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. Content area and percents
    squares_8 Determine what percentage is smaller cube surface, when the surface area of the wall decreases by 25%.
  2. Glass
    pohgar How many glass are needed to produce glass with base regular 5-gon if one base triangle in the base is 4.2 square cm and the height is 10 cm?
  3. Average speed
    earth_2 What is the average speed you have to move the way around the world in 80 days? (Path along the equator, round to km/h).
  4. Cube 5
    cubes_10 The content area of one cube wall is 32 square centimeters. Determine the length of its edges, its surface and volume.
  5. Billiard balls
    balls_billiard A layer of ivory billiard balls of radius 6.35 cm is in the form of a square. The balls are arranged so that each ball is tangent to every one adjacent to it. In the spaces between sets of 4 adjacent balls other balls rest, equal in size to the original.
  6. 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.
  7. Regular quadrilateral pyramid
    pyramid_3 Find the volume and surface of a regular quadrilateral pyramid if the bottom edge is 45 cm long and the pyramid height is 7 cm.
  8. Hexagon rotation
    hexagnos A regular hexagon of side 6 cm is rotated through 60° along a line passing through its longest diagonal. What is the volume of the figure thus generated?
  9. Pool in litres
    bazen2_1 Pool has a width of 3.5 m length of 6 m and a height 1.60 meters. Calculate pool volume in liters.
  10. Painting a hut
    malovka_4 It is necessary to paint the exterior walls of hut whose layout is a rectangle of 6.16 m x 8.78 m wall height is 2.85 meters. Cottage has five rectangular windows; three have dimensions of 1.15 m x 1.32 m and two 0,45 m x 0.96 m. How many m2 is necessar
  11. Surface area of cylinder
    cylinder_cube Determine the lateral surface of the rotary cylinder which is circumscribed cube with edge length 5 cm.
  12. Vintner
    wine How high can vintner fill keg with crushed red grapes if these grapes occupy a volume of 20 percent? Keg is cylindrical with a diameter of the base 1 m and a volume 9.42 hl. Start from the premise that says that fermentation will fill the keg (the number
  13. Surface and volume od cuboid
    kvader Content area of the square base of cuboid is Sp = 36 cm2 and its height 80 mm. Determine its surface area and volume.
  14. 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.
  15. Horizontal Cylindrical Segment
    cylinder_horiz How much fuel is in the tank of horizontal cylindrical segment with a length 10m, width of level 1 meter and level is 0.2 meters below the upper side of the tank?
  16. Triangular prism
    hranol_5 The perpendicular triangular prism is a right triangle with a 5 cm leg. The content of the largest wall of the prism is 130 cm2 and the body height is 10 cm. Calculate the body volume.
  17. Cone
    r_h_cone Calculate the volume of the rotating cone with a base radius 26.3 cm and a side 38.4 cm long.
  18. 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?
  19. 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
  20. Hexagonal prism 2
    hranol6b The regular hexagonal prism has a surface of 140 cm2 and height of 5 cm. Calculate its volume.

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