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Fourth Grade: Triangles Word Problems

A 10 meter ladder is leaning
A 10 meter ladder is leaning aganist a building. The bottom of the ladder is 5 meters from the building. How many meters high is the top of the ...
The hypotenuse of a right triangle
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 2 centimeters more than the longer side of the triangle. The shorter side of the triangle is 7 centimeters less that the longer ...
A ladder 39 feet long leans against a building
A ladder 39 feet long leans against a building and reaches the ledge of a window. If the foot of the ladder is 15 feet from the foot of the ...
A man on a 135-ft vertical cliff looks down
A man on a 135-ft vertical cliff looks down at an angle of 16 degrees and sees his friend. How far away is the man from his ...
A 32 foot ramp connects a platform with a sidewalk
A 32 foot ramp connects a platform with a sidewalk that is at ground level. if the platforn is 6 feet above ground ...
A guy wire reaches from the top
A guy wire reaches from the top of a 39.32 ft pole to a point on the ground 15' from the ...
The hypotenuse of a right triangle
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is twice as long as one of the legs and 10 inches longer than the ...
From a point 12 m from the base of a flagpole
From a point 12 m from the base of a flagpole the angle of elevation to the top of the pole is 42 ...
A 20-ft ladder is leaning against a wall
A 20-ft ladder is leaning against a wall. If the ladder is 12 ft from the base of the ...
A sailboat has a triangular sail
A sailboat has a triangular sail with an area of 30 square feet. the height of the sail is 7 feet more than the length of the base of the ...
Two ships leave port at same time
Two ships leave port at same time. Ship x is heading due north and ship y is heading due east. Twelve hours later they are 600 miles apart. If the ship x had traveled 480 miles from the ...
A 7m ladder against the wall of a building
A 7m ladder against the wall of a building and its foot is 2m from the base of the ...
John leaves school to go home
John leaves school to go home. He walks 100 blocks North and then 820 blocks ...
A dog pen is in the shape of a right triangle
A dog pen is in the shape of a right triangle. The longer leg measures 15 feet. The hypotenuse is 7 feet shorter than three times the length of the shorter ...
Two triangles are similar
Two triangles are similar. One triangle is 4,2,3 the second one is 12,9,6.
Which fraction represents the ratio of the lengths of the sides of the small triangle to the lengths of the large triangle?
Is it  1/3 , 4/9, 1/2...
When you buy a TV
When you buy a TV, the size refers to the diagonal.  You have a cabinet that is 40 inches by 50 inches.  You want to buy a 72 inch Plasma High Definition TV to watch the Super ...
The base of an 8-foot ladder
The base of an 8-foot ladder is placed 2 feet away from a ...
If a ladder is leaning against a building
If a ladder is leaning against a building, and the distance from the bottom of the ladder to the building is 8 ft. less than the length of the ladder, how high up the side of the building is the top of the ladder if the distance is 1 ...
At noon, ship A is 150 km west of ship B
At noon, ship A is 150 km west of ship B. Ship A is sailing east at 35 km/h and ship B is sailing north at 25 km/h, How fast is the distance between the ships changing at 4:00 P.M.?
A sailboat has a triangular sail with an area
A sailboat has a triangular sail with an area of 64 square feet and a height of 16 ...
The mast of a sail boat is 18 feet high
The mast of a sail boat is 18 feet high and the boom is 15 feet long. The gooseneck can rotate 360 ...
A ski resort is installing tows
A ski resort is installing tows on its new ski runs. One hill has a vertical height of 500m and is inclined at 42 ...
Jerry has a window in his room
Jerry has a window in his room. His window is a triangle. If angle one measures 63 degrees, and angle two measures 77 ...
The hypotenuse of a right triangle
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is twice as long as one of the legs and 8 inches longer than the ...
There are two similar triangles
There are two similar triangles. Dimensions of one are 12,16, 20, and the other's are 12,9,...
The mainsail of a lightning sailboat
The mainsail of a lightning sailboat is a right triangle in which the hypotenuse is called the leech. If a 24 ft tall mainsail has a leech length of 26ft and if Dacron sailcloth casts $10 per square ...
How far up a wall will an 11m ladder reach
How far up a wall will an 11m ladder ...
The hypotenuse of a right triangle
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 16 in. longer than the shortest side and 2 in. longer than the
remaining ...
The legs of a right triangle are 12 inches and 8 inches
The legs of a right triangle are 12 inches and 8 ...
A clubhouse has a roof
A clubhouse has a roof whose slant height is 13 m and base is 24m. Two extra supports 2m and 3 m from the peak and perpendicular to the base of the peak need to be ...
The legs of a right triangle
The legs of a right triangle are 12 and 16 inches long, ...
A sail is in the form of a right triangle
A sail is in the form of a right triangle that is two times as high as it is wide. The sail is made from 4 square meters of ...
A 12-ft. ladder is leaning against a building
A 12-ft. ladder is leaning against a building. The bottom of the ladder is 7 ft. from the ...
The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is three times the length of one of the legs. The length of the other leg is the square root of 72...
proportional triangles
Triangle EFG is similar to triangle ...
A road up a hill makes an angle
A road up a hill makes an angle of 5.1 with the horizontal. If the road from the bottom of the hill to the top of the hill is 2.5 miles ...
A ladder 39 feet long leans against a building
A ladder 39 feet long leans against a building and reaches the ledge of a window. If the foot of the ladder is 15 from the foot of the ...
The area of a triangle
The area of a triangle is 30in2. The base of the triangle measures 2 in. more than twice the height of the ...
Jim’s nephew owns a triangular plot of land
Jim’s nephew owns a triangular plot of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 121 feet. The shortest side is 15 feet longer than one-half of the longest side. The second longest side is 4 feet shorter than the longest ...
If one leg of a right triangle is 8 inches long
If one leg of a right triangle is 8 inches long, and the other leg is 12 inches ...
Find the area of a right triangle
Find the area of a right triangle with legs of length
a = 5 √3 , and
b = 2 √3 + 3 √2
To place a 13-foot ramp against the side of a house
To place a 13-foot ramp against the side of a house so the ramp rest on a ledge that is 5 feet above the ...
One angle of a triangle has a measure
One angle of a triangle has a measure that is 10 more than twice that of the ssecond angle. The third angle has a measure 10 less than the ...
Larry bought a trampoline
Larry bought a trampoline measuring 10 feet by 12 ...
How far up a wall
How far up a wall will a 10-meter ladder ...
The sum of the sides of a right triangle
The sum of the sides of a right triangle is 49cm and the hypotenuse is 41...
The legs of a right triangle
The legs of a right triangle are 5 and 7 centimeters long, respectively. What is the length of the hypotenuse? If ...
A ladder reaches a height of 64 feet on a wall
A ladder reaches a height of 64 feet on a wall. if the bottom of the ladder is placed 4 feet away from the ...
The face of the triangular concrete panel
The face of the triangular concrete panel has an area of 45 meters, and its base is 3 meters longer than twice its ...
The right angle of the triangle
The right angle of the triangle is 1808 feet the slope is 25,2 ...
The measure of the largest angle
The measure of the largest angle of a triangle is 12 degress less than the measures of the other two. The smallest angle measures 58 degress less than the largest ...
In a certain triangle, the second side
In a certain triangle, the second side is one-third of the first side in length. The third side ia 2 meters less than the first side. The perimeter of the triangle is 26 meters. Form an algebraic equation to express the problem, and identify the variables,...
Tom and Carol are playing a shadow game
Tom and Carol are playing a shadow game. Tom is 6 feet tall and carol is 5 feet tall. If Carol stands at the shadow top of Tom's head, there is two combined shadows total 15 ...
The answer for the second angle
The answer for the second angle in a triangle is three times as large as the frist. the third angle is one third as large as the second angle. Find the angle ...
A ladder leans against the side of a building
A ladder leans against the side of a building. The base of the ladder is 5 metres from the building, and the top is 12 metres above the ...

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