Geometry Practice
1. Points A(−7, 4) and B(13, −11) are two points in the coordinate plane. P is on segment AB
and divides it so that AP : P B = 2 : 3. What is the product of the coordinates of P ?
2. What is the number of square feet in the area of a rectangular rug with width 5 feet and
diagonal length 13 feet?
3. How many square meters are in the area of a rectangular field that has a diagonal 100 meters
long and has a side 60 meters long?
4. The ratio of the measures of the shortest side of two similar triangles is 2 : 3. The smaller
triangle has an area of 100 square feet. What is the number of square feet in the area of the larger triangle?
5. The length of one leg of the largest right triangle is 12cm, and the length of its hypotenuse is
20cm. What is the number of centimeters in the length of the altitude h? Express your answer as a decimal
to the nearest tenth.
12
h
20
6. The points (1, 2), (1, 4), (3, 4), and (3, 2) are the midpoints of the sides of a square. How many
square units are in the area of the square?
7. The length of a side of a triangle with an area of 36 square inches is 4.2 inches. What is the
number of square inches in the area of a similar triangle whose corresponding side measures 5.6 inches?
8. Rectangle ABCD has an area of 336 square inches and consists of seven smaller, congruent
rectangular regions. What is the perimeter of rectangle ABCD?
A x x x x B
y y
x x
D y y y C
9. The length of one side of a square is increased by 2 units and its other side is decreased by 2
units. By how many square units do the areas of the original square and the new rectangle differ?
10. A triangular region with sides in the ratio 3:4:5 can be enclosed with 36 feet of fencing. How
many square feet are in the area of the triangular plot?
11. A square blanket measuring x feet by x feet was folded in half, folded in half again and finally
folded in half one last time. After these three successive folds, without ever unfolding, the blanket covers an
area of 8 square feet. What is the value of x?
12. In the diagram BD = 6 km, AB = 3 km, and DE = 5 km. What is the number of kilometers
in AE?
C
B D
2
13. In the given right triangle, if M is twice as long as N then H is what percent of N ? Round
your answer to the nearest whole number percent.
H
N
M
14. In equilateral ∆P QR, S is the midpoint of P Q, W is the midpoint of P R, and T is the
midpoint of P W . P Q = 12 cm. How many square centimeters are in the area of ∆T SR? Express your
answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth.
15. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 23 and 53. The third side has length of n2 , where n is a
positive integer. How many possible values are there for n?
16. What is the area, in square units, of the rectangle with vertices A(0, 0), B(0, 3), C(2, 3), and
D(2, 0)?
17. In triangle ABC, m∠A = 60◦ , m∠B = 45◦ and AC = 10 units. What is the length of
segment AB? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
10
A B
3
18. Triangle ABC is an obtuse, isosceles triangle. Angle A measures 20 degrees. What is number
of degrees in the measure of the largest interior angle of triangle ABC?
A 20◦ C
19. In right ∆ABC, ∠CAB is a right angle. Point M is the midpoint of BC. What is the
number of centimeters in the length of median AM ? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
M
3 cm
A B
4 cm
20. Find the length of AE in the figure below:
3
A
D
3
3
B 3 C
4
21. What percent of the area of the rectangle shown is black?
10
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