1. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is 18 cm. Calculate the area of the triangle.

2. A man travels 4 miles north, 12 miles east and then 12 miles north. How far is he from the starting point?
3. If an angle is 9 degrees more than twice its supplement, determine the value of the angle.
4. The hypotenuse of a triangle is a diagonal of a certain rectangle. If a leg of the triangle is 3 units and the hypotenuse is
5 units, what is the perimeter of the triangle?
5. A triangle has sides of 4, 6 and 8 units long. If the shortest side of a similar triangle is 12 units long, what are the length
of the other two sides?
6. Victor, 5.50 ft tall casts a shadow of 15 ft. If the building at the same moment casts a shadow of 300 ft, how high is the
building?
7. A tree stands vertically on a hillside which makes an angle of 22 with the horizontal. From a point 15 m down the hill
from the base of the tree, the angle of elevation of the top of the tree is 44. Find the height of the tree.
8. A flagpole 49 m high is situated at the top of a hill. At a point 183 m down the hill, the angle between the surface of
the hill and the line to the top of the flagpole is 8. Find the distance from the point to the top of the flagpole.
9. The angle of depression of a boat observed from the top of a lighthouse is 328’. If the lighthouse is 27 m high, find the
distance of the boat from the base of the lighthouse.
10. Two ships left the same port, one going in the direction of N70E and the other sailing directly east. The first ship
traveled at the rate of 12 kph. After 30 minutes, the second ship was observed to directly south of the first ship. Find
the speed of the second ship.
11. A pole stands on an inclined plane which makes an angle of 3821’ with the horizontal. At the base of the inclined
plane, the pole subtends an angle of 1936’; at a point 11 m up the inclined plane, it subtends an angle of 4832’. Find
the height of the pole.
12. To find the height of an inaccessible object P from the horizontal plane ABC, P being directly above C and only visible
from the points A and B which are 35 m part. If the angle CBP = 4713’, angle CAB = 4328’ and angle ABC = 5435’,
find the height PC.
13. A sphere is inscribed in a right circular cone. The slant height of the cone is equal to the diameter of its base. If the
altitude of the cone is 15, find the surface area of the sphere.
14. The volumes of two spheres are in the ratio of 27:343 and the sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the smaller
sphere.
15. If the perimeter of a regular pentagon is 50 cm, find the apothem of the pentagon.
16. The lateral surface area of a right circular cylinder is 88 cm2 and its volume is 220 cm3. Find its radius.
17. The volume of a rectangular solid is 1944 cm3 and its edges are in the ratio of 3:4:6. Find the length of the longest side.
18. What is the distance between two vertices of a cube which are farthest from each other if the edge measures 5 cm.
19. If a circular cylindrical tank axis horizontal, diameter 1 m and length 2 m is filled with water to a depth of 0.75 m. How
much water is in the tank?
20. A trench is constructed so that its cross section is a trapezoid the area of which is 21 ft2. If the shorter base is 2 times its
height and the longer base is 5 ft longer than its height. Find the length of the shorter base.
21. Find the equation of the line which passes through the point (-2, 9) and the sum of its intercepts equal to 10.
22. Find x if the line L1 through (-1, 3) and (-3, -2) is perpendicular to the line L2 through (-7, 4) and (x, 0).
23. Find the area of the triangle which the line 2x – 3y + 6 = 0 forms with the coordinate axes.
24. Find the angle from the line through (-2, -3) and (4, 3) to the line through (-1, 6) and (3, -2).
25. An arch has the shape of a parabola with vertex at the top and axis vertical. It is 4 m wide at the base and 8 m high.
How wide is it halfway?
26. The directrix of a parabola is the line y = 5 and its focus is the point (4,-3). What is the length of its latus rectum?
27. Determine the vertex of the parabola y2 – 4x + 6y + 13 = 0.
28. An equilateral triangle is inscribed in the parabola x2 = 8y with one vertex of the triangle at the origin. Find the area of
the triangle.
29. Determine k so that the radius of the circle x2 + y2 + 3x – 2y + k = 0 is equal to 2.
30. A semi-elliptical arch over a highway has a span of 40 ft and an altitude of 15 ft. By how much will a truck 8 ft wide
and 10 ft high driving down the middle of the highway clear the arch?
31. A power cable hangs in a parabolic arc between two poles 100 ft apart. If the poles are 40 ft high and if the lowest
point on the suspended cable is 35 ft above the ground, find the height of the cable at a point 20 ft from the pole.
32. The major axis of an ellipse is twice its minor axis. What is the eccentricity of the ellipse?
33. What is the length of the latus rectum of 4x2 + 9y2 + 24x + 36y + 36 = 0?
34. Determine the center of the circle 3x2 + 3y2 – 6x + 10y + 2 = 0.
35. Find the eccentricity of 25x2 + 16y2 = 400.