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. Triangle
    sedlo Triangle KLM is given by plane coordinates of vertices: K[11, -10] L[10, 12] M[1, 3]. Calculate its area and its interior angles.
  2. SAS triangle
    triangles2 The triangle has two sides long 7 and 19 and included angle 36°. Calculate area of this triangle.
  3. Rhombus
    rhombus_3 Find the length of each side of rhombus if the perimeter is 49 dm long.
  4. Similarity
    similar_triangle Are two right triangles similar to each other if the first one has a acute angle 70° and second one has acute angle 20°?
  5. Square
    squares_inc If we increase side of the square, increase its area of 63%. What is the percentage we increase side of the square?
  6. Rhombus
    rhombus_1 Find the length of the other diagonal and area of rhombus. The perimeter of a rhombus is 40 cm and one of the diagonals is of length 10 cm.
  7. Square Number
    squared-number If to a square of integer number add 17, we get the square of next integer number. What is the original number?
  8. Reverse Pythagorean theorem
    pytagors Given are lengths of the sides of the triangles. Decide which one is rectangular: Δ ABC: 77 dm, 85 dm, 36 dm ? Δ DEF: 55 dm, 82 dm, 61 dm ? Δ GHI: 24 mm, 25 mm, 7 mm ? Δ JKL: 32 dm, 51 dm, 82 dm ? Δ MNO: 51 dm, 45 dm, 24 dm
  9. Segment
    segment_AB Calculate the length of the segment AB, if the coordinates of the end vertices are A[10, -4] and B[5, 5].
  10. Rhombus and inscribed circle
    rhombus_2 It is given a rhombus with side a = 6 cm and the radius of the inscribed circle r = 2 cm. Calculate the length of its two diagonals.
  11. Angles
    angles_1 The outer angle of the triangle ABC at the vertex A is 114°12'. The outer angle at the vertex B is 139°18'. What size is the internal angle at the vertex C?
  12. QuizQ
    green_triangle_1 An isosceles triangle has two sides of length 7 km and 39 km. How long is a third side?
  13. Height
    equilateral_triangle Calculate height of the equilateral triangle if its perimeter is 8?
  14. Squaring the Circle
    SquareCircle Calculating side of the square with the same area as the circle of radius 18.
  15. Circumscribing
    thales Determine the radius of the circumscribed circle to the right triangle with legs 9 cm and 6 cm.
  16. Clock
    hodiny How many times a day hands on a clock overlap?
  17. Climb
    Mazda_RX7_1 On the road sign, which informs the climb is 8.7%. Car goes 5 km along this road. What is the height difference that car went?
  18. Overload
    banking_glider Calculate how many g's (gravity accelerations) feel glider pilot when turning the horizontal circles of radius 148 m flying at 95 km/h. Centripetal acceleration is proportional to the square of the speed and inversely proportional to the radius of rotatio
  19. Sines
    sines In ▵ ABC, if sin(α)=0.5 and sin(β)=0.6 calculate sin(γ)
  20. OK circle
    circles2 Calculate the radius (circumradius) of the circle described right triangle with hypotenuse long 33 and one cathetus long 17.

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