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Geometry Probability Worksheet with Answer Key

Explore probability through shaded lengths and areas in geometric figures. Additional problems revisit radicals, composite areas, and right-triangle trigonometry, with worked solutions for review.
Grades
Grades 10–12, High School
Pages
6
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 18, 2021

Subject
Math, Geometry
Topic
Geometric Probability, Composite Area
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Answer key
Included
Standards
HSG-SRT.C.8

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Calculate the probability that a randomly thrown dart lands in a shaded region by forming the ratio of shaded area to total area

  • Transfer the same ratio idea to one dimension, comparing a shaded length such as a 13-unit hypotenuse or a 6π in arc against a total perimeter

  • Use the relationship shaded area + unshaded area = total area to reach an answer through whichever region is easier to compute

Teaching tips

  • The sheet opens with a blank "Appoint a reader" line, so decide before handing it out whether groups will name that reader or the line will simply be left unused

  • Answers on the worked pages are given in exact form and then as a decimal, which lets you accept either 16 - 3π over 16 or 0.411 depending on what the class is practising

  • Problems 12 through 15 sit on the last page and can be assigned separately as a composite-area and right-triangle review without touching the probability items

Skills covered

  • Geometric probability from area — students compute the shaded-to-total ratio for figures such as a 6 in circle inscribed in a square (36π/144) and four circles packed inside a 24 cm square (576 - 108π over 576).

  • Working with the complement — problem 6 directs students to decide whether the shaded or unshaded region is easier to calculate, then recover the other from the total 576 cm² square.

  • Simplifying radicals — item 11 has students reduce √40 to 2√10, √44 to 2√11 and √48 to 4√3, and mark the primes such as √41 and √47 as already simplified.

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The worked pages include exact forms and decimal values. Problem 15 specifies answers to the nearest hundredth with units.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • HSG-SRT.C.8

Core concepts

  • Geometric probability

  • Area of circles and polygons

  • Perimeter and arc length

  • Simplifying radicals

  • Right triangle trigonometry

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