Triangle + similarity of triangles - practice problems - page 3 of 8
Number of problems found: 141
- Sides of right angled triangle
One leg is 1 m shorter than the hypotenuse, and the second leg is 2 m shorter than the hypotenuse. Find the lengths of all sides of the right-angled triangle. - Right-angled 40961
A right-angled triangle ABC has sides a = 5 cm, b = 8 cm. The similar triangle A'B'C' is 2.5 times smaller. Calculate what percentage of the area of triangle ABC is the area of triangle A'B'C'. - Karim
Karim uses a photocopier to enlarge the triangle PQR diagram by 150%. a) Write the ratio of the length of P' Q' to the length of PQ. b) Is the ratio of the length P 'R' to the length PR equal to the ratio of the length P 'Q' to the length PQ? c) Use your - Calculate
Calculate the height of a tree that casts a shadow 22 m long if you know that at the same time, a pillar 2 m high casts a shadow 3 meters long.
- Shadow
A meter pole perpendicular to the ground throws a shadow of 40 cm long. The house throws a shadow 6 meters long. What is the height of the house? - Angle in RT
Determine the size of the smallest internal angle of a right triangle whose sides constitute the sizes of consecutive members of arithmetic progressions. - Isosceles 67744
Two isosceles triangles have the same angle at the vertex opposite the base. The first one has a base of 12 cm and a leg of 9 cm. The other has a 16 cm long base. Calculate the perimeter of the second triangle. - Similar triangles
In the triangle DEF is DE = 21cm, EF = 14.7cm, DF = 28cm. The triangle D'E'F' is similar to the triangle DEF. Calculate the lengths of the sides of the triangle D'E'F' if the similarity coefficient is one-seventh. - Shadow 7838
A man 1.65 m tall casts a shadow of 1.25 m. How tall is the tree whose shadow is in debt 2.58 m?
- Two similar
Two similar triangles, one has a circumference of 100 cm, the second has sides successively 8 cm, 14 cm, and 18 cm longer than the first. Find the lengths of its sides. - Triangles 6682
Triangles ABC and A'B'C'. They are similar. In triangle ABC, the measures of two angles are 25 degrees and 65 degrees. Explain why in triangle A'B'C' the sum of the sizes of the two angles is equal to 90 degrees - Triangles 2737
The triangles ABC and XYZ are similar. Find the missing lengths of the sides of the triangles. a = 5cm, b = 8cm x = 7.5cm z = 9cm - Determine 80754
The perimeter of triangle MAK is 216 mm, side a = 81 mm, and side k = 62 mm. Determine the side length of the triangle OSA if the triangle MAK is congruent to the triangle OSA. - Coefficient 4872
Find out if the triangles ABC and A'B'C' are similar, determine the similarity coefficient and write the similarity: a = 40 mm, b = 48 mm, c = 32 mm a´ = 60 mm, b´ = 50 mm, c´ = 40 mm
- Tree shadow
The shadow of the tree is 16 meters long. The shadow of a two-meter-high tourist sign beside standing is 3.2 meters long. What height has a tree (in meters)? - Climb
The road has climbing 1:27. How big is an angle correspond to this climbing? - Following 6660
KLM triangle on sides k = 5.4 cm. L = 6 cm, m = 6.6 cm. Construct a triangle K 'L'M 'for which the following holds: ∆KLM ~ ∆K 'L'M' and m '= 9.9cm - The triangles
Two similar triangles, KLM and ABC, are given. Calculate the lengths of the remaining sides of the triangle KLM. If the lengths of the sides are a = 7 b = 5.6 c = 4.9 k = 5 - Similarity
ABC is a triangle wherein a = 4 cm, b = 6 cm, c = 8 cm. Is it similar to the triangle DEF: d = 3 cm, e = 4.5 cm, f = 6 cm? If so, determine the ratio of similarity.
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