ICSE – CLASS IX – MATHEMATICS

FULL ANNUAL SYLLABUS

Marks: 130 Time: 3:30 hours
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A. Answer all questions: [10 Marks]
1. The value of a car depreciates by 12.5% every year. By what percent will the value of the car decrease after
3 years? [3]
2. The simple interest in 3 years and the compound interest in 2 years on a certain sum at the same rate are ₹
1200 and ₹ 832 respectively. Find:
(i) The rate of interest
(ii) The principal
(iii) The difference between the C. I. and S. I. for 3 years. [4]
3. A sum of money invested at compound interest doubles itself in 4 years, interest being payable annually. In
how much time will it be 8 times? [3]
B. Answer all questions: [7 Marks]
1. If 𝑎 = 𝑥𝑦 , 𝑏 = 𝑥𝑦 and 𝑐 = 𝑥𝑦 , prove that aq – r. br – p. cp – q = 1 [3]
2. If 2x = 3y = 12z, prove that 𝑥 = [3]
3. The product √2 ⋅ √2 ⋅ √32 equals
(a) √2 (b) 2 (c) √2 (d) √32 [1]
C. Answer all questions: [11 Marks]
1. If 𝑙𝑜𝑔 √ 𝑥 = −3, then the value of x is
(a) (b) (c) – 1 (d) 5 [1]
2. The value of is
(a) (b) (c) − (d) [1]
3. If a, b are positive real numbers, a > b and a2 + b2 = 27ab, prove that 𝑙𝑜𝑔 = (𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑎 + 𝑙𝑜𝑔 𝑏) [3]
4. Solve the following equations for x:
𝑙𝑜𝑔(𝑥 + 1) + 𝑙𝑜𝑔(𝑥 − 1) = 𝑙𝑜𝑔 11 + 2 𝑙𝑜𝑔 3 [3]
5. Solve: log 2 × log 2 = log 2 [3]
D. Answer all questions: [15 Marks]
1. The lengths of the diagonals of a rhombus are 16 cm and 12 cm. The length of the side of the rhombus is
(a) 9 cm (b) 10 cm (c) 8 cm (d) 20 cm [1]
2. A ladder reaches a window 12 m above the ground on one side of the street. Keeping its foot at the same
point, the ladder is turned to the other side of the street to reach a window 9 m high. If the length of the
ladder is 15 m, then width of the street is
(a) 30 m (b) 24 m (c) 21 m (d) 18 m [1]
3. From a point O in the interior of a 𝛥𝐴𝐵𝐶 , perpendiculars OD, OE, and OF are drawn to the sides BC, CA and
AB respectively. Prove that:
(i) AF2 + BD2 + CE2 = OA2 + OB2 + OC2 – OD2 – OE2 – OF2
(ii) AF2 + BD2 + CE2 = AE2 + CD2 + BF2 [4]
0 2 2 2 2
4. In a quadrilateral ABCD, ∠𝐴 + ∠𝐷 = 90 . Prove that AC + BD = AD + BC . [4]
5. Prove that the sum of the squares of the diagonals of a parallelogram is equal to the sum of squares of its
sides. [5]
E. Answer all questions: [20 Marks]
1. Two chords AB, CD of lengths 24 cm, 10 cm respectively of a circle are parallel. If the chords lie on the same
side of centre and the distance between them is 7 cm, find the length of the diameter of the circle. [3]
 2. In a circle of radius 5 cm, AB and AC are two chords such that AB = AC = 6 cm. Find the length of the chord
BC. [4]
3. If two circles intersect in two points, then prove that the line through their centres is perpendicular bisector
of the common chord. [4]
4. In the figure given below, OD is perpendicular to the chord AB of a circle
whose centre is O. If BC is diameter, show that CA = 2 OD. [3]

5. In the figure given below, a line 𝑙 intersects two concentric circles at the
points A, B, C, and D. Prove that AB = CD. [3]

6. In the adjoining figure, arc AB = arc CD. Prove that ∠𝐴 = ∠𝐵.

[3]

F. Answer all questions: [14 Marks]

1. If the perimeter of a right-angled triangle is 60 cm and its hypotenuse is 25 cm, find its area. [3]
2. Find the area enclosed by the figure given below. All measurements are in centimetres.

[3]
2
3. The perimeter of a rectangular plot is 180 m, and its area is 1800 m . Take the length of the plot as x m. Use
the perimeter 180 m to write the value of the breadth in terms of x. Use the value of length, breadth and the
area to write an equation in x. Solve the equation to calculate the length and breadth of the plot. [4]
4. Asifa cut an aeroplane from a coloured chart paper(as shown in the
adjoining figure). Find the total area of the chart paper used, correct to
1 decimal place.
[4]
G. Answer all questions: [20 Marks]
1. Find graphically the vertices of the triangle whose sides have equations 2y – x = 8, 5y – x = 14 and y – 2x = 1
respectively. Take 1 cm = 1 unit on both axes. [4]
2. Solve graphically the following equations: x + 2y = 4, 3x – 2y = 4. Take 2 cm = 1 unit on each axis. Write down
the area of the triangle formed by the lines and the x-axis. [4]
3. If the point P(x, y) is equidistant from the points A(a + b, b - a) and B(a – b, a + b), prove that bx = ay. [3]
4. Find the centre of a circle passing through the points (6, - 6), (3, - 7) and (3, 3). Also find its radius. [4]
5. The ends of a diagonal of a square have co-ordinates (-2, p) and (p, 2). Find p if the area of the square is 40
sq. units. [2]
6. The distance of the point P(-6, 8) from the origin is
(a) 8 units (b) 2√7 units (c) 10 units (d) 6 units [1]
7. In the adjoining figure, the area of the triangle ABC is

(a) 15 sq. units (b) 10 sq. units (c) 7.5 sq. units (d) 2.5 sq. units [1]
8. If A is a point on the y-axis whose ordinate is 5 and B is the point (-3, 1), then the length AB is
(a) 8 units (b) 5 units (c) 3 units (d) 25 units [1]
H. Answer all questions: [17 Marks]
1. If m is the mid-point and 𝑙 is the upper limit of a class in a continuous frequency distribution, then what is
the lower limit of the class? [2]
2. Use the adjoining table to find: Class Frequency
(a) Upper and lower limits of fifth class. 28 – 32 5
(b) True class limits of the fifth class 33 – 37 8
(c) Class boundaries of the third class 38 – 42 13
43- 47 9
(d) Class mark of the fourth class
48 – 52 7
(e) Width of sixth class
53 – 57 5
[2.5]
58 - 62 2

3. The mean of 40 items is 35. Later on, it was discovered that two items were misread as 36 and 29 instead of
63 and 22. Find the correct mean. [2.5]
4. The data given below represent the marks obtained by 35 students:
21 26 21 20 23 24 22 19 24 26 25 23 26
29 21 24 19 25 26 25 22 23 23 27 26 24
25 30 25 23 28 28 24 28 28
Taking class intervals 19 – 20, 21 – 22 etc., make a frequency distribution for the above data. Construct a
combined histogram and frequency polygon for the distribution. [5]
5. The width of each of 5 continuous classes in a frequency distribution is 5 and the lower limit of the lowest
class is 10. The upper limit of the highest class is
(a) 15 (b) 25 (c) 35 (d) 40 [1]
6. The class mark of a frequency distribution are given as follows:
15, 20, 25, . . .
The class corresponding to the class mark 20 is
(a) 12.5 – 17.5 (b) 17.5 – 22.5 (c) 18.5 – 21.5 (d) 19.5 – 20.5 [1]
 7. If each observation of the data is increased by 5, then their mean
(a) Remains the same (c) becomes 5 times the original mean.
(b) Is decreased by 5 (d) is increased by 5 [1]
8. For drawing a frequency polygon of a continuous frequency distribution, we plot the points whose ordinates
are the frequencies of the respective classes and abscissae are respectively:
(a) Upper limit of the classes (c) lower limit of the classes
(b) Class mark of the classes (d) upper limit of preceding classes [1]
9. In a data, 10 numbers are arranged in ascending order. If the 4 th entry is decreased by 6, then the median is
decreased by
(a) 0 (b) 2 (3) (d) 6 [1]
I. Answer all questions: [16 Marks]
1. Samita has a recurring deposit account in a bank of ₹ 2000 per month at the rate of 10% p.a. If she gets ₹
83100 at the time of maturity, find the total time for which the account was held. [4]
2. Mr. Gupta opened a recurring deposit account in a bank. He deposited ₹ 2500 per month for two years. At
the time of maturity, he got ₹ 67500. Find:
(a) The total interest earned by Mr. Gupta.
(b) The rate of interest per annum. [3]
3. Solve the following inequation and represent the solution set on a number line
4x – 19 < -2≤ + x, x ∈ R [3]
4. If a matrix has 8 elements, what are the possible orders it can have? [1]
2 0 1 0
5. Given A = , 𝐼= and 𝐴 = 9𝐴 + 𝑚𝐼, find m [2]
−1 7 0 1
0 1
6. If A = , show that (𝑎𝐼 + 𝑏𝐴) = 𝑎 𝐼 + 3𝑎 𝑏𝐴 where 𝐼 is the unit matrix of order 2. [3]
0 0