Prentice Hall Geometry

GRIDDED RESPONSE

  1. What is the value of x for which p parallel to q question mark

    Two transversals intersect two horizontal lines, p above q. The transversal on the right has 115 degrees to its left below p and a (2x + 5) degree angle to its right below q.

  2. What is the measure of angle h question mark

    Between triangles ABC and HGF, sides AC and HF are congruent, sides AB and HG are congruent, angles A and H are congruent, angle C is 35 degrees, and angle G is 50 degrees.

  3. What is the area of the square, in square units, in the figure below?

    A graph of a square has vertices (negative 3, 3), (2, 5), (4, 0), and (negative 1, negative 2).

  4. In white parallelogram PQRS, what is the value of x?

    Parallelogram PQRS has diagonals PR and QS intersecting at O. Angle OPS is 22 degrees, angle QOP is 84 degrees, and angle RQO is x degrees.

  5. For what value of x are the two triangles similar?

    A triangle has sides measuring 2, 3, and 3x minus 2. A larger triangle has corresponding sides measuring 4, 6, and 5x minus 2.

  6. Your friend is 5 ft 6 in. tall. When your friend's shadow is 6 ft long, the shadow of a nearby sculpture is 30 ft long. What is the height, in feet, of the sculpture?
  7. Lucia makes a triangular garden in one corner of her fenced rectangular backyard. She has 25 ft of edging to use along the unfenced side of the garden. One of the fenced sides of the garden is 15 ft long. What is the length, in feet, of the other fenced side of the garden?

Short Response

  1. cap delta d e b  has vertices d open 3 comma 7 close comma e open 1 comma 4 close comma , and b open negative 1 comma 5 close .  In which quadrant(s) is the image of cap delta d e b  for a 270 degrees  rotation about the origin? Draw a diagram.
  2. What is the area of an isosceles right triangle whose hypotenuse is 7 square root of 2 question mark  Show your work.
  3. The coordinates of the endpoints of c d bar  are C(5, 2.5) and d open 0 comma negative 9.5 close .  Find the length of c d bar  and the coordinates of the midpoint of c d bar , .  Show your work.
  4. In cap delta eh b c  below, eh b bar , approximately equal to , c b bar  and b d bar , up tack . eh c bar , .  Prove that cap delta eh b d approximately equal to cap delta c b d .

    Triangle ABC, with sides AB and BC congruent, has segment BD meeting side AC at a right angle.

Extended Response

  1. Is cap delta eh b c  a right triangle? Justify your answer.

    A graph of triangle ABC has vertices A(1, 4), B(2, negative 2), and C(negative 4, negative 3).

  2. The capital letter T shown below is made up of five congruent squares. Sketch a tessellation using congruent copies of this T. What symmetries does your tessellation have?

    A capital letter T is made up of five congruent squares, three vertical and three horizontal on top.


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Table of Contents

Prentice Hall Geometry Chapter 1 Tools of Geometry Chapter 2 Reasoning and Proof Chapter 3 Parallel and Perpendicular Lines Chapter 4 Congruent Triangles Chapter 5 Relationships Within Triangles Chapter 6 Polygons and Quadrilaterals Chapter 7 Similarity Chapter 8 Right Triangles and Trigonometry Chapter 9 Transformations Chapter 10 Area Chapter 11 Surface Area and Volume Chapter 12 Circles Skills Handbook Reference Visual Glossary Selected Answers Index Acknowledgments