AMC 10 GEOMETRY I PROBLEMS

Q1. In rhombus , point lies on segment so that , ,

and . What is the area of ? (Note: The figure is not drawn to scale.)

Q2. The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths and and a square with
side length . Three vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle, as
shown. What is the area of the region inside both the square and the rectangle?

Q3. Let be a rhombus with . Let be the midpoint of , and

let be the point on such that is perpendicular to . What is the degree
measure of ?

Q4. Daniel finds a rectangular index card and measures its diagonal to
be centimetres. Daniel then cuts out equal squares of side cm at two opposite
corners of the index card and measures the distance between the two closest vertices
of these squares to be centimetres, as shown below. What is the area of the
original index card?

Q5. Let be a scalene triangle. Point lies on so

that bisects The line through perpendicular to intersects the line
through parallel to at point Suppose and What is

Q6. Isosceles trapezoid has parallel

sides and with and There is a point in the plane
such that and What is

Q7. A square with side length is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with one side of the
square along the base of the triangle. A square with side length has two vertices on the
other square and the other two on sides of the triangle, as shown. What is the area of
the triangle?

Q8. In square , points and lie on and , respectively.

Segments and intersect at right angles at , with and .
What is the area of the square?
Q9. Three identical square sheets of paper each with side length are stacked on top
of each other. The middle sheet is rotated clockwise about its centre and the top
sheet is rotated clockwise about its centre, resulting in the -sided polygon shown
in the figure below. The area of this polygon can be expressed in the form ,
where , , and are positive integers, and is not divisible by the square of any prime.
What is

Q10. A rectangle with side lengths and a square with side length and a
rectangle are inscribed inside a larger square as shown. The sum of all possible
values for the area of can be written in the form , where and are relatively prime
positive integers. What is
Q11. As shown in the figure below, point lies on the opposite half-plane determined
by line from point so that . Point lies on so
that , and is a square. What is the degree measure of ?

Q12. An architect is building a structure that will place vertical pillars at the vertices of
regular hexagon , which is lying horizontally on the ground. The six pillars
will hold up a flat solar panel that will not be parallel to the ground. The heights of pillars
at , , and are , , and meters, respectively. What is the height, in meters, of the
pillar at ?
Q13. The figure is constructed from line segments, each of which has length . The
area of pentagon can be written as , where and are positive

integers. What is

Q14. A square piece of paper has side length and vertices and in that
order. As shown in the figure, the paper is folded so that vertex meets edge at

point , and edge at point . Suppose that . What is the perimeter of

triangle

Q15. Trapezoid has , , and . Let be

the intersection of the diagonals and , and let be the midpoint of . Given
that , the length can be written in the form , where and are
positive integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?

Q16. Let be an equiangular hexagon. The

lines and determine a triangle with area , and the
lines and determine a triangle with area . The perimeter of
hexagon can be expressed as , where and are positive
integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?

Q17. In square , points and lie on and , respectively, so

that Points and lie on and , respectively, and
points and lie on so that and . See the figure below.
Triangle , quadrilateral , quadrilateral , and

pentagon each has area What is ?

Q18. Triangle is isosceles with . Medians and are

perpendicular to each other, and . What is the area of

Q19.
Quadrilateral satisfies and
Diagonals and intersect at point and What is the area of
quadrilateral
Q20. The figure below shows a square and four equilateral triangles, with each triangle
having a side lying on a side of the square, such that each triangle has side length and
the third vertices of the triangles meet at the centre of the square. The region inside the
square but outside the triangles is shaded. What is the area of the shaded region?

Q21. Right triangles and have areas 1 and 2, respectively. A side of is

congruent to a side of , and a different side of is congruent to a different side of .
What is the square of the product of the other (third) sides of and ?

Q22. In with a right angle at point lies in the interior of and

point lies in the interior of so that and the
ratio What is the ratio

Q23. In the rectangular parallelepiped shown, , , and .

Point is the midpoint of . What is the volume of the rectangular pyramid with
base and apex ?
Q24. A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping
paper. The box is cantered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on
the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure on the left. The four
corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to
meet at the centre of the top of the box, point in the figure on the right. The box has
base length and height . What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?

Q25. In rectangle , and . Points and lie on ,

points and lie on , points and lie on , and points and lie on so
that and the convex octagon is equilateral. The
length of a side of this octagon can be expressed in the form , where , ,
and are integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is
?
Q26. Let be a regular hexagon with side length . Denote by , ,
and the midpoints of sides , , and , respectively. What is the area of the
convex hexagon whose interior is the intersection of the interiors
of and ?

Q27. All of the triangles in the diagram below are similar to isosceles triangle , in
which . Each of the smallest triangles has area and has area
. What is the area of trapezoid ?

Q28. A paper triangle with sides of lengths and inches, as shown, is folded so
that point falls on point . What is the length in inches of the crease?

Q29. Right triangle has leg lengths and .

Including and , how many line segments with integer length can be drawn from
vertex to a point on hypotenuse ?
Q30. Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's
legs have lengths and units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he
leaves a small unplanted square so that from the air it looks like the right-angle
symbol. The rest of the field is planted. The shortest distance from to the hypotenuse
is units. What fraction of the field is planted?

Q31. Triangle with and has area . Let be the

midpoint of , and let be the midpoint of . The angle bisector
of intersects and at and , respectively. What is the area of
quadrilateral ?

Q32. Rectangle has and . Point is the foot of the

perpendicular from to diagonal . What is the area of ?

Q33. Let be an equilateral triangle. Extend side beyond to a point so

that . Similarly, extend side beyond to a point so
that , and extend side beyond to a point so
that . What is the ratio of the area of to the area of ?

Q34. In , , , , and is the midpoint of . What is

the sum of the radii of the circles inscribed in and ?

Q35. Tamara has three rows of two -feet by -feet flower beds in her garden. The beds
are separated and also surrounded by -foot-wide walkways, as shown on the diagram.
What is the total area of the walkways, in square feet?
Q36. A square with side length is inscribed in a right triangle with sides of length , ,
and so that one vertex of the square coincides with the right-angle vertex of the
triangle. A square with side length is inscribed in another right triangle with sides of
length , , and so that one side of the square lies on the hypotenuse of the triangle.
What is ?

Q37. Rectangle has and . Point lies on so

that , point lies on so that . and point lies on so
that . Segments and intersect at and , respectively. What is

the value of ?

Q38. In regular hexagon , points , , , and are chosen on sides

, , , and respectively, so lines , , , and are parallel and
equally spaced. What is the ratio of the area of hexagon to the area of
hexagon ?

Q39. A rug is made with three different colours as shown. The areas of the three
differently coloured regions form an arithmetic progression. The inner rectangle is one
foot wide, and each of the two shaded regions is foot wide on all four sides. What is

the length in feet of the inner rectangle?

Q40. Find the area of the shaded region.

Q41. In rectangle and . Point between and , and

point between and are such that .
Segments and intersect at and , respectively. The
ratio can be written as where the greatest common factor
of and is 1. What is ?
Q42. In the figure shown below, is a regular pentagon and . What

is ?

Q43. The isosceles right triangle has right angle at and area . The rays
trisecting intersect at and . What is the area of ?

Q44. A rectangle with side lengths in has an area of integer and a perimeter
of integer . Which of the following numbers cannot equal ?

Q45. For some positive integers , there is a quadrilateral with positive integer
side lengths, perimeter , right angles at and , , and . How
many different values of are possible?

Q46. Camden constructs a square window using equal-size panes of glass, as shown.
The ratio of the height to width for each pane is , and the borders around and
between the panes are inches wide. In inches, what is the side length of the square

window?
Q47. Six regular hexagons surround a regular hexagon of side length as shown. What
is the area of ?

Q48. In rectangle , and points and lie on so

that and trisect as shown. What is the ratio of the area of to
the area of rectangle ?

Q49. Trapezoid has parallel sides of length and of length . The

other two sides are of lengths and . The angles at and are acute. What is the
length of the shorter diagonal of ?

Q50. Equilateral has side length , and squares , , lie

outside the triangle. What is the area of hexagon ?
Q51. In rectangle , , , and points , , and are midpoints
of , , and , respectively. Point is the midpoint of . What is the area of
the shaded region?

Q52. In rectangle , and . Let be a point on such

that . What is ?
Q53. A rectangular piece of paper whose length is times the width has area . The
paper is divided into three equal sections along the opposite lengths, and then a dotted
line is drawn from the first divider to the second divider on the opposite side as shown.
The paper is then folded flat along this dotted line to create a new shape with area .
What is the ratio ?

Q54. A wire is cut into two pieces, one of length and the other of length . The piece
of length is bent to form an equilateral triangle, and the piece of length is bent to

form a regular hexagon. The triangle and the hexagon have equal area. What is ?

Q55. The regular octagon has its centre at . Each of the vertices and
the centre are to be associated with one of the digits through , with each digit used
once, in such a way that the sums of the numbers on the lines , , ,
and are all equal. In how many ways can this be done?

Q56. In triangle , , , and . Distinct points , ,

and lie on segments , , and , respectively, such that
, , and . The length of segment can be written as ,
where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is ?

Q57. In , and . Points and are on

sides , , and , respectively, such that and are parallel
to and , respectively. What is the perimeter of parallelogram ?

Q58. In , , and . A circle with centre and

radius intersects at points and . Moreover and have integer
lengths. What is ?

Q59. All 20 diagonals are drawn in a regular octagon. At how many distinct points in the
interior of the octagon (not on the boundary) do two or more diagonals intersect?

Q60. Two equilateral triangles are contained in a square whose side length is . The
bases of these triangles are the opposite sides of the square, and their intersection is a
rhombus. What is the area of the rhombus?

Q61. In rectangle , , , and is the midpoint of .

Segment is extended 2 units beyond to point , and is the intersection
of and . What is the area of ?
Q62. Let and . What is the smallest possible degree
measure for angle ?

Q63. Three-unit squares and two-line segments connecting two pairs of vertices are
shown. What is the area of ?

Q64. The area of is one third of the area of .

Segment is perpendicular to segment . What is ?

Q65. A rectangular parking lot has a diagonal of meters and an area of square
meters. In meters, what is the perimeter of the parking lot?

Q66. Rectangle has and . Point is chosen on

side so that . What is the degree measure of ?

Q67. Rhombus has side length and . Region consists of all

points inside the rhombus that are closer to vertex than any of the other three
vertices. What is the area of ?
Q68. Square has one vertex on each side of square . Point is
on with . What is the ratio of the area of to the area
of ?

Q69. A triangle has side lengths , , and . A rectangle has width and area equal
to the area of the triangle. What is the perimeter of this rectangle?

Q70. Four identical squares and one rectangle are placed together to form one large
square as shown. The length of the rectangle is how many times as large as its width?

Q71. Triangle has . Let and be on and , respectively,

such that . Let be the intersection of segments and , and
suppose that is equilateral. What is ?

Q72. Nondegenerate has integer side lengths, is an angle

bisector, , and . What is the smallest possible value of the perimeter?

Q73. Equiangular hexagon has side

lengths and . The area
of is of the area of the hexagon. What is the sum of all possible values
of ?

Q74. A rectangular yard contains two flower beds in the shape of congruent isosceles
right triangles. The remainder of the yard has a trapezoidal shape, as shown. The
parallel sides of the trapezoid have lengths and meters. What fraction of the yard
is occupied by the flower beds?
Q75. Segment and intersect at , as shown, ,

and . What is the degree measure of ?

Q76. Distinct points , , , and lie on a line, with .

Points and lie on a second line, parallel to the first, with . A triangle with
positive area has three of the six points as its vertices. How many possible values are
there for the area of the triangle?

Q77. Rectangle has and . Point is the midpoint of

diagonal , and is on with . What is the area of ?

Q78. Triangle has a right angle at , , and . The angle bisector

of intersects side at . What is ?

Q79. A cubical cake with edge length inches is iced on the sides and the top. It is cut
vertically into three pieces as shown in this top view, where is the midpoint of a top
edge. The piece whose top is triangle contains cubic inches of cake and square
inches of icing. What is ?
Q80. Triangle has a right angle at . Point is the foot of the altitude from
, , and . What is the area of ?

Q81. In quadrilateral , , , , , and is an

integer. What is ?

Q82. Four congruent rectangles are placed as shown. The area of the outer square
is times that of the inner square. What is the ratio of the length of the longer side of
each rectangle to the length of its shorter side?

Q83. Rectangle has and . Segment is constructed

through so that is perpendicular to , and and lie on and ,
respectively. What is ?

Q84. Convex quadrilateral has and .

Diagonals and intersect at , , and and have
equal areas. What is ?

Q85. Each of the sides of a square with area is bisected, and a smaller
square is constructed using the bisection points as vertices. The same process is
carried out on to construct an even smaller square . What is the area of ?
Q86. Older television screens have an aspect ratio of . That is, the ratio of the
width to the height is . The aspect ratio of many movies is not , so they are
sometimes shown on a television screen by "letterboxing" - darkening strips of equal
height at the top and bottom of the screen, as shown. Suppose a movie has an aspect
ratio of and is shown on an older television screen with a -inch diagonal. What is
the height, in inches, of each darkened strip?

Q87. A right triangle has perimeter 32 and area 20. What is the length of its
hypotenuse?

Q88. Trapezoid has bases and and diagonals intersecting at .

Suppose that , , and the area of is . What is the area of
trapezoid ?

Q89. cube with side length is sliced by a plane that passes through two diagonally
opposite vertices and and the midpoints and of two opposite edges not
containing or , as shown. What is the area of quadrilateral ?

Q90. All sides of the convex pentagon are of equal length,

and What is the degree measure of

Q91. The angles of quadrilateral satisfy What

is the degree measure of rounded to the nearest whole number?
Q92. Point is inside equilateral Points and are the feet of the
perpendiculars from to and respectively. Given
that and what is

Q93. Right has and Square is

inscribed in with and on on and on What is the side
length of the square?

Q94. Triangles and are isosceles with and .

Point is inside triangle , angle measures 40 degrees, and
angle measures 140 degrees. What is the degree measure of angle ?

Q95. Consider the -sided polygon , as shown. Each of its

sides has length , and each two consecutive sides form a right angle. Suppose
that and meet at . What is the area of quadrilateral ?

Q96. A paint brush is swept along both diagonals of a square to produce the symmetric
painted area, as shown. Half the area of the square is painted. What is the ratio of the
side length of the square to the brush width?
Q97. A rectangle and a rectangle are contained within a square without
overlapping at any point, and the sides of the square are parallel to the sides of the two
given rectangles. What is the smallest possible area of the square?

Q98. In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second
side, and the length of the third side is 15. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the
triangle?

Q99. Rhombus is similar to rhombus . The area of

rhombus is and . What is the area of rhombus ?

Q100. A triangle is partitioned into three triangles and a quadrilateral by drawing two
lines from vertices to their opposite sides. The areas of the three triangles are 3, 7, and 7
as shown. What is the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

Q101.
The rectangle is cut into two congruent hexagons, as shown, in such a
way that the two hexagons can be repositioned without overlap to form a square. What
is ?

Q102. In rectangle , points and trisect , and

points and trisect . In addition, , and . What is the
area of quadrilateral shown in the figure?

Q103. How many non-similar triangles have angled whose degree measures are
distinct positive integers in arithmetic progression?

Q104. In , we have and . Suppose that is a point

on line such that lies between and and . What is ?

Q105. Equilateral has side length , is the midpoint of , and is the

midpoint of . What is the area of ?
Q106. A rectangle with a diagonal of length is twice as long as it is wide. What is the
area of the rectangle?

Q107. In the figure, the length of side of square is and .

What is the area of the inner square ?

Q108. Three one-inch squares are placed with their bases on a line. The centre square
is lifted out and rotated 45 degrees, as shown. Then it is cantered and lowered into its
original location until it touches both of the adjoining squares. How many inches is the
point from the line on which the bases of the original squares were placed?
Q109. An equiangular octagon has four sides of length 1 and four sides of length ,
arranged so that no two consecutive sides have the same length. What is the area of the
octagon?

Q110. In we have , , and . Points and are

on and respectively, with and . What is the ratio of the
area of triangle to the area of the quadrilateral ?

Q111. In the right triangle , we have , , and .

Points , , and are located on , , and , respectively, so that
, , and . What is the ratio of the area of to that of ?
Q112. In points and lie on and , respectively.
If and intersect at so that and , what
is ?

Q113. In the figure, and are right

angles. , and and intersect at . What is the
difference between the areas of and ?

Q114. Points and are located on square so that is equilateral.

What is the ratio of the area of to that of ?
Q115. Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their
diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal length to the height in a standard television screen
is . The horizontal length of a " -inch" television screen is closest, in inches, to
which of the following?

Q116. In rectangle and . Points and are on so

that and . Lines and intersect at . Find the area of
.

Q117. A regular octagon has an area of one square unit. What is the
area of the rectangle ?
Q118. How many non-congruent triangles with perimeter have integer side lengths?

Q119. In rectangle , we have , , is on with

, is on with , line intersects line at , and is on
line with . Find the length of .

Q120. A large equilateral triangle is constructed by using toothpicks to create rows of

small equilateral triangles. For example, in the figure we have rows of small congruent
equilateral triangles, with small triangles in the base row. How many toothpicks would
be needed to construct a large equilateral triangle if the base row of the triangle consists
of small equilateral triangles?
Q121. A regular octagon has sides of length two. Find the area
of .

Q122. Let be a right-angled triangle with . Let and be

the midpoints of the legs and , respectively. Given and ,
find .

Q123. Given a triangle with side lengths 15, 20, and 25, find the triangle's smallest
altitude.

Q124. Points and lie, in that order, on , dividing it into five

segments, each of length 1. Point is not on line . Point lies on , and
point lies on . The line segments and are parallel. Find .

Q125. Points and lie on a line, in that order, with and

. Point is not on the line, and . The perimeter of is twice
the perimeter of . Find .

Q126.

In trapezoid with bases and , we

have , , , and (diagram not to scale). The area
of is
Q127. The plane is tiled by congruent squares and congruent pentagons as indicated.
The percent of the plane that is enclosed by the pentagons is closest to

Q128. A regular octagon is formed by cutting an isosceles right triangle from each of
the corners of a square with sides of length . What is the length of each side of the
octagon?

Q129. In trapezoid , and are perpendicular to ,

with , , and . What is ?

Q130. In rectangle , , is on , and and trisect .

What is the perimeter of ?

Q131. Points and are the midpoints of sides and of .

As moves along a line that is parallel to side , how many of the four quantities
listed below change?
(a) the length of the segment
(b) the perimeter of
(c) the area of
(d) the area of trapezoid
Q132. The sides of a triangle with positive area have lengths , , and . The sides of a
second triangle with positive area have lengths , , and . What is the smallest positive
number that is not a possible value of ?