Special Geometry Exam, Fall 2008, Exams of Geometry

An exam paper from the Mathematics Department at Johns Hopkins University. The exam consists of 10 questions related to regular tetrahedron and cube geometry. The exam requires students to show their work and provide final answers in the box provided. The questions require students to calculate areas, lengths, and volumes of various shapes and to perform transformations on a cube.

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Special Geometry Exam, Fall 2008, W. Stephen Wilson. Mathematics Department, Johns Hopkins University
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NO CALCULATORS, NO PAPERS, SHOW WORK. Put your final answer in the box provided.
Consider the regular tetrahedron and the cube, both with edges of length one unit.
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B D
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C D
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G H
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Special Geometry Exam, Fall 2008, W. Stephen Wilson. Mathematics Department, Johns Hopkins University

I agree to complete this exam without unauthorized assistance from any person, materials or device.

Name print and sign: Date:

NO CALCULATORS, NO PAPERS, SHOW WORK. Put your final answer in the box provided.

Consider the regular tetrahedron and the cube, both with edges of length one unit.

A

B D

C

C D

A B

G H

E F

1

There are three (3) distinct planes that divide the solid regular tetrahedron into two identical pieces and intersect the tetrahedron in a square. Remember, the edges of the tetrahedron are of one unit length.

  1. What is the area of the square mentioned above?
  2. What is the intersection of two (2) of those planes mentioned above and the tetrahedron? If it is an area, give the area; it if is a line segment, give the length; if it is points, say how many; if there are no points, just put zero (0).
  1. A rhombus is a parallelogram with all sides the same length. There is a plane that intersects the cube, going through exactly two (2) vertices, such that the intersection is a rhombus. What is the length of the side of the rhombus?
  2. What is the height of the above rhombus?
  1. There are planes that intersect the cube in a regular hexagon. What is the length of a side of such a hexagon?
  2. Find a plane that goes through exactly three (3) vertices. On one side of the plane there are four (4) vertices and on

the other side there is one (1) vertex. How far is the plane from the single vertex?