Geometry 2 Homework: Similarity and 3D

AYLUS Puget Sound

23 November 2024

If you are less confident at geometry, aim to do at least 5 problems.

If you are more confident at geometry, aim to do at least 8 problems.
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Here are a couple of tips:
• Try all the problems!
• The problems are roughly ordered by difficulty.
• Label unknown quantities or sides with variables.
• Use plenty of scratch paper! If need be, draw your own diagrams, and make them
nice and big.
• If you get stuck on a problem, move on and try to do another one. Don’t spend
too much time dwelling on a single problem.

Problem 1. Jerry cuts a wedge from a 6-cm cylinder of bologna as shown by the dashed
curve. Which answer choice is closest to the volume of his wedge in cubic centimeters?
6 cm

8 cm

(A) 48 (B) 75 (C) 151 (D) 192 (E) 603

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Problem 2. The faces of a cube are painted in six different colors: red (R), white (W ),
green (G), brown (B), aqua (A), and purple (P ). Three views of the cube are shown
below. What is the color of the face opposite the aqua face?

B R

B
G R

G
R W P

(A) R (B) W (C) G (D) B (E) P

Problem 3. A regular octahedron has eight equilateral triangle faces with four faces
meeting at each vertex. Jun will make the regular octahedron shown on the right by
folding the piece of paper shown on the left. Which numbered face will end up to the
right of Q?

Q ?
1 4 6
3 5 Q

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

Problem 4. A square with side length 3 is inscribed in an isosceles triangle with one
side of the square along the base of the triangle. A square with side length 2 has two
vertices on the other square and the other two on sides of the triangle, as shown. What
is the area of the triangle?

(A) 19 14 (B) 20 41 (C) 21 34 (D) 22 12 (E) 23 43

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Problem 5. Triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = BC. Point D is the

midpoint of both BC and AE, and CE is 11 units long. Triangle ABD is congruent to
triangle ECD. What is the length of BD?
B E

A C

(A) 4 (B) 4.5 (C) 5 (D) 5.5 (E) 6

Problem 6. Isosceles right triangle ABC encloses a semicircle of area 2π. The circle
has its center O on hypotenuse AB and is tangent to sides AC and BC. What is the
area of triangle ABC?
C A

(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 3π (D) 10 (E) 4π

Problem 7. The circumference of the circle with center O is divided into 12 equal arcs,
marked the letters A through L as seen below. What is the number of degrees in the
sum of the angles x and y?
B
A C

x
L D

O
K E

J F
y
I G
H

(A) 75 (B) 80 (C) 90 (D) 120 (E) 150

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Problem 8. Two congruent circles centered at points A and B each pass through the
other circle’s center. The line containing both A and B is extended to intersect the circles
at points C and D. The circles intersect at two points, one of which is E. What is the
degree measure of ∠CED?
(A) 90 (B) 105 (C) 120 (D) 135 (E) 150

Problem 9. Isabella uses one-foot cubical blocks to build a rectangular fort that is 12
feet long, 10 feet wide, and 5 feet high. The floor and the four walls are all one foot thick.
How many blocks does the fort contain?

(A) 204 (B) 280 (C) 320 (D) 340 (E) 600

Problem 10. Isosceles △ABC has equal side lengths AB and BC. In the figure below,
segments are drawn parallel to AC so that the shaded portions of △ABC have the same
area. The heights of the two unshaded portions are 11 and 5 units, respectively. What is
the height of h of △ABC?
B B

11
h

A C A C

(A) 14.6 (B) 14.8 (C) 15 (D) 15.2 (E) 15.4

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