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: 2136

  • Shooter
    terc The probability that a good shooter hits the center of the target circle I is 0.1. The probability that the target hit intercircle is II 0.58. What is the probability that it hits the target circle I or II?
  • Right triangles
    PT How many right triangles we can construct from line segments 3,4,5,6,8,10,12,13,15,17 cm long? (Do not forget to the triangle inequality).
  • Garden
    garden The garden has a rectangular shape with lengths of 25 and 40 meters. It has been expanded so that each of its size increased by one fifth. How many square meters increased its acreage?
  • Inscribed circle
    vpisana2 Calculate the magnitude of the BAC angle in the triangle ABC if you know that it is 3 times less than the angle BOC, where O is the center of the circle inscribed in the triangle ABC.
  • TV tower
    Žižkov_tv_tower Calculate the height of the television tower if an observer standing 430 m from the base of the tower sees the peak at an altitude angle of 23°?
  • Tereza
    cube The cube has an area of base 256 mm2. Calculate the edge length, volume, and area of its surface.
  • Triangular prism
    hranol3b Calculate the surface of a regular triangular prism, the edges of the base are 6 cm long and the height of the prism is 15 cm.
  • Rectangle - desc circle
    obdelnik_kruh Length of the sides of the rectangle are at a ratio 1: 3 . Radius of the circle circumscribed to rectangle is 10 cm. Calculate the rectangle's perimeter.
  • Depth angle
    cliff From a cliff of 150 meters high, we can see the ship at a depth angle of 9° at sea. How far is the ship from the cliff?
  • Perimeter of RT
    triangle_rt1 Find the circumference of the rectangular triangle if the sum of its legs is 22.5 cm and its area is 62.5 cm2.
  • Diamond and diagonals
    kosostvorec A diamond has diagonals f = 8 cm and g = 6 cm long. How long is this diamond perimeter? (Calculate it!)
  • Spherical section cut
    gulovy_odsek Find the volume of a spherical section if the radius of its base is 10 cm and the magnitude of the central angle ω = 120 degrees.
  • Concrete pedestal
    krychle The carpenters made wooden mold on a concrete pedestal in the shape of a cube with an edge 2 meters long. What is the area in which the concrete touches wooden molds? (No lid or bottom)
  • Body diagonal
    kvader11 The cuboid has a volume of 32 cm3. Its side surface area is double as one of the square bases. What is the length of the body diagonal?
  • Draw triangle
    iso Construct an isosceles triangle ABC, if AB = 7cm, the size of the angle ABC is 47°, arms | AC | = | BC |. Measure the size of the BC side in mm.
  • Trapezoid
    lichob_2 How long are the trapezoid bases with area 24 cm2 and height 3 cm. One base is 3 times longer than the shorter.
  • Rectangles
    strihanie Calculate how many squares/rectangles of size 4×3 cm can be cut from a sheet of paper of 36 cm × 32 cm?
  • The diamond
    koso The diamond has an area S = 120 cm2, the ratio of the length of its diagonals is e: f = 5: 12. Find the lengths of the side and the height of this diamond.
  • Hexagonal pyramid
    hexa_pyramid Find the volume of a regular hexagonal pyramid, the base edge of which is 12 cm long and the side edge 20 cm.
  • An equilateral
    rs_triangle2 An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a square of side 1 unit long so that it has one common vertex with the square. What is the area of the inscribed triangle?

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