Level 1 Geometry

Name

(1) Eight circular cookies are cut from a rectangle of dough measuring 4 inches
by 8 inches. How many square inches of dough are left over? Express your answer in terms
of π.

4 in.
1 in.

8 in.

(2) The point (0, 0) is reflected across the vertical line x = 1. Its image is then
reflected across the line y = 2. What are the coordinates of the resulting point?

(3) Janea has a square garden with an area of 1600 square feet. She plans to
create a straight path from the middle of one side to the middle of the opposite side. If the
path is 3 feet wide, how many square feet of garden will be turned into path?
(4) All triangles in the diagram are equilateral. What percent of the area of
triangle ABC is shaded?

G
D F

I H

A B
E

(5) What is the area in square units of the convex quadrilateral with vertices
(−1, 0), (0, 1), (2, 0) and (0, −3)?

(6) In the target shown, the midpoints of the sides of the shaded square are
joined to form the unshaded region. Given that a dart hits the target, what is the
probability that the dart lands in the shaded area? Express your answer as a common
fraction.

(7) How many lines of symmetry exist for a regular heptagon (a regular
seven-sided polygon)?

(8) A figure skater is facing north when she begins to spin to her right. She
spins 2250 degrees. Which direction (north, south, east or west) is she facing when she
finishes her spin?
 (9) In parallelogram ABCD, AB = 38 cm, BC = 3y 3 cm, CD = 2x + 4 cm, and
AD = 24 cm. What is the product of x and y ?

(10) Of the five coplanar lines shown, only m and n are parallel. What is the
degree measure of ∠1?

50◦
m
◦
60
n

(11) To the nearest tenth of a square unit, find the area of the shaded part of the
figure. Both curved lines are semi-circles. Use 3.14 as an approximation for π.

12

14

18

(12) What is the area of the triangle with vertices (1, 4), (3, 1) and (11, 1)?

(13) It takes 125 identical wooden cubes to fill a cubical box. How many of these
cubes does it take to cover the bottom of the box?

(14) ABCD is a square with M, N, O and P the midpoints of AB, BC, CD and
DA, respectively. What is the number of square inches in the area of MNOP when
AB = 16 inches?
(15) How many axes of symmetry does a regular hexagon have?

(16) A circular spinner to be used in a game is divided by radii into 5

wedge-shaped pieces such that 4 pieces have equal area and the area of the remaining
piece is twice the area of any one of the other pieces. How many degrees are in the central
angle of the largest piece?

(17) Terry needs at least four square feet of floor space per bird in his chicken
coop. Terry plans to build a 30-foot by 20-foot chicken coop. What is the maximum
number of chickens he can house?

(18) What is the ratio of the number of degrees in the complement of a

60-degree angle to the number of degrees in the supplement of a 60-degree angle? Express
your answer as a common fraction.

(19) The perimeter of a rectangle is 12 units. The width of the rectangle is 9

units less than twice its length. What is the length of the rectangle?

(20) How many square units are in the area of the enclosed region in the
diagram? All angles pictured are right angles.

10

6 2

2 4
10 4 2

2
6 2
10
(21) Each triangle shown is equilateral. What is the probability that a point
chosen at random within the largest triangle will lie within the unshaded area? Express the
result as a common fraction.

(22) The top base has been removed from a right rectangular prism as shown.
The result is an open box that measures 6 inches by 5 inches by 2 inches. Each exterior
face of the box is painted red, and each interior face of the box is painted blue. What is the
total area of the box’s painted surfaces?

(23) How many different isosceles triangles have integer side lengths and
perimeter of 81 units?

(24) Two cubes have edge lengths of 6 inches and 12 inches. What is the ratio
of the surface area of the smaller cube to the surface area of the larger cube? Express your
answer as a common fraction.

(25) A triangle has three different integer side lengths and a perimeter of 20
units. What is the maximum length of any one side?
(26) What is the sum of the coordinates of the reflection across the x -axis of the
point with coordinates (−3, 4)?

(27) An octagon only has sides of length 1 unit and x units. In a similar octagon,
the corresponding sides have length x units and 9 units, respectively. What is the value of
x?

(28) What is the greatest number of feet in the perimeter of a rectangular floor
that can be covered by 30 whole 1’ × 1’ square tiles?

(29) Choose all of the formulas from the following list that can be used to
determine the perimeter of a rectangle with length l and width w .
(a) P = 2 + (l × w )
(b) P = 2(l + w )
(c) P = l + w + l + w
(d) P = (l + w )2
(e) P = 2l + w

(30) If a, b, and c are consecutive integers, find the area of the shaded region in
the square below:

b a

a c
c b

c
b c a

a b

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 Level 2 Geometry

Name

(1) The rectangular region bounded by the lines with equations x = 1.2,
x = 2.6, y = −0.2 and y = d has area 14 square units. What is the greatest possible value
of d? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

(2) Point P is the midpoint of segment LR and LR = 8 cm. If L is rotated

clockwise around point P until equilateral triangle LP R can be formed, through how many
degrees is L rotated?

L P R

(3) Two of the opposite sides of a square are increased by 20% and the other
two sides are decreased by 25%. What is the percent of change in the area?

(4) Given a cube with volume 40 cubic centimeters, find the number of
centimeters in the length of an edge.

(5) A circle has its center at P(0, −6). Given that the circle intersects the origin,
what is the number of square units in its area? Express your answer in terms of π.

(6) One side of a square A is a diagonal of square B. What is the ratio of the
area of square B to the area of square A? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(7) Regular pentagon ABCDE is inscribed in circle O. What is the number of

degrees in the measure of ∠OCE?
 (8) A wheel has a circumference of 3 meters. The radius can be expressed as
A
Bπ meters, with relatively prime integers A and B. What is the value of A + B?

(9) A right triangle has hypotenuse 75 cm and one leg 45 cm. What is the
length, in centimeters, of the altitude to the hypotenuse?

(10) Points P and R are located at (1, 3) and (7, 15) respectively. Point M is
the midpoint of segment P R. Segment P R is reflected over the x -axis. What is the sum
of the coordinates of the image of point M (the midpoint of the reflected segment)?

(11) Find the volume, in cubic inches, of a cube that has a surface area of 150
square inches.

√
(12) In parallelogram ABCD, AB = 16 cm, DA = 3 2 cm, and sides AB and
DA form a 45-degree interior angle. In isosceles trapezoid W XY Z with W X 6= Y Z,
segment W X is the longer parallel side and has length 16 cm, and two interior angles each
have a measure of 45 degrees. Trapezoid W XY Z has the same area as parallelogram
ABCD. What is the length in centimeters of segment Y Z?

(13) What is the area enclosed by the graph of |x | + |2y | = 10 shown here?

x
(14) What is the number of distinct triangles in the diagram?

(15) What is the greatest possible number of points of intersection for eight
distinct lines in a plane?

(16) How many inches are in the area of a circle inscribed in a regular hexagon
with side length 12 inches? Express your answer in terms of π.

(17) The point at (a, b) on a Cartesian plane is reflected over the y -axis to the
point at (j, k). If a + j = 0 and b + k = 0, what is the value of b?

(18) The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is 12 to 5 and the area of
the rectangle is 540 square units. What is the number of units in the length of the
rectangle?
(19) In the diagram, AB ⊥ BC and BC ⊥ CD. AB = 8′′ , BC = 12′′ , and
CD = 16′′ . E is the midpoint of AD. How many square inches are in the area of ABCD?

B D
E
A

(20) In the parallelogram shown, the midpoints of opposite sides are connected
with line segments. Likewise, the opposite vertices are connected. What is the probability
that a point randomly selected inside the parallelogram will lie inside one of the shaded
regions? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(21) The rectangle shown has a perimeter of 40 inches, and the length and width
are both greater than 2 inches. If squares with dimensions 1′′ × 1′′ are removed from the
corners as shown, determine the number of inches in the perimeter of the new polygon
formed.

(22) The surface areas of the side, front, and bottom faces of a rectangular solid
are 12, 8 and 6 square inches, respectively. How many cubic inches are in the volume of the
solid?
(23) Two cylindrical cans have the same volume. The height of one can is triple
the height of the other. If the radius of the narrower can is 12 units, how many units are in
the length of the radius of the wider can? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

(24) A hexagon is obtained by joining, in order, the points (0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2),
(2, 1),√(3, 1),√(2, 0), and (0, 1). The perimeter of the hexagon can be written in the form
a + b 2 + c 5, where a, b and c are whole numbers. Find a + b + c.

(25) The minute hand of the tower clock is 12 inches long, and the hour hand is
9 inches long. On this clock, what is the positive difference between the number of inches
traveled by the tip of the minute hand and the tip of the hour hand in one hour? Express
your answer as a decimal in terms of π.

(26) Point B is the midpoint of P Q. P Q is eight centimeters longer than P B.

What is the number of centimeters in the length of QB?

(27) A thermometer is designed as shown. The temperature climbs 50 degrees

during one day. Through how many degrees of angular measure does the needle move
during the day?

30◦
0◦ 60◦

−30◦ 90◦

−60◦ 120◦
F
(28) In order to direct obsevers to a school exhibit, the students are building a
road of paper sheets that measure 18′′ by 21′′ each. The path is 18′′ wide. They need to
tape around the outside of each sheet of paper completely, either to join the sheet to
another or to stick the paper to the floor. (When two sheets meet at an edge, only one
piece of tape is used to hold the sheets together.) What is the least number of feet of tape
they need for a 100 foot long path? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

(29) A sphere is inscribed in a cube. Given that one edge of the cube is 6 inches,
how many cubic inches are in the volume of the inscribed sphere? Express your answer in
terms of π.

(30) Four straight lines intersect a circular region. The lines and circle are
coplanar, and two of the lines are parallel. What is the maximum number of
non-overlapping regions inside the circle?

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 Level 3 Geometry
(1) A bowling ball cannot weigh more than 16 pounds and must have a diameter
of8 21 inches. How many square inches are in the surface area of a bowling ball before the
finger holes are drilled? Express your answer as a common fraction in terms of π.

(2) Golf balls are packaged by stacking three balls vertically in a box. Given that
the height of the box is 13.5 cm, and that the golf balls are touching each other and the
ends of the box, what is the number of centimeters in the circumference of each golf ball?
Express your answer as a common fraction in terms of π.

(3) How many congruent 4-foot tall cylindrical pipes with an inside diameter of
2 inches are needed to hold the same amount of water as one pipe of the same height with
an inside diameter of 12 inches?

(4) A stick 5 cm long, a stick 9 cm long, and a third stick n cm long form a
triangle. What is the sum of all possible whole number values of n?

(5) The vertices of a convex pentagon are (−1, −1), (−3, 4), (1, 7), (6, 5) and
(3, −1). What is the area of the pentagon?

(6) A rectangular prism is composed of unit cubes. The outside faces of the
prism are painted blue and the seven unit cubes in the interior remain entirely unpainted.
How many unit cubes have exactly one painted face?
 √
(7) An equilateral triangle has an area of 64 3 cm2 . If each side of the triangle
is decreased by 4 cm, by how many square centimeters is the area decreased?

(8) A right square pyramid has a base with edges each measuring 3 cm and a
height twice the perimeter of its base. What is the volume of the pyramid?

(9) The triangle with vertices A(6, 1), B(4, 1) and C(4, 4) is rotated 90 degrees
counterclockwise about B. What are the coordinates of the image of C (the point where C
is located after the rotation)? Express your answer as an ordered pair.

(10) Twenty-seven solid gold spherical beads each of radius 3 are melted down
and recast into a larger, solid gold sphere. How many units are in the radius of this larger
gold sphere?

(11) Given that the diagonals of a rhombus are always

√ perpendicular bisectors of
each other, what is the area of a rhombus with side length 89 units and diagonals that
differ by 6 units?

(12) The figure shows a square in the interior of a regular hexagon. The square
and regular hexagon share a common side. What is the degree measure of ∠ABC?

C
B

(13) A whole block of modeling clay is a right rectangular prism six inches by two
inches by one inch. How many whole blocks need to be unwrapped to mold a cylindrical
sculpture seven inches high and four inches in diameter?
(14) When the diameter of a pizza increases by 2 inches, the area increases by
44%. What was the area, in square inches, of the original pizza? Express your answer in
terms of π.

(15) The consecutive angles of a particular trapezoid form an arithmetic

sequence. If the largest angle measures 120◦ , what is the measure of the smallest angle?

(16) A pipe with inside diameter 10′′ is to carry water from a reservoir to a small
town in an arid land. Neglecting the friction and turbulence of the water against the inside
of the pipes, what is the minimum number of 2′′ -inside-diameter pipes of the same length
needed to carry the same volume of water to the arid town?

(17) What is the greatest number of whole 4-inch by 6-inch notecards that can
be cut from a 25-inch by 27-inch sheet of poster board if every cut must be made parallel
to a side of the poster board? No taping or gluing is allowed.

(18) How many cubic feet are in the volume of a round swimming pool which is
16 feet in diameter and 4 feet deep throughout? Express your answer in terms of π.

(19) How many inches are in the circumference of a great circle of a sphere
which has surface area of 196π sq in? Express your answer in terms of π.

(20) In this quilt pattern, points E, F , G and H are midpoints of the sides of
square ABCD, and square EF GH is divided into nine congruent unit squares, as shown.
What percent of the total area of square ABCD does the total shaded area represent?
Express your answer to the nearest whole percent.

A E B

H F

D G C
(21) Triangle ABC with vertices A(−2, 0), B(1, 4) and C(−3, 2) is reflected over
the y -axis to form triangle A′ B ′C ′ . What is the length of a segment drawn from C to C ′ ?

(22) Three coplanar squares with sides of lengths two, four and six units,
respectively, are arranged side-by-side, as shown so that one side of each square lies on line
AB and a segment connects the bottom left corner of the smallest square to the upper
right corner of the largest square. What is the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

A B

(23) Points A(0, 0), B(6, 0), C(6, 10) and D(0, 10) are vertices of rectangle
ABCD, and E is on segment CD at (2, 10). What is the ratio of the area of triangle ADE
to the area of quadrilateral ABCE? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(24) The sides of the base of a triangular pyramid are 3, 4 and 5 feet and the
altitude is 6 feet. What is the number of cubic feet in the volume of the pyramid?

(25) In a triangle with side lengths 5, 6 and x , what is the sum of all possible
integral values of x ?

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 Level 4 Geometry

Name

(1) Find the number of cubic centimeters in the volume of the cylinder formed
by rotating a square with side length 14 centimeters about its vertical line of symmetry.
Express your answer in terms of π.

(2) The lengths of the bases of the isosceles trapezoid shown are 6 inches and
10 inches. and one base angle measures 60 degrees. If A, B, C and D are the midpoints of
the sides of the given trapezoid. how many square inches are in the area of quadrilateral
ABCD? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

D B
60◦
C

(3) A cylindrical beaker is 8 cm high and has a radius of 3 cm. How many such
beakers of water will it take to fill a spherical tank of radius 6 cm?
(4) ABCD is a trapezoid with the measure of base AB twice the measure of the
base CD. Point E is the point of intersection of the diagonals. The measure of diagonal
AC is 11. Find the length of segment EC. Express your answer as a common fraction.

D C

A B

(5) A circle with a radius of 2 units has its center at (0, 0). A circle with a
radius of 7 units has its center at (15, 0). A line tangent to both circles intersects the
x -axis at (x , 0) to the right of the origin. What is the value of x ? Express your answer as a
common fraction.

(6) A right cylinder with a base radius of 3 units is inscribed in a sphere of

radius 5 units. The total volume, in cubic units, of the space inside the sphere and outside
the cylinder is W π. Express W as a common fraction.

(7) In the figure, point A is the center of the circle, the measure of angle RAS
is 74 degrees, and the measure of angle RT B is 28 degrees. What is the measure of minor
arc BR, in degrees?

B
A T
(8) Triangle ABC is a right triangle with AB = 8 units, BC = 10 units and
AC = 6 units. Triangles BDC, AF B and CEA are isosceles with vertex angles of 90◦ , 120◦
and 120◦ , respectively. If R denotes the area of △CEA, S denotes the area of △AFB and
T denotes the area of △BDC, what is the value of R+S T ? Express your answer as a
common fraction in simplest radical form.

D
C

A B

(9) What is the area, in square units, of triangle ABC?

B (0, 6)

A (−4, 3)

C (2, −2)
(10) Right triangle ABC has one leg of length 6 cm, one leg of length 8 cm and
a right angle at A. A square has one side on the hypotenuse of triangle ABC and a vertex
on each of the two legs of triangle ABC. What is the length of one side of the square, in
cm? Express your answer as a common fraction.

B C

(11) A sphere is inscribed in a cube with edge length 9 inches. Then a smaller
cube is inscribed in the sphere. How many cubic inches are in the volume of the inscribed
cube? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

(12) Seema measures the area of a square in square feet while Katy measures the
same square’s perimeter in inches. Amazingly, they get the same numerical answer; x
square feet and x inches, respectively. How many feet are in the side length of this square?

(13) The 660 students at Mandelbrot Middle School voted on their choice for
favorite among six mathematicians. The table shows the results of the vote. Finn made a
circle graph to represent the data in the table. In degrees, what is the measure of the
central angle of the sector that represents votes for Gauss?
Mathematicians Number of Votes
Euclid 100
Gauss 121
Germain 200
Hypatia 48
Pascal 66
Pythagoras 125

(14) The hour hand of a clock is 6 inches long and the minute hand is 8 inches
long. What is the ratio of the distance in inches traveled by the tip of the hour hand to the
distance in inches traveled by the tip of the minute hand from noon to 3 p.m.? Express
your answer as a common fraction.
(15) Billy is hiking in Colorado. He walks eastward four miles, then turns 60
degrees northward and walks six miles. How far is he from his starting point? Express your
answer in simplest radical form.

(16) What is the mean of the measures of the three exterior angles of a triangle
if two of the interior angles have measures of 63 and 78 degrees?

(17) The graph shows six labeled points. How many distinct circles of radius 2
units are in the coordinate plane and pass through exactly two of the labeled points on this
graph?

(−1, 1) (1, 1) (3, 1)

(−1, −1) (1, −1) (3, −1)

(18) A triangle has vertices at (−3, 2), (6, −2), (3, 5). How many square units are
in the area of the triangle? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

(19) A water-filled spherical balloon lands on a sidewalk, momentarily flattening

to a hemisphere. The ratio of the radius of the spherical balloon to the radius of the
√
hemisphere can be expressed in the form 3 a for some real number a. Compute a.

(20) If all angles are measured in degrees, the ratio of three times the measure of
∠A to four times the measure of the complement of ∠A to half the measure of the
supplement of ∠A is 3 : 14 : 4. What is the number of degrees in the measure of the
complement of ∠A?
(21) A pentagon is drawn by placing an isosceles right triangle on top of a square
as pictured. What percent of the area of the pentagon is the area of the right triangle?

(22) The area of the semicircle in Figure A is half the area of the circle in Figure
B. The area of a square inscribed in the semicircle, as shown, is what fraction of the area
of a square inscribed in the circle? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Figure A Figure B

(23) Amy and Belinda each roll a sheet of 6-inch by 8-inch paper to form a
cylindrical tube. Amy tapes the two 8-inch sides together without overlap. Belinda tapes
the two 6-inch sides together without overlap. What is π times the positive difference of
the volumes of the two tubes?

(24) Each corner of a cube is sliced off, leaving a triangular face at each corner
and octagonal faces for each face of the original cube. How many edges will the new
polyhedron have?

(25) A scalene triangle has side lengths which are prime numbers and the length
of its perimeter is also prime. What is its smallest possible perimeter?

(26) The areas of two squares differ by 100 square units, and the perimeters of
the two squares differ by 10 units. What is the perimeter, in units, of the smaller square?
(27) Each triangle in this figure is an isosceles right triangle. The length of BC is
2 units. What is the number of units in the perimeter of quadrilateral ABCD? Express
your answer in simplest radical form.

A B

(28) In rectangle ABCD, points E and F lie on segments AB and CD,

respectively, such that AE = AB CD
3 and CF = 2 . Segment BD intersects segment EF at P .
What fraction of the area of rectangle ABCD lies in triangle EBP ? Express your answer
as a common fraction.

(29) A right pyramid has a square base with side length 10 cm. Its peak is 12 cm
above the center of its base. What is the total surface area of the pyramid, in square
centimeters?

(30) An isosceles right triangle is removed from each corner of a square piece of
paper, as shown, to create a rectangle. If AB = 12 units, what is the combined area of the
four removed triangles, in square units?

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 Level 5 Geometry

Name

(1) The formula for the area of any rectangle with a perimeter of 20 units can
be written as A = m − nd 2 , where d is the length of the diagonal and m and n are
constants. What is the value of the product mn?

(2) The lengths of the perpendiculars drawn to the sides of a regular hexagon
from an interior point are 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 12 centimeters. What is the number of
centimeters in the length of a side of this hexagon? Express your answer as a common
fraction in simplest radical form.

(3) How many times in a 24-hour day will the hour and minute hands of a
12-hour analog clock form a 90-degree angle?

(4) The interior of a right, circular cone is 8 inches tall with a 2-inch radius at
the opening. The interior of the cone is filled with ice cream, and the cone has a
hemisphere of ice cream exactly covering the opening of the cone. What is the volume of
ice cream? Express your answer in terms of π.

(5) Sector OAB is a quarter of a circle of radius 3 cm. A circle is drawn inside
this sector, tangent at three points as shown. What is the number of centimeters in the
radius of the inscribed circle? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

A
3 cm O
(6) The sides of triangle CAB are in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4. Segment BD is the
angle bisector drawn to the shortest side, dividing it into segments AD and DC. What is
the length, in inches, of the longer subsegment of side AC if the length of side AC is 10
inches? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(7) The surface area of a rectangular prism is 32 square inches. The volume of
the prism is 12 cubic inches. The sum of all edge lengths is 28 inches. If the length, width
and height of the prism each are increased by one inch, what is the volume of the resulting
prism, in cubic inches?

(8) If the diameter of a right cylindrical can with circular bases is increased by
25%, by what percent should the height be increased in order to double the volume of the
original can?

(9) A sphere is inscribed in a right cone with base radius 12 cm and height 24
√
cm, as shown. The radius of the sphere can be expressed as a c − a cm. What is the
value of a + c?
(10) In square ABCD, AD is 4 centimeters, and M is the midpoint of CD. What
is the ratio of OC to OA? Express your answer as a common fraction.

A B

D M C

(11) The three side lengths of a particular triangle are 2, 5, and x units, and the
area of the triangle is x square units. What is the value of x ? Express your answer in
simplest radical form.

(12) A square has sides of length 4 units each. A stripe of width 1 unit is drawn
inside the square,
√ centered on the diagonal. The area of this stripe can be expressed in the
form a + b 2 square units, where a and b are rational numbers. What is the value of
a + b? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.

4 1

(13) Circle O has radius 8 units and circle P has radius 2 units. The circles are
externally tangent to each other at point Q. Segment T S is the common external tangent
to circle O and circle P at points T and S, respectively. What is the length of segment
OS? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

(14) The lengths, in order, of four consecutive sides of an equiangular hexagon

are 1, 7, 2 and 4 units, respectively. What is the sum of the lengths of the two remaining
sides?
(15) Three cubes are stacked as shown. If the cubes have edge lengths 1, 2, and
3 as shown, what is the length of the portion of the segment AB that is contained in the
center cube?

A
1

3
B

(16) A cubical room has edge length 10 feet with A and B denoting two corners
that are farthest apart. A caterpillar crawls from A to B along the walls. In feet, what is
the length of the shortest path from A to B that the caterpillar may have taken? Express
your answer in simplest radical form.

(17) A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle and another regular hexagon is

circumscribed about the same circle. What is the ratio of the area of the larger hexagon to
the area of the smaller hexagon? Express your answer as a common fraction.

(18) In pentagon ABCDE, BC = CD = DE = 2 units, ∠E is a right angle and

m∠B = m∠C = m∠D √ = 135 . The length of segment AE can be expressed in simplest
◦

radical form as a + 2 b units. What is the value of a + b?

(19) The square with vertices (−a, −a), (a, −a), (−a, a), (a, a) is cut by the line
y = x /2 into congruent quadrilaterals. What is the number of units in the perimeter of
each quadrilateral? Express your answer in simplified radical form in terms of a.

(20) Triangle ABC has vertices at A(5, 8), B(3, −2), and C(6, 1). The point D
with coordinates (m, n) is chosen inside the triangle so that the three small triangles ABD,
ACD and BCD all have equal areas. What is the value of 10m + n?
(21) Two cross sections of a right hexagonal pyramid are obtained by cutting the
pyramid
√ with planes parallel√to the hexagonal base. The areas of the cross sections are
216 3 square feet and 486 3 square feet. The two planes are 8 feet apart. How far from
the apex of the pyramid is the larger cross section?

(22) Side AB of regular hexagon ABCDEF is extended past B to point X such

that AX = 3AB. Given that each side of the hexagon is 2 units long, what is the length of
segment F X? Express your answer in simplest radical form.

(23) Two sides of scalene △ABC measure 3 centimeters and 5 centimeters. How
many different whole centimeter lengths are possible for the third side?

(24) In triangle ABC, AB = 12 units and AC = 9 units. Point D is on segment

BC so that BD : DC = 2 : 1. If AD = 6 units, what is the length of segment BC? Express
your answer in simplest radical form.

(25) The vertices of a triangle are the points of intersection of the line
y = −x − 1, and x = 2, and y = 15 x + 13 5 . Find an equation of the circle passing through all
three vertices.
(26) Circle O has radius 10 units. Point P is on radius OQ and OP = 6 units.
How many different chords containing P, including the diameter, have integer lengths?

O Q
P

(27) A sphere of radius 4 inches is inscribed in a cone with a base of radius 6

inches. In inches, what is the height of the cone? Express your answer as a decimal to the
nearest tenth.

(28) In a trapezoid ABCD with AB parallel to CD, the diagonals AC and BD

intersect at E. If the area of triangle ABE is 50 square units, and the area of triangle ADE
is 20 square units, what is the area of trapezoid ABCD?

(29) Trapezoid ABCD has vertices A(−1, 0), B(0, 4), C(m, 4) and D(k, 0), with
m > 0 and k > 0. The line y = −x + 4 is perpendicular to the line containing side CD, and
the area of trapezoid ABCD is 34 square units. What is the value of k?
(30) In circle O, shown, OP = 2 units, PL = 8 units, PK = 9 units and
NK = 18 units. Points K, P, and M are collinear, as are points L, P, O, and N. What is the
length of segment MN?

M
O
P

K
L

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