Planimetrics - math word problems

Study plane measurements, including angles, distances, and areas. In other words - measurement and calculation of shapes in the plane. Perimeter and area of plane shapes.

Number of problems found: 1920

  • Gears
    bicycle_gears_2 The front gear on the bike has 32 teeth and the rear, on the wheel, has 12 teeth. How many times does the rear wheel of the bike turns if you turn the right pedal 30 times? What distance will you go if the circumference of the bicycle wheel is 250 cm?
  • Poplar shadow
    shadow_1 The nine-meter poplar casts a shadow 16.2 m long. How long does a shadow cast by Peter at the same time, if it is 1.4 m high?
  • Height
    triangle_rt1 The content of the triangle is 35 cm2. The length of the base is 10 cm. Determine the length of the height on the base.
  • How many
    steps2 How many 75 cm long steps will a football player take during training, when he runs on a 50m square track and goes around the course 3 times? We need writing, sketch, calculation. .. .
  • Dimensions of the trapezoid
    lichobeznik One of the bases of the trapezoid is one-fifth larger than its height, the second base is 1 cm larger than its height. Find the dimensions of the trapezoid if its area is 115 cm2
  • Chimney and tree
    shadow Calculate the height of the factory chimney, which casts a shadow 6.5 m long in the afternoon. At the same time, a 6 m high tree standing near it casts a shadow 25 dm long.
  • Similar triangles
    triangles_2 Triangle A'B'C 'is similar to triangle ABC, whose sides are 5 cm, 8 cm, and 7 cm long. What is the length of the sides of the triangle A'B'C ' if its circumference is 80 cm?
  • Find the 13
    circle_inside_rhombus Find the equation of the circle inscribed in the rhombus ABCD where A[1, -2], B[8, -3] and C[9, 4].
  • The triangles
    triangle_rt_taznice The triangles ABC and A'B'C 'are similar with a similarity coefficient of 2. The angles of the triangle ABC are alpha = 35°, beta = 48°. Determine the magnitudes of all angles of triangle A'B'C '.
  • Calculate 6
    distance_point_line Calculate the distance of a point A[0, 2] from a line passing through points B[9, 5] and C[1, -1].
  • Integer sides
    rt_triangle_1 A right triangle with an integer length of two sides has one leg √11 long. How much is its longest side?
  • Powerplant chimney
    komin2 From the window of the building at a height of 7.5 m, the top of the factory chimney can be seen at an altitude angle of 76° 30 ′. The base of the chimney can be seen from the same place at a depth angle of 5° 50 ′. How tall is the chimney?
  • Similar triangles
    triangles_1 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.
  • Similarity coefficient
    triangles In the triangle TMA the length of the sides is t = 5cm, m = 3.5cm, a = 6.2cm. Another similar triangle has side lengths of 6.65 cm, 11.78 cm, 9.5 cm. Determine the similarity coefficient of these triangles and assign similar sides to each other.
  • Chord of triangle
    triangle_1212 If the whole chord of the triangle is 14.4 cm long, how do you calculate the shorter and longer part?
  • Lamps on playground
    lamp The playground has the shape of a rectangle 36 x 50m. After how many meters will he place the lamps on his lighting, if the distances between them are to be the same on both sides if the builders want to use the smallest possible number of lamps?
  • Pentadecagon
    220px-Regular_polygon_15_annotated.svg Calculate the content of a regular 15-sides polygon inscribed in a circle with radius r = 4. Express the result to two decimal places.
  • Dodecagon
    clocks Calculate the size of the smaller of the angles determined by lines A1 A4 and A2 A10 in the regular dodecagon A1A2A3. .. A12. Express the result in degrees.
  • Alcohol from potatoes
    zemiaky2 In the distillery, 10 hl of alcohol can make from 8 t of potatoes. The rectangular field with dimensions of 600 m and 200 m had a yield of 20 t of potatoes per hectare. How many square meters of area are potatoes grown to obtain one liter of alcohol?
  • Trip with compass
    compass2 During the trip, Peter went 5 km straight north from the cottage, then 12 km west and finally returned straight to the cottage. How many kilometers did Peter cover during the whole trip?

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