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

  • Angles of elevation
    height_building From points A and B on level ground, the angles of elevation of the top of a building are 25° and 37° respectively. If |AB| = 57m, calculate, to the nearest meter, the distances of the top of the building from A and B if they are both on the same side of
  • Triangles
    triangles_18 Hanka cut the 20 cm long straws into three pieces each piece had a length in cm. Then, with these three pieces, she tried to make a triangle. a) What circuit has each of the triangles? b) How long can the longest side measure? c) How many different triang
  • Two parallel chords
    chords In a circle 70 cm in diameter, two parallel chords are drawn so that the center of the circle lies between the chords. Calculate the distance of these chords if one of them is 42 cm long and the second 56 cm.
  • Rectangular garden
    zahrada_1 Rectangular garden has a length of 48.7 m, a width of 6.3 meters shorter than the length. How much mesh should be bought for its fencing if the gate is 2.9 m long and the gate 1.1 m? What is the area of the garden?
  • The spacecraft
    Sputnik_670 The spacecraft spotted a radar device at altitude angle alpha = 34 degrees 37 minutes and had a distance of u = 615km from Earth's observation point. Calculate the distance d of the spacecraft from Earth at the moment of observation. Earth is considered a
  • Scale of plan
    zahrada_4 On the plan of the village in the scale of 1: 1000 a rectangular garden is drawn. Its dimensions on the plan are 25mm and 28mm. Determine the area of the garden in ares.
  • Sidewalk
    bazen_sivy In the garden, a 1-meter-wide sidewalk will be paved with tiles around the block-shaped pool. In the picture, the sidewalk is shown in gray. The dimensions of the bottom of the pool are 8.5 meters and 6 meters. The height of the pool walls is 2 meters. Ho
  • Two chords
    twochords In a circle with radius r = 26 cm two parallel chords are drawn. One chord has a length t1 = 48 cm and the second has a length t2 = 20 cm, with the center lying between them. Calculate the distance of two chords.
  • Base of prism
    hranol3b The base of the perpendicular prism is a rectangular triangle whose legs length are at a 3: 4 ratio. The height of the prism is 2cm smaller than the larger base leg. Determine the volume of the prism if its surface is 468 cm2.
  • Prism
    prism_rhombus_1 Calculate the volume of the rhombic prism. The prism base is a rhombus whose one diagonal is 47 cm, and the edge of the base is 28 cm. The edge length of the base of the prism and height is 3:5.
  • Segment in a triangle
    priecka In a triangle ABC with the side/AB/ = 24 cm is constructed middle segment/DE/ = 18 cm parallel to the side AB at a distance 1 cm from AB. Calculate the height of the triangle ABC to side AB.
  • Pine wood
    dre-borovica From a trunk of pine 6m long and 35 cm in diameter with a carved beam with a cross-section in the shape of a square so that the square had the greatest content area. Calculate the length of the sides of a square. Calculate the volume in cubic meters of lu
  • Tank
    barrel_1 In the middle of a cylindrical tank with a bottom diameter 251 cm is standing rod which is 13 cm above the water surface. If we bank rod its end reach surface of the water just by the tank wall. How deep is the tank?
  • Hamster cage
    hamster Ryan keeps his hamster cage on his dresser. The area of the top of Ryan's dresser is 1 2\3 as large as the area of the bottom of his hamster cage. The area of the dresser top is 960 square inches. How many square inches of his dresser top are not covered
  • Roof 8
    veza_1 How many liters of air are under the roof of tower which has the shape of a regular six-sided pyramid with a 3,6-meter-long bottom edge and a 2,5-meter height? Calculate the supporting columns occupy about 7% of the volume under the roof.
  • Sunflower Field
    sunflower_1 The trapezoidal sunflower field is located between two parallel paths which are spaced 230 meters apart. The lengths of the parallel sides of the field are 255 m and 274 m. How many tons of sunflower will come from this field if the hectare yield is 2.25
  • Classic tent
    stan_2 The tent has the shape of a triangular prism. The front and rear walls are isosceles triangles with a height of 18 dm and arms 19.5 dm long. The tent is 1.5 m wide and 2 m long. How many square meters of fabric is needed to make a tent? How much air is in
  • Diagonals in the diamond
    kosoctverec_color The length of one diagonal in diamond is 24 cm greater than the length of the second diagonal and diamond area is 50 m2. Determine the sizes of the diagonals.
  • Propeller
    Tupolev_Tu-95 The aircraft propeller rotates at an angular speed of 200 rad/s. A) What is the speed at the tip of the propeller if its distance from the axis of rotation is 1.5 m? B) What path does the aircraft travel during one revolution of the propeller at a speed o
  • Coordinates of the intersection of the diagonals
    rectangle_inside_circle_1 In the rectangular coordinate system, a rectangle ABCD is drawn. The vertices of the rectangle are determined by these coordinates A = (2.2) B = (8.2) C = (8.6) D = (2.6) Find the coordinates of the intersection of the diagonals of the ABCD rectangle

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