Congruence criterion:

If under a correspondence, the hypotenuse and one side of a right-angled triangle are
respectively equal to the hypotenuse and one side of another right-angled triangle, then
the triangles are congruent.
Why do we call this RHS congruence? Think about it.

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EXAMPLE 8 Given below are measurements of some parts of two triangles. Examine
whether the two triangles are congruent or not, using RHS congruence
rule. In case of congruent triangles, write the result in symbolic form:
ABC
PQR
(i) B = 90, AC = 8 cm, AB = 3 cm
P = 90, PR = 3 cm, QR = 8 cm
(ii) A = 90, AC = 5 cm, BC = 9 cm
Q = 90, PR = 8 cm, PQ = 5 cm

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(i) Here, B = P = 90,
hypotenuse, AC = hypotenuse, RQ (= 8 cm) and
side AB = side RP ( = 3 cm)
So, ABC RPQ (By RHS Congruence rule). [Fig 7.30(i)]

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(ii)

(ii) Here, A = Q (= 90) and

side AC = side PQ ( = 5 cm).
But hypotenuse BC hypotenuse PR [Fig 7.30(ii)]
So, the triangles are not congruent.

EXAMPLE 9 In Fig 7.31, DA AB, CB AB and AC = BD.

State the three pairs of equal parts in ABC and DAB.

Which of the following statements is meaningful?
(i) ABC BAD
(ii) ABC ABD

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S OLUTION The three pairs of equal parts are:

ABC = BAD (= 90)
AC = BD (Given)
AB = BA (Common side)
ABC BAD (By RHS congruence rule).

Fig 7.31

From the above,

So, statement (i) is true
Statement (ii) is not meaningful, in the sense that the correspondence among the vertices
is not satisfied.

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TRY THESE
1. In Fig 7.32, measures of some parts of triangles are given.By applying RHS
congruence rule, state which pairs of triangles are congruent. In case of congruent
triangles, write the result in symbolic form.

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(iv)

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2. It is to be established by RHS congruence rule that ABC RPQ.

What additional information is needed, if it is given that
B = P = 90 and AB = RP?

3. In Fig 7.33, BD and CE are altitudes of ABC such that BD = CE.

(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in CBD and BCE.

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(ii) Is CBD BCE? Why or why not?

(iii) Is DCB = EBC? Why or why not?

4. ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = AC and AD is one of its

altitudes (Fig 7.34).
(i) State the three pairs of equal parts in ADB and ADC.
(ii) Is ADB ADC? Why or why not?

D
Fig 7.34

(iii) Is B = C? Why or why not?

(iv) Is BD = CD? Why or why not?

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We now turn to examples and problems based on the criteria seen so far.

EXERCISE 7.2
1. Which congruence criterion do you use in the following?
A
(a) Given: AC = DF

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AB = DE
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BC = EF

So, ABC DEF

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RQ = ZY

(b) Given: ZX = RP

PRQ = XZY

So, PQR XYZ

(c) Given: MLN = FGH

NML = GFH
ML = FG

So, LMN GFH

(d) Given: EB = DB
AE = BC

A = C = 90

So, ABE CDB

2. You want to show that ART PEN,

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(a) If you have to use SSS criterion, then you need to show
(i) AR =

(ii) RT =

(iii) AT =

(b) If it is given that T = N and you are to use SAS criterion,

you need to have
(i) RT =

and

(ii) PN =

(c) If it is given that AT = PN and you are to use ASA criterion,

you need to have
(i) ?

(ii) ?

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3. You have to show that AMP AMQ.

In the following proof, supply the missing reasons.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

Steps
PM = QM
PMA = QMA
AM = AM
AMP AMQ

Reasons
(i)
...
(ii)
...
(iii) ...
(iv) ...

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In PQR, P = 30 , Q = 40 and R = 110
A student says that ABC PQR by AAA
congruence criterion. Is he justified? Why or
why not?

5. In the figure, the two triangles are congruent.

The corresponding parts are marked. We can
write RAT ?

6. Complete the congruence statement:

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QRS ?

7. In a squared sheet, draw two triangles of equal areas such that

(i) the triangles are congruent.
(ii) the triangles are not congruent.
What can you say about their perimeters?

8. Draw a rough sketch of two triangles such

that they have five pairs of congruent parts
but still the triangles are not congruent.
9. If ABC and PQR are to be congruent,
name one additional pair of corresponding
parts. What criterion did you use?

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10. Explain, why

ABC FED.

Enrichment activity

We saw that superposition is a useful method to test congruence of plane figures. We

discussed conditions for congruence of line segments, angles and triangles. You can now
try to extend this idea to other plane figures as well.
1. Consider cut-outs of different sizes of squares. Use the method of superposition to
find out the condition for congruence of squares. How does the idea of
corresponding parts under congruence apply? Are there corresponding sides? Are
there corresponding diagonals?

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2. What happens if you take circles? What is the condition for congruence of two
circles? Again, you can use the method of superposition. Investigate.
3. Try to extend this idea to other plane figures like regular hexagons, etc.

4. Take two congruent copies of a triangle. By paper folding, investigate if they have
equal altitudes. Do they have equal medians? What can you say about their perimeters
and areas?

WHAT

HAVE

WE DISCUSSED?

1. Congruent objects are exact copies of one another.

2. The method of superposition examines the congruence of plane figures.

3. Two plane figures, say, F1 and F2 are congruent if the trace-copy of F1 fits exactly on
that of F2. We write this as F1 F2.
4. Two line segments, say, AB and CD , are congruent if they have equal lengths. We

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write this as AB CD . However, it is common to write it as AB = CD .

5. Two angles, say, ABC and PQR, are congruent if their measures are equal. We
write this as ABC PQR or as mABC = mPQR. However, in practice, it is
common to write it as ABC = PQR.
6. SSS Congruence of two triangles:

Under a given correspondence, two triangles are congruent if the three sides of the
one are equal to the three corresponding sides of the other.
7. SAS Congruence of two triangles:
Under a given correspondence, two triangles are congruent if two sides and the angle
included between them in one of the triangles are equal to the corresponding sides and
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8. ASA Congruence of two triangles:

Under a given correspondence, two triangles are congruent if two angles and the side
included between them in one of the triangles are equal to the corresponding angles
and the side included between them of the other triangle.
9. RHS Congruence of two right-angled triangles:
Under a given correspondence, two right-angled triangles are congruent if the hypotenuse
and a leg of one of the triangles are equal to the hypotenuse and the corresponding leg
of the other triangle.
10. There is no such thing as AAA Congruence of two triangles:
Two triangles with equal corresponding angles need not be congruent. In such a
correspondence, one of them can be an enlarged copy of the other. (They would be
congruent only if they are exact copies of one another).

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COMPARING QUANTITIES

Comparing
Quantities

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8.1 INTRODUCTION

In our daily life, there are many occasions when we compare two quantities.
Suppose we are comparing heights of Heena and Amir. We find that
1. Heena is two times taller than Amir.
Or
1
of Heenas height.
2
Consider another example, where 20 marbles are divided between Rita and
Amit such that Rita has 12 marbles and
Amit has 8 marbles. We say,

150

75

2. Amirs height is

1. Rita has

150 cm 75 cm
Heena Amir

3
times the marbles that Amit has.
2

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2. Amit has

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part of what Rita has.
3

Yet another example is where we compare

speeds of a Cheetah and a Man.
The speed of a Cheetah is 6 times the speed
of a Man.
Or
The speed of a Man is

1
of the speed of
6

Speed of Cheetah
120 km per hour

Speed of Man
20 km per hour

the Cheetah.
Do you remember comparisons like this? In Class VI, we have learnt to make comparisons
by saying how many times one quantity is of the other. Here, we see that it can also be
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In the given cases, we write the ratio of the heights as :

Heenas height : Amirs height is 150 : 75 or 2 : 1.
Can you now write the ratios for the other comparisons?
These are relative comparisons and could be same for two different situations.
If Heenas height was 150 cm and Amirs was 100 cm, then the ratio of their heights would be,
150 3
= or 3 : 2.
100 2
This is same as the ratio for Ritas to Amits share of marbles.
Thus, we see that the ratio for two different comparisons may be the same. Remember
that to compare two quantities, the units must be the same.

Heenas height : Amirs height = 150 : 100 =

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EXAMPLE 1 Find the ratio of 3 km to 300 m.

SOLUTION
So,
Thus,

First convert both the distances to the same unit.

3 km = 3 1000 m = 3000 m.
the required ratio, 3 km : 300 m is 3000 : 300 = 10 : 1.

8.2 EQUIVALENT RATIOS

Different ratios can also be compared with each other to know whether they are equivalent
or not. To do this, we need to write the ratios in the form of fractions and then compare
them by converting them to like fractions. If these like fractions are equal, we say the given
ratios are equivalent.

EXAMPLE 2 Are the ratios 1:2 and 2:3 equivalent?

SOLUTION

To check this, we need to know whether

We have,

1 1 3 3 2 2 2 4
=
=
= ; =
2 23 6 3 3 2 6

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We find that

1 2
= .
2 3

3 4
1 2
< , which means that < .
6 6
2 3

Therefore, the ratio 1:2 is not equivalent to the ratio 2:3.

Use of such comparisons can be seen by the following example.

EXAMPLE 3 Following is the performance of a cricket team in the matches it played:

Year
Last year
This year

Wins

Losses

8
4

2
2

In which year was the record better?

How can you say so?

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SOLUTION

Last year, Wins: Losses = 8 : 2 = 4 : 1

This year, Wins: Losses = 4 : 2 = 2 : 1

4 2
> )
1 1
Hence, we can say that the team performed better last year.
In Class VI, we have also seen the importance of equivalent ratios. The ratios which
are equivalent are said to be in proportion. Let us recall the use of proportions.

Obviously, 4 : 1 > 2 : 1 (In fractional form,

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Keeping things in proportion and getting solutions

Aruna made a sketch of the building she lives in and drew sketch of her
mother standing beside the building.
Mona said, There seems to be something wrong with the drawing
Can you say what is wrong? How can you say this?
In this case, the ratio of heights in the drawing should be the same as the
ratio of actual heights. That is

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Actual height of mother
Height of mother in the drawin
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Only then would these be in proportion. Often when proportions are maintained, the
drawing seems pleasing to the eye.
Another example where proportions are used is in the making of national flags.
Do you know that the flags are always made in a fixed ratio of length to its breadth?
These may be different for different countries but are mostly around 1.5 : 1 or 1.7 : 1.
We can take an approximate value of this ratio as 3 : 2. Even the Indian post card is
around the same ratio.
Now, can you say whether a card with length 4.5 cm and breadth 3.0 cm
is near to this ratio. That is we need to ask, is 4.5 : 3.0 equivalent to 3 : 2?

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We note that

4.5 : 3.0 =

4.5 45 3
=
=
3.0 30 2

Hence, we see that 4.5 : 3.0 is equivalent to 3 : 2.

We see a wide use of such proportions in real life. Can you think of some more
situations?
We have also learnt a method in the earlier classes known as Unitary Method in
which we first find the value of one unit and then the value of the required number of units.
Let us see how both the above methods help us to achieve the same thing.

EXAMPLE 4 A map is given with a scale of 2 cm = 1000 km. What is the actual distance
between the two places in kms, if the distance in the map is 2.5 cm?

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SOLUTION
Arun does it like this
Let distance = x km

Meera does it like this

2 cm means 1000 km.

then, 1000 : x = 2 : 2.5

So, 1 cm means

1000
2
=
x
2.5

Hence, 2.5 cm means

1000 x 2.5
2
=
x 2.5
x
2.5

= 1250 km

1000 2.5 = x 2 x = 1250

1000
km
2

1000
2.5 km
2

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Arun has solved it by equating ratios to make proportions and then by solving the
equation. Meera has first found the distance that corresponds to 1 cm and then used that to
find what 2.5 cm would correspond to. She used the unitary method.
Let us solve some more examples using the unitary method.

EXAMPLE 5 6 bowls cost Rs 90. What would be the cost of 10 such bowls?
SOLUTION Cost of 6 bowls is Rs 90.
90
6

Therefore,

cost of 1 bowl = Rs

Hence,

cost of 10 bowls = Rs

90
10 = Rs 150
6

EXAMPLE 6 The car that I own can go 150 km with 25 litres of petrol. How far can
it go with 30 litres of petrol?

SOLUTION

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With 25 litres of petrol, the car goes 150 km.

With 1 litre the car will go

150
km.
25

150
30 km = 180 km
25
In this method, we first found the value for one unit or the unit rate. This is done by the
comparison of two different properties. For example, when you compare total cost to
number of items, we get cost per item or if you take distance travelled to time taken, we get
distance per unit time.
Thus, you can see that we often use per to mean for each.
For example, km per hour, children per teacher etc., denote unit rates.
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THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

An ant can carry 50 times its weight. If a person can do the same, how much would
you be able to carry?

EXERCISE 8.1
1. Find the ratio of:
(a) Rs 5 to 50 paise
(b) 15 kg to 210 g
(c) 9 m to 27 cm
(d) 30 days to 36 hours
2. In a computer lab, there are 3 computers for every 6 students. How many
computers will be needed for 24 students?
3. Population of Rajasthan = 570 lakhs and population of UP = 1660 lakhs.
Area of Rajasthan = 3 lakh km2 and area of UP = 2 lakh km2.
(i) How many people are there per km2 in both these States?
(ii) Which State is less populated?

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8.3 PERCENTAGE ANOTHER WAY OF COMPARING QUANTITIES

Anitas Report
Total 320/400
Percentage: 80

Ritas Report
Total 300/360
Percentage: 83.3

Anita said that she has done better as she got 320 marks whereas Rita got only 300. Do
you agree with her? Who do you think has done better?
Mansi told them that they cannot decide who has done better by just comparing the
total marks obtained because the maximum marks out of which they got the marks are not
the same.
She said why dont you see the Percentages given in your report cards?
Anitas Percentage was 80 and Ritas was 83. So, this shows Rita has done better.
Do you agree?
Percentages are numerators of fractions with denominator 100 and have been
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8.3.1 Meaning of Percentage

Per cent is derived from Latin word per centum meaning per hundred.
Per cent is represented by the symbol % and means hundredths too. That is 1% means
1 out of hundred or one hundredth. It can be written as: 1% =

1
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To understand this, let us consider the following example.

Rina made a table top of 100 different coloured tiles. She counted yellow, green, red
and blue tiles separately and filled the table below. Can you help her complete the table?
Colour

Number
of Tiles

Rate per
Hundred

Fraction

Written as

Read as

Yellow

14

14

14
100

14%

14 per cent

Green

26

26

26
100

26%

26 per cent

Red
Blue
Total

35
25
100

35
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1. Find the Percentage of children of different heights for the following data.
Height
110 cm
120 cm

Number of Children
22
25

128 cm

32

130 cm

21

Total

100

In Fraction In Percentage

2. A shop has the following number of shoe pairs of different

sizes.

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Size 3 : 30

Size 5 : 14

Size 6 : 8

Size 4 : 28

Write this information in tabular form as done earlier and

find the Percentage of each shoe size available in the shop.

Percentages when total is not hundred

In all these examples, the total number of items add up to 100. For example, Rina had 100
tiles in all, there were 100 children and 100 shoe pairs. How do we calculate Percentage
of an item if the total number of items do not add up to 100? In such cases, we need to
convert the fraction to an equivalent fraction with denominator 100. Consider the following
example. You have a necklace with twenty beads in two colours.

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Colour

Number
of Beads

Red

Blue

12

Total

20

Fraction

Denominator Hundred

8
20
12
20

8 100 40

=
20 100 100
12 100 60

=
20 100 100

Anwar found the Percentage of red beads like this

Out of 20 beads, the number of red beads are 8.
Hence, out of 100, the number of red beads are

In Percentage

40%
60%

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8
8 5
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20 20 5

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100 = 40 (out of hundred) = 40%
20

==

40
= 40%
100

We see that these three methods can be used to find the Percentage when the total
does not add to give 100. In the method shown in the table, we multiply the fraction by
100
. This does not change the value of the fraction. Subsequently, only 100 remains in the
100
denominator.
5
Anwar has used the unitary method. Asha has multiplied by to get 100 in the
5
denominator. You can use whichever method you find suitable. May be, you can make
your own method too.
The method used by Anwar can work for all ratios. Can the method used by Asha also
work for all ratios? Anwar says Ashas method can be used only if you can find a natural
number which on multiplication with the denominator gives 100. Since denominator was 20,
she could multiply it by 5 to get 100. If the denominator was 6, she would not have been
able to use this method. Do you agree?

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1. A collection of 10 chips with different colours is given .

Colour

Number

Fraction

Denominator Hundred In Percentage

Green
Blue
Red
Total

Fill the table and find the percentage of chips of each colour.

G G G G
B B

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2. Mala has a collection of bangles. She has 20 gold bangles and 10 silver bangles.
What is the percentage of bangles of each type? Can you put it in the tabular form
as done in the above example?

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

1. Look at the examples below and in each of them, discuss which is better for
comparison.
In the atmosphere, 1 g of air contains:
.78 g Nitrogen
.21 g Oxygen
.01 g Other gas

or

78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
1% Other gas

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Cotton
5
2
Polyster
5

60% Cotton

or

40% Polyster

8.3.2 Converting Fractional Numbers to Percentage

Fractional numbers can have different denominator. To compare fractional numbers, we
need a common denominator and we have seen that it is more convenient to compare if
our denominator is 100. That is, we are converting the fractions to Percentages. Let us try
converting different fractional numbers to Percentages.
1
EXAMPLE 7 Write as per cent.
3
1 1 100 1
= 100%
SOLUTION We have, =
3 3 100 3

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1
% = 33 %
3
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XAMPLE 8 Out of 25 children in a class, 15 are girls. What is the percentage of girls?

Out of 25 children, there are 15 girls.

15
100 = 60 . There are 60% girls in the class.
Therefore, percentage of girls =
25
5
EXAMPLE 9 Convert to per cent.
4
5 5
SOLUTION We have, = 100% = 125%
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From these examples, we find that the percentages related to proper fractions are less
than 100 whereas percentages related to improper fractions are more than 100.

THINK

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DISCUSS

(i) Can you eat 50% of a cake?

Can you eat 100% of a cake?
Can you eat 150% of a cake?
(ii) Can a price of an item go up by 50%? Can a price of an item go up by 100%?
Can a price of an item go up by 150%?

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8.3.3 Converting Decimals to Percentage

We have seen how fractions can be converted to per cents. Let us now find how decimals
can be converted to pre cents.

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EXAMPLE 10 Convert the given decimals to per cents:

(a) 0.75

(b) 0.09

SOLUTION

(a) 0.75 = 0.75 100 %

(c) 0.2

(b) 0.09 =

9
=9%
100

75
100 % = 75%
100
2
(c) 0.2 =
100% = 20 %
10

TRY THESE

1. Convert the following to per cents:

(a)

49
12
2
(b) 3.5
(c)
(d)
(e) 0.05
16
2
50
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(ii) There are 25 radios, 16 of them are out of order. What per cent of radios are
out of order?
(iii) A shop has 500 parts, out of which 5 are defective. What per cent are defective?
(iv) There are 120 voters, 90 of them voted yes. What per cent voted yes?

8.3.4 Converting Percentages to Fractions or Decimals

We have so far converted fractions and decimals to percentages. We can also do the
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table, observe and complete it:

Make some
more such
examples and
solve them.

Per cent

1%

10%

Fraction

1
100

10
1
=
100 10

Decimal

0.01

0.10

25%

50%

90%

125%

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In the examples for coloured tiles, for the heights of

children and for gases in the air, we find that when we
add the Percentages we get 100. All the parts that form
the whole when added together gives the whole or 100%.
So, if we are given one part, we can always find out the
other part. Suppose, 30% of a given number of students are boys.

250%

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Then girls would obviously be (100 30)% = 70%.

TRY THESE

1. 35% + _______% = 100%,

45% = 100% _________ %,

64% + 20% +________ % = 100%

70% = ______% 30%

2. If 65% of students in a class have a bicycle, what per cent

of the student do not have bicycles?

3. We have a basket full of apples, oranges and mangoes.

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are mangoes?

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Consider the expenditure made on a dress

20% on embroidery, 50% on cloth, 30% on stitching.
Can you think of more such examples?

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8.3.5 Fun with Estimation

Percentages help us to estimate the parts of an area.

EXAMPLE 11 What per cent of the adjoining figure is shaded?

SOLUTION

We first find the fraction of the figure that is shaded. From this fraction,
the percentage of the shaded part can be found.
1 1
100 % 50 %
You will find that half of the figure is shaded. And,
2 2
Thus, 50 % of the figure is shaded.

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What per cent of these figures are shaded?
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(ii)

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shaded parts.

8.4 USE

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PERCENTAGES

8.4.1 Interpreting Percentages

We saw how percentages were helpful in comparison. We have also learnt to convert
fractional numbers and decimals to percentages. Now, we shall learn how percentages
can be used in real life. For this, we start with interpreting the following statements:
5 % of the income is saved by Ravi. 20% of Meeras dresses are blue in colour.
Rekha gets 10 % on every book sold by her.
What can you infer from each of these statements?
5
By 5 % we mean 5 parts out of 100 or we write it as
. It means Ravi is saving
100
Rs 5 out of every Rs 100 that he earns. In the same way, interpret the rest of the statements
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8.4.2 Converting Percentages to How Many

Consider the following examples:

EXAMPLE 12 A survey of 40 children showed that 25% liked playing football. How
many children liked playing football?

SOLUTION

Here, the total number of children are 40. Out of these, 25% like playing
football. Meena and Arun used the following methods to find the number.
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Arun does it like this

Out of 100, 25 like playing football
So out of 40, number of children who like
25
40 = 10
playing football =
100

Meena does it like this

25
40
25% of 40 =
100
= 10
Hence, 10 children out of 40 like
playing football.

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1. Find:
(a) 50% of 164

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(c) 12 % of 64

(b) 75% of 12

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2. 8 % children of a class of 25 like getting wet in the rain. How many children like
getting wet in the rain.

EXAMPLE 13 Rahul bought a sweater and saved Rs 20 when a discount of 25% was
given. What was the price of the sweater before the discount?

SOLUTION

Rahul has saved Rs 20 when price of sweater is reduced by 25%. This

means that 25% reduction in price is the amount saved by Rahul. Let us
see how Mohan and Abdul have found the original cost of the sweater.

Mohans solution
25% of the original price = Rs 20
Let the price (in Rs) be P
So, 25% of P = 20 or

25
P = 20
100

P
20 or P = 20 4
4
Therefore, P = 80

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Rs 25 is saved for every Rs 100
Amount for which Rs 20 is saved
=

100
20 = Rs 80
25

Thus both obtained the original price of

sweater as Rs 80.

TRY THESE

1. 9 is 25% of what number?

2. 75% of what number is 15?

EXERCISE 8.2
1. Convert the given fractional numbers to per cents.
1
5
3
(a)
(b)
(c)
8
4
40

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2. Convert the given decimal fractions to per cents.

(a) 0.65
(b) 2.1
(c) 0.02

(d) 12.35

3. Estimate what part of the figures is coloured and hence find the per cent which is
coloured.

(i)

(ii)

4. Find:
(a) 15% of 250

(b) 1% of 1 hour

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(a) 5% of it is 600.
(b) 12% of it is Rs 1080.
(d) 70% of it is 14 minutes.

(c) 40% of it is 500 km.

(e) 8% of it is 40 litres.

6. Convert given per cents to decimal fractions and also to fractions in simplest forms:
(a) 25%
(b) 150%
(c) 20%
(d) 5%

7. In a city, 30% are females, 40% are males and remaining are children. What per cent
are children?
8. Out of 15,000 voters in a constituency, 60% voted. Find the percentage of voters
who did not vote. Can you now find how many actually did not vote?
9. Meeta saves Rs 400 from her salary. If this is 10% of her salary. What is her salary?
10. A local cricket team played 20 matches in one season. It won 25% of them. How
many matches did they win?

8.4.3 Ratios to Percents

Sometimes, parts are given to us in the form of ratios and we need to convert those to
percentages. Consider the following example:

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and what percentage would be urad dal?

SOLUTION

In terms of ratio we would write this as Rice : Urad dal = 2 : 1.

2
1
part is rice and part is urad dal.
3
3
2
200
2
Then, percentage of rice would be 100 % =
= 66 % .
3
3
3
1
100
1
100 %
33 % .
Percentage of urad dal would be
3
3
3
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E XAMPLE 15 If Rs 250 is to be divided amongst Ravi, Raju and Roy, so that Ravi
gets two parts, Raju three parts and Roy five parts. How much money
will each get? What will it be in percentages?
The parts which the three boys are getting can be written in terms of
ratios as 2 : 3 : 5.
Total of the parts is 2 + 3 + 5 = 10.
Amounts received by each
Percentages of money for each

OLUTION

2
Rs 250 = Rs 50
10
3
Rs 250 = Rs 75
10
5
Rs 250 = Rs 125
10

2
100 % 20 %
10
3
Raju gets
100 % 30 %
10
5
Roy gets 100 % 50 %
10

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1. Divide 15 sweets between Manu and Sonu so that they get 20 %

and 80 % of them respectively.
2. If angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Find the value of
each angle.

8.4.4 Increase or Decrease as Per Cent

There are times when we need to know the increase or decrease in a certain quantity as
percentage. For example, if the population of a state increased from 5,50,000 to
6,05,000. Then the increase in population can be understood better if we say, the
population increased by 10 %.
How do we convert the increase or decrease in a quantity as a percentage of the initial
amount? Consider the following example.

EXAMPLE 16 A school team won 6 games this year against 4 games won last year.

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OLUTION

The increase in the number of wins (or amount of change) = 6 4 = 2.

Percentage increase =
=

amount of change
100
original amount or base

2
increase in the number of wins
100 =
original number of wins
4

100 = 50

EXAMPLE 17 The number of illiterate persons in a country decreased from 150 lakhs
to 100 lakhs in 10 years. What is the percentage of decrease?
OLUTION

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Amount of change = decrease in the number of illiterate persons = 150 100 = 50 lakhs
Therefore, the percentage of decrease
=

amount of change
1
50
100 =
100 = 33
original amount
3
150

TRY THESE
1. Find Percentage of increase or decrease:
Price of shirt decreased from Rs 80 to Rs 60.
Marks in a test increased from 20 to 30.
2. My mother says, in her childhood petrol was Re 1 a litre. It is Rs 52 per litre today.
By what Percentage has the price gone up?

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ITEM

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BUYING

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SELLING

I bought it for Rs 600

and will sell it for Rs 610

The buying price of any item is known as its cost price. It is written in short as CP.
The price at which you sell is known as the selling price or in short SP.
What would you say is better, to you sell the item at a lower price, same price or higher
price than your buying price? You can decide whether the sale was profitable or not
depending on the CP and SP. If CP < SP then you made a profit = SP CP.
If CP = SP then you are in a no profit no loss situation.
If CP > SP then you have a loss = CP SP.
Let us try to interpret the statements related to prices of items.
z A toy bought for Rs 72 is sold at Rs 80.
z A T-shirt bought for Rs 120 is sold at Rs 100.
z A cycle bought for Rs 800 is sold for Rs 940.
Let us consider the first statement.
The buying price (or CP) is Rs 72 and the selling price (or SP) is Rs 80. This means SP
is more than CP. Hence profit made = SP CP = Rs 80 Rs 72 = Rs 8
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8.5.1 Profit or Loss as a Percentage

The profit or loss can be converted to a percentage. It is always calculated on the CP.
For the above examples, we can find the profit % or loss %.
Let us consider the example related to the toy. We have CP = Rs 72, SP = Rs 80,
Profit = Rs 8. To find the percentage of profit, Neha and Shekhar have used the following
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Neha does it this way

Profit per cent =

Shekhar does it this way

8
Profit
100
100 =
CP
72

On Rs 72 the profit is Rs 8

1
1
100 = 11
9
9

On Rs 100, profit =

Thus, the profit is Rs 8 and

1
9

profit Per cent is 11 .

8
100
72

1
1
= 11 . Thus, profit per cent = 11
9
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CP = Rs 120, SP = Rs 100.
Therefore, Loss = Rs 120 Rs 100 = Rs 20

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100
CP
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100
=
120
50
2
16
=
3
3

Loss per cent =

On Rs 120, the loss is Rs 20

So on Rs 100, the loss
2
50
20
100 =
= 16
3
3
120
2
Thus, loss per cent is 16
3
=

Try the last case.

Now we see that given any two out of the three quantities related to prices that is, CP,
SP, amount of Profit or Loss or their percentage, we can find the rest.

EXAMPLE 18 The cost of a flower vase is Rs 120. If the shopkeeper sells it at a loss
of 10%, find the price at which it is sold.

OLUTION

We are given that CP = Rs 120 and Loss per cent = 10. We have to
find the SP.

Sohan does it like this

Loss of 10% means if CP is Rs 100,
Loss is Rs 10

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Rs (100 10) = Rs 90
When CP is Rs 100, SP is Rs 90.
Therefore, if CP were Rs 120 then
90
120 = Rs 108
SP =
100

Anandi does it like this

Loss is 10% of the cost price
= 10% of Rs 120
10
120 = Rs 12
=
100
Therefore
SP = CP Loss
= Rs 120 Rs 12 = Rs 108

Thus, by both methods we get the SP as

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EXAMPLE 19

Selling price of a toy car is Rs 540. If the profit made by shopkeeper is 20%, what is the cost price of this toy?

SOLUTION

We are given that SP = Rs 540 and the Profit = 20%. We need to find the CP.

Amina does it like this

20% profit will mean if CP is Rs 100,
profit is Rs 20
Therefore, SP = 100 + 20 = 120
Now, when SP is Rs 120,
then CP is Rs 100.
Therefore, when SP is Rs 540,
100
540 = Rs 450
then CP =
120

Arun does it like this

Profit = 20% of CP and SP = CP + Profit
So, 540 = CP + 20% of CP
= CP +

20
CP =
100

1
1 + 5 CP

6
CP . Therefore, 540 5 = CP
5
6
or Rs 450 = CP

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TRY THESE

1. A shopkeeper bought a chair for Rs 375 and sold it for Rs 400. Find the gain
Percentage.
2. Cost of an item is Rs 50. It was sold with a profit of 12%. Find the selling price.
3. An article was sold for Rs 250 with a profit of 5%. What was its cost price?
4. An item was sold for Rs 540 at a loss of 5%. What was its cost price?

8.6 CHARGE GIVEN

INTEREST

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BORROWED M ONEY

OR

SIMPLE

Sohini said that they were going to buy a new scooter. Mohan asked her
whether they had the money to buy it. Sohini said her father was going
to take a loan from a bank. The money you borrow is known as sum
borrowed or principal.
This money would be used by the borrower for some time before it is
returned. For keeping this money for some time the borrower has to pay
some extra money to the bank. This is known as Interest.
You can find the amount you have to pay at the end of the year by adding the sum
borrowed and the interest. That is, Amount = Principal + Interest.
Interest is generally given in per cent for a period of one year. It is written as say 10%
per year or per annum or in short as 10% p.a. (per annum).
10% p.a. means on every Rs 100 borrowed, Rs 10 is the interest you have to pay for
one year. Let us take an example and see how this works.

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S OLUTION The sum borrowed = Rs 5,000, Rate of interest = 15% per year.
This means if Rs 100 is borrowed, she has to pay Rs 15 as interest for one year. If she has
borrowed Rs 5,000, then the interest she has to pay for one year
15
5000 = Rs 750
100
So, at the end of the year she has to give an amount of Rs 5,000 + Rs 750 = Rs 5,750.
We can write a general relation to find interest for one year. Take P as the principal or
sum and R % as Rate per cent per annum.
Now on every Rs 100 borrowed, the interest paid is Rs R
R P P R
Therefore, on Rs P borrowed, the interest paid for one year would be
=
.
100
100

= Rs

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If the amount is borrowed for more than one year the interest is calculated for the period
the money is kept for. For example, if Anita returns the money at the end of two years and
the rate of interest is the same then she would have to pay twice the interest i.e., Rs 750 for
the first year and Rs 750 for the second. This way of calculating interest where principal is
not changed is known as simple interest. As the number of years increase the interest
also increases. For Rs 100 borrowed for 3 years at 18%, the interest to be paid at the end
of 3 years is 18 + 18 + 18 = 3 18 = Rs 54.
We can find the general form for simple interest for more than one year.
We know that on a principal of Rs P at R% rate of interest per year, the interest paid
for one year is

. Therefore, interest I paid for T years would be

And amount you have to pay at the end of T years is

A=P+I

TRY THESE

1. Rs 10,000 is invested at 5% interest rate p.a. Find the interest at the end of one
year.
2. Rs 3,500 is given at 7% p.a. rate of interest. Find the interest which will be received
at the end of two years.
3. Rs 6,050 is borrowed at 6.5% rate of interest p.a.. Find the interest and the amount
to be paid at the end of 3 years.
4. Rs 7,000 is borrowed at 3.5% rate of interest p.a. borrowed for 2 years. Find the
amount to be paid at the end of the second year.

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P T R
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EXAMPLE 21 If Manohar pays an interest of Rs 750 for 2 years on a sum of

Rs 4,500, find the rate of interest.
Solution 1
I=

Solution 2
For 2 years, interest paid is Rs 750

P T R
100

750
= Rs 375
Therefore, for 1 year, interest paid Rs
2
4500 2 R
Therefore, 750 =
On Rs 4,500, interest paid is Rs 375
100
Therefore, on Rs 100, rate of interest paid
750
=R
or
45 2
375 100
1
1
=
=
8
%
Therefore, Rate = 8 %
4500
3
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1. You have Rs 2,400 in your account and the interest rate is 5%. After how many years
would you earn Rs 240 as interest.
2. On a certain sum the interest paid after 3 years is Rs 450 at 5% rate of interest per
annum. Find the sum.

EXERCISE 8.3

1. Tell what is the profit or loss in the following transactions. Also find profit per cent or
loss per cent in each case.
(a) Gardening shears bought for Rs 250 and sold for Rs 325.
(b) A refrigerater bought for Rs 12,000 and sold at Rs 13,500.
(c) A cupboard bought for Rs 2,500 and sold at Rs 3,000.
(d) A skirt bought for Rs 250 and sold at Rs 150.
2. Convert each part of the ratio to percentage:
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

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(b) 2:3:5
(c) 1:4
(d) 1: 2:5
The population of a city decreased from 25,000 to 24,500. Find the percentage
decrease.
Arun bought a car for Rs 3,50,000. The next year, the price went upto
Rs 3,70,000. What was the Percentage of price increase?
I buy a T.V. for Rs 10,000 and sell it at a profit of 20%. How much money do I get
for it?
Juhi sells a washing machine for Rs 13,500. She loses 20% in the bargain. What was
the price at which she bought it?
(i) Chalk contains calcium, carbon and oxygen in the ratio 10:3:12. Find the percentage
of carbon in chalk.
(ii) If in a stick of chalk, carbon is 3g, what is the weight of the chalk stick?

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8. Amina buys a book for Rs 275 and sells it at a loss of 15%. How much does she sell
it for?
9. Find the amount to be paid at the end of 3 years in each case:
(a) Principal = Rs 1,200 at 12% p.a.
(b) Principal = Rs 7,500 at 5% p.a.
10. What rate gives Rs 280 as interest on a sum of Rs 56,000 in 2 years?
11. If Meena gives an interest of Rs 45 for one year at 9% rate p.a.. What is the sum she
has borrowed?

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1. We are often required to compare two quantities in our daily life. They may be heights,
weights, salaries, marks etc.
2. While comparing heights of two persons with heights150 cm and 75 cm, we write it
as the ratio 150 : 75 or 2 : 1.
3. Two ratios can be compared by converting them to like fractions. If the two fractions
are equal, we say the two given ratios are equivalent.
4. If two ratios are equivalent then the four quantities are said to be in proportion. For
example, the ratios 8 : 2 and 16 : 4 are equivalent therefore 8, 2, 16 and 4 are in
proportion.
5. A way of comparing quantities is percentage. Percentages are numerators of fractions
with denominator 100. Per cent means per hundred.
For example 82% marks means 82 marks out of hundred.
6. Fractions can be converted to percentages and vice-versa.

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100
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7. Decimals too can be converted to percentages and vice-versa.

For example, 0.25 = 0.25 100% = = 25%
8. Percentages are widely used in our daily life,
(a) We have learnt to find exact number when a certain per cent of the total quantity
is given.
(b) When parts of a quantity are given to us as ratios, we have seen how to convert
them to percentages.
(c) The increase or decrease in a certain quantity can also be expressed as percentage.
(d) The profit or loss incurred in a certain transaction can be expressed in terms of
percentages.
(e) While computing interest on an amount borrowed, the rate of interest is given in
terms of per cents. For example, Rs 800 borrowed for 3 years at 12% per
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Chapter

Rational
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9.1 INTRODUCTION

You began your study of numbers by counting objects around you.

The numbers used for this purpose were called counting numbers or
natural numbers. They are 1, 2, 3, 4, ... By including 0 to natural
numbers, we got the whole numbers, i.e., 0, 1, 2, 3, ... The negatives
of natural numbers were then put together with whole numbers to make
up integers. Integers are ..., 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, .... We, thus, extended
the number system, from natural numbers to whole numbers and from
whole numbers to integers.

numerator
,
denominator
where the numerator is either 0 or a positive integer and the denominator, a positive integer.
You compared two fractions, found their equivalent forms and studied all the four basic
operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on them.
In this Chapter, we shall extend the number system further. We shall introduce the concept
of rational numbers alongwith their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations.
You were also introduced to fractions. These are numbers of the form

9.2 NEED

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Earlier, we have seen how integers could be used to denote opposite situations involving
numbers. For example, if the distance of 3 km to the right of a place was denoted by 3, then
the distance of 5 km to the left of the same place could be denoted by 5. If a profit of Rs 150
was represented by 150 then a loss of Rs 100 could be written as 100.
There are many situations similar to the above situations that involve fractional numbers.
3
You can represent a distance of 750m above sea level as km. Can we represent 750m
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3
3
below sea level in km? Can we denote the distance of km below sea level by
? We can
4
4
3
see
is neither an integer, nor a fractional number. We need to extend our number system
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9.3 WHAT

ARE

RATIONAL NUMBERS?

The word rational arises from the term ratio. You know that a ratio like 3:2 can also be
3
written as . Here, 3 and 2 are natural numbers.
2
Similarly, the ratio of two integers p and q (q 0), i.e., p:q can be written in the form
p
q . This is the form in which rational numbers are expressed.
A rational number is defined as a number that can be expressed in the
p
form q , where p and q are integers and q 0.
4
Thus, is a rational number. Here, p = 4 and q = 5.
5
3
Is
also a rational number? Yes, because p = 3 and q = 4 are integers.
4
3 4 2
l You have seen many fractions like , ,1 etc. All fractions are rational
8 8 3
numbers. Can you say why?
How about the decimal numbers like 0.5, 2.3, etc.? Each of such numbers can be
5
written as an ordinary fraction and, hence, are rational numbers. For example, 0.5 = ,
10
333
etc.
0.333 =
1000

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1. Is the number

2
rational? Think about it.
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2. List ten rational numbers.

Numerator and Denominator

p
In q , the integer p is the numerator, and the integer q ( 0) is the denominator..
3
Thus, in
, the numerator is 3 and the denominator is 7.
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Mention five rational numbers each of whose
(a) Numerator is a negative integer and denominator is a positive integer.
(b) Numerator is a positive integer and denominator is a negative integer.
(c) Numerator and denominator both are negative integers.
(d) Numerator and denominator both are positive integers.
l Are integers also rational numbers?
Any integer can be thought of as a rational number. For example, the integer 5 is a
5
. The integer 0 can also be written as
rational number, because you can write it as
1
0 0
0 = or etc. Hence, it is also a rational number..
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Equivalent rational numbers

A rational number can be written with different numerators and denominators. For example,
consider the rational number

2
.
3

2
2
2 2 4
4
=
=
. We see that
is the same as
.
3
3
3 2
6
6

Also,

( 2) ( 5) = 10
2
10
2
=
. So,
is also the same as
.
15
3 ( 5)
15
3
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2 4 10
=
=
. Such rational numbers that are equal to each other are said to
15
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be equivalent to each other.

Thus,

10
10
=
(How?)
Again,
15
15
By multiplying the numerator and denominator of a rational
number by the same non zero integer, we obtain another rational
number equivalent to the given rational number. This is exactly like
obtaining equivalent fractions.
Just as multiplication, the division of the numerator and denominator
by the same non zero integer, also gives equivalent rational numbers. For
example,
10 ( 5)
2
10
=
=
15 ( 5) 3
15
We write

9.4 POSITIVE

AND

12
12 12 1
=
=
24
24 12
2

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Fill in the boxes:

(i)

5
25 15
=
=
=
4 16

(ii)

3
9 6
=
=
=
7 14

2
2 10
10
as ,
as , etc.
3
3 15
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NEGATIVE RATIONAL NUMBERS

2
. Both the numerator and denominator of this number are
3
3 5 2
positive integers. Such a rational number is called a positive rational number. So, , ,
8 7 9
etc. are positive rational number.

Consider the rational number

3
The numerator of
is a negative integer, whereas the denominator
5
is a positive integer. Such a rational number is called a negative rational
5 3 9
, ,
number. So,
etc. are negative rational numbers.
7 8 5

TRY THESE

1. Is 5 a positive rational
number?
2. List five more positive
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8
8 1 8
8
a negative rational number? We know that
=
=
,
3 3 1 3
3
8
8
and
is a negative rational number. So,
is a negative rational number..
3
3

l Is

TRY THESE
1. Is 8 a negative
rational number?
2. List five more
negative rational
numbers.

5 6 2
, ,
etc. are all negative rational numbers. Note that their
7 5 9
numerators are positive and their denominators negative.
l The number 0 is neither a positive nor a negative rational number.
3
l What about
?
5
3
3 3 (1) 3
You will see that
=
= . So,
is a positive rational number..
5
5 5 (1) 5
2 5
,
etc. are positive rational numbers.
Thus,
5 3

Similarly,

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Which of these are negative rational numbers?

(i)

2
3

(ii)

5
7

(iii)

9.5 RATIONAL NUMBERS

3
5

ON A

(iv) 0

(v)

6
11

(vi)

2
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NUMBER LINE

You know how to represent integers on a number line. Let us draw one such number line.

The points to the right of 0 are denoted by + sign and are positive integers. The points
to the left of 0 are denoted by sign and are negative integers.
Representation of fractions on a number line is also known to you.
Let us see how the rational numbers can be represented on a number line.
1
Let us represent the number on the number line.
2
As done in the case of positive integers, the positive rational numbers would be marked
on the right of 0 and the negative rational numbers would be marked on the left of 0.
1
To which side of 0 will you mark ? Being a negative rational number, it would be
2
marked to the left of 0.
You know that while marking integers on the number line, successive integers are
marked at equal intervels. Also, from 0, the pair 1 and 1 is equidistant. So are the pairs 2
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1
1
and would be at equal distance from 0.
2
2
1
We know how to mark the rational number . It is marked at a point which is half the
2
1
distance between 0 and 1. So, would be marked at a point half the distance between
2
0 and 1.

In the same way, the rational numbers

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2

3
2

2
= ( 1)
2

1
2

0
= ( 0)
2

1
2

2
=(1)
2

3
2

4
= ( 2)
2

5
7
and
in a similar way..
2
2
1
1
Similarly, is to the left of zero and at the same distance from zero as is to the
3
3
1
right. So as done above, can be represented on the number line. Once we know how
3
1
2 4 5
to represent on the number line, we can go on representing , , and so on.
3
3 3 3
All other rational numbers with different denominators can be represented in a similar way.

Mark

9.6 RATIONAL NUMBERS

Observe the rational numbers

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3
on the number line. It is marked on the right of 0 and lies
2
3
halfway between 1 and 2. Let us now mark
on the number line. It lies on the left of 0
2
3
and is at the same distance as from 0.
2
1 2
3 4
,
(= 1) ,
,
(= 2) . This shows that
In decreasing order, we have,
2 2
2 2
3
3
lies between 1 and 2. Thus,
lies halfway between 1 and 2.
2
2
We know how to mark

IN

STANDARD FORM

3 5 2 7
.
,
, ,
5 8 7 11

The denominators of these rational numbers are positive integers and 1 is

the only common factor between the numerators and denominators. Further,
the negative sign occurs only in the numerator.
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A rational number is said to be in the standard form if its denominator is a

positive integer and the numerator and denominator have no common factor other
than 1.
If a rational number is not in the standard form, then it can be reduced to the
standard form.
Recall that for reducing fractions to their lowest forms, we divided the numerator and
the denominator of the fraction by the same non zero positive integer. We shall use the
same method for reducing rational numbers to their standard form.

EXAMPLE 1 Reduce

45
to the standard form.
30

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45 45 3 15 15 5 3
=
=
=
=
30
30 3
10
10 5
2
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45 45 15 3
=
=
30
30 15
2
In this example, note that 15 is the HCF of 45 and 30.
Thus, to reduce the rational number to its standard form, we divide its numerator
and denominator by their HCF ignoring the negative sign, if any. (The reason for
ignoring the negative sign will be studied in Higher Classes)
If there is negative sign in the denominator, divide by HCF.

EXAMPLE 2 Reduce to standard form:

(i)

36
24

(ii)

3
15

SOLUTION

(i) The HCF of 36 and 24 is 12.

Thus, its standard form would be obtained by dividing by 12.

36
36 (12) 3
=
=
24 24 (12) 2

(ii) The HCF of 3 and 15 is 3.

Thus,

3
3 (3) 1
=
=
15 15 (3) 5

TRY THESE
Find the standard form of

(i)

18
45

(ii)

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9.7 COMPARISON

OF

RATIONAL NUMBERS

We know how to compare two integers or two fractions and tell which is smaller or which
is greater among them. Let us now see how we can compare two rational numbers.
l Two positive rational numbers, like

2
5
and can be compared as studied earlier in the
3
7

case of fractions.
1
1
and using number line. She
2
5
knew that the integer which was on the right side of the other integer, was the greater
integer.
For example, 5 is to the right of 2 on the number line and 5 > 2. The integer 2 is on
the right of 5 on the number line and 2 > 5.
She used this method for rational numbers also. She knew how to mark rational numbers

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on the number line. She marked

1 5
=
2 10

1
1
and as follows:
2
5

1 2
=
5 10

1
5
to
2
10
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
and to ? She found that is to the right of . Thus, > or < .
5
10
5
2
5
2
2
5

Has she correctly marked the two points? How and why did she convert

Can you compare

3
2
1
1
and ? and ?
4
3
3
5

We know from our study of fractions that

1 1
1
< . And what did Mary get for
5 2
2

1
and ? Was it not exactly the opposite?
5

You will find that,

1 1
1
1
> but < .
2 5
2
5

3
2
1
1
Do you observe the same for , and , ?
3
4
3
5
Mary remembered that in integers she had studied 4 > 3
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l The case of pairs of negative rational numbers is similar. To compare two negative
rational numbers, we compare them ignoring their negative signs and then reverse
the order.
For example, to compare
We get

7
5
7
5
and , we first compare and .
5
3
5
3

7 5
7 5
>
< and conclude that
.
5 3
5
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or ?; or ?
8
7
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Take five more such pairs and compare them.

l Comparison of a negative and a positive rational number is obvious. A negative rational

number is to the left of zero whereas a positive rational number is to the right of zero on
a number line. So, a negative rational number will always be less than a positive rational
number.
Thus,

2 1
< .
7 2

l To compare rational numbers

3
2
and
reduce them to their standard forms and
5
7

then compare them.

EXAMPLE 3 Do
SOLUTION

4
16
and
represent the same rational number?
9
36

Yes, because

4
4 ( 4)
16
16 16 4
4
=
=
or
=
=
.
9 9 ( 4)
36
36
36 4
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9.8 RATIONAL NUMBERS BETWEEN TWO RATIONAL NUMBERS

Reshma wanted to count the whole numbers between 3 and 10. From her earlier classes,
she knew there would be exactly 6 whole numbers between 3 and 10. Similarly, she
wanted to know the total number of integers between 3 and 3. The integers between 3
and 3 are 2, 1, 0, 1, 2. Thus, there are exactly 5 integers between 3 and 3.
Are there any integers between 3 and 2? No, there is no integer between
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Thus, we find that number of integers between two integers are limited (finite).
Will the same happen in the case of rational numbers also?
3
1
.
and
5
3
She converted them to rational numbers with same denominators.

Reshma took two rational numbers

So

3 9
1 5
=
and
=
5
15
3
15

We have

9 8 7 6 5
3 8 7 6 1
<
<
<
<
<
<
<
<
or
15 15 15 15 15
5 15 15 15 3
8 7 6
3
1
, ,
between
.
and
15 15 15
5
3

Are the numbers

8 7 6
3
1
, ,
the only rational numbers between and ?
15 15 15
5
3

We have

3 18
8 16
=
and
=
5
30
15
30

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3 17 8
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<
<
<
. i.e.,
30
30
30
5
30
15
3 17 8 7 6 1
<
<
<
<
<
5
30
15 15 15
3

So, we could find one more rational number between

3
1
.
and
5
3

By using this method, you can insert as many rational numbers as you want between
two rational numbers.
For example,

3 3 30 90
1 1 50 50
=
=
and
=
=
5
5 30 150
3
3 50 150
89

We get 39 rational numbers

150

, ...,

90
50
51
and
between
i.e., between
150
150
150

3
1
and . You will find that the list is unending.
5
3

5
8
and
Can you list five rational numbers between
?
3
7
We can find unlimited number of rational numbers between any two
rational numbers.

TRY THESE
Find five rational numbers
between

5
3
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.
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EXAMPLE 4 List three rational numbers between 2 and 1.

SOLUTION Let us write 1 and 2 as rational numbers with denominator 5. (Why?)
We have, 1 =

5
10
and 2 =
5
5

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9 8 7 6
<
<
<
<
<
<
<
<
< 1
or 2 <
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5

So,

The three rational numbers between 2 and 1 would be,

9 8 7
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,
5 5 5

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5 5 5 5

EXAMPLE 5 Write four more numbers in the following pattern:

1 2 3 4
, , , ,...
3 6 9 12

SOLUTION

We have,

2 1 2 3 1 3 4 1 4
=
,
=
,
=
6
3 2 9
3 3 12
3 4

1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 4 4
=
,
=
,
=
,
=
3 1
3 3 2
6 33
9 3 4
12

or

Thus, we observe a pattern in these numbers.

The other numbers would be

1 5 5 1 6 6 1 7 7
.
=
,
=
,
=
3 5 15 3 6 18 3 7
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EXERCISE 9.1

1. List five rational numbers between:

(i) 1 and 0

(ii) 2 and 1

(iii)

4
2
and
5
3

(iv)

2. Write four more rational numbers in each of the following patterns:

(i)

3 6 9 12
, , ,
,.....
5 10 15 20

(ii)

1 2 3
, , ,.....
4 8 12

1
2
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(iii)

1 2
3
4
,
,
,
,.....
6 12 18 24

(iv)

2 2 4 6
, , , ,.....
3 3 6 9

(iii)

4
9

3. Give four rational numbers equivalent to:

(i)

2
7

(ii)

5
3

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4. Draw the number line and represent the following rational numbers on it:
(i)

3
4

(ii)

5
8

(iii)

7
4

(iv)

7
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and AP = PQ = QB. Name the rational numbers represented by P, Q, R and S.

6. Which of the following pairs represent the same rational number?

(i)

(iv)

(vii)

7
3
and
21
9

(ii)

16
20
and
20
25

(iii)

2
2
and
3
3

3
12
and
5
20

(v)

8
24
and
5
15

(vi)

1
1
and
3
9

5
5
and
9
9

7. Rewrite the following rational numbers in the simplest form:

(i)

8
6

(ii)

25
45

(iii)

44
72

(iv)

8
10

8. Fill in the boxes with the correct symbol out of >, <, and =.
(i)
(iv)

5
7

2
3

(ii)

4
5

5
7

(iii)

7
8

14
16

8
5

7
4

(v)

1
3

1
4

(vi)

5
11

5
11

(vii) 0

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9. Which is greater in each of the following:

5 4
,
6 3

(i)

2 5
,
3 2

(ii)

(iv)

1 1
,
4 4

2
4
(v) 3 , 3
7
5

(iii)

3 2
,
4 3

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10. Write the following rational numbers in ascending order:

(i)

3 2 1
, ,
5 5 5

(ii)

1 2 4
, ,
3 9 3

(iii)

3 3 3
, ,
7 2 4

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RATIONAL NUMBERS

You know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide integers as well as fractions. Let us
now study these basic operations on rational numbers.

9.9.1 Addition

l Let us add two rational numbers with same denominators, say

7
5
.
and
3
3

7 5
+
3 3
On the number line, we have:

We find

3
3

2
3

1
3

0
3

5
6
7
8
3
3
3
3
1
7
5
The distance between two consecutive points is . So adding
to
will
3
3
3

mean, moving to the left of

So,

1
3

2
3

3
3

4
3

2
7
, making 5 jumps. Where do we reach? We reach at .
3
3

7 5 2
+ = .
3 3 3

Let us now try this way:

7 ( 5) 7 + ( 5) 2
+
=
=
3
3
3
3
We get the same answer.
Find

6 ( 2) 3 ( 5)
,
+
+
in both ways and check if you get the same answers.
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Similarly,

7 5
+ would be
8 8

7
8

6
8

5
8

4
8

3
8

2
8

1
8

0
8

1
8

2
8

3
8

4
8

5
8

What do you get?

7 5 7 + 5
+ =
= ? Are the two values same?
8 8
8

Also,

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13 6 19 + 7
+ ,
5
7
7 5

So, we find that while adding rational numbers with same denominators, we add
the numerators keeping the denominators same.
Thus,

11 7 11 + 7 4
+ =
=
5
5
5
5

l How do we add rational numbers with different denominators? As in the case of

fractions, we first find the LCM of the two denominators. Then, we find the equivalent
rational numbers of the given rational numbers with this LCM as the denominator.
Then, add the two rational numbers.
For example, let us add

7
2
.
and
5
3

LCM of 5 and 3 is 15.

So,

Thus,

7 21
2 10
=
and
=
5
15
3
15

7 ( 2) 21 ( 10) 31
=
+
=
+
15
5
3
15
15

Additive Inverse

What will be

4 4
+ =?
7 7
4 4 4+4
4 4
+ =
= 0 . Also, + = 0 .
7 7
7
7 7

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Find:
(i)

3 2
+
7 3

3 2 5 3
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2 2
2 2
+ = 0 = + .
3 3
3 3
In the case of integers, we call 2 as the additive inverse
of 2 and 2 as the additive inverse of 2.
Similarly,

For rational numbers also, we call

inverse of

4
as the additive
7

2
2
2
2
is the additive inverse of and is the additive inverse of
.
3
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3 9 5
?,
?, ?
What will be the additive inverse of
9 11 7

EXAMPLE 6 Satpal walks

1

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4
4
4
and as the additive inverse of
. Similarly,,
7
7
7

2
km from a place P, towards east and then from there
3

5
km towards west. Where will he be now from P?
7

SOLUTION

Let us denote the distance travelled towards east by positive sign. So,
the distances towards west would be denoted by negative sign.
Thus, distance of Satpal from the point P would be

2 5 2 ( 12 ) 2 7 ( 12 ) 3
+ 1 = +
=
+
3 7 3
7
3 7
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=

14 36 22
1
=
= 1
21
21
21

Since it is negative, it means Satpal is at a distance 1

1
km towards west of P..
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9.9.2 Subtraction

Savita found the difference of two rational numbers

5
3
and in this way:
7
8

5 3 40 21 19
=
=
7 8
56
56
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She tried this for rational numbers also and found,

5 3 5 ( 3) 19
= +
=
.
7 8 7
8
56

Both obtained the same difference.

Try to find

7 5 3 8
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in both ways. Did you get the same answer?
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the rational number that is being subtracted, to the other rational number.
Thus,

14 5 ( 14)
2
4 5 14 5
= +
1 2 =
= + additive inverse of
3
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5 3 5
5 3
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17
2
= 1 .
15
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Find:

2 5
What will be ?
7
6

(i)

7 2

9 5

1 ( 1)
(ii) 2
5
3

2 5 2
5 2 5 47
5
= + additive inverse of = + =
=1
6 7 6 42
7 6 7
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9.9.3 Multiplication

Let us multiply the rational number

3
3
2.
by 2, i.e., we find
5
5

On the number line, it will mean two jumps of

6
5

5
5

4
5

Where do we reach? We reach at

3
5

2
5

3
to the left.
5

1 0
(= 0)
5 5

2
5

6
. Let us find it as we did in fractions.
5

3
3 2 6
2=
=
5
5
5

We arrive at the same rational number.

Find

1
5

4
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3,
4 using both ways. What do you observe?
7
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3
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So, we find that while multiplying a rational number by a positive integer, we

multiply the numerator by that integer, keeping the denominator unchanged.
Let us now multiply a rational number by a negative integer,
2 ( 5) 10
2
=
( 5) =
9
9
9

TRY THESE

2 5 10 2 ( 5)
=

=
9
1
9
9 1

What will be
(i)

3
7?
5

(ii)

6
( 2) ?
5

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Remember, 5 can be written

3 ( 2) 6
3
=
( 2) =
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11
11

3 5 3 5 15
=
=
8 7 87
56

So, as we did in the case of fractions, we multiply two rational numbers in the
following way:
Step 1 Multiply the numerators of the two rational numbers.
TRY THESE
Step 2 Multiply the denominators of the two rational numbers.

Find:

Result of Step 1
Result of Step 2

Step 3 Write the product as

(i)

3 1

4 7

(ii)

2 5

3 9

Thus,

3 2 3 2 6
.
=
=
5 7 57
35

Also,

5 9 5 (9) 45
=
=
8 7
8 7
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9.9.4 Division

We have studied reciprocals of a fraction earlier. What is the reciprocal of

7
. We extend this idea of reciprocals to rational numbers also.
2

The reciprocal of

2
7
7
3
5
will be
i.e.,
; that of
would be
.
7
2
2
5
3

2
? It will be
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TRY THESE
What will be the reciprocal of

6
8
? and
?
11
5

Product of reciprocals

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The product of a rational number with its reciprocal is always 1.

4
4
reciprocal of

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9

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6 13

Similarly,
=1
13
6

Try some more examples and confirm this observation.

Savita divided a rational number

4
5
by another rational number
as,
9
7

4 5 4 7
28

=
=
.
9 7 9 5 45

She used the idea of reciprocal as done in fractions.

Arpit first divided
He finally said

4
5
28
by and got
.
9
7
45

4 5 28

=
. How did he get that?
9 7
45

He divided them as fractions, ignoring the negative sign and then put the negative sign
in the value so obtained.
Both of them got the same value

28
2
5
. Try dividing by
both ways and see if
45
3
7

you get the same answer.

This shows, to divide one rational number by the other rational numbers we
multiply the rational number by the reciprocal of the other.
Thus,

6 2 6
2 6 3 18

= reciprocal of = =
5 3 5
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TRY THESE
Find: (i)

2 7

3 8

(ii)

6 5

7 7

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5 11
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4 4

(ii)

3 5
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3 5

(iii)

(v)

8 ( 2)
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(vi)

2
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3

5 6

63 21

(iii)

6 7

13 15

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2. Find
(i)

7 17

24 36

(ii)

(iv)

3 7

8 11

1
(v) 2 6
9

3. Find the product:

(i)

9 7

2 4

(ii)

3
( 9 )
10

(iii)

6 9

5 11

(iv)

3 2

7 5

(v)

3 2

11 5

(vi)

3 5

5 3

(ii)

3
2
5

(iii)

4
( 3)
5

(v)

2 1

13 7

(vi)

7 2

12 13

4. Find the value of:

(i) ( 4)

2
3

(iv)

1 3

8 4

(vii)

3 4

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WHAT

HAVE

WE DISCUSSED?

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1. A number that can be expressed in the form q , where p and q are integers and
q 0, is called a rational number. The numbers

2 3
, ,3 etc. are rational numbers.
7 8

2. All integers and fractions are rational numbers.

3. If the numerator and denominator of a rational number are multiplied or divided by a
non-zero integer, we get a rational number which is said to be equivalent to the given
rational number. For example

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3 3 2 6
6
=
=
. So, we say
is the equivalent
7
7 2 14
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=
=
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7
14 14 2 7

4. Rational numbers are classified as Positive and Negative rational numbers. When the
numerator and denominator, both, are positive integers, it is a positive rational number.
When either the numerator or the denominator is a negative integer, it is a negative
rational number. For example,

8
3
is a positive rational number whereas
is a
9
8

negative rational number.

5. The number 0 is neither a positive nor a negative rational number.
6. A rational number is said to be in the standard form if its denominator is a positive
integer and the numerator and denominator have no common factor other than 1.

1 2
, etc. are in standard form.
3 7
7. There are unlimited number of rational numbers between two rational numbers.
8. Two rational numbers with the same denominator can be added by adding their
numerators, keeping the denominator same. Two rational numbers with different
denominators are added by first taking the LCM of the two denominators and
then converting both the rational numbers to their equivalent forms having the
The numbers

LCM as the denominator. For example,

2 3 16 9 16 + 9 7
+ =
+ =
= . Here,
3 8 24 24
24
24

LCM of 3 and 8 is 24.

9. While subtracting two rational numbers, we add the additive inverse of the rational
number to be subtracted to the other rational number.
Thus,

7 2 7
2 7 ( 2) 21+ ( 16) 5
=
= .
= + additive inverse of = +
3
24
24
8 3 8
3 8

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10. To multiply two rational numbers, we multiply their numerators and denominators
separately, and write the product as

product of numerators .
product of denominators

11. To divide one rational number by the other non-zero rational number, we multiply the
rational number by the reciprocal of the other. Thus,

7 4 7
4
7 3 21
=
(reciprocal of ) =
.
=
2 3 2
3
2
4
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Practical
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10.1 INTRODUCTION

You are familiar with a number of shapes. You learnt how to draw some of them in the earlier
classes. For example, you can draw a line segment of given length, a line perpendicular to a
given line segment, an angle, an angle bisector, a circle etc.
Now, you will learn how to draw parallel lines and some types of triangles.

10.2 CONSTRUCTION OF A LINE PARALLEL TO

THROUGH A POINT NOT ON THE LINE

GIVEN LINE,

Let us begin with an activity (Fig 10.1)

(i) Take a sheet of paper. Make a fold. This

fold represents a line l.

(ii) Unfold the paper. Mark a point A on the

paper outside l.

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(ii)

(iii) Fold the paper perpendicular to the line such

that this perpendicular passes through A.
Name the perpendicular AN.
(iv) Make a fold perpendicular to this
perpendicular through the point A. Name
the new perpendicular line as m. Now, l ||
m. Do you see why?
Which property or properties of parallel lines
can help you here to say that lines l and m
are parallel.

(iii)

(iv)

(v)
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You can use any one of the properties regarding the transversal and parallel lines to
make this construction using ruler and compasses only.
Step 1 Take a line l and a point A outside l [Fig10.2 (i)].

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Step 2 Take any point B on l and join B to A [Fig 10.2(ii)].

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Step 3 With B as centre and a convenient radius, draw an arc cutting l at C and BA at D
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Step 5 Place the pointed tip of the compasses at C and adjust the opening so that the
pencil tip is at D [Fig 10.2 (v)].

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arc EF at H [Fig 10.2 (vi)].

Step 7 Now, join AH to draw a line m [Fig 10.2 (vii)].

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Therefore m || l

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

Fig 10.2 (i)(vii)

WRITE

1. In the above construction, can you draw any other line through A that would be also
parallel to the line l ?
2. Can you slightly modify the above construction to use the idea of equal corresponding
angles instead of equal alternate angles?

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EXERCISE 10.1
1. Draw a line, say AB, take a point C outside it. Through C, draw a line parallel to AB
using ruler and compasses only.
2. Draw a line l. Draw a perpendicular to l at any point on l. On this perpendicular
choose a point X, 4 cm away from l. Through X, draw a line m parallel to l.

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3. Let l be a line and P be a point not on l. Through P, draw a line m parallel to l. Now
join P to any point Q on l. Choose any other point R on m. Through R, draw a line
parallel to PQ. Let this meet l at S. What shape do the two sets of parallel lines enclose?

10.3 CONSTRUCTION

OF

TRIANGLES

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It is better for you to go through this section after recalling ideas

on triangles, in particular, the chapters on properties of triangles 1 + 2 + 3 = 180
and congruence of triangles.

3 = 1 + 2

You know how triangles are classified based on sides or

angles and the following important properties concerning triangles:

(i) The exterior angle of a triangle is equal in measure to the

sum of interior opposite angles.

(ii) The total measure of the three angles of a triangle is 180.

(iii) Sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater

than the length of the third side.

b2+ a2 = c2
(iv) In any right-angled triangle, the square of the length of
hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two
sides.

a+ b > c

In the chapter on Congruence of Triangles, we saw that a triangle can be drawn if any
one of the following sets of measurements are given:

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(ii) Two sides and the angle between them.

(iii) Two angles and the side between them.

(iv) The hypotenuse and a leg in the case of a right-angled triangle.

We will now attempt to use these ideas to construct triangles.

10.4 CONSTRUCTING A TRIANGLE WHEN THE LENGTHS

ITS THREE SIDES ARE KNOWN (SSS CRITERION)

OF

In this section, we would construct triangles when all its sides are known. We draw first a
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the three lines. See the following example:

EXAMPLE 1 Construct a triangle ABC, given that AB = 5 cm, BC = 6 cm and AC = 7 cm.

SOLUTION

(Rough Sketch)

Step 1 First, we draw a rough sketch with given measure, (This will help us in
deciding how to proceed) [Fig 10.3(i)].

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Step 2 Draw a line segment BC of length 6 cm [Fig 10.3(ii)].

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radius 5 cm. (Now A will be somewhere on this arc. Our job is to find where
exactly A is) [Fig 10.3(iii)].

(ii)

(iii)

Step 4 From C, point A is at a distance of 7 cm. So, with C as centre, draw an arc of
radius 7 cm. (A will be somewhere on this arc, we have to fix it) [Fig 10.3(iv)].

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Step 5 A has to be on both the arcs drawn. So, it is the point of intersection of arcs.
Mark the point of intersection of arcs as A. Join AB and AC. ABC is now ready
[Fig 10.3(v)].

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Fig 10.3 (i) (v)

DO THIS

Now, let us construct another triangle DEF such that DE = 5 cm, EF = 6 cm, and
DF = 7 cm. Take a cutout of DEF and place it on ABC. What do we observe?
We observe that DEF exactly coincides with ABC. (Note that the triangles have
been constructed when their three sides are given.) Thus, if three sides of one triangle are
equal to the corresponding three sides of another triangle, then the two triangles are
congruent. This is SSS congruency rule which we have learnt in our earlier chapter.

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

A student attempted to draw a triangle whose rough figure is given here. He drew QR first.
Then with Q as centre, he drew an arc of 3 cm and with R as centre, he drew an arc of
2 cm. But he could not get P. What is the reason? What property of
P
triangle do you know in connection with this problem?
2 cm
m
c
3
Can such a triangle exist? (Remember the property of triangles
The
sum of any two sides of a traingle is always greater than the
R
Q
6 cm
third side!)
Fig 10.4 Think: Is this right?

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EXERCISE 10.2
1. Construct XYZ in which XY = 4.5 cm, YZ = 5 cm and ZX = 6 cm.
2. Construct an equilateral triangle of side 5.5 cm.
3. Draw PQR with PQ = 4 cm, QR = 3.5 cm and PR = 4 cm. What type of triangle
is this?
4. Construct ABC such that AB = 2.5 cm, BC = 6 cm and AC = 6.5 cm. Measure B.

10.5 CONSTRUCTING A TRIANGLE WHEN THE LENGTHS OF TWO

SIDES AND THE MEASURE OF THE ANGLE BETWEEN THEM
ARE KNOWN. (SAS CRITERION)

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and then draw one of the given line segments. The other steps follow. See Example 2.

(Rough Sketch)

EXAMPLE 2 Construct a triangle PQR, given

that PQ = 3 cm, QR = 5.5 cm
and PQR = 60.

SOLUTION

Step 1 First, we draw a rough sketch with

given measures. (This helps us
to determine the procedure in
construction) [Fig 10.5(i)].

(i)

Step 2 Draw a line segment QR of length

5.5 cm [Fig 10.5(ii)].

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(The point P must be somewhere
on this ray of the angle)
[Fig 10.5(iii)].

(ii)

(iii)

Step 4 (To fix P, the distance QP has been

given).
With Q as centre, draw an arc of radius
3 cm. It cuts QX at the point P
[Fig 10.5(iv)].
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Step 5 Join PR. PQR is now obtained (Fig 10.5(v)).

(v)

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Fig 10.5 (i) (v)

DO THIS

Let us now construct another triangle ABC such that AB = 3 cm, BC = 5.5 cm and
mABC = 60. Take a cut out of ABC and place it on PQR.What do we observe?
We observe that ABC exactly coincides with PQR. Thus, if two sides and the included
angle of one triangle are equal to the corresponding two sides and the included angle of
another triangle, then the two triangles are congruent. This is SAS congruency rule which
we have learnt in our earlier chapter. (Note that the triangles have been constructed when
their two sides and the angle included between these two sides are given.)

THINK, DISCUSS

AND

WRITE

In the above construction, lengths of two sides and measure of one angle were given. Now
study the following problems:
In ABC, if AB = 3cm, AC = 5 cm and mC = 30. Can we draw this triangle? We
may draw AC = 5 cm and draw C of measure 30. CA is one arm of C. Point B should
be lying on the other arm of C. But, observe that point B cannot be located uniquely.
Therefore, the given data is not sufficient for construction of ABC.
Now, try to construct ABC if AB = 3cm, AC = 5 cm and mB = 30. What do we
observe? Again, ABC cannot be constructed uniquely. Thus, we can conclude that a
unique triangle can be constructed only if the lengths of its two sides and the measure of the
included angle between them is given.

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1. Construct DEF such that DE = 5 cm, DF = 3 cm and mEDF = 90.

2. Construct an isosceles triangle in which the lengths of each of its equal sides is 6.5 cm
and the angle between them is 110.
3. Construct ABC with BC = 7.5 cm, AC = 5 cm and mC = 60.

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10.6 CONSTRUCTING A TRIANGLE WHEN THE MEASURES OF

TWO OF ITS ANGLES AND THE LENGTH OF THE SIDE
INCLUDED BETWEEN THEM IS GIVEN. (ASA CRITERION)
As before, draw a rough sketch. Now, draw the given line segment. Make angles on the
two ends. See the Example 3.

EXAMPLE 3 Construct XYZ if it is given that XY = 6 cm,

(Rough Sketch)

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SOLUTION
Step 1 Before actual construction, we draw
a rough sketch with measures marked
on it. (This is just to get an idea as
how to proceed)
[Fig 10.6(i)].

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Step 2 Draw XY of length 6 cm.

Step 3 At X, draw a ray XP making an angle

of 30 with XY. By the given condition
Z must be somewhere on the XP.

(iii)

Step 4 At Y, draw a ray YQ making an

angle of 100 with YX. By the
given condition, Z must be on the
ray YQ also.

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Step 5 Z has to lie on both the rays XP and

YQ. So, the point of intersection of
the two rays is Z.
XYZ is now completed.

Fig 10.6 (i) (v)

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DO THIS
Now, draw another LMN, where mNLM = 30, LM = 6 cm and
mNML = 100. Take a cutout of LMN and place it on the XYZ. We observe
that LMN exactly coincides with XYZ. Thus, if two angles and the included
side of one triangle are equal to the corresponding two angles and the included side
of another triangle, then the two triangles are congruent. This is ASA congruency
rule which you have learnt in the earlier chapter. (Note that the triangles have been
constructed when two angles and the included side between these angles are given.)

THINK, DISCUSS

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In the above example, length of a side and measures of two angles were given. Now study
the following problem:
In ABC, if AC = 7 cm, mA = 60 and mB = 50, can you draw the triangle?
(Angle-sum property of a triangle may help you!)

EXERCISE 10.4

1. Construct ABC, given mA = 60, mB = 30 and AB = 5.8 cm.

2. Construct PQR if PQ = 5 cm, mPQR = 105 and mQRP = 40.
(Hint: Recall angle-sum property of a triangle).
3. Examine whether you can construct DEF such that EF = 7.2 cm, mE = 110 and
mF = 80. Justify your answer.

10.7 CONSTRUCTING A RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE WHEN THE

LENGTH OF ONE LEG AND ITS HYPOTENUSE ARE GIVEN
(RHS CRITERION)
(Rough Sketch)

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Here it is easy to make the rough sketch. Now, draw a line as per the given side.
Make a right angle on one of its points. Use compasses to mark length of side and
hypotenuse of the triangle. Complete the triangle. Consider the following:

EXAMPLE 4 Construct LMN, right-angled at M, given that LN = 5 cm and

MN = 3 cm.

SOLUTION
Step 1 Draw a rough sketch and mark the measures. Remember to mark the
right angle [Fig 10.7(i)].
Step 2 Draw MN of length 3 cm.
(ii)
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Step 3 At M, draw MX MN. (L should be

somewhere on this perpendicular)
[Fig 10.7(iii)].

Step 4 With N as centre, draw an arc of radius 5 cm.

(L must be on this arc, since it is at a distance
of 5 cm from N) [Fig 10.7(iv)].

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(iv)

Step 5 L has to be on the perpendicular line MX

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Therefore, L is the meeting point of these
two.
LMN is now obtained.
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Fig 10.7 (i) (v)

EXERCISE 10.5

1. Construct the right angled PQR, where mQ = 90, QR = 8cm and

PR = 10 cm.
2. Construct a right-angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 6 cm long and one of the legs
is 4 cm long.
3. Construct an isosceles right-angled triangle ABC, where mACB = 90 and
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Miscellaneous questions
Below are given the measures of certain sides and angles of triangles. Identify those
which cannot be constructed and, say why you cannot construct them. Construct rest of
the triangles.
Triangle
Given measurements
1. ABC
mA = 85;
mB = 115;
AB = 5 cm.
2. PQR
mQ = 30;
mR = 60;
QR = 4.7 cm.
3. ABC
mA = 70;
mB = 50;
AC = 3 cm.
4. LMN
mL = 60;
mN = 120;
LM = 5 cm.
5. ABC
BC = 2 cm;
AB = 4 cm;
AC = 2 cm.
6. PQR
PQ = 3.5 cm.;
QR = 4 cm.;
PR = 3.5 cm.
7. XYZ
XY = 3 cm;
YZ = 4 cm;
XZ = 5 cm
8. DEF
DE = 4.5cm;
EF = 5.5cm;
DF = 4 cm.

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WHAT

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WE DISCUSSED?

In this Chapter, we looked into the methods of some ruler and compasses constructions.
1. Given a line l and a point not on it, we used the idea of equal alternate angles in a
transversal diagram to draw a line parallel to l.
We could also have used the idea of equal corresponding angles to do the
construction.
2. We studied the method of drawing a triangle, using indirectly the concept of congruence
of triangles.
The following cases were discussed:
(i) SSS: Given the three side lengths of a triangle.

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(ii) SAS: Given the lengths of any two sides and the measure of the
angle between these sides.
(iii) ASA: Given the measures of two angles and the length of side
included between them.
(iv) RHS: Given the length of hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and
the length of one of its legs.

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11.1 INTRODUCTION

In Class VI, you have already learnt perimeters of plane figures and areas of squares and
rectangles. Perimeter is the distance around a closed figure while area is the part of plane or
region occupied by the closed figure.
In this class, you will learn about perimeters and areas of a few more plane figures.

11.2 SQUARES

AND

RECTANGLES

Ayush and Deeksha made pictures. Ayush made his picture on a rectangular sheet of length
60 cm and breadth 20 cm while Deeksha made hers on a rectangular sheet of length 40 cm
and breadth 35 cm. Both these pictures have to be separately framed and laminated.
Who has to pay more for framing, if the cost of framing is Rs 3.00 per cm?
If the cost of lamination is Rs 2.00 per cm2, who has to pay more for lamination?
For finding the cost of framing, we need to find perimeter and then multiply it by the rate
for framing. For finding the cost of lamination, we need to find area and then multiply it by the
rate for lamination.

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What would you need to find, area or perimeter, to answer the following?
1. How much space does a blackboard occupy?
2. What is the length of a wire required to fence a rectangular flower bed?
3. What distance would you cover by taking two rounds of a triangular park?
4. How much plastic sheet do you need to cover a rectangular swimming pool?
Do you remember,
Perimeter of a regular polygon = number of sides length of one side
Perimeter of a square = 4 side

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Perimeter of a rectangle = 2 (l + b)
Area of a rectangle = l b, Area of a square = side side
Tanya needed a square of side 4 cm for completing a collage. She had a
rectangular sheet of length 28 cm and breadth 21 cm (Fig 11. 1). She cuts off
a square of side 4 cm from the rectangular sheet. Her friend saw the remaining
D sheet (Fig 11.2) and asked Tanya, Has the perimeter of the sheet increased
or decreased now?
Has the total length of side AD increased after cutting off the square?
Has the area increased or decreased?
C
Tanya cuts off one more square from the opposite side (Fig 11.3).
D
Will the perimeter of the remaining sheet increase further?
Will the area increase or decrease further?
So, what can we infer from this?
C It is clear that the increase of perimeter need not lead to increase in area.

Fig 11.1

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TRY THESE

1. Experiment with several such shapes and cut-outs. You might find it useful to draw
these shapes on squared sheets and compute their areas and perimeters.
You have seen that increase in perimeter does not mean that area will also increase.
2. Give two examples where the area increases as the perimeter increases.
3. Give two examples where the area does not increase when perimeter increases.

EXAMPLE 1 A door-frame of dimensions 3 m 2 m is fixed on the wall of dimension

10 m 10 m. Find the total labour charges for painting the wall if the
labour charges for painting 1 m2 of the wall is Rs 2.50.

SOLUTION Painting of the wall has to be done excluding the area of the door.

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= 3 2 m2 = 6 m2
Fig 11. 4
Area of wall including door = side side = 10 m 10 m = 100 m2
Area of wall excluding door = (100 6) m2 = 94 m2
Total labour charges for painting the wall = Rs 2.50 94 = Rs 235

EXAMPLE 2 The area of a rectangular sheet is 500 cm2. If the length of the sheet is
25 cm, what is its width? Also find the perimeter of the rectangular sheet.

SOLUTION

Area of the rectangular sheet = 500 cm2

Length (l) = 25 cm

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Area of the rectangle = l b (where b = width of the sheet)

Area
500
=
= 20 cm
l
25
Perimeter of sheet = 2 (l + b) = 2 (25 + 20) cm = 90 cm
So, the width of the rectangular sheet is 20 cm and its perimeter is 90 cm.

Therefore, width b =

EXAMPLE 3 Anu wants to fence the garden in front of her

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house (Fig 11.5), on three sides with lengths

20 m, 12 m and 12 m. Find the cost of fencing
at the rate of Rs 150 per metre.

S OLUTION The length of the fence required is the perimeter

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of the garden (excluding one side) which is

equal to 20 m + 12 m + 12 m, i.e., 44 m.
Cost of fencing = Rs 150 44 = Rs 6,600.

EXAMPLE 4 A wire is in the shape of a square of side 10 cm. If the wire is

rebent into a rectangle of length 12 cm, find its breadth. Which encloses
more area, the square or the rectangle?

S OLUTION Side of the square = 10 cm

Thus,

Length of the wire = Perimeter of the square = 4 side = 4 10 cm

= 40 cm
Length of the rectangle, l = 12 cm. Let b be the breadth of the rectangle.
Perimeter of rectangle = Length of wire = 40 cm
Perimeter of the rectangle = 2 (l + b)
40 = 2 (12 + b)

40
= 12 + b
2
Therefore,
b = 20 12 = 8 cm
The breadth of the rectangle is 8 cm.
Area of the square = (side)2
= 10 cm 10 cm = 100 cm2
Area of the rectangle = l b
= 12 cm 8 cm = 96 cm2
So, the square encloses more area even though its perimeter is the same as that of the rectangle.

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EXAMPLE 5 The area of a square and a rectangle are equal. If the side of the square is
40 cm and the breadth of the rectangle is 25 cm, find the length of the
rectangle. Also, find the perimeter of the rectangle.

S OLUTION

Area of square = (side)2

= 40 cm 40 cm = 1600 cm2

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It is given that,
The area of the rectangle = The area of the square
Area of the rectangle = 1600 cm2, breadth of the rectangle = 25 cm.
Area of the rectangle = l b
or

1600 = l 25

or

1600
=l
25

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l = 64 cm

So, the length of rectangle is 64 cm.

Perimeter of the rectangle = 2 (l + b) = 2 (64 + 25) cm

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So, the perimeter of the rectangle is 178 cm even though its area is the same as that of
the square.

EXERCISE 11.1

1. The length and the breadth of a rectangular piece of land are 500 m and 300 m
respectively. Find
(i) its area

(ii) the cost of the land, if 1 m2 of the land costs Rs 10,000.

2. Find the area of a square park whose perimeter is 320 m.

3. Find the breadth of a rectangular plot of land, if its area is 440 m2 and the length is
22 m. Also find its perimeter.
4. The perimeter of a rectangular sheet is 100 cm. If the length is 35 cm, find its breadth.
Also find the area.
5. The area of a square park is the same as of a rectangular park. If the side of the
square park is 60 m and the length of the rectangular park is 90 m, find the breadth of
the rectangular park.

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6. A wire is in the shape of a rectangle. Its length is 40 cm and breadth is 22 cm. If the
same wire is rebent in the shape of a square, what will be the measure of each side.
Also find which shape encloses more area?
7. The perimeter of a rectangle is 130 cm. If the breadth of the rectangle is
30 cm, find its length. Also find the area of the rectangle.

Fig 11.6

8. A door of length 2 m and breadth 1m is fitted in a wall. The length of the

wall is 4.5 m and the breadth is 3.6 m (Fig11.6). Find the cost of white
washing the wall, if the rate of white washing the wall is Rs 20 per m2.

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11.2.1 Triangles as Parts of Rectangles

Take a rectangle of sides 8 cm and 5 cm. Cut the rectangle along its diagonal to get two
triangles (Fig 11.7).
Superpose one triangle on the other.
Are they exactly the same in size?
Can you say that both the triangles are equal in area?
Are the triangles congruent also?
Fig 11.7
What is the area of each of these triangles?
You were find that sum of the areas of the two triangles is the same as the area of the
rectangle. Both the triangles are equal in area.

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The area of each triangle =

1
(Area of the rectangle)
2

1
1
= (l b) = (8 5)
2
2

40
= 20 cm 2
2
Take a square of side 5 cm and divide it into 4 triangles as shown (Fig 11.8).
Are the four triangles equal in area?
Are they congruent to each other? (Superpose the triangles to check).
What is the area of each triangle?

The area of each triangle =

Fig 11.8

1
( Area of the square)
4

1
1
(side) 2 = (5) 2 cm 2 = 6.25 cm2
4
4

11.2.2 Generalising for other Congruent Parts of Rectangles

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A rectangle of length 6 cm and breadth 4 cm is divided into two

parts as shown in the Fig (11.9). Trace the rectangle on another
paper and cut off the rectangle along EF to divide it into two parts.
Superpose one part on the other, see if they match. (You may
have to rotate them).
Are they congurent? The two parts are congruent to each other. So,
the area of one part is equal to the area of the other part.
1
Therefore, the area of each congruent part = (The area of the rectangle)
2
1
2
= ( 6 4) cm = 12 cm2
2

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TRY THESE
Each of the following rectangles of length 6 cm and breadth 4 cm is composed of
congruent polygons. Find the area of each polygon.

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11.3 AREA

OF A

PARALLELOGRAM

We come across many shapes other than squares and rectangles.

How will you find the area of a land which is a parallelogram in shape?
Let us find a method to get the area of a parallelogram.
Can a parallelogram be converted into a rectangle of equal area?
Draw a parallelogram on a graph paper as shown in Fig 11.10(i). Cut out the
parallelogram. Draw a line from one vertex of the parallelogram perpendicular to the
opposite side [Fig 11.10(ii)]. Cut out the triangle. Move the triangle to the other side of
the parallelogram.

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

Fig 11.10

What shape do you get? You get a rectangle.

Is the area of the parallelogram equal to the area of the rectangle formed?
Yes, area of the parallelogram = area of the rectangle formed
What are the length and the breadth of the rectangle?
We find that the length of the rectangle formed is equal to the
base of the parallelogram and the breadth of the rectangle is equal to
the height of the parallelogram (Fig 11.11).
Now,
Area of parallelogram = Area of rectangle
= length breadth = l b
But the length l and breadth b of the rectangle are exactly the
base b and the height h, respectively of the parallelogram.
Thus, the area of parallelogram = base height = b h.
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Any side of a parallelogram can be chosen as base of the

parallelogram. The perpendicular dropped on that side from the opposite
vertex is known as height (altitude). In the parallelogram ABCD, DE is
perpendicular to AB. Here AB is the
C
base and DE is the height of the
D
parallelogram.
F
base
B

A
height

D
height
A

Find the areas of the parallelograms by counting the squares enclosed within the figures
and also find the perimeters by measuring the sides.
Complete the following table:

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Fig 11.12

(a)

B
base

In this parallelogram ABCD, BF is the

perpendicular to opposite side AD. Here AD is the
base and BF is the height.

Consider the following parallelograms (Fig 11.12).

Parallelogram

Base

Height

Area

5 units

3 units

5 3 = 15 sq units

Perimeter

(c)

(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)

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Find the perimeter and area of each of these parallelograms. Analyse your results.
You will find that these parallelograms have different areas but equal perimeters.
This shows that to find the area of a parallelogram, you need to know only the base
and the corresponding height of the parallelogram.

TRY THESE

Find the area of following parallelograms:

(i)

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11.4 AREA

OF A

TRIANGLE

A gardener wants to know the cost of covering the whole of a triangular garden with
grass.
In this case we need to know the area of the triangular region.
Let us find a method to get the area of a triangle.

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Draw a scalene triangle on a piece of paper. Cut out the triangle.

B
Place this triangle on another piece of paper and cut out another
triangle of the same size.
So now you have two scalene triangles of the same size.
Are both the triangles congruent?
C
A
Superpose one triangle on the other so that they match.
You may have to rotate one of the two triangles.
Now place both the triangles such that their corresponding
sides are joined (as shown in Fig 11.14).
D
Is the figure thus formed a parallelogram?
Compare the area of each triangle to the area of the
parallelogram.
Compare the base and height of the triangles with the base
and height of the parallelogram.
You will find that the sum of the areas of both the triangles
is equal to the area of the parallelogram. The base and the
height of the triangle are the same as the base and the height of
the parallelogram, respectively.
Fig 11.14
1
Area of each triangle = (Area of parallelogram)
2
1
= (base height) (Since area of a parallelogram = base height)
2
1
1
= (b h) (or bh , in short)
2
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1. Try the above activity with different types of triangles.

2. Take different parallelograms. Divide each of the parallelograms into two triangles by
cutting along any of its diagonals. Are the triangles congruent?

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What can you say about the height of each of the triangles
corresponding to the base AB?
Can we say all the triangles are equal in area? Yes.
Are the triangles congruent also? No.
We conclude that all the congruent triangles are equal in
area but the triangles equal in area need not be congruent.

6 cm
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Consider the obtuse-angled triangle ABC of base 6 cm (Fig 11.16).

Its height AD which is perpendicular from the vertex A is outside the
triangle.
Can you find the area of the triangle?

4 cm

6 cm

EXAMPLE 6 One of the sides and the corresponding height of a

parallelogram are 4 cm and 3 cm respectively. Find the
area of the parallelogram (Fig 11.17).

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SOLUTION Given that length of base (b) = 4 cm, height (h) = 3 cm

Area of the parallelogram = b h
= 4 cm 3 cm = 12 cm2

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EXAMPLE 7 Find the height x if the area of the

parallelogram is 24 cm2 and the base is

4 cm.

Fig 11.17

SOLUTION Area of parallelogram = b h

Therefore, 24 = 4 x (Fig 11.18)

24
=x
or
x = 6 cm
4
So, the height of the parallelogram is 6 cm.

or

Fig 11.18

EXAMPLE 8 The two sides of the parallelogram ABCD are 6 cm and 4 cm. The height
corresponding to the base CD is 3 cm (Fig 11.19). Find the

(i) area of the parallelogram.

(ii) the height corresponding to the base AD.

SOLUTION
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= 6 cm 3 cm = 18 cm2

(ii)

base (b) = 4 cm, height = x (say),

Area = 18 cm2

Area of parallelogram = b x

18 = 4 x
18
=x
4

Therefore,

x = 4.5 cm

Thus, the height corresponding to base AD is 4.5 cm.

3 cm

4 cm

6 cm
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EXAMPLE 9 Find the area of the following triangles (Fig 11.20).

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(ii)

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SOLUTION

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(i) Area of triangle =

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bh =
QR PS
2
2

1
4 cm 2 cm = 4 cm2
2

(ii) Area of triangle =

1
1
bh =
MN LO
2
2

1
3 cm 2 cm = 3 cm2
2

EXAMPLE 10 Find BC, if the area of the triangle ABC is 36 cm2 and the height AD is
3 cm (Fig 11.21).

SOLUTION

Height = 3 cm, Area = 36 cm2

Area of the triangle ABC =

or
So,

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1
bh
2

1
b3
2

i.e., b =

36 2
= 24 cm
3

Fig 11.21

BC = 24 cm

EXAMPLE 11 In PQR, PR = 8 cm, QR = 4 cm and PL = 5 cm (Fig 11.22). Find:

(i) the area of the PQR

(ii) QM

SOLUTION
(i)

QR = base = 4 cm, PL = height = 5 cm

Area of the triangle PQR =
=

1
bh
2
1
4 cm 5 cm = 10 cm2
2

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(ii) PR = base = 8 cm

QM = height = ?

Area of triangle =
h=

Area = 10 cm2

1
bh
2

i.e.,

10 =

1
8 h
2

10 5
= = 2.5.
2
4

So,

QM = 2.5 cm

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1. Find the area of each of the following parallelograms:

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(b)
3. Find the missing values:

S.No.

Base

a.

20 cm

(c)

Height Area of the Parallelogram

246 cm2

b.

15 cm

154.5 cm2

c.

8.4 cm

48.72 cm2

d.

15.6 cm

(d)

16.38 cm2

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4. Find the missing values:

Base

Height

Area of Triangle

15 cm

______

87 cm2

_____

31.4 mm

1256 mm2

22 cm

______

170.5 cm2

5. PQRS is a parallelogram (Fig 11.23). QM is the height from Q

to SR and QN is the height from Q to PS. If SR = 12 cm and
QM = 7.6 cm. Find:
(a) the area of the parallegram PQRS
(b) QN, if PS = 8 cm

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6. DL and BM are the heights on sides AB and AD respectively of

parallelogram ABCD (Fig 11.24). If the area of the parallelogram
is 1470 cm2, AB = 35 cm and AD = 49 cm, find the length of BM
Fig 11.24
and DL.
7. ABC is right angled at A (Fig 11.25). AD is perpendicular to BC. If AB = 5 cm,
BC = 13 cm and AC = 12 cm, Find the area of ABC. Also find the length of
AD.

Fig 11.25

Fig 11.26

8. ABC is isosceles with AB = AC = 7.5 cm and BC = 9 cm (Fig 11.26). The height

AD from A to BC, is 6 cm. Find the area of ABC. What will be the height from C
to AB i.e., CE?

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11.5 CIRCLES
A racing track is semi-circular at both ends (Fig 11.27).
Can you find the distance covered by an athlete if he takes two rounds
of a racing track? We need to find a method to find the distances around
when a shape is circular.

Fig 11.27

11.5.1 Circumference of a Circle

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to decorate these cards. What length of the lace does she require for each? (Fig 11.28)

(a)

(b)

(c)

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You cannot measure the curves with the help of a ruler, as these figures are not straight.
What can you do?
Here is a way to find the length of lace required for shape in Fig 11.28(a). Mark a
point on the edge of the card and place the card on the table. Mark the position of the
Fig 11.29 point on the table also (Fig 11. 29).
Now roll the circular card on the table along a straight line till
the marked point again touches the table. Measure the distance
along the line. This is the length of the lace required
(Fig 11.30). It is also the distance along the edge of the card
from the marked point back to the marked point.
You can also find the distance by putting a string on the edge
Fig 11.30
of the circular object and taking all round it.
The distance around a circular region is known as its circumference.

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Take a bottle cap, a bangle or any other circular object and find the circumference.
Now, can you find the distance covered by the athlete on the track by this method?
Still, it will be very difficult to find the distance around the track or any other circular
object by measuring through string. Moreover, the measurement will not be accurate.
So, we need some formula for this, as we have for rectilinear figures or shapes.
Let us see if there is any relationship between the diameter and the circumference of
the circles.

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by using string. Also find the ratio of the circumference to the diameter.
Circle

Radius

Diameter

Circumference

Ratio of Circumference
to Diameter

1.

3.5 cm

7.0 cm

22.0 cm

22
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2.

7.0 cm

14.0 cm

44.0 cm

3.

10.5 cm

21.0 cm

66.0 cm

4.

21.0 cm

42.0 cm

132.0 cm

5.

5.0 cm

10.0 cm

32.0 cm

6.

15.0 cm

30.0 cm

94.0 cm

44
= 3.14
14
66
= 3.14
21
132
= 3.14
42
32
= 3.2
10
94
= 3.13
30

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What do you infer from the above table? Is this ratio approximately the same? Yes.
Can you say that the circumference of a circle is always more than three times its
diameter? Yes.

22
or 3.14.
7

This ratio is a constant and is denoted by (pi). Its approximate value is

So, we can say that

C
= , where C represents circumference of the circle and d
d

its diameter.
or
C = d
We know that diameter (d) of a circle is twice the radius (r) i.e., d = 2r
So,
C = d = 2r
or
C = 2r.

TRY THESE

In Fig 11.31,
(a) Which square has the larger perimeter?
(b) Which is larger, perimeter of smaller square or the
circumference of the circle?

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Fig 11.31

DO THIS

Take one each of quarter plate and half plate. Roll once each of these on
a table-top. Which plate covers more distance in one complete revolution?
Which plate will take less number of revolutions to cover the length of the
table-top?

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EXAMPLE 12 What is the circumference of a circle of diameter 10 cm (Take = 3.14)?

SOLUTION

Diameter of the circle (d) = 10 cm

Circumference of circle = d
= 3.14 10 cm = 31.4 cm
So, the circumference of the circle of diameter 10 cm is 31.4 cm.

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7

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SOLUTION

Radius of circular disc (r) = 14 cm

Circumference of disc = 2r
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= 2 14 cm = 88 cm
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EXAMPLE 14 The radius of a circular pipe is 10 cm. What length of a tape is required
to wrap once around the pipe ( = 3.14)?

SOLUTION

Radius of the pipe (r) = 10 cm

Length of tape required is equal to the circumference of the pipe.
Circumference of the pipe = 2r
= 2 3.14 10 cm
= 62.8 cm
Therefore, length of the tape needed to wrap once around the pipe is 62.8 cm.

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In this shape we need to find the circumference of semicircles on each side
of the square. Do you need to find the perimeter of the square also? No.
The outer boundary, of this figure is made up of semicircles. Diameter of
each semicircle is 14 cm.

EXAMPLE 15 Find the perimeter of the given shape (Fig 11.32) (Take =

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Circumference of the circle = d
1
Circumference of the semicircle = d
2
1 22
14 cm = 22 cm
2 7
Circumference of each of the semicircles is 22 cm
Therefore, perimeter of the given figure = 4 22 cm = 88 cm

14 cm
14 cm

SOLUTION

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EXAMPLE 16 Sudhanshu divides a circular disc of radius 7 cm in two equal parts.

What is the perimeter of each semicircular shape disc? (Use =

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SOLUTION

To find the perimeter of the semicircular disc (Fig 11.33), we need to find
(i) Circumference of semicircular shape
(ii) Diameter
Given that radius (r) = 7 cm. We know that the circumference of circle = 2r

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the circumference of the semicircle =

So,
Thus,

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perimeter of each semicircular disc = 22 cm + 14 cm = 36 cm
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11.5.2 Area of Circle

Consider the following:

z A farmer dug a flower bed of radius 7 m at the centre of a field. He needs to
purchase fertiliser. If 1 kg of fertiliser is required for 1 square metre area,
how much fertiliser should he purchase?
z What will be the cost of polishing a circular table-top of radius 2 m at the rate
of Rs 10 per square metre?
Can you tell what we need to find in such cases, Area or Perimeter? In such
cases we need to find the area of the circular region. Let us find the area of a circle, using
graph paper.
Draw a circle of radius 4 cm on a graph paper (Fig 11.34). Find the area by counting
the number of squares enclosed.
As the edges are not straight, we get a rough estimate of the area of circle by this method.
There is another way of finding the area of a circle.
Draw a circle and shade one half of the circle [Fig 11.35(i)]. Now fold the circle into
eighths and cut along the folds [Fig 11.35(ii)].

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(i)
Fig 11.35

Fig 11.36

Arrange the separate pieces as shown, in Fig 11.36, which is roughly a parallelogram.
The more sectors we have, the nearer we reach an appropriate parallelogram
(Fig 11.37).

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As done above if we divide the circle in 64 sectors, and arrange these sectors. It
gives nearly a rectangle (Fig 11.37).

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What is the breadth of this rectangle? The breadth of this rectangle is the radius of the
circle, i.e., r.
As the whole circle is divided into 64 sectors and on each side we have 32 sectors, the
length of the rectangle is the length of the 32 sectors, which is half of the circumference.
(Fig 11.37)
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Draw circles of different radii on a graph paper. Find the area by counting the
number of squares. Also find the area by using the formula. Compare the two answers.

EXAMPLE 17 Find the area of a circle of radius 30 cm (use = 3.14).

SOLUTION

Radius, r = 30 cm
Area of the circle = r2 = 3.14 302 = 2,826 cm2

EXAMPLE 18 Diameter of a circular garden is 9.8 m. Find its area.

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Diameter, d = 9.8 m. Therefore, radius r = 9.8 2 = 4.9 m

Area of the circle = r2 =

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4.9 4.9 m2 = 75.46 m2
(4.9) 2 m2 =
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EXAMPLE 19 The adjoining figure shows two circles with the

same centre. The radius of the larger circle is
10 cm and the radius of the smaller circle is 4 cm.
Find: (a) the area of the larger circle
(b) the area of the smaller circle
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SOLUTION
(a) Radius of the larger circle = 10 cm
So, area of the larger circle = r 2
= 3.14 10 10 = 314 cm2
(b) Radius of the smaller circle = 4 cm
Area of the smaller circle = r 2
= 3.14 4 4 = 50.24 cm2
(c) Area of the shaded region = (314 50.24) cm2 = 263.76 cm2

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1. Find the circumference of the circles with the following radius: (Take =
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(b) 28 mm

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(c) 21 cm

2. Find the area of the following circles, given that:

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(a) radius = 14 mm (Take =
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(b) diameter = 49 m
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(c) radius = 5 cm
3. If the circumference of a circular sheet is 154 m, find its radius. Also find the area of
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the sheet. (Take =
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4. A gardener wants to fence a circular garden of diameter 21m. Find the length of the
rope he needs to purchase, if he makes 2 rounds of fence. Also find the costs of the
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5. From a circular sheet of radius 4 cm, a circle of radius 3 cm is removed. Find the area
of the remaining sheet. (Take = 3.14)
6. Saima wants to put a lace on the edge of a circular table cover of diameter 1.5 m.
Find the length of the lace required and also find its cost if one meter of the lace costs
7.
8.
9.

10.

Rs 15. (Take = 3.14)

Find the perimeter of the adjoining figure, which is a semicircle including
its diameter.
Find the cost of polishing a circular table-top of diameter 1.6 m, if
the rate of polishing is Rs 15/m2. (Take = 3.14)
Shazli took a wire of length 44 cm and bent it into the shape of a circle.
Find the radius of that circle. Also find its area. If the same wire is bent into the shape
of a square, what will be the length of each of its sides? Which figure encloses more
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From a circular card sheet of radius 14 cm, two circles of radius 3.5 cm and a
rectangle of length 3 cm and breadth 1cm are removed. (as shown in the adjoining
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11. A circle of radius 2 cm is cut out from a square piece of an aluminium sheet of side
6 cm. What is the area of the left over aluminium sheet? (Take = 3.14)
12. The circumference of a circle is 31.4 cm. Find the radius and the area of the circle?
(Take = 3.14)
66m

13. A circular flower bed is surrounded by a path 4 m wide. The diameter of the flower
bed is 66 m. What is the area of this path? ( = 3.14)

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14. A circular flower garden has an area of 314 m2. A sprinkler at the centre of the
garden can cover an area that has a radius of 12 m. Will the sprinkler water the entire
garden? (Take = 3.14)
15. Find the circumference of the inner and the outer circles, shown in the adjoining figure?
(Take = 3.14)

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17. The minute hand of a circular clock is 15 cm long. How far does the tip of the minute
hand move in 1 hour. (Take = 3.14)
16. How many times a wheel of radius 28 cm must rotate to go 352 m? (Take =

11.6 CONVERSION

OF

UNITS

We know that 1 cm = 10 mm. Can you tell 1 cm2 is equal to how many mm2? Let us explore
similar questions and find how to convert units while measuring areas to another unit.
Draw a square of side 1cm (Fig 11.38), on a graph sheet.
Fig 11.38

You find that this square of side 1 cm will be divided into 100 squares, each of side 1 mm.
Area of a square of side 1cm = Area of 100 squares, of each side 1mm.
Therefore,

1 cm2 = 100 1 mm2

or

1 cm2 = 100 mm2

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= 100 cm 100 cm (As 1 m = 100 cm)

= 10000 cm2

Now can you convert 1 km2 into m2?

In the metric system, areas of land are also measured in hectares [written ha in short].
A square of side 100 m has an area of 1 hectare.
So,

1 hectare = 100 100 m2 = 10,000 m2

When we convert a unit of area to a smaller unit, the resulting number of units will
be bigger.
For example,

1000 cm2 = 1000 100 mm2

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But when we convert a unit of area to a larger unit, the number of larger units will be
smaller.
1000 2
m = 0.1 m2
For example,
1000 cm2 =
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You must have observed that quite often, in gardens or parks, some space is left all around
in the form of path or in between as cross paths. A framed picture has some space left all
around it.
We need to find the areas of such pathways or borders when
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2.5 m
we want to find the cost of making them.

EXAMPLE 20 A rectangular park is 45 m long and 30 m wide.

A path 2.5 m wide is constructed outside the

park. Find the area of the path.

SOLUTION

45 m

Q
B
2.5 m

Convert the following:

(i) 50 cm2 in mm2 (ii) 2 ha in m2

30 m

Let ABCD represent the rectangular park and

D
the shaded region represent the path 2.5 m wide.
To find the area of the path, we need to find (Area of rectangle S
PQRS Area of rectangle ABCD).
We have,
PQ = (45 + 2.5 + 2.5) m = 50 m
PS = (30 + 2.5 + 2.5) m = 35 m
Area of the rectangle ABCD = l b = 45 30 m2 = 1350 m2
Area of the rectangle PQRS = l b = 50 35 m2 = 1750 m2
Area of the path = Area of the rectangle PQRS Area of the rectangle ABCD
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100 m. Find the area of the path. Also find the cost of A
cementing it at the rate of Rs 250 per 10 m2.

SOLUTION

Let ABCD be the square park of side 100 m. The

shaded region represents the path 5 m wide.
PQ = 100 (5 + 5) = 90 m
Area of square ABCD = (side)2 = (100)2 m2 = 10000 m2
Area of square PQRS = (side)2 = (90)2 m2 = 8100 m2
Therefore, area of the path = (10000 8100) m2 = 1900 m2
Cost of cementing 10 m2 = Rs 250

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Therefore, cost of cementing 1 m2 = Rs

So,

cost of cementing 1900 m2 = Rs

250
10
250
1900 = Rs 47,500
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sides. Find the area of the roads. Also find the cost of constructing the
roads at the rate of Rs 105 per m2.

SOLUTION

Area of the cross roads is the area of shaded portion, i.e., the area of
the rectangle PQRS and the area of the rectangle EFGH. But while
doing this, the area of the square KLMN is taken twice,
which is to be subtracted.
Now,
PQ = 5 m and PS = 45 m
EH = 5 m and EF = 70 m
KL = 5 m and KN = 5 m
Area of the path = Area of the rectangle PQRS area of
the rectangle EFGH Area of the square KLMN
= PS PQ + EF EH KL KN
= (45 5 + 70 5 5 5) m2
= (225 + 350 25) m2 = 550 m2
Cost of constructing the path = Rs 105 550 = Rs 57,750

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1. A garden is 90 m long and 75 m broad. A path 5 m wide is to be built outside and

around it. Find the area of the path. Also find the area of the garden in hectare.
2. A 3 m wide path runs outside and around a rectangular park of length 125 m and
breadth 65 m. Find the area of the path.
3. A picture is painted on a cardboard 8 cm long and 5 cm wide such that there is a
margin of 1.5 cm along each of its sides. Find the total area of the margin.
4. A verandah of width 2.25 m is constructed all along outside a room which is 5.5 m
long and 4 m wide. Find:
(i) the area of the verandah.

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5. A path 1 m wide is built along the border and inside a square garden of side 30 m. Find:
(i) the area of the path
(ii) the cost of planting grass in the remaining portion of the garden at the rate of
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6. Two cross roads, each of width 10 m, cut at right angles through the centre of a
rectangular park of length 700 m and breadth 300 m and parallel to its sides. Find the
area of the roads. Also find the area of the park excluding cross roads. Give the
answer in hectares.
7. Through a rectangular field of length 90 m and breadth 60 m, two roads are
constructed which are parallel to the sides and cut each other at right angles through
the centre of the fields. If the width of each road is 3 m, find
(i) the area covered by the roads.
(ii) the cost of constructing the roads at the rate of Rs 110 per m2.
8. Pragya wrapped a cord around a circular pipe of radius 4 cm (adjoining figure) and
cut off the length required of the cord. Then she wrapped it around a square box of
side 4 cm (also shown). Did she have any cord left? ( = 3.14)
9. The adjoining figure represents a rectangular lawn with a circular flower bed in the
middle. Find:
(i) the area of the whole land (ii) the area of the flower bed
(iii) the area of the lawn excluding the area of the flower bed
(iv) the circumference of the flower bed.
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WE DISCUSSED?

1. Perimeter is the distance around a closed figure whereas area is the part of plane
occupied by the closed figure.
2. We have learnt how to find perimeter and area of a square and rectangle in the earlier
class. They are:
(a) Perimeter of a square = 4 side
(b) Perimeter of a rectangle = 2 (length + breadth)
(c) Area of a square = side side
(d) Area of a rectangle = length breadth
3. Area of a parallelogram = base height

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2
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base height
2

5. The distance around a circular region is known as its circumference.

Circumference of a circle = d, where d is the diameter of a circle and

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or 3.14 (approximately).
6. Area of a circle = r2, where r is the radius of the circle.
7. Based on the conversion of units for lengths, studied earlier, the units of areas can
also be converted:
1 cm2 = 100 mm2,
1 m2 = 10000 cm2 ,
1 hectare = 10000 m2.

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Expressions
We have already come across simple algebraic expressions like x + 3, y 5, 4x + 5,
10y 5 and so on. In Class VI, we have seen how these expressions are useful in formulating
puzzles and problems. We have also seen examples of several expressions in the chapter on
simple equations.
Expressions are a central concept in algebra. This Chapter is devoted to algebraic
expressions. When you have studied this Chapter, you will know how algebraic
expressions are formed, how they can be combined, how we can find their values and
how they can be used.

12.2 HOW

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12.1 INTRODUCTION

ARE

EXPRESSIONS FORMED?

We now know very well what a variable is. We use letters x, y, l, m, ... etc. to denote
variables. A variable can take various values. Its value is not fixed. On the other hand, a
constant has a fixed value. Examples of constants are: 4, 100, 17, etc.
We combine variables and constants to make algebraic expressions. For this, we use the
operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have already come across
expressions like 4x + 5, 10y 20. The expression 4x + 5 is obtained from the variable x, first
by multiplying x by the constant 4 and then adding the constant 5 to the product. Similarly,
10y 20 is obtained by first multiplying y by 10 and then subtracting 20 from the product.
The above expressions were obtained by combining variables with constants. We can
also obtain expressions by combining variables with themselves or with other variables.
Look at how the following expressions are obtained:
x2, 2y2, 3x2 5, xy, 4xy + 7
(i) The expression x2 is obtained by multiplying the variable x by itself;
x x = x2
Just as 4 4 is written as 42, we write x x = x2. It is commonly read as x squared.

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(Later, when you study the chapter Exponents and Powers you will realise that x2
may also be read as x raised to the power 2).
In the same manner, we can write
x x x = x3
Commonly, x3 is read as x cubed. Later, you will realise that x3 may also be read
as x raised to the power 3.
x, x2, x3, ... are all algebraic expressions obtained from x.
(ii) The expression 2y 2 is obtained from y: 2y 2 = 2 y y
Here by multiplying y with y we obtain y 2 and then we multiply y2 by the constant 2.
(iii) In (3x2 5) we first obtain x2, and multiply it by 3 to get 3x2.
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From 3x2, we subtract 5 to finally arrive at 3x2 5.
Describe how the (iv) In xy, we multiply the variable x with another variable y. Thus,
following expressions
x y = xy.
are obtained:
(v) In 4xy + 7, we first obtain xy, multiply it by 4 to get 4xy and add
2
2
7xy + 5, x y, 4x 5x
7 to 4xy to get the expression.

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12.3 TERMS

OF AN

EXPRESSION

We shall now put in a systematic form what we have learnt above about how expressions
are formed. For this purpose, we need to understand what terms of an expression and
their factors are.
Consider the expression (4x + 5). In forming this expression, we first formed 4x
separately as a product of 4 and x and then added 5 to it. Similarly consider the expression
(3x2 + 7y). Here we first formed 3x2 separately as a product of 3, x and x. We then
formed 7y separately as a product of 7 and y. Having formed 3x2 and 7y separately, we
added them to get the expression.
You will find that the expressions we deal with can always be seen this way. They
have parts which are formed separately and then added. Such parts of an expression
which are formed separately first and then added are known as terms. Look at the
expression (4x2 3xy). We say that it has two terms, 4x2 and 3xy. The term 4x2 is a
product of 4, x and x, and the term (3xy) is a product of (3), x and y.
Terms are added to form expressions. Just as the terms 4x and 5 are added to
form the expression (4x + 5), the terms 4x2 and (3xy) are added to give the expression
(4x2 3xy). This is because 4x2 + (3xy) = 4x2 3xy.

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took the term as (3xy) and not as (3xy). That is why we do not need to say that
terms are added or subtracted to form an expression; just added is enough.

Factors of a term
We saw above that the expression (4x2 3xy) consists of two terms 4x2 and 3xy. The
term 4x2 is a product of 4, x and x; we say that 4, x and x are the factors of the term 4x2.
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We can represent the terms and factors of

the terms of an expression conveniently and
elegantly by a tree diagram. The tree for the
expression (4x2 3xy) is as shown in the
adjacent figure.
Note, in the tree diagram, we have used
dotted lines for factors and continuous lines for
terms. This is to avoid mixing them.
Let us draw a tree diagram for the expression
5xy + 10.
The factors are such that they cannot be
further factorised. Thus we do not write 5xy as
5 xy, because xy can be further factorised.
Similarly, if x3 were a term, it would be written as
x x x and not x2 x. Also, remember that
1 is not taken as a separate factor.

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We have learnt how to write a term as a product of factors.
One of these factors may be numerical and the others algebraic
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(i.e., they contain variables). The numerical factor is said to be
the numerical coefficient or simply the coefficient of the term.
1. What are the terms in the
It is also said to be the coefficient of the rest of the term (which
following expressions?
is obviously the product of algebraic factors of the term). Thus
Show how the terms are
in 5xy, 5 is the coefficient of the term. It is also the coefficient
formed. Draw a tree diagram
of xy. In the term 10xyz, 10 is the coefficient of xyz, in the
for each expression:
term 7x 2 y 2, 7 is the coefficient of x 2 y 2.
8y + 3x2, 7mn 4, 2x2y.
When the coefficient of a term is +1, it is usually omitted.
2. Write three expression each
For example, 1x is written as x; 1 x2y2 is written as x2y2 and
having 4 terms.
so on. Also, the coefficient (1) is indicated only by the
2 2
minus sign. Thus (1) x is written as x; (1) x y is
written as x2 y2 and so on.
Sometimes, the word coefficient is used in a more general way. Thus
we say that in the term 5xy, 5 is the coefficient of xy, x is the coefficient of 5y
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and y is the coefficient of 5x. In 10xy 2, 10 is the coefficient of xy 2, x is the
2
2
coefficient of 10y and y is the coefficient of 10x. Thus, in this more general
Identify the coefficients
way, a coefficient may be either a numerical factor or an algebraic factor or of the terms of following
a product of two or more factors. It is said to be the coefficient of the expressions:
product of the remaining factors.
4x 3y, a + b + 5, 2y + 5, 2xy
EXAMPLE 1 Identify, in the following expressions, terms which are not
constants. Give their numerical coefficients:
xy + 4, 13 y2, 13 y + 5y2, 4p2q 3pq2 + 5

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S OLUTION
S. No.

Expression

(i)
(ii)
(iii)

xy + 4
13 y2
13 y + 5y2

(iv)

4p2q 3pq2 + 5

Term (which is not

a Constant)
xy
y2
y
5y2
4p2q
3pq2

Numerical
Coefficient
1
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(a) What are the coefficients of x in the following expressions?

4x 3y, 8 x + y, y2x y, 2z 5xz
(b) What are the coefficients of y in the following expressions?
4x 3y, 8 + yz, yz2 + 5, my + m

SOLUTION

(a) In each expression we look for a term with x as a factor. The remaining part of that
term is the coefficient of x.
S. No. Expression
(i)
4x 3y
(ii)

8x+y
2

Term with Factor x

4x

Coefficient of x
4

(iii)

yxy

yx

y2

(iv)

2z 5xz

5xz

5z

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(i)
4x 3y
(ii)
8 + yz
(iii)
yz2 + 5
(iv)

12.4 LIKE

my + m
AND

Term with factor y

3y
yz
yz2
my

Coefficient of y
3
z
z2
m

UNLIKE TERMS

When terms have the same algebraic factors, they are like terms. When terms have different
algebraic factors, they are unlike terms. For example, in the expression 2xy 3x + 5xy 4,
look at the terms 2xy and 5xy. The factors of 2xy are 2, x and y. The factors of 5xy are 5,
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hence they are like terms. On the other hand the

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terms 2xy and 3x, have different algebraic factors.
They are unlike terms. Similarly, the terms, 2xy Group the like terms together from the
and 4, are unlike terms. Also, the terms 3x and 4 following:
are unlike terms.
12x, 12, 25x, 25, 25y, 1, x, 12y, y

12.5 MONOMIALS, BINOMIALS, TRINOMIALS

POLYNOMIALS

AND

An expression with only one term is called a monomial; for example, 7xy, 5m,
3z2, 4 etc.
An expression which contains two unlike terms is called a
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binomial; for example, x + y, m 5, mn + 4m, a2 b2 are
binomials. The expression 10pq is not a binomial; it is a Classify the following
monomial. The expression (a + b + 5) is not a binomial. expressions as a monomial,
a binomial or a trinomial: a,
It contains three terms.
a + b, ab + a + b, ab + a
An expression which contains three terms is called a
+ b 5, xy, xy + 5,
trinomial; for example, the expressions x + y + 7, ab + a +b,
5x2 x + 2, 4pq 3q + 5p,
3x2 5x + 2, m + n + 10 are trinomials. The expression
7, 4m 7n + 10, 4mn + 7.
ab + a + b + 5 is, however not a trinomial; it contains four
terms and not three. The expression x + y + 5x is not a trinomial as the terms x and 5x are
like terms.
In general, an expression with one or more terms is called a polynomial. Thus a
monomial, a binomial and a trinomial are all polynomials.

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EXAMPLE 3 State with reasons, which of the following pairs of terms are of like
terms and which are of unlike terms:
(i) 7x, 12y
(ii) 15x, 21x
(iii) 4ab, 7ba
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2
2
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(v) 6xy , 9x y
(vi) pq , 4pq
(vii) mn2, 10mn

SOLUTION
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(iv) 3xy, 3x

Pair

Factors

Algebraic
factors same
or different

Like/
Unlike
terms

Remarks

7x
12y

7, x
12, y

Different

Unlike

The variables in the

terms are different.

(ii)

15x
21x

15, x
21, x

Same

Like

(iii)

4ab
7 ba

4, a, b
7, a, b

Same

Like

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(iv)

3xy
3x

3, x, y
3, x

Different

Unlike

The variable y is only

in one term.

(v)

6xy2
9x2y

6, x, y, y
9, x, x, y

Different

Unlike

The variables in the two

terms match, but their
powers do not match.

Same

Like

Note, numerical
factor 1 is not shown

(vi)

pq2
1, p, q, q
2
4pq 4, p, q, q

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or unlike terms:
(i) Ignore the numerical coefficients. Concentrate on the algebraic part of the
terms.
(ii) Check the variables in the terms. They must be the same.
(iii) Next, check the powers of each variable in the terms. They must be the same.
Note that in deciding like terms, two things do not matter (1) the numerical
coefficients of the terms and (2) the order in which the variables are multiplied in the
terms.

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EXERCISE 12.1

1. Get the algebraic expressions in the following cases using variables, constants and
arithmetic operations.
(i) Subtraction of z from y.
(ii) One-half of the sum of numbers x and y.
(iii) The number z multiplied by itself.
(iv) One-fourth of the product of numbers p and q.
(v) Numbers x and y both squared and added.
(vi) Number 5 added to three times the product of numbers m and n.
(vii) Product of numbers y and z subtracted from 10.
(viii) Sum of numbers a and b subtracted from their product.
2. (i) Identify the terms and their factors in the following expressions
Show the terms and factors by tree diagrams.
(a) x 3
(b) 1 + x + x2
(c) y y3
(d) 5xy2 + 7x2y
(e) ab + 2b2 3a2
(ii) Identify terms and factors in the expressions given below:
(a) 4x + 5
(b) 4x + 5y
(c) 5y + 3y2
(d) xy + 2x2y2
(e) pq + q
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3
1
x+
(h) 0.1 p2 + 0.2 q2
4
4
Identify the numerical coefficients of terms (other than constants) in the following
expressions:
(ii) 1 + t + t2 + t3
(iii) x + 2xy + 3y
(i) 5 3t2
2 2
(iv) 100m + 1000n (v) p q + 7pq
(vi) 1.2 a + 0.8 b
(vii) 3.14 r2
(viii) 2 (l + b)
(ix) 0.1 y + 0.01 y2
(a) Identify terms which contain x and give the coefficient of x.
(i) y2x + y
(ii) 13y2 8yx
(iii) x + y + 2
(iv) 5 + z + zx
(v) 1 + x + xy
(vi) 12xy2 + 25
(vii) 7x + xy2
(b) Identify terms which contain y2 and give the coefficient of y2.
(i) 8 xy2
(ii) 5y2 + 7x
(iii) 2x2y 15xy2 + 7y2
Classify into monomials, binomials and trinomials.
(i) 4y 7z
(ii) y2
(iii) x + y xy
(iv) 100
2
2
(viii) 7mn
(v) ab a b
(vi) 5 3t
(vii) 4p q 4pq
(ix) z2 3z + 8
(x) a2 + b2
(xi) z2 + z
(xii) 1 + x + x2
State whether a given pair of terms is of like or unlike terms.
5
(i) 1, 100
(ii) 7x, x
(iii) 29x, 29y
2
(iv) 14xy, 42yx
(v) 4m2p, 4mp2
(vi) 12xz, 12x2z2
Identify like terms in the following:
(a) xy2, 4yx2, 8x2, 2xy2, 7y, 11x2, 100x, 11yx, 20x2y,

(g)

3.

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5.

6.

7.

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EXPRESSIONS

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ALGEBRAIC

Consider the following problems:

1. Sarita has some marbles. Ameena has 10 more. Appu says that he has 3 more
marbles than the number of marbles Sarita and Ameena together have. How do you
get the number of marbles that Appu has?
Since it is not given how many marbles Sarita has, we shall take it to be x. Ameena
then has 10 more, i.e., x + 10. Appu says that he has 3 more marbles than what
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marbles and Ameenas marbles, and to this sum add 3, that is, we take the sum of
x, x + 10 and 3.
2. Ramus fathers present age is 3 times Ramus age. Ramus grandfathers age is 13
years more than the sum of Ramus age and Ramus fathers age. How do you find
Ramus grandfathers age?
Since Ramus age is not given, let us take it to be y years. Then his fathers age is
3y years. To find Ramus grandfathers age we have to take the sum of Ramus age (y)
and his fathers age (3y) and to the sum add 13, that is, we have to take the sum of
y, 3y and 13.
3. In a garden, roses and marigolds are planted in square plots. The length of the
square plot in which marigolds are planted is 3 metres greater than the length of the
square plot in which roses are planted. How much bigger in area is the marigold plot
than the rose plot?
Let us take l metres to be length of the side of the rose plot. The length of the side of
the marigold plot will be (l + 3) metres. Their respective areas will be l2 and (l + 3)2.
The difference between (l 2 + 3)2 and l 2 will decide how much bigger in area the
marigold plot is.
In all the three situations, we had to carry out addition or subtraction of algebraic
expressions. There are a number of real life problems in which we need to use
expressions and do arithmetic operations on them. In this section, we shall see how
algebraic expressions are added and subtracted.

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Think of atleast two situations in each of which you need to form two algebraic
expressions and add or subtract them
Adding and subtracting like terms
The simplest expressions are monomials. They consist of only one term. To begin with we
shall learn how to add or subtract like terms.
z Let us add 3x and 4x. We know x is a number and so also are 3x and 4x.
Now,
3x + 4x = (3 x) + (4 x)
= (3 + 4) x (using distributive law)
= 7 x = 7x
Since variables are numbers, we can
or
3x + 4x = 7x
use distributive law for them.
z Let us next add 8xy, 4xy and 2xy
8xy + 4xy + 2xy = (8 xy) + (4 xy) + (2 xy)
= (8 + 4 + 2) xy
= 14 xy = 14xy
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z Let us subtract 4n from 7n.

7n 4n = (7 n) (4 n)
= (7 4) n = 3 n = 3n
or

7n 4n = 3n

z In the same way, subtract 5ab from 11ab.

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11ab 5ab = (11 5) ab = 6ab

Thus, the sum of two or more like terms is a like term with a numerical coefficient
equal to the sum of the numerical coefficients of all the like terms.

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Similarly, the difference between two like terms is a like term with a numerical
coefficient equal to the difference between the numerical coefficients of the two
like terms.
Note, unlike terms cannot be added or subtracted the way like terms are added
or subtracted. We have already seen examples of this, when 5 is added to x, we write the
result as (x + 5). Observe that in (x + 5) both the terms 5 and x are retained.
Similarly, if we add the unlike terms 3xy and 7, the sum is 3xy + 7.
If we subtract 7 from 3xy, the result is 3xy 7

Adding and subtracting general algebraic expressions

Let us take some examples:

z Add 3x + 11 and 7x 5

The sum = 3x + 11 + 7x 5

Now, we know that the terms 3x and 7x are like terms and so also are 11 and 5.
Further 3x + 7x = 10 x and 11 + ( 5) = 6. We can, therefore, simplify the sum as:

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= 3x + 7x + 11 5

(rearranging terms)

= 10x + 6

Hence, 3x + 11 + 7x 5 = 10x + 6
z Add 3x + 11 + 8z and 7x 5.
The sum = 3x + 11 + 8z + 7x 5
= 3x + 7x + 11 5 + 8z (rearranging terms)
Note we have put like terms together; the single unlike term 8z will remain as it is.
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z Subtract a b from 3a b + 4
The difference = 3a b + 4 (a b)
= 3a b + 4 a + b
Observe how we took (a b) in brackets and took
care of signs in opening the bracket. Rearranging the
terms to put like terms together,
The difference = 3a a + b b + 4

Note, just as
(5 3) = 5 + 3,
(a b) = a + b.
The signs of algebraic
terms are handled in the
same way as signs of
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= (3 1) a + (1 1) b + 4
The difference = 2a + (0) b + 4 = 2a + 4

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3a b + 4 (a b) = 2a + 4

We shall now solve some more examples on addition and subtraction of expression
for practice.

EXAMPLE 4 Collect like terms and simplify the expression:

12m2 9m + 5m 4m2 7m + 10

SOLUTION

Rearranging terms, we have

12m2 4m2 + 5m 9m 7m + 10

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Add and subtract

(i) m n, m + n
(ii) mn + 5 2, mn + 3

= (12 4) m2 + (5 9 7) m + 10

= 8m2 + ( 4 7) m + 10
= 8m2 + (11) m + 10
= 8m2 11m + 10

EXAMPLE 5 Subtract 24ab 10b 18a from 30ab + 12b + 14a.

Note, subtracting a term
is the same as adding its SOLUTION 30ab + 12b + 14a (24ab 10b 18a)
inverse. Subtracting 10b
= 30ab + 12b + 14a 24ab + 10b + 18a
is the same as adding
= 30ab 24ab + 12b + 10b + 14a + 18a
+ 1 0b ; S u b t r a c t i n g
= 6ab + 22b + 32a
18a is the same as
adding 18a and subtracAlternatively, we write the expressions one below the other with the like
ting 24ab is the same as
terms appearing exactly below like terms as:
adding 24ab. The
30ab + 12b + 14a
signs shown below the
expression to be subtrac24ab 10b 18a
ted are a help in carrying

+
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6ab + 22b + 32a
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EXAMPLE 6 From the sum of 2y2 + 3yz, y2 yz z2 and yz + 2z2, subtract the
sum of 3y2 z2 and y2 + yz + z2.

SOLUTION

We first add 2y2 + 3yz, y2 yz z2 and yz + 2z2.

2y2
y2
y2

+ 3yz
yz
+ yz
+ 3yz

z2
+ 2z2
+ z2

We then add 3y2 z2 and y2 + yz + z2

3y2

2
y
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Now we subtract sum (2) from the sum (1):

y2 + 3yz + z2
2y2 + yz

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EXERCISE 12.2

1. Simplify combining like terms:

(i) 21b 32 + 7b 20b
(ii) z2 + 13z2 5z + 7z3 15z
(iii) p (p q) q (q p)
(iv) 3a 2b ab (a b + ab) + 3ab + b a
(v) 5x2y 5x2 + 3yx2 3y2 + x2 y2 + 8xy2 3y2
(vi) (3y2 + 5y 4) (8y y2 4)

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(i) 3mn, 5mn, 8mn, 4mn
(ii) t 8tz, 3tz z, z t
(iii) 7mn + 5, 12mn + 2, 9mn 8, 2mn 3
(iv) a + b 3, b a + 3, a b + 3
(v) 14x + 10y 12xy 13, 18 7x 10y + 8xy, 4xy
(vi) 5m 7n, 3n 4m + 2, 2m 3mn 5
(vii) 4x2y, 3xy2, 5xy2, 5x2y

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(viii) 3p2q2 4pq + 5, 10 p2q2, 15 + 9pq + 7p2q2

(ix) ab 4a, 4b ab, 4a 4b
(x) x2 y2 1, y2 1 x2, 1 x2 y2
3. Subtract:
(i) 5y2 from y2
(ii) 6xy from 12xy
(iii) (a b) from (a + b)
(iv) a (b 5) from b (5 a)
(v) m2 + 5mn from 4m2 3mn + 8
(vi) x2 + 10x 5 from 5x 10
(vii) 5a2 7ab + 5b2 from 3ab 2a2 2b2
(viii) 4pq 5q2 3p2 from 5p2 + 3q2 pq
4. (a) What should be added to x2 + xy + y2 to obtain 2x2 + 3xy?
(b) What should be subtracted from 2a + 8b + 10 to get 3a + 7b + 16?
5. What should be taken away from 3x 2 4y 2 + 5xy + 20 to obtain
x2 y2 + 6xy + 20?
6. (a) From the sum of 3x y + 11 and y 11, subtract 3x y 11.
(b) From the sum of 4 + 3x and 5 4x + 2x2, subtract the sum of 3x2 5x and
x2 + 2x + 5.

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12.7 FINDING

THE

VALUE

OF AN

EXPRESSION

We know that the value of an algebraic expression depends on the values of the variables
forming the expression. There are a number of situations in which we need to find the value
of an expression, such as when we wish to check whether a particular value of a variable
satisfies a given equation or not.
We find values of expressions, also, when we use formulas from geometry and from
everyday mathematics. For example, the area of a square is l2, where l is the length of a
side of the square. If l = 5 cm., the area is 52 cm2 or 25 cm2; if the side is 10 cm, the area
is 102 cm2 or 100 cm2 and so on. We shall see more such examples in the next section.

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(i) x + 4
(iv) 100 10x3

(ii) 4x 3

SOLUTION Putting x = 2
(i) In x + 4, we get the value of x + 4, i.e.,
x+4=2+4=6

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(ii) In 4x 3, we get
4x 3 = (4 2) 3 = 8 3 = 5
(iii) In 19 5x2, we get
19 5x2 = 19 (5 22) = 19 (5 4) = 19 20 = 1
(iv) In 100 10x3, we get

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= 100 80 = 20

EXAMPLE 8 Find the value of the following expressions when n = 2.

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(i) 5n 2

SOLUTION

(iii) n3 + 5n2 + 5n 2

(i) Putting the value of n = 2, in 5n 2, we get,

5( 2) 2 = 10 2 = 12
(ii) In 5n2 + 5n 2, we have,
for n = 2, 5n 2 = 12

and 5n2 = 5 ( 2)2 = 5 4 = 20

Combining,

[as ( 2)2 = 4]

5n2 + 5n 2 = 20 12 = 8
(iii) Now, for n = 2,

5n2 + 5n 2 = 8 and

n3 = (2)3 = (2) (2) (2) = 8

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out the numerical value of an expression of two variables, we need to give the values of
both variables. For example, the value of (x + y), for x = 3 and y = 5, is 3 + 5 = 8.

EXAMPLE 9 Find the value of the following expressions for a = 3, b = 2.

(i) a + b

(ii) 7a 4b

(iv) a3 b3

SOLUTION

Substituting a = 3 and b = 2 in

(i) a + b, we get
a+b=3+2=5

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(ii) 7a 4b, we get

7a 4b = 7 3 4 2 = 21 8 = 13.
(iii) a2 + 2ab + b2, we get
a2 + 2ab + b2 = 32 + 2 3 2 + 22 = 9 + 2 6 + 4 = 9 + 12 + 4 = 25
(iv) a3 b3, we get
a3 b3 = 33 23 = 3 3 3 2 2 2 = 9 3 4 2 = 27 8 = 19

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1. If m = 2, find the value of:

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(i) 4p + 7

(ii) 3p2 + 4p + 7

(iii) 9 5m

(iii) 2p3 3p2 + 4p + 7

3. Find the value of the following expressions, when x = 1:

(i) 2x 7

(ii) x + 2

(iii) x2 + 2x + 1

(iv) 2x2 x 2

4. If a = 2, b = 2, find the value of:

(i) a2 + b2

(ii) a2 + ab + b2

(iii) a2 b2

5. When a = 0, b = 1, find the value of the given expressions:

(i) 2a + 2b

(ii) 2a2 + b2 + 1

(iii) 2a2b + 2ab2 + ab

(iv) a2 + ab + 2

6. Simplify the expressions and find the value if x is equal to 2

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(iii) 6x + 5 (x 2)

(ii) 3 (x + 2) + 5x 7

(iv) 4(2x 1) + 3x + 11

7. Simplify these expressions and find their values if x = 3, a = 1, b = 2.

(i) 3x 5 x + 9

(ii) 2 8x + 4x + 4

(iii) 3a + 5 8a + 1

(iv) 10 3b 4 5b

(v) 2a 2b 4 5 + a
8. (i) If z = 10, find the value of z3 3(z 10).
(ii) If p = 10, find the value of p2 2p 100

9. What should be the value of a if the value of 2x2 + x a equals to 5, when x = 0?

10. Simplify the expression and find its value when a = 5 and b = 3.
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12.8 USING ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS FORMULAS

RULES

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We have seen earlier also that formulas and rules in mathematics can be written in a concise
and general form using algebraic expressions. We see below several examples.
z Perimeter formulas

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length of the side of the equilateral triangle by l, then the perimeter of the equilateral
triangle = 3l

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2. Similarly, the perimeter of a square = 4l

where l = the length of the side of the square.

3. Perimeter of a regular pentagon = 5l

where l = the length of the side of the pentagon and so on.

z Area formulas

1. If we denote the length of a square by l, then the area of the square = l 2

2. If we denote the length of a rectangle by l and its breadth by b, then the area of the
rectangle = l b = lb.
3. Similarly, if b stands for the base and h for the height of a triangle, then the area of the
triangle =

b h bh
=
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2

Once a formula, that is, the algebraic expression for a given quantity is known, the
value of the quantity can be computed as required.
For example, for a square of length 3 cm, the perimeter is obtained by putting the value
l = 3 cm in the expression of the perimeter of a square, i.e., 4l.

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Similarly, the area of the square is obtained by putting in the value of

l (= 3 cm) in the expression for the area of a square, that is, l 2;
Area of the given square = (3)2 cm2 = 9 cm2.
z Rules for number patterns
Study the following statements:
1. If a natural number is denoted by n, its successor is (n + 1). We can check this for
any natural number. For example, if n = 10, its successor is n + 1=11, which is
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2. If a natural number is denoted by n, 2n is an even number and (2n + 1) an odd

number. Let us check it for any number, say, 15; 2n = 2 n = 2 15 = 30 is indeed
an even number and 2n + 1 = 2 15 + 1 = 30 + 1 = 31 is indeed an odd number.

DO THIS
Take (small) line segments of equal length such as matchsticks, tooth pricks or
pieces of straws cut into smaller pieces of equal length. Join them in patterns as
shown in the figures given:
1. Observe the pattern in Fig 12.1.
It consists of repetitions of the shape
made from 4 line segments. As you see for
one shape you need 4 segments, for two
shapes 7, for three 10 and so on. If n is the
number of shapes, then the number of
segments required to form n shapes is given
by (3n + 1).
You may verify this by taking n = 1, 2,
3, 4, ..., 10, ... etc. For example, if the
number of letters formed is 3, then
the number of line segments required
is 3 3 + 1 = 9 + 1 = 10, as seen from
the figure.
2. Now, consider the pattern in Fig 12.2. Here
is repeated. The number of
the shape
segments required to form 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
shapes are 3, 5, 7, 9, ... respectively. If n
stands for the shapes formed, the number of
segments required is given by the expression
(2n + 1). You may check if the expression is
correct by taking any value of n, say n = 4.
Then (2n + 1) = (2 4) + 1 = 9, which is
indeed the number of line segments
required to make 4 s.

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Go ahead and discover more such patterns.

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Make the following pattern of dots. If you take a graph paper or a dot paper, it will
be easier to make the patterns.

Observe how the dots are arranged in a square shape. If the number of dots in a
row or a column in a particular figure is taken to be the variable n, then the number of
dots in the figure is given by the expression n n = n2. For example, take n = 4. The
number of dots for the figure with 4 dots in a row (or a column) is 4 4 = 16, as is
indeed seen from the figure. You may check this for other values of n. The ancient
Greek mathematicians called the number 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ... square numbers.

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Let us now look at another pattern of numbers, this time without any drawing to help us
3, 6, 9, 12, ..., 3n, ...

The numbers are such that they are multiples of 3 arranged in an increasing order,
beginning with 3. The term which occurs at the nth position is given by the expression 3n.
You can easily find the term which occurs in the 10th position (which is 3 10 = 30);
100th position (which is 3 100 = 300) and so on.
z Pattern in geometry
What is the number of diagonals we can draw from one vertex of a quadrilateral?
Check it, it is one.

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From one vertex of a pentagon? Check it, it is 2.

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From one vertex of a hexagon? It is 3.

The number of diagonals we can draw from one vertex of a polygon of n sides is
(n 3). Check it for a heptagon (7 sides) and octagon (8 sides) by drawing figures.
What is the number for a triangle (3 sides)? Observe that the diagonals drawn from any
one vertex divide the polygon in as many non-overlapping triangles as the number of
diagonals that can be drawn from the vertex plus one.

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1. Observe the patterns of digits made from line segments of equal length. You will find
such segmented digits on the display of electronic watches or calculators.
(a)

11

16

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(5n + 1) ...

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13 ...

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(3n + 1) ...

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...

(5n + 2) ...

If the number of digits formed is taken to be n, the number of segments required to

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2. Use the given algebraic expression to complete the table of number patterns.
S.
No.

Expression
3

Terms
5
... 10th

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2n 1

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(iii)

4n + 1

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(iv)

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27

34

41

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WE DISCUSSED?

1. Algebraic expressions are formed from variables and constants. We use the
operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on the variables
and constants to form expressions. For example, the expression 4xy + 7 is formed
from the variables x and y and constants 4 and 7. The constant 4 and the variables
x and y are multiplied to give the product 4xy and the constant 7 is added to this
product to give the expression.
2. Expressions are made up of terms. Terms are added to make an expression. For
example, the addition of the terms 4xy and 7 gives the expression 4xy + 7.

3. A term is a product of factors. The term 4xy in the expression 4xy + 7 is a product
of factors x, y and 4. Factors containing variables are said to be algebraic factors.
4. The coefficient is the numerical factor in the term. Sometimes anyone factor in a
term is called the coefficient of the remaining part of the term.
5. Any expression with one or more terms is called a polynomial. Specifically a one
term expression is called a monomial; a two-term expression is called a binomial;
and a three-term expression is called a trinomial.

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algebraic factors are unlike terms. Thus, terms 4xy and 3xy are like terms; but
terms 4xy and 3x are not like terms.

7. The sum (or difference) of two like terms is a like term with coefficient equal to
the sum (or difference) of the coefficients of the two like terms. Thus,
8xy 3xy = (8 3 )xy, i.e., 5xy.
8. When we add two algebraic expressions, the like terms are added as given
above; the unlike terms are left as they are. Thus, the sum of 4x2 + 5x
and 2x + 3 is 4x2 + 7x + 3; the like terms 5x and 2x add to 7x; the unlike
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9. In situations such as solving an equation and using a formula, we have to find the
value of an expression. The value of the expression depends on the value of the
variable from which the expression is formed. Thus, the value of 7x 3 for x = 5 is
32, since 7(5) 3 = 35 3 = 32.
10. Rules and formulas in mathematics are written in a concise and general form using
algebraic expressions:

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rectangle.
The general (nth) term of a number pattern (or a sequence) is an expression in n.
Thus, the nth term of the number pattern 11, 21, 31, 41, . . . is (10n + 1).

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13.1 INTRODUCTION

Do you know what the mass of earth is? It is

5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg!
Can you read this number?
Mass of Uranus is 86,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
Which has greater mass, Earth or Uranus?
Distance between Sun and Saturn is 1,433,500,000,000 m and distance between Saturn
and Uranus is 1,439,000,000,000 m. Can you read these numbers? Which distance is less?
These very large numbers are difficult to read, understand and compare. To make these
numbers easy to read, understand and compare, we use exponents. In this Chapter, we shall
learn about exponents and also learn how to use them.

13.2 EXPONENTS

We can write large numbers in a shorter form using exponents.

Observe
10, 000 = 10 10 10 10 = 104
The short notation 104 stands for the product 10101010. Here 10 is called the
base and 4 the exponent. The number 104 is read as 10 raised to the power of 4 or
simply as fourth power of 10. 104 is called the exponential form of 10,000.
We can similarly express 1,000 as a power of 10. Since 1,000 is 10
multiplied by itself three times,
1000 = 10 10 10 = 103

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Here again, 103 is the exponential form of 1,000.

Similarly, 1,00,000 = 10 10 10 10 10 = 105
105 is the exponential form of 1,00,000
In both these examples, the base is 10; in case of 103, the exponent
is 3 and in case of 105 the exponent is 5.

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We have used numbers like 10, 100, 1000 etc., while writing numbers in an expanded
form. For example, 47561 = 4 10000 + 7 1000 + 5 100 + 6 10 + 1
This can be written as 4 104 + 7 103 + 5 102 + 6 10 + 1.
Try writing these numbers in the same way 172, 5642, 6374.
In all the above given examples, we have seen numbers whose base is 10. However
the base can be any other number also. For example:
81 = 3 3 3 3 can be written as 81 = 34, here 3 is the base and 4 is the exponent.
Some powers have special names. For example,
102, which is 10 raised to the power 2, also read as 10 squared and
103, which is 10 raised to the power 3, also read as 10 cubed.
Can you tell what 53 (5 cubed) means?
53 means 5 is to be multiplied by itself three times, i.e., 53 = 5 5 5 = 125
So, we can say 125 is the third power of 5.
What is the exponent and the base in 53?
Similarly, 25 = 2 2 2 2 2 = 32, which is the fifth power of 2.
In 25, 2 is the base and 5 is the exponent.
In the same way,
243 = 3 3 3 3 3 = 35
64 = 2 2 2 2 2 2 = 26
625 = 5 5 5 5 = 54

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Find five more such examples, where a number is expressed in exponential form.
Also identify the base and the exponent in each case.
You can also extend this way of writing when the base is a negative integer.
What does (2)3 mean?
It is
(2)3 = (2) (2) (2) = 8
Is
(2)4 = 16? Check it.
Instead of taking a fixed number let us take any integer a as the base, and write the
numbers as,
a a = a2 (read as a squared or a raised to the power 2)
a a a = a3 (read as a cubed or a raised to the power 3)
a a a a = a4 (read as a raised to the power 4 or the 4th power of a)
..............................
a a a a a a a = a7 (read as a raised to the power 7 or the 7th power of a)
and so on.
a a a b b can be expressed as a3b2 (read as a cubed b squared)

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a a b b b b can be expressed as a2b4 (read as a

squared into b raised to the power of 4).

EXAMPLE 1 Express 256 as a power 2.

SOLUTION

We have 256 = 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2.
So we can say that 256 = 28

TRY THESE
Express:
(i) 729 as a power of 3
(ii) 128 as a power of 2
(iii) 343 as a power of 7

EXAMPLE 2 Which one is greater 23 or 32?

SOLUTION We have, 23 = 2 2 2 = 8 and 32 = 3 3 = 9.

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Since 9 > 8, so, 32 is greater than 23

EXAMPLE 3 Which one is greater 8 or 2 ?

SOLUTION
82 = 8 8 = 64
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28 > 82

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EXAMPLE 4 Expand a3 b2, a2 b3, b2 a3, b3 a2. Are they all same?
SOLUTION a3 b2 = a3 b2

= (a a a) (b b)
= aaabb
a2 b3 = a2 b3
= aabbb
2 3
b a = b2 a3
= bbaaa
3 2
b a = b3 a2
= bbbaa
Note that in the case of terms a3 b2 and a2 b3 the powers of a and b are different. Thus
a3 b2 and a2 b3 are different.
On the other hand, a3 b2 and b2 a3 are the same, since the powers of a and b in these
two terms are the same. The order of factors does not matter.
Thus, a3 b2 = a3 b2 = b2 a3 = b2 a3. Similarly, a2 b3 and b3 a2 are the same.

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EXAMPLE 5 Express the following numbers as a product of powers of prime factors:

(i) 72

(ii) 432

(iii) 1000

(iv) 16000

SOLUTION
(i)

72 = 2 36 = 2 2 18
=2229
= 2 2 2 3 3 = 23 32
Thus, 72 = 23 32
(required prime factor product form)

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(ii) 432 = 2 216 = 2 2 108 = 2 2 2 54

= 2 2 2 2 27 = 2 2 2 2 3 9
=2222333
or
432 = 24 33
(required form)
(iii) 1000 = 2 500 = 2 2 250 = 2 2 2 125
= 2 2 2 5 25 = 2 2 2 5 5 5
or
1000 = 23 53

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1000 = 10 100 = 10 10 10
= (2 5) (2 5) (2 5)
(Since10 = 2 5)
=252525=222555
or
1000 = 23 53
Is Atuls method correct?

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(iv) 16,000 = 16 1000 = (2 2 2 2) 1000 = 24 103 (as 16 = 2 2 2 2)

= (2 2 2 2) (2 2 2 5 5 5) = 24 23 53
(Since 1000 = 2 2 2 5 5 5)
= (2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ) (5 5 5)
or,
16,000 = 27 53

EXAMPLE 6 Work out (1)5, (1)3, (1)4, (10)3, (5)4.

SOLUTION

(i) We have (1)5 = 1 1 1 1 1 = 1

In fact, you will realise that 1 raised to any power is 1.
(1) odd number
(ii) (1)3 = (1) (1) (1) = 1 (1) = 1
(iii) (1)4 = (1) (1) (1) (1) = 1 1 = 1
(1)even number
You may check that (1) raised to any odd power is (1),
and (1) raised to any even power is (+1).
(iv) (10)3 = (10) (10) (10) = 100 (10) = 1000
(v) (5)4 = (5) (5) (5) (5) = 25 25 = 625

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EXERCISE 13.1

1. Find the value of:

(i) 26
(ii) 93
2. Express the following in exponential form:
(i) 6 6 6 6
(ii) t t
(iv) 5 5 7 7 7

(v) 2 2 a a

(iii) 112

(iv) 54

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3. Express each of the following numbers using exponential notation:

(i) 512

(ii) 343

(iii) 729

(iv) 3125

4. Identify the greater number, wherever possible, in each of the following?

(i) 43 or 34

(ii) 53 or 35

(iv) 1002 or 2100

(iii) 28 or 82

(v) 210 or 102

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5. Express each of the following as product of powers of their prime factors:

(i) 648

(ii) 405

6. Simplify:
(i) 2 103

(iii) 540

(iv) 3,600

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(ii) 7 2

(v) 0 102
7. Simplify:
(i) ( 4)3

(iii) 2 5

(vi) 52 33

(vii) 24 32

(ii) (3) (2)3

(iii) (3)2 (5)2

(iv) 3 4

(viii) 32 104

(iv) (2)3 (10)3

8. Compare the following numbers:

(i) 2.7 1012 ; 1.5 108

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(ii) 4 1014 ; 3 1017

EXPONENTS

13.3.1 Multiplying Powers with the Same Base

(i) Let us calculate 22 23

22 23 = (2 2) (2 2 2)

= 2 2 2 2 2 = 25 = 22+3
Note that the base in 22 and 23 is same and the sum of the exponents, i.e., 2 and 3 is 5
(ii) (3)4 (3)3 = [(3) (3) (3) (3)] [(3) (3) (3)]

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= (3)7

= (3)4+3

Again, note that the base is same and the sum of exponents, i.e., 4 and 3, is 7
(iii) a2 a4 = (a a) (a a a a)
= a a a a a a = a6
(Note: the base is the same and the sum of the exponents is 2 + 4 = 6)
Similarly, verify:
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TRY THESE
Simplify and write in
exponential form:
(i) 25 23
(ii) p3 p2
(iii) 43 42
(iv) a3 a2 a7
(v) 53 57 512
(vi) ( 4)100 ( 4)20

Can you write the appropriate number in the box.

(11)2 (11)6 = (11)
b2 b3 = b (Remember, base is same; b is any integer).
c3 c4 = c

(c is any integer)

d 10 d 20 = d

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From this we can generalise that for any non-zero integer a, where m
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Consider 23 32
Can you add the exponents? No! Do you see why? The base of 23 is 2 and base
of 32 is 3. The bases are not same.

13.3.2 Dividing Powers with the Same Base

Let us simplify 37 34?

37 34 =

3 3 3 3 3 3 3
37
4 =
3 3 3 3
3

= 3 3 3 = 33 = 37 4
Thus
3 7 3 4 = 37 4
(Note, in 37 and 34 the base is same and 37 34 becomes 374)
Similarly,
56 5 5 5 5 5 5
5 5 = 2 =
5
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or
56 52 = 56 2
Let a be a non-zero integer, then,

a4 a a a a
= a a = a2 = a4
a a = 2 =
a
a a
4

or
a4 a2 = a4 2
Now can you answer quickly?
108 103 = 108 3 = 105
79 76 = 7
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For non-zero integers b and c,

b10 b5 = b
c100 c90 = c
In general, for any non-zero integer a,

TRY THESE
Simplify and write in exponential
form: (eg., 116 112 = 114)

am an = am n
where m and n are whole numbers and m > n.

(i) 29 23 (ii) 108 104

(iii) 911 97 (iv) 2015 2013
(v) 713 710

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13.3.3 Taking Power of a Power

Consider the following
Simplify ( 2 3 ) ; ( 3 2 )

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23

= 23 + 3 (Since am an = am + n)
= 26 = 23 2

(2 )

3 2

(2 ) = 2
3 2

Thus

(3 ) = 3

32

2 4

Similarly

3 2 32 3 2

= 32 + 2 + 2 + 2
= 38
(Observe 8 is the product of 2 and 4).
24
=3

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(3 )

= 32 4 = 38

(7 )

= 72 10 = 720

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2 10

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= a 2 3 = a6
m3

3m

(a ) = a
=a
From this we can generalise for any non-zero integer a, where m
and n are whole numbers,
n

a m = amn

TRY THESE
Simplify and write the answer in
exponential form:
(i) 62
(iii)

(7 )

50 2

(ii)

(2 )

(iv)

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EXAMPLE 7 Can you tell which one is greater (52) 3 or ( 52 ) ?

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S OLUTION (52) 3 means 52 is multiplied by 3 i.e., 5 5 3 = 75

but ( 52 ) means 52 is multiplied by itself three times i.e. ,
3

Therefore

52 52 52 = 56 = 15,625
(52)3 > (52) 3

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13.3.4 Multiplying Powers with the Same Exponents

Can you simplify 23 33? Notice that here the two terms 23 and 33 have different bases,
but the same exponents.
Now,
23 33 = (2 2 2) (3 3 3)
= (2 3) (2 3) (2 3)
=666
= 63 (Observe 6 is the product of bases 2 and 3)
Consider 44 34
= (4 4 4 4) (3 3 3 3)
= (4 3) (4 3) (4 3) (4 3)
= 12 12 12 12
= 124
Consider, also, 32 a2
= (3 3) (a a)
= (3 a) (3 a)
TRY THESE
= (3 a)2
Put into another form using
= (3a)2
(Note: 3a = 3a )
am bm = (ab)m:
4
4
Similarly, a b
= (a a a a) (b b b b)
(i) 43 23 (ii) 25 b5
= (a b) (a b) (a b) (a b)
(iii) a2 t2 (iv) 56 (2)6
= (a b)4
(v) (2)4 (3)4
= (ab)4
(Note a b = ab)
In general, for any non-zero integer a
am bm = (ab)m
(where m is any whole number)

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(i) (2 3)5

(ii) (2a)4

(iii) ( 4m)3

SOLUTION
(i) (2 3)5 = (2 3) (2 3) (2 3) (2 3) (2 3)
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(2a)4 =
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(iii) ( 4m) =
=
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(ii)

2a 2a 2a 2a
(2 2 2 2) (a a a a)
24 a4
( 4 m)3
( 4 m) ( 4 m) ( 4 m)
( 4) ( 4) ( 4) (m m m) = ( 4)3 (m)3

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13.3.5 Dividing Powers with the Same Exponents

Observe the following simplifications:
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a aa
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a a a a
=
b b b b

Put into another form

using a

From these examples we may generalise

m

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a b = m = where a and b are any non-zero integers and
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m is a whole number.

EXAMPLE 9 Expand: (i)

5
3

SOLUTION

4
3 3 3 3
34
3
(i) = 4 =
5
5 5 5 5
5

4
(ii)
7

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)

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45 35
25 b5
( 2)3 b3
p4 q4
56 (2)6

What is a0?
Obeserve the following pattern:
26 = 64
5
5
( 4) ( 4) ( 4) ( 4) ( 4)
( 4)
25 = 32
4
(ii) =
=
24 = 16
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7 7 7 7 7
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23 = 8
22 = ?
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21 = ?
20 = ?
35
Can you tell what 5 equals to?
You can guess the value of 20 by just studying the
3
pattern!
5
3 3 3 3 3
3
You find that 20 = 1
=1
5 =
3 3 3 3 3
3
If you start from 36 = 729, and proceed as shown
by using laws of exponents
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35 35 = 35 5 = 30
So
30 = 1
Can you tell what 70 is equal to?
73 73 = 73 3 = 70
777
73
3 =
777
7

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70 = 1
a3 a3 = a33 = a0

Therefore
Similarly

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a0 = 1 (for any non-zero integer a)
So, we can say that any number (except 0) raised to the power (or exponent) 0 is 1.

13.4 MISCELLANEOUS E XAMPLES

EXPONENTS

USING THE

L AWS

Let us solve some examples using rules of exponents developed.

EXAMPLE 10 Write exponential form for 8 8 8 8 taking base as 2.

SOLUTION

We have, 8 8 8 8 = 84

8 = 2 2 2 = 23
84 = (23)4 = 23 23 23 23
= 23 4
[You may also use (am)n = amn]
= 212

But we know that

Therefore

EXAMPLE 11 Simplify and write the answer in the exponential form.

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(i) 2 3
3

(ii) 23 22 55

(iv) [(22)3 36] 56

(v) 82 23

SOLUTION
37 5
72
5
(i) 2 3 = ( 3 ) 3
3

= 3535 = 35+5 = 310

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(ii) 23 22 55 = 23+2 55
= 25 55 = (2 5)5 = 105
(iii)

(6

6 4 ) 63 =

6 2+ 4 63

66
63
3
= 3 =6 =6
6

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2 3
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(iv) ( 2 ) 3 5 = [26 36] 56

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(v) 8 = 2 2 2 = 23
Therefore 82 23 = (23)2 23

= 26 23 = 26 3 = 23

EXAMPLE 12 Simplify:
(i)

124 93 4
63 82 27

SOLUTION
(i) We have

(ii) 23 a3 5a4

(iii)

2 34 25
9 42

(22 3) 4 (32 )3 2 2
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23 33 223 33

28 2 34
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210 310
29 36

= 210 9 310 6 = 21 34
= 2 81 = 162
(ii) 23 a3 5a4 = 23 a3 5 a4
= 23 5 a3 a4 = 8 5 a3 + 4
= 40 a7

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(ii)

2 34 25
234 25
225 34
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9 42
32 22 2
32 22
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Note: In most of the examples that we have taken in this Chapter, the base of a power
was taken an integer. But all the results of the chapter apply equally well to a base
which is a rational number.

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1. Using laws of exponents, simplify and write the answer in exponential form:
(i) 32 34 38

(iv) 7x 72

(vii) a4 b4

(ii) 615 610

(v) 52

(viii)

(iii) a3 a2

53

(vi) 25 55

(3 )

4 3

(ix)

(2

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215 ) 23

(x) 8t 82

2. Simplify and express each of the following in exponential form:

23 34 4
(i)
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(ii)

52 5 4

37
(v) 4 3
3 3

(viii) (30 + 20) 50

(xi)

45 a 8 b 3
45 a 5 b 2

57

(iii) 254 53

(vi) 20 + 30 + 40

(ix)

28 a 5
43 a 3

(xii)

(2

2)

3. Say true or false and justify your answer:

(i) 10 1011 = 10011
(iv) 30 = (1000)0

(ii) 23 > 52

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4. Express each of the following as a product of prime factors only in exponential form:
(i) 108 192
(ii) 270
(iii) 729 64
(iv) 768
5. Simplify:

(2 )

5 2

(i)

73

25 52 t 8
(ii)
103 t 4

83 7

(iii)

35 10 5 25
57 65

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Let us look at the expansion of 47561, which we already know:

47561 = 4 10000 + 7 1000 + 5 100 + 6 10 + 1

We can express it using powers of 10 in the exponent form:
Therefore,

47561 = 4 10 + 7 10 + 5 10 + 6 10 + 1 100

(Note 10,000 = 104, 1000 = 103, 100 = 102, 10 = 101 and 1 = 100)
Let us expand another number:

104278 = 1 100,000 + 0 10,000 + 4 1000 + 2 100 + 7 10 + 8 1

= 1 105 + 0 104 + 4 103 + 2 102 + 7 101 + 8 100
= 1 105 + 4 103 + 2 102 + 7 101 + 8 100

Notice how the exponents of 10 start from a maximum value of 5 and go on decreasing
by 1 at a step from the left to the right upto 0.

13.6 EXPRESSING LARGE NUMBERS IN THE STANDARD FORM

Let us now go back to the beginning of the chapter. We said that large numbers can be
conveniently expressed using exponents. We have not as yet shown this. We shall do so now.

1. Sun is located 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 m from the centre of our Milky Way

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3. Mass of the Earth is 5,976,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.

These numbers are not convenient to write and read. To make it convenient
we use powers.
Observe the following:
59 = 5.9 10 = 5.9 101
590 = 5.9 100 = 5.9 102
5900 = 5.9 1000 = 5.9 103
5900 = 5.9 10000 = 5.9 104 and so on.

TRY THESE
Expand by expressing
powers of 10 in the
exponential form:
(i) 172
(ii) 5,643
(iii) 56,439
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We have expressed all these numbers in the standard form. Any number can be
expressed as a decimal number between 1.0 and 10.0 including 1.0 multiplied by a power
of 10. Such a form of a number is called its standard form. Thus,
5,985 = 5.985 1,000 = 5.985 103 is the standard form of 5,985.
Note, 5,985 can also be expressed as 59.85 100 or 59.85 102. But these are not
the standard forms, of 5,985. Similarly, 5,985 = 0.5985 10,000 = 0.5985 104 is also
not the standard form of 5,985.
We are now ready to express the large numbers we came across at the beginning of
the chapter in this form.
The, distance of Sun from the centre of our Galaxy i.e.,
300,000,000,000,000,000,000 m can be written as
3.0 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 3.0 1020 m
Now, can you express 40,000,000,000 in the similar way?
Count the number of zeros in it. It is 10.
So,
40,000,000,000 = 4.0 1010
Mass of the Earth = 5,976,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
= 5.976 1024 kg
Do you agree with the fact, that the number when written in the standard form is much
easier to read, understand and compare than when the number is written with 25 digits?
Now,
Mass of Uranus = 86,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
= 8.68 1025 kg
Simply by comparing the powers of 10 in the above two, you can tell that the mass of
Uranus is greater than that of the Earth.
The distance between Sun and Saturn is 1,433,500,000,000 m or 1.4335 1012 m.
The distance betwen Saturn and Uranus is 1,439,000,000,000 m or 1.439 1012 m. The
distance between Sun and Earth is 149, 600,000,000 m or 1.496 1011m.
Can you tell which of the three distances is smallest?

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(i) 5985.3
(iii) 3,430,000

(ii) 65,950
(iv) 70,040,000,000

SOLUTION
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

5985.3 = 5.9853 1000 = 5.9853 103

65,950 = 6.595 10,000 = 6.595 104
3,430,000 = 3.43 1,000,000 = 3.43 106
70,040,000,000 = 7.004 10,000,000,000 = 7.004 1010

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A point to remember is that one less than the digit count (number of digits) to the left
of the decimal point in a given number is the exponent of 10 in the standard form. Thus, in
70,040,000,000 there is no decimal point shown; we assume it to be at the (right) end.
From there, the count of the places (digits) to the left is 11. The exponent of 10 in the
standard form is 11 1 = 10. In 5985.3 there are 4 digits to the left of the decimal point
and hence the exponent of 10 in the standard form is 4 1 = 3.

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1. Write the following numbers in the expanded forms:

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2. Find the number from each of the following expanded forms:

(a) 8 104 + 6 103 + 0102 + 4101 + 5100
(b) 4 105 + 5103 + 3102 + 2100
(c) 3 104 + 7102 + 5100
(d) 9 105 + 2102 + 3101

3. Express the following numbers in standard form:

(i) 5,00,00,000
(iv) 3,90,878

(ii) 70,00,000

(iii) 3,18,65,00,000

(v) 39087.8

(vi) 3908.78

4. Express the number appearing in the following statements in standard form.

(a) The distance between Earth and Moon is 384,000,000 m.
(b) Speed of light in vacuum is 300,000,000 m/s.
(c) Diameter of the Earth is 1,27,56,000 m.

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(d) Diameter of the Sun is 1,400,000,000 m.

(e) In a galaxy there are on an average 100,000,000,000 stars.

(f) The universe is estimated to be about 12,000,000,000 years old.

(g) The distance of the Sun from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to
be 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 m.
(h) 60,230,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules are contained in a drop of water
weighing 1.8 gm.
(i) The earth has 1,353,000,000 cubic km of sea water.
(j) The population of India was about 1,027,000,000 in March, 2001.

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WHAT

HAVE

WE DISCUSSED?

1. Very large numbers are difficult to read, understand, compare and operate upon. To
make all these easier, we use exponents, converting many of the large numbers in a
shorter form.
2. The following are exponential forms of some numbers?
10,000 = 104 (read as 10 raised to 4)
243 = 35,
128 = 27.
Here, 10, 3 and 2 are the bases, whereas 4, 5 and 7 are their respective exponents.
We also say, 10,000 is the 4th power of 10, 243 is the 5th power of 3, etc.
3. Numbers in exponential form obey certain laws, which are:
For any non-zero integers a and b and whole numbers m and n,
(a) am an = am + n

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(c) (am)n = amn
(d) am bm = (ab)m
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SYMMETRY

Symmetry

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14.1 INTRODUCTION

Symmetry is an important geometrical concept, commonly exhibited in nature and is used

almost in every field of activity. Artists, professionals, designers of clothing or jewellery, car
manufacturers, architects and many others make use of the idea of symmetry. The beehives,
the flowers, the tree-leaves, religious symbols, rugs, and handkerchiefs everywhere you
find symmetrical designs.

Architecture

Engineering

Nature

You have already had a feel of line symmetry in your previous class.
A figure has a line symmetry, if there is a line about which the figure may be folded so that
the two parts of the figure will coincide.
You might like to recall these ideas. Here are some activities to help you.

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Compose a picture-album
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Create some colourful

Ink-dot devils

Make some symmetrical

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Enjoy identifying lines (also called axes) of symmetry in the designs you collect.
Let us now strengthen our ideas on symmetry further. Study the following figures in
which the lines of symmetry are marked with dotted lines. [Fig 14.1 (i) to (iv)]

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14.2 LINES

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SYMMETRY

FOR

(iv)

REGULAR POLYGONS

You know that a polygon is a closed figure made of several line segments. The polygon
made up of the least number of line segments is the triangle. (Can there be a polygon that
you can draw with still fewer line segments? Think about it).
A polygon is said to be regular if all its sides are of equal length and all its angles are of
equal measure. Thus, an equilateral triangle is a regular polygon of three sides. Can you
name the regular polygon of four sides?
An equilateral triangle is regular because each of its sides has same length and each of
its angles measures 60 (Fig 14.2).

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Fig 14.2

A square is also regular because all its sides are of equal length and each of its angles
is a right angle (i.e., 90). Its diagonals are seen to be perpendicular bisectors of one
another (Fig 14.3).

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If a pentagon is regular, naturally, its sides should have equal length. You will, later on,
learn that the measure of each of its angles is 108 (Fig 14.4).

Fig 14.4

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A regular hexagon has all its sides equal and each of its angles measures
120. You will learn more of these figures later (Fig 14.5).
Fig 14.5
The regular polygons are symmetrical figures and hence their lines of
symmetry are quite interesting,
Each regular polygon has as many lines of symmetry as it has sides [Fig 14.6 (i) - (iv)].
We say, they have multiple lines of symmetry.

Fig 14.6

Perhaps, you might like to investigate this by paper folding. Go ahead!

The concept of line symmetry is closely related to mirror reflection. A shape has line
symmetry when one half of it is the mirror image of the other half (Fig 14.7). A mirror line,
thus, helps to visualise a line of symmetry (Fig 14.8).

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Fig 14.7

Is the dotted line a mirror line? Yes.

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While dealing with mirror reflection, care is needed to note down the left-right changes
in the orientation, as seen in the figure here (Fig 14.9).

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The shape is same, but the other way round!

Play this punching game!

Fold a sheet into two halves

Punch a hole

two holes about the

symmetric fold.

Fig 14.10

The fold is a line (or axis) of symmetry. Study about punches at different locations on
the folded paper and the corresponding lines of symmetry (Fig 14.10).

EXERCISE 14.1

1. Copy the figures with punched holes and find the axes of symmetry for the following:

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2. Given the line(s) of symmetry, find the other hole(s):

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3. In the following figures, the mirror line (i.e., the line of symmetry) is given as a dotted
line. Complete each figure performing reflection in the dotted (mirror) line. (You might
perhaps place a mirror along the dotted line and look into the mirror for the image).
Are you able to recall the name of the figure you complete?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

4. The following figures have more than one line of symmetry. Such figures are said to
have multiple lines of symmetry.

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Identify multiple lines of symmetry, if any, in each of the following figures:

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5. Copy the figure given here.

Take any one diagonal as a line of symmetry and shade a few more squares to make
the figure symmetric about a diagonal. Is there more than one way to do that? Will
the figure be symmetric about both the diagonals?
6. Copy the diagram and complete each shape to be symmetric about the mirror line(s):

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(a) An equilateral triangle (b) An isosceles triangle
(c) A scalene triangle
(d) A square
(e) A rectangle
(f) A rhombus
(g) A parallelogram
(h) A quadrilateral
(i) A regular hexagon
(j) A circle
What letters of the English alphabet have reflectional symmetry (i.e., symmetry related
to mirror reflection) about.
(a) a vertical mirror
(b) a horizontal mirror
(c) both horizontal and vertical mirrors
Give three examples of shapes with no line of symmetry.
What other name can you give to the line of symmetry of
(a) an isosceles triangle? (b) a circle?

14.3 ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY

What do you say when the hands of a clock go round?
You say that they rotate. The hands of a clock rotate in only
one direction, about a fixed point, the centre of the clock-face.
Rotation, like movement of the hands of a clock, is called
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What can you say about the rotation of the blades of a ceiling fan? Do they rotate
clockwise or anticlockwise? Or do they rotate both ways?
If you spin the wheel of a bicycle, it rotates. It can rotate in either way: both clockwise
and anticlockwise. Give three examples each for (i) a clockwise rotation and (ii) anticlockwise
rotation.
When an object rotates, its shape and size do not change. The rotation turns an object
about a fixed point. This fixed point is the centre of rotation. What is the centre of
rotation of the hands of a clock? Think about it.
The angle of turning during rotation is called the angle of rotation. A full
turn, you know, means a rotation of 360. What is the degree measure of
the angle of rotation for (i) a half-turn? (ii) a quarter-turn?
A half-turn means rotation by 180; a quarter-turn is rotation by 90.
When it is 12 Oclock, the hands of a clock are together. By 3 Oclock,
the minute hand would have made three complete turns; but the hour hand
would have made only a quarter-turn. What can you say about their positions
at 6 Oclock?
Have you ever made a paper windmill? The Paper windmill in the picture
looks symmetrical (Fig 14.11); but you do not find any line of symmetry. No
folding can help you to have coincident halves. However if you rotate it by
90 about the fixed point, the windmill will look exactly the same. We say the
windmill has a rotational symmetry.
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90

Fig 14.12

In a full turn, there are precisely four positions (on rotation through the angles 90,
180, 270 and 360) when the windmill looks exactly the same. Because of this, we say
it has a rotational symmetry of order 4.
Here is one more example for rotational symmetry.
Consider a square with P as one of its corners (Fig 14.13).
Let us perform quarter-turns about the centre of the square marked .

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Fig 14.13 (i) is the initial position. Rotation by 90 about the centre leads
to Fig 14.13 (ii). Note the position of P now. Rotate again through 90 and you get
Fig 14.13 (iii). In this way, when you complete four quarter-turns, the square reaches its
original position. It now looks the same as Fig14.13 (i). This can be seen with the help of
the positions taken by P.
Thus a square has a rotational symmetry of order 4 about its centre. Observe that
in this case,
(i) The centre of rotation is the centre of the square.
(ii) The angle of rotation is 90.
(iii) The direction of rotation is clockwise.
(iv) The order of rotational symmetry is 4.

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120

1. (a) Can you now tell the order of the rotational symmetry for an equilateral triangle?
(Fig 14.14)
R
R

(i)

120
(ii)

Fig 14.14

(iii)

(iv)

(b) How many positions are there at which the triangle looks exactly the same,
when rotated about its centre by 120?
2. Which of the following shapes (Fig 14.15) have rotational symmetry about the marked
point.

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(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Fig 14.15

DO THIS

Draw two identical parallelograms, one-ABCD on a piece of paper and the other
A' B' C' D' on a transparent sheet. Mark the points of intersection of their diagonals,
O and O' respectively (Fig 14.16).
Place the parallelograms such that A' lies on A, B' lies on B and so on. O' then falls
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Stick a pin into the shapes at the point O.

Now turn the transparent shape in the clockwise direction.
How many times do the shapes coincide in one full round?
What is the order of rotational symmetry?
The point where we have the pin is the centre of rotation. It is the
intersecting point of the diagonals in this case.
Every object has a rotational symmetry of order 1, as it occupies
same position after a rotation of 360 (i.e., one complete revolution).
Such cases have no interest for us.
You have around you many shapes, which possess rotational symmetry
(Fig 14.17).

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(iii)

Fig 14.17

For example, when you slice certain fruits, the cross-sections are shapes with rotational
symmetry. This might surprise you when you notice them [Fig 14.17(i)].
Then there are many road signs that exhibit rotational symmetry. Next time when you
walk along a busy road, try to identify such road signs and find about the order of rotational
symmetry [Fig 14.17(ii)].
Think of some more examples for rotational symmetry. Discuss in each case:
(i) the centre of rotation (ii) the angle of rotation
(iii) the direction in which the rotation is affected and
(iv) the order of the rotational symmetry.

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Give the order of the rotational symmetry of the given figures about the point
marked (Fig 14.17).

(i)

(ii)
Fig 14.18

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EXERCISE14.2
1. Which of the following figures have rotational symmetry of order more than 1:

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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14.4 LINE SYMMETRY

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ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY

You have been observing many shapes and their symmetries so far. By now you
would have understood that some shapes have only line symmetry, some have only
rotational symmetry and some have both line symmetry and rotational symmetry.
For example, consider the square shape (Fig 14.19).
How many lines of symmetry does it have?
Does it have any rotational symmetry?
If yes, what is the order of the rotational symmetry?
Fig 14.19
Think about it.
The circle is the most perfect symmetrical figure, because it can be rotated around
its centre through any angle and at the same time it has unlimited number of lines
of symmetry. Observe any circle pattern. Every line
through the centre (that is every diameter) forms a
line of (reflectional) symmetry and it has rotational
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DO THIS
Some of the English alphabets have fascinating symmetrical structures.Which capital
letters have just one line of symmetry (like E)? Which capital letters have a rotational
symmetry of order 2 (like I)?
By attempting to think on such lines, you will be able to fill in the following table:
Alphabet
Line
Letters Symmetry
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Yes
O
Yes
E
Yes
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Number of Lines of
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EXERCISE 14.3

1. Name any two figures that have both line symmetry and rotational symmetry.
2. Draw, wherever possible, a rough sketch of
(i) a triangle with both line and rotational symmetries of order more than 1.
(ii) a triangle with only line symmetry and no rotational symmetry of order more
than 1.
(iii) a quadrilateral with a rotational symmetry of order more than 1 but not a line
symmetry.
(iv) a quadrilateral with line symmetry but not a rotational symmetry of order more than 1.
3. If a figure has two or more lines of symmetry, should it have rotational symmetry of
order more than 1?
4. Fill in the blanks:
Shape
Centre of Rotation Order of Rotation Angle of Rotation

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5. Name the quadrilaterals which have both line and rotational symmetry of order more
than 1.
6. After rotating by 60 about a centre, a figure looks exactly the same as its original
position. At what other angles will this happen for the figure?
7. Can we have a rotational symmetry of order more than 1 whose angle of rotation is
(i) 45?
(ii) 17?

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1. A figure has line symmetry, if there is a line about which the figure may be folded so
that the two parts of the figure will coincide.
2. Regular polygons have equal sides and equal angles. They have multiple (i.e., more
than one) lines of symmetry.
3. Each regular polygon has as many lines of symmetry as it has sides.

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Square

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4. Mirror reflection leads to symmetry, under which the left-right orientation have to be
taken care of.
5. Rotation turns an object about a fixed point.
This fixed point is the centre of rotation.
The angle by which the object rotates is the angle of rotation.
A half-turn means rotation by 180o; a quarter-turn means rotation by 90o. Rotation
may be clockwise or anticlockwise.
6. If, after a rotation, an object looks exactly the same, we say that it has a rotational
symmetry.
7. In a complete turn (of 360o), the number of times an object looks exactly the same is
called the order of rotational symmetry. The order of symmetry of a square, for
example, is 4 while, for an equilateral triangle, it is 3.
8. Some shapes have only one line of symmetry, like the letter E; some have only rotational
symmetry, like the letter S; and some have both symmetries like the letter H.
The study of symmetry is important because of its frequent use in day-to-day life and
more because of the beautiful designs it can provide us.

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Visualising Solid
Shapes

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SOLID SHAPES

In this chapter, you will classify figures you have seen in terms of what is known as dimension.
In our day to day life, we see several objects like books, balls, ice-cream cones etc.,
around us which have different shapes. One thing common about most of these objects is that
they all have some length, breadth and height or depth.
That is, they all occupy space and have three dimensions.
Hence, they are called three dimensional shapes.
Do you remember some of the three dimensional shapes (i.e., solid shapes) we have seen
in earlier classes?

TRY THESE

Match the shape with the name:

(i)

(a) Cuboid

(iv)

(d) Sphere

(ii)

(b) Cylinder

(v)

(e) Pyramid

(iii)

(c) Cube

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Try to identify some objects shaped like each of these.

By a similar argument, we can say figures drawn on paper which have only length and
breadth are called two dimensional (i.e., plane) figures. We have also seen some two
dimensional figures in the earlier classes.
Match the 2 dimensional figures with the names (Fig 15.2):
(i)

(a) Circle

(ii)

(b) Rectangle

(iii)

(c) Square

(iv)

(d) Quadrilateral

(v)

(e) Triangle

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Note: We can write 2-D in short for 2-dimension and 3-D in short for
3-dimension.

15.2 FACES, EDGES

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earlier? Here you see them for a cube:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

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The 8 corners of the cube are its vertices. The 12 line segments that form the
skeleton of the cube are its edges. The 6 flat square surfaces that are the skin of the
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DO THIS
Complete the following table:
Table 15.1

Vertex

Face

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Vertices (V)

Can you see that, the two dimensional figures can be identified as the faces of the
has two faces which are circles,

three dimensional shapes? For example a cylinder

and a pyramid, shaped like this

has triangles as its faces.

We will now try to see how some of these 3-D shapes can be visualised on a 2-D
surface, that is, on paper.
In order to do this, we would like to get familiar with three dimensional objects closely.
Let us try forming these objects by making what are called nets.

15.3 NETS

FOR

BUILDING 3-D SHAPES

Take a cardboard box. Cut the edges to lay the box flat. You have now a net for that box.
A net is a sort of skeleton-outline in 2-D [Fig154 (i)], which, when folded [Fig154 (ii)],
results in a 3-D shape [Fig154 (iii)].

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Here you got a net by suitably separating the edges. Is the

reverse process possible?
Here is a net pattern for a box (Fig 15.5). Copy an enlarged
version of the net and try to make the box by suitably folding
and gluing together. (You may use suitable units). The box is a
solid. It is a 3-D object with the shape of a cuboid.
Fig 15.5

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its slant surface (Fig 15.6).

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You have different nets for different

shapes. Copy enlarged versions of the nets
given (Fig 15.7) and try to make the 3-D shapes
indicated. (You may also like to prepare
skeleton models using strips of cardboard
fastened with paper clips).

Cube
(i)

Cylinder
(ii)

Fig 15.6

Cone
(iii)

Fig 15.7

We could also try to make a net for making a pyramid like the Great Pyramid in Giza
(Egypt) (Fig 15.8). That pyramid has a square base and triangles on the four sides.

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See if you can make it with the given net (Fig 15.9).

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TRY THESE
Here you find four nets (Fig 15.10). There are two correct nets among them to make
a tetrahedron. See if you can work out which nets will make a tetrahedron.

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EXERCISE 15.1

1. Identify the nets which can be used to make cubes (cut out copies of the nets and try it):

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)
(v)
(vi)
2. Dice are cubes with dots on each face. Opposite faces of a die always have a total
of seven dots on them.
Here are two nets to make dice (cubes); the numbers inserted in each square indicate
the number of dots in that box.

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opposite faces should total to 7.
3. Can this be a net for a die?
Explain your answer.

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4. Here is an incomplete net for making a cube. Complete it in at least two different
ways. Remember that a cube has six faces. How many are there in the net here?
(Give two separate diagrams. If you like, you may use a squared sheet for easy
manipulation.)

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(iv)

Play this game

You and your friend sit back-to-back. One of you reads out a net to make a 3-D shape,
while the other attempts to copy it and sketch or build the described 3-D object.

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15.4 DRAWING SOLIDS

ON A

FLAT SURFACE

Your drawing surface is paper, which is flat. When you draw a solid shape, the images are
somewhat distorted to make them appear three-dimensional. It is a visual illusion. You will
find here two techniques to help you.

15.4.1 Oblique Sketches

Fig 15.11

Here is a picture of a cube (Fig 15.11). It gives a clear idea of how the cube looks like,
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are not equal, as they should be in a cube. Still, you are able to recognise it as a cube. Such
a sketch of a solid is called an oblique sketch.
How can you draw such sketches? Let us attempt to learn the technique.
You need a squared (lines or dots) paper. Initially practising to draw on these sheets will
later make it easy to sketch them on a plain sheet (without the aid of squared lines or dots!)
Let us attempt to draw an oblique sketch of a 3 3 3 (each edge is 3 units) cube (Fig 15.12).

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Step 1

Step 2

Draw the front face.

Draw the opposite face. Sizes of the

faces have to be same, but the sketch
is somewhat off-set from step 1.

Step 3

Step 4

Join the corresponding corners

Redraw using dotted lines for

hidden edges. (It is a convention)
The sketch is ready now.

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In the oblique sketch above, did you note the following?

(i) The sizes of the front faces and its opposite are same; and
(ii) The edges, which are all equal in a cube, appear so in the sketch, though the actual
measures of edges are not taken so.
You could now try to make an oblique sketch of a cuboid (remember the faces in this
case are rectangles)
Note: You can draw sketches in which measurements also agree with those of a given
solid. To do this we need what is known as an isometric sheet. Let us try to

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make a cuboid with dimensions 4 cm length, 3 cm breadth and 3 cm height on

given isometric sheet.

15.4.2 Isometric Sketches

Have you seen an isometric dot sheet? (A sample is given at the end of the book). Such a
sheet divides the paper into small equilateral triangles made up of dots or lines. To draw
sketches in which measurements also agree with those of the solid, we can use isometric
dot sheets.
Let us attempt to draw an isometric sketch of a cuboid of dimensions 4 3 3 (which
means the edges forming length, breadth and height are 4, 3, 3 units respectively) (Fig 15.13).

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Step 2

Draw a rectangle to show the

front face.

Draw four parallel line segments of

length 3 starting from the four corners
of the rectangle.

Step 3

Step 4

Connect the matching corners

with appropriate line segments.

This is an isometric sketch

of the cuboid.

Fig 15.13

Note that the measurements are of exact size in an isometric

sketch; this is not so in the case of an oblique sketch.

EXAMPLE 1 Here is an oblique sketch of a cuboid [Fig 15.14(i)].

Draw an isometric sketch that matches this
drawing.
Fig 15.14 (i)

SOLUTION

Here is the solution [Fig 15.14(ii)]. Note how the

measurements are taken care of.

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How many units have you taken along (i) length? (ii) breadth? (iii) height? Do
they match with the units mentioned in the oblique sketch?

EXERCISE 15.2
1. Use isometric dot paper and make an isometric sketch for each one of the
given shapes:

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(iv)
2. The dimensions of a cuboid are 5 cm, 3 cm and 2 cm. Draw three different isometric
sketches of this cuboid.
3. Three cubes each with 2 cm edge are placed side by side to form a cuboid. Sketch
an oblique or isometric sketch of this cuboid.
4. Make an oblique sketch for each one of the given isometric shapes:

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5. Give (i) an oblique sketch and (ii) an isometric sketch for each of the following:
(a) A cuboid of dimensions 5 cm, 3 cm and 2 cm. (Is your sketch unique?)
(b) A cube with an edge 4 cm long.
An isometric sheet is attached at the end of the book. You could try to make on it some
cubes or cuboids of dimensions specified by your friend.

15.4.3 Visualising Solid Objects

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How
many
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Sometimes when you look at combined shapes, some of them may be hidden from
your view.
Here are some activities you could try in your free time to help you visualise some solid
objects and how they look. Take some cubes and arrange them as shown in
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(ii)

(iii)

Fig 15.16

Now ask your friend to guess how many cubes there are when observed from the
view shown by the arrow mark.

TRY THESE
Try to guess the number of cubes in the following arrangements (Fig 15.17).

(i)

Fig 15.17

(ii)

(iii)

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Such visualisation is very helpful. Suppose you form a cuboid by joining such cubes.
You will be able to guess what the length, breadth and height of the cuboid would be.

EXAMPLE 2 If two cubes of dimensions 2 cm by 2cm by 2cm are

placed side by side, what would the dimensions of the
resulting cuboid be?

SOLUTION

As you can see (Fig 15.18) when kept side by side, the
length is the only measurement which increases, it becomes
2 + 2 = 4 cm.
The breadth = 2 cm and the height = 2 cm.

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1. Two dice are placed side by side as shown: Can you say what the total
would be on the face opposite to
(a) 5 + 6
(b) 4 + 3
(Remember that in a die sum of numbers on opposite faces is 7)
2. Three cubes each with 2 cm edge are placed side by side to form a cuboid. Try to
make an oblique sketch and say what could be its length, breadth and height.

15.5 VIEWING DIFFERENT SECTIONS

OF A

Fig 15.19

SOLID

Now let us see how an object which is in 3-D can be viewed in different ways.

15.5.1 One Way to View an Object is by Cutting or Slicing

Slicing game

Here is a loaf of bread (Fig 15.20). It is like a cuboid with a square face. You slice it with
a knife.
When you give a vertical cut, you get several pieces, as shown in the
Figure 15.20. Each face of the piece is a square! We call this face a
cross-section of the whole bread. The cross section is nearly a square
in this case.
Beware! If your cut is not vertical you may get a different cross
Fig 15.20
section! Think about it. The boundary of the cross-section you obtain is a
plane curve. Do you notice it?

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Have you noticed cross-sections of some vegetables when they are cut for the purposes
of cooking in the kitchen? Observe the various slices and get aware of the shapes that
result as cross-sections.

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Play this

Make clay (or plasticine) models of the following solids and make vertical or horizontal cuts.
Draw rough sketches of the cross-sections you obtain. Name them wherever you can.

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1. What cross-sections do you get when you give a

(i) vertical cut

(ii) horizontal cut

to the following solids?

(a) A brick

(b) A round apple

(d) A circular pipe

(e) An ice cream cone

(c) A die

15.5.2 Another Way is by Shadow Play

A shadow play

Fig 15.22

Shadows are a good way to illustrate how three-dimensional objects can be viewed in two
dimensions. Have you seen a shadow play? It is a form of entertainment using solid
articulated figures in front of an illuminated back-drop to create the illusion of moving
images. It makes some indirect use of ideas in Mathematics.
You will need a source of light and a few solid shapes for this activity. (If
you have an overhead projector, place the solid under the lamp and do these
investigations.)

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shadow does it cast on the screen? (Fig 15.23)

The solid is three-dimensional; what is the dimension of the shadow?

If, instead of a cone, you place a cube in the above game, what type of
shadow will you get?
Experiment with different positions of the source of light and with different
positions of the solid object. Study their effects on the shapes and sizes of the
shadows you get.

Here is another funny experiment that you might have tried already:
Place a circular plate in the open when the Sun at the noon time is just right
above it as shown in Fig 15.24 (i). What is the shadow that you obtain?

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Will it be same during

(a) forenoons?

(b) evenings?

Fig 15.24 (i) - (iii)

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Study the shadows in relation to the position of the Sun and the time of observation.

EXERCISE 15.4

1. A bulb is kept burning just right above the following solids. Name the shape of the
shadows obtained in each case. Attempt to give a rough sketch of the shadow.
(You may try to experiment first and then answer these questions).

A ball

A cylindrical pipe

A book

(i)
(ii)
(iii)
2. Here are the shadows of some 3-D objects, when seen under the lamp of an overhead
projector. Identify the solid(s) that match each shadow. (There may be multiple
answers for these!)

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A square

A triangle

A rectangle

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3. Examine if the following are true statements:

(i) The cube can cast a shadow in the shape of a rectangle.
(ii) The cube can cast a shadow in the shape of a hexagon.

15.5.3 A Third Way is by Looking at it from Certain Angles

to Get Different Views

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One can look at an object standing in front of it or by the side of it or from above. Each
time one will get a different view (Fig 15.25).

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Front view

Top view

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Here is an example of how one gets different views of a given building. (Fig 15.26)

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Side view

Top view

Fig 15.26

You could do this for figures made by joining cubes.

Fig 15.27

Try putting cubes together and then making such sketches from different sides.

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TRY THESE
1. For each solid, the three views (1), (2), (3) are given. Identify for each solid the
corresponding top, front and side views.
Solid

Its views
(1)

(2)

(3)

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WHAT

HAVE

WE DISCUSSED?

1. The circle, the square, the rectangle, the quadrilateral and the triangle are examples
of plane figures; the cube, the cuboid, the sphere, the cylinder, the cone and the
pyramid are examples of solid shapes.
2. Plane figures are of two-dimensions (2-D) and the solid shapes are of
three-dimensions (3-D).
3. The corners of a solid shape are called its vertices; the line segments of its skeleton
are its edges; and its flat surfaces are its faces.
4. A net is a skeleton-outline of a solid that can be folded to make it. The same solid
can have several types of nets.
5. Solid shapes can be drawn on a flat surface (like paper) realistically. We call this
2-D representation of a 3-D solid.
6. Two types of sketches of a solid are possible:
(a) An oblique sketch does not have proportional lengths. Still it conveys all important
aspects of the appearance of the solid.
(b) An isometric sketch is drawn on an isometric dot paper, a sample of which is
given at the end of this book. In an isometric sketch of the solid the measurements
kept proportional.
7. Visualising solid shapes is a very useful skill. You should be able to see hidden
parts of the solid shape.
8. Different sections of a solid can be viewed in many ways:
(a) One way is to view by cutting or slicing the shape, which would result in the
cross-section of the solid.
(b) Another way is by observing a 2-D shadow of a 3-D shape.
(c) A third way is to look at the shape from different angles; the front-view, the
side-view and the top-view can provide a lot of information about the shape
observed.

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1. (a) Lahulspiti: 8C, Srinagar: 2C, Shimla: 5C, Ooty: 14C, Bangalore: 22C
(b) 30C
(c) 6C
(d) Yes; No
2. 35
3. 7C; 3C

4.

6200 m

6. By a negative integer; 10.

9. (a) <
(b) <
(e) >
10. (i) 11 jumps
(ii) 5 jumps
(b) 4 2 + 4 2 + 4 = 8
8 in (b) represents going up 8 steps.

5.

By a positive integer; Rs 358

7.
(c)

(ii) is the magic square

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(d)

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(iii) (a) 3 + 2 3 + 2 3 + 2 3 + 2 3 + 2 3 = 8

EXERCISE 1.2

1. One such pair could be:

(a) 10, 3
(b) 6, 4; ( 6 4 = 10)

(c)

3, 3

2. One such pair could be:

(a) 2, 10; [2 (10) = 8]

(b) 6, 1

(c) 1, 2; (1 2 = 3)

3. Scores of both the teams are same, i.e., 30; Yes

4. (i) 5
(ii) 0
(iii) 17
(v) 3

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EXERCISE 1.3

1. (a) 3
(b) 225
(c) 630
(d) 316
(e) 0
(f) 1320
(g) 162
(h) 360
(i) 24
(j) 36
3. (i) a
(ii) (a) 22 (b) 37 (c) 0
4. 1 5 = 5, 1 4 = 4 = 5 + 1, 1 3 = 3 = 4 + 1,
1 2 = 2 = 3 + 1, 1 1 = 1 = 2 + 1, 1 0 = 0 = 1 + 1 so, 1 (1) = 0 + 1 = 1.
5. (a) 480
(b) 53000
(c) 15000
(d) 4182
(e) 62500
(f) 336
(g) 493
(h) 1140
6. 10C
7. (i) 8 (ii) 15 (iii) 0
8. (a) Loss of Rs 1000
(b) 4000 bags
9. (a) 9
(b) 7
(c) 7
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EXERCISE 1.4
1. (a) 3
(b) 10
(e) 13
(f ) 0
3. (a) 1
(b) 75
(e) 87
(f ) 48
4. (6, 2), (12, 4), (12, 4), (9, 3), (9, 3)
5. 9 p.m.; 14C
6. (i) 8 (ii) 13

(c) 4
(d) 1
(g) 1
(h) 1
(c) 206
(d) 1
(g) 10
(h) 12
(There could be many such pairs)
7. 1 hour

(i) 1

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1.

(i)

7
5

(v)

13
5

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6.

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20

3
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39
8

7
8

(iii)

31
35

(vi)

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6

1
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(vii)

39
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(ii)

7 3 1
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10 7 5

(ii)

5
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7.

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(iv)

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165

4.

139
3

7
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3. Yes

8. Vaibhav; by

46

1
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1
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6

EXERCISE 2.2

1. (i)
2. (i)
3. (i)

(d)
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(vi) 15

(ii) (b)
(ii) (a)
(ii) 1

(iii) (a)
(iii) (b)

(iv) (c)

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(iii) 1

5
7

(iv) 1

2
7

(viii) 16

(ix) 4

(vii) 6

1
9

(v) 2

1
3

(x) 9

4. One way of doing this is:

(i)
5. (a) (i) 12 (ii) 23

(b) (i) 12 (ii) 18

(ii)
(c) (i) 12 (ii) 27

(iii)
(d)(i) 16 (ii) 28

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6. (a) 15

3
5

(b) 33

3
4

(e) 19

1
2

(f) 27

1
5

7. (a) (i) 1

3
1
(ii) 2
8
9

3
4

(c) 15

(b) (i) 2

(d) 25

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(ii) 6
48
24

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8. (i) 2 litres (ii)

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1. (i)

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3
1
(a)
(b)
(c)
16
20
3

2. (i)

(v)

5
8

3. (i)

4. (i)

3 5
of
(ii)
5 8

(ii)

2
9

(vi) 1

1
10

8. (a) (i)

2
6
3
(ii) (a)
(b)
(c)
63
35
70

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(ii) 4

(iii)

13
20

44
45

1 6
of
2 7

9
16

(vii) 1

1
5. 2 m
4

5
1
(ii)
10
2

2
25

13
48

(iv) 2

(iii) 8

(iv) 1

3
5

1
42

(v) 1

1
6. 10 hours
2

(b) (i)

33
35

(vi) 7

4
5

(vii) 2

1
7

7. 44 km

8
8
(ii)
15
15

EXERCISE 2.4

1. (i)
2. (i)

16

(ii)

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84
5

7
(improper fraction)
3

5
(proper fraction)
6
(vii) 11 (whole number)

(iv)

(iii)

24
7

(v)

9
7

(ii)

8
(improper fraction)
5

(iii)

7
(proper fraction)
9

(v)

7
(proper fraction)
12

(vi) 8(whole number)

(iv)

3
2

(vi)

7
5

3. (i)

7
6

(ii)

4
45

(iii)

6
91

(iv)

13
9

(v)

7
8

(vi)

31
49

4. (i)

4
5

(ii)

2
3

(iii)

3
8

(iv)

35
9

(v)

21
16

(vi)

4
15

(vii)

48
25

(viii)

11
6

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EXERCISE 2.5
1.
2.
3.
4.

(i)
(i)
(i)
(i)

5. (i)

0.5
(ii) 0.7
Rs 0.07 (ii) Rs 7.07
0.05m, 0.00005 km
0.2 kg (ii) 3.470 kg
2 10 + 0 1 + 0

(iii)
(iii)
(ii)
(iii)

7
(iv) 1.49
Rs 77.77
(iv) Rs 0.50
3.5 cm, 0.035m, 0.000035 km
4.008 kg

1
1
+3
10
100

(iii) 2 100 + 0 10 + 0 1 + 0

(ii) 2 1 + 0

(v) 2.30
(v) Rs 2.35

(vi) 0.88

1
1
+3
10
100

d
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1
+3
10
100

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+4
10
100
1000
6. (i) Ones
(ii) Hundredths (iii) Tenths
(iv) Hundredths (v) Thousandths
7. Ayub travelled more by 0.9 km or 900 m
8. Sarala bought more fruits
9. 14.6 km
(iv) 2 1 + 0

EXERCISE 2.6

1. (i)

1.2

(ii) 36.8

(vii) 1.72
2. 17.1 cm2
3. (i) 13
(vii) 362
4. 553 km
(vi) 1.68

(ii)
(viii)
5.
(vii)

(iii) 13.55

368
4307
(i) 0.75
0.0214

(iii)
(ix)
(ii)
(viii)

1537
5
5.17
10.5525

(iv) 80.4

(v) 0.35

(vi) 844.08

(iv)
(x)
(iii)
(ix)

(v)
(xi)
(iv)
(x)

(vi) 15610
(xii) 30
(v) 0.025

1680.7
0.8
63.36
1.0101

3110
90
4.03
110.011

EXERCISE 2.7

1. (i) 0.2
(ii) 0.07
(vii) 0.99 (viii) 0.16
2. (i) 0.48
(ii) 5.25
(vii) 0.397
3. (i) 0.027
(ii) 0.003
4. (i) 0.0079 (ii) 0.0263
5. (i) 2
(ii) 180
(vii) 510
(viii) 27

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(iii) 0.62

(iv) 10.9

(v) 162.8

(vi) 2.07

(iii) 0.07

(iv) 3.31

(v) 27.223

(vi) 0.056

(iii)
(iii)
(iii)
(ix)

(iv)
(iv)
(iv)
6.

(v) 0.236
(v) 0.0005
(v) 2

(vi) 0.9853

0.0078
0.03853
6.5
2.1

4.326
0.1289
44.2
18 km

EXERCISE 3.1
2.

Marks
1
2

Tally Marks

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Frequency
1
2

(vi) 31

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(i) 9

(ii) 1

3. 2

(iii) 8

4. 50

5. (i) 12.5 (ii) 3 (iii)

(iv) 5

0+8+6+ 4

18 9
or
(iv) A
4
2

4
6. (i) Highest marks = 95, Lowest marks = 39
(ii) 56 (iii) 73
7. 2058
8. (i) 20.5 (ii) 5.9 (iii) 5
9. (i) 151 cm (ii) 128 cm (iii) 23 cm (iv) 141.4 cm (v) 5

EXERCISE 3.2

1.
3.
4.
5.

Mode = 20, Median = 20, Yes.

(i) Mode = 38, 43; Median = 40
Mode = 14, Median = 14
(i) T
(ii) F

2. Mean = 39, Mode = 15, Median = 15, No.

(ii) Yes, there are 2 modes.

(iii) T

(iv) F

EXERCISE 3.3

1.
4.
5.
6.

(a)
(i)
(ii)
(i)
(iii)

1. (i)
(iv)
2. (i)

Cat
(b) 8
Maths
(ii) S. Science
(iii) Hindi
Cricket
(iii) Watching sports
Jammu
(ii) Jammu, Bangalore
Bangalore and Jaipur or Bangalore and Ahmedabad

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EXERCISE 3.4

Certain to happen
(ii) Can happen but not certain
Can happen but not certain (v) Can happen but not certain

1
6

(ii)

(iv) Mumbai

1
6

3.

(iii) Imposible

1
2

EXERCISE 4.1
1. (i) No.
(vii) Yes

(ii) No
(viii) No

(iii) Yes
(ix) No

(iv) No
(x) No

(v) Yes
(xi) Yes

(vi) No

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2. (a) No

(b) No

3. (i)

p=3

(ii) m = 6

4. (i)

x+4=9

(v)
(ix)
5. (i)

3t
4

= 15

(c) Yes

(d) No

(e) No

(ii) y 2 = 8

(iii) 10a = 70

(iv)

(vi) 7m + 7 = 77 (vii)

b
5

(f) No

=6

x
4 = 4 (viii) 6y 6 = 60
4

d
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h

z
3 30
3
The sum of p and 4 is 15

(ii) 7 subtracted from m is 3

(iii)

Twice a number m is 7

(iv) One-fifth of a number m is 3

(v)

Three-fifth of a number m is 6

(vi) Three times a number p when added to 4 gives 25

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2 subtracted from four times a number p is 18

(viii)

Add 2 to half of a number p to get 8

6. (i)

5m + 7 = 37

(ii) 3y + 4 = 49

(iii) 2l + 7 = 87

(iv) 4b = 180

EXERCISE 4.2

1. (a) Add 1 to both sides; x = 1

(b) Subtract 1 from both sides; x = 1

(c) Add 1 to both sides; x = 6

(d) Subtract 6 from both sides; x = 4

(e) Add 4 to both sides; y = 3

(f) Add 4 to both sides; y = 8

(g) Subtract 4 from both sides; y = 0

(h) Subtract 4 from both sides; y = 8

2. (a) Divide both sides by 3; l = 14

(b) Multiply both sides by 2; b = 12

(c) Multiply both sides by 7; p = 28

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(e) Divide both sides by 8; y =

36
8

(g) Multiply both sides by 5; a =

7
3

3. (a) Step 1: Add 2 to both sides

(d) Divide both sides by 4; x =

(f) Multiply both sides by 3; z =

1
2

Step 2: Divide both sides by 5; m = 2

(d) Step 1: Multiply both sides 10

Step 2: Divide both sides by 20; p = 6

(g) s = 4 (h) s = 0

15

(b) Step 1: Subtract 7 from both sides

(c) Step 1: Multiply both sides by 3

(b) p = 9

(h) Divide both sides by 20; t =

Step 2: Divide both sides by 3; n = 16

4. (a) p = 10

25

Step 2: Divide both sides by 3; p = 20

(c) p = 20

(d) p = 15

(e) p = 8

(f) s = 3

(i) q = 3

(j) q = 3

(k) q = 3

(l) q = 3

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(e) x = 4

(f) x =

EXERCISE 4.3
1. (a) y = 8
(g) m =

(b) t =

1
2

2. (a) x = 2
(f) x =

(c) a = 5

(i) l =

(b) n = 12

(c) n = 2

(d) y = 4

(g) p = 7

(h) p = 7

14

(d) q = 8

(h) z = 2

4
3. (a) p =

18
5

(j) b = 12

(e) x =

d
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17
4

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(b) p =

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4. (a) Equations are: 10x + 2 = 22;

5
2

6
5

(d) t = 0

(e) t = 3

(f) m = 2

x 2
= ; 5x 3 = 7
5 5

(b) Equations are: 3x = 6; 3x + 7 = 1; 3x + 10 = 4

EXERCISE 4.4

1. (a) 8x + 4 = 60; x = 7

(d) 2m 11 = 15 ; m = 13

11
;n=5
2
2
2. (a) Lowest score = 40
3. (i) 6
(ii) 15 years
(g)

1.
2.
3.
4.
7.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.

5n

7 =

o
n

(b)

x
4 = 3; x = 35
5

(e) 50 3x = 8 ; x = 14

(b) 70 each
(iii) 25

(c)
(f)

y + 3 = 21 ; y = 24
4
x + 19
= 8 ; x = 21
5

(c) Sachin: 132 runs, Rahul: 66 runs

4. 30

EXERCISE 5.1

(i) 70
(ii) 27
(iii) 33
(i) 75
(ii) 93
(iii) 26
(i) supplementary
(ii) complementary
(iii) supplementary
(iv) supplementary
(v) complementary
(vi) complementary
45
5. 90
6. 2 will increase with the same measure as the decrease in 1.
(i) No
(ii) No
(iii) Yes
8. Less than 45
(i) Yes
(ii) No
(iii) Yes
(iv) Yes
(v) Yes
(vi) COB
(i) 1, 4; 5, 2 + 3
(ii) 1, 5; 4, 5
1 and 2 are not adjacent angles because their vertex is not common.
(i) x = 55, y = 125, z = 125
(ii) x = 115, y = 140, z = 40
(i) 90
(ii) 180
(iii) supplementary
(iv) linear pair
(v) equal
(vi) obtuse angles

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MATHEMATICS

(i) AOD, BOC

(iv) EOA, EOC

(ii) EOA, AOB

(iii) EOB, EOD
(v) AOB, AOE; AOE, EOD; EOD, COD

EXERCISE 5.2
1. (i) Corresponding angle property
(ii) Alternate interior angle property
(iii) Interior angles on the same side of the transversal are supplementary
2. (i) 1, 5; 2, 6; 3, 7; 4, 8
(ii) 2, 8; 3, 5
(iii) 2, 5; 3, 8
(iv) 1, 3; 2, 4; 5, 7; 6, 8
3. a = 55; b = 125; c = 55; d = 125; e = 55; f = 55
4. (i) x = 70 (ii) x = 60
(iii) x = 100
5. (i) DGC = 70
(ii) DEF = 70
6. (i) l is not parallel to m
(ii) l is not parallel to m
(iii) l is parallel to m
(iv) l is not parallel to m

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EXERCISE 6.1

1. Altitude, Median, No.

EXERCISE 6.2

1. (i) 120
2. (i) 65

(ii) 110
(ii) 30

(iii) 70
(iii) 35

(iv) 120
(iv) 60

(v) 100
(v) 50

(vi) 90
(vi) 40

EXERCISE 6.3

1. (i) 70
(ii) 60
2. (i) x = 70, y = 60
(iv) x = 60, y = 90

(iii) 40
(iv) 65
(ii) x = 50, y = 80
(v) x = 45, y = 90

(v) 60
(vi) 30
(iii) x = 110, y = 70
(vi) x = 60, y = 60

EXERCISE 6.4

1. (i) Not possible

2. (i) Yes
(ii) Yes
6. Between 3 and 27

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1. 26 cm
7. 98 cm

2. 24 cm
8. 68 cm

(ii) Possible
(iii) Yes

(iii) Not possible

3. Yes

4. Yes

5. No

5. 18m

6. (ii)

EXERCISE 6.5

3. 9 m

4. (i) and (iii)

EXERCISE 7.1
1. (a) they have the same length

(b) 70

3.

A F, B E, C D,

4.

(i) C

(ii) CA

(iii) A

(c) mA = m B

AB FE, BC ED, AC FD
(iv) BA

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EXERCISE 7.2
1. (a) SSS Congruence criterion

(b) SAS Congruence criterion

(c) ASA Congruence criterion

2. (a) (i) PE

(ii) EN

(iii) PN

(c) (i) RAT = EPN

3. (i)
5.

Given

WON

(d) RHS Congruence criterion

(b) (i) EN

(ii) AT

(ii)ATR = PNE

(ii) Given

(iii) Common

(iv) SAS Congruence criterion

6. BTA, TPQ

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9. BC = QR, ASA Congruence criterion

EXERCISE 8.1

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1. (a) 10:1
(b) 500:7
(c) 100:3
3. (i) Rajasthan : 190 people ; UP : 830 people

(d) 20:1
(ii) Rajasthan

2. 12 computers

EXERCISE 8.2

1. (a) 12.5%
2. (a) 65%
3. (i)

4. No

1
, 25%
4

4. (a) 37.5

(b) 125%

(c) 7.5%

4
(d) 28 %
7

(b) 210%

(c) 2%

(d) 1235%

(ii)

3
; 60%
5

(b)

3
minute or 36 seconds
5

(iii)

3
;37.5%
8

(c) Rs 500

(d) 0.75 kg or 750 g

5. (a) 12000
6. (a) 0.25;

1
4

(b) Rs 9,000
(b) 1.5;

3
2

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8. 40%; 6000

9. Rs 4,000

(c) 1250 km

(c) 0.2;

(d) 0.05;

1
20

(e) 500 litres

7. 30%

10. 5 matches

EXERCISE 8.3

1. (a) Profit = Rs 75; Profit % = 30

(c) Profit = Rs 500; Profit % = 20
2. (a) 75%; 25%

(b) 20%, 30%, 50%

5
4. 5 %
7

3. 2%
7. (i) 12% (ii) 25 g
10. 0.25%

1
5

(d) 20 minutes

11. Rs 500

(b) Profit = Rs 1500; Profit % = 12.5

(d) Loss = Rs 100; Loss % = 40
(c) 20%; 80%

(d) 12.5%; 25%; 62.5%

5. Rs 12,000

6. Rs 16,875

8. Rs 233.75

9. (a) Rs 1,632 (b) Rs 8,625

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EXERCISE 9.1
1.

2 1 2 1 2
, , , ,
3 2 5 3 7

(i)

35
45

(iii)
2.

3.

7
34 33
,
,
9
45 45

11
32 31
,
,
15
45 45

(ii)

3 5 8 10 9
, , ,
,
2 3 5 7 5

(iv)

1 1 1 1
, ,0, ,
3 4
3 2
4 5 6 7
, , ,
16 20 24 28

(i)

15 18 21 24
,
,
,
25 30 35 40

(ii)

(iii)

5
6
7
8
,
,
,
30 36 42 48

(iv)

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14 21 28 35

(i)

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8 10 12 14
,
,
,
12 15 18 21

(ii)

10 15 20 25
, ,
,
6 9 12 15

(iii)

8 12 16 28
, , ,
18 27 36 63

3
4

4.

(i)

(ii)

7
4

(iii)

5
8

7
8

(iv)

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7
3
6. (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

5. P represents

7. (i)
8. (i)
9. (i)
10. (i)

4
3

<

5
2

Q represents

5
9
(ii) <
(ii)

(ii)

3 2 1
, ,
5 5 5

5
6

8
3

R represents

11
18
(iii) =
(iii)

4
3

4
5
(iv) >

S represents

5
3

(iv)

(iii)

2
3

(ii)

4 1 2
, ,
(iii)
3 3 9

(iv)

1
4
3 3 3
, ,
2 4 7

(v) <
(v)

(vi) =

2
7

(vii) >

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EXERCISE 9.2
3
2

(ii)

34
15

(iii)

17
30

(v)

26
57

(vi)

2
3

(vii)

34
15

2. (i)

13
72

(ii)

23
63

(iii)

1
195

(iv)

89
88

3. (i)

63
8

(ii)

27
10

(iii)

54
55

(iv)

6
35

(ii)

3
10

(iii)

(iv)

1
6

1. (i)

(vi)

(vi)

91
24

82
99

(vii)

4
15

15
4

EXERCISE 11.1

1. (i) 150000 m2
3. 20 m
2. 6400 m2
6. 31cm; Square
7. 35cm; 1050 cm2

(ii) Rs 1,500,000,000
4. 15 cm; 525 cm2
8. Rs 284

5. 40 m

EXERCISE 11.2

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

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(iv)

(a) 28 cm2
(b) 15 cm2
(c) 8.75 cm2
(a) 6 cm2
(b) 8 cm2
(c) 6 cm2
(a) 12.3 cm
(b) 10.3 cm (c) 5.8 cm
(a) 11.6 cm
(b) 80 cm
(c) 15.5 cm
2
(b) 11.4 cm
(a 91.2 cm
length of BM = 30cm; length of DL = 42 cm

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7. Area of ABC = 30 cm2; length of AD =

(d) 24 cm2
(d) 3 cm2
(d) 1.05 cm

(e) 8.8 cm2

60
cm
13

8. Area of ABC = 27 cm2; length of CE = 7.2 cm

EXERCISE 11.3
1. (a) 88 cm

(b) 176 mm

(c) 132 cm

2. (a) 616 mm2

(b) 1886.5 m2

(c)

550
cm2
7

(v)

73
9

(v)

6
55

(v)

14
13

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6.
10.
14.

MATHEMATICS

24.5 m; 1886.5 m2
4. 132 m; Rs 528
4.71 m; Rs 70.65
7. 25.7 cm
8. Rs 30.14 (approx.)
2
2
11. 23.44 cm
12. 5 cm; 78.5 cm2
536 cm
Yes
15. 119.32 m; 56.52m 16. 200 Times

5.
9.
13.
17.

21.98 cm2
7 cm; 154 cm2; 11cm; circle.
879.20 m2
94.2 cm

EXERCISE 11.4
1.
4.
6.
9.
10.

d
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1750 m2 ; 0.675 ha
2. 1176 m2
3. 30 cm2
(i) 63 m2 (ii) Rs 12,600
5. (i) 116 m2 (ii) Rs 31,360
8. Yes, 9.12 m cord is left
0.99 ha; 1.2 ha
7. (i) 441 m2 (ii) Rs 48,510
2
2
2
(ii) 12.56 m
(iii) 37.44m
(iv) 12.56m
(i) 50m
2
2
2
(i) 110 cm (ii) 150 cm ; 11.66 cm

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EXERCISE 12.1

1. (i)
(vii)
2. (i)

yz

(ii)

10 yz

(iii) z 2

(iv)

1
pq
4

(a)

(b)

(c)

(e)

Expression

Terms

Factors

4x + 5

4x
5
4x
5y
5y
3y 2

4, x
5
4,x
5,y
5,y
3,y,y

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(a)

(v) x2 + y2

(viii) ab (a + b)

(d)

(ii)

1
(x + y)
2

(b)

4x + 5y

(c)

5y + 3y2

(d)

xy+2x 2y 2

xy
2x 2y 2

x, y
2, x, x, y, y

(e)

pq + q

pq
q

p, q
q

(vi)

5 + 3mn

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(f) 1.2ab2.4b+3.6a

3
1
x
4
4

(g)

(h)

0.1p2 + 0.2q2

(i)
(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

3
,x
4

1
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1
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0.1p2

0.1, p, p

0.2q2

0.2, q, q

Terms

Coefficients

5 3t2

3 t2

1 + t + t 2 + t3

x + 2xy + 3y

t2
t3
x
2xy
3y

1
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1
2
3

100m
1000n
p 2q 2
7pq
1.2 a
0.8 b
3.14r2
2l
2b
0.1y
0.01y2

100
1000
1
7
1.2
0.8
3.14
2
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0.1
0.01

p2q2 + 7pq

(vi)

4. (a)

3
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Expression

100m +1000n

(v)

1.2a + 0.8b

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1.2,a,b
2.4, b
3.6, a

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3.14r2
2(l + b)

0.1y + 0.01y2

Expression

Terms with x

Coefficient of x

(i)

y2x + y

y 2x

y2

(ii)

13y28yx

8yx

8y

(iii)

x+y+2

(iv)

5 + z + zx

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(v)

1 + x + xy
12xy2 + 25

12xy2

12y2

(vii)

7 + xy2

xy 2

y2

Expression

Terms with y2

Coefficient of y2

(i)

8 xy2

xy2

(ii)

5y2 + 7x

5y 2

(iii)

2x2y 15xy2 + 7y2

15xy2
7y 2

15x
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(v) trinomial
(ix) trinomial
6. (i)

1
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(vi)

(b)

5. (i)

x
xy

like

(v) unlike

(ii) monomial

(iii) trinomial

(iv) monomial

(vi) binomial

(vii) binomial

(viii) monomial

(x) binomial

(xi) binomial

(xii) trinomial

(ii) like

(iii) unlike

(iv) like

(vi) unlike

7. (a) xy2, 2xy2; 4yx2, 20x2y; 8x2, 11x2, 6x2; 7y, y; 100x, 3x; 11yx, 2xy.

(b) 10pq, 7qp, 78qp; 7p, 2405p; 8q, 100q; p2q2, 12q2p2; 23, 41; 5p2, 701p2; 13p2q, qp2

EXERCISE 12.2

1. (i)

(ii) 7z3 + 12z2 20z

8b 32
2

(iii) p q

(vi) 4y2 3y

(v) 8x y + 8xy 4x 7y
2. (i)

2mn

(ii) 5tz

(v) 7x + 5
3. (i)

6y 2

(iii) 12mn 4

(ix) 0

(x) x2 y2 1

(ii) 18xy

(iii) 2b

(v) 5m2 8mn + 8

(iv) 5a + 5b 2ab

(vi) x2 5x 5

(vii) 10ab 7a2 7b2

4. (a)

(iv) a + b + 3

(vii) 9x2y 8xy2

(vi) 3m 4n 3mn 3

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(iv) a + ab

(viii) 8p2 + 8q2 5pq

x2 + 2xy y2

(b) 5a + b 6

5. 4x 3y xy
6. (a)

y + 11

(b) 2x + 4

EXERCISE 12.3
1. (i)

2. (i)

(ii) 1
(ii) 13

(iii) 1
(iii) 3

(iv) 1
3. (i) 9 (ii) 3 (iii) 0 (iv) 1

(v) 1

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4. (i)

6. (i)

5x 13; 3

(ii) 8x 1; 15

(iii) 11x 10; 12

(iv) 11x + 7; 29

7. (i)

2x+4; 10 (ii) 4x + 6; 6 (iii) 5a + 6;11

(iv) 8b + 6; 22

(v) 3a 2b 9; 8

8. (i)

(ii) 4

1000

(iii) 0

(ii) 20

5. (i) 2

(ii) 2 (iii) 0 (iv) 2

10. 2a + ab + 3; 38

9. 5

EXERCISE 12.4
1.

Symbol

Number of Digits

Number of Segments

26

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2. (i) 2n 1 100th : 199

(ii) 3n + 2 5th : 17;
10th : 32;
100th : 302
(iii) 4n + 1 5th : 21;
10th : 41;
100th : 401
(iv) 7n + 20 5th : 55;
10th : 90;
100th : 720
(v) n2 + 1 5th : 26;
10th : 101

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EXERCISE 13.1

1. (i)

64

2. (i)

3. (i)

29

(ii) 73

(iii) 36

(iv) 55

4. (i)

34

(ii) 35

(iii) 28

(iv) 2 100

5. (i)
6. (i)

8. (i)

(ii) t

(iii) 121

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(iv) 625

(iv) 52 73

23 3 4

(ii) 5 34

(iii) 22 33 5

(iv) 24 32 52

2000

(ii) 196

(iii) 40

(iv) 768

(vi) 675
7. (i)

(ii) 729

64

(vii) 144

(v) 2 10

(v) 0

(viii) 90000

(ii) 24

12

(v) 22 a2 (vi) a3 c4 d

(iii) 225
8

2.7 10 > 1.5 10

(iv) 8000
14

(ii) 4 10 < 3 1017

EXERCISE 13.2
1. (i)

3 14

(vii) (ab) 4
2. (i)

33

(vii) 1

(ii) 65

(iii) a 5

(iv) 7x + 2

(viii) 3 12

(ix) 28

(x) 8t 2

(ii) 53

(iii) 55
(ix) (2a)2

(viii) 2

(v) 53

(vi) (10)5

(iv) 7 115

(v) 30 or 1

(vi) 3

(x) a 10

(xi) a 3 b

(xii) 28

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MATHEMATICS

False; 10 1011 = 1012 and (100)11 = 1022

(iii) False; 65 = 25 35
4. (i)

28 34

(ii) 2 33 5

(ii) False; 23 = 8, 52 = 25

(iv) True; 30 = 1, (1000)0 = 1

(iii) 36 26

(iv) 28 3

5. (i) 98 (ii)

5t 4
8

(iii) 1

EXERCISE 13.3
1. 279404 = 2 105 + 7 104 + 9 103 + 4 102 + 0 101 + 4 100

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3006194 = 3 106 + 0 105 + 0 104 + 6 103 + 1 102 + 9 101 + 4 100

2806196 = 2 106 + 8 105 + 0 104 + 6 103 + 1 102 + 9 101+ 6 100
120719 = 1 105 + 2 104 + 0 103 + 7 102 + 1 101 + 9 100
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2. (a) 86045
3. (i)

5 107

(b) 405302

(c)

30705

(d) 900230

(ii) 7 106

(iii) 3.1865 109

(iv)

(c) 1.2756 107m

(d) 1.4 109 m

3.90878 105

(v) 3.90878 104 (vi) 3.90878 103

4. (a) 3.84 108m

(b) 3 108 m/s

(f) 1.2 1010 years (g) 3 1020 m

(e) 1 1011
9
(i) 1.353 10 km3 (j)
1.027 109

(h) 6.023 1022

EXERCISE 14.1

1.

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(d)

(b)

(c)

(e)

(f)

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(h)

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(k)

(b)

(l)

(c)

(e)

3.

(a) Square

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(i)

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(c) Rhombus

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(d) Circle

(e) Pentagon

d
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(f) Octagon

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10. (a)

(b)

(f)

3
(b) 1
(c) 0
0
(h) 0
(i) 6
A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y
O, X, I, H
Median (b) Diameter

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2. (a) 2
(b) 2
(g) 6
(h) 3

3. Yes
7. (i) Yes

(c)

(d)

(g)

(h)

(d) 4
(e) 2
(j) Infinitely many
(b) B, C, D, E, H, I, O, X

(f) 4

EXERCISE 14.2

(c) 3

5. Square
(ii) No

(d) 4

EXERCISE 14.3
6. 120, 180, 240, 300, 360

EXERCISE 15.1
1. Nets in (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi) form cubes.

(e) 4

(f) 5

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2.

1
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1
2

5
6

5
4

3. No, because one pair of opposite faces will have 1 and 4 on them whose total is not 7, and another pair
of opposite faces will have 3 and 6 on them whose total is also not 7.
4. Three faces

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BRAIN-TEASERS

1. Solve the number riddles:

(i) Tell me who I am! Who I am!
Take away from me the number eight,
Divide further by a dozen to come up with
A full team for a game of cricket!
(ii) Add four to six times a number,
To get exactly sixty four!
Perfect credit is yours to ask for
If you instantly tell the score!
2. Solve the teasers:
(i) There was in the forest an old Peepal tree
The grand tree had branches ten and three
On each branch there lived birds fourteen
Sparrows brown, crows black and parrots green!
Twice as many as the parrots were the crows
And twice as many as the crows were the sparrows!
We wonder how many birds of each kind
Arent you going to help us find?

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3.

4.

(ii) I have some five-rupee coins and some two-rupee coins. The number of
two-rupee coins is twice the number of five-rupee coins. The total money I have
is 108 rupees. So how many five-rupee coins do I have? And how many
two-rupee coins?
I have 2 vats each containing 2 mats. 2 cats sat on each of the mats. Each cat wore 2
funny old hats. On each hat lay 2 thin rats. On each rat perched 2 black bats. How
many things are in my vats?
Twenty-seven small cubes are glued together to make a big cube. The exterior of the
big cube is painted yellow in colour. How many among each of the 27 small cubes
would have been painted yellow on
(i) only one of its faces?
(ii) two of its faces?
(iii) three of its faces?
Rahul wanted to find the height of a tree in his garden. He checked the ratio of his
height to his shadows length. It was 4:1. He then measured the shadow of the tree. It
was 15 feet. So what was the height of the tree?
A woodcutter took 12 minutes to make 3 pieces of a block of wood. How much time
would be needed to make 5 such pieces?
A cloth shrinks 0.5% when washed. What fraction is this?
Smitas mother is 34 years old. Two years from now mothers age will be 4 times
Smitas present age. What is Smitas present age?
Maya, Madhura and Mohsina are friends studying in the same class. In a class test in
geography, Maya got 16 out of 25. Madhura got 20. Their average score was 19. How
much did Mohsina score?

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1. (i)

140

(ii) 10

2. (i) Sparrows: 104, crows: 52, Parrots: 26

(ii) Number of 5 Rupee coins = 12, Number of 2 Rupee coins = 24
3. 124
4. (i) 6 (ii) 10 (iii) 8
5. 60 feet
6. 24 minutes

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8. 7 years

9. 21