Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended CD-ROM

Answers to Core revision exercises:

Shape, space and measures
Worksheet 11: Pythagoras’ theorem and similar shapes

1 (a) ABD = ACD, SSS or RHS or ASA or SAS

(b) MNO = QPO, SSS or SAS
(c) no
(d) WXY = YZW, SSS
(e) CAB = CDE, SSS or SAS
(f) no
(g) CAB = DEF, ASA
(h) no
(i) RQP = RTS, RHS

2 (a) 12 cm (b) 14.1 cm (3sf) (c) 25 mm (d) 44 cm

(e) 50 mm (f) 15 cm (g) 1 m (h) 1.7 m

3 149 m

4 3.7 km

5 (a) 8.25 (3sf) (b) 4.24 (3sf) (c) 18.0 (3sf) (d) 5.10 (3sf)

(e) 17.7 (3sf) (f) 3 (g) 6.40 (3sf) (h) (a 2  b 2 )

6 (a) y = 18 mm (b) y = 4.29 cm

(c) x = 1.2 cm, y = 1.3 cm (d) x = 27.5 mm, y = 30 mm

7 (a) no (b) yes (c) no (d) no

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