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1.

What is the area of a right triangle with a leg of length 3 units and a hypotenuse of
length 5 units?
A. 4 sq. units
B. 5 sq. units
C. 6 sq. units
D. 7 sq. units

2. What is the area of an equilateral triangle with a side of length 4 meters?


A. 16 sq. meters
B. 8 sq. meters
C. (4 + sqrt(3)) sq. meters
D. 4sqrt(3) sq. meters

3. If a leg of a right triangle is 5 mm in length and the triangle has an angle of 45


degrees, what is the perimeter of the triangle?
A. 30 mm
B. 10 sqrt(50) mm
C. (10 + sqrt(50)) mm
D. 32 mm

4. The perimeter of an oblique (no right angle) triangle is 24 cm. What are valid
lengths for the sides of the triangle given that two angles of the triangle are acute?
A. 3, 10, 11
B. 12, 6, 6
C. 6, 8, 10
D. 2, 5, 17
5. An equilateral triangle ABC has a point Z on BC such that AZ that bisects BC.
Given that BZ is 3 cm, what is the area of the triangle?
A. 36 cm^2
B. 18 cm^2
C. 12 cm^2
D. 9 * sqrt(3) cm^2

6. What is always the measure of any angle in an equilateral triangle?


A. 60 degrees
B. 120 degrees
C. 180 degrees
D. 240 degrees

7. In the figure shown below, a triangle is inscribed within a semicircle, with one of its
sides having length 3 cm. The circle has a diameter of 5 cm. What is the area of
the triangle?

A. 15 cm^2
B. 7.5 cm^2
C. 30 cm^2
D. 6 cm^2
8. Ryan decides to dump leaves into a trash can in the shape of a square prism. The
square prism has a base with length 24 cm and a height of 100 cm. The trashcan
has sides that are 2 cm thick. How many cubic centimeters of leaves can Ryan
dump in the trash can?
A. 40000 cm^3
B. 4000 cm^3
C. 57600 cm^3
D. 48400 cm^3

9. If the length of the sides of a cube increased by 50%, by how much does the
surface area change?
A. Its surface area increases by 50%
B. 100%
C. 125%
D. 150%

10. If the radius of a sphere is doubled, by how much will its surface area change?
A. 1.5 times
B. 2 times
C. 4 times
D. Squared

11. In rectangle ABCD, the length of AB is equivalent to BC. If the length of line AD is
x - 7 and the perimeter is 64, what is the area of the rectangle?
A. 64 sq. units
B. 128 sq. units
C. 256 sq. units
D. Not enough information is given to solve the problem.
12. The perimeter of a square is 24 units. Find the length of a diagonal.
A. 6 units
B. 12 units
C. 6√2 units
D. 12√2 units

13. If an ice cream cone is filled to the brim, approximately how much ice cream is
inside a 10in. high cone with a radius of 2.5in?
A. 125 cubic inches
B. 250 cubic inches
C. 65 cubic inches
D. 155 cubic inches

14. A skyscraper in the shape of a rectangular prism has a volume of 144m3 and a
square-shaped base with side 8m. If the sides of the building is purely surrounded
with glass, what is the salary of the worker if he earns five pesos for each m2 of
glass cleaned?
A. 320 pesos
B. 360 pesos
C. 480 pesos
D. 540 pesos

15. A square is inscribed in a circle with a radius of 4m. Determine the area of the
square.
A. 8 m^2
B. 16 m^2
C. 32 m^2
D. 64 m^2
16. Point B is twice as far from Point C as it is from Point A, and is on line segment AC.
Knowing that segment AB has length 2x+5 and segment AC has length 4x+20,
determine the length of segment BC.
A. 5 units
B. 10 units
C. 15 units
D. 20 units

17. What happens to the volume of a sphere when its radius is tripled?
A. Remains constant
B. Scaled by a factor of ⅓
C. Scaled by a factor of 27
D. Squared then halved

18. The length of the rectangle is six less than thrice its width. The perimeter is 44.
What is the area of the rectangle?
A. 105 sq. units
B. 84 sq. units
C. 72 sq. units
D. 56 sq. units

19. Solve for the area of the triangle.


A. 3√3 sq. units
B. 9√3 sq. units
C. 13.5 sq. units
D. 9 sq. units

20. A cuboid has sides x,y and z cm. What should the length of one side of a cube be to
have the same volume as the cuboid?
A. xyz

B. √3 xyz
C. (xyz) / 6
D. x + y + z

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