Geometry lounge pack 1
Problem 1:
Three points A, B, C have the coordinates (3,4), (3,-2), (-5,-2) respectively
-Find which of the line segments joining the points is horizontal and what is the length?
-Which line segment is vertical and what is its length?
-What is the length of the 3rd segment and what is the equation of the line containing that segment?
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Problem 2:
A kite is flying with a length of the string already 60 meters. The string is forming a straight line making an angle of about the horizontal.
How high is it from the ground? Express your answer to the 10th of the meter.
Solution
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Problem 3:
An attic has a roof pitched at . A room has to be added per figure.
How far away from the sides must the walls be built?
What is the front area of the room?
Solution:
We have
Base of room:
Area of the front:
Problem 4:
A rectangular-shaped garden with sides of lengths 16 feet and 9 feet.
It has been decided that the garden has to be changed into a square design with the same design as the original rectangular-shaped garden.
What will be the measure of the side of the new square-shaped garden?
Solution:
If is the side of the square
Problem 5:
The central angle of measure is subtended by a circular arc of length 6 meters.
What is the radius of the circle?
Solution:
The length of the arc:
In this problem and
Problem 6:
A rectangular box with a base 2 inches by 6 inches is 10 inches tall and holds 12 ounces of breakfast cereal.
The manufacturer wants to use a new box with a base of 3 inches by 5 inches.
How many inches tall should the new box be in order to hold exactly the same volume as the original box?
Solution:
This is a classic problem that will come back in other packs.
It is important to understand the concept:
The two volumes are equal.
If is the new height:
We simply make the volumes identical
Problem 7:
Circle c is centered at A and the small circle is tangent to circle c.
What is the value of the colored area if units?
Solution:
From the graph we can depict that:
For the big circle:
For the small circle:
The colored area is simply the difference between the two areas
Problem 8:
A 6-foot spruce tree is planted 15 feet from a lighted streetlight whose lamp is 18 feet above the ground.
How many feet long is the shadow of that tree?
Solution:
by postulate
If
But
Problem 9:
Given DE=12, EF=7 and FG=10, What is the area of ?
Solution:
We have to find the difference between areas of and
Colored area
or simply has a base of and a height of
Problem 10:
Given the triangle ABC, what is ?
Solution:
Problem 11:
In the following figure:
Find and find the measure of all angles
Solution
Looking at the graph, and are corresponding angles and they are supplementary to
That means:
We get:
Finally:
Angles: 2,3,6,and 7 all have same measure of
Angles: 1,4,5,and 8 all have same measure of
Problem 12:
In the following figure:
Find and find the measure of all angles
Solution
Looking at the graph, and are on the same side of transversal and are supplementary.
That means:
We get:
Finally:
Angles: 2,3,6,and 7 all have same measure of
Angles: 1,4,5,and 8 all have same measure of
Problem 13:
In the following figure:
Find and find the measure of all angles
Solution
and interior are alternate interior angles.
Alternate interior angles are congruent.
That yields:
We plug in:
Problem 14:
In the following figure:
Find and find the measure of all angles
Solution
and are alternate exterior angles and therefore congruent.
That yields:
Case 1:
and
Case 2:
and
Problem 15:
In the following figure:
and
1. Find the values of and
2. Find
3.Find and
4. Find the area of figure
Solution:
From
From transversal :
Adding and :
From
Finding
. This verifies the sum of
From :
Finding the height
Finding and :
Problem 16
Solve the triangle shown for
and
Solution:
Solve for
We have to make sure that all 6 elements have been calculated.
ANGLES
SIDES:
This is the right triangle geometry:
Now let’s calculate and check it:
Now let’s verify:
This verifies the length of
Answer:
ANGLES
SIDES:
Problem 17
Solve the triangle shown for
and
SOLUTION
ANGLES
SIDES:
Here we have to find , and length side .
We are lucky it is a right triangle, easy.
Now
We used the function for we knew that since the sum of the two angles was 90, none would exceed 90.
Finding the last element
Now let’s verify:
This verifies the length of
Answer:
ANGLES
SIDES:
Problem 18
An observer on the earth observes an airplane flying overhead that subtends an angle of .
If the plane is known to have a length of , what is its altitude to nearest hundred feet?
See figure.
SOLUTION
Here we can use two methods but it does not matter at that distance since the arc and the straight line representing the length of the plane are the same
rounded the 100 feet accuracy.
Problem 19
A curve along a highway is an arc of a circle with 250-meter radius. If the curve corresponds to a central angle of 2 radians, what is the length of the highway along the curve?
SOLUTION
The curve:
Problem 20:
Given:
Find the other elements if the triangle is possible.
SOLUTION
ANGLES
C=?
SIDES:
We notice that side this means that
We can safely use the LAW OF SINES:
For side c:
Answer:
ANGLES
SIDES:
We also verify that because
Problem 21:
Find the other elements if the triangle is possible.
SOLUTION
ANGLES
SIDES:
We notice the the sum of the measures of and is only
Let’s try to calculate:
Answer:
ANGLES
SIDES:
Problem 22:
Find the other elements if the triangle is possible.
SOLUTION
ANGLES
C=?
SIDES:
We notice that side this means that
But in this case we don’t know if one angle is obtuse. We use the law of cosines.
Side
For
Answer:
ANGLES
SIDES:
Problem 23:
A circle of center has been inscribed in a square ABCD, of side 16 meters.
In the following figure, a smaller circle of center and tangent of Circle at has been inscribed per figure.
1. What is the equation of ?
2. What is the equation of the small circle ?
3.What is the area of the colored area?
(All calculations to be to the thousandth)
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The circle center
General Equation of a circle of center is:
We can see that the radius is half of the width of the square.
Now let’s draw aline passing through points and
Points coordinates
Distance :
Distance
The line passing through
It’s perpendicular line has a slope of .
That line passes through the tangency point .
Coordinates of
For point :
Line passes through with a slope of . We use the general form:
This is the equation of line .
Line meets the square in two points and
For point :
Point is the intersection of lines and line or
We get at :
Finally:
Or:
For point :
Point is the intersection of lines and line or
Let’s plug in the value of :
For point :
So:
Or:
Now we can see the triangle
Circle is inscribed in with being the incerter.
Lines from any vertex bisects that vertex.
We see that angle:
The line from vertex to will make an angle of
Let’s find it’s tangent or the slope.
From our formula page:
. This is the slope.
The line passes through
We use the standard equation:
The lines and intersect at the incenter , center of
We get:
Since the point is on :
The length is the radius of
Let’s calculate that distance:
If is the radius of :
Let’s use decimals to simplify:
Equation of the circle:
Or in decimals:
Now for the final question we have to take a look at the graph:
The shaded is simply the difference between the areas of and circle segment of arc
Let’s calculate that difference.
Triangle is a right triangle.
The circle segment intercepts an arc with a central angle of
with in our case.
Area of
Let’s calculate the length of segment
The height of is:
with
We can see that :
In the right triangle
We can also say that without approximation for is the intersection of the diagonals of the quadrilateral
Finally:
Area of is:
Shaded Area:
Answer:
Problem 24:
The isosceles trapezoid, ABCD, shown in the following figure has the parallel sides measuring 8 meters and 18 meters.
1. Find the area of the inscribed circle.
2. Find the value of the shaded area inside the trapezoid.
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Problem 25:
Find the value of the blue shaded area in the following design. The area is inside a square with a side of 8 meters. The four holes are circles with 600 millimeters as diameter each.
Round your result to the hundredth.
Problem 26
In the following figure the triangle has sides . The semiperimeter is
1. Show that the radius of the inscribed circle can be expressed as:
2.Show that the area can be expressed as:
3. Find the radius of the circumcircle using any of the known formulas.
4. What is the distance between the centers of the two circles?
Verify your result using
5. If , express the radius of the incircle as:
6. Show the values of , and using the following:
a. , and
b. , and
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