Skip to content

Triangle Area and Length: all problems

Focus mode: every practice problem from the chapter, one after another.

0 / 22 solved

Problem 30.3.1

AMC 10

Find the area of the shaded region.

Problem 30.3.2

AMC 10

Triangle ABCABC has a right angle at BB. Point DD is the foot of the altitude from BB, AD=3AD = 3, and DC=4DC = 4. What is the area of △ABC\triangle ABC?

Problem 30.3.3

AMC 10

The figure below shows a square and four equilateral triangles, with each triangle having a side lying on a side of the square, such that each triangle has side length 22 and the third vertices of the triangles meet at the center of the square. The region inside the square but outside the triangles is shaded. What is the area of the shaded region?

Problem 30.3.4

AMC 10

Let ABCDABCD be a rectangle with AB=30AB = 30 and BC=28BC = 28. Points PP and QQ lie on BC‾\overline{BC} and CD‾\overline{CD}, respectively, so that all sides of △ABP\triangle ABP, △PCQ\triangle PCQ, and △QDA\triangle QDA have integer lengths. What is the perimeter of △APQ\triangle APQ?

Problem 30.3.5

AMC 10

Triangle AMCAMC is isosceles with AM=ACAM = AC. Medians MV‾\overline{MV} and CU‾\overline{CU} are perpendicular to each other, and MV=CU=12MV = CU = 12. What is the area of △AMC\triangle AMC?

Problem 30.3.6

AMC 10

Points PP and QQ lie in a plane with PQ=8PQ = 8. How many locations for point RR in this plane are there such that the triangle with vertices PP, QQ, and RR is a right triangle with area 1212 square units?

Problem 30.3.7

AMC 10

Rectangle ABCDABCD has AB=5AB = 5 and BC=4BC = 4. Point EE lies on AB‾\overline{AB} so that EB=1EB = 1, point GG lies on BC‾\overline{BC} so that CG=1CG = 1, and point FF lies on CD‾\overline{CD} so that DF=2DF = 2. Segments AG‾\overline{AG} and AC‾\overline{AC} intersect EF‾\overline{EF} at QQ and PP, respectively. What is the value of PQEF\dfrac{PQ}{EF}?

Problem 30.3.8(additional)

AMC 10

Given a triangle with side lengths 1515, 2020, and 2525, find the triangle's shortest altitude.

Problem 30.3.9(additional)

AMC 10/12

A triangle with side lengths in the ratio 3:4:53 : 4 : 5 is inscribed in a circle with radius 33. What is the area of the triangle?

Problem 30.3.10(additional)

AMC 10

The two legs of a right triangle, which are altitudes, have lengths 232\sqrt3 and 66. How long is the third altitude of the triangle?

Problem 30.3.11(additional)

AMC 12

Triangle ABCABC has AB=13AB = 13 and AC=15AC = 15, and the altitude to BC‾\overline{BC} has length 1212. What is the sum of the two possible values of BCBC?

Problem 30.3.12(additional)

AMC 10

A triangle has side lengths 1010, 1010, and 1212. A rectangle has width 44 and area equal to the area of the triangle. What is the perimeter of this rectangle?

Problem 30.3.13(additional)

AMC 12

How many noncongruent integer-sided triangles with positive area and perimeter less than 1515 are neither equilateral, isosceles, nor right triangles?

Problem 30.3.14(additional)

AMC 10

Right triangles T1T_1 and T2T_2 have areas of 11 and 22, respectively. A side of T1T_1 is congruent to a side of T2T_2, and a different side of T1T_1 is congruent to a different side of T2T_2. What is the square of the product of the lengths of the other (third) sides of T1T_1 and T2T_2?

Problem 30.3.15(additional)

AMC 12

Isosceles triangles TT and T′T' are not congruent but have the same area and the same perimeter. The sides of TT have lengths 55, 55, and 88, while those of T′T' have lengths aa, aa, and bb. Which of the following numbers is closest to bb?

Click a choice or type its letter (A–E).

Problem 30.3.16(additional)

AMC 12

Triangle ABCABC is equilateral with AB=1AB = 1. Points EE and GG are on AC‾\overline{AC} and points DD and FF are on AB‾\overline{AB} such that both DE‾\overline{DE} and FG‾\overline{FG} are parallel to BC‾\overline{BC}. Furthermore, triangle ADEADE and trapezoids DFGEDFGE and FBCGFBCG all have the same perimeter. What is DE+FGDE + FG?

Problem 30.3.17(additional)

AMC 10

This problem also appears in the book as 30.3.6.

Points PP and QQ lie in a plane with PQ=8PQ = 8. How many locations for point RR in this plane are there such that the triangle with vertices PP, QQ, and RR is a right triangle with area 1212 square units?

Problem 30.3.18(additional)

AIME

Triangle ABCABC has AB=9AB = 9 and BC:AC=40:41BC : AC = 40 : 41. What's the largest area that this triangle can have?

Problem 30.3.19(additional)

AMC 10

Through a point on the hypotenuse of a right triangle, lines are drawn parallel to the legs of the triangle so that the triangle is divided into a square and two smaller right triangles. The area of one of the two small right triangles is mm times the area of the square. The ratio of the area of the other small right triangle to the area of the square is

Click a choice or type its letter (A–E).

Problem 30.3.20(additional)

AMC 10

A triangle is partitioned into three triangles and a quadrilateral by drawing two lines from vertices to their opposite sides. The areas of the three triangles are 33, 77, and 77, as shown. What is the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

Problem 30.3.21(additional)

AMC 10

In △ABC\triangle ABC we have AB=25AB = 25, BC=39BC = 39, and AC=42AC = 42. Points DD and EE are on AB‾\overline{AB} and AC‾\overline{AC} respectively, with AD=19AD = 19 and AE=14AE = 14. What is the ratio of the area of triangle ADEADE to the area of the quadrilateral BCEDBCED?

Problem 30.3.22(additional)

AMC 12Challenge

Let ABCDABCD be a unit square. Let Q1Q_1 be the midpoint of CD‾\overline{CD}. For i=1,2,…i = 1, 2, \ldots, let PiP_i be the intersection of AQi‾\overline{AQ_i} and BD‾\overline{BD}, and let Qi+1Q_{i+1} be the foot of the perpendicular from PiP_i to CD‾\overline{CD}. What is

∑i=1∞Area of △DQiPi ?\sum_{i=1}^{\infty} \text{Area of } \triangle DQ_iP_i\,?