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: 1947

  • 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.
  • Regular prism
    hranol4sreg_9 The regular four-sided prism has a base of 25 cm2 and a surface of 210 cm2. Find its volume.
  • Road - permille
    18procent 5 km long road begins at an altitude 500 meters above sea level and ends at a altitude 521 ASL. How many permille road rises?
  • Tiles
    tiles_1 The room has dimensions 12 m and 5.6 m. Determine the number of square tiles and their largest possible size to cover them room's floor.
  • Medians 2:1
    taznice3 Median to side b (tb) in triangle ABC is 12 cm long. a. What is the distance of the center of gravity T from the vertex B? b, Find the distance between T and the side b.
  • Right isosceles triangle
    euclid_theorem_1 Right isosceles triangle has an altitude x drawn from the right angle to the hypotenuse dividing it into 2 equal segments. The length of one segment is 5 cm. What is the area of the triangle?
  • Concrete block
    abc Determine the volume of concrete block whose one edge of the base has a length 3 meters, body diagonal is 13 meters and its height is 12 meters.
  • Rotary cone
    cone_2 Rotary cone whose height is equal to the circumference of the base, has a volume 229 cm3. Calculate the radius of the base circle and height of the cone.
  • Telegraph poles
    pole The bases of two adjacent telegraph poles have a height difference of 10.5 m. How long do the wires connect the two poles if the slope is 39° 30´?
  • Rhombus and diagonals
    kosostvorec_2 The a rhombus area is 150 cm2 and the ratio of the diagonals is 3:4. Calculate the length of its height.
  • Similarity
    similar_triangle Are two right triangles similar to each other if the first one has an acute angle 70°, and the second one has an acute angle 20°?
  • Photo frame
    photo A square shape photo with a side length of 20 cm is framed by a 4 cm wide bar. Find the external frame size of this photo (the frame is from all sides)
  • Percent change
    rectangles If the length of a rectangle is increased by 25% and the width is decreased by 10%, the area of the rectangle is larger than the area of the original rectangle by what percent?
  • Triangle and its heights
    triangle_2 Calculate the length of the sides of the triangle ABC, if va=5 cm, vb=7 cm and side b is 5 cm shorter than side a.
  • Embankment
    nasyp The railway embankment 300 m long has a cross section of an isosceles trapezoid with bases of 14 m and 8 m. The trapezoidal arms are 5 m long. Calculate how much m3 of soil is in the embankment?
  • Square metal sheet
    plech_2 Four squares of 300 mm side were cut out from a square sheet metal plate with a side of 0,7 m. Express the fraction and the percentage of waste from the square metal sheet.
  • Hexagonal pyramid
    hex_pyramid Please calculate the height of a regular hexagonal pyramid with a base edge of 5cm and a wall height of w = 20cm. Please sketch a picture.
  • 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.
  • There
    triangle_rt_taznice There is a triangle ABC: A (-2,3), B (4, -1), C (2,5). Determine the general equations of the lines on which they lie: a) AB side, b) height to side c, c) Axis of the AB side, d) median ta to side a
  • Triangles
    green_triangle Equilateral triangle with side 40 cm has the same perimeter as an isosceles triangle with arm of 45 cm. Calculate the base x of an isosceles triangle.

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