A COMPLETE SET

OF

MALE PUPIL TEACHERS'

EXAMINATION

QUESTIONS IN MENSURATION

TO SEPTEMBER 1879 (INCLUSIVE).

WITH ANSWERS.

Compiled, Classified, and Graduated by

W. J. DICKINSON,

MERLY LECTURER ON GRAMMAR AND EUCLID AT THE BATTERSEA TRAINING COLLEGE
AUTHOR OF

'PRACTICAL GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS,' THE DIFFICULTIES OF GRAMMAR AND
ANALYSIS SIMPLIFIED,' 'HOW TO TEACH GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS,'
AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF EUCLID SIMPLIFIED.'"

LONDON: JOSEPH HUGHES,

THREE TUNS PASSAGE, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, E.C.

MALE PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMINATION

QUESTIONS IN MENSURATION.

MENSURATION OF LINES.

Right-angled Triangle.

1. Find the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle whose sides are 386 and 300.

2. What is the length of a ladder which just reaches to the top of a wall 36 ft. high when its foot is 48 ft. from the wall?

3. The top of a ladder touches a wall 4 yards above the ground when its foot is placed 3 ft. 6 in. from the wall. How long is the ladder?

4. If one person walk north and another west, at the rate of 4 miles an hour for 4 hrs. 14 min. 30 sec., how far are they apart in a straight line?

Circle.

1. Find the length of an arc whose chord is 24 and height 5 ft.

2. Find the diameter of a circle whose circumference is a furlong.

3. A planet being supposed to describe a circle of 37,000,000 miles' radius round the sun in 88 days, find the number of miles described in a second.