This document contains 50 math word problems covering a variety of geometry topics such as triangles, circles, spheres, cones, pyramids, and other shapes. The problems involve calculating lengths, areas, volumes, ratios and other geometric relationships. Solutions require the use of formulas for perimeter, area, volume, ratios, and properties of angles, sides and radii.
This document contains 50 math word problems covering a variety of geometry topics such as triangles, circles, spheres, cones, pyramids, and other shapes. The problems involve calculating lengths, areas, volumes, ratios and other geometric relationships. Solutions require the use of formulas for perimeter, area, volume, ratios, and properties of angles, sides and radii.
This document contains 50 math word problems covering a variety of geometry topics such as triangles, circles, spheres, cones, pyramids, and other shapes. The problems involve calculating lengths, areas, volumes, ratios and other geometric relationships. Solutions require the use of formulas for perimeter, area, volume, ratios, and properties of angles, sides and radii.
1. The sides of a right triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units.
If each side is doubled, how many
square units will be the area of the new triangle? 2. What is the angle at the center of a circle if the subtending chord is equal to two thirds of the radius. 3. The area of a rhombus is 250 and one of the angles is 37°25'. What is the length of each side? 4. If in triangle ABC, A = 76°30', B = 81°40' and c = 368, find the diameter of the circumscribed circle. 5. Two triangles have equal bases. The altitude of one triangle is 3 units more than its base and the altitude of the other is 3 units less than its base. Find the altitudes, if the areas of the triangle differ by 21 square units. 6. A triangular piece of wood having a dimension 130 cm, 180 cm, and 190 cm is to be divided by a line bisecting the longest side drawn from its opposite vertex. The area of the part adjacent to the 180-cm side is: 7. What is the apothem of a regular polygon having an area 225 sq. cm. and a perimeter 60 cm? 8. A square hole 2” x 2” is cut through a 6-inch diameter long along its diameter and perpendicular to its axis. Find the volume of wood that was removed. 9. A secant and a tangent to a circle intersect an angle of 38° degrees. If the measures of the arc intercepted between the secant and tangent are in the ratio 2:1, find the measure of the third arc. 10. A piece of wire is shaped to enclose a square whose area is 169 cm2. It is then reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm. The area of the rectangle is: 11. The base of a right parallelepiped is a rhombus whose sides are each 10 cm long and one of whose angles is 60 degrees. If the altitude of the parallelepiped is 4 cm, find its volume . 12. How much will the surface area of a sphere be increased if its radius is increased by 5%? 13. A semi-circle of radius 14 cm is formed from a piece of wire. If it is bent into a rectangle whose length is 1cm more than its width,find the area of the rectangle. 14. If each interior angle of a regular polygon has a measure of 160°, how many sides has the polygon ? 15. Find the angle formed by the intersection of a face diagonal t the diagonal of a cube drawn from the same vertex. 16. The volume of a regular tetrahedron of side 5 cm is: 17. A trough has an open top 0.30 m by 6 m and closed vertical ends which are equilateral triangles 30 cm on each side. It is filled with water to half its depth. Find the volume of the water in cubic meters. 18. Determine the volume of a right truncated prism with the following dimensions: Let the corner of the triangular base be defined by A, B, and C. the length AB = 10 feet, BC = 9 feet and CA = 12 feet. The sides at A, B and C are perpendicular to the triangular base and have the height of 8.6 feet, 7.1 feet, and 5.5 feet, respectively. 19. A reservoir is shaped like a square prism. If the area of its base is 225 sq. cm, how many liters of water will it hold? 20. The diagonals of a quadrilateral are 34 and 56 intersecting at an angle of 67°. Find its area. 21. Find the radius of a circle in which is inscribed a regular nonagon whose perimeter is 417.6 cm. 22. If 23 cubic meters of water are poured into a conical vessel, it reaches a depth of 12 cm. how much water must be added so that the length reaches 18 cm.? 23. Given an ellipse whose semi-major axis is 6 cm. and semi-minor axis is 3 cm. what is the volume generated if it is revolved about the minor axis? 24. The area of a sector of a circle, having a central angle of 60° is 24 pi. Find the radius of the circle. 25. A circle whose area is 452 cm square is cut into two segment by a chord whose distance from the center of the circle is 6 cm. Find the area of the larger segment in cm square. 26. Two circles, each of radius 6 units, have their centers 8 units apart. Find the length of their common chord. 27. The area of the base of a pyramid is 25 and its altitude is 10. What is the distance from the base of a section parallel to the base whose area is 9 ? 28. The volume of the sphere is 3𝜋 cu. m. The surface area of this sphere in sq. m. is: 29. A hexagon is circumscribed about a circle of radius 5. If the perimeter of the hexagon is 38, what is the area of the hexagon ? 30. The circumference of two circles are 6π and 10π. What is the ratio of their areas ? 31. If a solid steel ball is immersed in an eight cm. diameter cylinder, it displaces water to a depth of 2.25 cm. the radius of the ball is: 32. The diameter of two spheres is in the ratio 2:3. If the sum of their volumes is 1,260 cu. m., the volume of the larger sphere is: 33. The base edge of a square pyramid is 3 m and its altitude is 10 m. Find the area of a section parallel to the base and 6 m from it. 34. A right circular cone with an altitude of 9m is divided into two segments; one is a smaller circular cone having the same vertex with an altitude of 6m. Find the ratio of the volume of the two cones. 35. Find the volume of the largest cube that can be out from a circular log whose radius is 30/ 36. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a semi-circle with side AD coinciding with the diameter of the circle. If sides AB, BC, and CD are 8cm, 10cm, and 12cm long, respectively, find the area of the circle. 37. Given two spheres whose combined volume is known to be 819 cu. m. if their radii are in the ratio 3:4, what is the volume of the smaller sphere? 38. If a regular polygon has 54 diagonals, then it has how many sides ? 39. Spherical balls 1.5 cm in diameter area packed in a box measuring 6 cm by 3 cm by 3 cm. If as many balls as possible are packed in the box, how much free space remains in the box? 40. The edge of a regular tetrahedron is 5. Find the edge of a cube which has the same volume as the tetrahedron. 41. Find the volume of a spherical wedge of radius 10 cm. and central angle 50°. 42. Determine the area of the zone of a sphere of radius 8 in. and altitude 12 in. 43. Find the lateral area of a pyramid whose altitude is 27 cm and whose base is a square 8 cm on a side. 44. The diagonal of the floor of a rectangular room is 7.50 m. The shorter side of the room is 4.5 m. What is the area of the room? 45. A circle is divided into two parts by a chord, 3 cm away from the center. Find the area of the smaller part, in cm square, if the circles has an area of 201 cm square. 46. Compute the difference between the perimeters of a regular pentagon and a regular hexagon if the area of each is 12. 47. The area of a circle is 89.4 square inches. What is the circumference? 48. The area of the sector of a circle having a central angle of 60° is 24π. Find the perimeter of the sector. 49. The height of a right circular base down is h. If it contains water to depth of 2h/3 the ratio of the volume of water to that of the cone is: 50. A solid has a circular base of radius r. find the volume of the solid if every plane perpendicular to a given diameter is a square.