Triple-Triple-Triple
Triangle Trivia
Perfect Percents %
Real-World Ratios
100
This Pythagorean Theorem triplet starts with 3 and ends with _____ and ______.
What is 4 and 5?
100
Three angles in any triangle always add up to _____ degrees.
What is 180?
100
A state requires that an applicant for a driver's license answer at least 80 percent of the questions on a written test correctly. If the test has 30 questions on it, at least how many of these questions must be answered correctly?
What is 24 questions?
100
Seven of twelve members of a tennis club are girls and the rest are boys. Write the ratio of boys to girls in the club in fraction form.
What is 5/7?
200
Another amazing Pythagorean triplet is 5, ____ and ____!
What is 12 and 13?
200
In an equilateral triangle, each angle has a measure of _____ degrees.
What is 60 degrees?
200
A shoe store has 660 pairs of shoes, if 30 percent of the shoes are on sale, how many shoes are not on sale?
What is 462?
200
The ratio of 1.5 to 54 is the same as the ratio of 0.15 to x. The value of x is ________ .
What is 5.4?
300
If two legs of a triangle have sides of length 6 and 8, then the hypotenuse would be _____.
What is 10?
300
In a 30-60-90 triangle, the smallest side of the triangle has a measure of 5. The length of the hypotenuse is _____.
What is 10?
300
A dress is selling for $120 after a 20 percent discount. What was the original selling price?
What is $150? (hint: set-up 120 = .8x and solve!)
300
In a bouquet of 70 flowers, there is a ratio of white to yellow flowers of 3:4. Thirty flowers have pink spots on them, and 20 are yellow with pink spots. How many white flowers have no red spots on them?
What is 20?
400
If the leg of a right triangle is 7 and a hypotenuse of 25, then the missing leg would have a measure of ______ .
What is 24?
400
In a rectangle, the ratio of width to length is 2:3. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 30, what’s the area?
What is 54?
400
A store charges $28 for a sweater. This price is 40% more than the amount it costs the store to buy the sweater. At an end-of-season sale, store employees can purchase any remaining sweaters at 30 percent off the store's cost. How much would it cost an employee to purchase a sweater of this type at this sale?
What is $14? (hint: set 1.40x = 28 then solve to find original price of sweater)
400
A bucket holds 4 quarts of popcorn. If 1/3 cup of corn kernels makes 2 quarts of popcorn, how many buckets can be filled with the popcorn made from 4 cups of kernels?
What is 6?
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