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Basic Application:

1. A right triangle has legs measuring 9 cm and 12 cm. Find the hypotenuse.

2. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 17 cm, and one leg measures 8 cm. Find
the other leg.

3. Two sides of a triangle measure 24 cm and 25 cm. Determine whether it is a


right triangle.

4. A square has a diagonal of 10*sqrt(2) cm. Find the length of its sides.

5. A rectangle’s length and width are 16 cm and 12 cm. Find the length of the
diagonal.

Word Problems:

1. A ladder 13 ft long leans against a wall, with its base 5 ft from the wall. How
high does the ladder reach on the wall?

2. A tree is 20 ft tall, and its shadow is 15 ft long. What is the distance from the
top of the tree to the tip of the shadow?

3. A park’s rectangular playground measures 40 m by 30 m. What is the distance


between opposite corners of the playground?

4. A kite string 50 m long makes a right triangle with the ground and the vertical
distance from the ground to the kite is 48 m. How far is the kite from the
person holding the string horizontally?
5. The sides of a triangular garden are 6 m, 8 m, and 10 m. Is this a right
triangle?

Algebraic Integration:

1. A right triangle has legs of x and x+2x+2, and the hypotenuse is 10. Find x.

2. A square's diagonal measures 2sqrt(10). What is the length of its side?

3. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 25 cm, and one leg is 3x. The other leg is
4x. Find x.

4. The perimeter of a right triangle is 60 cm, and the lengths of the two legs are x
and x+10. Find the hypotenuse.

5. The area of a right triangle is 30 square units, and one leg is 5 units. Find the
hypotenuse.

Advanced Problems:

1. A triangle has sides of length 5, 12, and xx. For what range of xx is the
triangle a right triangle?

2. A rectangular box has dimensions 6 cm by 8 cm by 10 cm. Find the diagonal


of the box.

3. A circular pond has a diameter of 40 m. A pedestrian walks directly across the


pond’s diameter, while another walks along the semicircular edge. Find the
difference in distance between the two routes.
4. A wire is stretched tightly between the top of a 15 m pole and the ground, 20
m away from the base of the pole. Find the length of the wire.

5. A plane flies 150 km east and then 200 km north. What is its straight-line
distance from the starting point?

Real-life Applications:

1. A triangular sail has a base of 12 ft and a height of 16 ft. What is the length of
the diagonal edge?

2. A ramp 8 m long is placed against a building, reaching a height of 6 m. Find


the base distance of the ramp from the building.

3. A square-based pyramid has a base with sides of 10 cm and a height of 12 cm.


Find the slant height of the pyramid.

4. An engineer designs a bridge support that forms a right triangle with the
ground and a vertical beam. If the hypotenuse is 50 ft and one leg is 30 ft, how
long is the other leg?

5. Two buildings are 40 m apart, and a wire stretches from the top of one
building (20 m tall) to the top of the other (30 m tall). Find the length of the
wire.

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