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. Right triangular prism
    hranol3b We have cuboid with a base and dimensions of 12 cm and 5 cm and height of 4 cm. The tablecloth cut it into two identical triangular prisms with right triangular bases. The surface of the created prisms was painted with color. Calculate the surface area of
  2. Volume of cone
    cone_church_1 Find the volume of a right circular cone-shaped building with a height of 9 cm and a radius base of 7 cm.
  3. Annual rainfall
    rain_7 The average annual rainfall is 686 mm. How many liters will fall on the 1-hectare field?
  4. The coil
    lano_1 How many ropes (the diameter 8 mm) fit on the coil (threads are wrapped close together) The coil has dimension: the inner diameter 400mm, the outside diameter 800mm and the length of the coil is 470mm
  5. Body diagonal
    diagonal_1 Calculate the length of the body diagonal of the 6cm cube.
  6. Tetrahedron
    3sidespyramid What is the angle of the sides from the base of a three-sided pyramid where the sides are identical?
  7. Sphere equation
    sphere2 Obtain the equation of sphere its centre on the line 3x+2z=0=4x-5y and passes through the points (0,-2,-4) and (2,-1,1).
  8. Conical area
    cones_2 A right angled triangle has sides a=12 and b=19 in right angle. The hypotenuse is c. If the triangle rotates on the c side as axis, find the volume and surface area of conical area created by this rotation.
  9. Quadrangular pyramid
    komoly Calculate the surface area and volume of a regular quadrangular pyramid: sides of bases (bottom, top): a1 = 18 cm, a2 = 6cm angle α = 60 ° (Angle α is the angle between the side wall and the plane of the base.) S =? , V =?
  10. Cylinder horizontally
    CylindricalSegment_1000 The cylinder with a diameter of 3 m and a height/length of 15 m is laid horizontally. Water is poured into it, reaching a height of 60 cm below the axis of the cylinder. How many hectoliters of water is in the cylinder?
  11. Surface area of the top
    cylinder_4 A cylinder is three times as high as it is wide. The length of the cylinder’s diagonal is 20 cm. Find the surface area of the top of the cylinder.
  12. Quadrangular prism
    hranol4sreg_7 Calculate the volume and surface area of a regular quadrangular prism 35 cm high and the base diagonal of 22 cm.
  13. Body diagonal
    kvadr Cuboid with base 7cm x 3,9cm and body diagonal 9cm long. Find the height of the cuboid and the length of the diagonal of the base,
  14. Cube wall
    cube_shield_2 The perimeter of one cube wall is 120 meters. Calculate the surface area and the body diagonal of this cube.
  15. Triangular prism
    prism3_1 Calculate the volume and surface area of a triangular prism if it is given: a = 6.8 dm. ..Va = 4 dm. (base edge length and base triangle height length) ... ... .v = 23 dm (body height)
  16. 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.
  17. Truncated cone 5
    truncated_cone The height of a cone 7 cm and the length of side is 10 cm and the lower radius is 3cm. What could the possible answer for the upper radius of truncated cone?
  18. Trench
    lichobeznik_4 The trench is a four-sided prism. The cross section has a trapezoidal shape with basements of 4m and 6m, the length of the trench is 30m. What is the depth of the trench if we dig 60,000 l of soil.
  19. Truncated cone 3
    rotacnikomolykuzel The surface of the truncated rotating cone S = 7697 meters square, the substructure diameter is 56m and 42m, determine the height of the tang.
  20. Water channel
    trapezium_prism_2 The cross section of the water channel is a trapezoid. The width of the bottom is 19.7 m, the water surface width is 28.5 m, the side walls have a slope of 67°30' and 61°15'. Calculate how much water flows through the channel in 5 minutes if the water flo

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