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: 1942

  • Journey
    ud2 Charles and Eva stands in front of his house, Charles went to school south at speed 5.4 km/h, Eva went to the store on a bicycle eastwards at speed 21.6 km/h. How far apart they are after 10 minutes?
  • Glass of juice
    glass_of_juice Glass of juice shaped cylinder 16 cm height and base diameter of 7 cm is filled with juice so that the level is 4 cm below the rim of the glass. Determine the maximum angle of the cup can be tilted and juice don't overflow.
  • Mice
    sir-emmental-korol-sirov Mice consumed a circular hole in a slice of cheese. The cheese has the shape of a circular cut with a radius of 20 cm and an angle of 90 degrees. What percentage of the cheese ate mice if they made 20 holes with a diameter of 2 cm?
  • Two forces
    vector-add Two forces with magnitudes of 25 and 30 pounds act on an object at 10° and 100° angles. Find the direction and magnitude of the resultant force. Round to two decimal places in all intermediate steps and your final answer.
  • Circles
    olympic_circles For the circle c1(S1; r1=146 cm) and c2(S2; r2 = 144 cm) is distance of centers |S1S2| = 295 cm. Determine the distance between the circles.
  • Plumber
    klempir The plumber had to cut the metal strip with dimensions 380 cm and 60 cm to the largest squares to no waste. Calculate the length of the sides of a square. How many squares cut it?
  • Circular pool
    arc_open The base of the pool is a circle with a radius r = 10 m, excluding a circular segment that determines the chord length 10 meters. The pool depth is h = 2m. How many hectoliters of water can fit into the pool?
  • Sides od triangle
    podobnost Sides of the triangle ABC has length 4 cm, 5 cm and 7 cm. Construct triangle A'B'C' that are similar to triangle ABC which has a circumference of 12 cm.
  • Chocholate
    chocolate-xy-axis Table of chocolate is divided into squares on its surface. Lengthwise has 15 squares and widthwise 19 squares. We must chocolate broke into individual squares. How many times we have broke it to get only individual squares? It is not permitted to break se
  • The regular
    hranol3b The regular triangular prism has a base in the shape of an isosceles triangle with a base of 86 mm and 6.4 cm arms, the height of the prism is 24 cm. Calculate its volume.
  • Snowman
    snehuliak_1 In a circle with a diameter 50 cm are drawn 3 circles /as a snowman/ where: its diameters are integers, each larger circle diameter is 3 cm larger than the diameter of the previous circle. Determine snowman height if we wish highest snowman.
  • Special watch
    clocks2_20 Fero bought a special watch on the market. They have only one (minute) hand and a display that shows which angle between the hour and minute hand. How many hours it was when his watch showed - the minute hand points to number 2; the display shows 125°?
  • Prism
    prism The base of a perpendicular triangular prism is a right triangle with legs 4.5 cm and 6 cm long. What is the surface of the prism, if its volume is 54 cubic centimeters?
  • Natural fertilizer
    garden_1 The rectangular garden measuring 120m and 60m was fertilized with 16kg of natural fertilizer. Natural fertilizer contains 45% organic matter. How much organic matter falls on 1 m2 of garden?
  • Prism 4 sides
    hranol4sreg The prism has a square base with a side length of 3 cm. The diagonal of the sidewall of the prism/BG/is 5 cm. Calculate the surface of this prism in cm square and the volume in liters
  • Right triangle ABC
    right_triangle_2 Calculate the perimeter and area of a right triangle ABC, if you know the length of legs 4 cm 5.5 cm and 6.8 cm is hypotenuse.
  • 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,
  • Tangent spheres
    tangent_spheres A sphere with a radius of 1 m is placed in the corner of the room. What is the largest sphere size that fits into the corner behind it? Additional info: Two spheres are placed in a corner of a room. The spheres are each tangent to the walls and floor and
  • Squares ratio
    squares2 The first square has a side length of a = 6 cm. The second square has a circumference of 6 dm. Calculate the proportions of the perimeters and the proportions of the contents of these squares? (Write the ratio in the basic form). (Perimeter = 4 * a, conte
  • Two boats
    ship_1 Two boats are located from a height of 150m above the surface of the lake at depth angles of 57° and 39°. Find the distance of both boats if the sighting device and both ships are in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the lake.

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