Trapezoid Problems

Trapezoid is a convex quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides but referred to as a trapezium outside North America. The parallel sides are called the bases of the trapezoid, and the other two sides are called the legs or the lateral sides.

Number of problems found: 142

  • Medians in triangle
    stredne_pricky Median of isosceles triangle has a length 3 cm. Determine the length of its sides if its perimeter is 16 cm.
  • Roof tiles
    Lichobeznik_strecha The roof has a trapezoidal shape with bases of 15 m and 10 m, height of roof is 4 meters. How many tiles will need if on 1 m2 should be used 8 tiles?
  • Quadrilateral 2
    quadrilateral Show that the quadrilateral with vertices P1(0,1), P2(4,2) P3(3,6) P4(-5,4) has two right triangles.
  • Rectangular trapezium
    trapezoid-right Calculate the perimeter of a rectangular trapezium when its content area is 576 cm2 and sice a (base) is 30 cm, height 24 cm.
  • The trapezium
    rt_iso_triangle The trapezium is formed by cutting the top of the right-angled isosceles triangle. The base of the trapezium is 10 cm and the top is 5 cm. Find the area of trapezium.
  • Trapezium ABCD
    lichobeznik_5 In the figure, ABDC is a trapezium in which AB || CD. line segments RN and LM are drawn parallel to AB such that AJ=JK=KP. If AB=0.5m and AP=BQ=1.8m, find the lengths of AC, BD, RN and LM. angle D=angle C=60
  • Parallelogram
    rovnobeznik_1 Find the perimeter of the parallelogram, where base a = 8 cm, height v = 3 cm, and angle alpha = 35° is the magnitude of the angle at vertex A.
  • Trench
    lichobeznik_4 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.
  • Diagonal
    trapezium_right_1 he rectangular ABCD trapeze, whose AD arm is perpendicular to the AB and CD bases, has area 15cm square. Bases have lengths AB = 6cm, CD = 4cm. Calculate the length of the AC diagonal.
  • Truncated pyramid
    komoly_jehlan The concrete pedestal in the shape of a regular quadrilateral truncated pyramid has a height of 12 cm, the pedestal edges have lengths of 2.4 and 1.6 dm. Calculate the surface of the base.
  • Trapezium diagonals
    stredova sumernost It is given trapezium ABCD with bases | AB | = 12 cm, |CD| = 8 cm. Point S is the intersection of the diagonals for which |AS| is 6 cm long. Calculate the length of the full diagonal AC.
  • Internal angles
    mo-klm The ABCD is an isosceles trapezoid, which holds: |AB| = 2 |BC| = 2 |CD| = 2 |DA|: On its side BC is a K point such that |BK| = 2 |KC|, on its side CD is the point L such that |CL| = 2 |LD|, and on its side DA the point M is such that | DM | = 2 |MA|. Dete
  • Garden G
    lichob_2 The rectangular trapezoidal garden has a base length of 81m, 76m, and a vertical arm of 12m. Calculate how many m2 of area will remain for planting greenery, if 1/3 of the area is built. Calculate the consumption of mesh for land fencing.
  • Truncated pyramid
    truncated_pyramid Find the volume and surface area of a regular quadrilateral truncated pyramid if base lengths a1 = 17 cm, a2 = 5 cm, height v = 8 cm.
  • 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
  • Orchard
    lichobeznik_1 Route passes trapezoidal orchard perpendicular to the parallel sides. It is 80 cm wide. The lengths of the bases are in the ratio 5:3 and the length of the longer base to the length of the path is in the ratio 5:6. How many square meters occupies the rout
  • Four prisms
    hranol4b Question No. 1: The prism has the dimensions a = 2.5 cm, b = 100 mm, c = 12 cm. What is its volume? a) 3000 cm2 b) 300 cm2 c) 3000 cm3 d) 300 cm3 Question No.2: The base of the prism is a rhombus with a side length of 30 cm and a height of 27 cm. The heig
  • Tangent 3
    tangetns In a circle with centre O radius is 4√5 cm. EC is the tangent to the circle at point D. Segment AB IS THE DIAMETER of given circle. POINT A is joined with POINT E and POINT B is joined with POINT C. Find DC if BC IS 8cm.
  • Swimming pool
    bazen_2 A swimming pool 30 meters long is filled with water to a depth of 1 meter at the shallow end and 5 meters at the deep end and abcd the vertical area of the pool has the shape of a trapezium with the area given by S(abcd)= 1/2 (ab + cd) x ad. What is the a
  • Cross section
    trapezium_right The cross-section ABCD of a swimming pool is a trapezium. Its width AB=14 meters, depth at the shallow end is 1.5 meters, and at the deep end is 8 meters. Find the area of the cross-section.

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