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Practice Exercise (SET I)

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B C
1. The area of ABC =

17

Y 15 Z

2. The area of XYZ =

A

B x C

3. In ABC, AB = AC, ABC = x. In terms of x, how many degrees are in BAC?

57 112
Q R S

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4. In PQR, how many degrees are in QPR?

Y
59

X 43 Q
Z
P
5. In the diagram, QZP =

25 25

24

B D C
6. In the figure above ABC is isosceles with AB = AC = 25, AD  BC, and AD =
24. Find the area of ABC.
7. ABC is an equilateral triangle. AB = 6. What is the area of ABC?
8. Triangle XYZ is similar to ABC. The area of XYZ = 64, and the area of ABC
is 16. What is the ratio of their sides?
9. Triangle ABC is similar to PQR. If the ratio of the corresponding sides is 3/5,
what is the ratio of their area?
10. What is the perimeter of a right triangle whose legs are 16 and 30?
11. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 2:3:4. Find the number of degrees in
the smallest angle.
12. Triangle ABC has a right angle at B, angle C = 30, BC = 6. Find the area of
ABC.
13. Triangle PQR is obtuse. Angle QPR = 120, PQ = 10, PR = 10. Find the area of
QPR.
14. What is the perimeter of a right triangle of which the hypotenuse is 20 inches
and one leg is 12 inches?
15. The area of two similar triangles are in the ratio of 49:16. What is the ratio of
their sides?

Practice questions (SET II)

1. Find the degree measure of each of two supplementary angles if the measure of
one is fourteen times that of the other.
2. In the ABC, BC = 13 cm, CA = 14 cm, AB = 15 cm. Find the area of the triangle
and its altitude corresponding to AC.
3. In the given figure, OA and OB are opposite rays.
(i) If y = 48, find the value of x.

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(ii) If x = 136, find the value of y.

x y

B O A
4. In the figure below, OA and OB are opposite rays. Find the value of x.

5. Further, find AOC and BOD.

D C

(x+10) x (x+20)

B O A
6. In the adjoining figure, l || m and the 1 and 2 are in the ratio 5 : 4. Determine
all angles through 1 to 8.

1 2
4 3 l

5 6 m
8 7

7. In each of these figures given below l II m. Find the values of x, y and z. use the
fact that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180.
l

20 m
l m
130 y 75

x
105
25 l z 30
m
(i) (ii) (iii)

8. Find the value of x, if

(i) in fig. (i), AB  CD
(ii) in fig. (ii), AB DE
(iii) in fig. (iii), AB  CD and BC DE
(iv) in fig. (iv), AB  CD

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(i) (ii) (iii)

D E A
A B A B 100
108 110 B x C

E x
x
112 85
C D C E D
(iv)
A B
45

x O

30
D C

9. The Angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 3:4:5, Find the angles.
10. Two angles of a triangle are equal and the third angle is greater than each of
these angles by 24. Find the angles.
11. Two angles of a triangle are 65 and 45, find the third angle
12. In a right triangle one of the acute angles is 50, find all the angles.
13. The sum of two angles of a triangle is 106 and their difference is 10. Find all the
angles of a triangle.
14. In the given fig ACD = 105 and EAF = 45. Find all the angles

E F
45
A

105
B C D

15. Find the value of x.

A
25
x

40 50
B C D
16. Calculate the value of x in each of these figures.

A
120 A x

x 112 120 110

B C D E B C D
(i)

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B D A
35
x
E x

52 40 B 45 50 C

A
C
17. In the given figure AC  CE and A: B: C = 3:2:1, then find the value of
ECD.
A
E

B C D

18. Find the area of the isosceles right triangle in which each of the equal sides is
17cm.
19. Find the area of an equilateral triangle of side 8cm.
20. The area of a triangle is 90cm2. Its base is 12cm. Find its altitude.
21. The perimeter of a triangular field is 450m and its sides are in the ratio 13 : 12 : 5.
Find the area of the triangle.
22. The perimeter of a triangular field is 540m and its sides are in the ratio 25 : 17 :
12. Find the area of the triangle.
23. Find the length of hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle having an area of 200
cm2.
Practice Exercise (SET III)
A
2xº

30º xº
B C
1. In the triangle above, what is the value of x?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60

2. What is the area of an equilateral triangle whose altitude is 6?

(A) 18 (B) 123 (C) 183 (D) 36 (E) 243

3. Two sides of a right triangle are 12 and 13. Which of the following could be the
length of the third side?
I. 5
II. 11
III. 313
(A) I only (B) II only (C) I and II only (D) I and III only (E) I, II, and III

4. What is the value of PS in the triangle below?

(A) 52 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 122

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12 20

Q 5 S 11 R

5. What is the value of x in the figure below?

A

50

50  x
B 50 C D
(A) 80 (B) 100 (C) 115 (D) 120 (E) 130

6. What is the value of W in the figure given below?

Wº 50º

90º
30º

(A) 100 (B) 110 (C) 120 (D) 130 (E) 140

7. What is the area of BED?

A B
4

E
5

D 12 C
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 60

8. What is the perimeter of BED?

(A) 19 + 52 (B) 28 (C) 17 + 185 (D) 32 (E) 36

9. What is the area of DFH?

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D E

3 5 DEFG is a rectangle

G H F

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(A) 3 (B) 4.5 (C) 6 (D) 7.5 (E) 10

10.
What is the perimeter of DFH?
(A) 8 + 41 (B) 8 + 58 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18

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30
B 9 C
11. What is the perimeter of ABC?
(A) 48 (B) 48 + 122 (C) 48 + 123 (D) 72 (E) cannot determine

12. What is the area of ABC?

(A) 108 (B) 54 + 722 (C) 54 + 723 (D) 198 (E) cannot determine
.

2x

3y x

13. Which of the following expresses a true relationship between x and y in the
figure above?
(A) y = 60 - x (B) y = x (C) x + y = 90 (D) y = 180 – 3x (E) x = 90 – 3y

14. What is the perimeter of the ABF

(A) 2 + 23 (B) 1 + 2 + 3 (C) 2 + 2 +3 (D) 2 + 22 + 3 (E) 22 + 23

A B
45
30
45 F
60

60 90 30

D 1 E C

15. What is the area of ABF?

(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 23 (D) 3 + 1 (E) 2(3 + 1)
2 3 2

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16. If the difference between the measures of the two smaller angles of a right
triangle is 20, what is the measure, in degrees, of the smallest angle?

17. What is the largest perimeter of an isosceles triangle that is not equilateral, if all
of its sides are integers and no side is longer than16?

18. Let P be the perimeter of an isosceles triangle all of whose sides are integers. If
one side is 16 and the triangle is not equilateral, what is the largest value of P that
will fit in the grid?

19. What is the smallest integer x, for which x, x + 5, and 2x – 15 can be the lengths
of the sides of a triangle?

20. If the measures of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 1:2:3, and if the
perimeter of the triangle is 30 + 103, what is the length of the smallest side?

If the lengths of two sides of an isosceles triangle are 7 and 15, what is the perimeter of
the triangle?

The perimeter of a triangle in which lengths of all of the sides are integers is 21. If
the length of one side of a triangle is 8, what is the shortest possible length of another
side of the triangle?

If the integer lengths of the three sides of a triangle are 4, x and 9, what is the least
possible perimeter of the triangle?

If the product of the lengths of the three sides of a triangle is 105, what is a possible
perimeter of the triangle?

How many different triangles are there for which the lengths of the sides are 3, 8,
and n, where n is an integer and 3< n< 8?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
(E) Six

In a triangle in which the lengths of two sides are 5 and 9, the length of the third
side is represented by x. Which statement is always true?
(A) x >5
(B) x < 9
(C) 5 ≤ x ≤ 9
(D) 4 < x < 14
(E) 5≤ x < 14

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The two sides of a triangle are 4 and 7. The perimeter of the triangle is 18, what is te
area of the triangle?
A) 2√33
(B) 6√5
(C) 14
(D) 9√5
(E) 18√5

If the area of an isosceles right triangle is 8, what is the perimeter of the triangle?
A) 8 + √2
(B) 8 + 4√2
(C) 4 + 8√2
(D) 12√2
(E) 10

The lengths of sides of a triangle ABC are consecutive integers. If Triangle ABC has
the same perimeter as an equilateral triangle with a side length of 9, what is the
length of the shortest side of triangle ABC?
A) 4
(B) 6
(C) 8
(D) 10
(E) 12

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