Triangle - math word problems

  1. Cardboard box
    krabicka We want to make a cardboard box shaped quadrangular prism with rhombic base. Rhombus has a side of 5 cm and 8 cm one diagonal long. The height of the box to be 12 cm. The box will be open at the top. How many square centimeters cardboard we need, if we ca
  2. Rhomboid
    triangle-ssa The dimensions of the rhomboid sides are a= 5cm, b = 6 cm and the size of the angle at the vertex A is 60°. What is the length of side AC?
  3. Triangle angles
    triangle_4 In a triangle ABC the interior angle at the vertex C is twice as the internal angle at the point A. Outer angle at the point B measured 117 degrees. How big is the outer angle at the vertex A?
  4. Internal angles
    angle_3 One internal angle of the triangle JAR is 25 degrees. The difference is the size of the two other is 15°. Identify the size of these angles.
  5. Angles ratio
    3angle_1 In a triangle ABC true relationship c is less than b and b is less than a. Internal angles of the triangle are in the ratio 5:4:9. The size of the internal angle beta is:
  6. The chord
    Tetiva Side of the triangle inscribed in a circle is a chord passing through circle center. What size are the internal angles of a triangle, if one of them is 40°?
  7. Angles in ratio
    angles_1 The size of the angles of the triangle are in ratio x: y = 7: 5 and the angle z is 42° lower than the angle y. Find size of the angles x, y, z.
  8. 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.
  9. Angles of the triangle
    angles ABC is a triangle. The size of the angles alpha, beta are in a ratio 4: 7. The angle gamma is greater than the angle alpha by a quarter of a straight angle. Determine angles of the triangle ABC.
  10. Tent
    polygonal_pyramid Pyramid-shaped tent has a base square with a side length of 2 m and a height 1.7 m. How many meters of canvas is nneded to make it if for a waste should be added 10%?
  11. Medians and sides
    3angle Determine the size of a triangle KLM and the size of the medians in the triangle. K=(-5; -6), L=(7; -2), M=(5; 6).
  12. Trapezoid - hard example
    trapezium Base of the trapezoid are: 24, 16 cm. Diagonal 22, 26 cm. Calculate its area and perimeter.
  13. Triangle midpoints
    sierpinski-geometry Determine coordinates of triangle ABC vertices if we know tirangle sides midpoints SAB [0;3] SBC [1;6] SAC [4;5], its sides AB, BC, AC.
  14. Triangular pyramid
    ihlan_3b It is given perpendicular regular triangular pyramid: base side a = 5 cm, height v = 8 cm, volume V = 28.8 cm3. What is it content (surface area)?
  15. Angles and sides of the triangle
    trig Triangle ABC has a circumference of 26 cm. Lengths of the sides are as follows: a = 11.2 cm; b = 6.5 cm. Arrange the interior angles in order of its size. ?
  16. Median
    medians.JPG In triangle ABC is given side a=10 cm and median ta= 13 cm and angle gamma 90°. Calculate length of the median tb.
  17. 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?
  18. Isosceles trapezoid
    licho_1 Calculate the area of an isosceles trapezoid whose bases are in the ratio of 4:3; leg b = 13 cm and height = 12 cm.
  19. Trapezoid - diagonal
    licho Trapezoid has a length of diagonal AC corssed with diagonal BD in the ratio 2:1. The triangle created by points A, cross point of diagonals S and point D has area 164 cm2. What is the area of the trapezoid?
  20. 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.

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