1. BELL RINGER 1/30/12 When she is outdoors, Tasha, the dog, is tied to a stake in the center of a circular area of radius 24 feet.  The angle between her dog house and her favorite hydrant is 165 degrees.  What is the length of the arc from her dog house to the hydrant, following minor arc , to the nearest foot.

2. BELL RINGER, 1/31/12 In circle O, the radius is 4, and the length of minor arc is 4.2 feet.  Find the measure of minor arc to the nearest degree. [1]. 45, [2]. 60, [3] 62, [4] 81

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BELL RINGER, 2/01/12 Alison is jogging on a circular track that has a radius of 140 feet.  She runs along the track from point R to point N, a distance of 230 feet.  Find to the nearest degree, the measure of minor arc .   [1.] 47, [2.] 74, [3] 94, [4] 123

4. BELL RINGER; 02/02/12 In circle O, the radius is 4, and the measure of minor arc is 120 degrees.  Find the length of minor arc to the nearest integer. [1]. 5, [2]. 8, [3]. 9, [4]. 12

5. BELL RINGER; 02/06/12 Given tangent AC, find x. [1]. 30; [2]

6. BELL RINGER 02/07/12 Given tangent AC , find x. [1]. 25; [2]. 50; [3]

7. BELL RINGER; 02/08/12 Given tangent , ,find x. Hint: Find y first.

8. BELL RINGER; 02/09/12 Given two intersecting chords, find x. [1]

9. BELL RINGER; 02/13/12 [Find the Area of the kite]

10. BELL RINGER; 02/14/12 The area of the obtuse triangle is 144 cm2.

11. BELL RINGER; 02/15/12 The area of the parallelogram is 936 ft2.

12. BELL RINGER; 02/16/12
Each side of the regular pentagon has length 23.8 cm, and the apothem is about 16.4 cm.
Area ≈

13. BELL RINGER; 02/17/12
The apothem of this regular octagon is about 14.5 ft. Area of shaded region ≈

14. BELL RINGER; 02/21/12
Area of shaded region ≈

15. BELL RINGER; 02/22/12
Area of shaded sector =

16. BELL RINGER; 02/23/12
Find the total surface area of the right trapezoidal prism. Measurements are in meters. Surface area =

17. BELL RINGER; 02/24/12 Find the total surface area of the cone.

18. BELL RINGER; 02/27/12
Circle O with tangent  . Find the # angles.

19. BELL RINGER; 02/28/12
Circle O with tangent  . Find the # angles.

20. BELL RINGER; 02/29/12
Circle O with tangent  and arcs marked with degrees.

21. BELL RINGER; 03/01/12
Find the area of the dark blue sector shown below.  The radius of the circle is 4 units and the length of the arc (the curved edge of the sector) measures 7.85 units.  Express answer to the nearest tenth of a square unit.

22. BELL RINGER; 03/02/12
Find the area of the shaded segment of circle O to the nearest tenth of a square unit.  The radius of the circle is 6 units.  The perpendicular from O to the chord joining point A to point B measures 4 units.

23. BELL RINGER; 03/05/12
Princess Fiona is locked in the tower of Castle Kronen.  You have volunteered to rescue the princess.  If the tower window is 36 feet above the ground and you must place your ladder 10 feet from the  base of the castle (because of the moat), which choice is the shortest length ladder you will need to reach the tower window?
(a) 34 feet; (b) 35 feet; (c) 37 feet; (d)  38 feet

24. BELL RINGER; 03/06/12
A baseball diamond is a square with sides of 90 feet.  What is the shortest distance, to the nearest tenth of a foot, between home plate and second base?

25. BELL RINGER; 03/07/12
The sides of a triangle measure 2.4, 3.2, and 4.  Is this triangle a right triangle?

26. BELL RINGER; 03/08/12
Using the Pythagorean Theorem, find the area of an equilateral triangle whose side measures 5 units.  Find the area to the nearest tenth of a square unit.

27. BELL RINGER; 03/09/12
Find x.

28. BELL RINGER; 03/19/12
Find the value of x.

29. BELL RINGER; 03/20/12
A spider has taken up residence in a small cardboard box which measures 2 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches.  What is the length, in inches,  of a straight spider web that will carry the spider from the lower right front corner of the box to the upper left back corner of the box?

30. BELL RINGER; 03/21/12
Joe Bean regularly takes a short-cut across Mr. Wilson's lawn instead of walking on the sidewalk on his way home from school.  How much distance is saved by Joe cutting across the lawn?

31. BELL RINGER; 03/22/12
An equilateral triangle is plotted on a coordinate plane.  Two of the vertices are (0,0) and (8,0).  Which of the coordinates shown could be the vertex of the third side?
       

32. BELL RINGER; 03/23/12
Find the length of the line segment whose endpoints are (-3, 4) and (5,4). 

33. BELL RINGER; 03/26/12
The point (5,4) lies on a circle.  What is the length of the radius of this circle if the center is located at (3,2)? 

34. BELL RINGER; 03/27/12
The coordinates of rectangle ABCD are A(0,2), B(4,8), C(7,6) and D(3,0). Show that the diagonals are equal in length

35. BELL RINGER; 03/28/12
Which of the following equations of a circle has center at (1,-3) and radius of 5? 

36. BELL RINGER; 03/29/12
 What are the coordinates of the center of this circle?  

37. BELL RINGER; 04/02/12
Find the length of  JK.

38. BELL RINGER; 04/03/12
Points A, B, C, and D are midpoints of the sides of square JETS.  If the area of JETS is 36, the area of ABCD is     

39. BELL RINGER; 04/04/12
In the diagram below, parallel lines a and m are cut by transversal t, m<1 = 4x + 16 and m<2 = 2x - 22.  Find m<1.

40. BELL RINGER; 04/05/12
What is the equation of a circle whose diameter is 24 and whose center is at the origin? 

41. BELL RINGER; 04/09/12
What is the slope of the line passing through the points (4,6) and (-1,-2)?

42. BELL RINGER; 04/10/12
A regular pyramid is shown at the left.  Find the volume of the pyramid to the nearest cubic unit.

43. BELL RINGER; 04/11/12
This figure is a regular hexagonal prism.  Find its volume.

44. BELL RINGER; 04/12/12
The radius of this sphere is 4 feet.  Find the area of the great circle of this sphere to the nearest tenth.

45. BELL RINGER; 04/13/12
Find the volume of this right circular cone to the nearest cubic foot.

46. BELL RINGER; 04/16/12
 A cylinder and a cone each have a radius of 3 cm. and a height of 8 cm.  What is the ratio of the volume of the cone to the volume of the cylinder?

47. BELL RINGER; 04/17/12
The figure to the left is a cube. Find the number of degrees in angle BEG

48. BELL RINGER; 04/18/12
This figure represents a slab of cheese.  It is in the form of a right triangular prism.  Find the least amount of wrapping needed to cover the cheese on all sides.

49. BELL RINGER; 04/19/12
When you blow up a balloon it forms a sphere because it is trying to hold as much air as possible with as small a surface as possible.
How much air, to the nearest tenth of a cubic inch, is being held by a spherical balloon with a diameter of 12 inches?

50. BELL RINGER; 04/20/12
A regular pyramid is shown at the left.  Find the volume of the pyramid to the nearest cubic unit.

51. BELL RINGER; 04/23/12
Find the volume in cubic feet.

52. BELL RINGER; 04/24/12
The lateral surface area of a right circular cone, LS, is represented by the equation  , where ris the radius of the circular base and h is the height of the cone.  If the lateral surface area of an ice cream cone is square centimeters and its radius is 4.75 centimeters, find its height, to the nearest hundredth of a centimeter.

53. BELL RINGER; 04/25/12
This figure is a regular hexagonal prism.  Find its volume.

54. BELL RINGER; 04/26/12
In the chart below, the dimensions of a cylinder and a cone are doubled and tripled.  Find the volume of all three cylinders and all three cones.  When finished, state a hypothesis as to what happens to the volume of solids when the sides are doubled and tripled.
Cylinder: r = 4; h = 7; Doubled:  r = 8; h = 14;
Tripled: r = 12; h = 21
Cone: r = 4; h = 7; Doubled: r = 8, h = 14

55. BELL RINGER; 04/27/12
Find AB. 

56. BELL RINGER; 04/30/12
M is the midpoint of  .  The coordinates of A are (-2,3) and the coordinates of M are (1,0).      Find the coordinates of B.

57. BELL RINGER; 05/01/12
The point (-4,-2) lies on a circle.  What is the length of the radius of this circle if the center is located at (-8,-10)? 

58. BELL RINGER; 05/02/12
Find the midpoint of the segment connecting the points (a, b) and (5a, -7b).

59. BELL RINGER; 05/03/12
 Find the equation of the line parallel to the line whose equation is y = 6x + 7 and whose       y-intercept is 8.

60. BELL RINGER; 05/04/12
The point where the medians of a triangle are concurrent is called the:-
The centroid of a triangle divides the medians into ratios of:-

61. BELL RINGER; 05/07/12
In  TRIANGLE ABC, AB = 10, AC = 8, and m<A = 45º.  Find the area of  ABC, to the nearest tenth of a square unit. B A C

62. BELL RINGER; 05/08/12
In TRIANGLE ABC, AB = 12 meters and AC = 20 meters.  If the area of the triangle is 77 sq. meters, find the measure of <A, to the nearest degree. B A C

63. BELL RINGER; 05/09/12
In triangle ABC , m<B = 80º, m<C = 34º and a = 16. Find the length of b to the nearest tenth.

64. BELL RINGER; 05/10/12
In triangle TRS , m<R = 105º, r = 12, and t = 10.  Find the m<S, to the nearest degree.

65. BELL RINGER; 05/11/12
In triangle ABC , m<A = 50º,m<B = 35º, and a = 12. Find the missing sides and angle. (nearest tenth, nearest degree)

66. BELL RINGER; 05/14/12
In an isosceles triangle, the vertex angle is 30º and the base measures 12 cm.  Find the perimeter of the triangle to the nearest Integer.

67. BELL RINGER; 05/15/12
The shorter base in this trapezoid measures 6 units.   AD = 14 units.  The measure of <DAB is 30º and the measure of <CBA is 45º.  Find the number of units in the longer base.

68. BELL RINGER; 05/16/12
Given the picture below, find the lengths of the segments labeled x, y, z and q.

69. BELL RINGER; 05/17/12
A man is walking his dog on level ground in a straight line with the dog's favorite tree.  The angle of elevation from the man's present position to the top of a nearby telephone pole is 30º.  The angle of elevation from the tree to the top of the telephone pole is 45º.  If the telephone pole is 40 feet tall, how far is the man with the dog from the tree?  Express answer to the nearest tenth of a foot.

70. BELL RINGER; 05/18/12
a.  Find x.
b.  Find y.

71. BELL RINGER; 05/21/12
a.  Find x.
b.  Find y.

72. BELL RINGER; 05/22/12
The circumcenter of an acute triangle is located inside the triangle.  The circumcenter of an obtuse triangle is located outside the triangle.  Where is the circumcenter of a right triangle located in relation to the triangle?

73. BELL RINGER; 05/23/12
You are looking at a triangle where the orthocenter, the centroid and the circumcenter are all the same point.  What
type of triangle are you looking at?
When constructing the bisector of a line segment, you are also constructing the perpendicular bisector of the segment. 

74. BELL RINGER; 05/24/12
The centroid of a triangle is located 12 units from one of the vertices of a triangle.  Find the length of the median of the triangle drawn from that same vertex.
When given a square, the construction of an angle bisector at any vertex will create the diagonal of the square.  TRUE or FALSE?

75. BELL RINGER; 05/25/12
In a rhombus, each side is 15, and one angle is 130º.  Find the area of the rhombus, to the nearest square unit.

76. BELL RINGER; 05/29/12
Given:  Circle O, diameter, marked perpendicular. Find x.

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80. BELL RINGER; 06/04/12
(1).  If the alphabet were printed in simple block printing, which capital letters would
have vertical line symmetry?
(2). If the alphabet were printed in simple block printing, which capital letters would have horizontal line symmetry?

81. BELL RINGER; 06/05/12
  Find x:

82. BELL RINGER; 06/06/12
  Find x:

83. BELL RINGER; 06/07/12
 Find x.