ANGLES, AREA, SURFACE, AND VOLUME

PROBLEM SOLUTION

1. In the quadrilateral ABCD AD = BC,  DAC = 50°,

 DCA = 65° and  ACB = 70°. How big is  ABC ?

A. 50° B) 55° C) 60° D) 65° E) It is not clear.

2) In the figure ABCD is a rectangle and PQRS a square. The

area of the grey part is half as big as the area of ABCD. How
long is the side PX?

A) 1 B) 1.5 C) 2 D) 2.5 E) 4

3) The big equilateral triangle consists of 36 small

equilateral triangles which each have an area of 1 cm².
Determine the area of ABC.

A) 11 cm² B) 12 cm² C) 15 cm² D) 9 cm² E) 10 cm²

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4) In the figure a = 7°. All lines OA1, A1A2, A2A3, … are

equally long. What is the maximum number of lines
that can be drawn in this way if no two lines are
allowed to intersect each other?

A) 10 B) 11 C) 12 D) 13 E) As many as we want

5) In the picture on the right we can see three squares. The

corners of the middle square are on the midpoints of the
sides of the larger square, and the corners of the smaller
square are on the midpoints of the sides of the middle
square. The area of the small square is 6 cm2. What is the
area of the big square?

A) 24 cm² B) 18 cm² C) 15 cm² D) 12 cm² E) 9 cm²

6) A square piece of paper is cut into six rectangular pieces as

shown on the right. The sum of the perimeters of the six
pieces is 120 cm. How big is the area of the square?
A) 48 cm² B) 64 cm² C) 110.25 cm² D) 144 cm² E) 256 cm²

7) On the inside of a square with side length 7 cm another square

is drawn with side length 3 cm. Then a third square with side
length 5 cm is drawn so that it cuts the first two as shown in
the picture on the right. How big is the difference between the
black area and the grey area?
A) 0 cm² B) 10 cm² C) 11 cm² D) 15 cm²
E) It can not be decided from the information given.
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8) In a convex quadrilateral ABCD with AB = AC, the following

holds true: BAD = 80°, ABC = 75° ,
ADC = 65° . How big is BDC ? (Note: In a convex
quadrilateral all internal angles are less than 180°.)
A) 10° B) 15° C) 20°
D) 30° E) 45°

9) The figure on the left consists of two rectangles. Two

side lengths are marked: 11 and 13. The figure is cut
into three parts along the two lines drawn inside.
These can be put together to make the triangle shown
on the right. How long is the side marked x?

A) 36 B) 37 C) 38 D) 39 E) 40

10. The diagram shows a five‐pointed star. How big is the

angle A?
(A) 35° (B) 42° (C) 51°
(D) 65° (E) 109°

11. Three equally sized equilateral triangles are cut

from the vertices of a large equilateral triangle of
side length 6cm . The three little triangles
together have the same perimeter as the
remaining grey hexagon. What is the side‐length
of one side of one small triangle?
(A) 1 cm (B) 1.2 cm (C) 1.25 cm (D) 1.5 cm (E) 2 cm
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12. In a square ABCD M is the midpoint of AB. MN is D C

perpenticular to AC. Determine the ratio of the area of the

grey triangle to the area of the square ABCD

.(A) 1:6 (B) 1:5 C) 7:36 (D) 3:16 (E) 7:40

N

A B
M

13. Three lines disect a big triangle into four triangles and three
quadrilaterals. The sum of the perimeters of the three
quadrialterals is 25 cm. The sum of the perimeters of the four
triangles is 20 cm. T e perimeter of the big triangle is 19 cm. How
big is the sum of the lengths of the three dissecting lines?
(A) 11 cm (B) 12 cm (C) 13 m (D) 15 cm (E) 16 cm

14. In the diagram pictured,a = 55°, b = 40° and g = 35°. g

How big is d? d
(A) 100° (B) 105° (C) 120° (D) 125° (E) 130° a b

15. Wanda has lots of pages of square paper, whereby each

page has an area of 4. She cuts each of the pages into right-
angled triangles and squares (see the left hand diagram).
She takes a few of these pieces and forms the shape in the
right hand diagram. How big is the area of this shape?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 4.5 (D) 5 (E) 6
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15. congruent rectangles are positioned in a square with

side length 24 as shown in the diagram. How big is
the area of one of these rectangles?
(A) 12 cm2 (B) 16 cm2 (C) 18 cm2
(D) 24 cm2 (E) 32 cm2

16. In triangle ABC (see sketch) AD is the angle bisector of

the angle at A and BH is the height from side AC. The
obtuse angle between BH and AD is four times the size of
angle DAB. How big is the angle CAB?
(A) 30° (B) 45° (C) 60° (D) 75° (E) 90°

17. The quadrilateral ABCD has right angles only in corners A

and D. The numbers in the diagram give the respective
areas of the triangles in which they are located. How big is
the area of ABCD
(A) 60 (B) 45 (C) 40 (D) 35 (E) 30

18. A square with area 30 is split into two by its diagonal

and then split into triangles as shown in the diagram.
Some of the areas of the triangles are given in the
diagram. Which of the line segments a, b, c, d, e of the
diagonal is the longest?
(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e
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S R
19. In the Trapezium PQRS sides PQ and RS are parallel. Also
1 𝟏𝟐𝟎𝒐
∠𝑅𝑆𝑃 = 1200 and 𝑅𝑆 = 𝑆𝑃 = 𝑃𝑄. What is the size of
3
angle ∠𝑃𝑄𝑅 ?
(A) 15° (B) 22∙5° (C) 25° (D) 30° (E) 45°
P Q

20. In the figure, ABCE is a square. CDE and BCF are equilateral
triangles. The length of AB is 1. How long is FD?
3
(A) 2 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 5 − 1 (E) 6 − 1

21. How big is the angle indicated with a question mark?

A) 10° B) 20° C) 30° D) 40° E) 50°

22. The area of the grey rectangle shown on the right is 13

cm2. X and Y are the midpoints of the sides of the
trapezium. How big is the area of the trapezium?

A) 24 cm² B) 25 cm² C) 26 cm² D) 27 cm² E) 28 cm²

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23. A marble of radius 15 is rolled into a cone-shaped hole. It

fits in perfectly. From the side the cone looks like an
equilateral triangle. How deep is the hole?
(A) 30 2 (B) 25 3 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 60( 3 − 1)

24. In the triangle WXY points Z on XY and T on WZ are, as

shown on the right. If one connects T with X, a figure with
nine internal angles is created as shown in the figure on the
right. From those 9 angles, what is the smallest number that
could be a different size to each other
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5 E) 6

25. The two circles shown on the right intersect each other at X and
Y. Thereby XY is the diameter of the small circle. The centre S
of the large circle (with radius r) is on the small circle. How big
is the area of the grey region
𝜋 3𝜋 2 1 3 2
(A) 6 𝑟 2 (B) 12
𝑟 (C) 2 𝑟 2 (D) 4
𝑟 (E) another number

26. M and N are the midpoints of the equal sides of an isosceles

trian le. How big is the area of the quadrilateral (marked ?)?

A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6 E) 7
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E g
27. The quadrilateral ABCD with side length 4cm has the same
area as triagle CDE. What is the perpendicular distance from
C B
point E to the line g?
A) 8 cm B) 4+2 3 cm C) 12 cm D) 10 2 cm
E) It depends on the position of E A
D

28. One of the two sides of a rectangle has length 6cm. In the
rectangle circles are drawn next to each other in such a way
that their centres form an equilateral triangle. What is the
shortest distance between the two grey circles ( in cm)?
𝜋
A) 1 B) 2 C) 2 3 − 2 D) 2cm E) 2

29. The diagram shows a right‐angled triangle with side lengths 5,

12 and 13. What is the length of the radius of the inscribed
semi‐circle?
(A) 7/3 (B) 10/3 (C) 12/3 (D) 13/3 (E) 17/3

30. A rectangle ABCD with dimensions 16cm by 4cm

was folded along the line MN so that corner C
meets corner A. What is the area of the Pentagon
ABNMD'?
(A) 17 cm² (B) 27 cm² (C) 37 cm² (D) 47 cm² (E) 57 cm²