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PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY
1. The internal angle of a polygon is 150º greater than 14. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two
its external angle. How many sides that polygon has? partially overlapping identical circles. Each circle has
A. 8 C. 12 a radius of 9 m and each passes through the center
B. 16 D. 24 of the other. Find the area of the swimming pool.
2. A regular polygon has an exterior angle equal to 300. A. 380 m2 C. 400 m2
Determine the number of diagonals. B. 390 m2 D. 410 m2
A. 50 C. 52 15. A circle having an area of 452 m 2 is cut into two
B. 54 D. 56 segments by a chord which is 6 m from the center of
the circle. Compute the area of the bigger segment.
3. The distance between the centers of three circles A. 354.89 m2 C. 378.42 m2
which are mutually tangent to each other externally B. 363.68 m2 D. 383.64 m2
are 10, 12, and 14 units. Find the area of the largest
16. A light is placed 5 ft. from the center of the globe 3 ft.
circle.
in diameter. Find the area of the illuminated portion.
A. 72π C. 23π
A. 7.07 ft.2 C. 14 ft.2
B. 64π D. 16π 2
B. 9.9 ft. D. 4.7 ft.2
4. Find the area of decagon that can be inscribed in a
17. A horizontal cylindrical tank has a radius of 600 mm
circle of radius 10 cm.
and a length of 5 m. Find the volume of the water in
A. 326.261 cm2 C. 293.893 cm2
2 the tank if it is 7/8 full.
B. 261.129 cm D. 331.165 cm2
A. 5.94 C. 4.59
5. In a circle with a diameter of 10 cm, a regular five B. 4.95 D. 9.45
pointed star touching its circumference is inscribed.
18. The base of a truncated prism is a triangle with sides
What is the area of the part not covered by the star?
8cm, 12cm, and 10cm. If the heights are 20cm, 18cm
A. 60.2 cm2 C. 45.24 cm2
and 12cm respectively, compute the volume in cc.
B. 50.48 cm2 D. 71.28 cm2
A. 341.23 C. 661.43
6. The line segments BD and BA are secant and B. 531.13 D. 361.63
tangent lines of a circle respectively. BD intersects
19. A regular triangular pyramid has an altitude of 9 m
the circle at C. If BC = 4 and BA = 8, find CD.
and a volume of 187.06 m 3. What is the base edge?
A. 16 C. 10
A. 12 C. 13
B. 12 D. 8
B. 14 D. 15
7. Find the area of the shaded portion of two concentric
20. A closed conical vessel has diameter of 2.4m across
circles whose chord outside the small circle is 10 cm.
the top and a height of 4.8m. It contains water at a
A. 25π cm2 C. 35π cm2
depth of 2.4m. If the vessel is inverted, how deep is
B. 15π cm 2 D. 10π cm2
the water inside?
8. A circle with radius 6 cm has half its area removed A. 0.56 m C. 0.92 m
by cutting off a border of uniform with. Find the width B. 0.21 m D. 0.45 m
of the border.
A. 1.76 cm C. 1.98 cm
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B. 1.35 cm D. 2.03 cm
21. A five pointed star is also known as
9. A circle is outside the triangle if it is tangent A. Pentathlon C. Pentagram
to one side and the other two sides prolonged. B. Quintagon D. Pentagon
A. inscribed C. circumscribed
22. How many sides are in polygon if each interior angle
B. escribed D. tangent
is 165°?
10. The perimeter of the sector is 9 m and its radius is 3 A. 12 C. 20
m, what is the area of the sector? B. 24 D. 48
A. 5.4 C. 4.5
23. A cone is to be constructed from a sector having a
B. 6.5 D. 7.8
diameter of 72 cm and central angle of 2100.
11. The volume of a sphere is increased by how much if Determine the radius of the cone.
its radius is increased by 20%? A. 12 C. 21
A. 36.2% C. 44% B. 31 D. 13
B. 33% D. 72.8%
24. A circle having a radius of 10 cm circumscribed a
12. If the surface area of the sphere is increased by 21%, triangle having an area of 96 cm 2. If one side of the
its volume is increased by: triangle is 20 cm, compute the shorter side of the
A. 13.31% C. 21% triangle.
B. 33.1% D. 30% A. 12 C. 14
13. The lateral area of the right circular cone is 40π cm 2. B. 16 D. 10
The base radius is 4 cm. What is the slant height? 25. The bisectors of the three angles of a triangle meet
A. 10 C. 8 at a common point called the .
B. 9 D. 11 A. orthocenter C. centroid
B. incenter D. circumcenter
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26. Two triangles have equal bases. The altitude of one 38. A right circular cone, with vertical axis and with base
triangle is 3 units more than its base and the altitude uppermost is surmounted by a hemisphere. If the
of the other is 3 units less than its base. Find the volume of hemisphere is twice that of the cone, what
angle is formed by a slant height and the axis of the
altitude, if the areas of the triangle differ by 21 square
cone?
units. A. 25º C. 45º
A. 6 & 12 C. 3 & 9 B. 90º D. 30º
B. 5 & 11 D. 4 & 10
39. Circles A, B, and C are externally tangent to each
27. The area of regular hexagon inscribed in a circle is other and internally tangent to circle D. Circles B and
166.28 cm2. If the circle is also inscribed in a square, C are congruent. Circle A has radius 1 and passes
find the area of the square. through the center of circle D. What is the radius of
A. 625 C. 265 circle B?
2 7
B. 526 D. 256 A. C.
3 8
28. In trapezoid ABCD we have ̅A̅̅B̅ and ̅C̅̅D̅ perpendicular √3 8
B. D.
to ̅A̅̅D̅ with ̅A̅̅B̅ + ̅C̅̅D̅ = ̅B̅̅C̅, ̅A̅̅B̅ < ̅C̅̅D̅ and ̅A̅̅D̅ = 7. What 2 9
̅̅̅B̅ x C
is A ̅̅̅D̅? 40. The diameters of two spheres are in the ratio 2:3. If
A. 12 C. 12.5 the sum of their volumes is1260 cu. m, the volume of
B. 12.25 D. 12.75 the larger sphere is:
29. All circles having the same center but with unequal A. 972 m3 C. 856 m3
B. 927 m 3 D. 865 m3
radii are called as
A. eccentric circles C. concentric circles 41. A piece of thin card board in the form of a sector of a
B. inner circles D. Pythagorean circles circle of radius 36 cm is rolled into a cone. Find the
30. The sides of the cyclic quadrilateral measures 2, 3, volume of the cone if the angle of the sector is 60°.
4, and 5 units respectively (2 and 4 are opposite). A. 35.50 cc C. 1338.3 cc
Find the product of the diagonals. B. 37.70 cc D. 3355.6 cc
A. 20 C. 22
B. 23 D. 25 42. A circle is inscribed in an isosceles triangle whose
lateral side is 29 cm and the base is 26 cm.
31. One edge of a regular hexahedron is 24 cm long.
Find the ratio of the volume to surface area. Determine the distance between the two points of
A. 5 C. 4 tangency.
B. 3 D. 6 A. 4.37 cm C. 9.37 cm
B. 13.66 cm D. 7.37 cm
32. A metal 1 inch in diameter is pierced by ½ inch hole.
What is the volume of the washer if it is 1/8 inch 43. Square ABCD has side length 2. A semicircle with
thick? diameter ̅A̅̅B̅ constructed inside the square, and the
A. 0.082 C. 0.047 line tangent to semicircle from C intersects side ̅A̅̅D̅
B. 0.074 D. 0.028 at E. What is the length of ̅C̅̅E̅?
33. The trapezoid has an area of 360 m 2 and altitude of 2+√5
A. C. √6
20 m. Its two bases in meters have ratio of 4:5. The 2
5
bases are B. √5 D.
A. 12, 5 C. 7, 11 2
B. 8, 10 D. 16, 20 44. Two equilateral triangles, each with 12 cm sides,
34. A cubical container that measures 2 inches on each overlap each other to form a 6-point “Star of David”.
side is tightly packed with 8 marbles and is filled with Determine the overlapping are in cm2.
water. All 8 marbles are in contact with the walls of A. 34.64 cm2 C. 41.57 cm2
the container and the adjacent marbles. All of the B. 28.87 cm 2 D. 49.88 cm2
marbles are of the same size. What is the volume of
water in the container? 45. The upper base of the frustum of a regular triangular
A. 0.38 cu. in C. 2.5 cu. in pyramid is an equilateral triangle with an edge of 3m.
B. 3.8 cu. in D. 4.2 cu. in The volume of the frustum is 84.44 m 3 and its altitude
35. A small circle is inscribed in a circular sector of radius is 5m. What is the lower base edge in meters?
12 cm and central angle of 600. Compute the area of A. 8 m C. 6 m
the small circle if it is tangent internally to the radius B. 9 m D. 5 m
and the arc of the sector.
A. 50.27 cm2 C. 40.27 cm2
B. 60.27 cm 2 D. 55.27 cm2
36. A regular triangular pyramid has an altitude of 9 m
and a volume of 187.06 cu m. What is the base edge
in meters?
A. 12 C. 13
B. 14 D. 15
37. The volume of a sphere is 904.78 cu. m. find the
volume of the spherical segment of height 4m.
A. 234.57 m3 C. 145.69 m3
B. 256.58 m3 D. 124.58 m3