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Geometry Sample Contest
Date
Student Name
Rules: You have 30 minutes to complete the test. You must work independently.
Calculators and reference tools are not permitted. Each problem has exactly
one correct answer.
1. Suppose P (2, 1) and Q(1, 2) are points on the plane. What is the distance
from P to Q?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 2
D. 3
E. 3
2. Suppose its true that If a sign is a stop sign, then the sign is red. Which
of the following must also be the case?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

If a sign is not a stop sign, then the sign is red.

If a sign is not a stop sign, then the sign is not red.
If a sign is red, then the sign is a stop sign.
If a sign is not red, then the sign is not a stop sign.
None of the above must be true.

3. Two of the side lengths of a triangle are 6 and 9. Which of the following
could not be the third side length of the triangle?
A. 2

B. 4

C. 6

D. 8

E. 10

4. Which of the following points lies on both the line y = 2x 4 and the line
y = 3x + 6?
A. (1, 5)

B. (1, 2)

C. (2, 0)

D. (3, 3)

E. (0, 6)

5. Square A has side length a, square B has side length b, and square C has
side length c. If a = 4b and b = 3c, what is square As area divided by
square Cs area?
A. 7

B. 12

C. 48

D. 72

E. 144

6. A 30-foot-long ladder is leaning against a wall. If the top of the ladder

touches the wall 20 feet off the ground, how far is the bottom of the ladder
from the base of the wall?

A. 10 feet B. 10 5 feet C. 25 feet D. 25 5 feet E. 500 feet

7. If one of the angles of a parallelogram measures 108 , another of the angles
must measure:
A. 36

B. 54

C. 72

D. 124

E. 180

8. A rhombus has:
A.
B.
C.
D.

A point of rotational symmetry and no reflection symmetry.

Exactly one line of reflection symmetry and no rotational symmetry.
Two distinct lines of reflection symmetry and no rotational symmetry.
Exactly one line of reflection symmetry and a point of rotational
symmetry.
E. Two distinct lines of reflection symmetry and a point of rotational
symmetry.

9. The height of a trapezoid is 6 and the length of one of its bases is 4. If

the area of the trapezoid is 39, how long is its other base?
A. 5

B. 7

C. 7.5

D. 9

E. 13

10. One of the angles in a triangle measures 3x + 33 . Another of the angles

in the triangle measures 7x + 27 . What must the third angle measure?
A. 60
D. 120 + 10x

B. 120
E. 60 + 10x

C. 120 10x

11. Suppose you select two different faces of a cube at random. What is the
probability that the two faces you have selected are parallel?
A.

1
6

B.

1
5

C. 7.

1
4

D.

1
3

E.

1
2

12. No matter how you divide a square of area 9 up into three congruent
rectangles, the product of the areas of the rectangles is the same. What
is that product?
A. 3

B. 9

C. 12

D. 18

E. 27

13. A rectangle is inscribed in a circle. The diameter of the circle is 10 cm,

and one of the side lengths of the rectangle is 6 cm. What is the area of
the rectangle?
A. 12 cm2

B. 24 cm2

C. 30 cm2

D. 48 cm2

E. 60 cm2

14. What is the area of the triangle whose vertices are (0, 3), (0, 2), and
(2, 4)?
A. 4

B. 5

C. 8

D. 10

E. 20

15. A decagon is a polygon with 10 sides. A diagonal of a polygon is a segment

connecting two non-adjacent vertices (corners) of the polygon. How many
distinct diagonals does a decagon have?
A. 35

B. 45

C. 60

D. 70

E. 80

Online Math League

Geometry Sample Contest
Answers
1. B
2. D
3. A

4. C
5. E
6. B

7. C
8. E
9. D

10. C
11. B
12. E

13. D
14. B
15. A

Explanations for some of the more difficult questions:

5. Suppose c = 1. Then b = 3 and a = 12. The area of square A is 144, while
the area of square C is 1. So square As area divided by square Cs area is 144.
10. The sum of the angles in the triangle must be 180 . So the third angle in
the triangle measures 180 (3x + 33 ) (7x + 27 ) = 120 10x .
11. Suppose you select the two faces one at a time. You select the first face,
and are left with five possibilities for the second face. Of these, exactly one
is parallel to the face youve already selected. So the probability that the two
faces will be parallel is 51 .
12. Since the three rectangles are congruent, each of them must have one-third
the area of the original square. So each of the three rectangles has an area of 3,
and the product of their areas is 27.
13. Draw a diagram of the rectangle inscribed in the circle. One of the rectangles side lengths is 6 cm, and the diagonal of the rectangle is a diameter of the
circle. So the diagonal of the rectangle measures 10 cm. Using the Pythagorean
Theorem, the other side length of the rectangle is 8 cm, and the rectangles area
is 48 cm2 .
14. Draw a diagram of the triangle on graph paper. One of the sides of the
triangle runs along the y-axis. Treating that side as the base of the triangle,
the triangle has a base of length 5 and a height of 2. So the area of the triangle
is 5.
15. Any given vertex of the decagon is the endpoint of 7 distinct diagonals.
Since there are 10 vertices, one might think there are 70 distinct diagonals. But
that counts each of the diagonals twice. (For example, the diagonal connecting
vertices A and C is counted once as a diagonal ending at A and again as a
diagonal ending at C.) So the actual number of diagonals is 70 2, or 35.