CIRCLE HO-1

1. In the figure, OA is parallel to CB, COD is a diameter of the circle, and angle OCB =
64°. Find angle DBA, if O is the centre of the circle.

(1) 29° (2) 30° (3) 32° (4) 34°

2. In the figure, ABE, DCE, BCF and ADF are straight lines. E = 40, F = 46, find measure
of angle A.

(1) 47° (2) 48° (3) 50° (4) 52°

3. The sum of area of the two circles which touch each other externally is 153. If the sum
of their radii is 15, the ratio of the larger to the smaller radius is:

(1) 4 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) None of these

4. Two parallel chords in a circle have lengths 10 and 14, and the distance between them
is 6. The chord parallel to these chords and midway between them is of length a ,
where a is:

(1) 144 (2) 184 (3) 164 (4) 169

5. In the diagram, square ABCD has side length of 6. Circular arcs of radius 6 are drawn
with centres B and D. What is the area enclosed between the two arcs?

(1) 36 (2) 12 – 6 (3) 15 – 18 (4) 18 – 36

6. ABCD is a cyclic quadrilateral drawn in a circle with CD as diameter. Also AD = BC =
1/2 CD. The ratio of sides DC and AB is

(1) 3 : 2 (2) 2 : 1 (3) 5 : 3 (4) 4 : 3

7. From an external point A outside a circle, two secants AB and AC are drawn meeting
the circle at P and Q respectively. The length of AB and AC are 6 and 15 cms
respectively. Also AQ = BP. Then the length of AP is

(1) 30/7 (2) 5/3 (3) 12/7 (4) 13/3

8. AB is a chord of the circle with centre O such that the length of the minor arc AB is 2
meters. If AOB = 90O, what is the area of the minor sector AOB?

(1) 24 m2 (2) 4 m2 (3) 16 m2 (4) 6 m2

9. The length of a line joining two points A, B on the circumference of the outer circle is 6
metres and this line AB is tangent to the inner one of the two concentric circles at point
C. It is known that the radii of the two circles are integers. The radius of the outer circle
is

(1) 5 metres (2) 4 metres (3) 6 metres (4) 3 metres

10. A circle is inscribed in a given square and another circle is circumscribed about the
square. What is the ratio of the area of the inscribed circle to that of the circumscribed
circle?

(1) 2 : 3 (2) 3 : 4 (3) 1 : 4 (4) 1 : 2

11. In the given figure, AB is diameter of the circle and points C and D are on the
circumference such that CAD = 300 and CBA = 700. What is the measure of ACD?

(1) 40° (2) 50° (3) 30° (4) 90°

12. The figure shows a circle of diameter AB and radius 6.5 cm. If chord CA is 5 cm long,
find the area of triangle ABC.

(1) 60 sq. cm (2) 30 sq. cm (3) 40 sq. cm (4) 52 sq. cm