Exercise 1.

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1. Is it possible t form a triangle with sides 20, 30, and 50 units? Explain.

2. Is it possible to form a triangle with sides 2, 4, and 8 units? Explain.

3. Find the altitude and the area of an equilateral triangle whose side is 8cm long.

4. One side of an Isosceles triangle whose perimeter is 42 units measures 10 units. Find the area of the triangle.

5. Find the area of an equilateral triangles of ots altitude is 5cm.

6. The ratio of the base of an isosceles triangle to its altitude is 3:4. Find the measures of the angles of the triangle.

7. The base of an Isosceles triangle and the altitude drawn from one of the congruent sides are equal to 18cm and 15cm,
respectively. Find the lengths of the sides of the triangle.
8. Two altitudes of an isoscles triangle are equal to 20cm and 30cm. Determine the possible measures of the base angles
of the triangles.

9. In a right triangle, the bisector of the right angle divides the hypotenuse in the ratio of 3 is to 5. Determine the
measures of the acute angles of the triangle.

10. The area of a triangle is equal to 48cm2 and two of its sides measures 12cm and 9cm, respectively. Find the
possible measures of the included angles of the given sides.

11. The lenghts of the sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 17:10:9. Find the lengths of the three sides if the area of the
triangles is 576cm2.

12. Find the area of a triangle if its two sides measure 6 in. and 9 in., and the bisector of the angle between the sides is
4(square root of 3).
13. In an acute triangle ABC, an Altitude AD is drawn. Find the area of triangle ABC if AB = 15 in., AC = 18 in., and
BD = 10 in.

14. In a right triangle, a lne perpendicular to the hypothenuse drawn from the midpoint of one of the sides divides the
hypotenuse into segments which are 10cm and 6cm long. Find the lengths of the two sides of the triangle.

15. Given triangle ABC whosee sides are AB = 15 in., AC = 25 in., and BC = 30 in. From a point D on side AB, a line
DE is drawn to a point E on side AC such that angle ADE is equal to angle ABC. If the perimeter of triangle ADE is 28
in., Find the lengths of line segments BD and CE.

16. Suppose that AD, BC, AC and BD are line segments with line AD parallel to line BC as shown in the figure. If AD
= 3 units, BC = 1 unit, and the distance from AD to BC is 5 units, find the altitude of the smaller triangle.

17. What is the sum of the areas of the two traingles formed in number 16?
18. If triangle ABC is equilateral, BD / BC = 1 / 3 , CE / CA = 1/ 3, and AF / AB = 1 / 3. Find the ratio of the area of
triangle ABC to the shaded area.

19. In traingle ABC, E is the midpoint of AC and D is the midpoint of CB. If DF is parallel to BE, Find the length of
side AB.

20. The measure of the base of an isosceles triangle is 24cm, and one of its sides is 20 cm long. Find the distance
between the centroid and the vertex opposite the base.

21. The two sides of a triangle are 17cm and 28cm long , and the length of the median drawn to the third side is equal
to 19.5 cm. Find the distance from an endpoint of this median to the longest side.