Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which triangle below would most likely be described as an acute
isosceles triangle?
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If a square piece of paper were folded in half along its main diagonal, which
would best describe the triangle that would be created? a. | Right Isosceles Triangle | b. | Acute Scalene Triangle | c. | Obtuse Equilateral
Triangle | d. | Right Scalene Triangle |
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Which type of triangle does NOT exist?
(i.e. which triangle below would be impossible to create?)
a. | Right Isosceles Triangle | b. | Acute Scalene Triangle | c. | Obtuse Equilateral
Triangle | d. | Right Scalene Triangle |
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Given that the length of two sides of a triangle are 4 cm
and 8 cm, which of the below is the only measure that could possibly be a length of the
last unknown side?
a. | 3 cm | c. | 12 cm | b. | 5 cm | d. | 15 cm |
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Which is the only set of 3 measurements below that could represent the lengths
of 3 sides of a triangle?
a. | 3 cm, 4 cm, 8 cm | c. | 4 cm,
5 cm, 10 cm | b. | 2 cm, 6 cm, 4
cm | d. | 6
cm, 4 cm, 8 cm |
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Two passenger jets leave the Nashville airport at the same time but travel at
different speeds. An hour and a half later, one is 600 miles from the airport and the other is
850 miles away from the airport. If you
don’t know the direction each was headed, what is the smallest possible distance between the 2 planes based on the
triangle inequality theorem? a. | 200 miles | b. | 250 miles | c. | 300
miles | d. | 350 miles |
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Consider the triangle ABC shown in
the diagram and the provided angle measures. Which side of the triangle should be the
shortest side?
(Figure may not be drawn to scale.) | | | |
a. | AB | b. | BC | c. | CA | d. | There is not enough information to determine
which side is the shortest. |
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Consider the triangle ABC shown in
the diagram and the provided angle measures. Which compound inequality statement below must
true?
(Figure may not be drawn to
scale.) | | | |
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Consider the two triangles that
share side VX shown in the diagram and the provided angle measures. Which side in the diagram
should be the longest side?
(Figure may not be drawn to scale.) | | | |
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