Ratio and proportion

A trapezium is divided into four triangles by its diagonals. Can you work out the area of the trapezium?

If a new and an old television have screens of the same area, what is the ratio of their widths?

What angle is needed for a ball to do a circuit of the billiard table and then pass through its original position?

We use statistics to give ourselves an informed view on a subject of interest. This problem explores how to scale countries on a map to represent characteristics other than land area.

Move the point P to see how P' moves. Then use your insights to calculate a missing length.

Two right-angled triangles are connected together as part of a structure. An object is dropped from the top of the green triangle where does it pass the base of the blue triangle?

Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?

Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?

The diagram shows a regular pentagon with sides of unit length. Find all the angles in the diagram. Prove that the quadrilateral shown in red is a rhombus.

Three equilateral triangles ABC, AYX and XZB are drawn with the point X a moveable point on AB. The points P, Q and R are the centres of the three triangles. What can you say about triangle PQR?