Compound right-triangle lengths

Compound right-triangle lengths

Secondary 2
TGM Original Questions

All lengths are in centimetres. Find the unknown lengths, giving non-exact answers to 3 significant figures.

  1. A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 15 and base 9; its height is \(u\). An adjacent right-angled isosceles triangle has legs \(u\), so its hypotenuse is \(v\).
  2. A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 29 and vertical leg 20; its base is split equally at \(R\). From \(R\), a second right-angled triangle has vertical leg 6; find the half-base \(m\) and its hypotenuse \(n\).
  3. On base \(BD=30\) cm, \(BC=x\) and \(CD=8\) cm. Right-angled triangle \(ABC\) has hypotenuse \(AB=25\) cm. Point \(E\) lies on \(AC\), with \(EC=6\) cm; find \(x=BC\) and \(y=AE\).
  4. A rectangle has width 16 and diagonal 20. Find height \(p\) and the distance \(q\) from a corner to the midpoint of the opposite vertical side.

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Answer:(a) \(12,17.0\); (b) \(10.5,12.1\); (c) \(22,5.87\); (d) \(12,17.1\) cm.

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