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Example Question #131 : Triangles
and
are similar triangles. The perimeter of Triangle A is 45” and the length of two of its sides are 15” and 10”. If the perimeter of Triangle B is 135” and what are lengths of two of its sides?
The perimeter is equal to the sum of the three sides. In similar triangles, each side is in proportion to its correlating side. The perimeters are also in equal proportion.
Perimeter A = 45” and perimeter B = 135”
The proportion of Perimeter A to Perimeter B is .
This applies to the sides of the triangle. Therefore to get the any side of Triangle B, just multiply the correlating side by 3.
15” x 3 = 45”
10” x 3 = 30“
Example Question #51 : Acute / Obtuse Triangles
Find the height of a triangle if the area of the triangle = 18 and the base = 4.
1
6
9
4
9
The area of a triangle = (1/2)bh where b is base and h is height. 18 = (1/2)4h which gives us 36 = 4h so h =9.
Example Question #332 : Plane Geometry
If triangle ABC has vertices (0, 0), (6, 0), and (2, 3) in the xy-plane, what is the area of ABC?
20
10
12
18
9
Example Question #11 : Acute / Obtuse Triangles
The height, , of triangle
in the figure is one-fourth the length of
. In terms of h, what is the area of triangle
?
If *
, then the length of
must be
.
Using the formula for the area of a triangle (), with
, the area of the triangle must be
.
Example Question #2 : Hexagons
How many diagonals are there in a regular hexagon?
A diagonal is a line segment joining two non-adjacent vertices of a polygon. A regular hexagon has six sides and six vertices. One vertex has three diagonals, so a hexagon would have three diagonals times six vertices, or 18 diagonals. Divide this number by 2 to account for duplicate diagonals between two vertices. The formula for the number of vertices in a polygon is:
where .
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Hexagon
How many diagonals are there in a regular hexagon?
6
10
9
18
3
9
A diagonal connects two non-consecutive vertices of a polygon. A hexagon has six sides. There are 3 diagonals from a single vertex, and there are 6 vertices on a hexagon, which suggests there would be 18 diagonals in a hexagon. However, we must divide by two as half of the diagonals are common to the same vertices. Thus there are 9 unique diagonals in a hexagon. The formula for the number of diagonals of a polygon is:
where n = the number of sides in the polygon.
Thus a pentagon thas 5 diagonals. An octagon has 20 diagonals.
Example Question #571 : Psat Mathematics
Regular Hexagon has a diagonal
with length 1.
Give the length of diagonal .
The key is to examine in thie figure below:
Each interior angle of a regular hexagon, including , measures
, so it can be easily deduced by way of the Isosceles Triangle Theorem that
.
, so by angle addition,
.
Also, by symmetry,
,
so ,
and is a
triangle whose long leg
has length
.
By the Theorem,
, which is the hypotenuse of
, has length
times that of the long leg, so
.
Example Question #572 : Psat Mathematics
Regular Hexagon has a diagonal
with length 1.
Give the length of diagonal .
The key is to examine in thie figure below:
Each interior angle of a regular hexagon, including , measures
, so it can be easily deduced by way of the Isosceles Triangle Theorem that
.
, so by angle addition,
.
Also, by symmetry,
,
so ,
and is a
triangle whose hypotenuse
has length
.
By the Theorem, the long leg
of
has length
times that of hypotenuse
, so
.
Example Question #574 : Geometry
Regular hexagon has side length of 1.
Give the length of diagonal .
The key is to examine in thie figure below:
Each interior angle of a regular hexagon, including , measures
, so it can be easily deduced by way of the Isosceles Triangle Theorem that
. To find
we can subtract
from
. Thus resulting in:
Also, by symmetry,
,
so .
Therefore, is a
triangle whose short leg
has length
.
The hypotenuse of this
triangle measures twice the length of short leg
, so
.
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Hexagon
Regular hexagon has side length 1.
Give the length of diagonal .
The key is to examine in thie figure below:
Each interior angle of a regular hexagon, including , measures
, so it can be easily deduced by way of the Isosceles Triangle Theorem that
. To find
we subtract
from
. Thus resullting in
Also, by symmetry,
,
so ,
and is a
triangle whose short leg
has length
.
The long leg of this
triangle measures
times the length of short leg
, so
.
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