41.

In the triangle ABC, AB = 14, BC = 16, AC = 26, M is the midpoint of BC and D is the point on BC
such that AD bisects ∠BAC. Let P be the foot of the perpendicular from B onto AD. Determine the
length of PM.

42. In the triangle ABC, ∠A = 20°, ∠C = 90º, 0Ois a point on AB and D is the midpoint of OB. Suppose the
circle centered at O with radius OD touches the side AC at T. Determine the size of ∠BCD in degrees.

43. In ∆ABC, D and E are the midpoints of the sides AB and AC respectively, CD and BE intersect at P
with ∠BPC = 90°. Suppose BD = 8 5 and CE = 6 5 . Find BC.

44. In the following right-angled triangle ABC, AC = BC = 1 and DEF is an arc of a circle with center A.
x
Suppose the shaded areas BDE and CEF are equal and AD = . What is the value of x?
π

45. The diagram below shows a triangle ABC in which ∠A = 60°, BP and BE trisect ∠ABC and CP and
CE trisect ∠ACB. Let the angle ∠BPE be xº. Find x.

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46. In ∆ABC ∠BAC = 45°, D is a point on BC such that AD is perpendicular to BC. If BD = 3 cm and
DC= 2 cm, and the area of the ∆ABC is x cm2. Find the value of x.

47. In ∆ABC (see below), AB = AC = 3 and D is a point on BC such that AD = 1. Find the value of BD · DC.
48. In ∆ABC, ∠CAB = 30° and ∠ABC = 80°. The point M lies inside the triangle such that ∠MAC = 10º
and ∠MCA = 30°. Find the value of (180° – ∠BMC) in degrees.
49. Let ABC be any triangle. Let D and E be the points respectively in the segments of AB and BC such
that AD = 7DB and BE = 10EC. Assume that AE and CD meet at point F. Determine [k], where k is the
real number such that AF = k x FE.
50. In an acute-angled triangle ABC, points D, E and F are the feet of the perpendiculars from A, B, and C
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onto BC, AC and AB respectively. Suppose sin A= and BC = 39, find the length of AH, where H is
3
the intersection AD with BE.
51. Let O be the centre of the circum circle of ∆ABC, P and Q the midpoints of AO and BC, respectively.
Suppose ∠CBA = 4∠OPQ and ∠ACB = 6∠OPQ. Find the size of ∠OPQ in degrees.
52. In ∆ABC, AC > AB, the internal angle bisector of ∠A meets BC at D, and E is the foot of the
perpendicular from B onto AD. Suppose AB = 5, BE = 4 and AE = 3. Find the value of the expression
 AC + AB 
  ED.
 AC − AB 
53. Let O be an interior point of ∆ABC. Extend AO to meet the side BC at D. Similarly, extend BO and CO to
meet CA and AB respectively at E and F. If AO = 30, FO = 20, BO = 60, DO = 10 and CO = 20, find EO.
54. In ∆ABC, AB = 13, AC = 5, and BC = 12. Points M and N lie on AC and BC , respectively, with CM
= CN = 4. Points J and K are on AB so that MJ and NK are perpendicular to AB . What is the whole
part of area of pentagon CMJKN

55. In triangle ABC, side AC and the perpendicular bisector of BC meet in point D, and BD bisects ∠ABC.
If AD= 9 and DC = 7, the area of triangle ABD = a 5 then the value of a?
56. In ∆ABC, we have AB = 1 and AC = 2. Side BC and the median from A to BC have the same length. If
the length of BC is a then the value of a?
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57. Triangle ABC with AB = 50 and AC = 10 has area 120. Let D be the midpoint of AB , midpoint of AC
. The angle bisector of ∠BAC intersects DE and BC at F and G, respectively. What is the area of
quadrilateral FDBG?
58. Triangle ABC is an isosceles right triangle with AB = AC = 3. Let M be the midpoint of hypotenuse BC .
Points I and E lie on sides AC and AB, respectively, so that AI > AE and AIME is a cyclic quadrilateral.
a− b
Given that triangle EMI has area 2, the length CI can be written as , where a, b and c are positive
c
integers and be is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is the value of a + b + c?
59. In ∆PAT, ∠P = 36°, ∠A = 56°, and PA = 10. Points U and G lie on sides TP and TA, respectively, so
PU = AG = 1. Let M and N be the midpoints of segments PA and UG , respectively. What is the
degree measure of the acute angle formed by lines MN and PA?
60. Let ABC be an equilateral triangle. Extend side AB beyond B to a point B' so that BB' = 3AB.
Similarly extend side BC beyond C to a point C' so that CC' = 3 BC, and extend side CA beyond A to
a point A' so that AA' = 3CA. The ratio of the area of ∆A'B'C' to the area of ∆ABC is Q : 1. What is Q?
61. In ∆ABC, AB = 6, BC = 7, and CA = 8. Point D lies on BC , and AD bisects ∠BAC. Point E lies on
AC , and BE bisects ∠ABC. The bisectors intersect at F. The ratio of AF: FD is C : 21. What is C?

62. In ∆ABC shown in the figure, AB = 7, BC = 8, CA = 9, and AH is an altitude. Points D and E lie on
sides AC and AB respectively, so that BD and CE are angle bisectors, intersecting AH at Q and P,
a
respectively. If PQ = c , where a, b are co-prime, then what is the value of (a+ b + c2)?
b

63. There are f non-congruent integer-sided triangles with positive area and perimeter less than 15, which
are neither equilateral, isosceles, nor right triangles. What is 7f?
64. In ∆BAC, ∠BAC = 40°, AB = 10, and AC = 6. Points D and E lie on AB and AC respectively. What
is the minimum possible value of BE + DE + CD?
65 . In ∆ABC, AB = AC = 28 and BC = 20 Points D, E and F are on sides AB , BC , and AC , respectively,
such that DE and EF are parallel to AC and AB , respectively. What is the perimeter of
parallelogram ADEF?

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66. Triangle ABC is equilateral with AB = 1. Points E and G are on AC and points D and F are on AB
such that both DE and FG are parallel to BC . Furthermore, triangle ADE and trapezoids DFGE and
r
FBCG all have the same perimeter. DE + FG can be written as as r and s are co-prime. What is r + s?
s

67. The angles in a particular triangle are in arithmetic progression, and the side lengths are 4, 5, x. The sum of
the possible values of x equals a + b + c where a, b, and c are positive integers. What is a + b + c?
68. In triangle ABC, AB = 13, BC = 14 and CA = 15. Distinct points D, E, and F lie on segments BC , CA
and DE , respectively, such that AD ⊥ BC , DE ⊥ AC , and AF ⊥ BF . The length of segment DF
m
can be written as , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?
n
69. Triangle ABC has AB = 27, AC = 26, and BC = 25. Let I denote the intersection of the internal angle
bisectors of ∆ABC. What is BI?
70. Triangle ABC has side-lengths AB = 12, BC = 24, and AC = 18. The line through the incenter of
∆ABC parallel to BC intersects AB at M and AC at N. What is the perimeter of ∆AMN?
71. Points B and C lie on AD . The length of AB is 4 times the length of BD , and the length of AC is 9
times the length of CD . The length of BC × S = the length of AD . What is S?
72. Point P is inside equilateral ∆ABC. Points Q, R and S are the feet of the perpendiculars from P to AB ,
BC and CA , respectively. Given that PQ = 1, PR = 2, and PS = 3, what is AB2?
73. In triangle ABC, AB = (b2 – 1) cm, BC = a2 cm and AC = 2a cm, where a and b are positive integers
greater than 1. And the value of a - b.
74. In the figure below, ADE is a triangle with ∠AED = 120°, and B and C are points on side AD such that
BCE is an equilateral triangle. If AB = 4 cm, CD = 16 cm and BC = x cm, find the value of x.

75. The figure below shows a triangle ABC where AB = AC. D and E are points on sides AB and AC,
respectively, such that AB = 4DB and AC = 4AE. If the area of the quadrilateral BCED is 52 cm2 and
the area of the triangle ADE is x cm2, find x.

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76. In the triangle ABC, AC = 2BC, LC = 90º and D is the foot of the altitude from C onto AB. A circle
with diameter AD intersects the segment AC at E. Find AE : EC.
77. In the triangle ABC, AB = 8, BC = 7 and CA = 6. Let E be the point on BC such that ∠BAE = 3∠EAC.
4AE 2
Find .
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78. In the triangle ABC, the bisectors of ∠A and ∠B meet at the incentre I, the extension of AI meets the
circum circle of triangle ABC at D. Let P be the foot of the perpendicular from B onto AD, and Q a
point on the extension of AD such that ID = DQ. Determine the value of (BQ × IB)/(BP × ID).
79. Three sides OAB, OAC and OBC of a tetrahedron OABC are right-angled triangles, i.e. ∠AOB =
∠AOC = ∠BOC = 90º. Given that OA = 7, OB = 2 and OC = 6, Find the value of
[(Area of ∆OAB)2 + (Area of ∆OAC)2 + (Area of ∆OBC)2 + (Area of ∆ABC)2 + 37]1/2.
80. In a triangle ABC, the length of the altitudes AD and BE are 4 and 12 respectively.
Find the largest possible integer value for the length of the third altitude CF.
81. In the figure below, ABC is a triangle and D is a point on side BC Point E is on side AB such that DE is
the angle bisector of ∠ADB, and point F is on side AC such that DF is the angle bisector of ∠ADC.
AE BD CF
Find the value of . . .
EB DC FA

82. In the figure below, ABC is a triangle with AB = 10 cm and BC = 40 cm. Points D and E lie on side AC
and point F on side BC such that EF is parallel to AB and OF is parallel to EB. Given that BE is an
angle bisector of ∠ABC and that AD = 13.5 cm, find the length of CD in cm.

83. In triangle ABC, AB = 13, BC = 14 and CA = 15. Distinct points D, E and F lie on segments BC , CA
and DE , respectively, such that AD ⊥ BC , DE ⊥ AC and AF ⊥ BF . The length of segment DF can
m
be written as , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. What is m + n?
n

84. In ∆ABC, medians AD and CE intersect at P, PE = 1.5, PD = 2 and DE = 2.5. What is the area of 2[AEDC]?

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85. Triangle ABC has AB = 2 . AC. Let D and E be on AB and BC , respectively, such that ∠BAE =
∠ACD. Let F be the intersection of segments AE and CD, and suppose that ∆CFE is equilateral. What
is ∠ACB (in degrees)?
86. A flagpole is originally 5 meters tall. A hurricane snaps the flagpole at a point x meters above the
ground so that the upper part, still attached to the stump, touches the ground 1 meter away from the
base. What is [x] where [:] is the greatest integer function?
87. Distinct points A, B, C, and D lie on a line, with AB = BC = CD= 1. Points E and F lie on a second line,
parallel to the first, with EF = 1. A triangle with positive area has three of the six points as its vertices.
How many possible values are there for the area of the triangle?
88. An equilateral triangle has side length 6. What is the area of the region containing all points that are outside
the triangle and not more than 3 units from a point of the triangle to the nearest integer? (Take π = 3.14)
89. Two equilateral triangles are contained in a square whose side length is 2 3 . The bases of these
triangles are the opposite sides of the square and their intersection is a rhombus. If the area of the
rhombus is 8 k – 12, find k.
90. A right triangle has perimeter 32 and area 20. What is the length of its hypotenuse to the nearest integer?
91. A triangle ∆ABC is inscribed in a circle of radius 1, with ∠BAC = 60°. Altitudes AD and BE of ∆ABC
intersect at H. Find the smallest possible value of the length of the segment AH.
92. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 10 and 15. The length of the altitude to the third side is the average
of the lengths of the altitudes to the two given sides. How long is the third side?
93. In ∆ABC, AB = AC = 28 and BC = 20. Points D, E and F are on sides AB , BC , and AC respectively, such
that DE and EF are parallel to AC and AB , respectively. What is the perimeter of parallelogram ADEF?

94. In ∆ABC, ∠C = 90º and AB = 12. Squares ABXY and ACWZ are constructed outside of the triangle.
The points X, Y, Z and W lie on a circle. The perimeter of the triangle can be written as a(1 + 2 ) .
Find the product of a and b.
95. Point P is inside equilateral ∆ABC. Points Q, R and S are the feet of the perpendiculars from P to AB .
BC and CA , respectively. Given that PQ = 1, PR = 2, and PS = 3, what is AB2?
96. Right ∆ABC has AB = 3, BC = 4, and AC = 5. Square XY ZW is inscribed in DABC with X and Y on
AC , W on AB , and Z on BC . What is the side length of the square to the nearest integer?

97. In a triangle with integer side lengths, one side is three times as long as a second side, and the length of
the third side is 15. What is the greatest possible perimeter of the triangle?
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98. A triangle is partitioned into three triangles and a quadrilateral by drawing two lines from vertices to
their opposite sides. The areas of the three triangles are 3, 7, and 7, as shown. What is the area of the
shaded quadrilateral?

99. Equilateral ∆ABC has side length 2, M is the midpoint of AC , and C is the midpoint of BD . If the area
of ∆CDM is 'x', then find the value of 4x2.

100. In right triangle ∆ACE, we have AC = 12, CE = 16, and EA = 20. Points B, D, and F are located on AC
, CE , and EA , respectively, so that AB = 3, CD = 4, and EF = 5. What is the difference of the area of
∆ACE to that of ∆DBF?

101. In ∆ABC points D and E lie on BC and AC , respectively. If AD and BE intersect at T then AT/DT =
 11CD 
3 and BT/ET = 4. What is  ?
 BD 

102. A triangle with sides of 5, 12, and 13 has both an inscribed and a circumscribed circle. Find square of
twice the distance between th8 centres of those circles?
103. A large equilateral triangle is constructed by using toothpicks to create rows of small equilateral
triangles. For example, in the figure we have 3 rows of small congruent equilateral triangles, with 5
small triangles in the base row. Total N number of toothpicks would be needed to construct a large
equilateral triangle if the base row of the triangle consists of 2003 small equilateral triangles. Then find
the sum of all digits of N.

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104. The sides of a triangle have lengths of 15, 20, and 25. Find the length of the shortest altitude.
105. Points A,B,C,D,E and F lie, in that order, on AF , dividing it into five segments, each of length 1. Point
G is not on line AF. Point H lies on GD , and point J lies on GF . The line segments HC , JE , and AG
 3HC 
are parallel. Find  .
 JE 
106. Points A,B,C and D lie on a line, in that order, with AB = CD and BC = 12. Point E is not on the line,
and BE = CE = 10. The perimeter of ∆AED is twice the perimeter of ∆BEC. Find AB.
107. Let ∆XOY be a right-angled triangle with ∠XOY = 90°. Let M and N be the midpoints of legs OX and
OY, respectively. Given that XN = 19 and YM = 22, find XY.
108. In ∆ABC, ∠A = 100°, ∠B = 50°, ∠C = 30°, AH is an altitude and BM is a median. Then ∠MHC (in
degrees) is

109. Triangle ABC has a right angle at c, AC = 3 and BC = 4. Triangle ABD has a right angle at A and AD
= 12. Points C and D are on opposite sides of AB . The line through D parallel to AC meets CB
DE m m+n
extended at E. If = where m and n are relatively prime positive integers, then is
DB n 2

110. Equilateral triangle ABC has been creased and folded so that vertex A now rests at A' on BC as shown.
k 21
If BA' = 1 and A'C = 2. If the length of crease PQ is , find k.
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111. In triangle ABC, ∠ABC = 120°, AB = 3 and BC = 4. If perpendiculars constructed to AB at A and to

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113. In triangle ABC, AB = 13, BC = 14, and AC = 15. Let D denote the midpoint of BC and let E denote
the intersection of BC with the bisector of angle BAC. Which of the following is closest to the area of
the triangle A DE?
114. Two congruent 30° – 60° – 90° triangles are placed so that they overlap partly and their hypotenuses
coincide. If the hypotenuse of each triangle is 12, and the area common to both triangles is given by A.
Find the value of 3 A·
115. In ∆ABC with right angle at C, altitude CH and median CM trisect the right angle. If the area of ∆CHM
is 10, then the area of ∆ABC is
116. In triangle ABC shown in the adjoining figure, M is the mid-point of side BC, AB = 12 and AC = 16.
Points E and F are taken on AC and AB, respectively, and lines EF and AM intersect at G. If AE = 2AF
and EG/GF is X. Find the value of 10X.

117. Vertex E of equilateral triangle ABE is in the interior of square ABCD, and F is the point of
intersection of diagonal BD and line segment AE. If length AB is 1 + 3 and the area of ∆ABF is
given by A. Find (4A)2.

118. A ray of light originates from point A and travels in a plane, being reflected n times between lines AD
and CD, before striking a point B (which may be on AD or CD) perpendicularly and retracing its path
to A. (At each point of reflection the light makes two equal angles as indicated in the adjoining figure.
The figure shows the light path for n = 3.) If ∠CDA = 8°, what is the largest value n can have?

119. In a triangle with side of lengths a, b and c, (a + b + c) (a + b – c) = 3ab. The measure of the angle
opposite the side of length c is
120. A paper triangle with sides of lengths 3, 4, and 5 inches, as shown, is folded so that point A falls on
point B. Then the length in inches of the crease is L. Find the value of 8L.

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121. Right triangle ABC has leg lengths AB = 20 and BC = 2l. Including AB and BC , how many line
segments with integer length can be drawn from vertex B to a point on hypotenuse AC ?
122. Farmer Pythagoras has a field in the shape of a right triangle. The right triangle's legs have lengths 3
and 4 units. In the corner where those sides meet at a right angle, he leaves a small unplanted square S
so that from the air it looks like the right angle symbol. The rest of the fiels is planted. The shortest
distance from S to the hypotenuse E is 2 units. Let the fraction of the field planted can be written has - .
Find the value of 10(y – x). Here x, y are co-prime numbers.

123. Triangle ABC with AB = 50 and AC = 10 has area 120. Let D be the midpoint of AB , and let E be the
midpoint of AC . The angle bisector of ∠BAC intersects DE and BC at F and G, respectively. What is
the area of quadrilateral FDBG?
124. Line segment AB is a diameter of a circle with AB = 24. Point C, not equal to A or B, lies on the circle. As
point C moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of ∆ABC traces out a closed curve missing
two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?
125. A square with side length x is inscribed in a right triangle with sides of length 3, 4, and 5 so that one
vertex of the square coincides with the right-angle vertex of the triangle. A square with side length y is
inscribed in another right angle triangle with sides of length 3, 4 and 5 so that one side of the square lies
on the hypotenuse of the triangle. Find the value of (7x + 37y).
126. Rectangle ABCD has AB = 3 and BC = 4. Point E is the foot of the perpendicular from B to diagonal
AC . If the area of ∆ADE is given by P. Find 25P.
127. Let ABC be an equilateral triangle. Extend side AB beyond B to a point B' so that BB' = 3AB. Similarly,
extend side BC beyond C to a point C' so that CC' = 3BC, and extend side CA beyond A to a point A' so
that AA' = 3CA. If the ratio of the area of ∆A'B'C' to the area of ∆ABC is x : 1. Find the value of x.
128. A thin piece of wood of uniform density in the shape of an equilateral triangle with side length 3 inches
weighs - 12 gm. A second piece of the same type of wood, with the same thickness, also in the shape of
an equilateral triangle, has side length of 5 inches. If W is the weight, in gm, of the second piece. Then
find [W], where [x] denotes the greatest integer less than or equal to x.
129. The isosceles right triangle ABC has right angle at C and area 12.5. The rays trisecting ∠ACB intersect
a(2 − b )
AB at D and E. If the area of ∆CDE can be written as . Find the product of a and b.
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ANSWER KEY
Que . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Ans. 3 4 2 1 2 4 3 1 2 1 1 8 1 1
15. 45° 16. 0 17. 70 18. 30º 19. 30 20. AC = 3 5 , AB = 13 , BC = 2 13 21. 4: 1
26. 20 27. 48 28. 54 29. 33 30. 15 31. 01 32. 12 33. 87 34. 03 35. 12
36. 26 37. 30 38. 20 39. 01 40. 03 41. 06 42. 35 43. 20 44. 02 45. 50
46. 15 47. 02 48. 70 49. 77 50. 52 51. 12 52. 03 53. 20 54. 18 55. 14
56. 02 57. 75 58. 12 59. 80 60. 37 61. 42 62. 48 63. 35 64. 14 65. 56
66. 34 67. 36 68. 21 69. 15 70. 30 71. 10 72. 48 73. 00 74. 08 75. 12
76. 04 77. 27 78. 02 79. 33 80. 05 81. 01 82. 24 83. 21 84. 27 85. 90
86. 02 87. 03 88. 82 89. 03 90. 15 91. 01 92. 12 93. 56 94. 24 95. 48
96. 02 97. 43 98. 18 99. 03 100. 54 101. 04 102. 65 103. 27 104. 12 105. 05
106. 09 107. 26 108. 30 109. 64 110. 07 111. 10 112. 05 113. 03 114. 36 115. 40
116. 15 117. 12 118. 10 119. 60 120. 15 121. 13 122. 20 123. 75 124. 50 125. 72
126. 54 127. 37 128. 33 129. 75

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