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R JAIPURIA SCHOOL , FATEHPUR MALWAN CAMPUS

PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Class 09 - Mathematics
Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 108

1. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
In a particular class of x students, 1

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th times the square of the total number of students planned to visit historical
monuments. th times the number of students planned to visit old age homes while 10 students decided to
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teach poor children.

i. What is the total number of students in a polynomial in terms of x? (1)

ii. What is the degree of the polynomial p(x) = x2 + x + 10? (1)

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iii. How many students planned to visit the historical monuments if x = 96? (2)
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How many students are planning to visit old age homes if x = 96? (2)

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2. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Beti Bacho, Beti Padho (BBBP) is a personal campaign of the Government of India that aims to generate
awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare services intended for girls.
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In a school, a group of (x + y) teachers, (x2 + y2) girls and (x3 + y3) boys organised a campaign on Beti Bacho,
Beti Padho.
i. How many teachers are there in the group if there are 63 girls (given xy = 9)? (1)
ii. How many girls are there in the group if there are 10 teachers and 370 boys? (1)
iii. How many boys are there in the group if there are 10 teachers and 58 girls? (2)
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What is the value of (x2 - y2) if the number of teaches are 10 (given (x - y) = 23)? (2)
3. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
National Association For The Blind (NAB) aimed to empower and well-inform visually challenge population of
our country, thus enabling them to lead a life of dignity and productivity.

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 Ravi donated ₹(x3 + 1

x
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) to NAB. When his cousin asks to tell the amount donated by him, he just gave the
below hint.
x+ 1

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= 10

i. When (x + a)(x + b) is expanded, what is the resulting expression in the form of (x2 + ________ x + ab). (1)

ii. What is the mathematical formula for the identity represented as (x - y)3? (1)
iii. What is the amount donated by Ravi? (2)
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What is the amount donated by Ravi if x + 1

x
= 7. (2)

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4. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Reeta was studying in the class 9th C of St. Surya Public school, Mehrauli, New Delhi-110030

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Once Ranjeet and his daughter Reeta were returning after attending teachers' parent meeting at Reeta's school.
As the home of Ranjeet was close to the school so they were coming by walking.
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Reeta asked her father, "Daddy how old are you?"
Ranjeet said, "Sum of ages of both of us is 55 years, After 10 years my age will be double of you.
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i. What is the second equation formed? (1)

ii. What is the present age of Reeta in years? (1)
iii. What is the present age of Ranjeet in years? (2)
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If the ratio of age of Reeta and her mother is 3 : 7 then what is the age of Reeta's mother in years? (2)
5. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Peter, Kevin James, Reeta and Veena were students of Class 9th B at Govt Sr Sec School, Sector 5, Gurgaon.
Once the teacher told Peter to think a number x and to Kevin to think another number y so that the
difference of the numbers is 10 (x > y).
Now the teacher asked James to add double of Peter's number and that three times of Kevin's number, the total
was found 120.
Reeta just entered in the class, she did not know any number.
The teacher said Reeta to form the 1st equation with two variables x and y.
Now Veena just entered the class so the teacher told her to form 2nd equation with two variables x and y.

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 Now teacher Told Reeta to find the values of x and y. Peter and kelvin were told to verify the numbers x and y.

i. What are the equation formed by Reeta and Veena? (1)

ii. What was the equation formed by Veena? (1)
iii. Which number did Peter think? (2)
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Which number did Kelvin think? (2)
6. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Ajay lives in Delhi, The city of Ajay's father in laws residence is at Jaipur is 600 km from Delhi. Ajay used to

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travel this 600 km partly by train and partly by car.
He used to buy cheap items from Delhi and sale at Jaipur and also buying cheap items from Jaipur and sale at

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Delhi.
Once From Delhi to Jaipur in forward journey he covered 2x km by train and the rest y km by taxi.
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But, while returning he did not get a reservation from Jaipur in the train. So first 2y km he had to travel by taxi
and the rest x km by Train. From Delhi to Jaipur he took 8 hrs but in returning it took 10 hrs.
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i. Write the above information in terms of equation. (1)

ii. Find the value of x and y? (1)
iii. Find the speed of Taxi? (2)
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Find the speed of Train? (2)
7. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Ajay is writing a test which consists of ‘True’ or ‘False’ questions. One mark is awarded for every correct
answer while ¼ mark is deducted for every wrong answer. Ajay knew answers to some of the questions. Rest of
the questions he attempted by guessing.

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 i. If he answered 110 questions and got 80 marks and answer to all questions, he attempted by guessing were
wrong, then how many questions did he answer correctly? (1)
ii. If he answered 110 questions and got 80 marks and answer to all questions, he attempted by guessing were
wrong, then how many questions did he guess? (1)
iii. If answer to all questions he attempted by guessing were wrong and answered 80 correctly, then how many
marks he got? (2)
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If answer to all questions he attempted by guessing were wrong, then how many questions answered
correctly to score 95 marks? (2)
8. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Rainwater harvesting system is a technology that collects and stores rainwater for human use.
Anup decided to do rainwater harvesting. He collected rainwater in the underground tank at the rate of 30

cm3/sec.

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i. What will be the equation formed if the volume of water collected in x seconds is taken as y cm3? and also
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find amount of water collected in 2 hours? (1)

ii. Write the equation in standard form. (1)
iii. How much water will be collected in 60 sec? (2)
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How much time will it take to collect water in 900 cm3? (2)
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9. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Maths teacher draws a straight line AB shown on the blackboard as per the following figure.

i. Now he told Raju to draw another line CD as in the figure

ii. The teacher told Ajay to mark ∠ AOD as 2z
iii. Suraj was told to mark ∠ AOC as 4y
iv. Clive Made and angle ∠ COE = 60°
v. Peter marked ∠ BOE and ∠ BOD as y and x respectively
Questions:
i. What is the value of y? (1)

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 ii. What is the value of z? (1)
iii. What should be the value of x + 2z? (2)
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What is the relation between y and z? (2)
10. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Haresh and Deep were trying to prove a theorem. For this they did the following

i. Draw a triangle ABC

ii. D and E are found as the mid points of AB and AC
iii. DE was joined and DE was extended to F so DE = EF
iv. FC was joined.

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i. △ADE and △EFC are congruent by which criteria? (1)
ii. Show that CF∥ AB. (1)
iii. Show that CF = BD. (2)
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Show that DF = BC and DF∥ BC. (2)
11. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
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A children's park is in the shape of isosceles triangle said PQR with PQ = PR, S and T are points on QR such
that QT = RS.
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i. Which rule is applied to prove that congruency of △PQS and △PRT. (1)
ii. Name the type of △PST. (1)
iii. If PQ = 6 cm and QR = 7 cm, then find perimeter of △PQR. (2)
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If ∠ QPR = 80o find ∠ PQR? (2)

12. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
In a forest, a big tree got broken due to heavy rain and wind. Due to this rain the big branches AB and AC with
lengths 5m fell down on the ground. Branch AC makes an angle of 30° with the main tree AP. The distance of

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 Point B from P is 4 m. You can observe that ΔABP is congruent to ΔACP.

i. Show that △ACP and △ABP are congruent. (1)

ii. Find the value of ∠ ACP? (1)
iii. Find the value of ∠ BAP? (2)
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What is the total height of the tree? (2)
13. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
In the middle of the city, there was a park ABCD in the form of a parallelogram form so that AB = CD, AB||CD
and AD = BC, AD || BC.
Municipality converted this park into a rectangular form by adding land in the form of ΔAPD and Δ BCQ. Both

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the triangular shape of land were covered by planting flower plants.

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i. Show that ΔAPD and ΔBQC are congruent. (1)

ii. PD is equal to which side? (1)
iii. Show that ΔABC and ΔCDA are congruent. (2)
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What is the value of ∠ m? (2)

14. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
There was a circular park in Defence colony at Delhi. For fencing purpose poles A, B, C and D were installed at
the circumference of the park.
Ram tied wires From A to B, B to C and C to D, and he managed to measure the ∠ A = 100° and ∠ D = 80°
Point O in the middle of the park is the center of the circle.

i. Name the quadrilateral ABCD. (1)

ii. What is the value of ∠ C? (1)
iii. What is the value of ∠B . (2)
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 Write any three properties of cyclic quadrilateral? (2)
15. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Rohan draws a circle of radius 10 cm with the help of a compass and scale. He also draws two chords, AB and
CD in such a way that the perpendicular distance from the center to AB and CD are 6 cm and 8 cm respectively.
Now, he has some doubts that are given below.

i. Show that the perpendicular drawn from the Centre of a circle to a chord bisects the chord. (1)
ii. What is the length of CD? (1)
iii. What is the length of AB? (2)
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How many circles can be drawn from given three noncollinear points? (2)
16. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]

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A Ferris wheel (or a big wheel in the United Kingdom) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright
wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs,
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capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright,
usually by gravity.
After taking a ride in Ferris wheel, Aarti came out from the crowd and was observing her friends who were
enjoying the ride . She was curious about the different angles and measures that the wheel will form. She forms
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the figure as given below

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i. Find ∠ ROQ. (1)

ii. Find ∠ RQP. (1)
iii. Find ∠ RSQ. (2)
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Find ∠ ORP. (2)
17. Two new roads, Road E and Road F were constructed between society 4 and 1 and society 1 and 2. [4]

i. What would be the measure of the sum of angles formed by the straight roads at Society 1 and society 3?

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 a. 60o
b. 90o
c. 180o

d. 360o
ii. Krish says, The distance to go from society 4 to society 2 using Road D will be longer that the distance using
Road E. Is Krish correct? Justify your answer with examples.
iii. Road G, perpendicular to Road F was constructed to connect the park and Road F. Which of the following is
true for Road G and Road F?
a. Road G and road F are of same length.
b. Road F divides Road G into two equal parts.
c. Road G divides Road F into two equal parts.
d. The length of road G is one-fourth of the length of Road F.
iv. Priya said, Minor arc corresponding to Road B is congruent to minor arc corresponding to Road D. Do you
agree with Priya? Give reason to supportyour answer.

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18. A zoo is in the shape of an isosceles trapezium. [2]

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It is divided into three zones-Zone 1, Zone 2 and Zone 3.
Animals are kept without cages in Zone 1 . Zone 2 is for visitors and Zone 3 is reserved for park authorities.
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To avoid the entry of animals in zones 2 and 3, a 1.8 km long wired fencing is installed.
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i. Which of the following calculations shows the area for animals?

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a. √1.35 × 0.65 × 1.15
b. 2.15 × 0.35 × 0.65 × 1.15
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c. √3.15 × 1.35 × 1.65 × 1.15
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d. √4.30 × 1.35 × 1.65 × 1.15
ii. The area reserved for animals is twice the area reserved for the zoo authorities. Do you have enough
information to support this statement? Explain your answer:
19. The outer boundary of Zone 1 is made of solid structures in the shape of isosceles triangles of the same size and [2]
barbed wires.

The wall consists of 15 such solid structures.

i. Which of the following calculations shows the total area (in square meters) of the solid structures?
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a. √50 × 50 × 30
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b. √130 × 50 × 50 × 30
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 −−−
d. 15√260 50 × 50 × 30
ii. What is the area of a triangle with side lengths 20 cm, 20 cm and 8 cm?
20. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
In Agra in a grinding mill, there were installed 5 types of mills. These mills used steel balls of radius 5 mm, 7
mm, 10 mm, 14 mm and 16 mm respectively. All the balls were in the spherical shape.
For repairing purpose mills need 10 balls of 7 mm radius and 20 balls of 3.5 mm radius. The workshop was
having 20000 mm3 steel.

This 20000 mm3 steel was melted and 10 balls of 7 mm radius and 20 balls of 3.5 mm radius were made and the
remaining steel was stored for future use.

i. What was the volume of one ball of 3.5 mm radius? (1)

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ii. What was the surface area of one ball of 3.5 mm radius? (1)
iii. What was the volume of 10 balls of radius 7 mm? (2)

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How much steel was kept for future use? (2)
21. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
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The front compound wall of a house is decorated by wooden spheres of diameter 21 cm, placed on small
supports as shown in figure. 25 such spheres are used for this purpose and are to be painted silver. Each support
is a cylinder and is to be painted black.
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i. what will be the total surface area of the spheres all around the wall? (1)

ii. Find the cost of orange paint required if this paint costs 20 paise per cm2. (1)
iii. How much orange paint in liters is required for painting the supports if the paint required is 3 ml per cm2?
(2)
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What will be the volume of total spheres all around the wall? (2)
22. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
In the Meharali, New DTC bus stop was constructed. The bus stop is barricaded from the remaining part of the
road, by using 50 hollow cones. Each hollow cone is made of recycled cardboard.

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 Each cone has a base diameter of 40 cm and a height of 1 m.

i. Find the curved surface area of the cone. (1)

ii. What is the volume of a cone? (1)

iii. If the outer side of each of the cones is to be painted and the cost of painting is ₹12 per m2, what will be the
cost of painting all these cones? (2)
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If the cost of cardboard is ₹100 per m2 then what will be cost of cardboard for 50 cones? (2)
23. A bus stop is barricaded from the remaining part of the road, by using 50 hollow cones made of recycled [4]
cardboard. Each cone has a base diameter of 40 cm and a height of 1 m.

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i. Find the curved surface area of the cone.
ii. If the outer side of each of the cones is to be painted and the cost of painting is ₹ 12 per m2, what will be the
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cost of painting all these cones? (Use π = 3.14 and take √1.04 = 1.02)
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24. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
A golf ball is spherical with about 300 - 500 dimples that help increase its velocity while in play. Golf balls are
traditionally white but available in colours also. In the given figure, a golf ball has diameter 4.2 cm and the
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surface has 315 dimples (hemi-spherical) of radius 2 mm.

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i. Find the surface area of one such dimple. (1)

ii. Find the volume of the material dug out to make one dimple. (1)
iii. Find the total surface area exposed to the surroundings. (2)
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Find the volume of the golf ball. (2)
25. A construction company purchased a big cylindrical vessel to keep some liquid on it. Before using this vessel, [4]
the company decided to paint it properly. It costed ₹ 3300 to paint the inner curved surface of this 10 m deep

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 cylindrical vessel at the rate of ₹ 30 per m2.

i. Find the inner curved surface area of the vessel,

ii. Find the inner radius of the base and capacity of the vessel.
26. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
Once four friends Rahul, Arun, Ajay and Vijay went for a picnic at a hill station. Due to peak season, they did
not get a proper hotel in the city. The weather was fine so they decided to make a conical tent at a park. They
were carrying 300 m² cloth with them. As shown in the figure they made the tent with height 10 m and diameter
14 m. The remaining cloth was used for the floor.

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i. How much Cloth was used for the floor? (1)
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ii. What was the volume of the tent? (1)

iii. What was the area of the floor? (2)
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What was the total surface area of the tent? (2)
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27. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
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Child labour refers to any work or activity that deprives children of their childhood. It is a violation of children's
rights. This can them mentally or physically. It also exposes them to hazardous situations or stops them from
going to school. Naman got data on the number of child labors (in million) in different country that is given
below.

i. What is the difference between highest no child labor and the minimum no of child labor? (1)
ii. What is the percentage of no. of child labor in Peru over the no. of child labor in India? (1)
iii. What is the total no. of child labor in the countries having child labor more than 2 million? (2)
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 How many countries are having child labor more than Mexico? (2)
28. Read the following text carefully and answer the questions that follow: [4]
A teacher is a person whose professional activity involves planning, organizing, and conducting group activities
to develop student's knowledge, skills, and attitudes as stipulated by educational programs. Teachers may work
with students as a whole class, in small groups or one-to-one, inside or outside regular classrooms. In this
indicator, teachers are compared by their average age and work experience measured in years.
For the same in 2015, the following distribution of ages (in years) of primary school teachers in a district was
collected to evaluate the teacher on the above-mentioned criterion.

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i. What is the total no of teachers? (1)

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ii. Find the class mark of class 15 - 20, 25 - 30 and 45 - 50? (1)
iii. What is the no of teachers of age range 25 - 40 years? (2)
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Which classes are having same no. of teachers? (2)
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