Practice Exercise - Plane Geometry
Practice Exercise - Plane Geometry
1. Given the triangle ABC in which A = 30 deg 30 min, b = 100 m and c = 200 m. Find the length
of the side a.
A. 103 m B. 124.64 m C. 130.5 m D. 142.24 m
2. Find the number of sides of a regular polygon if each interior angle measures 108 degrees.
A. 7 B. 8 C. 5 D. 6
3. The center of a circle that is inscribed in a triangle coincides with which of the following points
associated with triangle?
A. Circumcenter B. Incenter C. Apothem D. Centroid
5. The perimeter of a rectangle is 104 inches. The width is 6 inches less than 3 times the length.
Find the width of the rectangle.
A. 14.5 B. 37.5 C. 13.5 D. 15
6. A line segment is a side of a square and also the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle. What
is the ratio of the area of the square to the area of the triangle?
A. 1:4 B. 4:1 C. 1:1 D. 4:2
9. Find the ratio of the sides of triangle if its sides from an arithmetic progression and one of the
angle’s 90 degrees.
A. 4:5:6 B. 1:2:3 C. 3:4:5 D. 2:3:4
10. A horse is tied to a post with twenty-foot rope. What is the longest path the horse can walk?
A. 20 B. 40 C. 62.83 D. 125.66
11. What is the area of the ellipse whose eccentricity is 0.6 and whose major axis has a length of
8?
A. 40.21 B. 42.10 C. 41.20 D. 40.12
12. What is the eccentricity, e of a conic section with discriminant B^2 – 4AC = 0.
A. hyperbola B. circle C. parabola D. ellipse
13. Find the area of a regular hexagon circumscribing a circle with an area of 289 pi.sq. cm
A. 2002 B. 1001 C. 550 D. 328
14. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 10.2426, find the area of a triangle.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 4.5
15. Find the base of an isosceles triangle whose vertical angle is 65 degrees and whose equal sides
are 415 cm.
A. 530 cm B. 464 cm C. 350 cm D. 446 cm
16. A reserved curve on a railroad track consists of two circular arcs. The central angle of one is
20° with radius 2500 ft and the central angle of the other is 25° with radius 3000 ft. Find the
total length of the two arcs.
A. 2182 ft B. 2821 ft C. 2482 ft D. 2848 ft
17. Two squares each of 12 cm sides overlap each other such that the overlapping region is a
regular octagon. Determine the area in cm2 of the overlapping region thus formed?
A. 110.9 B. 121.5 C. 119.3 D. 117.4
18. Given that the perimeter of a triangle is 100cm. If the angles of the triangle are in the ratio
3:4:5, find the longest side of the triangle in cm.
A. 28.53 B. 41.25 C. 38.04 D. 29.06
19. The side of a square is 5cm less than the side of another square. If the difference in their areas
is 55sq.cm, find the side in cm of the smaller square.
A. 8 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6
20. A triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle with radius R having its center at O if the angle OBA
is 48 degrees, find the angle ACB.
A. 60 degrees B. 42 degrees C. 75 degrees D. 55 degrees