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.

  1. Bicycle wheel
    wheel_2 Bicycle wheel diameter is 62 cm. How many times turns the bicycle on the road 1 km long?
  2. Circular lawn
    circular_flowerbed_1 Around a circular lawn area is 2 m wide sidewalk. The outer edge of the sidewalk is curb whose width is 2 m. Curbstone and the inner side of the sidewalk together form a concentric circles. Calculate the area of the circular lawn and the result round to 1
  3. Sidewalk
    kruhovy-objazd The city park is a circular bed of flowers with a diameter of 8 meters, around it the whole length is 1 meter wide sidewalk . What is the sidewalk area?
  4. Roof tiles
    Lichobeznik_strecha The roof has a trapezoidal shape with bases of 15 m and 10 m, height of roof is 4 meters. How many tiles will need if on 1 m2 should be used 8 tiles?
  5. Forces
    resultant_force Determine the resultant of two perpendicular forces F1 = 560 N and second force of 25% smaller.
  6. Umbrella
    dazdnik Can umbrella 75 cm long fit into a box of fruit? The box has dimensions of 390 mm and 510 mm.
  7. Circumscribed circle to square
    kruznice Find the length of a circle circumscribing a square of side 10 cm. Compare it to the perimeter of this square.
  8. Field on plan
    geodet sobrance Plan has a scale of 1: 2500.Determine dimensions in centimeters which will have on plan field with a length of 310 meters and a width of 182.5 meters.
  9. Type of triangle
    237_triangle How do I find the triangle type if the angle ratio is 2:3:7 ?
  10. Rhombus EFGH
    kosostvorec_10 Construct the rhombus EFGH where e = 6.7cm, height to side h: vh = 5cm
  11. Triangle angles
    triangle_4 In a triangle ABC the interior angle at the vertex C is twice as the internal angle at the point A. Outer angle at the point B measured 117 degrees. How big is the outer angle at the vertex A?
  12. Pipe cross section
    pipe1 The pipe has an outside diameter 1100 mm and the pipe wall is 100 mm thick. Calculate the cross section of this pipe.
  13. Rectangle
    rectangle Draw a rectangle with the sides a = 4 cm, b = 5 cm. Mark the center of symmetry S and all axes of symmetry. How many axes of symmetry has? Write down.
  14. Grass seeds
    circular_playground How many kg of grass seed is needed to be sowing a circular field with a diameter of 120 meters when the 1 m2 should be used 0.8 grams seeds?
  15. Billboard
    rectangle_3 Rectangular billboard is 2.5 m long with a diagonal 2.8 m long. Calculate the perimeter and the content area of the billboard.
  16. Fence
    zahrada-rd Square garden has an area of 537 m2. How many meters netting is necessary to fence the garden?
  17. Sides ratio
    triangle3_1 Calculate the circumference of a triangle with area 84 cm2 if a:b:c = 10:17:21
  18. Points on circle
    coordinates_circle In the Cartesian coordinate system with the origin O is a sketched circle k /O; r=2 cm/. Write all the points that lie on a circle k and whose coordinates are integers. Write all the points that lie on the circle I / O; r=5 cm / and whose coordinates are i
  19. Square and rectangle
    ctverec Calculate the side of a square which content area equals area of the rectangle having a length of 3 cm greater and by 2 cm smaller than the side of the square.
  20. Tiles path
    tiles_3 A rectangular park measures 24mX18m. A path 2.4m wide is constructed all around it. Find the cost of paving the path with cement tiles of size 60cm X 40cm at the rate of $5.60 per tile ?

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