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

  • Construction
    taznice7 Construction the triangle ABC, if you know: the size of the side AC is 6 cm, the size of the angle ACB is 60° and the distance of the center of gravity T from the vertex A is 4 cm. (Sketch, analysis, notation of construction, construction)
  • Truncated pyramid
    truncated_pyramid Find the volume of a regular 4-sided truncated pyramid if a1 = 14 cm, a2 = 8 cm and the angle that the side wall with the base is 42 degrees
  • Flowerbed
    triangle_flowers Flowerbed has the shape of an isosceles obtuse triangle. Arm has a size 5.5 meters and an angle opposite to the base size is 94°. What is the distance from the base to opposite vertex?
  • Regular triangular pyramid
    3sidespyramid Calculate the volume and surface area of the regular triangular pyramid and the height of the pyramid is 12 centimeters, the bottom edge has 4 centimeters and the height of the side wall is 12 centimeters
  • Cuboid - edges
    kvader_abc The cuboid has dimensions in ratio 4: 3: 5, the shortest edge is 12 cm long. Find: (A) the lengths of the remaining edges, (B) the surface of the cuboid, (C) the volume of the cuboid
  • MO Z9–I–2 - 2017
    trapezium In the VODY trapezoid, VO is a longer base and the diagonal intersection K divides the VD line in a 3:2 ratio. The area of the KOV triangle is 13.5 cm2. Find the area of the entire trapezoid.
  • Tangents
    tangents To circle with a radius of 41 cm from the point R guided two tangents. The distance of both points of contact is 16 cm. Calculate the distance from point R and circle centre.
  • Alfa, beta, gama
    angles_in_triangle In the triangle ABC is the size of the internal angle BETA 8 degrees larger than the size of the internal angle ALFA and size of the internal angle GAMA is twice the size of the angle BETA. Determine the size of the interior angles of the triangle ABC.
  • The farmer
    field The farmer would like to first seed his small field. The required amount depends on the seed area. Field has a triangular shape. The farmer had fenced field, so he knows the lengths of the sides: 119, 111 and 90 meters. Find a suitable way to determine th
  • Quadrilateral
    stvorcove-cisla The perimeter of a quadrilateral (four sided plane shape) is 125 cm . If the three known sides measure a=12 cm, b=45 cm, and c=30.5 cm, how long is the fourth side?
  • Ratio-cuboid
    hranol222 The lengths of the edges of the cuboid are in the ratio 2: 3: 6. Its body diagonal is 14 cm long. Calculate the volume and surface area of the cuboid.
  • Trench
    lichobeznik 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.
  • Forces
    ijk In point O acts three orthogonal forces: F1 = 20 N, F2 = 7 N, and F3 = 19 N. Determine the resultant of F and the angles between F and forces F1, F2, and F3.
  • Two cyclists
    compass Two cyclists started from crossing in the same time. One goes to the north speed 20 km/h, the second eastward at speed 26 km/h. What will be the direct distance cycling 30 minutes from the start?
  • Built-up area
    situacia_stavba John build up area 5 x 7 = 35 m2 with building with a wall thickness 30 cm. How many centimeters would have to subtract from thickness of the walls that built-up area fell by 9%?
  • Right angled triangle
    fun-triangle The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 17 cm long. When we decrease the length of legs by 3 cm, then decrease its hypotenuse by 4 cm. Find the size of its legs.
  • Jewelry box
    ring The bottom of Zeyda's jewelry box is a rectangle with the length of 5 3/8 inches and a width of 3 1/4 inches. What is the area of the bottom of the jewelry box?
  • Alien ship
    cube_in_sphere The alien ship has the shape of a sphere with a radius of r = 3000m, and its crew needs the ship to carry the collected research material in a cuboid box with a square base. Determine the length of the base and (and height h) so that the box has the large
  • Ratio of squares
    squares_cut_circles A circle is given in which a square is inscribed. The smaller square is inscribed in a circular arc formed by the side of the square and the arc of the circle. What is the ratio of the areas of the large and small squares?
  • Photocopier
    picture A photocopier enlarges a picture in the ratio 7:4. How many times will a picture of size 6cm by 4cm be enlarged to fit on a 30cm by 20 cm page?

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