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. Cube wall
    cubes_16 Calculate the cube's diagonal diagonal if you know that the surface of one wall is equal to 36 centimeters square. Please also calculate its volume.
  2. Pyramid 8
    ihlan Calculate the volume and the surface area of a regular quadrangular pyramid with the base side 9 cm and side wall with the base has an angle 75°.
  3. Bricks wall
    tehly_1 There are 5000 bricks. How high wall thickness of 20 cm around the area which has dimensions 20 m and 15 m can use these bricks to build? Brick dimensions are 30 cm, 20 cm and 10 cm.
  4. Triangular pyramid
    trojboky_ihlan Determine the volume and surface area of a regular triangular pyramid having a base edge a=20 cm and a lateral edge b = 35 cm
  5. Rotary cylinder
    Povrchy_a_objemy_telies The rotating cylinder has a surface area 69.08 cm2. The area of the shell is 62.8 cm 2. What is the diameter of the cylinder?
  6. Cylinder surface, volume
    cyl The area of the cylinder surface and the cylinder jacket are in the ratio 3: 5. The height of the cylinder is 5 cm shorter than the radius of the base. Calculate surface area and volume of the cylinder.
  7. Rope
    navijak How many meters of rope 10 mm thick will fit on the bobbin diameter of 200 mm and length 350 mm (central mandrel have a diameter 50 mm)?
  8. Similarity
    rectangles_1 Rectangle ABCD has dimensions of 7 cm and 6 cm. Rectangle PQRS has dimensions 14 cm and 12 cm. Determine coefficient of the similarity k of the rectangles, if they aren't similar enter zero as the coefficient of similarity.
  9. Church roof
    veza_2 The roof of the church tower has the shape of a regular tetrahedral pyramid with base edge length 5.4 meters and a height 5 m. It was found that needs to be corrected 27% covering of the roof area. What amount of material will be required?
  10. Trough
    amazonka How many liters of water per second can go via trough, which has a cross section of semicircle with radius 2.5 m and speed of water is 147 cm per second?
  11. Tetrahedral pyramid
    jehlan_3 It is given a regular tetrahedral pyramid with base edge 6 cm and the height of the pyramid 10 cm. Calculate the length of its side edges.
  12. Sphere vs cube
    koule_krychle How many % of the surface of a sphere of radius 12 cm is the surface of a cube inscribed in this sphere?
  13. Prism
    prism The volume of tetrahedral prism is 2.43 m3. Base of prism is a parallelogram in which a side 2,5dm and height ha = 18cm. Calculate the height of the prism.
  14. Lamp cone
    lampa Calculate the surface of a lamp shade shaped of a rotary truncated cone with base diameter 32 cm and 12 cm and height 24 cm.
  15. Tetrahedral prism - rhomboid base
    rhombus2_2 Calculate the area and volume tetrahedral prism that has base rhomboid shape and its dimensions are: a = 12 cm, b = 70 mm, v_a = 6 cm, v_h = 1 dm.
  16. Cellar
    img1 Cellar for storing fruit has a rectangular base with sides 14 m and 7 meters. You should paint sidewall to 2 m. How m2 surface must be painted?
  17. Tent
    stan Calculate how many liters of air will fit in the tent that has a shield in the shape of an isosceles right triangle with legs r = 3 m long the height = 1.5 m and a side length d = 5 m.
  18. Hexagonal pyramid
    jehlan_6 Regular hexagonal pyramid has dimensions: length edge of the base a = 1.8 dm and the height of the pyramid = 2.4 dm. Calculate the surface area and volume of a pyramid.
  19. Pyramid in cube
    pyramid_in_cube In a cube with edge 12 dm long we have inscribed pyramid with the apex at the center of the upper wall of the cube. Calculate the volume and surface area of the pyramid.
  20. Cuboid - volume and areas
    cuboid_10 The cuboid has a volume of 250 cm3, a surface of 250 cm2 and one side 5 cm long. How do I calculate the remaining sides?

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