Ratio + right triangle - math problems

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  1. A rectangle 2
    rectangles A rectangle has a diagonal length of 74cm. It’s sides are 5:3. Find its lengths.
  2. Cuboid face diagonals
    face_diagonals The lengths of the cuboid edges are in the ratio 1: 2: 3. Will the lengths of its diagonals be the same ratio? The cuboid has dimensions of 5 cm, 10 cm, and 15 cm. Calculate the size of the wall diagonals of this cuboid.
  3. Garden
    garden_1 Area of a square garden is 6/4 of triangle garden with sides 56 m, 35 m, and 35 m. How many meters of fencing need to fence a square garden?
  4. River
    kongo_river Calculate how many promiles river Dunaj average falls, if on section long 957 km flowing water from 1454 m AMSL to 101 m AMSL.
  5. Gimli Glider
    gimli_glider Aircraft Boeing 767 lose both engines at 42000 feet. The plane captain maintain optimum gliding conditions. Every minute, lose 1910 feet and maintain constant speed 211 knots. Calculate how long it takes to plane from engine failure to hit the ground. Ca
  6. Cuboid diagonal
    cube_2 Calculate the volume and surface area of the cuboid ABCDEFGH, which sides abc has dimensions in the ratio of 9:3:8 and if you know that the wall diagonal AC is 86 cm and angle between AC and the body diagonal AG is 25 degrees.
  7. Climb in percentage
    12_percent_stupanie The height difference between points A and B is 475 m. Calculate the percentage of route climbing if the horizontal distance places A, B is 7.4 km.
  8. Right triangle
    righttriangle Legs of the right triangle are in the ratio a:b = 2:8. The hypotenuse has a length of 87 cm. Calculate the perimeter and area of the triangle.
  9. Mast
    stoziar Mast has 17 m long shadow on a slope rising from the mast foot in the direction of the shadow angle at angle 9.3°. Determine the height of the mast, if the sun above the horizon is at angle 44°30'.
  10. Rectangle
    rectangle_ABCD In rectangle ABCD with sides |AB|=19, |AD|=16 is from point A guided perpendicular to the diagonal BD, which intersects at point P. Determine the ratio ?.
  11. ISO triangle
    rr Calculate the area of an isosceles triangle KLM if the length of its sides are in the ratio k:l:m = 4:4:3 and has perimeter 377 mm.
  12. Stairway
    steps What angle rising stairway if step height in 17 cm and width 27 cm?
  13. Rhombus
    rhombus2 Internal angles of rhombus is in ratio 2:3. How many times is the shorter diagonal longer than side of rhombus?
  14. Cone and the ratio
    kuzel Rotational cone has a height 23 cm and the ratio of the base surface to lateral surface is 7: 9. Calculate a surface of the base and the lateral surface.
  15. Road
    route-66 Average climb of the road is given by ratio 1:15. By what angle road average climb?
  16. Sun rays
    sfinga-a-cheopsova-pyramida-w-4066 If the sun's rays are at an angle 60° then famous Great Pyramid of Egypt (which is now high 137.3 meters) has 79.3 m long shadow. Calculate current height of neighboring chefren pyramid whose shadow is measured at the same time 78.8 m and the current hei
  17. Trapezoid RT
    lichobeznik2 The plot has a shape of a rectangular trapezium ABCD, where ABIICD with a right angle at the vertex B. side AB has a length 36 m. The lengths of the sides AB and BC are in the ratio 12:7. Lengths of the sides AB and CD are a ratio 3:2. Calculate consumptio
  18. Isosceles triangle
    math_fun_1 What are the angles of an isosceles triangle ABC if its base is long a=5 m and has an arm b=4 m.
  19. RT and ratio
    triangles A right triangle whose legs are in a ratio 6:12 has hypotenuse 68 m long. How long are its legs?
  20. Isosceles triangle
    pomer_triangle The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 112 cm. The length of the arm to the length of the base is at ratio 5:6. Find the triangle area.

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