class 8 maths chapter 11 exercise 11.2

Keeping the examination point of view in mind the mathematicsandinformationtechnology.com team has prepared NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Chapter 11 Mensuration Exercise 11.2. The NCERT Solutions for chapter Mensuration solutions explains the easy and simple way to solve the problems. By understanding these ways in NCERT Solutions for Class 8, students will be confident while solving such problems found in Chapter 11 Mensuration Exercise 11.2.

Question 1:

The shape of the top surface of a table is a trapezium. Find its area if its parallel sides are 1 m and 1.2 m and perpendicular distance between them is 0.8 m.

Question 2:

The area of a trapezium is 34 cm² and the length of one of the parallel sides is 10 cm and its height is 4 cm. Find the length of the other parallel side.

Question 3:

Length of the fence of a trapezium shaped field ABCD is 120 m. If BC = 48 m, CD =17 m and AD = 40 m, find the area of this field. Side AB is perpendicular to the parallel sides AD and BC.

Question 4:

The diagonal of a quadrilateral shaped field is 24 m and the perpendiculars dropped on it from the remaining opposite vertices are 8 m and 13 m. Find the area of the field.

Question 5:

The diagonals of a rhombus are 7.5 cm and 12 cm. Find its area.

Question 6:

Find the area of a rhombus whose side is 6 cm and whose altitude is 4 cm. If one of its diagonals is 8 cm long, find the length of the other diagonal.

Question 7:

The floor of a building consists of 3000 tiles which are rhombus shaped and each of its diagonals are 45 cm and 30 cm in length. Find the total cost of polishing the floor, if the cost per m² is ₹4.

Question 8:

Mohan wants to buy a trapezium shaped field. Its side along the river is parallel to and twice the side along the road. It the area of this field is 10500 m² and the perpendicular distance between the two parallel sides is 100 m, find the length of the side along the river.

Question 9:

Top surface of a raised platform is in the shape of a regular octagon as shown in the figure. Find the area of the octagonal surface.

Question 10:

There is a pentagonal shaped park as shown in the figure.For finding its area Jyoti and Kavita divided it in two different ways.Find the area of this park using both ways. Can you suggest some other way of finding its area?

Question 11:

Diagram of the adjacent picture frame has outer dimensions = 24 cm × 28 cm and inner dimensions 16 cm × 20 cm. Find the area of each section of the frame, if the width of each section is same.