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WorksheetsUnit 18 Retake (P.T. & G.M.)
Total questions: 87
Worksheet time: 6hrs 2mins
15, 20, 25
18, 73, 75
15, 20, 25
Side c on a right triangle is ALWAYS the longest.
true
false
Johnathan is painting the side of his home. He has a 25 foot ladder and leans the ladder against his house. The base of the ladder is five feet from the side of the house. How far up the house will the ladder reach?
24.5 ft
25.5 ft
26.5 ft
23.5 ft
You need a ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed 10 feet away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be?
Which diagram best represents the problem?
You need a ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed 10 feet away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be?
Which equation could be used to solve the problem?
252+102=c2
252+b2=102
a2+102=252
102+b2=252
Lisa drives her car 46 km south and then 13 km east. How far is she from her starting point?
44.1 km
59 km
47.8 km
33 km
If a right triangle has side lengths 6, 6.7 and 3, which side is the hypotenuse?
6
6.7
3
15.7
None of them
Level 2
Solve for the value of y
13
5
23
10
Level 3
Find the length of the missing side.
25 cm
42 cm
52 cm
48 cm
15, 20, 25
18, 73, 75
Find the value of x.
75
68.9
76
70
b = 35 c = 37
You need a ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed 10 feet away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be?
Which diagram best represents the problem?
You need a ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed 10 feet away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be?
Which equation could be used to solve the problem?
252+102=c2
252+b2=102
a2+102=252
102+b2=252
The slide at the playground has a height of 6 feet. The base of the slide measured on the ground is 8 feet. What is the length of the slide?
8 feet
5.29 feet
10 feet
14 feet
The bottom of a 13-foot straight ladder is set into the ground 5 feet away from a wall. When the top of the ladder is leaned against the wall, what is the distance above the ground it will reach?
12 feet
13.9 feet
In the Old West, settlers made tents out of a piece of cloth thrown over a clothesline and then secured it to the ground with stakes forming an isosceles triangle. How long would the cloth have to be so that the opening of the tent was 6 feet high and 8 feet wide?
14.4 feet
7.2 feet
10 feet
20 feet
Your family wants to purchase a new laptop with a 17" widescreen. Since the 17 inches represents the diagonal measurement of the screen (upper corner to lower corner), you want to find out the actual dimensions of the laptop. When you measured the laptop at the store, the height was 10 inches, but you don't remember the width. Calculate the width of the laptop to the nearest tenth of an inch.
7 inches
10 inches
19.7 inches
13.7 inches
A soccer field is a rectangle 90 meters wide and 120 meters long. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the other corner diagonally across the field. How far do the players run?
105 meters
79.4 meters
210 meters
150 meters
The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 inches. The width is 15 inches. What is the area of the rectangle?
375 in2
70 in2
300 in2
20 in2
Lisa drives her car 46 km south and then 13 km east. How far is she from her starting point?
44.1 km
59 km
47.8 km
33 km
Two sides of a right triangle are 8 and 12. Find the missing side length if 8 and 12 are legs.
4.5
20
8.9
14.4
How far from the base of a house do you need to place a 15' ladder so that is exactly reaches the top of a 12' wall?
9 feet
19.2 feet
81 feet
369 feet
Lisa drives her car 46 km south and then 13 km east. How far is she from her starting point?
44.1 km
59 km
47.8 km
33 km
Find the length of AB.
36
18
6
12
The accompanying diagram shows a 24-foot ladder leaning against a building. A steel brace extends from the ladder to the point where the building meets the ground. The brace forms a right angle with the ladder.If the steel brace is connected to the ladder at a point that is 10 feet from the foot of the ladder, which equation can be used to find the length, x, of the steel brace?
x10=14x
x10=24x
102+x2=142
102+x2=242
In right triangle ABC below, CD is the altitude to hypotenuse AB. If CD=6 and the ratio of AD to AB is 1:5, determine and state the length of BD.
2.68
7.2
14.4
3.1
How far is it across the lake?
4
6
9
12
In the accompanying diagram, triangle ABC is a right triangle and CD is the altitude to hypotenuse AB. If AD=4 and DB=16 find the length of CD.
0
64
8
32
In the accompanying diagram of right triangle ABC, CD is drawn perpendicular to hypotenuse AB. If AB=16 and DB=4 find the length of BC.
0
8
32
64
In right triangle ABC, altitude CD is drawn to hypotenuse AB. Find the length of BC.
80
40
0
8.9
Find the length of the altitude of triangle PQR.
6.9
48
24
0
Find the length HK of of right triangle GHK.
300
0
150
17.3
Find the value of x.
0
48
4.9
24
If AD=3, AB=8, find the value of CB.
6.3
40
80
20
Find the value of x.
12
16
9
6
Find the value of y, if you know the value of x=16
400
20
200
40
Find the value of z, if you know the value of x=16.
30
112.5
225
15
In the right triangle ABC below, CD is the altitude to the hypotenuse AB. If AC=28, and the ratio of AD to AB is 4:3, determine the value of x.
28
47
72
27
In the right triangle ABC below, CD is the altitude to the hypotenuse AB. If AD=3, AB=12, what is the value of CB?
120
415
230
210
What is the formula for Geometric Mean?
legheight=heightleg
heightleg=heightleg
Find the value of x.
12
4√2
√32
16
Find x.
6
10
14
8
Solve for x.
6
8
10
12
Solve for y.
10.67
6
8
12.33
Solve for x.
32
24
28
30
Evelina is hanging silver stars from the gym ceiling using string for the homecoming dance. Find the height from the floor (F) to the ceiling (C).
20 ft
25 ft
42 ft
15 ft
Find the approximate height of the waterfall.
156.8 ft
161.8 ft
33 ft
140 ft
How tall is the cliff?
588 ft
591 ft
600 ft
569 ft
