PYTHAGORAS THEOREM

(1) (a) Calculate the length AC.

(b) A cuboid, ABCDEFGH, has sides 2 cm, 3 cm and 4 cm.

Calculate the length of the diagonal AG.

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(2)

(a) Calculate the length of the unknown side of this right-

angled triangle.
12cm

17cm

(b) Calculate the length of the unknown side of the right-angled triangle below.

5cm

11cm
(3) ABC and ACD are both right-angled triangles. D

(a) Explain why the length of AC is 10 cm 6 cm

6 cm

B A
8 cm

(b) Calculate the length of AD

(4)
AB = AC = 16 cm. BC = 20 cm.

Find the height of the triangle.

C
B

(5) A hockey pitch measures 55 m by 90 m. Find the length of the diagonal of the pitch.

(6) The diagram below shows the side view of a garden shed. Find the length of the slant
edge.

1.7 m

0.6 m

1.2 m
(7) A man starts from A and walks 6.5 km due south to B; then he walks due east to C.
He is then 9 km from A. How far is C from B?

(8) Aaron runs diagonally across a school field, while Beth runs around the edge.
(a) How far does Beth run?
(b) How far does Aaron run?
(c) How much further does Beth run than Aaron?

(9) Fay is 1.6 meters tall. At a certain time her shadow is 2 meters long. What is the
distance from the top of her head to the top of her shadow?

(10) The bottom of a 13-foot straight ladder is set into the ground 5 feet away from a wall.
When the top of the ladder is leaned against the wall, what is the distance above the
ground it will reach?

(11) A rope is 10 m long. One end is tied to the top of a flagpole. The height of the flagpole
is 5 m. The rope is pulled tight with the other end on the ground.
How far is the end of the rope from the base of the flagpole? Give your answer to the
nearest whole number.

(12) An isosceles triangle has a base length of 4 cm and a perpendicular height of 8 cm.
Calculate, to one decimal place, the length of one of the equal sides and the perimeter
of the triangle